The Sandman (2022) s04e09 Episode Script

OK. OK. OK. Remember the cards.
- You remember the cards
- Yeah.
Yeah? Is this your card?
Nope.
Is this your card?
- No.
- OK. OK. Don't worry. It is part of the trick.
Well, what you going to do about this!
I don't want to be a baby mamma!
You what?
It's positive, I'm pregnant!
Don't look at me,
me mum makes me have
a bath wi' door open.
What am I gonna do?
Might be just the wind?
What might be wind?
Huh?
What you doing with that?
- It's Hayley's
- It's ours!
I'm pregnant and he is the father.
Don't look at me.
- You been at it again?
- No!
I told you to stay away from
her and to use protection!
Why do you think it's mine?
'Cos you got form there,
though, bro, innit?
Chup! Chel! Out!
That mean you too.
I don't believe it.
How you do this to me again?
Huh? What you going to do now?
I don't know I can
help look after it.
You can't look after your bloody self
- That's why you're here in first place!
- I can get a job.
- Me dad'll help me out.
- Huh!
Like he help you out last time.
No. I am stuck with it again.
Is that all I am to you?
Something you're just stuck with.
Judging me before I've even done owt.
You done enough already.
If it's my kid, I'll
take responsibility.
If you done that in the first
place, she wouldn't be pregnant!
Come on.
Me brother said you can have this
And don't be proud 'cos charity
begins in school, don't it?
And genetically speaking, you
should be prepared for both options.
- She told, you two?
- We bought her the testing kit.
Don't worry, there's no charge, bro
- Where's he going?
- Oh, come on
Mornin' to you as well!
Tahir!
It'll blow over. He's
upset. That was some shock!
He was so angry with
me. But he so stupid!
You can't blame yourself.
I'm meant to be student councillor.
All me training go out window.
And Pakistani Mother come
out, like the Incredible Hulk.
Try not to be angry.
Of course I bloody angry!
How many time do I tell him?
This is a new start for you.
We here for you. I
give him this new chance
and this is how he treat me,
going behind my back
- with Hayley.
They only kid themselves,
- how can they look after a baby?
- I know
- Children need
A mother
- I know this, Rashid.
A baby needs a stability.
It needs a mother who
understands life Who
Me Me, I know about babies.
I do everything for my children.
I do everything right.
I pray to Allah that I'm doing the right thing
- all the time.
I just want
Why she pregnant and not me
Oh, Kaneez
I've gotta ask
- so don't be offended,
but do you know if it's even yours?
Why're you saying that?
- Why'd you think I'm asking?
- It's mine. OK?
My responsibility.
All right. Just askin'.
- I just want to do the right thing.
- What can you do?
- I can be around.
- Well, you're not going anywhere, are you?
- 16, no qualifications. Kids cost money.
- I can get a job.
Yeah, fake Burberry romper suits cost.
Hey, come on,
I'm here as well
All I could think about was my mum
When Hayley told me
I saw her face so clearly
That's the first time I've
seen it since she died
I felt it, Sam It felt safe.
That's what I want for my kid.
Not this.
Not me the way I am now.
You know?
Course I do.
Go and speak to your dad.
He hates me.
He was just lost when your
mum died, you both were
So go find him.
You need him now.
I know this is a really
great moment between us,
but you have got to
wipe that massive bogey
from your nose 'cos
Bogey-phobic.
Has it gone?
- Engaged to be married though, 'kay?
- Yeah, but
You've got to admit, it's
bizarre he didn't say owt.
- Saleem, what are you doing?
- Beating the egg!
Can you beat the egg, then?
Don't just sort of trace
the spoon over the top of it.
I mean, he probably had his
reasons. His grandad died.
Friends talk all right,
they confide in each other.
Not necessarily
I'm sure there a things we
don't know about each other.
Name one?
Exactly.
Trust! Where would
friendship be without trust?
Keep it down.
If he knew all along, he was engaged
to her and he still went with me.
Does she know that?
Why do I always get it
so wrong with blokes?
What does that even make
me? All right. He used me.
You used each other.
I wouldn't have slept
with him if I'd have known
he was going to get married.
What does he take me for?
Sometimes
Sometimes it's hard to be honest
No!
The least we deserve is an explanation.
- Don't!
- Oi! Johnny
So when were you going to say something?
You said yourself we were
better off as friends.
But you knew you was
going to get married!
What kind of friend does that?
A friend with benefits?
And this Rose?
- Does she know how you act?
- Rose doesn't concern either of yous.
She has a right to know what
kind of man she's marrying.
Or are you just as dishonest
with her as you have been with us?
You're the last person to
be talking about honesty.
You're another one who likes to
play games, aren't you, Kayla?
- Don't!
- So it's OK for me
to play hit and miss with the truth,
just so long as it doesn't
involve your behaviour?
- Don't, Johnny.
- Friendship.
Honesty.
Oh, they are so important
to you, aren't they?
But not important enough
to stop you kissing me.
What?
- Fizza, I
- Is it true?
It's not what it seems. It
It never is
Dad!
Dad!
Dad!
- Dad!
- Hey up,
Tahir, what are you doing in Manchester?
I thought you'd all
moved back to Pakistan?
Pakistan?
Is there something you're after?
New owners are moving in.
Cambodians.
No No,
I were just over seeing a mate
thought I'd come
around and have a last look
for old time's sake
Oh, nice.
Well, all the best.
I'm sorry
I was bang out of order.
- I didn't mean to hurt you.
- But you did anyway.
- Yeah, I was angry.
- You lied to me about Rose.
I told you I was willing to
give everything up for you.
You didn't mention that
- Would it have mattered?
- Yes!
Do you love her?
At first And we're getting married.
- I played around.
- Do you love Rose?
Me life were mapped out!
So no-one cared what I did.
- Do you love her?
- I don't know.
No!
It felt right for us.
Our families loved the idea.
- So it was arranged?
- No, we don't do that.
Look, I met you
and it was different,
you're different.
And Rose?
I'd walk away from it all for you.
- Easy for you to say.
- You think?
Do you know what that means to me?
To give up on all that,
all that's expected from me -
family and friends! Kayla,
all you have to do is say the word.
Your whole life's a lie.
So is your life with Rose.
Yeah?
Well, you're lying to
yourself if you think
hiding behind your
friendship with Fizza's
going to make your
feelings for me go away.
Eh, I'm up for it, if you
want a godmother for the baby?
- Pranked! It was a joke!
- Yep.
She's not pregnant! LAUGHTER
You're off the hook, bro!
- That's not funny.
- Chillax! It was only a joke!
Yeah! Take a chill pill, Phil!
How could you fall for it?!
Where you been all night?!
- I were worried sick, I nearly call police!
- I went to Manchester.
Well, are you not gonna
ask me what my dad said?
Of course you're not,
'cos he wasn't there, but
you knew that, didn't you?
Go on. Say it!
Why don't we talk outside?
- I can explain.
- No, you lied to me!
No. No. Please.
Answer me! You can't, can you?
- All right, come on, that's enough, Tahir.
- You can't, because you're a liar!
That's enough!
Mrs Paracha, I'm not pregnant!
- What?!
- I just wanted to get back at him.
- We kind of thought it'd be funny.
- What?
- Let's go and talk about it. Come on.
- Make me!
- Tahir
- Look, leave him. Leave him, please. It's my fault.
- Well, we need to have a chat, at some point.
- I understand.
Sir, it were just a
joke. Bit of a laugh.
And what about the consequences, huh?
Did you think about those?
Exactly. My office, now!
Fizza!
- Look, you've got to talk to me.
- Get lost!
- Fizza!
- You're supposed to be my mate!
- I am. Look, just let me explain.
- You kissed him!
It just happened!
- Nothing just happens, Kayla!
- It did.
- You didn't think to stop it?
- Nothing's worth coming between us,
not Johnny, not anything.
You're my best friend.
Best friends don't
do that to each other.
- I gave him up for you.
- Oh, did you?
Or was it because he was
stringing you along as well?
God, you're pathetic!
You can't find a bloke of your own,
- so you come sniffin' round mine!
- Yeah, I didn't need to.
He did a very good job on his own.
He wasn't even your boyfriend.
We slept together.
- Does that mean nothing to you?
- It meant nothing to him.
Some friend you turned out to be!
What would you know
about our friendship?
Have you ever really looked at it?
Do you even know me,
I mean, really know who I am?
You don't!
You only ever see me
when you need something.
Otherwise, I don't exist.
I don't think, I don't feel, I'm just
- I'm just expected to be there for you.
- Mm-hm.
I mean, that's what all this is about.
Your problem isn't that
he kissed someone else,
it's that he kissed me.
If you'd have paid me the
slightest bit of attention,
you'd have known how
I felt about Johnny.
That kiss?
That's all I've ever
wanted him to do to me
from the first moment I saw him.
All I could ever think about,
while you were making him
jump through hoops for you
and chuckin' him aside because,
"Fizza'd had her fun". So, yeah,
he kissed me, even
after sleeping with you.
He didn't want you, he wanted me
and I walked away,
because I thought our
friendship was more important.
It seems I was wrong on both counts.
You should have seen
him, he just stormed off!
He'll be OK.
- I don't even know if he's here.
- Yeah.
Tahir! Oh
Stop, stop, please.
- How long did you know?
- I was just waiting for a good time to tell you.
What's a good time to tell
me my family's dumped me?
- No
- Breakfast? Dinner? What about my next birthday?!
- Just stop, I want to talk to you.
- You said I was a part of your family,
but you've done nothing but lie to me
ever since I walked through your door.
You're not my mother,
and I never belonged here!
- No. No, wait!
- Kaneez, let him go. Let him go.
- Just give him some time. Give him some time.
- No.
- Another man leaving you. I live in hope.
- Ma!
- You don't miss a trick, do you?
- I beg your pardon?
You don't know me, and you
don't bother to find out.
You just judge.
Judge. Judge. Judge. But you
know, I don't care what you think,
because I can walk away.
- Then why don't you?
- That's enough!
- I'm sorry.
- Since you've been here,
you have gone out of your way to
be rude and unpleasant to Kaneez,
when she's done nothing but
try to make you feel welcome.
- Rashid, it doesn't matter.
- No, it matters to me.
You, Mother,
are a bitter, twisted,
poisonous old woman.
How dare you?!
I dare because I love this woman!
I love
every moment she allows
me to be with her.
She's a good woman.
She's kind, selfless and loving.
Everything you were.
But if you can't see
beyond your own bitterness,
then there is no place
for you in our lives!
Go back to Pakistan.
Please.
- You all right?
- A bit under the weather, that's all.
It's fine, leave it.
- No, just let me get these ones
- Enough!
I'm just trying to help.
Really,
with your attitude and
choice of boyfriends, your help
is not the sort I need, thank you.
I just came here to talk.
I were wrong.
I'm so sorry.
Sorry for what Dad put you through.
But he was so sad, upset,
and I just
couldn't see your pain
and what you was going through.
I'm just so sorry I didn't understand.
I just get it so wrong sometimes, Mum
and I always end up
hurting the people I love most.
So, what now?
We pick up where you left off,
before all
all this?
You play the dutiful daughter
and me the doting mother?
I don't think either
of us suit them roles.
At least we can agree on that.
I'm going to make tea.
I don't understand what's
going on. Look, hey,
I'm not ready to leave yet.
Forget it, right? We'll
carry on back at t'camp.
- Yeah.
- Right?
- Hey, lads!
- Johnny's stag night
- continues at my place!
- Go with your brothers, yeah?
Go on. I'll clean all this up.
Thank you. Cheers.
Of all the bars, in all
the towns, in all the world,
I had to walk into yours.
Casablanca!
Humphrey Bo You
know what? Never mind.
Who's getting married?
- Me.
- Married,
- at your age?
- Becoming a dad at yours?
It's a joke. The pregnancy.
The whole thing's a joke.
A prank, a giggle.
She's not really pregnant.
You sound disappointed she isn't
Nah, it's OK.
What's with the bag, then,
are you leaving town? Hmm?
Don't worry about me.
You're getting married.
It's an happy occasion.
It isn't an happy occasion?
- Is it that obvious?
- Pretty much, yeah.
Wanna talk about it?
All right.
Ahem
What if I told you
I don't love the girl I'm marrying?
Does she love you?
She says so.
But now,
I don't know if it's love,
or if I'm going through the
motions for our families.
Is there someone else?
There's been loads.
But now, there's one
that's more special.
She's the one.
But not the one that
you're getting married to?
No.
See, the one I do love
says she don't love me,
but she actually does.
My opinion,
don't give me the old flannel about
tradition, or culture, or
the worst excuse in the world, family!
They're the worst.
They demand the most, and they
give you nothing in return.
I'd say, go for the one you love.
What if she says she
don't love me any more?
She's lying.
Or I could just forget her,
marry Rose, have kids,
live happily ever after.
But could you?