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00:00Piano music
00:30Oh, come on, lads, go home.
00:54I want to go to bed.
00:55We've all had enough and I've no drink in the house anyway.
01:00Blimey, I've told you that...
01:06Hello, Kelly.
01:09It's me.
01:11Raquel, I...
01:12Just say if I've come at an inconvenient moment,
01:14if you've a bunch of friends in or anything...
01:16No, no, I'm...
01:17Or, I mean, if you're with somebody, I can come back another time.
01:21No.
01:23There's just me, I'm on me own.
01:25Right.
01:27Can I come in then?
01:29Do you mind?
01:39When did you...?
01:41What are you doing here?
01:43I just thought, you know, I'd call in...
01:47Oh, come on, Raquel.
01:49Don't tell me you simply happen to be passing.
01:51It's two o'clock in the morning.
01:52No, well, I didn't say that.
01:54No need to be sarcastic.
01:56I'm sorry.
01:58I didn't mean...
02:01Well, to tell you the truth...
02:02Surprised to see you, mate.
02:04You could say that.
02:05Yeah, gobsmacked.
02:06And when I'm flustered, I get sarcastic.
02:09It's a self-defence thing.
02:10I'm sorry.
02:11No, it's my fault landing on you like this.
02:14Perhaps I'd better go.
02:16No!
02:17No.
02:18I mean, you're here now, aren't you?
02:20Yes, I'm here.
02:22I nearly wasn't.
02:24Nearly, er...
02:25Lost my nerve at the last minute.
02:31Well, you're looking well.
02:33Yeah.
02:34Yeah, I'm...
02:35I'm fine.
02:39Look, why are we, er, stood in the back kitchen?
02:41The living room's just through there.
02:43Well, I...
02:44I do know that.
02:45Used to live here.
02:47Yeah.
02:49I haven't forgotten.
02:52No.
02:54No.
02:56Neither have I.
03:04Well...
03:07Everything's just as I remember it.
03:12I see you've not gone in for redecorating or anything.
03:15Didn't see much point.
03:16There's only me to look at it.
03:18You're, er...
03:20On your own, then?
03:22I do have company from time to time.
03:24People camping on me.
03:25People using it as a DOS house.
03:27Sort of a home for the homeless.
03:30But I'm not with anyone.
03:32If that's what you're wondering.
03:33Well, it...
03:35It was, yeah.
03:37No.
03:38Well, not at the moment.
03:41Well, to tell you the truth, there hasn't been anybody.
03:44Since you left.
03:46Well, nobody serious, you mean.
03:47No.
03:49I mean nobody.
03:50Oh.
03:54Your hair's different.
03:55I like it.
03:57Mind you, I liked it the way it was before.
04:00But this, it, erm...
04:02It suits you.
04:04Let me take your coat.
04:06You look terrific.
04:07Oh, thank you.
04:08It...
04:09But then again, you always did.
04:11Look, Raquel, I've got to ask you.
04:12What have you come back for?
04:13Well, I...
04:14I was coming to that only.
04:15It's, erm...
04:17Not easy for me.
04:19Have you come back to me?
04:22Because if that's what you want...
04:23Oh, now, come on, now.
04:24I mean, I'm not that cheeky, am I?
04:27I can't just walk in and out of people's lives willy-nilly.
04:29Yes, you can.
04:30If you want.
04:31There'd be no reproaches.
04:32There'd be no inquest.
04:33I can't wait for you, I can't wait for you.
04:34Well, come on now.
04:35I mean, I'm not that cheeky, am I?
04:36I can't just walk in and out of people's lives willy-nilly.
04:40Yes, you can.
04:41If you want.
04:42There'd be no reproaches.
04:43There'd be no inquest.
04:44There'd be no reproaches, there'd be no inquests.
04:45I'd just say yes.
04:47Yes.
04:49Please.
04:50Well, it's, um...
04:52a lot more complicated than that, Curly.
04:55There's, uh...
04:57things I need to talk to you about.
05:00I see.
05:02That means you want something.
05:05What is it, a divorce, then?
05:06No, I wish you'd just listen a minute.
05:08It's...
05:09it's very...
05:11difficult for me.
05:14Can I sit down?
05:18Do what you want, Raquel.
05:19You always did anyway.
05:20Do what you want, Raquel.
05:25Have a look at this.
05:51Who is it?
06:01She's our daughter.
06:03Well, we've had a baby.
06:04She's yours.
06:05Ours.
06:06Wait a minute, Raquel.
06:13Let me get my head around this.
06:17You're saying I'm the father?
06:20I'm the father of this little girl?
06:24Yeah.
06:25Alice Diana Watts.
06:28She's two and a half.
06:34God almighty, Raquel.
06:36You mean...
06:37When you left me, you were pregnant?
06:40You had this baby?
06:42And you never told me?
06:44Well, I'm telling you now.
06:47That's why I'm here, because I thought I owed you.
06:50Flaming understatement of the year, that is.
06:52Please let me tell you about it, Kerley.
06:54That's a good idea.
06:55And about bloody time.
06:58Go on.
06:58Carry on.
06:59You have my full attention.
07:00You see, when I left you, I didn't know I was pregnant.
07:07That's the honest truth.
07:10I mean, I got to Kuala Lumpur and settled in the job in the hotel.
07:17Then I found out I was expecting it.
07:20Wait a minute.
07:21Is she really mine, this kid?
07:25Of course she's yours.
07:28There was no other man.
07:30God, that's a cruel thing to say.
07:34All right, I had to ask.
07:37I'll take it back.
07:40I never left you over some other man.
07:42I was never unfaithful to you.
07:46God, that's a cruel thing.
07:49And what do you call having my baby and not telling me,
07:51not letting me know I had a daughter?
07:53What do you call that, an oversight?
07:55No, it was wrong of me.
07:56I admit that.
07:57Oh, Raquel, this...
07:58This is not me for six, this has.
08:02Why didn't you tell me?
08:05All you had to do was pick up a phone and ring me.
08:08If I had done, if I'd phoned you and told you I was expecting our baby, what would you have done?
08:16I'd have been on the next plane, the very same day, to bring you home.
08:21And that's what I thought.
08:22That's why I didn't tell you.
08:32Oh.
08:35Oh, Raquel.
08:39You have done some...
08:40some hurtful things to me in the past.
08:44I know.
08:45But this, this is the worst.
08:49Not letting me know I had a daughter.
08:51I know.
08:52I always wanted kids, you knew that.
08:54Yours and mine, ours.
08:56And now we've had one and you didn't even tell me!
08:59I know it was wrong of me and I've told you now.
09:01Can I, um, just use the bathroom?
09:13You can use whatever you want, Raquel, because that's all you are!
09:16A user!
09:18And you use me!
09:19Like I was rubbish!
09:21For your own selfish purposes!
09:23I'm a father.
09:48Me!
09:52Me!
09:52Me!
10:18Me!
10:19I come be using those techniques of her,
10:20you know!
10:23You don't mind everything, I am willing.
10:26You don't mind.
10:27Linus and 1imizam
10:28Well, that's the benefits of anchovies miedo.
10:31Halloween time.
10:33Drink what I have!
10:35Made in the middle of March,
10:37Salmage mana.
10:39That's my favourite.
10:40You might use me for online extra month.
10:43Apparently, I know you have a doesn't quite fit into it.
10:46I can't make it easy enough for the reason,
10:48because I don't think I don't like it.
10:48This is how it works.
11:18leaving so much safer.
11:33Hello, I need to make sure the food is enjoy.
11:37Yeah, I am very happy.
11:42Here are some delicious flavors that I want to give to you.
11:45Now, I'm going to take a bite.
12:17I said some hard things just now, a bit over the top.
12:43I'm sorry.
12:44No.
12:46You had every right to be angry with me.
12:49Would you let me try and explain it to you?
12:59Anyway, there I am in Kuala Lumpur.
13:15It's quite a nice place, by the way.
13:18It's different from round here.
13:20Yeah.
13:21Not that I did much sightseeing.
13:23I was working hard in the hotel, long hours.
13:28Then I found out I was pregnant.
13:29And I didn't know what to do.
13:33I mean, I had no friends.
13:36Single mothers aren't that popular, are they?
13:38Especially if they're foreigners, which I was.
13:41Over there.
13:42To them.
13:43I'm just thankful you didn't get rid of it.
13:45Her, I mean.
13:46I didn't mean to say it.
13:48No, no, I would never do that.
13:53See, and I knew.
13:56I just knew if I phoned you, you'd bring me back here and want to start all over and have the baby.
14:02And I'd have let you talk me into it because I was frightened and short of money on me own.
14:06It would have been all right.
14:08It would have worked.
14:09We'd have been happy.
14:11I didn't think so.
14:13You know, at the time, I...
14:16See, what I did think at the time was...
14:19Was that I'd not be happy.
14:21And even if I pretended you'd know, and then you'd be unhappy, and I'd feel guilty, and then we'd end up breaking up again.
14:26Only worse because of the baby.
14:28Maybe.
14:29Maybe not.
14:31Now we'll never know.
14:34Anyway, so you had the baby.
14:36Alice.
14:39I love it.
14:42Alice Diana.
14:46It's after Princess Di, the Diana part.
14:49Oh, I see.
14:50You always said if we had a little girl, you wanted to call it Tiffany.
14:54Well, I dare say I did.
14:57Used to say a lot of silly things all the time.
15:01Where is Alice Diana now?
15:04At home, as she said.
15:06Don't worry.
15:08She's being well looked after.
15:11When you say at home, where is that exactly?
15:16Long way from here.
15:18You've not had her adopted, have you?
15:19You didn't give her away.
15:20No, of course I didn't.
15:21I would never do that.
15:25When the baby was due, I came back to England.
15:28I went to live with my sister.
15:29Denise?
15:30Yeah.
15:31Well, she's a nurse, you know, in this London teaching hospital.
15:34And, uh, that's where I had her.
15:4023rd of July, 1997.
15:44Six pounds, four and a half ounces.
15:45She's a Leo.
15:49On the coast, mind you, which I think is, uh...
15:55It's always interesting.
15:56I've, uh, another photo.
16:12That's my niece.
16:13Alice.
16:15And she doesn't work in maternity.
16:17She just came in when I had Alice.
16:20She's lovely.
16:21Yeah.
16:22I wish I'd have been there.
16:24I wish I'd have had the chance to hold her,
16:26to give her a cuddle, to say hello.
16:29It has been on my conscience.
16:33I'll tell Alice about you.
16:36I say one day, soon you can meet your daddy.
16:38Well, if you'd like to meet her, that is, you...
16:42Oh, yeah.
16:43Yes.
16:44More than anything.
16:46Well, that's good.
16:48Cos, I mean, she's entitled to have her daddy in her life.
16:51I do know that.
16:53I talk to her a lot about you.
16:55Do you?
16:56Only the other night it was Christmas Eve,
16:58and we were walking home,
17:00and I pointed up at the sky.
17:05And I said, you see those stars?
17:08Your daddy had one of those stars named after me.
17:13Mrs. Raquel Watts.
17:16That's what the stars called.
17:19And she was thrilled.
17:21She said, what a lovely present.
17:23And I said, well...
17:25That's the kind of man your daddy is.
17:30A very nice man.
17:38It's still up there, I take it.
17:45My star.
17:46Yeah.
17:48It was last time I looked.
17:51You've still got your telescope, then?
17:54Yeah.
17:56Still up in the loft.
18:00Could I?
18:00Do you think...
18:07I'm not sure I understand what I'm looking at, but...
18:14Oh, it's beautiful.
18:15Yes, it is.
18:22I often come up here.
18:24It makes you realise just how big space is,
18:27and how small we are,
18:28and just how little time we really have got.
18:31You know, the stars.
18:35It's a long way from us to them, isn't it?
18:38So far that what you're seeing isn't the stars now.
18:42That's the way they used to be.
18:43It takes that long for the light of them to get to here.
18:46Thanks, Curly.
18:55I'm so glad I came here and told you about Alice.
18:59It has been on my conscience not letting you know.
19:04I just hope you'll forgive me.
19:07Forgiven and forgotten.
19:08It's wonderful, Raquel, you being here and us talking like this.
19:14Curly...
19:15Look, the past is past.
19:17What's happened, it's gone.
19:19It's what's in front of us that matters.
19:20Like the man said,
19:21the rest of your life starts here.
19:41It's just dawned on me.
19:43I haven't offered you anything.
19:44I mean, you turning up like this, it caught me unawares.
19:47Would you like a cup of tea or something?
19:49Oh, I'm not bothered.
19:52Well, only if you're having one.
19:53Or maybe a glass of wine.
19:56Yeah, that'd be nice.
19:57I've got a decent bottle of red round here somewhere.
20:00I've been saving it for a special occasion.
20:01Only there hasn't been one until now.
20:05Curly.
20:05I've got a cup of tea.
20:06Yeah.
20:10Doesn't matter.
20:11I'll get the wine.
20:12You just make yourself at home.
20:15Right.
20:16Cooks.
20:16Cooks.
20:18Cooks.
20:18Cooks.
20:18There we are.
20:22Oh, don't bother with those dirty pots.
20:39I'll do them tomorrow.
20:40Today, I mean, I suppose.
20:43Well, you know me.
20:44I can't stand by while there's pots wanting washing.
20:46It won't take a minute.
20:50But you're washing up gloves.
20:52Do you not get them anymore?
20:54There's a lot of things I don't get anymore.
20:56It's time.
21:00Raquel, can I ask you a question?
21:03Yes, of course you can.
21:05Was that the only reason that you came here tonight,
21:07to tell me about Alice?
21:10Well, no.
21:11I'm so glad you came.
21:12Really, I can't tell you.
21:14And like I say, I do forgive you.
21:17As far as I'm concerned, it's all behind us.
21:19There'll be no brooding, no recriminations.
21:22No, I also came...
21:24Please, let me finish while I've still got the nerve.
21:25You see, I think we can start again.
21:28I mean, we've got the best reason in the world now, haven't we?
21:32Alice!
21:33I know I've never seen her, but I already love her.
21:37And I've never stopped loving you.
21:39And we're that bit wiser, that bit mature.
21:43Norman...
21:43Don't call me Norman.
21:45You know I don't like it.
21:47Well, it's your name.
21:48You can't be curly all your life.
21:49What's it going to be like when you're old or bald or...
21:51Look, some of the time I'll discuss my name with you,
21:54but right now I want an answer.
21:55What do you say?
21:57We're still married.
21:59We've got a child.
22:02Can we try again?
22:07Kelly.
22:09See, it's like those stars we were looking at.
22:13See, you're seeing us, you and me.
22:16The way that we used to be, not the way we are now.
22:21I do love you.
22:24Maybe not in the way that you love me,
22:25but all the same, I do love you, and I always will.
22:28Well, there you are, then.
22:30So,
22:31what are you telling me?
22:36There's somebody else.
22:37who wants to marry me.
22:48I've, um...
22:49I've not given you your wine.
22:53Kelly.
22:53Please.
22:58Here's to Mrs. Raquel Watts.
23:01And all who's tailing her.
23:05Who the hell is that this time of night?
23:07Some damn fool
23:10wanting to wish me happy millennium, no doubt.
23:13Are you not going to answer it?
23:16No.
23:18I'm not in the mood for a chat for some reason.
23:22It might be for me.
23:23Yeah.
23:23Hello.
23:33Yes, this is Mr. Watts.
23:38It is for you.
23:40It's a man.
23:42I think he's foreign.
23:47Armand?
23:48What's the time, Armand?
23:51Oui, oui, ça va.
23:53Oui, c'est énorme.
23:57Non, non.
23:58Non, tout va bien.
23:59T'inquiète pas.
24:01Et à tout à l'heure.
24:04Allez, je t'en prie, chérie.
24:05Salut.
24:10That's somebody else in person,
24:12I take it?
24:13Yeah.
24:14See,
24:15we booked in that big hotel
24:16near the roundabout.
24:19I mean,
24:19I was going to come and see you in the morning,
24:21only I couldn't stand to wait.
24:23And he's French.
24:24And you were speaking French to him.
24:26Where the hell did you learn to speak French?
24:29Well, I've been working for him for over two years now.
24:32He's loaded, isn't he?
24:33Why'd you say that?
24:35Oh, something tells me.
24:36Your clothes.
24:38A hotel room on Millennium Night.
24:40He's rich, isn't he?
24:42Well, he's processed.
24:43He's rich.
24:44And he can buy anything he wants.
24:46And he's bought you.
24:48It's not like that at all.
24:49You work for him, you say?
24:51As what?
24:53Well, I work in his house.
24:55Work, you call it.
24:56What is it?
24:57Some kind of a sleeping partner.
24:59I see it all now.
25:00No, you don't.
25:02But I would like to tell you about it, Curly.
25:04I really...
25:04You can go to hell.
25:06And the door is where it was
25:08last time you walked out.
25:13Please, Curly.
25:14Raquel.
25:33Raquel.
25:34Don't go.
25:37Not like this.
25:40I'm sorry.
25:44I'd like to hear about it.
25:47If you want to tell me.
25:51I need you to understand, Curly.
25:57Like I said.
26:05I came back to England to have the baby.
26:08Went and lived with my sister.
26:11She was nursing in the hospital.
26:12It was a cancer ward.
26:18Anyway, there was this French lady.
26:21Her husband had brought her to London,
26:23sort of a last hope.
26:26They had a specialist,
26:27meant to be the best in the world,
26:28only who couldn't do anything.
26:30Too advanced.
26:33Anyway, this French couple had
26:35two little girls.
26:38And the French lady.
26:42Elodie, she was called.
26:45All she could think about
26:46was who was going to look after her girls.
26:48It was...
26:48one three and one four.
26:53And like I said,
26:54the niece was nursing this lady
26:55and she told her about me.
26:57How I'd just had a baby
26:59and...
26:59needed a job.
27:01So I went to see her
27:05and she thought that
27:06I could look after her kiddies
27:07as well as my own.
27:13That's what I've been doing
27:14for the last two and a half years, Curly.
27:15I've not been a kept woman.
27:17I've been the children's nanny.
27:18I didn't mean...
27:19You know me.
27:21When I'm hurt,
27:22sometimes I lash out.
27:25Anyway,
27:26Armand and his wife
27:28took me back to France with them
27:29to look after the children
27:30and that's what I did.
27:33Elodie just...
27:35wasted away and...
27:39wasted away.
27:42It was awful.
27:46She died five months later.
27:47And Armand,
27:50he was...
27:51devastated.
27:54For a long time,
27:55he couldn't even bear
27:55to look at his children.
27:56It was as if
27:57somehow he thought
27:58it was having them
27:59had made her ill
28:00and...
28:01they looked so much like her.
28:07I had to be a mother to them.
28:11It was an awful time.
28:16This...
28:16somebody else of yours.
28:17This...
28:18This...
28:19Armand,
28:19you bow.
28:21Let me guess.
28:23Time goes by
28:24and then one day
28:25the stricken husband
28:26looks at the kid's nanny
28:27and thinks,
28:28oh, not a bad bit of stuff.
28:30Stops grieving
28:31and starts groping.
28:38I'm sorry I said that.
28:40Yes, so am I.
28:40The man was shattered,
28:43Curly.
28:43Curly.
28:44And it was me.
28:46Me who put the pieces
28:48back together
28:49and helped him
28:49through his grief
28:50and start loving
28:51his children again.
28:52And if I never do
28:54anything else in my life,
28:55Curly,
28:55I would be proud
28:56of myself for that.
28:58His wife was gone
28:59and I was a substitute
29:00mother for his children.
29:02That's all he saw me as
29:03for a long time
29:07and all I felt
29:11for him was pity
29:12for a long time.
29:19And then it turned
29:20to love
29:20for both of us.
29:26And now he wants
29:26to marry you.
29:28And you've come here
29:30to talk me into
29:30letting you have
29:31an easy divorce.
29:33Well, that's part
29:35of it, yeah.
29:36Give me one good
29:38reason why I should.
29:41All right.
29:45Because you're
29:46a good man.
29:49And I think
29:49you still care about me.
29:52And I think
29:53you'd like me
29:53to be happy.
29:57Even if it's
29:57not with you.
30:01Because that's
30:02the kind of man
30:02that you are.
30:03I'll tell you
30:09something now,
30:10Raquel.
30:12This,
30:13this Armand,
30:14he could never
30:15love you
30:16as much as
30:16I love you.
30:18No one ever will.
30:19No one ever could.
30:20I believe you, Curly.
30:24And I'll tell you
30:25something.
30:25I know
30:26without being told
30:28that Armand
30:28will never love me
30:29as much as he loved
30:30Elodie.
30:30and I wish
30:31it wasn't so,
30:32but I accept
30:32it because
30:33I love him.
30:38Why can't
30:39it be me?
30:43Why can't it
30:43never be me?
30:44Do you know what?
30:45If there was any way
30:45I could make it you,
30:46Curly,
30:47it would be you.
30:47I do love you.
30:53I always will love you.
30:57But the kind of love
30:58you want from me
30:59I can't give you.
31:00I know.
31:08I know.
31:10Yeah, but knowing
31:10it isn't enough
31:11you've got to accept it
31:12and get on with your life.
31:18Do you know what
31:19I really want
31:20of you, Curly?
31:23I want you
31:24to let me go.
31:27Be happy
31:27with Armand
31:28marry him
31:30but give me
31:33a blessing.
31:45I suppose
31:45I suppose
31:47you want me
31:48to come to the wedding
31:48walk you down the aisle
31:50who giveth this woman?
31:53Me!
31:54Curly Watts
31:55first husband.
31:57That's about it.
32:05We're only here
32:06in private
32:08just you and me.
32:17Tell me about this
32:18Armand.
32:26Well, he's older
32:27than me.
32:2948.
32:31He lives
32:32in the Waal Valley.
32:34It's like a big river
32:35that runs through
32:36the middle of Rome.
32:37Yeah, I know.
32:38It's one of my
32:39A-levels,
32:40that geography.
32:40I know all about it.
32:45There's lots of places
32:46that I've never been
32:48and I'll probably
32:48never go.
32:51But I know all about them.
32:54The story of my life.
32:58So, er,
32:59what does he do
33:00for a living?
33:00He's a wine grower.
33:04His family have done
33:05that for ages.
33:07And there's all these
33:08vineyards round the chateau.
33:10Chateau?
33:12Blimey, Raquel.
33:13I think I hate this man.
33:16He's rich,
33:17grows wine.
33:19He's got you
33:20and a chateau.
33:22You've never hated
33:23anybody in your life
33:24and you never will.
33:27Anyway,
33:28it's not an enormous chateau.
33:29It's not huge.
33:31It is a proper chateau,
33:32though.
33:33You know,
33:33it's detached
33:34and everything.
33:37Well,
33:37it is detached
33:38and everything.
33:39What's so funny?
33:43Oh.
33:44Oh, nothing.
33:48Oh, nothing, Raquel.
33:51Whatever you want
33:55on this, er,
33:57divorce bit,
33:59you've got.
34:03Thank you, Curly.
34:07It's more for our mum
34:08than for me, really.
34:10He just wants us
34:11to be married
34:12as soon as we can
34:12with me having this baby.
34:15You're pregnant?
34:17Yeah,
34:17only just mind you.
34:19And if it is a boy
34:20which our mum's hoping,
34:21well,
34:22it's all to do
34:23with him being born
34:24in wedlock.
34:24It's complicated
34:25French family stuff
34:26about passing on
34:27the inheritance
34:27and that.
34:30I'll tell you this,
34:30Raquel.
34:32It seems to me
34:33you're living
34:34a full and fertile life.
34:37I'm glad that
34:38one of us is.
34:42If it is a boy,
34:43I was thinking
34:43I could call him Norman.
34:44If you do,
34:46I will never forgive you.
34:47More to the point,
34:48neither will he.
34:51Get stuck in.
34:53Quite peckish,
34:54myself.
34:55Well, you will be.
34:56You mean you're eating
34:57for two.
34:58Hey, you haven't
34:59touched your wine.
35:00Are you supposed
35:01to lay off that stuff?
35:02No, I'm sure
35:03it's good for French babies.
35:05In moderation.
35:06Not me.
35:07Oh!
35:11Oh,
35:12Syrah
35:12and Grenache.
35:15It's the grapes
35:15it's made from.
35:18Oh, and I'm getting
35:19leathery undertones.
35:20If you don't like it,
35:21there's always, uh...
35:22Oh, no, it's lovely.
35:24How's your omelette?
35:26Oh, it's good, yeah.
35:26Hmm.
35:27You've learned to cook.
35:29Yeah, well,
35:30I think I've learned
35:30quite a lot
35:31in the last three years.
35:32It's, uh...
35:33Living abroad,
35:34marrying a foreigner.
35:36Some people say
35:37if you do that
35:37you're trying to
35:38conceal your real self.
35:40How do you make that out?
35:42Well, I mean,
35:42someone with the same
35:43background as you,
35:44the same culture,
35:45the same language,
35:46well, they'll be able
35:47to suss out
35:47whether you're being
35:48something you're not.
35:50Whereas, if they're
35:51a foreigner,
35:51they won't be out at all.
35:53Well, it's rubbish.
35:56I used to pretend,
35:58well, back here,
36:00to be brighter,
36:01more sophisticated,
36:02all that.
36:03And over there,
36:04I'm just me.
36:05date me or leave me.
36:10I think I'd better go
36:11and
36:12be coming light soon.
36:14Are you, um...
36:25Are you going back today?
36:27Yeah, the, um...
36:29lunchtime flight.
36:31I can't wait
36:32to get back to Alice
36:33and Armand's
36:34two lovely girls,
36:35Madeleine and Elaine.
36:38See, that's like
36:38what we call Helen,
36:39except they don't sound
36:40the H's in France.
36:41No, we don't in Weatherfield.
36:43We're very French
36:43in that respect.
36:46This photo of Alice.
36:49Can I keep it?
36:50Oh, yes, of course you can.
36:54By the way,
36:55can she see OK?
36:57Oh, yeah.
36:58Yeah, there's nothing wrong
37:00with her eyesight.
37:01Oh, good.
37:01I think I can stand
37:04losing you, Raquel,
37:05if I put my mind to it.
37:07But Alice,
37:08I know I've never met her
37:10until a few hours ago.
37:11I never knew she existed,
37:12but I don't want
37:13to lose Alice.
37:14No.
37:15No.
37:18And listen,
37:18I meant to say,
37:20Armand said to tell you
37:21that we want you
37:23to see as much of her
37:24as possible.
37:26Come over whenever you like
37:27and take her out.
37:29You can stay at the chateau
37:30if you like.
37:31Do you really mean that?
37:33I really do mean it.
37:35I'm saying you come over
37:36because she's a bit young
37:37for coming over here.
37:39Maybe when she's older
37:40you could have her
37:41over here for holidays
37:42and that.
37:43Yeah.
37:45Suppose when she meets me
37:46she doesn't like me.
37:47Well, she would like you.
37:49She says you've a nice face.
37:53Because I show her photos.
37:55Do you?
37:56That's nice.
37:58I didn't know
37:59that you'd kept any.
38:00Is Armand
38:03wanting to adopt Alice
38:04because I don't think
38:05I could stand that
38:06so I've got to ask you.
38:07No, there's no need.
38:08It won't happen.
38:09I promise you.
38:12She'll always be Alice Watts.
38:15Well,
38:16until she gets married anyway.
38:19Alice Watts.
38:22Alice Watts.
38:22I love it.
38:25But listen, Al.
38:31I want you to promise me
38:33something in return.
38:36Stop wishing it could be different.
38:38For you and me, I mean.
38:39what we'll always be is
38:44Alice's mum and dad.
38:49And we'll always be true friends.
38:51I hope.
38:55Always.
38:58Find a woman who loves you
39:00the way you want to be loved.
39:01because she's out there somewhere.
39:05Some nice girl.
39:07Beg her nice.
39:09I want a girl who'll breathe on me glasses
39:10and rip me clothes off.
39:12Nice is not enough.
39:15No, you're right.
39:15Nice ain't enough.
39:16But
39:17it's a good start, though.
39:19I'll give it a try.
39:23Well, if I can do it,
39:24you can do it.
39:27Anyone can do it.
39:32You're a lovely man.
39:37You're a wonderful catch for somebody.
39:42I'll always think the world of you, Curly.
39:49I'll drive you.
40:00No, you've been drinking.
40:02I'll get you a taxi.
40:04Look, it's only a cock stride.
40:06What's French for that?
40:07I haven't figured it out yet.
40:11So, we're thinking about Easter
40:13for your first visit, are we?
40:15Be nice weather then.
40:16Good for taking Alice about a bit.
40:18Yeah, yeah.
40:20I think I can just about wait until then.
40:22Well, if you can't,
40:23just phone and say
40:24and
40:25you'll be very welcome.
40:28Thanks.
40:29For everything.
40:32Especially Alice.
40:34I think it's me
40:35who should be thanking you
40:36for being so good to me.
40:41Being in my life.
40:44And I nearly forgot
40:45Happy New Year.
40:48Happy New Life.
40:49Yeah, and you.
40:52Many of them.
40:56I'm and I'll be worried about you.
40:58Go on.
41:01And be happy.
41:02I'm going to be.
41:04After tonight.
41:06You will be too, I hope.
41:08You promise me.
41:11I promise.
41:12Go on.
41:15Take care.
41:17Take care.
41:24And Raquel.
41:30Kiss Alice for me.
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