Blackpool (2004) s01e06 Episode Script
Episode 6
Does it feel like I killed Mike Hooley? - Is that what it is? - No, I don't think that.
Are you sure? How come you're so certain it's Ripley that you bully witnesses into giving false statements? I've reconsidered all the evidence.
Nothing to do with the fact that his wife's blown you out, then? The thing is we are getting married.
I gathered that.
The arcade's yours.
(WHITE WEDDING BY BILLY IDOL) Hey, little sister, what have you done Hey, little sister, who's the only one Hey, little sister, who's your superman Hey, little sister, who's the one you want Hey, little sister, shotgun It's a nice day to start again It's a nice day for a white wedding It's a nice day to start again Hey, little sister, what have you done Hey, little sister, who's the only one I've been away for so long So long I've been away for so long So long I let you go for so long It's a nice day to start again Come on, it's a nice day for a white wedding It's a nice day to start again It's a nice day to start again It's a nice day to start again - How long have you been awake? - What makes you think I've been asleep? - When are we going to talk about this? - You did what you had to do.
I did what I had to.
What's there to talk about? Ripley, it's been over a week.
You can't keep shutting me out like this.
Can't hang around, I got my daughter's wedding to arrange.
When did you decide it was all right for Shyanne to get married? I've changed my mind about a lot of things.
You're not going until we've talked.
I've said there's nothing to talk about.
You are walking around in a dream.
You don't come home on a night.
You've closed down the arcade.
The flats burnt down, you didn't seem bothered.
- Why would I be when I burnt them? - What? I burnt the flats down.
You found out I put the flats in trust for the kids and you had to get your own back? What are you worried about? Were you going to move in there? I see.
That's why your bags were packed.
- Don't be so stupid.
- Stupid is what I do best.
The whole town thinks so.
- Where were you going? - I don't know.
Anywhere.
I was just so angry with you when Marr told me you were going to remortgage this house, our house, to keep your stupid dream of the arcade going.
Stupid dream? There's that word again.
I didn't mean it like that.
When did you stop believing, Natalie? All I could see was money going out and nothing coming in.
You didn't even get planning permission.
I couldn't sit by and let you risk everything this family owns.
I see.
So you did it for the family.
I did it for the kids, yeah.
If you want to hate me for that then go ahead and hate me.
That's fine.
- Our family.
- That's right, our family.
You said there'd be no casino hotel and so it came to pass.
Well, maybe there was never supposed to be.
This way makes sense.
A long time ago, when I was a lad at school, I messed someone's life up.
This bloke, Steve.
Never gave him a second thought.
And there he was, all the time, not behind me, not in my past, but ahead of me, like a jackknifed lorry waiting for me to crash into it.
We're all responsible for our own fate.
You said that maybe this place wasn't meant to be and I can live with that.
You're happy to take the glory if everything goes right but not the blame if it all goes wrong.
Am I to blame that my wife's shagging somebody else as well? - What? - Don't look so worried.
You're in the clear.
I know who it is.
I'm sorry.
I just wish God had let me know when my luck was running out.
You know, a hint, a tip off.
Something.
It's the thought of my dad sitting up there on God's right hand, pissing himself laughing at me.
Because I thought I'd won, you know.
I thought I'd seen the old fella off.
I thought he couldn't hurt me anymore.
I thought Ripley Holden was lucky.
- I'll see you next time.
I'll let you know.
- Okay.
All right.
Hello, Adrian.
I didn't hear you slithering up.
I take it the flats were your handiwork.
They're going to have to pull them down.
It's a death trap in there.
Why don't you go in and take a look? But they're still in your children's names.
So any insurance money will go into their accounts.
Thanks for the impartial advice.
That's the thing about insurance fiddles.
You need to know what you're doing.
It wasn't an insurance fiddle.
It was a crime of passion.
Well, if anything's going to convince the powers that be that you're not fit to run a casino hotel, it's this act of reckless arson.
The sooner you sign over the arcade and let me get started, the better for everybody.
(RIPLEY) Looks to me like you've already begun.
My daughter's getting married tomorrow.
Oh.
Well, congratulations.
- You're invited.
- Thank you.
That's very generous of you in the circumstances.
Let bygones be bygones.
It'll be a good do.
Better than staying at home with your grumble videos.
Well, I'll I'll definitely make it, then.
Yes, thanks.
And the paperwork? The transfer of the arcade into my name? I've instructed my solicitors to transfer the deeds.
Don't worry about that.
Right.
- It's for the best.
- For one of us maybe.
I've had 30 yeses and about 15 noes.
10 no replies.
What about you? No.
Not so many, I'm afraid.
- So how many? - About half a dozen.
Mainly mates.
What about family? Just the one.
One? - Are you that ashamed of me? - Of course not.
My parents are dead, my bro You know I don't speak to my brother.
My sister can't get over from Canada.
So, there's just one.
- It's 'cause Dad's organising it, isn't it? - It's not your dad! (STEVE SIGHS) The one person that I want to be there is going to be there so And? - What? - Who is it? You'll find out on that day.
Ex-wife? - No.
Look, get on with it.
- All right.
Your love-child? It's my son.
All right, I've got a grown-up son.
Oh.
There's a surprise.
I would have told you sooner but the time was never right.
We're going to get married suddenly and - You're all right with it, aren't you? - Of course I am.
Yeah, of course.
I'll look forward to meeting him.
(RUTH) I'm a bit like that with my tapestry.
I've got this thing that everybody has a skill of their own.
You know what I'm thinking? Give this place a kick start.
Three Whittaker roulette machines, right down the middle here.
Two-pence plays and 80 pence maximum payout.
It's not going to make our fortune, is it? Isn't it? Family trade.
Family trade.
That's what this place is all about.
What about the casino hotel? You said we'd be surfing the dream.
You know what's going to happen to the resort casinos? They're going to get hoovered up by the big boys.
That's not me.
I've always been one of God's chosen gypoes.
You know, king of the small guys? Come on, let's get back to basics.
What do you think, Barry? It's only a two pence play.
Here he is.
Jock of Ages.
I thought you'd finished with me.
Yes, so did I.
But you keep dragging me back.
You ready to tell me about the fire in your flats yet? A good job nobody was in there.
It would've been a heartbreaking tragedy.
Another death on your property.
I agree.
That would not have looked good.
My wife's property.
- You'll find my wife owns the flats.
- Aye.
Why don't you go and talk to her? Maybe she burnt them down.
You don't seriously expect me to believe that? - Do you know her? - No.
She's acting strangely lately.
Like she knows something I don't, like Carol Vorderman or something.
- All right.
- I tell you what.
The sex! She's going like a kangaroo on a space hopper.
Makes all the mind games worth the trouble.
If we prove that you burnt your flats down then that looks like your attempt to destroy evidence.
- You know what I think? - Tell me.
I think you can't touch me.
- Do you want to know why? - Sir? Ah, Blythe.
I was just leaving.
Right.
What were you doing? Just grilling our chief suspect.
We'd agreed you were going to take a back seat on this case.
If I was the sensitive type, I might think you didn't want my help at all.
I've been building up a relationship with some of the witnesses.
I won't cramp your style.
I just want to make sure you get the right man.
A son? How old? About two years older than me.
- You're trying not to laugh, aren't you? - No, of course not.
Okay, yes I am.
But come on, you've got to admit it's a bit ticklish.
I'm sorry, but I can see Steve's side of this.
He's scared shitless that you're going to realise how old he is.
You don't think it means that he doesn't trust my feelings about him? It means he's terrified of losing you.
And who can blame him? He's gone up in your estimation because he's kept something from me? He went up in my estimation when I saw that he'd look after you.
I know you think I'm getting married to get at you but it's not like that.
It isn't.
You know when you were a kid and we used to go on the front and I used to hold your hand when you walked on the sea wall.
And you used to beg me to let go of your hand.
Beg me to let you do it.
And I wouldn't.
And you know why? Because I knew better.
And maybe this is the same.
Maybe, I know better.
Except you did used to let go of my hand.
Did I? Just for a few seconds.
So I could see what it was like.
You used to say, "Life without a bit of risk isn't worth living.
" You made me like this.
Bloody hell, then I've only got myself to blame.
- Afraid so.
- Go on.
Leave me alone.
God might've made the world in six days but he couldn't organise your wedding.
(DOOR OPENING) What do you think? For the wedding? Well, I'd marry you.
Would you? I don't know what I thought would happen but it didn't go like this.
Me neither.
I had this daft dream me and Shyanne would pick out the dress together, you know, do all the planning.
Real mother-daughter stuff.
Can't live on dreams, though, can you? Got to settle for the hand you're dealt.
Yeah.
I mean, you and me didn't live our lives wondering how it would have turned out if you hadn't have fallen pregnant with Shyanne so early on, did we? No.
We just got on with it, didn't we? Because if you keep looking back, you'll trip over what's in front of you.
That's right.
You look upset.
Is there something wrong? (THERE GOES MY EVERYTHING BY ENGLEBERT HUMPERDINCK) There goes my only Possession There goes my everything I hear footsteps Slowly walking As they gently walk across The lonely floor And a voice is Softly saying Darling, this will be goodbye For ever more There goes my reason For living There goes the one Of my dreams There goes my only Possession There goes my everything There goes my only Possession There goes my Everything You all right? Yeah.
Seemed like you were miles away.
No.
Not thinking of someone else? Like who? David Beckham, maybe.
Or David Essex.
No.
This wedding seems to have done something for those two.
Yeah.
At this rate I'm going to have to sleep with my Walkman on.
I'd forgotten you could be funny.
There's something you should know about Steve.
And it was all going so well.
It wasn't Dad that beat him up, it was me.
(SHYANNE SIGHS IN DISBELIEF) You don't expect me to believe that, do you? What did you do? Stand on a box? No, I hit him with a brick.
Don't say that, Danny.
I saw you kiss him goodnight and get on that tram.
I thought how, if Dad found out, he'd be so you know, angry and sad and hurt.
There was a pile of bricks where they're doing up that bridge near the pier.
You're really serious, aren't you? I just wanted to tell you because I wanted you to know that it wasn't Dad.
So if you're marrying Steve to get back at Dad, you don't have to.
He didn't do anything.
Now you're freaking me out.
You'd hit a man with a brick, which is bad enough, but to do it because of how he makes your Dad feel.
Have you any idea how pathetic that is? It's not as pathetic as shagging some old bloke.
You prefer young blokes, do you? What are you on about? Or is it that you fancy Steve yourself and you just can't get over it? You're sick in the head.
I know you've paid out a lot for this wedding but I was wondering if we could go away somewhere after all this.
I really feel like I need to get away.
Yeah, I can see that every time I look at you.
Bloody things, it's like trying to shag a mouse! Come here.
Come on.
I'm as bad as you are.
Are your hands shaking because it's your daughter's wedding day or because you've been sleeping with Carlisle? Hey! - Shit.
- Good morning, Blythe.
- How did you know I was here? - I'm a detective.
I read your diary.
I didn't know what you liked so I brought you a selection.
I don't eat breakfast.
Have some coffee at least, celebrate your new seafront location.
Thanks.
Maybe your next place will have bars on the window and an exercise yard.
You'll have to forgive Blythe.
He's young, keen to impress.
Sometimes a wee bit hasty.
I meet a lot of his type in my job.
When Mike Hooley came to your flat did he act like a man with a head injury? Unsteady, slurring his words? - Yeah, but I thought he was just drunk.
- Of course you did.
You see, the thing is with the modern police force we're judged on performance.
Blythe and I have an unsolved murder on our records like a big black mark.
Can you see how we're fixed? A punter with a record for domestic violence comes to see you.
He's off his head.
And you're alone in a room with him.
And the next time anybody sees him, he's died from internal bleeding from a blow to the head.
And a jury aren't exactly predisposed to believe the word of a prostitute against the word of a police officer.
What would you say, Blythe, five years? - Lf she pleads manslaughter.
- Why are you doing this now? Unless we find out there was somebody else at the scene when he died, unless we find the person who hit him on the head, who struck the fatal blow, who cracked his noggin, then you're going to have to be it.
It wasn't me.
If it wasn't you who was it? I had you down as one of the nice ones.
Yeah, I discovered love and went to the bad.
You know how it is.
I am arresting you on suspicion of the murder of Mike Hooley.
I must caution you that you don't have to say anything.
Don't look at me, he's a man on a roll.
If you don't mention, when questioned, something It was Ripley.
It was Ripley Holden.
Thank you.
- I'm sorry.
- That's it? You're sorry? I ended it.
I knew it was wrong and I ended it.
Was this before you had him between your legs or after? - Don't talk like that.
- I'm assuming you shagged the bastard.
It was a physical relationship, yes.
- And how was that? Better than me? - Don't do this.
Did he undress you? Did you tear at his clothes? Where did his hands go? - His mouth? Your hands? - Is that all you care about? That's all I care about.
The filth.
You on top.
Him on top.
Him behind.
- By the looks of him, you behind.
- You're just hurting yourself.
Think I can't take it? I can take it.
I've had worse, much worse.
- I am not doing this! - Why him? Of all the blokes, why is it the one that's after locking me up? Or is that part of the attraction? I didn't know he was a policeman.
He told me he did something else.
He lied to me.
He lied to you.
That's all right, then? For a moment I thought you'd done the dirty on me.
It was about me! Not you! It was about somebody paying me some attention for once.
It was about somebody listening to me.
It was about someone making me realise what I have been missing for years.
Years? You're just making this up to stop yourself feeling more of a slag.
I loved him.
I still do love him.
But I can't leave you.
What, am I supposed to be grateful, am I? - After what you've gone and done to me? - It's just your pride that's hurt, then? You know what I can't get? You know what's not coming in here? You knew! You knew what it'd taken me to get one over on the world, to get in the winners' enclosure.
You knew what it took me and still made a laughing stock out of me.
Nobody's made a laughing stock out of you.
Haven't they? I bet he's laughing at me and at you as well.
Yeah, maybe he is.
You don't really think he fancies you, do you? Miss Atomic Mutton 2004! No, you're probably right.
But it was nice while he pretended that he did.
Yeah, like I pretended last night.
You're upset because I betrayed you, because I had somebody else, because in your head I made a fool out of you.
But you're not upset because you love me, are you? Not really.
That doesn't come into it for you, does it? (KNOCKING ON DOOR) - What? - (DANNY) The cars are here.
So last night when you made love to me - you already knew? - Yeah.
So what was that about? I just wanted to remind you of what we had.
So I hurt you more when I told you it was over.
I'm sorry for what I said last night.
And I'm sorry for hitting your fiance with a brick.
Yeah, I was kind of freaked out by that.
And just for the record, I don't fancy Steve.
I didn't think you did.
He's not my type at all.
So what are you saying? (DOOR OPENING) Ripley.
Love.
You look beautiful.
- Do I? - Yeah, you really do.
Come on.
Maybe you're doing the right thing after all, marrying an older bloke.
Oh.
Right.
By the time he starts looking elsewhere, he'll be too old and by the time you start looking, he'll be past caring.
Thanks.
Maybe you could work that into your speech.
Do you love Mum? I love the woman I thought was your mum.
- The one who didn't stand up for herself? - No, not that.
She's broken the marriage vows, Shyanne.
She's eaten from a takeaway menu.
And you never did? Not deliberately, no.
Ripley.
Thanks for inviting me, mate.
Give away my daughter without my oldest mate? I don't think so.
I just thought after what happened What happened? Nothing happened as far as I'm concerned.
Thanks.
I appreciate that.
I know I betrayed you and I just hope you'd understand why.
Terry, you don't know the meaning of the word betrayal.
Compared to any woman, you're an amateur, believe me.
Why? What's happened? Have you knobbed her yet? I think tonight's the night.
You know what they're like after a wedding.
Have this one on me.
Dad, come on.
It's past its sell-by but that adds to the thrill, doesn't it? (DON'T LEAVE ME THIS WAY BY THE COMMUNARDS) Don't leave me this way I can't survive I can't stay alive Without your love No, baby Don't leave me this way I can't exist I will surely miss Your tender kiss So don't leave me this way Baby My heart is full of love and desire for you So come on down and do what you've got to do You started this fire down in my soul Now can't you see it's burning out of control So come on down and satisfy the need in me 'Cause only your good loving can set me free Don't leave me this way I don't understand how I'm at your command So, baby, please Don't you leave me this way Baby My heart is full of love and desire for you So come on down and do what you've got to do You started this fire down in my soul Now can't you see it's burning out of control So come on down and satisfy the need in me 'Cause only your good loving can set me free Set me free, set me free, set me free Set me free, set me free Set me free Don't leave me this way Oh, baby, I can't exist I will surely miss Your tender kiss So don't leave me this way Baby My heart is full of love and desire for you So come on down and do what you've got to do You started this fire down in my soul Now can't you see it's burning out of control So come on down and satisfy the need in me 'Cause only your good loving could set me free Set me free, set me free, set me free Set me free, set me free Don't leave me this way Don't leave me this way Don't leave me this way Don't leave me this way Don't leave me this way Don't leave me this way Don't leave me this way Don't leave me this way Don't leave me this way Don't leave me this way (REGISTRAR) We're here today to witness the marriage of Stephen and Shyanne.
You've ruined the seating plan but I'm sure we can squeeze you on the end somewhere.
We can do this the easy way or the hard way.
I'd ask you to kiss my arse if I didn't think you'd enjoy it.
I think you should know that we're here to arrest you.
That's not going to happen, I'm afraid.
I am arresting you on suspicion of the murder of - Turn him off! Mike Hooley.
- I must caution you that - Take his batteries out.
it may harm your defence if you don't mention How about this for starters? I know you've been shagging my wife.
Blythe, you don't socialise as much as you should and there's a wedding reception down the corridor.
- You can't back out now.
- You're feeling thirsty.
Go and avail yourself of the refreshments on offer.
Natalie.
- So? - So.
- This is all kind of - Weird.
Yeah.
Why do you say that? Is it because you're my stepmother and you're younger than me? Don't say that.
That's terrible.
Don't ever call me stepmother again.
Okay, just plain Mum, then? I don't know if I can handle this conversation.
No.
Stop.
Don't be so serious.
I think it's great my Dad's fallen for you.
- I do, really.
- Oh, right.
Well, thank you.
And who can blame him? It'll be prime land when the regeneration plan kicks in and I'll be the leaseholder.
That can't be right.
- What? Ripley sell you the arcade? No! - It's true, I'm afraid.
You'll be a creditor of course but you'll be at the back of a very long queue.
Jim, have you heard this? Marr reckons that Ripley's gone bust and he's buying him out.
You? You can't get dressed in the morning without a diagram, can you? You'll find it's comments like that that have allowed your mouth to get the better of your wallet.
- Is he taking the piss? - I'm not sure.
I don't really understand what he said.
Where's Ripley? I want to hear this from him.
- Here's to my daughter.
- Your daughter.
How long have you known about me and Natalie? - Oh about a week or so.
- Why wait till now to tell me? When I found out you were poking my wife I wanted to kill you.
And kill her.
Then I thought, "Come on, Ripley, what's in it for you?" That's how good a businessman Ripley Holden is, cock.
Even his wife shagging another man is an opportunity.
I expect that's what Maggie Thatcher meant when she said entrepreneurs were special people.
- You think I'm thick, don't you? - No.
But I notice things.
And I've noticed this.
This last couple of weeks, my wife's looked happier and more beautiful than I've seen her look for years.
She's a beautiful woman.
And when I found out about you and her I realised it was you that was making her happy.
- And beautiful.
- Not anymore.
- Now, that's up to you, isn't it? - And Natalie.
She loves you, you prick.
I've been watching her pretending.
Pretending she's fine, pretending she wants to be with me, but no.
I can see the misery coming off her like steam off a curry-house flannel.
- You think that's true? - I know it.
It seems to me, however much she loves you, she's never going to forgive you for fitting her husband up for murder on her daughter's wedding day.
You talk about shitting in her Valentine's card! I'm not fitting you up.
I've got new evidence.
Hailey's changed her statement.
Said you killed him.
And you believe her? It's not what I believe, it's a strong case.
All right, charge me.
Arrest me.
But you know you'll never see Natalie again.
Are you trying to corrupt me? I think Natalie got there before me.
So what are you proposing? I'm suggesting that you leave me and Danny alone and in return I'll give you and Natalie my blessing.
I don't give a shit about you but I do want her to be happy.
I really do.
On the other hand, you can arrest me and not only will you not see Natalie again, but you stand a good chance of losing the case.
Once your superiors find out that you've been knobbing the chief suspect's wife.
Do you still think I'm thick? Do we have a deal? Of course, it still leaves us with an unsolved murder.
If you can live with that, so can I.
Where is he? I don't know.
He's a free man.
What? He didn't do it.
Neither did his son.
I'm taking this case to the CPS without you.
What were these doing in your locker? They were never in my locker.
Young copper.
Boring case.
Some clown for his senior officer.
Tragic you should turn to drugs like that.
Maybe we didn't give you enough support.
- You wouldn't? - Yeah, I would.
And who would the senior officers believe? You or me? She must be some shag, that wife of his.
- I love her.
- That makes it all right, does it? I'm not going to close the book on this.
- I'm going come back to it one day.
- You can do what you like one day.
You won't go home empty-handed today.
What do you mean? I've got you an arrest courtesy of Ripley Holden.
(A DIFFERENT CORNER BY GEORGE MICHAEL) So I said to the client if you go for incorporation you could get 50% off your tax over four years.
He was impressed, I can tell you Adrian Marr, I am arresting you on suspicion of false accounting.
- What? - You do not have to say anything but it may harm your defence if you do not mention, when questioned, something that you later rely on (ADRIAN) You are making a big mistake.
Anything you do say may be used in evidence.
Like to come this way, sir.
I came to find you.
Are you sure you didn't come to arrest my husband? That was a cry for help.
You seemed so straight forward when I met you.
So different from Ripley, with all his schemes and his lies and saying one thing and thinking another.
And now it seems I've fallen for another schemer.
I stopped pretending from the moment I fell in love with you.
When was that? About five minutes into our first date.
If you loved me, that's when you should've told me the truth.
I couldn't.
So then I tried to stop seeing you.
But you I look at you and I just feel It feels like I have been missing somebody all of my life, and it's you.
I'm staying with Ripley.
At least I know what I'm getting.
You strip away all the pretence, all the play acting all the cops and robbers, what's left? You loving me and me loving you.
You're so good at saying what I want to hear.
Maybe I'm just saying what you feel, too.
Maybe you've just got an eye for weakness.
So, Steve.
Congratulations.
Cheers, Ripley.
So it seems like I did do you a favour all those years ago after all.
Yeah, how do you figure that one out? If I hadn't written those suicide notes, I'd never have become Ripley Holden and I would never have had such a beautiful daughter.
And if your parents hadn't read my suicide note, you would never have been a failure hanging around Blackpool waiting for your life to begin.
Life has a funny habit of evening things out in the end.
Right.
Your turn next! - Yeah.
I doubt it.
- Don't put yourself down.
Once your spots go you'll be a good looking lad.
Thanks.
What about a go with one of Shyanne's mates? That Rebecca will be half decent with your beer goggles on so get a drink down you.
Anybody would think you're not interested in girls.
Because you like the Graham Norton Show doesn't make you Colwyn Bay.
Dad, that isn't it.
Maybe it's just a phase? There isn't a builder in the North of England didn't fancy Boy George till they found out he was a bloke.
I've tried to fancy girls.
When you worked in that strip club did you never get the odd tingle in your wurzles? No.
Some bloke hasn't touched you up and got you all confused? No.
It's all over, Danny.
- It doesn't have to be.
- No.
Bookies are allowed betting terminals with big cash prizes.
We're not.
You're a casino or you're nothing.
No place for a family arcade anymore.
You want to put some dance stages down one wall.
Half a dozen if you can.
Got any idea how much that would cost? Get rid of some of the slots.
Like you say, if you can win 500 quid down the bookies, you're not going to play these to win 25.
But your dance stages, that's how you get the kids in.
Run competitions.
Call it the Dance Stage Olympics.
In Norway it's already an official sport.
Really? And then I'd put a cappuccino bar in the other corner.
Get a franchise on that.
Bowling alley upstairs.
Make it seem less like an arcade and more like a leisure centre.
Dance Stage Olympics? A cappuccino bar? All seems a bit gay to me.
- Yeah, you asked, didn't you? - It's a compliment, stupid.
It's brilliant.
I'm just saying it took a candy-man to spot the potential.
Right, thanks.
But more than that, it took a Holden.
- You're a chip off the old block after all.
- Thanks.
And seeing as it's been a surprising day, it's yours.
- What? - This place.
As soon as you turn 18, it's yours.
Call it an early birthday present.
- What about the money you owe? - Marr sorted all that.
I declare insolvency.
You buy this place for a tenner.
Start again.
Debts are cleared.
I thought that was so Marr could buy it.
Marr's not going to be around, I'm afraid.
You'll get a big fat insurance payout from the flats that burnt down.
I want you to give some of that to Terry Corlette, Ruth and Deaf Barry.
You see them right.
There'll be enough left over for you to start again.
How about it? And it's a clean slate between me and you as well? Right.
We haven't got any secrets anymore.
No more secrets.
You were the strong one all along, weren't you? You'll keep an eye on my lad for me, won't you, Moses? What is it? I was wondering if we stayed together, you and me, made a real go of it, no more secrets, not for either of us.
- You love someone else.
- No, it's over between me and Carlisle.
I don't believe that.
You don't believe it.
- But Ripley - Natalie.
You're a good person.
That's what I love about you.
You know the difference between right and wrong.
You're not going to go and have an affair with Carlisle at the drop of a G-string.
What, like you, you mean? I was thinking about Allbright, actually, but point taken.
You wouldn't have done what you did with Carlisle without a good reason.
You've always put the kids first.
You've always put me first.
By my reckoning you must love him more than you've loved anybody in your whole life.
When you close your eyes, I bet it's you and him you see together? You know what drives me mad? When I close my eyes, I see you and him together as well.
You already look like a couple.
- But Ripley - lf you stayed, you'd be pretending.
Like you've been pretending for this last couple of weeks.
I could carry on letting you pretend because I've loved it.
In a couple of years, we'll be throwing the good plates at each other and you'd hate me for everything I said now to make you stay and I don't want that.
He can make you happy and I can't.
So there's no contest.
(I'M NOT IN LOVE BY 10CC) Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls.
It's not every day that your daughter gets married to a man your age, your wife leaves you for the copper that's been investigating you for murder and your son tells you he's a Perry Como.
But then, we are in Blackpool.
And let's face it, you can live a 1000 lives in this town and still have room for a full English breakfast! You can't beat a big sausage! (ALL LAUGHING) But the life I wanted to live here hasn't worked out.
I've been unluckier than a ginger stepchild this last couple of weeks.
Maybe my dreams got too big or the town got too small.
Maybe I just messed up.
I could sing "Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me" but seeing as our Danny's just come out it might not be wise.
One thing I have found out, though I love my girl.
And I love my lad.
And I love my wife.
And I always will.
They say a man who's lost a fortune but found his heart is a wealthy man indeed.
But then people will say anything when they're pissed, won't they? No, but the truth is, I mean, I know.
I'm as shocked as you are.
So let's raise our glasses to Steve and Shyanne.
(ALL) Steve and Shyanne.
Be lucky.
Must be good for business.
You can hang out the window and wave to the passing sailors.
(HAILEY) I've not tried that yet.
So.
So? Why did you send Carlisle after me? Hey? What was that all about? I had to give him somebody otherwise he was going to charge me.
I knew you could take care of yourself.
I suppose I should be flattered.
I couldn't have given him Danny's name, could I? Of course not.
Especially as Danny is the one who did it.
Deep down I think I've known all along, I just didn't want to admit it.
I just want to know why, that's all.
Danny was always hanging around the flats.
He'd turn up late at night just to talk.
I think he found it easy, you know.
And I liked having him around.
If I had a punter, he used to sit in the empty bedsit over the corridor.
Anyway, Hooley turns up off his skull on drink and what have you and I turn to put the money away and he starts to knock me about.
I'm so shocked I shout for Danny but he doesn't hear me at first.
By the time Danny does get there Hooley's got his hands round my throat.
He's choking me.
And then I look up and I see Danny hit him, and the next thing, Hooley goes limp.
I don't believe it.
I do believe it but I can't believe it.
It was self-defence.
Hooley didn't know Danny was in the room.
How could it be self-defence? He saved my life, Ripley.
Your lad saved my life.
That's good enough for me.
Been carrying this around in his head all this time? Yeah, he can keep a secret, that lad.
All teenagers go off the rails.
Usually it's a bit of shoplifting or smoking ten Silk Cut.
Not drug dealing, murder and gaiety.
Wouldn't mind but he doesn't even go to a comprehensive.
So he's told you he's gay? If I gave you a ton, would you cure him for me? (RIPLEY SIGHS) So where are you off? To meet my maker.
(ALWAYS SOMETHING THERE TO REMIND ME BY SANDIE SHAW) I walk along the city streets You used to walk along with me And every step I take recalls How much in love we used to be Oh, how can I forget you When there is always something there to remind me Always something there to remind me I was born to love you And I will never be free You'll always be a part of me Whoa, whoa, whoa When shadows fall I pass a small cafe Where we would dance at night And I can't help recalling how it felt To kiss and hold you tight Oh, how can I forget you When there is always something there to remind me Always something there to remind me I was born to love you And I will never be free You'll always be a part of me Whoa, whoa, whoa If you should find You miss the sweet and tender love we used to share Just come back to the places Where we used to go And I'll be there Oh, how can I forget you When there is always something there to remind me Always something there to remind me I was born to love you And I will never be free When there is always something there to remind me Always something there to remind me Always something there to remind me
Are you sure? How come you're so certain it's Ripley that you bully witnesses into giving false statements? I've reconsidered all the evidence.
Nothing to do with the fact that his wife's blown you out, then? The thing is we are getting married.
I gathered that.
The arcade's yours.
(WHITE WEDDING BY BILLY IDOL) Hey, little sister, what have you done Hey, little sister, who's the only one Hey, little sister, who's your superman Hey, little sister, who's the one you want Hey, little sister, shotgun It's a nice day to start again It's a nice day for a white wedding It's a nice day to start again Hey, little sister, what have you done Hey, little sister, who's the only one I've been away for so long So long I've been away for so long So long I let you go for so long It's a nice day to start again Come on, it's a nice day for a white wedding It's a nice day to start again It's a nice day to start again It's a nice day to start again - How long have you been awake? - What makes you think I've been asleep? - When are we going to talk about this? - You did what you had to do.
I did what I had to.
What's there to talk about? Ripley, it's been over a week.
You can't keep shutting me out like this.
Can't hang around, I got my daughter's wedding to arrange.
When did you decide it was all right for Shyanne to get married? I've changed my mind about a lot of things.
You're not going until we've talked.
I've said there's nothing to talk about.
You are walking around in a dream.
You don't come home on a night.
You've closed down the arcade.
The flats burnt down, you didn't seem bothered.
- Why would I be when I burnt them? - What? I burnt the flats down.
You found out I put the flats in trust for the kids and you had to get your own back? What are you worried about? Were you going to move in there? I see.
That's why your bags were packed.
- Don't be so stupid.
- Stupid is what I do best.
The whole town thinks so.
- Where were you going? - I don't know.
Anywhere.
I was just so angry with you when Marr told me you were going to remortgage this house, our house, to keep your stupid dream of the arcade going.
Stupid dream? There's that word again.
I didn't mean it like that.
When did you stop believing, Natalie? All I could see was money going out and nothing coming in.
You didn't even get planning permission.
I couldn't sit by and let you risk everything this family owns.
I see.
So you did it for the family.
I did it for the kids, yeah.
If you want to hate me for that then go ahead and hate me.
That's fine.
- Our family.
- That's right, our family.
You said there'd be no casino hotel and so it came to pass.
Well, maybe there was never supposed to be.
This way makes sense.
A long time ago, when I was a lad at school, I messed someone's life up.
This bloke, Steve.
Never gave him a second thought.
And there he was, all the time, not behind me, not in my past, but ahead of me, like a jackknifed lorry waiting for me to crash into it.
We're all responsible for our own fate.
You said that maybe this place wasn't meant to be and I can live with that.
You're happy to take the glory if everything goes right but not the blame if it all goes wrong.
Am I to blame that my wife's shagging somebody else as well? - What? - Don't look so worried.
You're in the clear.
I know who it is.
I'm sorry.
I just wish God had let me know when my luck was running out.
You know, a hint, a tip off.
Something.
It's the thought of my dad sitting up there on God's right hand, pissing himself laughing at me.
Because I thought I'd won, you know.
I thought I'd seen the old fella off.
I thought he couldn't hurt me anymore.
I thought Ripley Holden was lucky.
- I'll see you next time.
I'll let you know.
- Okay.
All right.
Hello, Adrian.
I didn't hear you slithering up.
I take it the flats were your handiwork.
They're going to have to pull them down.
It's a death trap in there.
Why don't you go in and take a look? But they're still in your children's names.
So any insurance money will go into their accounts.
Thanks for the impartial advice.
That's the thing about insurance fiddles.
You need to know what you're doing.
It wasn't an insurance fiddle.
It was a crime of passion.
Well, if anything's going to convince the powers that be that you're not fit to run a casino hotel, it's this act of reckless arson.
The sooner you sign over the arcade and let me get started, the better for everybody.
(RIPLEY) Looks to me like you've already begun.
My daughter's getting married tomorrow.
Oh.
Well, congratulations.
- You're invited.
- Thank you.
That's very generous of you in the circumstances.
Let bygones be bygones.
It'll be a good do.
Better than staying at home with your grumble videos.
Well, I'll I'll definitely make it, then.
Yes, thanks.
And the paperwork? The transfer of the arcade into my name? I've instructed my solicitors to transfer the deeds.
Don't worry about that.
Right.
- It's for the best.
- For one of us maybe.
I've had 30 yeses and about 15 noes.
10 no replies.
What about you? No.
Not so many, I'm afraid.
- So how many? - About half a dozen.
Mainly mates.
What about family? Just the one.
One? - Are you that ashamed of me? - Of course not.
My parents are dead, my bro You know I don't speak to my brother.
My sister can't get over from Canada.
So, there's just one.
- It's 'cause Dad's organising it, isn't it? - It's not your dad! (STEVE SIGHS) The one person that I want to be there is going to be there so And? - What? - Who is it? You'll find out on that day.
Ex-wife? - No.
Look, get on with it.
- All right.
Your love-child? It's my son.
All right, I've got a grown-up son.
Oh.
There's a surprise.
I would have told you sooner but the time was never right.
We're going to get married suddenly and - You're all right with it, aren't you? - Of course I am.
Yeah, of course.
I'll look forward to meeting him.
(RUTH) I'm a bit like that with my tapestry.
I've got this thing that everybody has a skill of their own.
You know what I'm thinking? Give this place a kick start.
Three Whittaker roulette machines, right down the middle here.
Two-pence plays and 80 pence maximum payout.
It's not going to make our fortune, is it? Isn't it? Family trade.
Family trade.
That's what this place is all about.
What about the casino hotel? You said we'd be surfing the dream.
You know what's going to happen to the resort casinos? They're going to get hoovered up by the big boys.
That's not me.
I've always been one of God's chosen gypoes.
You know, king of the small guys? Come on, let's get back to basics.
What do you think, Barry? It's only a two pence play.
Here he is.
Jock of Ages.
I thought you'd finished with me.
Yes, so did I.
But you keep dragging me back.
You ready to tell me about the fire in your flats yet? A good job nobody was in there.
It would've been a heartbreaking tragedy.
Another death on your property.
I agree.
That would not have looked good.
My wife's property.
- You'll find my wife owns the flats.
- Aye.
Why don't you go and talk to her? Maybe she burnt them down.
You don't seriously expect me to believe that? - Do you know her? - No.
She's acting strangely lately.
Like she knows something I don't, like Carol Vorderman or something.
- All right.
- I tell you what.
The sex! She's going like a kangaroo on a space hopper.
Makes all the mind games worth the trouble.
If we prove that you burnt your flats down then that looks like your attempt to destroy evidence.
- You know what I think? - Tell me.
I think you can't touch me.
- Do you want to know why? - Sir? Ah, Blythe.
I was just leaving.
Right.
What were you doing? Just grilling our chief suspect.
We'd agreed you were going to take a back seat on this case.
If I was the sensitive type, I might think you didn't want my help at all.
I've been building up a relationship with some of the witnesses.
I won't cramp your style.
I just want to make sure you get the right man.
A son? How old? About two years older than me.
- You're trying not to laugh, aren't you? - No, of course not.
Okay, yes I am.
But come on, you've got to admit it's a bit ticklish.
I'm sorry, but I can see Steve's side of this.
He's scared shitless that you're going to realise how old he is.
You don't think it means that he doesn't trust my feelings about him? It means he's terrified of losing you.
And who can blame him? He's gone up in your estimation because he's kept something from me? He went up in my estimation when I saw that he'd look after you.
I know you think I'm getting married to get at you but it's not like that.
It isn't.
You know when you were a kid and we used to go on the front and I used to hold your hand when you walked on the sea wall.
And you used to beg me to let go of your hand.
Beg me to let you do it.
And I wouldn't.
And you know why? Because I knew better.
And maybe this is the same.
Maybe, I know better.
Except you did used to let go of my hand.
Did I? Just for a few seconds.
So I could see what it was like.
You used to say, "Life without a bit of risk isn't worth living.
" You made me like this.
Bloody hell, then I've only got myself to blame.
- Afraid so.
- Go on.
Leave me alone.
God might've made the world in six days but he couldn't organise your wedding.
(DOOR OPENING) What do you think? For the wedding? Well, I'd marry you.
Would you? I don't know what I thought would happen but it didn't go like this.
Me neither.
I had this daft dream me and Shyanne would pick out the dress together, you know, do all the planning.
Real mother-daughter stuff.
Can't live on dreams, though, can you? Got to settle for the hand you're dealt.
Yeah.
I mean, you and me didn't live our lives wondering how it would have turned out if you hadn't have fallen pregnant with Shyanne so early on, did we? No.
We just got on with it, didn't we? Because if you keep looking back, you'll trip over what's in front of you.
That's right.
You look upset.
Is there something wrong? (THERE GOES MY EVERYTHING BY ENGLEBERT HUMPERDINCK) There goes my only Possession There goes my everything I hear footsteps Slowly walking As they gently walk across The lonely floor And a voice is Softly saying Darling, this will be goodbye For ever more There goes my reason For living There goes the one Of my dreams There goes my only Possession There goes my everything There goes my only Possession There goes my Everything You all right? Yeah.
Seemed like you were miles away.
No.
Not thinking of someone else? Like who? David Beckham, maybe.
Or David Essex.
No.
This wedding seems to have done something for those two.
Yeah.
At this rate I'm going to have to sleep with my Walkman on.
I'd forgotten you could be funny.
There's something you should know about Steve.
And it was all going so well.
It wasn't Dad that beat him up, it was me.
(SHYANNE SIGHS IN DISBELIEF) You don't expect me to believe that, do you? What did you do? Stand on a box? No, I hit him with a brick.
Don't say that, Danny.
I saw you kiss him goodnight and get on that tram.
I thought how, if Dad found out, he'd be so you know, angry and sad and hurt.
There was a pile of bricks where they're doing up that bridge near the pier.
You're really serious, aren't you? I just wanted to tell you because I wanted you to know that it wasn't Dad.
So if you're marrying Steve to get back at Dad, you don't have to.
He didn't do anything.
Now you're freaking me out.
You'd hit a man with a brick, which is bad enough, but to do it because of how he makes your Dad feel.
Have you any idea how pathetic that is? It's not as pathetic as shagging some old bloke.
You prefer young blokes, do you? What are you on about? Or is it that you fancy Steve yourself and you just can't get over it? You're sick in the head.
I know you've paid out a lot for this wedding but I was wondering if we could go away somewhere after all this.
I really feel like I need to get away.
Yeah, I can see that every time I look at you.
Bloody things, it's like trying to shag a mouse! Come here.
Come on.
I'm as bad as you are.
Are your hands shaking because it's your daughter's wedding day or because you've been sleeping with Carlisle? Hey! - Shit.
- Good morning, Blythe.
- How did you know I was here? - I'm a detective.
I read your diary.
I didn't know what you liked so I brought you a selection.
I don't eat breakfast.
Have some coffee at least, celebrate your new seafront location.
Thanks.
Maybe your next place will have bars on the window and an exercise yard.
You'll have to forgive Blythe.
He's young, keen to impress.
Sometimes a wee bit hasty.
I meet a lot of his type in my job.
When Mike Hooley came to your flat did he act like a man with a head injury? Unsteady, slurring his words? - Yeah, but I thought he was just drunk.
- Of course you did.
You see, the thing is with the modern police force we're judged on performance.
Blythe and I have an unsolved murder on our records like a big black mark.
Can you see how we're fixed? A punter with a record for domestic violence comes to see you.
He's off his head.
And you're alone in a room with him.
And the next time anybody sees him, he's died from internal bleeding from a blow to the head.
And a jury aren't exactly predisposed to believe the word of a prostitute against the word of a police officer.
What would you say, Blythe, five years? - Lf she pleads manslaughter.
- Why are you doing this now? Unless we find out there was somebody else at the scene when he died, unless we find the person who hit him on the head, who struck the fatal blow, who cracked his noggin, then you're going to have to be it.
It wasn't me.
If it wasn't you who was it? I had you down as one of the nice ones.
Yeah, I discovered love and went to the bad.
You know how it is.
I am arresting you on suspicion of the murder of Mike Hooley.
I must caution you that you don't have to say anything.
Don't look at me, he's a man on a roll.
If you don't mention, when questioned, something It was Ripley.
It was Ripley Holden.
Thank you.
- I'm sorry.
- That's it? You're sorry? I ended it.
I knew it was wrong and I ended it.
Was this before you had him between your legs or after? - Don't talk like that.
- I'm assuming you shagged the bastard.
It was a physical relationship, yes.
- And how was that? Better than me? - Don't do this.
Did he undress you? Did you tear at his clothes? Where did his hands go? - His mouth? Your hands? - Is that all you care about? That's all I care about.
The filth.
You on top.
Him on top.
Him behind.
- By the looks of him, you behind.
- You're just hurting yourself.
Think I can't take it? I can take it.
I've had worse, much worse.
- I am not doing this! - Why him? Of all the blokes, why is it the one that's after locking me up? Or is that part of the attraction? I didn't know he was a policeman.
He told me he did something else.
He lied to me.
He lied to you.
That's all right, then? For a moment I thought you'd done the dirty on me.
It was about me! Not you! It was about somebody paying me some attention for once.
It was about somebody listening to me.
It was about someone making me realise what I have been missing for years.
Years? You're just making this up to stop yourself feeling more of a slag.
I loved him.
I still do love him.
But I can't leave you.
What, am I supposed to be grateful, am I? - After what you've gone and done to me? - It's just your pride that's hurt, then? You know what I can't get? You know what's not coming in here? You knew! You knew what it'd taken me to get one over on the world, to get in the winners' enclosure.
You knew what it took me and still made a laughing stock out of me.
Nobody's made a laughing stock out of you.
Haven't they? I bet he's laughing at me and at you as well.
Yeah, maybe he is.
You don't really think he fancies you, do you? Miss Atomic Mutton 2004! No, you're probably right.
But it was nice while he pretended that he did.
Yeah, like I pretended last night.
You're upset because I betrayed you, because I had somebody else, because in your head I made a fool out of you.
But you're not upset because you love me, are you? Not really.
That doesn't come into it for you, does it? (KNOCKING ON DOOR) - What? - (DANNY) The cars are here.
So last night when you made love to me - you already knew? - Yeah.
So what was that about? I just wanted to remind you of what we had.
So I hurt you more when I told you it was over.
I'm sorry for what I said last night.
And I'm sorry for hitting your fiance with a brick.
Yeah, I was kind of freaked out by that.
And just for the record, I don't fancy Steve.
I didn't think you did.
He's not my type at all.
So what are you saying? (DOOR OPENING) Ripley.
Love.
You look beautiful.
- Do I? - Yeah, you really do.
Come on.
Maybe you're doing the right thing after all, marrying an older bloke.
Oh.
Right.
By the time he starts looking elsewhere, he'll be too old and by the time you start looking, he'll be past caring.
Thanks.
Maybe you could work that into your speech.
Do you love Mum? I love the woman I thought was your mum.
- The one who didn't stand up for herself? - No, not that.
She's broken the marriage vows, Shyanne.
She's eaten from a takeaway menu.
And you never did? Not deliberately, no.
Ripley.
Thanks for inviting me, mate.
Give away my daughter without my oldest mate? I don't think so.
I just thought after what happened What happened? Nothing happened as far as I'm concerned.
Thanks.
I appreciate that.
I know I betrayed you and I just hope you'd understand why.
Terry, you don't know the meaning of the word betrayal.
Compared to any woman, you're an amateur, believe me.
Why? What's happened? Have you knobbed her yet? I think tonight's the night.
You know what they're like after a wedding.
Have this one on me.
Dad, come on.
It's past its sell-by but that adds to the thrill, doesn't it? (DON'T LEAVE ME THIS WAY BY THE COMMUNARDS) Don't leave me this way I can't survive I can't stay alive Without your love No, baby Don't leave me this way I can't exist I will surely miss Your tender kiss So don't leave me this way Baby My heart is full of love and desire for you So come on down and do what you've got to do You started this fire down in my soul Now can't you see it's burning out of control So come on down and satisfy the need in me 'Cause only your good loving can set me free Don't leave me this way I don't understand how I'm at your command So, baby, please Don't you leave me this way Baby My heart is full of love and desire for you So come on down and do what you've got to do You started this fire down in my soul Now can't you see it's burning out of control So come on down and satisfy the need in me 'Cause only your good loving can set me free Set me free, set me free, set me free Set me free, set me free Set me free Don't leave me this way Oh, baby, I can't exist I will surely miss Your tender kiss So don't leave me this way Baby My heart is full of love and desire for you So come on down and do what you've got to do You started this fire down in my soul Now can't you see it's burning out of control So come on down and satisfy the need in me 'Cause only your good loving could set me free Set me free, set me free, set me free Set me free, set me free Don't leave me this way Don't leave me this way Don't leave me this way Don't leave me this way Don't leave me this way Don't leave me this way Don't leave me this way Don't leave me this way Don't leave me this way Don't leave me this way (REGISTRAR) We're here today to witness the marriage of Stephen and Shyanne.
You've ruined the seating plan but I'm sure we can squeeze you on the end somewhere.
We can do this the easy way or the hard way.
I'd ask you to kiss my arse if I didn't think you'd enjoy it.
I think you should know that we're here to arrest you.
That's not going to happen, I'm afraid.
I am arresting you on suspicion of the murder of - Turn him off! Mike Hooley.
- I must caution you that - Take his batteries out.
it may harm your defence if you don't mention How about this for starters? I know you've been shagging my wife.
Blythe, you don't socialise as much as you should and there's a wedding reception down the corridor.
- You can't back out now.
- You're feeling thirsty.
Go and avail yourself of the refreshments on offer.
Natalie.
- So? - So.
- This is all kind of - Weird.
Yeah.
Why do you say that? Is it because you're my stepmother and you're younger than me? Don't say that.
That's terrible.
Don't ever call me stepmother again.
Okay, just plain Mum, then? I don't know if I can handle this conversation.
No.
Stop.
Don't be so serious.
I think it's great my Dad's fallen for you.
- I do, really.
- Oh, right.
Well, thank you.
And who can blame him? It'll be prime land when the regeneration plan kicks in and I'll be the leaseholder.
That can't be right.
- What? Ripley sell you the arcade? No! - It's true, I'm afraid.
You'll be a creditor of course but you'll be at the back of a very long queue.
Jim, have you heard this? Marr reckons that Ripley's gone bust and he's buying him out.
You? You can't get dressed in the morning without a diagram, can you? You'll find it's comments like that that have allowed your mouth to get the better of your wallet.
- Is he taking the piss? - I'm not sure.
I don't really understand what he said.
Where's Ripley? I want to hear this from him.
- Here's to my daughter.
- Your daughter.
How long have you known about me and Natalie? - Oh about a week or so.
- Why wait till now to tell me? When I found out you were poking my wife I wanted to kill you.
And kill her.
Then I thought, "Come on, Ripley, what's in it for you?" That's how good a businessman Ripley Holden is, cock.
Even his wife shagging another man is an opportunity.
I expect that's what Maggie Thatcher meant when she said entrepreneurs were special people.
- You think I'm thick, don't you? - No.
But I notice things.
And I've noticed this.
This last couple of weeks, my wife's looked happier and more beautiful than I've seen her look for years.
She's a beautiful woman.
And when I found out about you and her I realised it was you that was making her happy.
- And beautiful.
- Not anymore.
- Now, that's up to you, isn't it? - And Natalie.
She loves you, you prick.
I've been watching her pretending.
Pretending she's fine, pretending she wants to be with me, but no.
I can see the misery coming off her like steam off a curry-house flannel.
- You think that's true? - I know it.
It seems to me, however much she loves you, she's never going to forgive you for fitting her husband up for murder on her daughter's wedding day.
You talk about shitting in her Valentine's card! I'm not fitting you up.
I've got new evidence.
Hailey's changed her statement.
Said you killed him.
And you believe her? It's not what I believe, it's a strong case.
All right, charge me.
Arrest me.
But you know you'll never see Natalie again.
Are you trying to corrupt me? I think Natalie got there before me.
So what are you proposing? I'm suggesting that you leave me and Danny alone and in return I'll give you and Natalie my blessing.
I don't give a shit about you but I do want her to be happy.
I really do.
On the other hand, you can arrest me and not only will you not see Natalie again, but you stand a good chance of losing the case.
Once your superiors find out that you've been knobbing the chief suspect's wife.
Do you still think I'm thick? Do we have a deal? Of course, it still leaves us with an unsolved murder.
If you can live with that, so can I.
Where is he? I don't know.
He's a free man.
What? He didn't do it.
Neither did his son.
I'm taking this case to the CPS without you.
What were these doing in your locker? They were never in my locker.
Young copper.
Boring case.
Some clown for his senior officer.
Tragic you should turn to drugs like that.
Maybe we didn't give you enough support.
- You wouldn't? - Yeah, I would.
And who would the senior officers believe? You or me? She must be some shag, that wife of his.
- I love her.
- That makes it all right, does it? I'm not going to close the book on this.
- I'm going come back to it one day.
- You can do what you like one day.
You won't go home empty-handed today.
What do you mean? I've got you an arrest courtesy of Ripley Holden.
(A DIFFERENT CORNER BY GEORGE MICHAEL) So I said to the client if you go for incorporation you could get 50% off your tax over four years.
He was impressed, I can tell you Adrian Marr, I am arresting you on suspicion of false accounting.
- What? - You do not have to say anything but it may harm your defence if you do not mention, when questioned, something that you later rely on (ADRIAN) You are making a big mistake.
Anything you do say may be used in evidence.
Like to come this way, sir.
I came to find you.
Are you sure you didn't come to arrest my husband? That was a cry for help.
You seemed so straight forward when I met you.
So different from Ripley, with all his schemes and his lies and saying one thing and thinking another.
And now it seems I've fallen for another schemer.
I stopped pretending from the moment I fell in love with you.
When was that? About five minutes into our first date.
If you loved me, that's when you should've told me the truth.
I couldn't.
So then I tried to stop seeing you.
But you I look at you and I just feel It feels like I have been missing somebody all of my life, and it's you.
I'm staying with Ripley.
At least I know what I'm getting.
You strip away all the pretence, all the play acting all the cops and robbers, what's left? You loving me and me loving you.
You're so good at saying what I want to hear.
Maybe I'm just saying what you feel, too.
Maybe you've just got an eye for weakness.
So, Steve.
Congratulations.
Cheers, Ripley.
So it seems like I did do you a favour all those years ago after all.
Yeah, how do you figure that one out? If I hadn't written those suicide notes, I'd never have become Ripley Holden and I would never have had such a beautiful daughter.
And if your parents hadn't read my suicide note, you would never have been a failure hanging around Blackpool waiting for your life to begin.
Life has a funny habit of evening things out in the end.
Right.
Your turn next! - Yeah.
I doubt it.
- Don't put yourself down.
Once your spots go you'll be a good looking lad.
Thanks.
What about a go with one of Shyanne's mates? That Rebecca will be half decent with your beer goggles on so get a drink down you.
Anybody would think you're not interested in girls.
Because you like the Graham Norton Show doesn't make you Colwyn Bay.
Dad, that isn't it.
Maybe it's just a phase? There isn't a builder in the North of England didn't fancy Boy George till they found out he was a bloke.
I've tried to fancy girls.
When you worked in that strip club did you never get the odd tingle in your wurzles? No.
Some bloke hasn't touched you up and got you all confused? No.
It's all over, Danny.
- It doesn't have to be.
- No.
Bookies are allowed betting terminals with big cash prizes.
We're not.
You're a casino or you're nothing.
No place for a family arcade anymore.
You want to put some dance stages down one wall.
Half a dozen if you can.
Got any idea how much that would cost? Get rid of some of the slots.
Like you say, if you can win 500 quid down the bookies, you're not going to play these to win 25.
But your dance stages, that's how you get the kids in.
Run competitions.
Call it the Dance Stage Olympics.
In Norway it's already an official sport.
Really? And then I'd put a cappuccino bar in the other corner.
Get a franchise on that.
Bowling alley upstairs.
Make it seem less like an arcade and more like a leisure centre.
Dance Stage Olympics? A cappuccino bar? All seems a bit gay to me.
- Yeah, you asked, didn't you? - It's a compliment, stupid.
It's brilliant.
I'm just saying it took a candy-man to spot the potential.
Right, thanks.
But more than that, it took a Holden.
- You're a chip off the old block after all.
- Thanks.
And seeing as it's been a surprising day, it's yours.
- What? - This place.
As soon as you turn 18, it's yours.
Call it an early birthday present.
- What about the money you owe? - Marr sorted all that.
I declare insolvency.
You buy this place for a tenner.
Start again.
Debts are cleared.
I thought that was so Marr could buy it.
Marr's not going to be around, I'm afraid.
You'll get a big fat insurance payout from the flats that burnt down.
I want you to give some of that to Terry Corlette, Ruth and Deaf Barry.
You see them right.
There'll be enough left over for you to start again.
How about it? And it's a clean slate between me and you as well? Right.
We haven't got any secrets anymore.
No more secrets.
You were the strong one all along, weren't you? You'll keep an eye on my lad for me, won't you, Moses? What is it? I was wondering if we stayed together, you and me, made a real go of it, no more secrets, not for either of us.
- You love someone else.
- No, it's over between me and Carlisle.
I don't believe that.
You don't believe it.
- But Ripley - Natalie.
You're a good person.
That's what I love about you.
You know the difference between right and wrong.
You're not going to go and have an affair with Carlisle at the drop of a G-string.
What, like you, you mean? I was thinking about Allbright, actually, but point taken.
You wouldn't have done what you did with Carlisle without a good reason.
You've always put the kids first.
You've always put me first.
By my reckoning you must love him more than you've loved anybody in your whole life.
When you close your eyes, I bet it's you and him you see together? You know what drives me mad? When I close my eyes, I see you and him together as well.
You already look like a couple.
- But Ripley - lf you stayed, you'd be pretending.
Like you've been pretending for this last couple of weeks.
I could carry on letting you pretend because I've loved it.
In a couple of years, we'll be throwing the good plates at each other and you'd hate me for everything I said now to make you stay and I don't want that.
He can make you happy and I can't.
So there's no contest.
(I'M NOT IN LOVE BY 10CC) Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls.
It's not every day that your daughter gets married to a man your age, your wife leaves you for the copper that's been investigating you for murder and your son tells you he's a Perry Como.
But then, we are in Blackpool.
And let's face it, you can live a 1000 lives in this town and still have room for a full English breakfast! You can't beat a big sausage! (ALL LAUGHING) But the life I wanted to live here hasn't worked out.
I've been unluckier than a ginger stepchild this last couple of weeks.
Maybe my dreams got too big or the town got too small.
Maybe I just messed up.
I could sing "Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me" but seeing as our Danny's just come out it might not be wise.
One thing I have found out, though I love my girl.
And I love my lad.
And I love my wife.
And I always will.
They say a man who's lost a fortune but found his heart is a wealthy man indeed.
But then people will say anything when they're pissed, won't they? No, but the truth is, I mean, I know.
I'm as shocked as you are.
So let's raise our glasses to Steve and Shyanne.
(ALL) Steve and Shyanne.
Be lucky.
Must be good for business.
You can hang out the window and wave to the passing sailors.
(HAILEY) I've not tried that yet.
So.
So? Why did you send Carlisle after me? Hey? What was that all about? I had to give him somebody otherwise he was going to charge me.
I knew you could take care of yourself.
I suppose I should be flattered.
I couldn't have given him Danny's name, could I? Of course not.
Especially as Danny is the one who did it.
Deep down I think I've known all along, I just didn't want to admit it.
I just want to know why, that's all.
Danny was always hanging around the flats.
He'd turn up late at night just to talk.
I think he found it easy, you know.
And I liked having him around.
If I had a punter, he used to sit in the empty bedsit over the corridor.
Anyway, Hooley turns up off his skull on drink and what have you and I turn to put the money away and he starts to knock me about.
I'm so shocked I shout for Danny but he doesn't hear me at first.
By the time Danny does get there Hooley's got his hands round my throat.
He's choking me.
And then I look up and I see Danny hit him, and the next thing, Hooley goes limp.
I don't believe it.
I do believe it but I can't believe it.
It was self-defence.
Hooley didn't know Danny was in the room.
How could it be self-defence? He saved my life, Ripley.
Your lad saved my life.
That's good enough for me.
Been carrying this around in his head all this time? Yeah, he can keep a secret, that lad.
All teenagers go off the rails.
Usually it's a bit of shoplifting or smoking ten Silk Cut.
Not drug dealing, murder and gaiety.
Wouldn't mind but he doesn't even go to a comprehensive.
So he's told you he's gay? If I gave you a ton, would you cure him for me? (RIPLEY SIGHS) So where are you off? To meet my maker.
(ALWAYS SOMETHING THERE TO REMIND ME BY SANDIE SHAW) I walk along the city streets You used to walk along with me And every step I take recalls How much in love we used to be Oh, how can I forget you When there is always something there to remind me Always something there to remind me I was born to love you And I will never be free You'll always be a part of me Whoa, whoa, whoa When shadows fall I pass a small cafe Where we would dance at night And I can't help recalling how it felt To kiss and hold you tight Oh, how can I forget you When there is always something there to remind me Always something there to remind me I was born to love you And I will never be free You'll always be a part of me Whoa, whoa, whoa If you should find You miss the sweet and tender love we used to share Just come back to the places Where we used to go And I'll be there Oh, how can I forget you When there is always something there to remind me Always something there to remind me I was born to love you And I will never be free When there is always something there to remind me Always something there to remind me Always something there to remind me