1 00:00:10,021 --> 00:00:12,021 WORKOUT MUSIC 2 00:00:12,061 --> 00:00:14,061 SKIPPING ROPE THWACKS 3 00:00:16,741 --> 00:00:18,101 Mike? 4 00:00:18,141 --> 00:00:19,701 119, 120... 5 00:00:19,741 --> 00:00:21,501 Yes? Oh! 6 00:00:22,501 --> 00:00:23,741 Rochelle. 7 00:00:28,101 --> 00:00:29,181 How are you? 8 00:00:29,221 --> 00:00:31,301 How am I? How do you think I am? I'm dreadful. 9 00:00:31,341 --> 00:00:34,381 The OCD's back. I'm obsessing. 10 00:00:36,541 --> 00:00:40,461 I'm fine. I'm not fine. I mean, nobody is, are they? 11 00:00:40,501 --> 00:00:42,141 But, you know, I haven't lost a leg. 12 00:00:42,181 --> 00:00:43,941 Not yet. 13 00:00:43,981 --> 00:00:45,261 How are you? 14 00:00:46,581 --> 00:00:48,621 I'm good. Yeah. 15 00:00:48,661 --> 00:00:50,861 I'm good, thank you. 16 00:00:54,261 --> 00:00:55,341 So, where are you? 17 00:00:55,381 --> 00:00:56,981 I'm in Bristol. 18 00:00:57,021 --> 00:00:59,701 Bristol? Exactly! That's why I had to talk! 19 00:00:59,741 --> 00:01:00,941 I'm isolated. 20 00:01:00,981 --> 00:01:03,901 No, everyone's isolated, I know, but I'm more than isolated. 21 00:01:03,941 --> 00:01:06,581 I'm... I'm... I'm marooned, darling. 22 00:01:06,621 --> 00:01:08,941 So, what are you doing there? Touring. A new play. 23 00:01:08,981 --> 00:01:11,541 We were waiting to see how we were going to carry on 24 00:01:11,581 --> 00:01:14,421 and then when we did get the "abandon ship", 25 00:01:14,461 --> 00:01:17,861 I was thinking about the train, you know, back. 26 00:01:17,901 --> 00:01:19,061 It's all, you know... 27 00:01:19,101 --> 00:01:21,101 Christ, it's like sitting in a petri dish 28 00:01:21,141 --> 00:01:22,581 at the best of times isn't it? 29 00:01:22,621 --> 00:01:24,541 And it's two hours of that back to London! 30 00:01:24,581 --> 00:01:27,461 And then I was just thinking about the masks, everyone with the masks 31 00:01:27,501 --> 00:01:29,821 and that's a trigger, isn't it? You know that's a trigger. 32 00:01:29,861 --> 00:01:33,141 So I just waited. I waited and I hesitated and I just... 33 00:01:33,181 --> 00:01:34,941 Oh, I missed my window. 34 00:01:34,981 --> 00:01:37,461 I'm sorry. Have we started? I feel like I'm starting already. 35 00:01:38,501 --> 00:01:40,461 Sure. If that's what you wanna do. 36 00:01:40,501 --> 00:01:42,901 Well, is it still one ten? 37 00:01:44,181 --> 00:01:46,221 Still 110? 38 00:01:46,261 --> 00:01:48,821 Cos I'm just thinking, you're not paying the rental 39 00:01:48,861 --> 00:01:50,581 on the consulting suite, are you? 40 00:01:50,621 --> 00:01:53,701 So, I was wondering if this would be... mate's rates? 41 00:01:53,741 --> 00:01:55,861 Mates rates are for chat, therapy's 110. 42 00:01:56,861 --> 00:02:00,661 Thoroughly fine. Completely fine. I am just glad that we can... 43 00:02:02,701 --> 00:02:04,301 So, what do you wanna talk about? 44 00:02:06,621 --> 00:02:07,741 Are you serious? 45 00:02:08,781 --> 00:02:10,981 Last time we spoke, you seemed to be all right. 46 00:02:11,021 --> 00:02:14,541 Yes, and then the plague made an unexpected and unwelcome return! 47 00:02:14,581 --> 00:02:17,261 Christ, Rochelle! OK, OK, but what is it exactly? 48 00:02:17,301 --> 00:02:18,301 What is it exactly? 49 00:02:18,341 --> 00:02:21,301 Exactly, I think I'm going to get it and I'm going to die. 50 00:02:21,341 --> 00:02:24,621 Obviously. I mean, it's not coded, is it? 51 00:02:24,661 --> 00:02:27,181 Come on. You don't have to break down my subconscious 52 00:02:27,221 --> 00:02:29,021 or interpret my dreams. 53 00:02:29,061 --> 00:02:30,901 It's not a rare form of scrofula. 54 00:02:30,941 --> 00:02:32,581 The whole world's getting it, Rochelle. 55 00:02:32,621 --> 00:02:36,861 I'm not holding out for a burst of tertiary syphilis here! 56 00:02:37,981 --> 00:02:40,381 I have a feeling... No, it's more than a feeling, 57 00:02:40,421 --> 00:02:42,981 it's a conviction that it's gonna... 58 00:02:43,021 --> 00:02:46,461 OK, feel your feet on the floor. Stay grounded. 59 00:02:46,501 --> 00:02:49,941 I'm literally lightheaded... You're OK. You're all right. 60 00:02:49,981 --> 00:02:52,261 Take your time. It's fine. It's fine. 61 00:02:52,301 --> 00:02:54,461 Oh! Are you doing anything physical? 62 00:02:54,501 --> 00:02:58,861 Yes. Yes. I was just doing a session right now. 63 00:02:58,901 --> 00:03:00,301 What's that? 64 00:03:01,581 --> 00:03:04,621 It's a washing line. I'm skipping. A washing line? 65 00:03:04,661 --> 00:03:07,701 Have you tried buying anything exercise-related online lately? 66 00:03:07,741 --> 00:03:09,741 Don't bother! I don't just mean the cheap stuff. 67 00:03:09,781 --> 00:03:13,701 Six grand rowing machine, back in stock, December 2025. 68 00:03:13,741 --> 00:03:16,981 Selfish bastards. You know, I'm sure we're all strung out. 69 00:03:17,021 --> 00:03:19,341 Stop it! Don't you dare. You're a psychiatrist. 70 00:03:19,381 --> 00:03:20,821 You're not allowed to be strung out. 71 00:03:20,861 --> 00:03:23,781 The skipping, do you do it outside for Vitamin D? 72 00:03:23,821 --> 00:03:26,221 No, Rochelle, no. Are you insane? 73 00:03:26,261 --> 00:03:30,501 Tell me why you think that you in particular are gonna... 74 00:03:30,541 --> 00:03:32,501 It's a pandemic! 75 00:03:32,541 --> 00:03:35,661 You're catastrophising, Mike. Don't you dare. 76 00:03:35,701 --> 00:03:37,941 Bollocks! Bollocks! 77 00:03:37,981 --> 00:03:39,301 OK? Bollocks! 78 00:03:39,341 --> 00:03:41,461 I'm paying £110 for this?! 79 00:03:41,501 --> 00:03:44,501 I look out that window and the Zombie Apocalypse is happening. 80 00:03:44,541 --> 00:03:46,821 I'm not imagining it, it's happening. 81 00:03:46,861 --> 00:03:50,541 So, don't sit there and tell me that this is all work-related, OK? 82 00:03:50,581 --> 00:03:52,541 That I'm just going off the deep end, 83 00:03:52,581 --> 00:03:55,301 because I've lived a lifetime in the theatre surrounded by lovies. 84 00:03:55,341 --> 00:04:00,421 Like it's me who's picked up some emotional form of RSI or something! 85 00:04:00,461 --> 00:04:01,901 Right. 86 00:04:06,221 --> 00:04:09,021 That's good. Got it all out there. 87 00:04:10,261 --> 00:04:11,941 Do you feel a bit better now? 88 00:04:11,981 --> 00:04:16,821 Worst-case scenario, you get it. 89 00:04:16,861 --> 00:04:19,181 Then what? Then I die, Rochelle. 90 00:04:19,221 --> 00:04:21,981 80% percent of people who get the virus 91 00:04:22,021 --> 00:04:25,181 recover with relatively few problems, 92 00:04:25,221 --> 00:04:27,381 and you are young. 93 00:04:27,421 --> 00:04:29,541 Yeah? You're fit. 94 00:04:29,581 --> 00:04:32,621 You could already have had it. You could have it now. 95 00:04:32,661 --> 00:04:34,141 Do I look ill? No, that's not what... 96 00:04:34,181 --> 00:04:35,781 No, literally, I do have a sore throat. 97 00:04:35,821 --> 00:04:37,261 And that's the thing, isn't it? 98 00:04:37,301 --> 00:04:39,581 You don't know, you can't tell. There's no tests! 99 00:04:39,621 --> 00:04:41,421 There's no kits. 100 00:04:42,701 --> 00:04:46,301 I mean, I say that, Idris got one, didn't he? 101 00:04:46,341 --> 00:04:49,581 Prince Charles, who co-incidentally, I notice, 102 00:04:49,621 --> 00:04:52,181 has been self-isolating with a skeleton staff of six. Mike... 103 00:04:52,221 --> 00:04:53,821 No, I'm just saying. I'm just saying. 104 00:04:53,861 --> 00:04:57,301 He's 72. And he'd been poorly. 105 00:04:57,341 --> 00:05:00,981 Oh, come on! Will you just listen to yourself? 106 00:05:01,021 --> 00:05:05,381 You are behaving in a way that you know is inappropriate. 107 00:05:05,421 --> 00:05:09,701 You know that it's fuelled by your hypochondria. 108 00:05:09,741 --> 00:05:10,901 Hmm. 109 00:05:10,941 --> 00:05:12,981 And are you finding distractions? 110 00:05:13,021 --> 00:05:16,941 Something to divert you that's relaxing? 111 00:05:19,581 --> 00:05:21,941 I'm masturbating. 112 00:05:21,981 --> 00:05:25,261 I think that's my main diversion, you know, in terms of... 113 00:05:25,301 --> 00:05:27,941 in terms of... relaxing. 114 00:05:27,981 --> 00:05:29,861 Or maybe that's actually more stress relief. 115 00:05:29,901 --> 00:05:32,221 Fine, whatever... Then again, when you think about it, 116 00:05:32,261 --> 00:05:34,541 where does one end and the other begin, really? 117 00:05:34,581 --> 00:05:36,021 Do you want to know how often? 118 00:05:36,061 --> 00:05:37,101 No. 119 00:05:37,141 --> 00:05:38,141 About four times a day. 120 00:05:38,181 --> 00:05:39,221 Four. 121 00:05:39,261 --> 00:05:40,701 A bit more on the weekends. 122 00:05:40,741 --> 00:05:42,141 You know, just to make it special. 123 00:05:45,621 --> 00:05:47,941 DOORBELL RINGS One second! 124 00:05:48,941 --> 00:05:50,421 Yo! 125 00:05:50,461 --> 00:05:52,101 POSTMAN: I've left it on the step, mate. 126 00:05:52,141 --> 00:05:55,101 Perfect. Thank you. Thank you for your service. 127 00:05:59,501 --> 00:06:01,221 Don't you want to go and get it? Hmm? 128 00:06:01,261 --> 00:06:04,461 No, no, no. I leave it for a little bit. 129 00:06:04,501 --> 00:06:06,701 Let the germs, you know... 130 00:06:06,741 --> 00:06:08,181 Then I Dettol it. 131 00:06:08,221 --> 00:06:11,661 Pop it in the fridge overnight just to get rid of any stragglers. 132 00:06:11,701 --> 00:06:14,221 Right, and that doesn't harm it? No, no. 133 00:06:14,261 --> 00:06:16,461 It's just hair gel anyway, so... 134 00:06:17,621 --> 00:06:21,141 Hair gel? Mm-hm, from Harrods, darling. 135 00:06:21,181 --> 00:06:22,621 Hair gel? 136 00:06:22,661 --> 00:06:25,581 Hair gel that has come all the way from London, 137 00:06:25,621 --> 00:06:27,461 that's been packed into a warehouse, 138 00:06:27,501 --> 00:06:29,061 and then put onto a delivery van, 139 00:06:29,101 --> 00:06:31,021 and then brought all the way to Bristol 140 00:06:31,061 --> 00:06:33,821 by a person who is working because they have to. 141 00:06:35,661 --> 00:06:37,301 For hair gel?! 142 00:06:37,341 --> 00:06:39,421 I have standards to maintain. 143 00:06:43,741 --> 00:06:45,941 SHE BREATHES DEEPLY 144 00:06:45,981 --> 00:06:48,701 SHE LAUGHS Are you OK there, Roche? 145 00:06:49,901 --> 00:06:51,701 You've gone a bit... You're rocking a bit. 146 00:06:53,181 --> 00:06:54,621 Argh! 147 00:06:58,821 --> 00:07:01,301 God, give me strength! 148 00:07:01,341 --> 00:07:03,101 Roche? 149 00:07:12,541 --> 00:07:18,021 You have got no shame. You have literally got no shame. 150 00:07:26,741 --> 00:07:28,741 Do you even know what day it is? 151 00:07:29,941 --> 00:07:31,501 Hmm? Do you? 152 00:07:31,541 --> 00:07:37,261 When you have phoned me, and begged me for a session. 153 00:07:37,301 --> 00:07:39,941 You have pleaded with me because you didn't think 154 00:07:39,981 --> 00:07:42,221 that you could get to the end of the day otherwise. 155 00:07:42,261 --> 00:07:43,981 Do you know what day it is? 156 00:07:45,141 --> 00:07:47,141 It's Saturday. 157 00:07:54,701 --> 00:07:57,021 It's Easter Saturday. It's Karen's anniversary. 158 00:07:58,021 --> 00:07:59,061 Yeah. 159 00:08:05,381 --> 00:08:07,901 Oh, Roche. I don't know what to say. 160 00:08:10,981 --> 00:08:12,261 I'm so sorry. 161 00:08:13,301 --> 00:08:16,021 Rochelle, I'm sorry. 162 00:08:16,061 --> 00:08:17,701 I'm so sorry for everything. 163 00:08:20,661 --> 00:08:24,421 I do know how I am. I don't not notice, OK? 164 00:08:26,261 --> 00:08:29,981 Maybe I just don't have the balls to get on with it. 165 00:08:30,021 --> 00:08:33,181 The nurses and the doctors, or the shopkeepers, 166 00:08:33,221 --> 00:08:35,621 the delivery men, you're right, you're absolutely right. 167 00:08:35,661 --> 00:08:37,581 The coppers, you. People are being amazing. 168 00:08:37,621 --> 00:08:39,181 They're stepping up and they're... 169 00:08:41,701 --> 00:08:43,181 I'm vile. 170 00:08:44,421 --> 00:08:47,181 It is me, I know. I do realise that. 171 00:08:47,221 --> 00:08:48,981 That doesn't excuse anything, 172 00:08:49,021 --> 00:08:52,341 it doesn't excuse forgetting about you losing Karen. 173 00:08:52,381 --> 00:08:55,221 I am sorry about that. I need you to forgive me that one. 174 00:08:58,821 --> 00:09:01,461 I don't want you to feel shit, 175 00:09:01,501 --> 00:09:04,941 shitter about yourself than you already do, 176 00:09:04,981 --> 00:09:10,581 I just want you to appreciate that we're all suffering. 177 00:09:10,621 --> 00:09:12,141 Everyone is raw, 178 00:09:12,181 --> 00:09:16,021 because we're not filtering things the way that we normally do. 179 00:09:16,061 --> 00:09:21,021 So all that other shit that's going on anyway, 180 00:09:21,061 --> 00:09:23,261 that's got nothing to do with this bloody virus, 181 00:09:23,301 --> 00:09:25,301 all of that stuff, it gets erm... 182 00:09:26,621 --> 00:09:30,781 It gets compressed and then it gets supercharged 183 00:09:30,821 --> 00:09:32,981 and it... 184 00:09:35,141 --> 00:09:37,221 I'm so sorry. 185 00:09:41,461 --> 00:09:43,661 I'm so sorry. I keep doing this. 186 00:09:44,821 --> 00:09:47,661 I wasn't expecting it. You know, I'm a professional. 187 00:09:47,701 --> 00:09:50,461 I can deal with emotions normally. 188 00:09:53,421 --> 00:09:55,501 It's not normal times now, though, is it? 189 00:09:58,101 --> 00:10:00,101 Of course, I forgive you. 190 00:10:03,221 --> 00:10:05,261 I am such a wanker. 191 00:10:05,301 --> 00:10:06,501 Yes. 192 00:10:06,541 --> 00:10:09,141 Yes, you are, as we have both discovered. 193 00:10:09,181 --> 00:10:10,661 But do you know what? 194 00:10:12,661 --> 00:10:14,581 You're going to be OK. 195 00:10:16,421 --> 00:10:18,421 So are you, I promise. 196 00:10:26,661 --> 00:10:28,941 Now... 197 00:10:28,981 --> 00:10:30,701 do you wanna have a little dance with me? 198 00:10:31,781 --> 00:10:33,101 What? 199 00:10:35,261 --> 00:10:37,661 There's this app that I've been... 200 00:10:37,701 --> 00:10:38,741 Tik Tok. 201 00:10:38,781 --> 00:10:41,221 It's probably the only thing that is really distracting me. 202 00:10:41,261 --> 00:10:43,541 Outside of the erm... Yeah, don't. 203 00:10:43,581 --> 00:10:45,501 So, which one are you doing? 204 00:10:45,541 --> 00:10:47,861 Are you doing the Wayne and Frankie or the Justin Bieber? 205 00:10:47,901 --> 00:10:51,581 What?! There's this really brilliant Lizzo one. 206 00:10:51,621 --> 00:10:53,741 Oh! Or there's a cracking Gordon Ramsey. 207 00:10:53,781 --> 00:10:56,141 Come on, then. Roche? Yeah? 208 00:10:57,301 --> 00:11:00,381 Will you call me tomorrow, just for a chat? 209 00:11:01,661 --> 00:11:04,061 Yeah. Yeah, I will. 210 00:11:04,101 --> 00:11:06,101 MUSIC: 'Celebration' by Kool & The Gang 211 00:11:09,181 --> 00:11:10,781 Come on! 212 00:11:13,461 --> 00:11:15,981 Ooh, great move. 213 00:11:16,021 --> 00:11:18,021 Subtitles by ITV SignPost