Speak Like a Child (1998) - full transcript

A married couple meets up with an old friend. It is revealed that the three had become close friends at a home for children. Flashbacks develops their relationship and their sharing of everything. It is revealed that the single man wants the couple to move in with him. The woman, who is pregnant, reveals she is ready to dump her husband and begin a relationship with the other man. But all are bothered by some distant past secret.

SAMMY: Same time, same place.

I found myself standing
at the crossroads

waiting for Billy and Ruby.

Ever since we were kids
we've been inseparable.

Meeting in the same way.

Sharing the same things.

Sharing each other.

Now Ruby was pregnant.

"Our child," Billy called it.

I wanted to resist the call
this time

but Billy was insistent.



Sammy.

And then again, Ruby was a part
of the arrangement

I could never resist.

Get in here.

So we met again
for one more weekend.

POP MUSIC PLAYS

BILLY: Aw, shucks, Sammy.
I'm touched.

They're so cute.

You're so cute.

Sweet, Sammy. They really are.

Check this.

"William Steele -
financial adviser.

"Personal loans
at competitive rates."

Tout for us
and I'll see you all right.



I'll think about it.

BOTTLES CLINK

Oh, the old Newkie Brown.

BILLY: You're on bar duty.

Cheers, Billy.

It's not every day we gan home.

Hey, garçon!

Great beer,
lousy fucking service.

Bastard.

BEER FIZZES
Aiya!

LAUGHTER

♪ Hey, we're off! ♪

♪ We're off! ♪

♪ We're off in a motor car ♪

♪ 50 cops are after us ♪

♪ And they don't know ♪
where we are. ♪

POP MUSIC CONTINUES

MUSIC STOPS

BIRDS TWEET

BILLY: This is the place
that made us.

We should never forget that.

SAMMY: Ah, for Christ's sake,
Billy.

You could count on Billy
for the unexpected.

His little surprises weren't
always what you might want.

He'd taken us home.

The last place I wanted to be.

It's not easy breaking
the habits of a childhood.

And I'd yet to learn
to say no to Billy.

INDISTINCT CHATTER

BIRD TWEETING

Sammy!

Sammy, come on!

Sammy!

Sammy!

Sammy.

Come on!

MELANCHOLY MUSIC

I can see myself now,

arriving on the first day.

I wanted to believe
this would be just a holiday

from what I'd always known.

It turned out to be the place

where I was to spend
the rest of my childhood.

I met Billy and Ruby

and my life was to change
forever.

CHILDREN LAUGHING

GLASS SHATTERS

Home sweet bloody home.

It seems smaller now.

No, man.

It's just like I remember it.

POP MUSIC PLAYS

I know it's here.

It's been 12 years, Billy.

What is this crap anyway?
Where's me tape?

Ruby?

I left it in the car.

Well, go and get it.

- I'll go.
- No, no, no.

She'll get it.

MUSIC STOPS

SAMMY: Hey, Billy.

Still here.

Uh!

OPERA MUSIC PLAYS

That's my girl.

Hadn't reckoned on this.

SHE SIGHS

I'm a bit cold.

If I were a gentleman,
I'd give you me jacket.

And what if I wanted more?

Strange how you remember
some things.

And yet, they might not
have happened

quite the way you think.

You ask yourself,

was it really like that?

I guess we're all victims
of memory.

SHAVER BUZZES

MATRON: Right, Sammy.

Bath every night.

Change of underwear
on Wednesday and Sunday.

If you need anything
and you can't find me,

you see the master. Hmm?

EMOTIVE MUSIC

WEEPING

CRYING CONTINUES

THUNDER RUMBLES

LAUGHTER

INDISTINCT CHATTER

LAUGHTER AND CHATTER STOPS

There's a place over here.

Listen, dickhead.

Stop your fucking whingeing
tonight, right?!

- Bernie!
- Get stuffed!

CHUCKLING

Just leave it.

GIRL: Dog food!

Woof! Woof!

At least I don't shag chickens.

THEY SQUAWK

LAUGHTER

LAUGHTER CONTINUES

- Come on, last one there's it.
- OK.

FOOTSTEPS RETREAT

Do you like girls?

What?

Do you like girls?

I divvin know.

Let me tell you summat.

Divvin never not know.

Always know.

Even if you divvin know.

GIRL: Ruby!

D'you get me?

GIRL: Have you seen my book?

Would you like a girl?

I can fix it for you.

MASTER: ..looking
in your locker.

- It's...
- All right.

All right, son?

I'm fine.

Come on, let's be going.
Come on.

Who d'you fancy?

MASTER: All right,
come on now...

- I divvin fancy anybody.
- Yeah, you do.

How about Katy?

No.

Got a chest
like an ironing board.

Hard cheese. Dot gans with me.

Now Ruby...

You know what they say
about red-haired girls?

It's all true.

They were burnt at the stake
in medieval times.

DOROTHY LAUGHS

If you were talking about me,
Billy Steele...

TEACHER: "I must go down
to the sea again

"To the lonely sea and the sky

"And all I ask is a tall ship
and a star to steer her by

"And the wheel's kick
and the wind's song

"And the white sail's
shaking..."

- GIRL: Shut up!
- "And a..."

INDISTINCT CHATTER

"And a grey mist
on the sea's face,

"And a grey dawn breaking.

"I must go down
to the seas again,

"For the call
of the running tide..."

WHISTLE

"Is a wild call
and a clear call

"That may not be denied..."

STUDENTS LAUGH

How about our new boy?

Sammy?

Would you like to read for us?

Sammy!

"I..."

SNIGGERING

"I..."

"I..."

MOCKINGLY: Come on, Sammy.

Please, Miss, can I read?

You promised me I could read
last time.

TEACHER: Go on, Ruby.

"I must go down
to the seas again

"For the call
of the running tide

"Is a wild call and a clear
call that may not be denied

"And all I ask is a windy day
with the white clouds flying

"And the flung spray
and the blown spume

"And the sea-gulls crying."

I... I got...

I... I...

I...

GIRL: Bernie, shut up!

Aw, Bernie, leave him alone!

Just leave him, all right?!

The...

The... The...

HE CHUCKLES

TV PLAYS IN DISTANCE

Do you know what this is?

It's a Bible.

What aboot this?

It's a dictionary.

Gotta know your ABCs
in this life.

D'you know
what my favourite word is?

What's your favourite word?

Serendipity.

Say it.

It means making a lucky find.

What's seven times eight?

46.

56.

What's nine nines?

81.

The capital of Iceland
is Reykjavik.

The highest mountain
in the world

is Mount Everest. 29,008ft.

You divvin know much, dae ya?

So what do you think?

BILLY: ..dae what they dae,
you know?

What about?

Sammy.

Don't let people...

RUBY: He's got eyelashes
like a girl.

And he's got nits.

BILLY CONTINUES TALKING

Not like my Billy.

Ow!

BILLY: You stick with me and...

Sorry.

..all the stories in the world.

All the words you ever need
to know.

And...

..a little bit of light relief.

Izzy-wizzy,

let's get busy!

SAMMY LAUGHS

DOROTHY: Billy says
he wants to marry me.

He says he wants to give me
loads of babies.

He said that to me once.

He promised me the earth.

He means it this time.

You're just jealous
cos he dumped you.

- I dumped him.
- Yeah, right.

You know what Billy told me?

That my hair isn't ginger
but Titian gold

like Maureen O'Hara.

Who's she?

The most beautiful woman
in the whole world.

Well, that's what Billy said.

You mean my Billy?

- Ruby?
- What?

Sometimes...

..when I think about Billy...

..I get this funny feeling
down below,

between my legs.

What sort of a funny feeling?

It's hard to describe.

It's a sort of ping feeling.

- A ping?
- Yeah.

Like a ping.

I know the feeling.

THEY LAUGH

- Ping!
- Ping!

THEY LAUGH

Ping!

Freddy, man,
you got any snouts?

- Billy.
- Come on.

Cheers, mate.

Who the fuck
do you think yous are?!

You know what
the regulations are!

Sammy! Sammy!

I'm his fucking mother!

INDISTINCT SHOUTS

SHOUTING AND WEEPING

He's my son.

Fuck the...

MATRON: You're not doing
yourself any favours.

Go back to bed!

Come on, now! Move it!

WATER RUNS

Divvin waste your tears, man.

All this mums and dads stuff
is rubbish.

- You would say that!
- Look, she's a drunken slag

and you're best off
without her.

All right?
SAMMY SOBS

You're here now.

Come here.

CONGREGATION SINGING HYMNS

Let us pray.

GIGGLING

Billy, stop.

PRIEST: ..by sin
yet pacified by penance.

DOROTHY GIGGLING

Mercifully regard the prayers
of thy people

who make supplication to thee.

And turn away the scourges
of thy anger

which we deserve for our sins.

Spare, O Lord, spare thy people

That having been
justly punished for their sins

They may find comfort
in their mercy.

Through Christ, our Lord...

HE WHISTLES

Throw a stone.

THEY CHUCKLE

BILLY: There she is.

Mad Mary.

See the eye?

She did that to herself.

Well, go on, son.

What did I tell you?
THEY LAUGH

DRAMATIC MUSIC

Don't you like girls then?

Aye. I'm working on it.

They're cold-blooded creatures.

They divvin feel no pain.

THUD

D'you wanna finish him off?

What would I want to
do that for?

BILLY: Are you chicken?

HE CLUCKS

STONE CLATTERS

HE CLUCKS

FERRY HORN BLOWS

BIRDS SQUAWK

WIND BLOWS

THUNDER RUMBLES

WOMAN: Sammy?

THUNDER RUMBLES

Here.

Mam.

Come on, son.

Where have you been?

Been a good boy?

Still wetting the bed?

They won't let you
get away with that here.

I'll come for you soon.

SOARING MUSIC

THUNDER RUMBLES

MUSIC DISTORTS

Come on, Sammy.

HE GASPS

What's up, kiddo?

You pissed your pants?

I'd take them off, for a start.

SAMMY PANTS

And the rest.

Come on. You can't sleep
in that cesspool.

You stink.

THEY LAUGH

GENTLE MUSIC

BERNIE COUGHS

MASTER: What do I have to do?

Tie a knot in the bloody thing?

SNIGGERING

Hmm?

Well?

Well, all right, then.

Stew in your own piss.

And just stay there

until it's dry.

LAUGHTER

LAUGHTER

BABY GURGLING

Izzy-wizzy...

Let's get busy.

- Joe!
- Hey! Hey!

Stop them, man!

Come here, you two.

Yes!

♪ We're off, we're off ♪

♪ We're off in a motor car ♪

♪ 50 cops are after us ♪

♪ They divvin know ♪
where we are. ♪

LAUGHING

Ah! Howay man, Billy!

Oh, Billy, man.

You got pfff!

It was Titus Andronicus.

I'm as pissed as a walla fart.

Sammy.

I'm gan in for a swim.

You coming?

Nah, man. We've got
nae cossies, man.

Who needs cossies?

HE LAUGHS

Aal reet, boys!

Running back to the curriculum
activities, are you?

Sorry, lads!

THEY CONTINUE SHOUTING

Well?

CUP CLINKS IN SAUCER

I'm waiting.

We was just having
a bit of fun, like.

You know?

You skipped school,

drunk as lords,

gallivanting about the beach
stark naked.

Where d'you get that sherry?

Hmm?

I know you.

I know you nicked it.

We found it.

We found it in the park.

Wipe that look off your face.

BILLY BURPS

CLOCK CHIMES

RADIO STATIC

CLASSICAL MUSIC PLAYS

NO AUDIBLE DIALOGUE

HE INHALES

MUSIC GETS LOUDER

GIRLS LAUGH

Turn that bloody stuff off!

HE INCREASES VOLUME

You're gonna need
trillions of notches.

I'll get some for you
if you like.

You can if you want.

TV PLAYS IN BACKGROUND

Here, I'll help you.

I said, turn it down!

SHE SNIGGERS

See? I'm not just
a pretty face.

MUSIC CONTINUES

WAVES CRASH

"High above the city on a
tall...coleum...collumum..."

Column.

"..column, stood the statue
of the Happy Prince.

"He was gilded all o'er
with thin leaves of fine gold,

"for eyes
he had two bright sap...sap..."

Sapphires.

"..sapphires and a large red
ruby glowed on his sword-hilt."

Sammy.

Now then...

..twat features.

Turn your pockets out.

Your money or your life.

My father's a councillor.

You better shut up.

Cos you divvin know shite
from doughnuts, do ya?

BOY: We've got no money.

I'll take your ticky Timex.

Hand it over.

That's my father's watch.

You'll be in serious trouble.

Do I have to cut off your hand?

Have the watch,
but you'll always be scum.

BILLY: Knees!

Who's scum?

- We are.
- I can't hear you.

- We are.
- Louder!

I said, we are! Ah!

Divvin even want it.

PROJECTOR WHIRS

DRAMATIC THEME

There's two things that
frightens people in this world.

Cleverness and violence.

If you're smart...

..you can get away
with anything.

What kept you?

- DOROTHY: Budge up.
- No way.

DOROTHY: Budge up!

BILLY: Go on.

Come on, Sammy.
Let's get some fresh air.

DOG BARKS ON FILM

Where are you going?

SAMMY: See yous later.

SAMMY: This is ace!

Me and Billy found it.

We never told anybody else.

Used to be a monastery.

The monks were all wiped out
during the plague.

How long have you been
in the home?

I've never known anywhere else.

And Billy?

You mustn't say nowt.

But Billy's mam was murdered.

And they reckon it was his da.

And when they found Billy,
he was eating the dog food.

What happened between yous two?

He just liked Dot, that's all.

Do you know who you mind us of?

Who?

Maureen O'Hara.

You got that from Billy.

No!

I got it by myself.

BILLY: You missed
a good film, man.

Still, I'm sure you've been
enjoying yourselves.

DOROTHY LAUGHS

How many ears
has Davy Crockett got?

I don't know, how many?

Three.

His left ear.

His right ear.

And his wild front ear.

DOROTHY AND BILLY LAUGH

♪ ..Michael Finnegan ♪

♪ He had whiskers ♪

♪ On his chin-ne-gan ♪

♪ The wind came along ♪
and blew them in again

♪ Poor old Michael Finnegan ♪

♪ There was an old man ♪
called Michael Finnegan

♪ He grew whiskers ♪
on his chin-ne-gan

♪ The wind came along ♪
and blew them in again

♪ Poor old Michael Finnegan, ♪
begin again

♪ I know a man called ♪
Michael Finnegan

♪ He grew whiskers... ♪

FOOTSTEPS

Are you talking to me now?

You look bloody stupid with
all that muck on your face.

Thanks a lot.

It was meant as a compliment.

I was only trying to say
you look better without it.

Besides...

..it'd give
the wrong impression.

Fellas will think you're loose.

And you're definitely not
loose, are you, Ruby?

CLOCK TICKS

You'll catch it
if the master comes by.

KNOCKING

91.

Howay man.

Only 91.

Sod it.
You can't beat it anyway.

DEEP BREATHS

DRAMATIC MUSIC

SPLASHING

COUGHING

What was that for?

She's only a girl, man.

We only went for a walk.

It wasn't even my idea.

Divvin know
what you're talking aboot.

And I divvin care
what yous two dae.

SAMMY SNIFFS

Mates?

KNOCKING ON DOOR

BERNIE: Come on, yous.
Time's up.

SAMMY: Mates.

Come on, yous two girls!

Bernie's in next.

Let's give him
the crossed swords.

THEY LAUGH

SAMMY GIGGLES

BERNIE: Come on, yous two.
Time's up.

THEY SNIGGER

THEY URINATE

Stop the games
and get the fuck out.

KNOCKING ON DOOR

LAUGHTER

DRAMATIC MUSIC

PANTING

I'm Tony Curtis.

You can be Sidney whatshisname.

HANDCUFFS CLICK

Howay man.

Howay!

Me and you
can never be separated.

You're not a child no more.

UNLOCKS HANDCUFFS

What am I gonna do with you?

SAMMY: Red.

RUBY: Red.

Same colour as your hair.

You're gonna fall in love
with a redhead.

I'm so surprised.

I'm so, so surprised.

DOROTHY: Come on. Help us up.

- Red.
- You sure you want red?

I'll have...

blue.

RUBY: B-L-U-E...

- Want to go back?
- No.

I'm quite happy here.

SAMMY: Black.

- Come on.
- No.

No.

No, just get off me,
all right?

I don't need the likes of you.

RUBY: Come on, Sammy.

Sammy: Four.

RUBY: One, two, three, four.

And now you choose
one of them colours.

SAMMY: Yellow.

RUBY: Y-E-L-L-O-W.
And another one.

Come on.
THEY LAUGH

SAMMY: Blue.

RUBY: B-L-U-E.

Ruby!

- Choose another colour, Sammy.
- Black.

B-L-A-C-K.

Ruby.

- Red.
- What?

Come here.

What do you want?

I've got something to tell you.

What?

Come here and I'll tell you.

D'you like Sammy?

Yeah.

D'you like me?

Yeah.

D'you wanna play a game?

What sort of game?

You know.

With me and Sammy.

OK.

- Sammy.
- What?

Come here.

Go on.

It's your turn.

Come on, Sammy.

Go on, I won't bite.

MUSIC: Saturday Sun
by Nick Drake

LAUGHTER

♪ Oh, Saturday sun ♪
came early one morning

♪ In a sky so clear and blue ♪

♪ Saturday sun ♪
came without warning... ♪

- You all right, man?
- Aye, man.

♪ So no-one knew... ♪

RUBY: Come down here, Billy.

I dare you to jump.

Howay man.

- Go on.
- Go on, Sammy.

Boo!

♪ Saturday sun... ♪

Yeah, that'll dae.

Come on, then!

♪ Brought people and faces... ♪

You too.

♪ That didn't seem much ♪
in their day

♪ But when I remembered ♪
those people and places

♪ They were really too good ♪
in their way

♪ In their way ♪

♪ In their way ♪

♪ Saturday sun ♪
won't come and see me today. ♪

OPERA MUSIC PLAYS

You're missing your starters.

Voila.

We've not said grace yet.

You're joking?

For what we are about
to receive...

..may the Lord make Sammy
and Ruby truly grateful

for the friggin' effort
I've put in the night.

THUNDER RUMBLES

RUBY LAUGHS

You haven't had too much.

What's this?

It's our new house.

You bought a house?

For the three of us.

Signed the papers last week.

Looks like just up the coast.

He's right.

The photo doesn't do it
justice, mind.

You've got to see it.

Oh, it's nice, Billy.
It's just a bit unexpected.

It's perfect.

We'll all be together.

Are you sure we can afford it,
Billy?

Whey aye.

With Sammy chipping in.

Have you nothing to say?

It's why I brought you here.

You might have said something,
Billy!

I never thought to live here.

Is that the thanks I get?

I try and take care
of the business,

look after our future.

Christ!

What do I have to
fucking dae for you?!

SHE VOMITS

WATER RUNNING

BILLY: What a fucking mess.

TOILET FLUSHES

You never listen, do you?

BILLY TUTS

You're carrying a baby,
for Christ's sake!

Go on. Do it.

Be yourself.

THUNDER RUMBLES

Ah!
GLASS SHATTERS

- Hey, take it easy.
- What's going on?!

Nothing I dae is right.

Why's she spoiling things,
Sammy?

She's not well,
just give her a while.

You speak to her, Sammy.

She'll listen to you.

And, Sammy...

..don't let me down.

FOOTSTEPS DEPART

♪ Think about stories... ♪

Divvin let him get to you.
He needs you.

Stay with it, we'll be fine.

No, it's not fine.

We can handle it, Ruby.

You mean I handle it.

It's always down to me.

I prop you up as well as him.

That's not true.

Our first kiss. That was down
to you, wasn't it?

You took so bloody long
to make up your mind,

by the time we got going

there was the three of us!

I've been bringing up the both
of yous for all these years.

BILLY: To us.

To us.

♪ And again ♪

♪ And again... ♪

Izzy-wizzy...

..let's get busy.

HANDCUFFS CLICK

♪ Saturday sun has turned ♪
to Sunday... ♪

Oh, for Christ's sake!

♪ So Sunday sat ♪

♪ In the Saturday sun ♪

♪ And wept for a day gone by. ♪

LAUGHTER

INDISTINCT CHATTER

WHISPERING AND LAUGHING

SAMMY: "When I was a child,
I spake as a child,

"I thought as a child,

"I understood as a child.

"Now that I'm an adult,

"I put away childish things.

"And now I see
through a glass darkly."

Have you learnt that by heart?

No, man. He's reading it.

TV THEME PLAYS

WOLF WHISTLE

Brought some matches.

Bernie Vauxhall,
you mucky bugger, that's...

GASPS

BERNIE: Now look
what you made us do.

Don't blame me.

It wasn't my fault.
She made us do it.

No, I didn't.

You're lying, Bernie.
It was you.

You're an absolute bastard.

Well, if that's what
you think...

You make us sick,
the lot of you.

The sooner I'm out this place,
the better,

as far as I'm concerned.

Bernie.

BERNIE GRUNTS

RUBY: Stop it all. Bernie!

GRUNTING

INDISTINCT SHOUTS

I've seen you at it.

BOY: Stay there, man.

You don't like girls.

You're just a sodding
bum-fucker.

RUBY: Billy, get up!

And I know who you're fucking.
Right, Sammy?

You lying, dirty bastard!
You're fucking jealous!

RUBY: Stop it! Billy, get up!

BERNIE: Fucking shit-shovers,
you two.

A couple of fucking faggots!

RUBY: Arseholes.

SOMBRE MUSIC

Does it hurt?

No.

I'm like that crab.

I'm cold-blooded.
I didn't feel no pain.

Can you give us a kiss?

Doesn't even matter anyway.

HE SCOFFS

Are you sure about that, Sammy?

MUSIC: Don Giovanni
by Mozart

SAMMY: We were all in it
together.

We planned on getting evens
with Bernie.

But getting evens would never
be enough for Billy.

MUSIC FADES

BIRDSONG

What's that you've got there?

It's just me anatomy homework.

Well, let's have a gander then.

There you go.

The redhead. Page nine.

PAGES TURN

BERNIE: Phwoar!

I reckon I'm in wi' Ruby.

PENSIVE MUSIC

Where'd you get that from?

Sammy gives us it.

Gives us fags an' all.

Knows what's good for him.

So do I.

Come on.

MUSIC: Keep On Running
by The Spencer Davis Group

♪ Keep on running ♪

♪ Keep on hiding ♪

♪ One fine day ♪
I'm gonna be the one

♪ To make you understand ♪

♪ Oh, yeah ♪
I'm gonna be your man

♪ Keep on running ♪

♪ Running from my arms ♪

♪ One fine day ♪
I'm gonna be the one

♪ To make you understand ♪

♪ Oh, yeah ♪
I'm gonna be your man

♪ Hey, hey, hey ♪

♪ Everyone is talking about me ♪

♪ It makes me feel so bad ♪

♪ Hey, hey, hey ♪

♪ Everyone is laughing at me ♪

♪ It makes me feel so sad ♪

♪ So keep on running ♪

♪ All right ♪

♪ Yeah ♪

♪ Keep on running... ♪

Izzy-wizzy, let's get busy.

♪ One fine day ♪
I'm gonna be the one

♪ To make you understand ♪

♪ Oh, yeah ♪
I'm gonna be your man

♪ Hey, hey, hey ♪

♪ Everyone is talking about me ♪

♪ It makes me feel so sad ♪

♪ Hey, hey, hey ♪

♪ Everyone is laughing at me ♪

♪ It makes me feel so bad ♪

♪ So keep on running ♪

♪ Running from my arms... ♪

Not here, Bernie. Come on.

Fuck it! Scum!

You...bastards!

SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC

INDISTINCT CHATTER

RUBY: Bernie! Don't do that!
What are you doing?

Bernie, get off me!

- Come on.
- Just wait.

RUBY: Stop it now!

Get away from us! Stop!

Bernie, stop it!

I mean it, get off!

- I just want a whiff!
- Bernie!

- Get off us! Bernie!
- No, wait...

Why didn't you stop him?
Why didn't you do something?

I couldn't leave him.

You said that
you'd do something.

- Come here.
- Fucking prick teaser.

BILLY: Now, sit down.

RUBY AND BILLY ARGUE

Fucking hell's yous two
doing here?

BERNIE YELPS

RUBY: Just get away from us.
I hate you.

BERNIE GRUNTS

Get away.

HE COUGHS AND GROANS

Dae him.

He's had enough, man.

I said, dae him.

I said, he's had enough.

Billy, leave it!

- Billy, man, he's bleeding!
- Billy!

GRUNTING

Stop it. It doesn't matter.

THUDS

SOMBRE MUSIC

Are you not even
gonna help me?!

SAMMY: What have we done?

We'll never get away wi' this.

We're underage.
They cannae touch us.

THUNDER RUMBLES

We're not staying here no more.

We can't run away.

They'll know it was us.

They'll split us up.

I smashed the master's room
and I took his money.

We've got to go.

If we stay then they'll think
Bernie's run away.

And no-one will ever know.

SAMMY SOBBING
Just us.

Divvin ever leave me, Ruby.

- I won't.
- Swear.

Say it.

THUNDER RUMBLES

I won't ever leave you, Billy.
I promise.

Sammy.

Sammy.

Sammy.

HE CONTINUES WEEPING

Ower here.

Need loads.

You're up early.

Billy's still crashed out.

I'm leaving him.

Jesus, Ruby.

I've had enough!

He's not gonna let you go.

Well, anything's better
than this.

He's in a hell of a state.

And we always have to pick up
the pieces.

He held us together.

If ever Billy was kind,

it was so's he could be cruel.

We're all he's ever had.

We're all he's ever
going to have.

That's the difference, Ruby.

I'll go without you.

Ruby.

D'you remember at school

when we did stories
about Africa?

I hated it.

Kids used to say
me dad was a witch doctor.

But those witch doctors
were real.

Obeahs, they called them.

They were wise, terrifying,
and people held them in awe.

If they told a person
they were going to die,

the person died.

When I was in the home...

..Billy put a spell on me.

We lost our childhood, Ruby.

This isn't Africa.

And Billy's no wise elder.

I'm not that little girl
any more.

I've stopped believing
in magic.

I love you, Ruby.

Then come with me.

What about the baby?

I want it to be ours.

Alas, poor Bernie.
I knew him well.

I tried to wake you,
but you were out like a light.

The early bird
catches the worm.

Eh, Sammy?

What's the friggin' matter
wi' you?

Don't be a pain in the arse.
I've got a hangover.

Come on.

We're gannin for a spin.

ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRONIC MUSIC

♪ The rhythm is God ♪

♪ And you're in Heaven... ♪

Billy, stop it!

What's the matter?

Making a little excitement.

Or don't you need me
for that any more?

What do you mean, Billy?

Stop the car. We'll talk.

You'd leave me high and dry.

It's not like that.

I rescued you!

Oh, come on, Billy! Cool it.

I thought mates
is what mattered, Sammy?

TYRES SCREECH

For fuck's sake, Billy!

Still pissing your pants?

You've made your point.
I'm shit scared.

Crying over Bernie.

I'm the one
who makes things happen!

Stop the car, Billy.

The things we do for love.

RUBY: Billy!

TYRES SCREECH

CRASH

SOARING CLASSICAL MUSIC

GLASS SHATTERS

SOMBRE MUSIC

RUBY SCREAMS

Oh, get off me!

Oh, Billy! What a fucking mess!

Have a heart, Sammy.

You can't leave me like this.

GRUNTING

PAINED BREATHS

If I did wrong things...

..it was always for us.

Right, Sammy?

Still feels good, eh, Billy?

Without you and Ruby...

..there's nothing.

SAMMY: Ruby!

FOOTSTEPS APPROACH

YOUNG BILLY: ♪ We're off

♪ We're off ♪

♪ We're off in a motor car ♪

♪ 50 cops are after us ♪

♪ They divvin know where we are ♪

♪ We're off ♪

♪ We're off ♪

♪ We're off in a motor car ♪

♪ 50 cops are after us ♪

♪ They divvin know where we are ♪

♪ We're off ♪

♪ We're off ♪

♪ We're off in a motor car ♪

♪ 50 cops are after us ♪

♪ They divvin know where we are ♪

♪ We're off ♪

♪ We're off ♪

♪ We're off in a motor car... ♪

SAMMY AND RUBY SHOUT

Howay man.

HE LAUGHS

♪ 50 cops are after us ♪

♪ They divvin know ♪
where we are. ♪