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JESS: We're gonna miss it!

It's not funny, Ollie. Go!

TRAIN DOORS BEEP No!

That was close. Yeah.

Can you imagine if we'd missed it? HE CHUCKLES

HE EXHALES

NEIL: You all right?

Been a tough day, hasn't it?

Come here.

YAWNING: I'm knackered.

HE GROANS

PHONE CHIMES

RINGING TONE

TOM: 'Beth.' What's happened?

Despite everything we said, Jess and Ollie went to Blackpool.

Oh, he told me he was at yours.

They made it to Manchester,

changed to come back here, and they fell asleep.

Now they can't get off till Sheffield.

Sheffield?! Christ!

Is there a train back?

'Nope, that's why I'm gonna pick 'em up.'

No, Tom, you can't. Not with your hand. I'll go.

No, it's fine. It's late, and it's a long way.

Look, I just wanted to call you so you weren't worried.

'No, honestly, it'll be Ollie that's led this, so...'

No, no, Beth, I'm going.

'I'll... I'll drop him off later.'

OK, thanks.

PHONE CHIMES

TOM: Hannah's gonna go crazy when she finds out.

BETH: Is she not at home?

She's at some charity thing, I think. I left her a note.

Old school. Mm.

If I text her, it'll ruin her evening.

The moment she reads it, she'll...

be so furious.

And then Jess won't be popular.

To say the least. Kind of admire them for it.

They were told they couldn't go, but they wanted to go, so they went.

They haven't exactly covered themselves in glory, have they?

Well, we all fuck up.

Beth... Have you ever played "car-y-oke"?

Car-y-oke? Yeah, it's, erm...

You-You pick a playlist, and then you put it on shuffle,

and then whatever song comes on, you have to sing along?

No, I've not played that. Do you want to?

Er... My singing voice,

it's been known to scare wild animals.

Well, let's choose my Zumba playlist,

cos, that way, we know it will be upbeat.

Well, unless you want a ballad? No.

Do you wanna go first? No. Coward.

Here we go.

MUSIC: 'Rhythm Is A Dancer' by Snap!

♪ Rhythm is a dancer It's a soul's companion

♪ You can feel it everywhere

♪ Lift your hands and voices Free your mind and join us

♪ You can feel it in the air

♪ Oh, oh, it's a passion

♪ Oh, oh You can feel it in the air

♪ Oh, oh, it's a passion

♪ Oh, oh, oh... ♪

HE LAUGHS Ah!

♪ Rhythm is a dancer Is a dancer

♪ It's a soul's companion Companion

♪ You can take it everywhere. ♪

We can't just ignore what happened today.

Well, we can.

Pretend it never happened.

Just like that? Oh, yeah, just like that.

God, I acted like a madwoman.

I don't know what I was doing.

Wasn't the most conventional behaviour.

All right, so, erm...

I'm gonna say it, officially.

I apologise.

I shouldn't have gone to you, and...

I'm really sorry.

And what about you?

What about me? Well, you...

You kissed me back, in your workplace.

You could have thrown me out, told me...

I crossed the line, but you didn't.

You kissed me.

Yeah, I did.

I shouldn't have kissed you.

Because we're both married, and we have families.

But I wanted to.

Like I wanted to since the first moment I saw you.

So do it again.

RINGING TONE, SHE SIGHS

It's just ringing out. Look, they'll be on their way.

Should have just got an hotel. Oh, paying for that, are you?

Oh, I'm gonna get in so much shit off my mum.

Hello?

RINGING TONE VOICEMAIL: 'At the tone...'

PHONE CLATTERS

HEAVY BREATHING

Oh!

SHAKILY: OK, I'm...

Jessica.

Jessica, Jessica, Jessica, Jessica, Jessica,

Jessica, Jessica, Jessica...

BETH: Look at him.

We can't do this.

It'll destroy them.

Yeah, I know.

So we put it back in the box, yeah?

Forget about it. Yeah.

HORN HONKS

There's Mum.

JESS: I'm really sorry. Thanks, Mum. Thanks, Tom.

Falling asleep on the train? What a pair of idiots!

BETH SIGHS Dad, how much trouble am I in?

You know your mum.

Has she called you? Yeah, but I didn't answer.

No, same here. I messaged her and said we'd talk about it at home.

WHISPERS: Oh, God.

You brought us any chips?

I mean, you can have some of these. Can you believe them?

Hour-and-a-half drive, you've not brought us any chips?!

How was Blackpool?

It was good. It was good.

THEY LAUGH It was, Dad.

Absolute selfish... JESS GIGGLES

JESS SIGHS I hope she's gone to bed.

I don't think there's much chance of that.

SHE SIGHS

Just stay calm, and don't just turn it into a shouting match.

HANNAH: I gave you my reason!

Yeah, cos you never let us do anything! That is not true.

"Don't go there, don't do that. Something bad might happen." Jess!

So do it again.

Why is it always gonna go bad? Well, it didn't.

It was fun. Even missing the fucking stop was fun! No.

Hey! Don't talk to your mother like that.

Bedroom, please. Yeah, happily.

Your father and I are gonna decide your punishment, and trust me,

it will be significant! DOOR SLAMS

Why have I always gotta play the bad guy with her? Hello?!

Nothing?

I don't know. Well, what's she saying?

Beth, the mother you spent all night in a car with?

I am seriously starting to worry about that relationship.

Their son is leading our daughter astray.

That's your assumption.

Do you think that I'm...?

Is she right? Am I... Am I wrapping them up in cotton wool?

Yeah, a little bit.

SHE SIGHS

HEAVY BREATHING

Two weeks? Mm-hm.

That's bullshit. I know. Gonna miss Mariella's party.

She's gotta let you go to that. I mean, it's her 16th.

SHE SCOFFS She won't.

"Grounded is grounded, Jessica"!

For God's sake. Honestly.

I mean, I can't believe you've got nothing. How is that fair?

I didn't get nothing. You know, I have to go help clear Ally's house.

Eurgh, lovely (!)

It's only an house. I don't think her ghost'll be hanging about.

Woooo! SHE LAUGHS

I know. It's just weird, though. Yeah.

Although I would rather clear a house with ten ghosts

than two weeks grounded. Mm.

All right, Bernard?

It weren't me.

THEY LAUGH

WHISPERING: Oh, my God.

You all right with those? Yeah.

ALARM BEEPS

Oh, God.

You all right, Mum?

We had such good times in this room.

Getting pissed... laughing our heads off.

I liked Ally.

She always had a secret stash of sweets up in her cupboard.

She started that for you when you were little. Did she?

She loved you.

I'm sorry I didn't come to her funeral.

Grieve in your own way, just don't keep it bottled up.

How come she never had any kids of her own?

I don't know. Just don't happen for some people.

Life don't always turn out the way you think it will.

CLATTERING, DRILLING

PHONE RINGS, MUSIC BLARES

Macca, turn that down a bit.

Hello?

Yeah, it's me.

Right.

OK.

What, and now it's in Manchester?

Yeah, OK.

Yeah, thanks for letting me know.

Yeah, speak soon.

I'm going for a smoke.

Date for the court case.

So that's it. They're going through with it. I'm sorry.

Don't tell Beth, not yet.

She's only just had the funeral.

Neil, I don't know if Beth ever told you, but...

years ago, James was in a similar situation.

Road rage. All got out of hand.

So James just went round, no solicitors, nothing formal,

and just told the man,

"If this goes to court, it'll ruin me."

He took full responsibility and apologised.

They ended up hugging in his kitchen.

I can't see me hugging Douglas Wells.

It's worth a try, though, isn't it? Cos this could be really bad, Neil.

And I need this bloody extension finishing.

I've met someone.

We put it back in the box, yeah?

Forget about it. Yeah.

Are you stealing my furniture?

Oh, God. What do you want?

"Oh, hello, Dave. Nice to see you, Dave" (!)

Whoa. I bought that lamp.

How do you know I'd be here?

Cos I get notifications when the alarm goes off.

I've still got the apps, when this was my house.

Well, delete them.

There's no point, is there, Beth?

Seeing as I'm gonna be moving back in here soon. Ha!

Hey! You all right, Ollie, lad? Dave.

Dave, I am not giving you the house.

She only changed that will to spite me.

She never meant for you to have it. Go upstairs, Ollie.

No chance. Go, now.

ASCENDING FOOTSTEPS

Dave...

I am sure there's someone out there that can love you.

But you are not bringing that person

into the house that you shared with my best friend.

You are not having your feeble excuse for sex

under the roof where you made Ally's final years a fucking misery.

SHOE THUDS

Ah, that's better. Nice to be home.

I'm changing the locks.

PHONE CHIMES

Jess?

Jessica!

Hello?

HIGH-PITCHED: Hello!

How was school? Good.

No more than that?

Zara's annoying. Why?

She keeps tapping her pen.

Yeah. That is pretty annoying.

Oh, come here, it'll be OK. THEY CHUCKLE

Where's Mummy? Upstairs. Angry with Jess.

Hmm.

HANNAH: Don't come up here just to... Bad time?

HANNAH AND JESS ARGUE I have not!

Dad.

HANNAH SIGHS We've had an email

from Mr Wainwright from school.

Saying what? You tell him.

Dad, it's nothing. I called him by his first name and not "Sir",

and now he's going off on one. He says it's not the first incident,

and he says he's worried about bad influences.

Oh, he's chatting shit. Jess!

What? He is, though! He hates Ollie and he's sending you that email

to make him sound as bad as he can.

Why does he hate Ollie?

Because... I don't know. He started the Bernard thing. Bernard?

Oh, it is his name, though.

Right, OK, but how many... how many teachers

do you call by their first name?

None, but... Well, exactly.

OK, look.

I do think after everything that happened in Blackpool,

we should probably have a chat with Ollie's parents,

lay some ground rules for the run-up to the exams.

Mum, there's no need for ground rules. That's ridiculous.

Maybe we should be the judge of that.

Dad! WHISPERS: Just calm down.

You know, er, she is right.

We don't wanna meet the parents. Tom... I mean, text them.

We don't want to get into a back and forth about parenting.

We need them to agree, and it's always much easier in person.

Besides, I wanna know what you and Beth were talking about for an hour

on the way to Sheffield in the car. Yeah.

I'll ask them to meet us for a drink. Huh.

NEIL: Here you go. Thanks for coming.

TOM: Thanks. Cheers.

She told me you were buying.

Er, right, I'm just gonna dive right in

so that we can agree to a plan and then just forget about this.

I don't like being the disciplinarian, but, erm...

I think one parent always takes on that role.

I'm sure one of you two does.

Well, I guess we... we just sort of share it.

Yeah, yeah, probably. Right.

Well, the Blackpool trip, I... don't like that kind of deceit.

And now we've had this email from Mr Wainwright,

which I know isn't a huge deal...

Can I jump in on the Wainwright thing?

Yeah. As someone who works for the school.

You see, he actually is a massive arsehole.

Sorry, I don't like to speak badly of any teacher. No.

But he brings it on himself.

The kids call him Bernard just to wind him up.

Right, but Ollie started it, yeah?

Yeah, but they're just mucking about.

And we had worse at our school.

Ardon Hardman, pervy tech teacher.

Miss No-Hills... No! Don't tell that story!

Was Miss Hill, but she was flat-chested.

BETH AND NEIL LAUGH

OK, well, you know, setting all of that aside,

these next months, they're really important,

and after the whole Blackpool thing, we found these in Jessica's pocket.

Ah, is that edibles? Yeah, but they're all over the school.

No, I know, and I'm sure it's just like us

sneaking gin from our parents' drinks cabinet,

but we can't have them going off the rails. I mean...

It's hardly off the rails. You know what I mean!

Look, this schedule from school, it's like...

five weeks of intense exams.

I think you're right.

They're a couple. They egg each other on. Yeah.

We should lay down the law about it. OK. Yeah, so...

Erm, I'm just gonna write out a few do's and don'ts for Jess.

I can WhatsApp them to you if you want

so you can see what I've written, for Ollie.

Yeah, of course, yeah. Yeah? Uh-huh.

Yeah, definitely. Yeah. OK, great.

This is really good to talk about this.

You know, same page and all that.

BETH CLEARS THROAT

WHISPERS: Hey! Hey.

I need to see you again.

Well, that's not what we agreed. Just to talk.

Oh, to talk (?) I was thinking of you then.

You looked so beautiful. Tom... I just wanted to kiss you.

I can't stop thinking about you.

Meet me?

OK. Where?

Erm, I don't know, I'll think of somewhere.

So they went to Blackpool.

My mum and dad never knew where I was.

I went to a rave in Anglesey once,

told them I was at my mate's in the next street.

BETH CHUCKLES

It's thingy with them, innit? Parachute parenting.

What? Parachute?!

Well, what is it?

It's a helicopter, you daft git! SHE LAUGHS

Listen, before we go in...

HE SIGHS

There's something I've been putting off telling you.

The court case.

They've set a date.

Right.

Well, listen, your Amy was there when the call came through.

And afterwards, she suggested that I go and see him,

that prick, and just... make a case for myself.

She said James did it a few years back, and it worked.

Neil, I really don't think that is a good idea.

You've got a solicitor, just... leave it to him.

Yeah, but what if I'm just a job to him?

He'll have forgotten about me before I've spent a day inside.

I can't go to prison, Beth.

I can't.

Don't listen to my sister.

You've gotta just trust the process, yeah?

PAUL: 'I need some advice.'

It's Alicia.

She's been having these... bleeds.

The first one she had, she'd asked the hospital,

and they scanned her and the baby was fine. Right.

But she's had a few more since then.

Right? So...

Well, what could be happening?

You know I'm not an obstetrician, right?

You're a fucking doctor. You must know something.

It could be loads of things.

She's pregnant. I mean...

An infection could cause bleeding. She needs to see HER doctor.

I see.

Might she lose the baby?

Are you asking out of hope or concern?

Wow! Nice, Tom, really nice (!) Shut up.

Get you out of a hole, wouldn't it?

Don't tell me you haven't thought that.

Well, I could certainly do without

all the late-night panicking phone calls.

Leah's radar's getting well twitchy.

Do radars get twitchy?

Anyway, whatever. She-She can't find out.

PAUL CLEARS THROAT

PHONE RINGS

Leah, hi! Hannah, are you about today?

Er... Yeah. Why, what do you have in mind?

'I need to talk to you about Paul.'

OK. Well, I'm just dashing off to a meeting now, but, erm...

do you want to come over at one-ish?

Perfect. Cheers, Han, I'll see you in a bit.

What's the thinking here, then? What?

I...

I used to come here a lot with the kids.

And at the weekends, it's completely packed.

I cycled past one weekday and it was empty,

and I thought to myself, "Well, if I ever need"

"a covert meeting place, this is it."

Welcome.

So...

What did you wanna... talk about?

Are you familiar with the prefrontal cortex?

Not intimately. HE CHUCKLES

All the songs bang on about the heart.

But it's your old pal the prefrontal cortex

that's driving the show.

Probably doesn't rhyme as well. No.

HE CHUCKLES

Well, the moment you meet someone, or you just see someone,

the old cortex kicks in,

decides whether it... likes them

or wants to see them again or fancies them.

And if it does, then other parts of the brain kick in.

Dopamine gets released, oxytocin.

And... they give you this immediate feeling of...

closeness.

'What were you like as a kid?'

I was what is known as a dweeb.

I had NHS specs, worst haircut known to humanity,

basically asking to be bullied.

I bet you were cute. I weren't, I'll show you photos.

It's why I got into fitness,

to defend myself against the beatings.

What happened to that business?

SHE EXHALES HEAVILY Owning your own mini-gym,

it's long hours,

and Neil made it very clear he thought I should be at home.

I did love it, though.

Now that I work at the school,

I might as well just have "failure" just stamped on my head. No!

I used to bound out of bed,

I used to make these daft little videos to amuse the clients.

I know.

When you find a job you really love...

Well, you must feel that. Are you joking?

A very romantic view of general practice,

and 90% of my day is dealing with old people with acid reflux.

SHE CHUCKLES

Kiss me.

SHE BREATHES HEAVILY

HE GRUNTS

When we had the counselling, he said, obviously,

I can't be in a relationship where the trust is gone.

Well, the trust went because he was having sex with younger women.

Yes, I know, but... he promised me after last time,

he begged me on that bathroom floor, in tears,

to give him another chance.

And what does your gut say?

LEAH EXHALES HEAVILY Well, he's distracted.

He's definitely drinking more than usual.

And then some days, suddenly, out of nowhere,

becomes Mr Wonderful.

He's great with me, he's great with the kids. But...

I just... I don't know. It just... It feels put-on.

Well, if you want my opinion,

I think you need to trust him

until you have a definite reason not to.

But if you do want some reassurance,

you could always put Family Link on his phone, just bury it in his apps.

No, I would feel like a stalker.

Just for a couple of weeks so you can see his location.

Turn off any notifications that let him know about it,

and then when it's all fine, you just delete it. Look...

I very rarely need check it, but when I do,

everyone's almost always exactly where I expect them to be.

See, look. School, school...

Oh.

HANNAH SCOFFS What the hell?

What?

Tom, he...

He's not where I expect him to be. What's he doing in Reddish?

He's probably with a younger woman!

HANNAH LAUGHS MIRTHLESSLY

Yeah.

PLEASURED GROANS

SHE GASPS

ELECTRONIC BEEP

Bloody bank, took forever!

Hey! I'm just gonna get changed.

SIGHS

WATER TRICKLES TOM: Oh!

HE EXCLAIMS

Hey. Hey!

Where were you at lunchtime?

What?

I went for a run. Why?

What, in Reddish?

I can't cycle, can I? So I started running again. Oh.

But why there? I mean, it's miles away.

SHE CHUCKLES

Well, they have those nice tracks there, don't they?

And there's no chance of bumping into one of my, er, patients.

Thought I'd join a gym.

Hm.

Why are you checking on me?

I wasn't checking on you. I was showing Leah the app.

Why does Leah wanna see the app?

No, I said she should get it, that's all.

It's not a big deal, Tom, honestly.

Well, it's for safety, not spying, Hannah?

No-one's spying on you! Oh, God!

Just forget it, OK? I wasn't accusing you of anything.

No-one said you were.

Oh, and I booked that table for tonight.

OLLIE: Cos it was? NEIL: Maths.

Maths, did some GCSE geography.

Right. Come on.

Why is it, whenever you... It's not...

Honestly, whenever you've got... No, you didn't.

FRANKIE: Yes, I did. You only revise, and that's...

I literally did this last night.

Yeah, I thought you were revising last night an' all, weren't you?

Well, if I... Say I said to you, right...

Whenever I'm doing anything, you're always revising,

because you don't want me to... You just...

I see Frankie doing everything all the time!

ARGUING CONTINUES

SHE BREATHES HEAVILY

Purple. You have zero. Right, first...

TOM CLEARS THROAT

Hannah?

Sorry. Sorry, I'm just, erm...

just checking. And is she at home?

Yeah. Safe? Yes.

Obsessing.

SHE CHUCKLES

Tom?

SHE CLEARS THROAT

I know how I've been lately,

and I know that hasn't been great for us.

I know what I've taken away,

you know, from us all as a family, and I am...

SHE SIGHS I'm really, really sorry.

But I really... I do feel like

I'm coming back to myself a lot now, and...

Do you still love me?

Of course I do.

RELIEVED SIGH

Do you still love me like you used to?

Yes, of course.

SHE LAUGHS

Let's find a weekend, shall we?

You know, where we don't have to think about the girls' football

and dance lessons, and we can just go away somewhere.

I mean, it doesn't have be abroad.

We could just go to your mum's place at the lake, you know. Mm.

Well, I mean, that place needs so much work.

I don't mind. It doesn't matter.

It'd just be really nice for us to find some time again.

You know, for me and you.

Yeah? Yeah. OK.

SHE CHUCKLES

Should we get some more wine?

School night? THEY CHUCKLE

Go wild.

THEY GRUNT

That was nice. Mm.

PLEASURED MOANS

NEIL EXHALES HEAVILY

DOOR OPENS

DOUGLAS: You can't be here.

Look, I've not come in for any trouble. DON'T come any nearer.

Please, Mr Wells. I've got nothing to say to you. Leave my shop.

Just wanna talk to you, that's all.

Leave my shop, or I'll call the police. The police?!

Don't talk crazy. Leave my shop.

Right, well, I wanna buy a bike. Bullshit.

Yeah, I do. I wanna buy a bike.

Please, stop playing silly games. This one here.

I wanna buy this bike for my daughter. She's only 13.

Real daddy's girl she is an' all. Loves her dad.

And I haven't had the heart to tell her that I might be going to prison.

That I'll be gone from her life.

And my lad.

And he's at that age where

he'll act like it doesn't... it doesn't matter.

But it will.

And why?

Because I made a mistake.

I made a mistake.

And I'm sorry.

It's for a court to decide, isn't it?

Look, I am begging you. Man to man, yeah?

Please, don't ruin my life.

Please.

I still get headaches from your attack.

Some days so bad that I can't make it in here.

Be sure to tell your children that.

Now, I'll ask you one last time - leave my shop.

Show some fucking humanity! Humanity?!

What you doing? ELECTRONIC BEEP

I warned you. Stop pissing about.

I warned you. What, you're gonna lock me in?

Open the shutters. LOCK CLICKS

BANGING Just open the shutters.

Look, I'll leave, just open the shutters. I'll go, please.

Open 'em! Open the door!

Just open the shutters!

I warned you! I told you to leave!

KNOCKING AT DOOR

I do feel a bit weird about this.

It's just a house, Tom. She didn't die here.

You know, I know that, but...

And if you knew Ally, you'd know she'd do exactly the same.

Oh, I found this app. Vivo. Anonymous messaging.

Download it, or we're bound to slip up. OK, I'll do that.

Hm.

Why are you here?

I know you said at the farm...

that your life weren't perfect, but...

you must know, from the outside, it...

it looks pretty close.

Everything sounds like such a cliche.

It wasn't that we've grown apart, it's...

Yeah, I don't know how to explain it. Just be honest.

When I first met her...

I knew, and, er...

everyone says that doesn't happen, but I...

I remember being on our first date, and I...

I looked at her, and I thought, "I'm gonna marry this woman."

Mm. Prefrontal cortex. HE CHUCKLES

Well, no. It...

It wasn't that...

rip-your-clothes-off kind of passion.

We just worked, you know?

Then I think about three years ago,

she found out all this stuff about her father.

And she completely unravelled.

Constantly thinking something terrible is gonna happen.

Well, it made her ill.

And not just mentally, but, you know...

God. That makes me sound like such a shit, doesn't it? Ill wife and...

I tried, Beth.

I really tried.

It was just so fucking hard.

FRONT DOOR OPENS

Shit! Who's that?

Oh, it's Dickhead Dave. God, I'm gonna fucking kill him.

You stay up here.

MUFFLED VOICES

JESS: They're gonna know. They are gonna know!

Worth missing PE for? All right. Fine. OK.

WHISPERS: It's Ollie and Jess!

Hello?

It's me, Mum, and Jess.

There... Er, there's boxes behind the door. Hang on.

What are you doing here? In fact, don't even lie to me.

She's grounded, so you thought "lunchtime pad"?

Please don't tell my mum. I'm sorry. You are out of order.

This is my friend's house. Give me the keys.

Sorry. Don't tell my mum.

She'll go ballistic. I won't.

But get out, both of you. Go on.

And don't do it again. All right. I'm sorry.

DESCENDING FOOTSTEPS

WHISPERS: Where is your car?

It's two streets down. Why?

Well, they won't go that way. Oh, God! My heart is pounding!

Can you imagine if we hadn't heard them?

SOFTLY: Right...

SHUTTERS CLANG

SIGHS HEAVILY

We've gotta get better at this. Yeah.

Oh, hello!

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