The Smoke (2014): Season 1, Episode 6 - Episode #1.6 - full transcript
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Did you start that fire?
We missed all that, didn't we?
We was lucky.
Mal, please don't.
I think we all need to not
see each other any more. Oh, no.
What have I got now, eh?!
What've I got?!
It's really hard to come
into a group of people
who've worked
together as long as we have.
But he's one of our family now.
I want you to put a transfer
request in for me.
Being here with you,
it's changed his life.
Dennis will be safe with me.
I'm looking out for him.
We want you to see a counsellor.
Pauline Pynchon.
You can call me Pauline.
It's the anniversary of the fire
next week,
but seeing as I've rung him
every day and he won't pick up...
I don't know what
I can do about that.
'We're talking today,
folks about the hot weather,
'how long can it last?
How do you cool down?
'Sian in Chigwell called to say
she has taken a leaf
'out of Marilyn Monroe's book and
keeps her knickers in the freezer!'
Jimmy Stewart
played the accordion.
John Wayne. That was an actor.
Man was a phony.
Had plastic surgery to get
rid of his jowls.
Can't call yourself the Duke, be
ashamed of the jowls God gave you,
that's not a man.
'Hello, can I speak to
Mr Robert Flusky, please?'
Oh, is he?
Well, hello, Mrs Flusky.
I'm calling from the sexual health
clinic at Mile End Hospital.
We were concerned
because Mr Flusky didn't show
up for his appointment today.
So? Where am I going?
'There's a vacancy opened
up near Ongar.'
Ongar? That's basically
the countryside innit?
'It's got a nice castle.'
I'm sure it's nothing to
worry about, Mrs Flusky,
it's just with rectal
sores of this type...
Yeah.
Yeah, it is, yeah. Hi, Karen.
How many shouts on average?
'Apparently...'
Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star
was written there.
Hello?
I know, I know you're
busy. It's just...
Well, it's a bit slow today, so...
OK, bye now.
I told you you should've got
Asbo to do it! I know.
God I'm sweating like a fat
bird in a bin bag.
You seen Guv since breakfast?
It's today isn't...
The anniversary.
Kev. Can I talk to you?
Bloody thing!
Just letting you know...
...you don't have to transfer.
I'm going.
What? I told you, I'm transferring.
OK. When?
It's been a week, and you haven't
even spoken to Nick yet.
I was going to do it today.
Well, I've saved you the bother
then, didn't I?
No, mate, you haven't saved me
anything!
Come on, Kev, I wasn't...
How definite is it?
Mate, the wheels are already in
motion
Come on, then.
Let's get it over with.
What is he doing?
Well, it's for the barbecue later.
All right, listen up, everyone,
gather round.
All of you. Take a seat. Come on.
Right, erm, Mal and me, we've got
something we want to tell you.
You want to?
Er...
I'm... I'm transferring.
We can still... you know?
You got my number.
Give us a call, or...
Can he still come to the barbecue?
That's up to Mal.
I'll bring a potato salad.
Excuse me.
How did the test go?
Yeah. Fine. They're going to call us
later with the results.
How was your breathing?
Yeah, it was fine, I just said.
A good time was had by all,
just leave it now.
Oi, 2.30, in the mess,
I want you all there.
They're showing
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.
That's a good film, that.
It isn't a good film, Snip.
It's a great film.
Did you tell him about Mal?
He's leaving, mate. Transferring,
they told us while you were out.
Seriously.
I'm Batman!
Hiya, Li, you all right, mate?
What you doing here?
He's out of control, Al.
They've got him on suspension from
school, I can't cope, I can't do it.
They can't do that, what did he do?
He's playing up, lying all the time,
playing all these pranks.
So? Pranks? So what? He's a kid!
He sharpened a pencil
and held it under a kid,
when he sat down,
it went right into his...
Yeah, exactly. God knows where he's
getting ideas like that.
I've got this interview, it's a
big step up, I thought
he'd be in school, now I can't get
a sitter, my mum's on holiday,
I just don't know what to do, Al!
It's all right, babe, it's all
right, calm down,
we can work it out.
Thanks. You are a life-saver.
Oi, Teen, where you going?
I'm at work! I'm at work, Teen!
You can't just...
What are you...
Tina! Do not walk away from me!
that's an order!
Do not...
It's my turn!
Tina!
She can't hear me. TINA!
Here, Liam, stick a bit of this
over the door for us.
This is... It's daft,
mate, you don't have to do this.
So what was you aiming for
when you stuck chicken
nuggets all over my car?
I never!
So there's two geniuses in the world
who think that's hilarious,
are there? Genii, mate.
What?
Plural of genius.
Not geniuses.
Genii.
I saw it on Eggheads.
So who looks like the pillock now?
You do. It's always you.
See, this is it, you don't
get it do you?
Even now.
What you talking about? You!
Walking round like your face
is made of treacle
and everybody wants a lick!
It pisses people off.
All you've got to do is
eat a bit of shit,
but you won't do it,
just apologise, mate -
S'none of your business. It is!
Course it is.
You're going aren't, you?
You're ruining everything.
Do you know how good
we've got it here?
Do you have any idea how toilet
the rest of my life is?
You want to ruin the only good bit?
You're leaving us
and you don't even seem to care.
Of course I care.
Well, give us a bloody sign of it
then, do you know what I mean?!
All right.
If you say you want me to stay.
Don't push it, mate.
Just say it.
Liam! Come back here, mate!
Arrgghh!
Liam!
Liam!
Kev?
You got a visitor.
Listen,
it's the mother of that kiddy,
died in the Churchill Estate fire.
You sure you want to?
Yeah. Yeah. Fine.
Thank you for the flowers.
It's the least I could do.
Doesn't matter what anyone says. You
did your best and...
I'm so grateful.
I'm planting a tree for her.
Sunday, 10am.
Cherry tree. Blossom in the Spring.
Maybe if you...
No. Course. Yeah.
Yeah, I'll be there.
Does that...
Does that help?
Dunno.
Belong to this group,
sad women in cardigans,
we just sit around crying,
praying, eating biscuits.
And they say you have to forgive,
it sets you free,
you have to forgive and I just...
I want to smack them.
I just think about Gog.
I've been carrying this
round for ages,
in case I ran into him.
Police couldn't do a bloody thing.
Can I ask,
I heard Dennis Severs worked here?
All right to say hello?
He's a good soul,
be a good Dad one day, that one.
He was a big help that night,
won't forget that.
Dennis was there?
Yeah.
Him and his mum took the kids while
me and Dan spoke to the police.
If your mum asks,
I didn't give you them, yeah?
In fact, who did give you them?
The man. What man?
The fireman.
Who give him sweets?
You gotta stop
telling fibs, mate, all right?
I'm serious, and all this stuff
with the pencil at school?
Not cool. Not cool is it,
Uncle Asbo?
No. Not cool.
Now, go and pour this where
I showed you.
The man. What did he look like?
A fireman.
Yeah, but was he tall, short?
Fat, thin?
He had a big scar
going down the side of his face.
Yeah?
And he was Chinese.
What?
And he had fangs.
Ah, shit!
Yeah!
That was you, wasn't it?
No, it was him.
It was you.
Oi, what you grassing on me for?
What you grassing on me for?
Ah, yeah!
Ziggy texted us.
Said you're transferring.
Just thought I'd do the noble thing.
You're about as noble as an ashtray,
Mal.
How'd he take it?
With the anniversary and all?
Dunno.
You know how he got really calm
and quiet, the day before he...
Don't. Don't want to think about it.
Hello, chubs.
What you doin' in here?
I brought you some Jelly Babies,
but I had to give them away.
Take the tunic off. Tunic?!
Listen to it, where are we,
ancient bloody Rome?
Take it off! I'll call the police!
Oh, that's nice.
That's lovely, Chubs, not a cheap
out of you for three years,
and this the welcome I get.
I don't know who you are!
That's the game, is it?
You always had a lot of anger in you
son, a lot of rage.
And your mother,
I mean, God bless her but she...
She was always pretty quick to try
to pin that one on me.
What's that supposed to mean?
I don't know what she told you son,
but she's the one who
couldn't handle it.
No, it's not...
That's not true.
It was me who took you for the long
walks up in Epping Forest, me!
It was me who held you when you
started screaming and biting.
That was me.
I was a good father.
You're a murderer.
Oh, don't! That was just... That was
an accident. Not my fault that some
kid wanted to be a have-a-go-hero,
do you know how much he was on?!
4.50 an hour, fuckin'...
It was just bad luck, son.
Asbo?
Asbo?!
Guv?
I just saw Rosa Paknadel.
She said you was a real help,
the night of the fire.
Which is just, well, it's weird,
cos your mum said you were...
What was it, up North?
Visiting your dad?
Guv, I can explain.
I bet you can.
Bet you've got all
sorts of answers up your sleeve,
you seem like a very talented liar.
Kev.
Trish is here.
She's in your office.
You stay where I can find you.
Hi. What are you doing here?
No, it was just your message,
you sounded a bit...
Well, it's today,
isn't it, so I thought...
Listen I'm not being... Just it
sets a bad example, me,
having a visitor so...
Yeah, I just thought you might need
a bit of, you know,
support, but I can go.
You've got yourself in a right
state, Den.
S'alright. Dad's here.
I've got you.
You know, it would probably be
all right if you stayed in here,
out the way?
Just give me a minute, yeah?
Yeah, course.
Only I've to go by two.
I'm going out with Grace
and her mum.
First time, football,
she's mad for the Hammers.
You ever had
the off-side rule explained to you
by a seven-year-old?
Kev, seriously, you all right?
Yeah. Great. With you in a minute.
Asbo!
Asbo!
Asbo!
He's only a kid. Yeah well,
some of them you can just tell,
can't you? Like Mal said,
stamped on the arse from birth.
Asbo!
Why're you here, Dad?
I'm going to Spain.
I want you to come with me, son.
Do you good. Spain?
You've only just got out of prison.
You could be a bombardiero.
What's that?
It's Spanish for fireman.
You and me, son.
We're peas in a pod.
It'd be a right laugh.
I knew you'd be excited.
I want to see a bull
run before I die.
A beast like that, charging at you,
horns, be a thrill, eh?
That would be a thrill.
'I went to the animal fair,
'the birds and the bees were there,
'the big baboon by the light
of the moon
'was combing his auburn hair.
'The monkey fell out of his bunk,
'slid down the elephant's trunk.
'The elephant sneezed
'and fell on his knees,
'and what become of the monkey,
monkey, monkey, monkey, monkey?'
Where's Kev?
Pop off and go and find
your dad, sweetheart.
Dennis, what's the matter?
It's not. I can't...
I need to speak to Kev.
No, no, come in. What is it?
The fire. The fire, it was...
What fire?
On Churchill Estate, the fire.
What about it?
You?
The two boys?
What are you...
Get out.
You have to leave, you can't,
you can't be here!
I can't... I can't breathe.
It was our life!
How could you do that to a person,
to someone?!
He thinks he can trust you!
He trusts you and, and you
betrayed him, it's disgusting!
I know. I know, I'm so...
I'm so...
It's er, just hay-fever,
he's suffering a bit.
Right, what you need is
a spoonful of honey...
Snip, piss off.
I can't.
It was an accident.
Gog started it, I can't.
What will he do?
I don't know.
I don't want to go prison.
You have to tell him.
I know. I know.
I want my mum.
Yeah, I know the feeling.
Take a minute.
Pull yourself together.
Then we'll go and find him.
That Nina's all right, isn't she?
No, wouldn't have said
she's your type, mate, really.
Oh, well, mate.
I'm a broad church, Mince.
It's 1994.
Billy's first day in Mile End.
And there she is. Nina the cleaner.
And that's it.
Billy's done for.
And?
Months he waited, till finally,
he decided to ask her out and then
he got glandular fever.
Six months off.
Meantime this wanker from Green
Watch, name of Badgers, moves in.
Nina comes back from honeymoon with
a black eye and a bun in the oven.
20 years, Billy's never
looked at another woman.
Well, he's looked,
but he's not touched.
Well, he has touched, but you could
always tell, his heart wasn't in it.
So what's she doing here now?
Badgers fell off his speed-boat.
Lived like a twat, died like a twat.
Ready?
'Had an accident at work that
wasn't your fault?'
Hurry up! It's on! It's on!
'I was told to climb
a ladder at work,
'despite the fact I hadn't been
given specialist training.
'I slipped and fell.
'Argh!'
'The injuries I sustained stopped me
working for six months.
'Spitfire told me
I could claim from my employer.'
Yeah, well it were 300
quid for a day's work so laugh away.
'I received ?5,000.
Thanks, Spitfire!'
You were like a young Al Pacino.
You know, the one where he doesn't
know how to climb a ladder?
Oh, yeah, that one.
Where's your son?
Ah, sh...
Dennis needs to talk to you.
What's he said?
Rosa Paknadel was here,
she said he was there, did he...
I think...
you need to hear it from him.
Yeah. Yeah. I know.
Is it weird, after all this,
I don't want to know?
No. Promise you'll call after?
Yeah. Where you going?
It's gone two, I told you.
Rachel's waiting out front.
But can't you wait? I have been
waiting. But I can't miss this, Kev.
I just can't.
I know why you did it.
I know why that was, I just...
I dunno how to... put that to bed.
But maybe that's OK?
I mean, it's
gotta be better than this.
Kev, what are you...
It's just...
There's enough bits of me
missing already.
Yeah. I know. I know.
I'll call you.
Hiya.
Guv?!
Help! Help!
What you doing in there?
Sorry, Uncle Asbo. I didn't mean it.
Liam!
It's all right, mate.
You're going to be all right.
Liam! Liam!
Liam! Liam! Are you all right?
You all right? Is he all right?
Asbo!
Li, you'll get pneumonia.
Give us your shirt!
Well, he ain't talking to me.
Take your tights off,
and your pants.
Liam, don't tell her what happened.
Cos you'll be in as much
trouble as me, all right?
I had Jelly Babies
and I fell in the water!
OK. Come on,
we're getting in the car.
Thanks. I owe you one.
You're bang out of order!
Yeah, I know. I'm sorry.
Teen, you can't do this on your own.
S'daft.
I miss you so much,
don't you miss me?
I do, I just...
All the girls at the office,
they used to be so jealous of me,
being with a fireman, you know.
But I hated it, Allie.
I just...
I worried about you all the time.
Every time you were out on duty,
my stomach would be churning.
I can't handle that right now.
She looked beautiful.
Excuse me! Public entrance is
round the other side.
Hello there.
Hello there.
Erm, we're very interesting...
interested in joining
the fires brigade,
is it all right if we come in?
Just to have a look around and see,
we'll be very good.
Who's this?
Hamish. Pleasure to meet you, mate.
Asbo, who is this?
And why is he wearing my tunic?
This is my dad, Guv.
And what Rosa said, that's right.
It was me and Gog,
we started the fire...
You don't need to say anything
else, son. Don't say...
Shut up, Dad!
I come home from training
for the weekend,
I was going to have an early night,
but he showed up about eight.
He was steaming, he kept saying,
"she's taking the piss,
"she's taking the piss".
He said he wanted to give her
a scare, I thought he meant
go in there, make a bit of mess,
but...
Anyway, we get up there and
he says they're on their holidays,
and I should have known then
cos the chain wasn't on the door,
but I'm just a lookout so
I'm waiting outside, and it's a few
minutes before I notice the pram...
and that's when I realise they're
still in there.
So I leg it. I bolt for the
stairwell and I wait there.
I thought I'll wait for him, and my
heart's going like the clappers,
and then I smell the smoke.
That won't work, love. Why?
Well, for one you've
a witness sat there,
and for another it takes loads
longer than it does in the films.
And he's a strong lad.
You could, but then there's
be your fingerprints in his neck.
The things they can do nowadays.
He says there was a heater on,
one of them gas things,
and maybe he knocked it over, only I
don't know, Guv, I still don't
know cos later, after...
..I thought I could smell it on him.
The paraffin.
And I knew the baby was upstairs
and I just, I couldn't...
But by the time I got upstairs,
the downstairs was alight,
we couldn't get down,
Gog was freaking out and...
And then you lot come in and the
baby's screaming like anything,
and Gog... Well, you know what
happened after, but it's just...
I'm sorry, Guv.
I'm so sorry.
I wish I just had the guts
to kill myself.
'OK, he's coming up, but
first we've just had an e-mail
'from Jodie in Wanstead who says
she's just been arrested
'for sunbathing topless!
'Cheer up, Britain she says,
it's only a pair of...'
Ooh!
That's all of it.
Yeah? Mate, thanks.
You got all this just from two days
work with that racist plumber?
He's not racist.
He offered me a full-time job.
What you chatting about?
Winter's coming. Lot of pipes
freezing. Could clean up.
What I owed you,
that's only half of it,
still got Maybrick on my back,
and Tina's going to go...
Where's this come from?
It's her, isn't it?
She's playing you,
she's getting in your head,
don't let her!
Leave it off, will you?!
I'm not joking!
This is a shit city to be poor in.
And Mal's leaving, Gaffer's all over
the place, and then there's you.
What about me?
I don't know how long you're
going to be here, do I?
Mate, your chest. I heard you come
up the stairs last night.
I thought Darth Vader was
coming to tuck us in.
The bleep test went fine.
Yeah, you say that but maybe you
want to prepare yourself
in case the results aren't...
Snip! Come on, don't...
Mate! Ah, shit.
Oi! Genii. Got something for you.
Just wanted to come in for a few
minutes.
Get a clearer idea of what life
was like in the service.
Thought you might be able to
give it to them.
Plenty more poisson in the mer, eh?
I'm going to miss this place.
I'm getting married!
Down it, down it, down it!
God, I'm sorry.
People never used to come in here.
It's all right.
You scared the shit out of me.
What you reading?
Any good?
It's not his best.
You all right?
No, I'm not as it happens.
Mal's leaving,
and Kev didn't even wait for me
to get back to tell us, I mean,
it just makes you feel like that...
Your breathing sounds bad.
Should go to the doctor.
It's been getting worse.
I did this bleep test thing this
morning, almost killed me.
I'm 29.
I've got four kids, and I don't know
how to do anything else.
I, erm... I thought you were really
good in that advert.
You know, you could do that.
Really? Do you think so?
When you fell off that ladder.
I really believed it.
Thanks.
Right, that's enough, ladies,
come on, sling your hook.
No, no, you're lovely,
you're all lovely, but I'm serious.
It's time to go.
What are you doing? No!
I can't drink on duty!
Get off! Off! Get off!!
Help! Help!
Oi! Get off him! Get off him!
Just get off him!
What is going on today!?
Let's go.
You left me.
You left me there.
I'm sorry, I'm so sorry.
I was a different person then,
I wasn't...
You made me look a fucking idiot!
What do I say to them out there,
the Watch, what do I say?!
You know how much I've...
The battles that
I've fought for you,
am I s'posed to turn round,
and say that I got it wrong?
I was so bloody desperate to
believe in you, it's a joke.
You!
I put them in danger,
so that you...
Danger? I'm not a danger, Guv!
Get my tunic off.
Take the fucking tunic off!
There's clearly a lot of emotions
here for you pal,
you don't even know me.
I've heard all about you.
Apple don't fall far from the tree,
does it?
No need to get nasty. Anyway, me and
Den, we're off to Spain.
So you don't need
to see him any more.
I dunno if I'm going yet, Guv -
What? Aye, you're going, he's going.
Be good for both of you, eh?
Oh, yeah! Let's go to fucking
Spain, how nice!
Come on, son. Come on.
Goodbye! Yeah, Adios! Go on!
I can't run away from this.
I fucking live in this!
But you, yeah, you go on, piss off!
Look at me.
Look at me!
S'alright. Just do it.
Just do it. Finish it.
Oh, Guv, stop it! Get off him!
Guv, get off him!
What's going on?
Kev, what's he'd done?
Please, Guv, let him go!
He put Viagra in my coffee.
OK. So that was a bit silly, Asbo.
But... it's a prank, Guv.
This is a bit much for a prank.
Let him go.
Yeah. Yeah, sorry about that.
Woo-hoo!
Nine point mothercocking eight!
The bleep test!
They just rang.
What's going on?
Right, the show's over.
Everyone back in the mess,
the film's about to start, come on!
Who are you?
Mal let them in.
They took my trousers off...
and they touched me.
What? Were do you get off?!
We were just having a laugh.
Oh, right. Look at him.
Go on, look at him!
Look at his little face,
he's not a piece of meat!
That's a man!
That's a man!
Do you know what, piss off!
This is a working fire station!
Go on.
You all right?
No. no, I'm not all right.
Of course you're not, come here.
'Mobilise. Mobilise.'
Yes! Finally! That's us!
Finally! Get in Come on!
S'alright.
It's nearly the end of the shift.
Yeah, and then what?!
She's gone, you're gone.
Thought you'd be made
up to see me go.
Yeah, well, then you're a bloody
idiot, aren't you?!
There he is!
Had to make myself scarce there,
son.
All sorted now?
Look,
we'll kip at Stevie's tonight, eh?
Sort the tickets in the morning.
How are you for cash?
Hi, this is Mile End fire station,
we've had a break in.
What you doing, son?
Don't fuck about.
About 5'7", short white hair,
looks like he might be using.
You know the type.
Yeah, it's Dennis Severs.
I'll be waiting.
You could just have said no,
you know?
No need for a pantomime.
I thought... I get excited.
I love you.
You're my boy.
I love you too, Dad.
I just think you're
a pathetic piece of shit.
I'll send you a postcard.
Whoa, Nina isn't it?
Yeah.
Here, let me give you a hand.
Just here is fine.
Yeah, yeah.
Mal. Think there was a call for you.
No, I don't think so. So, Nina...
Mate?
I swear to God you don't make
yourself scarce right now,
I'll take that cleaver
and chop off your balls...
..fry them in butter and feed them
to you with fucking mashed potatoes.
What you doing?
Oh, I'm just...
butchering this lamb.
I'm a vegetarian.
My daddy was a butcher.
I'm a carnivore.
My daddy was a vegetable.
That's funny. That's funny!
Nina.
Nina?
What?
I think...
I think you're really lovely.
And I was wondering...
I wondered...
I wondered if...
Maybe you'd come out for a drink
with me sometime?
Yeah.
All right.
Smashing.
'Mobilise, mobilise, mobilise,
zero four papa two, mobilise.'
It's Bow Road.
Get your gear on.
You're coming with me.
I want you where I can see you.
---
Did you start that fire?
We missed all that, didn't we?
We was lucky.
Mal, please don't.
I think we all need to not
see each other any more. Oh, no.
What have I got now, eh?!
What've I got?!
It's really hard to come
into a group of people
who've worked
together as long as we have.
But he's one of our family now.
I want you to put a transfer
request in for me.
Being here with you,
it's changed his life.
Dennis will be safe with me.
I'm looking out for him.
We want you to see a counsellor.
Pauline Pynchon.
You can call me Pauline.
It's the anniversary of the fire
next week,
but seeing as I've rung him
every day and he won't pick up...
I don't know what
I can do about that.
'We're talking today,
folks about the hot weather,
'how long can it last?
How do you cool down?
'Sian in Chigwell called to say
she has taken a leaf
'out of Marilyn Monroe's book and
keeps her knickers in the freezer!'
Jimmy Stewart
played the accordion.
John Wayne. That was an actor.
Man was a phony.
Had plastic surgery to get
rid of his jowls.
Can't call yourself the Duke, be
ashamed of the jowls God gave you,
that's not a man.
'Hello, can I speak to
Mr Robert Flusky, please?'
Oh, is he?
Well, hello, Mrs Flusky.
I'm calling from the sexual health
clinic at Mile End Hospital.
We were concerned
because Mr Flusky didn't show
up for his appointment today.
So? Where am I going?
'There's a vacancy opened
up near Ongar.'
Ongar? That's basically
the countryside innit?
'It's got a nice castle.'
I'm sure it's nothing to
worry about, Mrs Flusky,
it's just with rectal
sores of this type...
Yeah.
Yeah, it is, yeah. Hi, Karen.
How many shouts on average?
'Apparently...'
Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star
was written there.
Hello?
I know, I know you're
busy. It's just...
Well, it's a bit slow today, so...
OK, bye now.
I told you you should've got
Asbo to do it! I know.
God I'm sweating like a fat
bird in a bin bag.
You seen Guv since breakfast?
It's today isn't...
The anniversary.
Kev. Can I talk to you?
Bloody thing!
Just letting you know...
...you don't have to transfer.
I'm going.
What? I told you, I'm transferring.
OK. When?
It's been a week, and you haven't
even spoken to Nick yet.
I was going to do it today.
Well, I've saved you the bother
then, didn't I?
No, mate, you haven't saved me
anything!
Come on, Kev, I wasn't...
How definite is it?
Mate, the wheels are already in
motion
Come on, then.
Let's get it over with.
What is he doing?
Well, it's for the barbecue later.
All right, listen up, everyone,
gather round.
All of you. Take a seat. Come on.
Right, erm, Mal and me, we've got
something we want to tell you.
You want to?
Er...
I'm... I'm transferring.
We can still... you know?
You got my number.
Give us a call, or...
Can he still come to the barbecue?
That's up to Mal.
I'll bring a potato salad.
Excuse me.
How did the test go?
Yeah. Fine. They're going to call us
later with the results.
How was your breathing?
Yeah, it was fine, I just said.
A good time was had by all,
just leave it now.
Oi, 2.30, in the mess,
I want you all there.
They're showing
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.
That's a good film, that.
It isn't a good film, Snip.
It's a great film.
Did you tell him about Mal?
He's leaving, mate. Transferring,
they told us while you were out.
Seriously.
I'm Batman!
Hiya, Li, you all right, mate?
What you doing here?
He's out of control, Al.
They've got him on suspension from
school, I can't cope, I can't do it.
They can't do that, what did he do?
He's playing up, lying all the time,
playing all these pranks.
So? Pranks? So what? He's a kid!
He sharpened a pencil
and held it under a kid,
when he sat down,
it went right into his...
Yeah, exactly. God knows where he's
getting ideas like that.
I've got this interview, it's a
big step up, I thought
he'd be in school, now I can't get
a sitter, my mum's on holiday,
I just don't know what to do, Al!
It's all right, babe, it's all
right, calm down,
we can work it out.
Thanks. You are a life-saver.
Oi, Teen, where you going?
I'm at work! I'm at work, Teen!
You can't just...
What are you...
Tina! Do not walk away from me!
that's an order!
Do not...
It's my turn!
Tina!
She can't hear me. TINA!
Here, Liam, stick a bit of this
over the door for us.
This is... It's daft,
mate, you don't have to do this.
So what was you aiming for
when you stuck chicken
nuggets all over my car?
I never!
So there's two geniuses in the world
who think that's hilarious,
are there? Genii, mate.
What?
Plural of genius.
Not geniuses.
Genii.
I saw it on Eggheads.
So who looks like the pillock now?
You do. It's always you.
See, this is it, you don't
get it do you?
Even now.
What you talking about? You!
Walking round like your face
is made of treacle
and everybody wants a lick!
It pisses people off.
All you've got to do is
eat a bit of shit,
but you won't do it,
just apologise, mate -
S'none of your business. It is!
Course it is.
You're going aren't, you?
You're ruining everything.
Do you know how good
we've got it here?
Do you have any idea how toilet
the rest of my life is?
You want to ruin the only good bit?
You're leaving us
and you don't even seem to care.
Of course I care.
Well, give us a bloody sign of it
then, do you know what I mean?!
All right.
If you say you want me to stay.
Don't push it, mate.
Just say it.
Liam! Come back here, mate!
Arrgghh!
Liam!
Liam!
Kev?
You got a visitor.
Listen,
it's the mother of that kiddy,
died in the Churchill Estate fire.
You sure you want to?
Yeah. Yeah. Fine.
Thank you for the flowers.
It's the least I could do.
Doesn't matter what anyone says. You
did your best and...
I'm so grateful.
I'm planting a tree for her.
Sunday, 10am.
Cherry tree. Blossom in the Spring.
Maybe if you...
No. Course. Yeah.
Yeah, I'll be there.
Does that...
Does that help?
Dunno.
Belong to this group,
sad women in cardigans,
we just sit around crying,
praying, eating biscuits.
And they say you have to forgive,
it sets you free,
you have to forgive and I just...
I want to smack them.
I just think about Gog.
I've been carrying this
round for ages,
in case I ran into him.
Police couldn't do a bloody thing.
Can I ask,
I heard Dennis Severs worked here?
All right to say hello?
He's a good soul,
be a good Dad one day, that one.
He was a big help that night,
won't forget that.
Dennis was there?
Yeah.
Him and his mum took the kids while
me and Dan spoke to the police.
If your mum asks,
I didn't give you them, yeah?
In fact, who did give you them?
The man. What man?
The fireman.
Who give him sweets?
You gotta stop
telling fibs, mate, all right?
I'm serious, and all this stuff
with the pencil at school?
Not cool. Not cool is it,
Uncle Asbo?
No. Not cool.
Now, go and pour this where
I showed you.
The man. What did he look like?
A fireman.
Yeah, but was he tall, short?
Fat, thin?
He had a big scar
going down the side of his face.
Yeah?
And he was Chinese.
What?
And he had fangs.
Ah, shit!
Yeah!
That was you, wasn't it?
No, it was him.
It was you.
Oi, what you grassing on me for?
What you grassing on me for?
Ah, yeah!
Ziggy texted us.
Said you're transferring.
Just thought I'd do the noble thing.
You're about as noble as an ashtray,
Mal.
How'd he take it?
With the anniversary and all?
Dunno.
You know how he got really calm
and quiet, the day before he...
Don't. Don't want to think about it.
Hello, chubs.
What you doin' in here?
I brought you some Jelly Babies,
but I had to give them away.
Take the tunic off. Tunic?!
Listen to it, where are we,
ancient bloody Rome?
Take it off! I'll call the police!
Oh, that's nice.
That's lovely, Chubs, not a cheap
out of you for three years,
and this the welcome I get.
I don't know who you are!
That's the game, is it?
You always had a lot of anger in you
son, a lot of rage.
And your mother,
I mean, God bless her but she...
She was always pretty quick to try
to pin that one on me.
What's that supposed to mean?
I don't know what she told you son,
but she's the one who
couldn't handle it.
No, it's not...
That's not true.
It was me who took you for the long
walks up in Epping Forest, me!
It was me who held you when you
started screaming and biting.
That was me.
I was a good father.
You're a murderer.
Oh, don't! That was just... That was
an accident. Not my fault that some
kid wanted to be a have-a-go-hero,
do you know how much he was on?!
4.50 an hour, fuckin'...
It was just bad luck, son.
Asbo?
Asbo?!
Guv?
I just saw Rosa Paknadel.
She said you was a real help,
the night of the fire.
Which is just, well, it's weird,
cos your mum said you were...
What was it, up North?
Visiting your dad?
Guv, I can explain.
I bet you can.
Bet you've got all
sorts of answers up your sleeve,
you seem like a very talented liar.
Kev.
Trish is here.
She's in your office.
You stay where I can find you.
Hi. What are you doing here?
No, it was just your message,
you sounded a bit...
Well, it's today,
isn't it, so I thought...
Listen I'm not being... Just it
sets a bad example, me,
having a visitor so...
Yeah, I just thought you might need
a bit of, you know,
support, but I can go.
You've got yourself in a right
state, Den.
S'alright. Dad's here.
I've got you.
You know, it would probably be
all right if you stayed in here,
out the way?
Just give me a minute, yeah?
Yeah, course.
Only I've to go by two.
I'm going out with Grace
and her mum.
First time, football,
she's mad for the Hammers.
You ever had
the off-side rule explained to you
by a seven-year-old?
Kev, seriously, you all right?
Yeah. Great. With you in a minute.
Asbo!
Asbo!
Asbo!
He's only a kid. Yeah well,
some of them you can just tell,
can't you? Like Mal said,
stamped on the arse from birth.
Asbo!
Why're you here, Dad?
I'm going to Spain.
I want you to come with me, son.
Do you good. Spain?
You've only just got out of prison.
You could be a bombardiero.
What's that?
It's Spanish for fireman.
You and me, son.
We're peas in a pod.
It'd be a right laugh.
I knew you'd be excited.
I want to see a bull
run before I die.
A beast like that, charging at you,
horns, be a thrill, eh?
That would be a thrill.
'I went to the animal fair,
'the birds and the bees were there,
'the big baboon by the light
of the moon
'was combing his auburn hair.
'The monkey fell out of his bunk,
'slid down the elephant's trunk.
'The elephant sneezed
'and fell on his knees,
'and what become of the monkey,
monkey, monkey, monkey, monkey?'
Where's Kev?
Pop off and go and find
your dad, sweetheart.
Dennis, what's the matter?
It's not. I can't...
I need to speak to Kev.
No, no, come in. What is it?
The fire. The fire, it was...
What fire?
On Churchill Estate, the fire.
What about it?
You?
The two boys?
What are you...
Get out.
You have to leave, you can't,
you can't be here!
I can't... I can't breathe.
It was our life!
How could you do that to a person,
to someone?!
He thinks he can trust you!
He trusts you and, and you
betrayed him, it's disgusting!
I know. I know, I'm so...
I'm so...
It's er, just hay-fever,
he's suffering a bit.
Right, what you need is
a spoonful of honey...
Snip, piss off.
I can't.
It was an accident.
Gog started it, I can't.
What will he do?
I don't know.
I don't want to go prison.
You have to tell him.
I know. I know.
I want my mum.
Yeah, I know the feeling.
Take a minute.
Pull yourself together.
Then we'll go and find him.
That Nina's all right, isn't she?
No, wouldn't have said
she's your type, mate, really.
Oh, well, mate.
I'm a broad church, Mince.
It's 1994.
Billy's first day in Mile End.
And there she is. Nina the cleaner.
And that's it.
Billy's done for.
And?
Months he waited, till finally,
he decided to ask her out and then
he got glandular fever.
Six months off.
Meantime this wanker from Green
Watch, name of Badgers, moves in.
Nina comes back from honeymoon with
a black eye and a bun in the oven.
20 years, Billy's never
looked at another woman.
Well, he's looked,
but he's not touched.
Well, he has touched, but you could
always tell, his heart wasn't in it.
So what's she doing here now?
Badgers fell off his speed-boat.
Lived like a twat, died like a twat.
Ready?
'Had an accident at work that
wasn't your fault?'
Hurry up! It's on! It's on!
'I was told to climb
a ladder at work,
'despite the fact I hadn't been
given specialist training.
'I slipped and fell.
'Argh!'
'The injuries I sustained stopped me
working for six months.
'Spitfire told me
I could claim from my employer.'
Yeah, well it were 300
quid for a day's work so laugh away.
'I received ?5,000.
Thanks, Spitfire!'
You were like a young Al Pacino.
You know, the one where he doesn't
know how to climb a ladder?
Oh, yeah, that one.
Where's your son?
Ah, sh...
Dennis needs to talk to you.
What's he said?
Rosa Paknadel was here,
she said he was there, did he...
I think...
you need to hear it from him.
Yeah. Yeah. I know.
Is it weird, after all this,
I don't want to know?
No. Promise you'll call after?
Yeah. Where you going?
It's gone two, I told you.
Rachel's waiting out front.
But can't you wait? I have been
waiting. But I can't miss this, Kev.
I just can't.
I know why you did it.
I know why that was, I just...
I dunno how to... put that to bed.
But maybe that's OK?
I mean, it's
gotta be better than this.
Kev, what are you...
It's just...
There's enough bits of me
missing already.
Yeah. I know. I know.
I'll call you.
Hiya.
Guv?!
Help! Help!
What you doing in there?
Sorry, Uncle Asbo. I didn't mean it.
Liam!
It's all right, mate.
You're going to be all right.
Liam! Liam!
Liam! Liam! Are you all right?
You all right? Is he all right?
Asbo!
Li, you'll get pneumonia.
Give us your shirt!
Well, he ain't talking to me.
Take your tights off,
and your pants.
Liam, don't tell her what happened.
Cos you'll be in as much
trouble as me, all right?
I had Jelly Babies
and I fell in the water!
OK. Come on,
we're getting in the car.
Thanks. I owe you one.
You're bang out of order!
Yeah, I know. I'm sorry.
Teen, you can't do this on your own.
S'daft.
I miss you so much,
don't you miss me?
I do, I just...
All the girls at the office,
they used to be so jealous of me,
being with a fireman, you know.
But I hated it, Allie.
I just...
I worried about you all the time.
Every time you were out on duty,
my stomach would be churning.
I can't handle that right now.
She looked beautiful.
Excuse me! Public entrance is
round the other side.
Hello there.
Hello there.
Erm, we're very interesting...
interested in joining
the fires brigade,
is it all right if we come in?
Just to have a look around and see,
we'll be very good.
Who's this?
Hamish. Pleasure to meet you, mate.
Asbo, who is this?
And why is he wearing my tunic?
This is my dad, Guv.
And what Rosa said, that's right.
It was me and Gog,
we started the fire...
You don't need to say anything
else, son. Don't say...
Shut up, Dad!
I come home from training
for the weekend,
I was going to have an early night,
but he showed up about eight.
He was steaming, he kept saying,
"she's taking the piss,
"she's taking the piss".
He said he wanted to give her
a scare, I thought he meant
go in there, make a bit of mess,
but...
Anyway, we get up there and
he says they're on their holidays,
and I should have known then
cos the chain wasn't on the door,
but I'm just a lookout so
I'm waiting outside, and it's a few
minutes before I notice the pram...
and that's when I realise they're
still in there.
So I leg it. I bolt for the
stairwell and I wait there.
I thought I'll wait for him, and my
heart's going like the clappers,
and then I smell the smoke.
That won't work, love. Why?
Well, for one you've
a witness sat there,
and for another it takes loads
longer than it does in the films.
And he's a strong lad.
You could, but then there's
be your fingerprints in his neck.
The things they can do nowadays.
He says there was a heater on,
one of them gas things,
and maybe he knocked it over, only I
don't know, Guv, I still don't
know cos later, after...
..I thought I could smell it on him.
The paraffin.
And I knew the baby was upstairs
and I just, I couldn't...
But by the time I got upstairs,
the downstairs was alight,
we couldn't get down,
Gog was freaking out and...
And then you lot come in and the
baby's screaming like anything,
and Gog... Well, you know what
happened after, but it's just...
I'm sorry, Guv.
I'm so sorry.
I wish I just had the guts
to kill myself.
'OK, he's coming up, but
first we've just had an e-mail
'from Jodie in Wanstead who says
she's just been arrested
'for sunbathing topless!
'Cheer up, Britain she says,
it's only a pair of...'
Ooh!
That's all of it.
Yeah? Mate, thanks.
You got all this just from two days
work with that racist plumber?
He's not racist.
He offered me a full-time job.
What you chatting about?
Winter's coming. Lot of pipes
freezing. Could clean up.
What I owed you,
that's only half of it,
still got Maybrick on my back,
and Tina's going to go...
Where's this come from?
It's her, isn't it?
She's playing you,
she's getting in your head,
don't let her!
Leave it off, will you?!
I'm not joking!
This is a shit city to be poor in.
And Mal's leaving, Gaffer's all over
the place, and then there's you.
What about me?
I don't know how long you're
going to be here, do I?
Mate, your chest. I heard you come
up the stairs last night.
I thought Darth Vader was
coming to tuck us in.
The bleep test went fine.
Yeah, you say that but maybe you
want to prepare yourself
in case the results aren't...
Snip! Come on, don't...
Mate! Ah, shit.
Oi! Genii. Got something for you.
Just wanted to come in for a few
minutes.
Get a clearer idea of what life
was like in the service.
Thought you might be able to
give it to them.
Plenty more poisson in the mer, eh?
I'm going to miss this place.
I'm getting married!
Down it, down it, down it!
God, I'm sorry.
People never used to come in here.
It's all right.
You scared the shit out of me.
What you reading?
Any good?
It's not his best.
You all right?
No, I'm not as it happens.
Mal's leaving,
and Kev didn't even wait for me
to get back to tell us, I mean,
it just makes you feel like that...
Your breathing sounds bad.
Should go to the doctor.
It's been getting worse.
I did this bleep test thing this
morning, almost killed me.
I'm 29.
I've got four kids, and I don't know
how to do anything else.
I, erm... I thought you were really
good in that advert.
You know, you could do that.
Really? Do you think so?
When you fell off that ladder.
I really believed it.
Thanks.
Right, that's enough, ladies,
come on, sling your hook.
No, no, you're lovely,
you're all lovely, but I'm serious.
It's time to go.
What are you doing? No!
I can't drink on duty!
Get off! Off! Get off!!
Help! Help!
Oi! Get off him! Get off him!
Just get off him!
What is going on today!?
Let's go.
You left me.
You left me there.
I'm sorry, I'm so sorry.
I was a different person then,
I wasn't...
You made me look a fucking idiot!
What do I say to them out there,
the Watch, what do I say?!
You know how much I've...
The battles that
I've fought for you,
am I s'posed to turn round,
and say that I got it wrong?
I was so bloody desperate to
believe in you, it's a joke.
You!
I put them in danger,
so that you...
Danger? I'm not a danger, Guv!
Get my tunic off.
Take the fucking tunic off!
There's clearly a lot of emotions
here for you pal,
you don't even know me.
I've heard all about you.
Apple don't fall far from the tree,
does it?
No need to get nasty. Anyway, me and
Den, we're off to Spain.
So you don't need
to see him any more.
I dunno if I'm going yet, Guv -
What? Aye, you're going, he's going.
Be good for both of you, eh?
Oh, yeah! Let's go to fucking
Spain, how nice!
Come on, son. Come on.
Goodbye! Yeah, Adios! Go on!
I can't run away from this.
I fucking live in this!
But you, yeah, you go on, piss off!
Look at me.
Look at me!
S'alright. Just do it.
Just do it. Finish it.
Oh, Guv, stop it! Get off him!
Guv, get off him!
What's going on?
Kev, what's he'd done?
Please, Guv, let him go!
He put Viagra in my coffee.
OK. So that was a bit silly, Asbo.
But... it's a prank, Guv.
This is a bit much for a prank.
Let him go.
Yeah. Yeah, sorry about that.
Woo-hoo!
Nine point mothercocking eight!
The bleep test!
They just rang.
What's going on?
Right, the show's over.
Everyone back in the mess,
the film's about to start, come on!
Who are you?
Mal let them in.
They took my trousers off...
and they touched me.
What? Were do you get off?!
We were just having a laugh.
Oh, right. Look at him.
Go on, look at him!
Look at his little face,
he's not a piece of meat!
That's a man!
That's a man!
Do you know what, piss off!
This is a working fire station!
Go on.
You all right?
No. no, I'm not all right.
Of course you're not, come here.
'Mobilise. Mobilise.'
Yes! Finally! That's us!
Finally! Get in Come on!
S'alright.
It's nearly the end of the shift.
Yeah, and then what?!
She's gone, you're gone.
Thought you'd be made
up to see me go.
Yeah, well, then you're a bloody
idiot, aren't you?!
There he is!
Had to make myself scarce there,
son.
All sorted now?
Look,
we'll kip at Stevie's tonight, eh?
Sort the tickets in the morning.
How are you for cash?
Hi, this is Mile End fire station,
we've had a break in.
What you doing, son?
Don't fuck about.
About 5'7", short white hair,
looks like he might be using.
You know the type.
Yeah, it's Dennis Severs.
I'll be waiting.
You could just have said no,
you know?
No need for a pantomime.
I thought... I get excited.
I love you.
You're my boy.
I love you too, Dad.
I just think you're
a pathetic piece of shit.
I'll send you a postcard.
Whoa, Nina isn't it?
Yeah.
Here, let me give you a hand.
Just here is fine.
Yeah, yeah.
Mal. Think there was a call for you.
No, I don't think so. So, Nina...
Mate?
I swear to God you don't make
yourself scarce right now,
I'll take that cleaver
and chop off your balls...
..fry them in butter and feed them
to you with fucking mashed potatoes.
What you doing?
Oh, I'm just...
butchering this lamb.
I'm a vegetarian.
My daddy was a butcher.
I'm a carnivore.
My daddy was a vegetable.
That's funny. That's funny!
Nina.
Nina?
What?
I think...
I think you're really lovely.
And I was wondering...
I wondered...
I wondered if...
Maybe you'd come out for a drink
with me sometime?
Yeah.
All right.
Smashing.
'Mobilise, mobilise, mobilise,
zero four papa two, mobilise.'
It's Bow Road.
Get your gear on.
You're coming with me.
I want you where I can see you.