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I'm just a boy who's looking for a place to go

where I'll be free Perhaps someday I'll

find a girl who's looking for a place to go like me I'll look

around from town to town I'll rove the land until

I find

The kind of place I'm looking for Until I do, I

won't have peace of mind I'm gonna find myself a place to

go I'm gonna find myself a girl to love We'll go out

walking hand in hand without a care I've got a feeling dreams come true someday,

somewhere

I'm just a boy who's looking for a place to go

where I'll be free.

Perhaps someday I'll find a girl who's looking for a

place to go like me.

I'm gonna find myself a place to go.

I'm gonna find myself a girl who loves me.

We'll go out walking hand in hand without a care.

I've got a feeling dreams come true someday somewhere.

I'm just a boy who's looking for a place to go

where I'll be free.

Perhaps someday I'll find a girl who's looking for a

place to go like me.

before you go no no i already know i really don't oh that's busy then oh you

know any moment now hello merry christmas be good merry christmas hello

yeah

one or two on the way home here we are christmas dinner and the bonus 100 bags

You ought to be ashamed of yourself in your condition, watching all that

brutality. Baby will be born with two heads.

Oh!

Oh, little turn it up, Ricky.

Oh, Jim.

When are we gonna get a place of our own?

As soon as we can, love. Matt'll be here soon. I'd better get the supper on.

What's your name?

Happy Christmas, Matt.

Thanks, mate. Same to you. Come home and have a drink, Dobby. I'm late. And we

get the blame for it? No, thanks.

What's all this about you being in trouble with the union?

Ah, that's nothing.

When they stop yapping like the bleeding bosses, I'll pay me dues, that's all.

Anyhow, if I get kicked out of the docks, I can always come and join you

doing the queues. You could do worse.

Great big chap like you, strong man act, always goes down big.

Go down big with Lilit, would? Blimey, she'd all kill me.

Well, give her my best and the kids too.

Thanks, mate. Mind how you go.

This is meant to be Christmas, not a bleeding funeral.

You just don't appreciate good music.

Well, there's more music in this.

It's Christmas!

Come on!

That's it, my boy. Give it a boot.

Put the old lever in.

Oh, yes and all.

Kick your own order.

I'll have to put you in your place, Sonny Jim.

That's enough, Ricky.

Are you all right, Beth? Oh, she's all right. Yeah, I'm fine.

Yeah, I see.

Yeah, we build them tough in Bethnal Grid. Bethnal Grid.

Well, has she knew all right, mate?

What's wrong with Bethnal Grid? Well, you never stop saying how you can't wait

to get out of it. Nothing wrong with it. Me and Jim just went out of our own...

Yeah, well, I want a life of me own. There's other places in the world, you

know. I know you don't think so, Mum. I know you think it's just the Acne Road

and the Kingdom of Heaven, but there are other places.

There's Greek islands and blue seas and hot sun.

There's burning deserts where you could die of thirst in half an hour. Oh,

that's lovely, that is. I'd love that.

Yeah, well, I want to see them. I want to be independent, get around and see

the world. Look, Bethnal Green's all right. Yeah, if you burn the old place

down... Yeah, that's an idea, Ricky. Yeah, let's have a bonfire. The burning

of Bethnal Green. Now then, now then. Right, where do we start? On these

bleeding things. I've always hated the sight of them anyway.

Ricky, don't.

Ricky. Oh, I made it.

I mean, what do you expect them to do, turn somersaults? And when you've

brought up two kids like I have, my girl, you... Oh, I know, Mum, but it is

a bit of a letdown, isn't it? Well, letdown or not, I want ten of them.

Ten. No less. Oh, yeah.

You all have to go out alone a bit.

I'm not getting married just to produce grandchildren from this old bag. Oh,

thanks very much.

Oh, that's enough of that now, Ricky. In fact, I'm not getting married at all,

mate. I want to get around a bit, see the world. Well, let's know when you're

going. We can do with that extra room now.

Yeah, we can't go on cramming into Mum's back room forever, Jim.

We've got to get a place of our own now.

No, I know.

Now, don't you worry about it. We'll find something.

Here we are, me old fruit.

All this lot's got to get away before you're finished. I don't want nothing

left down here tonight, right?

I mean, sorry, Miss Bunty.

Think I'll have a cup of chana. Bunty's up a spout. Don't give a sand, will ya?

Got me lines of demarcation, ain't I?

That ain't what I heard from Sally Seymour.

You're not supposed to come in here.

Oh, really, you men, you're all the same.

You're only after one thing.

Sally, that's not true.

I like you. Honest, I do.

Tell you what, why don't you come dancing with me Saturday night?

Oh, Ricky, I'd love to.

Yeah, I can't come Saturday, though. What about Friday?

What's wrong with Saturday?

There's someone else, have you?

Oh, Ricky, of course not.

You're messing me about, aren't you?

No, I'm not, Ricky. I just never knew you felt that way. All right, I don't.

If that's the way you want it.

Oh, Ricky.

You make up your mind, that's all.

Ricky!

And then cool off in here for a bit.

Flint, what are you doing down here?

Oh, Mr. Bunting.

Came over all queer, sir.

Sally's going to get me some aspirins.

Well, you should get a first aid if you're feeling unwell. If I catch you

down here again, out of breakout, you'll be reported.

Yes, sir. Sorry, Mr. Bunting.

Yeah, well...

Well, that's a toilet.

He's going to report me if he finds me down here again.

No, he won't report you.

I don't know, he looked real nasty to me.

Yeah, he sounded a bit sour, didn't he?

Poor Eric.

Poor Eric?

So he's in on the old slap and tickle stakes too, is he?

Blimey, what sort of joint are you running down here anyway?

Hello, Nobby. How's your Betsy, then?

Well, well, Ricky Flint. Now, what a coincidence.

Hello, Charlie.

Hug. Evening, Mr. Flint.

Got a minute?

Yeah, sure.

Still paying the queues, then, Nobby? Yeah.

How's business, then? Seen it worse.

All right, all right. Working on it.

Anyway, what's all the rush?

When Jack makes up his mind to do a job, he likes to get on with it.

Can you fix the alarm?

Yeah. You can leave that to me.

I've got the whole circuit planned.

Hope you're not going to let us down, Ricky boy.

Come on, let's get back.

No, don't take umbrage, old chap.

Besides, I ain't finished yet.

All right, what then?

Well, Jack reckons it's time we got to transport him.

I thought he was going to nick a lorry on the night.

A ringer?

Oh, you're a very funny fellow, Ricky boy.

No, Jack don't want a lorry that's crooked.

All right, who then?

Well, now, who do we know who's got a lorry? You know, someone who could use a

bit of ready, eh?

Like somebody whose old woman was in the pudding club?

He'd never do it.

There's 200 in it for somebody.

All right, I'll think about it. That's right, boy, you have a good old think.

I said I'll think about it.

Who's the bird?

Looks a bit slaggy to me.

She's all right.

Not flashing off a pug, I thought.

She's not for pug.

Oh?

You weren't talking about no dogs.

We was discussing the price of tarts, love.

Oh, blimey, a humorist. Oh, yes, he's a very funny fellow, I keep telling him.

What's good for the next part? There's old Jack.

Knocking back the old champagne and caviar there.

Cool old capitalist.

Hey, Jack, do me a favor, will ya?

Drop dead, will ya?

As a favor.

Yeah, what's going to him?

Oh, you know, old Matt, he's crazy.

You shut your mouth.

Come on, Dad.

What's got into you? He couldn't hear. What did he want to go shouting at him

like that for?

Listen, he ought to be put down.

I hate to see you having anything to do with him.

I don't hardly know him.

Ah, well, let's forget Mr Jack, bloody yellow.

Some people.

Jack must be off his nut having anything to do with the flints. Yeah. I've got to

get a bet on Pug. Yeah.

Yeah, what's all this about trouble at the docks, then? I don't know. A man can

hardly call his soul his own.

The union's as bad as the bleeding bosses.

In the old days, a job was a job, and nobody told you when to work or how to

work. Yeah, most big queues out of work like there's not. Well, sir, that was

life. But at least it was your own life, and you were in charge of it.

I'm getting out, son.

What are you going to do?

Oh, I'm looking around.

What does Mum say?

Oh, here.

Uh, three halves are on the side.

Three to one to go.

You were second last.

Well, where were you?

Last. Here, what did you say your name was?

Catherine? Miss Donovan to you.

I'll call you Cat.

Allie Cat. You go to L.

Miss Allie Cat Donovan.

Mind you don't scratch her, mate.

Here, how'd they get like that?

Sewing. That's what I do.

What, your hands get like that?

Sure. We sew leather.

Leather coats and that.

Here, where's Charlie?

Who knows?

Well, I thought you was with him.

I'm not with nobody.

Oh, fancy free, eh?

Too true, I am fancy free.

Right, I'll take you home. At home, then.

Well?

That will teach you. I'm not that easy.

It's hard to make a go at a transport business.

If I got an A licence, I'd be laughing. I could carry anybody's goods anywhere.

Can't you get one?

It takes money.

The Transport Commission put up lawyers to stop you. It takes cash to fight

them. I've been saving for it to try it, you know.

Don't tell Betsy, though. She'll want to put it all towards getting a place of

our own. Don't worry.

I might be able to help you with something.

Go on.

Yeah, there's a job you could do.

Yeah? I need to take you one night.

Oh, that'll be a great help, that will. Oh, I don't know.

200 quid.

All right.

What's it all about?

Well, it's the factory.

Now, we're gonna do it. Charlie Batey, Puggy Hicks and me. Jack Unman's the

boss. Now we want you and your lorry as transport.

A load of fags fetches big money.

Yeah, but how are you gonna... How are you gonna do it?

Ain't it a watchman?

Nah, but the place is lousy with burglar alarms.

It's my job to fix them. That's why I've been working there the past three

months.

And I get 200 quid.

Well, it'll help you get that licence, won't it?

Oh, I don't know, Ricky, I don't know.

I mean, once you get started with that sort of thing, there's no end to it, is

there? It's just the one job, Jim.

One job, that's all.

And then we break off, finish.

It's just one night's work.

It's all I'm in it for.

Just enough money to get me independence.

Okay, Ricky, okay.

I can't say no to an offer like that, can I? That's it, mate.

I bet the balloon's gone up at home.

And Dad's telling Mum about leaving the docks.

Well, Ricky's been telling me about it, Matt.

I don't know.

I reckon you're right.

Yeah. Thanks, Stephen.

I'm with you, Dad.

We both want the same thing, I reckon.

Do we, Ricky?

I wonder.

Well, get stuck in, eh?

Well, don't stand there letting it get cold.

No, you don't, Matt.

You don't sit there no more.

No, Jimmy.

It's the head of the table.

Well, this is where I sit.

It's the head of the table.

Ricky sits there now.

He's paying for the food, so he sits there.

Look, this is my place.

Not anymore, it ain't. You sit where I tell you.

Well, you tell me.

He pays for the food.

Since when have you told me what to do? Since when, eh?

Oh, Mum, I can't... You keep out of this.

Now, listen, Lil, you keep your mouth shut, I'm telling you. You don't tell me

nothing no more, Matt Flint.

You chuck up your job, you just fling away your job. What rights have you got

any more?

Now, listen.

I don't know what's going on here.

I don't know.

Now.

There'll have to be some changes made.

We can't go on spending like we have been doing.

Don't worry, Lou.

I'll soon get a job again.

No problem.

What's that for?

You're not as young as you once loved.

Oh, Matt.

Don't worry, Lou.

I'll soon get a job again.

I'm not old.

I've got my strength.

Don't worry.

I'm not worried enough.

I'm just saying we'll have to cut down for a bit. Just for the time being.

Here, the telly can go for a start.

No, we can keep that on. The telly can go. Just as that jab into itself in the

corner.

We'll be all right, though. Of course we will.

I love you.

Where's Cathy Donovan live? What do you want her for?

$197.

What are you going to do to her, mister?

Can we come watch?

Are you keeping with her?

This is where Cathy Donovan lives.

You have me there, sir.

I haven't seen her for the best part of a week. Ah, the poor girl.

Why, what's up?

Well, no, the last I saw of her, she was falling down a manhole. Old Montague's

seat it was.

Must have been carried down the river by now.

On down to Southend Pier, she's bound to pass there sometime.

Ricky, darling, simply too, too wonderful to see you.

Well, you don't look so hot yourself.

Yeah, I want to come and look at pictures tonight.

Oh, okay, I don't mind.

There's a good one at the Odeon.

There's a good one, aren't there, at the Isolde?

I want to go to the Odeon.

Blood luck.

I want to go to the Isolde.

Here, I tell you what.

You give me the money, then I can go to the Odeon.

We meet after, if you like.

I should cocoa.

We going to the Isolde?

No.

No!

Meet you at the Sado, half past six.

I'll be at the Odeon.

Don't tell me none of your kid brothers cast off neither, you old ragbag.

Terrible woman to have for a daughter.

Teach upstairs at 4 and 6, please.

Thank you.

It's gonna be this time.

You'll have to join the race because everyone's waiting for council flats.

The list is half a mile long. That's quite a little frong when old age is

creeping on. I'm going to get out in the back.

I'm going to get out in the back. I'm saving for a cruise.

I'm giving up the blues. I'm going to get out and sing and shout because I

just want to be free.

I'm going to get out in the back and see the world.

Thought you said you could sing.

You're a funny one, you are.

Yeah, I die laughing.

Drinks, too.

Like a fish.

Oh, I think I'll just go to the... Want a penny?

I want less sauce from you, mate.

Here, I'll come with you.

That beard and I'll go through you.

Charming.

Now, Jack, what are you doing here?

Just passing.

Now, Jack, do me a favour, will you?

Drop dead, will you? As a favour.

There. Was that my girl that was with you?

She ain't your girl.

Charlie, go and ask Mr. Flint Senior to come and have a drink with us.

I don't know that it's very wise to get involved with an intelligent girlfriend

at this stage of the game.

I'm not getting involved.

Goodbye.

Jack. Yeah?

He don't like you.

Don't be something new.

You want a drink with him, he says, you go and drink with him.

He's an obstinate geezer, your old man.

Hi, Matt.

Nice to see you again.

Let's come and have a drink. Look, I've got a drink.

I've got a seat.

And I'm happy.

Sit down, Nobby. This isn't the King of Bleeding Zanzibar.

I think I'll go and... I'm an old friend, Matt.

An old friend of mine.

I want to help you. Help?

What help do I need from you, mate?

I hear you're out of work.

I'm going into business on my own.

At your age, talk sense.

Come and work for me, Matt.

Listen, don't you talk to me like that.

Hmm. What's going on?

Nobby?

What's going on? He'll show you something. What are you talking about?

You'll see.

All right, then. Come outside and I'll show you. Nobby!

What's Matt up to?

He'll show that Jack Ellum and he don't need no job.

You just wait and see.

Will.

Stop Matt making a fool of himself.

If Matt wants to make a fool of himself, that's his lookout.

What's he up to, then? I don't know.

Right case, your old man.

Let's have a look.

My life. Oh, what's a silly old slob up

to now, then?

So you've got nutted then, Matt?

Who's your tailor?

Come on then, Matt. You've got nothing to lose but your chains.

No thanks, Jack. It won't.

Well, Lil?

What do you think of it? The act's fine. It'll go great up west.

What do you mean, up west?

Matt's joining me. We're doing the queues. Baskin, you can take real money.

It's a great act.

It's begging.

Oh, no, it ain't. I've been at it for 20 years and earned every penny.

I'm sorry, Nobby. I didn't mean you. It's all right for you. But Matt's

different. He's a docker. Not now.

Not no more. I'm not... Come on, Lil. I need a wet after this.

Look, we've paid for the money of the Collinses to see where Zach's still

mine. Oh, it's a great act. It needs a bit of polishing.

I'm tired.

So am I.

Here, come and meet this place I know.

We can sit down and be comfortable there.

What do you mean?

Well, just sit down, you know.

There's this place around the corner.

Come around the corner with you?

Whatever for?

What's the matter with you? You bar me or something?

Here. What do you want me to do, Ricky?

What do you want to do to me, Ricky?

What do you want to do to me? You want to make love to me?

Oh you are a noisy cow.

What's this?

Milady's boudoir?

Here, I'm not having no rats around watching.

Cats.

It's all right, then.

Loads of cats around here.

It means there's no one else around anyway.

What's all this then?

What's all this?

Eviction notices.

The old bloody street, that's what's all this.

See what it says? Slum clearance.

Calling my house a slum. It's done us all right.

I don't know if they'll find us something.

These new flats are all right.

Flats. Here might be prefabs. They're instant houses.

Instant slums, my luck.

They might give us a place of our own, Jim.

Oh, what a ho. They've got no right to just chuck us out at a minute's notice.

Two months, love.

What's two months when we lived in a place for 30 years?

It's not good enough.

There ought to be something we could do about it.

Yeah. Petition. What?

Get up and petition.

That's it, that's it. We'll get up and petition from everyone in the street,

everyone in Clare Street.

Matt, Matt, I want you...

Canary, £25.

Do us a favour. How much is that one?

£2. Bit fat, isn't he?

He ain't fat. He's plump. He's been well looked after.

He's breastfed, that one.

Give it a quid for him.

Pound for him? I wouldn't insult him.

£2. He's not worth £2.

But I tell you what, you trust in this mouldy old canary, yeah?

I'll give you £2.10 the two.

Make it three quid.

I wouldn't take them off your hands, but it so happens I'll do for my kid brother

who's deaf, dumb and blind.

£50 the two.

All right, go on, then. Right, that makes it ten bob for the canary.

Oi!

Oi! Oi! Come back here, will you?

Oi!

Wouldn't try that game if I was you.

Oh, isn't he lovely, though?

Kiss a kiss for him.

I prefer pigeons, myself.

What are you doing tonight?

They're bigger, you know.

I don't know yet.

Makes better eating when you get tired of them.

He looks a bit malty to me, that one.

Well, so would you if you were shut up in a cage all day? Why don't you let him

out, then?

We don't give that trouble with pigeons.

Would you mind if I did, Ricky?

No, he's yours. You do what you like, then.

Go on.

He doesn't seem to want to come out. Of course he does.

Lift him out.

Mind your hands.

Go on, let him go, then.

He's frightened.

No. Give him a push, come on.

He'll be killed.

No, he won't. He's free now.

He'll be alright.

He's free.

Now then. Of course it's a fake. Of course it isn't. Well, of course it is.

Shut up.

Maybe everybody knows they are.

You heard what I said.

There's no need to be rude.

All right, Jim, you know your bit.

We'll get your lorry there.

Then when we've loaded it up, you get it back to my place.

Help unload and lose yourself.

Right.

Now it's up to little Ricky here. Oh, get out of him.

I'm just going to get his feed.

Evening, Mr Ellerman.

Hello, Betsy. Is that your kid, Jim?

Oh, blimey, he's ugly, isn't he? Now, you watch what you're saying about my

nephew. How could I have Uncle Ricky, then?

Well, he's got four legs and a snout, so I suppose it's you and my name. Oh,

thanks.

You bloody wolf. Shut up. Now then, now then, it's only Charlie's sense of

humour.

Look, don't take no notice of him, Betty. It's just his idea of a joke.

Well, it's not mine.

What do you want to know people like them for?

Well, Jack brought him.

What's he here for?

What do they want here, anyway?

Well, some furniture.

Wardrobes and stuff, exactly.

Yeah, well, a funny time of night to come about it, that's all I can say.

Well, that's business, isn't it?

Come on, you pop up to bed. I've got to get back in there. They're waiting.

Come on, me doggo.

Wouldn't be the same, would it, coming home to a block of flats?

You sent in the petition.

Couldn't do anything, could they, Matt? Not now, knowing how we feel.

That's what you think, love.

It's nothing to do with us. We just live here.

Remember when we first come here? Yeah.

A house.

Nothing to put in it. Except the old iron bed.

Well, so be that. That's what we wanted, wasn't it? Oh, Matt.

Still be come on a bit since then, what with the kids and that. Yeah, and the

old men on the street, eh? I didn't mean it, love.

You always was a mad devil. I ought to be used to you by now.

Yeah, what's all this then?

Jack Elliman's car.

Just ring me, Ricky.

When we're all set, just ring me. Quite right, Jack.

What's all this then?

Hello, Dad.

Did you ask this slot in? What? A mate's of mine.

I'm very fond of your son, Matt. Look, I told you before, keep away from my boy.

I don't want him to have anything to do with you. You're not telling me... I am

telling you. Now, now.

Come on, Matt.

What's going on, you old man, Will? You think you can do what you like, don't

you? Don't you, Jack?

You think you can just come and go as you please. It don't matter.

I'm the great Jack bloody element.

Well, this is someone who's not taking it. Look, I just came around to see your

son. I live and die.

Jack's a friend of mine. I've known you a sight too long, Jack Elliman.

Just keep away from my family.

I'll try to help you, Matt. No need to help.

No need to help, eh?

You do.

I do?

Oh, that's a laugh.

When I want me help from you, I'll let you know. Don't you worry.

You've got to think of Lil.

So that's it, is it?

I'll take care of her. Don't you worry.

All right, Matt. Let's leave it, eh? No, no, you don't. No, no, you don't! Matt,

don't be so mean!

I'm trying to drag you into this!

Don't get away with it!

Nothing, Bill.

I didn't touch him.

Come on. I've got to get him to the hospital.

Get him in the car.

They're taking their time, aren't they?

It's half an hour since Mum went in.

They know their business.

Your dad's a strong man. Your dad might, yes.

I told you not to come round to our place, didn't I?

We used to be friends.

Yeah, looks like it.

I think all's been going on between you two, anyway.

Me and your dad used to be friends. Now he hates me.

That's what's going on. Oh, come off it.

All right.

He was jealous. Jealous?

You must be joking.

I was in the money.

Dad don't want that sort of money.

Maybe he thinks your mum did.

Mum? He knew I was after Lil before they were married.

Well, they got married.

I accepted it.

You bloody well had to, didn't you?

Perhaps.

Anyway, I'd like to have helped him.

I want to help you, Ricky. Will you do something for me, Jack?

Just stay away from me after this.

I don't want nothing more to do with you, see?

Mr. Flint.

Yeah, that's right.

I'm afraid I've bad news for you, Mr. Flint.

Your father's dead.

Yeah?

He had a cerebral haemorrhage, a stroke.

If he'd have lived, he'd have probably been paralyzed and bedridden.

That would have been hard for an active, strong man.

Yeah, that's right.

He was a strong man.

I see you're right.

Yeah, I lost money on that one. Oh, I'm sorry about that, Sammy. I was wrong

there. I lost money on it, too.

Eh?

Bad luck.

I had a century on it with the book. The Willow.

What do you want to come and lose money up here for, then?

Keep the odds long.

Right, then.

I've been taking your phony tips, too.

Ricky.

I delayed things a bit because of Matt, but now we've got to get moving.

It suits me.

They usually test the alarms at the beginning of the week.

I'll get on to you when they've done it.

Good boy.

Well, Ricky, you'll soon be in the money.

This'll be your sort of place.

You belong here.

I won't belong anywhere, mate.

When I've got my bit, I'm getting out on my own somewhere.

I don't want no belonging to places or people.

What about your girlfriend, the skinny bit?

Never even mind about her.

I don't mind.

Charlie might.

What do you mean, Charlie?

Ain't nothing to her.

They're around together.

They're here tonight.

They're what?

It's all down below.

By the rails somewhere.

Sit down, Ricky.

What's she to you, anyway?

Yeah, that's right.

She don't mean nothing.

Katherine Donovan here.

Once you're small with them, love. Just slip them off, anything to oblige.

Come and give us hand.

No, I want to talk to you. What about?

Well, I'm trying to come outside for a bit. What? Then lose me sing.

What do you want to talk about?

Yeah, what do you want to talk to her about, Lifter?

Look, what are you doing tonight?

Oh, I'm going out tonight, Lifter.

What about tomorrow?

Well, where are you going tonight?

Out. What, with Charlie Beatty? Maybe.

Well, you're going out with him again.

So? You don't tell me what to do, Ricky. I'll do what I like.

You want to watch it, Cat.

You might finish up in that water.

Just you try it, that's all. Just you try it. Right.

You going out with Charlie, baby? Mind your own bloody business.

Aw, finish me washing.

What's the matter?

I don't know.

I feel so lonely after.

Well, you want to get married.

Do you mind?

Oh, I don't know.

That's what most girls think about.

Getting married and having kids.

What? And end up like me mum?

Or yours if it comes to that.

Draggle old housewives.

Oh, I should have thought that was just a job for you.

Find some steady, dependable bloke.

How about Charlie Batey, then?

And you go to well. I'd rather marry Charlie than you.

All right.

Let's forget it.

Hey, Kat.

Kat, come back.

ever takes any notice.

Testing? How do you know? I've heard alarms go off all over and no one ever

takes any notice.

Cor, why don't they shut that rail?

Hello, yes.

Elliman here.

Hello, Jack. They just tested the alarm.

Good. Well, the sooner we can get it done, the better, then.

When can you do your bit, Ricky?

I haven't fit the dud fuse in the alarm circuit dinner time.

Good boy.

Right, we'll do it tonight.

Everything's laid on.

Tonight?

Well, yeah, I suppose so.

What do you mean, you suppose?

Okay, okay.

Tonight it is.

Uh, I'll tell Jim.

Right. See you, Ricky.

So long, Jack.

Hello, Ricky.

Come for a drink. Dinner time, eh?

It's his birthday. Oh, when he ever returns.

So, drink over the road, then, eh? All right, then.

See you there.

I thought I missed you.

Well, you have.

Hoped you might join me in a glass of beverage.

No, thank you.

I'm just going to make myself a cup of tea.

Very nice, too.

I'll join you.

Got me sandwiches.

What are you doing here? I was coming over to see you. I want to talk to you.

It's on. We're doing it tonight.

What's up?

I can't do it.

Look, I've thought about it and thought about it, and I've had a hell of a time

over it, but I can't do it.

You can't back out. Not now. It's all fixed for tonight.

You've got to go through with it.

I can't.

God knows how I'm going to get me licence or a house.

But I'll be much worse off the other way, and you will too, you know.

Everything's ready.

I've done my better in the fuse, and now you say no. Don't come to your moral lot

with me.

Look, I'll drive your bleeding lorry myself.

No. The lorry stays out of it.

I'm sorry I took so long to this side, but... Well, there it is.

Do you want a lift?

No, thanks.

I don't like being let down, Ricky.

It wouldn't do for anybody to get away with that.

Won't make no difference, Jack.

I'll be there with the lorry.

I'll drive it myself.

All right.

Too late to change things now.

You'll be there with a lorry Jim's back down.

We'll see about that.

Don't know Charlie don't anybody we can't rely on Rick You'll be there with

a lorry. We'll be once sure I'll come myself.

Well, well, I'll phone you to put out the old red carpet then What's going on

with you nothing what you keep looking at the time for look if I'm boring your

mate No, it's not like hang around. I want you.

How you do do you?

What's the matter with you tonight?

Nothing.

Summit's up, isn't it? I know Summit's home from Charlie.

If you have anything more to do with that bastard, I'll kick your teeth in.

Oh, Charming. Such nice things you say to me.

You're the one who ought to stay away from Charlie, if you ask me. Well, I'm

not asking you, am I? Why don't you mind your own business?

Well, you're always minding mine.

Who do you think you are, anyway? My boyfriend or Summit? Oh, that'll be the

day. Yeah, that'll be the day, all right.

Well, let's see if you've done your job properly.

Gloves.

I hadn't forgotten.

This place is cleared every day.

All the stuff's on the third floor, ready to go on a lift.

Right. Pug.

No, leave Pug there on watch. You never know with Ricky. And you do with Pug.

Don't want a murder on our hands.

Pug.

Anybody comes down the alley, use it.

Bye.

Ricky, it's a copper!

You chicken liver

bastard!

Come on, let's get out of here.

Over the top.

Okay, now, get lost.

I'll get that bleeding Ricky if it's the last thing I do.

Snort! It's on fire!

Suit you.

Don't make me laugh, for God's sake.

How are you, Ricky?

Never felt better.

Hurts a bit now it's healing.

Your mum says you'll be out soon. She'll be in a new flat by then.

Yeah, I know.

Cat, I... Look,

Cat, I wanted to see you.

Sit down.

I don't know what my face is going to look like when I'm done with it.

It didn't look too good before.

Yeah.

Will it... Will it matter to you, Kat?

Well, I can't say what I feel till I see it, can I?

I don't want it to make any difference.

Your face don't matter that much.

That's the way I feel now.

But I might feel different when I see it.

I hope I don't, but you can't help the way you feel, can you?

What have you been doing, Ove?

Oh, nothing much.

You've been going out with Charlie while I've been here?

I've been out with him.

Cat, you're not still going out with him, are you? After all this?

I don't want to sit around doing nothing, do I? Yeah, we're not Charlie

Batey. Why not Charlie Batey? I'm free, aren't I? We're not engaged, are we?

I'm sorry, Ricky.

I couldn't lie to you.

Just get well soon, love.

Hello, Ricky. Hello, Jim boy. Sorry I'm late. Here, I've brought you some fruit

and magazines.

Oh, tell me.

Your mum sent her love. She couldn't come because of the move.

Tomorrow, is it? Yeah.

I borrowed a lorry for it.

Poor old Lil. You should have heard her weeping and wailing.

Jim, what about the insurance?

Are they paying up?

Oh, they will do, yeah.

What, enough for a new lorry?

Well, they would be, but... Well, I'm turning in the transport lark.

I'll get a steady job.

The insurance will pay the deposit on the house.

That's what Betsy's always wanted.

Jim, I'll be out of here soon.

Then we'll have a gut, Beatty and his mob, and not getting away with it.

No, Ricky, it's best left alone.

I felt like blue murder at first, I can tell you.

I went round looking for them, but they was lying low, I reckon.

And then Betsy was at me.

She says that if it got out that it wasn't an accident, then it might upset

the insurance.

I suppose she's right.

Just you get out of here, son. Don't seem the same without you.

Mind how you go.

Ta, Jim.

Don't it look dirty now, all the things have gone?

It's hard to believe we've lived here all these years.

It's my home.

Oh, Mum, the flat's so nice and bright.

You'll love it once you're in.

Come on, then.

Let's get the old clip down. I'll sit up.

Thanks,

Mum.

Come

on,

Mum. You'll be more comfy there.

Cab's full of stuff.

I'll just go and lock up.

Don't bother. There's nothing left to lock up.

Betsy's come to see you.

Give us your bag.

It's nice here, Mum.

It's not the same as having your own front door.

Oh, I know. It's terrific.

Look, you can see some pools.

It's all very well for them as likes it, I suppose.

Oh, blimey, I've got something on the stove.

Poor old Mum. She's never satisfied.

Well, how's the landed gentry, then?

Now you've got a house of your own.

The house is nice, really.

We've got a bit of garden in our own telly.

Jim's job's all right, the factory too.

Oh, but... Oh, come off it. Don't say you're not satisfied after all that

trouble I went to. Oh, you're awful, Ricky.

No, the house is nice, really.

Trees all down the street and that.

Just a bit lonely, that's all.

What about the pub, then?

Oh, the nearest pub's a mile away.

Went there a couple of times.

Jim wanted to meet people, he said.

Oh, but it was all so new and shiny.

The governor wasn't very friendly, and there was hardly anybody else in it.

So far away from anywhere.

Just some kids on motorbikes.

What did you do in the evenings, then?

Oh, sit and look at telly.

It's funny how you feel you know the people you watch on it.

I even write to them sometimes.

Oh, you really got it bad. Right into the telly.

I put you in the loony bin. Oh, shut up.

Now then, you two.

Ramen all ready. Have a nice cup of tea.

No, thanks, Mum.

I'll be back later.

I've got something to do.

I'm out.

Bye-bye.

Well, if it ain't Uncle Ricky, then.

I didn't know he was out.

Out of what?

Been inside.

Carved a blonde or something, I think.

Here, what's the matter with his face?

It gets me.

I like it.

You go for anything nasty, don't you?

I'm looking for Charlie.

I reckon he'll be looking for you too, mate. Oh, yeah? I should start running

if I was you. Yeah, where is he?

Might find him in the Pochonel. I'll do. I'll come with you. Me too.

Are you a puppy?

You.

All right, all right.

Why you come here? I hate this place.

I like it.

Why the hell I come out with you?

Ricky boy.

Your mother's offered to stand bail for you.

If you fail to appear at Old Street Magistrate's Court at 10 a.m. tomorrow,

she'll lose her money. You understand?

Yes.

Sign clear things.

You'll find all your personal possessions there, except for the flick

knife, which is the subject of the charge.

I'm sorry, Mum.

You were all I had left, Ricky.

Now you've gone.

You're just a layabout and a thief, too.

What have I got left?

I used to have your dad, but he's gone now.

Betsy and Jim have gone.

The house has been broken down. What have I got left?

You've still got me.

What do you all want to talk about being free for?

I never wanted it. I was always glad to have responsibility.

Well, that's life, isn't it?

Anything of value?

Ties you're down, it stands to reason.

I never wanted to be free, but you all did.

In the end, I'm the only one that's free.

I've got no responsibilities now.

I've got no ties.

I've got nothing.

I'm free.

Look at me.

Free.

Lindt. You evidently started this fight, and the police found you with a knife in

your hand. It wasn't mine, sir. Yes, I know. You've told us there.

And witnesses have stated the knife was Beatty's.

Nevertheless, the use of this weapon makes this a very serious matter.

What was this fight about?

Well, it was about a girl, sir.

Miss Donovan?

Yes, sir. I see.

And why were you fighting about her?

Oh, we were just fighting, that's all.

Flint, answer my question.

Why were you fighting?

Well, it's like this, sir.

She's my girl, and we've been going out together a long time.

And I've been away. I've been stuck in hospital life. And while I've been away,

this Beatty's been seeing her and taking her out and that.

Well, I got a bit choked off with it, and I wanted to sort him out. See?

Yes, but Beatty says that Miss Donovan is his girl and that your attack was

unprovoked.

What do you say to that?

Well, that's not true, sir.

I see.

Well, if what you say is true, it puts the matter in a different light.

Can you prove any legitimate relationship between yourself and Miss

Donovan?

We was gonna get married, sir.

We was engaged and we was gonna get married.

That's a lie, sir.

This isn't something you just made up on the spur of the moment, is it?

No, sir. Why, it is. He just made that up, sir. Quiet, matey.

Is Miss Donovan here?

She's outside, sir. I thought she might be needed as a witness.

Call Captain Donovan.

Miss Donovan, are you acquainted with the accused, Flint?

Yes. And is there any relationship between you and him?

Yes. Would you describe yourself as his girl?

Remember, you are on oath.

Yes, I'm his girl.

Is there anything more than that?

Are you engaged to be married?

Yeah.

We're engaged to be married.

Thank you, Miss Donovan. You may stand down.

Thank you.

Well, Flint, I have a report on you here.

You have no previous convictions.

Your school record is good. And I have also a good report of you from your

employers. Cool stream cigarettes.

I believe the evidence that the knife was Beatty's.

On the other hand, it is quite clear that you started the fight.

The fact that you're engaged to Miss Donovan does seem, however, to indicate

an extenuating circumstance.

I'm going to be very lenient with you, therefore, and I hope that you'll take

good advantage of it and get married and settle down.

I bind you over to keep the peace for a year, and you will pay three pounds'

cost.

Thank you, sir.

As for you, matey...

It's

great of you to say that, Cat.

Fine, it makes me look an engaged girl going out with another man while her

fiance's in hospital.

I suppose we'll have to get married now.

Don't want to be had up for perjury.

Marvelous, isn't it, seeing as how we ate each other? I don't hate you, Cat.

I love you.

Want to marry you? Oh, don't talk wet.

Charming.

You really want to marry me?

You really love me?

Just said so, didn't I? How many more times?

Is this a proposal?

Yep.

Well, okay.

I don't mind.

Where do you think?

Where are you taking me?

What do you want to do to me? You want to make love to me?

Find myself a place to go I'm gonna find myself a girl to

love We'll go out walking hand in hand without a care I've got a

feeling dreams come true someday somewhere I'm just a boy who's looking

for

a place to go where i'll be free perhaps someday

i'll find a girl who's looking for a place to go like me