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00:02Well, how do you feel, young fella, me lad?
00:04Looking forward to your niece coming out.
00:06Oh, my great-granddaughter.
00:09There's not many of us managed to be a great-grandmother.
00:12Your mum's just a gran.
00:14I'm a great-gran.
00:21You know, I'm not looking forward to being called gran or granny or grandmother.
00:25You'll get used to it.
00:26I'm not sure that I will.
00:28We all do. I did.
00:30Yeah, but I'm not sure that I want to.
00:32Oh, we'll move on and up, mate, room.
00:35Yeah, I suppose that's the trouble.
00:37Yeah, you know, when I was lying in hospital, I felt so bad.
00:41I started thinking, I thought,
00:43what chance have I got to see Michelle and the baby?
00:46I felt so low, I thought, I'll never see the day.
00:48But here I am, and there she is.
00:51She will be soon.
00:53I thought you'd got to fetch Michelle.
00:55No, Lofty come round and said he'd do it.
00:57Lofty?
00:58Yeah.
00:58What's it got to do with Lofty?
00:59Well, he seems to think quite a bit.
01:01Why didn't you stop him?
01:02Arthur, he insisted.
01:04Insisted? He's no right to insist.
01:06Oh, well, I thought he had.
01:07He's got no say in the matter at all.
01:08Oh, well, you tell him then.
01:09You're being stupid, Arthur.
01:11What's being stupid got to do with it?
01:13Well, it's right that Lofty should fetch Michelle and the baby.
01:16He's going to marry her.
01:17He's going to be the father of Michelle's baby.
01:19He's out of order, definitely out of order.
01:21I thought you'd be pleased that Lofty's taking responsibility for Michelle and the baby.
01:25Yeah, well, I'm not talking about that.
01:27What are you talking about, then?
01:29I don't trust him.
01:31Oh, Arthur.
01:33Lofty don't have to fetch Michelle.
01:34I wouldn't be too sure about that.
01:36I've still got a sneaking suspicion that Lofty's got more to answer for than either he or Michelle are letting
01:40on.
01:42Arthur, if Lofty is the dad, he's going to marry Michelle.
01:45I don't see what they've got to gain by hiding.
01:48Maybe nothing, maybe something.
01:49I don't know.
01:49It's just how I feel.
01:51That's all the more reason Lofty should fetch Michelle.
01:53Yes, yes, yes.
01:54All right, all right.
01:55What's all this?
01:56Well, one's from Den to help celebrate.
01:59Oh, that's nice.
02:00Yes, the other's from Lofty.
02:10Just a minute.
02:14Mind you don't bump her head, eh?
02:15Don't bump your head, either.
02:17You're not going to drop her, are you?
02:18I can do something stupid.
02:19All right, I'm sorry.
02:20I'm just being careful, you know.
02:21I'm being careful.
02:22Yeah, yeah, I know.
02:23I'm sorry.
02:23Feels like royalty, didn't it?
02:24Bring the baby home.
02:26I remember how we felt when we brought her sand home.
02:28Yeah, and look, how much do I owe you, huh?
02:30On the air, Slotty.
02:31Oh, no, I've got to give you something, mate.
02:32I insist, eh?
02:33I insist all you like.
02:34I ain't taking anything.
02:35All right, well, I'll give you a tip then, eh?
02:37A big tip.
02:37Nothing, Lofty.
02:39All right, well, thanks, mate.
02:40Thanks a lot.
02:41That's good enough.
02:41Good luck.
02:42Yeah, tell.
02:43Come and shut up.
02:44Here.
02:46Go on.
02:47Have you got the key?
02:47When can we expect Michelle and the baby and Rambo?
02:52Oh, you should have locked.
02:54We could have given you a hand.
02:54No, it's all right.
02:55We can manage.
02:56Oh, welcome home, little lady.
02:59Oh, isn't she lovely?
03:01Look at that little thing.
03:03She's beautiful.
03:04What a little love.
03:06She's tinier now.
03:07She's home than she was in the hospital.
03:09Don't you think we should give her a bit of air?
03:10I mean, all these big faces might frighten her a bit.
03:13We're family.
03:13Relatives.
03:14Yeah, still look like giants, though, eh?
03:16Family giants.
03:17She knows us.
03:19She knows we love her.
03:21Listen, how are you, love?
03:22I'm all right.
03:23Feels a bit weird to be home.
03:25Feels like I've been away for ages.
03:26Here you are, darling.
03:27Here.
03:28This is your gran.
03:29Oh, Arthur, for God's sake.
03:30Give me a name.
03:32And this is your great-grand.
03:33I am, I am.
03:35Yeah.
03:36And I'm your granddad.
03:37And I'm her dad, eh?
03:39Yeah, yeah.
03:39Yeah, let's have a look at her.
03:40Look, I want to introduce her to Martin.
03:43There you are.
03:43Look, Martin.
03:44Look.
03:45Here's your new niece.
03:46Should I hold on to her for a bit now?
03:48Oh, no, love.
03:48Do you let me hold?
03:49Look, let me take her.
03:50She needs peace and quiet.
03:51Look, that's what I was trying to say, show her.
03:53Only nobody was listening, eh?
03:54I'll take her upstairs.
03:56Oh, were you told to go to bed?
03:58No.
03:58That's funny.
03:59Pauline was.
04:00No, I've got to settle her in quietly.
04:01The only place I can do that is upstairs.
04:03Oh, well, I'll come up with you.
04:04Mum, I want to take my baby up to my room.
04:07Be on my own, OK?
04:08Oh, I was only offering to help.
04:10Dut, Michelle's come back with the baby.
04:13I heard.
04:16You heard?
04:17She's only just back.
04:19Ah, news trails fast round here.
04:21Sparrows bring it.
04:22Do they?
04:22Ha, and he popped his head round the door.
04:24Oh, you heard it from him.
04:27Well, I'm going round to have a look later.
04:29Come with me.
04:30Oh, I don't know if I approve in the circumstances.
04:33What circumstances?
04:35Well, the circumstances of the baby's conception.
04:39Yes, but nobody knows about that, do they, except Michelle, of course?
04:43Possibly the father.
04:44Yes, but the sin was persevered with.
04:47Was it?
04:48The baby was born at a wedlock.
04:50Well, I see what you mean.
04:52Yes, do we encourage sin?
04:54That's the question.
04:55Well, of course we don't, Dut.
04:56That's the answer.
04:57Ah, but is it?
04:58I mean, our very presence round the court
05:01could seem to say that we condone the sin.
05:03Would it?
05:04Well, of course it would.
05:05We bring our support, we bring our gifts,
05:07we bring our best wishes,
05:08and therefore we bring our approval.
05:10I mean, Lord knows where it's stopped.
05:12Then, if it's all right with you,
05:14I'm going to get back over the road in a minute,
05:15just to make sure everything's all right.
05:17That'd be all right, wouldn't it?
05:18Yeah, that's all right.
05:19I mean, visitors and that,
05:20as the fiancé and the future father of the baby,
05:22I think I should be there
05:23just to make sure everything's going smoothly, eh?
05:25Oh, without a doubt, yeah.
05:27Bet the real father wishes he was here today, eh?
05:30I'm sorry for him, really.
05:31Big of you.
05:32Still, I mean, he could be here if he wanted to, I suppose,
05:34and seeing as he isn't,
05:36I suppose you don't want to, eh?
05:38Well, it could look like that, yeah.
05:39Then?
05:40Yes?
05:40I was thinking I would like to buy you a drink
05:43and a small cigar to celebrate, eh?
05:45Sorry?
05:45To celebrate what, lovely?
05:46Well, my baby.
05:47That's Simon.
05:48Do you want a drink?
05:49Oh, cheers, love.
05:50Yeah, have an hour.
05:50All right, then.
05:51Travel scotch.
05:52Thanks, George.
05:53Yeah, thanks, Lofty.
05:54I'll have to drink later, if I'll give me wits about me.
05:56I'm thinking of getting a new car
05:57and I've got Ali come round and look at the old one.
05:58Oh, well, I wish you the best of luck
06:00with all your endeavours, then.
06:05Andy, Debs, can I get you a drink?
06:07And you might like one of these small cigars, eh?
06:10It is, mate, thanks.
06:11All right.
06:12Debs?
06:12Oh, not for me, thank you, Lofty.
06:14Oh, well, put it behind your ear, eh?
06:15It's how you're till late.
06:16It's always need of, then, eh?
06:17Well, you know, everybody loves her baby.
06:19That's right.
06:19I'm in love with you.
06:20Oh, there he is, mate.
06:21Yeah, congratulations, mate.
06:22Yeah, well, come across later.
06:23See the little mate.
06:24Hey, have a drink and a bun and that.
06:25Yeah, mate, just do that.
06:26Great.
06:27Cheers.
06:27It's been like that since he came in.
06:29Not the father, eh?
06:30But in the mould of the father.
06:31Well, so long as he's happy.
06:32Yeah.
06:33I envy him.
06:34Why is that, love?
06:34Life's so simple, eh?
06:36Well, not for you.
06:36I keep worrying about this visit from the DHSS inspector.
06:39Now, what is there to worry about, eh?
06:41I've been picking up money where I can, cash in hand.
06:43Well, be glad you can, cos lots can.
06:45Yes, I know, but I really do want to be honest.
06:47Well, needs must when the devil drives.
06:49Yes, and I'm also worried about us.
06:50Why?
06:51Us living in the same house.
06:53Well, we're not cohabiting, to use that charming phrase.
06:55No, but we did once.
06:56Well, that's history, isn't it?
06:58Yes, yes, sir.
06:59Well, we can prove it easily enough.
07:00And the past is past.
07:01What is important is now.
07:03And we're not living together now, are we?
07:05No, but we are in the same house.
07:07Well, that's not a long incident.
07:09Well, look, we're going to have to mark out our private territory
07:11to show that we're not living together.
07:13Right.
07:13That we're not living with anyone in that sense,
07:15that we're separate.
07:16Right, nor that we intend to live together.
07:18No.
07:19I suppose not.
07:20No, I suppose about it, isn't it?
07:22Why?
07:23Nor that you intend to live with anyone else either, do you?
07:28Look at them two.
07:29Yeah.
07:30Well?
07:31Well, they're having a private conversation.
07:33Well, they shouldn't be.
07:34Well, I think it's nice.
07:35I think it's nice that people are trying to communicate with each other.
07:38She should be working.
07:40When I look around this bar, I see you and Kath and all the others having private conversations.
07:44Leave it out, Dave.
07:46I intend to.
07:47Roy's coming here shortly to put his neck under the guillotine.
07:50Will they get the shot, then?
07:51Yes.
07:52Good.
07:52I think that's best.
07:54Yes, then I'm free again.
07:55Totally free.
07:56Not cohabiting with anyone or intending to, and I'm not going to.
07:59Me too.
08:00Well, the HSS can find nothing wrong with that.
08:03Nothing at all.
08:04You all right with me, mate?
08:05Okay, a minute to take it aside.
08:06Lead on.
08:07All right.
08:07Well, after you, I just want to say...
08:08Oh, what's up?
08:09Oh, the sky.
08:10No, go on, go on.
08:11What were you going to say?
08:12Nothing.
08:13Oh, come on.
08:14All right.
08:15I was just going to say that you're not the father of the baby, all right?
08:19Yeah, I know I'm not the father of the baby, then.
08:20I mean, you don't have to tell me, do you?
08:22I'm going to try to be.
08:23I mean, if it was left to the real father, then Vicky wouldn't have a dad, would she?
08:27Just appreciate it if you didn't keep reminding me.
08:29If everyone didn't keep reminding me.
08:31Yeah.
08:32Okay.
08:34It's just...
08:34What?
08:35Oh, nothing.
08:40You turn it off.
08:42This is a luxury car, this is.
08:45Yeah, Dan.
08:46What?
08:46You seen the baby yet?
08:48No.
08:49You got a pass?
08:49Or later.
08:50Oh, I am.
08:51Lovely baby.
08:52Really lovely.
08:54Yeah, well, you've seen one, you've seen them all.
08:55With prime examples like this, you need to travel, eh?
08:57Lofty must have a child of his own now.
08:59Not good having another man's baby in the house, is it?
09:01Let's just concentrate on the car, shall we?
09:02Hey, hey!
09:03What?
09:04Would you buy a second-hand car of that, man?
09:06I'm about to find out.
09:08Don't mess it up for me, Tone.
09:10Guff and coat, come on.
09:11Sorry!
09:12Right, let's get back to the car, then.
09:14This is ideal for a minicabin.
09:15West End, airports, businessmen.
09:17If you want to buy it, buy it.
09:18If you don't, forget all about it, all right?
09:19I'm going back inside for a drink.
09:22Yes, sir, then.
09:22Oi!
09:23Fiat up?
09:24Pinky and Perky.
09:25Get off!
09:26Yeah, let me get me in, Bungie.
09:34We've already looked at the car, Dan.
09:36Did it earlier.
09:37Seems to be all right, doesn't it?
09:38Yeah, not bad.
09:39The best.
09:40Cheers.
09:40Yeah, lads on the house, and I can't be fair in that, can I?
09:43Three drinks and a bargain, can I?
09:44How much of a bargain?
09:45That's the question, isn't it?
09:47Well, how much do you reckon it's worth?
09:48Well, you tell us.
09:49Well, from a stranger, I expect one thing.
09:51From a friend, another.
09:52How much to a friend?
09:54Well, from a stranger, I'd want 900.
09:56It's a bit steep, innit?
09:57Yeah, well, that's from a stranger.
09:58A friend, well, how much would a friend be prepared to go to?
10:01400?
10:02I didn't hear that.
10:04400.
10:04Well, it's a good job I'm standing up against this bar.
10:06I always had a fallen over it, wouldn't I?
10:08I said to my friend, not a relative, I mean, we didn't charge my mother, did it?
10:11Well, you tell us then how much.
10:14700.
10:15It's about.
10:22All right, Sergeant, would you like a smoked cigar?
10:25No, not brown coffee.
10:28You can see it's in good, Nick, and remember the old motto,
10:31never ever sell a duff car on your own doorstep.
10:34Done.
10:35Cheers.
10:36Have a drink?
10:37This time you look and pay for them.
10:39I'm fed up with doing you people favours.
10:41Is it possible to have five minutes to talk to Roy?
10:43It's working hours, darling.
10:45Yes, it's very important.
10:46Deal with your men outside.
10:47Well, I'd rather get it over and done with now,
10:49because I won't be able to see Roy again today.
10:51Possibly.
10:52All right, just this once, under the heading of human management, right?
10:55But don't take liberties.
10:55Once is enough.
10:56I won't, Den, thanks.
10:57Good.
10:58Pleasure.
11:01You did that just to cross me, didn't you?
11:03Just because I'm letting people try and sort out their love life?
11:05Let them sort them out in their own time.
11:07Look, I can see they're trying to sort out their love lives,
11:08and you can see they're trying to sort out their love lives, eh, all right?
11:10Have a heart.
11:11You're going soft, aren't you?
11:12It's better than being hard.
11:13Cool, chance will be a fine thing.
11:15Well, the moment of truth.
11:18This is what I've been asking for all these weeks,
11:19so what's the answer?
11:21Well.
11:23Oh, well, that's it, isn't it, mate?
11:25I mean, yes would have been easier than well,
11:27but well always leads to a no, right?
11:30Afraid so.
11:33Yeah, well, you've made your mind up, have you?
11:37Yes, I have.
11:38I'm sorry.
11:39No chance of change?
11:41No.
11:43I was depending on...
11:45I'm sorry.
11:48Well, what do I say?
11:49I mean, I just don't know what to say.
11:51Is there anything to say?
11:53Yeah, I feel there is something to say.
11:55I mean, I feel you kept giving me hope all this time, you know, and then suddenly kaput.
11:59It's all over.
12:00I understand.
12:01I mean, I feel...
12:04Look, you couldn't let Andy go after all, could you?
12:06I mean, you used me to get him back.
12:08That's not fair.
12:09That was far from my mind.
12:10Was it?
12:11I don't...
12:12I don't think I was thinking like that.
12:14Yeah, well, maybe not, but that's how I feel, right?
12:17Yeah.
12:20I'd allowed myself to dream, you know, to hope.
12:23Home.
12:24Family.
12:26Promotion.
12:27A nice life with a nice wife.
12:29Yes, well, I'm sorry.
12:31I'm going to be getting back now, then, if that's all right.
12:33Yeah, why don't you and Angie come over later, you know, see the baby?
12:36Well, we will do one day, Lofty.
12:37I mean, Michelle's about to take the baby for a walk in the square,
12:39and with a bit of luck, when it's old enough, they'll come in and buy a drink.
12:41Now, off you go, mate.
12:42You're a family man now.
12:43Yeah, all right.
12:44Ta-da, then.
12:44Yeah, ta-da.
12:50Now, come along, please, ladies and gents, to set them glasses.
12:56I'll come to see the baby.
12:58Can I get you a drink?
12:59Oh, I'll drive to see the baby's house.
13:00Oh, we've got some nice biscuits.
13:01Well, I can't wait to get there.
13:03I'll have a slice of cake.
13:04You've got a great big...
13:04I've got some small cigars.
13:06Look, the kids are up there at the moment.
13:07I couldn't keep them out.
13:09Oh, well, maybe afterwards, eh?
13:11Yes, I'll give them another five minutes before I send them back.
13:13Why don't you sit down for a little bit, Sue?
13:15I can get you a drink.
13:17Here we are.
13:17Ta.
13:19Um, and, um...
13:20Oh, that's a lot lofty.
13:21And, uh, a small cigar?
13:23Uh, no, no.
13:24Too strong for me, thanks.
13:25Oh, well, put it behind your ear, eh?
13:27You could always give it to Al later, right, eh?
13:28Oh, right, yeah.
13:28Not in me ear, lofty, eh?
13:30Bit of a special occasion, this, eh?
13:32Well, for you?
13:33Oh, yeah, I suppose it is.
13:35Uh, can I get anyone else a drink?
13:36No, thank you.
13:37No, not me either, first.
13:38Well, since you're playing the perfect host, lofty, I won't say no.
13:42Half that?
13:42That's my name.
13:44How are things going with you, Sue?
13:46Oh, great.
13:46I'm getting fatter by the second.
13:48Yeah.
13:48I can't wait.
13:49Really looking forward to it, you know?
13:50It's like I'll have a family again, you know?
13:52Mum, Dad, baby.
13:54I really like that.
13:55I suppose that's the saddest part about Michelle, really, isn't it?
13:58Her little baby.
13:59Not knowing who her dad is.
14:00Well, not her real dad, maybe, but...
14:03Oh, I'm sorry, lofty.
14:04Really, I'm really sorry.
14:05No, it's all right, it's all right.
14:06You're right.
14:07I will be doing me best, though, won't I?
14:09I'm sure you will.
14:10Oh, things are hot enough.
14:12I'll get it.
14:12I'll get it.
14:14Come on, Arthur.
14:15We'll go and make some more tea and put some stuff on the floor.
14:17Yeah, Ollie.
14:18You stay here.
14:19Pauline asks me.
14:20Mum, you've been bouncing about enough today.
14:22Just sit there and be quiet.
14:24It's Dot and Ethel, everybody.
14:25Hello, darling.
14:26Hey, come in.
14:26Hello.
14:27Do you want a drink or something?
14:28Have a biscuit.
14:29We need some more biscuits, really.
14:30Oh, Pauline.
14:31Uh, Pauline, let's get some more biscuits, all right?
14:33It's all right, Doctor.
14:34He is, aren't I, doing that?
14:35We're making some more tea.
14:36Uh, take a seat, Doctor.
14:38Oh, OK.
14:39Pauline.
14:39Um, would you like a drink while you're waiting?
14:42Well, I won't say no to a little drop of whiskey, seeing it's a special occasion.
14:45Yeah, that's the spirit, Doc.
14:46Oh.
14:47Um, how about you, Ethel?
14:48Oh, not for me, thank you.
14:49No, spirits at this time of the day give me ideas I can't carry out.
14:53Well, yeah, but, I mean, it's not every day that Michelle comes home with a baby, is it?
14:57No, I know.
14:57I mean, I don't know whether she's done this before or not,
15:00but it might be the start of many, mightn't it, eh?
15:04Yeah, yeah, I see what you mean.
15:05Well, even if it is the start of many, then it's still a good excuse for a celebration.
15:08Yes, well, I'll have one in any case.
15:10Cheers.
15:10What about one of these small cigars?
15:12Ooh.
15:12Oh, I quite fancy one of them.
15:14Good, eh?
15:15Oh, no, not for me, thank you.
15:17Oh, look, just put it behind you, if you can share it with Willie later, if you can't smoke it
15:21all yourself.
15:22Look what he's done, Lou.
15:23You're lovely.
15:23I brought the baby this, a little cross,
15:26and a picture of the Virgin Mary for Michelle, because she couldn't have a better example.
15:30Oh, that's nice, thanks.
15:31And, and, er, I brought the baby this.
15:34I did his horoscope.
15:35Oh, that's nice, Arthur, thank you.
15:37Yeah, of course, Emma said it was a very good horoscope.
15:39Well, if I am, whatever I want to do, he's there before me.
15:43He's excited.
15:44He's drunk.
15:45Arthur, you're in no condition to accuse anyone.
15:48Michelle comes home with her baby, and it should be for us, for the family, and he takes over.
15:53Well, he is going to be our family soon, isn't he?
15:55It's in the way of everything.
15:56Oh, Arthur, I think you're jealous.
15:57Jealous?
15:58Yes, leave the boy alone.
16:00Big jazz of lofty, look, I'm glad he didn't get that traffic warden job.
16:04I tell you, there'd be no holding him.
16:05He'd be a right little hitler.
16:07Been idle up here all day.
16:09Everyone wants to get their hands on my baby.
16:11They can't have you, can they?
16:12Because I've got my hands on you.
16:13I'm not going downstairs.
16:14It's all settled.
16:15I've got to get everything mapped out.
16:17My room, my baby, keep everyone at a distance.
16:19Well, not us?
16:20Oh, no, no, you'd be among the selected few.
16:23But no one's going to take over.
16:25Not even the baby's going to take over.
16:26You'll still have to look after her, though.
16:28You're right.
16:29And nothing's got to get in the way of that, either.
16:31I've got to get these exams, otherwise none of this is going to make any sense.
16:33Yeah, well, you've got lofty to help.
16:35Yeah, yeah, I hope.
16:36And we'll help.
16:37That's right.
16:38Thanks.
16:39Right, we'll have to go in about five minutes down the community centre.
16:41What for?
16:42We're going to meet Harry and Tessa.
16:43Oh, Harry, famous political genius.
16:46Yeah, well, I thought it was about time we met everyone.
16:48Oh, right.
16:51Come on.
16:51God, they still keep coming.
16:53Yeah, it's a funny feeling.
16:54I don't know what animals feel like in a zoo.
16:57It's just a small one to be sociable.
16:58Well, not just to be sociable, eh?
17:00It is rather a special occasion.
17:01Yeah.
17:02And would you have one of these cigars?
17:04Uh, I'll put it behind my ear.
17:06Right, best place for it, really.
17:08Hang on.
17:09Can I get you a drink, ma'am?
17:10Not for me, thanks.
17:11I've just come to look at the young mum.
17:12I can't bend over her with whiskey fumes on my breath.
17:15No, I suppose not.
17:16Um, would you like one of these cigars?
17:18No cigar fumes.
17:19Oh, no.
17:20Um, Nyman, I'm sure you'll have to celebrate, aren't you?
17:25Hello.
17:25I'll take you up, shall I?
17:27No need.
17:27Oh, yes, I've got to clear them out of her room first.
17:29Someone up with her?
17:30Yes, her mate.
17:32Well, I couldn't have picked a more social time to call, could I?
17:34No, no, it's all right.
17:36Uh, it's not necessary, is it?
17:37No, not really.
17:39She's doing very well.
17:40It's just my last visit to see her before I hand her to the health visit.
17:43Oh, right.
17:44Let's run.
17:47Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.
17:49Why don't you have a place, a midwife's here?
17:52Agitation.
17:52Oh, Lucy, you're going to terrify that bee with all that noise.
17:55Right, but she loved it.
17:56You're going to hear a lot more of it from what I hear.
17:58They're forming a group.
17:59Are they?
18:00They're going to have to form it somewhere else.
18:01Come on, you're locked downstairs.
18:02There's tea and biscuits, you can help yourselves.
18:04Oh, here's it.
18:08I'd like to ask you to leave, too, if I may.
18:11Oh, right.
18:12Yes, of course.
18:13I've got it.
18:20Right, dear.
18:22And how is Madam?
18:26Must say, looking well.
18:28Blooming, in fact.
18:30And how's Mum?
18:31Fine.
18:32Are you sure?
18:34Yeah.
18:35You don't sound very positive.
18:37A little down, perhaps?
18:39A little baby.
18:40Yeah.
18:41Well, it's hard to watch them all dash off like that, isn't it?
18:44I suppose so.
18:45Well, there it is.
18:46You're a mum now, and they're still kids.
18:49But you'll adjust.
18:52No problem?
18:53No, none.
18:54You'd let me know if they were, wouldn't you?
18:55Yes, of course I would.
18:57Thanks.
18:57You'd have a good idea, Sharon.
18:59Yeah, we think a band's a great idea.
19:01I reckon we'd be really good at it.
19:02Well, I admire your ambition.
19:04I mean, all young people should have ambition, but I won't be back to you.
19:07I mean, it's right.
19:08What could be wrong?
19:10Oh, don't put it aside as easily as that, young lady.
19:12You just bear in mind that the devil has all the best tunes.
19:16And if you like a tune, the devil has you by the ears, tugging you down to hell.
19:20I don't believe that.
19:21Oh, I see.
19:22Changed our tune already, have we?
19:24What do you mean?
19:24Letting God drift away into the distance, are we?
19:27Letting him drown in a sea of synthesizers.
19:30You see?
19:31Sin.
19:32Synthesizers.
19:33Sin by any other name.
19:35I don't feel like sin, dog.
19:36No, well, maybe you can't hear, because music deafens in God's voice is still and small.
19:42Or whatever happened to the search, Sharon?
19:45Still there?
19:45I don't think you'll find what you're looking for in that sort of music.
19:50I hope I will.
19:51Yes, well, I only have your best incest at heart.
19:53I mean, I wish you well.
19:55And just remember, I'm always here, and God is close by the shoulder, and neither I will
20:01forsake you if anything could go wrong.
20:04I know Michelle is your daughter, but the baby is not your daughter, is she?
20:08Well, she's not yours, is she?
20:10Well, no, but she will be.
20:11I will be the person taking responsibility for her.
20:14Now, stop it, you two.
20:14No, it's all right, Miss Fowler.
20:16We're just having a talk.
20:17I'm just trying to explain to Arthur that the baby is not his.
20:20Well, she isn't yours, either.
20:22Look, I agree with you, Arthur.
20:24That's not what I'm saying.
20:25I don't know what you're saying.
20:26Look, to...
20:27Not to...
20:28I don't want to be impolite or anything, but Arthur, I think you've had a little bit
20:31too much to drink.
20:33I've had too much to drink.
20:34Well, you're a bit confused, and I'm just trying to straighten you out.
20:37I mean, well, you are my dad.
20:39I'm not your dad.
20:41No, no, but you will be.
20:42Well, I'll find a convenient tomb first.
20:44You don't mean that.
20:45Don't you tell me what I mean and what I don't mean.
20:47You are not my son.
20:49Well, then you're not my father.
20:51You're worse than Mark.
20:53You're worse than my dad was.
20:54This is my house.
20:56Mine?
20:56Yeah, well, Michelle's my fiancée, and I am going to be the baby's father,
21:00so I think that looking after the guests and making sure they've got everything they want
21:04is down to me, really.
21:05Let him get on with it, Arthur.
21:07Yeah, yeah.
21:07No, I think the bloody thing myself.
21:09You do, yeah.
21:10Arthur!
21:11Sorry I asked.
21:12I didn't mean to cause trouble.
21:13No, think napping of it.
21:17What sort of nappies is Michelle going to be using, Pauline?
21:21Blessed if I know.
21:23I heard on the radio that they have musical nappies now.
21:27Musicals?
21:29Musical nappies?
21:30Oh, well, it's not the nappy itself that's musical.
21:32I mean, you've got this little box, you know, like a little pill box,
21:35and you put it inside the nappy, and then when the baby, well, you know,
21:39you know, the wet makes it play a tune.
21:42No, April, shall!
21:45What's the point?
21:46Well, when the baby wets itself, you know, and you can change the nappy.
21:50Oh, I suppose so.
21:51I always knew when me hand got wet, or there was a damp patch in me lap.
21:55Yes, I say.
21:56If you put the box in your mouth...
21:58Oh, girl!
21:59Yeah, well, because of the mask.
22:01Oh, it's very nice.
22:02Oh, don't mind us.
22:04We're not always like this.
22:07Hiya.
22:08Hi.
22:08Hello.
22:09Er, Harry, Tessa, Sharon and Ian.
22:11Hello.
22:12Hiya.
22:13Hello.
22:14Hiya.
22:15Nice to meet you.
22:16Really nice.
22:18Right, well, there's no point in standing here like long,
22:20cos there's only Wixie to come.
22:21Might as well go inside and wait for him, eh?
22:26Oh, he's already here.
22:27Wixie, this is Harry, and that's Tessa.
22:29Hiya.
22:29Hiya.
22:30All right.
22:30Good coming in.
22:32She's great, isn't she?
22:34Ooh, Sharon?
22:35No-one like her at college.
22:36I suppose there is.
22:37You know, I could kick you, you know.
22:39Oh, yeah.
22:39Why?
22:39Not inviting me over here earlier.
22:41All that time wasted.
22:42How's I supposed to know?
22:43Well, now you know.
22:46Well, I'll just place this.
22:48What, you all?
22:49Yeah, provides a good social centre, I should imagine.
22:51Yeah.
22:52Every area needs a place like this.
22:53Why?
22:54Oh, it's obvious.
22:55Is it?
22:55Not to me.
22:56Of course it is.
22:56No, it isn't.
22:57Surely it's obvious...
22:58Look, I don't want to know.
23:00What's going on?
23:00Where?
23:01Here.
23:02Just a look.
23:03Are you all right?
23:04Why shouldn't I be?
23:08You going to go for that?
23:08You all right?
23:09Yeah.
23:10You like it then, do you?
23:11Very much.
23:12Yeah, it's all right.
23:13I suppose there's plenty of room.
23:14You comfortable?
23:15Yeah.
23:16What?
23:17The hall.
23:18Oh, the hall.
23:22Kelvin says you're thinking of getting a band together.
23:24We're talking about it, yeah.
23:25How far have you got?
23:26Oh, well, we're still planning it.
23:28Is that as far as you've got?
23:29What?
23:29Talking, planning.
23:30Yeah.
23:30Yeah, well, it'll need working out carefully.
23:32Yeah, if I wait for you, darling, I'll never get started.
23:34Well, talking will get you nowhere.
23:35And what do you know about it?
23:37Quite a lot, as it happens.
23:38Look, do you want to get this band together,
23:40or do you just want to talk for the sake of it?
23:41We want a band.
23:42Well, I do, anyway.
23:44Form a band.
23:45Be on top of the pot.
23:46Yeah, it's a great idea.
23:47Is it?
23:48Of course it is.
23:49But you said the other night the idea of forming a band
23:51was a typical capitalist fantasy.
23:53Look, Tessa, we mustn't get stuck.
23:55We've got to keep moving.
23:56We'll get nowhere just talking.
23:57We've got to turn words into action.
23:59Yeah, but that's been the problem all along.
24:01I've been trying to get Wixie to do something about it for ages,
24:03because he's got the experience.
24:04But he won't do anything.
24:05It ain't that easy, you know, darling.
24:07I'm working on it.
24:08No, problem solved.
24:10I can help you out.
24:11I know the scene.
24:12I know the science.
24:13I can get access to equipment.
24:15You can?
24:16Try me.
24:16You won't talk.
24:17Better not.
24:18Yes, you are.
24:19Take me up on it.
24:19Make me do something.
24:21You mean you can help us form a band?
24:22I'll guarantee it.
24:23Does he mean it?
24:24He means it.
24:25He can do it.
24:26A modicum of talent, and we'll shake the world.
24:29And the other people.
24:30Yeah, well, I will get back to work.
24:31It's nearly open time.
24:32I'll see you later.
24:33Yeah, I'll bet they're coming too.
24:34Yeah, I could do with a drink myself.
24:36Shouldn't you be doing that outside?
24:37I felt like doing it here.
24:38Oh, but the smell.
24:39It won't last long.
24:42It won't.
24:43Tired?
24:43Yeah.
24:44I didn't have Arthur today.
24:45Michelle will come home with the baby.
24:47Oh, important day, right?
24:48Yeah, it won't take long to catch up.
24:49Well, don't overdo it.
24:51That's a change.
24:52Don't be mean.
24:54I mean, the work's got to be done.
24:55We don't have to kill yourself.
24:56Yeah, you wouldn't like that?
24:58No.
24:59Not really.
25:01You look lovely.
25:04Oh.
25:07Oh, baby.
25:10The kids aren't here.
25:12But they will be.
25:13We've got time.
25:14You're tired.
25:16Not that tired.
25:17You smell a white spirit.
25:19It's a clean, hondolesome smell.
25:21You've still got work to do.
25:23Hey, afterwards.
25:25Before.
25:28Tony.
25:30What?
25:32Where are the kids, anyway?
25:34Cassie's somewhere in the square.
25:36Kelvin's at the community center.
25:38Oh, he should be working.
25:39We should all be working.
25:41Tony, Kelvin's got to study.
25:43Right.
25:43And I've got to do a paint at the windows,
25:45and I've got to do...
25:46Oh, please, Tony.
25:47I'm sorry.
25:48Look, it's important.
25:50I don't like what's happening to Kelvin just now.
25:52He's become so one-sided.
25:54Politics, politics, nothing but politics.
25:57It's this boy, Harry.
25:58Since he's met him, Kelvin's hardly worked.
26:01Hopefully it's just a phase.
26:02We can't be sure, can we?
26:04And don't forget, there's Tessa.
26:05God knows what's going on with her.
26:06Oh, yes, there's Tessa.
26:07We can't have that.
26:08That's all right.
26:09But it's a distraction.
26:11Talk to him, will you?
26:12I haven't been regularly employed for over two years now,
26:16and I've got to keep busy.
26:17If you keep busy, you don't know you're unemployed.
26:20That's my mind.
26:21Well, that's playing their game.
26:22Whose game?
26:23Government's bosses, et cetera.
26:25I wish he wouldn't.
26:26What, play their game?
26:27No, work so hard.
26:29I mean, you never give yourself a moment's peace.
26:31Peace is a luxury.
26:33Don't you deserve a luxury?
26:34When you're unemployed, you deserve nothing.
26:36That's hard.
26:37It's going to ruin his health if he carries on like this.
26:39No, no, no, no.
26:40I've got to keep doing things.
26:41Anything else would drive me mad.
26:43Yeah, well, you're driving me mad.
26:44Don't overdo it.
26:46That's why I keep telling him.
26:48What's your name?
26:49Harry.
26:50Oh, yeah, you told me.
26:52He's Simon.
26:52Is he a friend of yours?
26:54Oh, yeah, I know him.
26:56He's a friend of Kelvin's.
26:57Kelvin.
26:57Ah, yeah.
26:59Well, let me fill your glass, Harry, because I'm going to put you right about a few things.
27:05I expected there'd be photographers and everyone waiting for us.
27:08Well, there weren't, but I mean, I'm still really proud.
27:11Thanks a lot, Lofty.
27:13What for?
27:14That's the third time.
27:15Is it?
27:15Yes.
27:16Third time what?
27:17That you bore me about your feelings, how you felt when you come out of the hospital with
27:20Michelle and the back.
27:21Oh, look, I'm sorry, Dan.
27:22Yeah, I'm sorry.
27:23I realise I'm not being very tactful, really, am I?
27:26Tactful?
27:27Well, yeah.
27:28I mean, that's not something you'd know about.
27:30Not something you would have felt.
27:31What wouldn't I feel?
27:33Well, you wouldn't know how it felt to, you know, with Sharon being adopted and everything,
27:37how it felt to come out of the hospital with a kid.
27:40You might have loved him.
27:42It's not a feeling I've ever had.