Homefront UK (2012) s01e01 Episode Script

1 Quick march! Left, right, left, right, left, right Hold on, baby.
I'll do my best.
Mum! Oh, Jesus! Mum! Mum, Gracie's done a wee! On Mrs Bailey's carpet! Mum! Oh, babe, I wish I was there right now.
Mum! Whoa, whoa.
Easy, tiger.
Two hands on the desk, Corporal.
You heard the Villa score? I'm trying to talk to the missus.
Has she heard the score? Boys, give us a bit of privacy.
Oooh! Yeah, hang on.
Babe, I'm really sorry.
Tuesday.
Same time? Yeah.
- I love you.
- Aww! Aww! Mrs Bailey.
Right.
This one.
This one.
The dress.
Yes! Yes! No! It's lovely.
You should wear it more often.
It's really nice.
I'm saving that one for Matt.
Oh, look.
Only 122 sleeps until he gets back from tour.
Right.
Drink? Yep.
Oh, well, it's very kind of you to call, Lorna.
Well, you know, keeping busy helps.
And there's still a bit of unpacking to do.
And, you know, you don't have to call us every evening.
Where's Millie? It's her grandma.
Baby-sitting.
She said you knew.
Oh, Lorna.
Can I call you back a bit later? OK.
Erm It's Tasha someone.
A wife from Pete's battalion? Did she leave an address? Sam, did Millie She said not to wait up.
Slow down, soldier.
God, I love posh birds.
Say that again.
Hiya.
Come on.
What kept you? You don't wanna know.
New doorman on, it's gonna be a dear night.
Right, ladies.
Doubles? Trebles? Come on! Oh, my God! You are so dead when I get you home.
Wait, Shannon! She's asthmatic! Wait.
I should've Do you want a drink? She'll have a Sloppy Squaddie.
It won't be the first.
You're all right, my husband sends me housekeeping from Helmand.
All I heard is, "Husband, blah-blah-blah, Helmand.
" You should get your ears syringed.
And she should know, she used to be a nurse.
What did you used to be? Good.
Elephant.
What does an elephant say? Here's Mummy.
Howard was supposed to be opening up.
He's had to leave Janine to do the breakfasts.
She'll be glad of the overtime.
Sorry, the alarm didn't go off.
Half an hour you can understand.
Sorry.
Leave that.
It's the builders.
They only get 15 minutes break.
If you can't keep up they go to McDonald's.
Should have got a cab on me.
Or learnt to drive.
He slept good, anyroad.
Did you, monster? That's another thing.
You didn't leave us enough nappies.
Duckling.
What does a duckling say? Oh, yeah, and this came for you.
It's from Matt.
We saw the postman as he was walking up.
Oooh! Aren't you gonna open it? I'd have yours ripped open in two seconds.
Hey! Can you just Ah, new rule, by the way.
Baby-sitting's weekends only during term time.
After midnight on a school night? Don't think so.
Did you tell Dad? No, he didn't ring.
Was he supposed to? Yeah.
Didn't he text? No.
I'm getting texts from other people.
Op Minimise.
Lockdown.
If there's been casualties, there'll be no calls in or out.
Casualties? Do you think there's been a hit? That's what I'm trying to find out.
Answer it.
It's the front door.
If you just like to sign there, please.
Jim? It's not a social call.
Natasha Raveley? Who's this? That's Alfie.
Come on, Alfie.
Let's have a look outside.
There's been an incident.
No, no.
I'm sorry.
No, no Get out! No! Tasha! Tasha, no.
No! Come on, love.
It's all right.
It's all right, love.
Family notified.
Two seconds from now it'll be all round the world.
22 years and look at you.
Barely a scratch.
Tom.
Six years.
Not square-bashing on the Rhine.
In the desert, in the thick of it.
Hadn't we done enough? They're saying one fatality.
Definitely one? Family's been notified.
They run that caff in town, The Cookhouse.
The Raveleys? Are they friends? They've got two sons.
Was it Tom or Matt? I don't know.
They said he had a kid.
Oh, Jesus.
Matt.
Thanks very much.
Bye.
The visiting officer's coming at four to talk about the funeral.
I've asked the padre to come back.
Should I take Alfie? He's asleep.
She wants him here.
Did you get through to your mum? Adam's here.
Is Tom all right physically? They're giving him compassionate leave so he can bring Matt home.
They asked Major Bartham too.
They must have rated him.
He died doing something important.
Something he loved.
I came as soon as I heard.
I'm supposed to be trained in this sort of thing.
The last time I spoke to him we rowed.
Oh Everyone falls out.
I slammed the phone down.
He didn't love it.
Howard loved it.
Tom loves it.
It's just a job.
Auntie Marion.
Hello? Marion, it's me.
Hiya, Tasha.
How are you? Hello? Hello? You don't know me, I'm a friend of Tasha and Matthew.
I've got some bad news, I'm afraid.
Hands off.
This is for your dad when he gets home.
Sam likes beans.
He is so on the spectrum.
He just likes beans.
OK.
Talking of Sam, do you see much of him at school? Not if I can help it.
Don't look at me like that.
Do you think he'd thank me for cosying up to him in the canteen? Ooh.
Might do.
A friendly face.
His last school was much bigger, wasn't so cliquey.
We've been here a while and he hasn't mentioned many friends.
I see where this is going - don't.
What? Don't even think about bobbing in for a friendly word with the head.
I wasn't going to.
That would not be cool.
Not for you, not for me, and certainly not for Sam.
Yes, but He's an emo kid in a school for rednecks.
You're an ex-boarder, they should have eaten you alive.
I used to hang out in the holidays.
I speak fluent chav.
Sadly, an all-too familiar picture as this Globemaster plane lands at RAF Brize Norton, making the final journey home of 23-year-old Private Matthew Raveley, of the 1st Battalion Royal Leysham Regiment.
Tom's lost weight.
He always does.
Natasha, please! If that ends up on Facebook Sssh, sssh.
Bearer pattern, inwards, turn.
You did well today, son.
It's a long flight back from Afghan with your brother in a box.
You do a lot of thinking.
I'm not the one with the kid.
I'm not the one with the wife.
22 years shovelling scran - still here.
Just do me a favour.
Don't make me go through this again.
Now, you're not talking to your mother.
What really happened? It's what they told you, Dad.
It's what Bartham will tell the brass tomorrow.
We were out with a crew from the Afghan Nationals.
Joint-ops.
Came under fire, took cover in this compound.
It was crap intel or a trap.
Can't be sure.
And then this kid just comes toddling out from nowhere.
Couldn't have been much older than Alfie.
Our Matt steps up? Saved the kid from a bullet.
And then bang.
And that wasn't a trap? Either way he was a hero, Dad.
All right? Hey.
Mate.
The bastard still owes me money.
Matt.
Matt.
Matty.
Tasha? I'm I'm Claire Marshbrook, I'm Pete Bartham's partner.
Fiancee.
Whatever you Major Pete Bartham.
My stepdaughter Millie was baby-sitting for you on the night Come in.
I didn't think you'd feel like cooking so And that's for little Alfie.
Thanks.
Sit down.
Thank you.
Cup of tea? I'm Louise, by the way, Louise Mancetta.
Hi, Louise.
Ignore that.
I'm so sorry about your husband.
I've been asking around and he was very highly thought of for someone so young.
He was special.
I bet they all say that, all the widows.
Well, I don't know.
I'm new to all this.
I'm so sorry.
Pete's first wife died.
Er I don't know if you knew her? Angela.
Lovely woman.
Everybody says so, yeah.
I'm gonna leave you to it.
Nice to meet you.
Oh! Handsome lad.
Right party animal when I met him.
But he did a lot for me.
Took turns with the baby and that.
First time he went away I cried my leg off.
Thought I'd never survive without him.
But you're not on your own.
It's a close community and people understand what you're going through.
Hm.
And some of them cross the road to avoid you.
See her? Keeley? Godmother to my Alfie.
We trained together, worked together, everything.
Five days since Matty died hasn't been near.
Too upset.
You'd think death was catching.
I was talking to a grieving widow and just because I didn't answer immediately, you thought you could bombard me with texts.
Bombard? I sent you three poxy text messages.
In as many minutes, and then you left a message on my voice-mail.
I was worried.
Just because I don't have a job doesn't mean I don't have a life.
Little shit! What did you just call me? Not you.
All I want to know is, can I stay at Jade's tonight? Simple yes or no.
And what I want to know is where were you Thursday night, because you sure as hell weren't baby-sitting for the Raveleys.
Are you saying I'm a liar? Well, either you lied and you still don't know that Matt was blown to kingdom come or you did know and you just don't care.
Claire! Either way, you're grounded.
Oh! Are you blind, you stupid bitch? You didn't check your mirrors.
I've got deliveries to do! What am I supposed to do now? Same as you did when this happened.
Eh? Keep on driving.
Eyewitness, by the way.
He wasn't in the van when it happened.
So no claiming for whiplash, sunshine.
Pete's gonna go mad.
He loves that car.
Thanks for that, and thanks for the drink.
He's all right, Tony.
He's an ex-Sapper.
He won't rip you off.
Can I say something? Just a word of advice.
Don't use the front door.
Knock on the window or go round the back or serenade them from the garden if you have to, it's just Well, round here a knock on the front door means only one thing.
Oh.
What? No way! To Dad's car? He loves this car! They will have CCTV footage.
Great! Let's see it.
Are you listening to me? There will be proof! Are you deaf? I didn't do it! She didn't do it.
How do you know? It's spelt right.
All right.
OK.
All right.
If you say you didn't do it then I guess I'll have to accept that.
And apologise.
I apologise.
What have you done to deserve this? You've been here six weeks.
My mum lived here Millie! Your dad is home to bury a soldier.
How about we make his life easy for him by keeping this between ourselves? Millie! Sure.
Let's make life easy.
Starting with me staying at Jade's tonight.
So just leave me a message after the tone.
Hasta la vista.
Mum, I'm not asking you to spend your money.
If you text me I'll ring you straight back.
Just it's it's important.
Spoke to the florist.
She's ordered the blue.
They got the stain out.
Oh, and I bought you these.
You'll never last the day out in those skyscrapers.
And what about you? Hey.
Your outfit.
Stay with it, boys.
Work hard.
Hello? Back door.
I remembered.
Oh.
Hi.
Saint Angela? Don't you believe it.
Wonderful cook, active in the community.
Big pals with the padre.
And Pete and Millie really miss her.
Well, course they do.
Big shoes to fill.
Listen, I'm not one to speak ill of the dead But she was a bitch.
Class A.
I'm not saying she wasn't a good mum who packed her daughter off to boarding school Ah, but to be fair She was stand-offish.
There's no way she could have comforted Tasha like you did.
Just babbling nonsense.
But the longer she's dead the shinier her halo gets.
You've just got to deal with it.
I just need something of my own.
Sam? Besides Sam.
I need a job.
You've got a big house, big wage coming in Both Pete's.
But you worked.
In a war zone.
Until I married another medic.
You can't do it.
Do this.
Have a family.
Charity, church or sex.
Do-gooding or dogging? Are you serious? They're my only options? Well, you know, a talented girl like you, you could do all three.
Special occasion? Every girl deserves a little black dress.
What mother doesn't come home for her son-in-law's funeral? Maybe she couldn't afford the fare.
Yeah, well, I'd have paid if it meant she He's here.
The cars are here.
Tasha.
Matt's here.
You should be ready.
It's hard, love.
Of course it's hard.
Go and get ready.
Has he even been washed? Eh? I can't do it, H.
Not today.
You sort Alfie.
You go with Grandma, please.
Come on, love.
Come here, love.
I thought the doc gave you some tablets.
Let's go get dressed.
I didn't pick 'em up.
Right.
Well, I'll do you a stiff whisky.
Something to take the edge off.
It's not for me or for Alfie, it's for the army.
What is? All this.
It's for all of us.
Out of respect for our son who we love.
I can say goodbye to him in here.
Well, you'll be sorry.
Because it will be standing room only in that church today.
You will see what people thought of him, and you.
I'm not Paula.
She's feeling it.
My God.
I can't hold it together like she can.
Then don't.
Cry.
Go on, bawl your bloody head off if you have to.
I'll say goodbye in my own way.
It's time we were going.
One minute.
What about him? Oh, he's going.
I don't care what else is happening, this boy is going to lay his daddy to rest.
Even if his mother can't be bothered, he's going! What? Dad said wear black.
I never even knew the bloke.
Sssh.
Dad.
Where's Tasha? Not coming.
She says she'll say goodbye in her own way.
Good of her.
You know what your mother and her are like.
There's a good boy.
Howard.
Tom.
Sir.
What have we done to deserve this? A major home from the front for three days.
It's good for morale, isn't it? Bearers, please.
In out In out Diligent, committed, popular.
Matthew was a soldier's soldier.
Like his father Howard before him Alfie, come here.
Good boy.
.
.
his brother Tom still he wanted to build a bridge to a safer, fairer world.
As Shakespeare said, "Cowards die many times before their deaths.
The valiant never taste of death but once.
" Matt Raveley tasted death but once.
And for that reason he will never be forgotten.
Pull yourself together.
If you'd all please stand for the Lord's Prayer.
Our Father Who art in Heaven Alfie.
Come on.
We don't go in for talking much in our family.
We tend to leave that to the women.
And it should be my father stood here, by rights, but today I couldn't leave it.
I had to say a few words about my kid brother to you people, because I never said them to his face.
I love you, Matt.
For years you were just this irritating buzz around my ear.
And then I came home one day and you'd grown up.
You got yourself a girl.
And a baby.
The first thing I knew about you signing up is when you turned up in your kit and tried to give me stick.
Tasha.
The last time I was in here was the day we got married.
I didn't know he had this many friends.
I don't want The night I met Matt, there were a song playing.
He had a big, daft grin on his face.
We danced to it at our wedding.
When Alfie's bigger and he asks about his dad, I'll I'll play him this.
Cheers.
You're welcome.
You did it.
You made it yours.
Wouldn't have had the guts without you.
No, I'm sorry.
Honest.
When you needed me the most Today was when I needed you the most and you were there.
Come here.
It's a good job they're practically related.
In Leysham, that counts as foreplay.
The disco moment was a surprise.
Oh, yes.
Well, you see everything these days.
Thanks for what you said, Major.
You put a lot of thought into it.
Matt was more than just a soldier.
And moving Tom's R and R so he could be here.
You don't know what that means.
Tom's a class-A soldier - officer material.
It's been his dream ever since he was a little boy.
Still two weeks.
I wish it were longer.
The longer he's here, the harder it is to go back.
You might need an extra seat for his liver.
Excuse me.
Let's do a Jager-train, yeah? Take it easy.
A day in church is bad enough without a night in A & E as well.
Message received and understood, Mum.
Now, then, what's going on here? I'm saying I've been listening to the Major singing his praises.
What, that dick? 'Ey.
Those kids are literally dying of boredom.
Well, I think I've done my bit.
I'll say my goodbyes.
A soldier's soldier? It should be him in that box.
What do you mean? 21st century soldiering? It's slogans.
We're just cannon fodder for the likes of him.
Thomas, wait.
Did he mean Matt? What do you think of October? For the wedding.
Why the rush? Why not? Our tour ends.
You're doing a great job here.
And we don't know what's around the corner.
This is funeral talk.
I'd want you to be looked after.
Mm, don't.
Do you really think I've got the makings of an officer's wife? I think I could whip you into shape.
October it is, then.
I'm so sorry about this morning - blubbing in the church.
It's just what you said was so touching.
Personal.
Matt Raveley wasn't a soldier.
Not up here.
Or in here.
He just joined cos his dad was a soldier, his brother was a soldier.
He'd got his girlfriend up the duff.
He didn't have the brains to be a solicitor or the nous to deal drugs.
What else was he gonna do? But they're a decent family.
It was what they needed to hear.
Well, he's not going back to his flat in that state, is he? Take his shoes off and put a quilt over him.
What do you think he meant about Pete Bartham? Oh, he'd had a bellyful.
He was just sounding off.
He's a good OC, isn't he? Everybody says so.
Love, I bet the disciples had a bitch at the last supper.
It was more than bitching.
The lad's just buried his baby brother.
He's allowed to lash out at somebody.
Oh, can you sort these! They're double-knotted.
You've only got another week before you're back.
I need to clear my head, Mum.
Everywhere I look in Leysham Yeah, it's your brother.
He needs a blowout with his mates.
Look after yourself, yeah? Oh You too, big fella.
Well, that's it.
The two of them gone.
I wish you didn't have to go.
Yeah, me, too.
Big love.
Tell me this gets easier.
It doesn't.
Hi.
I'm on earlies this week.
So er I thought I'd come by and see you.
Just arrived.
Last thing Matt ordered.
"Leysham Town till I die.
" For Alfie's room.
He painted three of the walls on his last R and R.
Come on, then What are we waiting for? Adam, I'm a widow.
This is a family house.
Yeah, well, they're not gonna kick you out.
Not straightaway, but come marching out, this house will need to be magnolia.
Did Matt want this paper up? Then we're putting it up.
Well, he were pissed.
But he weren't that pissed.
I beg your pardon? Dean didn't come home last night.
You've got the wrong house.
A skinny bitch that lives here tried to cop off with my fiance outside Mojito's.
I want a word with her! Bi You vandalised my car! What are you talking about? That respray cost me Ј800! Where's your proof? Let's see what the police have got to say.
If you're so sure.
Cos I never touched no car.
Look, I don't know anyone called Dean and I will call the police! You tell her from me watch her back.
Millie! Millie! Millie! I didn't want to get paste on my work shirt.
This was rolled up with the brushes.
I'm sorry.
It's beautiful.
I know she's dense.
She's not dense enough to hide outside.
There she is.
Drive, drive, drive.
Your mother's officially a mentalist.
And you are officially grounded.
You go to school, you work, you come back, at weekends you get a job to pay for that respray.
I know who caused the damage and I know why.
You can't make me.
No, but your father can.
Da-da! Forgotten Matt ordered it till the parcel arrived.
And you did all this today? Oh, it's wonderful.
You know, I argued about this paper but he was right.
Look, Alfie.
A proper big boy's room.
While it lasts.
And a proper night's sleep for you.
You look shattered.
Go and have a lie-down.
You've had him all day.
Another hour won't make much difference.
Go on.
Come on, Alfie.
Go, too, Mummy.
Let's find a biscuit.
What's this? Get that.
Can't sell 'em to her worn.
In, teeth, bed.
Gracie wants a biscuit.
Listen, I'll have to ring you back.
Bed-time.
All right.
Bye.
Kids, there's a letter from Daddy.
What is it? What's he sent? Go get the biscuits.
Go on.
Oh, he's well away.
Thanks, Paula.
Matt's letter? You've opened it.
Someone had to.
Yes, me.
Now I know why it took you so long.
"What am I supposed to think when I ring and you're out clubbing?" Do you know how hard it is to get a phone call over there? One missed call.
One night in weeks.
Be in when he rings, send him back to work happy.
He hadn't slept in days.
It was running round and round his brain - what you were doing, who you were with.
I've never been with anyone.
He couldn't sleep.
He couldn't concentrate.
And you couldn't be bothered to wait in.
Look the lads in the unit, they wound him up.
One late reaction.
One foot out of place.
That's what happened when he stepped on that bomb.
He was thinking about you with other men! Get out.
Get out! You didn't open that because you knew what it'd say.
And now I do, too.
You killed him.
You.
This is the end for us with Tasha.
And Alfie! I've already lost my son.
I don't intend to lose a grandson too.
She'll be back! Someone got dressed in a hurry.
I'm pregnant.
We can only get through this by talking.
What about Hannah and Grace? What will I tell them? You'll think of something.
Lou