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Oh,

I'd have to check that.

You know, a long time.

Maybe two, three years.

A lot of historical interest in this place.

The older section of the house was built in Victoria's colonization year.

The plan was a month, but the parish lines were redrawn.

The next person to live here was the son of one of the local lairs.

When was the roof last replaced?

Must have been 70... well... But it's hard slate, so it should last for a

hundred years. Come on, in you go and have a look round.

I never thought this was a good idea.

Oh, this is beautiful.

Well, that's... Can we stop at the bank

on the way back?

What did she say?

What did she say?

Can

we stop at

the bank?

I don't know. Can we stop at the bank?

Let me know if you have any questions.

I'm not available, but please leave a message and I'll call you back.

Hi, Caroline from across the road.

I'm just...

Hello?

No, no.

No need to worry about that.

That's why I'm here, isn't it?

That's why I'm here.

Oh, shit.

Hello?

Hi, this is Caroline.

Oh. Yeah, hi. I'm back home.

Well, actually, I'm back in the area and I went home.

Where

is

he?

He's really not well.

You do know that, right?

Yeah. We've been doing his shopping for him.

Okay.

Where are they?

He's very ill. They had to move him.

Look, when was the last time you spoke to him? Okay, do you know where they

moved him?

I'm not sure.

To a... well, a facility.

Do you know which one?

Do you know which facility?

None at all.

So, as you can see, there's a real wealth of history.

Not many like these anymore.

Oh, the elephant has been turned on to be... Pepe, get your phone out.

The first part of this house was built at the very beginning of the Victorian

age.

Did you tell anybody?

Who would want to come and play in a holiday let like this?

It might be cheaper to tear that down and start with a new build.

Get out!

Henry!

Pardon? Get out! Henry!

Get out!

Get out!

You can't talk like that.

We don't need you here.

You can't talk to us that way! Get away!

Go

outside,

Sonia.

Small man.

You shouldn't have this.

I should smack it.

What are you doing?

You've been so hungry, so hungry, so hungry, I couldn't keep up.

Why?

Are you full now?

You know, they...

You don't know.

You don't understand anything.

They'll gut you. They'll rip you apart.

They'll turn you into something without soul.

Something without soul. Something... Strangers

coming to and fro.

Or is that what you want?

You want to rot and decay?

and turn into rubble turn into a row

a load of rubble

I've got a letter here.

A CPO.

You know what that is?

They want to take you away.

Take you away from me.

On you.

gonna sort it out.

I'm putting some money together.

We'll fix you.

That's all they really want.

We'll get them off our backs.

Yes.

Things are hard.

We need to be careful.

to slow down.

You need me.

Hello? Did you put this here?

Why?

You can see me?

And you... understand me.

Where did all these things come from?

We've reached George House Hospice. We're either busy at the moment or

reached us after hours.

Leave your name and number and Simone will get back to you shortly.

Hi, my name's Caroline Dalgarno.

I am calling to see if you have someone in care there. His name is Peter

Dalgarno. If you wouldn't mind, give me a ring back. My number is 077

-009 -00136.

Okay, thank you very much. Bye -bye.

Yes.

I was, um... I was moving home,

actually.

My, um... My landlord wanted to renovate and there was nowhere else I

could afford, so...

I was hiding everything by the train station. I didn't have anywhere else to

it.

Is that okay?

Um... But... I'll leave.

Soon.

Is he a...

It's coming back.

Um, plants and

clothes and drawings and some

books.

I'm not very good.

I should be better at perspective.

Making things look three -dimensional.

That's you.

You can just see a little bit, it's a photograph taken from the road.

That's your roof.

Yeah, exactly. They take all these photographs and put them together

so it feels like you're walking down the street. You can go anywhere.

Sometimes when I was at uni, I would put in my home address and pretend I was

walking along my road.

Just a few miles that way, actually.

I used to come past here all the time, but I never came down this road. I never

knew about you.

It's like being a kid again.

We're not Um... We're

not... I knew he was ill.

He can be distant.

Yeah, hi.

Oh, hi.

You all right?

How are you doing?

Oh, I'm all right, yeah.

I'm all right. You know, they're, um... How is Judy?

Yeah, fine.

Good. Making UV drawings, yeah.

UV houses.

I still have that one from your application. Your portfolio, the...

keeping safe over there.

Yeah, of course.

Yeah, everything's fine.

How are you doing?

I'm all right.

You know, I do worry.

I put it out of my head, of course.

I go on my walks and I

imagine that...

Well, you must be getting up to going around, living your life.

Did I ever tell you that?

Dad?

Sorry, sorry. Just had a wee moment there.

So how are you? How is uni? Yeah, I'm fine.

It's hard.

Oh, I know.

You don't have to tell me.

I had an awful time. I didn't even make it. I know.

That was the best time, Caroline.

Seeing you on the ultrasound, so cozy, so safe inside.

I thought about that picture of you and I wished you could stay in there

and not go out into the awful.

It's the drugs. Good shit.

Let me know and I'll see if I can hook you up with someone.

I'm going to come and see you, Dad.

Oh, no, no. Oh, no.

Yes.

Yeah.

Um... What did they do with all your composition books?

No,

don't do that.

No, it's all right.

It's OK.

Where are you?

Don't know. Focus on school, Caroline.

Where are you, Dad?

You're at home?

Yeah, I'm sat in the kitchen looking out the window.

I've got your little clay sculpture here on the windowsill.

Some robins and the bird feeder.

How many robins?

Three of them.

Is it nice there?

Okay, okay, well, I'll see you soon.

See you soon.

You fix the window.

When was that?

You remember the time before that?

You fixed the window.

You can fix yourself.

What do you eat?

Do you know what you are?

Do you know how long you've been here?

Does anyone else know about you?

What happens to things?

You take them away and you bring them back.

Where does it go?

have any money but I could walk to him.

It's four hours.

I can do that.

I don't need any of this.

This is you.

Slate roof.

Slate ridge tiles.

A lead spurge gutter.

Bay window.

And a French door up on the gable end.

Top, upper windows with recessed window reveals, Scottish style, set back in the

cavity to keep out some of the rain.

In good shape.

All in all.

See, I put lines in for perspective.

This is the vanishing point.

Where it all comes together.

And ends.

To the house without an occupant and the girl without a home.

Let me have a look in here.

Come on, let's have a look.

Wow.

It's so big.

Let me see if I can... Oh,

it's okay.

Okay.

That's okay. Look at the flowers.

Wow.

Look at the flowers.

So pretty.

So pretty.

Here we go.

Let me get a picture.

Are you okay?

Are

you

okay?

You got my phone?

Huh? You got my phone?

Oh, I haven't.

Thank you.

Go back.

Can you take it? It's okay.

Go!

Go on, stop. Cheese!

Come on.

Yeah,

I know. I know.

Hiya. Hi, are you... I'm an officer of the court.

You're the owner of this property.

I... I'm the estate agent.

No, you're the owner, the inheritor.

You're Duncan Paterson.

I've come about the CPO. You wrote to the minister and the council objecting

the CPO, yeah?

Said I had 21 days.

That's right.

You objected to the CPO. You said you had fixed the property up.

That's right. And you had an interested buyer.

That's right.

If you do actually have a fire, then that's something the court needs to

That's good news.

Yes.

Who is it?

Who's the solicitor they're working with?

I need to send it to you in writing. We've sent numerous notices.

I myself have been here several times trying to track you down, but you're

nowhere to be found. Well, I'm here now. Yes, you are.

And I'm here.

See if what you said is true and clearly.

What are you going to do with it? You're going to tear it down?

It's uninhabited. It's not derelict.

People have reported vandalism, broken windows, squatters.

What? There's no... Do you see any broken windows?

Not currently.

Or squatters?

Houses like this are sitting empty while people are desperately needing

somewhere to live.

The waiting list for council housing is full.

They're not here.

They want to live here. They want to visit. They don't want to live here.

If I'm not able to go away with this... Go inside and have a look. I'm not here

for that. Go inside and have a look. There's nothing wrong with it. No.

Go inside yourself.

Do not touch me.

I told you to...

Hi. I'm so sorry.

No, I'm really sorry. I just need to get my... my phone.

Hiya.

It's alright.

I just want to talk to you.

Come outside, please.

What have you been doing in there?

Oh, no,

I haven't.

I just thought the door was open.

I'm sorry.

It's all right.

Well, come out now.

You've been staying in here, haven't you?

I'm the owner.

But that's alright.

I need my phone.

Your phone? I just need to get my phone and then I'll go.

You can use my phone.

What do you need? Do you need a lift? No, no.

I've got money.

It's alright.

I just want to help.

I can help you get whatever you want.

It's just, well, there are a lot of things, a lot of things I

thought I wanted to say.

When I finally heard your voice, oh, it was so nice.

I couldn't think of how to say it.

I was afraid, I was.

I was.

Ever since you were born. And it made me...

My own father, you

know, he wasn't a very good father.

I don't think his father had been a very good father.

And I tried to be different.

I chose coldness, distance, and I

think...

I think that was wrong too.

I think about you living your life and it's like being young again.

Like being born again.

And I'm not afraid now.

Not at all.

I'm not in here.

I'm out there.

Out there living.

You're me, aren't you?

Oh, I'm telling you, Caroline, these drugs, there's something else.

I've been feeling a little poorly. I've been... Well, the nice people here, the

nice people who have been helping me, they think I could stop all the

medication.

Sedation is what, palliative sedation.

I've been thinking about it, but I wanted to, you know, just one last time.

Yes, so I might not be able to speak again.

been closer to you.

Just a silly man.

You'll figure it out, won't you?

So lovely to hear your voice, Elliot.

Well, pause well.

A vanishing point Where it all comes together

And ends

Where

do people go?

When they disappear.

I could stay.

I have nowhere else.

No one will miss me.

Let me go inside.

Please.

Ticket, please.

Project, eh?

Yeah. I'm an architect.

All right.

Ticket, please.

He's right.

I do the thing with my eyebrows when I know I need to acknowledge what

saying.

But I don't want to engage and I have nothing to say.

Just like him.

All these little bits of our lives through darkness and history.

We're repositories of...

millions of lives and stories reconstructed into something that thinks

and unique.

And maybe that's it.

Maybe that's all.

An old goat in a new house.

Are you

comfortable?