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Get off!

- He's been camping in the boiler room
for weeks.

- Where are you staying?

- Sardinia House. It's cool, though.
It's like a place of my own.

- You can't live like that.
- I manage all right.

- No, this is stupid. Grab your stuff.
You can come and stay with me.

- I think you act up to fit in.

- It wasn't a mistake.

I'm just trying to get my head around
things, is all.

- A grand is a lot of money, Danny,
and it weren't yours to take.

He wants it back, all right?

- Vinnie tried to play nice, sending
your mum.

- Another time!

- Now.
- You could be looking at attempted
murder.

- A thug comes into our school and now
they're acting like

Danny is the criminal.

Oi!
- What you doing?
- Get off him!
- Sami!
- Danny had a knife.

- I wish you'd spoken to me, Danny.

You're angry.

You have got every right to feel that,

but you have to step aside.

RADIO: Good morning wherever you're
listening.

If you're a parent today, you're
probably celebrating because

it's the first day back of the new
term. Sorry, kids.

Here's a bit of Georgia Smith for you,
though.

Come on. Hurry up.

First day at school and you're going
to be late. Sort your tie out.

- He had my footy boots.
- No, you had my footy boots.

- What have I told you both umpteen
times?

Pack your bags the night before. Yeah?

- Couldn't find my planner.
- Same goes for you.

- Ooh, all right!

Come on. Let's go.

- Can we put the thing on?

- No chance.
- Oh, come on. Put it on for him.

- No. Not on the school run.

- No, come on. Just till we get out
the street.

Come on. Hey? Come on.

Come on.

CHANTING: Put it on. Put it on.

Put it on. Put it on.

- Right. If it's to shut you two up,
then yeah.

- All right.

Whoo! Yes. Here we go. Now we can
start the day.

Come on, then. Boys in blue.

You've got to be kidding me, mate.

All right, come on. Come on, cos
you're going to be late.

You're not going to wish Mike good
luck on his first day?

- No chance.

- Dwayne.
- What's up with him?

- Good luck.

- Cheers, Zayne.

Here. You're going to need it.

- Whoa, whoa, whoa.

You'll come with me. Come on. Let's
go. Chop chop.

Hey, seriously, if it does get a bit
much today,

you are on your own, all right?

All right. Come on, you. Get in.

Get inside. Get in there.

- Right. In a line, please.

- There's one single line, and have
your bags ready to be searched.

- Hey. Look, the only dodgy thing
you're finding on me, yeah, Miss, is
my dirty undies.

- McManus.
- Miss, yeah? I'm not going through.

Like, sorry. What, all students carry
knives now, is that it?

- Everyone has to go through.

- Well, we shouldn't.

- So, you're not happy arresting us on
the streets?

You thought you'd come in here as
well?

- Quiet, now!
- Aw, move it along.

God's sake.

- Did you know about this?
- He sprung it on me last night,
innit.

- Why didn't you say anything?

- What am I supposed to say? They
don't listen, do they?

- All right. I was just asking.

- As if it wasn't bad enough with Joel
here.

Now I've got Mike in full uniform
driving us to school in a cop car.

I'm a deputy head's kid, I'm a fed's
kid.

It's like there's this target on me
back.

- Yo. Is it always like this, then, or
what?

- Mate, this is absolutely nothing.

Are you new, yeah?

- Yeah, Myles.
- Yes, man.

- By the way, just to let you know, I
do have metal on me.

- We know you guys have got no
business being in here.

We're just students. We're not
suspects. You know that?

- None of you have got anything to
hide, anyway.

- Whoa.

Hey, hey. This ain't on, is it,
people?

- So, Danny Lewis is sat at home on
bail and they're here?

- Yes.
- What, after the way they treated
him? How's that work, then?

- Kelly...
- Tell me how that works!
- Enough.
- Dwayne.
- Whoa.

- Come through. Come on.

- Oh, I see how it is, huh? The fed's
kid don't get searched.

Oi, everyone. Watch out for this one,
yeah? Watch out for him.

He might go grass you up to his good
ol' daddy cop.

Ain't that right, fella?
- What you going to do?

- Dwayne.
- Get off me.
- Dwayne.
- Leave me alone, Mike.

- Use force on him like you did Danny
Lewis, yeah?

- GIRL: Free Danny Lewis.

THEY CHANT: Free Danny Lewis! Free
Danny Lewis!

- All right, that's enough.

- At this rate, we're going to have
another riot on our hands.

- Well, perhaps we shouldn't have gone
out of our way to provoke one.

- Move out the way. Move, Dwayne.

- Get out.

- Oh! Dwayne Jackson, what do you
think you're doing?

- I am so sorry, Miss Campbell.

New term excitement, hey?

- Did I say that I wanted an audience?
Move along, please.

Right. Get all of this cleaned up.

No, Anne, let him do it.

- What is up with you today?

- THEY CHANT: Free Danny Lewis! Free
Danny Lewis!

Free Danny Lewis! Free Danny Lewis!

Free Danny Lewis! Free Danny Lewis!

Free Danny Lewis! Free Danny Lewis!

- All right, all of you. Quiet now.

- Enough!

I will remind you that the police are
here as a direct

consequence of a violent act, and they
will be respected and

obeyed exactly the same as you would
do every other member of staff.

Do you understand?
- Yeah, but they don't treat us with
respect!

- You are not acting in a way that
deserves respect.

- Danny Lewis was the victim but he's
been treated like a criminal.

- Yeah, and now they're treating us
exactly the same.

Oh, my God.

- OK. You should know that the blade
that was used in the attack

may not have been found, but several
other weapons were found on-site,

and that is why we are in this
situation.

End of.

- All right. Everybody inside. Come
on.

- Good. That's much better.

See what happens when you do this
quickly...

- Miss, you do know that Vinnie came
in to attack Danny, right?

- Yeah. Yeah. You're right.

An adult came into the school with an
intent to harm a pupil,

and I take full responsibility for
failing to protect that pupil, and
others.

And I could've walked away, but I
didn't.

I stayed to try and make sure that it
didn't happen again, but

the pupil in question had a knife.

All right?

So I believe that these measures are
necessary

to protect my staff, and you.

The police are on your side.

- Mm. But believe that, Miss, and
you'll believe anything, right?

- There we go. Can be done.
- Here you are, PC.

Take me bag. Beep-beepity beep!

- DOOR OPENS

- Hi there. Would you like to come
through?

- We all know how serious knife crime
is.

So, we have had no choice but to
cooperate with the police

in trying to keep weapons out of this
school.

Now, it didn't go down too well with
the students this morning,

but we are lucky enough to have Mike,
who has family in this school,

so understands that it's not just
about security.

It's about winning hearts and minds.

- Thank you, Kim.

That's why we're organising a charity
football game at lunch time.

The kids are going to be playing
alongside the police.

That's why we want to, you know, show
this idea we're all part of

the same community.

- And guess who's volunteered to ref
it?

- And we are very thankful.

OK. Well, have a great first day, and
thank you.

So, your case should come to trial in
a matter of weeks.

- And surely all Danny has to prove is
that it was self-defence?

- It's not that straightforward.

He would have to show he was in fear
of losing his life.

- Well, he was.
- That he didn't use excessive force,
and even then,

he was carrying a knife. That's
intent.
- No, that's fear.

- That's not how the law sees it, I'm
afraid.

Danny's one hope is that a weapon
hasn't yet been found.

- Yeah, but it will get found, won't
it?

- If they were going to find it, they
probably would've done by now.

They won't be able to charge you with
possession if they can't

prove there was a weapon.

- But Vinnie's got a stab wound.

- You say you can't remember.

You don't know what happened.

The trauma of the attack.

- Will that get him off?

- It could still go either way.

- But he's going to tell them what
happened.

- He's just out of hospital, and the
police will interview him this week.

Yes, a lot depends on his testimony.

He could admit responsibility, for
instance.

- Yeah, but he won't.

- You have to stay hopeful.

None of this was your fault.

You're not going down for it.

It's not right.

- I don't know.

- Have you heard from him?
- No, not a word.

- I just don't get why he's ghosting
us.

- It's not you.

He really likes you. You know that,
don't you?

- Yeah. We're just friends.

- I'm sorry. I'm overcompensating for
my nonexistent love life.

- What happened to the guy who stood
you up?

- He tried to call a couple times and
I ignored him.

Anyways, I saw him today and I was
like, "Oh, my God.

"He's so much hotter than I
remembered. What've I done?"

- Who is he, anyway?

- No-one you know.

- Well, if you think you've messed up,
you should tell him.

- I can't face him.
- OK. So, write it down.

A letter.

- We're not in the 17th century, babe.

- Well, texts can be misunderstood,

and who doesn't like getting a letter?
They're so romantic.

If someone wrote me one, I'd be like,
"Take me now."

- Really? Bring me my quill!
- Oh, I can't deal with you!

- Miss.
- I've got a lot to organise before
the football show.

Sorry.
- Look, I didn't want to kick off
earlier,

but I can't believe we have police in
school.

- It's to make everyone feel safer.

- It doesn't make ME feel safe.

- You know, she's got a point.

Some of these kids, that uniform
doesn't stand for security.

It risks damaging all the trust YOU
built up.

- You're talking to me about trust?

My job was dangling by a thread
because of what you did.

The LEA and the governors wanted to
show the parents

they were making some visible changes,
so maybe, if I'd have had

the backing of a loyal deputy,

I might've been able to say no,
Lindon.

- Hi. Hi.
- Hi.

- Sorry. That was Erica.

She's sending over a representative

from Schools Against Knife Crime this
afternoon.

- Today? Seriously? Wow.

Thank you, LEA. Thank you!

- Oh, and, um...

Yep.

- BELL RINGS

- So, you'll be pleased to hear that
we're not doing any

experiments today.

Instead, you are here for exam
practice.

- Sir, it's literally the first day
back.

- Exactly. What better time to get
started? Timed essay, starting now.

Cell membranes and their functions.
Discuss.

- Dear Preston, this is just a short
note to say that,

as unlikely as it sounds, I may have
messed up.

I'm writing this letter to get
everything off my chest,

and explain why I've been blanking
you.

- BELL RINGS

So, what's the standard of footy here
like, then?

- I mean, we've got a kickabout
against t'police at lunch

if you really want to find out.
- Yeah?

- I say a kickabout, though, yeah?

We are going to kick 'em off the
pitch, man.
- Yeah, I might come down.

- Standard is pretty high, you know?

- Mate, I've been in the academy since
I was seven.

It'll be all right.
- What? Yo, is that like United, yeah?

Mate, what you doing in a dump like
this for, then?

- Well, they wouldn't play me in the
right position. They weren't getting

the best out of me, so now I'm just

waiting for other offers.
- You mean you were thrown out?

- Mate, come on.

Who even are you? You're just a
daddy's boy, innit?

See you around, kid.

- Why didn't you just ignore him?

Who cares what an idiot like that
thinks?

- What, star player? Everyone cares
what an idiot like him thinks.

- It shouldn't be you that's getting
in trouble.

You weren't the one in the wrong.

- Spoken like a kid who's never been
in care.

- Hey, I've got Val for you.

Sorry, I couldn't get that knife crime
thing moved.

- Ugh. Um, OK, yeah.

Don't worry about it. Thank you for
trying.

Can you get Joe to come and see me
when he gets a sec?
- Sure.

- Thank you.

How's he doing?
- It didn't help

knowing his friends were coming back
in today and he wasn't,

but I've come to tell you the good
news.

The solicitor thinks there's a chance
he might walk free.

- Well, what about possession?
- There's no proof

he even had a knife. The police
haven't found anything.

- Yeah, but we both know what he's
done.

- Well, he's not sure himself.

- All right, Val, listen.

Whatever story his solicitor has told
him to stick to,

he knows, I know.

You know, that knife's not going to be
hidden forever.

- If they were going to find anything,
they'd have found it by now.

- I just don't see how he can walk
away from this.

- The investigation is still ongoing,

and this isn't just a kid pulling a
blade on another kid.

This is a victim of organised crime.

- No, I know that, and my heart breaks
for him,

but he's got to take responsibility
for what he's done.

- All Danny's got to do is say
nothing.

He doesn't remember.

End of. He's going to walk free, he's
going to come back to school,

and he's going to make something of
himself.

- So, you're saying, as a teacher,

a kid can carry a knife in school as
long as they can get away with it.

- I'm not talking as a teacher.

I'm talking as the closest thing he's
got to a parent.

- BELL RINGS, CHATTER

All right, boys.
- Ey!
- Yes!

- Listen, yeah? Everyone look at me
right now.

This is where we focus, yeah?

So everyone on your toes. On your
toes. Nice and easy.

On your toes. Right, lads, listen in.
Oi!

- Who does this kid think he is?

- Just get on with it, man.
- Tempo up. Clap.

That's it, that's it, that's it.

Come back into me. Higher tempo.

Lift it! Right, boys. Ready?

Three, two, one, come on in. Go, to
me. Go.

Everyone in a circle on your toes.

We're going to jump up, we're going to
head that ball.

Go. Jump up. One more.

One, two, three, jump. All right,
lads. Good warm up.

Well in. Oi, a few of you might
actually stand a chance

of keeping up with me. All right.
Let's go, let's go.

WHISTLE BLOWS

- Either that's shrunk in the wash,
sir,

or you used to be a lot lighter.
- Oh!
- LAUGHS SARCASTICALLY

- Dissent. Off!
- What?
- We're not even on the pitch yet.

- Yes. Well, you've got to set the
tone early. We didn't have

any messing around in the Wigan and
District League back in '95.

- 1895, by the looks of THAT outfit.

Are you joking me, sir?

- Hey, I thought this was supposed to
be a friendly, ref.

You know what? Stick that up your VAR,
you!

- Hey. Just in case you missed lunch.

- Ah. Cheers.
- That's all right.

You can take me somewhere super posh
to say thanks.

- Oh, really? You do know posh for me
is like putting red sauce

on your bacon butty, don't you?
- Oh. You're like Bridgerton, you!

- I'll see you later!
- See you.
- What? Don't give me that!

- Oi, Casey. What do you reckon?

- Oh! Yeah.

Blue. Great.

- Everything seems to be running
smoothly out there.

Good atmosphere.
- Yeah. Let's hope it calms the
students down a bit.

They're saying that the police used
force against Danny Lewis,

and, well...
- And so I'm worried that Danny's
becoming a hero

and you are all becoming the villains.

- Well, I wish I had a magic wand for
that, Miss Campbell, but I don't.

- Mm. I suppose that's why we do all
this hearts and mind stuff, innit?

But as we know, it is a long road.
Shall we?

CHUCKLING

- Oh, stop!
- Oh, my days.
- Stop.

- He does not know what he's doing.

- That's it. Nice. Nice.
- Should we even be looking at that?

- We can see everything.
- To one side. It's good for your
back, this.

- You don't want anyone getting hurt,
I suppose, so, you know.

- Touch your toes. I can touch... Just
give us a minute.

- He's literally an old man.

- Jogging on the spot. Carry on.

- Dwayne, over here.

- How's life down there, kid, huh?

- Oi, Massey!

- Yeah.
- You got a problem with me and my
brother?

Stay away from us.
- Or what, hmm?

You'll get one of your gay dads onto
me?

Yeah, it must be quite hard thinking
who you're going to go

crying to first, eh? The sheriff or
the deputy.

- We can go right now if you want.

It's just me and you. Come on, new
kid.

- Yeah?

Nah, you're not worth my time.

Let's settle it on the pitch.

- Lads, you're on the green team, all
right?
- Nice one.

You have a good holiday?
- Yeah.

Look, I'm really sorry I haven't
replied to any of your texts.

- I've started seeing someone.

So, don't worry, I won't be hassling
you. I've moved on.

- Can you imagine me...?!

- Aw, look at him!

It's just the warm-up!

You all right there, mate?
- Where's me whistle?

- Don't know. I've not seen it.

- Well, how am I supposed to officiate
without my whistle?

- Well, you know, you've just got to
ask yourself,

what would Pierluigi Collina do?

Hey.

- Aww! You're tight!

- Sh!

KIM: OK, I know that you are all
really keen to get going,

so I'm not going to keep you for very
long,

but I just wanted to say how lucky we
are to have an event like today.

The first of many, I hope.

And I'm sure that you all want to join
me

in saying a big thank you to Sergeant
Mike Rutherford for making

it happen, and you are now going to
tell us a little bit more about it.

- So, it's going to be 20 minutes each
way.

We are going to be mixing up the
teams, so it's going to be

police AND pupils, not police VERSUS
pupils cos I'm sure none of you

were hoping to kick the police team
off the pitch now, were you?

Let's hope it's a good, clean game.

It's a chance for us to get to know
each other, have a laugh,

and hopefully you'll be able to see
that we're no different from you.

Let's just hope the ref can keep up,
though, eh? Right.

Come on, you lot. Over we go.
- Thank you.

Go on, Waterloo Road!

- It's just you and me. You and me.

- Right, lads. Let's have a nice clean
game, yes?

- Yep.

- And whistle!

- What?

Ref, that is the most stupid thing
I've ever seen.

- OK.

- Are you for real?
- Changing rooms.

- See you later, lad!

- What a muppet.

- Whistle!
- What do you want me to do?

- Just go.

- The letter...

- Get it, Dwayne.

- All yours, Dwayne.
- Woo!

See, that one there is my son.

He's good, isn't he?

That's it, that's my boy! Go on!

- SHOUTS OF ENCOURAGEMENT

- Whistle! Yes! 1-0 Greens, come on.

- Miss Campbell.

- Oh, Mr Choudhry. Hi.

Oh, it's good to see one of the
governors here. Thank you.

- Well, I actually came to watch Samia
play, but I haven't seen her yet.

- She'll probably just be making her
way over. What do you think

of the event, then?
- Oh, it's great. Yeah, really good.

I'm just glad we managed to move so
quickly on the security.

- Yeah, but it is only a temporary
measure.

We need to make sure that we don't
lose

the character of the school through
all of this.

- Don't care about the character of
the school.

As long as me daughter's safe,
wherever she is.

- Danny.

Well, I didn't skip school to stand on
the step.

- Bring it in. Bring it in. Bring it
in.

Right, you ready?

- What was that?! Referee, yellow
card!

- Go on. Off you go.

Whistle! You know what colour it is?

Do you?

Consider yourself lucky.

Go.

- Get after him, Dwayne.

- You're not in the wrestling ring,
son.

- Man on.
- Ref!
- You're a big lad. You're putting
yourself about, son.

I get that. You're putting yourself
about a little bit TOO much.

- You're... Behave!
- No, I am not.

- Good ball, Dwayne.
- Skill out a bit, Dwayne. All right.

- You do that again and I'll have you.
- Bring it on.

- So, our Debs is watching me every
move.

Latest is I'm "using all the hot
water"!

Honestly, I'll have to ask her
permission to use the loo next.

- What, you think she's going to chuck
you out?
- Ha!

No, I think she wants more money.

- Whistle! Whistle! Whoa, whoa, whoa.

Keep it clean.
- How many times, huh?
- Free kick, Green.

- Can always stay at ours if you get
stuck.

What? Got a shed in the garden, ain't
I?

- Aw. Thanks! What a nice offer!

What?

- Do you fancy him or something?

- Tonya!

- Face up. Right. Wall.

Here, please. Ten yards.

Thank you very much.

Wait for my whistle.
- Go on, Myles.

- Set.

Whistle.

Whistle.
- What the hell are you doing, Sharif?
- Deliberate handball.

- Oops. Sorry, everyone.
- That's your second card.

You're off. Keep moving. Come on.

Wipe your feet on the way out.

- Yes...

- Looking for this?

- What it is is I had, like, a total
block in my biology essay,

and I had to make it look like I was
writing something, so all this rubbish
came out,

and someone put it in your blazer.
- You gave Danny the knife.

Why didn't you just tell me instead of
ghosting me?

- Val thinks I'm going to get off, but
she's kidding herself.

- She says you've got a chance.

- I had a knife, Samia.

Look, I don't expect you or no-one
else to hold my hand through it.

I don't want to bring you all down
with me.

- That's stupid.

People are worried about you.

- I've got nothing, Sam.

- It's not true.

You've got me.

- That's a joke!
- Carry on play.

- Have you got eyes?
- Contact sport, son.

- Calm it down, Dwayne.
- Square it.

- Come on. How did you miss that?

- Get in, Green.

- Have it!

- BONE CRUNCHES, MYLES ROARS IN PAIN

- Get up.

- Man, is his ankle meant to be
hanging off like that?

- Myles!
- Dwayne, just move back.
- I played the ball.

- God!
- What've I done, though?

- If you've broken anything!

- Everyone needs to calm down.

Oh...

Neil, call an ambulance.

- Miss, I'm telling you, I didn't do
anything.

- I want you off the pitch.
- He went for me!

- I said move it!
- Dwayne, go!

- Get off me!

- Whoa! Dwayne!

Dwayne.

- I'm sorry. Maybe I should've told
you straight away.

- It's OK.

I know it's not always easy.

- It's not just what it's done to
Danny.

It's like, am I an accessory? The
knife's not been found.

And when it does, will it come back to
me?

I can't talk to anyone about it. I
can't focus.

I can't be bothered to look fabulous,
so you know it's serious.

I just stay wide awake all night
thinking,

"Why did I give it back to him?"

- You were trying to help your mate.

- Saying no would've been more
helpful.
- It's not on you.

In fact,

I'm mad with myself, too.
- Why?

- I should've turned up when I said I
would.

I just had some stuff going on.

- So you keep saying, but never
what...

Unless you're traumatised about
locking lips with me.

- Well, I'm here now.

- Sorry for getting you wrapped up
into all of this.

You probably hate me.

- No.

- Too bad you're seeing someone else.

- I'm not.

Well, I didn't want to look like the
sad one, did I?

But now you've sent me a 300 page
letter, well...

- I know some kid had his legs done in
and all of that, yeah?

Sort of ruined his career.

And obviously copper got hit, yeah?
Ruined the game.

But, do not understand why we couldn't
just carry on.

A bit daft, innit?

- He was saying I went for Massey's
legs.

It was the other way around. It's not
my fault he broke it.

- It's not an excuse to hit a police
officer, though, is it?

- I have never seen you lose your
temper like that.

- If you hadn't come to school, maybe
you never would've.

- What's that supposed to mean?
- Do you actually think

I feel good being fostered by a fed?
Do you get that? Do you get it?

- I didn't make you hit a police
officer! One of my colleagues!

You could be looking at charges,
Dwayne.

- Can't you just put in a word or
something?

- You act however you want and just
get you off the hook just like that?

- Yeah, but he...
- Yeah, but nothing!

You've put me in a really difficult
position here.

- You're going to calm down and you're
going to go

and you're going to get a shower.

Right? And then you're going to come
back here

and you're going to start talking.

What language am I speaking, Dwayne?
Go!

Surely, he won't be charged.

- In front of everyone, Joe?

They're not just going to let that
slide.

- Right. Well, Dwayne was clearly
being antagonised by Myles.

- Yeah, of course he was.

Keisha said Dwayne had a pop at him
before the game.

Why do you think that is?

- Cos of us.
- Mm. Me especially.

- So it's not going to be easy for the
lads.

We knew that it wouldn't be.
- Yeah, and I've just made it

ten times harder by taking a job at
the school.

- Mike, you're doing your best.

- He's just smacked an officer in the
face.

You don't have to be a flaming
psychologist to know

what he's trying to say there, do you?

- Right. So what? That makes us bad
parents?
- No, but...

- But what?

- Joe, are we the right parents?

- What?
- Are we really the best people for
those boys?

- Mike, we were talking about
adoption.

- You were talking about adoption.

- No, don't... You never said you were
against it.

Mike, they've been moved from place to
place for eight years.

They need stability.

- What if a white copper and a white
teacher just can't understand

what those boys are going through?

- What have they said?

Dwayne!

I can't believe you punched a
policeman.

- It was that Massey's fault, getting
me all wound up.

Look, I never touched him. And I told
you, didn't I?

I told you no-one would believe me
over him.
- I believe you.

- Yeah, but you're not the one that's

going to send me and Zayne back to the
home.

- What are you talking about?

- I punched one of Mike's police
mates. I did it in Joe's school.

You think they're going to forget
that?
- No, but...

- You think they want the hassle of me
getting charged?

The embarrassment of it?

What, I'm going to be allowed back
into their house, yeah?

It was bad enough with one of them
working here, watching me.

Now it's both of them.

- Just give them a chance to calm
down.

My mum's always saying she's going to
throw me out.

She never does.

- She can't, Tonya. They can.

- Dwayne...

Where are you going?!

- Look, maybe if I'm not around,
they'll let Zayne stay.

- "Not around"? What?

- Zayne likes being with Joe and Mike.

He wants it to be for real, like
adopted,

and I just... I can't be the reason
that he isn't.

- They're not going to change their
mind over one little thing.

- Do you know how many foster families
we've been with

since we got taken away from Mum?

Four, Tonya.

You know how many times it were my
fault we were kicked out?

- Well, where do you think you're
going, then?

- Look, I've got a cousin in
Birmingham.

I'll stay with him.

- Dwayne, it is stupid.

- You just don't tell anyone!

All right? Promise me!

Perhaps we can't understand them, not
really...

..but we can be there for them.

We can support 'em.

They need permanence.

It's why we started talking adoption.

- We don't know what we're doing.

- What parent does?

Come on!

Kids, they need consistency, they need
commitment,

someone who won't quit.

You know, if I know one thing about
you, you...

..you're not a quitter.

- BELL RINGS

- Anya Kaites?
- Here, Miss.

- Elena Chambers?
- Here.

- Samia Choudhry?

Samia Choudhry?

- WHISPERING AND MUTTERING

- Danny?

- CREAKING

GIGGLING

- There is no GCSE in THAT, Samia
Choudhry!

I want you both dressed and downstairs
in one minute!

- Everything's fine.

We just need to know if you've seen
Dwayne.

- I thought he was with you.

- Zayne, did he say anything about
going off?

- Is he OK?

- Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

Sure, he's absolutely fine. Come on,
let's get you back into class.

- Thank you. Is there anyone else that
he knocks about with?

- I think we just need to speak to
Kim. We'll, erm...

Yeah, follow me down.

- Look, Val, I'm so sorry.

- You zip it.

- It's a bit late for that.

- Don't you dare make light of this,
Danny Lewis.

You are in so much trouble.

You're still going to be grounded

when you've got children of your
own...

..which I hope isn't nine months from
now.

- Miss!

- I don't think you understand how
serious this is.

You are truanting.

You are breaking the rules of my
house.

I'm not sure which is worse.

- We're dead sorry, Miss. It weren't
planned.

- Car, now.

- I'll text you.

- Car, Miss Choudhry!

I have put my reputation on the line
for you

and this is what I catch you doing?

I'll deal with you later.

Just get on with your worksheets.

- I don't think I'll be able to
concentrate after that.

- I don't want to hear it.

- PHONE RINGS

- Where are you?

- On a coach.

- How come it's dark?

- Don't worry. I'm fine.

I'm just hot is all.

Should've got a drink.

- Can you stop being stupid? Come
back.

Mr Casey and Rutherford are looking
for you.

- I can't, Tonya.

- You've got a family. I thought
that's what you wanted.

- They don't want me. Not really.

They want a little kid.

They want Zayne.

- You're still a kid, you doughnut.

- I really should've brought that
drink.

- Don't they have water on the coach?

- Not where I am.

- Where are you, exactly?

- Listen, my battery's low.

I've got to go.

- No, Dwayne...

- Well, of all the pupils, I did not
expect this from you, Samia.

- I'm sorry, I...

I was just...

- Helping him with his worksheets.

- Is this right? You've been seeing
Danny Lewis?

Danny Lewis who stuck a knife in
someone?

- He's my friend...

..and needs support.
- Are you kidding me?

- Look, I know that you are angry
about Danny,

but you cannot use that as an excuse
for poor work and poor behaviour.

Do you understand?
- Yes, Miss.

- Miss Chambers will give you a
suitably long detention, OK?

- And you can forget about seeing
Danny Lewis again.

- You don't even know him.

You can't just stop me from seeing
him.

- Samia, you are done. Do you
understand me?
- No, Dad.

No way.
- OK, I think it's time that you went
back to class.

- And if he was still in school, I
wouldn't have had to sneak out.

- Sami!

- Well, where were the police when he
needed help?

I was there.

I saw how they treated him.

- Samia... Class.

- I know what they're like.

And I'm not the only one.

Not by a long shot.

- Samia.

- Er...

Can we have a word?

- BELL RINGS

So I've got another pupil missing?

I thought that the football was
supposed to improve relationships.

- Dwayne did hit PC Blainey.

- And I'm not defending that,

but it was completely out of character
for Dwayne.

- Kim, can we put this on hold?

- Dwayne's still missing.

- Yeah.

- Kim, I've got Schools Against Knife
Crime.

- Ugh... No.

Just tell them that I'm busy. I need
to reschedule.

- This is their representative, Andrew
Treneman.

- Kim.

- Can you tell Andrew Treneman that he
can go and jump off a cliff?

MUSIC: Going by Skripture

PHONE CHIMES

DOORBELL RINGS

- He's in a sports kit, as far as we
know.

Could be a school uniform, maroon
jumper.

- Sir...

- Tonya, unless it's an emergency...
- It's Dwayne.

- Just a little social call, see how
you're doing.

Get stressful, home on bail.

Hard to stop thinking about what's
going to happen.

Where you're going to end up.

I could make this whole thing go away.

All I need from you is a little
favour.

- Dispatch, we've located the 13:45
from Manchester to Birmingham,

southbound on the A556.

- SIREN WAILS

Copy that. CCTV did show him near the
coach station around that time.

- We're pulling him over now.

Can I get an ambulance en route just
in case?

Open up your luggage compartment.

Dwayne! Dwayne!

- A luggage compartment?

- He's unconscious on his way to
hospital.

- OK, go.

- I'm sorry...
- Go.

- Yeah. Cheers, Kim.

- EXHALES

- Fingers crossed.

I'm sensing hostility.

- The last time I saw you was at the
end-of-term party.

The one with the fireworks, where you
were all,

"Oh, I just can't leave."

Do you remember that?
- Yes.

- And then you left anyway. Straight
back to Rwanda.

- I did ask you to come.

- And you knew that I couldn't come.

Then next thing I know, you turn up in
Salford.

Head of St Henry's.

- I...wondered if you knew that I
was...

- Of course I knew.

So, yeah, hostility.

So now what? You're here to...
dispense some wisdom, are you?

- To offer help.

- I've got a student body that think a
kid with a knife is some

kind of martyr and the probability
that other students are now

going to start carrying knives, but do
you know what I don't need?

I don't need any advice from you, so
thank you so much for calling in.

- You'll remember I never knew when to
shut up.

One thing I've learned in years of
doing this is how much

of it is about who the people see as a
positive role model and why.

If I was giving advice - which I'm
not...

..that's what I'd suggest you focus
on.

- Yo, Sami, you messing?

- No phones in schools.

- No, I don't know what shocked me
more, yeah?

You bunking off...
- Oi! Phone off.

- Oh...

Er, hang on a minute.

Mrs Upside-Downy face is boring on at
me, yeah?

No, one sec, one sec.

Yeah?
- Right, where are you meant to be?

- The BU, innit? But got a mate in a
crisis, so...

- If you're in the BU, you shouldn't
be in the main building.

- What's it to do with you?

- BU, now.

- Yo, don't touch me.

- I'm not touching you.

I'm telling you to put your phone away

and get to where you're meant to be.
- 'kay.

Yo, don't touch me!
- You shouldn't be here.

- Yo, what are you trying to do, push
me down the stairs?

You know, you guys make out that Danny
Lewis is the threat.

It's not Danny Lewis, it's you. Yeah?

Come on, then.

Free Danny Lewis, yeah?

Free Danny Lewis!

- STUDENTS CHANT:
- Free Danny Lewis!

- Get to your class.

Go!

- Free Danny Lewis! Free Danny Lewis!
Free Danny Lewis!

- All right, all right, all right!
That is enough!

Silence, please.

CHANTING CONTINUES

I said, silence!

- Free Danny Lewis! Free Danny Lewis!
Free Danny Lewis! Free Danny Lewis!

- LETTERBOX RATTLES

You're popular today, eh?

Can I come in?
- Sure.

So, you're here to tell me off about
Sami?

- No, that's now why I'm here.

You've become a bit of a celebrity at
school, do you know that?

But for all of the wrong reasons.

And I am worried that you are being
given advice that's based on

emotions rather than facts, because
the fact is, you did what you did.

- You don't understand.

It's not going to court.

- Right.

Look, Val means well, but whatever
she's saying...

- It's not.

- What are you not telling me?

- Vinnie said that he's not going to
tell the police what happened.

That he's just going to tell them that
he forgot.

- Why? Why would he say that?

Danny.

Danny, whatever he is offering you,
you have to say no.

- What if I could just walk away?

- You can't walk away. Not ever.

Once he realises he's got power over
you,

where do you think that's going to
end?
- Well, I really don't care.

I just don't want to go to youth
offenders.

- If you go down that route,

you are just going to get in deeper
and deeper.

- You know, Miss, you're really
starting to sound like

you actually want me to go down.

- I want you to do the right thing,
not the easy thing.

BEEPING

- Mike.

- Joe.

Zayne, he's OK, he's OK.

- Is he?
- He's fine. Heat exhaustion.

Come on.

- Dwayne!

- You all right?

- DWAYNE SOBS

- It's all right. Hey, hey, it's all
right.

It's all right.

- I'm so sorry.

- Dwayne, I'm sorry I scared you,

but PC Blainey, he's not going to take
it any further.

I've had... I've had a word.

- It's a school matter.

- Whatever happens, change is nothing
for us.

- Good or bad, we will still be here.

- I don't know what you're doing here,

but I hope you're sweating it over
what he's done.

- We're just trying to mind our own
business.

- My Myles is in X-ray, like we need
one, to know his ankle's broken.

That could be the end of his career.

- What career?
- All right, Zayne.

Mrs Massey, look, we're sorry Myles is
injured.

- You will be... when he's charged
with assault.

I don't care how far over your head I
have to go.

I'll be suing the school too.

- No, you won't.

- Don't you tell me what I will and
won't do.

- Myles was the aggressor, not Dwayne.

- You calling me a liar?

Are you calling my boy a liar?

- I'm saying my boy is telling the
truth.

- A family of scumbags.

ZAYNE: At least we're a family.

- Yeah.

Right, and, erm...

..we were thinking about making that
permanent.

- How would you feel about us adopting
you?

Yeah?
- Yeah?
- Yeah?

- Come here.

Hey.

I just wanted to put something out
there.

First...

..thanks for all the support you've
given me.

It means a lot and I know everyone's
behind me.

You've all been amazing.

But I don't deserve it.

I did something really stupid.

I carried a blade.

Cos of that, I messed everything up.

I had a future.

I had a chance at school.

I had friends...

..even if I didn't realise at times.

And I'm telling you this...

..because I'm no hero.

I'm an idiot.

I threw my life away in a second.

I was to blame.

Me...

..and only me.

And I carried it...

..because I was a coward.

Not a hero.

And I've got to learn to live with
that.

- No...

- I can't pretend that I didn't do
it...

..cos I did.

I did it.

- No...
- That's why...

..I'm going to the police and I'm
admitting everything.

- Why?

- And whatever I get, it's cos I
deserve it, so please...

..don't fight for me.

Don't be like me.

Thanks.

- BELL RINGS

Hi, Mike. Hope everything's all right
with Dwayne. Erm...

Listen, the pupils don't trust the
uniform,

so what's to say that we even have to
have the uniform?

I know the governors...

- How could you do that to Danny?

- Val, listen.

- He was going to walk away!

- Yeah, just to get himself into an
even bigger hole.

At least this way, he has a chance.

- So it's not purely to justify what
you've done to this school?

- That is not fair.

I did the right thing for Danny.

The only thing.

- You keep telling yourself that.

- And I carried it...

..because I was a coward.

Not a hero.

And I've got to learn to live with
that.

I can't pretend that I didn't do
it...cos I did.

I did it.

- What are you doing, forwarding it
onto Erica?

- That's why.

- I suppose you've already told her

how well the police presence worked
with Dwayne.

- My concern was you being forced into
a situation you don't want.

- Well, like I said, it...

- And you do have a deputy who has
your back.

- You were right - the pupils don't
trust the uniform.

- No easy answers.

And you were right about needing to
keep them safe.

- The kids don't trust the police,

but I think that they might be able to
learn to trust Mike.

- Yeah.

- If I decide that I don't want the
uniforms and that I don't

want the knife arches and I don't want
the kids feeling like suspects

before they even come through the
door, but I do like the

relationship-building and the
education,

all the rest of it, what would you...?

- Then I'll be right behind you when
you tell the governors.

- Andrew?

- I just wanted to say...I'm sorry.

I should've warned you in advance.
That wasn't fair.

- No.

- I can't blame you for responding the
way that you did.

After all these years...

I'd like the chance to apologise
properly.

- What, and ten years hasn't been
enough for you?

- I'm here now.

- Yeah. Yeah, for consultancy rates.

Thank you for your professional
insight.

You've absolutely earned your money.
Well done.
- That's not why I'm here.

- Yeah, well, save yourself the
hand-wringing.

I don't need an apology from you to
have a working relationship.

- I was hoping we could... at least be
friends.

- I don't need any more friends.

You want to help my school...

- I do.
- ..then that's fine.

Let's keep on talking.

But anything else...

..it's too late.