Blackpool (2004–…): Season 1, Episode 5 - Episode #1.5 - full transcript

(FAST-PACED INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC)

We are going to nail
Ripley Holden's sorry ass!

You got that business plan
we talked about?

I have.

It's a tissue of lies and bogus statistics.

That's just the kind I like.

He trusts you with a spare set of keys?

He trusts me with a lot of things.

You are not my lover!

I got engaged today.

You did what?



Why you...

I need you and you need me.

So it's all my fault.

Finally he gets there.

Danny!

Danny!

You've just come here
and confessed to a very serious crime.

Now why would I want
to keep that off the record?

(SHOULD I STAY OR SHOULD I GO
BY THE CLASH)

# Darling, you got to let me know

# Should I stay or should I go

# If you say that you are mine

# I'll be here till the end of time

# So you got to let me know



# Should I stay or should I go

(RIPLEY) Not the shoes!

# It's always tease, tease, tease

You know how much they cost?

# You're happy when I'm on my knees

This is harassment.

# One day it's fine and next it's black

# So if you want me off your back

# Well, come on and let me know

# Should I stay or should I go

# Should I stay or should I go now

# Should I stay or should I go now

# If I go there will be trouble

# And if I stay it will be double

# So you got to let me know

# Should I cool it or should I blow

# Should I stay or should I go now

# If I go there will be trouble

# And if I stay it will be double

# So you got to let me know

# Should I stay or should I go #

- So how are you doing?
- You know.

The odd unexpected police raid,
but apart from that.

I'm sorry.

About what exactly?

Everything really.

Is all this happening
because of what I did?

Are you in a position to make
an offer on the house

or are you in a chain of some sort?

Oh, I was forgetting.

You're a policeman,
you couldn't possibly afford it.

- That's right.
- Unless you're Jim Allbright

and take a backhander at every corner.

Are you telling me that Deputy Chief
Inspector Jim Allbright takes bribes?

Don't tell me he didn't mention it to you

during one of your long,
intimate chats you had about me.

I'd hardly need long intimate chats
with Allbright

when you come in
and confess all by yourself.

Is that true?

I'm admitting to moving the body
to the arcade, nothing else.

Since when?

Yeah, but you see, the thing is,
now that you've admitted that

it puts your late-night stroll on the night
of the murder into a whole new light.

I was pissed.

I can't remember where I was
or what time I got home.

Ripley, what's this about you
moving the body?

We know you got the taxi to drop you
off at the arcade around 3:45 a.m.

The coroner puts his time of death
at anything from 2:00 onwards.

Nobody saw you that night

from 3:45 until...

when?

What?

What time did you see
your husband that morning?

Just after 4:00 a.m.

What?

He called me to come and pick him up.

He must have done it straight after
he was dropped off.

It took me about 15 minutes to get there

so that wouldn't give him enough time
to kill anyone, would it?

You drove in to Blackpool
in the middle of the night

and gave your husband a lift home?

He was drunk.

I didn't want him
getting into any trouble.

You seem very certain about the time.

That's because the World Service
was on the radio.

Business Report. 4:00 a.m.

You'll have to make a statement.

Of course.

(RIPLEY AND DANNY LAUGHING)

Didn't I tell you we'd sort that
bastard out? Didn't I tell you?

Teach him right for going round
and making false accusations.

And as for this woman, played a blinder.

Played a bloody blinder!

World Service, Business News, 4:00 a.m.

- The look on his face.
- I know. It were lovely, weren't it?

He had a face like a chewed rubber.
The muppet.

So what made you happier?

That you got off the hook
or that you made a fool out of Carlisle?

You know what? It's too close to call.

Hey, and don't you go round thinking
it's all right lying to policemen.

Not when you've got
your mother here to do it for you.

(RIPLEY CHUCKLING)

World Service.

So where were you?

What?

Where did you go to?

We both know I didn't give you
a lift home, so where did you go?

No idea.

I was travelling by Beer Time Machine.
You can lose hours.

And did you move the body?

Did I heck!

I only said that to stop them
picking on Danny.

And why were they picking on Danny?

Who knows?

That copper doesn't like us.

That's all there is to it.

(RIPLEY SINGING)

# Wise men say

# Only fools rush in

# But I can't help

# Falling in love with you

# Shall I stay

# Would it be a sin #

Another full house.

Hello, Ripley.

So you're still here, then?

Yep.

And my daughter's wearing a ring
so bright

she keeps starting fires
near open woodland.

If it's about the money,
I can let you have most of that back.

- Don't insult me. It's not the money.
- Oh?

Mind you, if there's any change,
I wouldn't say no.

Right.

I love your daughter, Ripley.
That's all there is to it.

Yeah, you must do, Steve.

You really must.

You've been begged, battered and bribed
and you still want to marry her.

I do.

But she'd want her dad there
on her wedding day.

She'll want your blessing.

That's a joke.
She's not even talking to me.

If you had any idea
how much she loves you.

How much this is all tearing her apart.

But you should know, Ripley,
you really should.

What if I said sorry?

What if I said sorry for that letter I sent
your mum and dad all those years ago?

- What then?
- What do you mean?

Would you leave her alone?

I'm not marrying Shyanne out of some
kind of revenge thing, you know.

Aren't you?

Because if you want to put
a knife into a bloke

then stealing his daughter's
a great way of doing it.

I've never held a grudge, Ripley.
I just wanted to know why.

Why did you send my parents a note

saying I was bullying you when
I'd never spoken to you in all my life?

Why did you pick on me?

I put the names of all the lads from
our year into a hat and I drew six out.

And you were just one of them.

If I was gonna kill myself,
I wanted the school to remember me.

But that's insane.

So you had nothing against me?
Nothing personal in any way?

No. It was just luck.

Bad luck.

Like it were bad luck
that you met my daughter.

Ripley Holden has confessed
to moving the body to the arcade.

What?

Do you still want to stick
to the alibi you gave him?

Yes, because that's what happened.

- Is it?
- Yes.

No, it's just that Ripley
has made certain allegations

that might compromise you as a witness.

Allegations? What are you talking about?

He implied that you had taken bribes...

during the course of your long
and otherwise spotless career.

Ripley said this? Is this right?

He seems to think
you've been informing on him.

His way of getting his own back.

- I shouldn't take it too seriously.
- Shouldn't I?

In view of these allegations, you might
want to rethink your loyalty to Ripley.

What?

You were with him for most of the night.

Maybe you'll suddenly remember
a fight he had with Mike Hooley.

You were pissed, after all. Who's to say it
wouldn't suddenly all come back to you?

- Are they going through with it?
- Yes. They're getting married.

I give up. I've tried everything.

Maybe trying everything
is what's thrown them together.

Thanks for that vote of confidence.

You'll be accusing me
of beating Steve up next.

Oh, great. Thanks.

Hey... what do you think I am?

That question you asked me this
morning, about what I did that night?

What exactly were you asking me?

You're behaving...

I don't know,
you're just not yourself these days.

You don't go confessing to moving
bodies you haven't moved for no reason.

I explained that. It was to protect Danny.

Something just doesn't feel right.
I can't explain it.

Does it feel like I killed Mike Hooley?
Is that what it is?

No, I don't think that.

Are you sure?

Take a good look because I'd like my wife
to be sure that I'm not a murderer.

I'm sure.

So, what's the problem?

It crossed my mind
that you might have done it.

Don't you think that's bad enough?

- For you or for me?
- For both of us.

Ah! I trust you're not quizzing him on
the finer points of his tax arrangements.

Because I can promise you,
you won't get a straight answer.

Excuse me.

So, tell me about the new investors.

You know how nervous everyone is
about the casino hotels.

Anyone running one's
got to have a clean reputation.

But this slur on you,
a dead man in the arcade.

The investigation.
Bad financial management.

What bad financial management?

I released much of your investment
capital for you to pay a tax bill

and you blew it all on machines.

It's an arcade! What do you expect?

You need ? 100,000
by the end of the month.

What you're forgetting is I know
better than anyone how to run an arcade.

I'll build this place up and a year
from now, investors will be...

You haven't got a year.

You haven't got a month.

You have got to remortgage the house
like I suggested.

It's the only asset you can raise
any funds against.

So are you going to look into it?

I can do better than that.

I've brought the paperwork with me.

- Can I have a word?
- Of course.

Over there.

Ripley'll get planning permission
in the end.

His sort always do.

I don't know about that.

Friends in high places.

Not as high as mine.

Quite.

He's already confessed to moving a body.

We think he killed a man.

So, why don't you arrest him?

It's not as simple as that these days.

You virtually need the corpse
to testify before you have a case.

Whoever killed that young man
will pay eventually.

He could pay sooner...

if I had a witness who saw him
going into the White Cliff flats

between 4:00 and 5:00 in the morning.

A reliable witness...

who everybody would trust.

A local figure.

What are you asking me?

To consider this.

You don't want the arcade.

I want Ripley to be charged
with his crime.

I think we have what is known
as overlapping interests.

Are you asking me to lie?

I like to call it pragmatic idealism.

Call it what you like, it's still a lie.

You think you'll take him down by
sitting over there with a soppy banner?

Do you really think that is how
this world works?

We'd better get going, sir.

I hate this place.

I hate its cheap, cheery soul
and its edge of violence

- and its freak-show, bloody...
- Maybe Ripley didn't do it.

He was in Hailey's flat
and he moved the body.

He's not denying that.

If he did do it, he's hardly likely
to stash the body in his own arcade

and then call us in, is he?

People mess up
when they commit a murder.

It's one of the ways we catch them.
It's the only way.

How come you're so certain it's Ripley

that you're trying to bully witnesses
into giving false statements?

Because I've reconsidered
all the evidence.

Nothing to do with the fact that
his wife's blown you out, then?

Are you saying
that I'm morally compromised?

Maybe you want to lock Ripley up
more than solving Hooley's murder.

Maybe it's the same thing.

From where I'm standing,
it seems your hurt feelings

are more important than Hooley's death.

This tacky moral crusade of yours is not
going to raise Hooley from the dead.

I know Hooley was a skally.

He screwed around and not even his best
mate seemed heartbroken when he died.

It's our job to give a shit
when nobody else does.

Very nice.

Maybe you could make
a living writing greetings cards.

Your words, not mine.

You said them to me
on the first day of the case

before your dick started telling you
what was right and wrong.

I need a word.

I've told Carlisle some stuff.

What sort of stuff?

I didn't want to but he said he was
going to charge me with murder.

What sort of stuff?

Mike Hooley died in my flat.

- He just collapsed.
- What, on the job?

No, before.

We moved him to the empty bedsit
over the corridor

and when you started
emptying the bedsits

we panicked and put him in the arcade.

By "we", you mean you and Danny?

So, you know, then?

Whose bright idea was it
to stash him in the arcade?

He wasn't supposed to be there
when you opened up.

Where was he supposed to be?

Standing at a tram stop
with a ticket to Fleetwood?

Sorry, Ripley.

I knew if they'd found him in here,
they'd have accused me.

All right. There's no harm done.

Hey, look, you didn't tell Carlisle about
Danny being involved, did you?

No. I said another girl helped me.

- Did he believe you?
- Not really.

He thinks it's me, doesn't he?

That's all right. Natalie bailed me out.

You can't put too high a price
on a good marriage.

So have you and Danny
been friends for long?

Don't tell me a good-looking lad like
my son has had to paying for his portion.

How well do you know your lad?
It's nothing like that.

Do you help him out
with his homework or what?

He gets me drugs. For the clients.

Bloody hell. Is there anybody
in this town he isn't supplying?

It's not that heavy.

He makes the amyl nitrate
in the chemistry labs at school.

It's nice to know
he's not wasted a good education.

(MELANCHOLIC INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC)

Why didn't you move Mike Hooley's body
out of the arcade before I opened up?

I was going to. I overslept.

Only a teenager could oversleep
when they have a corpse to move.

Sure it was nothing to do
with the Valium you took

to take you down after the speed, then?

Because I know if you're dealing it,
it's odds on you're taking it.

Come on, let me let you into a secret.

You know, when I'm feeling down...

I go back to that railway track.

- Right.
- Do you want to know why?

Because it reminds me
of how strong I am.

When I lay down on that track years ago,
do you know what my name was?

I thought we didn't talk about it.

John Wesley Price.
Courtesy of my dear old dad.

I've not said that name out loud
for 20 years.

Now it seems like somebody else's name.
Somebody I don't even know.

You want me to change my name?

No.

This is a chance for you to change
everything bad about yourself,

including the drug dealing.

It wasn't what I'd call dealing. Not really.

There are turning points in life, Son.

You've just got to spot them.

You take me and your mum.
You know, we've had our ups and downs

but this Hooley business has changed
things for us. For the better.

You can be anything you want to be now.

Anything at all.

Natalie?

Look, er...

I've got something to tell you.

What?

- I'm sorry.
- About what?

About the row today.

And other stuff.

Not good stuff.

Not for you and me.

- I know I've been a bastard for a while...
- More than a while.

Come on.

It's bad manners to interrupt

when a bloke's putting himself
through the wringer.

Why are you bringing all of this up now?

I mean, why wait till it got so bad?

I'm going to be different.

I've seen a change in you
since I've been having this tough time.

There's a sort of glow about you.

It's made me realise that I'm still lucky.

The arcade could fall into the sea
tomorrow but I've got you and the kids.

I'm still lucky.

I just thought you should know that
I'm withdrawing from the case.

Right.

It was felt by my fellow officer
that I, erm...

might have had a conflict of interest.

I see.

On account of the fact that I love you.

I'm late.

Hi, love.

What are you doing here?

I was wondering if you could talk to Dad,

about the wedding.

- I don't know if your dad will listen.
- Please.

He's been having a go at Steve again,
trying to get him to cancel it.

I mean, do you think Dad will even come
to the wedding?

Hey, I'll try. All right?

I just want him to be happy for me.

Yeah, well,
I'm sure he'll get used to the idea.

Do you think so?

You can worry about your family
and try and make them happy

but in the end,
they're just happy or they're not.

You've got to do what's best for you.

Thanks.

You on for pole dancing tonight?
A bit of a lads night out.

- I can't make it.
- Come on. I'll bring my torch.

- I've got a date with Mary.
- Good. Great.

- See, I didn't mess it up for you.
- Far from it.

She said you were such a prick
you made me look better.

That's really great.

Yeah, and all that other stuff
I said about Elaine.

Forget it. I already have.

What the bloody hell have you been
saying about me?

- Just returning the compliment.
- Did you tell Carlisle that I liked a bung?

You nearly had Carlisle believing
I killed Mike Hooley.

You don't know it was him.

Who told him I had a run in
with Hooley in the club? Tell me that.

Don't talk to me like one
of your subnormal staff.

I'll knock that tan right off your face!

It was me! Lads, it was me!

It was me who stitched you up, not him.

I talked to Carlisle.

You little shit!

(INVISIBLE BY ALISON MOYET)

Come on, get up!

# You've got me so confused

# And there's words I could use

# But I'm afraid to say them

# I feel I've been had

# And I'm boiling mad

Come here!

# Still I can't live without you

# You don't have the time

# And you won't spend a dime

# Not even to call me

# Oh, you don't know I exist

# And I wouldn't be missed

# If I had the nerve to quit you

# Invisible

# I feel like I'm invisible

# You treat me like I'm not really there

# And you don't really care

# I know this romance

# It ain't going nowhere

# Invisible

# Just like my love

# I feel like I'm invisible

# You treat me like I'm not really there

# And you don't really care

# And now this romance

# It ain't going nowhere

# Although I know it's not a lot

# Don't want to lose #

Dad?

Steve thought we should talk to you.

I didn't choose who to fall in love with,
you know.

I didn't say, "Great, I'll go
for some bloke my dad's age."

It just happened.

I look at Steve and I can't imagine
living with anyone else.

You must know what that feels like.

Not when I look at Steve, I don't. No.

The thing is, we are getting married.

I gathered that.

Shyanne wants you to be there.
I want you to be there.

We want your blessing.

- And what if I won't give my blessing?
- We'll do it anyway.

It's tearing her apart, Ripley.

I know you love her.
I know you don't want to make her...

Rather than you two eloping,
what about if I pay for the wedding?

Would you let me do that?

Yeah, of course we would.

Organise it. You know,
hire the room, the caterers.

That'd be great, wouldn't it, Steve?

The dress? Flowers? Transport? The lot.

Yes. Yes. Yes.

So you'll spend my money but
you don't care if you shit on my feelings.

What?

You don't want my blessing,
you want my wallet.

I told you it was a waste of time.

The only way you can stay in control is by
making everybody else's life a misery.

Not my fault she can't see sense.

You're just terrified she'll see you
for what you are.

And what's that?

The same scared schoolboy

who decided to torture his classmates
with his suicide notes.

Wrong call there, mate.

I left that boy behind
on the railway track.

You think it's that easy?

It is if you're strong enough.

What, and this is strong, is it?

Humiliating your daughter
because she doesn't do what you say?

'Cause she dares to marry someone
you don't approve of?

That's not love, it's blackmail.

And it's just as weak as posting notes
through doors

and messing up people's lives
for no reason at all.

Blackmail? What are you talking about?

You've achieved one thing
finally after all these years, Ripley.

I actually feel sorry for you.

(BOYS GROANING AND GRUNTING)

What's all this?

They were drilling the machines!

Why do all the piss-takers head for me?

Do you think I'm a soft touch? Is that it?

Right, you're out of luck, sunshine,
it's zero tolerance time.

Bloody hell!

Ripley! Don't do this.

I don't believe you're that kind of man.

Barry, lock the door.

Natalie. Wait.

These are the things we won't do.

We won't be together so long
that we forget how we got together.

And it doesn't matter to us
or to anybody else.

We won't go to bed in the afternoon
on the strength of a smile across a room.

We won't exchange our life stories

and feel pangs of jealousy
when we talk about old lovers.

We won't get enough memories of our
own to see us through the bad times.

We won't read something in the paper
and want to ring each other up

just to talk about it.

We won't ever go dancing
and embarrass everybody but ourselves.

We won't ever argue.

We won't ever make up.

We won't ever get to know each other so
well that we take each other for granted.

And we won't ever share a fish supper.

You'd never share a fish supper anyway.

Caught them red-handed
drilling my machines.

My staff had to make a citizen's arrest.

- I had to send out for novelty handcuffs.
- I want to sue for assault.

- Yeah, me and all.
- Assault?

You had five minutes under Ruth.

Barry here would pay good money
for that.

They drilled a hole
and then they emptied the tube.

They even taped over it so the rest of
the gang can come and rob me again.

- What gang's this then?
- The Little Bispham Massive.

Has Terry talked to you at all about me
since our falling out?

No. All he talks about is Mary.
This girlfriend.

What's she like?

Figure like Halle Berry,
face like Chuck Berry.

Better than the other way round,
I suppose.

Yeah. I reckon one of us should go down
there and rock the bed for them.

Can you see why I thought it was you
passing the shit to Carlisle?

No, I can't.

Not if you had one ounce of respect
for me.

It's because I've got respect for you
that I thought you were doing it.

I didn't think Terry had the balls.
But you, balls like coconuts.

So, you know,
in a way it was a compliment.

Yeah, well.

Terry's always lacked that bit of class.
You and I know that.

No hard feelings?

I'll save my hard feelings
for my lady friends.

Dead right.

And thanks for squaring it with Carlisle,
that was above and beyond.

- What?
- He's off my back.

He's come off the case.

I assumed that was down to you.

No, I didn't arrange it.

Why has he backed off, then?

I don't know.

Maybe he got fed up of getting nowhere.

Yeah.

Maybe.

(CARLISLE) I'm leaving Blackpool
tomorrow.

And I want you to come with me.

I don't think I can do it that soon.

I mean it.

So do I.

You've pretended to be someone
you're not for long enough.

You've done right by everybody
except yourself.

Now it's your turn.
You deserve a second chance.

I'll come and join you.

After you've left here. Wherever you go.

No.

You'll just find excuses not to do it.

Then you'll get used to living with the
indecision and then you'll never leave.

Okay.

I'll come with you.

Just...

Just tell me it's going to be all right.

It's going to be better than that.

How much is here?

?50,000.

I thought you were going
to remortgage the house.

I did.

It turns out it isn't worth
as much as perhaps you'd hoped.

50,000 doesn't even cover the tax bill.

No.

It doesn't.

And then there's your running costs.

There's nothing for it.

I'm just going to have to sell the flats.

- But you don't own the flats.
- Not technically, no.

- Natalie does and she'll sign them over.
- She already did.

Into a trust for your children
until their 21 st birthdays.

You don't have any claim on the flats.

What?

- When did she do this?
- Last week.

When you decided
to remortgage the house.

How did she know about that?

Maybe you left the paperwork out
somewhere where she could see it.

But she knows what this means to me.
She knows.

What am I going to do now?
Come on, Marr, eh?

I've always wanted to help you, Ripley,
you know that, don't you?

Yes, of course I do. So, come on, what?

I'd like to buy the arcade off you.

Oh, God.

You got a couple of ? 100,000
lying around, have you?

I wouldn't need it.

I'd be buying the debt.

I'd be doing you a favour.

Maybe an accountant at the helm
would help attract new investors.

How come you can do that and I can't?

Because...

Ripley Holden is no longer a reliable
brand in the leisure and gaming industry.

Shall we say, what?

?20? As a token amount.

?20? You've stitched me up,
haven't you, you little...

I bet you even told Natalie, didn't you?

I need a decision.

I've made a decision.

Don't worry about that.

What you're forgetting is... I'm lucky.
And you're not.

(DON'T STOP ME NOW BY QUEEN)

# Tonight I'm going to have myself

# A real good time

# I feel alive

# And the world

# Is turning inside out, yeah

# I'm floating around in ecstasy

# So, don't stop me now

Yeah, but...

# Don't stop me

# Because I'm having a good time

# Having a good time

# I'm a shooting star
leaping through the sky

# Like a tiger defying the laws of gravity

# I'm a racing car
passing by like Lady Godiva

# I'm going to go, go, go

# There's no stopping me

# I'm burning through the sky, yeah

# 200 degrees

# That's why they call me Mr Fahrenheit

# I'm travelling at the speed of light

# I want to make a supersonic man
out of you

# Don't stop me now

# I'm having such a good time

# I'm having a ball

# Don't stop me now

# If you want to have a good time

# Just give me a call

# Don't stop me now

# 'Cause I'm having a good time

# Don't stop me now

# Yes, I'm having a good time

# I don't want to stop at all

# I'm a rocket ship on my way to Mars

# On a collision course

# I am a satellite

# I'm out of control

# I am a sex machine ready to reload

# Like an atom bomb

# About to oh, oh, oh, oh, oh explode

# I'm burning through the sky, yeah

# 200 degrees

# That's why they call me Mr Fahrenheit

# I'm travelling at the speed of light

# I want to make a supersonic woman
of you

# Don't stop me,
don't stop me, don't stop me

# Hey, hey, hey

# Don't stop me, don't stop me

# I like it

# Don't stop me, don't stop me

# Have a good time, good time

# Don't stop me, don't stop me #

Ripley, wait!

All right? Give it here. Come on.

Right, there...

Rich.

Thirty, forty, fifty.

Right, red.

Go on.

The arcade's yours.

When I was a kid, I believed in God.

Then something happened.
I did something.

I didn't believe in God any more,
just luck.

This last couple of weeks I realised God
and luck are the same thing, aren't they?

Well, I wouldn't agree with that.

God knows why things happen.

He's not letting on though, is he?

At least not to me.

You know where you are with luck.

It doesn't pretend to be something
it isn't.

To have any feelings about you.

You're still arguing with God even though
you don't believe in him anymore.

I believe in him.

I just don't like his sense of humour.

Natalie!

Natalie!

Natalie!

My daughter's getting married.

Right.

- Congratulations.
- Yeah.

- See you.
- Good night.

Yeah. It's great.

So that's why you've been
skipping around the place?

That's not the only reason, no.

You do know what you're doing,
don't you?

Not really.

(PHONE RINGING)

That's me.

Hello, Samaritans. Can I help you?

So let's say there was this fellow.

Family man.

Ripley? How did you know you'd get me?

It doesn't matter.

It's just luck.

Anyway, I thought your job was to listen.

Okay.

So this bloke goes home
to see his wife...

because he's heard something about her
that he didn't believe.

What is it?

- What have you heard?
- Just let me tell the story.

So he goes home
and he can't find his wife anywhere.

He sits on the bed and he thinks.

And while he's thinking he notices that

something's missing
from the dressing table.

And then he remembers.

A family photo.

Of his wife and his two kids
when his kids were small.

And he's thinking,
"My God, she's left me."

Because what with this betrayal he's
heard about it would make perfect sense.

So he goes to the wardrobe

and in the bottom of the wardrobe
he finds an overnight bag, packed.

And in the bag is the photo.

So he knows he's right.

And he goes and sits on the bed again

and he cries so hard he thinks
he's going to cough his fucking heart up.

I'm sorry, Ripley.

Why should he be surprised?

She'd already sold him down the river.

Already betrayed everything
he believed in.

I am...

I was just thinking of myself for once.

Just putting myself first.

You know this means it's over, don't you?

Kapput.

For you. For me.

For all of us.

Yeah.

Yeah, I realise that.

Because without those flats
I had to gamble.

Because...

You know, either way I was sunk.

I had no choice. It was twist or bust.

What have the flats got to do
with it, then?

Because if they're in a trust for our kids,
they can't be sold.

And they were my last hope.

Just tell me you didn't realise
that when you did it. Just tell me that.

The flats?

Yeah. The flats.

That's what we're talking about, isn't it?

Yeah. I'm sorry, Ripley.

We're talking about the flats, aren't we?

That's why you were going to leave.
Because you knew I'd find out.

Wasn't it?

What else could it be?

Natalie?

Natalie.

What is it? What's the matter?

What's the matter?

Oh, God, I don't know what I've done.

I don't know what I've done.

It's always the little things,
isn't it, Ruth?

It's always the little things
that trip you up.

I've sorted the float.

I thought you'd changed your mind.

I thought you weren't coming.

I'm not.

You're here.

I came because I wanted to explain.

Because I thought the right thing to do
was to tell you to your face.

Hey, you're just panicking.

- That is all this is.
- No. No.

I nearly told Ripley.

I nearly gave myself away.

And it was like...

It was like staring off the top of a cliff.

I can't do this.

I can't run away with you.

You're asking me to give up
everything I've ever known...

and I'm not strong enough.

What was all that about this afternoon?

It felt like the only thing
you cared about was me.

That was the Natalie that I want to be.

But it's not who I am.

Not really.

You wouldn't be the first person
to use an affair

to overcome a little marital difficulty,
would you?

If you love me as much as you say you
do, then you could never think that.

You have no idea.
You really have no idea.

- Why don't you just piss off back to him?
- Peter, please don't say that.

I no longer have any interest
in pleasing you, right?

So it seems to me that what I say
or don't say is none of your business.

- I don't want you to hate me.
- You have no say in how I feel, all right?

You just relinquished
that particular right.

- Can't we at least...
- Can't we at least what?

What? Tell you it doesn't matter? It does.

Or at least it would matter if I hadn't
slept with you all along

just to get to Ripley and your son.

You don't mean that.

Bye-bye.

"With much seductive speech
she persuades him.

"With her smooth talk she compels him,
right away he follows her.

"He's like a bird rushing into a snare.

"Not knowing it will cost him his life."

Proverbs.

I can still hear my dear old dad repeating
those words as he beat me up

because he'd found a copy of Fiesta
under my mattress.

Calm down, Ripley. What's happened?

Come on, you can talk to me.

"Do you think I have come
to bring peace to earth?

"No, I tell you, but rather division."

You, out. You're barred.

But I never win.

Don't think I haven't seen through
that old trick!

All of you! Go on!

We're shut! The dream's over!

Go on, you've played your last!

Out!

Go on!

Now!

Go on, you and all.

Go on, Chantelle. Out now!

- Have you seen your dad?
- Not since this morning.

Have you tried the arcade?

Ruth said he disappeared this afternoon
and his mobile's switched off.

He'll be drowning his sorrows somewhere

because me and Steve are still
getting married despite his best efforts.

Yeah, that'll be it.

What is it?

Your dad thought
I was going to leave him.

What?

What gave him that idea?

There was a packed bag in the wardrobe
and he found it.

So why isn't he here shouting
and kicking windows out?

Yeah, that's what I'm worried about.
I haven't seen or heard from him since.

Do you think he's going
to do something daft?

He's your dad, isn't he? Of course he is.

No. I mean...

like hurt himself.

No.

No, of course he wouldn't.

(SLOT MACHINE HUMMING)

(KNOCK BY MARY HOPKIN)

# Tears of rain run down
my window pane

# I'm on my own again

# Good evening sorrow

# Sit and dream of how things
might have been

# And as I close my eyes

# I get the strangest feeling

# Knock, knock, who's there

# Could this be love that's calling

# The door is always open wide

# Knock, knock, who's there

# Now as the night is falling

# Take off your coat and come inside

# Climb the stair and then I say a prayer

# For someone who can share
my situation

# But instead as I lay down my head

# I have to leave it all

# To my imagination

# Knock, knock, who's there

# Could this be love that's calling

# The door is always open wide

# Knock, knock, who's there

# Now as the night is falling

# Take off your coat and come inside

# La la-la...

# Sit and dream
of how things might have been

# And as I close my eyes

# I get the strangest feeling

# Knock, knock, who's there

# Could this be love that's calling

# The door is always open wide

# Knock, knock, who's there

# Now as the night is falling

# Take off your coat and come inside

# Take off your coat and come inside #