All language subtitles for Desmonds s03e10 Dobbin.eng

From the long hot night to the ocean
breeze, to the damp and to the rain of

London City.

We come from the sun to live in the
cold, I'm in the rum, I want my coconut

tree.

Let's keep the music deep, wind up your
waist and feel the air.

kids. I paid you to watch me van not
wreck it.

Oh, come on, Cheryl. Just bung them in.

Look, Lee, I don't just bung things in.
Your mother never taught you to look

after your clothes.

Cheryl, you're only sorting out jumble
for me car boot sale. Me van's on a

double yellow.

Oh, look, I'll give you a hand.

No, no, no, no. Go hinder me system.

Okay. What's your system?

Well, this bag's rubbish.

This bag's jumble. This bag sinks the
keep.

Rubbish. Jumble, things to keep. Right,
got it.

This pile's rubbish, this pile's jumble,
and this pile is things to keep.

Rubbish, jumble, things to keep. Got it.
And?

What we do is we put the rubbish in the
rubbish bag, the jumble in the

jumble bag, and the things to keep... In
the things to keep bag. Yeah, yeah,

yeah.

He learns fast, doesn't he? Give the boy
a Blue Peter badge.

Right.

Rubbish.

Jumble.

Fins to keep.

Rubbish. Bosh.

Jumble. Bang.

Fins to keep. Ba -dum -dum -dum -dum
-dum. Rubbish. Bosh.

Jumble. My red little tummy.

This is my jumble. Give it back.

Mum, tell me. You can't give me back my
tummy.

Look, Lee.

All right, all right.

But it'll cost you 50p. I ain't paying
50p for it.

Yeah, you're probably right.

Call it 25.

Call it anything you like. That's mine.

Now that... Robbie.

Smash hit yearbook, 1983.

Who'd want to buy this?

Yeah, shame guy.

Oh, look, there's a letter in here.
Rightly, you said you wanted some milk.

Here you are. I was just about making
out. The writing's really bad.

Dear Jim, can you fix it for me to be in
the

group Musical Youth?

As I think they're well lard. No, no,
hard.

I am nine years old and all the other
kids in my class say that I've got a

better voice than the lead singer.

Yours, Sean Pastor Dutchie Ambrose.

It was a joke, man. Yeah, you're telling
me we're larder.

Mum, you can't throw these away. These
are my formative years, man.

Oh, look, I've had enough.

You two started out between yourselves,
but started out by this evening. I don't

know why.

What's that?

Smashing, Jess.

Oh, no, don't tell me. The kids.

You got it.

Mum, babe.

You're right, Tony.

My hair.

Yes, Jess, Mum.

I sent him running after him. You did
what?

You underestimate this show. He's got
the body of a man half his age.

I think you could do the other one back.

That showed him. There won't be
background here in a hurry.

Desmond. I mean, you suppose you're
going to stand up and stick up for them

again? Desmond, not now. You're
hysterical.

You hear me laughing?

Come on, Pops. I mean, everyone's kicked
the ball for a window at some time or

other. I haven't, have you?

Uh, hypothetically speaking.

I mean, aren't you just going to stand
there and take their side after what

they've done? It's all right. There's no
need to worry. I'm okay.

I'm not talking about you, Tony. I'm
talking about the shop window.

Let's just get this mess cleared up.

Gloria, Sean, get a broom and sweep up
that glass.

And be careful.

Tony, get somebody to fix the window.

Desmond, sit down. Okay. All right.

Let's hear it.

All right.

I'm going to try explaining this to you
one more time.

Now, if the council closed down the
playground because they say they can't

afford to make it safe, where else do
you think the children will have to

The streets. The dangerous streets. And
that's why I'm on the action group

committee. The only danger to the
streets is the kids.

open the window like everyone else.

What would have happened if we'd done
this when we were kids?

Boy, my father would have licked me.

Your mother, she would have mashed up
your backside.

And you know what Shirley wants to do?
Mash up your backside?

Give them a new program.

But she's right, Desmond.

You don't read the local paper.

It's not the kid's fault.

It's the cut.

Don't tell me on this committee as well.

Are you really a... Uncle Popeye. No,
it's really Uncle Freddy Krueger. Yes, I

am.

We're meeting the council this week.

You two should be joining in, Desmond.
You ought to be lending your support to

the action group.

Popeye, I have lent you far too much as
it is without lending you my support as

well.

Obviously, your committee isn't working
very well. Otherwise, the kids would be

still kicking down my shop window.

Well, for a committee to be effective,
it must have objectives which are

communicated by an articulate advocate
who commands the respect of both

What's that supposed to mean?

It means we need someone to state our
case in plain English.

That counts Matthew out.

That counts all of you out. What you
need is someone whose name is known to

community. Someone whose name is
associated with respect.

Well, who's respected, Randall?

Well... There is someone whose name is
big in Benenden Road, for instance.

Oh, I get it. And it also happens to be
the name of a shop.

Yes. And what's it called?

Mr. Patel. No!

Arnie the baker.

No!

Kentucky fried chicken.

No! No!

Desmond. Yes.

You're respected in the community.

Yes. So you're going to make the speech
to the council.

No!

You have to shout. If it gets them
clearing up their jumble, it's fine by

You see, the place look like a pigsty.

Where is your two little piglets?

Reunited, and it feels so good.

Reunited, because we understood.

There's one perfect thing, and sugar,
this one is it.

We're so excited because we're reunited.
Hey, hey.

So that's how the shop window was
broken.

Michael, what is this rubbish?

That is, reunited by peaches and herbs,
got to number four, April 1979.

Not that one, the one that's on now.

Oh, you kids nowadays, if there's no
rapping halfway through a record, you're

lost. All right, then, we'll all listen
to it.

Mother, why you had to call me over here
for jumble, I'll never know.

I mean, there's nothing I'd possibly
want to keep.

I'm sorry, Michael, I thought you had
more than just this shoebox.

Oh, great. I come all this way for an
empty shoebox.

Okay, mastermind, name that tune.
Michael Ambrose, take three.

Michael Ambrose proudly presents...
Look, I think we've heard enough.

A Michael Ambrose production.

Michael Ambrose is... The Lone Ranger.

Michael Ambrose. Oh, you think my cousin
does?

Only one thing to say to you, boy.

Well said!

At least I used my imagination.

You kids nowadays have so many toys, you
don't use your minds.

I had little, but I was happy with my
lot. I had to entertain myself.

Well, I'll say one thing, son.

Don't give up the day job.

And who was this Dobbin?

Oh, Dobbin was a little toy horse on
wheels we bought for Michael. Oh, a toy

horse on wheels. It was a Christmas
present.

That horse, I had to laugh when I gave
it to Lee for his car boot sale this

morning. What?

You gave away Dobbin? That's typically
me.

Always flogging a dead horse.

Mother, I thought you of all people
would have understood how important

was to me. He was my only true friend.

But Michael, a moment ago you said you
didn't want to have anything kept. Yes,

but I didn't mean for you to give away
my childhood. Did I miss something? We

are talking about a toy horse. Oh, you
kids think this is very amusing, don't

you? But Michael, I didn't think you
would have wanted to keep it.

It was virtually falling apart. It was
not.

It was in perfectly good order.

It was mangy.

Michael, I don't understand. That's been
the problem for the last 30 years.

No -one's wanted to understand.

All that over something called Dobbin, I
ask you.

What are we going to do?

We'll give him back his damn horse.

If it's too late, Lee would have sold it
by now.

Did we really give him such a rotten
childhood?

Desmond, I've got some good news that
will please everybody.

You're going to a nursing home?

If you don't shut up, you're the one
that's going to need nursing.

Oh, fight it on with it. It's official.

You're the people's choice to speak to
the council to save the playground.

You're still on about that again? I told
you, may not do it.

Josh, Desmond, Pokpai, how you find this
out?

By conducting a poll.

Pokpai, you couldn't conduct a bus.

What question did you ask?

I did it properly.

I asked them, you think Desmond should
speak to the council to save the

playground, don't you?

They all said yes.

Oh, it's in a good cause, Desmond. It's
for the children.

Children? I've had it up to here with
children.

First they break my shop window, then
Michael accuses you of being a bad

Me?

Oh, whatever.

There's no whatever about it, Desmond.

You know what your trouble is? You're
too busy worrying about what you want

rather than thinking about what other
people need.

Like speaking up for the playground, for
instance.

It is speech!

Speech! Speech!

Speech! Speech! Speech!

Speech! Speech! Speech! Speech! Speech!
Speech! Speech! Speech! Speech! Speech!

Speech! Speech! Speech! Speech! Speech!
Speech! Speech! Speech! Speech! Speech!

Speech! Speech! Speech!

Speech! Speech! Speech! Speech! Speech!
Speech! Speech!

Speech! Speech!

Speech! Speech!

Speech! Speech! Speech! Speech! Speech!
Speech! Speech! Speech! Speech! Speech!

Speech! Speech! Speech! Speech! Speech!
Speech! Speech! Speech! Speech! Speech!

Speech! Speech! Speech! Speech! Speech!
Speech! Speech! Speech! Speech! Speech!

Speech! Speech! Speech! Speech! Speech!
Speech! Speech! Speech! Speech! Speech!

Speech! Speech! Speech! Speech! Speech!
Speech!

Speech What makes me hear about you not
making the speech for the children's

playground?

That's what I told earlier.

We, the community, make you what you are
today.

And all you do is take, take, take.

What you should be doing is putting
something back out on the streets.

Right. I'll start with you.

You make me hard stuff. Promises,
promises.

Forget it, babe.

It's not everything.

We'll have to get someone else.

Don't let your blood pressure rise.

My blood pressure?

No way.

Good Lord, now I hear screeching in the
ears.

You see?

I bet one of them kids kick a ball
through somebody's car window.

nights with all this noise.

Let me take care of the poor little
fella.

Oh, blood, blood.

You're hopeless.

The poor child will bleed to death if he
has to wait for you.

Oh, dear, dear. That's not too bad, is
it? Don't cry now.

So, um, what's your name then?

Michael.

Oh, Lord.

Oh, come on, Dad. He must have written
Just a minute, just a minute. There's a

lot to remember.

Come on, Desmond. We've been waiting for
half an hour.

Just read us what you got.

All right.

The children need a playground because,
one... Yeah?

That's as far as I've gone.

That's where you get this one from,
Shirley.

Desmond, you haven't taken in anything
we've been saying.

Oh, come on, Mr Ambrose, it's easy. It's
just common sense.

You expect him to find that easy?

Well, good for you lot. You've had ages
to think about it. You've been to the

meetings, you've studied it in full and
you've made up your minds.

That's why we've given you the benefit
of what we've thought out so far.

All you have to do is write down what
we've been telling you and then put that

in your own words as it comes to the
meeting.

Well, that's the bit I've been having
trouble with.

OK,

let's recap.

I made the first point.

which was that every child should have a
safe place to play and explore, under

proper supervision and away from the
dangers of the streets.

So you put that in your own words.

Children should be kept off the streets
because they're dangerous.

back to that one.

Now, I made the second point, which was
that children need to let off steam,

play rowdy games, without the grown -ups
telling them off all the time. Why?

Why what?

Well, why should they be rowdy and play
around?

I mean, why can't they be seen and not
heard like we were when we were their

age? I do think you were like that.

Desmond, when you were a child growing
up in Guyana, you can take yourself off

into the field, play down by the stream,
climb trees, throw stones.

You had all that pace.

You could get out from under your
mother's feet.

Poor woman.

You could be gone for hours and she knew
she didn't have to worry.

She only has to worry when you come
back.

Look, Dad, this is London. It was bad
enough when me and Louise was little.

even worse now.

Yeah, most people round here haven't
even got their own backyard.

They live in flats, a lot of them in
high -rise.

Where can a mother send her kids where
they will be safe and they won't be a

nuisance? Ah, yes, well, it all starts
to make more sense now.

So? In your own words?

Don't rush me, don't rush me.

Is that all right? I have to get back to
good Cockbutt, his red mullet.

He'll cook it himself.

You ever know a man to do anything for
himself?

Oh, shut up.

Stop gossiping.

Right, I've got it.

London is not like Guyana.

So to protect innocent shopkeepers'
windows, if children want to behave

they should be kept under strict
supervision in caged areas.

In a report sent to Policy and Resources
on the Five Subcommittee on December

7th, 1989, the Bellingdon Road Action
Group highlighted the woefully

resources of the... Dad, this is like
one of Mr. Spencer's history lessons.

thank you, Tom.

I don't think so. We had a compliment
day. It's not what you say, Desmond.

how you say it. Yes, Pops. Liven it up,
man.

It ain't what you do, it's the way that
you do it.

The council is meeting a respected
businessman, Mr.

D. Ambrose, not M .C. Desmond.

Now, Desmond, the most famous orator in
ancient Greece was called Demosthenes.

He'd have to be a good orator just to
pronounce his name.

And he used to practice with marbles in
his mouth. I'm not putting marbles in my

mouth. I've got it!

Well, I hope they ain't catching.

Gobstoppers? No, it's not me. I've seen
the kids do it.

Anyway, for you, here's the next best
thing to marbles.

You don't need a Gobstopper, Des. You
need a Gobstarter.

Gobstoppers, you are elected by the
community to serve the community.

He's set up Marlon Brando. Yeah, the
Gobfather.

All right, Desmond.

Forget Demosthenes and his marbles. Oh,
I don't know. These marbles don't taste

too bad.

And think of the great speakers of our
time.

Martin Luther King, Osagifu Kwame
Nkrumah, Frank Brunel. I mean, Harry.

I never know the great speakers. He's
got to get on with it. You've only got

five minutes to put your point across.

All right, all right.

As councillors, you are elected by the
community.

No, no, no, no, no, gentlemen.

The art is in the past.

you must emphasize each phrase
separately.

All right, all right.

As councillors, you are elected by the
community

to serve the community.

You've got to move your hands about.

Yes, and like this, the Acorn Grove
playground needs investment,

and we... opening.

I'm not a helicopter. Yes,

please.

Lee, have you found Michael's toy horse?

No, but I found a person who bought it
off me.

And? No can do, Cheryl. They wouldn't
sell it unless I paid double the price.

What? That's right.

One pound.

So, why didn't you buy it? Michael
thinks it's priceless.

So do I. I wouldn't give anything for
it.

And don't come out without it.

All right, I've got it. Okay, Desmond,
show us. And when you reach an important

point, punch the air.

And when you get to the meeting, punch
the counselor.

Never in the annals of history has so
much been owed by so many to so

few.

We shall fight them on the sandpipes, on
the swings, and

on the sea swords.

We shall never surrender.

The children need...

You had a bad dream.

I was making this... I've... I've lost
my voice, surely?

Of course.

I'm sure.

I'm not surprised you've been practicing
that speech all day and night.

This speech is today.

What are we going to do?

We'll have to cancel it.

No such thing. Give me those notes.

Madam Chair, what we are talking about
here today are human beings and their

lives. Yes.

Like you, I am a mother and these are
our children.

If we don't take action, instead of
comforting a hurt...

And I appreciate you coming straight
here to let me know personally, even if

council did only award you half the
money.

But did you have to bring Rent -A -Fan
Club with you?

Oi, we're not Rent -A -Fan Club.

We're the Aircon Grove Action Group.
Yeah. We supported it when it needed us.

It's for the children.

That's right. Well, you were a kid once.

Yeah, I wouldn't count on that.

You know what it's like.

Don't you think sales kids have a right
to play safely?

Look, I understand all that, and I dare
say you're right, but why are you

telling me this?

But we need a... private donation to
make up the rest of the money. Give us

rest of the money, no man!

Congratulations, Forkpie, you're a true
diplomat. This is a fact, not a charity.

Michael, you have the perfect
credentials to be a sponsor.

Yes, Michael, you're well known and
respected in the community.

And you are our little financial wizard.

Tell me something I don't already know.

I find it ironic that you can devote so
much time to those kids, who are

strangers after all.

And you didn't even care how your own
flesh and blood felt. Don't be silly,

Michael. Of course we cared.

And still do.

Father, I've noticed you've been rather
quiet.

Cat got your tongue?

Cat got him, vice.

He laughed it.

He's a little horse.

And talking of a little horse, Michael,
if we could get Dobbin back for you,

would you give us the rest of the money?

Three, four.

Go ahead make his day

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