[dog barks]
[TV presenter] If only I had the money.
Money is the biggest obstacle on the way to personal freedom.
If you can sort that one out, you are laughing.
Now, I've found 30 people nuts enough to do something seriously bizarre.
We're gonna take money on at its own game.
And we're gonna win.
Thirty grown men and women gave up their jobs and homes for a year
to be in a reality TV show that doesn't exist.
Why you do that?
[audience laughter]
People sacrificed jobs, careers.
People's dreams, that's like sacred that you're fucking with.
[woman] I remember John, he was saying,
"I'm gonna go in there, I'm gonna kill that Nik.
I'm gonna kill him."
[Richard Madeley] What was in it for him?
Was it access to your bank accounts? Was he just on a power trip?
We never learned the why behind all of this.
I'd love to know what his real name is.
[interviewer] How long has it been since you've seen Nik?
Twenty years.
At least, yeah.
[man on tape recording] I never meant to do anybody any harm.
[man's voice] And he vanished.
He... disappeared, and we never saw him again.
Where is he?
["A Summer Place" by Andy Williams plays]
♪ There's a summer place ♪
♪ Where it may rain ♪
[laughing] My God.
♪ Yet I'm safe and warm For within ♪
Oh, my God.
♪ That summer place ♪
♪ Your arms reach out to me ♪
This is so weird.
♪ And my heart is free ♪
It is just like my head is going a bit, you know...
♪ For it knows ♪
♪ There are no gloomy skies ♪
[Daniel chuckling] This is like taking a massive step back in time.
[laughs]
Oh, my God.
Blockbuster used to be a thing. [laughs]
How do you get these things? Who keeps them?
♪ And the sweet secret of ♪
♪ A summer place ♪
♪ Is that it's anywhere ♪
This is what I wanna do. I wanna... learn how to be a cameraman.
[exhales]
Have you any idea how this feels? It's just like...
It feels like I'm back there.
[all scream and cheer]
[slowly] Ah-ha-ha!
[Tim] One of the best things I ever did... was carry on filming.
Woo! Yeah!
[cheers]
I think things are really gonna turn out all right.
[singing] See you soon.
[voices chatter in the background]
Um...
I guess it... I think it... I think it is a salient tale, you know.
That, um...
provokes a lot of feelings in anybody.
That we, um...
we want something, we want... we want to escape.
And, um...
Or we want to... escape from our present reality
and journey towards a better... a better future for ourselves.
[Jane] In 2002, I was living with my mum and dad at home outside of Manchester.
You know, when you're living back at home, you've got your day-to-day life routine.
-I was 21. -[text tone beeps]
Doing a typical 9-5 kind of job.
Going to work, coming home.
Going out with friends, go for a drink.
[clubbers chatter]
[Jane] My dad was, like, "Where are you going?"
"What time are you gonna be back?"
"Where are you?" "I'll come and pick you up."
Driving up against the kerb
and you having to, like, pretend that you don't know him,
because you're embarrassed, because your dad's come to pick you up.
I was daddy's little girl.
He loved me so much.
He kind of wanted me to be happy all the time.
He never wanted me to feel like I'd failed at anything, or be disappointed.
That was me.
Every day, it's like, going round and round and round.
Same thing, over and over and over again.
[Tim] Looking back now, I understand that...
I was probably a bit bored. A bit frustrated.
I wrote five plays.
[typewriter clacking]
I didn't become a successful playwright.
[typewriter dings]
Then I found...
Clown.
[canned laughter]
And I found Clown said everything I wanted to say.
Clown said, "We're all idiots.
I'm an idiot, you're an idiot, we're all idiots.
Let's try and enjoy ourselves nonetheless."
[clown horn honks]
Skinny Bean is my clown. He's, um...
We've just celebrated 30 years.
[interviewer] Can you tell me about Skinny Bean? What's he like?
Oh, he's very rude.
[dog barks]
[interviewer] Is Skinny Bean similar to Tim?
Oh, yeah.
Skinny Bean is Tim.
Unleashed.
-[kiss] -[canned laughter]
[Tim] I like to provoke a little bit, and, um...
I was always wanting to... just be free to do my own thing, really.
Well, 2002.
I was 37.
I'd been clowning for about 10 years...
-[down slide-whistle] -[boing]
...and wanted something more.
I could see that it doesn't lead anywhere.
And that's one of the things about clowning or entertaining.
There's no management structure.
[horn honks]
[tannoy announcement]
[phone rings]
[Rosy] 2002, I temped in Canary Wharf.
Doing the same job every day.
You start the monotony and when you start monotony,
life's not exciting.
Complete boredom.
It's after a while when you can sort of do your job...
with your eyes shut.
[Lucie] I was on the lookout.
For something.
There was something that was missing.
At the time, I wasn't that young. I was in my 30s.
I was a carpet designer.
Also making presentations on carpets to architects.
I had to talk for an hour about carpets.
[Lucie presenting] Specification. Texture. Patterns.
Materials. Orders. Composition.
I would watch the faces, kind of, and the people go... eurgh.
Colour. Design. Durability.
Ornamentation. Maintenance.
I always used to think, right, how can I make this fun?
I would think about my style of presenting.
I would think about what I was saying, how I was putting things.
Um, and I just became sort of interested in the art of presenting.
[director] So we're turning over.
And into the lens, please. Lovely, thank you.
Hi there. My name's Lucie Maycock and I want to be a TV presenter
because it makes me feel wildly excited
and anything that makes me feel like that must be a good thing.
[director] Okay.
Not very natural, is it?
[director] Uh, no, it's all right.
I shouldn't be making it obvious that I haven't done it before.
I did really want to be a presenter.
I was attracted to one of these little courses that you can do.
Detectives are beginning to rely more and more on clairvoyance
to help solve these murders.
I wanted to take what I was doing, give it a boost, and make it more fun.
-Hi, can I ask you a quick question? -Yeah.
What do you think about men in makeup?
Can't stand it.
[Lucie] Around the millennium, I think a lot of people had hopes
for things to be better, be bigger.
["Right Here, Right Now" by Fatboy Slim plays]
[interviewer] Eight hours left of the 20th century.
I wanna get drunk. I wanna have lots of fun.
[bagpipes wail]
[excitedly] Waa...
-[whistle blows] -[whistles jingle]
I'm feelin' not too bad, you know.
I'm hoping for a nice next thousand years, you know.
I hope it's better than the last one.
[screams]
I was innocent. I knew nothing, I...
I was naive, in fact.
[cheers]
[whistle blows]
[jeers]
I'd just moved to the UK so everything was new to me.
It was a brand new life.
In one of the most exciting cities in the world.
And it feels good to be in London for it as well.
I'm ready, I'm ready. I'm more than ready.
♪ Right here, right now ♪
I was a 23-year-old stranger living in London
having no clue how things worked.
♪ Right here, right now Right here, right now ♪
[song drops]
[Daniel] Totally different person.
A lot less responsible, a lot more spontaneous.
It was different back then. The UK was different.
You're led to believe that you can do anything.
Everything was possible.
You felt a sense of invincibility.
I think we're getting better and better.
Three lions are coming back.
A lot happened in a very short space of time.
A lot of change happened.
[cheers]
Television was changing.
Reality TV starting.
This whole psychological thing of watching people behave like idiots on TV. [laughs]
[news anchor] Nineteen minutes to 7.
A very good morning to you if you're just joining us.
Now then, how would you feel if your every move at home
was watched by millions of people?
Well, the contestants in Channel 4's new television and web series
called Big Brother,
have volunteered to be under the microscope
every day, 24 hours-a-day.
Sally Eden is at the compound where they'll be living.
Sally, good morning to you. Tell us more.
Good morning to you, John.
Yes, we're at the secret location in East London
where these people are locked up in this particular house.
Well, before all this happened, this reality TV,
you would sat at home, like watching TV,
but not actually getting past the screen, or into that, you know, that TV box.
There are 10 strangers who have never met each other
who were selected from 40,000 applicants.
You'd had fly-on-the-wall documentaries before and things like that, but this was...
This felt live.
And you can watch it 24 hours a day on the Internet.
[Daniel] Everyone loved Big Brother.
I got into it and I don't watch much television,
but I was hooked on it.
Come, Margery.
Margery. This way.
[hen clucks]
[Daniel] It's something addictive, looking at a group of people.
Some of them have no talent whatsoever, they're just Average Joe like you.
The problem with Darren, he's a bit... [whistles]
[Big Brother voiceover] Day 35.
The meeting is called.
You're plotting a very dirty plan on everybody in here.
What's your game, what are you playing at?
Craig, you've made a number of wild accusations.
[Rosy] People started to discuss it by the water cooler, in the pub.
And also the newspapers spun everything.
So you couldn't escape, it just became a topic
that you had to engage in to be part of society.
The reason you can't walk out is...
It's gonna be hell for you out there.
It's on national TV.
[Tim] And suddenly you had people looking directly at the camera...
I've made a mistake.
[Tim] ...and revealing themselves.
[Rosy] You either love them or you hate them.
And then you get invested in characters.
[Davina McCall] The winner of Big Brother is...
-Craig. -[screams]
-[fireworks, screams] -[Big Brother music plays]
Enjoy the rest of your life.
[Jane] TV offers fame, and experience,
and, you know, money.
To have that world open to you.
That is amazing.
That you could have the opportunity to be on a TV show.
Woo-hoo-hoo-hoo!
Reality television wasn't poo-pooed like this low form
that it might be seen as today.
[Daniel] It made you feel special, and who doesn't like to feel special?
[cameraman] Can you see what it is yet?
[Tim] For me, particularly,
it was about these cameras.
[cameraman] Looks like a PD100 to me.
[Tim] I was walking around looking at this shop which sold these cameras,
and in that shop, I found my little DV camera.
I said to the guy, "Oh, what's that?" He said, "Oh, that's a bargain."
"That's only £450."
And I bought it that same day.
[Tim on camera] Wow. Hey.
Got some kit here. Some really good kit.
I'm Tim Eagle, and I'm 37 years old,
and most of the time, I'm a clown.
But right now, I've also become a digital video producer.
There it was in our hands.
Digital video revolution.
Grasping the opportunity to work in a brand new medium.
I'm a novice when it comes to making videos
and using a camera, using the equipment
but I... I need a challenge.
There was part of my which was unhappy.
It was a good life. But there was still something missing.
-[loud bang] -Oh, fuck.
Pfft. Wow, I've just locked myself out.
Ah, dear.
I wanted something more.
And I launched myself at it with all my enthusiasm.
This would lift me out of this world.
And I would be in that new world. Whatever that is.
But I would be an infinitely better person for it.
It's all about the money.
Money is the biggest obstacle
on the way to personal freedom.
If you can sort that one out, you are laughing.
It's not the 9-5 thing. That's not viable at all.
It's not even that secure.
[text tone beeps]
What if somebody could offer you a way out of that.
[John] Every day was more or less the same.
I was bored a lot.
I think I was looking for an adventure.
Okay.
Oh, right.
This flyer...
is the thing that I was handed on the Millennium Bridge.
[Tim] It was a Thursday.
Gone and bought The Stage.
Reading through. Always starting at the back of The Stage.
Looking at the classifieds.
God, it's tiny. I found it though.
This is what I saw, this was the beginning for me.
"Want to raise your profile?
New Reality TV show seeks contestants."
[John] It was a very simple flyer.
I think it was "Take part in Reality TV show."
"£100,000 for a year."
Oh, "camera operator wanted."
Hmm.
"Big money job." Hmm.
"Plenty of style and a taste for the bizarre
more important than experience."
"Plenty of style and a taste for the bizarre"?
[Tim] Fantastic.
"More important than experience"? Even better.
Urgh. Urgh. Come on.
It was pretty mysterious.
It was just one of those synchronistic happenings of
see the camera, see the advert,
tingle up the back of my spine,
what's going on?
You ever feel like that, you know,
the sniff of an opportunity comes and you kind of feel it in your bones.
[Jane] This one email came through, which was,
"If you're up for a challenge and you want to win £100,000,
then... apply."
You had to write everything about yourself.
[laughing] I wrote a big yellow smiley face.
[laughing] "This is me." Something like that.
I just thought, you know, my life would change forever.
I could leave home, have my own place.
[haunted fairground music plays]
[interviewer] What was it about the advert that appealed to you?
Hundred thousand pounds.
[belly laughs] I'm not lying.
[computer crashes]
[children cheer]
It was £100,000.
I'd have paid my student loan,
gone back home, I'd have built a house,
and all I had to do was sacrifice a year.
[Tim] This is it. I've gotta apply for this now.
That made me open up my email.
Brand new email. What's this? You know.
[fairground music continues]
I sent them this pithy little message.
It was just one of those punts.
Have a little go, email that, see what happens.
I'm Tim Eagle.
I'm 37.
And for the last 10 years, I've been a clown.
A character created for the corporate entertainment world.
They wanted me to make a little short about me.
As my application.
A year on tour with the Mr. Men Show
or nine months on a plastic bed at Butlins.
I mean, I know I'd commit to a creative project and see it through.
I'm... I'm... Really I'm your man.
Get me on the case.
[reporter] The queue started in the early hours
and soon grew to be well over a thousand strong,
would-be members of a girl band and boy band to be selected on TV.
To be famous is the best thing in life really.
[Lucie] What was happening on TV, we were all wanting to be part of that.
It was there for the taking.
[reporter] Auditions by invitation have been going on all week.
Imagine the judges naked, that'll take the nerves off.
-There you go. -[laughter]
[reporter] At the moment, TV schedulers can't get enough of reality game shows.
[male reporter] Girls Aloud didn't exist just a few weeks ago.
[Tim] There's something about the television.
Seems to symbolise to me some kind of uplift from what I presently have.
[photographer] Can you give us a "cheers", Will?
[Tim] The wannabe class.
Isn't everybody in the wannabe class?
[Daniel] You know, things like this don't happen to the average man.
There are so few people that ever get a second on television.
And here was an opportunity where you get to have cameras
focussed on you for an entire year.
[email tone dings]
[Jane] The email came through. I'd been accepted for the audition.
And I thought, "Wow."
[Tim] I got an email back from them.
Nikita Russian Productions.
NRP.
I thought, "Is it a girl?"
[loud orchestral music]
Nikita, what kind of a name was that?
Nikita Russian.
I thought it was a very bizarre name.
Beyond that, I didn't know anything.
Along with the email came... the map.
Marked with the cross.
It allowed us to have our imagination run wild.
[Lucie] It was quite a beautiful place to go to.
I can just remember...
you would have to go on a boat to get to this venue that was on an island.
Yeah, it's a fucking island and there's, like, some form of...
cricket pavilion, or something like that, on it.
It almost looked like some sort of white palace.
Words can't describe it.
[gentle waves and birdsong]
[John] For a 22-year-old, going, right,
we've got this... special place, a private island.
It really sort of sold it.
It felt as if it was a big deal.
There are people everywhere.
Hundreds of people I saw on that one day auditioning for this.
[Jane] Turn up at this venue.
Suddenly, we're in this room, which is like,
it was a wooden floor, I remember,
and there was, like, pillars around the room.
[ominous orchestral music]
[Tim] I started to meet some of the team.
I met Nikita.
[John] When you found out Nikita Russian was an actual person,
I think we were at the stage in the process when you thought,
"I don't know anything about people in TV.
So maybe there are mad people out there called Nikita Russian
and this is quite a normal thing."
[Daniel] He's one of those people that stand out in a crowd.
Nik is six... He's probably six foot six.
He... he's a very handsome man. He's... he's impressive.
[ominous music intensifies]
[Lucie] He had this long hair.
I'd probably imagine him being in a film or something.
He was walking around in a certain way.
He looked like he had, like, a million things going on in his head.
He was just flouncing around, you know,
with his hair billowing behind him.
[John] He was there.
And then he wasn't there.
And then he'd suddenly reappear, this sort of ethereal thing,
this tall, foppish figure behind you.
Then the minute you had a question to ask,
you'd look around again,
then he kind of just disappeared,
and then you'd sort of see him...
through a doorway.
[Lucie] We still didn't know what the show was about.
There was all this talk about it being commissioned by Channel 4.
It was gonna be the next big thing, but bigger.
We'd seen enough reality TV shows, I think by that time to understand that...
maybe there would be a winner.
[Jane] I remember thinking,
"That's the guy that might pick me for this show."
Nik Russian that day, the games he had were engineered to challenge you.
You were in sort of small groups and you had to fall backwards.
They'd catch you.
I found that hard.
[orchestral music comes to a head]
All his ideas were about building trust really quickly.
The challenge where you had to split into groups
and you had to go off and make this cake.
Now we had no money.
We didn't have any ingredients.
And we started traipsing around the streets,
going and knocking on people's doors,
and asking them for an egg.
[doorbell rings]
[dog yapping]
Lady opens the door.
"Hello, could we borrow an egg?"
And I'm there with my camera, looking at her.
And the lady goes, "Ooh, all right then."
This lady gave us all the ingredients that we needed
and let them bake a cake in her oven.
And we baked this cake, brought it back to the island,
presented it to Nikita, and, um...
then we ate it.
I felt that was quite a beautiful thing.
Here we are, us humans, knocking on strangers' doors,
winning them over.
To give Nikita his credit,
I think he believed that he could send teams of people out into the world,
they could ask for help from strangers,
and get it.
[Jane] Ah, I got home, I was on a high.
[laughs] I couldn't stop telling my mum about it.
She was just saying, "Right, go on tell me."
She'd come in my room, and she'd, like, sit on the bed.
I'd say, "All right, I think they're gonna pick me."
I said that to me dad, and he just said,
"Well, just, you know, let's wait and see."
[00s Nokia ringtone]
[Tim] I was coming back from another job.
My phone rang.
And they said, "Yes, we'd love you to be involved in our project.
You know, come on this adventure with us."
And I said, "What!"
"That's it, I've got it, I've got it. This is my big break. It's come."
Fantastic, you know.
"I'm off for a year and I'm gonna make £100,000.
I'll see ya then."
[Daniel] Yeah, it was very exciting to be one of the lucky 30.
"We think there's something perhaps a bit special about this.
Perhaps there's something a bit special about you."
A bit of destiny, perhaps.
I just thought, "£100,000.
Wow!" [laughs]
[Lucie] Got an email inviting me to London again for a second audition.
Nik Russian was looking for a co-presenter.
I was, like, "Really?"
And then when he invited me to take on the role as co-presenter on the show,
it was a, "I can't believe this is happening."
It's the kinda thing that blows your mind.
I was thinking, "Well, you know what, good things do happen.
Amazing things do happen."
I had a good job, which provided me with a good wage.
I handed in my notice and everybody was quite shocked.
They were, like, "Come on, you can tell me.
It's Big Brother, isn't it?"
And I said, "It's something I can't really talk about.
But you'll find out in good time."
[email tone dings]
[Jane] I got an email.
"You haven't been picked to join the team."
And my dad, he didn't want me to be a failure.
To go to my dad and say I didn't get in, after all that.
That was hard. That was really hard.
[interviewer] What were you expecting from the launch of this reality TV show?
Fanfare.
[crowd cheers]
-[contestant screams] -[presenter laughs]
Perhaps some sort of, you know, drinks going around.
[presenter] There's Jade.
[John] I think everybody was using this to try and become someone else.
That fantasy.
-This is Alison. -I'm Alison.
-How you doin'? -Hello, Nigel.
-What's your name? -TJ.
What?
[Daniel] This wonderful opportunity to be famous and to be loved,
be like the other people that you saw on television.
Hello! [laughs]
I'm Jade!
[Jane] When I got turned down from the audition,
it shattered my hopes and dreams.
[email alert tone]
But then an email pops up.
"Following your audition,
one of the contestants has dropped out.
We would like to offer you... the part."
[laughs]
[uplifting orchestral music begins]
I was just, like, "Dad! Mum!"
I said, "That show! That show!"
She said, "What about it?" I said, "I'm gonna be in it!"
She said, "When?" I said, "Um, in about a day."
[orchestral music builds]
I felt like I'd lifted 10 feet off the floor.
Just like, everything that I questioned about myself
I'm not good enough, or you didn't pick me because I'm too tall or too small.
It was, like, all of a sudden,
my dream is actually happening, this is all coming true.
I knew it was going to be televised
so the whole world would get to share in your journeys
and whatever you did, and the challenges.
Egging you on, like,
"Oh, yeah, go on, go for it, you know, go for it, you're gonna do this."
[orchestral music continues]
My dad, he wasn't gonna let me go to London.
Yeah, he didn't want me to go.
I said, "I'm going. No matter what."
But he kept saying...
"What if this goes wrong?" or "What if that happens?"
He just said everything.
He said... everything to put me off.
My mum, she spurred me on
by saying, "You've gotta let her go.
You've got to let her find her own feet.
You've got to let her explore her own life.
Live her own life."
I just knew I had to do it.
Yeah.
[orchestral finale]
[birds chirping]
[John] Lots of people asking me what was gonna happen.
And, uh, everything was very mysterious.
We hadn't been told what was going to happen.
I had to keep explaining that I'm being told to bring a passport
and that's about all I know.
I'm basically going on an adventure for a year.
I was thinking, beach holidays,
I was thinking, you know, maybe we'll get sent to New York
and have to go on some sort of treasure hunt.
[Jane] Me dad, he bought me...
a fork and spoon,
something that folded out and it had a fork and spoon on it,
a tin opener, a pair of scissors,
a charger.
If you were, like, anywhere in the world,
you could charge your phone and you'd be fine.
It was just... so exciting.
[airplane overhead]
[dog barks]
-Hi. -Hello.
[John] How you doing? John.
-And Nick. -Yeah.
-[man 1] This is Tim. -Hello, Tim.
So, uh, here we are.
[laughter]
[woman's voice] We are in the ghetto.
[car alarm sounds, dog barks]
New Cross is not where I'd think a reality TV show was gonna start.
It was confusing.
[Lucie] Rosy, I've met.
John? John. All right, John.
Nick, hiya. Nice to meet you.
[Tim] I was expecting to find the professional team.
That would have their own cameras.
Well, there wasn't anybody.
[Tim on camera] Hello.
[laughter]
[Tim] I mean, pfff.
I really don't like being a camera operator as it turned out,
because it's really hard work.
You know, I had to suddenly get there,
get my camera out, get it all together, put it up there, get my boom right.
Argh!
Gotta film this, somebody here, there's somebody over there.
Film that, film that, film that, film that.
Is it right? Have I got it on?
How much battery have I got left?
And the weather's creeping in.
[Rosy] Lucie, what's your surname?
Maycock.
[Rosy] Hmm?
Maycock. M-A-Y-C-O-C-K.
[Lucie] I'd been given the role of co-presenter, by Nik.
I was a contestant
but I had this extra role as well.
Okay, so just while Rosy's doing that,
let's just make it a bit clearer who we are and where we are.
Team 2. At the launch of Team 2.
[everyone] Woo, yeah! Yeah!
This is the way the teams are gonna work, there's Captain, Vice Captain.
[Nick] Did you have to print all this out or did they give this to you?
No, this is me being anal.
When did you find out you're Team Captain?
Wednesday.
I assumed as Vice Captain that they would have said something more to you.
[Nick] Am I Vice Captain?
-[Rosie laughs] -[Nick] Am I?!
Am I Vice Captain? Fantastic.
[Rosy] I thought you were told.
No, I hadn't been told Vice Captain.
You know, it was a bit like first day at school.
Nik, he'd said that he'd like me to be the team leader.
And, um, I was, like, "Okay, why not?"
The big sister, you know.
I still didn't know what the show was about.
I was waiting for Nik to brief me.
And when he asked me to present the idea of the show to the contestants,
I remember saying to him, "Can you tell me first?"
And he just had to tell me really quickly
and literally a minute later, I was talking to everybody
and telling them what, uh, what their goal was.
Okay, what is their challenge?
Their challenge is to basically make one million pounds.
Simple as that.
They have empty pockets. They are starting completely from scratch.
And they can do anything they want,
they can make this money any way they choose.
-And make a million. -Yeah.
-Between the 10 of us. -How?
Exactly, that's what you and I have sort of got to work out and decide.
-How to earn money. -[Rosy] How to earn money.
You'll be back here, next year, with one million pounds.
[Tim] I had to stay behind this camera, processing this information.
Group of 10. Make a million pounds. From nothing. Go.
Do we go today back to our own homes?
-[Rosy] Well, uh, obviously... -Or not?
We've no money to pay rent
so you just have to think of ways of surviving.
[nervous laughter]
-[Nick] That's ridiculous! -It is!
-[John] You... You're kidding me. -[Rosy] I'm not kidding you.
[Rosy] They said they... Where's Nik?
So we were making our own prize money.
We had to find our own accommodation. We had to feed ourselves.
-[everyone laughs] -[woman] Sorry, John.
I... I'm...
[laughter]
Argh!
[man 2] What about food?
[Nick] I only brought a quiche, that's it.
[laughter]
I've got an egg and cress sandwich.
[Nick] I've brought a quiche!
I've come over to ask you. You've all obviously just found out
what's gonna be happening to you over the next 12 months.
-And how... What do you feel about that? -[man 3] Uh...
[Daniel] We started to think, "Where's the grand launch?"
"Where's the celebrity?" "Where's the fanfare?"
It's not going as I planned.
[rain pours]
There is this... cog in my head going, gch.
Is there really nothing more?
I've given up everything.
[Daniel] Have you ever had a dream and got within touching distance?
[Tim] We didn't have any food.
Or shelter.
What are we gonna do?
[Lucie] I felt anxious.
This is not how it's supposed to be.
I was wondering what was coming next. Where was this going to end up?
So are you feeling quite positive?
[Lucie] I just thought, "Keep on talking and it will be fine."
Nik Russian was on the field getting wet with us.
Always the shadowy figure in the background.
Not giving orders or doing anything.
[Tim] He was aloof.
He stood off us.
[interviewer] Seem stressed?
[Tim] No, he didn't seem particularly stressed.
It was all going according to his plan, you know.
He'd known it all along, of course.
[thunder strikes]
["Scandalo Al Sole" by Orchestra Johnny Scott plays]