Nineties Eastenders (18th February 1997)
Nineties Eastenders (18th February 1997)
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00:00Music
00:26Morning.
00:30Pat!
00:41Better get a move on if you want some breakfast,
00:42I'll have a taxi for you in a minute.
00:47I'm so sorry, Cathy.
00:49I didn't realise.
00:50It's all right, it's not your fault.
00:53I assumed you'd be at work.
00:55You had a bad night, have you?
00:56Yeah.
00:57Oh, no, I've been a disturb you, haven't I?
00:59No, just as well you did.
01:09Cathy, shall I put the fire on for you, love?
01:10You must be freezing.
01:11No, I'm not.
01:12No, you're not.
01:14Pat, please, go with Roy, will you?
01:16Roy, you're going to miss your train.
01:18Goodness sakes!
01:20Oh, it's that wretched fuse again.
01:22I knew it shouldn't have been buzzing.
01:23It's always buzzed.
01:25I have lived in this house longer than you, haven't you?
01:27It's never buzzed before, I should know.
01:28This isn't getting us anywhere, is it?
01:30Where are you going?
01:31Well, I'm going to cancel that taxi.
01:32You'll do no such thing.
01:34Somebody has got to fix it, haven't they?
01:35I'm not going to leave you here with no heating.
01:37And what happened last time you fixed it?
01:39Go on, get off to Birmingham.
01:41Well, what are you going to do then?
01:42I'm going to call an electrician like I should have done in the first place.
01:45Go on, go.
01:46No, I don't want to.
01:48I don't care what you want, you're going.
01:49And what's more, you're going to enjoy yourself.
01:52It's all right, love.
01:53I'll see you later.
01:55All right, if you insist.
01:57What tone?
01:58See you later, Kathy.
01:59Bye-bye.
02:03I thought we'd never get rid of him.
02:05But what about work?
02:06Oh, forget work, love.
02:07You and me can spend some time together.
02:09I'll give Blossom a ring.
02:11Kathy, you've got to stop thinking about it.
02:28I can't help it.
02:30Do you want to go over there and see him?
02:33He did the right thing last night, you know that, don't you?
02:36Did I?
02:37I'm as bad as him.
02:41Using blackmail to get what I want.
02:43How'd you work that one out?
02:45Refusing to live with him until he's completely dry.
02:48Well, that's not blackmail, love.
02:50That's looking after yourself.
02:51And looking after your baby.
02:55The electrician at last.
03:05Here, it's Phil.
03:07It's all right.
03:08He's just sober.
03:09He wants to talk to you.
03:20Well?
03:21Well?
03:22I just went round to Kathy and Blossom said you was ill.
03:24Well, I'm just having a day off, that's all.
03:26All right.
03:28What did you want, Phil?
03:30Well, I just wanted to say, um...
03:34Well, I just wanted to say you win.
03:36I win?
03:37I'm going to do what you want.
03:38I'm going to go to the group therapy.
03:40This isn't about winning.
03:43I want you to go because you want to go, Phil.
03:45Not because you're trying to please me.
03:46Well, that's just it.
03:48What?
03:49Well, I think maybe I do want to go now.
03:53Well, then I'm pleased.
03:57I didn't open that bottle.
03:59Oh, I covered that.
04:03Be nice if you wish me luck.
04:05Good luck.
04:08Well, aren't you going to ask after Ben?
04:12I always have to screw up somewhere, don't I?
04:17Phil, come back.
04:31I heard all that.
04:32At least he was sober.
04:34Of course, for a celebration.
04:36I shouldn't have said that last bit, though.
04:38What about Ben?
04:40I know he cares about him,
04:42but sometimes it's like Ben don't exist.
04:44It just upsets me.
04:45He is his father.
04:46Well, let's face it, Pete wasn't much of a father either.
04:49At least to my taste.
04:50Well, he did try with Ian.
04:52He just got it all wrong.
04:54Yeah.
04:55Well, it's like we were saying, men, they're hopeless.
04:57I hope you're not including Roy in that.
04:59No, of course not.
05:00I love Roy.
05:02We're talking about fathers here, Kath.
05:05Look at Barry.
05:06Need I say more?
05:08There are some nice men about.
05:10Oh, yeah? Who?
05:12There was Arthur.
05:14Yeah, Arthur was nice enough.
05:17But you have wanted to be Pauline all them years.
05:22I'll tell you a funny story now, and this about sums it all up.
05:26When I was 14, like this,
05:29I was in the school choir.
05:32Yes, I know.
05:33Not for very long then, I'll tell you why.
05:35Do you remember they had that carol service at the town hall
05:37for the local schools?
05:39Well, it's there that I met Timothy Wimple.
05:43Who?
05:44Exactly.
05:45Timothy Wimple.
05:47He was a very respectable boy.
05:49Respectable mummy and daddy.
05:51Smart ass, went to the grammar school.
05:54Very keen on folk music, do you know what I mean?
05:57Short back and sides, neat party,
05:59and this is around the time of the Rolling Stones.
06:02Anyway, he asked me out,
06:04and I was so shocked I ended up saying yeah.
06:07And?
06:08He took me to a folk club somewhere in Islington.
06:12Oh, he was such a nice bloke, though.
06:15Very polite, very considerate.
06:18Always wanted to talk about me and how I was feeling.
06:20Very respectful.
06:22All the things you dream of in a man.
06:24And do you know what?
06:26He bored you, Richard?
06:27I chucked him after a folk night.
06:30That was before Marcus Duffy got his hands on me.
06:33And you know what happened there.
06:36He's the boy that raped you, isn't he?
06:39Donna's dad.
06:42No more school choir for me.
06:45And that's a funny story, is it?
06:49Well, I've often wondered over the years
06:51what might have happened if I stuck it out with Timothy Wimple.
06:54He wanted to be a pharmacist, and I remember thinking, what?
07:00But I bet you Timothy Wimple hasn't ended up alcoholic.
07:04Kathy, you never know how people are going to turn out, love.
07:07Well, I know how I turned out.
07:09But with a Marcus Duffy's and Wilmot Brown's
07:11and Richard Cole's of this world.
07:13And Phil Mitchell's.
07:18When the school found out I was pregnant,
07:20I was called to headmaster's study.
07:22You remember him, old outcried.
07:24He had that glass eye, so you'd be quite sure if he was looking at you or not.
07:28Anyways, he's quivering with rage cos I've let the school down.
07:32No-one's talking about rape then, you understand.
07:35And he turned round and said to me,
07:37Catherine Hills, there are nice girls and there are not nice girls,
07:41and you are not nice.
07:44Well, whoever wanted to be a nice girl.
07:46Not me, not me.
07:49Now, as you are all no doubt aware by now,
07:52we have somebody new joining us today.
07:54This is Phil, everybody.
07:57Now, normally in a closed group, we don't take in new members.
08:01But as I've sounded you all out,
08:03and since we've only been running for one week,
08:05we are making an exception.
08:08So, welcome, Phil.
08:13Now, perhaps we could do what we did at the start of last week
08:16and have everyone introduce themselves again
08:19and just say a little bit about why they're here.
08:24So, who's going to start?
08:31OK, er...
08:33I'm Stuart Kennedy, I'm a solicitor.
08:36I work in a large city practice.
08:38I've made no bones about the fact that I've come to this group
08:41rather than one nearer to my home or office
08:43in the hope that I won't be recognised or found out.
08:47And that's, er...
08:49That's because I'm an alcoholic and I'm ashamed of it.
08:55Phil?
08:57Oh, can we go the other way round?
08:59I ain't got anything to say right now.
09:01Hello?
09:03I'm sorry, Pat.
09:05I was just thinking about what we were saying earlier.
09:07Oh, not nice, girls.
09:09About why it is I always end up with a bloke
09:12who's either going to work me or let me down.
09:15I can see you're going to start blaming yourself in a minute.
09:18It can't just be coincidence.
09:20Oh, so you've driven Phil to drink.
09:22Is that what you're saying?
09:24I know he thinks that.
09:26Don't ever let me hear you say that Phil's an alcoholic because of you.
09:29That lets him off the hook.
09:31Say you agree with me.
09:34I agree with you, Pat.
09:36Good girl.
09:38And we don't have to be victims.
09:44What are you doing? You've got me all fired up now.
09:46What are you looking for?
09:48You always talk about being victims.
09:50I mean, here we are, like a couple of lemons,
09:52sitting here waiting for an electrician.
09:54Wait for a man to do a job, you'll wait forever.
09:58Um...
10:00Well, my name's Phil Mitchell and, er...
10:04Well, things got a bit out of hand over the last year or so.
10:10That's about it, really.
10:13OK, so, that's the introductions over with.
10:17Who's going to kick off?
10:22Yeah, well, all right. Um...
10:25Yesterday was a bad day, it was a colleague's birthday,
10:28and he invited us all out to a wine bar on Fleet Street.
10:31No getting out these things, one's obliged to go to them.
10:34Of course, there was heaps of champagne.
10:38Um, the pressure's enormous.
10:40Not that I wanted any, I was having a good day in that respect.
10:44But other people will insist
10:48and one finds one's excuses wearing pretty thin.
10:52I know the problem. Which is?
10:54Well, that's that I'm scared to admit openly that I have a problem.
10:59Do you want to do some work on that now?
11:03Er, not today. I'm not there yet, it's too difficult.
11:06If that's all right. Thank you.
11:09Talking of birthdays, it was my dad's birthday on Saturday.
11:14He's an alcoholic too, though he'd never admit to it.
11:19Has been ever since I can remember.
11:22I haven't seen him in years.
11:24Though I know he's at the same address
11:26cos he still sees my brother from time to time.
11:30This was a big thing for me, yeah?
11:33Getting back in touch.
11:36On the card, I put down the number of the hostel where I'm living.
11:40So I stay near the phone all day Saturday.
11:44All day Sunday.
11:47And nearly all of yesterday.
11:51And he never phones.
11:53And you're all thinking, why didn't I go round there myself?
11:56Or why didn't I at least phone him myself?
11:58But I'm frightened of him rejecting me.
12:01Like he always has done.
12:04Yeah, you sound very angry, very upset.
12:08Yeah, well, I just wanted him to meet me halfway.
12:11Stupid.
12:12All right. Do you want to explore this further?
12:16Yeah. Good.
12:17Let's have somebody be your dad.
12:20Who do you want to pick from the group?
12:22I'd like to pick him.
12:24That Phil.
12:26The new bloke.
12:29Are you OK with that, Phil?
12:32What's he pick me for?
12:34Patrick.
12:35Cos he's cold and he's distant.
12:37Cos he reckons he knows it all and he don't know nothing.
12:40Cos he's scared and he's scared to admit it.
12:42Cos he's out to pretend he don't need or care about no-one.
12:45When deep down inside he's hurting so bad he could scream.
12:49He wouldn't be here in the first place otherwise.
12:51I've seen so many blokes like you inside.
12:54Making out they're the tough guy
12:56when really they're just a little boy that's never grown up.
13:00Are you just talking about Phil here or...
13:04..about yourself, Patrick?
13:07I'm talking about my father.
13:10Look, I'm sorry if that got personal,
13:12but staring out the window was just getting on my nerves, man, all right.
13:18I'm out of order, I'm sorry.
13:21Are you happy to carry on, Phil?
13:23Yeah.
13:25Yeah, sure, no problem.
13:27Good.
13:29Want another candle?
13:30No, no, I'm OK.
13:32Right, got it.
13:34Er, I think there should be a number on it somewhere.
13:3715 amp.
13:39Right.
13:40Right, remove the old fuse wire
13:42and rub down the marks on the bridge where the old one has burnt out.
13:47What's the rush here, Pat?
13:48Well, I don't know. I suppose they must be running the toolbox somewhere.
13:51There we are.
13:54Do you know something? What?
13:55I'm really enjoying myself.
13:58You were never there for me, Dad.
14:01I'll never remember you once putting your arms around me,
14:04I'll never remember you once telling me you loved me,
14:06reading me a story, nothing like that.
14:08Well, where were you, Dad?
14:10Well, we know where you were, don't we?
14:11You were down the pub with your mates every sodding night.
14:14And the old lady terrified us the way you be when you got back.
14:17Never knowing what she'd be in for.
14:19And me in the next bedroom having to listen to it.
14:21Oh, yeah. I was awake.
14:23Didn't know that, did you? Well, I was.
14:25Six years old.
14:27I'd be younger.
14:29I heard it all.
14:30And I grew up thinking that was the way to be,
14:32that that's what a man's supposed to be like.
14:34So is it any wonder I've turned out how I have?
14:38You know, the stupidest thing of all,
14:40in spite of everything,
14:42in spite of all the things you've done to my mother,
14:44in spite of all the whippings you give me and my brother,
14:47there's a part of me that still loves you.
14:51I put myself on the line here for you,
14:53and you can't leave me by to pick up the sodding phone and dial!
14:56Why won't you pick up the phone and dial, Dad?
14:58Come on!
15:00Why won't you do it?
15:05Cos, um...
15:08Cos I'm still drunk.
15:12And I, er...
15:14I hate myself.
15:21Right. I'm slotting it back in now.
15:25It's in. It's in.
15:27Right, going to switch on the mains?
15:29I can feel my heart beating.
15:31Don't be silly. What's the worst that can happen?
15:33We could both die, for a start.
15:35Nah! Pull the switch.
15:37I went to sleep upstairs. No-one would know we were dead.
15:40Pull the switch, Kathy!
15:42Right. Here we are.
15:46Hallelujah!
15:48Well, so much for electricians.
15:50We've just saved ourselves 50 quid, girl.
15:53Hang on. What?
15:55I can hear something. I think it's still buzzing.
15:58Is that fire still on in the kitchen?
16:00Oh, yeah, I think it is!
16:03Hello, Houston?
16:05We have a problem.
16:11I, er... just wanted to say thanks, mate.
16:14For what?
16:16For helping me through without work. You were great.
16:19No problem.
16:21Yeah, I felt bad to start off with, picking you out.
16:23You being new and all.
16:25But it was the right thing to do.
16:27For me, at least, anyway.
16:29Good.
16:32So, er, no hard feelings, then?
16:35No, no hard feelings.
16:38What are these colours for?
16:40What colours? These coloured dots, look.
16:42I didn't see them when I was in there earlier.
16:44What are they for? Give us that book a minute.
16:50Huh?
16:51All fuse carriers are coloured-coded
16:53with the slots into which they should be fitted.
16:56You know what Roy's gone and done, don't you? What?
16:59When he changed the fuse last time, he didn't follow the colour coding.
17:02So when I changed the fuse, I just put them back where I found them.
17:05Where he put them.
17:07What were we waiting for? I don't want that.
17:10Here you go, mate.
17:14There we go.
17:16I am now switching on.
17:19Is that fire off in the kitchen?
17:22Yeah, fire's off in the kitchen.
17:24Right. Here goes.
17:27Any buzzing?
17:28There's no buzzing.
17:30Switch the fire on.
17:33Fire's on.
17:35We have lights.
17:37We have a fire.
17:40We are operational again.
17:42Yeah!
17:44Da-da-da-da-da-da-da!
17:46You are a superwoman!
17:48I am Wonder Woman!
17:50I am Wonder Woman!
17:52I am Wonder...
17:54Hold on.
18:03Where are you?
18:07What? How'd you get on?
18:09Well, that's what I want to talk to you about.
18:14Can you come over now? There's...
18:16There's loads of stuff for me to say.
18:19Stick with it, Kev.
18:22I'm not sure if not nice girls are meant to be happy.
18:25Oh, you've got so much going for you, love.
18:28So much to be proud of.
18:30Such as?
18:31Do I have to spell it out for you?
18:33Well, I think I need reminding.
18:36Well, there's Ian.
18:39Yeah, I know he's not perfect, but he loves you and he's here for you.
18:43Which is more than can be said for my two.
18:45Oh, yeah, I'm sorry, Pat.
18:48And there's the calf.
18:51And there's Phil.
18:53Yeah, Phil, remember? The man you married.
18:56He's still in there, Kath.
18:58And you're battling for him.
19:00And if I know you, you're not a woman who gives up easy
19:03if there's something that needs fixing.
19:05And there's this little fella.
19:08So, all in all, if you're not a nice girl,
19:10I think you've done pretty well.
19:13Thanks, Pat.
19:22Mum.
19:29Hello.
19:30Hiya.
19:31Can I make some tea?
19:33Do you know how old I am?
19:34In a minute.
19:36All right.
19:39So, you've cleared up?
19:41Yeah, I thought I'd make the effort now.
19:44Hey.
19:45Hey.
19:47Fine.
19:48What about you?
19:50Well, I had a funny little moment.
19:53In what way?
19:55It's weird.
19:57So, what happened?
20:00Well, er, I poured a tea shot.
20:03Phil, I asked what happened.
20:05Well, it was just a...
20:07just a bunch of blokes sitting round a circle
20:09being miserable with each other.
20:11What's that supposed to mean?
20:13Getting angry and crying.
20:17I mean, thumping cushions.
20:20You had a video of it, you'd laugh.
20:24Don't worry, I'm going back.
20:26I'm a miserable bloke too, remember?
20:29Should fit in pretty well.
20:31Good, I'm glad.
20:34What's all this?
20:35Oh, I popped it into Vic on the way back.
20:39I knew these were up in the attic.
20:43It's a human grunt.
20:46Referee's the old man.
20:49Here, read this.
20:53Retired local boxing hero Eric Mitchell
20:56believes he's found two champs of the future
20:58right here in the borough.
20:59He's pinning hopes on these two youngsters
21:01bringing back medals for Britain from the Olympic Games in 1980.
21:05Who are they?
21:06One of his own two sons, Philip and Grant.
21:08He set the whole thing up.
21:10He phoned his mate on the paper
21:12and got a photographer down.
21:14Why?
21:16So he could show off to his mates.
21:20All this local boxing hero business is low rubbish.
21:25I thought he was in with the chance of the title once, wasn't he?
21:28Yeah, he was, and he had an eliminator
21:31and the winner was going to go on the fight to hurry down to.
21:34And?
21:36We never heard the rest of the story.
21:39He must have lost.
21:41Otherwise we would never have heard the end of it.
21:46He had a good right hand on him, though.
21:49Oh, did you see him fight then?
21:51No.
21:53No, I'm talking from personal experience.
21:57You can ask Grant.
21:59Ask Mum.
22:01They'll tell you.
22:03Or rather, they won't.
22:05Why not?
22:06Because you don't slag off the family.
22:09No matter what he might have done.
22:14I'll never remember him hitting Sam, though.
22:18She was always his favourite.
22:19They got on really well together, them two,
22:21and by the time he might have got round to hitting her,
22:24the cancer had got him.
22:27That was the best fight of the old man's career, that one.
22:30He really went the distance.
22:33Of course.
22:35Of course he did.
22:37He still ended up losing, though.
22:42You don't say this in my family, but...
22:45the truth is...
22:47it was a failure.
22:50Just like me.
22:52Phil...
22:54Don't try and talk me out of it, Kev.
22:56I know what failure's like.
22:58You don't get a lot of choice when you're spilling your guts
23:01and the police are up past two in the morning.
23:04I've looked it right in the eye and, you know, it looks back on me.
23:09My dad...
23:11failure.
23:13I don't think you're a failure.
23:16No.
23:18When I was a kid...
23:20people used to say to my old lady...
23:24it's just like his dad and he...
23:28they didn't know how right they were.
23:30You've got Ben.
23:32You've got something to be proud of.
23:35Shall I tell you a secret?
23:37Something that's been knocking round the back of my head
23:40ever since you first told me you were pregnant.
23:43What?
23:45You're going to think badly of me, though.
23:48Well, I try not to.
23:52All the time you was pregnant...
23:55I was really hoping and praying it was going to be a little girl.
23:59Why was that?
24:01Cos I think...
24:03deep down...
24:05I'd seen the old man, I'd seen how he was with Sam
24:08and I thought, I could manage that.
24:10I could love a little girl. I could never hate a little girl.
24:14But if it was a boy...
24:16If it was a boy, what?
24:18If it was a boy, it'd just be like me and Dad all over again.
24:22And I think...
24:24I think that's what really frightened me.
24:27I thought it was because you were jealous.
24:29No, I don't know if I was or am.
24:32It was different, but the thing is that everyone convinced me
24:35that I wanted a little boy and by the end I persuaded myself that I did too.
24:39So what are you saying?
24:41Well...
24:43There was a bloke at the group this morning
24:46and he said that if he could learn to like himself,
24:50that maybe he could, er...
24:53learn to like his son as well.
24:57And that rang the bells on me.
24:59You can change.
25:03You think so? Yeah.
25:07Can I hold him now?
25:09You don't have to ask.
25:21There.
25:26Not too tight, Phil. You might choke him.
25:34What's going on?
25:36You know, I never really knew how much I loved him.
25:39Until now.
25:46Hey, Kathy, you're being with Phil all this time.
25:48What happened about cocking me tea?
25:51Hello, love.
25:53Ah, there we go.
25:55I haven't walked out.
25:57I'm up to trade, do silly.
25:59Oh, yeah, no, I didn't go in the end.
26:01You didn't go? No, I didn't want to go without you.
26:04So what did you do?
26:06Well, I went window shopping along Oxford Street, had some lunch,
26:09took myself off to the pictures and then I took up your idea.
26:12Spent an hour in the National Gallery and very interesting it was too.
26:15I've had a lovely time.
26:17What did I say?
26:19I see you've had the electrician in then. How much did that lot cost?
26:22Hello?
26:24Hiya. You don't leave the front door open?
26:26You look cheerful. What's happened?
26:28Pat, I feel dreadful cos I know I said I'd cook for you tonight,
26:31but something's come up and I can't make it.
26:33Where's Ben? Well, that's just it. He's over with Phil.
26:36We've been talking all afternoon and we've really sorted out a lot of stuff.
26:40Please don't be cross, will you?
26:42But me and Ben are moving back in.
26:44Mix it up and make it nice.
26:49Up goes the weasel
26:52Up and down the city road
26:54In and out the eagle
26:56That's the way the money goes
26:59Up goes the weasel
27:03Well...
27:06Every time when I go out
27:09The monkey's on the table
27:12Take a stick and knock him off
27:16The weasel
27:46The Weasel