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00:11French. It's a nice white.
00:13Four loaves.
00:14Domino run-out. Best best to eat something.
00:16OK.
00:17And butter. Frank loved his butter.
00:19And lots of fillings. Cheese, ham, tuna, the works.
00:23Diane?
00:23Yes, Pat?
00:24Afters.
00:25Chocolate, cake, biscuits. You always have a sweet tooth.
00:29Bianca's still not answering our phone.
00:30And Swiss rolls. Frank always loved his Swiss rolls.
00:34Ricky?
00:35Yeah?
00:36Banners, streamers, balloons.
00:38What?
00:39He wanted her knees up, didn't he?
00:41Well, yeah, but...
00:42Hey, Frank wanted her knees up.
00:44Frankie's gonna get her knees up.
00:46Right, any questions?
00:48Well, go on, then. Chop, chop.
00:54Do you think she's actually taking it in that Dad's don't?
01:04He only went to the doctors for a headache.
01:07Ricky told Miss Horsian he couldn't even speak.
01:10It's hard to imagine Frank Butcher without something to say for himself.
01:14He was always giving it plenty of that.
01:17Full of schemes and plans.
01:20Good times waiting just round the corner.
01:24Poor old Frank.
01:25No more schemes or plans.
01:28He wants one last ride around Albert Square.
01:32And then a wake here.
01:34Well, did I tell you that already?
01:36Oh, I keep defeating it.
01:39I'm like an old woman.
01:40You ain't an old woman.
01:41Yeah, well, I feel like it.
01:42Well, you ain't, all right?
01:44Now, if you need anything, just give me a call.
01:46I've got to get going, okay?
01:53Not the first time Frank's died.
01:55No.
01:56His last funeral was in Spain.
01:59They had a space for him waiting in the wall.
02:02In the wall?
02:03Yeah, well, they do things differently over there.
02:06So this last time he died?
02:08He wasn't really dead.
02:09I worked that out for myself.
02:11I came out of the cemetery and I was walking down the street.
02:16And there he was, sitting in the car,
02:20with a pair of big dark shades covering his face.
02:24So it was a scam.
02:26Life was one big scam with Frank.
02:28Yeah, but pretending to be dead.
02:30Yeah.
02:31What a swine.
02:32He was a swine.
02:34A charlatan.
02:35A con man.
02:36And a cheat.
02:39We ain't got time for any of that stuff now.
02:41We have got his party to organise.
02:43Well, he's got some front in he, after the way he's behaved.
02:46Why are we doing this pattern?
02:48Because he wants it.
02:49And when Frank says junk, we say how high.
02:54Bianca, it's me again.
02:55Look, if you could try and get in touch.
02:57He's got to be on the floor if she doesn't bring Liam.
02:58Well, the funeral was no place for children.
03:01You're right.
03:02My son, Jacques, refused to come.
03:05Do!
03:08Diane. Frank's daughter.
03:10Oh, Diane, of course.
03:11Oh, I'm so sorry for your loss.
03:14I had a soft spot for your father.
03:16Quite a character.
03:19Is Janine coming for the funeral?
03:22We haven't heard.
03:23Oh.
03:24And your other sister, what's her name?
03:26Claire.
03:26Oh, yes, Claire.
03:27She lives in Australia now.
03:28Oh.
03:29She came over to see Dad while he was, you know, before he died.
03:35She said her goodbyes then.
03:37It's nice you're having the funeral from the square.
03:41It's what you wanted.
03:44Apparently, he told Ricky that his heart was here.
03:47Frank Butcher didn't have a heart.
03:50Well, I agree it wasn't always easy to find it sometimes.
03:54Dead.
03:55And in a box.
03:56And he's still pulling the strings.
03:59This party.
04:01The only thing either one of us could depend on Frank Butcher for was that he'd let us down.
04:07And yet he's expecting us to do all this for him.
04:11I don't want to do it for him.
04:12I want to do it for me.
04:14So you can make sense of all the years you spent together.
04:16No, because I don't fancy the alternative.
04:19Which is?
04:20Going to the creme.
04:21Singing in him, watching the curtains close, and then what?
04:24Going home, having a cup of tea, turning on the telly like nothing's happened.
04:28I don't want to celebrate his life.
04:31Peggy, we've had our battles over Frank in the past.
04:34Yeah, once or twice.
04:36And we got through all that.
04:37We're here and we're friends.
04:40Perhaps that's worth celebrating, eh?
04:44Besides, we both loved him.
04:46He didn't love us though, did he?
04:49The only person Frank Butcher ever loved was himself.
04:55All right, maybe you're right.
04:57Maybe he didn't love me or you.
04:59Just maybe about it.
05:02But I loved him and I think you loved him too.
05:06So if we have this party, if we stand side by side and raise our glasses together,
05:14maybe, just maybe it might make some sense of your bloody mess.
05:20Like this not on the table, we've cleared nearly every shelf in the minute, Ma.
05:29It was wrong having balloons at a wake.
05:33It's what he wants.
05:36OK.
05:38Let's get this show on the road.
05:46I went to see the flat again last night, Ricky.
05:48The one in Muzzle Hill.
05:50Oh, yeah, yeah, go on.
05:50Near my parents.
05:51Well, they've only gone and accepted our offer.
05:53Oh, yeah.
05:53What about a deposit, though?
05:55Daddy's still thinking about it.
05:57Look at you.
05:59You need haircut.
06:00I don't.
06:00Yes, you do.
06:01Hey, Miranda.
06:02Oh, hi.
06:04You think you need haircut, don't you?
06:06Tardy up round them ears.
06:07What do you think?
06:13Ricky!
06:13Yeah, come in.
06:16I thought I loved him, but no, I didn't.
06:20Yes, you did.
06:21I was flattered.
06:23Swept off me feet, but no, it wasn't love.
06:29I couldn't sleep last night, thinking about you and him.
06:34What me and Frank did was wrong, very wrong.
06:36Oh, I'm not talking about you and him having sex together.
06:40I'm talking about you persuading me to marry him in the first place.
06:45I didn't want to marry Frank.
06:47Phil and Grant didn't want me to marry Frank.
06:49Even Frank didn't want me to marry Frank,
06:51but you got in there and stirred it all up.
06:53You made it happen.
06:54It wasn't like that.
06:56Yeah, he had us dancing to your tune.
06:58But what was in it for you, though?
07:00That's what I can't work out.
07:02Why did you want us to get married?
07:04Because you loved Frank and he loved you.
07:08He was walking out the church when I arrived.
07:10What, you were so late getting there?
07:12He didn't want to marry me.
07:14Peggy, he thought you weren't going to turn out.
07:17The look in his eyes when I did, sheer panic.
07:20No.
07:20He was like a rat in the trap and you put him in that trap.
07:24I wouldn't have turned up if it wasn't for you,
07:26but you made that wedding happen. Why?
07:29Because I wanted to help.
07:30Because you wanted to keep him on the square.
07:33You did want to marry him.
07:35You wanted to keep him like the fly in your web
07:38until you were ready to pounce.
07:40No, no, no, you don't regret marrying him.
07:43The biggest regret of my life.
07:45Oh, come on, Peggy, you had some good times, you and him.
07:47We had some good times together, didn't we?
07:49You know, me and Roy, you and Frank.
07:51Why are you always making everything so cosy and nice?
07:55I'm not.
07:56Frank wasn't cosy and nice.
07:58Oh, he wanted everybody to think he was.
08:01Talking the talk, walking the walk,
08:02making everybody feel like a million dollars.
08:05But that wasn't the real Frank.
08:07The real Frank was horrible, nasty...
08:11...and rotten right through to the core.
08:16All right, so he made mistakes sometimes.
08:18But he was the first to admit that he was no angel.
08:21Deep down, he was pure gold.
08:23Oh, you're spinning yourself a yarn bat.
08:26Telling yourself stories, empty words.
08:29You're cut from the same cloth you two are.
08:34Start on the filling, shall I?
08:36You know...
08:38I can bear the thought of you and him in bed together.
08:43Not a pretty sight, but I can bear it.
08:46But what hurts even now
08:48is thinking of you and him with your heads together
08:51laughing at me.
08:54I have said sorry, Peggy.
08:57I have said sorry so many times.
09:00Again and again.
09:01I can't change the past.
09:04But would you?
09:05If you could?
09:07Why are you talking like this?
09:09Would you go back and make things different?
09:12Would you?
09:13No-one can change things.
09:16But if you could, would you?
09:17No.
09:20What happened happened?
09:22You have to accept it and move on.
09:27And that's a no, then.
09:29You're not sorry, Pat.
09:32You're not sorry one little bit.
09:41It feels weird being back here.
09:43Melanie says, do you want coffee?
09:44Yeah, please.
09:45I know my life's moved on, but...
09:47Somehow I think I expected everything here to be just the same.
09:50Milk? Sugar?
09:51No, just black.
09:53You used to have it white with two sugars, didn't you?
09:54Yeah, but not anymore.
09:57Did you think that?
09:58What's that?
09:59That somehow everything would be waiting for us here.
10:02Like it used to be.
10:03Well, really not.
10:08I'm not proud of myself, Peggy.
10:11I was ashamed then.
10:14And I'm ashamed now.
10:18The only excuse I've got is that...
10:22When I was a young girl, I met this bloke.
10:25And fell in love.
10:27And that love lasted the whole of my life.
10:30Oh, nice performance, Pat.
10:33You know, misty eyes, quivering lip.
10:35You could have given Frank a run for his money.
10:37Didn't always like him. Sometimes I hated him.
10:39I never stopped loving him.
10:40Oh, please.
10:42Oh, you obviously never had with anybody what I had with Frank.
10:45I love my Eric.
10:46Not like I love Frank. Otherwise you'd understand.
10:48Next thing you'll be telling me, it was a truly beautiful thing.
10:51It wasn't beautiful.
10:53It wasn't ugly neither. It was just what it was.
10:58The last time I saw Frank was just after Janine's trial.
11:05Do you know what he said to me?
11:07He said, take care of yourself, babe.
11:09And I said, I'm too old to be anybody's babe.
11:12And he said, you'll always be mine.
11:17Right up to my last breath and beyond.
11:21Oh, they were words.
11:23They came easy to Frank. Don't mean a thing.
11:26It's like banging on a drum. Empty noise.
11:29No.
11:29Do you remember downstairs?
11:32The day I married him.
11:33Do you remember him standing in the bar telling me and the whole of Walford how much he loved me?
11:40Do you remember that speech?
11:43Yeah.
11:44Oh, he was good.
11:45Very, very good.
11:46He even convinced himself.
11:48Do you remember how he wiped that tear away from his eye?
11:51Yeah.
11:52It was an act.
11:55Frank was a showman.
11:56He liked people looking at him.
11:58He loved to hear the sound of his own voice.
12:01He enjoyed telling people what they wanted to hear.
12:03Making them laugh, making them cry.
12:05But the minute they were out of his line of vision, he forgot all about them.
12:12He didn't love me.
12:13And he didn't love you.
12:17It wasn't worth the time either one ever squandered on him.
12:26Perhaps he was a waster.
12:28In some ways.
12:29It was all of that.
12:32And more.
12:36Clever man, though.
12:37Oh, yeah.
12:39Yeah, he was clever, all right.
12:41All due respect, Peggy, I don't think he was ever completely honest with you.
12:44Oh, tell me something I don't know.
12:47No, he didn't let you know what he was thinking.
12:50No offence, Peggy, but I don't think he saw you as his equal.
12:54I beg your pardon?
12:55Well, we just said it, didn't we? He was a clever man, easily bored.
12:58Are you telling me I'm stupid?
13:00I think he preferred somebody to keep up with him.
13:02Somebody sharp.
13:03Oh, and that was you?
13:05Well, you said it. Me and Frank cut from the same cloth. We understood each other.
13:09Oh, you'll be telling me he wanted you for your mind.
13:13We were soul mates.
13:14Oh, will you listen to yourself, you stupid, fat old tart? The only thing Frank Butcher wanted from you was
13:25sex.
13:28Oh, well, let's say you're right, then. Could that be because he wasn't getting enough at home?
13:33Did he say that? Just a thought.
13:35Did you talk about me?
13:36Well, I said something.
13:37How dare you!
13:39About not being quite satisfied.
13:40Get out of my pub!
13:42With pleasure.
13:46Oh, and just remember this, Peggy.
13:49It was my pub before it was yours.
13:52Mine and Frank's.
13:54This was my kitchen.
13:55Along the hall was my bedroom.
13:57Mine and Frank's bedroom.
13:59We were happy here.
14:00You bitch!
14:03You kill!
14:32What's going on, Aunty Peg?
14:34We're having the wake, but this is my pub, and we're gonna do it my way.
14:38No banners, no streamers, and no balloons!
14:46Hello, Daddy.
14:48It's only me.
14:50Just wondering if you had time to think any more about the deposit on the flat.
14:55Oh, you're so gorgeous, Daddy. I know you just love it when you see it.
15:00You all right, Pat? This is my food.
15:01I want a word with you.
15:02Melinda.
15:03And Diane. Now.
15:06Old Pat, just in time for a cuppa.
15:11Why didn't you tell me Frank was ill?
15:13We did. I mean, before he died.
15:16Dad didn't want you to...
15:17You had no right to keep it a secret from me.
15:19Yeah, but Dad said that you...
15:20I should have been allowed to say goodbye.
15:22He wanted to remember you have a smile on your face.
15:24And what about me? What'd I want?
15:28I loved your father.
15:29Doesn't that count for anything?
15:31Yeah, it does.
15:32I'm gonna give her the present, Ricky.
15:34What present?
15:35He said we should wait until after the funeral, didn't he?
15:37He said it would make her feel better about him.
15:45What is it?
15:47I don't know. He wouldn't tell us.
15:49Said it was for your eyes only.
15:52Wrapped it himself.
15:54Practically the last thing he did.
15:56He told us to say that you should be on your own when you open it.
16:14Hello. I'm Melinda.
16:16We're coming here.
16:23A little bit later.
16:29Or...
16:39a little bit later.
16:40What do you think...
16:40I don't know.
16:40He's just going to look after him.
16:40A little bit later.
16:46I'm here to go.
17:28Are you OK?
17:30I'm going to show my face at this funeral.
17:33I'm going to say the right words, nod in the right places,
17:37but none of it's going to mean a thing.
17:40It's an act.
17:42Frank Butcher is dead and gone,
17:44and I couldn't care less.
17:48I don't give a fig.
18:14I don't give a fig.
18:18I don't give a fig.
18:29I don't give a fig.
18:30Pat, they had a horse and carriage when they were married.
18:34Do you remember?
18:35Yeah.
18:36That's why I wanted one today.
18:37I don't give a fig.
18:37I don't give a fig.
18:50I don't give a fig.
19:04I don't give a fig.
19:09I don't give a fig.
19:24I don't give a fig.
19:31I don't give a fig.
19:35I don't give a fig.
19:39Bianca promised.
19:40Perhaps she's gone straight to the creme.
19:50Don't seem real that he's gone.
19:54No.
19:55It only seems two minutes since you was getting married there in the square.
20:00Two minutes is nearly 20 years, Dot.
20:04That was a happy day.
20:07Yeah.
20:09So many people there.
20:11So many of them gone.
20:14Cathy.
20:15Arthur.
20:16Pauline.
20:17Pete.
20:18Ethel.
20:20So many of them gone.
20:24It's time to leave.
20:32The grieving widow.
20:35She'll be weeping and wailing next hour.
20:37She makes me sick.
20:39Come on, I said I'd give Dot a lift.
20:57I can't cry.
20:59I wish I could, but I can't.
21:05I can't cry.
21:08I can't cry.
21:09Oh, such an idiot.
21:10I can't cry.
21:11Thank you, man.
21:11It will be forever.
21:16Oh, swipe.
21:16I'll never fall.
21:23I'll never fall in love.
21:36Well, it seems like a lot of effort to me for some bloke who legged it years ago.
21:39I don't think Pat's ever really gone over him.
21:42No?
21:43She still keeps a picture of him in her bedroom, you know.
21:46She really loved him.
21:48Yeah, love.
21:49I don't know if I know what love is.
21:50Foxy!
21:52You've got to believe in love.
21:54Why?
21:55Because love makes the world go round.
21:57That's all, like, everything.
22:01It's not good.
22:07It'd be fun.
22:07And then the friction.
22:07And the slime is at the end.
22:08It looks like a hundred and a bit.
22:08I'm not sure.
22:09You know, we'll put a mess on a side.
22:09That's all.
22:11I'll just take a moment.
22:11It's time for hours.
22:14It's time for hours.
22:14You know, we will drink.
22:15It's time for hours.
22:16It's time for hours.
22:16It's time for hours.
22:16When you're next to a lot of hours.
22:16It's time for hours to enjoy.
22:16It's time for hours to make a chill and quiet.
22:17But it's time for hours.
22:26It's time for hours to do nothing.
22:43Hello, Pat.
22:47Janine.
22:50You made it, then.
22:51I should have called you.
22:52You're here now.
22:54That's what matters.
22:56Isn't it awful?
22:58I think Dad's gone.
23:02We're orphans, Al.
23:05Janine's there.
23:06Your baby sister.
23:07I'm pretty.
23:09Oh, it's Daddy.
23:11Hello, Daddy.
23:12Nice car.
23:14Yeah, it's OK.
23:16Pricey?
23:17I'm thinking of changing it, actually.
23:19Maybe getting something a bit bigger.
23:21You doing OK, then?
23:22I get by.
23:24Janine.
23:25How could she afford a car like that?
23:28I've read to think.
23:31Bianca?
23:34It's good to see you.
23:38What's the matter with him?
23:39He just wants Liam here.
23:41So, how are you?
23:43Yeah, I'm OK.
23:45You?
23:45Are you still in front?
23:47Yeah, I'm starting nursing training next month.
23:49Oh, great.
23:50My partner's just qualified as a doctor.
23:52Oh, so you've settled down, then?
23:53Yeah, nearly three years now.
23:55Oh, what's his name?
23:58Suzanne.
24:00Great.
24:01I'm not going to beg, Dad.
24:03It's only 25 grand.
24:05You wouldn't even notice it.
24:11Janine?
24:14Looking well.
24:16He's getting fish and chips.
24:18Yeah, pays mortgage, isn't he?
24:21I'm sorry to hear about you, Dad.
24:26Oh, Billy.
24:28Hello, mate.
24:29All right?
24:30I am.
24:31So, you know, I'm really sorry.
24:35Yeah, me too.
24:37How's my little dog?
24:38Terence.
24:39Yeah, yeah, he's good.
24:41You?
24:42I'm married now.
24:44Lucky lady.
24:46I've, um, got a little boy and a little girl, see?
24:51That's fantastic, Billy.
24:54I don't think he's such a big thing to have my son in,
24:56to say goodbye to his granddad.
24:59Well, prodigal return, though.
25:02I know why you're here, Janine,
25:03but don't worry, you haven't missed the will.
25:06I'm not here for the will.
25:09I'm here to mourn my father.
25:12Oh, right.
25:13I must be in that parallel universe
25:15where I get to be 25 for the rest of my life
25:17and you get to be a decent human being.
25:20You looked after me when I was little, Pat.
25:24I used to think of you as my mum.
25:27Can't have been easy for you.
25:29Lumbered with a snivelling little kid.
25:33I didn't see it as lumbered.
25:36Thank you for saying that.
25:39And thank you for looking after me.
25:56Excuse me, I was married to him.
25:59Can I have a moment, please?
26:09You should have let me know, Frank.
26:12I'd have held your hand.
26:13We'd have had a laugh.
26:15We'd have remembered the good times.
26:17So many good times.
26:20Oh, stupid cow that I am.
26:22I always assumed there'd be more good times ahead.
26:25And someday we'd sort it all out
26:27and have a laugh again.
26:31Thanks for the bow tie, by the way.
26:33That was a nice touch.
26:36Anyway, as they say,
26:38one good turn deserves another.
26:41And you've always said she loved me in red.
26:44So, Frank, darling.
26:46This is for you.
26:54Pat.
26:56They want us to go in.
27:07Bye, love.
27:10Scarlet.
27:11At a funeral?
27:13Give it a rest, Mum, will you?
27:15What does she think she's doing?
27:25Your father will be looking down from heaven
27:28and smiling to see you here.
27:30He loved you.
27:32He loved us all.
27:33Ah, but he had a special soft spot for you,
27:37his baby.
27:39You were always his favourite.
27:42He's still winning.
27:44I don't know what you mean.
27:45He must be laughing his head off in that box.
27:48He's still coming between you and your best friend.
27:51Pat's not my best friend.
27:53That'd be why you're so upset about her going to live in Spain.
27:57I don't care if she's leaving.
27:59I don't care one little bit.
28:01You care.
28:22I'll see you.
28:37Please stand.
28:41When I fall in love, it will be forever.
28:53Or I'll never fall in love.
29:04In a restless world like this is, love isn't yet before it's begun.
29:18I'll never fall in love, it will be forever.
29:31We brought nothing into the world and we take nothing out.
29:35The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away.
29:41Blessed be the name of the Lord.
29:44We have come here today to remember before God our brother Francis Aloysius.
29:50And to give thanks for his life.
29:55Well, I'll say Bianca.
29:57I personally never had the pleasure of meeting Francis.
30:01But I understand that he was a...
30:03Dirty old man!
30:05Take your hand, not me!
30:07I'll tell the social on you I will!
30:09Where are we supposed to go?
30:11Morgan's only two!
30:13Me, three.
30:18Did you hear me?
30:20He'll hear this.
30:21Chug him through the window!
30:23Liam!
30:26He's not worth it.
30:27He's not what?
30:30Well, maybe he is, but we're better than that!
30:34Please!
30:35I just want to talk to you!
30:37I know we've had a couple of problems, but I'm begging you!
30:56Quick!
31:01Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust.
31:08Ensure certain hope of the resurrection to eternal life through our Lord Jesus Christ,
31:15who will transform our frail bodies, that they may be conformed to his glorious body,
31:22who died, was buried, and rose again for us.
31:27To him be glory forever.
31:30Ever.
31:36Take care of yourself, mate.
31:41Part of your kole
31:42is Sam.
31:42No one tiny communist we are thankful away!
31:50just
31:51this day we did not allow you to weary your fear even then never to see,
31:52press it or not any other resides.
31:53May we be rejoicing by Jesus Christ,
31:54You