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00:00So you finally decided to get out of bed?
00:02Mum, leave me alone. It's a day off.
00:04How are you going to spend that? Moping around here as usual, I suppose.
00:08Oh, you're not the only one with plans. Actually, I'm just on my way out.
00:12Oh, glad to hear it.
00:17What's the coming over here?
00:18You need to stop playing at that.
00:20I'm sure Peggy will let you use the beer.
00:21I just... I don't want a big fuss.
00:24Oh, come on, we both know what this is about.
00:26That's got nothing to do with me, won't it?
00:28But you can't expect you to spend your birthday in a darkened room,
00:31saying 50 Hail Marys.
00:33You need to stop worrying about him and start living your life.
00:35Look, are we going to the shops or not?
00:40Look, go up my mind, all right? As long as I'm working.
00:42Two plates, please, Peggy.
00:49Nice errors.
00:51That's a game.
00:52Yeah, why not?
00:55Hey, I believe this game belongs to me.
00:57Yeah, well, I reckon you're a lucky boy and I demand a rematch.
00:59I am a lucky boy, thank you very much.
01:01Another one, Phil Winner.
01:02I'll be back in a minute.
01:05Hey, guys, I'm finally convinced Sonia to have a little get-together bread on the bus.
01:08Oh, hey, brilliant.
01:09Enough of your two big bag.
01:1021st?
01:12I remember when he was a young girl.
01:14I can't believe it.
01:1522nd day.
01:16Friday, baby.
01:17Party the babe.
01:18I won't take no for an ask.
01:20It's really good here.
01:21It's my pleasure.
01:22Same again, Mindy.
01:23Yes, please, Peggy, and two drop-off points for lace, please.
01:26Cheers, man.
01:27Nice to meet you.
01:28So, how many nurses you got around this?
01:31Oh, I was going to see if I'm having a job.
01:33I might as well invite everyone, including the nurses.
01:35Oh, this might be wicked, please.
01:37Yeah, but everyone's in the course.
01:39Sounds like everyone who's anyone's going to be there.
01:45Don't forget about the drink.
01:46I wasn't looking at all.
01:46I was going to be there.
02:16I was going to be a little bit drunk.
02:17I was going to set her off, didn't I?
02:18Be like watching live athletics.
02:22Where are you going?
02:24I'll be back in a minute, all right?
02:28Have you seen that one in here?
02:30I don't think so.
02:32Why not?
02:32You're drunk again, Marty.
02:35Come home.
02:36Yes, Carly, what can I get you?
02:38Are you all right?
02:39No, wait a minute.
02:40I ain't going anywhere until you put another one in here.
02:42That's it.
02:43Home.
02:44It's not, I'll take care of it.
02:45If I want to get back home, yeah?
02:47We'll have a drink back there instead.
02:49No, I'm not.
02:50This place is getting some dogs anyway.
02:53Right.
02:57Martin.
02:59Listen, about this party I'm having,
03:01I'd really like to be there.
03:02Oh, yeah, you'd love that, wouldn't you?
03:04Because it's all about Sonia now, Dad.
03:06It's all about Sonia's new life,
03:07and Sonia's party,
03:09and Sonia's clever lesbian lover.
03:10Right, come on, Martin.
03:11I can't talk to you when you're like this.
03:13What are you doing to us?
03:24He'll be okay.
03:24He just needs to sleep it off.
03:26Carly, I don't know what you must think of me.
03:28Oh, no, it's none of my business, Sonia.
03:29Oh, hello, Sonia.
03:36Margaret, what a lovely surprise.
03:39I don't care, aren't they?
03:40He's really too ill to come down.
03:42This concerns him too.
03:45What?
03:45It's food poisoning, you see.
03:47I mean, this is the first time he's managed to get to sleep,
03:50rather not disturb him.
03:51Apart from that,
03:53things have been good, though.
03:55Fine.
03:56Good.
03:57Yourself?
03:59I had another fall last month,
04:01and a bit of a hell scare recently.
04:02Oh, no, you're okay.
04:03Well, it's nothing serious,
04:05but with a five-year-old around,
04:07things are getting to be more difficult.
04:12Over Christmas,
04:13you and Martin became very close to Rebecca.
04:16You gave her a warm, loving home,
04:18and you proved how well you can take care of her.
04:23What, are you saying?
04:24That you'd like us to look after her more?
04:26Not more than that.
04:28I want you to be her legal guardians.
04:35Martin,
04:36you must have been now a decent alarm clock in the world.
04:39Yeah,
04:40he's called my mum.
04:41They ain't got a snooze button either.
04:42Yeah, they're right,
04:43skinful.
04:44Me and Sonia,
04:44it's a practically job behind by your ankles.
04:47Sonia?
04:48I can't manage you by myself.
04:50I thought that I started to get any worse.
04:52Good morning, Martin.
04:53How are you this morning?
04:54Oh, dearie,
04:55I think he's got a little bit of friends there doing a tech dance,
04:57and he's in, Mr. Peterson.
04:58Oh, easy, guys, easy.
05:00But I thought that's got enough time without you giving him free.
05:02See you later.
05:02I thought that's got enough time without you giving him free.
05:08I thought that's got enough time without you giving him free.
05:10I thought that's got enough time without you giving him free.
05:12Oh, my God.
05:14I think it was just seeing Sonia with that killer, you know,
05:17laughing and joking as if I want to melt.
05:20And then Sonia invited me to a birthday party,
05:22like, I was some sort of laughing.
05:23Oh, that must be really hard.
05:25I think I should run off with another bloke.
05:27It might have been a bit easier, you know.
05:29Luckily, we've got the stairs in time.
05:31Five more minutes,
05:32that woman would have seen you bouncing off the furniture.
05:35What woman?
05:36Oh, um, Margaret.
05:37Margaret's on the floor.
05:39What does she want?
05:40No idea.
05:41You have to ask Sonia.
05:43Hello.
05:44Hello.
05:45I'm sorry I haven't been to see you yet.
05:46I was coming, you know.
05:47I just needed some time to get my head around it all.
05:51Around what, Sonia?
05:52What was she doing there?
05:54Margaret's up number four.
05:55Her health's not very good.
05:57So?
05:58Well, she wants to know that Rebecca's looked after and taken care of.
06:02She'd like us to become our legal guardians.
06:06You're joking?
06:07No, I'm not.
06:08Mike, this is our chance to make things right.
06:10We'll be part of Rebecca's future.
06:13Yeah, but we already are.
06:14Well, I mean in the eyes of the law.
06:16We become our legal guardians.
06:17Sooner or later, she'll be back with us.
06:20Yeah, us.
06:22Mum and Dad.
06:22Not me, you and your girlfriend.
06:24Well, we haven't got to tell Margaret everything, have we?
06:26What do you mean?
06:27We both still care about her in the same way.
06:29Just not in the same place.
06:31She wants me to lie for you now.
06:33We're still her parents.
06:34Where's the lie in that?
06:35Oh, right.
06:35So I'm just going to be economical with the truth.
06:37Then you want your daughter back.
06:39Wait, there's not a day goes by when I don't think about her.
06:42So what's the problem?
06:43The problem is the lying.
06:46Fine.
06:47We'll do it for Rebecca, not for me.
06:49No, look, forget it, all right?
06:50It ain't happening.
06:54Well, I'm not even going to drop that bombshell.
06:57Just now, at her flat.
06:59Oh, legal guardian to your own child.
07:04If only you hadn't given her up.
07:06Mum, you ain't up.
07:07Well, how did Margaret know to find Sonia at that flat?
07:11She didn't.
07:12Sonia was at ours yesterday afternoon.
07:14Oh, Marty!
07:15How could you let that girl across the doorstep,
07:17especially after all she's done to you?
07:19Well, Sonia and Carly brought me back from the vet yesterday.
07:23Brought you back or carried you back?
07:25All right, I was drunk.
07:28I'm sorry.
07:29It seemed like a great idea at the time.
07:32What happened then?
07:34Sonia's invited me to her 21st.
07:36Now I'm just throwing a great big party for her at the Vic.
07:39God, talk about rubbing your nose in it.
07:42It's fine.
07:43I've had done it.
07:44Right.
07:45Well, Margaret still bring Rebecca around.
07:47She knows how much she means to you.
07:49Well, the both of us, really.
07:52Yeah, but listen to me, Marty.
07:54Don't you let that Sonia talk you round to anything, all right?
07:57Because that girl, she doesn't deserve that much.
08:02I'd rather the parenting.
08:03Well, I'm sitting over there hoping that it changes what I mean.
08:10Just keep calm, okay?
08:11Good luck.
08:22Why?
08:22What do you think you're doing?
08:23I've come to talk to you.
08:25You can't just pick him up, put him down as you feel like it.
08:28I appreciate that you're looking out for him, Pauline.
08:30He's just some, I'm not sick of the water and all that.
08:33Look, I'm not stupid.
08:34I know what you're up to.
08:35Oh, come on, Pauline.
08:36And how many times is an opportunity going to arise like this one?
08:39Oh, I see.
08:40You say jump and we say how high.
08:43Is that it?
08:43This isn't just our child.
08:45This is your grandchild and all.
08:48You are a manipulative little cow.
08:50I'm doing this for all of us.
08:52How selfless of you.
08:53This is our one and only chance to become a family again.
08:58Mum, let me do what I say.
09:03Don't you see?
09:12We've been given a chance to put things right.
09:16A doorway back into our life for good.
09:18Just like that.
09:19What is Rebecca going to think when she finds out we were given this opportunity and one
09:24of us turned our backs?
09:25She doesn't even know we're a mum and dad.
09:28No, but she will do.
09:30One day she's going to ask.
09:32And we could be the ones to tell her.
09:34But that's up to you.
09:35No.
09:36Don't you make me ask for the villain here.
09:38Look, whatever.
09:38White lies we have to tell to get our daughter back.
09:40They have to be worth it.
09:41At least I can tell her I tried.
09:49White.
09:54Phone Margaret.
09:55Seller will meet up.
10:04It's a bit off school.
10:24The bellyache.
10:25I'm excited here.
10:26Listen, why don't you go in the shop here and see if there's anything he's better to.
10:33It's up here.
10:34Margaret wants to come over tonight.
10:35Half past seven.
10:36You're a bit short now.
10:38Yeah, apparently it's the only time to solicit a woman who can make it.
10:41How do you solicit a woman who will get out of those?
10:43Yeah, that's a friend of Margaret's store.
10:44Oh, the one he's got?
10:46Yeah.
10:46Margaret wants me to witness her will.
10:48That's all right.
10:49Cheers.
10:49Cheers.
10:51Are you sure you're okay with this, ma'am?
10:52I'm really not happy about to see you, Margaret.
10:54Sonia said she'll be round about quarter.
11:00Oh.
11:01Ready to play the ever-loving wife, eh?
11:04We've been through this already, ma'am.
11:05It's the best way.
11:06I just worry that you're only going along with this because you're trying to get her back.
11:10No, not at all.
11:12Are you still here?
11:14Another hour or so and I'll be off.
11:15I'm just popping around the cafe for a cup of...
11:17Oh, you'd like to go to the cafe.
11:18I'll make a cup of tea.
11:19Oh, thank you.
11:22But listen, Martin, where are you supposed to be seeing Gus?
11:24Tonight.
11:26Snooker.
11:26I completely forgot.
11:27Yeah, well, you'll have to phone Margaret, won't you?
11:29And put her off.
11:30Well, Gus, I don't understand.
11:31Yeah, and of course, we mustn't upset Sonia, mustn't we?
11:34This ain't about Sonia, ma'am.
11:35This is about Rebecca.
11:36Do you know, I really wish I could believe you meant that, Martin.
11:42He told you.
11:43No more.
11:44Oh, I was looking forward to visiting tonight, ma'am.
11:46I always beat you anyway, Gus.
11:48No, no, not tonight, ma'am.
11:49I had a game plan.
11:50Oh, how about some more?
11:51Oh, come on.
11:54I can't, mate.
11:55It's the Sonia's birthday party in the big year.
11:59Yeah.
12:00Anyway, mate, what's so important tonight that you blow me out?
12:03Rebecca's grand's coming around.
12:04She's, uh, she's written this new will.
12:07She wants me and Sonia to be Rebecca's guardians, and then if it happens to her.
12:10What?
12:10You and Sonia?
12:11Even though you're not together?
12:13She don't know that.
12:14So you're lying to her?
12:16I don't mean so much lying.
12:17I mean, more pretending, you know?
12:19No, no, that's not good, man.
12:21Sonia's idea.
12:25Not exactly.
12:27Yeah, but you're not exactly telling the truth, neither are you.
12:29Well, no.
12:30What it says here is two golden rules.
12:33One, do as you'll be done, guy.
12:34And two, never tell lying.
12:37It's the best thing for Rebecca, all right?
12:38Why can't you lie until you give me the best thing, man?
12:41Well, think about it.
12:42If Margaret finds out that Sonia's left me and shacked over another bird across the square.
12:46Oh, come on, man.
12:47These things happen.
12:48Well, neither me and Sonia will run the rest of the losing Rebecca.
12:50Listen, you need to forget about Margaret, yeah?
12:53What about Rebecca, huh?
12:54What's going to happen the day she finds out the truth?
12:57What?
12:58I'm explaining to her that sometimes some people just stop loving each other.
13:03Yeah, but listen, no matter how much I've explained to her, she still won't understand why you lied.
13:08I'm not lying, all right?
13:09I'm pretending.
13:12She's really weird to me, hasn't she?
13:14I mean, Sonia's really got to believe that she's right.
13:16You know what?
13:18I tried to take a side between you guys.
13:20I sat back and I watched the way she treated you, and I kept my mouth shut.
13:24But on this one, I mean, Martin, if there's one person around here that you trust, it's Sonia.
13:30I mean, Sonia's straightforward, man.
13:32She's honest.
13:32She's just plain good.
13:34She's still the same person underneath.
13:37Is she?
13:38Yeah.
13:40You still love her?
13:42No, I don't.
13:44You want that, mate?
13:47You all right?
13:51Yeah.
13:52Thanks for agreeing to do this.
13:54You know, I know it's not ideal, but it's for the best.
13:57Son, look, I know you and Naomi are together now, but I've been thinking that maybe at some point in the future, when I'm thinking about Rebecca here, all right, maybe me and you can get back together.
14:13You don't want this.
14:17You know, we've spoken about it.
14:19You said we wanted different things.
14:21We were so young when we got married.
14:23So much has happened since then.
14:24So much has changed.
14:25I haven't changed.
14:27Martin, I always care about you.
14:29I'll always be your friend.
14:31But I can never be your wife.
14:36I wanted to film it so well.
14:38Oh, I hope we go some, you know, with Margaret.
14:44This is all a charade.
14:46We're doing it for Rebecca.
14:48Oh, yes.
14:49Yes, of course we are.
14:52Right.
14:54Come on.
14:59Do you really need me here?
15:01Hello.
15:02Hi, Margaret.
15:03Hi.
15:04Lizzie and Sue were at school together.
15:06Really?
15:07Yeah, best friend since the first day of infants.
15:09This has been a great support to me in many ways.
15:12Oh, I think that's lovely, the people there to support each other, isn't it, Sonia?
15:16Absolutely.
15:18How about a nice cup of tea?
15:19That's right, dear.
15:20You make them feel at home.
15:22Would you like to give me a hand, darling?
15:23Sure.
15:25Come and sit down.
15:26Is she going to behave herself?
15:29That's all about my mum?
15:30Yes, I am, and I don't want her ruining this.
15:32She ain't very comfortable with this.
15:34I tell you what, neither am I.
15:36Oliver says it's a good thing that he loves.
15:40That's a good idea.
15:41And then, providing you both agree, Margaret will sign it and will ask you to be a witness.
15:46Fine.
15:46So, if I should die before Rebecca reaches the age of 18, I would like Martin Fowler and Sonia Fowler of 45 Albert Square, London E20, to become her joint legal guardians.
15:59Yeah, that sounds fine to me.
16:05Martin?
16:06Yeah, yeah, me too.
16:08Please, Sue, what I wanted in life was a family.
16:15When we were kids, and we'd talk about when we were grown up, I'd say I wanted to be famous, a singer maybe, or an actress.
16:21Well, other times, I wanted to be a doctor or a nurse, but with Sue, all she ever said was, I want to be a mum.
16:27It was terrible the day she found out she finally couldn't have a baby.
16:31Well, then eventually, Rebecca came along.
16:34And it was like the sun coming out.
16:36If you could sign it, just go, please.
16:38I remember they were saying to me, Rebecca was asleep in her cot, and we were looking down at her, and Sue said, we're going to saturate her with love.
16:50And that's all I want for Rebecca.
16:53Me too.
16:54And if anything happens to you, that's what we'll give up.
16:58Isn't that right, darling, eh?
17:03Just there.
17:04Oh, dear.
17:08Wait, uh, something you should know about me and Sonia.
17:15Oh, please.
17:16What is it, Martin?
17:19Sonia doesn't live here anymore.
17:23She's left me.
17:29Nobody believes me.
17:30Mark, but this needn't make a difference, not really.
17:32I don't know what to think.
17:33I mean, me and Martin, we love Rebecca, we both do.
17:35We'll give her everything we can.
17:37And I'll be the best mother Rebecca could ever have.
17:38Sue was the best mother Rebecca could ever have.
17:41I didn't mean that.
17:41What I'm trying to say is, I just love her so much.
17:44Please be quiet.
17:45You know, she won't want for anything.
17:47Will you please be quiet?
17:50What would you want to do about this?
17:53I just need a moment to think.
17:56Can you tell me?
18:02I wanted to, but we've been visiting.
18:07Yeah, but not together.
18:09That's right.
18:11I suppose I noticed, but I didn't think anything of it.
18:14Oh, please.
18:15This doesn't make any difference at all.
18:16Why did she move out?
18:17It doesn't matter.
18:18The usual.
18:20Or how long ago did she leave?
18:22Not long ago.
18:23A couple of months, maybe a bit longer.
18:25But Rebecca only came to stay, what, a month ago?
18:28Six weeks?
18:29That's about that, yeah.
18:31But she was here then.
18:33She moved back for the weekend.
18:36So you're part of the deception?
18:37I didn't want to be.
18:40I'm sorry.
18:43Margaret, please listen to me.
18:46Okay?
18:46Me and Martin stopped loving each other.
18:48You stopped loving Martin.
18:49We didn't stop loving Rebecca, not for one minute.
18:52We still love her.
18:54Now, if anything were to happen to you and she were to move in with me, she would be in the very best place possible.
18:59I would take the very best care of her and she'd still see Martin.
19:02Every day if she wanted to, Margaret.
19:04I live across the road.
19:05This doesn't change anything.
19:08I think it does, Sonia.
19:11I think it changes everything.
19:18Okay, I know this is a shock to you.
19:20Well, give me a little bit of time to think.
19:22But I'm still the same person I was when we last saw me.
19:26Okay, you don't like me very much at the moment.
19:28I understand that.
19:28But you've got to think about Rebecca.
19:31Just take some time.
19:32Think about it.
19:33You know, take as long as you want.
19:35And I'm sure once you've thought some more, you know, you'll definitely want to go ahead with the wheel.
19:40Now, in the meantime, nothing needs to change between me and Rebecca, does it?
19:43Saturday's my turn to pick her up.
19:45I hope you haven't forgotten about it.
19:47Shall I come round at the usual time in the morning, about 11 o'clock?
19:50She'll be expecting me, I'm sure, and I don't want to let her down.
19:53Make your pardon?
19:54I said I don't want to let her down.
19:57And how exactly does that fit with lying to her?
19:59Because that is the issue, you see, Sonia.
20:02By constructing this pretense of a happy marriage, you're not only lying to me, you are also lying to Rebecca.
20:07And how can any of us trust you again after this?
20:19How could you...
20:20How could you do this to me?
20:24I don't think it's about you.
20:25I thought it was about Rebecca.
20:26I love Rebecca!
20:28So do I!
20:29Which is why don't we lie to her!
20:35I hate you!
20:37Give me me!
20:39I hate you, I haven't found her!
20:41I hate you!
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