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This programme contains some strong language

You know, I think me and this Mr Wilde

would have been fast friends if ever we did meet.

What that?

Larry! Larry, please! Larry, please...

I am the architect of my own life.

I built its foundation, and I will choose its contents.

My ability to conquer challenges is limitless.

My potential to succeed...

..is infinite.

Mwah! I can achieve greatness.

I am focused. I am capable.

I am confident.

I'm stunning!

Mum?

This is it, Maxine. What's the matter?

Your father doesn't care about me.

I can't do this any more. What?

Hello? Dad! Listen to me carefully.

You and I are going to talk this afternoon. Look, I...

Uh-uh. Alone. Do you understand?

Uh-huh. LINE DISCONNECTS

You all right, boss?

Come in.

I tried to tell her.

I did try, Morris,

but given her current predicament, her daddy dying and everything,

how could I heap trouble upon woe?

I was thinking the same thing when I got home last night.

Is it? Mm-hm.

We weren't thinking straight.

We both got caught up in the moment.

Someone ask for their freedom, you have to give it them, right?

Otherwise you become their jailer.

But you never ask.

At least, not properly.

Maxine calling me out of the blue, demanding confrontation.

Maxi? Precisely. Hm.

Carmel's no fool.

And Donna - me and her have a whole lifetime of her being off.

But... Maxi?

That girl has always had you wrapped around her finger.

Maybe... maybe this is a chance for you to finally stand up to her.

Allow her to grow up a bit, make her way in life.

You know, you are always pushing me.

What you say?

Why you can't just leave me alone for a while?

Leave you alone? Leave me alone! Leave you alone? Mm-hm!

Don't act like you weren't the one to follow me to this here England,

after fleeing Antigua. Gosh...

I already built a new life. A happy life!

Begging me to start over?

Promising me a whole heap of nothing!

What me have fe show for it?

I never begged. Me never beg you.

And you should have waited. Waited?

Yes, waited.

Instead of marrying the first woman you did see.

Barry, me had no choice.

You shoulda.

And like I told you, this time is different.

I'm ready for the showdown soon as Carm is back.

So you say.

But you're not going to mess me around again.

Cos if you do...

..you're gon' lose me for good.

♪ Happy birthday to you

♪ Happy birthday to you

♪ Happy birthday, dear Leon

♪ Happy birthday to you! ♪

And many more!

Hello?

Look, what do you want, Donna?

I've got an important pitch meeting like... now!

Oh, yeah. Yeah, Mum... No, I know.

Yeah, she called me.

Well, I'm as surprised as you are, believe me.

I don't know why she called me.

Mm, well, no, she is my mum, too.

Look, just because I don't want to murder him and drink his blood

doesn't mean that I'm not angry.

No, I'm seething, of course I am,

and he's going to know that, believe me.

No, Donna, if you come, it will just make things worse.

Look, look, I've got to go, OK? I'll handle it.

Yes, I'll let you know. Thank you.

Oh, God...

Venezuela Riddim by Hak Baker

♪ Hey, yeah, yeah, yeah

♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah

♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah

♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah Yeah, yeah, hey

♪ Ladies and gentlemen alike

♪ Hold up your hands Hold 'em high

♪ We got the ends, we got the lights Yeah, we're good

♪ We got our legacies to write

♪ Let's fill 'em with chants and 'ave it right

♪ Let's have it right

♪ We paid our dues to have it tonight

♪ Remember the days we really had to fight... ♪

Why Maxine not here yet?

I'll have a refreshing cup of peppermint tea.

Cool. Um, give me a juice, please.

Come now, man. Nah fright so.

Oh.

In case I'm also suffering from dementia,

didn't you order a peppermint tea?

Me changed my mind.

OK.

Surely you, of all people, can appreciate that.

Seeing as you're already on a slippery slope downwards,

have some rum in that.

Overproof.

It'll blow your balls off.

You're full of noise.

What...?

Sooner or later, you're gonna succumb.

So save yourself the aggravation. Bring it.

Bring it.

What is this, rations? Sh! It's not rations, man. Fill it...

Hold on, it coming.

Oh, yeah!

Nothing rum can't make better. Mm-hm.

Guaranteed to dissolve the stressment

and facilitate the forgivement.

Touch me.

Oh...

Mmm!

Daniel?!

Who's that?

Auntie Max.

What are you doing here?

Yeah, funny, I was about to ask you the same thing.

Hey, yo, D!

Oh, who's buff ting, man?

"Buff ting"?

Young man, what you lack in manners, you make up for in taste.

But don't be out here acting like the estate you grew up on

didn't have a valet, OK?

Hello?

Yo, you're embarrassing yourself. Come here.

Why are you not at school?

Half day.

Teacher training.

Yeah, don't let this youthful complexion fool you.

I was not born yesterday.

God, you sound just like Mum.

What's with you Walker men and your shoddy behaviour recently?

Perhaps it's symptomatic of being an oppressed minority?

OK, well, you're lucky that I'm saving today's arse kicking

for Grandy, and not you. The same Grandy that's paying

your school fees, by the way, Mr Half Day.

And if Mum's to be believed, your whole lifestyle.

Yeah, well...

..not for much longer.

Bye. Bye!

Jeez...

Hey.

Feeling better?

Much better.

Better times ahead.

Promise.

I'm still thinking about Miami.

For true.

Once me tell Carmel it over.

We spoke once about having our own place. Mm-hm.

Huh...

A little cottage...

..by the sea, remember?

I do.

Somewhere... somewhere that...

We can walk around naked.

Mm-hm.

That, too.

And when we don't have any guests,

Maxine, Donna and Daniel will visit and, um...

..we'll have a cup of...

Barry.

Ah?

Them will know, you know?

Not if we get a two-bedroom place, they won't.

How lovely to see you, Uncle Morris.

What a surprise. Mwah! Mwah!

I'm so pleased you could come, too.

Maxi, how you do?

Ah...

I am so pissed off with you, Dad.

Watch out, folks. Soap opera just come to Dalston.

Come again?

Oh, you heard me. Maxi, you're letting yourself down.

Treat your father with respect, no?

Respect, yes. Let's talk about respect, shall we?

Just a moment. I am so angry that I even forgot to eat.

I've just got to chuck something down me quickly, so I don't faint.

Look, look, look.

I'm shaking.

I'm in no fit state to conversate.

Let me get you something to eat.

Excuse me! A sandwich, please.

No, she's allergic, apparently.

This after a lifetime of eating bread.

Oh, I'm fine, Uncle Morris. I've already bought something.

That your lunch?

What?

What in the hell is this streak of mouse piss?

That's better.

You think maybe now we can get to it?

Why you've summoned me.

Would it have killed you to have gone to Antigua with mum?

What you know of Antigua?

Well, I know that you haven't been in God knows how long.

Not since I've been alive, at least, because Mum always took us.

Mm-hm. And for good reason.

Well, maybe you should have gone again with her.

Well, she didn't ask me. She asked YOU.

You have gone too far this time, Dad.

Mum - she can't take any more of your shenanigans.

You're coming home late in the middle of the night pissed.

Maxine, you love the fact that I don't act like some old codger

with one foot in the grave.

And you have been out on the lash enough times with me and Morris.

So you don't even believe what you're saying.

Excuse me, do not presume to know what I...

Listen to me good.

It is true, I am a sinner and a drinker.

And as the porter says to Macbeth,

"Faith, sir, we were carousing to the second cock."

Dad, this is serious.

I've never heard her this upset before.

And if you are not careful...

Your mother should get out more.

Which would stop her obsessing about my business

and trying to contravene my basic human right.

I mean, look at her - church, shop, doctors, funerals.

I remember she used to socialise, you know, with her work friends.

They were nice women.

Carmel had plenty to chat about back in those days,

because she wasn't banging the Bible over her head or mine.

She even bothered about her appearance.

Wow.

Sorry.

As one of the fellas said in King Lear,

"I am too old to learn."

Which is unfortunate, because Mum isn't too old to be hurt.

Neither am I.

Have you ever considered how this affects me?

Or Donna?

Seeing our parents this way?

Do you know what Mum thinks the problem is?

You don't like women.

What?

You know, like, you're a...

..a misogynist!

On what grounds, pray tell, am I a misogynist?

The way that you treat her friends, her.

I don't like her friends.

Do you understand that you are this close to losing her

and tearing our whole family apart?

She would already be lost to me,

if it wasn't for you, my Maxi.

I just want to see you and Mum happy.

Well, we been married 50 years.

Bound to be some ups and downs.

So you make it right, then.

Because, honestly...

..I don't know if I can forgive you if you don't.

Hello?

Hello!

Hi. Yeah.

I'm so sorry.

Just...

Yes, yes, of course. No, yeah, now's a good time.

You think maybe if she had kids of her own...

..she would stop acting like one?

Maybe.

But what man can ever measure up to you, Barry?

Oh, yes. Yes, I really enjoyed meeting you all today, too.

Oh...

Well, are you sure? I could bring my proposal back in.

Maybe we could...

Oh, I see.

But was that, like, a group decision or...?

Unanimous. OK.

Well...

Yeah, no... Yes.

Thank you. Thank you for your time.

Thanks. Bye.

Maxi, my lovely daughter, for all your performance of outrage,

me and you get on too well for you to strip me of my fatherhood

and banish me to exile.

Don't we?

Seriously, Dad, I'm not in the mood. Not today.

Let me get you a drink. Mm-hm.

Hey.

Rum?

Go on, then, just a splash. It's been that kind of day.

Whoa. That's strong.

Just like your old man. Like you.

Then, come on. What troubling you?

Besides your best attempts to tear the family apart?

Yes, besides that.

Well...

..since you've asked,

there is something I'd like to talk to you about, actually.

Floor is yours.

OK, so, you know that it's a jungle out there in the fashion world, Dad?

Told me enough times.

Yeah, I've styled only two shoots in this past month,

one of which was in Skegness. And I'm up to my ears in debt,

because schmoozing with the fashion world

bloody well doesn't come cheap -

unless you've got a Russian oligarch for a boyfriend,

which, don't remind me, I haven't.

Why is she getting pissed quickly?

And if I don't mingle, the work dries up completely.

And I'll be past it soon.

Actually, I'm already past it.

I've been 25 for about ten years already.

When I left Saint Martin's, I just thought the world was going to...

Must be thirsty.

All this ranting.

But look at me, I'm just...

Honestly, sometimes I just feel like ending it all.

Really.

Morris, perhaps we could advise my daughter on the options.

You know, poisoning, drowning, asphyxiation.

What sayest thou?

Don't mind your father.

You and I both know that he thinks he's funny.

My advice is...

..do the thing you love.

Otherwise, you reach my age, and you're swimming in a sea of regrets.

If anybody know about a wasted life...

..I do. Morris, stop it, man.

Be positive, like I always telling you.

Yeah, don't be so hard on yourself, Uncle Morris.

Now, some people don't get a chance in life, Maxi.

Let alone live it the way they want.

You're right, Uncle Morris. Mm-hm.

You are so right.

I have got to fulfil my dreams.

So, Daddy... Hmm.

..I was wondering if you could help me with a little something?

Tell me.

I've come up with something exceptional. It is...

It's an idea for my first fashion collection, and you...

..you will be the first humans on Earth to see these.

Well, almost.

So what do you think?

Oh.

Oh, oh... Oh...

It's, um...

This is... It's...

Speechless? Mm-hm.

Yeah. Yay!

Cos, um, it's ties, right?

But the skirt goes into the trousers. The trousers...

Mm-hm. Yeah, it's my unisex range.

See? And... and how you do that?

Er, so...

Well, um...

..if nothing, she talented.

She's deluded.

I mean, an imaginative exploration of the relationship

between fashion, furniture, friendship and family?

Perhaps she's an innovator. She's a piss-taker, more like.

And then she say, "And I want you to model, too, Dad."

What happened to watering your seed?

Well, me starting to believe that over-watering just as bad.

So...

..what you gon' do?

Hmm?

You can't seriously be considering investing in her business.

Not only is her concept nonsensical,

her numbers are, too.

It was you that encouraged her with all of this "one life" nonsense.

Me? Yes, you!

Unless you forget, Barry, I was a man of means, too!

Ah... I had it all!

Odette.

The boys.

The house.

The freedom you want?

Cos freedom, my love...

..comes at a cost. So what you want me fe do?

What?

Not help her, while I still can?

Hey.

It don't change nothing.

I still leaving Carmel.

I am.

And what about Maxine?

What about her?

You willing to break her heart in the process?

For your freedom?

Or are you always going to surrender to her?

♪ Brown girl in the ring

♪ Tra la la la la

♪ She looks like a sugar in a plum

♪ Plum, plum. ♪

You keep on so, she never gon' want come out.

No, don't worry about that.

And there's no rush, little Maxine.

Just know...

..Daddy ready when you are.

I'm good and ready... this time.

Listen to me, Maxine.

I need more time on this.

I know.

OK.

Hey, hey, hey... Hey!

Hey, OK.

Let we sit down, put our great minds together -

one for business, one for creativity - and we shall...

..work out some logistics.

Yes! Oh!

Great!

Thank you, Daddy!

And I was thinking of calling it House of Walker

in a sort of homage to you.

Oh, cute.

And, mwah! Thank you, Uncle Morris.

Mwah!

I know you probably put in a good word or two for me.

Oh...

Is there any more rum going?

Rum... Rum, rum, rum.

Oh, no, the House of Walker is out of stock!

So we should get some more, huh?

Let us get some more.

Yes!

The Looking Glass has the best blackberry mojitos.

We can cab it.

Where's my phone?

Mojitos, taxi.

Who's paying?

I'm good. I'm cool.

Tomorrow is going to be one serious detox.

Ooh!

From this very spot, the House of Walker is born.

And will travel to both Fifth Avenue...

..and the Champs-Elysees.

Kingsland High Road.

Don't even say that! Why would you even say that?!

Organic air and vegan water don't mix with rum, eh?

Ooh, I feel like my second life is just beginning...!

There is a God...

..and he's called my daddy.

Hi! Come on, come on.

Soho, please.

My mum's in Antigua, so we're going to stop there first.

Do you know where the best place to get some oysters is?

No oysters.

Why not?!

♪ My love comes tumbling down

♪ Tumbling down

♪ Tumbling down

♪ Comes my love

♪ Ooh, see what's happened to me, brother

♪ You know my love just keeps on tumbling down

♪ Tumbling down

♪ My love just keeps on tumbling down, baby

♪ My love just tumbles on down to the ground... ♪