Waterloo Road (2023–…): Season 1, Episode 2 - Episode #11.2 - full transcript
Dad, I can't find a black tie
for Tommy anywhere.
He's only got one
with Transformers on it.
I can't find half my stuff neither.
Dad?
Tommy, get up, will you?
Tommy?
Tommy's not here!
Dad! Tommy's not here!
Dad!
Tommy! Tommy!
DOG BARKS
Tommy!
Tommy?
Nice work, Lance.
All change, then.
I suppose a new uniform
is a fait accompli?
It's on its way.
Welcome to Waterloo Road, Neil.
You're not one of ours, are you?
What have you got there?
That's for my mum,
but I've done it wrong.
I don't think you've done it wrong.
Shall I put it up for you?
Got one of these.
There you go. Right next to Mum.
That's good, innit?
Tommy, what are you doing?
Issy?
Hey, come inside and warm up, eh?
You both look like you need a brew.
Come on.
And I know a woman that's got
really great biscuits.
Right, Tommy, shall I show you
where I hide the good biscuits?
Yeah, sure. Come on.
Just through here, sweetie.
It's not the easiest of days, is it?
SHE SNIFFLES
Issy, we are going to do
everything that we can to help you.
I promise.
And I want you to know that I am
not going to let anybody
in this school forget your mum.
I'll just go.
Well, I'll be at the funeral later.
Why don't Miss Spratt
and Miss Omar run you home?
There's no need.
Well, I'd just like them
to check on your dad.
Oi! Come here, you.
What school do you go to?
Waterloo Road.
No, see, what school do you go to?
I think it's that
William Beswick one.
Listen, I go to William Beswick
an' all,
so what school do you go to, mate?
William Beswick. Ah! Good boy!
I must have got, like,
20-minute kip last night?
That headcase going on about Steve.
Do I look like a Steve?!
Well, I was up till 3am trying
to suss simultaneous equations
and I still don't get it.
But what's the point? Cos those
suits haven't even decided
if I'm meant to be in school yet.
No, you're all right, man,
it's fine.
It's all right for you to say!
You've got somewhere to go
after this. What have I got?
Oh, aye! What school do you go to?
Oh, my God, Waterloo Road.
Now can you move?
It's William Beswick!
Oh, he's pushing me now!
He's pushing me!
He's too dumb to go there. Ooh!
What school do you go to, Danny?
Danny, don't waste your time on
these... Danny, do you go to school?
What school?
I ain't got a school yet.
Have you no school, mate? No home?
You've not even got a mum! Nothing!
CHANTING, SHOUTING
Danny, no!
No! Break it up, now!
Right, show is over.
And you're telling me that you want
to be allowed back into the school?
Both of you are spending
the day in isolation. Go!
Go.
Registration, now!
Thank you very much.
Do up that top button, please.
Got your bag?
O'Connor, where's your tie?
Remember I'm going to pick you up
from drama club, all right?
Do you have to? Cos Dad always
picks me up and we get smoothies.
Yeah, but not tonight.
It's OK. I can still pick her up.
Please, Mum, cos we've already
missed movie night
and it's just not fair otherwise.
I'm just going to have
a quick word with Mum, OK? OK.
This is crazy.
You went to your dad cap in hand.
You wanted the career break.
I took the career break
so that you could make head
and now that hasn't happened.
So I'm a failure?
Is that what the problem is here?
It's not me thinking you're a
failure that's causing the problem.
Look, I need to come home tonight.
I only have a weekend bag.
OK.
Bonjour, ca va.
Ah, oui, Alice, ca va. Tres bien!
Joe, I need you and Lindon to get
the behavioural unit open today.
We said next week.
Well, I just caught Dean Weaver
and Danny Lewis knocking
seven bells out of each other.
I told them they've got to spend
the day in isolation.
Hang on, the BU is not
central detention.
It's for kids on the verge
of exclusion.
We need parental signatures,
we need behaviour contracts.
I can't let them get away with
a fight, especially not after making
such a point of saying it was
zero-tolerance.
And Danny needs to know that
he hasn't got a free pass.
We're trying to pull him back in,
aren't we? Not push him out.
I can't be seen as a soft touch.
Kim, I know what happened with
Mrs Charles has hit you hard, but...
I did not change the name of
this school for no reason.
We are trying to create
a whole new culture.
We need to change too.
Which means lumping Danny in
with Dean Weaver?
It's whatever works, Joe!
BELL RINGS
Look, I've got a massive report
to write for the governors tonight,
right?
I've also got a funeral to go to.
KNOCK AT DOOR
Yeah.
What do you want?
Oi! What do you think you're doing?
That's my work, that is.
Hey, come on, I missed one payment.
Oi! Not today.
Not today, all right?
Right, it's my wife's funeral, OK?
Please.
Please! Please!
It's my wife's funeral, man.
Please!
Come back!
Come back!
Dad! Are you OK?
What's going on?
I'm Miss Spratt, I'm Amy
and this is Jamilah.
I'm the social worker attached
to Waterloo Road.
We don't need no social worker.
I appreciate it's a difficult day.
You're her, aren't you? The one
that was giving her first aid
when she should have
gone to hospital.
If you'd done your job right,
she'd still be here!
It's not her fault.
Yeah, then whose fault is it, then?
Mr Charles, we're just here to
support you and your family.
Stuff your support.
Right, we don't need it.
Not from Waterloo bloody Road
anyway. Issy, inside.
Come on, Tommy.
Issy, inside now!
What are you playing at, hey?
Get in.
Oh, Miss Campbell?
I must say, the new sign
looks very nice.
Oh, right, thank you, Neil. I've got
assembly, so I'm going to...
I do wish there'd been a little
more consultation with staff,
though, before the change
was formalised. Right.
Well, yeah, I appreciate it wasn't
an ideal process for everyone.
Well, a lot of people don't want it,
you know.
And I must admit
I do share some of their concerns.
Right, that we no longer look up
to a man who wouldn't have
let many of the pupils
anywhere near the place?
Most of them didn't know who he was
until all this.
What they did know was
the heritage of the school.
And they knew that
because their parents came here
and their grandparents.
And nobody can take that away
from them, can they?
I have tried to discuss
the underlying issues,
but you bring any nuance to the
debate and you get shouted down.
Neil, the name has changed.
We can make our own heritage.
Sorry, can we do this later?
Seriously, why are we even here?
My God.
Where were you? I waited.
I was working out. Forgot the time.
Move your leg.
Good morning, Waterloo Road.
As you know, there was a fatality
outside the school last week.
Her name was Chlo Charles.
And today is her funeral.
It's not like we got away
with anything.
It feels like we've
been in detention forever.
Doesn't matter how many we do.
It doesn't make up for someone
losing their mum.
Now, I don't want to talk about
what caused the accident again.
I'll leave that up to the enquiry.
No-one else is beating themselves
up about it like this.
No-one else started making
paint bombs. That's on me.
Just know that we have
come down hard on everybody
involved in the riot
and we will continue to do so
in the face of any
violent behaviour.
Now, I would like to have
a minute's silence to remember Chlo
and her family
on this very hard day.
I can't do this.
Miss, Shola ain't feeling well.
Toilets, if you must.
Has it been a minute yet?
Like five seconds. Shut up.
Don't tell me to shut up.
Now, as you know, there was
an email sent out last week
saying that we are pushing forward
with the new uniform.
But the good news is that you are
going to be able to see
the new uniform in here from today.
We are all in this together.
We are Waterloo Road.
COUGHS: William Beswick!
Shut up. It's Waterloo Road.
APPLAUSE
What are you doing back in bed?
Please, Is, just leave me alone.
Mum would have gone mad at you
out there.
That teacher, she tried to help Mum,
and you say all that to her.
I said I didn't need their help,
Issy.
It's not happening to just you.
You're making everything
ten times harder!
The one time I really need you,
you're not here!
SCHOOL BELL RINGS
Our guests for today, Mr King.
All right, find a seat.
Where?
Chairs, yes, right.
What is this?
Is it some sort of jail?
I don't even know
what I'm doing here.
I'm guessing you've been thinking
with your fists
like you usually do, Lewis.
Sir, this isn't my school now.
Why should I follow its rules?
Because it's my school, that's why.
And why would you want to keep
a name that so many
of your classmates find offensive?
Cos it don't bother me.
Ever heard of empathy?
What, like when you can communicate
using your brain?
Find out what it actually is
and I'll have five pages on empathy
by the end of the day.
And you, Lewis, if you want to
stay in this school, prove it.
I told them the accident was
caused by paint on my windscreen.
Still, hours the police were at ours
asking questions.
That's a bit much, isn't it?
You're not even the one
who hit the poor woman.
That is what I told them.
If I was looking at anyone,
I'd be looking at the one
who nicely bandaged her arm
instead of calling for an ambulance,
but that's just me.
Well, I guess they'll find out
what happens
when they've had
the coroner's inquest.
Girls, class.
No, Miss, please,
I have to talk to you, please.
What's the matter? Tell me at class.
Please can I go to Issy's mum's
funeral, Miss? No, you can't.
But I want to say sorry.
That's not going to help them.
It might help me.
Shola, listen, you've got to stop
beating yourself up about this.
OK, you made a mistake,
but you could not have foreseen
what happened.
So, I'm just supposed to forget? I'm
supposed to carry on like normal?
I know it's not easy.
You don't know, Miss, you don't!
For the Charles family.
Friendly advice? Mm.
Erm, some might think
it's a bit much
when you were, you know,
involved.
Involved?
See, it's one reason
I never trained as a first aider.
People point fingers at you
when things go wrong.
People are pointing fingers at me?
Probably at me too,
but of course I've been cleared
of any wrongdoing now.
Mr Charles did blame me,
but like Jamilah said,
that's just the grief talking.
Isn't it? I'm sure.
This is a mess. Do it again.
This one was all right, though.
Show your working out clearly
and fully.
Do it again.
Wendy, have you got the BU
course projections to hand?
COUGHS
Miss, this school uniform...
You two should be in class.
It's not gender neutral.
No, it's not. That's because
there are some girls that object to
not being able to wear a skirt.
Yes, because of cultural norms.
So, if we decide to be
proactive about it,
then it maybe could change.
OK, Caz... Miss Campbell,
I'm really not happy. Right.
Sorry, can you just give me
one minute?
Miss, it's a real opportunity
wasted.
Caz, it is also a cost issue.
OK? We can't expect parents to
replace skirts with trousers
unless they want to,
which is fine by the way.
But it's OK to expect us
to replace the blazer
and the tie and everything else?
I mean, I do agree with that.
But the racist name had to go. Yeah.
And anyone who supports him,
they're racist too.
All right, Nicky... Mrs Walters,
do you want to take a seat in there?
Class.
Of course.
I don't think I should be expected
to buy uniform again
just because the old one is now not
politically correct any more.
Well, we're actually going to be
issuing vouchers to cover
the cost of the blazer
and of the tie. Excuse me!
I don't need the school giving me
vouchers. No. No, sorry. I di...
I'll cover it anyway.
But I honestly think that
this is going to give us
a school where everyone
feels like they truly belong.
You know what I want?
I want my kids to belong to a school
that has decent sports gear
and computers
cos the money's not been spaffed
up the wall on uniform vouchers.
Well, I'm actually going to see
the governors tonight
and we are going to be talking
about additional sponsorship.
Oh, right.
Well, I might come along.
No, you can't.
Parents aren't invited to
the governors meeting, so.
Well, this parent's just
invited herself, all right?
The decision has been made, Nicky.
Well, decisions can be unmade, Kim.
What are you trying to do?
I'm trying to get this place
up and running.
That is a vulnerable kid in there
with no family support.
If their teacher uses fear,
intimidation and bullying,
then we cannot complain
when they do the same thing.
You know what they're learning
from your textiles and beanbags?
You're a soft touch.
You think they respect you.
I promise you they don't.
You're wrong in the head, you,
doing them sums again.
Cos I don't wanna get kicked out?
I can't wait.
I don't get you
wanting to come back in.
CLANG
I've got you crisps, man.
Mate, it's got bars on it, man.
Go find another one.
Use that way, man. Yeah, go on, man.
BANGING Oi!
He said stay in here.
They didn't put any bars
in the bogs.
Cowboys, mate.
Hey. Oh, yes, mate.
Thank you. Thank you.
What have I told you about
cheese and onion?
Chill, man.
What are you doing?
What?
You know if Mr King finds out,
he'll go nuclear.
Well, he's not going to find out,
is he?
You need to chill out, man.
The worst thing you can do
is stress.
Go on.
All I'm saying is the boy has
a talent for making wrong choices.
Yeah, and no-one to stop him
making them but us.
Do you seriously think that...
Oi! What are you doing back there?
Nothing, sir.
Open the door now!
Both of you, outside, now.
It wasn't me, sir.
I don't care who it was.
Get outside.
I'm just saying, sir, it's not me.
Get outside, Dean!
The plumbing hasn't been done
in here.
The Hundred Years War.
I take it we've all watched
the module now. So what do we think?
Sir, you've still got that up.
That's because we should be
paying attention
to the historical record,
and not whoever shouts the loudest.
Is he talking about me?
So you don't agree with getting
rid of the racist name, sir?
How long was the Hundred Years War?
How long did it last?
Now, it's tricky.
It's not as easy as it sounds.
I just asked you a question, sir.
Yes, and you're framing it
in a particularly emotive way.
Well, you either do or you don't.
All right,
if you want an honest answer,
no.
Oh, come on, sir!
William Beswick
did a lot of good in his time.
That is a fact.
History is about establishing
the truth,
whether you enjoy that truth or not.
Sir, you're something, you, sir.
Yeah, gammon!
Well, here's a truth.
You've got detention.
Again? Why? Or I've heard that
the behavioural unit is open,
if you prefer to go there.
So it doesn't bother you, sir,
that Beswick was a slave trader?
Oh, my days! No-one's actually
ever cared before.
Just cos a couple of geeks
want to go, "Oh, boohoo!"
Yeah. We don't care!
What are you piping up for?
We don't care! Chill.
Do you know who was the key advocate
for the abolition of slavery?
Mm?
The Duke of Wellington,
also known as hero of Waterloo.
But he was also involved
in Peterloo, where soldiers
opened fire on innocent protestors
just down the road from here.
So, is he to be celebrated
or vilified?
See, the full picture
is complicated,
and it goes against the nature
of my subject
to reduce it to sloganeering.
You're cancelled, you, sir.
Snowflake!
Who are you throwing at?
SHOUTING
That will do.
All right?
Mum would have told you to iron them
properly, but all right.
There's a big car.
All right.
Come on, kids.
CRYING
Hey.
Hey, it's all right.
Oi.
You don't want to go, do you, son?
OK. I'll tell you what, why don't
you go next door with Di?
Yeah?
I'm sure she could do with a hand
looking after Sparky, all right?
And I'll give this to Mummy.
Won't Mum be upset? No.
No, not with you, son.
Not with you.
Come here.
Come on. Let's go.
Do you want to sign against
the new uniform?
No? Extra chips if you sign.
Mum, what are you...? Mum!
Sign against the uniform?
I appreciate what you're doing,
Nicky,
but a few signatures isn't going
to make any difference now.
I suppose not.
So why don't we find a way
to make this work for all of us?
How about a couple of hundred
signatures online? What?
Well, parents' WhatsApp group's
up in arms.
It's busier than when Mr King did
online swimming lessons. Oh, my God.
Right, I've got a funeral to go to.
I can't do this now.
See, you don't appreciate
what a stretch this is for people.
One little unexpected cost
and that's one day this week
you can't afford to eat.
I'm lucky, but, you know,
for other people.
Mum, why are you getting
so hung up on this?
Excuse me,
I actually have low blood sugar.
So...
BEEP
I am aware of the costs, OK,
and I'm doing everything that
I can to soften the blow.
But pupils are not going to be sent
home for wearing the wrong shoes
on day one of the new uniform,
I promise.
Well, I want to hear what
the governors think, to be honest.
I've asked the governors to
back me on this.
I've said that
I've got parental support.
Should have asked the parents first,
then.
Who died
and made you Marcus Rashford?
See, I told you he's going to
expel us.
Technically it was only you
they caught.
But I bet he's going to grass us up.
I'm not a grass.
Till you get thrown out.
I'd grass. Shut up.
I'm not a grass.
Who brought it into the building?
What were you doing round the back?
Sir, just giving him his crisps,
sir.
Crisps. All right, what, like
salt and vinegar? Beef?
I think it was cheese and onion.
Cheese and onion.
Cheese and onion.
Do you think we're stupid?
Who brought drugs into the school?
Lewis?
You two, leave.
Sir. Cheers, sir.
If you're trying to protect
those two idiots,
I strongly suggest you think again.
Yeah, well, I'm not.
Then where did it come from, then?
Got it at the hostel.
Why are you even going
anywhere near drugs?
Look, it's the work, OK?
It's too hard!
And I'm already falling behind
and then you go and put me in there!
I just needed to de-stress!
Right.
Well, you're about to find out
what real stress is.
It's a police matter, obviously.
Sir. Come on.
There are plenty of kids that would
give their right arm
for this opportunity and you
throw it away like that. I'm not.
If I had seen commitment
in your work, Lewis, I'd be able to
stand by you, but I haven't seen
anything like that.
You've had it in for me
ever since I first got here.
If anyone would have had my back, I
would have thought that it'd be you.
Take a seat.
You know that weed
did not come in with Danny.
That's not what he said.
Well, he won't grass, will he?
Not even on the likes of Weaver.
Look, I've seen what
I need to see, OK?
No, you saw what you wanted to see.
Criminalise him now,
he's finished. We lose him for good.
Yeah, and if we don't, he's going
to think he can do what he likes.
No repercussions, no nothing.
Lindon, I am head of safeguarding.
I know things about Danny's
background that you don't.
I know more than you ever will
about Danny's background.
This is not going to help. Hello?
This is Mr King from Waterloo Road.
Do you think he's going to get
kicked out, though? Don't know.
I mean, is he going to be able to
stay in that hostel and that?
Don't know.
Do you think maybe you should have
said something, then?
My dad'll leather us
if I get kicked out.
Chill, man.
Oh, you have got to be joking.
Shola Aku, where do you think
you're going?
You do not leave school
without permission.
Go and report to Miss Whitwell,
please.
I'm going to the funeral.
No. No, we've talked about this.
You said yourself about
responsibility -
this is me taking it.
No, this is you acting as reckless
as you did at the protest.
See, you do blame me! And you're
dead right because it's my fault.
Oh, get in.
Serious, Miss? We'll talk to
your parents on the way, OK,
but you do not speak to
the Charles family.
Do you understand? Yeah. Yes, Miss.
We come together here today
to remember
and celebrate
the life of Chlo Charles.
And it's important
that as time goes on,
we remember the good moments
in Chlo's life.
And in that spirit, Dante would now
like to share his memories of Chlo.
I, erm...
I never expected to have
to be up here.
But I...
I'm going to try
and do a good job for you.
Chlo was the best person.
Chlo was...
I see we've got Waterloo Road in.
Shouldn't you be at school?
You know, doing your job?
You know, if you did that right,
Chlo might still be here,
Miss Campbell. I'm sorry.
Sorry?
You've got no clue.
No clue how it feels
standing up here.
Dante,
would you like to take a moment?
Come on.
I'm sorry.
I can't do it. I'm sorry.
Yeah, go on. Get out of here.
I told you not to take
the ring road.
Just because you picked me up
from the airport,
you think you can pull a fast one.
I'm a local, mate!
Whatever. Yeah. Same to you too.
Go on!
Denise.
Honey. Come here.
Thank God. I thought I was late.
I'm so sorry about Chlo.
I can't believe it.
That is not how you do a tie up,
you know.
Wait a minute,
why are you out here by yourself?
I just... I couldn't face it, Jan.
What, you mean
everyone's in there waiting?
Oh, mate, look, you'll feel worse
later if you don't.
Is this your speech?
"The best person."
"If I could get hold of those
responsible..."
I can't work out the rest of it.
It's your handwriting.
Yeah, well, I was hammered
when I wrote it, so.
Yeah, well,
most of it is quite angry.
But the stuff about Chlo is lovely.
You can't not say it.
If I say it,
then it's real, you know?
Hey.
I knew that you'd be like this
today, so I got this made.
I got it engraved.
WWCD.
What would Chlo do?
Jan, it says WWDC.
What would do Chlo?
Oh, I blame Budgen! He never did
teach me no good spelling or owt.
Fine.
I tell ya what would do Chlo.
You have got a duty to do.
You've got all these lovely words
and people need to hear them.
I just should have done more,
you know?
No, you've done all that you could.
She was always telling me
that you couldn't do more for her.
Well, that was after she banged on
about you driving her mad.
You've got to do this today for her.
I don't think I can, Jan.
But will you?
Are you sure you're all right,
Miss?
He just needed someone to shout at.
But it shouldn't be you.
It's not fair.
Not a lot is.
Have we come the wrong way?
I want to show you something.
Something that I don't often share.
This is Dexter.
This is my son.
He was very brave.
Weren't you, my angel?
I should have seen
the symptoms earlier.
I should have trusted my instincts
that something was wrong.
But I didn't.
And he went through so much.
And then he was gone,
and it was all my fault.
And it took me a long time
to accept that there are just
some things in life
that are out of your control.
But you have to, Shola, you have to
realise that you did your best
and nobody thinks that
it's your fault.
Chlo was the best person
I ever knew.
And this is Dante speaking,
yeah? So just pretend.
She was kind,
funny, caring and strange...
Strong, she were strong.
Sorry!
She was beautiful, inside and out.
A wonderful wife, a great mum.
But I'm not saying she didn't have
her annoying little habits,
like stealing your chips,
doing the dishes again
after I'd already done 'em,
and supporting United!
But all those things are just what
made you love her even more
because they were
a part of who she was.
You might think this sounds weird,
but I stand here feeling like
the luckiest man in the world.
Because me and Chlo met so young,
we shared so many years together.
She gave me two beautiful children
and I see Chlo every day
in little worser... Eh?
Eh?
Cheers, Jan.
I see Chlo
every day in little ways that they
have that are just like her.
In Tommy's jokes...
..in Issy's smile.
And also the way that Issy never
lets me get away with a thing.
You know, Chlo was a good person.
Which makes it that more unfair
that...
You know what? Scrap that part.
Chlo wouldn't want us
to waste our life being angry.
And she'd want us to be happy.
SCHOOL BELL RINGS
What the...
Oh, no.
Oh, no.
Right!
Awesome, Sammy. Now, what other
persuasive techniques do we know?
Sit down and shut your hole!
Written techniques, Kelly Jo.
KNOCK AT DOOR Come in.
Miss, can I see Kelly Jo Rafferty,
please?
Regarding the vandalism
of my classroom.
What? Are you sure it was her?
Oh, yes,
she's got a very distinctive style.
All right, Mr Historical Facts.
It was me.
Come on, then.
No! Cos what do you expect?
When you're all like, "Oh, well
William Beswick did good too."
What, cos he paid for some museums
and that? Yeah, yeah.
No, cos I would have been
dead impressed
while I was chained up
in the bottom of his boat.
Kelly Jo. No, cos that's where
I would have been, Miss.
Make no mistake.
And if you want that name
on your chest,
you are as bad as the people
that let him do it.
Worse even, cos you don't care.
You don't care about no-one
but yourself.
Sorry, Miss.
OK, yeah, I'll let her know
as soon as she gets back.
Thanks, Jamilah.
Right.
Well, I probably shouldn't be
telling you this,
but the LEA have agreed to
fund your place, Danny.
Danny, that is great news!
So, I got in?
Well, I guess that depends.
What do you say, then?
Sir.
In there, Lewis.
Officer.
This is for you.
You don't know who it belongs to?
No idea whose it is.
One of yours must have dropped it.
That's what we thought,
isn't it, Mr Casey?
Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's, yeah,
that's exactly what we thought,
yeah.
Well, I'll need to take a statement.
Sure.
Can you give me a minute?
Very last chance.
So, where were we?
You've got another week of
detentions for sneaking off,
you do know that, right?
You can use it to make up for
the work that you've missed out on.
OK, Miss.
Miss? Mm?
I reckon you were a banging mum.
This is good.
Danny, has it ever occurred to you
that maybe I do have your back?
Just not in the way you want.
I'm not your mate.
I'm here to get the best out of you.
Does Miss Campbell
have to know about the weed?
She's had a hard enough day
as it is.
But Danny,
when this place does open,
I don't want to see you
back here again. OK?
CLEARS HIS THROAT
You were never going to tell
the police, were you?
I told you.
I know what I'm doing.
DISTANT BANGING
Sir! I have just been sent here
by Mr Guthrie, the fascist!
Oh, my God, I'm actually
going to scream.
You just did.
You just did, Kelly Jo.
Come on, you bundle of joy.
Let's go. My office.
How are you finding it?
Yeah, all right.
Yeah? Good.
Hey.
Ah, I'm glad you could join us,
Shola.
We're just carrying on with the
soundtracks from the short films.
Thank you.
Hi. Where have you been?
I'll tell you later.
What have I missed?
Only my mum being a total cringe,
planning on shaming herself
by crashing the governors' meeting.
And hating on Miss Campbell just
cos she already bought uniform.
Fill this bit in.
Mr Guthrie is very upset.
Yeah, well, he's racist, isn't it?
You destroyed school property.
Yeah, and it was a whole
classroom of wrong,
so why are you actually
shouting at me? I'm not shouting.
You made your point last week
and there's been big changes
in response to it.
But this, you've gone too far.
Yeah, well, he's racist, though.
You have just done a week
in detention
and now you've got yourself
another one,
but is it going to make
any difference?
How many times have we been here?
It's the same story. All the time!
You're confrontational, you're
aggressive, you're disruptive.
I have told you before, you are
heading rapidly towards exclusion.
OK!
OK. Yeah, well, I'm sorry.
Can we just skip to the rest
of it? I'm dead tired now.
Rest of what? Well, you say
I could get thrown out
and then I tell you, like, I'm
upset cos my dad hasn't phoned me
in ages or whatever.
And then you say,
"OK, Kelly Jo, well my door's
always open, isn't it?"
And then I say, "Yeah, well,
see you later then, Sir.
"Thank you so much for today. Bye!"
Sit down, now!
I was only joking.
I'm running out of options,
Kelly Jo.
Violent behaviour now means
you go to the behavioural unit.
Sir, you don't mean that.
You're just trying to scare me,
aren't you, Sir? Am I?
Just there on the right, please.
Actually, just leave them here.
Thank you.
Hello. I did not expect
to be feasting my eyes
on your boxers today. What?
Your wife left them at your desk.
Thanks. Really good of you
to bring them all the way here
instead of just letting me know
they were in the office.
You're welcome.
Everything OK? Everything's fine.
This dropped out, by the way.
Are you sure everything's OK?
Thanks again.
YELLING: Dan! One more mistake.
Oh, my God! Move!
"One more mistake," he said.
What? One more mistake and I'm
going to the BU? Well, fine! Do it!
Be the worst mistake he ever made,
and do you know what he said to me?
He said... Shola was talking.
Right, so Miss Campbell might be
like all up in your business
the whole time, but at least
she listens,
and she's trying to make
a difference.
And I don't agree with her
on the specifics of the uniform,
but the racist name had to go.
His mum was making out
like no-one wants the uniform.
We can't let Mrs Walters
ruin everything.
Well, what are we supposed to do?
Have yous tried talking my mum out
of summat she's got her mind set on?
Well, I was thinking - if she can
crash the governors' meeting,
why can't we? Yeah, yeah.
It's not how I'd leave the classroom
for the first teacher in tomorrow.
It won't happen again.
I did everything that I could
for Mrs Charles.
There's no way I could have known
that anything was seriously wrong.
Well, as long as you know what
happened, that's all that matters.
Right, I've washed up,
I have filled the fridge up
and I have flung that smelly
bag of rubbish.
I mean, that was my laundry,
but never mind!
Yeah, well it's probably only
halfway down the wheelie bin.
Sorry!
Oh, Denise, thanks for everything.
Look, yous are all going to be
OK, you know. Yeah.
Yeah, we're going to be OK,
aren't we, hey? Yeah.
Right, well, I need to go.
Can't keep Nanna Bryant waiting.
Right, so what do I owe you?
A cheeky voddy next time
I'm in town.
Oh, aye. When's that going to be?
I don't know. I mean, even without
Chlo, I do miss this place.
And don't you forget, WWDC.
WWDC.
What would do Chlo? Come here.
I love you, darling. Thank you.
CAR HORN PIPS
Right, come here, you two.
Give me cuddles!
Hey, and you be good for Daddy.
What do you say?
Thank you!
See you later.
Cheers.
Nicky, please.
As a colleague, I am asking you,
please don't do this.
You can see how many people
agree with me.
I have got massive ideas for this
school, but I can't do my job
unless I can show that I've got
the community behind me.
I do three jobs, Miss Campbell,
and I do them all
without anybody behind me.
Miss, it's Dean and Danny.
It's going off again.
Your Preston's fighting an' all.
You what?
Well, where are they? Preston?
Just so you know, Miss,
some of us are on your side.
Kai!
Oh, wow.
Introducing newly improved
Waterloo Road!
CHEERING
What?!
Take it away.
Brilliant. Brilliant!
Sorry, Mum.
Go on, Danny!
I think that the pupils
have seen my report.
The bit at the end that says that
kids will embrace anything.
It's us that struggle.
Let's look to the future.
CHEERING
Danny. Congratulations.
I heard you got in.
Well done.
Nicky. Just leave me, please.
Look, I know that you don't
agree with this.
It's not that I don't agree.
I just...
I can't...
It's just one thing too many.
I can't...
Hey, hey, hey, hey. Hey.
Talk to me.
SHE SOBS
I'm on the bones of my arse.
I pull together enough
to make it through the week
and then there's another email,
there's another school trip,
there's a Christmas party.
Bloody uniform!
I'm so sorry. I had no idea.
Well, of course you didn't.
Nobody does,
because I don't let them.
Because I don't want my kids
going without.
Because I don't want them worrying,
so of course you've no idea.
You've no idea what it's like being
a single mum to two teenagers
who want stuff all the time!
Lucky you.
KNOCK AT DOOR
Sir?
You know that essay?
You still not worked it out, Weaver?
No, I've done it.
I'll see you here tomorrow.
Sir.
MUSIC: You Haven't Loved Until
You've Lost by Paris Youth Foundation
I mean, it's supposed to say,
"What would Chlo do?" but...
Poor Denise! Yeah.
Dad, what will we do?
Mum did everything for us.
Hey, we're going to be OK.
Everything's going to be all right.
I suppose I'll have to buy them
now you've put them on.
That's not what you say about
all the going out stuff
you send off for. That's different.
I don't know why you had to make
all that fuss, Mum.
Money's not that tight.
Wipe your feet.
Oh, Neil.
I heard about your classroom.
Kelly Jo has been
appropriately punished.
She is a prime candidate for the BU.
But in the meantime, she'll still
be in my lesson, of course.
I have to apologise.
I think that
I have made it harder for you.
For everyone, probably.
Yeah, well,
let's just hope it works.
I need people who remember that
the old school wasn't all bad
and that the new one's
not going to be all good.
Nuance.
I'm very lucky to have a teacher
with your experience
who can handle that.
Thank you.
Room for one more? Yeah.
I heard that you did good
with Danny today.
Well, me and Joe.
He just needed a little bit
of leaning on, that's all.
Yeah, so I heard.
Remind me
not to get on your bad side.
It's too late for that.
I mean you've already gazumped me
out of the headship.
Oh.
Right.
Well, you know what you can do,
don't you?
Could go somewhere else.
Mm. Nah.
I'm still after your job.
Right.
Right.
Well, come and have a go
if you think you're hard enough.
And that is fighting talk.
Ahem.
What?
I am very busy and he is very
married, so don't even start.
I don't think he's that married.
He's moved out of the home.
Are you kidding?
I don't care.
He could be stood outside my house
with a banner on
saying "available"
and I still wouldn't go there, OK?
OK. OK.
OK.
for Tommy anywhere.
He's only got one
with Transformers on it.
I can't find half my stuff neither.
Dad?
Tommy, get up, will you?
Tommy?
Tommy's not here!
Dad! Tommy's not here!
Dad!
Tommy! Tommy!
DOG BARKS
Tommy!
Tommy?
Nice work, Lance.
All change, then.
I suppose a new uniform
is a fait accompli?
It's on its way.
Welcome to Waterloo Road, Neil.
You're not one of ours, are you?
What have you got there?
That's for my mum,
but I've done it wrong.
I don't think you've done it wrong.
Shall I put it up for you?
Got one of these.
There you go. Right next to Mum.
That's good, innit?
Tommy, what are you doing?
Issy?
Hey, come inside and warm up, eh?
You both look like you need a brew.
Come on.
And I know a woman that's got
really great biscuits.
Right, Tommy, shall I show you
where I hide the good biscuits?
Yeah, sure. Come on.
Just through here, sweetie.
It's not the easiest of days, is it?
SHE SNIFFLES
Issy, we are going to do
everything that we can to help you.
I promise.
And I want you to know that I am
not going to let anybody
in this school forget your mum.
I'll just go.
Well, I'll be at the funeral later.
Why don't Miss Spratt
and Miss Omar run you home?
There's no need.
Well, I'd just like them
to check on your dad.
Oi! Come here, you.
What school do you go to?
Waterloo Road.
No, see, what school do you go to?
I think it's that
William Beswick one.
Listen, I go to William Beswick
an' all,
so what school do you go to, mate?
William Beswick. Ah! Good boy!
I must have got, like,
20-minute kip last night?
That headcase going on about Steve.
Do I look like a Steve?!
Well, I was up till 3am trying
to suss simultaneous equations
and I still don't get it.
But what's the point? Cos those
suits haven't even decided
if I'm meant to be in school yet.
No, you're all right, man,
it's fine.
It's all right for you to say!
You've got somewhere to go
after this. What have I got?
Oh, aye! What school do you go to?
Oh, my God, Waterloo Road.
Now can you move?
It's William Beswick!
Oh, he's pushing me now!
He's pushing me!
He's too dumb to go there. Ooh!
What school do you go to, Danny?
Danny, don't waste your time on
these... Danny, do you go to school?
What school?
I ain't got a school yet.
Have you no school, mate? No home?
You've not even got a mum! Nothing!
CHANTING, SHOUTING
Danny, no!
No! Break it up, now!
Right, show is over.
And you're telling me that you want
to be allowed back into the school?
Both of you are spending
the day in isolation. Go!
Go.
Registration, now!
Thank you very much.
Do up that top button, please.
Got your bag?
O'Connor, where's your tie?
Remember I'm going to pick you up
from drama club, all right?
Do you have to? Cos Dad always
picks me up and we get smoothies.
Yeah, but not tonight.
It's OK. I can still pick her up.
Please, Mum, cos we've already
missed movie night
and it's just not fair otherwise.
I'm just going to have
a quick word with Mum, OK? OK.
This is crazy.
You went to your dad cap in hand.
You wanted the career break.
I took the career break
so that you could make head
and now that hasn't happened.
So I'm a failure?
Is that what the problem is here?
It's not me thinking you're a
failure that's causing the problem.
Look, I need to come home tonight.
I only have a weekend bag.
OK.
Bonjour, ca va.
Ah, oui, Alice, ca va. Tres bien!
Joe, I need you and Lindon to get
the behavioural unit open today.
We said next week.
Well, I just caught Dean Weaver
and Danny Lewis knocking
seven bells out of each other.
I told them they've got to spend
the day in isolation.
Hang on, the BU is not
central detention.
It's for kids on the verge
of exclusion.
We need parental signatures,
we need behaviour contracts.
I can't let them get away with
a fight, especially not after making
such a point of saying it was
zero-tolerance.
And Danny needs to know that
he hasn't got a free pass.
We're trying to pull him back in,
aren't we? Not push him out.
I can't be seen as a soft touch.
Kim, I know what happened with
Mrs Charles has hit you hard, but...
I did not change the name of
this school for no reason.
We are trying to create
a whole new culture.
We need to change too.
Which means lumping Danny in
with Dean Weaver?
It's whatever works, Joe!
BELL RINGS
Look, I've got a massive report
to write for the governors tonight,
right?
I've also got a funeral to go to.
KNOCK AT DOOR
Yeah.
What do you want?
Oi! What do you think you're doing?
That's my work, that is.
Hey, come on, I missed one payment.
Oi! Not today.
Not today, all right?
Right, it's my wife's funeral, OK?
Please.
Please! Please!
It's my wife's funeral, man.
Please!
Come back!
Come back!
Dad! Are you OK?
What's going on?
I'm Miss Spratt, I'm Amy
and this is Jamilah.
I'm the social worker attached
to Waterloo Road.
We don't need no social worker.
I appreciate it's a difficult day.
You're her, aren't you? The one
that was giving her first aid
when she should have
gone to hospital.
If you'd done your job right,
she'd still be here!
It's not her fault.
Yeah, then whose fault is it, then?
Mr Charles, we're just here to
support you and your family.
Stuff your support.
Right, we don't need it.
Not from Waterloo bloody Road
anyway. Issy, inside.
Come on, Tommy.
Issy, inside now!
What are you playing at, hey?
Get in.
Oh, Miss Campbell?
I must say, the new sign
looks very nice.
Oh, right, thank you, Neil. I've got
assembly, so I'm going to...
I do wish there'd been a little
more consultation with staff,
though, before the change
was formalised. Right.
Well, yeah, I appreciate it wasn't
an ideal process for everyone.
Well, a lot of people don't want it,
you know.
And I must admit
I do share some of their concerns.
Right, that we no longer look up
to a man who wouldn't have
let many of the pupils
anywhere near the place?
Most of them didn't know who he was
until all this.
What they did know was
the heritage of the school.
And they knew that
because their parents came here
and their grandparents.
And nobody can take that away
from them, can they?
I have tried to discuss
the underlying issues,
but you bring any nuance to the
debate and you get shouted down.
Neil, the name has changed.
We can make our own heritage.
Sorry, can we do this later?
Seriously, why are we even here?
My God.
Where were you? I waited.
I was working out. Forgot the time.
Move your leg.
Good morning, Waterloo Road.
As you know, there was a fatality
outside the school last week.
Her name was Chlo Charles.
And today is her funeral.
It's not like we got away
with anything.
It feels like we've
been in detention forever.
Doesn't matter how many we do.
It doesn't make up for someone
losing their mum.
Now, I don't want to talk about
what caused the accident again.
I'll leave that up to the enquiry.
No-one else is beating themselves
up about it like this.
No-one else started making
paint bombs. That's on me.
Just know that we have
come down hard on everybody
involved in the riot
and we will continue to do so
in the face of any
violent behaviour.
Now, I would like to have
a minute's silence to remember Chlo
and her family
on this very hard day.
I can't do this.
Miss, Shola ain't feeling well.
Toilets, if you must.
Has it been a minute yet?
Like five seconds. Shut up.
Don't tell me to shut up.
Now, as you know, there was
an email sent out last week
saying that we are pushing forward
with the new uniform.
But the good news is that you are
going to be able to see
the new uniform in here from today.
We are all in this together.
We are Waterloo Road.
COUGHS: William Beswick!
Shut up. It's Waterloo Road.
APPLAUSE
What are you doing back in bed?
Please, Is, just leave me alone.
Mum would have gone mad at you
out there.
That teacher, she tried to help Mum,
and you say all that to her.
I said I didn't need their help,
Issy.
It's not happening to just you.
You're making everything
ten times harder!
The one time I really need you,
you're not here!
SCHOOL BELL RINGS
Our guests for today, Mr King.
All right, find a seat.
Where?
Chairs, yes, right.
What is this?
Is it some sort of jail?
I don't even know
what I'm doing here.
I'm guessing you've been thinking
with your fists
like you usually do, Lewis.
Sir, this isn't my school now.
Why should I follow its rules?
Because it's my school, that's why.
And why would you want to keep
a name that so many
of your classmates find offensive?
Cos it don't bother me.
Ever heard of empathy?
What, like when you can communicate
using your brain?
Find out what it actually is
and I'll have five pages on empathy
by the end of the day.
And you, Lewis, if you want to
stay in this school, prove it.
I told them the accident was
caused by paint on my windscreen.
Still, hours the police were at ours
asking questions.
That's a bit much, isn't it?
You're not even the one
who hit the poor woman.
That is what I told them.
If I was looking at anyone,
I'd be looking at the one
who nicely bandaged her arm
instead of calling for an ambulance,
but that's just me.
Well, I guess they'll find out
what happens
when they've had
the coroner's inquest.
Girls, class.
No, Miss, please,
I have to talk to you, please.
What's the matter? Tell me at class.
Please can I go to Issy's mum's
funeral, Miss? No, you can't.
But I want to say sorry.
That's not going to help them.
It might help me.
Shola, listen, you've got to stop
beating yourself up about this.
OK, you made a mistake,
but you could not have foreseen
what happened.
So, I'm just supposed to forget? I'm
supposed to carry on like normal?
I know it's not easy.
You don't know, Miss, you don't!
For the Charles family.
Friendly advice? Mm.
Erm, some might think
it's a bit much
when you were, you know,
involved.
Involved?
See, it's one reason
I never trained as a first aider.
People point fingers at you
when things go wrong.
People are pointing fingers at me?
Probably at me too,
but of course I've been cleared
of any wrongdoing now.
Mr Charles did blame me,
but like Jamilah said,
that's just the grief talking.
Isn't it? I'm sure.
This is a mess. Do it again.
This one was all right, though.
Show your working out clearly
and fully.
Do it again.
Wendy, have you got the BU
course projections to hand?
COUGHS
Miss, this school uniform...
You two should be in class.
It's not gender neutral.
No, it's not. That's because
there are some girls that object to
not being able to wear a skirt.
Yes, because of cultural norms.
So, if we decide to be
proactive about it,
then it maybe could change.
OK, Caz... Miss Campbell,
I'm really not happy. Right.
Sorry, can you just give me
one minute?
Miss, it's a real opportunity
wasted.
Caz, it is also a cost issue.
OK? We can't expect parents to
replace skirts with trousers
unless they want to,
which is fine by the way.
But it's OK to expect us
to replace the blazer
and the tie and everything else?
I mean, I do agree with that.
But the racist name had to go. Yeah.
And anyone who supports him,
they're racist too.
All right, Nicky... Mrs Walters,
do you want to take a seat in there?
Class.
Of course.
I don't think I should be expected
to buy uniform again
just because the old one is now not
politically correct any more.
Well, we're actually going to be
issuing vouchers to cover
the cost of the blazer
and of the tie. Excuse me!
I don't need the school giving me
vouchers. No. No, sorry. I di...
I'll cover it anyway.
But I honestly think that
this is going to give us
a school where everyone
feels like they truly belong.
You know what I want?
I want my kids to belong to a school
that has decent sports gear
and computers
cos the money's not been spaffed
up the wall on uniform vouchers.
Well, I'm actually going to see
the governors tonight
and we are going to be talking
about additional sponsorship.
Oh, right.
Well, I might come along.
No, you can't.
Parents aren't invited to
the governors meeting, so.
Well, this parent's just
invited herself, all right?
The decision has been made, Nicky.
Well, decisions can be unmade, Kim.
What are you trying to do?
I'm trying to get this place
up and running.
That is a vulnerable kid in there
with no family support.
If their teacher uses fear,
intimidation and bullying,
then we cannot complain
when they do the same thing.
You know what they're learning
from your textiles and beanbags?
You're a soft touch.
You think they respect you.
I promise you they don't.
You're wrong in the head, you,
doing them sums again.
Cos I don't wanna get kicked out?
I can't wait.
I don't get you
wanting to come back in.
CLANG
I've got you crisps, man.
Mate, it's got bars on it, man.
Go find another one.
Use that way, man. Yeah, go on, man.
BANGING Oi!
He said stay in here.
They didn't put any bars
in the bogs.
Cowboys, mate.
Hey. Oh, yes, mate.
Thank you. Thank you.
What have I told you about
cheese and onion?
Chill, man.
What are you doing?
What?
You know if Mr King finds out,
he'll go nuclear.
Well, he's not going to find out,
is he?
You need to chill out, man.
The worst thing you can do
is stress.
Go on.
All I'm saying is the boy has
a talent for making wrong choices.
Yeah, and no-one to stop him
making them but us.
Do you seriously think that...
Oi! What are you doing back there?
Nothing, sir.
Open the door now!
Both of you, outside, now.
It wasn't me, sir.
I don't care who it was.
Get outside.
I'm just saying, sir, it's not me.
Get outside, Dean!
The plumbing hasn't been done
in here.
The Hundred Years War.
I take it we've all watched
the module now. So what do we think?
Sir, you've still got that up.
That's because we should be
paying attention
to the historical record,
and not whoever shouts the loudest.
Is he talking about me?
So you don't agree with getting
rid of the racist name, sir?
How long was the Hundred Years War?
How long did it last?
Now, it's tricky.
It's not as easy as it sounds.
I just asked you a question, sir.
Yes, and you're framing it
in a particularly emotive way.
Well, you either do or you don't.
All right,
if you want an honest answer,
no.
Oh, come on, sir!
William Beswick
did a lot of good in his time.
That is a fact.
History is about establishing
the truth,
whether you enjoy that truth or not.
Sir, you're something, you, sir.
Yeah, gammon!
Well, here's a truth.
You've got detention.
Again? Why? Or I've heard that
the behavioural unit is open,
if you prefer to go there.
So it doesn't bother you, sir,
that Beswick was a slave trader?
Oh, my days! No-one's actually
ever cared before.
Just cos a couple of geeks
want to go, "Oh, boohoo!"
Yeah. We don't care!
What are you piping up for?
We don't care! Chill.
Do you know who was the key advocate
for the abolition of slavery?
Mm?
The Duke of Wellington,
also known as hero of Waterloo.
But he was also involved
in Peterloo, where soldiers
opened fire on innocent protestors
just down the road from here.
So, is he to be celebrated
or vilified?
See, the full picture
is complicated,
and it goes against the nature
of my subject
to reduce it to sloganeering.
You're cancelled, you, sir.
Snowflake!
Who are you throwing at?
SHOUTING
That will do.
All right?
Mum would have told you to iron them
properly, but all right.
There's a big car.
All right.
Come on, kids.
CRYING
Hey.
Hey, it's all right.
Oi.
You don't want to go, do you, son?
OK. I'll tell you what, why don't
you go next door with Di?
Yeah?
I'm sure she could do with a hand
looking after Sparky, all right?
And I'll give this to Mummy.
Won't Mum be upset? No.
No, not with you, son.
Not with you.
Come here.
Come on. Let's go.
Do you want to sign against
the new uniform?
No? Extra chips if you sign.
Mum, what are you...? Mum!
Sign against the uniform?
I appreciate what you're doing,
Nicky,
but a few signatures isn't going
to make any difference now.
I suppose not.
So why don't we find a way
to make this work for all of us?
How about a couple of hundred
signatures online? What?
Well, parents' WhatsApp group's
up in arms.
It's busier than when Mr King did
online swimming lessons. Oh, my God.
Right, I've got a funeral to go to.
I can't do this now.
See, you don't appreciate
what a stretch this is for people.
One little unexpected cost
and that's one day this week
you can't afford to eat.
I'm lucky, but, you know,
for other people.
Mum, why are you getting
so hung up on this?
Excuse me,
I actually have low blood sugar.
So...
BEEP
I am aware of the costs, OK,
and I'm doing everything that
I can to soften the blow.
But pupils are not going to be sent
home for wearing the wrong shoes
on day one of the new uniform,
I promise.
Well, I want to hear what
the governors think, to be honest.
I've asked the governors to
back me on this.
I've said that
I've got parental support.
Should have asked the parents first,
then.
Who died
and made you Marcus Rashford?
See, I told you he's going to
expel us.
Technically it was only you
they caught.
But I bet he's going to grass us up.
I'm not a grass.
Till you get thrown out.
I'd grass. Shut up.
I'm not a grass.
Who brought it into the building?
What were you doing round the back?
Sir, just giving him his crisps,
sir.
Crisps. All right, what, like
salt and vinegar? Beef?
I think it was cheese and onion.
Cheese and onion.
Cheese and onion.
Do you think we're stupid?
Who brought drugs into the school?
Lewis?
You two, leave.
Sir. Cheers, sir.
If you're trying to protect
those two idiots,
I strongly suggest you think again.
Yeah, well, I'm not.
Then where did it come from, then?
Got it at the hostel.
Why are you even going
anywhere near drugs?
Look, it's the work, OK?
It's too hard!
And I'm already falling behind
and then you go and put me in there!
I just needed to de-stress!
Right.
Well, you're about to find out
what real stress is.
It's a police matter, obviously.
Sir. Come on.
There are plenty of kids that would
give their right arm
for this opportunity and you
throw it away like that. I'm not.
If I had seen commitment
in your work, Lewis, I'd be able to
stand by you, but I haven't seen
anything like that.
You've had it in for me
ever since I first got here.
If anyone would have had my back, I
would have thought that it'd be you.
Take a seat.
You know that weed
did not come in with Danny.
That's not what he said.
Well, he won't grass, will he?
Not even on the likes of Weaver.
Look, I've seen what
I need to see, OK?
No, you saw what you wanted to see.
Criminalise him now,
he's finished. We lose him for good.
Yeah, and if we don't, he's going
to think he can do what he likes.
No repercussions, no nothing.
Lindon, I am head of safeguarding.
I know things about Danny's
background that you don't.
I know more than you ever will
about Danny's background.
This is not going to help. Hello?
This is Mr King from Waterloo Road.
Do you think he's going to get
kicked out, though? Don't know.
I mean, is he going to be able to
stay in that hostel and that?
Don't know.
Do you think maybe you should have
said something, then?
My dad'll leather us
if I get kicked out.
Chill, man.
Oh, you have got to be joking.
Shola Aku, where do you think
you're going?
You do not leave school
without permission.
Go and report to Miss Whitwell,
please.
I'm going to the funeral.
No. No, we've talked about this.
You said yourself about
responsibility -
this is me taking it.
No, this is you acting as reckless
as you did at the protest.
See, you do blame me! And you're
dead right because it's my fault.
Oh, get in.
Serious, Miss? We'll talk to
your parents on the way, OK,
but you do not speak to
the Charles family.
Do you understand? Yeah. Yes, Miss.
We come together here today
to remember
and celebrate
the life of Chlo Charles.
And it's important
that as time goes on,
we remember the good moments
in Chlo's life.
And in that spirit, Dante would now
like to share his memories of Chlo.
I, erm...
I never expected to have
to be up here.
But I...
I'm going to try
and do a good job for you.
Chlo was the best person.
Chlo was...
I see we've got Waterloo Road in.
Shouldn't you be at school?
You know, doing your job?
You know, if you did that right,
Chlo might still be here,
Miss Campbell. I'm sorry.
Sorry?
You've got no clue.
No clue how it feels
standing up here.
Dante,
would you like to take a moment?
Come on.
I'm sorry.
I can't do it. I'm sorry.
Yeah, go on. Get out of here.
I told you not to take
the ring road.
Just because you picked me up
from the airport,
you think you can pull a fast one.
I'm a local, mate!
Whatever. Yeah. Same to you too.
Go on!
Denise.
Honey. Come here.
Thank God. I thought I was late.
I'm so sorry about Chlo.
I can't believe it.
That is not how you do a tie up,
you know.
Wait a minute,
why are you out here by yourself?
I just... I couldn't face it, Jan.
What, you mean
everyone's in there waiting?
Oh, mate, look, you'll feel worse
later if you don't.
Is this your speech?
"The best person."
"If I could get hold of those
responsible..."
I can't work out the rest of it.
It's your handwriting.
Yeah, well, I was hammered
when I wrote it, so.
Yeah, well,
most of it is quite angry.
But the stuff about Chlo is lovely.
You can't not say it.
If I say it,
then it's real, you know?
Hey.
I knew that you'd be like this
today, so I got this made.
I got it engraved.
WWCD.
What would Chlo do?
Jan, it says WWDC.
What would do Chlo?
Oh, I blame Budgen! He never did
teach me no good spelling or owt.
Fine.
I tell ya what would do Chlo.
You have got a duty to do.
You've got all these lovely words
and people need to hear them.
I just should have done more,
you know?
No, you've done all that you could.
She was always telling me
that you couldn't do more for her.
Well, that was after she banged on
about you driving her mad.
You've got to do this today for her.
I don't think I can, Jan.
But will you?
Are you sure you're all right,
Miss?
He just needed someone to shout at.
But it shouldn't be you.
It's not fair.
Not a lot is.
Have we come the wrong way?
I want to show you something.
Something that I don't often share.
This is Dexter.
This is my son.
He was very brave.
Weren't you, my angel?
I should have seen
the symptoms earlier.
I should have trusted my instincts
that something was wrong.
But I didn't.
And he went through so much.
And then he was gone,
and it was all my fault.
And it took me a long time
to accept that there are just
some things in life
that are out of your control.
But you have to, Shola, you have to
realise that you did your best
and nobody thinks that
it's your fault.
Chlo was the best person
I ever knew.
And this is Dante speaking,
yeah? So just pretend.
She was kind,
funny, caring and strange...
Strong, she were strong.
Sorry!
She was beautiful, inside and out.
A wonderful wife, a great mum.
But I'm not saying she didn't have
her annoying little habits,
like stealing your chips,
doing the dishes again
after I'd already done 'em,
and supporting United!
But all those things are just what
made you love her even more
because they were
a part of who she was.
You might think this sounds weird,
but I stand here feeling like
the luckiest man in the world.
Because me and Chlo met so young,
we shared so many years together.
She gave me two beautiful children
and I see Chlo every day
in little worser... Eh?
Eh?
Cheers, Jan.
I see Chlo
every day in little ways that they
have that are just like her.
In Tommy's jokes...
..in Issy's smile.
And also the way that Issy never
lets me get away with a thing.
You know, Chlo was a good person.
Which makes it that more unfair
that...
You know what? Scrap that part.
Chlo wouldn't want us
to waste our life being angry.
And she'd want us to be happy.
SCHOOL BELL RINGS
What the...
Oh, no.
Oh, no.
Right!
Awesome, Sammy. Now, what other
persuasive techniques do we know?
Sit down and shut your hole!
Written techniques, Kelly Jo.
KNOCK AT DOOR Come in.
Miss, can I see Kelly Jo Rafferty,
please?
Regarding the vandalism
of my classroom.
What? Are you sure it was her?
Oh, yes,
she's got a very distinctive style.
All right, Mr Historical Facts.
It was me.
Come on, then.
No! Cos what do you expect?
When you're all like, "Oh, well
William Beswick did good too."
What, cos he paid for some museums
and that? Yeah, yeah.
No, cos I would have been
dead impressed
while I was chained up
in the bottom of his boat.
Kelly Jo. No, cos that's where
I would have been, Miss.
Make no mistake.
And if you want that name
on your chest,
you are as bad as the people
that let him do it.
Worse even, cos you don't care.
You don't care about no-one
but yourself.
Sorry, Miss.
OK, yeah, I'll let her know
as soon as she gets back.
Thanks, Jamilah.
Right.
Well, I probably shouldn't be
telling you this,
but the LEA have agreed to
fund your place, Danny.
Danny, that is great news!
So, I got in?
Well, I guess that depends.
What do you say, then?
Sir.
In there, Lewis.
Officer.
This is for you.
You don't know who it belongs to?
No idea whose it is.
One of yours must have dropped it.
That's what we thought,
isn't it, Mr Casey?
Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's, yeah,
that's exactly what we thought,
yeah.
Well, I'll need to take a statement.
Sure.
Can you give me a minute?
Very last chance.
So, where were we?
You've got another week of
detentions for sneaking off,
you do know that, right?
You can use it to make up for
the work that you've missed out on.
OK, Miss.
Miss? Mm?
I reckon you were a banging mum.
This is good.
Danny, has it ever occurred to you
that maybe I do have your back?
Just not in the way you want.
I'm not your mate.
I'm here to get the best out of you.
Does Miss Campbell
have to know about the weed?
She's had a hard enough day
as it is.
But Danny,
when this place does open,
I don't want to see you
back here again. OK?
CLEARS HIS THROAT
You were never going to tell
the police, were you?
I told you.
I know what I'm doing.
DISTANT BANGING
Sir! I have just been sent here
by Mr Guthrie, the fascist!
Oh, my God, I'm actually
going to scream.
You just did.
You just did, Kelly Jo.
Come on, you bundle of joy.
Let's go. My office.
How are you finding it?
Yeah, all right.
Yeah? Good.
Hey.
Ah, I'm glad you could join us,
Shola.
We're just carrying on with the
soundtracks from the short films.
Thank you.
Hi. Where have you been?
I'll tell you later.
What have I missed?
Only my mum being a total cringe,
planning on shaming herself
by crashing the governors' meeting.
And hating on Miss Campbell just
cos she already bought uniform.
Fill this bit in.
Mr Guthrie is very upset.
Yeah, well, he's racist, isn't it?
You destroyed school property.
Yeah, and it was a whole
classroom of wrong,
so why are you actually
shouting at me? I'm not shouting.
You made your point last week
and there's been big changes
in response to it.
But this, you've gone too far.
Yeah, well, he's racist, though.
You have just done a week
in detention
and now you've got yourself
another one,
but is it going to make
any difference?
How many times have we been here?
It's the same story. All the time!
You're confrontational, you're
aggressive, you're disruptive.
I have told you before, you are
heading rapidly towards exclusion.
OK!
OK. Yeah, well, I'm sorry.
Can we just skip to the rest
of it? I'm dead tired now.
Rest of what? Well, you say
I could get thrown out
and then I tell you, like, I'm
upset cos my dad hasn't phoned me
in ages or whatever.
And then you say,
"OK, Kelly Jo, well my door's
always open, isn't it?"
And then I say, "Yeah, well,
see you later then, Sir.
"Thank you so much for today. Bye!"
Sit down, now!
I was only joking.
I'm running out of options,
Kelly Jo.
Violent behaviour now means
you go to the behavioural unit.
Sir, you don't mean that.
You're just trying to scare me,
aren't you, Sir? Am I?
Just there on the right, please.
Actually, just leave them here.
Thank you.
Hello. I did not expect
to be feasting my eyes
on your boxers today. What?
Your wife left them at your desk.
Thanks. Really good of you
to bring them all the way here
instead of just letting me know
they were in the office.
You're welcome.
Everything OK? Everything's fine.
This dropped out, by the way.
Are you sure everything's OK?
Thanks again.
YELLING: Dan! One more mistake.
Oh, my God! Move!
"One more mistake," he said.
What? One more mistake and I'm
going to the BU? Well, fine! Do it!
Be the worst mistake he ever made,
and do you know what he said to me?
He said... Shola was talking.
Right, so Miss Campbell might be
like all up in your business
the whole time, but at least
she listens,
and she's trying to make
a difference.
And I don't agree with her
on the specifics of the uniform,
but the racist name had to go.
His mum was making out
like no-one wants the uniform.
We can't let Mrs Walters
ruin everything.
Well, what are we supposed to do?
Have yous tried talking my mum out
of summat she's got her mind set on?
Well, I was thinking - if she can
crash the governors' meeting,
why can't we? Yeah, yeah.
It's not how I'd leave the classroom
for the first teacher in tomorrow.
It won't happen again.
I did everything that I could
for Mrs Charles.
There's no way I could have known
that anything was seriously wrong.
Well, as long as you know what
happened, that's all that matters.
Right, I've washed up,
I have filled the fridge up
and I have flung that smelly
bag of rubbish.
I mean, that was my laundry,
but never mind!
Yeah, well it's probably only
halfway down the wheelie bin.
Sorry!
Oh, Denise, thanks for everything.
Look, yous are all going to be
OK, you know. Yeah.
Yeah, we're going to be OK,
aren't we, hey? Yeah.
Right, well, I need to go.
Can't keep Nanna Bryant waiting.
Right, so what do I owe you?
A cheeky voddy next time
I'm in town.
Oh, aye. When's that going to be?
I don't know. I mean, even without
Chlo, I do miss this place.
And don't you forget, WWDC.
WWDC.
What would do Chlo? Come here.
I love you, darling. Thank you.
CAR HORN PIPS
Right, come here, you two.
Give me cuddles!
Hey, and you be good for Daddy.
What do you say?
Thank you!
See you later.
Cheers.
Nicky, please.
As a colleague, I am asking you,
please don't do this.
You can see how many people
agree with me.
I have got massive ideas for this
school, but I can't do my job
unless I can show that I've got
the community behind me.
I do three jobs, Miss Campbell,
and I do them all
without anybody behind me.
Miss, it's Dean and Danny.
It's going off again.
Your Preston's fighting an' all.
You what?
Well, where are they? Preston?
Just so you know, Miss,
some of us are on your side.
Kai!
Oh, wow.
Introducing newly improved
Waterloo Road!
CHEERING
What?!
Take it away.
Brilliant. Brilliant!
Sorry, Mum.
Go on, Danny!
I think that the pupils
have seen my report.
The bit at the end that says that
kids will embrace anything.
It's us that struggle.
Let's look to the future.
CHEERING
Danny. Congratulations.
I heard you got in.
Well done.
Nicky. Just leave me, please.
Look, I know that you don't
agree with this.
It's not that I don't agree.
I just...
I can't...
It's just one thing too many.
I can't...
Hey, hey, hey, hey. Hey.
Talk to me.
SHE SOBS
I'm on the bones of my arse.
I pull together enough
to make it through the week
and then there's another email,
there's another school trip,
there's a Christmas party.
Bloody uniform!
I'm so sorry. I had no idea.
Well, of course you didn't.
Nobody does,
because I don't let them.
Because I don't want my kids
going without.
Because I don't want them worrying,
so of course you've no idea.
You've no idea what it's like being
a single mum to two teenagers
who want stuff all the time!
Lucky you.
KNOCK AT DOOR
Sir?
You know that essay?
You still not worked it out, Weaver?
No, I've done it.
I'll see you here tomorrow.
Sir.
MUSIC: You Haven't Loved Until
You've Lost by Paris Youth Foundation
I mean, it's supposed to say,
"What would Chlo do?" but...
Poor Denise! Yeah.
Dad, what will we do?
Mum did everything for us.
Hey, we're going to be OK.
Everything's going to be all right.
I suppose I'll have to buy them
now you've put them on.
That's not what you say about
all the going out stuff
you send off for. That's different.
I don't know why you had to make
all that fuss, Mum.
Money's not that tight.
Wipe your feet.
Oh, Neil.
I heard about your classroom.
Kelly Jo has been
appropriately punished.
She is a prime candidate for the BU.
But in the meantime, she'll still
be in my lesson, of course.
I have to apologise.
I think that
I have made it harder for you.
For everyone, probably.
Yeah, well,
let's just hope it works.
I need people who remember that
the old school wasn't all bad
and that the new one's
not going to be all good.
Nuance.
I'm very lucky to have a teacher
with your experience
who can handle that.
Thank you.
Room for one more? Yeah.
I heard that you did good
with Danny today.
Well, me and Joe.
He just needed a little bit
of leaning on, that's all.
Yeah, so I heard.
Remind me
not to get on your bad side.
It's too late for that.
I mean you've already gazumped me
out of the headship.
Oh.
Right.
Well, you know what you can do,
don't you?
Could go somewhere else.
Mm. Nah.
I'm still after your job.
Right.
Right.
Well, come and have a go
if you think you're hard enough.
And that is fighting talk.
Ahem.
What?
I am very busy and he is very
married, so don't even start.
I don't think he's that married.
He's moved out of the home.
Are you kidding?
I don't care.
He could be stood outside my house
with a banner on
saying "available"
and I still wouldn't go there, OK?
OK. OK.
OK.