All language subtitles for Clocking Off s01e06 Katherine and Macks Story

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I'm off.

I've just done your soup.

I'm doing breakfast.

No, I've got to go.

Oh, well, thanks a lot.

I think I've got a six o 'clock, but
it's only Pearson's. I'll be back about

seven. I'll ring you.

Up at the window. Through this window.

Right, man with dog. Man with dog. Out
the back. Out the back.

Yeah.

Good morning, Trudy. Matt, hiya. We've
got Ken Fry and Brian Fawcett in at

Oh, well, I know that. I told you that.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, but I left the office
in a bit of a state last night.

Spruce it up a bit for us, will you?

Make me look organised.

I don't think anybody from Fry's would
know whether you're organised or not.

Oh, and make sure we've got coffee and
stuffing.

Biscuits. OK.

Oh, and burn one of your candles.

If there's a Neil's Yard remedy for
inducing low self -esteem, spend what

have to. We need the contract.

OK, I'll see you when you get here.

Did you have him?

Well, I didn't.

He's night security, you work day. Don't
you think you might have slipped up

here? Yeah, I don't even know his name.

Barry. He only works three nights a
week.

Wait!

Is anybody working here?

Come on. Where are we?

He knows you're coming because he's had
a bit of trouble with the roadworks

round there and you can never get a
signal on the mobile, but I'll keep

I'm sorry, Ken, I've forgotten.

Are you black?

Where is Ken?

Mac, come on. I know you're in there.

What's going on, Mac?

Let me in!

What's happened?

I don't know.

She drew cash on the credit card at half
nine.

She must have been there for the bank
opening.

She only do it once because I've
reported all the cards stolen.

Well, if she tries to use them again, at
least I know where she'll be.

If she's decided she's going, what
good's that going to do? She's making a

mistake.

Did you row?

No.

We swapped anniversary cards. I bought
her a watch. I got sex.

Everything was...

Steve. No, no, it's all right. I'm with
him now.

OK, hang on.

OK.

All right, I've got it.

No, no, it's fine.

Yeah, I'll be back as soon as I can.

Catherine's left this number for you.
She'll be there till three.

If I'm ringing you, it's because I need
to, so don't ignore me, all right?

See you, lad.

Can I just say from the top, James, I'm
not a divorce liar.

I just represent the company.

Companies. What have you done?

Mac, I'll talk to you.

I will talk to you. I just want this
clear enough first, OK?

I promise.

This is the most unpleasant position to
be in. If you'd just let me state

Catherine's... Why did you leave me now,
for God's sake?

Because you always managed to talk me
out of it.

If I'd have planned it, I'd have done it
differently, but I didn't. So just hear

what Robert... Will you just tell him?

She wants to sell the factory.

I want you to buy the building from me.

I know it was only a tax dodge, but it's
the only thing anywhere with my name on

it. I just want something so I can go. I
can't afford this thrill.

If I don't go now, I never will.

So?

What's he told you? James, I've said
nothing. You're another one.

You screw in her. Oh, James.

Oh, dear God, this is ridiculous.

I've said absolutely nothing disloyal to
either of you, but you must fake facts.

We shoved you away. That wanky old firm
of yours would have pegged out long

since. You two -faced, fat... Robert,
come on. This is my fault.

Come on. He won't touch you. I won't let
him touch you.

Come on, Robert.

Robert!

Something's wrong.

OK, what's happened?

OK, which way?

Right.

OK, let us in, mate.

OK,

what's this?

He landed face down. My husband tried
catching him and... OK, one way.

You could have said anything in there,
thank you.

I just want a divorce, Mac.

Nobody wants to bury you.

Mr... Mr McIntosh, uh... Peter.

They've, uh, they've got, um... Uh, I
think you've resuscitated my dad.

No, well, um... Well, I just, I did what
I did, uh, to the ambulance guys.

Peter, I'm Catherine McIntosh.

Hello, we've, uh... Well, we haven't
actually, but, uh, you know, I've seen

seen you in the office.

How's Robert?

Well, uh... Yeah, not.

He, uh...

He died ten minutes ago.

Well, he's 15 now, so... Had he been ill
before, Peter?

He asked him to quit work last year and,
you know, angina.

He'd had two minor attacks in the spring
and... Sorry.

Yeah, anyway, so you know what he's
like. I mean, what was he doing around

place that time of night, whatever it
was?

Couldn't have been that vital, could it?

Hmm? No, no.

Could it?

You see?

You see, he's a stubborn old sod, isn't
he? He's a greedy old... Greedy old sod.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry. It's OK.

Convenient?

No.

I need to talk.

Be quick, Barry.

Quick?

What? I meant to be staying.

Well, you can't now.

I've told my mum I'm out all night. I've
got no key.

Knock her up, then.

I'll wait for kids. What kids?

You said you were single.

Which I am, with two kids.

Which is why I'm in with mums.

Oh, for... Just go home, Barry.

Which is what they all say.

What are you doing here, Catherine?

He listened to you.

I don't want anything to do with this,
whatever it is.

Choice way to dump a guy you've had ten
years out of, Catherine.

I've tried before.

I went to a friend's house and he
stalked the police till she had to get

police.

And I knew he cancelled the credit cards
because that's what he did last time.

Blocking me in. Well, it's his money.

And all I do is spend it.

Well, I have worked.

Ninety -seven, I got a counterweight.

DKNY? Well, what else am I trained for?

And I enjoy getting that job.

And I lasted six weeks.

Why? Look, I don't know why you've come
round here, Catherine, but I don't want

to get roped in. He sabotaged it.

He's ringing the shop 15 times in one
day.

Chit -chat.

He wants to know who I'm talking to, who
me mates are.

Susan, Kate, Laurie and Pete.

Pete? All men work there.

He knew men worked there because he'd
been in the shop half a dozen times to

drag me out for lunch.

He lost me the job.

You can't blame him for getting twitchy
about you around blokes.

Some of those guys from work you messed
around with, they put themselves on the

dole, terrified Mac could find out.

Guys with kids, families.

So they had no right being anywhere near
me, had they? You rubbed his nose right

in it, you lousy cow.

You told them something, didn't you?

I know exactly when it was you were in
hospital.

You called him, he came running and you
told him.

And you know what he did to me when he
came home, Trudy?

Nothing.

He didn't even mention it.

But I could tell.

I'd expected fireworks when he found
out.

And losing his rag, hitting me even. Max
never hit you, so don't give me that. I

wouldn't have cared if he had, because
then at least he'd have reacted.

Bernard could have gone.

He did nothing.

It doesn't matter what I do or with who
because he's not bloody looking, is he?

He's never going to let me go.

So he's up for grabs now.

Show your hand, Trudy.

You never know.

I don't want your husband.

I don't like your life.

I don't even like your house.

Well, we've got that much in common,
then.

Tell him from me, if this isn't signed
by six tomorrow, I've someone

else interested.

What is it?

Tell him I mean it.

Mac!

They're surveyors.

Catherine's given them permission to be
here. Have you been to the solicitors?

Working for who?

Catherine! Catherine and?

They won't tell me. Have you seen the
solicitor?

This building's in her name. She can do
what she likes.

Jonesy! Jonesy Malone! Gizzefield!

What? Don't lead to harassment!

Written warning! One more, you're out!

Get that jewellery away from my cooking
gear, you bloody moron!

What are you looking at?

I am not paying for my wife to leave me.

Understand?

I don't want her to go. Max, listen to
me. If she's not, come on in. I'm not

paying for my wife to leave me.

What's going on? Whatever it is, Max is
not too chuffed about it. You see him?

Yeah. Saddle up and give him the iron.

I'll pick her off. No, find out what
you're doing.

I apologise.

It's taken a bit longer than normal
to... Sorry.

I think my dad filed his notes the way
some people pack a holiday suitcase, you

know.

Return journey.

I only heard this morning. I'm sorry.

I lost my dad seven weeks ago.

Can you get Catherine McIntosh to give
us two more days?

No. Why not?

Because...

She is represented by someone else now.
She's gone to Truman and Copeland, which

is what Dad should have encouraged in
the first place.

She's got another buyer.

I know.

Who?

Well, that is Mac's business, really,
but as far as I can tell you, he's not

defending the move.

Samson Brooks.

They're five times bigger than us. What
do they want our building for?

Probably want to be six times bigger.

No, I'm sorry. That's not funny.

Peter, will you talk to Catherine? Get
her to wait.

I'll talk to Mac.

Matt's got the business up for sale and
nobody's telling us anything.

Yvonne, cut it out. I mean it. Cut that
out.

You know, settle about it. Don't I?

According to that little guy, they're
doing a survey for Samson Brooks.

If this firm's gone bust, we want to
know.

Do you order new cutting tables if
you're going bust, Kev? I don't think

What, my tables?

Brooks owns three factories that have
all laid off people in the last two

months. Why buy this place unless
they're looking for smaller premises?

You can bet your arse we won't be first
in line to fill it. What, XE -77 tables?

Laser blades?

Kevin, shut up.

All I know is... Mac's wife's left him.

She owns a building.

She's having it boned.

That's all I know.

You find out I've got two kids and then
everything goes stone dead.

And what do you reckon the underlying
psychology is there, Barry?

If you hadn't mentioned them by
accident, it might have helped.

Er, yeah, but, erm... Come on, they
don't change who I am.

Do they change who I am?

They change what you're looking for.

What's wrong with a girlfriend if you've
got kids?

I don't want to be anybody's Auntie
Trudy. Oh, no, no, no.

Girls look after their own lives.

They don't want me bringing anyone back
home.

How old are they?

They're seven and eight.

Mr. McIntosh, we're under instructions
to observe a deadline.

If you don't buy the building from Mrs.
McIntosh, you've got no control of the

lease.

You'd be insane to let your competitors
set your rent.

You're here till 2005, whatever you do.

Your wife's trying to offer you a way
out.

What's he doing?

How you doing, Matt?

Never broken any promises, you know.

She's right. She never wanted me in the
first place.

I was sorting the estate out the month
after my dad died.

She was a tenant in one of his flats.

I needed to get rid of domestic
properties to help with the deficit on

place.

She came to my office yelling about
breaching the lease and ripping her off.

It worked. I gave in.

Five -foot shit, hard -nosed as hell,
told me exactly what she thought of me.

I was a breath of fresh air from the
kind of woman I'd been used to.

So I apologised.

Bought her flowers, extended her lease
six months, never got a thank you. I

mean, I should have told me something,
eh?

I used to meet her from work.

I found out which laundrette she used.

Found out where she went drinking.

I chiselled away for the best part of a
year till she said yes.

All the promises came from me.

The scale and polish is on the calendar.

Why don't you want to be found?

Let me in the car.

I'll change.

To what?

To whatever you want.

I don't know what I want.

Well, work it out and tell me. Matt, cut
it out.

Do you know how much it makes me cringe
when you... Have

you any idea what it feels like to sleep
with a man who knows you've been with

someone else and says nothing?

Because you did know, didn't you?

Why don't you want it better than what
we've had?

What's wrong with you?

I'll give you double the price of the
building if you tell me you love me.

It's three words.

300 grand.

You all right, Mrs McIntosh?

I'm fine, thanks.

Stuff's going out today.

Not if this carries on. Keeps cutting
out. Why can't you fix it? Because it's

meant to be under guarantee.

If I touch it, they'll say it's our
fault.

Max, the officer, please.

Visit us.

Max, the officer, please.

Look, never mind the bloody guarantee.
Just get it sorted. Can you fix it?

Well... Can you fix it? Yes. Great, do
it.

Can you?

If you see smoke coming out of it, do us
a favour and grab me coat.

Max, can we leave on the book for a word
later? It's official.

It's a pair rule.

Yeah, well, I've nothing to say yet, OK?

We need to know what you're thinking,
Max.

People are getting really scared.

They do.

Look, I'll know more tomorrow, OK?

Macintosh Tech?

Oh, hiya, Janet.

Er, no, hang on a sec, it's in the book.

We booked in?

No, no, no.

I just wondered how things were.

Yeah, come through.

I'm sure there's nothing to worry about.

Take a seat, Peter.

Can I be honest about your situation?

Your dad always was.

Trudy, either come in or cut the draft.

I just wondered if you know how much
trouble you're in.

Now that Samson Brooks actually own the
shell of the building.

Yeah, we got another fax yesterday.
They're hiking the rent 200 % from the

of this month.

So why did you let them buy it? Next
question.

You're aware there's no appeal on a
commercial rent?

Yes. So they could double it by next
year? Yes.

Can you afford it? No.

OK, but this is no solution in itself.

However, have you ever seen...

The land deed to this place.

Not that I can remember.

I pulled them out of the file this
morning.

Did you know that this site is actually
reserved for local employment?

They can't develop it, they can't do
anything else with it. So?

So, Sampson Brooks don't need the
building. Truth be told, they can't even

afford the building.

They bought it with the sole intention
of damaging you. Because we're winning

their contract.

Yeah, so what's your point, Peter?

What is the value of the building?

Without the business.

You can't separate the building from the
business. No, no, hang on.

What if you don't want the building?

We do.

No, no, no. It can never be built on, so
the land's worth nothing. What if they

thought that you didn't need it anymore?

Yeah, a firm my dad looked after sold
this place for demolition.

And it comes down in nine months.

We can't operate out of here.

There's no facilities.

They'll get to use it for peanuts.

Once Samson Brooks realise you don't
need the Macintosh building, they'll

shit themselves.

They'll be begging you to buy it back
off them.

Coat price.

What if it backfired and they rented
mine to somebody else?

How many other firms do you know like
yours needing premises?

I don't know. That's the point.

We haven't got a choice.

You've got to take that risk.

Will it come like a change in the
weather?

Will its greeting be courteous or rough?

Will it alter my life altogether?

Oh, tell me the truth and not love.

So, er,

what are you doing, then?

W .H. Auden.

Bugger off, Barry.

OK.

Who's he?

Lawyer.

Hiya. All right.

See ya.

Oh, Barrick, can you do us a favour?

I thought buggering off was the favour.

Could you nip across to Tony's and get
us a pizza? Are you a vegetarian?

No. Deep pan large Australian, feta
salads, and will you get us a bottle of

from the office?

Who's patrolling the factory while I'm
out on errands? Who patrolled it while

you were asleep when we turned up?

Do you like red or white?

Oh, anything, yeah.

Well, red.

Well, burgundy.

I can pay. No.

Get a receipt.

How did he...? Er, wrong.

You've changed the invoice name. It's
got to say Macintosh Limited and not

Macintosh Textiles. It's got to be
completely worth the time as a new

Yeah.

Why don't you take your uniform off?

Yeah. And put your crash helmet on.

What? I'll take these to the sorting
office at Crewe for us. I need to get

in the first post.

Crewe?

Bloody Crewe?

I'm in the Vanille Tech ages, and I am
not a lackey. Please, Barry, it's really

important. I'll give you 20 quid from
petty cash, and I'll stay here with your

mad dog.

And I'll hang around for a bit.

Oh, yeah.

Drew, Martin, go on through.

Shut the door.

Anybody want coffee?

Yeah, go on.

Hello.

Is it right, then?

You bailing out?

No. You've misled yourselves, as usual.

So that's what we tell people.

Firm's 100 % solvent.

If you want to tell them anything, you
tell them from me. They can go through

books any time they want, all right?

OK.

How many wagons were here on site
tonight?

Four. There was one in London, one in
Hull, one in Portsmouth.

Right, we need to borrow two or three
more with drivers, obviously.

What for?

We need to move the machines out. Which
machines?

All of it.

Machines, stock, toilet roll.

Now you're taking the piss.

You've not gone, boss, but you're doing
the moonlight.

It's complicated.

If we don't, I won't last longer than
six months anyway.

Where's the stuff going? Storage.

I've rented space.

Who's moving it? Whoever we can get.

With you supervising.

Well, you're transport manager.

I've never shifted machinery.

Well, they're only sewing machines, for
God's sakes.

There's a crew of engineers coming in to
dismantle the heavy stuff.

What, 40 -foot cutting tables?

We leave them here.

They're about to be scrapped to get the
new ones in anyway.

This is... You can't organise this kind
of thing in two days. This is the only

slack we get before autumn.

I'm going to have to lay people off a
week at least.

Paid? Yes, paid.

We need loaders and labourers, about 50.

Come in, you make a list up.

They'll get a hundred quid bonus for a
single night's work. People you trust to

keep their mouths shut. Well, you won't
find fifty of them.

Oi, have I gone see -through?

Look, the only word that goes out is
we're not returning to this building,

right? No, not all right. You could be
bullshitting here.

Yeah, well, I'm not.

Well, as long as you remember, I'll be
moving into your house if this goes pear

-shaped. Well, you'd be welcoming, have
that in writing.

You need to listen to this.

The first thing I want you to hear and
remember is your jobs are safe.

I am not bankrupt.

The company is not bankrupt. Your jobs
are safe.

As of now, this building is closed.

I no longer own this building.

I'm in negotiations for new premises
which the city council are helping me

They'll be found as fast as possible.

And you'll all be notified personally
about return to work.

Your wages will be paid for the duration
at basic rates.

I give you my word.

If you knew how much this is costing me,
you'd know I'm only doing it this way

because it's absolutely essential to the
future of this company.

If you've any questions, stay behind.
Otherwise, collect your things from your

lockers and boxes.

I repeat, this building will be closed
from 6 .30 tonight.

Matt! Hey, Matt!

Can I keep this?

Well, it's bugger all without a table.

No, I want to keep it, put it in my
bedroom.

Get around the bloody bench you are,
Kev, you know that.

Brian!

Brian! What?

Matt says I can take this all with me.
Great, Jed. Why don't you take the table

and I'll start up your own business?

Hey, yeah, I'll come by next door and
knock, Drew.

Get out of here and I'll put this off
home.

Ooh, big Matt.

Just because he's bald, friends go to
the let's go.

No, sorry, Bay 14, right at the back,
because there's loads to go in.

What?

What?

It's just Baywatch Nights.

It's not funny. It's so not funny.

Space World, right in the back.

What?

Drink.

Somewhere.

Meal.

Okay. Okay.

Okay. I used to work

in a factory.

Yeah, right through the summer.

I loved it.

Students do.

I'd love to get me four weeks' holidays
in one go and just set off.

You know? See nothing or no -one for 50
miles.

Alaskan Highway.

Winnie Bagel pulling a Lincoln.

No, that's what they do, you know.

North American steaks like doormats,
Monty reckons.

Yeah.

Every five miles you get some of the
best food you'll ever eat in your life.

Landscapes with a capital L.

Alaska, you.

You've barely been out of Manchester.

No. No.

What about the Himalayas?

What about them?

Backpacking.

You met a bird from Tyneside Bridge. You
got diarrhea once and you were home by

Sunday, you lying tossy. Oh, yeah.

Rough guide to nowhere.

You got a postcard from Kathmandu. I did
that, didn't I? I don't know. But you

were in Doncaster when it got posted,
Kev. Mam caught you out on a 1471.

Mam, it's Kev. We're OK. It's
sweltering, but we're managing.

Mam, 1471.

Doncaster. Whatever you want to think,
mate. Yeah? Whatever you want to think.

Trudy, there's not much more we can do
here now, so we're going to go down to

Chippy. Do you fancy fishing chips?

It'd be great, yeah.

Do you fancy paying?

Get a receipt.

Nobody gets married unless they want to,
Mac.

You didn't force her into church.

I did, though.

She was a 17 -year -old.

Showed her what kind of house we'd live
in, money we'd have, showed her loyalty,

and I, um... I talked her into believing
loving somebody's not something that

happens overnight.

I believed it myself for the first
couple of years.

I'll bribe the Trudy, simple as that.

The double sheets are loaded and leaving
this morning. The double balances are

leaving this morning. And single
sheets... Can you just hold on a sec?

Can you just come and put it down on the
side there and hang on? The single

sheets... Just hold on. Steve!

Where's Steve?

Martin, it's the courier's thingy.

It's the stationery. You'll have to sign
for it. Hello. Sorry.

The single sheets.

Not interested.

Not interested.

Not bloody interested.

The only thing that we've got a delay on
are the pillow tweezers. Hello, who's

this from? We can get those to you next
week.

No, Martin Leach, transport manager. Is
that all right? I'll call you back this

afternoon to confirm.

Thank you, bye.

Janice Piper, very urgent.

Janice, what?

Tell them from me, no meeting.

I just bought a building nobody wants.

And I am very, very happy with the one
we have found.

Well, no, it won't be in the freezer
because it's fresh.

Fridge, second shelf, in tinfoil.

All right.

My sister, 35, going on infant.

Do you fancy a drink after work
sometime?

Weekends are better, cos me sister nips
down to Leicester.

Great.

McIntosh, but... McIntosh Limited.

And don't call me again. Call Peter
Cochran. He speaks the same language as

which is not meant to be a compliment.

What do you think of this?

It's bloody awful.

Hello, Peter Cochran speaking.

Yep. No, you're you. I'll speak to him.

Hello, Thomas. What can I do for you?

Yep.

Macintosh textiles. Yeah, hang on, I'll
just grab the file out.

I thought that was all sorted out.

I think he took it in his asthma.

Really? No, no, no, no, he was always
relatively pleasant to me.

Yeah, Dad took care of him mostly.

Oh, here we go.

The last instructions we had were to
proof a contract on another building.

No, I can't tell you that.

Er,

yeah.

No, I can't. No.

No, I really, really can't. Yeah.

Shh.

Yeah. No, if you... Yeah, if your
clients want to arrange a meeting, they

need to ring James McIntosh direct.

Did he?

OK. Er, well... Well, yeah, I think
you're putting it, but I'll try.

OK. Mm -hm.

Okay. Yeah.

Yeah, bye -bye. Yeah, bye -bye. Bye
-bye.

Oh, God.

Three o 'clock.

Slimy, greedy bastards.

Ring Brooks at two and cancel, then call
him at five and make it for six.

Right, let's get these up.

That's it.

Is the packer wired back in yet? Yeah.

It's on.

Get a couple of packers and try the
machine out before we can rely on it.

Please. Please.

Martin, who's still out?

Brennage has fallen. They're nearly
finished loading.

Right, well, go out and speed them up.