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They're paying £1,000 for the best
story,

and they'll print it.

- Are you saying you don't want to see
me again?
- You know I do.

- Wiredata Systems, the technology
company, are planning to build

a science park there.
- Destroying the local wildlife.

- It's a beautifully designed security
system. Impossible to crack.

Checkmate!

- Hector, go home before you say
something we both regret.

- I cannot stand seeing you with him.

- Um, Justin?

- The lights blew, so we had to use
the candles.

- You should go.

No seriously, we don't want to get
caught.

Come on.

THUD

- What was that?

- I don't know.

- Vaughan Fitzgerald?
- Yes?
- Detective Inspector Murray.

I need you to come with me to Waterloo
Road school.

- Why? What's happened?

- We need to examine the school's
computers.

- You haven't woken me at six in the
morning for an IT problem?

- I'm afraid it's a lot more serious
than that.

There's been a cyber attack on the
London office of Wiredata Systems.

The company building the science park
up the road.

- What's that got to do with us?

- The attack came from a computer at
Waterloo Road.

- Mate, no-one's going to believe the
police kicked our door in

this morning.
- Nobody kicked the door in, Floyd.

Don't make it worse by exaggerating.

- Yeah, but...it's a better story,
innit?

- Hurry up and eat your breakfast.
We've got to get going.

You all right, Leo?
- Yeah, I'm just feeling a bit sick.

- Maybe you've got a bug or something.

You going to be all right staying home
on your own?

Your dad's snowed under at school and
I've really got to be there.

Tiffany, what are you doing out in the
garden in your pyjamas?

- I was just feeling a bit hot and
sweaty...

- Oh, don't tell me you're coming down
with something as well?

Leo's not good either.

- No, I'm feeling a bit better now.

I think the fresh air really did help.

- I'm going to be OK for school as
well, Allie.

- Good. We've got enough on today
without that as well.

- Why? What's happened?

- Did you not see the police cars
earlier?

They've taken Vaughan to school to
open up. Apparently Waterloo Road is

home to a bunch of highly
sophisticated cyber-criminals.

- Blimey, what's going on?

- After the weekend we've just had,
this is all I need.

It's got to be a joke, hasn't it?
- Not as far as she's concerned.

- I have to suspend the Wi-Fi and the
internal network.

- Great. Why don't you cut off the
water and electricity supply

while you're at it?
- I'm sorry. I know it's an
inconvenience, but...

- What are supposed to do without our
IT systems? It'll be chaos.

You got any idea when it will be back?

- There's a lot of computers to get
through.

Your guess is as good as mine. Sorry.

- So this could take forever?

- We can start interviewing the
students as soon as I get

a social worker sorted.

- Listen, we can't wait for the police
to go through due process.

We are best placed to know who could
possibly have done this.

- Yeah, there aren't that many
computer geniuses at Waterloo Road.

- Nope.

- Excuse, me, officer.

- Detective Inspector.

- Oh. Can I ask what's going on?

- You can ask your headmaster.

- How rude!

- Have a good day.

Come see me later if you're not
feeling any better, yeah?
- Yeah.

- Tiffany. Listen.

You might be able to fool Mum with all
this fever nonsense you're going

on about, but you can't fool me.
- What do you mean?

- You and Justin.

Look, I know you were with him last
night.

- No! No, no way!
- Tiff, you're my sister. You really
think I don't

know when you're lying? All that pizza
and candles rubbish.

- Pizza and candles means nothing.
We're just friends.
- Tiffany, I know.

Just admit it.
- You know nothing.

- Ah, there she is. How was your
weekend?

- Yeah, it was fabulous. We had a
really lovely time.

Thanks for asking.

- Don't be over-doing it, OK?

- No, Mrs B.

- And if your leg hurts, then just sit
down and have a rest.

Listen to your body.

- You're the one that told me to be
the best that I can.

That's what I'm doing!

- Yes, well, you don't have to achieve
it all in one day.
- Kevin?

- See you.
- Bye.

Hey, what's with the text?
- We've got a problem.

- What you on about?
- That hack you did? Wiredata systems?

- That was a work of art.

- Yeah, well, the police are looking
for the artist.

- Yeah, well, they'll never find him.
They won't even know I was in.

- Then why is the entire Greenock
police force tearing

the school's computers apart?

They were round my house earlier.

They mentioned Wiredata Systems to my
dad.
- I broke in, I had a little look

around, but then I made sure that I
didn't leave a trace.

They can't trace it back to me.
- They might trace it to me.

- You broke in without me?
- Yeah.

- And you didn't use a proxy?
- No.

- You hacked into a massive
multi-national company

and you didn't cover your tracks?!

That's like the most important part of
hacking - leaving no trace.

It was perfect and you went and ruined
everything.

You have got us into some serious
trouble.

- Justin? Justin, listen.

Tiffany's told me everything about you
and her.
- You're a liar.

- Ah, see now, that's where you're
wrong because she just told me then

and I saw her sneaking back in this
morning. I mean, I knew anyway.

- So what? It's none of your business.

- That's where you're wrong, OK? It is
my business. If it happens

again, it's going to be everyone
else's business.

- What are you going to do? Are you
going to tell everyone?

That's cool. I expect that from a
little tool like you.

So go ahead. You can throw a grenade
into the lovely family.

But just remember, as soon as it all
blows up, it will all be your fault.

- No, Justin!

You stay away from her now, OK?

Stay away from my sister.

- Your sister can't keep her hands off
me, mate.

KNOCK ON DOOR

Yep?
- Vaughan, I know that you're mad

busy,

but I was wondering if I could have a
word about Kevin.
- What?

- I am worried about him. He's so
frustrated about his condition.

I was wondering, can you have a word
with his teachers,

ask them to go easy on him? He needs a
lot of support.

- Yeah, I don't know whether you've
noticed, but we have a crisis on.

There are police swarming all over the
school.

- Yes, and we're talking about a boy
who was our star pupil last

year, OK? Until he had his stroke,

and he's not coping.

- I should tell my dad.

He's going to kill me.
- I'll kill you!

Leo, this is massive, OK?

It's much more serious than anything
your dad's going to do.

Look, Wiredata, they're going to want
to prosecute.

We could go to prison.

- Hey, Kevin. Everything OK?

- Yep.
- I just wanted to say, don't get too
downhearted

about your mock results. We all know
you did your best.

- Yes, sir.
- We're all impressed by your progress
and your guts,

but it takes a long time and a lot of
patience to get over a stroke.

- Yeah, tell me about it.

- If there's anything we can do, any
extra help you need,

you only have to ask, OK?

- Some of the kids can barely spell
their own name, let alone

write complicated computer code.

- That's a bit harsh.
- It could be someone who's not even
in the school.

We have opened our door to every Tom,
Dick and Harry.
- Come on, Sue.

The Community Initiative is the best
thing that's happened to Waterloo
Road.

- I don't know about anybody else, but
I rely on technology for my classes.

- You could try more conventional
methods of teaching.

You know - pens, paper.
- Oh, lucky for you, Allie.

We'd all love to be able to daub a bit
of paint on an easel

and call it a lesson. Unfortunately,
my students demand more from science.

- Sue! That's totally out of order.

- Stop having a go at me, Simon. I'm
sick of it.

- Look, I know we're all feeling the
strain,

but this is going to be a very testing
day, so...

- What was all that about?

- Our weekend away - total disaster.

Arguments, silences, more arguments.

I think this school's really getting
to her.

- Maybe it's just you.

- Look, mate, I'm sorry, OK?

I just... You can't just...

- It's cool. I get it.

You can't stand the thought of me and
Tiffany being together

and that's fine.

But...

you'd better get used to it.

Because it ain't going to change.

Yeah, he said that you told him about
us.

- As if I'd do a stupid thing like
that.

- He's such a liar. Don't worry, Tiff,

he's not getting away with this.

- Yeah, but what are we going to do if
he tells Mum?

She'll go crazy and they'll try to
stop us from seeing each other.

- How can she do that? We live in the
same house!
- I don't know...

- Listen!
- I'm...
- Listen, all right?

Nothing and no-one is going to stop us
being together.

I promise.

- I've been on the Wiredata picket
line

and it's perfectly obvious whose side
the police are on. Look.

Look, they are bulldozing ancient
trees as we speak.

Turning beautiful forest into their
research laboratories and car parks.

And you're all sitting there doing
nothing about it!

- Yes, thank you, Audrey, I think we
all know...

- Do none of you care about the
crested tit?

It could become the dodo of its day!

- Right...

We need to help the police.

I want you all to make a list of the
pupils you think might be capable

of hacking into the systems

of a world-class global technology
company.

- Do we have any?

- Rhiannon Salt?

- You know, once upon a time,

I would have said Kevin Chalk, but not
since his stroke.

- Kevin wouldn't do anything like
that, whether he's had a stroke or
not.

He's not stupid.

- Has anyone else noticed we're into
period one

and we haven't heard a bell?

- Please...think. One of our kids
could be up on criminal charges.

- Ha! No bell - no class!

- And who's to say we're not off sick?

Registration's all computerised, isn't
it?

BELL RINGS

- Classes, everyone!

- 'And so if the perpetrator comes
forward now, the police...'

- Hang on, per-pi... Per-pe...

- E. Per-pee... Look it up in a
dictionary later.

Life without a spellcheck is not going
to be easy for you, is it?

'And so if the "perp-ee-trator" comes
forward now,

'the police will look more favourably
on him.

'If not, the consequences could be
drastic,

'both for the individual and for this
school.'

Thank you. And you'll also have to
photocopy

the literacy target bumf from the LA
and distribute it by hand.

After you've done that...

- I'll have to write this memo out
neat before I copy it.

It's going to take me ages.

- Yes, well, we're all having to go
the extra mile today, Sonya.

Preferably without complaining.

- 'I ended up chucking my voddie, as I
called it, into a policeman's face.'

- Sonya, I need 15 of these, 30 of
these

and I would like a hundred of these.

I'll pick them up next period.

- "Please" would have been nice.

- Justin, what happened?

- I fell.
- Floyd, did you do this?

- Yeah. And he deserved it, as well.
- Stand outside.

- I'm getting sick of him...
- Floyd, stand outside!

All right, Justin, do you need to go
to the medical room?

- What do you care?

- Just get on with your work, please,
everybody.

It's not enough to admit you did it.

I want to know why.

- He just really bugs me, Mum.

- You're going to have to apologise.

- No way, that is not going to happen.

- Then you'll spend all day in the
cooler.

- Fine, send me to the cooler.

- You've never done anything like this
in your life.

You must have been provoked.

- Yeah, you could say that.

- "Oh dream how sweet too sweet, too
bitter-sweet

"Whose wakening should have been in
Paradise

"Where souls brim-full of love abide
and meet

"Where thirsting..."

Leo?

What's up with you today?
- Nothing, Miss. Honest.

- "Where thirsting longing eyes

"Watch the slow door

"That opening, letting in lets out..."

- Can I help?
- I'm looking for...

an Audrey McFall.

- Audrey? Why?

- Let's just say her name's been made
known to us.

- Is it to do with her crested tits?

- Yes.
- This way.

Miss McFall?
- Yes?

- Detective Inspector Murray would
like a word.

- No way!

- Why am I being treated like a
criminal

for exercising my democratic right to
protest?

- Is it true you had to be physically
removed from the site?

- They're intent on destroying
beautiful woodland

for their own greedy ends. It is
capitalism gone mad.

- I don't think we want to add slander
to the charge sheet.

- Well, for two pins, I would've
hacked into their offices.

Good on whoever did it.

- Look, Audrey can be a little
outspoken,

but we're looking for a computer
hacker here.

She struggles to switch her mobile on.
Well, you do.

- She could be an accomplice.

She may be encouraging a pupil to do
it.

- I can assure you I am in no way
responsible.

- Though you wish you were.

- Most definitely.

- You can go...

for now.

- Miss, are we not doing chemistry
today?

- Shh, just get on with your
worksheets.

- So I take it we're not doing
chemistry today, then?

- All my lesson plans were on my
laptop.

I'm not going to re-do them all from
memory.

So until this school gets its act
together...

ALARM BELL RINGS

All right, everybody, leave all your
belongings where they are

and make your way out quietly.

STUDENTS TALK LOUDLY

I said quietly!

Why weren't you two in my class?

I assumed you were sick.

- Miss, Shaznay fainted.

- Oh, you two are in big trouble.
Move.

You're going the wrong way!

- Yes, I know. Floyd, have you told
Mum about me and Justin?

- No. Not yet, anyway.

- No, don't, please.

- Whatever, Tiff.

- Floyd?

- Right, the alarm has gone off

because of the disruption to our IT
systems

and there's no guarantees that it
won't go off again.

- God's sake.

- But, of course, we can't just ignore
a fire alarm.

So just make sure you do a head count

at your allocated assembly points in
the playground.

Thank you.

- We can't go on like this. We've got
to find this idiot fast.

- Come on, hurry up. You've still got
lessons.

- Simon told me about your romantic
weekend away.

Said it was a nightmare.

- I have to go.

- Hey! Was it cos you were thinking of
me?

Is that why you're avoiding me?

- Yes, because of you!

But I'm trying to do the right thing.

I'm trying to save my marriage. It's
what I want.

So help me out here, Hector.

If you care about me, leave me alone.

- The team at the station are going
over the log files

on your computers now.

I'll be back tomorrow morning with a
social worker.

Someone will have left a muddy
footprint somewhere.

- Great.

- I take it no-one's owned up yet?
- No.

- Here's that long list of suspects
for you.

- Sonya?

Sonya?

Could you assemble these students in
the lecture theatre after break?

- Yeah.

- SUE: All right, keep the noise down.

Quietly!

STUDENTS TALK LOUDLY

I said quietly!

ALARM BELL RINGS

All right, just make your way out
quietly and calmly!

Again.

- This is impossible.

Vaughan, why don't you just send us
all home?

- Because Waterloo Road doesn't close.

Now let's get these kids organised.

- Stephen Carruthers.

Justin Fitzgerald.

Floyd Westbrook.

Gabriella Wark.

Frazer O'Neil and Patricia Lucas.

Can you go to the lecture theatre now,
please?

- What about me?

- Your name weren't called, was it?

- Why not?

- I don't know. Perhaps it's cos you
ain't been well.

- It's cos Mr Fitzgerald thinks I'm
not up to it.

- FLOYD: See you later.

- Thanks, Ronnie.

- 'Scuse me, sir.

We'll mind your car for you for a
tenner.

- That's what Ronnie, the chauffeur,
is for

and £10 wouldn't actually cover his
hourly rate

so you've sold yourself a bit short.

Nice try, though.

- May I help you?

- Yeah, you can you take me to your
headmaster, please.

- Do we know you?

- No. But I think you're about to.

- I don't appreciate being rounded up
like a petty criminal.

- Oh, just shut up, will you?

- Are you OK?

- Yeah, I'm fine. Don't worry about
me, all right?

- Tiff.

End it.
- Do one. It's nothing to do with you,
yeah?

- We'll see.

- I don't like this. I feel sick.

- KNOCK AT DOOR

Yes?

- Mr Fitzgerald, there's a gentleman
to see you.

- Jackson Whittaker. I own Wiredata
Systems.

- "Chapter Two in the Inebriated
Adventures of Cresta Meldrew.

"As I staggered for freedom, the cops
grabbed me."

Grabbed.

Grabbed?

Manhandled me!

- "One day, I drove to school drunk as
a skunk.

"I smashed into someone's car and had
to leg it.

- SONYA'S VOICE: "As if that wasn't
bad enough,

"I ended up chucking me voddie, as I
called it, into a policeman's face.

"I got slammed in the nick for that."

Hiya. I hope you're not needing any
photocopying doing,

because everyone's wanting worksheets
today and I am pooped.

- Well, you're going to be a lot more
than "pooped" if this gets out.

Stapled to the back of my local
authority notes.

And if it's on the back of mine...

- Oh, no!

- "Written by Cresta Meldrew."

I.E. you!

It's not going to take a genius to
work out that this...

well, story, as you like to put it, is
about Christine Mulgrew.

Away, man. Honest to God, what were
you thinking?

- May I make a request?

- Go ahead.

- Would it be possible for me to talk
to the students on this list?

I'll tell you what, you let me talk to
the culprit,

I won't press charges.

You'll have the police out of your
hair and your school back to normal.

- I'm not sure that's within your
gift.

Not now there's a full-blown police
investigation going on.

- Whoever hacked our system, I would
really like to meet them.

Well, they're obviously incredibly
bright.

I spend hundreds of thousands of
pounds on IT experts.

Now, they told me our systems were
robust.

They weren't.
- Obviously.

- That's embarrassing for my
company...

My technology company.

It's bad for the customers and bad for
the shareholders.

Mr Fitzgerald, put yourself in my
shoes.

I've lost advertising revenue,

but much worse than that, if I don't
resolve the situation quickly,

I lose my reputation.

- I'm sorry this has caused you so
many problems.

- I've got to make sure that doesn't
happen again.

And your young genius is best placed
to tell me how.

- Mum? Have you got a minute?

- Of course I have.

What's up?

- Right, OK. You've got to promise me,

whatever I tell you, you're not going
to get mad.

- You can tell me anything.

What's wrong?

- It's me and Justin...

..we've been seeing each other.

- Seeing each other?

- Well, yeah, I wanted to be the one
to tell you, because...

- Oh, love.

I know you two get on, but he's not
your boyfriend, is he?

He's practically your step brother.

- Yeah, I know, but it's not like
that, it's more serious than that.

We've...

We've been sleeping together.

- Dickens had a very strong sense of
injustice.

It's woven into A Tale of Two Cities

as well as most, if not all, of his
other novels.

So, for your essay, I want you to put
yourself in the position

of someone in prison, wrongly accused
of a terrible crime...

- Sorry to interrupt, Mrs Mulgrew.

You haven't got the copy of the
literacy target report

on you, have you?
- What?

- It's just there's some wrong figures
on it and I need it back.

Please.

I can have a look for it if you want.

I know what it looks like.

- Sonya, a silly LA report is not my
priority right now.

We've had more than enough
interruptions today.

So if I find it - if...

I'll make sure you get it back.

- Thanks.

- You've done the right thing, coming
to tell me.

I'm very proud that you've been so
mature.

- I didn't want you to go and find out
from Floyd or anything.

- I'm just still trying to get my head
round it.

So this has been going on under our
roof?

- Well, in the garage.

- Please tell me that you've used
contraception.
- Yeah, of course.

- It's still wrong, though, Tiffany.

He's your step-brother.
- It's not like I grew up with him.

- And he's 17 and you're 15.
Technically, he's committed a crime.

- No, that's just stupid.

- And what if you were 13? Would it be
a crime?

- Well, yeah, of course it would,
but...
- 14?

Why do you think there is a statutory
age of consent?

- Mum, I don't need a lecture.
- To protect young girls from men.

- I don't need to be protected from
Justin!
- And what about me?

If I don't tell the police, then I'm
committing a crime.

- You're not seriously going to do
that, are you?

I'm 16 in two months and we love each
other.

- If you love each other, then why
couldn't you wait two months?

- Stop treating me like I'm a child.

I know exactly what I want.

And so does Justin.
- I'll bet he does!

- He's right.

You do hate him.

- I...

I'm going to have to go and talk to
him.
- No, don't.

I feel the same about Justin as you do
about Vaughan.

- Vaughan and I are adults.

(Come here.)

I love you, Tiffany.

You've got to trust me.

- Look, I promise you,

all I want to do is chat to our clever
little hacker.

See if they can help me identify the
flaws in our systems.

- The police will find out who did
this in the end.

I would advise whoever is responsible
to step forward now.

- Well, that's it, I suppose.

- That's it?

Look, perhaps I could talk to them in
smaller groups?

In pairs, perhaps?
- I'm sorry. Thank you.

Look, I was prepared to let you make
the appeal,

but that sounds like intimidation.

I think we're stuck with a forensic
police examination.

So if it wasn't any of them...

- Surely it can't be a member of
staff?

- Every computer geek in the school,
except for me.

- That's good, isn't it? Means no-one
thinks it's us.

- No, don't you get it? Your dad
thinks I'm stupid,

just because I've had this stroke.

That's prejudice.

- My dad's not prejudiced.

- Well, why aren't I on the list,
then?

- You're cool with going to jail,

as long as everyone knows you're this
ace computer hacker?

This whole thing's my fault.

I'm going to tell the truth.

- I didn't see any guilty faces out
there.

- Look, how about I offer a reward?

Let's set the ball rolling at £5,000.

- Yeah, let's make it £10,000(!)

- All right, £10,000.

- No, that is not how we do things
here, Mr Whittaker.

I am not going to set a precedent.

- Even if someone out there has some
suspicion of who it might be?

- You'd have a queue of students a
mile long,

all giving false evidence.
- It'd be a complete waste of time.

- Yes!

- Are you really satisfied just to
wait

for the police investigation to end?

- I'm afraid we'll have to, and God
knows how long that's going to take.

- And you honestly believe that I'll
accept that

without comeback of any kind?

- I'm sorry we couldn't be more
helpful.

- Dad?

It was me. I'm the hacker.

- The most serious breach of our
network security ever...

and it's down to you?

What protocol is used in a network
ping request?

ICMP?

UDP?

- You don't have a clue, do you?

- I can't leave you alone, Sue, so
don't ask me to.

What you said before... it's staring
you in the face.

- What is?

- You had a horrible time with
Simon...

..because you're in love with me.

Sue, you've got to stop pretending.

You don't love him any more.

- Yes, I do.

- Listen to you, trying to convince
yourself.

We could be amazing together, I know
we could.

- He's my husband!

- People split up.

Marriages end.

I know you love me.

So tell him about us.

- I can't.

His mate and his wife?

It would kill him.

- Leo, why did you lie?
- I didn't!

- Just tell me what is going on.

- You don't really think he's your
hacker, do you?

- This is Kevin. He had a stroke a few
weeks ago.

He's been under a lot of strain since
then.

- When's everyone going to stop
treating me like an invalid?

Look, I'll prove to you it was me.

Watch this.

This is how I got in.

And this is how I got out.

- Oh, that really is genius.

So how come you screwed up?

- He didn't. That was me.

I copied what Kev did as sort of a
challenge, I guess, to set myself.

I botched it.

Evidently.

- Which is why we were able to trace
it back to the school.

Well...

we will, of course, be prosecuting.

- No, no, no!

- Yes, yes, yes.

This is unauthorised computer access
with intent

to commit other offences.

- What other offences?

There was no malicious damage.

I could've released a virus or built a
worm but I didn't.

I just wanted to prove to myself that
I could break into your system.

Because nobody else thought I could.

- But it's still a crime.

Now give me one good reason why I
should let this go unpunished.

- Because you said you would leave the
police out of it

if you got to talk to the hacker.

- Should have got that in writing.

- You can't be serious.

He's a schoolboy.

- A schoolboy who needs to learn to
take responsibility for his actions.

Thank you.

My company's been hit again...

by a worm.

- A what?

- Someone is corrupting our data.

- Kevin?

Are you responsible for this... This
what?

- Worm.
- Worm.

- Yeah.

It's slow for the next hour.

But then it speeds up exponentially
in...

exactly an hour's time.

- Are you absolutely suicidal?

- Well, I needed some kind of an
insurance, you know,

if I was to admit to the hack.

Guess I was right.

- So.

School full of girls and you have to
pick my daughter.

- Well, we've kind of been thrown
together, haven't we?

It's not really our fault.

Come to think of it, Allie, it's your
fault.

- You do realise that you're
committing a crime, don't you?

- Oh, come on.
- Oh, yeah.

She's 15.

She's a kid.

And if you hurt her, I swear it'll be
the last thing you do.

- But I'm just a kid.

Are you threatening me? Are you
threatening a school kid?

- This is not happening.

This ends now, do you understand me?

This is over.

- No.

It's just begun.

- Everything OK?

- Does anyone want anything from the
canteen? No?

- Christine...

..I'm only showing you this as a dear
friend.

- PHONE RINGS

- This is a nice skive. Wouldn't mind
a job like this, me.

- PHONE RINGS

- Are you aware that the phone is
ringing?

- Mhmm. I can't answer it while I'm
drinking this, can I?

I'll get the next one.

- You said that the last time and the
three times before that.

- Come on, babe, just take one for the
team.

- PHONE RINGS

- I guess that's finished. You can
answer the phone.

- PHONE RINGS

- Hello, Helping Hands Hotline.

- Kevin, stop the worm now.

This is malicious damage.

You are making things worse.

- Five minutes...

- In five minutes, you will be
excluded from this...

- All right, what's your price?

- You don't prosecute.

- You ever heard of the word
"blackmail"?

- Four minutes 30...

- Kevin!
- OK.

I'll do it. I'll call the police.

I won't prosecute.

- I want that in writing.

- Course you do.

- She wants me to go down at dinner
and get a chippy for her

so she can keep her rollers in her
hair.

Cheeky.

- Well, listen to these.

Some guy rung up asking if we've got
any dead mice

to feed his pet python.

A little kid wants us to check for
monsters under his bed.

And a woman's lost her wedding ring
down the toilet

and has asked if one of us could fish
it out.

- Well, it's better than history,
innit?

- PHONE RINGS

- Hello. Helping Hands Hotline.

Yeah.

Er...

I'm just wearing my school uniform.

- Simon? Have you got a few minutes?

- Yeah, I've got a few minutes.

You're not hungry?

- No.

- What is it, love?

You've not been yourself for weeks.

- I really don't know where to begin.

It's taken me a really long time to
admit this to myself, Simon...

..but I really hate teaching.

I'm no good at it. I still can't
control my class.

And this morning, being without my
computer,

I was terrified stood in front of a
class

without all my technology bits and
bobs.

I mean, you've always known I was
rubbish at it.

So I've decided.

I'm going to leave Waterloo Road.

I want to use my science
qualifications.

Maybe get a job in research for a
pharmaceuticals company or something?

There are loads of jobs in London
right now. It's where it's at.

- But Waterloo Road is where I'm at.

- And that's the other problem, Simon.

This school, it is killing you.

You should have a headship by now.
You're an ideas man.

You should be running your own school.
- Look, Sue...

..fine, if you don't want to teach,
but...

I'm loving it here.

- And I'm hating every minute of it.

Why don't you care about how I feel
for once?

SONYA'S VOICE:
- "I will never forget very near dying
of embarrassment

"when a pupil pointed to my feet

"and there, on them, were too
different shoes!"

- I hope I did the right thing.

- Of course you did, Audrey.

The last thing I want is people
laughing at me behind my back.

- Quite.

- I'm going to have to have words with
Miss Donnegan.

- Christine, Sonya's, not...

- I'll tell you what Sonya is, Audrey.

Sonja's a treacherous little madam.

- So I've just spoken to your mum.
- Yeah, and?

- She's telling me to break up with
you.
- But what did you say?

- Obviously I told her that there's no
way we're breaking up.

- What if she goes to the police?
- There's no way she'll do that.

- She will. She's deadly serious.

Why don't we just wait a couple of
months?

- Because I don't want to. Do you?

- No, of course not.

But we'd still see each other every
day.

Justin, I'm scared.

I don't want anything bad to happen.

- "The staff were laughing behind my
back but I was too sloshed to see."

- I don't know how them papers got in
there.

If I ever find out...
- Oh, come on, Sonya.

You've made a complete fool of me. Why
would you do that?

- The competition.

It was for the prize money.

- After I helped you?

- I'm...

I'm so sorry, Christine.

I couldn't think of anything to write
about from me own life.

They wanted something really tragic,
you know, something really sad.

- So you thought of me?

Just when I was getting my life back
together,

just when I thought I'd put all my
bugbears behind me, you do this?

I never want to see your stupid face
again.

- I've just found out that Justin and
Tiffany...

are having sex.

- Oh, Je...

- We're supposed to be a family.

They're not boyfriend and girlfriend.

- How long?
- A while.

How could we not have seen this, right
under our noses?

- Contraception?
- Yeah.

She's too young.

- Well, she might be your little girl
but she's 16 in a couple of months.

- She's vulnerable and naive.

I've been so wrapped up with making a
go of things here, with you...

- Look, there is no point in blaming
yourself.

All right.

What is the best way to handle this?

- I can't believe it.

Her first proper boyfriend and it's
got to be him.

- He's my son.
- I don't trust him an inch.

You didn't hear how he just spoke to
me.

He's loving every second of this. He's
doing this to get at us.

- You don't seriously believe that?

- He's never happier than when we're
at each other's throats.

- He's just a young guy, he's full of
hormones...

- You'll be saying "boys will be boys"
next.

He doesn't care about her. He's just
using her!
- All right, all right.

Let's talk about this later.
- Yeah, we're going to talk about it
later.

You're going to tell him it's got to
stop.

- The best way to make sure it
continues is to tell them to stop.

- Thanks for your support, Vaughan.

- Look, Sue, I always care about your
feelings, you know that.

It's just...

you've stopped talking to me about
stuff.

- You have been so busy after school
with all your community projects.

It's like you've forgotten about me.

And even at the weekend, all you spoke
about

was the school and your plans...

- That's because you were acting like
you weren't there.

I was trying to get your attention.

- So it's all my fault, then.
- No. Wait...

You know I get carried away with work

but I love you very much.

If I've been taking you for granted,
then I'm sorry.

- You don't have to apologise for
being a brilliant teacher.

- Just not a great husband, eh?

I will make it up to you.

I promise.

- Oh, well...

don't sit on your own, Gracie. Come to
the community caff.

That's what it's there for.

Yeah, I'll have a cuppa with you.

I'm very tall with blond hair.

I'm good looking, so you'll see me.
- SHE CLEARS HER THROAT

- I'll see you in a bit then.

Bye.

- Hiya.

Can I have a word, please, everyone?

I worked under Christine Mulgrew when
she was Head Teacher

here at Waterloo Road

and it was the best experience I've
ever had.

She was an absolutely brilliant boss.

And I can't even begin think to how
much

I must've hurt her with my stupid
magazine story.

- I'm sure Christine is strong enough
to survive it.

- Even so...

..I was out of order.

And I wanted to apologise in public...

..and say cheerio to everybody.

Cos after what I done...

..you ain't going to see my stupid
face round here no more,

because I'm too ashamed to show it.

Today is going to be my last day here
at Waterloo Road.

Thank you.

- Sonya, stop.

What you said there about me....

I'm very touched.

- It's all true, Christine.

- What's nice to know is that, even in
my darkest days,

which you've written so graphically
about,

I still managed to do a few things
right.

So I thank you for that.

And as for your story...

- I've shredded them all.

- Well, good, because it's a load of
rubbish.

You need to start with some grammar
fundamentals

before you even think about earning
money from your writing.

Maybe I could stretch to some
after-hours tutoring.

Free of charge.

- There you go. Your turn.

- How old are you?

- Er...

18.

- I'm 47 and no-one's got the better
of me in 25 years.

I don't know if I should be angry or
impressed.

- Well, I did it for myself.

It wasn't personal, not until you made
it personal.

- All right, I'll do my level best to
make sure that

the police drop the investigation.

And I won't dispute this "contract"...

Provided...

..you help me to find the weakness in
my firewall.

- Yeah. Deal.

- Thank you.
- Cool.

- You know, it really is quite hard to
believe you've had a stroke.

- You hear that, sir? HAD a stroke.

- I would say that your brain is in
mint condition.

- Yes, unused.

- I'll be in touch.

- Pleasure.

- Kevin Chalk, I think I am guilty of
seriously underestimating you.

- It's OK, sir.

It's a bit of a wind-up sometimes when
everyone thinks I'm an idiot.

- Not sure anyone takes you for an
idiot.

After everything you've been through,

we all think of you as a bit of a
hero.

But heroes do not go round proving
themselves by committing crimes.

You're not out of the woods yet.

You may have won Whittaker round,

but the police might still want your
head on a plate.

We'll deal with that tomorrow.

- Thank you, sir...

for everything.

This school's been great to me.

- Then you will understand why I'm
sentencing you to detention.

Every lunchtime until the end of term.

You and Leo.

And you will both be writing personal
letters of apology to Mr Whittaker.

- Here we go.

You sit down, Gracie.

I'll get you a nice cuppa.

This is Rhiannon.

Sugar?

- No, thanks.

Have you two been going together long?

- Well, we're not really official.

I mean, we argue and that, but I've
got no family and neither has he.

So we've got lots in common.

- Two sons, five grandchildren.

Never see them.

Family. Sometimes I think you're
better off without.

- There you go.
- Thanks, love.

I thought this place would be full of
rough lads and teenagers.

I thought twice about bringing me best
bag.

- Your bag won't be in any danger
here.

- I think I might try some of that
soup.

It beats a tray in front of the telly.

I do miss having somebody to cook for.

- Well, you can cook for us, if you
want?

- Or we could cook for you.

I can make beans on toast.

- Oh, what about steak?

Now you're talking.

A nice bit of fillet, with some
horseradish on the side.

- Fillet steak it is, then.

With...

chips and peas.

- How are you fixed next week?

There's nothing on the telly
Wednesdays.

Is there any chance you could bring a
pair of nail scissors with you?

- Nail scissors?
- I haven't had me toenails cut in
yonks.

They're putting holes in my tights
something awful.

- Well, at least I know why you've
been so up and down recently.

Thought you'd gone off me or
something.

Even wondered if you might be
pregnant.

- Well, maybe I might be soon.

You know, once I get rid of all this
stress.

Look, there are loads of Acting Head
jobs.

- But what about Vaughan, Sue? I hate
to do this to him.

- Simon, you're a great teacher, but
no-one's indispensable.

- You know what? You're right.

And look, there are loads of cracking
opportunities out there.

All right if we do this, and it's a
big if...

- We will do.

- ..I quite fancy the idea of
somewhere quieter, more rural.

Not London, somewhere good to bring up
a family.

I've been thinking about that a lot
recently.

Think I'm ready to take the next step.

- Well, you can't stop us being
together, so...

- Oh, really? Watch us.

- Mum, I told you, we love each other.

- Right, well, this is getting us
nowhere.

I want both of you to go to your
separate rooms.

I don't want any sneaking around later
on.

Do I have your word?
- Yes.
- No!

- Right, well, we're just going to
have to police the situation.

- Go on.

Well, that's not going to work, is it?

We can't watch over them 24 hours a
day.

- So what do you suggest?
- He needs to leave.

- He's 17 - where's he going to go?

- I don't know! What about your mate
at Brockelhurst?

- Brockelhurst is a boarding school.

Firstly, that's against everything I
stand for.

Secondly, I've already abandoned him
once when I left his mother.

I'm not going to abandon him again.

- If he wasn't targeting my daughter
for sex,

then we wouldn't be in this situation.

- He has started a relationship...

- Sort it out, Vaughan!

This is my house as well as yours and
I will protect my daughter.

- I can't stop thinking about you,
Sue.

Please don't push me away.

- They are sending me off to some
school in Aberdeen.

- They can't do that!

- You are really quite interesting.
- Me?

- Justin said this boarding school
thing is your idea.

- You brought it on yourself.

- I honestly thought you were going to
stand up to her, Dad.

- I've been toying with the idea of a
plus-size range for a while now.

- We're going away.
- Where?

London.

- So we'll go for good?
- Yeah.

- You had a job interview?

- New start, new challenges, the B
word.

Babies, Hector. Babies.