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00:04I'm sorry.
00:06I'm sorry.
00:35Here. Here. He's not in yet.
00:38Dang it. Language. He only does emergencies on Saturdays.
00:42Yeah, this is an emergency.
00:43I know.
00:44I'll just cut you now, Ian.
00:50I saw you, Michelle Fowler.
00:52Taking up jogging, have we?
00:53Because you can't be that sick if you can run that fast.
00:56It's not me, if you must know. It's the baby.
00:58There's something wrong with it.
00:59It's a shame, really.
01:01You don't want to go out this christened at all, you know.
01:02Well, Ian, you've got to carry this thing around.
01:05Oh, Ian, while you're in the bath, wash your hair.
01:07What's he doing in there? Getting christened?
01:11You've got that thing switched off?
01:13What do you mean, Swiss?
01:14Oh, Pete, stop it. I don't want you to feel looking like this.
01:17Come on, Captain.
01:17You want a big surprise?
01:18Oh, you stupid fool.
01:19Take me a smile.
01:20Oh, turn it off.
01:21Am I just trying to say it works?
01:23Come on.
01:23Typical.
01:24Here.
01:25Don't forget to get close up that christened robe I made.
01:28What is it, Doctor? What's wrong?
01:29Gastroenteritis.
01:31Oh, my God.
01:32Oh, that's serious in young babies, isn't it?
01:34Well, we're going to have to get him into hospital.
01:35Oh, no.
01:37Oh, he's going to die. I know he is.
01:39He's supposed to be christened at 11 o'clock this morning.
01:41Look, the christening can wait.
01:43There's people coming from all over.
01:45It doesn't matter. They'll understand, Pauline.
01:47I'm going to nip back to the surgeon and call an ambulance.
01:48Oh, no, Doctor, don't leave us.
01:50I think I'd better give you something.
01:51Look, it's the ruddy baby that's ill, not me.
01:54Pauline, dear, let the doctor go phone for the ambulance.
01:58Just don't panic, Pauline.
02:04Hello, Mr. Fowler. How's the baby?
02:06Oh, I don't know.
02:07You seem to rock from crisis to crisis.
02:10Kids.
02:11It's a problem I wouldn't mind having.
02:14Nor would Ali.
02:15Oh, no.
02:17Poor little beggar.
02:19That's one reason why I volunteered to watch this store.
02:22I couldn't stand the sight of his little body all screwed up with pain.
02:25I'm retching it.
02:27Just feels so helpless.
02:29I was hoping one day Neymar and I would have the kids.
02:32My dad thinks you're more bothered than me worth.
02:34Yeah, you are.
02:35Somehow we get hooked on you, no matter what.
02:38Dad!
02:39Dad, it's a baby. Quick, he's got to go to hospital.
02:40Oh, my God.
02:42Here, Mr. Fowler.
02:43You washing?
02:44You know, the sky's always grey.
02:47Buildings are grey and the people are grey.
02:49No, you're just depressed, Mary. That's your trouble.
02:51Annie's not grey.
02:52No, but I am.
02:54You ought to wear brighter colours.
02:55Cheer yourself up a bit.
02:56Yeah, chance of beer, Fowler.
02:58Yeah.
02:59Take a leaf out of Deb's book.
03:01Cheers you up just to look at her.
03:03Yeah.
03:05It's just the same every day.
03:07It just goes on and on and on.
03:11Doctor, do you want a club or something?
03:13No, I'm telling.
03:14Besides, I hate clubs.
03:20What's the matter with this, then?
03:21I'm not hungry.
03:25I'll see if it's life, if you like.
03:27It's all.
03:31Just day after day.
03:33It's the same old routine.
03:41Nothing ever happens.
03:43I'll tell you what.
03:44Treat yourself to something.
03:45No, look.
03:45Better still.
03:46Have a Kit Kat.
03:48On the ass.
04:00I don't know anything about arrangements, Doctor.
04:03It's best to leave all that sort of thing to Pauline.
04:05I wouldn't want to leave anything to Pauline just for a moment.
04:07Well, I thought that was why she was staying behind.
04:09She's staying behind because she's not fit to come.
04:11Well, someone's got to cancel the vicar.
04:13I can't be in two places at once, can I?
04:17There you are, son.
04:19Oh, God.
04:23Turn up, Mum.
04:23I'll see you.
04:26Oh, Ian, while you're having a bath, wash your hair.
04:29What the fuck?
04:32Oh, give me, Mum.
04:34Stop it, Kate.
04:34I'm going to have a light.
04:36Yeah, Mum, Red Bull's got a little shape, didn't you?
04:38Oh, hey, stop it.
04:39No, you guys.
04:40It's more fat than a cold chip.
04:42Turn it off.
04:43Come on.
04:43You guys.
04:45I'm only saying it works.
04:46Sheffy, go on it.
04:48It's a bit dark, isn't it?
04:49You get me all that proper lighting, all that sort of thing, don't you?
04:52Do you know what?
04:53I thought I'm quite good.
04:54I should take it up professionally, shouldn't I?
04:56Yeah, you do that.
04:58Come on, darling.
05:02Hello, sis.
05:02Oh, listen, the baby's been taken.
05:04They've rushed him off to hospital.
05:05Oh, no, why?
05:07Gastroenteritis.
05:08I'm sorry to barge you, but I need a phone.
05:10Look, I'll drive you around there, sis.
05:12Where's that number?
05:14Oh, look, don't worry.
05:14The hospital number will be in the directory.
05:16I'm not ringing the hospital.
05:17I've got to cancel everything, haven't I?
05:19Oh, no, I didn't think.
05:21Oh, don't worry, Paulie.
05:22Sit yourself down.
05:23God knows it took long enough to arrange.
05:25Look, you just tell me you want phoning.
05:26Look, look, sit yourself down, sis.
05:28Come on.
05:28It's a dirty vicar.
05:29Oh.
05:31Oh, there's all this video equipment.
05:33Oh, it must have cost you a fortune.
05:35Oh, I'm sorry, Pete.
05:37Maybe I'll get away with just the deposit, eh?
05:39Yeah, and what am I going to do with the pork pies and all them things?
05:42Look, I'll make a nice pot of sweet tea, eh?
05:44I've got tea coming out my ears.
05:47Hello, Mr Jelly.
05:48Yeah, it's about the christening.
05:49The fowler baby.
05:50Oh, God, he's going to die.
05:51Oh, I know he is.
05:52Well, we're going to have to cancel it, I'm afraid.
05:55And if that's not enough, how Michelle's pregnant?
05:59She sterilizes everything proper.
06:01I've seen her do it.
06:02Would you have to go on about bottle feeding all the time?
06:04Why?
06:05Turn your stomach up, does it?
06:07You don't look too broken-hearted about cancelling this christening.
06:12I can say.
06:13Oh, not another one.
06:14I wouldn't mind, but they all look at me as if it's my fault they've had a wasted journey.
06:19Who's her father?
06:20That calf is the million-dollar question.
06:23You mean she won't tell you?
06:24I'm not a dicky bird.
06:26No.
06:26Yeah, but why?
06:27Why won't she tell you?
06:29Well, Mum and me have wrapped our brains.
06:32You don't think it could...
06:33Well, her and Kelvin did have a thing for a bit of a while.
06:38No.
06:39No, we thought of that, but they packed each other in ages ago.
06:42No.
06:42Kelvin's a nice boy.
06:44They all are.
06:46Oh, poor cow.
06:47We'll all have to rally round, like, let her know we care.
06:51She must be going for a while.
06:53I don't know.
06:54Inside, she must be.
06:56What are we going to do about it?
06:58You don't think...
07:00Well, you know, she might have been forced.
07:05Mum?
07:06No.
07:07No, no.
07:09I'm sure of it.
07:10No.
07:12Well, how do you know?
07:14Oh, we'd have noticed, Pauline.
07:17But how do you know?
07:18I mean, we didn't even know she was pregnant.
07:21Thanks for telling us.
07:23Yeah, Arthur and I discussed it last night.
07:26We decided you ought to be told.
07:30She'll, eh?
07:32I don't know.
07:33I just feel as though I'm in the middle of some nightmare.
07:35I just wish I could wake up.
07:40Oh, dear, you're getting through them, aren't you, sweetheart?
07:42I want to have it, Mum.
07:43I want to have it, Mum.
07:44I want to have it, Mum.
07:45I want to have it.
07:45I want to have it.
07:46Well, she's lovely, isn't she?
07:49Oh, well, then.
07:50Every cloud has one, eh?
07:52Yeah.
07:53Must be as good as the private needs to look at the church.
07:56Yeah.
07:56It's a shame, though.
07:57Poor kid.
08:00Anyway, I'm never so sorry we couldn't let you know in time.
08:03It's just a last-minute emergency.
08:05You know what it's like?
08:06I know.
08:06So, you know where the past is, don't you?
08:09Okay, then.
08:10Bye-bye.
08:10Bye-bye.
08:16Hello, Mrs. Fowler.
08:18Sorry, I slept in, you see.
08:20Pardon?
08:21I expect it's all over now, ain't it?
08:24What is?
08:24The christening.
08:25I'm meant to be here, honest.
08:26I just, I never heard of your mum.
08:27Better late than ever, eh, love?
08:29Yeah, sorry.
08:31What's wrong with you?
08:32The baby's sick.
08:33There was no christening.
08:34Look, now get work.
08:35What?
08:36It's a bag.
08:40Baby's a really delicate little thing, you know, then.
08:42I know, now.
08:43Hilarious.
08:43They're taking a lot of looking after, honest.
08:45Save it, Lofty, for when you get caught.
08:47Now, serve.
08:59Where you been?
09:00You know where I've been.
09:02How's Albert?
09:03Ma.
09:04Come on, Arthur.
09:05Where is he?
09:05They put him in a special baby unit.
09:08That means it's serious?
09:10No, they think they caught him in time.
09:11Apparently, it's dehydration's the problem.
09:13Look there, he'll be okay now he's in there.
09:16Dr. Linkey's coming over to Paul.
09:17He talked to him a bit later.
09:19What are they doing to him?
09:20They've got a needle in his arm.
09:22Keep up the fluid levels.
09:24A needle?
09:24Yeah.
09:25Yeah, poor little beggar.
09:26Just wonder they can find a vein big enough.
09:28Look.
09:29Matt.
09:30Oh.
09:32What's wrong with her?
09:34What do you think?
09:37There you go.
09:38Bye, guys.
09:41Ali.
09:42One second, mate.
09:42Just serving this lady.
09:44I don't want a cup of tea, Ali.
09:45I want some change.
09:46Sorry, mate.
09:47Don't carry change for that kind of cash.
09:48I've had a hard day.
09:49I'm not happy.
09:51I want either the check back with true cash for me.
09:53That's a bit of a favour, sir.
09:54Or the cash in once-ers.
09:55I don't want this.
09:56Why?
09:57What's wrong with it?
09:58Looks kosher to me.
09:59But it isn't, is it?
10:00Isn't it?
10:01No.
10:02So what are you going to do, then?
10:03I think you've got it around the wrong way.
10:05No, I haven't.
10:07Have you got my check, Ali?
10:08Sorry, no.
10:09I'd give it back to you if I had it.
10:10I cashed it yesterday.
10:12How do you live with yourself, eh?
10:14Easy, mate.
10:15You take things too seriously.
10:16That's your trouble.
10:18Do I?
10:23This morning, I had to find a bit of unpunctured skin on a child's arm, Ali.
10:28So I could stick another needle into it.
10:30It's just my favourite's life.
10:32Did it?
10:34No.
10:34No, no, no, it didn't.
10:36I'm sorry.
10:37It died before I came off shift.
10:38I'm sorry.
10:40How are you?
10:41Yeah.
10:43Remember that little lad I brought in here the other day?
10:45Stuart.
10:46Nice little lad, you?
10:48It was him.
10:50Ah.
10:56I spent a lot of time with him, Ali.
10:59I really thought that for once, I mean, just for once, I managed to help somebody.
11:03You mean do something for somebody?
11:06Well, because this government decides it's a better idea to spend our money on nuclear weapons than health care,
11:13there isn't enough left for the life support system that would have saved them.
11:17So I sat at his bedside and just watched him die, Ali.
11:23How do you live with yourself, eh?
11:26I mean, do you always get the same involved with your patients?
11:32Can't win, can I, eh?
11:35It's supposed to be a caring profession.
11:37As soon as you start caring, you're in real trouble.
11:54Get a drink, Lofty?
11:55Yeah, well, what you want?
11:57What have you got?
11:58Are you sure your mum and dad work at your drinking here?
12:00Uh, well, we've got orange juice or, um, St. Clements is nice.
12:04I'll buy it at St. Clements.
12:06Go on, Lofty.
12:07Get me a large whiskey while you're at it.
12:09Sorry about the baby.
12:10What?
12:11Oh, yeah, thanks.
12:13I heard about your little brother.
12:15I suppose he's my brother.
12:17I've never really thought about it at all before.
12:18It's always harder seeing children suffer.
12:21You see, they don't understand.
12:22They don't know why they're suffering.
12:24Look, it's such a lot of faith in you, you know.
12:26Of course, you're grown up.
12:28I think you can do everything, but you can't.
12:32It's always harder seeing other people's children suffer.
12:35But when it's your own,
12:37it's not that I'm ever likely to have any.
12:39Now, what fight's got in store, Laura?
12:41What do you mean by that?
12:43Nothing.
12:48Shall I have another one, or shall I go home, Lofty?
12:53Um, outside me.
12:58No.
12:59No, it won't, Lofty.
13:00It won't go at all.
13:01I've got a good night.
13:02Yeah.
13:02Yeah.
13:02Yeah.
13:08Michelle?
13:10Come round tonight upstairs, OK?
13:11I've got a groom-rolly anyway.
13:13I'll find out when Mum keeps a secret booze.
13:15Fill me in then, eh?
13:16All right.
13:19No, no, you don't have to stick to the visiting hours.
13:21Not in a baby unit.
13:22They'll be glad to see you any time.
13:24Yeah, look, Pete will drive you over there in an hour or so, eh?
13:27Yeah.
13:27Well, thanks, Doctor.
13:29I don't know.
13:29If it's not one thing, it's another, isn't it?
13:31Oh, you can say that again.
13:33Anyway, the baby will be all right.
13:34So that's a problem out of the way.
13:36Yeah.
13:37Well, perhaps we'd better deal with the other then.
13:41What problem's that?
13:45Michelle's pregnancy.
13:47Michelle?
13:49Michelle.
13:50And before you ask, she's had the test.
13:52I see.
13:56Do you want to talk about it?
13:57Well, we will need your advice, Doctor.
14:00Yeah.
14:00Seems the best time now with the men out the way.
14:03Well, it would be better if Michelle were here.
14:05To tell you the truth, I'm rather glad she's not.
14:09I take it she hasn't said anything to you about who the father might be.
14:14Well, I didn't even know she was pregnant.
14:16And if she had told me anything like that, I'd have to respect her privacy.
14:19You know that.
14:21Yeah, but it would make all the difference if we knew who it was.
14:24If I were you, I wouldn't try pressing her on that point.
14:26If she wants to tell you, she'll tell you in her own good time.
14:30The main thing we have to consider now is how best to advise her.
14:34What about an abortion?
14:36Well, if it's early days, she could have an abortion on psychiatric grounds.
14:40Yeah, but how would that affect her later on, Doctor?
14:42You know, when she did want to have kiddies.
14:45Every operation has its dangers, Pauline.
14:46There's no denying that.
14:47But taken all round, most people seem to think that an abortion is actually less risky than having a baby.
14:53You know, I never thought of it that way.
14:56I mean, don't know they're born, do they?
14:58No.
14:59But we have to go through.
15:02A second possibility is, of course, adoption.
15:05I don't know.
15:06I mean, it does nag at me.
15:07What does?
15:08Well, abortion, you know, killing a baby.
15:12It's different if there's something wrong with it or something.
15:14But it's not a baby.
15:16Not till it's born.
15:17I mean, did you feel your kids were real human beings, like, before you gave birth to them?
15:22Well, yeah, actually, as a matter of fact, I did.
15:25I remember once Mark woke half her up.
15:29He kicked him in the back when we was in bed.
15:32Oh, my kids.
15:34Well, as I say, there's always adoption.
15:35Adoption societies are crying out for babies these days.
15:39Since the advent of the pill, fewer girls are getting caught,
15:42so there's less babies to adopt, and they're crying out for them.
15:45It's always the good girls that get caught.
15:47I suppose I can.
15:53The child will be guaranteed a good home.
15:55There's no denying that.
15:57Michelle could take up her life again as if nothing had happened.
16:00How could she?
16:01I mean, how could she?
16:03She'd have had a kid.
16:04Look, even if she don't get a chance to get to know it,
16:06it won't mean she won't love it.
16:08Her maternal feelings will still be there.
16:10She spent the rest of her life wondering what happened to it,
16:13where it was, how it was getting on.
16:16I wish that on anybody.
16:19No, well, I'll go along with you on that one.
16:23So it, um, looks like an abortion.
16:26Yeah, I think it's the best idea.
16:31Yeah, well, I still don't seem right.
16:34I mean, whichever way you look at it, it's still murder, isn't it?
16:37Yeah, I feel like that too, but...
16:41Well, taking everything into consideration,
16:46perhaps it is the best way.
16:47There's a third possibility.
16:49Oh?
16:50What's that?
16:52She could have the child and keep it.
16:55Oh, it's a thought.
16:58Take some courage.
17:01We'd have our work cut out.
17:05No.
17:06No, it wouldn't be right to lumber the girl.
17:09And I know who'd end up looking after it.
17:12Yeah, so do I.
17:14Well, at least you can be thinking.
17:15And later on, perhaps not too much later on,
17:17we'll have another talk with Michelle here.
17:19Yeah, well, thanks very much, Doctor,
17:20for taking all your time.
17:22I'll keep you in touch with the hospital with myself around the baby.
17:24Oh, right, we'll have to bother you then.
17:26Thanks a lot.
17:27Bye-bye.
17:28Oh, I'm sorry, Mum.
17:32It's just really upset me.
17:34I'm sorry.
17:35Oh, I didn't know you thought so much of the girl.
17:39Yeah.
17:40Well, she is my niece, isn't she?
17:41Yes.
17:43I just don't want to see her suffer
17:45because she was a bit soft with somebody.
17:48I wonder who.
17:50Yeah.
17:53So.
17:55Looks as though it's an abortion.
17:57Yes, well.
17:59At least we've got the kids sorted, haven't we?
18:02Eh?
18:12Andy, I need some money for the laundrette.
18:16Are you awake?
18:31No.
18:31I said I'd go back about six-ish and pick her up again.
18:35Oh, is he?
18:36Oh, you're not a shame, Kath.
18:37Poor little fella.
18:38Got me one of those drip things.
18:39Oh, no.
18:41Is Pauline all right?
18:42Yeah, she's a bit calmer.
18:43Oh, and I've got a wager deposit on that equipment.
18:45Oh, good.
18:47Poor little Michelle, eh?
18:48Yeah, that was a turn-up.
18:50I wonder who that was.
18:51I thought a Kelvin, but...
18:52Yeah, hang about.
18:53What?
18:54Do you remember that night Michelle stayed out?
18:55Yeah.
18:56Oh, when her ear was...
18:58Yeah.
18:59Oh, no, he couldn't.
19:01Yeah, have you talked to him lately?
19:03What do you mean, talked?
19:04Oh, you know, about the birds and the bees.
19:06Oh, that's your job.
19:09Yeah.
19:09Well, if it was him, we'd have to think out.
19:12Oi, the NHS do a perfectly good job.
19:15Oh, you make it sound like plumbing.
19:17No, Pete.
19:18I don't care whether Ian's responsible or not.
19:20That girl's going to have the best.
19:21She can go private and we'll pay for it.
19:29Mrs. Cotton?
19:30Pauline.
19:33I don't suppose you've got change.
19:35No, I haven't.
19:42Hello there.
19:43Nice to see you.
19:44Hello, Ali.
19:45I'm sorry to bother you.
19:46Now, when have you ever been any bother, eh?
19:48Anything you want, just name it.
19:49Oh, thanks, Ali.
19:50That's very nice of you.
19:51Go on.
19:51Well, it's just I need some change for the laundromat.
19:53For you, darling, anything.
19:55There you go.
19:56Three fives.
19:58You want some change?
20:01Five pounds.
20:02Thanks, Ali.
20:03You're a real gentleman.
20:04Mm.
20:07Give me something that would be good for my back, Angie.
20:11Steel corset?
20:12Oh, brandy would be better.
20:14Yeah, why didn't I think of that, eh?
20:17Go on, have one on me.
20:18No, I bet you're not, Ethel.
20:20You know what I'm like.
20:21Oh, yes, I do.
20:24You see, what can be funny for one person isn't funny for anybody else.
20:28I mean, like my back, for instance.
20:31I reckon it's that dog.
20:32It's getting far too heavy to cart around the way you do.
20:35Oh, yes.
20:35Well, animals do eat a lot.
20:38Animals do.
20:39Ethel, can you come up with a brilliant idea to make money here?
20:42I mean, what do the customers want that we don't give them?
20:44Oh, well, what would I like, Willie, eh?
20:48Yeah, something to brighten up our drab little lives, eh, Ethel?
20:51A thrill.
20:52Yeah.
20:53Oh, Zion.
20:53Yeah.
20:54Yeah.
20:54Okay, go on.
20:55I know.
20:56You remember you got Lofty stripping?
20:58What, in the darts match, yeah?
21:00Well, he could come in regularly once a week.
21:04I'll pay to see that.
21:07It's a thought, Edge.
21:08Oh, yeah.
21:09We get a lot of women coming in here.
21:11Yeah, we could start a women's dance team.
21:13Oh, they'd all love that.
21:15Oh, Lofty.
21:17Oh, you don't know what you're in for.
21:21There you go, Lex.
21:22Cheers, Al.
21:24Well, what do you see, son?
21:26I mean, I should have tackled this subject a long time ago, but you know what it's like
21:32when you get all wrapped up with your day-to-day business, don't you?
21:36Time just flies by.
21:37And what?
21:39Well, and then, and then before you know where you are, like, you...
21:43Well, before I know where I am, look, I suppose you're a man.
21:49That's what it is.
21:49Dad, what are you going on about?
21:52Son, well, I mean, I suppose you have, like...
21:57We have thought about girls, have you?
21:59You mean sex?
22:01Yeah, I suppose you could put it like that, yeah.
22:04Well, I used to fancy Sharon.
22:06I suppose I still do.
22:07Sharon?
22:08Yeah.
22:10Look, Michelle.
22:12At no point, you've never fancied Michelle.
22:15You can't be joking.
22:16She's more like a sister to me.
22:18What a fancy her for, anyway.
22:20Only got a look at Sharon.
22:22Yeah, I see what you mean.
22:26Yeah, but you haven't gone and done, like...
22:28Charles would be a fine thing.
22:30But you would if you could.
22:32Look, it's what your old daddy's trying to say is...
22:36Do you know what you're doing, off some?
22:37Yes, Dad.
22:38I do know where babies come from.
22:40And yes, Dad, I do know what you used a fruit machine and a gent's for.
22:44Save your blushes.
22:45It's all under control, all right?
22:54Where did you put my uniforms, love?
22:56Oh, I took them to the laundrette.
22:58Thanks.
22:58Hope you don't mind.
22:59There was a £20 note in your wallet.
23:00I borrowed it for the machines.
23:02Oh, no.
23:03You know, some people would be really funny about going in and asking for change.
23:06But not Ali.
23:07He changed that note for me without so much as a murmur.
23:11Debs, you have made my day, love.
23:18I suppose she had the baby.
23:20What then?
23:21Oh, I wouldn't like to be in your shoes, Pauline.
23:23A toddler and a newborn baby, both at once.
23:25Oh, nah.
23:26Yeah, but what can we do?
23:27I mean, poor girl, we're bad enough when she starts to show.
23:30I mean, you know what they're like round here.
23:32Yak, yak, yak.
23:33Yeah.
23:34Hey, listen, I've been thinking.
23:36You know my sister Stephanie?
23:37Well, I never knew you had a sister.
23:39That's because you don't listen, Mum.
23:42Yeah, well, Steph lives in the country, in Norfolk.
23:44It's lovely there.
23:45Me and Pete went now to see her a couple of years back for holiday.
23:48I'm sure she wouldn't mind taking in Michelle for the last couple of months.
23:51Oh, it's a bit of a liberty imposing a pregnant girl on strangers, isn't it?
23:56No, she wouldn't mind.
23:57She's got three of her own.
23:58And she does a bit of fostering sometimes.
24:00She's younger than me and all nearer Michelle's age.
24:02I think it'd be good company for her.
24:04Oh, sounds nice.
24:06Yeah, do you think they'd have me?
24:09Oh, I could go up there, visit Michelle.
24:13She'd need a bit of company.
24:15Oh, yeah, I'll go in all.
24:16Sounds nice, doesn't it?
24:17I can't make it sound like loyalty, Kev.
24:19So, was I un-trupted in something?
24:20Oh, hello, love.
24:21We was just talking about you.
24:23I see.
24:24Yeah, we just sorted everything out.
24:26You what?
24:26Yeah.
24:27Listen, sit down, Michelle.
24:29We've been for all the possibilities and we reckon we can cope.
24:32Oh.
24:34Yeah, Pete and Kath said that they'd pay for you to go private if you decided on an abortion.
24:39Yeah, and if you want to go through with it,
24:42Kathy knows a nice little place in Norfolk where you could go and stay and we'd all come and visit
24:46you.
24:46Hey, don't let this get out of air now.
24:48So you've got it all worked out, have you?
24:50I see.
24:50Hey, come back, Shell.
24:51We want to talk to you.
24:53Well, I don't see why.
24:54You seem to have managed pretty well without me so far.
24:56Michelle.
24:56Well, don't Michelle me.
24:58I thought you'd promise not to tell anyone.
25:00I don't.
25:01Yeah, but now the whole family knows and pretty soon it'll be the whole square.
25:04Well, thanks very much for all your help, but I can live without it.
25:07I mean, we are mates, aren't we?
25:09Of course we are.
25:11And you promise you won't tell anyone?
25:12Look, cross, Martin hope to die.
25:15Yeah, do you fancy some mother's ruin to help you spit it out?
25:18No, thanks.
25:20Mother's ruin.
25:21Ever thought about what that means, Sharon?
25:24No, not really.
25:25I suppose it meant in the old days when your mum used to drink it ruined her.
25:29That's not what it means.
25:31No.
25:32Women used to drink it to bring on a miscarriage.
25:35Well, you learn something new every day, didn't you?
25:40Look, you've got to promise you won't tell anyone.
25:42Look, I've already said, Sharon, I won't tell anyone.
25:44I promise.
25:46Well, go on then.
25:47What's the big secret?
25:50I'm pregnant.
25:51I'm pregnant.
25:58Oh.
26:00You shocked?
26:02Shocked?
26:04Why should I be shocked?
26:08Who was it, then?
26:10I'm not telling.
26:12You're a dark horse shell.
26:15I thought that...
26:16Well, I thought that I were before you.
26:19Just sort of happened.
26:21Did it?
26:24What was it like?
26:25Oh, don't, Sharon.
26:26I'm sorry.
26:28Well, go on, then.
26:31Well, you're having me on, ain't you?
26:33You haven't even done it, have you?
26:34Oh, grow up.
26:37Well, go on, then.
26:38Tell me who the father was.
26:40Michelle, I said I won't tell anyone.
26:41I promise.
26:42No, Sharon.
26:44You don't have to speak to me like I was a kid or something.
26:48I'm sorry, I didn't mean it.
26:52OK.
26:53I believe you.
26:55Thanks.
26:57Look, are you sure you're pregnant?
26:59I've had the tests.
27:01Look, what are you going to do about it?
27:02Have an abortion?
27:03Well, they seem to have decided what's to be done.
27:05Who?
27:06The family.
27:07I think I'm some sort of puppet.
27:09They can move around how they like.
27:10I mean, it is me that's pregnant.
27:11Of course it is.
27:12You should have seen it when I got home, Sharon.
27:15It's like a bleating end party.
27:16It was mum, Kath, gran, all sitting around a table deciding what's to be done.
27:20She said, my mum said to me, she goes,
27:22we've discussed all the possibilities.
27:24And one way or another, we can cope.
27:27Yeah, well, there's one possibility they haven't thought of.
27:32I could kill myself.
27:58I could kill myself.
28:27I could kill myself.
28:28I could kill myself.