Torvill & Dean (2018) - full transcript
Done. Good as new.
Bostik! Tube of that,
roll of gaffer, decent screwdriver,
you can cope with most things
in life, Chris.
Look, I'll see you later,
buster?
This one's hanging off 'an all.
Colin, you said you'd stuck it!
I did.
Look, I'm late.
I've gotta be at work in 15 minutes.
I've gotta walk down there yet.
Well, maybe if you didn't stop out
till all hours of the morning,
you'd be able to get up
a bit earlier. All right.
I've got a stomach-ache. No, you
haven't. Go and clean your teeth.
You think I'm daft.
What are you talking about now?
Where were you?
You know where I was.
At the Welfare with the lads.
Out till four?
Told you.
Go on, Aidy'll be waiting for you.
Why are you limping?
I'm not.
My shoe's broke.
Me dad's fixed it, though.
Jayne, I'm back, duck.
Sorry I'm a bit late.
My daddy works at Raleigh,
which was in a film at the Futurist,
which was where I saw
Ring of Bright Water.
I didn't see the film
with Raleigh in it,
even though it was made
all round Nottingham,
cos my mum said it was rude.
Mum says lots of things are rude.
Dad says she's his Player's Angel.
What are you on about?
I won a prize, Mum, in English.
I tell you what, Betty, she's got
a real talent for telling stories.
Telling stories?
She wants shorthand and typing.
She's ten years old.
I'm saying, in the future,
for secretarial college.
I don't want her
stuck in a factory, like me.
Why don't you go and watch telly?
You've earned it.
The Flashing Blades are on tonight.
Yeah, the sword fighting.
And Lady Isabel. She's me favourite.
She's really beautiful.
And she can ride a horse.
She's taking us ice skating.
She's doing what?
Miss Fitzhugh,
she said all the essays were good,
so we're going to the ice rink
tomorrow afternoon.
Jayne...
will it cost anything, this trip?
Did Miss Fitzhugh
mention anything about that?
You know them PG Tips monkeys?
They're all dead
and they stuff them
and move them around
and they stuff them
so they look alive.
Yeah, I did.
All right.
See you, then.
It's not how you know,
obviously.
But we need to be practical.
What you doing? It's tea-time.
I'm going to feed him.
We don't want him in the house. It's
his tea-time. Chris, come inside.
Come on, sweetie.
Come on, Chris.
Mavis...
♪ You've got to fight
for what you want
♪ For all that you believe... ♪
So, where are we, then?
Mavis...
Don't Mavis me.
I want to know
what's going to happen.
I understand that...
You understand, do you?
Love...
Stop calling me love!
I'm sorry. I think we all just need
to keep calm. I agree.
Of course you bloody agree!
You've been having it off
with my husband.
He ought to kick you twice round
the garden and once up the stairs.
Mavis! Now, come on...
Come on, nothing!
I am upset. I'm upset!
He shouldn't have done this.
You shouldn't have done this.
♪ As long as we have done our best
♪ Then no-one can do more
♪ And life and love and happiness
♪ Are well worth fighting for. ♪
Size?
13.
Size?
Three.
Excuse me?
What?
13.
Can I have white?
Them, there.
White's prettier.
Now... bugger off.
Size?
Two, please.
That's it.
That's very good.
Help him.
It's not you, the rest of you.
Stand up.
Now, all you've got to do
is let go of the rail.
You'll be fine.
You bounce at your age.
On a count of three.
One, two...
There's always one.
Hey, you should have a word
with Miss Perry.
Trainer. Yeah, the younger the
better, as far as she's concerned.
She's seen her anyway.
You've lost her now.
It's like that Child Catcher
in that respect.
Still, on the upside, she has
trained half a dozen champions.
She's class, Miss Perry.
I hope you're happy now.
I hope you're really happy!
Christ.
Sorry, Mavis.
All right, come on.
I don't think
we should speak to him.
He might not be ready.
Colin, please.
I'm not going to know what to say.
All right, you do the talking, then.
Chris...
This is Betty.
She's...
She's like your new mum.
Say hello.
Say hello.
Hello.
Hello, Christopher.
It's nice to meet you properly.
I've brought you a present.
I used to go when I was younger.
And I asked your dad.
He said you had bags of energy,
and I thought you might like them.
He will like them, don't worry.
Cos I know how bloody dear
they were.
And...
jump!
That's it, dearie.
On the cymbal crash.
Here comes another one.
And...
jump!
All right.
We'll leave it there, Jayne.
Public session.
You're doing very well.
People don't normally do tricks
till they've been coming for weeks.
We'll make a skater of you yet.
Thank you, Miss Perry.
Thank you, dearie.
Norman and I will have a sherry
at The Flying Horse.
♫ "Get It On (Bang A Gong)" by T Rex
♪ Well, you're dirty and sweet
♪ Clad in black, don't look back,
and I love you
♪ You're dirty and sweet, oh, yeah
♪ Well, you're slim and you're weak
♪ You've got the teeth
of the hydra upon you
♪ You're dirty and sweet
and you're my girl
♪ Get it on, bang a gong
♪ Get it on... ♪
Bravo, Jayne!
The smile's lovely.
Keep it.
Now, when the clarinet comes in,
and the step pattern,
that comes after the gong. Bam!
Then steps.
Are you all right?
Yeah.
Are you all right?
Yeah, I felt good.
Er...
What, dearie?
The music. Er...
More modern.
Norman's onto it.
Woolworth's have got some
Carmen Miranda coming in.
He's left a deposit.
Carmen Miranda?
Cha, cha, cha.
Ya-da, ya-da-da, ya-da, ya-da-da.
Rrrr, ariba!
I do love you, Miss Perry.
Aw...!
Jayne...
You require a man.
What?
I'm not foolish, dearie.
And I'm not oblivious to your needs.
For a man?
To emote!
I've spoken to Norman about it.
He has a Latin heart.
He understands
the flamboyant nature.
Your desire to give vent, Jayne,
to your passion and... your soul.
You've wanted to do that
ever since we started,
but I'm rather too regimented,
I think.
So Norman and I believe
that a partner might be the answer.
More than a record change.
He might become your conduit.
Wow...
Do you have anybody in mind?
As a matter of fact, I do.
♪ All I need is the air
that I breathe... ♪
Hi, I'm Andrew.
♪ All I need is the air
that I breathe... ♪
How old?
22.
22?
Almost.
And you could tell, Mum,
he's got that much experience.
I'll bet he has...
George!
Are you saying
Miss Perry suggested this?
She thinks there's competitions
we could win.
Does she?
Well, I better get down the bookies,
then.
What's his name?
Is he from round here?
I don't know.
I mean, it's Andrew.
Actually, he might have said
Mapperley. Mapperley?
I don't want you getting
any airs and graces.
What are you on about?
Plains or Top?
I don't know.
And that isn't important.
It's the partnership.
He's going to liberate me.
Christ.
George...!
Creatively.
He says we're going to dance
to David Bowie.
Is that the one in the make-up?
No, Jayne, I'm sorry, I'm not paying
good money every week so you...
But it's what I need, Mum.
Can't you see that?
Like, Miss Perry,
she has me jumping to cymbal crashes
and spinning round
whenever I hear a gong.
And there's no feeling to it.
And I don't want that.
I want to...
I want to express myself.
Why?
What have you got to express?
Hi.
Urgh...
Hang on.
Bloody hell, Chris.
Hey, actually,
she's not bad, is she?
She looks a bit like her
off Pan's People.
The red-haired one. Erm...
Does all the solos.
She's easily the best dancer.
Ski jump tits.
Dee Dee.
Yeah!
Yeah, she looks like her.
Hey, come on.
So, do you come here often, then?
A cod and two smalls.
What are you having?
Er...
Batter bits, pickled onion.
What, you're not having chips?
So, this isn't Russia.
It's Calverton.
You can have what you like.
I might just have the pickled onion.
All right, I'll get them.
No, you won't!
No, Chris, look, you can do it
next time, all right?
When you're... you know.
Hey, you can even have a saveloy
if you fancy.
Wait, I'll not be a minute.
What?
Me mum's back.
Wait...
Chris!
Hey up, Chris.
Haven't you been in once?
Chris!
You're lucky
you didn't break them both.
Yeah, that's the way I'm looking at
it. I didn't mean it reassuringly.
I think you should find a partner.
What?
Well, consider competing.
I think it might...
Calm you down.
Be good if you had a focus.
And skating with someone,
that'd be even better.
Cos it'd mean you'd have
another person
to share all your feelings with.
About being on the ice.
You need to find a girl, Chris,
I'm certain.
He's like Hitler.
He's like Hitler in ice skates.
I told him last week.
He maintains I weren't
getting my leg up high enough
when we was coming out the chasse.
And it was basically a goose-step.
So I said,
"There's a reason, Christopher Dean,
So I said,
"that you can do this and I can't."
But it never clicked.
I don't think he's the sharpest tool
in the box, you know.
He's from Calvo, though, isn't he?
Miners.
I mean, they're born miners.
Hey, that's another thing.
How can he, coming from there,
tell me I've got no artistry
and I don't interpret the music?
How are you getting on anyway
with Andrew?
He's gorgeous, isn't he?
Do you think he looks like
David Cassidy? I do.
Has he, er...
tried it on yet?
I bet he has!
No.
We need to sort that out, then.
Whatever.
Just get it out of the way,
or it handicaps the partnership.
Everyone knows that.
Do they?
Everyone knows that.
I mean...
Right, erm...
I just...
He hasn't, you know...
It's not been on the agenda.
You're probably not giving out
the right signals.
Never mind.
Jayne, you're on.
Andrew's waiting.
Thanks, Miss Perry.
Leanne...
Do you and...
I mean,
does he say stuff like that a lot?
Chris.
About being artistic
and responding to music?
Like, is he ever so creative?
No.
He's a pain, I'm saying.
I'd much sooner have yours.
Yeah, he...
He can be very creative, too.
Turn, two, three, four.
And kick and two, three, four.
And kick and stretch.
And arch and a big smile.
Feel my kneecap.
Singles, keep the beat.
Ba-dooby doo bum-bum.
And turn and spin.
Dum, dum, and...
♪ ..anyone can see
♪ Nothing really matters
♪ Nothing really matters
♪ To me
♪ Any way the wind blows. ♪
Lovely, well done.
What was that?
Hey?
At the end.
Were you not listening to the music?
What?
Yeah, the midsection is...
Yeah, I don't care.
Let it go. Nobody noticed.
I noticed!
She didn't notice cos
she was on automatic pilot again.
Don't you start
with all that bollocks.
What did I just say to you in there?
If I'm such a robot,
how come I've had not one, not two,
but three different approaches
from other skaters?
One of whom,
and I'm not naming names,
but it was Gary Kingston, who could
kick eight bells of shit out of you
if it did come to a fight
over my services. Leanne, just...
Gary Kingston, who actually said
to me, "He's a nutjob, Leanne.
"Ask his first partner,
Sandra Elson,
"why she isn't with him no more.
"He's ice dancing's Billy Bremner,
"when he's not faffing about
pretending to be Rudolf Nureyev.
"So why don't you just ditch him
and come and dance with someone
"who'll show you what appreciation
really looks like?
"Cos the truth is, you're wasted
on that Christopher Dean,
"the stuck-up blond ponce!"
Prince.
What?
Sorry. I...
I thought you said blond prince.
Blonde ponce.
Why would I say prince?
I'm having a go at him.
Cos he's a bloody pain
who doesn't realise what he's got!
Yeah, yeah, go.
Cos I am. I'm done with you.
And you!
You're both rubbish.
I'm glad you never tried it on
with me.
I wouldn't have let you.
And I let everyone.
Excuse me...
Do you know the lady
that lives in there?
Mavis Dean?
I live in there.
I took it over
a couple of weeks ago.
Is something wrong?
No.
Counter duty is something
all the girls look forward to.
Though I do have to tell you, Jayne,
that that is a privilege we grant
only after staff have been with us
for two years.
Having said that, you are given half
a day during your training period,
so you will get a taste
of everything that's on offer.
Are you coming straight over, then?
What?
The pit.
The first tour's this afternoon,
isn't it?
That's an extra tonne in your
wage packet at the end of the month.
I'm not going down there.
I'm not going down the pit.
Everyone goes down the pit.
Yeah, well, I'm not.
Class, one and two and...
♪ Ma, ma, ma, ma
♪ Ma Baker to handle their guns
♪ Ma, ma, ma, ma
♪ Ma Baker, she never could cry
♪ Ma, ma, ma, ma
♪ Ma Baker,
but she knew how to die... ♪
So...
We do jazz, tap, modern, flamenco,
swing, belly dancing, line dancing,
ballroom, contemporary,
Latin, ballet...
Ballet.
I want to do ballet.
OK.
I want one-on-one.
I mean, I'll need to know the cost,
but I've just got my first job,
so, as long as it's not prohibitive,
then that's what I'm after.
I'm an ice skater.
But I don't think I'm very intense.
You know, fiery.
And I'm concerned it might
hold us back in the long term.
It takes two to tango,
isn't that what they say?
I just...
I want to learn how to make my body
look how it feels.
That's it, really.
You know, I want to transcend
my outside, basically.
He's a great skater.
I mean, technically,
he's one of the best I've ever seen.
But you see, the thing is, Jayne...
We've met, actually.
But perhaps you don't remember.
But I know you.
And, you see, the thing is,
for a partnership to work...
...the chemistry has to be right.
And if it's not right, well, it
doesn't really matter what you do,
cos you'll never make a success
of it.
So you've just got to be brave...
and move on.
Hey up, buster. You all right?
Hey, what's that song...?
"School's out forever."
I'll take you to the Welfare
tonight, we'll have a pint.
You'll need to get to know folk.
I'm not going down there.
Why is everyone assuming
that I will? Why, what's wrong?
I'm joining the cops.
I start in a month.
The police?
Yeah, I just thought...
a nice, secure future.
And they're dead clear, aren't they?
What's right, what's wrong.
I quite fancy that.
So all that business just now,
the Welfare, the lads,
you can forget about that,
because we won't ever be
strolling down the street together.
Not ever, all right?
I forgot.
Janet rang.
She wants you in at 6:30.
She thinks
she might have found you someone.
You're here!
Good.
And Jayne.
Bang on time. Excellent.
You've met Christopher,
haven't you?
Well, you've seen him around,
anyway.
Well, I've seen you both skate
separately.
And I think you'd make
a rather nice match.
So, into hold, please.
What? Straight away?
Aren't we going to,
I don't know, talk or...?
No, we're not.
I need to see you together.
Pelvis to pelvis, nice and tight.
OK...
Good.
So let's start with, erm...
Hold on,
I've left summat in the locker room.
So, how long do you intend
to give them?
Ten minutes should be plenty.
It feels like a lifetime out there.
But it saves months, you know,
further down the line.
Get all that embarrassment
out of the way all at once.
And then you can just concentrate
on the skating.
Marvellous.
Hey...
Rich Tea?
Yeah.
Good.
Sorry, I...
I wasn't, erm...
No.
...thrusting, I meant.
If you fancy a warm-up...
Definite.
You look a bit sad.
Are you all right?
Yeah. Just...
...stuff at home. But...
...I'm OK.
♪ Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
♪ Turn and face the strange
♪ Ch-ch-changes
♪ Pretty soon now
you're gonna get older
♪ Time may change me
♪ But I can't trace time
♪ I said that time may change me
♪ But I can't trace time. ♪
I've seen worse.
I'm sorry.
I'm here. I missed the five to.
What were you doing?
Nothing. I was just...
Nothing. Just loosening up.
OK, let's get going.
I don't care how ragged it is, let's
just work through it to the end,
and we can discuss it afterwards.
No...
Please!
We've talked about this all week.
I can't spoon-feed you.
The OSPs and the compulsories,
I can give you a nudge.
But your free has to come from you.
Fine, let's break it down.
What sort of music
are you thinking of using?
A theme?
A mood, a story?
I mean, he was...
You were just now, weren't you?
No, I was just mucking about.
Great.
Well, in that case,
let's just call it a day, shall we?
What?
Well, if you can't be bothered...
That's wasting our time,
that's a waste of time.
Well, you're wasting mine. That
makes us about equal, doesn't it?
I'm away for two weeks.
You need to have something
to show me when I'm back.
Flipping heck...!
Vitamin C.
Your immune system gets weakened
when you're under stress.
Stuff your immune system,
she's going to dump us unless you
can come up with some ideas. Me?
Why is it my job?
Cos that's what you do.
It's why you get people's backs up,
always banging on about artistry
and feeling it!
Have we got time?
Yeah, we've got time.
7:30.
Most people
will still be getting their mouths
round a bowl of porridge.
Hey, what about the library?
What?
Well, there's one on Market Square.
I ain't been, but...
You know, for the story.
Well, we should check out
Selectadisc an' all for music
and the video store.
Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
I've heard people on telly saying
how such and such a thing
inspired them
and then they bang on about
all the books and films and that
that they use like a launchpad.
But what we finally put on the ice,
that's got to be us.
I mean, flipping heck, Chris,
you've seen them couples
who are dead good technically,
but they ain't got any connection
with what they're dancing.
But we can't be like that.
And we won't be,
as long as we don't just copy
and we find something
that we know about
and we feel strongly about.
You know, in there.
And I'm telling you, if we can
do that, we'll have cracked it.
Yeah...
What?
No, it's...
It's probably daft.
Of course it's not daft.
Christ, Chris, don't you get it?
You're different to other lads.
I knew it the first time I saw you.
You're... You're passionate
and stuff matters to you.
And I want some of that.
That's why I started skating,
cos... I want to go somewhere.
Away from Farnborough Road
and Clifton and...
It's like I want to fly.
'Saturday Night Fever'
by the Bee Gees
I love this song.
Make it...
Watch me, watch me...
Aye.
Let's do side to side.
♪ Listen to the ground
♪ There is movement all around
♪ There is something going down
♪ And I can feel it
♪ On the waves of the air
♪ There is dancing out there
♪ If it's something we can share
♪ We can steal it
♪ And that sweet city woman
♪ She moves through the night
♪ Controlling my mind
and my soul... ♪
'Dancing Cheek To Cheek'
by Fred Astaire
♪ But it doesn't thrill me
half as much
♪ As dancing cheek to cheek
♪ Oh, I love to go out fishing
♪ In a river or a creek
♪ But I don't enjoy it half as much
♪ As dancing cheek to cheek
♪ Dance with me
♪ I want my arm about you
♪ The charm about you
♪ Will carry me through
♪ To heaven
♪ I'm in heaven
♪ And my heart beats
so that I can hardly speak
♪ And I seem to find
the happiness I seek
♪ When we're out together
dancing cheek to cheek... ♪
She ain't coming, is she?
You're right,
she's probably dropped us already.
No, no, she's too much of a pro.
You said that.
She'd call or write or...
There's probably been an accident
held her up.
We should just crack on,
run through it again. Right.
One more time all the way through.
Then we run the new section
on its own, OK?
Don't!
You've done enough.
Go and get changed.
I've seen what I need.
I've seen you, at last.
Tomorrow, we'll go through it all.
But we need to have something
ready by Saturday.
Bristol.
Sorry, what?
The National Skating Association.
Selection meet.
An ice dance.
Just to be clear,
we're going to do that,
what me and Jayne
have just come up with...
this weekend?
Well, I don't see why not.
Second! We came second!
I know!
Yeah, all right.
You didn't win the Olympics.
Well done.
It was beautiful.
We hardly made any mistakes.
No, you didn't, Jayne, you're right.
So much so
that they've invited you back.
To compete at the Oberstdorf
next month.
What?
In Germany.
It's not a full international,
but it's... I don't care.
It's abroad! It's...
Wait, hang on, who pays?
I'm still on a cadet's wage, and
she's on probation till Christmas.
They take care
of all the essentials.
So what do you reckon?
Doable?
It'll have to be, won't it?
Yeah.
Yes!
♪ The first time
♪ Ever I saw your face
♪ I thought the sun
♪ Rose in your eyes
Christopher...
♪ And the moon and the stars
♪ Were the gifts you gave
♪ To the dark...
This is Betty.
She's like your new mum.
♪ And the endless skies
♪ My love
♪ To the dark
♪ And the endless skies... ♪
Chris, Chris!
Regoczy and Sallay,
over there, look, look!
Yeah.
I've only ever seen them
on the telly.
I think they're probably
past their best now, though.
Bestemianova and Bukin, I reckon
they're top of the pile these days.
I don't think they're here.
Have you seen them?
Christopher!
I'm trying to talk to you!
Yeah, and I had two boiled eggs
in either cheek.
You'd probably not manage two,
smaller mouth.
But see how you get on.
It's all about maximising
opportunity. Stop it!
We're in Germany.
We're at our first-ever
international competition.
Try and act like you've got
a bit of class, will you,
and you're not scratting round
the queue at Calvo chippy?
I'm sorry.
Should I be more like you, then?
Wandering around all wide-eyed,
like a little schoolgirl with
my autograph book at the ready.
What? What is it?
It's Robin Cousins.
That's Robin Cousins!
He has honey. I'm having honey.
Sorry.
I'm just... I'm a bit nervous.
It's not very nice
how it makes me sometimes.
It's OK.
I understand.
I am too.
But, we'll be all right.
As long as we just remember
what Janet says.
You know, we dance our dance.
Nothing else matters.
Not where we are
or what anyone else does.
It's just us and our routine, right?
Yeah.
Yes.
There it is, quite exquisite
and surely first place
for Torvill and Dean.
Home, sweet home.
What?
You look ridiculous.
The catsuit.
All right!
You were so good.
What?
Tonight.
You were. You were dead good.
No, you were.
You were.
Sorry. Sorry.
No, I...
What are you doing?
Nothing. I...
It... It's something Leanne said
a while back. Leanne?
About how it can come between
a couple.
That can,
unless you get it out of the way.
Wait, hang on. Did you just kiss me
as part of some...
...grand master plan?
No!
That's not what I mean.
It seems as if it was.
I... Look, I did it because...
...because I really...
I really like you.
I do you.
So...
I'm confused. I mean...
...of course I fancy you.
You're...
beautiful.
Only, what we do on the ice,
that's such a feeling,
and I don't want to ruin that
cos of what I do or don't do.
You're it.
You're my chance.
Girls like me don't get to be
Ginger Rodgers too often, you know?
Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
You're right. We...
I mean, we do need to be sensible.
Partners on the ice, then,
that's it.
Avoids any...
complications, I guess.
You're bang on.
Anyway, I can't get this off.
Once it's on, it's impossible.
OK, let's go for the lift.
Tight.
And...
...extend that body movement,
finish off the move.
OK, I can straighten that leg more
as well.
It needs to feel like one movement,
as if you're working together.
And...
Yes, better.
Chris, watch your legs.
They're coming in too close.
Pst, Janet!
How are you doing?
What are you doing here?
I just thought I'd surprise you.
Well, it is a surprise.
Look, let me just finish off
with the guys.
I'll wait out here.
OK, and again.
♪ Gloria
♪ G-L-O-R-I-A
♪ Gloria
♪ G-L-O-R-I-A
♪ Gloria
♪ G-L-O-R-I-A
♪ Gloria... ♪
Third!
I don't do third!
It still got us into the Europeans.
That isn't the point, though, is it?
We won when we were abroad,
so it's backwards.
And we can't go backwards,
not if we're serious about this.
You know, this is her fault.
Janet wasn't the one skating
out there. We were.
And we looked tired.
Chris, you're in the middle
of your exams,
I'm trying to get through
my phone etiquette course.
Christ, you want to hear Shirley
banging on about how I come across
when I speak to our customers.
And she's right.
I sound exhausted.
So... it's not Janet.
You know,
she tried to be straight with us.
She said we're set
for bigger things now,
and we need a trainer
who can really get behind us.
Which she couldn't.
And we know why, don't we?
Cos of him! Her fella.
She didn't do anything wrong!
People fall in love, Chris, and
they want to be with each other.
Do they bollocks!
How can you be so ugly?
♪ Is this the real life?
♪ Is this just fantasy?
♪ Caught in a landslide
♪ No escape from reality
♪ Open your eyes
♪ Look up to the skies and see
♪ I'm just a poor boy
♪ I need no sympathy
♪ Because I'm easy come, easy go
♪ Little high, little low
♪ Any way the wind blows
♪ Doesn't really matter to me
♪ To me... ♪
I read something in the paper.
Where are you living now?
Here and there.
I've got a bungalow at the minute.
It's still, you know, in the area.
He's not here, is he?
Your dad? Or her?
I can't...
No, he's not.
You're more and more like him.
You're handsome.
And the way you move on the ice,
you hold Jayne exactly...
...as he held me in the ballet.
Really?
I'm pleased...
...that it's all worked out.
No. No!
You can't do that to me again.
You can't leave. That is all
you ever do, is leave me!
That's all I can do now.
Time's moved on, Christopher.
This is the present.
Everything's settled.
I'd just upset it.
I adore you.
Remember.
Vodka tonic, please.
You're thirsty.
Not surprised, the way
you was flying about in there.
Ladies' singles.
I don't think you was watching,
but I saw you.
Well impressed.
I'm Ella. Ella May.
But then again, I may not.
Depends on you.
Chris...
I thought you'd gone home...
...with your mum and dad.
No. No, they're still here.
Come with us.
I mean...
We can talk on the way
about new trainers and that.
It'd be quicker than the bus and...
I don't want to fall out with you.
I hate rowing.
And...
we're a good team, aren't we?
We bolster each other and...
it's horrible feeling like this.
Come on, then, blondie,
let's have you.
Got me wheels round the front.
We can put the top down,
if you like, it's warm enough.
It's an ugly world, Jayne.
You might as well join in.
I've recorded
everything you've ever done.
Just listen, in a minute,
what he says.
And now,
the darlings of British ice dance,
Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean.
Currently lying 11th
after their original set pattern
and compulsories,
but very much hoping
to improve on that
but very much hoping
here with their free dance.
We didn't.
Which means we should really get on
the ice when we're supposed to?
So we can get a bit more
practice in.
I'll...
go and check on the Zamboni.
Are you all right?
Yeah, of course I am.
Why wouldn't I be?
I don't know. You just...
...seem a bit not yourself.
Chris, the reason we're together
is to dance together, right?
So why don't we just concentrate
on that?
Yeah.
Er...
I was on two till ten.
I didn't have a chance
to get changed properly, so...
At least you're not wearing
your hat.
Betty Callaway wants us.
I was going to tell you after
we finished last night, but, erm...
...she's indicated she'd be happy
to take over our coaching.
You're kidding?
Jayne, she's number one!
Yeah, I know.
You're both very shy.
Which is fine.
But we will need to work on it.
Your accents, too.
There's going to be
more and more press from now on.
Also, at the Worlds,
and when I saw you at Oberstdorf...
You were at Oberstdorf?
Yes, I train there a lot.
Chris,
I remember that you smelt of egg.
I was in the lift with you.
And you were rather too pairsy.
Too many side-by-side runs
to get up speed and...
Look... you've got it, my dears.
I know you have.
Or I wouldn't be having
this conversation with you.
And Janet got an awful lot right
in getting you focused.
But...
...you need a little refining.
You need a finishing school.
And I'm it.
I must have this height
at the front.
MUST have this HEIGHT at the front.
Height at the front.
All that money on elocution!
♪ Once I had a love
and it was a gas
♪ Soon turned out
had a heart of glass
♪ Seemed like the real thing,
only to find
♪ Mucho mistrust, love's gone behind
♪ Once I had a love
and it was divine
♪ Soon found out
I was losing my mind
♪ It seemed like the real thing,
but I was so blind
♪ Mucho mistrust, love's gone behind
♪ In between
♪ What I find is pleasing
and I'm feeling fine
♪ Love is so confusing,
there's no peace of mind... ♪
Bollocks!
You're nicked.
Er, am I keeping you from summat?
No. No!
I mean, the ice rink, but...
At the same time,
how long does a booking take
back at the station?
It's about an hour, isn't it?
At least that.
I'm going to caution you.
You didn't get anything.
I know you didn't.
I got there too fast.
And you ain't been arrested before,
have you?
Well, er, a couple of times.
Right.
Well, this is final caution, yeah?
Be a better thief.
Do not get caught!
Well go on, piss off.
Go.
See you later, lads.
Thank you. Cheers.
Are you all right?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Had to be done, didn't it?
I mean, I was knackered
all the time.
And it was mind-numbing.
No, I...
I like this job.
But it isn't an option, is it?
Not if we want to make a proper fist
of the skating. Betty said that.
So what do we do now, then?
We might as well get down the rink.
We've got all afternoon, haven't we?
What is going on?
How do you mean?
Well, that.
It's like Oxford Circus.
Is it school holidays or something?
No, that's next week.
Hey, you think it's busy now.
I'm sorry,
but I can't believe you didn't check
before you jacked your jobs in.
Access to the rink
ain't going to be any different.
Very early or very late.
Any other time, forget it.
We're busy.
We can train without being
on the ice, all right? Yeah, I know.
How much further are we going?
I don't know.
Netherfield?
That's miles.
Netherfield?
Yeah. That's what you do, isn't it?
Netherfield?
You increase your mileage.
Over time...
Chris! Chris!
I'm serious.
It's burning, right round me ankle.
It's cos you're not stretching out.
You're running all hunched up.
Well, that's just how I run.
Sod this, I'm going home.
What?
I've done enough.
And my leg's killing.
And you, you've got a bad attitude.
Come on!
No, you never encourage people.
You just moan when it isn't right.
That is not true.
It is.
You're all stick, you are.
And some people
need a bit of carrot.
You might as well run if you're
going to go back the way we've come.
♫ "Bolero" by Maurice Ravel
Chris!
Where have you been?
Look, Betty's got held up.
So she reckons we should start
without her.
Try and come up with some ideas
for the new free.
Cheers, Ted. We've got it now.
Cheers.
What was it? It was horrible.
It's Ravel.
20p.
The library was flogging old stock.
It's perfect for the warm-up.
It does a job, all right?
Anyway, it's not important.
You, go and get changed.
We've got tonnes to get through.
Look, wait.
I've been down to casualty.
That's why I'm late.
I've strained me Achilles. It's not
torn, though, so that's good.
Well, you can't skate with that on.
Take it off.
No, Chris, I can't train.
I've got to rest.
We've got to work out
the new programme! Are you serious?
We're behind, Jayne.
Betty says so.
Chris, I'm injured.
I'm injured cos, apparently,
only a lunatic runs nine miles
in plimsolls,
especially when the furthest
they've gone before that
is 500 yards to the shop
and back.
OK, so you're blaming me?
I'm not blaming anyone.
I'm defending myself
cos you seem incapable
of thinking of anybody
but Christopher Dean.
That is bollocks!
I'm thinking about Torvill and Dean.
I'm thinking about us!
No, you never think about us, ever!
'MACK AND MABEL' ON RECORD PLAYER
Hey up, duck, are you all right?
What have you done?
Jayne, come here.
All right, lean on me.
Let's get you sat down.
That's it, just there.
Oooh, there.
Do you want me to get you
a cup of tea?
Or I could fetch you
a battered sausage from up the road.
I'm fine, Dad. I...
It's just a strain.
What about some Vicks?
That's for colds.
Well, you can rub it on anything.
I'm all right, Dad, honest.
It's nice, though, how you fuss.
I like it.
So...
Mack And Mabel?
Aye, I know. Yeah.
Your mum bought it.
Yeah, we went to see it
at The Playhouse.
Denis Quilley. A cracking night.
Mack was Mack Sennet,
this big Hollywood producer.
And Mabel was Mabel Normand,
she's like his leading lady.
Yeah? A love story, was it?
It was more of a broken love story,
really.
Cos he was a sod.
Right tartar, you know?
Laying down the law,
cracking the whip.
She just adored him.
Yeah.
She could see he was a genius.
Plus, she wanted to make
these great pictures with him,
which they both dreamed of.
And he were that relentless,
just about killed her in the end.
Really?
Is that right?
We should get this one, the texture.
Yeah, I think you're right.
Jayne, you're here!
Chris said you'd had to go home,
that you were injured.
No.
I'm raring to go.
And... I've got our new free.
Mack And Mabel.
It's perfect for us.
Can you just go back
and do that turn again, Chris?
Er, yeah. Erm...
That's it, I thought so.
Just nice and soft.
Excellent!
You look wonderful together.
Jayne Torvill
and Christopher Dean.
In first place,
Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean.
Cinq virgule neuf.
Cinq virgule neuf.
Six virgule zero.
Six virgule zero.
Six virgule zero.
In first place,
Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean.
There they are, Jayne and Chris
with Betty Callaway...
Get in there!
...looking understandably ecstatic.
A magnificent performance.
British, European
and now World Champions.
Jayne...
Come in.
Are you all right? My strapping,
I'm struggling to get it off.
Do you want a hand?
No.
I mean, I'm fine.
It'll take a bit of time,
that's all.
Well, just one more
to nurse it through now.
Olympics.
And then we'll have the full set.
What?
What's wrong?
Nothing.
I'm thrilled.
No, I am.
World Champions!
I can't believe it, really.
Us two.
Jayne, please, tell me.
I don't know, I just...
I just thought this...
Like, getting here,
I'd feel happier.
Look, all I know for sure
is that we are on track...
...and if we can find a
decent routine for Sarajevo, then...
...then we can do it.
We can have everything
that we have ever wanted.
Yeah.
I think...
I think maybe we want
different things now.
Why are you saying this?
This is... This...
It's what we've been fighting for
all these years.
I'm not bothered about this.
Not more than anything.
Cos this isn't the reason
I started skating with you.
And I'm prepared to admit that.
Just like I'm prepared to admit
that what we're doing now...
I'm not sure
I want to carry on with it.
What?
There's no joy to it, Chris.
There's no feeling.
I don't know what else I can do,
cos you won't tell me what's wrong.
You don't talk to me any more.
And it's sterile because of it,
what we put on the ice.
It's brilliant and awe-inspiring
and it wins medals.
But... it's not us.
Us, Chris, deep down.
I want it to be how it was.
Otherwise...
Otherwise, you're...
...you're packing it in.
No, I'm not.
You're saying it.
I know the way
you're looking at me. I can tell.
You know, I thought
you were different. What?
I thought you were different
from all the others.
Janet.
Leanne.
My mum.
And you say it's sterile.
Well, you know what, Jayne?
You're right.
You're right, it is sterile.
Because every second
that I'm out on that ice,
I'm holding back
a bloody great tide of...
...of the real world.
Where we wallow in shit,
and we get bored
and we find the relationships
around us unsatisfying
and unremarkable.
So, of course, we just drop them
like that.
So, excuse me if I prefer
to put my efforts
into making something flawless
and sparkling
and that sticks around!
Except, I thought you'd got that.
I thought that you understood that,
whenever you let your guard down,
whenever you let someone
close to you,
whenever you love them...
...they just piss all over you
in the end.
And I thought you wanted to help me
make it better.
Jayne...
What have you got there?
The first pair I ever skated in.
When I went with the school.
Did they present them to you?
No. Ted stole them.
He were just being thoughtful.
He knew how much they meant to me.
These were the start of it.
Is everything all right?
You're meant to be in Oberstdorf,
aren't you, training?
I've...
I've just had a rough few days, Dad,
since the Worlds.
I just need a bit of time,
that's all. I'll be all right.
I did ask him to wait downstairs,
but he was quite insistent.
I'm sorry.
It's important.
Chris?
Hello, Mr Torvill.
Hello, Christopher.
Right, then, duck. Let's go
and check on the crisp situation.
Crisps?
She's taken over a newsagent.
Why aren't you in Germany?
Because you're not.
Look, I needed to see you.
How we left it,
some of the stuff that I said...
Chris...
I want you to dance the Bolero
with me.
Please.
The warm-up?
No.
Just... Just think about it.
OK, it's one rhythm that builds
and it builds
into this incredible climax
and we could dance
in and out of the beat
and it'd be like this
continuous sinewy throb.
Go on.
It'll look simple,
only it won't be.
It'll be the hardest thing
we've ever danced,
but we'll strip it right back.
And we can do all
the crazy, jumping, lifting stuff.
You're right, we've shown that.
So now we do the opposite.
This'll just be you and me...
laid bare.
And it'll be raw
and it will be beautiful.
What's the story?
This doomed love.
I mean, right the way through it,
it's one story.
We don't cut away, have different
sections, like we normally do.
This is a single narrative,
start to finish, to match the music.
And it's about this young couple
who...
they meet and they fall in love...
...only, for some reason,
they can't be together.
But they can't be apart, neither.
So...
So, in the end,
they take their own lives.
They jump into this volcano and...
...they die in each other's arms.
And the last beat of the music
will just be...
...it'll just be you and me...
...lying in the centre of the rink.
And there'll be complete silence.
Get down on the floor, like this.
Just down here.
Right, rock the right knee.
Yeah, have that there.
That's beautiful.
Yeah, so do it from here.
♪ We passed upon the stair
♪ We spoke of was and when
And you have another view here
with a different neckline.
And with the gold.
I think that's perfect.
Unless we have a kind of contrast.
But I think probably just do that.
But you could play around
with going shorter.
Have you thought of that?
♪ I spoke into his eyes
♪ I thought you died alone
♪ A long, long time ago
♪ Oh, no, not me
♪ I never lost control
♪ You're face to face
♪ With the man
who sold the world... ♪
You know, we're not actually...
You haven't even spelt
my name right!
Chris, just do it.
Talk about making an entrance!
Hey...
Now, that's making an entrance.
That's Bestemianova and Bukin.
...as the 48th Olympic
Winter Games
finally gets underway
here in Sarajevo.
At last, we see the British team
coming into the stadium now.
Turning slowly across
this vast disc of white,
led by Christopher Dean and right
beside him, as ever, Jayne Torvill,
ready, finally, to do battle.
Is it on?
They really have been
a winning combination.
I bet you wish you'd stuck with him.
It could have been you stepping out
at the Olympics. Nah.
He was sex mad.
He wouldn't leave us alone.
I had to draw a line in the end.
Where did he say?
Block C.
He didn't get any more specific.
Jayne!
Dad!
You made it!
Hello, Christopher.
Mr Torvill.
Good luck, son.
I'm that proud of you.
Great Britain minibus!
Good luck, Christopher.
Just the skating bit now, then.
Miss Torvill? Phone call.
Chris...
I've been knocking on your door.
Why aren't you in bed?
I thought something had happened.
Sleep?
Bloody hell, Jayne, it's tomorrow.
Everything is tomorrow.
How many sugars
have you got in there?
You've got to calm down.
Yeah.
Yeah, you're right.
So how come you came looking for me?
Nothing's happened, has it?
No.
I mean... my mum's coming out.
I got a call from her just now.
What?
The Daily Mail, they heard she was
manning the fort back in Nottingham,
so they arranged for someone
to go in and replace her
and they're flying her out.
And she's agreed, has she?
They even negotiated.
She said they had to refund
my dad's coach ticket,
and arrange it so that he could
jet back with her afterwards.
They want your mum to come, too.
That's the angle. Sort of.
Two adoring mothers
in situ at the 11th hour.
But she turned them down,
don't worry.
Good.
They asked my mum
to try and persuade her.
She couldn't make her
change her mind, anyway.
She said she didn't want
to put you off.
My mum said that?
Tell her she can come.
What?
That's the number.
They gave it to Betty. Ring her.
No.
Why?
Because!
You know, I told you.
She...
She what?
She got caught up
in something horrible,
and the only way she could cope
was cutting herself off from...
...everything.
And...
...she's your mum, Chris.
And she loves you.
That's all that matters.
That's what I think, anyway.
You're really going to do this,
aren't you?
We need to make sure. One more time.
At half four in the morning?
And then we come back to the centre
and we drop the trailing leg.
And that's it.
Got it.
And finish on the flip over.
See you later, then.
Yeah!
We're all set.
Yeah.
Betty!
There you are.
Good luck.
George!
George!
There's Betty.
I know Jayne Torvill.
I used to work with her.
Always got on really well.
Miss Torvill, please.
Mr Dean, sir.
What are you doing?
We never do that.
You and me.
Forever.
♫ "Bolero" by Maurice Ravel
♪ A small Jean Genie
snuck off to the city
♪ Strung-out on lasers
and slash-back blazers
♪ And ate all your razors
while pulling the waiters
♪ Talking about Monroe
and walking on Snow White
♪ New York's a go-go
and everything tastes right
♪ Poor little Greenie
♪ Oooh-oooh
♪ Keep her coming
♪ The Jean Genie lives on his back
♪ The Jean Genie
loves chimney stacks
♪ He's outrageous,
he screams and he bawls
♪ Jean Genie, let yourself go,
whoa... ♪
Subtitles by TVT
Bostik! Tube of that,
roll of gaffer, decent screwdriver,
you can cope with most things
in life, Chris.
Look, I'll see you later,
buster?
This one's hanging off 'an all.
Colin, you said you'd stuck it!
I did.
Look, I'm late.
I've gotta be at work in 15 minutes.
I've gotta walk down there yet.
Well, maybe if you didn't stop out
till all hours of the morning,
you'd be able to get up
a bit earlier. All right.
I've got a stomach-ache. No, you
haven't. Go and clean your teeth.
You think I'm daft.
What are you talking about now?
Where were you?
You know where I was.
At the Welfare with the lads.
Out till four?
Told you.
Go on, Aidy'll be waiting for you.
Why are you limping?
I'm not.
My shoe's broke.
Me dad's fixed it, though.
Jayne, I'm back, duck.
Sorry I'm a bit late.
My daddy works at Raleigh,
which was in a film at the Futurist,
which was where I saw
Ring of Bright Water.
I didn't see the film
with Raleigh in it,
even though it was made
all round Nottingham,
cos my mum said it was rude.
Mum says lots of things are rude.
Dad says she's his Player's Angel.
What are you on about?
I won a prize, Mum, in English.
I tell you what, Betty, she's got
a real talent for telling stories.
Telling stories?
She wants shorthand and typing.
She's ten years old.
I'm saying, in the future,
for secretarial college.
I don't want her
stuck in a factory, like me.
Why don't you go and watch telly?
You've earned it.
The Flashing Blades are on tonight.
Yeah, the sword fighting.
And Lady Isabel. She's me favourite.
She's really beautiful.
And she can ride a horse.
She's taking us ice skating.
She's doing what?
Miss Fitzhugh,
she said all the essays were good,
so we're going to the ice rink
tomorrow afternoon.
Jayne...
will it cost anything, this trip?
Did Miss Fitzhugh
mention anything about that?
You know them PG Tips monkeys?
They're all dead
and they stuff them
and move them around
and they stuff them
so they look alive.
Yeah, I did.
All right.
See you, then.
It's not how you know,
obviously.
But we need to be practical.
What you doing? It's tea-time.
I'm going to feed him.
We don't want him in the house. It's
his tea-time. Chris, come inside.
Come on, sweetie.
Come on, Chris.
Mavis...
♪ You've got to fight
for what you want
♪ For all that you believe... ♪
So, where are we, then?
Mavis...
Don't Mavis me.
I want to know
what's going to happen.
I understand that...
You understand, do you?
Love...
Stop calling me love!
I'm sorry. I think we all just need
to keep calm. I agree.
Of course you bloody agree!
You've been having it off
with my husband.
He ought to kick you twice round
the garden and once up the stairs.
Mavis! Now, come on...
Come on, nothing!
I am upset. I'm upset!
He shouldn't have done this.
You shouldn't have done this.
♪ As long as we have done our best
♪ Then no-one can do more
♪ And life and love and happiness
♪ Are well worth fighting for. ♪
Size?
13.
Size?
Three.
Excuse me?
What?
13.
Can I have white?
Them, there.
White's prettier.
Now... bugger off.
Size?
Two, please.
That's it.
That's very good.
Help him.
It's not you, the rest of you.
Stand up.
Now, all you've got to do
is let go of the rail.
You'll be fine.
You bounce at your age.
On a count of three.
One, two...
There's always one.
Hey, you should have a word
with Miss Perry.
Trainer. Yeah, the younger the
better, as far as she's concerned.
She's seen her anyway.
You've lost her now.
It's like that Child Catcher
in that respect.
Still, on the upside, she has
trained half a dozen champions.
She's class, Miss Perry.
I hope you're happy now.
I hope you're really happy!
Christ.
Sorry, Mavis.
All right, come on.
I don't think
we should speak to him.
He might not be ready.
Colin, please.
I'm not going to know what to say.
All right, you do the talking, then.
Chris...
This is Betty.
She's...
She's like your new mum.
Say hello.
Say hello.
Hello.
Hello, Christopher.
It's nice to meet you properly.
I've brought you a present.
I used to go when I was younger.
And I asked your dad.
He said you had bags of energy,
and I thought you might like them.
He will like them, don't worry.
Cos I know how bloody dear
they were.
And...
jump!
That's it, dearie.
On the cymbal crash.
Here comes another one.
And...
jump!
All right.
We'll leave it there, Jayne.
Public session.
You're doing very well.
People don't normally do tricks
till they've been coming for weeks.
We'll make a skater of you yet.
Thank you, Miss Perry.
Thank you, dearie.
Norman and I will have a sherry
at The Flying Horse.
♫ "Get It On (Bang A Gong)" by T Rex
♪ Well, you're dirty and sweet
♪ Clad in black, don't look back,
and I love you
♪ You're dirty and sweet, oh, yeah
♪ Well, you're slim and you're weak
♪ You've got the teeth
of the hydra upon you
♪ You're dirty and sweet
and you're my girl
♪ Get it on, bang a gong
♪ Get it on... ♪
Bravo, Jayne!
The smile's lovely.
Keep it.
Now, when the clarinet comes in,
and the step pattern,
that comes after the gong. Bam!
Then steps.
Are you all right?
Yeah.
Are you all right?
Yeah, I felt good.
Er...
What, dearie?
The music. Er...
More modern.
Norman's onto it.
Woolworth's have got some
Carmen Miranda coming in.
He's left a deposit.
Carmen Miranda?
Cha, cha, cha.
Ya-da, ya-da-da, ya-da, ya-da-da.
Rrrr, ariba!
I do love you, Miss Perry.
Aw...!
Jayne...
You require a man.
What?
I'm not foolish, dearie.
And I'm not oblivious to your needs.
For a man?
To emote!
I've spoken to Norman about it.
He has a Latin heart.
He understands
the flamboyant nature.
Your desire to give vent, Jayne,
to your passion and... your soul.
You've wanted to do that
ever since we started,
but I'm rather too regimented,
I think.
So Norman and I believe
that a partner might be the answer.
More than a record change.
He might become your conduit.
Wow...
Do you have anybody in mind?
As a matter of fact, I do.
♪ All I need is the air
that I breathe... ♪
Hi, I'm Andrew.
♪ All I need is the air
that I breathe... ♪
How old?
22.
22?
Almost.
And you could tell, Mum,
he's got that much experience.
I'll bet he has...
George!
Are you saying
Miss Perry suggested this?
She thinks there's competitions
we could win.
Does she?
Well, I better get down the bookies,
then.
What's his name?
Is he from round here?
I don't know.
I mean, it's Andrew.
Actually, he might have said
Mapperley. Mapperley?
I don't want you getting
any airs and graces.
What are you on about?
Plains or Top?
I don't know.
And that isn't important.
It's the partnership.
He's going to liberate me.
Christ.
George...!
Creatively.
He says we're going to dance
to David Bowie.
Is that the one in the make-up?
No, Jayne, I'm sorry, I'm not paying
good money every week so you...
But it's what I need, Mum.
Can't you see that?
Like, Miss Perry,
she has me jumping to cymbal crashes
and spinning round
whenever I hear a gong.
And there's no feeling to it.
And I don't want that.
I want to...
I want to express myself.
Why?
What have you got to express?
Hi.
Urgh...
Hang on.
Bloody hell, Chris.
Hey, actually,
she's not bad, is she?
She looks a bit like her
off Pan's People.
The red-haired one. Erm...
Does all the solos.
She's easily the best dancer.
Ski jump tits.
Dee Dee.
Yeah!
Yeah, she looks like her.
Hey, come on.
So, do you come here often, then?
A cod and two smalls.
What are you having?
Er...
Batter bits, pickled onion.
What, you're not having chips?
So, this isn't Russia.
It's Calverton.
You can have what you like.
I might just have the pickled onion.
All right, I'll get them.
No, you won't!
No, Chris, look, you can do it
next time, all right?
When you're... you know.
Hey, you can even have a saveloy
if you fancy.
Wait, I'll not be a minute.
What?
Me mum's back.
Wait...
Chris!
Hey up, Chris.
Haven't you been in once?
Chris!
You're lucky
you didn't break them both.
Yeah, that's the way I'm looking at
it. I didn't mean it reassuringly.
I think you should find a partner.
What?
Well, consider competing.
I think it might...
Calm you down.
Be good if you had a focus.
And skating with someone,
that'd be even better.
Cos it'd mean you'd have
another person
to share all your feelings with.
About being on the ice.
You need to find a girl, Chris,
I'm certain.
He's like Hitler.
He's like Hitler in ice skates.
I told him last week.
He maintains I weren't
getting my leg up high enough
when we was coming out the chasse.
And it was basically a goose-step.
So I said,
"There's a reason, Christopher Dean,
So I said,
"that you can do this and I can't."
But it never clicked.
I don't think he's the sharpest tool
in the box, you know.
He's from Calvo, though, isn't he?
Miners.
I mean, they're born miners.
Hey, that's another thing.
How can he, coming from there,
tell me I've got no artistry
and I don't interpret the music?
How are you getting on anyway
with Andrew?
He's gorgeous, isn't he?
Do you think he looks like
David Cassidy? I do.
Has he, er...
tried it on yet?
I bet he has!
No.
We need to sort that out, then.
Whatever.
Just get it out of the way,
or it handicaps the partnership.
Everyone knows that.
Do they?
Everyone knows that.
I mean...
Right, erm...
I just...
He hasn't, you know...
It's not been on the agenda.
You're probably not giving out
the right signals.
Never mind.
Jayne, you're on.
Andrew's waiting.
Thanks, Miss Perry.
Leanne...
Do you and...
I mean,
does he say stuff like that a lot?
Chris.
About being artistic
and responding to music?
Like, is he ever so creative?
No.
He's a pain, I'm saying.
I'd much sooner have yours.
Yeah, he...
He can be very creative, too.
Turn, two, three, four.
And kick and two, three, four.
And kick and stretch.
And arch and a big smile.
Feel my kneecap.
Singles, keep the beat.
Ba-dooby doo bum-bum.
And turn and spin.
Dum, dum, and...
♪ ..anyone can see
♪ Nothing really matters
♪ Nothing really matters
♪ To me
♪ Any way the wind blows. ♪
Lovely, well done.
What was that?
Hey?
At the end.
Were you not listening to the music?
What?
Yeah, the midsection is...
Yeah, I don't care.
Let it go. Nobody noticed.
I noticed!
She didn't notice cos
she was on automatic pilot again.
Don't you start
with all that bollocks.
What did I just say to you in there?
If I'm such a robot,
how come I've had not one, not two,
but three different approaches
from other skaters?
One of whom,
and I'm not naming names,
but it was Gary Kingston, who could
kick eight bells of shit out of you
if it did come to a fight
over my services. Leanne, just...
Gary Kingston, who actually said
to me, "He's a nutjob, Leanne.
"Ask his first partner,
Sandra Elson,
"why she isn't with him no more.
"He's ice dancing's Billy Bremner,
"when he's not faffing about
pretending to be Rudolf Nureyev.
"So why don't you just ditch him
and come and dance with someone
"who'll show you what appreciation
really looks like?
"Cos the truth is, you're wasted
on that Christopher Dean,
"the stuck-up blond ponce!"
Prince.
What?
Sorry. I...
I thought you said blond prince.
Blonde ponce.
Why would I say prince?
I'm having a go at him.
Cos he's a bloody pain
who doesn't realise what he's got!
Yeah, yeah, go.
Cos I am. I'm done with you.
And you!
You're both rubbish.
I'm glad you never tried it on
with me.
I wouldn't have let you.
And I let everyone.
Excuse me...
Do you know the lady
that lives in there?
Mavis Dean?
I live in there.
I took it over
a couple of weeks ago.
Is something wrong?
No.
Counter duty is something
all the girls look forward to.
Though I do have to tell you, Jayne,
that that is a privilege we grant
only after staff have been with us
for two years.
Having said that, you are given half
a day during your training period,
so you will get a taste
of everything that's on offer.
Are you coming straight over, then?
What?
The pit.
The first tour's this afternoon,
isn't it?
That's an extra tonne in your
wage packet at the end of the month.
I'm not going down there.
I'm not going down the pit.
Everyone goes down the pit.
Yeah, well, I'm not.
Class, one and two and...
♪ Ma, ma, ma, ma
♪ Ma Baker to handle their guns
♪ Ma, ma, ma, ma
♪ Ma Baker, she never could cry
♪ Ma, ma, ma, ma
♪ Ma Baker,
but she knew how to die... ♪
So...
We do jazz, tap, modern, flamenco,
swing, belly dancing, line dancing,
ballroom, contemporary,
Latin, ballet...
Ballet.
I want to do ballet.
OK.
I want one-on-one.
I mean, I'll need to know the cost,
but I've just got my first job,
so, as long as it's not prohibitive,
then that's what I'm after.
I'm an ice skater.
But I don't think I'm very intense.
You know, fiery.
And I'm concerned it might
hold us back in the long term.
It takes two to tango,
isn't that what they say?
I just...
I want to learn how to make my body
look how it feels.
That's it, really.
You know, I want to transcend
my outside, basically.
He's a great skater.
I mean, technically,
he's one of the best I've ever seen.
But you see, the thing is, Jayne...
We've met, actually.
But perhaps you don't remember.
But I know you.
And, you see, the thing is,
for a partnership to work...
...the chemistry has to be right.
And if it's not right, well, it
doesn't really matter what you do,
cos you'll never make a success
of it.
So you've just got to be brave...
and move on.
Hey up, buster. You all right?
Hey, what's that song...?
"School's out forever."
I'll take you to the Welfare
tonight, we'll have a pint.
You'll need to get to know folk.
I'm not going down there.
Why is everyone assuming
that I will? Why, what's wrong?
I'm joining the cops.
I start in a month.
The police?
Yeah, I just thought...
a nice, secure future.
And they're dead clear, aren't they?
What's right, what's wrong.
I quite fancy that.
So all that business just now,
the Welfare, the lads,
you can forget about that,
because we won't ever be
strolling down the street together.
Not ever, all right?
I forgot.
Janet rang.
She wants you in at 6:30.
She thinks
she might have found you someone.
You're here!
Good.
And Jayne.
Bang on time. Excellent.
You've met Christopher,
haven't you?
Well, you've seen him around,
anyway.
Well, I've seen you both skate
separately.
And I think you'd make
a rather nice match.
So, into hold, please.
What? Straight away?
Aren't we going to,
I don't know, talk or...?
No, we're not.
I need to see you together.
Pelvis to pelvis, nice and tight.
OK...
Good.
So let's start with, erm...
Hold on,
I've left summat in the locker room.
So, how long do you intend
to give them?
Ten minutes should be plenty.
It feels like a lifetime out there.
But it saves months, you know,
further down the line.
Get all that embarrassment
out of the way all at once.
And then you can just concentrate
on the skating.
Marvellous.
Hey...
Rich Tea?
Yeah.
Good.
Sorry, I...
I wasn't, erm...
No.
...thrusting, I meant.
If you fancy a warm-up...
Definite.
You look a bit sad.
Are you all right?
Yeah. Just...
...stuff at home. But...
...I'm OK.
♪ Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
♪ Turn and face the strange
♪ Ch-ch-changes
♪ Pretty soon now
you're gonna get older
♪ Time may change me
♪ But I can't trace time
♪ I said that time may change me
♪ But I can't trace time. ♪
I've seen worse.
I'm sorry.
I'm here. I missed the five to.
What were you doing?
Nothing. I was just...
Nothing. Just loosening up.
OK, let's get going.
I don't care how ragged it is, let's
just work through it to the end,
and we can discuss it afterwards.
No...
Please!
We've talked about this all week.
I can't spoon-feed you.
The OSPs and the compulsories,
I can give you a nudge.
But your free has to come from you.
Fine, let's break it down.
What sort of music
are you thinking of using?
A theme?
A mood, a story?
I mean, he was...
You were just now, weren't you?
No, I was just mucking about.
Great.
Well, in that case,
let's just call it a day, shall we?
What?
Well, if you can't be bothered...
That's wasting our time,
that's a waste of time.
Well, you're wasting mine. That
makes us about equal, doesn't it?
I'm away for two weeks.
You need to have something
to show me when I'm back.
Flipping heck...!
Vitamin C.
Your immune system gets weakened
when you're under stress.
Stuff your immune system,
she's going to dump us unless you
can come up with some ideas. Me?
Why is it my job?
Cos that's what you do.
It's why you get people's backs up,
always banging on about artistry
and feeling it!
Have we got time?
Yeah, we've got time.
7:30.
Most people
will still be getting their mouths
round a bowl of porridge.
Hey, what about the library?
What?
Well, there's one on Market Square.
I ain't been, but...
You know, for the story.
Well, we should check out
Selectadisc an' all for music
and the video store.
Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
I've heard people on telly saying
how such and such a thing
inspired them
and then they bang on about
all the books and films and that
that they use like a launchpad.
But what we finally put on the ice,
that's got to be us.
I mean, flipping heck, Chris,
you've seen them couples
who are dead good technically,
but they ain't got any connection
with what they're dancing.
But we can't be like that.
And we won't be,
as long as we don't just copy
and we find something
that we know about
and we feel strongly about.
You know, in there.
And I'm telling you, if we can
do that, we'll have cracked it.
Yeah...
What?
No, it's...
It's probably daft.
Of course it's not daft.
Christ, Chris, don't you get it?
You're different to other lads.
I knew it the first time I saw you.
You're... You're passionate
and stuff matters to you.
And I want some of that.
That's why I started skating,
cos... I want to go somewhere.
Away from Farnborough Road
and Clifton and...
It's like I want to fly.
'Saturday Night Fever'
by the Bee Gees
I love this song.
Make it...
Watch me, watch me...
Aye.
Let's do side to side.
♪ Listen to the ground
♪ There is movement all around
♪ There is something going down
♪ And I can feel it
♪ On the waves of the air
♪ There is dancing out there
♪ If it's something we can share
♪ We can steal it
♪ And that sweet city woman
♪ She moves through the night
♪ Controlling my mind
and my soul... ♪
'Dancing Cheek To Cheek'
by Fred Astaire
♪ But it doesn't thrill me
half as much
♪ As dancing cheek to cheek
♪ Oh, I love to go out fishing
♪ In a river or a creek
♪ But I don't enjoy it half as much
♪ As dancing cheek to cheek
♪ Dance with me
♪ I want my arm about you
♪ The charm about you
♪ Will carry me through
♪ To heaven
♪ I'm in heaven
♪ And my heart beats
so that I can hardly speak
♪ And I seem to find
the happiness I seek
♪ When we're out together
dancing cheek to cheek... ♪
She ain't coming, is she?
You're right,
she's probably dropped us already.
No, no, she's too much of a pro.
You said that.
She'd call or write or...
There's probably been an accident
held her up.
We should just crack on,
run through it again. Right.
One more time all the way through.
Then we run the new section
on its own, OK?
Don't!
You've done enough.
Go and get changed.
I've seen what I need.
I've seen you, at last.
Tomorrow, we'll go through it all.
But we need to have something
ready by Saturday.
Bristol.
Sorry, what?
The National Skating Association.
Selection meet.
An ice dance.
Just to be clear,
we're going to do that,
what me and Jayne
have just come up with...
this weekend?
Well, I don't see why not.
Second! We came second!
I know!
Yeah, all right.
You didn't win the Olympics.
Well done.
It was beautiful.
We hardly made any mistakes.
No, you didn't, Jayne, you're right.
So much so
that they've invited you back.
To compete at the Oberstdorf
next month.
What?
In Germany.
It's not a full international,
but it's... I don't care.
It's abroad! It's...
Wait, hang on, who pays?
I'm still on a cadet's wage, and
she's on probation till Christmas.
They take care
of all the essentials.
So what do you reckon?
Doable?
It'll have to be, won't it?
Yeah.
Yes!
♪ The first time
♪ Ever I saw your face
♪ I thought the sun
♪ Rose in your eyes
Christopher...
♪ And the moon and the stars
♪ Were the gifts you gave
♪ To the dark...
This is Betty.
She's like your new mum.
♪ And the endless skies
♪ My love
♪ To the dark
♪ And the endless skies... ♪
Chris, Chris!
Regoczy and Sallay,
over there, look, look!
Yeah.
I've only ever seen them
on the telly.
I think they're probably
past their best now, though.
Bestemianova and Bukin, I reckon
they're top of the pile these days.
I don't think they're here.
Have you seen them?
Christopher!
I'm trying to talk to you!
Yeah, and I had two boiled eggs
in either cheek.
You'd probably not manage two,
smaller mouth.
But see how you get on.
It's all about maximising
opportunity. Stop it!
We're in Germany.
We're at our first-ever
international competition.
Try and act like you've got
a bit of class, will you,
and you're not scratting round
the queue at Calvo chippy?
I'm sorry.
Should I be more like you, then?
Wandering around all wide-eyed,
like a little schoolgirl with
my autograph book at the ready.
What? What is it?
It's Robin Cousins.
That's Robin Cousins!
He has honey. I'm having honey.
Sorry.
I'm just... I'm a bit nervous.
It's not very nice
how it makes me sometimes.
It's OK.
I understand.
I am too.
But, we'll be all right.
As long as we just remember
what Janet says.
You know, we dance our dance.
Nothing else matters.
Not where we are
or what anyone else does.
It's just us and our routine, right?
Yeah.
Yes.
There it is, quite exquisite
and surely first place
for Torvill and Dean.
Home, sweet home.
What?
You look ridiculous.
The catsuit.
All right!
You were so good.
What?
Tonight.
You were. You were dead good.
No, you were.
You were.
Sorry. Sorry.
No, I...
What are you doing?
Nothing. I...
It... It's something Leanne said
a while back. Leanne?
About how it can come between
a couple.
That can,
unless you get it out of the way.
Wait, hang on. Did you just kiss me
as part of some...
...grand master plan?
No!
That's not what I mean.
It seems as if it was.
I... Look, I did it because...
...because I really...
I really like you.
I do you.
So...
I'm confused. I mean...
...of course I fancy you.
You're...
beautiful.
Only, what we do on the ice,
that's such a feeling,
and I don't want to ruin that
cos of what I do or don't do.
You're it.
You're my chance.
Girls like me don't get to be
Ginger Rodgers too often, you know?
Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
You're right. We...
I mean, we do need to be sensible.
Partners on the ice, then,
that's it.
Avoids any...
complications, I guess.
You're bang on.
Anyway, I can't get this off.
Once it's on, it's impossible.
OK, let's go for the lift.
Tight.
And...
...extend that body movement,
finish off the move.
OK, I can straighten that leg more
as well.
It needs to feel like one movement,
as if you're working together.
And...
Yes, better.
Chris, watch your legs.
They're coming in too close.
Pst, Janet!
How are you doing?
What are you doing here?
I just thought I'd surprise you.
Well, it is a surprise.
Look, let me just finish off
with the guys.
I'll wait out here.
OK, and again.
♪ Gloria
♪ G-L-O-R-I-A
♪ Gloria
♪ G-L-O-R-I-A
♪ Gloria
♪ G-L-O-R-I-A
♪ Gloria... ♪
Third!
I don't do third!
It still got us into the Europeans.
That isn't the point, though, is it?
We won when we were abroad,
so it's backwards.
And we can't go backwards,
not if we're serious about this.
You know, this is her fault.
Janet wasn't the one skating
out there. We were.
And we looked tired.
Chris, you're in the middle
of your exams,
I'm trying to get through
my phone etiquette course.
Christ, you want to hear Shirley
banging on about how I come across
when I speak to our customers.
And she's right.
I sound exhausted.
So... it's not Janet.
You know,
she tried to be straight with us.
She said we're set
for bigger things now,
and we need a trainer
who can really get behind us.
Which she couldn't.
And we know why, don't we?
Cos of him! Her fella.
She didn't do anything wrong!
People fall in love, Chris, and
they want to be with each other.
Do they bollocks!
How can you be so ugly?
♪ Is this the real life?
♪ Is this just fantasy?
♪ Caught in a landslide
♪ No escape from reality
♪ Open your eyes
♪ Look up to the skies and see
♪ I'm just a poor boy
♪ I need no sympathy
♪ Because I'm easy come, easy go
♪ Little high, little low
♪ Any way the wind blows
♪ Doesn't really matter to me
♪ To me... ♪
I read something in the paper.
Where are you living now?
Here and there.
I've got a bungalow at the minute.
It's still, you know, in the area.
He's not here, is he?
Your dad? Or her?
I can't...
No, he's not.
You're more and more like him.
You're handsome.
And the way you move on the ice,
you hold Jayne exactly...
...as he held me in the ballet.
Really?
I'm pleased...
...that it's all worked out.
No. No!
You can't do that to me again.
You can't leave. That is all
you ever do, is leave me!
That's all I can do now.
Time's moved on, Christopher.
This is the present.
Everything's settled.
I'd just upset it.
I adore you.
Remember.
Vodka tonic, please.
You're thirsty.
Not surprised, the way
you was flying about in there.
Ladies' singles.
I don't think you was watching,
but I saw you.
Well impressed.
I'm Ella. Ella May.
But then again, I may not.
Depends on you.
Chris...
I thought you'd gone home...
...with your mum and dad.
No. No, they're still here.
Come with us.
I mean...
We can talk on the way
about new trainers and that.
It'd be quicker than the bus and...
I don't want to fall out with you.
I hate rowing.
And...
we're a good team, aren't we?
We bolster each other and...
it's horrible feeling like this.
Come on, then, blondie,
let's have you.
Got me wheels round the front.
We can put the top down,
if you like, it's warm enough.
It's an ugly world, Jayne.
You might as well join in.
I've recorded
everything you've ever done.
Just listen, in a minute,
what he says.
And now,
the darlings of British ice dance,
Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean.
Currently lying 11th
after their original set pattern
and compulsories,
but very much hoping
to improve on that
but very much hoping
here with their free dance.
We didn't.
Which means we should really get on
the ice when we're supposed to?
So we can get a bit more
practice in.
I'll...
go and check on the Zamboni.
Are you all right?
Yeah, of course I am.
Why wouldn't I be?
I don't know. You just...
...seem a bit not yourself.
Chris, the reason we're together
is to dance together, right?
So why don't we just concentrate
on that?
Yeah.
Er...
I was on two till ten.
I didn't have a chance
to get changed properly, so...
At least you're not wearing
your hat.
Betty Callaway wants us.
I was going to tell you after
we finished last night, but, erm...
...she's indicated she'd be happy
to take over our coaching.
You're kidding?
Jayne, she's number one!
Yeah, I know.
You're both very shy.
Which is fine.
But we will need to work on it.
Your accents, too.
There's going to be
more and more press from now on.
Also, at the Worlds,
and when I saw you at Oberstdorf...
You were at Oberstdorf?
Yes, I train there a lot.
Chris,
I remember that you smelt of egg.
I was in the lift with you.
And you were rather too pairsy.
Too many side-by-side runs
to get up speed and...
Look... you've got it, my dears.
I know you have.
Or I wouldn't be having
this conversation with you.
And Janet got an awful lot right
in getting you focused.
But...
...you need a little refining.
You need a finishing school.
And I'm it.
I must have this height
at the front.
MUST have this HEIGHT at the front.
Height at the front.
All that money on elocution!
♪ Once I had a love
and it was a gas
♪ Soon turned out
had a heart of glass
♪ Seemed like the real thing,
only to find
♪ Mucho mistrust, love's gone behind
♪ Once I had a love
and it was divine
♪ Soon found out
I was losing my mind
♪ It seemed like the real thing,
but I was so blind
♪ Mucho mistrust, love's gone behind
♪ In between
♪ What I find is pleasing
and I'm feeling fine
♪ Love is so confusing,
there's no peace of mind... ♪
Bollocks!
You're nicked.
Er, am I keeping you from summat?
No. No!
I mean, the ice rink, but...
At the same time,
how long does a booking take
back at the station?
It's about an hour, isn't it?
At least that.
I'm going to caution you.
You didn't get anything.
I know you didn't.
I got there too fast.
And you ain't been arrested before,
have you?
Well, er, a couple of times.
Right.
Well, this is final caution, yeah?
Be a better thief.
Do not get caught!
Well go on, piss off.
Go.
See you later, lads.
Thank you. Cheers.
Are you all right?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Had to be done, didn't it?
I mean, I was knackered
all the time.
And it was mind-numbing.
No, I...
I like this job.
But it isn't an option, is it?
Not if we want to make a proper fist
of the skating. Betty said that.
So what do we do now, then?
We might as well get down the rink.
We've got all afternoon, haven't we?
What is going on?
How do you mean?
Well, that.
It's like Oxford Circus.
Is it school holidays or something?
No, that's next week.
Hey, you think it's busy now.
I'm sorry,
but I can't believe you didn't check
before you jacked your jobs in.
Access to the rink
ain't going to be any different.
Very early or very late.
Any other time, forget it.
We're busy.
We can train without being
on the ice, all right? Yeah, I know.
How much further are we going?
I don't know.
Netherfield?
That's miles.
Netherfield?
Yeah. That's what you do, isn't it?
Netherfield?
You increase your mileage.
Over time...
Chris! Chris!
I'm serious.
It's burning, right round me ankle.
It's cos you're not stretching out.
You're running all hunched up.
Well, that's just how I run.
Sod this, I'm going home.
What?
I've done enough.
And my leg's killing.
And you, you've got a bad attitude.
Come on!
No, you never encourage people.
You just moan when it isn't right.
That is not true.
It is.
You're all stick, you are.
And some people
need a bit of carrot.
You might as well run if you're
going to go back the way we've come.
♫ "Bolero" by Maurice Ravel
Chris!
Where have you been?
Look, Betty's got held up.
So she reckons we should start
without her.
Try and come up with some ideas
for the new free.
Cheers, Ted. We've got it now.
Cheers.
What was it? It was horrible.
It's Ravel.
20p.
The library was flogging old stock.
It's perfect for the warm-up.
It does a job, all right?
Anyway, it's not important.
You, go and get changed.
We've got tonnes to get through.
Look, wait.
I've been down to casualty.
That's why I'm late.
I've strained me Achilles. It's not
torn, though, so that's good.
Well, you can't skate with that on.
Take it off.
No, Chris, I can't train.
I've got to rest.
We've got to work out
the new programme! Are you serious?
We're behind, Jayne.
Betty says so.
Chris, I'm injured.
I'm injured cos, apparently,
only a lunatic runs nine miles
in plimsolls,
especially when the furthest
they've gone before that
is 500 yards to the shop
and back.
OK, so you're blaming me?
I'm not blaming anyone.
I'm defending myself
cos you seem incapable
of thinking of anybody
but Christopher Dean.
That is bollocks!
I'm thinking about Torvill and Dean.
I'm thinking about us!
No, you never think about us, ever!
'MACK AND MABEL' ON RECORD PLAYER
Hey up, duck, are you all right?
What have you done?
Jayne, come here.
All right, lean on me.
Let's get you sat down.
That's it, just there.
Oooh, there.
Do you want me to get you
a cup of tea?
Or I could fetch you
a battered sausage from up the road.
I'm fine, Dad. I...
It's just a strain.
What about some Vicks?
That's for colds.
Well, you can rub it on anything.
I'm all right, Dad, honest.
It's nice, though, how you fuss.
I like it.
So...
Mack And Mabel?
Aye, I know. Yeah.
Your mum bought it.
Yeah, we went to see it
at The Playhouse.
Denis Quilley. A cracking night.
Mack was Mack Sennet,
this big Hollywood producer.
And Mabel was Mabel Normand,
she's like his leading lady.
Yeah? A love story, was it?
It was more of a broken love story,
really.
Cos he was a sod.
Right tartar, you know?
Laying down the law,
cracking the whip.
She just adored him.
Yeah.
She could see he was a genius.
Plus, she wanted to make
these great pictures with him,
which they both dreamed of.
And he were that relentless,
just about killed her in the end.
Really?
Is that right?
We should get this one, the texture.
Yeah, I think you're right.
Jayne, you're here!
Chris said you'd had to go home,
that you were injured.
No.
I'm raring to go.
And... I've got our new free.
Mack And Mabel.
It's perfect for us.
Can you just go back
and do that turn again, Chris?
Er, yeah. Erm...
That's it, I thought so.
Just nice and soft.
Excellent!
You look wonderful together.
Jayne Torvill
and Christopher Dean.
In first place,
Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean.
Cinq virgule neuf.
Cinq virgule neuf.
Six virgule zero.
Six virgule zero.
Six virgule zero.
In first place,
Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean.
There they are, Jayne and Chris
with Betty Callaway...
Get in there!
...looking understandably ecstatic.
A magnificent performance.
British, European
and now World Champions.
Jayne...
Come in.
Are you all right? My strapping,
I'm struggling to get it off.
Do you want a hand?
No.
I mean, I'm fine.
It'll take a bit of time,
that's all.
Well, just one more
to nurse it through now.
Olympics.
And then we'll have the full set.
What?
What's wrong?
Nothing.
I'm thrilled.
No, I am.
World Champions!
I can't believe it, really.
Us two.
Jayne, please, tell me.
I don't know, I just...
I just thought this...
Like, getting here,
I'd feel happier.
Look, all I know for sure
is that we are on track...
...and if we can find a
decent routine for Sarajevo, then...
...then we can do it.
We can have everything
that we have ever wanted.
Yeah.
I think...
I think maybe we want
different things now.
Why are you saying this?
This is... This...
It's what we've been fighting for
all these years.
I'm not bothered about this.
Not more than anything.
Cos this isn't the reason
I started skating with you.
And I'm prepared to admit that.
Just like I'm prepared to admit
that what we're doing now...
I'm not sure
I want to carry on with it.
What?
There's no joy to it, Chris.
There's no feeling.
I don't know what else I can do,
cos you won't tell me what's wrong.
You don't talk to me any more.
And it's sterile because of it,
what we put on the ice.
It's brilliant and awe-inspiring
and it wins medals.
But... it's not us.
Us, Chris, deep down.
I want it to be how it was.
Otherwise...
Otherwise, you're...
...you're packing it in.
No, I'm not.
You're saying it.
I know the way
you're looking at me. I can tell.
You know, I thought
you were different. What?
I thought you were different
from all the others.
Janet.
Leanne.
My mum.
And you say it's sterile.
Well, you know what, Jayne?
You're right.
You're right, it is sterile.
Because every second
that I'm out on that ice,
I'm holding back
a bloody great tide of...
...of the real world.
Where we wallow in shit,
and we get bored
and we find the relationships
around us unsatisfying
and unremarkable.
So, of course, we just drop them
like that.
So, excuse me if I prefer
to put my efforts
into making something flawless
and sparkling
and that sticks around!
Except, I thought you'd got that.
I thought that you understood that,
whenever you let your guard down,
whenever you let someone
close to you,
whenever you love them...
...they just piss all over you
in the end.
And I thought you wanted to help me
make it better.
Jayne...
What have you got there?
The first pair I ever skated in.
When I went with the school.
Did they present them to you?
No. Ted stole them.
He were just being thoughtful.
He knew how much they meant to me.
These were the start of it.
Is everything all right?
You're meant to be in Oberstdorf,
aren't you, training?
I've...
I've just had a rough few days, Dad,
since the Worlds.
I just need a bit of time,
that's all. I'll be all right.
I did ask him to wait downstairs,
but he was quite insistent.
I'm sorry.
It's important.
Chris?
Hello, Mr Torvill.
Hello, Christopher.
Right, then, duck. Let's go
and check on the crisp situation.
Crisps?
She's taken over a newsagent.
Why aren't you in Germany?
Because you're not.
Look, I needed to see you.
How we left it,
some of the stuff that I said...
Chris...
I want you to dance the Bolero
with me.
Please.
The warm-up?
No.
Just... Just think about it.
OK, it's one rhythm that builds
and it builds
into this incredible climax
and we could dance
in and out of the beat
and it'd be like this
continuous sinewy throb.
Go on.
It'll look simple,
only it won't be.
It'll be the hardest thing
we've ever danced,
but we'll strip it right back.
And we can do all
the crazy, jumping, lifting stuff.
You're right, we've shown that.
So now we do the opposite.
This'll just be you and me...
laid bare.
And it'll be raw
and it will be beautiful.
What's the story?
This doomed love.
I mean, right the way through it,
it's one story.
We don't cut away, have different
sections, like we normally do.
This is a single narrative,
start to finish, to match the music.
And it's about this young couple
who...
they meet and they fall in love...
...only, for some reason,
they can't be together.
But they can't be apart, neither.
So...
So, in the end,
they take their own lives.
They jump into this volcano and...
...they die in each other's arms.
And the last beat of the music
will just be...
...it'll just be you and me...
...lying in the centre of the rink.
And there'll be complete silence.
Get down on the floor, like this.
Just down here.
Right, rock the right knee.
Yeah, have that there.
That's beautiful.
Yeah, so do it from here.
♪ We passed upon the stair
♪ We spoke of was and when
And you have another view here
with a different neckline.
And with the gold.
I think that's perfect.
Unless we have a kind of contrast.
But I think probably just do that.
But you could play around
with going shorter.
Have you thought of that?
♪ I spoke into his eyes
♪ I thought you died alone
♪ A long, long time ago
♪ Oh, no, not me
♪ I never lost control
♪ You're face to face
♪ With the man
who sold the world... ♪
You know, we're not actually...
You haven't even spelt
my name right!
Chris, just do it.
Talk about making an entrance!
Hey...
Now, that's making an entrance.
That's Bestemianova and Bukin.
...as the 48th Olympic
Winter Games
finally gets underway
here in Sarajevo.
At last, we see the British team
coming into the stadium now.
Turning slowly across
this vast disc of white,
led by Christopher Dean and right
beside him, as ever, Jayne Torvill,
ready, finally, to do battle.
Is it on?
They really have been
a winning combination.
I bet you wish you'd stuck with him.
It could have been you stepping out
at the Olympics. Nah.
He was sex mad.
He wouldn't leave us alone.
I had to draw a line in the end.
Where did he say?
Block C.
He didn't get any more specific.
Jayne!
Dad!
You made it!
Hello, Christopher.
Mr Torvill.
Good luck, son.
I'm that proud of you.
Great Britain minibus!
Good luck, Christopher.
Just the skating bit now, then.
Miss Torvill? Phone call.
Chris...
I've been knocking on your door.
Why aren't you in bed?
I thought something had happened.
Sleep?
Bloody hell, Jayne, it's tomorrow.
Everything is tomorrow.
How many sugars
have you got in there?
You've got to calm down.
Yeah.
Yeah, you're right.
So how come you came looking for me?
Nothing's happened, has it?
No.
I mean... my mum's coming out.
I got a call from her just now.
What?
The Daily Mail, they heard she was
manning the fort back in Nottingham,
so they arranged for someone
to go in and replace her
and they're flying her out.
And she's agreed, has she?
They even negotiated.
She said they had to refund
my dad's coach ticket,
and arrange it so that he could
jet back with her afterwards.
They want your mum to come, too.
That's the angle. Sort of.
Two adoring mothers
in situ at the 11th hour.
But she turned them down,
don't worry.
Good.
They asked my mum
to try and persuade her.
She couldn't make her
change her mind, anyway.
She said she didn't want
to put you off.
My mum said that?
Tell her she can come.
What?
That's the number.
They gave it to Betty. Ring her.
No.
Why?
Because!
You know, I told you.
She...
She what?
She got caught up
in something horrible,
and the only way she could cope
was cutting herself off from...
...everything.
And...
...she's your mum, Chris.
And she loves you.
That's all that matters.
That's what I think, anyway.
You're really going to do this,
aren't you?
We need to make sure. One more time.
At half four in the morning?
And then we come back to the centre
and we drop the trailing leg.
And that's it.
Got it.
And finish on the flip over.
See you later, then.
Yeah!
We're all set.
Yeah.
Betty!
There you are.
Good luck.
George!
George!
There's Betty.
I know Jayne Torvill.
I used to work with her.
Always got on really well.
Miss Torvill, please.
Mr Dean, sir.
What are you doing?
We never do that.
You and me.
Forever.
♫ "Bolero" by Maurice Ravel
♪ A small Jean Genie
snuck off to the city
♪ Strung-out on lasers
and slash-back blazers
♪ And ate all your razors
while pulling the waiters
♪ Talking about Monroe
and walking on Snow White
♪ New York's a go-go
and everything tastes right
♪ Poor little Greenie
♪ Oooh-oooh
♪ Keep her coming
♪ The Jean Genie lives on his back
♪ The Jean Genie
loves chimney stacks
♪ He's outrageous,
he screams and he bawls
♪ Jean Genie, let yourself go,
whoa... ♪
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