All language subtitles for Seven Of One s01e02 Prisoner and Escort

Right, he's all yours then.

And a Happy New Year, Jock.

I escort you to your New Year's Eve.

And a Happy New Year to you, Fletcher.

Oh, yes, very witty, very true, yes.

Norman Stanley Fletcher, you have
pleaded guilty to the charges brought by

court, and it is now my duty to pass
sentence.

You are an habitual criminal who accepts
arrest as an occupational hazard and

presumably accepts imprisonment in the
same casual manner.

We therefore feel constrained to commit
you to the maximum term allowed for

these offences. You will go to prison
for five years.

You wish to address the court?

Cobblers.

What? What Brian Clough says about
London Clough. Look at that. That is my

paper.

Can I have a look at your dirty book,
then?

Get your own.

How can I get my own? We're in motion,
aren't we? You should have thought that

before you left the station. Look, when
we left the station, I wasn't even

allowed a Jimmy Riddle, was I? Shut your
mouth!

You can have a look at my angling times,
if you like. I can't.

God almighty, Molly Codden already.

People seem to forget what prison is
for.

He's paying a debt to society, not
having an all -expenses -paid holiday

privileges and magazines.

You're going to prison to be punished.

I spy with my little eye something
beginning with C.

Now you watch it, sonny, watch it.

Constable.

Look, don't you come up with me now. No,
I wouldn't, Mr. Mackay, I wouldn't,

would I?

Otherwise, you'll wait till the train
gets a bit of speed up outside MLM City

and chuck me out the window, wouldn't
you?

Put it down on the official report as
attempted escape.

He wouldn't do that.

No, I suppose not.

He couldn't spell MLM City. Wait till we
got to rugby.

I'm a reasonable one, but one more
allegation of brutality and I'm going to

you have it. Look, we've just got a long
journey in front of us. Now, we don't

want to conduct it in an atmosphere of
hostility and aggression, do we? Now,

don't we all have a nice cup of tea?
Both take milk and sugar.

Oh, no, you sit still.

I'll get them. Oh, well, I'll pay then.
Now, is there anything you want?

A tea with two sugars. I want one of
them individual proof.

He's a giggle, isn't he?

Well, perhaps it's because we're being
Scots, you know, and missing Hogman

there. Well, they take it very
seriously, these Scots. Oh, yeah.

Well, they take any excuse for drinking
seriously, don't they, eh? I mean,

there's nothing social about their
drinking, is there? I mean, it's not a

question of just having a few friends
around and mellowing over a glass of

is it? No.

They just drink to get drunk, don't
they, eh?

Cool, look at her.

There's only one thing worse than a
drunk Scotsman, you know, and that's a

one.

I'm Scots on my mother's side.

Are you? Oh, that's different, isn't it?
I mean, that's second generation, isn't

it? It's a different thing, isn't it?

Yeah, well, I'm a bit of a mixture,
really. I'm Scots and English and Irish

Polish. Oh, your mum got a bad bit,
didn't she?

No, I didn't mean that. I'm pure London
myself, you know. Yeah, matter of fact,

I'm pure North London.

You go to Marswell Hill, you'll find a
graveyard full of Fletchers there. Oh,

really? Yeah.

Shall I tell you something? Yeah.

There's been a Fletcher around our way
ever since, oh, going right back to

IV, part one.

Oh, I've no heritage, myself. I mean, I
know I had a granddad who was an

ironmonger in Accrington. Oh, now, my
great -granddad was William Wellington

Fletcher. Now, he was the last man in
England to be hung for sheep -stealing.

Get away. Yeah.

And there was Matthew Jarvis Fletcher.
Of course, he was a nougat with Jack

Shepard. That's well known, that is.

Oh, so it runs in the family like this
crime.

Yeah, yeah, probably, yeah.

I know there's a load of Fletchers in
Australia.

Come from a rough neighbourhood?

No, no, no, no. I told you, Muswell
Hill. It's very respectable, Muswell

Suburban, you know.

Broken home?

No, no, they just celebrated their
diamond wedding.

I was just wondering why.

Well, when I left school, I went round
the labour, you know, to appraise the

professional opportunities open to me,
you know what I mean?

And, of course, due to my lack of
scholastic achievement, I was unable to

the professions that I wanted to, like
stop brokering or teaching tennis in a

girls' school.

As I didn't fancy much working in a
cardboard box factory, I robbed his sub

-post office off an old circler.

And you've never looked back since, so
to speak? No, nor have I ever been short

for empty stamps.

What are you being sent down for this
time?

Oh, don't ask.

It'd be a farce if it weren't such a
tragedy. I should have stuck to what I

best, you see, housebreaking, but I
didn't. I lifted this lorry, didn't I,

know? Impulse steel, know what I mean?
Impulse steel. I thought it was going to

be a doddle, didn't I?

I gather it wasn't. No, you know, why
don't you?

Flaming brakes failed on me. Oh, no.
It's criminal the way they let the

on the roads in that condition, you
know?

And he was overloaded and all. So there
I was with five tonne at me back,

roaring down Flaming Archway.

It's a wonder you weren't killed.

I damn nearly was. I went through three
back gardens, crashed right through a

brick wall, finished up with someone's
tool shed.

Did they get you for willful destruction
of property?

No. Well, you know, knocking that wall
down, I mean.

Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah.

And I asked for six other fences to be
taken into consideration.

Get it?

Get it?

Pardon?

Never mind.

Oh, yeah, I'll tell you what. Hang on.

Would you like a bit of this? Oh, no,

you've only got a couple of bits left,
haven't you? Oh, yeah.

What made you take up this lot, then?

Prison service.

Yeah, what made you fancy it like?

Oh, well, I always wanted some vacation
that would enable me to satisfy my

desire to do work of public usefulness
and get a free house and a uniform.

What's your notice, Nick?

Oh, it's very good. Well, it's modern,
you see.

It's experimental. We've got a cricket
pitch and a psychiatrist.

Still bird's bird, don't it? Oh, not in
this place, no.

Now, if you were to take advantage of
our courses, of our many occupational

or recreational activities, well, you
know, if you put your mind to it, you

could come out an intermediate welder or
an accomplished oboe player.

Oh, yeah.

You know, it's a pity you're not in
longer. You could take up civil

Oh, yeah, a pity. Oh, that is a pity,
yeah, yeah.

I'm not doing a ten stretch, innit?

Otherwise I'm going to take my world in
finals and become a doctor of philosophy

and all.

You know, I'm an amateur botanist
myself.

Sometimes I take some of the prisoners
out on the fells and we explore the

natural phenomena of the countryside.

Oh, out on the fells, is it? Aye, it's
lovely views.

Yeah, yeah.

I might put down for that, you know.
Yeah, that might interest me, that,

Yeah, the natural phenomenon of our
countryside.

How far's the nearest railway station?

Well, that's the beauty of it, you see.
We're miles from anywhere.

Ah, aren't we?

You know, we've got an arts and crafts
centre and you could learn woodwork.

Listen, listen, Squire. I don't want no
reconditioning, no resettlement courses.

All I want to do is just mind my own
business, do me porridge and count the

I get out, right? You'll change, you
know. You what?

Oh, yeah.

Oh, even some of the most cynical and
ardent criminals have changed at this

place. Well, you see...

They respond to our methods, you see,
which are not based on correction and

punishment, but on sympathy and
understanding.

Ah, thank you. I forget whether you take
sugar or not, but it makes no

difference because I spilt the most of
yours on the way back.

But what are you going to do about it,
eh?

Where's all his sympathy and
understanding in, eh? What's he doing

this nick, eh?

He'd bring back the birch at the drop of
a helmet, he would. What's the... Mr

Mackay runs several of our group
activities.

Ah, yeah? Like rock -breaking and
compulsory potholing.

How soon have you unshaved plates?

How soon have you a shadow of your
former self? I bet he's the Secretary of

Lord Chief Justice Goddard Appreciation
Society, isn't he?

You keep your nose clean, lad. Just show
me some respect, keep your nose clean,

you'll be all right.

I'm hard, but fair. Yeah, like Leeds
United.

If you like.

You play ball with me, I'll play ball
with you, and you'll find I'm a

man. Oh, yeah.

Can I have a look at your dirty booking
on it? You get to hell.

You have to admire consistency, don't
you?

Try page 24.

Oh, dear.

How far have we got to go, then? About
an hour and a half across the fells. Can

I have a Jimmy Riddle, then?

I did think of it before.

There's been nothing else on my mind for
ages.

Why are you so reluctant to let me go to
the lavatory?

I don't see what you mean.

Well, you'd better let him go. We can't
stop in transit.

All right, then.

Run to back.

Thanks, Mr. McGuire.

I'm no mechanic.

Plugs in it.

Ignition.

Put the bracelets on him.

And don't you be thinking fate has given
you a last chance of freedom.

Don't believe in fate.

Turns out the carburetor.

Have to get a bus then, won't we?

What bus?

Well, it's a lift then.

Who drives round here on New Year's Eve?

Who drives round here any time?

It's a bit parky, isn't it?

It'll be dark soon.

God almighty!

Don't you know how to fix it, then?

Hasn't one of your many instructional
courses taught you how to cope with

mechanical failure?

It's survival we'll want out here.

It'll be dark soon.

And they forecast snow.

Pull yourself together, Mr.

Barraclough. There's no need to take it
out on him, is there? Look, there's one

thing for it. I am going on.

I'm going on to the prison. Now, listen
to me.

You do not move. You do not move from
here, and you do not take the bracelets

off of him.

Right? Right, Mr. McKay.

And you, behave yourself.

Right, Mr. McKay.

Oh, sorry.

Sorry.

God,

by the time they get to us, we shall be
dead from exposure.

Like Robert Taylor in that picture.

What picture? Oh, it was a western about
buffalo hunting in the deep frozen

north. He had to spend all night out of
doors.

Up a tree he was.

Why was he up a tree?

Huh? Oh, he was avoiding the marauding
buffalo, driven half crazy by the

cold. Oh, yes, marauding buffalo. Driven
half crazy by the extreme cold.

Butters will be in about an hour, you
know.

Got any farms or houses round here?

Well, there's a cottage not far.

Well, let's go there then.

Oh, no, no, we can't do that, no. Mr
Mackay said we had to wait in the van.

Oh, well, we'll die in the van then, I
don't think.

Anyway, to be all locked up, I mean,
they only use it in the summer.

So what?

Well, how will we get in? Oh, Mr
Barraclough.

I'm only a flaming housebreaker, ain't
I?

Oh, I wish we had a drop of milk.

It's the hot drink that counts, isn't
it?

And you'd think they'd have had a bit of
sugar about, wouldn't you?

Yeah. Here, hang on. Wait a minute.

Try a drop of this in it. Here, hold
that. Oh, no, I don't drink.

What is it?

Scotch. Oh, no, I'm on duty.

That's all right. It's medicinal, this
is. This will revive us.

Take the chill out of our numb bones,
this will.

Where did you get it?

It must have accidentally fallen out of
Mr Mackay's pocket when he got out of

the van.

You stole it. No, I didn't.

I told you it fell off the back of the
van.

Is whiskey medicinal?

Oh, yeah.

Well, I always feel better when I've had
a few.

Well, if it's medicinal, then it is New
Year's Eve, isn't it?

That's it, no.

What do you mean, New Year's Eve? Look
here, look. It's got past its New Year

already, hasn't it? It is. Well, all the
best then. Happy New Year. Cheers.

Oh, sorry. Go on.

It's like the defiant ones, isn't it?

I beg your pardon? That was a picture,
that was. Defiant ones. Did you see

That was about two convicts who were on
the run, you know. They were chained

together like this. Yeah, yeah.

Only one of them was black and one was
white.

Yeah. If you had a bit of colour blood
in you instead of all that Polish

rubbish, you could be Sidney Poitier to
my Tony Curtis, couldn't you?

You know, we have a cinema club at the
prison.

See, only last Tuesday we showed
Irrigation in the Gobi Desert.

Now, that was on the same bill as Birds
of the Farne Islands.

Oh, standing room only, was it?

Oh, no, funny, there wasn't much of a
turnout that night. Oh, I'm amazed.

You know, my wife likes the pictures,
but we don't go much these days. Oh,

no wonder. It's so flaming remote up
here, and it's stuck in the middle of

Cumberland. Where are you going to find
a cinema?

Oh, well, that's the trouble, you see.

No, my wife feels very, very bad about
being deprived of the excitement and the

amenities that a city can offer, you
know.

She's always... Terribly unsettled
whenever we come back from our monthly

trip to Workington. Oh, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, I can understand how the lights of
Workington would turn a young girl's

head, yeah.

What do you mean? Well, come on, mate. I
mean it is in Workington. They haven't

even got Christianity up here yet.

You can't even go to a church social,
can you?

No, it's different for you Londoners.
You know, my wife's always wanted to be

cosmopolitan. I suppose I should have
put in for a transfer to the Scrubs or

Brixton. Yeah.

Oh, well, if you go to Brixton, of
course, now you've got to be Sidney

ain't you?

It's too late now.

Yeah.

So your old lady, she feels a bit
deprived, is it?

Oh, well, she... She sees a future of
frustrated ambition stretching before

Doesn't like what I do, you know, or
where we live.

Oh, so over the years, she's...

grown bitter and unsettled, full of
restless urges, which have manifested

themselves in different ways, like, you
know, like bad temper and spots and

sleeping with the postman.

Well, there have been liaisons with
other men, you know. Oh, we, you know,

got to rowing all the time and, oh,
things went from bad to worse. In the

we went to see this marriage guidance
counsellor. Oh, yeah. That helped, did

Well, it helped her. She ran off with
him.

Well, you're well out of it then, ain't
you, eh?

You're well out of an old slag like
that, ain't you, eh?

She's come back.

Well,

people change, don't they?

I blame myself, really, you know.

Yeah, what?

I'm a failure, you know.

No, I'm only hanging on to this job with
the skin of me teeth, you know.

Oh, well, I got so depressed, I... Well,
I thought I'd better go and see the

prison psychiatric department, you know,
let them have a look at me inferiority

complex.

Well, not a complex, really. I'm
inferior.

Oh, come on, mate. Look, I don't know
you very well, but I know you're the

of man with compassion and kindness and
that sort of thing. I mean, that's not

the sort of thing you can buy, is it,
eh? I mean, would you swap that for a

colour telly or a penthouse in
Workington? Of course you wouldn't.

I don't suppose I would. Here, I'll
finish this off. Oh, no, no, no.

Look, you see, it's no good going
through life wishing you were something

is it? I mean, you are fulfilled.

You're doing the job you've always
wanted to do, ain't you?

I mean, you've got to say to yourself,

This is what I am.

I am what I am.

And when it's all over, you can look God
straight in the eye and say, I've done

it my way.

I've done it my way.

Confidence in yourself.

Confidence. Trust your own judgment and
initiative.

Initiative. Why don't you take these
handcuffs off?

You know, I've...

I've never talked to anybody, really,
before. Not like I've talked to you

tonight. Yeah.

Why don't you take these handcuffs off?

Handcuffs? Yeah, it's the circulation.
See, it's cutting off the blood supply

me head.

Oh, no, we have rules, you see.

I know, but what about judgment? What
about initiative, eh?

I mean, are you going to do it your way,
or are you going to do it their way?

Confidence in yourself, isn't it?

I'm going to take them off.

I am, you know.

I'm going to take them off because if I
don't, I'll be... I'll be betraying the

prison's principles and me own
principles in not approaching prisoners

sympathy and understanding.

See, now, you... You are a criminal.

You know, you're hereditary and you're
habitual.

But, you see, if we don't show you
trust...

How can you learn trust?

Well, that is... That is irrefutable.

What more can I say?

You know, that... That whiskey's gone to
my head, you know. Yeah.

Oh, I feel quite drowsy.

That's another reason for taking the
handcuffs off, isn't it? We couldn't

down here like babes in the wood, could
we, eh?

You know, I can hardly keep my eyes
open.

Here, why don't you put your feet up?
Come on. Stick your feet up here. That's

it. Get a proper decent bit of shadow.
Come on. I'll get this chair over here,

see? All right?

Oh, you know, I hope you decide to join
my botany group.

Oh, what?

I should give it serious consideration,
Squire.

Ah, you know, Fletcher, I feel a better
man for tonight.

You know, I feel confident. I don't feel
a failure.

Now I feel that for once I've used me
judgment.

And I'm right.

Right? Aye.

Right about you.

That's it.

Mr. Barclough.

Mr. Berkla.

Oh, dear Fletcher.

Oh,

God, you did give me a fright. What are
you doing here?

That's what I like to know.

Oh, dear.

What were you doing with that saucepan?

Huh?

Oh, I was getting some milk, trying to
get some milk, see, for your coffee. I,

uh... I thought it might be a stray cow
about.

You look terrible, you know, so you've
been up all night.

Well, I couldn't sleep, could I?

Well, you know, it was a very nice
thought of yours, but you shouldn't have

it, you know.

Oh, you could have got lost.

Oh, people are always getting lost on
these fells. They wander round in

they do.

one of the governor's blue -eyed boys,
eh?

Yeah. I must be the first man ever to
have earned remission before I even got

here.

Don't give me any of your facetious lip,
Fletcher.

I know you were trying to what one last
night.

On what do you base that supposition,
Mr. McCoy? On the evidence of our motor

mechanics report on the van.

It appears that the petrol tank had more
in it after our journey than before.

What was in the tank was certainly not
five star.

Now, I'm going to be watching you,
Fletcher.

I'm going to be watching you like a
hawk.

Because nobody, nobody goes over the
wall in my prison.

Oh, no, Mr. Mackay, no.

No one would dare take the petrol out of
you.

What did you say to the governor?

What? I said, what did he say to the
governor?

Well, I gave you a rollicking, did he?
No, far from it.

No, he congratulated me on my handling
of the situation.

Praised my ability to keep calm in a
crisis.

Oh, well, that's all right, isn't it?
Oh, but you must have said something.

Well, all I said was that any naughty
thoughts I'd harboured of escaping were

quickly squashed by the coolness and
authority of my escort, Mr. Barraclough.

man whom I later owed my life, knowing
the fact that he forced me from the

vehicle against my wishes to take
shelter against the elements.

supporting and half -carrying my
exhausted body across several miles of

terrain.

Only what anyone would have said,
really.

Did you really mean that, Fletcher? No.

I just thought it was a good idea if you
and I started off the new year on a

good footing with the authorities,
that's all.

I've never been praised before.

Go on. How does it feel?

Oh, wonderful.

You know, Fletcher, you've done a lot
for me this last 24 hours. You've really

given me strength and...

Confidence and, well, friendship.

Is there nothing I can do for you in
return?

Oh, I dare say something will occur to
me over the ensuing months, yes.

Matter of fact, there is one little
thing now.

If you could see your way clear to
getting me some reading matter, nothing

heavy, you know, the odd glossy nude.

Certainly. And when you've turned
yourself round, perhaps we could do

about this cell, like shifting me to
another one that faces south -west.

Because, I mean, I'm never going to get
any sun in here, am I?

Oh, and this botany club of yours, is it
Nature Walks? Is it outside the prison?

Put me down for that, would you, as soon
as possible?

Thanks. It's awfully nice. Listen, I'll
tell you what...

Thank you.