1 00:01:03,730 --> 00:01:07,405 (WOMAN) People have always trusted me with their secrets, 2 00:01:07,609 --> 00:01:11,159 but who do I trust with mine? 3 00:01:11,446 --> 00:01:14,950 You. Only you. 4 00:01:46,857 --> 00:01:49,656 The first day of a new term. 5 00:01:52,195 --> 00:01:55,449 Here come the local pubescent proles, 6 00:01:55,574 --> 00:02:01,581 the future plumbers and shop assistants and doubtless the odd terrorist, too. 7 00:02:04,249 --> 00:02:08,800 In the old days, we confiscated cigarettes and wank mags. 8 00:02:08,879 --> 00:02:11,803 Now it's knives and crack cocaine. 9 00:02:14,092 --> 00:02:16,641 And they call it progress. 10 00:02:20,724 --> 00:02:22,852 Tony. 11 00:02:23,060 --> 00:02:26,064 Mrs. Hart, art department. 12 00:02:26,229 --> 00:02:31,326 In 1517 Martin Luther nails his 95 points to a church door 13 00:02:31,443 --> 00:02:35,823 - in Wittenberg. - (BELL RINGS) 14 00:02:39,284 --> 00:02:41,286 Poison granny. 15 00:02:46,833 --> 00:02:48,927 Piss off, you prick. 16 00:02:49,628 --> 00:02:53,678 Before we begin, for those of you who haven't delivered your reports, 17 00:02:53,757 --> 00:02:57,978 please lob them in my general direction. Thank you, Bill. Thank you, Mary. 18 00:02:58,095 --> 00:03:01,099 - Thank you, John. Thank you, Elaine. - (DOOR OPENS) 19 00:03:01,765 --> 00:03:06,271 Ah. Has everyone met our new art teacher, Sheba Hart? 20 00:03:06,353 --> 00:03:10,199 I've asked Sheba to sit in on this meeting. As you all know, 21 00:03:10,273 --> 00:03:15,200 I regard the arts as absolutely essential to our policy of reform through nurture. 22 00:03:15,278 --> 00:03:17,872 Thank you, Chris. Very good. Very good. 23 00:03:18,115 --> 00:03:21,494 Thank you, Sue. I say, that's a big one, isn't it? 24 00:03:21,576 --> 00:03:24,705 I'll be up till the crack of dawn! 25 00:03:24,788 --> 00:03:28,133 Anyone else not handed in their homework? Right, and... 26 00:03:28,375 --> 00:03:30,093 Thank you. 27 00:03:30,711 --> 00:03:33,180 Lovely. Thank you. 28 00:03:34,339 --> 00:03:35,465 Barbara? 29 00:03:44,433 --> 00:03:47,687 This is your report? On the history department? 30 00:03:47,769 --> 00:03:52,445 On its entire workings and your general thoughts for its future development? 31 00:03:53,150 --> 00:03:55,824 You'll find it's quite thorough, Headmaster. 32 00:03:57,696 --> 00:04:02,247 "The history department functions as one would expect for a school of this intake. 33 00:04:02,325 --> 00:04:06,671 "Examination results have been consistent for 30 years, 34 00:04:06,747 --> 00:04:10,627 "below the national average but above the level of catastrophe." 35 00:04:11,334 --> 00:04:15,134 "Recommendation, no change necessary." 36 00:04:18,091 --> 00:04:20,844 It took me most of the summer to write it. 37 00:04:23,346 --> 00:04:25,940 Hard to read the wispy novice. 38 00:04:26,016 --> 00:04:27,939 Piss off, you prick. 39 00:04:28,018 --> 00:04:31,192 Is she a sphinx, or simply stupid? 40 00:04:31,271 --> 00:04:34,491 All right. Off the phone, please. Give me the phone. 41 00:04:34,566 --> 00:04:37,786 Artfully dishevelled today. 42 00:04:37,861 --> 00:04:40,740 The tweedy tramp coat is an abhorrence. 43 00:04:40,822 --> 00:04:44,622 It seems to say, "I'm just like you." 44 00:04:44,701 --> 00:04:47,454 But clearly she's not. 45 00:04:47,537 --> 00:04:50,541 A fey person, I suspect. 46 00:04:50,624 --> 00:04:52,501 Fey. 47 00:04:52,584 --> 00:04:55,463 (BOY) Come on, come on, pass it. Yes, I'm over here! 48 00:04:55,545 --> 00:04:57,422 Yeah! 49 00:05:03,094 --> 00:05:05,517 - (BARBARA) Put your shirt on. - I got the winner. 50 00:05:05,597 --> 00:05:08,396 Glory be. Shirt! 51 00:05:10,727 --> 00:05:15,358 She has certainly rippled the waters of our stagnant pond. 52 00:05:15,440 --> 00:05:17,442 They flock to her. 53 00:05:17,526 --> 00:05:23,283 Even limp little Brian had a go. Oh, the horror. 54 00:05:23,365 --> 00:05:25,914 - Hiya. - Oh, hello. 55 00:05:25,992 --> 00:05:28,745 - That's a lovely blouse. - What? Oh! 56 00:05:29,454 --> 00:05:32,173 And Fatty Hodge has pounced on her. 57 00:05:32,249 --> 00:05:34,798 A dubious double act, 58 00:05:34,918 --> 00:05:38,047 the blonde and the pig in knickers. 59 00:05:38,129 --> 00:05:41,474 I just went past the art studio. It's like bloody Lord of the Flies. 60 00:05:41,591 --> 00:05:42,717 Have they gone for her? 61 00:05:42,801 --> 00:05:45,554 Torn her posters down. There's a paint fight. 62 00:05:45,637 --> 00:05:49,938 They're chanting, "Get your tits out for the lads." Girls, too. It's carnage. 63 00:05:50,100 --> 00:05:51,226 (MAN) How was madam? 64 00:05:51,309 --> 00:05:54,279 Lost it. "Stop it, you little fucking bastards!" 65 00:05:54,604 --> 00:05:58,359 - You should have stepped in. - He didn't want to patronise the lady. 66 00:05:58,441 --> 00:06:01,320 This time next year she'll be headmistress. 67 00:06:01,403 --> 00:06:05,374 - Oh, Christ, will you shut up? - Sorry. Sorry. 68 00:06:05,448 --> 00:06:08,372 Char, anyone? Babs? 69 00:06:09,286 --> 00:06:12,665 - Milk, no sugar. - Sweet enough? 70 00:06:12,747 --> 00:06:16,468 - Evidently. - Didn't her father invent inflation? 71 00:06:16,751 --> 00:06:19,300 - You what? - Wasn't her dad that academic? 72 00:06:19,546 --> 00:06:24,347 Donald whatsit. Economics bloke. Invented the word "inflation". 73 00:06:24,551 --> 00:06:26,929 Oh, yeah. I know who you mean. 74 00:06:27,304 --> 00:06:30,399 I think you'll find that Mrs. Hart's father was Ronald Taylor. 75 00:06:30,473 --> 00:06:32,942 He didn't invent inflation. 76 00:06:33,393 --> 00:06:36,613 He devised a theory about the relationship between inflation 77 00:06:36,771 --> 00:06:38,694 and consumer expectation. 78 00:06:44,905 --> 00:06:47,749 (SHEBA) Davis, get off him! Stop it! 79 00:06:47,824 --> 00:06:51,169 - (BOY) No, you're an arsehole. - (SHEBA) Stop it! 80 00:06:53,538 --> 00:06:56,848 (CHILDREN) Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight! 81 00:06:56,874 --> 00:06:59,320 Stop it! Stop it immediately! 82 00:06:59,377 --> 00:07:03,757 Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight! 83 00:07:03,840 --> 00:07:07,185 (SHEBA) You're going to hurt one another! Now, stop it! 84 00:07:07,344 --> 00:07:08,470 Davis, get off him! 85 00:07:09,179 --> 00:07:11,022 Enough! 86 00:07:11,181 --> 00:07:13,934 Outside! Now! 87 00:07:23,902 --> 00:07:27,702 - Fuck off! - (BARBARA) Absolute silence. Absolute! 88 00:07:33,954 --> 00:07:37,925 - Why were they fighting, Mrs. Hart? - Their motive was unclear. 89 00:07:37,999 --> 00:07:41,594 Davis, I know. You're a little thug. Who might you be? 90 00:07:41,711 --> 00:07:43,429 - Steven Connolly, Miss. - What? 91 00:07:43,588 --> 00:07:45,386 - Steven Connolly, Miss. - Year? 92 00:07:45,548 --> 00:07:48,472 - Year 10, Miss. - You're the naked footballer. 93 00:07:49,386 --> 00:07:53,232 Why were you fighting? It's a perfectly simple question. 94 00:07:53,556 --> 00:07:55,854 - Dunno, Miss. - You don't know. 95 00:07:56,101 --> 00:08:00,072 One minute you're inert, the next you're trying to castrate a pupil. 96 00:08:00,313 --> 00:08:02,031 Nothing occurred between these two states? 97 00:08:02,107 --> 00:08:03,199 No. 98 00:08:03,274 --> 00:08:06,494 Don't play the hero with me, Connolly. Yes? 99 00:08:06,569 --> 00:08:09,573 Brain, mouth, speak. 100 00:08:11,366 --> 00:08:15,246 He was saying stuff about Miss. It was bang out of order. 101 00:08:16,496 --> 00:08:19,295 - What did you say? - I never said nothing, Miss. 102 00:08:19,541 --> 00:08:23,466 "I didn't say anything." What did he say? Come on! 103 00:08:23,753 --> 00:08:26,927 He said she's a tart. He said he gave her one up the arse. 104 00:08:27,340 --> 00:08:29,138 Did you, indeed? 105 00:08:29,384 --> 00:08:31,762 Odious boy. Apologise at once. 106 00:08:32,012 --> 00:08:35,482 - Sorry, Miss. - (BARBARA) Deputy head in the morning. 107 00:08:35,890 --> 00:08:37,767 Get back inside, both of you. 108 00:08:43,606 --> 00:08:47,201 Little towers of testosterone. You'll soon get used to them. 109 00:08:47,277 --> 00:08:50,451 Thank you so much. 110 00:08:50,530 --> 00:08:54,535 I'd better... Oh, I'm sorry. We haven't met properly. I'm Sheba Hart. 111 00:08:54,617 --> 00:08:56,711 Barbara Covett. 112 00:08:59,664 --> 00:09:04,670 Her voice is pure, as if her mouth were empty and clean. 113 00:09:04,753 --> 00:09:07,597 As if she'd never had a filling. 114 00:09:07,672 --> 00:09:10,926 The complexion of a white peach. 115 00:09:11,009 --> 00:09:13,728 One can almost see her veins. 116 00:09:14,095 --> 00:09:17,645 Her trendy politics are similarly transparent. 117 00:09:17,891 --> 00:09:21,236 We serve them best if we teach them to read, write and add. 118 00:09:21,311 --> 00:09:23,814 They don't need to know about basket weavers. 119 00:09:23,897 --> 00:09:26,696 - Barbara's keen on the basics. - When you started, 120 00:09:26,775 --> 00:09:29,369 didn't you want to give them a real education 121 00:09:29,444 --> 00:09:33,790 to help them overcome the poverty of their backgrounds? 122 00:09:33,865 --> 00:09:38,746 Oh, yes, of course. But one soon learns that teaching is crowd control. 123 00:09:38,828 --> 00:09:41,377 Come here. You know you're not supposed... 124 00:09:41,456 --> 00:09:46,508 We're a branch of the social services. Put that back, you. 125 00:09:49,756 --> 00:09:51,599 Console yourself with the gems. 126 00:09:51,674 --> 00:09:55,099 That's when it's satisfying. You can make a real difference. 127 00:09:55,178 --> 00:09:58,682 The rest is just cattle-prod and pray. 128 00:09:59,849 --> 00:10:03,194 I can see why others are beguiled by her. 129 00:10:04,270 --> 00:10:05,271 Oh, hello. 130 00:10:05,355 --> 00:10:09,155 I wonder if she possesses the requisite heft? 131 00:10:09,234 --> 00:10:11,657 - Do you fancy a coffee? - Yeah. 132 00:10:11,736 --> 00:10:13,784 - (SUE) Sheba! - (PHONE BEEPS) 133 00:10:13,863 --> 00:10:14,464 Sorry. 134 00:10:14,490 --> 00:10:16,892 That's the year 11s. They're a nightmare. 135 00:10:16,950 --> 00:10:19,874 Do you want to join us? We're going for a quick coffee. 136 00:10:21,037 --> 00:10:25,417 - I've got a bit of an announcement. - You're leaving St George's? 137 00:10:25,500 --> 00:10:26,968 No. 138 00:10:27,252 --> 00:10:29,880 Oh, you're pregnant. 139 00:10:33,007 --> 00:10:34,805 That's fantastic. 140 00:10:35,051 --> 00:10:38,305 Oh, congratulations. When are you due? 141 00:10:38,388 --> 00:10:41,437 - June 7. - A summer baby. How lovely. 142 00:10:41,516 --> 00:10:44,611 I can't believe nobody's noticed. I'm 14 weeks. 143 00:10:44,686 --> 00:10:46,563 Didn't you see how chunky I'm getting? 144 00:10:46,646 --> 00:10:48,990 Didn't like to say. Where are you having it? 145 00:10:49,065 --> 00:10:52,820 (SUE) Homerton. It's really nice there. 146 00:10:52,902 --> 00:10:55,030 Lovely, friendly nurses. 147 00:10:55,113 --> 00:10:58,037 I'm going to find out at the next scan. 20 weeks. 148 00:11:00,535 --> 00:11:04,961 - Do you want to come to lunch on Sunday? - Where? 149 00:11:05,039 --> 00:11:08,384 To mine. To our house. 150 00:11:08,459 --> 00:11:12,839 - Won't you be with the family? - Oh, yes, but you're very welcome. 151 00:11:12,922 --> 00:11:17,268 It's no big deal. I'll just do a lasagne or something. 152 00:11:17,343 --> 00:11:19,471 I adore lasagne. 153 00:11:20,305 --> 00:11:26,654 Bliss. A merry flag on the Arctic wilderness of my calendar. 154 00:11:26,728 --> 00:11:31,074 One must make an effort when one receives an invitation. 155 00:11:33,234 --> 00:11:36,659 The art of it is seeming not to. 156 00:11:41,826 --> 00:11:45,547 Lasagne tends to disagree with my bowels. 157 00:11:45,622 --> 00:11:48,216 I'll ask for a small portion. 158 00:12:14,692 --> 00:12:17,240 Oh, I think I've got the wrong house. 159 00:12:17,266 --> 00:12:20,349 No, you're bang on. I'm Richard. Come in. 160 00:12:21,032 --> 00:12:22,750 I'm sorry. I thought... 161 00:12:22,825 --> 00:12:25,123 That I'd be 20 years younger and handsome. 162 00:12:25,203 --> 00:12:27,422 - Bash! - (SHEBA) The kitchen's on fire! 163 00:12:27,664 --> 00:12:30,258 Sorry if you were there long. The bell's knackered. 164 00:12:30,500 --> 00:12:33,094 - Hi, Barbara. - Hello. 165 00:12:36,047 --> 00:12:38,345 Oh, what a splendid room. 166 00:12:38,424 --> 00:12:41,769 What can I get you? We're semi-pro drinkers here. You name it. 167 00:12:41,844 --> 00:12:43,938 (BARBARA) A dry sherry, please. 168 00:12:44,013 --> 00:12:48,018 I think we might have some apricot brandy knocking around. 169 00:12:49,018 --> 00:12:50,270 - A dry white wine? - Done. 170 00:12:50,395 --> 00:12:52,693 Have a seat. 171 00:13:00,822 --> 00:13:03,291 You must be Polly. I'm Barbara. 172 00:13:03,366 --> 00:13:05,619 Hi, Barbara. 173 00:13:09,998 --> 00:13:13,002 - Are you going somewhere? - Excuse me? 174 00:13:13,084 --> 00:13:15,963 - You're all poshed up. - Oh. 175 00:13:16,045 --> 00:13:18,548 I have an appointment. 176 00:13:18,798 --> 00:13:21,267 Later, in town. 177 00:13:25,847 --> 00:13:30,648 - Have you always lived here? - Mum inherited it. It's her little joke. 178 00:13:30,727 --> 00:13:34,402 I only married her for the property. Morning. 179 00:13:35,606 --> 00:13:37,483 - Did Pete go? - Mm. 180 00:13:37,567 --> 00:13:41,322 - He was welcome to stay. - He's not really into lunch. 181 00:13:42,363 --> 00:13:43,785 Cheers. 182 00:13:45,616 --> 00:13:48,085 Mm. Are you interested in wine? 183 00:13:48,161 --> 00:13:52,257 Only the drinking part. You? 184 00:13:52,332 --> 00:13:55,552 - I spent the summer on the Amalfi coast... - (BOY SHOUTING) 185 00:13:55,626 --> 00:14:00,257 Here's trouble. Now, now, now, now, now, now, easy, Rocky! Easy. 186 00:14:00,506 --> 00:14:02,349 Easy, peasy. Wheezy. 187 00:14:02,592 --> 00:14:08,645 I'd anticipated a suave young lawyer and two perfect poppets. 188 00:14:08,931 --> 00:14:13,277 Not so. She's married some crumbling patriarch. 189 00:14:13,436 --> 00:14:15,313 He's nearly as old as me. 190 00:14:15,438 --> 00:14:19,659 And then there's the daughter, a pocket princess, 191 00:14:19,734 --> 00:14:23,113 and finally a somewhat tiresome court jester. 192 00:14:23,196 --> 00:14:26,871 Ah, lovely. Thank you. 193 00:14:28,076 --> 00:14:30,704 - I'm going to be a wizard. - (BARBARA) Oh. 194 00:14:31,496 --> 00:14:35,342 - Is that when you're grown up? - No. He's been cast in his school play. 195 00:14:35,416 --> 00:14:38,511 I'm gonna wear a cape and my wand... 196 00:14:38,586 --> 00:14:43,808 Amongst next year's cultural highlights, I greatly look forward to Benjamin Hart 197 00:14:43,883 --> 00:14:48,514 in the key role of "The Wizard", and I find myself beside myself with anticipation. 198 00:14:48,596 --> 00:14:50,724 A rogue image swam through me, 199 00:14:50,807 --> 00:14:55,483 hubby's pruney old mouth pursed at Sheba's breast. 200 00:14:55,853 --> 00:14:58,652 ( "FUNKY KINGSTON" BY TOOTS AND THE MAYTALS) 201 00:15:02,485 --> 00:15:06,490 After lunch, a rather mortifying family tradition. 202 00:15:06,572 --> 00:15:10,827 They do things differently in bourgeois bohemia. 203 00:15:21,045 --> 00:15:23,173 Oh! Thank you. 204 00:15:28,469 --> 00:15:31,222 Come on. Come on. 205 00:15:31,305 --> 00:15:33,399 No. 206 00:15:38,563 --> 00:15:40,565 (PHONE RINGS) 207 00:15:58,583 --> 00:16:00,335 - You ready? - Watch out. 208 00:16:00,418 --> 00:16:02,637 Yes! 209 00:16:02,962 --> 00:16:05,082 He took me away for our anniversary. It was years ago. 210 00:16:05,089 --> 00:16:07,717 When we came back it was here, 211 00:16:07,800 --> 00:16:09,393 as if by magic. 212 00:16:09,677 --> 00:16:12,226 Oh! 213 00:16:12,513 --> 00:16:15,813 It was supposed to be my studio, but 214 00:16:17,101 --> 00:16:20,196 it's more of a refuge, really. 215 00:16:20,271 --> 00:16:22,569 A room of one's own. 216 00:16:24,650 --> 00:16:26,618 Is this you? 217 00:16:27,737 --> 00:16:29,080 (SHEBA) Mm. 218 00:16:29,238 --> 00:16:31,366 It was. 219 00:16:32,617 --> 00:16:35,245 Oh, I love these. 220 00:16:35,495 --> 00:16:36,710 Such vibrant colours. 221 00:16:36,736 --> 00:16:39,570 Take one. Take two. Have the lot, actually. 222 00:16:39,624 --> 00:16:44,346 - I couldn't possibly. - Honestly, no one else wants them. 223 00:16:44,420 --> 00:16:47,390 I'll treasure them. 224 00:16:47,465 --> 00:16:51,561 It must be exhausting, running a family and teaching as well. 225 00:16:51,636 --> 00:16:55,061 Oh, I can't wait for term to end. 226 00:16:55,139 --> 00:16:58,769 Roll on Christmas and a month of sod all. 227 00:17:02,313 --> 00:17:06,113 I shouldn't have kidded myself I could teach. 228 00:17:06,817 --> 00:17:10,947 It's just that I've spent the last ten years looking after Ben 229 00:17:11,030 --> 00:17:13,874 and I was so desperate to get out and do something, 230 00:17:13,950 --> 00:17:19,127 and finally we get him into this great local school and I'm free to work and... 231 00:17:20,081 --> 00:17:24,382 - You're gonna be a terrific teacher. - Thanks. 232 00:17:24,961 --> 00:17:28,966 But I'm bloody hopeless, and everyone knows it. 233 00:17:29,090 --> 00:17:31,138 Children are feral. 234 00:17:31,300 --> 00:17:34,144 Don't let them sense your anxiety. 235 00:17:36,472 --> 00:17:39,851 - How do you cope? - Oh, I'm just a battle-axe. 236 00:17:40,476 --> 00:17:42,979 I'm not popular, but they respect me. 237 00:17:43,396 --> 00:17:48,277 Well, you're popular with me. It's strange. I feel like I can talk to you. 238 00:17:48,484 --> 00:17:51,283 She spoke of her vile mother, 239 00:17:52,154 --> 00:17:55,704 her grief over the death of her father, 240 00:17:55,992 --> 00:17:58,996 the glory days when Richard scooped her up 241 00:17:59,161 --> 00:18:05,168 and then jettisoned wife and children for what she called a nonstop fuckfest. 242 00:18:06,168 --> 00:18:12,346 It's a peculiar trait of the privileged, immediate incautious intimacy. 243 00:18:12,967 --> 00:18:17,063 But Sheba went well beyond the tendencies of her class. 244 00:18:18,014 --> 00:18:20,688 She was utterly candid, 245 00:18:21,726 --> 00:18:25,026 a novice confessing to the mother superior. 246 00:18:25,855 --> 00:18:30,076 You know, marriage and kids, I mean, it's wonderful, 247 00:18:30,151 --> 00:18:33,405 but it doesn't give you meaning. 248 00:18:33,654 --> 00:18:37,284 It gives you an imperative but it doesn't help you... 249 00:18:37,366 --> 00:18:42,213 My father always used to say, you know, on the tube, "Mind the gap." 250 00:18:45,458 --> 00:18:51,090 I don't know. It's just the distance between life as you dream it 251 00:18:51,172 --> 00:18:53,266 and 252 00:18:54,717 --> 00:18:56,936 life as it is. 253 00:18:59,722 --> 00:19:02,145 I know exactly what you mean. 254 00:19:09,565 --> 00:19:12,034 A gold-star day. 255 00:19:13,402 --> 00:19:16,576 I always knew we'd be friends. 256 00:19:16,947 --> 00:19:19,041 Our mutual reserve inhibited us, 257 00:19:19,116 --> 00:19:23,792 but now it is manifest, a spiritual recognition. 258 00:19:25,164 --> 00:19:27,917 (HEADMASTER) Many of you will enjoy Christmas. 259 00:19:28,084 --> 00:19:31,088 S and I share the ability 260 00:19:31,253 --> 00:19:35,975 to see through the quotidian awfulness of things. 261 00:19:37,885 --> 00:19:40,764 In a different, better age, 262 00:19:40,846 --> 00:19:43,941 we would be ladies of leisure, lunching together, 263 00:19:44,016 --> 00:19:46,690 visiting galleries, travelling, 264 00:19:46,769 --> 00:19:49,067 putting the world to rights. 265 00:19:49,146 --> 00:19:52,946 We would be companions. 266 00:19:59,323 --> 00:20:02,998 Christ by highest heaven adored 267 00:20:03,077 --> 00:20:06,547 Christ the everlasting Lord 268 00:20:06,622 --> 00:20:09,592 Late in time behold him come 269 00:20:09,667 --> 00:20:12,921 Offspring of a virgin's womb 270 00:20:13,003 --> 00:20:16,223 It's taken. I'm saving it for Sheba. 271 00:20:16,340 --> 00:20:17,466 Sorry. 272 00:20:17,550 --> 00:20:19,644 Hail the incarnate Deity 273 00:20:20,219 --> 00:20:22,847 Pleased as man with man to dwell 274 00:20:22,930 --> 00:20:26,434 Jesus, Emmanuel 275 00:20:26,517 --> 00:20:29,737 Hark! The herald angels sing 276 00:20:29,812 --> 00:20:34,363 Glory to the newborn King 277 00:20:36,444 --> 00:20:37,787 (WHISPERS) 278 00:21:31,081 --> 00:21:33,504 Very good. Well done. 279 00:21:51,060 --> 00:21:53,154 (BOYS) Hark! The herald angels sing 280 00:21:53,229 --> 00:21:56,073 "Glory to the newborn King" 281 00:21:56,148 --> 00:21:58,492 Hark! The herald angels sing 282 00:21:58,567 --> 00:22:01,491 "Glory to the newborn King" 283 00:22:01,570 --> 00:22:03,993 Hark! The herald angels sing 284 00:22:04,073 --> 00:22:07,623 Glory to the newborn King 285 00:22:40,442 --> 00:22:42,444 (PHONE RINGS) 286 00:22:44,280 --> 00:22:46,453 Ben, pop it in the car, sweetheart. Hello? 287 00:22:47,032 --> 00:22:49,751 I need to speak to you about Steven Connolly. 288 00:22:51,287 --> 00:22:54,040 - Who? - Let's not, shall we? 289 00:22:54,456 --> 00:22:58,256 Doubtless you're aware you've committed a criminal of fence. 290 00:22:58,586 --> 00:23:00,964 I'll be with you at five. 291 00:23:05,426 --> 00:23:07,053 Let's go to the pub, OK? 292 00:23:10,264 --> 00:23:12,858 When will you tell them? 293 00:23:13,100 --> 00:23:15,478 I need to know the circumstances. 294 00:23:15,769 --> 00:23:18,147 You must inform me of everything. 295 00:23:21,233 --> 00:23:24,407 Actually, you were there when I first saw him. 296 00:23:24,737 --> 00:23:27,206 I think you gave him a telling off. 297 00:23:27,489 --> 00:23:30,333 (BARBARA) I gave him a slight ticking off. 298 00:23:30,659 --> 00:23:33,162 (SHEBA) He dedicated his goal to me. 299 00:23:33,621 --> 00:23:36,340 It amused me, nothing more. 300 00:23:37,625 --> 00:23:42,131 Then a few days later he came to see me. 301 00:23:42,504 --> 00:23:44,783 Would you have a look at me drawings? 302 00:23:44,809 --> 00:23:47,626 I'll look in class. You do Art, don't you? 303 00:23:48,010 --> 00:23:50,934 I'm not allowed. I'm special needs. 304 00:23:51,347 --> 00:23:54,100 I gotta do extra reading instead. 305 00:23:54,350 --> 00:23:56,853 Did you do these at home? 306 00:24:05,527 --> 00:24:07,950 These are good. 307 00:24:08,364 --> 00:24:10,332 You can draw. 308 00:24:13,285 --> 00:24:16,835 If we pull strings for one child the whole system will unravel. 309 00:24:16,914 --> 00:24:20,259 But he's talented. He's found something he believes in. 310 00:24:20,334 --> 00:24:22,462 Well, they're all talented. 311 00:24:23,212 --> 00:24:26,432 You found your gem, as Sue would say. 312 00:24:26,507 --> 00:24:31,354 I said that I would teach him after school, but only if he felt like it. 313 00:24:31,428 --> 00:24:35,478 - It's our job, isn't it? - Within specified hours and curriculum. 314 00:24:35,557 --> 00:24:39,312 Barbara, he came every day for two weeks. 315 00:24:40,270 --> 00:24:43,490 Yes, I was flattered, but more than that. 316 00:24:43,565 --> 00:24:47,069 I was excited to find someone who wanted to learn. 317 00:24:47,152 --> 00:24:53,376 And he imagined this sort of helicopter 500 years ago. it does your brain in. 318 00:24:53,450 --> 00:24:56,795 (BARBARA) But surely you must have suspected his motives? 319 00:24:56,870 --> 00:25:01,717 I sensed he had a little crush on me, but so what? 320 00:25:01,792 --> 00:25:03,886 It was innocent. 321 00:25:03,961 --> 00:25:07,215 That's so much better. You've absolutely got that knuckle. 322 00:25:07,297 --> 00:25:09,391 Nailed it. 323 00:25:11,176 --> 00:25:15,431 - Do that again, Miss. - Don't be silly. Off you go. 324 00:25:16,807 --> 00:25:21,404 - What are you having for tea, Miss? - Probably buy something on the way home. 325 00:25:21,478 --> 00:25:23,572 - Are you a good cook? - Not really. 326 00:25:23,647 --> 00:25:25,741 You suck? 327 00:25:29,361 --> 00:25:31,989 Go home, Steven. 328 00:25:42,291 --> 00:25:45,716 - That's when you should have stopped it. - I did. 329 00:25:45,794 --> 00:25:47,967 I told him I wouldn't teach him any more. 330 00:25:48,047 --> 00:25:51,176 But he refused to accept it. He just kept coming back. 331 00:25:53,469 --> 00:25:55,563 Miss! 332 00:25:57,389 --> 00:25:59,733 (SHEBA) It began to feel like our secret, 333 00:25:59,808 --> 00:26:04,609 and secrets can be seductive. 334 00:26:15,324 --> 00:26:19,170 - D'you wanna come for a walk? - Absolutely not. 335 00:26:19,787 --> 00:26:23,041 I'm going home to my family. As should you. 336 00:26:23,123 --> 00:26:25,171 Miss! 337 00:26:28,337 --> 00:26:32,558 My dad's got the sack. He's been taking it out on me. 338 00:26:32,633 --> 00:26:36,638 (SHEBA) His father hit him. He didn't tell his mum because she was ill. 339 00:26:36,720 --> 00:26:40,770 - Does your mother know? - Kidney disease. 340 00:26:40,849 --> 00:26:44,774 - It's taking months for an operation. - He was so vulnerable. 341 00:26:44,853 --> 00:26:47,652 If he does it again, you tell me. 342 00:26:47,898 --> 00:26:50,071 Thanks, Miss. 343 00:26:51,068 --> 00:26:53,116 You're beautiful, Miss. 344 00:26:53,195 --> 00:26:54,947 You don't know how beautiful you are. 345 00:27:02,204 --> 00:27:06,254 (SHEBA) I hadn't been pursued like this for years. 346 00:27:06,333 --> 00:27:11,214 I knew it was wrong and immoral and completely ridiculous, 347 00:27:11,296 --> 00:27:14,015 but I don't know. 348 00:27:14,091 --> 00:27:16,640 I just allowed it to happen. 349 00:27:16,718 --> 00:27:18,766 The boy is 15! 350 00:27:21,306 --> 00:27:25,277 - But he's quite mature for his age. - "But" is not a helpful word here. 351 00:27:26,854 --> 00:27:29,357 This is going to sound sick 352 00:27:30,774 --> 00:27:37,202 but something in me felt entitled. You know, I've been good all my adult life. 353 00:27:37,281 --> 00:27:41,787 I've been a decent wife, dutiful mother, coping with Ben. 354 00:27:42,536 --> 00:27:46,666 This voice inside me kept saying, "Why shouldn't you be bad? 355 00:27:46,748 --> 00:27:50,969 "You know, why shouldn't you transgress? You've earned the right." 356 00:27:51,044 --> 00:27:52,546 I said get out, Denzel. 357 00:27:52,629 --> 00:27:57,055 The rest of you get on with your work, please. 358 00:27:57,134 --> 00:27:59,432 Hurry up. 359 00:28:11,106 --> 00:28:13,108 (BEN LAUGHS) 360 00:28:26,622 --> 00:28:29,876 Sue phoned. OK if I meet her for a drink? 361 00:28:30,751 --> 00:28:33,675 Sure. I'll put bug-a-lugs to bed. 362 00:28:48,227 --> 00:28:50,321 Evening, Miss. 363 00:29:21,343 --> 00:29:23,641 Make yourself comfortable. 364 00:29:23,720 --> 00:29:27,816 It's incredibly important we keep this secret. 365 00:29:30,852 --> 00:29:33,981 - Does anyone know you're here? - No. 366 00:29:38,485 --> 00:29:40,487 Miss. 367 00:29:40,570 --> 00:29:43,540 I'm no genius, but I ain't a dickhead. 368 00:29:44,283 --> 00:29:46,206 I won't tell no one. 369 00:29:46,535 --> 00:29:48,788 You can trust me. 370 00:29:51,581 --> 00:29:54,801 We'd both get into terrible trouble. 371 00:30:19,192 --> 00:30:22,492 It was easy, like having another drink 372 00:30:22,571 --> 00:30:25,450 when you know you shouldn't. 373 00:30:28,577 --> 00:30:30,830 Can I smoke, Miss? 374 00:30:31,079 --> 00:30:35,425 You can do what you want, but enough of this "Miss". 375 00:30:45,344 --> 00:30:47,767 Were you a model once? 376 00:30:49,348 --> 00:30:52,477 Well, you should have been. You're well fit. 377 00:30:52,893 --> 00:30:55,021 Gosh, but don't I know it. 378 00:30:55,228 --> 00:30:57,526 You're into The Streets? 379 00:30:58,106 --> 00:31:00,359 Well, my daughter is. 380 00:31:01,485 --> 00:31:04,284 Is she the same age as me? 381 00:31:04,488 --> 00:31:06,661 None of your beeswax. 382 00:31:11,453 --> 00:31:14,798 Well, anyway, the point is you're fit. 383 00:31:17,292 --> 00:31:19,545 Well, so are you. 384 00:31:19,795 --> 00:31:25,177 You reckon? My sister thinks I look like a bollock with measles. 385 00:31:27,010 --> 00:31:29,479 You've done my brain in. 386 00:31:59,668 --> 00:32:02,638 - You wanna do it again? - (LAUGHS) 387 00:32:04,172 --> 00:32:06,015 What? 388 00:32:08,218 --> 00:32:10,186 Yes. 389 00:32:10,929 --> 00:32:13,057 I wanna do it again. 390 00:32:16,685 --> 00:32:19,029 I wanna do it again. 391 00:32:20,689 --> 00:32:22,942 The day we met, 392 00:32:23,775 --> 00:32:25,322 it had already begun? 393 00:32:27,362 --> 00:32:28,909 Yes. 394 00:32:28,989 --> 00:32:31,492 Deputy head in the morning. 395 00:32:31,575 --> 00:32:35,751 Noble sentiment, Connolly. Next time, words, not fists. 396 00:32:35,829 --> 00:32:37,957 Get inside, both of you. 397 00:32:38,039 --> 00:32:44,513 - And you had further relations that day? - We went to the art room. 398 00:32:44,588 --> 00:32:48,218 Well, I'm glad I was such an aphrodisiac. I was trying to help you. 399 00:32:48,300 --> 00:32:51,349 You did. I'm incredibly grateful. 400 00:32:51,428 --> 00:32:54,227 You've been such a good friend. 401 00:32:55,724 --> 00:32:58,193 Not reciprocated, it seems. 402 00:33:01,938 --> 00:33:05,067 I desperately wanted to confess to you. 403 00:33:06,067 --> 00:33:07,910 But how could I? 404 00:33:08,778 --> 00:33:10,280 Barbara? 405 00:33:10,572 --> 00:33:14,076 It would have put you in an impossible situation. 406 00:33:16,328 --> 00:33:18,706 I so wish I had. 407 00:33:18,914 --> 00:33:21,713 You would have made me see sense. 408 00:33:22,042 --> 00:33:25,592 (BARBARA) And then I realised my fury had blinded me. 409 00:33:26,421 --> 00:33:29,925 There was a magnificent opportunity here. 410 00:33:30,258 --> 00:33:33,353 Can we go inside? I'm absolutely freezing. 411 00:33:36,431 --> 00:33:41,028 With stealth, I might secure the prize long term, 412 00:33:41,102 --> 00:33:44,231 forever in my debt. 413 00:33:44,689 --> 00:33:47,943 I could gain everything 414 00:33:48,318 --> 00:33:50,412 by doing nothing. 415 00:33:52,864 --> 00:33:54,958 Look... 416 00:33:56,535 --> 00:34:01,416 I know you have to tell them. You know, the head, the school. 417 00:34:01,790 --> 00:34:05,044 All I ask is that you wait till the New Year. 418 00:34:06,169 --> 00:34:10,424 I'm begging you. Please let me have this Christmas with my family. 419 00:34:10,632 --> 00:34:13,932 Oh, you poor thing. 420 00:34:14,970 --> 00:34:17,143 You've got yourself into a state? 421 00:34:18,598 --> 00:34:20,566 I'm not going to report you. 422 00:34:21,434 --> 00:34:25,484 I want to help you, to support you through this. 423 00:34:30,360 --> 00:34:33,079 You're not going to tell? 424 00:34:35,365 --> 00:34:37,834 - You won't tell anyone? - Who would it benefit? 425 00:34:37,993 --> 00:34:41,418 Not you or the boy, and certainly not the school. 426 00:34:42,038 --> 00:34:44,291 No, this is a private matter, 427 00:34:45,125 --> 00:34:48,049 and we must keep it so. 428 00:34:49,337 --> 00:34:50,930 Yes. 429 00:34:56,386 --> 00:34:58,514 - Maybe I should resign. - Oh, no. 430 00:34:58,597 --> 00:35:00,691 No, that might alert suspicion. 431 00:35:00,765 --> 00:35:06,067 No, you must stay at the school, but the affair must end. 432 00:35:06,313 --> 00:35:08,657 Your solemn promise. 433 00:35:10,859 --> 00:35:13,328 I can't help you if you don't promise. 434 00:35:14,446 --> 00:35:16,448 I promise. 435 00:35:19,367 --> 00:35:22,337 So you'll tell him straight after Christmas? 436 00:35:22,412 --> 00:35:25,086 - It's all for the best. - I know. 437 00:35:25,165 --> 00:35:29,261 Thank you so much. You've been so brilliant. 438 00:35:29,336 --> 00:35:32,089 And you'll tell me when it's done? 439 00:35:36,593 --> 00:35:39,142 Oh! You never said. 440 00:35:39,429 --> 00:35:42,182 - (BARBARA) Standard issue for spinsters. - (LAUGHS) 441 00:35:42,849 --> 00:35:45,477 She's been off her food. I'm worried about her. 442 00:35:45,560 --> 00:35:49,235 There's a terrific vet up the road. He was great with Ben's rabbit. 443 00:35:49,689 --> 00:35:51,856 Got many people coming tomorrow? 444 00:35:51,882 --> 00:35:55,266 My lot, Richard's lot, including first wife. 445 00:35:55,487 --> 00:35:57,831 Oh. And your mother? 446 00:35:58,239 --> 00:36:00,162 Oh, yes. 447 00:36:00,241 --> 00:36:02,994 - Well, happy Christmas. - Yeah. You, too. 448 00:36:03,078 --> 00:36:05,627 Thank you so much. 449 00:36:05,789 --> 00:36:07,416 Courage, mon brave. 450 00:36:07,582 --> 00:36:12,053 And bon voyage to her little leprechaun. 451 00:36:14,422 --> 00:36:18,518 Sheba and I share a deep understanding now. 452 00:36:20,679 --> 00:36:22,932 No one can violate 453 00:36:23,014 --> 00:36:25,608 our magnificent complicity. 454 00:36:25,767 --> 00:36:28,691 No! Wait till tomorrow! Stop. 455 00:36:30,480 --> 00:36:32,608 You've been gone ages. 456 00:36:32,816 --> 00:36:34,113 Oh. 457 00:36:34,317 --> 00:36:37,161 Barbara was a little... Some school thing. 458 00:36:37,445 --> 00:36:40,289 - How's his nibs? - Oh, still awake. 459 00:36:40,615 --> 00:36:44,119 He's madly excited. I said he could stay up for you. 460 00:36:44,577 --> 00:36:45,749 And Polly? 461 00:36:46,913 --> 00:36:48,631 - Depressed. - Oh. 462 00:36:48,790 --> 00:36:50,588 Pete phoned. 463 00:36:50,875 --> 00:36:52,718 They had a row 464 00:36:53,044 --> 00:36:55,388 and he's not coming tomorrow. 465 00:36:56,381 --> 00:36:58,267 D'you think he's bad news? 466 00:36:58,293 --> 00:37:01,628 Well, these older men can be very dodgy. 467 00:37:16,317 --> 00:37:18,160 (KNOCK AT DOOR) 468 00:37:19,028 --> 00:37:21,326 Did Daddy tell you? 469 00:37:24,409 --> 00:37:28,255 He's gonna bin me, I know it. 470 00:37:28,329 --> 00:37:30,423 You're very lovely, darling. 471 00:37:30,498 --> 00:37:33,593 He's clever enough to appreciate it. 472 00:37:33,668 --> 00:37:36,137 I'm fat as fuck, Mum. 473 00:37:38,256 --> 00:37:40,725 He'll be back. 474 00:37:41,009 --> 00:37:43,011 I can't live without him. 475 00:37:43,303 --> 00:37:45,397 Oh... 476 00:37:47,557 --> 00:37:51,778 Her fetish for the boy was simply her snobbery manifested. 477 00:37:51,853 --> 00:37:54,197 He's working class and he likes art, 478 00:37:54,272 --> 00:37:57,446 as if he were a monkey who just strolled out of a rainforest 479 00:37:57,525 --> 00:38:00,995 and asked for a gin and tonic. 480 00:38:05,700 --> 00:38:09,295 Have you heard from that friend of yours, Barbara? 481 00:38:09,370 --> 00:38:12,670 Bar? Wakey-wakey. 482 00:38:12,749 --> 00:38:16,595 Lorraine was asking if you'd heard from that nice friend of yours. 483 00:38:16,669 --> 00:38:18,763 - Who? - Jennifer Dodd. 484 00:38:20,340 --> 00:38:21,592 Oh. 485 00:38:21,674 --> 00:38:24,427 She left the school. 486 00:38:24,511 --> 00:38:27,139 She's teaching in a primary at Stoke. 487 00:38:27,889 --> 00:38:32,486 There's a chap, apparently. I heard they're engaged. 488 00:38:36,189 --> 00:38:38,317 But it's true, it would be insane, wouldn't it? 489 00:38:38,399 --> 00:38:41,403 It's the most ridiculous time for him to sell. 490 00:38:41,486 --> 00:38:43,989 Well, that's what I said. 491 00:38:44,239 --> 00:38:46,207 I know. He should give me a ring. 492 00:38:46,282 --> 00:38:49,081 It's absolute madness for him. I'm happy to... 493 00:38:49,160 --> 00:38:51,128 (SHEBA) There you are, darling. 494 00:38:51,204 --> 00:38:54,959 ...Victorian parent or something. I'm nothing of the kind! 495 00:38:55,041 --> 00:38:58,295 Darling, can we have gravy? There's no gravy. Sorry. 496 00:38:58,378 --> 00:39:00,972 Why can't we just have... 497 00:39:02,257 --> 00:39:04,259 (PHONE BEEPS) 498 00:39:27,282 --> 00:39:30,126 (WOMAN) God knows. But this is what she's like. 499 00:39:30,201 --> 00:39:34,581 Ever since Ronald died, she's drifted inexorably. 500 00:39:34,664 --> 00:39:39,511 You see, her father was an exceptional man. Exceptional. 501 00:39:39,919 --> 00:39:42,047 Bathsheba's a loner, I'm afraid. 502 00:39:42,130 --> 00:39:45,851 She's beautiful, thank God, and it's got her through, 503 00:39:45,925 --> 00:39:49,930 but it's not quite the same as possessing substance. 504 00:39:58,271 --> 00:39:59,443 Happy Christmas. 505 00:39:59,522 --> 00:40:02,196 What are you doing here? Everyone's inside. 506 00:40:02,442 --> 00:40:05,036 Aren't you gonna open it? 507 00:40:09,991 --> 00:40:13,120 It's made of real fake gold. 508 00:40:16,497 --> 00:40:19,091 - Thank you. - What's up? 509 00:40:19,500 --> 00:40:21,594 I haven't heard from you. 510 00:40:25,632 --> 00:40:27,851 I can't see you any more. 511 00:40:28,718 --> 00:40:30,686 I'm sorry. I... 512 00:40:31,846 --> 00:40:33,769 - I just can't. It's over. - (DOOR OPENS) 513 00:40:35,058 --> 00:40:38,028 - Why? - (RICHARD) Bash? 514 00:40:38,102 --> 00:40:39,399 Bash! 515 00:40:40,063 --> 00:40:41,815 She's not here. 516 00:40:46,319 --> 00:40:48,538 Was that your dad? 517 00:40:50,531 --> 00:40:51,874 No. 518 00:40:51,950 --> 00:40:54,044 He's an uncle. 519 00:40:56,788 --> 00:41:00,838 - Do you wanna end it? - Please don't look at me like that. 520 00:41:00,917 --> 00:41:03,386 - Have you gone off me? - No. 521 00:41:04,671 --> 00:41:08,141 You should go. Please, don't make... 522 00:41:08,967 --> 00:41:10,765 Just go. 523 00:41:31,197 --> 00:41:33,495 (POLLY) She gave me what? (LAUGHS) 524 00:41:33,574 --> 00:41:37,044 - What colour are they? - (SHEBA) Is it Pete? 525 00:41:51,092 --> 00:41:53,094 (SOBS) 526 00:42:01,811 --> 00:42:05,486 I long to phone S, but it's late. 527 00:42:06,858 --> 00:42:11,034 Poor girl, all alone with her awful family. 528 00:42:12,071 --> 00:42:16,201 Our lives are acutely similar in so many respects. 529 00:42:16,409 --> 00:42:19,083 - (KNOCK AT DOOR) - (WOMAN) Sis? 530 00:42:21,873 --> 00:42:23,841 Oh. 531 00:42:23,916 --> 00:42:27,716 Writing the old diary? I can't imagine how you keep at it. 532 00:42:27,795 --> 00:42:30,093 I'd have nothing to say. 533 00:42:31,841 --> 00:42:33,843 - (CAT MEOWS) - Aw. 534 00:42:35,261 --> 00:42:37,605 Hello. 535 00:42:37,805 --> 00:42:42,436 You know you're welcome whenever you want, not just once a year. 536 00:42:43,728 --> 00:42:47,107 It's just that I'm rather busy at the moment. 537 00:42:47,273 --> 00:42:49,992 Your racy London life. 538 00:42:50,151 --> 00:42:52,449 I'm glad it's so full. 539 00:42:56,282 --> 00:43:00,037 I'm sorry about Jennifer. She was lovely. 540 00:43:02,330 --> 00:43:06,585 Is there anyone else? Someone else who's special? 541 00:43:07,668 --> 00:43:09,841 I don't know what you mean. 542 00:43:10,171 --> 00:43:12,594 I... I didn't mean to pry. 543 00:43:16,427 --> 00:43:18,429 (SHEBA MOANING) 544 00:43:33,486 --> 00:43:34,829 Belated Christmas present. 545 00:43:35,613 --> 00:43:37,536 Oh, thank you. 546 00:43:40,451 --> 00:43:42,328 Oh, my word. 547 00:43:42,995 --> 00:43:44,793 Asprey. 548 00:43:58,553 --> 00:44:01,227 How is she? 549 00:44:03,224 --> 00:44:05,727 You are the most wonderful friend. 550 00:44:22,285 --> 00:44:24,708 Any good? 551 00:44:26,497 --> 00:44:28,591 It's a masterpiece. 552 00:44:30,042 --> 00:44:32,795 Don't they teach you anything? 553 00:44:46,392 --> 00:44:48,645 We used to worship her. 554 00:44:57,987 --> 00:45:00,456 - Take it off. - What's it for? 555 00:45:00,698 --> 00:45:03,952 Just take it off, please. I'm still making it. 556 00:45:04,035 --> 00:45:06,129 Yeah, but why? 557 00:45:07,371 --> 00:45:10,295 - It's for my son. - But he's 12, isn't he? 558 00:45:10,374 --> 00:45:13,423 He's got Dawn's syndrome. 559 00:45:17,423 --> 00:45:19,471 You never said. 560 00:45:21,928 --> 00:45:23,646 Right. 561 00:45:25,223 --> 00:45:27,317 Sorry. 562 00:45:38,569 --> 00:45:39,741 (CAT RETCHES) 563 00:45:39,820 --> 00:45:41,618 Oh... 564 00:45:41,822 --> 00:45:43,870 Oh. 565 00:45:44,575 --> 00:45:47,375 (MAN) I'm sure she's had a very happy life. 566 00:45:47,401 --> 00:45:48,355 Well, yes. 567 00:45:48,412 --> 00:45:51,382 She has. Thank you. 568 00:45:51,457 --> 00:45:54,427 We can make her more comfortable for the next few weeks, 569 00:45:54,502 --> 00:45:57,676 but it will be weeks rather than months. 570 00:45:58,798 --> 00:46:01,392 You've had a terrible shock. 571 00:46:03,344 --> 00:46:06,143 Where's Richard? I don't want to disturb you. 572 00:46:06,347 --> 00:46:09,817 - It's fine. Everyone's out. - (PHONE RINGS) 573 00:46:09,892 --> 00:46:11,894 (ENDS CALL) 574 00:46:13,479 --> 00:46:15,857 Can they treat her? 575 00:46:16,232 --> 00:46:19,281 He says it's just a matter of weeks. 576 00:46:21,195 --> 00:46:23,448 - She's only a pet. - Oh, no. 577 00:46:23,531 --> 00:46:26,410 I cried for weeks when our dog died. Weeks. 578 00:46:26,492 --> 00:46:28,870 One does get so attached. 579 00:46:40,214 --> 00:46:42,558 I should leave you in peace. 580 00:46:44,427 --> 00:46:46,521 Yeah. 581 00:46:56,480 --> 00:46:59,575 - I like that top. It suits you. - Oh. Thanks. 582 00:46:59,650 --> 00:47:01,652 (PHONE BEEPS) 583 00:47:04,238 --> 00:47:06,912 When I was at school 584 00:47:07,241 --> 00:47:12,088 if one of us had had some bad news or was a bit down, 585 00:47:12,913 --> 00:47:14,915 we used to stroke each other. 586 00:47:15,249 --> 00:47:20,426 You know, someone would do one arm and someone else the other. 587 00:47:22,048 --> 00:47:24,267 It was a wonderful sensation. 588 00:47:24,425 --> 00:47:26,393 Did you do that at your school? 589 00:47:27,470 --> 00:47:29,097 No. 590 00:47:29,347 --> 00:47:32,021 It's incredibly relaxing 591 00:47:33,434 --> 00:47:36,233 for the giver and the receiver. 592 00:47:43,110 --> 00:47:45,579 - Close your eyes. No, no, really. - Oh... 593 00:47:45,654 --> 00:47:48,157 It doesn't work if you don't. 594 00:48:26,404 --> 00:48:28,998 - There's a good girl. - That's enough. 595 00:48:29,115 --> 00:48:30,366 No, close your eyes. 596 00:48:30,392 --> 00:48:33,520 Look, I really think that's enough, Barbara. 597 00:48:41,919 --> 00:48:44,968 There's someone in your garden! He came over the wall. 598 00:48:45,047 --> 00:48:48,176 It's probably the neighbour's boy, lost his football. 599 00:48:48,259 --> 00:48:50,105 No, he's going into the summer house! 600 00:48:50,131 --> 00:48:52,414 It's just a kid from next door. Forget it. 601 00:48:52,763 --> 00:48:54,891 (PHONE RINGS) 602 00:49:01,522 --> 00:49:06,323 (STEVEN) Where are you? I've been dreaming about your hot, sweet cunt all morning. 603 00:49:06,902 --> 00:49:08,620 Hello? 604 00:49:10,448 --> 00:49:13,577 - Hello? - Richard's on his way home. 605 00:49:13,659 --> 00:49:18,916 No, I can't. No, I can't. I'll call you. Barbara! Barbara, I'm sorry! I'm sorry! 606 00:49:19,748 --> 00:49:22,547 I'm so sorry. Bar. 607 00:49:22,626 --> 00:49:25,129 I tried to end it, honestly. I just couldn't. 608 00:49:25,212 --> 00:49:28,807 I risked everything for you, and in return you humiliate me. 609 00:49:28,883 --> 00:49:33,480 I didn't mean to upset you. I need your help more than ever. Please don't go like this. 610 00:49:33,554 --> 00:49:36,603 - You promised to end it. Why didn't you? - Because I... 611 00:49:36,682 --> 00:49:38,480 What? You're in love? 612 00:49:38,559 --> 00:49:42,985 And the child, do you imagine he reciprocates your soppy feelings? 613 00:49:43,230 --> 00:49:47,531 I dare say he's fascinated by the neurotic compulsions of a middle-class lady 614 00:49:47,610 --> 00:49:49,829 - with marital problems. - Bar... 615 00:49:49,904 --> 00:49:52,077 There's nothing crueller than boys. 616 00:49:52,156 --> 00:49:55,285 Once he's had his fill he'll discard you like an old rag. 617 00:49:55,367 --> 00:49:56,619 You're not young! 618 00:49:58,996 --> 00:50:01,670 I say this to help you. End it now. 619 00:50:03,751 --> 00:50:06,174 - Yeah. I'm thinking. - Don't think. Do. 620 00:50:06,253 --> 00:50:10,224 Do, do, do, do! Or shall I sit here doing my nails till your husband returns? 621 00:50:10,424 --> 00:50:14,054 - No, no, no! Please. I'll do it. - Well, what are you waiting for? 622 00:50:29,527 --> 00:50:31,529 (DOORBELL) 623 00:50:36,700 --> 00:50:38,828 Mr. Connolly. 624 00:50:38,911 --> 00:50:42,916 I'm Mrs. Hart from St George's. Steven's not in trouble. 625 00:50:42,998 --> 00:50:45,581 I need to talk to him about an art project... 626 00:50:45,607 --> 00:50:47,403 Oh, yeah. Come in. Come in. 627 00:50:47,461 --> 00:50:51,011 - Thank you. - It's just upstairs there. 628 00:50:54,343 --> 00:50:58,314 It's good of you to give him extra lessons. It's the first on your left. 629 00:50:58,389 --> 00:51:01,609 It's probably best to knock. 630 00:51:09,275 --> 00:51:11,292 So that's your vicious father? 631 00:51:11,318 --> 00:51:14,477 You wanted a sob story, I gave it to you. 632 00:51:14,530 --> 00:51:16,874 - You lied to me. - Oh, sorry, Miss! 633 00:51:17,116 --> 00:51:19,164 You prefer it if I live in a shithole? 634 00:51:19,243 --> 00:51:21,371 And your mother? 635 00:51:21,453 --> 00:51:23,672 I think she's gonna pull through. 636 00:51:23,747 --> 00:51:26,842 What do you want? What are you doing here? 637 00:51:30,212 --> 00:51:31,930 They're gonna expel me now! 638 00:51:32,089 --> 00:51:35,389 No, they won't. I'll get the blame if she tells. 639 00:51:35,843 --> 00:51:37,686 As if she won't! 640 00:51:38,012 --> 00:51:40,185 She likes me. She might not. 641 00:51:40,431 --> 00:51:43,856 Likes you how? Like that? You giving her one and all? 642 00:51:44,059 --> 00:51:46,232 Why are you being so cruel? 643 00:51:46,562 --> 00:51:48,781 Why, Steven? 644 00:51:49,982 --> 00:51:52,952 I really like you. You're a nice person 645 00:51:53,027 --> 00:51:55,826 and you've been cool and it's been great, OK? 646 00:51:55,904 --> 00:52:00,159 But it was supposed to be fun, and now it's a serious thing. 647 00:52:02,411 --> 00:52:08,384 Whatever shit you're working out, you know, your husband, your kid, you... 648 00:52:10,044 --> 00:52:12,297 I don't know. 649 00:52:12,379 --> 00:52:14,677 I can't help you. 650 00:53:00,552 --> 00:53:02,680 (SOBS) 651 00:53:06,183 --> 00:53:11,280 As my mother would have said, the boy done her like a kipper. 652 00:53:13,232 --> 00:53:17,078 She has nowhere to turn but trusty old Bar. 653 00:53:24,618 --> 00:53:28,839 She mopes and mourns for her pubescent paramour 654 00:53:31,125 --> 00:53:35,471 but she knows my interventions have saved her life 655 00:53:36,797 --> 00:53:39,550 and she is sweetly grateful. 656 00:53:40,551 --> 00:53:44,852 Her betrayal hurt me more than I dare show, 657 00:53:44,930 --> 00:53:46,978 but I will forgive her 658 00:53:47,224 --> 00:53:48,976 and heal myself in private. 659 00:53:50,519 --> 00:53:52,897 She's worth it, this one. 660 00:53:53,522 --> 00:53:55,820 She's the one I've waited for. 661 00:53:59,820 --> 00:54:03,495 She's beginning to understand that her dalliance with Master Connolly 662 00:54:03,574 --> 00:54:06,418 was a consequence of her dead marriage. 663 00:54:06,493 --> 00:54:11,750 It's a sham fuelled only by the memory of former glories. 664 00:54:14,001 --> 00:54:16,971 Whereas we are going through the fire, 665 00:54:17,045 --> 00:54:21,892 forging our friendship with a stronger bond each day. 666 00:54:23,427 --> 00:54:26,977 In fact, we are now entering 667 00:54:27,097 --> 00:54:29,976 a delicate new phase. 668 00:54:30,934 --> 00:54:34,188 We are silently and stealthily 669 00:54:34,354 --> 00:54:38,860 negotiating the terms of a life lived together. 670 00:54:40,027 --> 00:54:42,496 Now more than ever, 671 00:54:42,571 --> 00:54:45,871 we are bound by the secrets we share. 672 00:54:48,035 --> 00:54:54,543 I'm invited to drop in on them this summer at their house in the Dordogne. 673 00:54:56,168 --> 00:54:58,421 I might just do that. 674 00:55:05,469 --> 00:55:09,064 I once sat here discussing Elgar for three hours. 675 00:55:09,139 --> 00:55:12,268 - God, who with? - Oh, just a friend. 676 00:55:12,351 --> 00:55:15,981 Jennifer. This was our haunt. 677 00:55:19,608 --> 00:55:23,488 We were quite chummy for a while, but poor thing, 678 00:55:23,570 --> 00:55:27,825 - she suffered from a terrible depression. - Oh. 679 00:55:27,908 --> 00:55:31,788 I tried to help, but she rather unravelled. 680 00:55:31,870 --> 00:55:34,623 She became alarmingly deluded. 681 00:55:34,706 --> 00:55:37,300 Did she go to hospital? 682 00:55:37,376 --> 00:55:38,923 No. 683 00:55:39,002 --> 00:55:41,096 No, she got a job in Stoke. 684 00:55:42,256 --> 00:55:44,350 - When was this? - Last summer. 685 00:55:44,424 --> 00:55:49,851 - But I feel I should have done more. - I'm sure she knows you did your best. 686 00:55:49,930 --> 00:55:52,024 Such a sensitive person. 687 00:55:52,683 --> 00:55:55,061 One conceals it, of course. 688 00:56:00,482 --> 00:56:06,535 People languish for years with partners who are clearly from another planet. 689 00:56:06,613 --> 00:56:11,460 We want so much to believe that we've found our other. 690 00:56:12,661 --> 00:56:18,634 It takes courage to recognise the real as opposed to the convenient. 691 00:56:20,544 --> 00:56:25,050 When I was young I had such a vision of myself. 692 00:56:25,132 --> 00:56:31,139 I dreamed I'd be someone to be reckoned with, you know, in the world. 693 00:56:31,221 --> 00:56:33,644 But one learns one's scale. 694 00:56:38,437 --> 00:56:41,782 I've such a dread of ending my days alone. 695 00:56:41,857 --> 00:56:44,451 Yes. I... We all do. 696 00:56:44,526 --> 00:56:49,373 But recently I've allowed myself to think that I may not be. 697 00:56:53,994 --> 00:56:56,292 Am I wrong? 698 00:56:59,291 --> 00:57:01,714 No. 699 00:57:14,973 --> 00:57:17,317 - (VET) Do you want to stay? - (SOBS) 700 00:57:17,392 --> 00:57:22,614 Sometimes people find it comforting to see them at peace. 701 00:57:22,689 --> 00:57:27,536 Would you like to come back in 20 minutes to say goodbye? 702 00:57:35,786 --> 00:57:39,461 - (SHEBA) Have you got your seat belt on? - (RICHARD) Oh, no. What the fuck? 703 00:57:39,539 --> 00:57:42,918 - (POLLY) Oh, God, not her! - Shut up. I won't be a minute. 704 00:57:43,001 --> 00:57:48,553 - (POLLY) Mum, don't get out of the car! - Is it Portia? Oh, no. 705 00:57:49,716 --> 00:57:52,686 I've got to go back to the vet's after it's done. 706 00:57:52,761 --> 00:57:55,184 Will you come with me? I can't on my own. 707 00:57:55,389 --> 00:57:59,895 Of course I would. It's just that Ben's doing his play at his school... 708 00:57:59,977 --> 00:58:02,821 - Play? - We're all going. We're late, actually. 709 00:58:02,896 --> 00:58:06,196 - Someone has died! - I... I know. 710 00:58:07,067 --> 00:58:10,742 - And it's terribly sad. - You owe me this! 711 00:58:10,821 --> 00:58:13,870 Ben, can't you make her vanish? Use your wand. 712 00:58:13,949 --> 00:58:17,374 He's doing a show for the first time in his life. 713 00:58:17,452 --> 00:58:20,080 - That's your choice, is it? - (CAR HORN) 714 00:58:21,081 --> 00:58:22,799 Why don't you come? 715 00:58:23,166 --> 00:58:25,339 I thought you understood what friendship means. 716 00:58:26,086 --> 00:58:28,464 He's my child. He's my son. 717 00:58:29,423 --> 00:58:32,677 - He's just a little boy. - Don't play the good mother with me. 718 00:58:32,926 --> 00:58:36,180 Could you tell me what's going on? Is this some kind of coven? 719 00:58:36,263 --> 00:58:37,685 I can explain perfectly. 720 00:58:37,764 --> 00:58:39,983 Barbara's had some bad news about her cat. 721 00:58:40,225 --> 00:58:43,695 My condolences. Poor pussy. Now, can I have my wife back, please? 722 00:58:43,770 --> 00:58:46,193 - I don't like your tone. - Why is she here? 723 00:58:46,273 --> 00:58:49,243 What kind of fucking spell has she cast on you? 724 00:58:49,317 --> 00:58:53,823 - Ben is getting stressed. He's gonna blow! - Oh, for God's sake. Get in the car! 725 00:58:53,905 --> 00:58:56,954 Give me a minute, will you? I can handle this. 726 00:58:57,034 --> 00:58:59,378 I'm to be handled, am I? Like toxic waste? 727 00:58:59,453 --> 00:59:03,879 You see me on sufferance. I'm an imposition to be tolerated. 728 00:59:03,957 --> 00:59:08,428 No, of course not. I love our time together. I'm your good, good friend. 729 00:59:08,503 --> 00:59:10,096 - Then stay with me. - (HORN) 730 00:59:10,172 --> 00:59:11,248 I would if I could. 731 00:59:11,274 --> 00:59:15,124 I'm desperately sorry about Portia, but you can see, I have to go. 732 00:59:15,177 --> 00:59:19,057 Think very carefully, madam. Be aware of the consequences. 733 00:59:19,139 --> 00:59:21,393 Don't make this mean any more than it is. 734 00:59:21,419 --> 00:59:22,384 Stay with me. 735 00:59:22,434 --> 00:59:23,606 (HORN) 736 00:59:24,019 --> 00:59:26,442 - I don't know what I'll do. - (POLLY) Let's go! 737 00:59:26,521 --> 00:59:30,071 - Look, I'll call you, I promise. - (POLLY) Come on! 738 00:59:34,780 --> 00:59:37,033 They always let you down in the end. 739 00:59:37,699 --> 00:59:40,293 Jennifer said I was too intense. 740 00:59:40,368 --> 00:59:42,496 Meaning what, exactly? 741 00:59:42,579 --> 00:59:46,254 That I am loyal in my friendships? 742 00:59:46,333 --> 00:59:49,678 That I will go to the ends of the earth for someone I admire? 743 00:59:49,920 --> 00:59:52,173 - Shazam! - (APPLAUSE) 744 01:00:02,808 --> 01:00:04,810 (DOORBELL) 745 01:00:17,197 --> 01:00:19,916 Not disturbing you, am I? 746 01:00:21,993 --> 01:00:24,371 It's just... 747 01:00:24,871 --> 01:00:26,999 I need to talk to you about Mrs. Hart. 748 01:00:29,042 --> 01:00:31,795 - Sheba. - Ah. 749 01:00:32,504 --> 01:00:34,552 It's a bit delicate. 750 01:00:34,923 --> 01:00:36,049 Can I come in? 751 01:00:49,604 --> 01:00:52,073 - Tea? - Oh, lovely, thanks. 752 01:00:56,444 --> 01:00:59,072 You haven't got a biscuit? 753 01:01:05,328 --> 01:01:07,422 Cheers. 754 01:01:10,083 --> 01:01:13,678 - Would you like me to take your hat? - Ah. Been up the Lane. 755 01:01:13,753 --> 01:01:16,131 White Hart Lane, home of the mighty Spurs. 756 01:01:16,214 --> 01:01:19,593 - Were you victorious? - Three-nil. Jermain Defoe. Get in there! 757 01:01:22,596 --> 01:01:26,271 My father was a supporter of Charlton Athletic. 758 01:01:27,392 --> 01:01:29,895 Never seemed to give him any pleasure. 759 01:01:30,270 --> 01:01:31,772 Where's the moggy? 760 01:01:32,647 --> 01:01:34,069 She's dead. 761 01:01:35,567 --> 01:01:37,615 Oh, dear. 762 01:01:38,278 --> 01:01:41,532 Oh, my condolences. Aw. 763 01:01:44,367 --> 01:01:46,620 Oh, is this not a good time? 764 01:01:47,037 --> 01:01:49,165 It's a very good time. 765 01:02:01,468 --> 01:02:03,846 - Mrs. Hart. - Yeah. 766 01:02:04,763 --> 01:02:06,765 It's just... 767 01:02:06,973 --> 01:02:10,102 Anything you tell me will be in strictest confidence. 768 01:02:12,103 --> 01:02:16,074 Well, the thing is, I was wondering if she's 769 01:02:17,817 --> 01:02:20,286 ever mentioned me. 770 01:02:21,696 --> 01:02:23,790 Does she ever mention me? 771 01:02:25,075 --> 01:02:28,500 Let me think. No, never. 772 01:02:29,371 --> 01:02:30,964 Actually, yes. 773 01:02:31,456 --> 01:02:34,710 She mentioned you had invested in a new shirt last term. 774 01:02:34,918 --> 01:02:37,341 Splashed out at Nicole Farhi. 775 01:02:39,005 --> 01:02:44,478 Thing is, over the last few months... Well, ever since I met her, really, I've... 776 01:02:45,762 --> 01:02:48,436 Brian, are you in love? 777 01:02:49,975 --> 01:02:52,244 I've been a bit bloody obvious, haven't I? 778 01:02:52,270 --> 01:02:54,221 You've been utterly clandestine. 779 01:02:55,897 --> 01:02:58,867 - So she mentioned the shirt? - You do know she's married? 780 01:02:58,984 --> 01:03:02,363 Yeah, but she's quite flirty, and you never know with people, do you? 781 01:03:02,487 --> 01:03:05,741 - Indeed you don't. - But... 782 01:03:06,032 --> 01:03:09,707 I wouldn't wanna make a move if I'm just gonna get knocked back. 783 01:03:09,995 --> 01:03:14,501 What with staff politics and the head being such a stickler, you have to be careful. 784 01:03:14,708 --> 01:03:16,255 It's a minefield. 785 01:03:16,626 --> 01:03:18,720 So would... 786 01:03:19,879 --> 01:03:23,634 I mean, do you think you could have a word with her 787 01:03:23,883 --> 01:03:27,353 and just suss the lie of the land? 788 01:03:29,180 --> 01:03:35,438 You'd like me to ask Mrs. Hart if she's inclined to commit adultery with you? 789 01:03:38,523 --> 01:03:43,620 I don't want you to suffer more than is necessary. No one should. 790 01:03:43,695 --> 01:03:49,748 I couldn't possibly speak for Mrs. Hart, but instinct tells me 791 01:03:49,826 --> 01:03:51,624 you might not be her type. 792 01:03:53,413 --> 01:03:56,166 She's got a type, then? 793 01:03:56,249 --> 01:03:59,753 Oh, it's no reflection on your attractiveness. 794 01:04:00,545 --> 01:04:06,393 But my impression is that her preference is for the younger man. 795 01:04:08,803 --> 01:04:11,556 Surprisingly young. 796 01:04:12,057 --> 01:04:13,604 Boys, I'm told. 797 01:04:15,143 --> 01:04:18,192 Naturally, she doesn't discuss any of this with me. 798 01:04:18,563 --> 01:04:21,942 But I've been hearing some rather alarming rumours about one in particular. 799 01:04:23,610 --> 01:04:27,080 Playground gossip, staff room whispers and so on. 800 01:04:29,991 --> 01:04:32,961 You might know the boy in question. 801 01:04:36,331 --> 01:04:38,049 Steven Connolly. 802 01:04:39,584 --> 01:04:41,006 Year 10? 803 01:04:43,463 --> 01:04:46,057 I think the kettle's boiled. 804 01:04:47,133 --> 01:04:50,228 You say the words and it's done. 805 01:04:50,303 --> 01:04:52,351 Easy. 806 01:04:56,226 --> 01:04:59,230 Judas had the grace to hang himself, 807 01:04:59,312 --> 01:05:04,409 but only according to Matthew, the most sentimental of the apostles. 808 01:05:06,403 --> 01:05:09,828 Is this the last night of her old life? 809 01:05:11,866 --> 01:05:15,962 I wonder how long my messenger will take. 810 01:05:16,830 --> 01:05:19,003 Thank you. 811 01:05:20,834 --> 01:05:24,680 People like Sheba think they know what it is to be lonely, 812 01:05:24,754 --> 01:05:30,352 but of the drip, drip of long-haul, no-end-in-sight solitude, 813 01:05:31,261 --> 01:05:33,605 they know nothing. 814 01:05:33,680 --> 01:05:39,437 What it's like to construct an entire weekend around a visit to the launderette 815 01:05:39,519 --> 01:05:42,864 or to be so chronically untouched 816 01:05:43,398 --> 01:05:46,618 that the accidental brush of a bus conductor's hand 817 01:05:46,693 --> 01:05:51,039 sends a jolt of longing straight to your groin. 818 01:05:52,031 --> 01:05:53,954 Of this, 819 01:05:54,033 --> 01:05:58,709 Sheba and her like have no clue. 820 01:05:59,205 --> 01:06:01,207 (PHONE RINGS) 821 01:06:05,378 --> 01:06:09,474 (SHEBA) Bar, I'm so sorry about today. 822 01:06:09,549 --> 01:06:12,598 It was an impossible situation. 823 01:06:12,677 --> 01:06:15,146 Richard's really sorry too. 824 01:06:15,221 --> 01:06:17,474 Poor you. 825 01:06:17,557 --> 01:06:19,651 But why not come for supper? 826 01:06:20,435 --> 01:06:23,188 Actually, I write quite quickly. 827 01:06:23,271 --> 01:06:26,366 It's the thinking that takes an eternity. 828 01:06:26,441 --> 01:06:31,117 But you're never satisfied. When you're lecturing, you long for time to write, 829 01:06:31,362 --> 01:06:35,333 and when you've got it, you yearn to be back with your students. 830 01:06:39,120 --> 01:06:42,499 - (SHEBA) More coffee, anyone? - (RICHARD) I'll have a slug. 831 01:06:42,832 --> 01:06:44,425 Barbara? 832 01:06:47,086 --> 01:06:48,588 No, thank you. 833 01:06:57,222 --> 01:06:59,270 (KNOCKING CONTINUES) 834 01:07:07,607 --> 01:07:09,450 - Yes? - Are you her husband? 835 01:07:09,526 --> 01:07:12,245 - What? Whose? - Don't you dick with me, mister! 836 01:07:12,320 --> 01:07:14,414 Don't you dick me around! Where is she? 837 01:07:14,489 --> 01:07:17,584 Tell her Steven Connolly's mother wants to see her now! 838 01:07:17,659 --> 01:07:20,412 - Excuse me! - (MR CONNOLLY) Maggie! 839 01:07:20,495 --> 01:07:23,590 - You slut! You fucking whore! - Maggie! 840 01:07:24,123 --> 01:07:26,876 - How could you? How could you? - Maggie! Maggie! 841 01:07:26,960 --> 01:07:29,316 He's only a child! A wee boy! He's a child! 842 01:07:29,342 --> 01:07:31,536 (RICHARD) What the hell is going on? 843 01:07:31,589 --> 01:07:34,638 You ask your wife what's going on! Ask her! 844 01:07:34,717 --> 01:07:38,062 - You perverted bitch! Bitch! - (MR CONNOLLY) Maggie! 845 01:07:38,137 --> 01:07:42,483 Come on. Leave them alone! Come on, Maggie. Leave them alone. 846 01:07:42,559 --> 01:07:47,736 - (MAGGIE) Bitch! You fucking... - (MR CONNOLLY) Leave them alone, Maggie. 847 01:07:47,814 --> 01:07:49,942 Come on. Leave them alone, eh? 848 01:07:50,024 --> 01:07:52,152 There's nothing for us here. 849 01:08:10,211 --> 01:08:12,964 It happened. It just happened. 850 01:08:13,047 --> 01:08:15,800 People make things happen. 851 01:08:15,883 --> 01:08:18,136 You think you're the only one who's wanted someone young? 852 01:08:18,219 --> 01:08:21,143 Everyone sometimes, everyone thinks about... 853 01:08:21,222 --> 01:08:23,771 But they deal with it! 854 01:08:24,309 --> 01:08:27,313 By the time I took my seat in the gods, 855 01:08:27,395 --> 01:08:30,524 the opera was well into its final act. 856 01:08:30,607 --> 01:08:33,030 - You're his teacher! - And you were mine! 857 01:08:33,109 --> 01:08:35,988 I'm not justifying. I'm not trying to justify it! 858 01:08:36,070 --> 01:08:37,822 You are so full of shit! 859 01:08:37,905 --> 01:08:40,909 It's totally different! You were 20. 860 01:08:41,326 --> 01:08:43,992 He's 16 in May. He's not some innocent... 861 01:08:44,018 --> 01:08:45,857 Of course he's innocent! 862 01:08:45,913 --> 01:08:48,587 He's fucking 15! 863 01:08:48,666 --> 01:08:50,714 Are you insane? 864 01:08:50,793 --> 01:08:55,424 If you meant to destroy us, why not do it with an adult? That's the convention. 865 01:08:55,506 --> 01:08:59,477 - It's worked for centuries. - It wasn't about us. It... 866 01:08:59,552 --> 01:09:02,681 - Why? - I just wanted him. 867 01:09:02,764 --> 01:09:05,438 - Why? - I don't know! 868 01:09:05,683 --> 01:09:07,230 Well, find out! 869 01:09:26,996 --> 01:09:30,421 - Sheba? And... No! - Yep. Connolly, yes. Yes, honestly. 870 01:09:36,756 --> 01:09:39,885 My guilt is tempered with relief. 871 01:09:40,426 --> 01:09:45,023 She assumes the boy cracked and told his mother all. 872 01:09:45,515 --> 01:09:47,893 Who am I to disabuse her? 873 01:09:48,518 --> 01:09:50,646 Oh, Brian. Brian. 874 01:09:50,728 --> 01:09:51,775 Brian. 875 01:09:51,854 --> 01:09:54,027 Brian, do stop a minute, please. 876 01:09:54,107 --> 01:09:56,451 Today, St George's School is a solemn place. 877 01:09:56,526 --> 01:09:59,200 A source close to the school has indicated 878 01:09:59,278 --> 01:10:02,623 another member of staff may have known of the relationship. 879 01:10:02,699 --> 01:10:07,626 This, however, is categorically denied by the local authority. 880 01:10:07,704 --> 01:10:12,175 Had I known anything, I would have informed you immediately. 881 01:10:12,250 --> 01:10:13,843 My loyalty is to the school. 882 01:10:13,918 --> 01:10:16,592 - Brian thinks you've known for months. - Brian! 883 01:10:16,671 --> 01:10:20,096 - Then there is Sue... - Will you run through the entire staff? 884 01:10:20,174 --> 01:10:23,929 If you knew and turned a blind eye, you have enabled a crime. 885 01:10:24,011 --> 01:10:27,390 - I didn't, so I haven't. - You're due for retirement next year. 886 01:10:27,473 --> 01:10:30,727 I think it would benefit everyone if you take it early. 887 01:10:30,810 --> 01:10:33,529 So it's a witch hunt. Salem comes to Islington. 888 01:10:33,604 --> 01:10:36,949 The stress of the job, radical new ideas not to your taste... 889 01:10:37,024 --> 01:10:40,949 I've a radical idea. Your school, your disaster. Why don't you resign? 890 01:10:41,028 --> 01:10:44,999 Because I am not the confidante of a criminal! 891 01:10:45,825 --> 01:10:48,544 Now, tell me about your friendship with Mrs. Hart. 892 01:10:48,619 --> 01:10:52,749 I think you'll find a close friendship between consenting adults is legal, 893 01:10:52,832 --> 01:10:54,926 even under your regime. 894 01:10:55,168 --> 01:11:00,015 My record is beyond reproach. The majority of the staff regard me as a moral guardian. 895 01:11:00,089 --> 01:11:06,062 I've just spoken to an ex-member of our staff, another of your "close" friends. 896 01:11:06,929 --> 01:11:08,772 Jennifer Dodd. 897 01:11:11,017 --> 01:11:16,239 As you are aware, Jennifer became unwell. That's why she had to leave the school. 898 01:11:16,314 --> 01:11:19,158 Jennifer threatened you with a restraining order. 899 01:11:19,233 --> 01:11:21,361 That's nonsense. 900 01:11:22,528 --> 01:11:29,002 A fax from her solicitor. She didn't want you within 500 yards of her by law! 901 01:11:29,076 --> 01:11:30,794 You call that a friendship? 902 01:11:30,995 --> 01:11:35,045 She told me that you sent her fiancé a wreath! 903 01:11:38,211 --> 01:11:42,136 Now, we wouldn't want all this to come out, would we? 904 01:11:42,215 --> 01:11:47,312 A lifetime of dedicated service ending in shame and humiliation? 905 01:11:49,055 --> 01:11:51,683 It's your choice, Barbara. 906 01:12:10,952 --> 01:12:12,954 (VOMITS) 907 01:12:49,949 --> 01:12:51,997 (THUMPS DOOR) 908 01:12:58,666 --> 01:13:00,714 He knows it was me. 909 01:13:00,793 --> 01:13:03,763 Does she know, too? 910 01:13:03,838 --> 01:13:08,309 More than I can bear. Is that why she's not returned my calls? 911 01:13:20,021 --> 01:13:21,273 (PHONE RINGS) 912 01:13:27,695 --> 01:13:31,040 (MAN) Barbara, have you spoken to Sheba Hart yet? 913 01:13:34,243 --> 01:13:40,501 - Why are you friends with a paedophile? - (WOMAN) Did you teach the boy at all? 914 01:13:40,583 --> 01:13:43,962 (MAN) Barbara, how's Sheba's husband taking all this? 915 01:13:44,211 --> 01:13:46,305 Barbarians. 916 01:13:48,591 --> 01:13:50,593 Sorry about your job. 917 01:13:50,843 --> 01:13:52,971 You see, the headmaster thought I knew. 918 01:13:53,846 --> 01:13:56,520 - No! 919 01:13:59,352 --> 01:14:01,446 Where is she? 920 01:14:01,520 --> 01:14:03,568 In her lair. 921 01:14:07,610 --> 01:14:10,329 (POLLY) Your boyfriend is younger than mine! 922 01:14:10,404 --> 01:14:11,997 (SHEBA) He's not my boyfriend. 923 01:14:12,239 --> 01:14:14,913 (POLLY) You slept with a child! 924 01:14:17,119 --> 01:14:21,090 Oh, Jesus wept! The spectre at the feast. 925 01:14:21,165 --> 01:14:25,511 - You watch your tongue, madam. - Frigging freak! 926 01:14:28,214 --> 01:14:30,683 Oh, there, there. 927 01:14:33,803 --> 01:14:35,897 Thanks for coming. 928 01:14:37,306 --> 01:14:39,900 I'm so sorry about school. 929 01:14:42,687 --> 01:14:45,281 Was he... Thank you. Was he awful to you? 930 01:14:52,947 --> 01:14:56,372 Listen, you could say no, I'd completely understand, 931 01:14:56,450 --> 01:14:58,703 but Richard... 932 01:14:59,829 --> 01:15:04,630 He needs some time alone. He's asked me to leave. 933 01:15:04,709 --> 01:15:08,759 Can I come and stay with you, just for a few days? 934 01:15:11,257 --> 01:15:13,760 You're welcome for as long as you like. 935 01:15:24,895 --> 01:15:27,865 (WOMAN) When's she coming out? 936 01:15:33,821 --> 01:15:36,119 Is Ben at school? 937 01:15:38,576 --> 01:15:40,624 Does he know what's happening? 938 01:15:41,370 --> 01:15:43,873 It's really none of your business. 939 01:15:44,498 --> 01:15:45,499 (FOOTSTEPS) 940 01:15:45,583 --> 01:15:48,211 (WOMAN) What about the kids? 941 01:16:10,191 --> 01:16:13,195 I knew who you were when we met. 942 01:16:14,487 --> 01:16:19,869 You were young, and I knew it might get tough but I was prepared. 943 01:16:22,036 --> 01:16:27,008 You're a good mother, but at times you've been a fucking lousy wife. 944 01:16:27,124 --> 01:16:29,297 Why didn't you come to me? 945 01:16:29,710 --> 01:16:32,680 You could have told me how lonely you were. 946 01:16:32,755 --> 01:16:35,224 You never trusted me to help you. 947 01:16:35,925 --> 01:16:41,147 I'm not saying I was so fucking fabulous, but I was here. 948 01:16:49,522 --> 01:16:51,524 (REPORTERS SHOUTING) 949 01:16:52,358 --> 01:16:55,202 (MAN) There she is! There she is! 950 01:16:58,531 --> 01:17:03,879 This last month has been the most delicious time of my life. 951 01:17:06,997 --> 01:17:10,217 Of course, we've had our ups and downs. 952 01:17:10,292 --> 01:17:15,799 The pressure is intense when two women share their lives. 953 01:17:15,881 --> 01:17:20,728 But, oh, what marvelous intensity it is! 954 01:17:26,225 --> 01:17:28,319 - (MAN) It's the crone! - (LAUGHTER) 955 01:17:28,394 --> 01:17:31,773 - Barbara! - (WOMAN) Barbara! Barbara! 956 01:17:33,065 --> 01:17:34,817 Is Sheba coming out? 957 01:17:38,070 --> 01:17:41,290 Circumstances are not always ideal. 958 01:17:43,325 --> 01:17:45,453 The swinish press, 959 01:17:45,536 --> 01:17:48,585 the stringent bail terms, 960 01:17:48,664 --> 01:17:51,383 meetings with lawyers and so on. 961 01:17:51,458 --> 01:17:55,759 But all things considered, we 're coping admirably. 962 01:17:56,630 --> 01:18:00,385 In fact, gold stars abundant. 963 01:18:02,178 --> 01:18:07,685 The cuckold permits her to see their children once a week. 964 01:18:07,933 --> 01:18:10,027 There are usually tears 965 01:18:10,102 --> 01:18:12,730 and fits of teenage tantrums, too. 966 01:18:14,356 --> 01:18:19,578 In time, she'll recognise she's just not the mothering kind, 967 01:18:19,653 --> 01:18:22,827 and then Barbara will be there to comfort her. 968 01:18:22,907 --> 01:18:26,252 Nurse, beloved friend, 969 01:18:26,327 --> 01:18:28,455 and wise counsel. 970 01:19:53,455 --> 01:19:55,128 (MAN) The crone returneth! 971 01:19:55,207 --> 01:19:56,800 (WOMAN) Were you pushed or did you jump? 972 01:19:56,875 --> 01:19:58,843 (MAN #2) If you jumped, was it into a dyke? 973 01:19:58,919 --> 01:20:01,593 Is Sheba alive? What have you done with her? 974 01:20:01,672 --> 01:20:05,472 (WOMAN #2) How's the family coping, Barbara? 975 01:20:05,718 --> 01:20:08,847 Barbara! Barbara! Barbara! 976 01:20:09,680 --> 01:20:11,774 Sheba? 977 01:20:23,736 --> 01:20:26,660 What you say about me, 978 01:20:27,698 --> 01:20:30,451 about Richard... 979 01:20:32,036 --> 01:20:34,960 You're not fit to shine his shoes. 980 01:20:36,373 --> 01:20:38,467 And Ben and 981 01:20:39,501 --> 01:20:40,878 Polly, 982 01:20:40,961 --> 01:20:43,840 that I'd be happier without them? 983 01:20:49,011 --> 01:20:51,685 Why did you do it? 984 01:20:51,764 --> 01:20:54,517 Because I didn't help you collect your cat? 985 01:20:54,767 --> 01:20:56,861 You've cost me my family! 986 01:20:56,935 --> 01:20:59,154 Take some responsibility! 987 01:20:59,229 --> 01:21:05,487 I gave you exactly what you wanted. You'd still be stuck in that marriage without me. 988 01:21:05,569 --> 01:21:07,492 - What? - You can't accept it yet... 989 01:21:07,571 --> 01:21:11,701 - You think I wanted to be here with you? - You need me! I'm your friend! 990 01:21:11,784 --> 01:21:14,708 You've put me in prison! I could get two years! 991 01:21:14,787 --> 01:21:20,089 They'll fly by. I'll visit you every week. We've so much life to live together. 992 01:21:20,167 --> 01:21:22,386 You think this is a love affair? 993 01:21:22,461 --> 01:21:24,338 A relationship? 994 01:21:24,421 --> 01:21:28,676 What, sticky gold stars and a strand of my hair? 995 01:21:28,759 --> 01:21:31,387 And a receipt from Pizza Express? 996 01:21:31,470 --> 01:21:33,347 It's a flat in the Archway Road 997 01:21:33,430 --> 01:21:35,728 and you think you're Virginia frigging Woolf! 998 01:21:35,808 --> 01:21:37,203 Where did you get my hair? 999 01:21:37,229 --> 01:21:40,179 Did you pluck it from the bath with fucking tweezers? 1000 01:21:40,229 --> 01:21:43,153 Don't you know it's rude to read a person's diary? 1001 01:21:43,232 --> 01:21:46,532 We're not companions. We're not friends. You don't like me! 1002 01:21:46,610 --> 01:21:51,161 That's not true. I only have tender feelings for you, only love! 1003 01:21:51,240 --> 01:21:53,914 You're barking, fucking mad. You don't know how to love. 1004 01:21:54,159 --> 01:21:58,335 You have never your whole life. Me, Jennifer Dodd... 1005 01:21:58,414 --> 01:22:01,714 You're nothing but waste and disappointment, 1006 01:22:01,792 --> 01:22:04,011 you bitter old virgin! 1007 01:22:04,086 --> 01:22:08,808 You're lonely for a reason. They loathed you at school, all of them. 1008 01:22:08,882 --> 01:22:13,137 I was the idiot who bothered, but only because no one told me you're a vampire! 1009 01:22:13,220 --> 01:22:16,599 So what is it, Bar? You wanna roll around the floor like lovers? 1010 01:22:16,682 --> 01:22:19,777 - You wanna fuck me? - Please don't diminish our... 1011 01:22:19,852 --> 01:22:22,822 - Our what? What? - No! Give it back. 1012 01:22:22,896 --> 01:22:28,027 I... I know you. Selfish and vain, you think you have a divine right. 1013 01:22:28,110 --> 01:22:32,035 You don't belong in the world, you belong here! You big baby! 1014 01:22:32,197 --> 01:22:34,199 (REPORTERS SHOUTING) 1015 01:22:35,534 --> 01:22:38,162 Here I am! 1016 01:22:40,747 --> 01:22:43,751 Here I am! 1017 01:23:25,083 --> 01:23:29,088 We never invited you to the fucking Dordogne. 1018 01:23:30,756 --> 01:23:35,353 I'm sorry, but you specifically said if I happened to be in France I should drop in. 1019 01:23:35,552 --> 01:23:37,771 We didn't mean it. 1020 01:23:39,014 --> 01:23:41,108 Well, fine. 1021 01:23:42,726 --> 01:23:44,979 I won't come, then. 1022 01:23:46,438 --> 01:23:49,282 I asked you to lunch because I liked you. 1023 01:23:50,400 --> 01:23:53,028 I would have been your friend. 1024 01:24:00,869 --> 01:24:03,122 I need more than a friend. 1025 01:26:21,385 --> 01:26:23,137 (BARBARA) I knew her. 1026 01:26:23,387 --> 01:26:25,435 Sorry? 1027 01:26:25,639 --> 01:26:28,142 - I knew her. - Really? 1028 01:26:28,392 --> 01:26:29,735 Mm. 1029 01:26:29,976 --> 01:26:33,321 - We taught at the same school. - God. 1030 01:26:33,772 --> 01:26:36,116 What was she like? 1031 01:26:36,733 --> 01:26:38,610 A bit 1032 01:26:39,194 --> 01:26:40,946 chilly. 1033 01:26:42,239 --> 01:26:44,458 A touch furtive. 1034 01:26:46,618 --> 01:26:49,041 A sort of absent person. 1035 01:26:50,789 --> 01:26:53,713 Oh, but I didn't know her well. May I? 1036 01:26:53,792 --> 01:26:55,886 Mm-hm. 1037 01:27:01,758 --> 01:27:04,181 - Do you still teach? - No, no. 1038 01:27:05,095 --> 01:27:07,189 Retired. 1039 01:27:08,265 --> 01:27:10,313 Thank goodness. 1040 01:27:11,935 --> 01:27:14,814 - You... - Oh. (LAUGHS) 1041 01:27:15,564 --> 01:27:18,488 - Here. - Thanks. 1042 01:27:24,364 --> 01:27:27,038 - I love it here. - Mm. 1043 01:27:27,117 --> 01:27:30,166 (BARBARA) It's spectacular at dusk. 1044 01:27:35,876 --> 01:27:37,753 I'm Barbara. 1045 01:27:44,634 --> 01:27:46,181 Annabel. 1046 01:27:51,016 --> 01:27:54,190 I wonder, Annabel, 1047 01:27:54,269 --> 01:27:56,613 - do you like music? - Oh, yes. 1048 01:27:56,688 --> 01:28:01,194 It's just that I've got tickets for Handel's Water Music at the Albert Hall 1049 01:28:01,276 --> 01:28:02,448 on Saturday night. 1050 01:28:02,527 --> 01:28:05,121 You could bring a friend if there's someone... 1051 01:28:05,363 --> 01:28:07,661 Oh, no. Oh, no. There isn't. 1052 01:28:07,741 --> 01:28:10,210 (BARBARA) Well, there we are.