Damned (2016) s02e05 Episode Script

1 Where are we? You don't remember? Er, well, we were both quite wasted, we broke into the big house Dennis? I'm doing shepherd's if you want some.
- No, thanks.
I'm good.
- Shit! Now I remember.
You said Denise was staying somewhere else.
Well, she was but she came back in the middle of the night.
I should have expected it.
She turns to stone if she's caught out at sunrise! This is serious.
What the fuck am I supposed to do -- shimmy down the drain pipe? Just wait until she goes.
I can't.
I've got to go.
I'm running late as it is.
God, Lee had better have got the kids up.
Be better off leaving the puppy in charge.
Look, just come down.
What's the worst that can happen? Well, I slip on the stairs and break my neck before she sees me? Wait -- that's the best-case scenario.
Come on .
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scaredy.
Jeez, open a window! That stinks.
I find it rather invigorating.
Gets me up ready for the day.
Or maybe I should.
There seems to be a foul stench around here.
- Morning.
- Look, let's not make this any more awkward - than it needs to be.
- No.
- Let's.
- I'm going to, er, go now.
Um, I couldn't find one of my socks, so if it turns up - I'll burn it.
- Hazel, what the? - Denise.
- You gave her another key? I've only just changed the locks.
She must've stolen it.
So you can have sex with me but you can't stay the night? Shall I call the police? - No.
- Who are you? Did she come back here to have sex with you? I came back to have sex with her brother.
I think.
Did we? - Not sure.
- Um, Denise, I-I-I'll see you later.
You see, this has got a sad face and I've got a sad face too.
- Please don't be late again.
- Sorry, Martin.
Well, Rose, Rose, Rose, Rose, Rose.
You were doing so well.
Sorry.
Going to have to mark you down for tardiness.
Careful, Martin -- that's an offensive term.
- What, "tardiness"? - Yeah, it's short for "retardedness".
- No, it isn't.
- Well, what's it short for? It's not short for anything.
Tardiness means lateness.
Oh! You learn something new every day.
Well, yes, Nat, I see you're looking for a birthing partner.
Yes.
They get free crisps and water - Mm-hm.
- It's just a backup.
I think my fella, Dev, will have told his wife by then.
Told her what? About me, about the baby, about the fact that we're going to move to a castle in Wales.
But mainly about the baby, because that's the thing that's going to happen soon.
He's got to pick the right moment, really.
Yes, you'll have to be very, very selective about the right moment for that, I think.
Nat, if you're looking for a birthing partner No, thanks, Mimi, don't know you well enough to let you see my bits.
I was actually going to say that a friend of mine is a doula.
OK, well, I'm not religious, so A doula is a female birth coach.
All births are female.
Well, actually, it depends on how you identify, so Just had a call from Zadie Taylor.
I thought that was all sorted -- case closed, moving on with her life.
Oh! If I don't help her, who will? She's been skipping English classes at her sixth-form college -- something about the sexually explicit books.
Why are you late anyway? I can't say -- genuinely too traumatic to explain.
Oh, quickie with Lee? Dennis! - Holy fucking shit.
- And Denise was there when I left.
- Oh, Christ! - Being confronted by her angry lesbian lover.
God.
I'm going to have to go into a foetal crouch.
- You had a call, Rose, about the Donahue kid.
- OK.
Oh! Shit, I must've dropped the Post-it Note.
- Found it.
- Oh.
Oh, bollocks.
The little Donahue girl's been coming to school hungry and dirty.
Oh, is that the seven-year-old with the mum and dad on heroin? Yeah, I agreed to let them try alternating the weeks that they use, so we wouldn't have to take Ellie into care.
Doesn't really work, though, does it -- part-time junkie? Bit like a Nazi -- it's all nothing.
Are you comparing junkies and Nazis? No, but Hitler was ripped to the tits by the end -- he was a massive cokehead.
And yet he always seemed so calm and reasonable in public.
Right, better head off to the Donahues'.
- Want any drugs? - No need -- I've dispatched Nitin.
Oh, just for one happy moment there I thought you meant "dispatched" - in the hitman sense.
- But they're my clients, Mart.
Yes, and you weren't here.
So I sent Nitin.
He's not used to dealing with addicts.
I mean, they can be wily little fuckers.
He'll never get through the front door.
He must know the old "I need a poo" trick by now? Well, I doubt he'll remember.
The school said she's obese.
I said to the teacher, "You need to stay off the pies yourself, love.
"You look like Eamonn Holmes in a dress.
" Then she tried to hit me, so I Right, I am off to see Zadie.
Ooh.
Actually, I was wondering, would you mind taking Mimi with you? Oh, what the? - Why? - Well, she needs more practical experience.
Also, between you and me, I'm finding the old feminine theorising a bit much.
Especially as she seems to think that it's all news to me.
She obviously hasn't seen The Female Eunuch on my bookshelf.
Is she still living with you? Cos I thought that was only temporary.
Don't fuss, Al.
Well, let's face it -- the young have it much harder than we did.
All right, she can tag along.
But if she goes on too much, I may have to use headphones.
- To strangle her with.
- Right.
That That would be Be murder.
Mimi.
OK.
Well, I was waiting for you to ask who I am but I guess we can skip that.
I'm from Elm Heath Social Services.
Oh, where's the woman? Rose? We don't know -- that's why they sent me.
I've heard reports from school that your daughter Ellie is unkempt.
- You what? - Unkempt.
It's the opposite of "kempt".
Pretty sure "kempt" is a word.
Untidy, unwashed clothes.
Can I come in and talk? No.
We're talking here -- why do you need to come in? - Er, I need the loo.
- Piss off t'balcony -- that's what I do.
Well, that's illegal.
And, crucially, I need to do a number two.
I need to pass a solid.
Can't really do that off a balcony.
Sounds like a challenge.
Up the stairs, on the left.
What? Oh, it's cool, man.
It's her week on.
Have you got a stay of execution on the section 47 providing one of you is responsible adult? - Section what? - Section 47.
It's part of the 1989 Children Act.
- I can give you a brief summary - I thought you needed a shit.
Yep, let me just go and .
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pass my stool.
Oh! Ooh.
Oh.
Er, sorry, still waiting for the boss.
- Shouldn't be much longer.
- No problem.
We can reschedule if it's easier.
We don't want to be taking up time you could be spending on more important cases.
Oh, well your case is fairly serious, in that your child could have ingested cocaine.
You said you only used at work.
You swore you never brought it into the house.
A couple of times when I was with him, I-I needed a line to get through it.
- Jesus.
- The noise at soft play is a nightmare.
- It helps me focus - No! - I've been meaning to explain - Fuck off! .
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but there hasn't been the right moment.
- So you're living with Martin now? - "Living with" is a very loaded term.
Well, I meant it literally, not in a pejorative, negative, judgmental way.
Thanks for qualifying "pejorative".
Could you define "patronising" for me, too? - Let's just rewind, shall we? - Fine with me.
This time, don't criticise my private life.
Mimi, if you want to do this for a living, you're going to have to lower your defences with your colleagues, you know.
It's a lot of pressure.
- We can help each other.
- Didn't sound like you were trying to help me.
Anyway, I've seen you browsing job sites in your lunch break.
You're bailing on your colleagues.
Jesus! - Morning, Denise.
Hello, Elm Heath Children - It's Nitin.
- Hi, Nitin.
- Can I speak to Rose? - Rose? - Rose.
- Hurry up.
- What's the weather like there? - I don't care! - All right.
God! - Yes? - Nitin's on the line for you.
- Rose, my office, please.
- Won't be a sec, Denise.
- Nitin.
- Yes.
- If you're going to send people pictures of turd-blocked toilets, some context or explanation might be nice.
I have never seen anything like this place.
We need to bring them in and we need to apply for a care order.
You know that a care order is the absolute last resort.
Oh, please not a care order.
It's terrible to split up families.
That's the least of it.
The paperwork is excruciating.
Look, I'm not saying that picture isn't disgusting, all right? But it doesn't place Ellie at any risk.
It's a shit-print -- my kids do those all the time.
Clean it up with a Dettol wipe and move on.
It's not shit.
It's blood.
Hi, Mum.
What are you doing here? I'm from the school.
Ellie didn't feel well, so I brought her home.
- Her parents said they couldn't pick her up.
- OK, I'm a social worker.
- Oh, fuck's sake! - Get her out of here -- she shouldn't see this.
Hey, sit up! - Are you going to help? - I've got sick on me haven't I? Can you get some hot water? Mum's not very well.
- Are you OK from here? - What do you think? If you're just going to stand there, go! Hazel, it's me.
I just wanted to emphasise that what I said the other night about possibly misremembering facts about the football club was very confidential.
And, er .
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there would be very serious consequences if you were to repeat it.
And about the Katherine Jenkins CDs, you keep them.
You keep them all -- that's fine.
OK? Bye.
OK, Mum, let's clean you up.
OK, here you go.
Thanks.
Oh, my net knife.
I had to use it to stop the man.
- He's gone now.
- The man's my dealer.
Ex-dealer.
Ex-dealer as in he used to be my dealer, not as in I killed him.
Yeah? Though he deserves it.
- What are you doing? - Well, I thought while you were here, you could be t'responsible adult and that.
We're going! Now! - Hey, Zadie.
- Al.
This is Mimi.
She's on a placement, so she's going to be sitting in if that's OK.
- Yeah, fine.
- OK.
So, er, Zadie says that she's been skipping your classes.
- I know she has.
- She just a bit uncomfortable with some of the texts - you've been teaching.
- OK.
Er which text in particular? Lady Chatterley's Lover.
Well, that's fairly tame by modern standards.
- Lolita.
- That's a more challenging one.
- 50 Shades Of Grey.
- Why would you teach them that? It romanticises abuse.
- Mimi, just - Well, it does.
No, its I happen to agree with her.
I teach it to examine why it is that bad writing and dangerous ideas sell.
You know, what does it say about us as a society, about the way - we treat women? - Very convenient.
You made me read bits of it out, though, and asked me how it made me feel.
And it made me feel shit.
Yeah, well, it made me feel shit as well.
It's a shit book.
It upset me! This isn't America, where students are cosseted and left unchallenged.
Art and literature should make us feel uncomfortable at times.
Life doesn't come with a trigger warning, and neither do my classes.
You know what? I've seen this before.
You're a gaslighter.
I knew it the moment I walked in.
- No.
- He is, he's a gaslighter.
He's blaming you for being uptight to conceal the fact - you get turned on making young women read out sex fantasies - No.
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from books.
- Look, can I speak for myself, please? - Yes.
You don't know me.
You don't know him.
And that isn't what he's doing.
I do need the trigger warning.
Because of what happened in care? - Excuse me? Have you read my file? - Absolutely not, no.
It would seem so.
I thought you was on a placement.
Yeah, she's learning and the first lesson today is you do not browse other clients' files without their permission, OK? Ever.
All right, mate? What are you in for? Nitin, you've obviously got your hands full here, - so why don't we postpone? - No, I want to know exactly what's been going on.
- Why? Has he been a naughty boy? - Honestly, I told you all there is to know.
- You have the full picture now.
There's nothing to gained by being here.
- Oi! I'm talking to you, you twat.
Dad! You said a rude word! Sorry, sweetheart.
But he is a twat.
Yeah, actually, he is a twat.
Sorry, sorry.
Nick, what What happened? It's fucking hard, innit? Amy don't want to come off of it for the week so I just have to dip in and out.
- Can't do it.
- We had a contract of expectations.
- A what? - One of you had to stay clean.
I got me weeks mixed up.
I do that all the time.
Yeah, maybe not with such heavy consequences.
You say that, but I missed a Gary Barlow concert once.
- It's not a big deal.
- I suppose not.
Jason Orange was always my fave.
And this is without you attacking your dealer with a knife in front of your daughter.
She wiped blood on the wall.
So, give us a cleaner.
This is serious! You're going to lose Ellie.
Right, Nitin's brought me up to speed.
We want to take your daughter into foster care while this is sorted and it's better for everyone if it's voluntary.
Otherwise, we apply for a court order.
- Is she still high? - Yeah, lucky girl.
Mr Donahue, do you understand what I'm saying? If you give up Ellie voluntarily, you retain control over aspects of her care.
Visitation rights and so on.
If we go via the courts, we control everything.
Yeah, yeah, I get it.
Now you're all looking at me like I'm a piece of shit.
Yeah, but what you don't understand is that I am trying to do the right thing here.
See, I'm a shit dad.
But a fucking great junkie.
So She's better off without me.
Us.
So .
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take her.
Just take her.
Are you going to try and get clean? I have tried, loads.
Can't do it.
It's too hard.
So, just Just take her, yeah? - For good.
- You know, I watched I watched your daughter - Fuck off.
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and she wiped puke off her own mother.
And you sat there and you did nothing! Nitin! Out.
- Unbelievable! - Yeah, that was really fucking helpful, wasn't it? Here you go, Ellie.
Juice, biscuits and a banana.
The banana's on and the turn, but that's when they're at their sweetest.
- Thanks.
- You're welcome.
Do you know how much longer I'll be? Er no, I'm afraid I don't.
I have to get back to put their tea on.
So, you cook for them, do you? Just easy stuff, like beans on toast.
Sorry, I don't mean to be an arsehole, but we were told earlier that you didn't provide tea or coffee.
That girl has a drink and biscuits.
Yes, I'm sorry, but you are being an A-hole.
So, sit down Sit down! And we'll get to you when we can.
Eat up! Zadie, I had no idea.
I wasn't briefed on this.
You should've said something.
What? In front of the class? It's just, I want to put it behind me.
I don't want to talk about it again.
- Yeah.
- I think what you should learn from this, Aidan, is that words have consequences.
Yeah, apparently not the ones I said to you earlier about butting in.
I was just expressing solidarity.
What? You think we're sisters? - You think we're blood? - I just think that I will have an insight - and an empathy - But how? How, though? That As women, I just think that you and I would understand There would be an understanding that I would get that these two certainly wouldn't.
Especially - Especially him.
- Can you get out, please? - Why? - Because I don't want to lose my place at this college and if you don't get out, I'm going to slap you! So, off the record, that's free drinks for life - from all the staff at Elm Heath Social Services.
- She's 17.
I know.
As I was saying that, I realised.
- Martin.
- Mum, Dad! Hey, just need you to stay here for me, Ellie.
It's all right, just stay here for a second.
- What about Ellie? - She's staying.
What?! No - Look, I'll explain later, yeah? Just come on, please.
- Ellie! Come here, sweetie! Let me through! Open the door! Oh, come on! Come on! What you looking at?! Eh? - I fucked that up, didn't I? - Yep.
Go on, then.
Rub it in.
Do your worst.
Do you know what? I can't be bothered.
I think maybe that'll just sit with you for a while - and might even help you.
- Oh.
I was all psyched up for a row.
I think that's why I find you so annoying -- - you're too easy on people.
- Yeah, well, conversely, the reason I find you so annoying is cos you always want to have a fight.
It's cos I want change in people's minds and behaviours! You can only change what's in front of you and you can't force people to think like you.
And, anyway, things HAVE changed! You know, when I started doing this, you'd still hear the N-word.
You'd hear the P-word every day.
Everyone was homophobic! I'm not saying it's gone, but it is less.
- Thank you.
- Apologies for the delay.
Oh, no, no.
Don't apologise.
You were dealing with those poor drug addicts -- so awful.
Your husband's a drug addict.
He's nothing like those people! He told me that he uses during night feeds.
What?! What the fuck?! Every time you swear to me you're telling the truth and then there's just another layer to this shit.
- Don't listen to him.
- No! - And he's an alcoholic.
For fuck's sake, Zak.
You've spent the last year making me feel like - everything's my fault but you're the one with the problem! - No, no, no - Look, look - Shut up! Hey, I am willing to make this work.
But you have to be honest.
Have you done the night feeds on coke? Er Sophie, I've done most things on coke, including our wedding and the birth of our child.
You despicable cunt! I've wanted to say that for a fucking long time! - It was 27 hours.
- Oh, fuck off! - You wanted me to be there for you! - Fuck off! - Look, I had to do something That couple in before have put their child into care voluntarily.
But I could've done it through the courts because their child was exposed to drugs, violence, God knows what.
Nitin found cocaine in YOUR house.
YOUR child could have accidentally ingested it and died.
Unlike the previous couple, you have the money and wherewithal to try and deal with your problems.
So, try! If I see you again, I'll be issuing a court order.
Rose, a word in my office, please.
Nitin, wrap this up.
So, going forward With the Donahues, we all signed off on that approach, OK, and last time I visited, they were coping.
Yes, yes.
I understand that.
This morning was mortifying for both of us.
Listen, I really like your brother.
Please -- my gag reflex is not that sturdy.
Look, whatever you're going through in your private life is your business.
I'm not going through anything in my private life.
THAT'S what I wanted to make clear.
That woman who came round this morning -- she is very troubled and delusional.
She makes wild accusations - Right.
- So, any mention of it at work would reflect very badly on you.
I wasn't going to mention it.
I mean, it's not as if I treat every bit of personal information - as a weapon.
- Really? - I do.
- I've got to find a foster family for Ellie.
Yes, yes, go.
My son has gone on holiday in England! - You're what, sorry? - My son! - And I haven't been able to get in touch with him.
- Right.
And I thought, "You ought to try services.
" He's 44 years old, but he's as thick as brick-shit.
Can you get him to give me a call? OK.
I already told him -- I can't be pregnant.
We only had sex standing up.
- Hello, children services.
- Yeah, it's me again.
I know I'm only meant to call about the kids, but I'm wondering -- are you married? And do you want to be married? All right, all right.
I know I've a wife.
But she won't mind, like.
Do you want to watch something? I've got Netflix.
I've got Dora.
Or Diego.
How about Team Umizoomi? I don't know what that is, but It's here! Don't have the headphones too loud.
It's not good for your ears.
I like it loud.
Shuts out all the shouting.
There's not going to be any more shouting.
Who's this? What did we miss? People, they ain't no good I think that's well understood You can see it everywhere you look People just ain't no good.