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00:04Morning, Ethel!
00:05Oh!
00:06Oh!
00:06Want to give me a start?
00:08You're all right?
00:09Well, of course I am.
00:11Here.
00:12You seen Dot anywhere?
00:14She's still prosecuting me, you know.
00:18Oh, Ethel, you're not still worried about the police, are you?
00:21Look, I've seen Roy and he's told me you haven't done anything wrong.
00:24Look, he's a policeman.
00:25Well, yes, I know.
00:26And he is lovely, you're Royers.
00:29No, it's not that.
00:30But she keeps on prosecuting me.
00:32She won't let me alone.
00:33Do you know, that woman's idea of a professional palm reading is,
00:39she expects it to be like a railway timetable.
00:42I mean, how am I supposed to know what time her boat's coming in on platform one?
00:47I am speaking metaphysically, of course.
00:51I can tell you this, Debs,
00:53having the gift is really like a two-edged Watson.
00:56I suppose it must be.
01:00Typical.
01:03Oh, you're not dressed yet.
01:05Well, it's come then.
01:06Yes, but not when I wanted it to.
01:08I wanted to clear all this furniture out first.
01:10Is that what you've been typicaling about?
01:12No.
01:14Chagrin.
01:14Half past seven this morning, she's going on at me about how I never get her egg right.
01:18Then this thing arrives and holds me up for ten minutes.
01:21I make her up a lovely tray, take it into her, and she's fast asleep.
01:26Typical.
01:26Yes, and you're not dressed yet.
01:28Oh, do get dressed.
01:29You look a sight.
01:31Sorry, love, I didn't mean it like that.
01:33You look lovely.
01:33I look fat.
01:35No.
01:35You look pregnant.
01:37All pregnant ladies look lovely.
01:39I know I did.
01:40And do stop eating all that toast shell.
01:43Like a little fat squirrel.
01:46It'll be sent to eating next.
01:47Oh, I don't know.
01:49Don't think we can run to that yet.
01:51It'll be a godsend in your gran's room, though.
01:53I'll have a word with your dad about it.
01:55In the meantime, I'm stuck with this thing propping up the wall.
01:59The fitter said he won't be back till this afternoon, or maybe even tomorrow.
02:02He won't say which.
02:04Martin's not been fed.
02:06And you're still not dressed.
02:08Don't fuss, Mum.
02:10I won't be long.
02:11Yeah, I've heard that one before.
02:16Shell, don't go getting crumbs in the bed.
02:19You sure?
02:20Now, would I lie to you, Doug?
02:21Look, could I come in for a minute?
02:23I'd like to cash a check.
02:24Er, a refusal often offence.
02:26And you're refusing?
02:27But you haven't asked yet, don't I, have you?
02:29Yeah.
02:30Goodbye.
02:35Here.
02:36How's she gone?
02:37Just a dot on the horizon, Ethel.
02:44Sorry.
02:44I can't handle this funny chewing gum.
02:46It's sticking to me teeth.
02:47Have you seen Ethel?
02:48It's in the public too.
02:49Oh, I've already been there.
02:51I've never said you haven't seen her.
02:52Hey!
02:53Oh, excuse this gum.
02:55Mind you, you can't believe a word he says in his life.
02:57He asked him what was on telly tonight.
02:59Hmm.
02:59So how's it going then?
03:00Hmm?
03:01Not smoking?
03:02Oh, it's purgatory.
03:03Oh, I'm not blaspheming, Mary.
03:05It's giving me a glimpse of what hell it'd be like.
03:07It's a good job you stopped all that nonsense.
03:10What nonsense?
03:11Injury the cassette last week.
03:13Four girls picked up round here.
03:15Could have been you.
03:16What are you on about?
03:18Oh, they were done.
03:19For being on the game.
03:21I wasn't on the game.
03:23Well, near enough.
03:23I mean, it's just a question of degree, isn't it?
03:33Help you.
03:35Oh, my Lord.
03:36Oh.
03:36Whatever's the better, Dot?
03:38Oh, help me.
03:39Oh, I'm being strangled, Pauline.
03:40Who's tried to straggle you?
03:42No, it's worse than that.
03:43I've swallowed it.
03:43Swallowed what?
03:44Me chewing gum.
03:45Oh, is that all?
03:47Don't take any notice, darling.
03:48It's just a funny lady.
03:50Honestly, Dot, you get yourself an estate over nothing at times.
03:52Are you serious, Pauline?
03:53I'll have to go into hospital again.
03:55You won't have to go into hospital for swallowing a bit of chewing gum.
03:58I mean, look at babies.
03:59They swallow all sorts of things.
04:00It's choking you have to worry about.
04:02It can be fatal.
04:03It twists round your insides and gives you strangulated hernia.
04:06You can die from a strangulated hernia.
04:09Oh, give us a fag, Pauline.
04:10My nerves are in tatters.
04:11No, you're supposed to be giving them up.
04:13Well, there's not much point if I'm going to die anyway, is there?
04:16You're not going to die.
04:17There's nothing wrong in swallowing chewing gum.
04:19It's just what people tell their kids.
04:20Ask Lofty.
04:21You'll know.
04:22Chewing gum.
04:23Oh, chewing gum, right.
04:24I swallowed it.
04:25Oh, you want to be careful it don't get all tangled up on your insides.
04:27It's what people used to say, but it doesn't really, of course.
04:31Are you sure?
04:31Oh, yeah.
04:32I swallowed loads of chewing gum when I was a kid.
04:33Never did me any harm.
04:34Yeah, see?
04:35It can be a bit, um, well, binding.
04:38Eh?
04:39Find him when you want to...
04:40Yes, thanks, Lofty.
04:41We've got the message.
04:42See, you've got nothing to worry about.
04:44Well?
04:44Is it all right if I...
04:45Uh, yeah.
04:46Shell?
04:46You decent?
04:47Yeah, send him up.
04:49Now he's a gorgeous boy.
04:52Well?
04:53Well what?
04:54He's gone upstairs.
04:56Yeah, I know.
04:57He often calls in to see her on his way to work.
04:58They've got a lot to talk about.
04:59Yeah, well, do you think it's wise?
05:01I mean, I know it's a case of shutting the stable door when the arse has bolted,
05:04but I mean, well, even so, there's nothing to stop them from, well, er, you know.
05:10No, I don't know.
05:11Yeah, well, I mean, er, they can get up to all sorts up there.
05:15Oh, don't be silly, Dot.
05:16Not Lofty and Michelle.
05:17Well, they managed it once.
05:18Look, Lofty is not the father of the baby.
05:20Michelle said so.
05:21Well, she would say that, wouldn't she?
05:23My Michelle doesn't tell lies.
05:25She's a good girl.
05:26Good.
05:27Oh.
05:28I'm afraid I'll have to ask you to leave now, Dot.
05:30You know, there is such a thing as the sin of propinquity.
05:34Oh, yes, and what's that when it's atone?
05:36Putting yourself in the way of temptation, am I right, Dot?
05:38Well, don't worry, we're going to continue our conversation in the kitchen.
05:41Can't get up to much there, can we?
05:43You may scoff.
05:44I know.
05:46I can't stop scoffing.
05:48Oh, Lofty, Lofty.
05:49You can read, Palms.
05:51Well, not anymore.
05:51F will give me the sack.
05:52Yeah, people queuing up.
05:53F was really put out.
05:54Yes, I know.
05:55Well, I just wondered, could you give me a second opinion?
05:58Morning, Toad.
05:59Oh, hi.
06:00Hello, Debs.
06:01Morning.
06:01Well, I'm off to work in a cafe where I get a juicy plate of eggs and bacon.
06:04Oh, go away.
06:05Mind you, I haven't been at work in a school since five.
06:07Tough.
06:09Hey, you couldn't start a bit earlier this afternoon, could you?
06:12How much earlier?
06:13About one o'clock.
06:13What about me lunch?
06:14I'll buy you a big and sunny Italian.
06:16Get off.
06:17How about a steak and kidney pie, then?
06:18You do realise, I hope, that I'll be working at the cafe.
06:21It'd be like a busman's holiday if I had my dinner there and all.
06:24Well, you're lucky to be in such a demand.
06:25I know, it's amazing.
06:26A few months ago, I never had any job at all.
06:28Now I've got free.
06:29Well, it finishes tomorrow, though.
06:31I did tell you.
06:32Yeah, of course you did.
06:32No, what I meant was, I went from no job at all to an embarrassment of riches.
06:36This is the first time in years I've had any spare cash.
06:38Well, I've got to be fine.
06:40Hey, thanks, Arthur.
06:42Hey, Tone.
06:43Who's that?
06:44They're here talking to Mary, haven't they?
06:45I've never seen him before.
06:49What was all that about?
06:53I mean, if it hadn't been for you wanting us to get married, I would never have had the bottle
06:56to take over running the pub when dinner and you was away.
06:59I mean, you've got to have confidence, really, haven't you?
07:03I mean, otherwise you start believing all the things other people say about you,
07:06you know, putting you down all the time.
07:08Yeah, you're right.
07:09Like, when I was in the army, I was good at that.
07:12I reckon you could turn your hand to anything.
07:13Yeah, well, I wanted to make a career of that.
07:15You know, I would have done if it hadn't been for me chest.
07:18Yeah, my sergeant instructor said I was the best motor mechanic material
07:21that had ever been through his hands.
07:23I'd like to have seen you in a uniform.
07:24He thought I was that good, you know.
07:27Something about a bloke in a uniform.
07:32It's funny you're saying that.
07:34One of the jobs I was thinking about going for,
07:36in the Gazette they're advertising for traffic wardens.
07:39Traffic wardens?
07:40Yeah.
07:42I don't think you should be a traffic warden, Lofty.
07:44No?
07:45Well, not round here.
07:47I mean, it'd be like you were a policeman, wouldn't it?
07:48No-one would talk to us.
07:50Besides, you'd have to wear your hair all short, wouldn't you?
07:53Why don't I do it for you again?
07:54Er...
07:55I'll make you look really lovely.
07:56I'll do it for you at the weekend, all right?
07:59It...
08:00Oh, Dan, it's great.
08:02Yeah.
08:03You're a very special lady, eh?
08:04I don't do this for everyone, you know?
08:05No, that's fantastic.
08:07Look, did you say you could get it for me cheap?
08:09No, it's my present to you and Michelle.
08:12Little nest egg.
08:12You can't go wrong with you.
08:13You can always pawn it if you hit bad times.
08:15Now go on, put it away and get back to the bar, all right?
08:17No, look, Dan.
08:18I can't.
08:19I've got to pay you for it.
08:20I mean, I appreciate it and everything, but no.
08:22Michelle would never know.
08:23No, but I would.
08:25Oh, all right.
08:25A tenner.
08:27A tenner?
08:28It must be worth loads more than that.
08:29It must be worth at least 50.
08:3050?
08:31More like...
08:32Yeah, yeah, yeah.
08:33It's about 50, yeah.
08:35Sorry, Dan.
08:35I can't afford it.
08:37Lofty, you plunker.
08:38I'm giving it to you.
08:38Well, yeah, but I don't want you to give it to me.
08:40I mean, I appreciate it and everything, but I can't.
08:43Look, when I said 50, I meant 50 in the shops, right?
08:46You can have it for 20.
08:4720?
08:48Well, what's up now?
08:51Could we make it 15?
08:54Right, come on.
08:55Work.
08:57Can't we leave it for today, please?
08:59No, we could not leave it for today, please.
09:02What's the matter, love?
09:04Hmm?
09:06What's the matter?
09:08Hmm?
09:15Hey!
09:16I'm sorry, Mary.
09:17I don't have too many at lunchtime.
09:20Sorry.
09:21You think I'm a tart, don't you?
09:23What, you?
09:24Little Miss Innocent.
09:25Oh, don't be silly.
09:26No one else does.
09:28Dot does.
09:29Oh, Dot.
09:32Everyone.
09:33Want you to look at me to see what I am?
09:37I think you'd better tell me, eh?
09:40Look, there's something I've been wanting to do for ages.
09:43I didn't know you were like that.
09:45Don't show.
09:46I can't if you like that.
09:47I'm sorry.
09:48Go on.
09:57You were saying?
09:59Well, I can't.
10:00Can't we?
10:02I'll let you get back.
10:03I can't.
10:04She can.
10:10Oh, er, no time.
10:12No.
10:13A bit shallow.
10:14Hmm?
10:17Is that there?
10:18No, no, thank you.
10:19It's very kind, but, erm, I mustn't like my condition.
10:23Oh.
10:26Oi.
10:27Oi.
10:28I am a drink, eh?
10:30But...
10:30Excuse me.
10:31Hmm?
10:31My friend, my intended, would like to buy you a drink, wouldn't ya?
10:37Oh, yeah.
10:38Yeah.
10:38Yeah, look.
10:41Don't, um...
10:41Have a drink with me, eh?
10:43Oh.
10:43Yeah.
10:50I meant have a drink on me, you know, over there in the pub.
10:55We want to talk.
10:56Private.
10:57Oh.
10:58Oh.
11:00Bear.
11:06Den will go spare.
11:08Look, fudge up.
11:11Right.
11:12So what is it you've been wanting to do to me?
11:14Shell.
11:15I'm sorry.
11:15You are lovely, you know.
11:17Am I?
11:18Hmm.
11:19Honest.
11:23Is it a present?
11:25Yeah, sort of.
11:27Look.
11:29Look.
11:29Look, I know it might be a bit daft.
11:31I mean, after the way we got together and that.
11:33It's not daft.
11:35It's perfect.
11:37I want it to be proper.
11:40You're really special, you know.
11:43I'm so full of myself.
11:44It's like I'm bursting.
11:46You know what I mean.
11:47I do.
11:50I do.
11:50After you, why have you brought me up?
11:53I want us to get engaged.
11:56But I thought...
11:57No, no.
11:58Properly engaged.
12:03Dee?
12:04Yeah.
12:14Look, I...
12:15I know I might not put things very well sometimes.
12:21But I really love you, Shell.
12:24Will you marry me?
12:28Yeah.
12:35Head out.
12:35And stay out.
12:40Okay.
12:47Well, Dot...
12:48She said it was only a question of degree.
12:52You know, like Bean and Stripper's just another name for it.
12:57And then...
12:59It was horrible.
13:01Hey, hey, hey. Come here. Come on, sit there.
13:04Come here.
13:08I was walking through the square this morning.
13:13And this person came up to me.
13:16Asked me to join his happy little band.
13:18Said I was sitting on a fortune.
13:21Ah, a pimp, eh?
13:23Yeah.
13:24It's not you, Mary. It's Walford.
13:26It's the social climate.
13:28It's girls caught in the poverty trap.
13:30Gotta sound like Debs.
13:31But it's true, love.
13:33You see, you're young and you're pretty and you've got a baby and...
13:36He probably knew...
13:37Probably knew I used to be a stripper.
13:39Yeah.
13:42You are like Dot.
13:44I used to be a stripper and that's just the same as being on the game, right?
13:48No, it is not, love.
13:49It's the way his mind worked.
13:51Now you look at it from his point of view.
13:53If he propositions ten girls and one of them says yes, then he's in profit.
13:59You don't think it was just me then?
14:01No, of course not.
14:02I tell you, he won't ask you again.
14:06Thanks.
14:07Thanks for not asking me what the answer was.
14:10I didn't have to.
14:11You're far too sensible.
14:13And moral.
14:14Right, come on.
14:15Work.
14:19Oh, it's a beautiful show.
14:21It's really lovely, isn't it?
14:23So elegant, eh, Mum?
14:24Not like some flashy engagement rings?
14:26Yeah, really classy, eh?
14:27How much did it cost you?
14:28Sharon, you're not supposed to ask questions like that.
14:31Why don't she be my mate?
14:32I don't know.
14:32Quite right too.
14:34How was it then?
14:35Was it all romantic?
14:36Did he get down on one knee and whisper, be mine?
14:38Well, hardly in the lingerie.
14:39It was not when it was in the square, but yes, it was romantic.
14:43Oh, I didn't have a bit.
14:44Oh, come on, you lot.
14:45These people are waiting. Knock it on the egg.
14:46Come on, sweetheart.
14:47All right, then, it's having a little bit of us.
14:49Servanty George, all the way to claim your attention for a few moments.
14:51All right, Lofty, the floor's all yours.
14:53Usually mine.
14:54Let's probably watch it, don't you?
14:58Thanks, then.
15:03Ladies and gentlemen,
15:06Michelle and me...
15:07Get on with that, Lofty.
15:09Come on.
15:09Oh, show up.
15:10Carry on.
15:13All our friends.
15:15As you probably know,
15:17a few months back, I asked Michelle to marry me and she said no.
15:21Well, then a few weeks ago...
15:22I asked him.
15:23I asked her again and she said yes.
15:27This is the happiest day of my life, really.
15:30I mean, Michelle's the most lovely, the most beautiful person I've ever known.
15:34And she's also the wisest, most wisest girl I've ever known.
15:39I'm not talking about the kind of thing you learn in school, but...
15:43Well, the sort of thing that's going to make her such a terrific mum.
15:46In about three weeks' time, our baby's going to be born.
15:49And I'll be the happiest dad in Albert Square.
15:52I know it might sound a bit stupid to announce our engagement after all this time.
15:57But...
15:58Well, today we made it official.
16:00Aww.
16:04Stay home tonight. I want to talk.
16:06No.
16:07We need to.
16:08I don't.
16:10Look, I don't want to have a row, but I'm getting well fed up with you going round to her
16:13every night.
16:15You're a gittin' to. One of these days I'm going to knock that smirk right off your face.
16:18And what are you going to do this time, eh? Another fake suicide?
16:28Yeah, love.
16:29Oh, Tara.
16:31You know, I'm beginning to like it like this.
16:33Hmph.
16:34Why don't we elbow the carpet, I'll sandpaper the floorboards, give the woodworm a fright, eh?
16:40What about lofty Michelle, eh?
16:43Wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't seen it with me own eyes.
16:46Yeah, I know.
16:49When he said that bit about...
16:51...our baby.
16:53Yeah.
16:54I don't mind telling you Pauline, I had a lump in me throat.
16:57Yeah.
16:58I wasn't shell proud of him.
17:00Do you know, for the first time I thought myself, they really might make a go of it.
17:11You see, that's your trouble, innit?
17:13If you don't mind me saying so.
17:14You're too blasted civilised for your own good, isn't she?
17:17I'm happy to go at you, no offence, ma'am.
17:19No offence, thank you, love.
17:21I'm sloshed.
17:22Well, that makes four of us.
17:25See, when it comes to romance, when it comes to handling the ladies, if you don't mind me saying, you
17:33don't know your arse from your elbow, do you?
17:38I mean, I like Debs.
17:41I do.
17:42I admire her.
17:43But a woman don't want to be independent all the time, does she?
17:47No.
17:47Aye.
17:48Ange, do you know you're such a beautiful woman?
17:52Am I?
17:52You know you are.
17:55Do you know something?
17:56Mm?
17:56If I'd have met you before I'd met our Dennis, you'd have been a very enterprising young man of 15.
18:03Would I?
18:04And I would have been a very attractive older woman.
18:06Ooh.
18:07You're not just beautiful, though, you're dead, dead sexy.
18:14I know I am.
18:15Do you know what you are?
18:16Mm?
18:17You're dead frustrated, you are.
18:18Am I?
18:19Yeah.
18:19It's stuck out a mile at night.
18:24Yeah.
18:26Mm?
18:27Do you know what?
18:28What?
18:28How would you fancy hating yourself in the morning?
18:32Oh, yeah, I'd love to.
18:35Where are the kids?
18:37Gone.
18:39Up, up, and away!
18:41It's a bit early for school, isn't it?
18:43They're trying to throw us together, remember?
18:46Fat chance.
18:47And don't take that as a challenge.
18:50Right, we'll clean it.
18:51Shh, shh, shh, shh, shh.
18:52Go on, shh.
18:55Oh!
18:57What the hell?
18:58Oh, shh!
18:59What's this in here?
18:59He's got no sense of responsibility, that dog.
19:02What?
19:03Morning!
19:03Hi, darling.
19:04Um, there's Andy.
19:06He got a bit titty last night, so I let him stay.
19:09We didn't want to disturb you, though, did we?
19:11No, not his love.
19:12Nothing, uh, Hunter water, anything.
19:13Never even occurred to him.
19:14No, well, of course not.
19:16You've got sex on the brain.
19:19I've got a point in action.
19:27I've got a point in action.
19:27Is this a picture for Kelvin and Cassie?
19:33a bit of a book in trouble.
19:34No, but I don't know.
19:34But why don't you do this?
19:35You planned it?
19:38Every step.
19:40I see.
19:41Hmm.
19:45What are you doing?
19:46Sorry, it won't be a tick.
19:48What are you doing?
19:50Oh, something goes together, Hannah, like boiled beef and carrots, you know, ham and eggs.
19:57Tea and crumpet.
20:00Well, a Rabelaisian joke from Hannah Carpenter.
20:04Well, wonders will never cease.
20:10Hey.
20:13And it was pretty wonderful.
20:21You're not trying to tame me, are you, Hannah?
20:26I wouldn't dare.
20:32Well, what do you think? I'm not too sure myself.
20:35Oh, no, Pauline, it's lovely.
20:37Well, please, be honest.
20:40Really, it's... well, it's distinctive.
20:42It reminds me of the old Regal before the war. They had one just like this.
20:48Cinema Carpet.
20:49Oh, it's palatial.
20:51They used to call them palaces, picture palaces.
20:55No, really, Pauline, I think it's luxurious.
20:58Here.
20:58I say, may I tread on it?
21:01Oh, go on, Ethel, don't be silly.
21:03I could've danced all night, I could've danced all night.
21:08Come on, girls.
21:09And still have I fallen for you.
21:12I could've spread my wings.
21:15There's only one thing, though.
21:17It's gonna make the rest of our bits and pieces look if it's a shabby.
21:23Simon?
21:26Oh, hello, Ian.
21:27Oh, sorry, look at me.
21:29Um, I don't suppose you'd give me some advice, could you?
21:32Yeah.
21:32What sort of advice?
21:35Um...
21:36Well, come on out with it.
21:37Oh, I don't suppose it matters.
21:39Um...
21:39Well, you said I've got this date coming up somewhere.
21:41Oh, I see.
21:42You want the benefit of my worldly wisdom.
21:46You off, sweetheart?
21:47Be good.
21:48Mum, can you use the lounge tonight?
21:50Yeah, of course you can, darling.
21:51I mean, in private.
21:52You say I want to entertain someone.
21:53Oh, so see, eh?
21:55Just so we can talk.
21:56All right, I believe you.
21:57Thousands wouldn't.
21:58Of course you can, darling.
21:59Have a nice day.
22:00Oi.
22:00Who's the lucky fella?
22:01Ian.
22:02Oh.
22:02Well, I don't have to worry, then, do I?
22:06You've got to be joking.
22:07It's true.
22:08Are you...
22:09Blowing her ear?
22:10I feel a right prat.
22:12Take it from me.
22:13You're always joking.
22:13It always works.
22:14Hello, there.
22:15Who's a lucky boy, eh?
22:17He will be if he takes my advice.
22:19Oh, yeah?
22:19What's that?
22:20Man's talk.
22:23Ooh.
22:23He can do whatever he likes to me when he does that.
22:26Things are looking up, aren't they?
22:28Does that mean you're staying tonight, then?
22:30Oh, he is a hunk, can't he, eh?
22:33Ah!
22:34All right, cheers, then.
22:37Oh, Arthur.
22:38Oh, it's beautiful.
22:40Yeah, look.
22:41Oh.
22:41There we are.
22:43Yeah.
22:43Oh, Arthur, I think I'm going to cry.
22:45Oh, no, don't, don't.
22:46You won't be able to see it, probably.
22:47Hello at that, eh?
22:48Oh.
22:49Lofty's not the only romantic one around here, you know?
22:51Oh.
22:53But how much did it cost?
22:54My dear, please.
22:56One does not ask questions like that.
22:59One admires.
23:01Perhaps one conjectures.
23:03But one does not ask out bleat and much.
23:06Yeah, but can we afford it?
23:08It's a mere bag of ten.
23:09Well, my dear, I know the ballroom is crowded with your polloi.
23:12Not to mention your mother's sideboard, but it is our engagement party.
23:15So will you join me in the next dance?
23:18Do you know that's funny?
23:20Debs and Ethel and I were dancing on the carpet this morning.
23:22Must be an omen.
23:23Debs and Ethel?
23:24Do we know these people?
23:26I could have danced all night.
23:29Oh, it's the same song.
23:29I could have danced all night.
23:31I could have danced all night.
23:32It's sparkly like the stars.
23:34I know for more.
23:37Oh, I do so admire you.
23:38Oh, hello, Doc.
23:39We were just mucking about.
23:41Now I mean it.
23:43I do admire you both.
23:45Laughing in the teeth of disaster.
23:47Smiling at fate.
23:48What are you talking about, Doc?
23:50Well, you're like me.
23:51That's what I do.
23:52I mean, no matter what tragedy strikes,
23:54no matter what wicked rubbish Ethel talks,
23:57I put on a smile to face the world.
23:59I knew it.
24:00Knew what?
24:01I don't know, but I just knew it.
24:02I knew it was too good to last.
24:04Here.
24:05You ain't seen it, have you?
24:06Seen what?
24:07Worse in the Gazette.
24:09Look, I mean, there, down at the bottom.
24:10Bottom somewhere.
24:11Look, there it is.
24:12Job cuts.
24:13Walford Cleaning Services to sack 20.
24:16Last in, first out.
24:21God, you're hard work, Ian.
24:23Am I being a bit slow?
24:25A bit far away.
24:26Look, come here so I can talk to you.
24:28That's better.
24:30Now then, what's your opinion on Neymar and Saeed, eh?
24:33Well, what do you think?
24:34Huh?
24:35Oh, and he got back to Bangladesh.
24:36Yeah, I mean, the idea, you know, arranged marriage, isn't it?
24:39Well, I wouldn't fancy that, no.
24:40Hmm.
24:40Don't tell me you're into all this lovey-dovey stuff, are you?
24:43Oh.
24:44What are you trying to do?
24:44Give me a rake of something.
24:46Well, I'm not what...
24:46Oh, you stupid kid.
24:47I thought you was growing up a bit.
24:50Idiot.
24:51Here you are, mate.
24:52Thanks.
24:53What?
24:56She's what?
24:58Cheers, darling, yes.
25:00Ian, this time I don't blow in me ear.
25:03I'm all sort of nuzzle.
25:05No.
25:05I'm all sort of nuzzle.
25:08Oi, you.
25:09Ouch.
25:10Hey, what have I done?
25:13I couldn't go through it again, Pauline.
25:16It's not just the money.
25:18It never was just the money.
25:21I know.
25:23It's my self-respect.
25:26I know, love.
25:29I've spent all this money.
25:32Oh, I don't know.
25:33I feel like doing myself in.
25:35Arthur Fowler, don't you ever say a thing like that again?
25:37That's a wicked dreadful thing.
25:39You sounded just like your mum, then?
25:43No.
25:44I get more like her every day.
25:46He's a nice kid.
25:47He wouldn't do anything like that.
25:49I'm telling you.
25:49It was like all investing up there.
25:51But don't worry, I've sorted it out.
25:51She's a good girl in my shower.
25:52Oh, daddy's little princess, eh?
25:54I know.
25:55It's just that every now and again,
25:56a young girl needs a guiding hand of her father.
25:58I told her he'd got to go, and she accepted it.
26:00And where do you think you're off to?
26:01Out with Ian, if he still wants me to.
26:03I'm sorry, my darling, you were saying?
26:10Hello, Ethel.
26:11Oh, I'm...
26:11Why have you been avoiding me?
26:13Oh, Dot, I don't want any rows.
26:15I ain't come to have a row.
26:17Well, good, because I've been thinking, Dot,
26:20I might have got it a bit wrong.
26:22Oh, a bit wrong.
26:23Lofty read me palm again yesterday,
26:25and he couldn't find nothing.
26:27It's funny there,
26:28because he said you taught him all you know.
26:30Oh, yes.
26:31Well, I did the condiments, of course,
26:33and the basics,
26:34but, I mean, it's not like having the gift, Dot.
26:37I mean, it's as though, well,
26:39it's as though I see it through a big mist.
26:45Fascinating.
26:46I didn't know there was so much to it.
26:48Oh, yes.
26:49And, you see, I thought it was your Charlie,
26:52but it might not have been.
26:53It might have been somebody like him.
26:56Somebody like him?
26:57Hmm.
26:58Somebody like, er, Tony Carpenter.
27:02Tony Carpenter?
27:03He's tall and dark.
27:05Oh, no.
27:06No, I don't...
27:07I don't think it was him.
27:08Oh, what a shame.
27:10Yes.
27:11No, I think...
27:12What?
27:13I think it's all a load of blasphemous mumbo-jumbo.
27:16Oh.
27:16I think you're a fraud,
27:17and you make it up as you go along.
27:19Oh.
27:19And I think you think you got away with it,
27:21because the police think you're barmy
27:22and ain't worth prosecuting.
27:24But there is one who sees all.
27:27Oh, my God.
27:28Yes, I'm not going to bother with you no more, Ethel,
27:30because vengeance is mine, saith the Lord.
27:33And I just hope I'm there to see it
27:35when he visits his wrath on you.
27:37Oh, my good God.
27:40Hello, Ma.