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work today dad oh no no part of what you do i'm busy busy busy like what well

you know mow the graveyard be the paper to the brigadier and um uh practice the

trumpet all right all right and then of course there's my secret life of course

retirement is wonderful get off speaking of secret lives where's steven

i'll rephrase that where's derrick penny those who knew

Stephen Crane, speak of a man with a great heart, an

adventurer, content to endure the isolation and danger of life

on an oil rig in the Middle East, simply to support his mother, wife,

and little child in the manner he thought they deserved.

Everything about Stephen's life, even the tragic, heroic circumstances

of his death, fighting the fire that claimed so many lives,

proclaims him to be a man whose loyalty to his friends

and loved ones was truly legendary.

Sammy. Oh, God.

They'll be here any minute.

Why'd you go like that, Pet?

You all right, Pet?

Any lager in the fridge, Pet?

Leave a note.

We'll go and look at the sea somewhere, eh?

Take a long walk.

No.

No.

I can deal with it.

You know what was in that coffin, Derek?

Don't.

Not much.

Industrial accident.

Your course didn't have provided for it.

The insurance have already called.

Please.

I'm sorry.

I keep forgetting.

You loved him too.

Here's Eichel.

Well, you stay.

I've got something of yours.

I handed down the back of a chair.

Would have given it to you ages ago, but we didn't know how to find you.

It's not a wedding, Tommy.

You don't skip the choice and rock up at the reception.

Where you going?

Got an appointment.

See this?

Yeah? This is how the law got onto me in 81.

They found it when they nicked Steve and then kept his evidence in case they

ever got hold of me.

What's it doing in your eye, man?

Exactly.

Penny.

Hmm?

How about dinner tonight?

In town.

We could talk shop all evening and people wouldn't complain.

Don't think so, Martha.

Fine.

Not... I mean... Not just yet.

But thank you very much.

Fine.

Of course.

Naturally. Am I allowed to buy you a hot chocolate?

Full of E numbers.

Yes, please.

Have they come?

Have they come?

Let me see.

Let's see.

Two tickets.

Heathrow to Sydney. God,

isn't it brilliant? Aren't you excited?

I'm very excited.

So, there we are.

Good news.

Unfortunately, this is not good enough.

What's wrong with it?

Douglas Motors must expand. Companies that stand still die, Stephen. An

elementary truth that you should recognise.

There is a clearly delineated plan of development. But not enough, not fast

enough, not enough.

Ambitious! I want a hundred new jobs at Douglas by the start of the financial

year. Pierce will release money for this from Claiborne, yes?

Of course.

You'll present me with a strategy by the end of the week. Just a moment.

No more moments, please.

You will do as I instruct you. I've much to attend to here.

Goodbye, Steven.

I'll get so fat I'll be gross.

Go on, get them down, yeah.

I suppose I'm feeding you cold, aren't I?

Oi!

You don't bring me chocolate, then stuff yourself, bastard.

Listen, you know your dad?

You're questioning my parentage. What's the matter with him these days?

For one rather pleasant moment, Stephen, I actually thought you'd come here to

cheer me up.

You know I never talk to you when I want information.

You know The Probe?

It's a magazine based in New York.

The usual filth buggering, but backed up by a lot more money. Very, very

powerful. They say what they like about who the hell they like.

Everybody listens.

What, they're investigating your father?

In depth.

He keeps getting letters from the editor wanting an interview. Sir, confirm or

deny.

I see.

What do you see?

I see exactly what he's doing with Douglas Motors.

He wants to be seen as a business builder, not an asset stripper.

Sounds about right.

A lot of his projects need to be going under at the moment, I don't know.

He's worried.

What's the matter with you, anyway?

Piers turned me over, did he tell you?

That's not quite how he put it.

Yeah, well, he wouldn't, would he?

You need to put a cigarette on the end of that to make smoke come out.

Somebody else turned me over a long time ago.

Why rhythmed extra?

It's funny, Angie.

What's funny?

Well, this.

Why? I mean, it should be so... so foreign, but it isn't. I mean, I always

thought I'd be too scared to do something like this.

But there's nothing shocking about her.

Old -ish.

And, uh... Oh.

It's just so strange that it's actually me.

Here with you.

I'm not alone.

And I'm not afraid.

What?

Back to work.

Ever considered retirement, Angie?

I can recommend it. A word of advice in advance.

Never, never try to make me give this up. I get that every day and it makes me

angry. I do it because I'm good at it and I need the money, OK?

OK.

The idea itself, I have to say, sounds good.

What? I agree we've created an appetite for the product. Let's feed the punters.

What do you say?

I'd say it was probably inevitable.

Go with the flow.

Think of the extra jobs.

I am thinking of the extra bloody jobs.

I could have been here today.

That was the general opinion.

Why did you give me all this grief, Victoria?

You know I only want you for mindless sex.

Earn it.

Tell me a story.

Okay.

Okay, I'll tell you a story.

It's about a bloke called Derek.

Go on.

Long time ago, Derek had a best friend called Stephen.

Stop me when this gets too confusing for you.

Derek had this little scam.

Oh, what is it? Which you persuaded Stephen to come in on.

What they'd do right is they'd rent a house near the university, then sublet

to a whole bunch of students, masses of students, all putting down a deposit.

Then the day before they're all supposed to move in, Derek and Stephen would do

a runner with the cash, rent a house somewhere else.

Leaving a great ruck of students arguing on the doorstep.

Yeah.

I don't like the story.

I don't like the people in it.

The university, of course, got wise.

The police were called.

Stephen got nicked. Derek got away.

The police grilled Stephen for 16 hours. He told them nothing.

But they found this.

Derek's name on it.

Steve had never been in trouble with the police before, so he got off with

probation. It was Derek they wanted.

They showed up at his house with a warrant.

But he got away down a drainpipe.

And ran.

Kept on running.

How do you know it was this that gave you away?

I lent it to Steve and afterwards he couldn't find it.

It was the only possible connection between us.

Steve felt so bad about it.

When he got a job abroad, he let me use his name.

His whole identity.

But the police didn't have this, you see.

He had it.

So he lied.

He gave the police your name.

We were so close, Victoria. I can't believe it.

Now this stupid bastard's gone and died and I never had the chance to tell him

that it wouldn't have mattered.

It wouldn't have mattered.

But...

It's an ideal of honour, right?

Of love.

That I've built my life around.

That Stephen took the heat for me simply because he was my friend.

If that was all a lie... Forget it.

All right, so where are they going to live then, eh?

What, Franklin going to build a bloody tower block in the village?

25 stories of happy mechanics.

I can't see how they're going to fit another 100 people in here.

Well, they won't, Fico. They'd bang a shed up in a car park, wouldn't they?

-ride benches, video surveillance.

Shazam. Battery ends, Bill.

Nothing to say about the money.

You had a robot get some of this.

Oh, sod, all he can do is gesture his gaffer.

Look, what we've got here is a major policy decision without consultation.

Right. Without any offer of compensation.

How do you mean, compensation?

Dink, this is going to change our lives. Wake up!

I'm going.

I've got the tickets.

That's brilliant.

Liar.

Why a liar?

You don't think it's brilliant. You think it's insane.

If in doubt, do it.

You'll always regret it if you don't.

That was my only role that was ever number one.

Yeah, it's funny. I was lying in bed with Sonia the other night watching the

documentary about Khrushchev. What a wild and wonderful sex life he was

There was a big party conference.

Someone had submitted a written question anonymously.

It asked Khrushchev, what were you doing when Stalin was murdering our people?

He read out the question.

And then he said, who sent me this?

And nobody put their hand up.

So he said, there.

That's what I was doing.

I was watching this.

And I thought, me too.

I've never once put my hand up.

And I want to do it.

Even if I regret it for the rest of my life.

Because I can't keep on wishing that I was somewhere else.

Wondering what it would be like.

Not knowing.

It's not knowing that's so awful.

Agreed.

What's agreed?

Tell her, child. Franklin has to negotiate.

Franklin won't negotiate. He has to. This is ridiculous. No, he won't.

So what are we agreed about?

The floor is withdrawing its support as of next week.

Oh, God.

What does that mean?

It means they're going to strike unless Stephen can get Franklin to the table,

which is what he's going to have to do.

Dad, hasn't Stephen told you what kind of a mood Franklin's in? I haven't seen

him, but I've heard what this lot have to say, and I'm with them 100%.

Yes.

Whoa, Penny.

Whoa and nothing.

You're going to get drunk with me.

I think it's the least you can do.

Cheers.

It could not conceivably have come at a worse time.

There's a certainty about that that's almost reassuring.

Being a communist, I suppose you approve.

I appreciate that things are difficult.

I mean, Stephen isn't here half the time, and even when he is, he isn't.

Daddy's going potty.

Gavin's pissing off to Australia with the pneumatic Sonia Morris.

That's definite.

He rang to ask if he could come round tomorrow and say goodbye to the

You said yes?

I said yes.

Couldn't really say anything else, could I?

Well, you could have done, if you think about it.

What are you suggesting?

I'm suggesting, and I may be completely wrong, so don't take offence, that

you're still in love with your husband.

You're right, of course.

I love him.

What a bastard that man is.

Yeah, and another thing. You've got to put your knickers on outside your

trousers. Supercrane, one more time. Why? We need you to talk to Franklin.

we're stuffed.

You'll have to see him tomorrow.

Say who? Yeah, well, you, hopefully.

Stephen. Look, things just aren't right at the moment.

Yeah, tell me about it, all right? With very little time. Listen!

There's something I've got to sort out for me.

Understand? Yeah, well, next week. Tomorrow.

Tomorrow, Marcus, I am going home.

I've got to know, see.

I've got to know.

Willie, do you fancy a drink?

A bit early for me, Marcus, but you go ahead.

Here, listen.

I've been doing some asking.

And to be honest with you, Willie, it doesn't look like there's a job for you.

Just at the moment.

I'm sorry, I know, Steve.

Look, I'm really sorry, eh?

I'm not too proud to clean lavvies, you know.

Yeah, well, you're not cleaning any lavvies round here, man. Forget it.

You're a driver. You drive cars, right?

Right.

Tell you what, now.

Why don't I go home for a wee while? You here, if anything, you give me a

tinkle, OK?

I'll make some phone calls.

Mind how you go, Willie.

Gavin, Gavin, Gavin!

Yes, yes, yes.

What if Colin doesn't come and get me?

Colin is on his way. I've just spoken to him.

Yeah, but... Now, listen.

Ten minutes.

Just as long as it takes to say goodbye.

That's all.

Now,

we want no tears today, please. No fuss.

Tom? Have you brushed your teeth?

Yeah.

But he won't want to go to Australia thinking what a pair of misery guts you

now, will he?

Where's your hanky? I haven't got one.

I gave you one five minutes ago. What have you done with it?

I don't know, darling.

Please don't.

Oh, you stupid boy, now look what you've done.

The door's open.

Everything all right?

Mr. Franklin, it takes at least four years to train a craftsman until he is

to make his part of the leopard.

Alas, Mr.

Douglas, have you got world enough and time?

Sorry,

Mr. Douglas, I've given the management my instructions.

If the management cannot fulfill them, it will have to be replaced.

You must excuse me. I'm having an accident.

What the hell?

You got any ideas?

I'm trying to think like Stephen.

I wouldn't do that if I were you. You'd be sick.

What do you

want,

Derek?

What's on your mind?

Stephen.

What about him?

Alex, I think you're the strongest person I've ever met.

You're going to tell me something terrible now, aren't you?

No, but I want to ask you a question.

Is it possible that Stephen shot me to the police?

I don't care, Alex. I just want to know.

Do you know?

Do you know how much Stephen worshipped you?

Listen, I should never... I had to beg him, Derek.

I had to beg him not to tell them that it was all his fault, that you had

nothing to do with it.

Jesus, if he could hear you say that.

I'm sorry.

You should be.

Now go, will you?

I want to honour my dead a little longer before people like you start to spit on

his corpse.

Oh, that was about 12.

Listen. Being married is a bit of a strain.

You have to be everything to each other all the time.

Like best friends all the time.

It's not just about love and being parents, see?

It's money, houses, making decisions about the future.

About the past.

It's almost too much to expect of two people on their own.

Mummy and I came to the conclusion that we found out that

I need a bit of outside help.

Basically, if I need that kind of help, it's a weakness.

Which means that I'm not good enough for mummy.

Or that the situation isn't good enough.

Either way, we've got to stop the whole thing and start

again.

From scratch.

Does mummy love you anymore?

No.

No, I don't believe she does.

That's all you have to do.

That's the only thing you ever have to do.

Look after mum.

Yeah.

Even when she's being cross with you.

That's all part of it.

You okay?

Yeah.

Right, I can go.

Promise you won't forget.

Now the biggest boomerang I can find.

As soon as I get there.

I'll be in touch.

What for?

See how you are?

See who I am now.

Listen, Penny.

Safe journey, Gavin.

Goodbye.

Hey, have you got your passport?

No, actually. I threw it in the bin. I didn't think I'd need it.

Look, if it doesn't work out, come home.

Ring me. I'll buy you something.

It will work.

I have no interest in chauffeurs. It's a dead weight for this mystery this year.

You cannot play with the telephone on drive, Daddy. It's illegal.

One day you'll have a really bad accident and you'll get killed and I

forgive you.

Did you play cricket?

Not really, sir. Good. This thrust manner of play cricket.

Bless you.

And another thing. What?

This is a transparent conspiracy.

I had a small misfortune with a bollard and within two hours you're selling me a

driver. So you're patently unwell and should be in bed. I'm perfectly all

This is presumably a manoeuvre of Stephen Crane's.

Stop!

Your reactions are good. Continue.

Crane, no?

You're

not

locked the door again, Tommy.

Relax.

I've only come to read the papers.

What's

this

then? Big brown envelope.

All the pressure out of the box.

I threw it away.

Didn't want the law to find it.

Didn't throw it far enough.

It's the worst time lie I ever heard, Tommy. That's your point.

Hey!

Get it!

Cut it out.

Forget about the past. Forget about us. Come on, piss off.

Forget about the past.

That's called hypocrisy, isn't it?

This probe affair weighs on me like lead.

I'm sorry.

The last thing I wanted to do was add to your problems.

You tried.

Douglas Motors is a fine little business, Joanna, but I've indulged it

enough.

Start testing medicine to grow so fast.

But next year, detect me.

Daddy, be careful of Stephen.

Piers told me what he did to Jimmy Blake.

Ah.

Sure.

If you'd like to take your boarding pass and go through, Miss Morris, I'll have

all this ready when Miss Nichols arrives.

It'd save a bit of time.

You drove for Jimmy Black.

Yes, sir. Pleasant experience?

Hell on earth, sir.

I like you, Willie.

Thank you, sir.

Buy a decent suit.

Yes, sir.

Now, take me to Douglas Motors.

Douglas Motors?

I believe that's what I said.

Would you not care to sit in the back, sir?

Really, our relationship will not progress well if you insist on

everything I say and do. Get in.

Sorry, sir.

I want to hear stories about Jimmy Blake.

Last call for passengers on Ausair flight OZ164747 service to

Bombay, Singapore, Perth, Melbourne and Sydney.

All passengers should proceed to gate 18.

Gate 18, Mr. Nichols. Run!

All passengers to flight OZ1647 to Bombay, Singapore,

Perth. Melbourne and Sydney, please proceed to gate 18.

I knew you'd be here.

I knew it. I love you, Gavin. I knew you'd make it.

You're not coming.

You're not coming. You've come to say goodbye.

Come and go.

Can't go.

That is a kid you will never forget.

I wish you... I had no idea any of this was happening.

She... Don't say anything.

Just stand absolutely still.

Mr. Franklin, do come in.

This time is inconvenient?

Not in the slightest.

Take a seat.

Now, what can we do for you?

I was in the vicinity. I wish to speak with Stephen.

He's not here, I'm afraid.

Then I should like to leave a message.

Not a good time.

Why don't you take a walk? Ten minutes, come back later.

Well, I, um... I tend to get lost around here, Angie.

Goodbye. Some other time, maybe.

He came here, Stephen, specifically to see you. Why didn't he wait? How the

should I know? He'd probably have to go and buy the NEC or something. But the

main thing is, he's offered us a way out, and it's dead bloody simple.

He wants a favour, and it's a little thing he said to himself.

We promised you'd get back to him. I know what the favour is. It is not

Well, we wouldn't want to put you out.

Gerald. It's a probe, Marcus.

Do you know, as well as I do, I can't afford to draw their fire. I've got more

history than Stonehenge.

But why don't you think about it?

Why don't I do that?

You used me to bargain with behind my back and this is what you get.

Marty makes the world go on. How did you get in here?

With a key.

I didn't give you a key.

Probably why I had to get one cut.

Vodka, latte, vegetable lasagna.

Sit down.

Vegetable lasagna.

One has to be very careful what one eats.

Otherwise it tends to drop off one's fork.

Drink this.

It'll make me sound witty.

There isn't that much wine in the world.

Look, I appreciate this is a surprise and everything, but I just don't like

idea... Ward's Law.

Rule number one.

Piers.

What?

Stop trying to be like Stephen all the time.

I've been there. I've done that. I don't want it again. I want you.

I don't want a man who steals 300 grand from flavors and splits it with Jimmy

Blake.

It was Stephen that did that, wasn't it?

Oh, God, it was you.

You lied to me.

It was brilliant, Jo.

Stephen would never have followed it through.

He's too soft.

Get out.

Get out.

Who?

Yeah?

These students. They were all girls.

What a shit.

Who?

Me.

Well, they were just easier to get the money from, that's all.

More thrusting.

What a shit.

The student who said he did not wish to be named said he first began his

business when asked to part with three months deposit in cash.

Don't you see?

You told me yourself the students were all girls.

Do you remember?

He did not wish to be named. Too bloody right he didn't.

He wasn't a student.

And he wasn't me. And he wasn't Steve, because Steve was with me all the time.

Do you remember? You used to call me the man in the white coat.

Do you still think of me that way?

Don't understand.

There was a... Time in this brief relationship, Stephen, when if I told

do something, you'd do it.

Just for the sheer thrill of obeying me, because it was a new experience for

you.

I've never been so flattered in my life.

Nothing's changed.

Then do as I say, Stephen. Please, leave this thing alone.

I'm not Stephen.

Oh, you are.

Who the hell else are you? You only exist this way.

Derek loved just another name.

This whole bloody thing is coming between us.

I hate it.

Where are you going?

Beats me, Tommy.

What does? I mean, apart from being a pretty unforgivable, shitty thing to do

your own brother, it's not a very reliable source of income, apparently.

What the hell are you talking about?

I've heard the police sometimes completely forget to pay their grasses.

Isn't that shocking?

How much they pay you, by the way?

They did pay you, didn't they?

Because if they didn't, we really ought to see someone.

I didn't shock you, Derek.

Of course you did. Chuck, that's you all over, isn't it?

You were the only one that knew.

Derek! Weren't you?

It wasn't me!

You weren't the only one that knew.

Hello, Daddy.

Hello.

Meet Daddy.

What are you doing here?

What happened?

I missed my flight.

Where's Sonia?

You're drunk.

I was.

I was very drunk.

What do you want, Gavin?

I want to lie down.

Beside you.

I think... I think if I don't lie down beside you, I'm really going to die.

He is?

Go back one.

What do you want, Steve? Well, it's five o 'clock in the morning.

I want to tell you about my life.

Is it interesting?

Not really.

It just explains a few things, that's all.

Saving me.

From what? A life of crime?

Yeah.

Chucking me head first down the straight and narrow.

Short, sharp shock.

Fathers.

Where did we go wrong?

And he never even had the guts to tell you he'd done it later.

No.

As a family, we're not distinguished by honesty.

Or courage.

I think it was pretty brave of you to dig it all up like that.

Do you?

Yes, I do.

Why isn't that allowed?

There are those who would disagree.

How's Piers?

He's fine.

Yes, he's fine.

Getting on all right?

Yep.

Does he pull your hair for you like I used it?

I'm sorry, what if I asked him to?

How's Victoria?

Fine. Good.

Well, we're all fine then.

Look, Stephen, I must go to sleep now.

Okay, listen.

Thanks a lot.

I really need you just to get it off my chest, you know.

Talk to someone.

Thanks. I'll give you a ring soon, okay?

Okay.

Sleep well.

You always talk to me.

Sorry, I'm a compulsive eavesdropper.

Don't panic. I only heard the last bit.

What's the situation here?

Situation is the boys have confirmed their intention to strike.

General speculation about why you don't get your finger out and do what Franklin

wants you to do.

It's a long story, Robert.

Yes, I know it is.

Derek.

Oh, well, that's that, then.

What do you mean?

I'm obviously in for some heavy -duty blackmail.

Not from me, you're not.

Or from Penny, then.

She gives you any trouble, you send her to me.

Listen, I appreciate that getting mixed up with Franklin can make life very

dangerous for you. But if you do anything, you do it of your own free

not at all.

You wouldn't use what Penny told you to make me do it?

To save your company?

Certainly not.

Why not?

Your family.

I'm gonna do it.