Original subtitles

[intense music]

[upbeat music]

- Everybody got to run sometime man

[crowd chattering]

- Go higher, go higher.

- Turn around.

♪ Come home straight or come home fucked up ♪

♪ Sometimes I don't come home at all ♪

♪ What in the world's come over me ♪

♪ What in heaven's name have I done ♪

♪ I've broken the speed of the sound of loneliness ♪

♪ I'm out there running just to be on the run ♪

- They don't want me anymore.

Don't think I'm crazy enough.

- Well, I think you're crazy.

♪ So damn far behind

♪ What in the world has come over me ♪

♪ What in heaven's name have I done ♪

♪ I've broken the speed of the sound of loneliness ♪

♪ Out there running just to be on the run ♪

[door slamming]

♪ It's mighty mean and a dreadful sorrow ♪

♪ I crossed the evil line today ♪

♪ I can't think about tomorrow

♪ I ain't got a word to say

♪ So tell me now

♪ What in the world has come over me ♪

♪ What in heaven's name have I done ♪

♪ I've broken the speed of the sound of loneliness ♪

♪ Out there running just to be on the run ♪

♪ Just to be on the run

♪ Just to be on the run

♪ Out there running just to be on the run ♪

- Thanks for picking me up Pete.

When you opened the boot and you put my bags in the back,

it's a good feeling.

I mean I really had that leaving feeling.

You know that feeling?

That feeling of leaving?

And arriving?

[intense rock music]

[traffic rustling]

I'm sorry I didn't make the wedding.

- You were tied up, eh?

- I would've been a good best man.

I had a book all about it,

of the etiquette of being a best man.

- Well, what'd it say?

- I don't know, I never read it.

Look, I'm sorry, I didn't make the divorce.

- Yeah, well, you didn't miss much.

- [Ray] It was quick, wasn't it?

- Yeah, I'm all alone now.

- I mean it, Pete.

I'm really sorry.

You've been growing into an old fart with me.

[grunting]

[laughing]

[muffled talking]

[voices whispering]

[traffic rustling]

[horse galloping]

[fence clanking]

[bell ringing]

[laughing]

- I've just a moment to get on the train.

- Here we go.

I'll be with you in a minute.

- You all right Pete?

- Oh, yeah, I'm all right.

You all right?

Where've you been?

- I don't know, here and there.

- You know you're not supposed to be drinking, don't you?

- I was thirsty.

- Look, just get yourself some breakfast

and take your medication will you,

you're making me nervous.

- Do you know what those are?

- Yeah, I know what they are and I know you need 'em.

- They're like horse tranquilizers.

Or a smack in the head with a claw hammer

if you know what that's like.

- Don't want, no, thank you.

It'll calm you down.

Come on.

Take it.

- Swap?

- No, no swaps.

Yeah, swap.

[laughing]

Ray, this is Mandy.

If you ever need anything and I'm not around,

she'll sort you out.

- All right.

- Hello.

- [Vendor] Six for a pound.

Any color you like.

- Got any orange ones?

- Any color you like except orange.

- I need an orange one.

- [Vendor] Just one sec mate.

Have another blue one.

- No, I got a blue one, I need an orange one.

Can I just take five?

- Pay for five, I'll give you six.

- No, just the five.

- Oh, take six, push the boat out.

Five for a pound.

[upbeat music]

[toy bird chirping]

[upbeat music continues]

[traffic rustling]

[people chattering]

[upbeat music continues]

[pot crashing]

- Come here, come here.

Where's our ring?

- [Laura] I've lost it.

- Well, where'd you lose it then?

- If I knew that, it would not be lost, would it.

- That was a five stone sapphire.

Volt and a half loop and a cluster,

a fucking cluster.

That was good ring.

- I don't want your stupid ring.

- I want it you silly bitch.

Obviously you don't want my ring,

which is why I want it,

so I can get my money back.

Fuck!

I tell you.

That's it.

Right.

- What are you gonna do with that?

- I'll tell you what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna count to three

and then I'm gonna get fucking angry.

- [Laura] You are already angry.

- Well, I'm gonna get even more angry.

- [Ray] Put the brick down.

- Fuck off.

- Go on.

You could have someone's eye out with that, it's dangerous.

- Is it?

Who the fuck are you?

Huh?

- Nobody.

- Who the fuck is this, huh?

- I don't know, he's just some nut case.

- A word of advice, nut case, right, yeah.

A wee gem of wisdom, yeah.

Don't ever.

Ever, never fuck with another man's misery, okay?

[sighing]

- He was lucky.

He caught me when I wasn't looking.

- You'll know to mind your own business then, won't you?

Done.

- I think my nose is broken.

- Can you stand up?

- No.

- Try.

- It's the sitting down that's done it.

I think I've got what's his name?

Rigor mortis.

- Lift your shirt up.

- What you gonna do?

- You probably cracked a rib.

[wincing]

What's wrong?

- That's cold.

- Does this hurt?

- No, it's nice.

- What's the date today?

- I dunno, why?

- When's your birthday?

- 23rd of August.

I'm a Leo.

- How's your head?

- Does he often do this sort of thing?

You know, flinging bricks about and at people.

It's not very nice, is it?

- There's a first time for everything.

Now, will you just stop asking stupid questions.

- I've met his sort before.

He probably practices.

It's not the first time this has happened to me.

It's not the first time

that I've unwittingly provoked somebody,

to assume to say the wrong thing

or look at them in the wrong way and boom,

it just all goes off.

- Look, I've got to go.

I don't mean to be rude,

but I've got an appointment.

- Okay, um.

I'll be off then.

[door creaking]

I'll be on my way.

[crowd chattering]

[applauding]

[laughing]

- [Pete] What happened to your face?

- Nothing.

- You see your nurse today?

- Yeah.

- Well, what'd she say?

- She said keep up the good work, come back in two weeks.

- Two weeks, why two weeks?

- Why not two weeks?

- It was your first time when you went to see her.

And don't tell me you walked into a door.

Always walking into doors, weren't ya?

Ever since you were a kid

you'd disappear off the face of the earth

and walk into a door somewhere.

- All right, don't get in a flat.

- Two curly sausage table five.

You weren't arrested again, were you?

- [Ray] Of course not.

- 'Cause I told you Ray,

I'm not having it, not again.

Fucking coppers knocking on the door at four in the morning

just 'cause you made a tit out of yourself.

Two curly sausage table five.

What the bloody hell is going on?

Surrounded by imbeciles.

I just don't understand it, you know.

- Nobody understands it.

- I mean, why can't you just pull yourself together.

- They changed their minds.

- What?

- They want pizza now.

- Well, they can't have pizza.

You tell them to make up their mind.

- I could give you a hand.

- No.

- I'll do the washing up.

- Look, I've got an imbecile to do that, thank you.

Boy!

Come on, I'm waiting for stuff in there.

Jesus.

- Remember when Dad was there I used to wash up?

It was his dream of having a gaffe like this, wasn't it?

- Was it?

- Boy. - Ouch.

- All that simple stuff, liver, beans and bangers.

He couldn't give it away.

- Yeah, well, I do all right with it

in a dull town, don't I.

- I don't know you how you do this.

Like a bistro.

- Bistro.

I'll knock you one in a minute.

It's a fucking rain here isn't here.

Pizzas and curly sausage.

Gourmet pizza with smoked salmon.

The barley dough, cod

sour cream, the yuppies love it.

Pesto calzone for table four.

What did happen to your nose?

- I met this bird.

Her old man was giving her a bit of a hard time.

He was gonna knock her with a brick.

- And you just had to stick your nose in, didn't you?

- I just told him to pack it in.

- Oh, good plan, Ray, eh? I'm sure that worked a treat.

Jesus, when you gonna learn?

- What was I supposed to do?

- It's not your problem, it's her problem.

Everybody's got their own problems in this life.

Everyone's got to land on the cards they're dealt

and if someone's got a bad card, you don't go and pick out

their bad card, do you?

- You don't believe me do you?

- You've got your own bad cards mate, all right?

- Goodnight.

- Goodnight.

- See you in the morning.

- Goodnight Mandy.

Is she your girlfriend then?

- She's my waitress.

- You given her a tickle yet?

- I never mix business with pleasure, Ray.

- You like her though, don't you?

- Well, I don't dislike her.

- You're fond of her as a person.

- I'm not not fond of her, she's just staff.

- Seems a bit unnatural to me, that's all.

- What's unnatural about it?

I just don't fancy her, that's all.

- No, I mean, I'm here now.

I could work for you.

You can trust me.

- I can trust her enough.

- I wouldn't trust that kitchen then.

He looked like a lazy prick to me.

- Hey, Arlo.

- What's this?

- Money.

If you go and see that woman tomorrow.

Oh, well, if you don't want it.

[upbeat music]

[spoon clanking]

Ray.

Ray.

- Sorry.

[slurping]

Don't like those.

They give me the shakes.

- You can change 'em until you try 'em properly, can you?

- They make my muscles stiff.

They really slow me down.

- Well, maybe you need slowing down.

- Well, maybe you need speeding up.

[slurping]

- Laura!

Laura!

- Here, just what you wanted.

Fuck off.

Well, where am I supposed to go, a fucking youth hostel?

- Catch!

- Fucking thanks.

Stupid cow.

Laura, Laura, Laura!

- Off me!

- [Man] Laura, can you?

Fuck it.

- Hello.

Can I get a pint of lager, please?

How much is that?

- Two.

- Okay, okay, okay, okay.

So anybody sitting there?

- Does it look like anybody's sitting there?

- Can I sit there?

It's nice here.

All my friends come here.

They're not here at the moment, though.

Do you, do you fancy a drink?

- What I fancy is to be left alone.

I don't want to talk to anybody,

I don't want to drink with anybody,

smile at anybody,

play let's get to know each other with anybody.

I don't want to know.

I'm in a bad mood.

- Well, why'd you come here then?

- Because I'm in a bad mood.

[clearing throat]

- You all right?

- I'm up the duff if you must know.

Anything else you'd like to ask?

- I'm surprised people still wanna

have babies these days.

It seems such an old-fashioned mumsey thing to do.

No, hold on.

- What is the matter with you?

- I just wanna talk to you.

- [Laura] What about?

- I don't know.

I just wanna talk to you.

I wanna get to know you.

- You don't get to know people

by just walking up to them in a pub

and talking absolute fucking rubbish to them.

- Yes, you do.

You've got very beautiful eyes.

- You don't give up, do you?

- Not really, no.

Do you want a drink?

- Vodka.

Double.

- I'm Ray, by the way.

- Laura.

- You know you shouldn't be smoking

in your condition.

- There's a lot of things

I shouldn't be doing.

- Me, too.

Personally, I like to live

as if I'm gonna die tomorrow.

- You might do.

- Can I have a feel?

- I beg your pardon.

- Of here.

- Look, I'm quite tired.

I'm gonna go for a sleep now.

- Oh, I hate sleeping.

It's boring.

- Yeah.

It is pretty boring.

- I get nightmares.

It's probably 'cause I'm so intelligent.

- What do you get nightmares about?

- Everything.

- It's just your subconscious sorting things out for you.

As long as you don't dream you're dead,

then you're okay.

[upbeat music]

- You're a good kisser.

Nice firm lips.

So what should we do now?

♪ She took me to her hotel

♪ A room on the second floor

♪ A kettle and two coffees

♪ A number on the door

♪ She said I hardly know you

♪ Agreed we kissed good night

♪ I knew that in the morning

- I'm not fucking you, you realize.

It's out of the question.

- I didn't ask you to fuck me.

- I'm not fucking anybody for the time being.

- [Ray] I don't want you to.

- Fucking people isn't the answer to anything.

- I don't want to.

- I'm not doing anything else either.

- I don't want to.

- Well.

Now that we've got that sorted out.

I'm gonna go.

- Will I see you again?

- What kind of a question is that?

- It makes sense to me.

[scoffing]

[lighter flicking]

[train passing]

[woman laughing]

- I've given up.

[somber music]

- Fuck me.

...Nine, Ten.

- It's a fake.

- No, it isn't.

I can tell.

- How can you tell, you're numpty.

- I can just tell, I've got this feeling.

- You don't believe in all that bollocks, do you?

- They do.

They do to show that they were here.

That they exist.

- Who?

Two pentioners with a plank?

See.

Two pentioners with a plank were here.

[laughing]

[flower flapping]

[laughing]

- Psst.

- Oh.

It's fucking deadly.

- I'm doing it.

Keep her busy.

- Do you have any sea urchins?

- [Salesperson] Sea urchins, I don't think so.

- Thanks anyway.

[children chattering]

[laughing]

- Hello?

God, Ray.

Where are you?

- Hastings.

- [Pete] Hastings?

What are you doing in Hastings?

- I'm with that bird I told you about.

- Bird, what bird?

- [Ray] The one I told you about.

- Oh, Jesus.

- What's wrong?

- It's just fast work, that's all.

- Yeah, well it's a fast world, Pete.

- Ray, look, when are you coming home.

- [Ray] I don't know.

Maybe we'll come home tomorrow.

Maybe we'll come home in two weeks.

- Are you out of your fucking mind?

Look, do you want me to come and get you?

- I can't hear you Pete. - [Pete] Ray!

- You're... the pips have gone,

I've no more change, huh?

- What did he say?

- He said we could stay as long as we like.

- Do you always have to phone him when you go somewhere?

- Well, he gets lonely.

I just ring him to cheer him up a bit.

- Why am doing this?

- To help keep your mind off things.

- Really?

Well, get out, go on, off it,

I'm letting you go.

- I can't do anything right, can I?

- Well, that's why I'm letting you go.

Go on!

Huh!

Now I'm doing his job.

When's it gonna end, eh?

[knocking]

- You'll burn your fingers.

- Ow, arse!

[fireworks sizzling]

[fireworks popping]

[laughing]

Now they know we're here.

[kissing]

You know what I'm thinking?

- How can I possibly know what you're thinking?

I'm thinking this is destiny.

I'm not being funny.

We met when we needed to meet.

Imagine if we'd never met.

Imagine if we'd each met someone else

that we didn't need to meet

and we'd spent the rest of our life

in a meaningless spiral of mediocrity and disillusion,

never even aware of each other.

Always needing, but at the same time

always assuming that this is as good

as it gets,

that's there no cure

that life's just in black and white,

it's all repeats

and the fucking telly's broken anyway.

- I did meet somebody else.

We thought we needed each other.

- It's a sign.

- [Laura] What's it a sign of?

- It's meaningful.

- What does it mean?

- I dunno.

I dunno what it means,

it's just meaningful.

- Are you trying to tell me something?

- I just did.

- And I told you, I need to be on my own.

- Why?

- Because it's my destiny

to be moody and isolated until I'm old and gray.

- I wasn't asking you to marry me.

- You never will if you don't want

a smack in the gums.

[laughing]

Kiss my eyes.

[laughing]

No, stop.

No, keep going.

Here.

On my mouth.

Now squash me on top.

- Why?

- I want to feel your weight.

- Like this?

- Harder.

Squeeze the breath out of me.

- Why?

- It makes me feel safe.

- Here.

Okay.

- I've got it.

Ow, you're not very good at this, are you?

[laughing]

Relax.

It's not a driving test.

Lower.

A bit higher.

Down a bit.

Yeah.

Just there.

[upbeat French song]

- You all right Man?

- Hello.

- This is exactly what Dad used to do, eh?

That's how he pissed this place away.

He had a good thing going here

and he pissed it away by drinking

and disappearing and falling over everywhere.

- Well, he was a drunk

and that's what drunks do.

- Is that how you want to end up?

Is it?

Because you never went through with him

what I went through.

- You bought him out.

It was the one thing he loved

and you took it away from him.

- I had no choice Ray and you know it.

He couldn't do it, could he?

And you couldn't do it.

Well, could you?

Now do I have to stand over you and all

morning, noon and night

for the rest of your life?

And for the rest of mine?

[meat sizzling]

- I've been looking for those everywhere.

- Haven't I got enough to concern with?

- Drugs are bad for you.

Everyone knows that.

I'm weaning myself off them.

I'm going for a more holistic approach.

You don't have to worry about me.

I feel great.

- I know.

I know, that's the trouble.

- [Mandy] At least give him a chance.

[kids arguing]

[voices whispering]

- Washing dishes is a lot more complicated

than it looks, you know.

You gotta be quick.

Letting stuff pile up,

that means I'm short the clean stuff.

- Okay.

- And then you gotta be thorough and tidy, no water on the floor,

somebody'll slip on their bum and break their neck.

- Okay.

- And if I say I need something in a hurry,

you drop what you're doing and you do it, all right?

And you're in charge of bread.

45 seconds in the oven and you don't burn it, all right?

- [Ray] Okay.

- And always listen to the intercom.

It's a lot to remember, I know.

[water sloshing]

- Ray go down to the cellar,

fetch us six bottles of vodka and six bordeaux.

- Oh, we're not doing the Bulgarian anymore.

- [Pete] Says who?

- It doesn't go with the conchiglie.

- It goes with the coq au vin.

- Well, it's Romanian now.

- Oh, big difference.

- Coq au vin is so passe.

Can't we think of something else?

Basil risotto with goat's cheese bruschetta.

Scallops with avocado couscous and fresh fennel.

- Anything else?

- I just thought you might fancy a change.

- Change is as good as the rest.

- I just thought I'd run it up the flag pole.

- [Ray] See what salutes.

- If it's not broke, don't fix it.

- Yeah, but you can't make an omelet

without cracking eggs.

- I know how to make an omelet Ray.

- Too many cooks spoil the broth.

- Just get downstairs, will you.

Everyone's a comedian.

- I'm sorry.

I was only trying to help.

- I know.

I know, all right.

You know, I appreciate it.

In fact, up to a point,

I quite like it.

[playful guitar music]

[bottles clanking]

- Insecure, over willing pride,

six letters, ending in I-S.

- Penis.

[laughing]

- That's five letters.

- Make yourself at home.

- Thanks.

[clearing throat]

- Oh, no, go ahead.

No skin off my nose.

- Do you miss her?

- Uh, no, no.

I never really missed her, no.

- Thanks.

- She divorced me.

[laughing]

- You missed Ray, though.

- No, I didn't.

- Yes, you did.

I think you did.

He missed you.

- Yeah, well, I missed him for a while.

God knows why.

And you, do you miss your husband at all?

- Well, he's not my husband anymore, so no.

But I miss having someone to talk to sometimes.

I miss,

I miss knowing someone so well

that well, you don't have to talk.

- Don't have to talk.

Now that's true, isn't it?

- Like you and Ray.

You're very lucky.

- Yes, I suppose we are.

- You're different now he's around.

More, more fun.

Well, more funny.

- Funny strange or funny haha?

- Just more, more dynamic.

- Dynamic?

All right.

- Well, you're just different.

I think it's sweet.

- So are you.

I mean, no, I mean,

I feel differently, I feel

dynamic.

[laughing]

- Everything to your satisfaction?

- Laura, this is Pete.

- [Laura] Hello.

- [Pete] Laura.

- Oh, dear.

- Um.

Do you want another drink?

- No, I'm all right, thanks.

- You all right?

- Look, I should be going.

- No.

It's all right.

- This isn't what it looks like.

- So Ray having girlfriends over, are you?

- So do you.

- Well, I think I'm allowed

to have friends over, Ray.

I don't ask much,

but I do ask for a bit of sensitivity.

No, it's always the same with you, huh.

Just me, me, me, me, me.

[crowd chattering]

- How are you. - All right.

- I never put anything on top of your cheese

or it dries it out, all right.

And when you're finished, take one of these.

- You know I don't like it.

- It's all or nothing sunshine, all right.

Do you want it or not?

- That's lovely, thanks.

Two salmon and asparagus pizzas for table 10.

- You know, there's two bases made up.

Why don't you start them off?

I can finish them later.

Have to try harder than that sunshine.

There you go.

[playful music]

- Ah.

Just what the doctored ordered.

- You said it mate.

Good luck.

- That's really good.

- There you go. Enjoy your meal.

Ray.

- [Ray] Yes, boss.

- You're scraping your plates, aren't you?

- Yes, boss.

- Before you wash 'em, you scrape 'em, all right?

- [Ray] Right boss.

- And don't call me boss.

- All right boss.

- Hang on.

What the fuck is this about?

Why do you do these things, eh?

You know I'm gonna go berserk.

It's like I've got a giant red button right here

with push me on it in big white letters.

I've worked with some fucking boneheads

in my time, but this is just vandalism.

God knows what's gonna happen

to those poor people when they get home.

- Well, you don't mind me taking them, do you?

- [Pete] That's different.

- How is that different?

- I'm gonna go berserk in a minute.

- All right, you won't give it to customers.

No, no, you won't give it to them

'cause they're real people.

- You know your trouble Ray

is you're so fucking selfish.

- You're fucking selfish.

- Oh, am I?

Well, maybe my wife left me 'cause I'm a selfish cunt

that worked his balls off all night and never went home.

- Yeah, yeah, you were.

- And when I tried to save Dad and his cushy old cafe,

I was just being selfish.

- You were.

- I rebuilt that place.

And I'd have fucked off years ago

if I had a choice.

Yeah, I'd have pissed off to the seashore

with some bird I met in a pub,

I would have loved that.

- Why didn't you Pete?

- Because it wouldn't have helped us, would it?

- What about me?

- I am helping you.

I just don't know whether I'm off

or I'm off with you, you know?

I mean, is it you?

Is this what you think of me?

or is it...

Is it this, eh?

Maybe there's nothing wrong with you.

Maybe you're just like this, eh?

Maybe it's your personality.

Maybe you're just a wanker.

- Well, say what's on your mind Pete, don't be shy.

I mean if it's all too much trouble for you,

you only have to say.

I'll take that as a yes then.

- I'll make a deal with you.

You do what you're supposed to do

and I'll help you find another job

and somewhere's to live, all right?

- I've already found somewhere.

- [Pete] What will she even go for all this?

- It was her idea.

- Oh, well, why the hell not.

I mean you've known her for the whole of two weeks.

How well do you know her Ray?

How well does she know you, eh?

Does she know everything?

You gonna tell her?

[siren blaring]

Take care of yourself all right.

You know, make yourself useful over at her place.

Just don't fuck up, all right.

- I won't.

- And if you have any bother, you know where I am, don't you?

- Oh.

Hello.

- Hello.

- Hello.

- I brought my things.

My worldly goods.

- I see.

So you have.

- We weren't sure if you were sure what time to expect us.

- [Laura] Yeah, we can always come back or anything.

- [Ray] You're a bit confused.

We're confused.

- No.

You.

You, you got the wrong day.

- I've got the wrong day.

I've got the wrong day.

Absolutely, I remember now.

- Well, come inside then.

You silly fucking.

- Sausage.

- Silly sausage, yes.

What are we like?

[door closing]

[train rattling]

Feel.

He'll be wanting to come out soon enough.

He'll be walking about and talking

and expecting to learn things.

What am I gonna teach him?

I dreamt I'd already had it.

It was tiny.

It was about the size of my thumb

and it was blue and white and red

and made of plastic.

And it had a red light on it

that told you it was still alive

and I worked out that the light meant

how warm it was.

And I got worried that I wasn't keeping it warm enough.

And I went to the pub

and when I got back,

the light had gone out.

It was dead.

I was so ashamed.

- Which pub?

- You're not even listening to me.

- You're bonkers.

You're bonkers.

- You're bonkers.

- Look at you.

The lights are on and there's nobody within miles.

I'm serious.

- So am I.

You've popped your cork.

You've flipped your lid.

You are definitely off the stick as they say.

- Oh, you think so, do you?

- I do, yes.

Why else would you put up with me.

- I don't know.

You're a fool.

Give us a kiss.

[somber music]

- Pete?

Oh, my God.

What have you done?

- It's Ray's.

Realistic, isn't it?

- Why so miserable?

- He's gone.

- Gone where?

- Gone to live with his girlfriend.

- So, that's good isn't it?

[opera music]

- Look at him.

He's fucked.

That's what medication does for you.

The voices are big, huh?

- What are you wittering about?

- I never even realized.

I was watching that.

I love watching you dress.

It's one of my most favorite things watching you dress.

- Ray.

For fuck's sake.

- [Ray] Why do you listen to to this bollocks, anyway?

- I fancy a swim.

If it clears up later,

we can go to the ladle.

[phone ringing]

Hello?

What?

No.

Look, I said no.

- Who was that?

- Take a wild guess.

[whimsical music]

[laughing]

[playfully screaming]

[water splashing]

[playfully screaming]

- [Mandy] Here you go.

[whooshing]

- That should do it.

[whooshing]

Hurry up.

[phone ringing]

- What did you do that for?

- It's time he learned.

[buzzing]

- Got it.

Hello.

- Has there been any change in you circumstances?

- Yeah, I changed address.

- Please fill out the form

and put your new address.

Are you on housing benefit?

- Yeah, why?

- Are you two together?

- No.

- You're not together.

If you're living together,

you must fill out a form to claim as a couple.

[voices whispering]

Fill out this form if you're on any other benefits.

Is your partner on benefits?

Wait a moment.

Excuse me.

[voices whispering]

- What did you do that for?

- Did you see the way she was staring at me?

- She wasn't staring at you.

- She was staring at me.

I hate it when they do that.

I'm fucking sick of it.

- Sick of what?

- Everything.

[voices whispering]

[voices chattering]

- [Laura] Ray.

Ray.

- I'm hearing things.

Sounds, voices.

Whispering.

- It's just the traffic.

- People.

Like ghosts.

In other houses, they're talking to me,

asking me questions.

- [Laura] It's just the neighbors, somebody's telly.

- I'm going mad.

- [Creepy Voice] Come in Captain Scarlet.

You are expected.

[door closing]

- [Laura] How are you feeling?

- What if something happens?

You die before me?

- Don't say that.

Nothing's gonna happen.

This is gonna stop as well.

- Why?

- Because I want you to be old and wise.

I'll never be old and wise.

Old and stupid, maybe.

- Look, you've just got to have a little bit of faith in things.

- That's what my mom used to say.

She wasn't a believer,

but she sometimes used to read the Bible.

Said it reminded her of happier times.

What do you do to remind yourself of happier times?

- These are happy times.

I'm happier than I've ever been.

See.

I know how to get you better.

Ray, I think you should spend some more time with Pete.

He's your family and you haven't seen him in weeks.

I mean we can't spend all our time cooped up together

like battery chickens.

- You're the only one who understands me.

[phone ringing]

- Don't answer it.

- [Laura] Hello?

No.

No, Dave, how many times do I have to tell you?

Okay.

Okay.

- Hang up, hang up!

- He wants me to meet up with him tonight.

- What are you gonna do?

- He's gonna find out sooner or later.

[intense music]

[voices chattering]

[siren blaring]

[buttons clicking]

- Hello Pete?

- [Pete] Hello, Ray?

Ray, is that you?

- I, I.

- [Pete] Ray?

- I just wanted to talk to you,

just wanted to see how you are.

- Yeah, me too, Ray, me, too.

Look, why don't you come over for Sunday dinner, all right.

Bring Laura.

You're always welcome.

- That'd be really nice, Pete.

- [Pete] You sure you're all right?

- No, no, yeah, I'm fine, I'm fine.

Really, yeah.

Ciao.

[whirring]

[gate clanking]

[voices whispering]

[door opening]

- What did he say?

- He wants me to go back the Glasgow with him

for fuck's sake.

- And what did you say?

- What you think I said?

What are you thinking?

For fuck's sake.

I would sooner go to the moon.

[clanking]

[voices whispering]

[horns blowing]

Oh, my God.

What's happened to you.

- Hello.

- I thought you'd been hit by a car.

What are you doing?

- It's an experiment.

- Where's your clothes?

- I don't need clothes, I'm invisible.

- Ray, cover yourself up.

- You see the way people are looking at me?

They're looking at me

like I shouldn't be here.

They're looking straight through me.

But this means I'm here.

It's a spiral.

Oh, and well, look,

that's the direction of the spiral.

Obviously.

What you looking at?

- Get inside, come on.

- That's the thing.

They can't hear me either.

- Get inside.

[intense music]

- When I'm depressed, I become invisible.

Maybe not.

- I'm calling a doctor.

- I don't like doctors.

They make me nervous.

I fancy a bath.

I'm stuffed like a pig.

I absolutely am.

Mandy, have another drink.

I'll even pour it for you,

you can coach me on my technique.

- You don't need any coaching.

- I think you've had enough for one day.

- That's where you're wrong Pete old boy.

I haven't even started.

Thank you.

That was delicious.

My compliments to the chef.

- So, when's it due?

- Sorry?

- I couldn't help noticing you're showing.

Sorry if I'm being nosy.

- [Laura] It's December.

- [Mandy] Just in time for Christmas.

Is it kicking yet?

- Well, now we're talking about babies.

If it kicks you, kick it back.

Give yourself a do-it-yourself abortion.

Save yourself the agony.

I mean, I'm not being funny,

but you should see the father.

Christ knows what's going to actually...

- Ray.

- There you go.

[door slamming]

- Fuck.

She's having a baby for Christ's sake.

Have you considered the implications?

- I'll tell you what.

Why don't you consider them for me.

Take a picture, it lasts longer.

- [Pete] You leave her alone.

- What you've done to him, eh?

You cast a spell on him?

Why don't you mind your own business?

When's it due, is it kicking yet?

Am I being nosy?

Yes, you are, you stupid fucking tart.

- How dare you.

- Well, you must be.

No one's shagged him in at least five years.

- Enough.

Yeah, you're right Ray, it's not my business

and I cannot make it my business.

Now get out.

Eh?

Go on, piss off!

[door slamming]

[whooshing]

[voices whispering]

[slow guitar music]

[siren blaring]

[voices whispering]

- Just let him go.

I'm sure it's for the best.

- How do you know what's for the best.

Nobody knows what's best.

You haven't got a fucking clue.

It's just your opinion, isn't it.

You're just guessing.

It's a fucking mystery

and it's ugly and complicated and scary

and nobody has the answers and the only way to deal with it

is to hit a bottle and panic and lose my shit

and that's the way it should be.

[door slamming]

- [Dave] Would you at least think about it.

[door opening]

- Where you going?

- I'm not going anywhere.

- Look, I know I'm in trouble.

I can tell things are going wrong.

But I love you.

- [Dave] What the fuck is going on here?

Who is this?

Oh, Christ.

Don't you ever give up, pal?

Hey, hey.

What the fuck is he doing, huh?

He's fucking a jerk.

- Ray!

- Now, you know what happened the last time,

don't get me angry here pal, okay.

Look.

Look, what did you think was gonna happen here, huh?

You think she's gonna settle down with you?

Have a family?

[sighing]

He's a nobody.

You're nobody here.

Is this what you want?

Master and Mrs. Fucking nobody

and all the little fucking nobodies, yeah.

- [Laura] You can be quite funny when you want to be.

- I'm a fucking scream when I want to be.

You're fucking mad, period.

What's he doing, huh.

- Leave. - I've had enough of this.

- Leave.

I'm not-

[glass crashing]

[voices whispering]

[phone ringing]

- Is he gonna be all right?

- He's okay.

- He's gonna be fine.

- It just looks really bad.

- Are you okay?

- I'm fine.

He didn't mean it.

[intense music]

- Ray!

Ray!

Come on.

[whooshing]

- Listen, stay in the car.

- Got a light?

- Jesus, what are you doing?

- This is where it all happened, isn't it.

This is where the wheels fell off the bus.

- This is my work all right, this is my life.

- Yeah, and Dad's life before you

and my life once.

- You were ill, all right, you were sick.

Remember.

- Yes, I supposed I was.

After I killed mom.

- What?

- That's what people think, isn't it?

That's what Dad thought.

- She died of breast cancer, mate,

it was nothing to do with you, was it?

- But I drove Dad to drink,

'cause of me.

- No, he was always like that.

He couldn't make this place work,

it was just circumstance.

- Yeah, but you could, couldn't you?

You never missed a trick.

What if something happens to you?

- Nothing's gonna happen, all right, now come on.

- Things move by themselves.

Things change color.

But only when,

when I'm here.

I make things happen.

- Stop fucking pissing about, Ray!

[lighter flicking]

- It's a sign.

- What's it a sign of?

- I don't know, it's a sign.

- Jesus, fuck.

- Just one more time.

- No!

- Just to be sure.

- Fuck.

Ray, come on.

- Shh.

- Ray, - Shh.

I'm concentrating.

- Yeah, who got in your head then, eh?

What's it say to you?

- All kinds of things.

- Fuck.

Ray!

- I can't stand this any longer.

They say some pretty weird things to me.

Fucking spooky things.

- I know Ray.

Now, listen,

you're gonna listen to me.

- Who do you think it is?

Do you think it's God?

I don't believe in God.

- Well, neither do I.

- You know what would've made me happy?

- I have no idea.

- If I turned out a bit more like you.

At least you can cook.

You know what I think.

I think I've wasted my life.

- Ray, don't fucking do that, please!

- I expect this'll be the only cooking

you'll ever see me do.

- Ray!

[flames brewing]

- The fuck.

Enough!

Enough!

- Last one.

- Fuck off.

Ray, don't do it.

Ray.

- Tell me you can see me Pete.

Tell me I'm here.

- Oh, my God, oh, my God.

[sobbing]

- What's gonna happen to me?

- Nothing.

Nothing's gonna happen, all right.

- Nothing ever?

- What do you want to happen?

- Don't wanna go back to hospital.

- All right.

Okay.

Come on.

It's all right.

- Yeah.

- It's all right, man.

- Yeah, I know it's all right, I know.

Just doesn't seem all right.

- Thanks.

[knocking]

Hello.

- [Ray] Hello.

- How are you feeling?

- I'm all right.

You look tired.

- I'm all right.

It's a nice room.

- Yeah, they let me paint it.

It used to be pink.

Pink's supposed to cheer you up,

but I find it a bit depressing really.

- Can you come for a walk?

I'm gonna go home to have the baby.

- With Dave?

- Don't be stupid.

- Have you seen him?

- He's been seen staggering

around various Glasgow pubs ranting about

the horror of London.

- Will you come back?

- Not for a while, no.

- Not until you've had the baby

and you feel a bit better.

- Not for a while.

- Not for a long while, no.

How long?

- I can't say exactly.

- Roughly.

- I don't know Ray.

- You've got no idea at all?

- A few months.

- How many months?

Six?

- Six.

Yeah.

Maybe six.

- Six months, okay.

Six months exactly or less.

- It's just a guess Ray.

Don't be upset.

- I'm not upset.

I just never met anybody like you before.

- You will again.

One day.

- No.

I don't think so.

- Onions.

Always fry them in butter, especially for soups.

Well, they got a ton of soups in there anyway,

but if you want to make pasta sauce,

always use butter or oil.

- Laura always used to use butter.

- And always put your onion well in

before your garlic, all right?

Garlic burns too quick.

- Onions before in, got it.

- And never use tinned tomatoes,

they're too watery.

- Laura always bought tinned.

- Well, it's not advisable.

- She get off all right?

- Yeah, yeah, she's gone, - You took her to the station?

- What you want to put in now?

- Mushrooms.

- She was a lovely girl, wasn't she Pete?

Very beautiful.

Very special.

Everything about her was just...

special.

And you know, just very thoughtful and nice.

- I'm sure she's thinking about you now.

I'm sure you'll never stop thinking about each other.

-No.

It happens to the best of us, you know.

You're on your own for a while

and then you meet someone

and then you're on your own again, you know,

it's things go round and round.

Go on, next the basil, man.

Always use more than you think you'll need.

It doesn't grow on trees,

but use it like it does.

Be generous with it.

- Like that? - Yeah.

- Here you go.

Make sure it doesn't stick to the edges.

♪ I met her in a pool room

♪ Her name I didn't catch

♪ She looks like something special ♪

♪ The kind you'd understand

♪ The room was almost spinning

♪ She pulled another smile

♪ She had the grace like pleasure ♪

♪ She had a certain style

♪ Sunlight on the lino

♪ Won't be with a shade

♪ I looked around to find her but she'd gone ♪

♪ Goodbye girl

♪ Goodbye girl

♪ Goodbye girl

♪ She took me to the hotel

♪ Her room on the second floor

♪ The kettle and two coffees

♪ The number on the door

♪ She said I hardly know you

♪ Agreed we kissed goodnight

♪ I knew that in the morning

♪ Somehow I'd wake to find

♪ Sunlight on the lino

♪ Waking me with a shake

♪ I looked around to find her

♪ But she's gone

♪ Goodbye girl

♪ Goodbye girl

♪ Goodbye girl

♪ Ive lost my silver bracelet

♪ My club room locker keys

♪ The money in the waistcoat

♪ It doesn't bother me

♪ My wife has moved to Jersey

♪ So mug is not the word

♪ If you ever see her

♪ Say hello goodbye girl

♪ Sunlight on the lino

♪ Woke me with a shake

♪ I looked around to find her but she's gone ♪

♪ Goodbye girl

♪ Goodbye girl

♪ Goodbye girl

[intense music]