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First broadcast 3rd December 2013.

Whilst Kate lets slip to Celia that she wants a baby with Caroline, a desire Caroline does not seem to share, Celia is also indiscreet in telling Robbie that Gillian had an abortion at fifteen.

Derek Jacobi ... Alan
Paul Copley ... Harry
Roy Barraclough ... Maurice
Anne Reid ... Celia
Nina Sosanya ... Kate
Tony Gardner ... John
Nicola Walker ... Gillian
Josh Bolt ... Raff
Katherine Rose Morley ... Ellie
Sarah Lancashire ... Caroline
Louis Greatorex ... Lawrence
Dean Andrews ... Robbie
Ross Grant ... Estate Agent
Felix Johnson ... Angus

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00:00I want a baby.
00:02How? I mean, how? How?
00:04Well, obviously, a donor.
00:06She's pregnant.
00:08It's mine.
00:12I'm not having that lad
00:14leaving school.
00:16He could get him at a university.
00:18Just as long as you know
00:20that I can't see Caroline short either.
00:22Bloody Caroline.
00:24What's up with Caroline?
00:26I thought you were married. Nothing.
00:28I know you said you're seeing Robbie,
00:30but frankly, I think you and me both know
00:32that's just a disaster. Really?
00:34Are you doing anything this weekend?
00:36Well, the thing is, we're married now.
00:38You did it.
00:40Of course we did it.
00:58You did it.
01:00You did it.
01:02You did it.
01:04You did it.
01:06You did it.
01:08You did it.
01:10You did it.
01:12You did it.
01:14You did it.
01:16You did it.
01:18You did it.
01:20You did it.
01:22You did it.
01:24You did it.
01:26I mean,
01:28you know,
01:30just disappointed.
01:32We didn't want to fuss. Oh, fair enough.
01:34But if I'm being honest, I'm with Harry
01:36disappointed. Yeah, well,
01:38it's done now, so...
01:40What are we going to call this baby?
01:42What does it look like?
01:44We'll see what it looks like.
01:46No, no, I mean,
01:48does it look like a Heather or a Barbara
01:50or a Claudette?
01:52I think it looks like a bad-tempered beetroot,
01:54but... That's enough.
01:56It wants to get its wimpy
01:58pops up now.
02:00Great Grandad Harry wants to do
02:02honours.
02:04Come on.
02:06Oh, Great Grandad
02:08Harry. I much prefer you
02:10to Great Grandad Alan
02:12because I know that if it had
02:14been your getting wed and you'd asked him
02:16to be your best man,
02:18you'd not have gone sneaking off and...
02:20He wasn't going to ask you.
02:22He'd asked me. He asked me.
02:24He asked me.
02:26He asked me. I didn't ask
02:28either of you. You volunteered,
02:30which I'm very flattered
02:32by and touched.
02:34But you're my pals. I couldn't say
02:36no to either of you, so...
02:40And what Celia wanted...
02:42What Celia wanted...
02:44I'm sick of having to explain myself.
02:46She leads you a bit nose, you know that, don't you?
02:48What did she say?
02:50I don't want either of them two
02:52scruffy buggers being your best man.
02:54Hey, you talk for yourself.
02:56Funnily enough, you weren't mentioned.
02:58I scrub up very nicely.
03:00Are we going to let this drop?
03:04Where is Celia?
03:06Oh, she's coming back. She just popped over
03:08to fetch a few bits of bees.
03:10I mean, can you imagine?
03:12She literally didn't know she was pregnant,
03:14she said.
03:16And then clang, there it is,
03:18a baby.
03:20I think she's in shock.
03:22I think they all are.
03:24Hello, Celia.
03:26Oh, I thought he'd moved out.
03:28No, not entirely, not yet.
03:30It hasn't even got a name.
03:32They're calling it the baby.
03:34And is it...
03:36Is it a baby?
03:38It's a baby.
03:40And is it definitely his?
03:42Oh, yes, the first thing Gillian did was go down
03:44to the chemist and get a paternity testing kit.
03:46God.
03:48So, Ellie is living at the farm
03:50with the baby.
03:52What does her mother think?
03:54Oh, she wants her back home and at school,
03:56only I don't think she's facing the fact she's not prepared
03:58to help out.
04:00She has this high-powered, highly-paid job
04:02in the NHS, shuffling papers off her desk
04:04onto somebody else's,
04:06and she has made it plain she is not prepared to give up.
04:08Or even go part-time.
04:10And why should she?
04:12But what she's not addressing
04:14is the situation as it stands.
04:16And the husband's no better.
04:18He's a quantity-severe
04:20induce-bury. Divorced.
04:22And he has opinions as well,
04:24but nothing that alters the facts.
04:26So what's going to happen?
04:28Well, they seem determined
04:30to muddle through at the farm.
04:32Everyone's helping out.
04:34Julian, Robbie. How is Julian?
04:36Harry, me, Alan.
04:38I think I've changed his nappy as often as anyone.
04:40I mean, they do now to Raffaelle.
04:42Is she still seeing Robbie, Julian?
04:44I think they're frightened of it.
04:46And it's a sweet enough
04:48little thing.
04:50It sickens me
04:52when there's folks want babies
04:54and can't. You know, honest, hard-working,
04:56decent people.
04:58Has it...
05:00she really not got a name?
05:02Nothing that's stuck.
05:04Julian calls her Flossie,
05:06which to me, you see, is more what you might
05:08call a King Charles Spaniel.
05:10Alan calls her Emily Jane,
05:12but that's just so he can make it rhyme
05:14with stuff.
05:16Harry calls her Foo-Foo
05:18Tinkerbell or something.
05:20But he's an idiot.
05:22But she's coping, Julian.
05:24What would you call a baby if you had one?
05:26Oh, well,
05:28for a girl, I've always liked Emily.
05:30And with Alan, it's good.
05:32Or Victoria, Virginia,
05:34Elizabeth, Charlotte, those sort of more traditional
05:36names. Helen?
05:38Helena? Eleanor?
05:40Oh, no, that's Ellie. Or
05:42something pretty like Flora,
05:44Jasmine, Poppy.
05:46Grace, that's nice.
05:48Celia, you've got a lovely name.
05:50And there's Rose, Rosie,
05:52Ros, Rosamund, Rosalind,
05:54Florence, Maisie,
05:56Daisy. Retro, I know,
05:58but it's very sweet. I don't know. It'll all depend
06:00on what Caroline thinks.
06:02What would?
06:04What's it got to do with Caroline?
06:06I mean, if ever, if me and Caroline,
06:08which, why would we, had to
06:10choose a baby name?
06:12You and Caroline? You and Caroline?
06:14Not, not that...
06:16Well, you wouldn't have to,
06:18would you? Well, no.
06:20Women, there's ladies
06:22who do have babies.
06:24Do they?
06:26How?
06:28Well,
06:30if...
06:32But you're not, are you?
06:34She's too old.
06:36Yeah, well, she isn't, technically.
06:38And I'm not, so
06:40hypothetically, in theory...
06:42She'd not want to go through all that
06:44again at her age.
06:46No. No.
06:52Where did you say she was?
06:54The Year Twelves are doing King Lear
06:56tonight, so...
06:58That'll be one to slit your wrists to.
07:00So, is that...
07:02Is that something you're serious about?
07:04No, God, no.
07:06Is Alan next door?
07:08No, I've left him in Halifax. I just popped over
07:10to get a few bits.
07:12Well, and I wanted five minutes
07:14with Caroline, so...
07:16Any road, will you tell her to pop round when she's got a minute?
07:18Sure. I mean, not tonight.
07:20She's had to sit through
07:22King Lear. She'll just want to lie down.
07:34There.
07:46Hello?
07:48Gillian, it's John.
07:50Yeah.
07:52Sorry, um,
07:54I never rang you back last week because I heard what had
07:56happened and I didn't want to pester you.
07:58Sounds like you've had your hands full.
08:00Yep.
08:02How's... How are things?
08:06Complicated.
08:08Right. I was serious about what I said.
08:10What about putting money
08:12in my farm?
08:14I would do that, but I meant more about you.
08:16You know, I can't help thinking it's a mistake.
08:18Right.
08:20I still think about you all the time.
08:24I've started writing again.
08:26John, I... I wonder if getting the push from the publisher
08:28was the kick up the arse that I needed.
08:32It's about you.
08:34Well,
08:36sort of about you. It's about everything.
08:38Everything that's happened.
08:40Celia and your dad meeting up again
08:42after all this time.
08:44And mad bitch
08:46here and her mousy little girlfriend.
08:48But your character's the real
08:50central, the
08:52point of it all, really.
08:54The lynchpin, the...
08:56Well, the heroine,
08:58if you like.
09:02Gillian? Right.
09:04OK.
09:06So, you see, it would be lovely to meet up.
09:08I don't have to come to the house.
09:10The farm, if that's
09:12complicated. We could just
09:14go out for dinner.
09:16Or a drink.
09:18Hello?
09:20I can't. It's too messy.
09:22I have to go now.
09:24Gillian... I'm sorry.
09:26I'm hanging up. I'm glad you're working again.
09:28Bye.
09:30Bye. Bye-bye.
09:40How was school?
09:42Fine.
09:44She been all right?
09:46No. We sold her to a Chinaman.
09:48All right. We didn't get much
09:50for her.
09:52Have you got something to eat?
09:54Toast.
09:56Toast.
09:58Are you managing to concentrate?
10:00Yeah. I'm eating school.
10:02Yes!
10:04She needs her nappy changed.
10:08Little Nelly needs her
10:10nappy changed, kids.
10:18Except baby needs its nappy changed.
10:20What are you doing?
10:22Oh, knackers. We're saving the universe.
10:24You shouldn't have done that.
10:26It's not real. Me and your grandad lived through the Blitz.
10:28Did you, heck? Blitz were only in big cities.
10:30Halifax got one bomb dropped on it,
10:32and that was by accident, cos some plank in the Luftwaffe
10:34couldn't find Manchester.
10:36Oh, they know it all, don't they?
10:38They saw it get him pregnant.
10:40We wouldn't have made that mistake, would we, Alan?
10:42Blitz or no Blitz.
11:02It's me.
11:04Can I come in?
11:08Are you even friends with him?
11:14It ain't really about him, is it?
11:34I...
11:36I've...
11:38I've got to earn some money, Grandad.
11:42I'm not going to school now.
11:44It's just ridiculous.
11:46Ahh!
11:56I told him he can get a job
11:58soon enough, but
12:00I'd be sickened if he left school, Celia.
12:04So there's no point in us looking for a little bungalow now then, is there?
12:08Well, we can look, but...
12:10You see, when I were his age...
12:12Well, you and I, we were never an option, were we?
12:16Staying on at school.
12:18If he'd just get his A-Levels,
12:21he'd always be able to try for a university at a later stage, wouldn't he?
12:26Well, that's important.
12:28Trouble is, he wants to do the right thing,
12:31which I understand, but...
12:33Difficulty is knowing what the right thing is
12:36when everybody seems to have so many different opinions.
12:39Yeah.
12:40I think somebody at school said something nasty that's upset him.
12:45Well, they will do. They're kids.
12:47I don't want him ending up in a job with no prospects
12:50and then for her to just up sticks and bugger off anyway.
12:53With baby, which you never know.
12:55I mean, I don't know that they're still actually seeing one another.
12:59I don't even know that they ever were.
13:02Beyond this one evening of Malibu-fuelled passion.
13:07I know he was smitten with her before, but...
13:10I'm not so sure now.
13:12She doesn't seem bothered about her much at the minute.
13:15Him included.
13:17Well, you're not telling me anything I don't know.
13:20I haven't been there a week.
13:22I know. I'm just struggling to make sense of it myself.
13:26The more I think about it, the worse it seems to get.
13:29It's a mess, Celia.
13:31It's a right bloody mess.
13:33Yeah.
13:34But you haven't to get stressed.
13:37Oh, I'm all right.
13:41I'm missing you.
13:43I'm missing you.
13:46No way up, Madame de Zonga's back.
13:49Our little Caroline.
13:52Hey, what do you think about Cordelia for a name?
13:55It's King Lear.
13:57There's three of them, daughters.
13:59Goneril, Regan and Cordelia.
14:02I think of three.
14:04Goneril.
14:06Oh, you just wouldn't, would you?
14:09There's no wonder they wanted him dead.
14:12Do-si-oh, bugger.
14:30MUSIC FADES
14:43Kate.
14:47You all right?
14:50How was King Lear?
14:52He was very good.
14:54Very proud of him.
14:56Your mum's back.
14:58Saw the girl?
14:59She said to pop round, not tonight.
15:02You been crying?
15:04Just feeling sorry for myself.
15:07Why?
15:09Not Lawrence?
15:11No.
15:12John?
15:13No.
15:15My mother?
15:16No.
15:19What then?
15:29Do you want to tell me about it in bed?
15:37Have you been eating peanuts?
15:40And popcorn at the interval.
15:42I'll do it.
15:43I've drunk a whole glass of wine since then.
15:45That would wash any...
15:46Not necessarily.
15:48How's your hand?
15:50In there, in there.
15:52Do you want me to do it or do you want to do it?
15:55Do you want me to do it or do you want to do it?
15:57Let me...
16:03Yeah, just there.
16:05And you'll be fine.
16:07I'm gonna be fine.
16:13Ambulance.
16:16Caroline Elliott, 46, Conway Drive, Harrogate, HG32MC.
16:22I've got someone with anaphylaxia.
16:25I don't think...
16:28Four minutes.
16:29God, I'm sorry.
16:31I'm fine.
16:32Stupid thing to do.
16:34I don't think I need an ambulance.
16:35It's on its way, it's coming.
16:37You have to massage it after you've injected.
16:40Yeah, let me.
16:44What were you so upset about?
16:46Just...
16:49Babies.
17:00Okay, it's just had...
17:05I wasn't...
17:09We weren't...
17:11It's okay.
17:24You want to get yourself to bed?
17:27You've got school tomorrow.
17:29No, I'll sleep down here tonight.
17:33Why?
17:35Just...
17:36That camper's not right comfy.
17:41I'll get you a double bed.
17:43Would a double bed fit in that room, with a cot, when we get the cot?
17:46Fine, sleeping down here.
17:49What about when little Dudar needs feeding during the night?
17:52Can't leave it all to Ellie.
17:54I'll eat her, I'll help her.
17:56You mightn't.
17:57I just don't want to crowd her.
18:01Who?
18:02Ellie.
18:08We need another bedroom.
18:12I'll get you that other duvet.
18:15Out of the airing cupboard.
18:34Hospital?
18:35She'll be fine, it happens.
18:38Given her the morning off work, anyway.
18:41Well, steady on, you don't want to be spoiling her.
18:44Are you just here to dazzle us all with your sparkling wit, or do you want something?
18:48I haven't seen you for a week.
18:49Have I changed?
18:50No, you're just as gorgeous.
18:53So are you.
18:55She said something droll yesterday, did Kate?
18:58Oh, what?
18:59We were discussing baby's names, you know, for little Fanny Alice, and...
19:04She talked like you and I were thinking about it.
19:08What?
19:09You and I.
19:10I said how.
19:12Oh, she, we, it's, it's, it's not.
19:15Where's my laptop and my papers?
19:16Sorry?
19:17They were on the coffee table in the sitting room.
19:19They were right there in front of me.
19:20Have you been buggering around in there?
19:22It wasn't him, it was me.
19:23I've confiscated them.
19:24Where are they?
19:25Not telling you.
19:26Where are they?
19:27Why don't you talk to me about Alison Waterhouse?
19:29Who?
19:30A flaccid overripe fruit of a woman.
19:32I was experimenting with language, similes.
19:35It's a metaphor.
19:36It's a lazy metaphor.
19:37I mean, what sort of fruit are we talking about?
19:39A banana?
19:40A tangerine?
19:41You know, people always think you've based characters on them, and you haven't.
19:44And can we leave Alison's Dusky Negress right out of it?
19:48Or Matthew Waterhouse will be getting his withering, shriveling, starved of light, pink little bollocks chopped right off.
19:54Right, fine.
19:56Is that what he's thought?
19:57Adjustments will be made.
19:59Can I have it back?
20:00No, you can whistle.
20:01Caroline!
20:02And what about Lizzie Cunningham?
20:05A latter-day Bathsheba Everdeen, no less.
20:08Who owns her own sheep farm and has more suitors than she knows what to do with.
20:11Who does that remind us of?
20:13A sullen, sinewy, forty-something woman with the purposeful frame and carriage of a sixteen-year-old boy.
20:19Ooh, la, la, so.
20:21Mummy isn't the only gay in the fiasco.
20:25I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
20:26I'm going to have to ring Gillian.
20:27You are not going to ring Gillian.
20:29I am.
20:30I am going to have to ring Gillian.
20:32You're not ringing Gillian.
20:34Right, ring bloody sodding Gillian then.
20:39Do you mind not using language like that in front of my mother?
20:42Give it me back.
20:46Caroline!
20:47What's he put about me?
20:48It's not you.
20:50The basic upshot is two people in their seventies in love who get together after, ooh, sixty years.
20:56But it's not about you.
20:57And then their respective daughters, Alison the flaccid overripe fruit,
21:01who just happens to be the headmistress of a very marvellous public school,
21:05and Lizzie with the body of a sixteen-year-old boy in a sheep farm.
21:09I want to read it.
21:11I've not written the bloody thing yet.
21:13No, and I don't think you should if you're going to be rude about people.
21:17Why are you even reading it anyway?
21:19Because you shouldn't leave things chucking about.
21:21If this is damaged, you're paying for a new one.
21:23Ooh, that's happening.
21:27Why is he even here?
21:29Because he's got nowhere else to go.
21:32He reckons to be looking for a flat to rent near the university till I can buy him out here.
21:37Then he can buy somewhere. I don't know.
21:40Have you made any decisions yet?
21:43It's all up in the air, I'm afraid, love.
21:47Here's your tea.
21:57You know, Kate's up for it.
22:00She's serious. She's had a house valued.
22:02She's got it on the market.
22:04OK.
22:05But she...
22:09OK, so the thing is...
22:13It's true, she does want a baby.
22:15She's made a commitment to me, to me buying the house.
22:17She wants us to...
22:19How?
22:20Oh, don't worry about that, but the thing is...
22:22Would you really want to go through all that again?
22:25No.
22:26It's unlikely that she'll ever get pregnant.
22:29She was pregnant four times when she was married to Richard,
22:32but she never got beyond the first 12 weeks.
22:34She's 42. I've been on the internet.
22:36The chances of her getting pregnant are minute.
22:39And I think she'd be better off concentrating on her career.
22:42She's very clever, but the thing is...
22:44Sorry, you don't want to hear this.
22:46Oh, go on.
22:47It's her birthday this coming weekend,
22:49so I'm going to take her somewhere nice.
22:51It's a little hotel I've found. I've booked it.
22:54I'm going to try and talk her out of it.
22:56For her sake.
22:58She'll only end up tearful and disappointed when it doesn't happen.
23:02I wondered if you'd keep an eye on the boys, you and Alan.
23:06There's no point asking Johnny
23:08I'll just get Judith round again and trash the place.
23:10Yeah, of course we will, love.
23:19What are your plans today?
23:21Oh, we're going and looking at a bungalow over at Rippon and...
23:25Oh, you needn't look so worried. We're only looking.
23:43Good morning, Mrs Buttershaw.
23:48How do you do?
23:49You have picked a super day.
23:51It's a smashing view.
23:53Well, it's all in with the price.
23:55And this is my husband, and that's the baby.
23:58We'll not be married a week, and look...
24:00The kind of thing about it, you see, not when you get to our age.
24:03Right.
24:05He's pulling your leg, love.
24:07We're actually the great-grandparents.
24:09And no, and me only 36.
24:11Have you remembered the keys?
24:13Yep.
24:15Boo. Boo.
24:17Yeah. Do you like it?
24:21What do you reckon?
24:23Oh, it's beautiful.
24:25And we can afford it between us, in theory.
24:29I know.
24:31It wouldn't need a lot doing.
24:33Maybe a new bathroom.
24:35But other than that, that kitchen's beautiful.
24:39Well, we need to win the lottery.
24:42Then we'd have enough for everybody.
24:45Are we kidding ourselves?
24:48I think so.
24:50Don't you?
24:52The way things are at the moment.
24:57It's her mother and father that ought to be forking out for stuff,
25:00not you and Gillian.
25:02And you're giving her and the baby a roof over their heads.
25:05The least they can do is put their hands in their pockets.
25:08Well, we can't make them, can we?
25:11You know your little house up Barkersland?
25:14Yeah.
25:15Have you ever thought of getting it valued
25:17and asking Darren and Kimberly if they'd like to buy it?
25:20Then you'll not be turfing them out.
25:23No. No, I haven't thought that.
25:26Is it something you consider?
25:28Well, in theory, in practice,
25:30I doubt it's something they could have bought to do.
25:32Well, you don't know.
25:34They might have parents that would like to try to help them along.
25:38Well, I can ask, but what would be the point
25:41if you're thinking of investing more money in Caroline's house?
25:46You realise the alternative is you and me forever
25:49flitting between Arrogant and Ali perhaps?
25:53Wouldn't it be nice to have somewhere of our own?
25:57Well, yeah, it would, but...
25:59I think you should tell Darren and Kimberly
26:02that your circumstances have changed
26:04and you need the capital out of that house,
26:07whether they can afford to buy it or not.
26:09Do you?
26:12What's so funny?
26:14You like old truths, don't you?
26:16Now and again.
26:17You like to call a spade a spade.
26:19Yes, I do.
26:21And here's some more.
26:23I know you think Raf should stop on at school,
26:26and I do understand why,
26:28but the fact is he's muckied his ticket.
26:31And if you don't let him take responsibility for it,
26:34he'll never grow up.
26:36Is that right?
26:37You know it is.
26:38Do you know what I think?
26:40Fire away.
26:41I think you ought to tell Caroline
26:43to paddle her own canoe and cut her coat according to her cloth.
26:47Nobody needs a house that big.
26:49There's only four of them.
26:51And William will be off to university at the end of summer.
26:54No, but you're back in the holidays.
26:56Oh, come on, Celia.
26:57Her and Kate between, oh, you must earn a six-figure salary.
27:01Oh, well, I've no idea.
27:03Oh, easily.
27:04Caroline probably earns that on her own.
27:06Why should she expect money from you as well?
27:10Caroline was very good to me after Kenneth died.
27:13I'm sure she were, but now,
27:15eight years on, your circumstances have changed.
27:19She should sell that house and find somewhere just as lovely,
27:23only happen a bit smaller.
27:28You do realise, if you keep taking that baby out so much,
27:32it's going to get very confused about who its mother is.
27:36Yops!
27:37I'm serious!
27:49What time will Gillian be home?
27:51She's on late shift down at Greenhouse.
27:53Closed at eight.
27:54She's generally back by 20 past.
27:56Is there anything I can be doing?
27:58No, you're all right, love.
28:02It's had a grand big sitting room.
28:05They're very sought-after properties, them up there.
28:07Are they? Oh, aye.
28:08Be a good investment if no-one tells.
28:10It won't hang around, even with property market like it is.
28:13I do like it round here.
28:14I suppose it feels like coming home.
28:17Well, it is, isn't it?
28:19Mm, nearly.
28:21Elland was our stomping ground.
28:23What's Alan think?
28:25Oh, he was just as taken with it as I was.
28:28Are they all right now?
28:30Gillian and Alan?
28:32Gillian and Alan?
28:34Yeah, I think so.
28:36Does she know she were really upset?
28:38Oh, she was just bothered because we got married without telling anyone.
28:42No, I mean before.
28:43That whole two weeks when you were over in Hannegate,
28:46there was something up.
28:49Oh, there was something about Eileen, her mother.
28:53Something about being disappointed.
28:57Oh, I know what it was.
29:00Gillian had an abortion apparently when she was 15.
29:04She had to leave school and, oh, it all got brought up again.
29:08It all seemed to be about that.
29:11Don't say anything, love.
29:13I assume Raf doesn't know.
29:15And what upset Gillian was Alan saying how disappointed her mother was.
29:21That's all. I mean, it's all water under the bridge now, so...
29:28I spoke to Greg.
29:30You spoke to him? How?
29:32He rang this afternoon, just before he got back from work.
29:36He wants to pop over for my birthday.
29:40You're actually on your birthday?
29:43Well...
29:46OK, but what if I'd made plans for your birthday?
29:49Have you?
29:51You didn't. You didn't.
29:53What? You didn't talk to him about it?
29:55Well, I mentioned it.
29:56Mentioned it how?
29:57Well, I explained what we'd discussed and he said, yeah.
30:01He'd be more than happy to help out.
30:03You've not made any, you know, plans.
30:06Obviously, I said obviously you'd want to meet him first.
30:10I booked a hotel for a couple of nights.
30:12Caroline.
30:14Do you want me to cancel it?
30:16No.
30:17Oh, no.
30:19I want you to meet him. Soon.
30:23Where is it, the hotel?
30:25Well, you're not suggesting...
30:26You could just meet us for a drink. I'm not suggesting that we do the...
30:29No, I'm just suggesting that you meet him, get to know him.
30:32I don't need to get to know him.
30:34You need to meet him.
30:37It's a bad idea.
30:38No, it's not. It...
30:45Look, fine, ask him for a drink.
30:47Maybe it's better that we meet him there rather than here.
30:51What's the matter?
30:52What's the matter is that you're going to get pregnant,
30:54possibly with someone else,
30:55which is fine insofar as you can't get pregnant with me.
30:57But beyond that, it's less fine.
31:00There are things that I don't like about you.
31:03Less fine.
31:05There are things that I haven't processed yet.
31:12I assume I don't need to spell them out.
31:15It's the most likely way for it to work.
31:19You do know that whatever way is kind of unlikely, don't you?
31:25I know the odds aren't great, yes.
31:28I want to try, though, Caroline,
31:30and I'm terrified of leaving it any longer.
31:32And what if it doesn't happen?
31:33I'll deal with it.
31:34You'll get upset.
31:35Well, it's better to try and fail again
31:39before I give up for good, though, isn't it?
31:43You've got a fantastic career.
31:45You'll be the next head of languages.
31:47You will know Comtest.
31:49You could be a deputy head in a few very short years.
31:52You've got what it takes, Kate.
31:56I want to be somebody's mum.
32:00The piece is still under construction,
32:03more than a century after his death.
32:05I think we should get married.
32:10Don't be daft.
32:29Hiya.
32:53Hiya.
32:54Casserole for your all-in oven.
32:56Oh.
32:57You're not stopping?
32:58No, I'm...
32:59I've got stuff to do at home.
33:01What's up?
33:03Did you have an abortion when you were 15?
33:11Was it mine?
33:14Yeah.
33:16Whose house?
33:19Celia.
33:22Celia?
33:23Just chatting.
33:24Just asked her why you and Alan fell out
33:26when he said over in Harrogate.
33:28Oh, you haven't?
33:29There was...
33:30Why did you never tell me?
33:32I was 15.
33:35I'd forgotten.
33:38You must have been 30-odd now.
33:4031.
33:42I could never have had it.
33:44There was no point telling you.
33:46No.
33:48I'm sorry.
33:50No, just...
33:52I just never knew I'd been a dad.
33:55You weren't.
33:57Then...
33:59you went off with our Eddie.
34:02I'm not being funny, but I am awful.
34:04Right.
34:06And are you coming back?
34:07Not tonight.
34:08Will you ring me?
34:11Are you dumping me?
34:14I just don't want to be here.
34:15For a bit.
34:18So how is this not being funny, then?
34:21If you're just going home?
34:23You feeling sorry for yourself?
34:25Because I was the one that had to leave school.
34:27I was the one that never got a crack at their A-levels,
34:29and I could have done. I wasn't thick.
34:31I never told you, but I never inflicted anything on you either.
34:35I'm going now.
34:37Right.
34:51What a bitch.
35:02Is that you, love?
35:04Yeah.
35:06Yeah.
35:08Yeah, it's me.
35:09I fell asleep.
35:11So did I.
35:13Supper's ready.
35:14Where's Ellie?
35:16Do you want to give her a shout?
35:21Robbie's gone.
35:22Has he?
35:23Shall I set the table, love?
35:25Cooked everybody's tea.
35:27And now he's gone.
35:29I didn't know you were here.
35:30You did.
35:31Did I?
35:32Oh, he's been asleep.
35:34He's gone, and he's not in a very good mood.
35:36Somebody said something to him.
35:38What about?
35:40Me.
35:41What do you mean?
35:42What?
35:44Celia told Robbie that I had an abortion when I was 15.
35:52Oh.
35:54Well, the thing is, he asked me why you and your dad had fallen out.
35:59It was his.
36:00Whose?
36:01Robbie's.
36:02Robbie?
36:03So.
36:04And he never knew.
36:05And he never knew.
36:06And now he does.
36:07So he's gone.
36:08Robbie?
36:09I used to see him before I started seeing Eddie.
36:12Well, I didn't know that.
36:15Why were you telling him stuff about me anyway?
36:18Let's just calm down.
36:21I mean, I had no idea.
36:24Yeah, but what you do know, Celia, what you must know is that at the best of times,
36:30it's a pretty indiscreet thing to be saying about somebody to people.
36:36She didn't know.
36:37I mean, I didn't know.
36:39Yeah, but you get the bigger point.
36:41She says she doesn't want me to.
36:42She says she's not hungry.
36:43I'm sorry.
36:44I am sorry, Gillian.
36:46Well, he's gone anyway.
36:49You know what?
36:50I mean, that is...
36:52You're...
36:55It's poisonous, saying something like that.
36:58I mean, you don't even know us.
36:59You don't know me.
37:01To say something like that to somebody when you've got no idea of the consequences...
37:09Gillian, what's going on?
37:11Perhaps you'd like to tell our Raph as well, Celia.
37:14Tell me what?
37:15Look, I've said I'm sorry.
37:17If I'd have known, I would not...
37:19I had an abortion when I was 15, didn't I, Celia?
37:21Do you want to go up and tell Ellie as well?
37:23Who did?
37:24You did.
37:25Yeah.
37:26You did.
37:27Yeah.
37:30Oh.
37:32It was Robbie's, and he never knew.
37:35But he does now, because Celia just told him.
37:38And now he's gone.
37:42Robbie, not...
37:44Not me dad.
37:45Ellie needs to eat.
37:47She can't not eat.
37:49It's only been a week since she gave birth.
37:51Now go upstairs and tell her to come down here.
37:53Now, go on.
37:54Look, I'm wondering if it was better if I went home to Harriet.
37:57No, it's fine.
37:58Look, Celia made a mistake.
38:00She's apologised.
38:01Oh, that's all right then.
38:03Look, I think I will.
38:05I'm popping upstairs to get my things.
38:07But what if I went and talked to Robbie?
38:09No.
38:10Would he cross?
38:12Quiet.
38:13Well, then why don't I pop down to his house?
38:15No, I said you leave it.
38:17I'm going.
38:19Well, if Celia's going back to Harrogate, I'll be going back with her.
38:22You know...
38:23Oh, God, I don't recognise you anymore.
38:25Going...
38:26Looking at dozy big bungalows that you know you can't afford.
38:31Go and get your things.
38:32Chucking your money away on flash cars that eat petrol
38:35and bugger up the environment,
38:36not wanting anyone there when you get wet.
38:38Me, Raph, your mates.
38:40Why, eh? Why?
38:42I mean, that is so not you.
38:45And, you know...
38:48I have to be frank, Dad.
38:51I don't like it.
38:52I'm aware of that.
38:55I'm increasingly aware of it.
38:58Shall I tell you something?
38:59I've spent my life watching you go after unsuitable beggars,
39:03one after another.
39:04Do you know what me and your mother always used to say?
39:07You say stuff about my mum.
39:09Oh, wow, eh, Gillian?
39:10Oh, she always used to pick on me.
39:13Like it were funny.
39:15But it weren't.
39:17And have I ever fallen out with you about it?
39:19Ever?
39:20All bloody stupid stuff you did,
39:22all bloody dozy stuff Eddie did?
39:25No.
39:27I were here all time,
39:29whenever you needed me.
39:31You know what I'm talking about,
39:33so don't you dare...
39:35Shickster!
39:36Don't you dare
39:38say anything about Celia to me!
39:51Poisonous!
39:53I could have been in tears.
39:56Do you want me to get involved?
39:57Do you want me to ring her?
39:58No.
39:59I'm off.
40:00Oh, hello, Celia.
40:01Hello, love.
40:02See you there.
40:04Yeah.
40:06OK, fine.
40:11Is Alan all right?
40:12Is he all right?
40:13Yeah, he's fine.
40:14He's fine.
40:15He's fine.
40:16He's fine.
40:17He's fine.
40:19Is Alan all right?
40:20Is he here?
40:21We drove back last night,
40:22did you not hear us?
40:23How is he?
40:24I think he's had enough of her.
40:26I think between you and me,
40:28it sounds like she's been a bit of a bloody nuisance
40:30all her life.
40:31Never at school.
40:33This was after she went back,
40:35after the abortion.
40:38All this over in Manchester at night,
40:40pink hair,
40:41green eyebrows,
40:43studs everywhere.
40:45Of course, this was when she started
40:47bothering with him.
40:49Eddie.
40:50Bloody Eddie.
40:53And then a few other little incidents,
40:55shoplifting, joyriding.
40:57It were all him.
40:59She was just daft enough to go along with it.
41:02I know where it used to have to go,
41:04doing all apologising,
41:07making amends.
41:09Pointing out that she weren't from a bad home,
41:11she'd had a perfectly good upbringing, thank you.
41:15And we were just as upset and bemused
41:18by the way she carried on as anyone else.
41:22Well,
41:24I'm sorry about it all to put up with.
41:27Aye, well,
41:30makes you wonder why you bother.
41:34Well, that can't be any good for him,
41:35not with his condition.
41:37He's fine, he says.
41:39He says as long as he's with me,
41:40nothing else matters.
41:42I might ring her.
41:43Oh, I wouldn't.
41:45You know she doesn't like you.
41:49You shouldn't say things like that.
41:51She's right jealous of you.
41:52Oh, I don't, I've never...
41:54You don't see it.
41:56Right, well, OK, I'll keep out of it then.
42:01Mum!
42:02Morning!
42:03Phone!
42:06Who is it?
42:07For you.
42:14Who?
42:16Have you seen Ellie?
42:19Early for Ellie, isn't it?
42:22Who is it?
42:23Shh, she's not upstairs, she's not downstairs,
42:25her stuff's gone.
42:26Well, she can't have just...
42:28I've rung her number, there's no answer.
42:30Well, when did...
42:31I were up at six o'clock.
42:32No idea.
42:34Do you have her mother's number?
42:36No.
42:37Right.
42:38Oh, well.
42:39Well, I imagine it'll do you good.
42:41Well, I'm on a shift at Green Office this afternoon.
42:44What?
42:45I'm going to have to stop at home then.
42:47No, that's...
42:48No, you're going to school.
42:50But you've fallen out with me granddad again,
42:53haven't you, so...
42:54We'll manage.
42:56Won't we?
42:58Hey!
42:59Yeah, how?
43:00Little flossy.
43:01How will you manage?
43:03I'll manage.
43:04You're going to school.
43:06I'll manage.
43:07I'll manage.
43:08I'll manage.
43:09I'll manage.
43:10I'm going to school.
43:11Hello?
43:12Julian, it's Caroline.
43:13Go get ready.
43:14Pack your bag.
43:18Hello?
43:19It's Caroline.
43:22Caroline.
43:24Sorry, are you busy?
43:25Is this a bad time?
43:27What do you want?
43:28If it's a bad time, I'll ring later.
43:30I've got a lot on.
43:32It's best if you spit it out.
43:34OK, well, look.
43:37Obviously, I don't know everything that's been said,
43:39but my mum came round this morning,
43:43and, um, well...
43:47She was upset.
43:49Was she?
43:52I think she knows she's put her foot in it, Julian.
43:55Yeah, large style.
43:57Big time.
43:58The thing is...
44:00She does.
44:01I've lived with it all my life,
44:03and I know that's possibly of no comfort or...
44:06I only have a round oven, and I don't intend to start now.
44:09OK.
44:11But can I just say that she is very sorry,
44:13and she is very upset.
44:17Julian?
44:20How's the baby?
44:22It's...
44:30It's a baby.
44:32Yeah, well...
44:35Babies are, aren't they?
44:38I don't know what the hell I'm doing.
44:41I don't know whether I'm coming or going, Caroline.
44:43I don't know which way's up.
44:46You're tired.
44:48I can hear it in your voice.
44:50I'm sorry you had to go at your mother,
44:52but conversely, it...
44:54On the other hand, I'm sorry she put me in a position where I had to.
44:58I know, I know.
45:00I do know, Julian.
45:02I don't suppose there's anything I can do.
45:04Make excuses for me.
45:06Tell her I'm mental, hormonal, round the...
45:10bloody bend.
45:12Will everything be all right with Robbie?
45:14Which one's Robbie?
45:16I don't know.
45:18He's not wrong me.
45:20And I've not wrong him, so...
45:22But, you know...
45:24I've got to go, Caroline.
45:26I've got a thousand and million-one things to do.
45:33Is me dad all right?
45:35Yeah, yeah.
45:37I will keep an eye on him.
45:40I appreciate you ringing.
45:42Call me.
45:43Any time.
45:45Thanks.
45:47Bye.
45:48Bye.
45:49Bye.
45:56That...
45:58was your...
46:00Auntie Caroline.
46:03Am I right now?
46:09It's just you and me, kid.
46:12CLICKS TONGUE
46:28That's terrific.
46:30Well, I'll, um...
46:31I'll start ball-rolling, then.
46:38I'm pleased for you.
46:40Bold of you.
46:41It's a big thing.
46:43Yeah.
46:44It's a step forward.
46:46What are you talking to?
46:48OK, love.
46:49OK, will do.
46:51Yeah, yeah.
46:53Ta-ta.
46:55It's Kimberley.
46:56Darren's got his hours back at garage,
46:58and she's spoken to her mum,
47:00and subject to us agreeing a price,
47:02they'd like to try and raise a mortgage and buy it.
47:04Oh.
47:07Are you absolutely sure it's what you want to do?
47:09Yeah, I... I think so, yeah.
47:12I'm not forcing you.
47:14I'm not leaning on you.
47:16I'm not manipulating you.
47:18You can manipulate me any time you like.
47:20What about Gillian?
47:22Poor Gillian.
47:24What about her?
47:25I don't like all this bad feeling.
47:27Oh, I must bring, um...
47:29a stage agent, get an idea of a fair price.
47:32And it was my fault.
47:34You apologised.
47:36I offered to go see Robbie, forget her.
47:40I think I might break it to Caroline
47:42that I'm putting my money elsewhere
47:44after they come back from their mucky weekend.
47:47What mucky weekend?
47:49Oh, that reminds me.
47:51They're going off on a mucky weekend.
47:53I'm taking Kate to a nice little hotel
47:56for the weekend next weekend,
47:58just for a birthday.
48:00It's Kate's birthday,
48:01so she's taking her somewhere posh for a mucky weekend.
48:04Granny'll be here, Granny and Alan.
48:06Right.
48:08Right.
48:09And William, but he'll be working, so...
48:12We're babysitting the boys, I did tell you.
48:15OK.
48:17Whatever.
48:18Not that they need babysitting at their age.
48:21I mustn't have been listening.
48:23No, men don't.
48:25Right, Mrs Butchershaw,
48:26I need to do one or two more sums
48:29so we can weigh up what sort of offer
48:31we'd be in a position to make.
48:33Then I might take you out for lunch.
48:36Oh.
48:43Why don't you and Miss Mackenzie
48:45drive to school together?
48:48Because we don't always finish work at the same time.
48:51Please call her, Kate.
48:54Everyone knows, you know,
48:57that you need to stop kidding yourself
48:59because you just look like a hypocrite,
49:01which is not a cool message to be sending out
49:03to the 2.7% of kids in this school
49:05who will one day turn out to be
49:07rough-branching shirtlifters.
49:11I see.
49:12See you later.
49:25She's taking Mackenzie off on a dirty weekend.
49:28Next weekend, my granny's looking after us.
49:30Do you want to come round and watch
49:31rows of water dogs
49:32and get pissed and trash the place?
49:34Yeah.
50:00Hello.
50:02Hi.
50:05So...
50:07Thanks for coming.
50:08No problem.
50:12Tea?
50:31So, where's Ellie gone? Do we know?
50:34I rang her mum and she said she had no idea.
50:37But then Harry phoned a bit later and said she was there.
50:40That's her mother's. Silly bitch.
50:43Are you all right?
50:46Well...
50:48Everyone's fallen out with me.
50:51Again. So...
50:54I don't know.
50:56I don't know.
50:57Again. So...
51:00I'm kind of up shit creek without a paddle.
51:03Again.
51:06So, God, I don't know.
51:11It's a bit mad, isn't it?
51:15You and me.
51:19Well, I don't know.
51:20It's not very much madder than almost everything else that's happened.
51:23I'm wondering if you're all right.
51:27About Robbie.
51:29Me and Robbie.
51:32Really?
51:33It's not just...
51:35It's...
51:43I did this thing once.
51:48I've never told anyone.
51:50I've never told anyone.
51:52Except my dad knows.
51:54What thing?
51:57It was when Eddie died.
52:05To us.
52:08I could get used to this, given another five minutes.
52:11I think I already have.
52:15To the man aboard.
52:17To good life.
52:18Till death do us part.
52:24I love you.
52:26I love you.
52:30I'm still feeling guilty.
52:32So don't.
52:34I didn't even know she knew Robbie then.
52:36Then let it go.
52:38I can't come between you and her.
52:41I can't do that.
52:44I want to tell you something.
52:49I nearly did once before, but I couldn't.
52:55So I told you only half a tale.
52:58It was when Eddie died.
53:02I should have called an ambulance.
53:08And I didn't.
53:09And I'm telling you because it's been a burden to me for years.
53:15He smashed his head open.
53:18With the log splitter down in Barn.
53:22And when I met you that day in Skipton,
53:25and I remembered how much I was in love with you,
53:28I was so happy.
53:30So properly happy.
53:33Like I'd been for years with this business weighing me down.
53:39So, what happened?
53:41He'd done it on purpose.
53:44He wanted to die.
53:46But when I found him, he wasn't dead.
53:51And I should have called an ambulance, but I didn't.
53:56I should have helped him.
53:58And instead...
54:02I just watched him die.
54:04I told you she didn't call an ambulance, but it were worse than that.
54:11She'd finished him off.
54:14With a block of wood.
54:18She killed him.
54:21She said...
54:23she'd put him out of his misery.
54:30There was nothing anybody could have done for him.
54:37And I'm telling you this because...
54:39I'd be nervous about getting in any deeper with Robbie anyway.
54:43Robbie knew.
54:45He tried to get him arrested, but he couldn't prove out.
54:50He was very fond of Eddie.
54:54They were adopted.
54:56There was only ever the pair of them.
55:01The only person in the world who ever mattered to him, really, was Eddie.
55:06And me.
55:12And I let Eddie die.
55:19So how did you know?
55:21Well, she told me.
55:22As soon as I got there.
55:24I'm sorry I didn't tell you the truth before, but I couldn't.
55:27I've never told anyone.
55:29I didn't tell Eileen. I couldn't.
55:31But I couldn't. I've never told anyone.
55:33I didn't tell Eileen. I couldn't have told Eileen.
55:37So we came up with this tale.
55:40I just had nightmares after.
55:44I still do.
55:51I sometimes wonder...
55:54if it weren't...
55:56even suicide.
56:02Although that's what Colin has said.
56:06The point is, I've done enough for her over years.
56:09Apologising, covering stuff up.
56:12And now I'm happy.
56:14Like I never imagined I would be or deserved to be ever again.
56:22And now we're buying this bungalow
56:26and I'm putting all that behind me.
56:28I'm sorry.
56:32Yep.
56:34Blimey.
56:38I am...
56:40very fond of you.
56:43And I do think we could...
56:47be good for each other.
56:53I'm going to look after the baby while you do a shift at Greenos.
56:57You sure?
56:59Go to work.
57:02I can do babies.
57:06I'm very good with babies.
57:26Don't you worry. You're the whore.
57:28Greg!
57:29Kate!
57:31You're on the birth certificate. Where's the father?
57:33Well, not yet. We've not...
57:34Oh, well, you'll want to sort that out.
57:36Celia, it's William.
57:38He's in outpatients.
57:39Outpatients?
57:41Unbelievable. You know that, don't you?
57:44Somebody with a good heart like you shouldn't have skeletons in their cupboard.
57:48I'm looking for John. Is he here?
57:50I want to have a child. I want to get on with it.
57:52Something's happened.
57:53I need you to tell him something.
57:55Bless you. You were one of life's treasures.
58:31I love you.
58:32I love you, too.