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00:00 (upbeat music)
00:02 - No, no, she's gonna be the only one not dressed up.
00:28 - It's all right, we'll come up with something.
00:29 - Oh yeah, good one Coco Chanel.
00:30 You needed my mum to sew your trouser button back on.
00:33 See, this would never have happened
00:37 if you hadn't told me to go back to work.
00:39 Lola wouldn't have forgotten either.
00:41 - I think she would have actually.
00:43 She'd be running around here like a mad thing right now.
00:45 Turn the air blue.
00:46 Lex, got your stuff here for honor de club, come try it on.
00:50 Not all heroes wear capes, eh?
00:52 Right, I've got to get to work.
00:54 You sort Lex out, yeah?
00:55 Don't forget, 11 o'clock, town hall shop.
00:59 - The parental hearing?
01:00 Right, I've got that cake for Arthur.
01:01 - Oh, me, you, Ben and Lex, that's sweet.
01:03 - I'm not contesting it.
01:05 Ben, you promised, don't make me go on my own.
01:07 Ben.
01:08 - Yeah?
01:09 - I'll be there to hold your hand, sweetheart.
01:11 - 11 o'clock.
01:16 All right, be there, see you later.
01:18 - You weren't going, were you?
01:23 Ben, today means the world to the pair of them.
01:25 It's not about you today.
01:27 So whatever this is, sort it out and get to court.
01:29 I love you.
01:32 - Shit.
01:37 Oh, I didn't hear you leave this morning.
01:42 - I needed more orange juice.
01:44 I mean, you even put the empty carton back in the fridge.
01:46 You need to wash it out thoroughly to prevent--
01:48 - It wasn't me.
01:48 You think I'm lying?
01:51 - I guess a successful relationship is nothing without trust.
01:54 - About orange juice?
01:55 - No, about everything.
01:57 - Are you okay?
01:58 - I'm fine.
01:59 - I'm gonna be a bit later tonight.
02:01 - Where are you going?
02:02 - I'm meeting a friend.
02:03 Is that all right?
02:04 - I just thought that it'd be nice
02:07 to mark the occasion, you know, the election.
02:09 - Yeah, I think it's a lovely idea, Billy.
02:10 Maybe run it past Ben and Jay first.
02:12 - Yeah.
02:13 Perhaps a few beers later?
02:16 - No, I can't, I've got to go to work,
02:17 but everyone on me, yeah?
02:18 - Oh, yeah.
02:19 Thanks, Freddie.
02:20 Maybe I should have a word with him, eh?
02:23 - I've got to go.
02:25 I'll see you later, Bill.
02:26 - Listen, Freddie knows where you are
02:28 if he needs you, Billy.
02:28 - Yeah.
02:29 - It's Ben.
02:30 - Ben!
02:31 So, we was thinking, right?
02:32 - We should celebrate, you know, Jay and Lexie.
02:34 - Jay and Lexie, you know?
02:35 - Oh, I was boxing yesterday, forgot my gloves.
02:42 - You look tired.
02:43 - What do you reckon then, eh?
02:46 A few beers, a bit of grub?
02:48 - I don't know if I can do another
02:49 Mitchell family meal, Billy.
02:50 - Come on, Ben.
02:52 What about Lexie, she's not the mum.
02:54 - Yeah, all right.
02:56 I've got to go to the gym.
02:57 - Eh?
02:58 No, Ben, you're supposed to be going to court, aren't you?
03:02 Ben!
03:03 - You all right, Freddie?
03:09 - Just a bit numb, I guess.
03:12 No, I've got to be with mum.
03:15 - Right, remember this, yeah?
03:17 Your mum has fought your whole life to protect you.
03:19 - See you later.
03:24 - I love you.
03:25 - See you, love.
03:25 - Thanks, man.
03:26 - You're a wonderful parent.
03:29 - Oh.
03:31 Dee!
03:33 Yes, I can ask Dee to talk about her love life.
03:36 Your fears, your killers, yeah.
03:39 Oh, having a child for Walford's answer to Al Capone.
03:42 - Kim.
03:44 - Yeah, you're right, she would never go for it.
03:46 But I'm telling you, pops, that video went viral.
03:51 I mean, all this deep emotional stuff,
03:54 it really does tug at the heartstrings.
03:56 I need a good sequel.
03:59 I'm talking Top Gun Maverick, you know?
04:01 Not Dirty Dancing 2 or Greased 2.
04:04 No, I just need, I don't know, I just...
04:08 That's it.
04:11 The gays.
04:12 - What?
04:13 - Hey, Bernie, how would you like to become famous?
04:17 Okay, let me say it another way.
04:19 How would you like to earn some easy cash?
04:21 - All right.
04:23 - Okay, so how about you come onto the Foxcatcher
04:26 and you can tell my thousands of followers
04:28 what it's like to find love, you know, as a lesbian?
04:33 - Right, it's not really my thing,
04:35 plus I'm not exactly qualified, am I?
04:37 - 20 quid?
04:39 - 40.
04:40 - Okay, not really your thing.
04:41 What about 25?
04:42 - No, you're right.
04:44 - Right.
04:47 - Kim, Kim.
04:48 People don't like to talk about their love life.
04:51 It's private, man.
04:54 I just, I need this, you know?
04:57 I need something to focus on, to really focus on.
05:02 Something good.
05:04 It helps.
05:04 - No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
05:15 No, no.
05:16 - And that is 240 chain, lovely.
05:18 - Thank you. - Thanks, love.
05:19 - You're gonna knock him dead in that dress.
05:21 - Just came to see how you are.
05:23 - Oh, you all right?
05:23 - Yeah, good.
05:25 - Come on, it's me you're talking to.
05:27 I know it would have been Peach's due date tomorrow.
05:30 Yeah, if you wanna do something, I'm around, yeah?
05:32 Glass of wine, bit of a cry, I'm here.
05:35 - Well, me and Zach are having a picnic by her tree, so.
05:39 - That's really lovely, yeah.
05:40 - Yeah.
05:42 - Anyway, enough about me.
05:43 What about you?
05:44 - Well, come on, am I gonna have
05:46 another little cousin or what?
05:47 - Oh, don't think about that right now.
05:49 - 'Cause you ain't done it yet, have you?
05:51 - Well, why would I?
05:52 After Reece's little outburst, I mean, what was it?
05:56 I'd rather have my wisdom tooth out than be a dad.
05:59 - Well, forget about it.
06:03 Tell you what I'll do, I'll get some cover from your stall,
06:05 I'll meet you at your place,
06:06 you can have a lovely pee on a stick, it'll be great.
06:09 - Okay.
06:10 - About half an hour, yeah?
06:11 - All right. - All right.
06:14 - So, so, so, Whit seem okay to you?
06:18 - Not really.
06:19 But she's strong and she'll get through it.
06:21 And how are you?
06:24 Zach, your picture's deadly.
06:27 I know you must be hurting as well.
06:29 I want you to know I'm here for both of you.
06:32 You all right?
06:33 Come here.
06:34 - Thank you. - All right?
06:37 - Oh, yes, please.
06:39 - Okay, okay.
06:46 Take a rest, listen to your body.
06:48 - Hey, I can breathe, come here.
06:50 Looked like you were trying to work something out there,
07:03 on the back.
07:04 - Really?
07:05 - What's that?
07:08 - Oh, uh, Lexi's parental hearing.
07:12 - Well, you're cutting it a bit fine, aren't you?
07:16 - I'm not needed.
07:17 (dramatic music)
07:20 - Ben, you know why I like boxing?
07:21 It's because you just gotta work out the technique,
07:25 get fit, train hard, repeat.
07:27 That way you get better, that's it.
07:31 I just wish parenting was that simple.
07:35 No matter what we do,
07:38 we always seem to end up on the ropes.
07:40 And then we have two choices.
07:42 One is, we get back up and risk getting hit again.
07:46 And the other one is, is to stay down and give up.
07:49 - You're gonna work that out on the bag?
07:53 (laughing)
07:54 - Ah, yeah, I'm happy with three choices.
07:57 But seriously, though, if I have any regrets,
08:03 it's not being there when my girl's really needing me.
08:06 Good man.
08:11 Good technique.
08:14 (phone ringing)
08:17 Okay.
08:28 Denzel!
08:30 - Sorry, Kim.
08:31 - Okay, bring it in a bit.
08:33 Okay, not too close, not too close.
08:35 Okay.
08:36 Hey, cubbies!
08:38 It's me, the Kimfluencer, stroke, the Foxcatcher.
08:43 Now, I am so delighted to introduce to you my next guest,
08:47 a man who has been around the block a good few times
08:50 and knows all there is to know about the subject of romance.
08:55 So, Patrick "True Love" Truman,
09:01 tell us, what is it like to find the real deal?
09:05 - I guess it's like every day you wake up
09:09 with the biggest smile on your face
09:12 and nothing at all matters in the world,
09:14 nothing except the person sleeping next to you.
09:18 - Right, right.
09:20 And do you have any pearls of wisdom
09:22 that you can impart on our budding Romeo's
09:25 and Juliet's out there?
09:27 - Yeah, man.
09:29 Be brave.
09:30 Oh, yeah.
09:32 Don't be afraid to tell the person you love them
09:34 every day, no matter what.
09:36 - Yeah, and even when you're fighting?
09:41 - No, especially when you're fighting.
09:43 Never let them all go.
09:46 Do everything in your power to keep them,
09:48 whatever it takes.
09:51 - Well, Patrick, got a visitor.
09:53 - I'm bursting.
10:04 I've been holding it all morning.
10:05 - What, excitement?
10:06 - You know what, I was thinking
10:09 it wouldn't be the worst thing if I was.
10:10 - No.
10:11 - All the things I missed out on when Bex was little.
10:14 Oh, I'm sorry, me and my big gob.
10:17 - Will you stop?
10:18 I'm absolutely fine, all right?
10:20 Honestly.
10:21 Oh, come on.
10:23 - All right.
10:24 (laughing)
10:25 - Oh, you haven't had my wine, mate.
10:26 - Oh, what do you mean?
10:27 Oh, all right, fine.
10:29 Enjoy your pee.
10:30 I'll be in the kitchen.
10:31 - Hey.
10:32 - Hurry up.
10:33 (door creaking)
10:36 - That's on his phone.
10:54 - These tests are a few minutes,
10:57 but they're always ready.
10:59 A little bit before.
11:00 - So come on then, who's the father?
11:02 (breathing heavily)
11:05 - Jay Brown and Ben Mitchell.
11:11 - Sorry, can you just give me two seconds?
11:13 - Hi, it's Ben.
11:20 Leave a message.
11:20 - Where are ya?
11:23 You said you'd be all right with me being her guardian,
11:24 but you clearly ain't, are ya?
11:25 And if I haven't got your back in,
11:26 I ain't gonna be able to do it.
11:28 (sighing)
11:32 - Look, I'm really sorry, but--
11:33 - Wait, so--
11:34 - Oh, nice of you to show up.
11:37 You know this ain't gonna be a formality?
11:39 - What?
11:40 - Well, apparently we've both got to sign a bit of paper
11:41 or it can't happen.
11:42 - Right.
11:43 And you're all right with that?
11:44 'Cause it's not too late to back out.
11:46 - Jay, Lexie needs you right now.
11:49 I need ya.
11:50 For me and you pairing in together,
11:51 I couldn't think of anything that would make me happier.
11:54 Come on, we're gonna do this, all right?
11:56 - Yeah, come on, Jay.
11:58 - Well, good luck, and let me know, okay?
12:01 - All right, thank you.
12:03 I'll speak to you, yeah?
12:04 - I saw you touching that Zak earlier.
12:12 Is it him?
12:13 I mean, he's a good-looking man.
12:14 - Their baby was due tomorrow.
12:16 I was comforting him.
12:18 Is that why you've been looking at my phone?
12:20 You thought I'd been having some sordid affair?
12:22 - I can't have kids.
12:23 I'm firing blanks.
12:26 So unless you're Woolford's answer to the Virgin Mary
12:28 and this is some sort of immaculate conception,
12:30 then it's not mine, which means...
12:33 So come on, who's the dad?
12:35 When you owe me that, at least.
12:38 - I'm not pregnant!
12:40 And for what it's worth, I'd never cheat on you.
12:45 - Here you go.
12:53 - Thank you, darling.
12:56 - All right.
12:56 (footsteps)
12:59 - Hey, Yolandi, I'm...
13:05 Come on, now, man, I'm way doing here.
13:08 - Anton.
13:20 You threw me out of the house.
13:24 - What?
13:27 Why?
13:28 - He found out.
13:30 - About us?
13:32 - Hold on a minute, hold on a minute.
13:38 Let me make sure I got this straight.
13:40 You two were doing a dirty behind your man's back?
13:43 I mean, what happened to romance, Bobbs?
13:46 - So what happened?
13:47 - He found this.
13:50 (laughing)
13:55 - School boy, ever!
13:57 - Sorry, look, if you're not all mine,
14:00 can I take a shower?
14:03 It was a long journey.
14:04 - Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
14:08 There's towels in the bathroom cupboard, yeah.
14:12 - Thank you.
14:13 - Thank you.
14:18 (footsteps)
14:20 - Why the hell would he think that?
14:28 - Because he's infertile, apparently.
14:31 So put two and two together and come up with 51.
14:34 (phone ringing)
14:36 - Sorry, it's fine.
14:38 (footsteps)
14:40 - Grace.
14:43 - I know she's here, I saw her coming.
14:46 - Sorry, son, I did try to tell him.
14:48 - Sonia, please.
14:50 - I need the loo.
14:51 And I'd like you gone when I'm back, thank you.
14:53 Just.
14:56 - Rhys, I think when she thought she was having your baby,
15:03 she was actually really happy.
15:06 - How do I make it up to her?
15:14 - Hey, come on, let's have a look at you then.
15:18 - You look a million dollars,
15:19 you must've got best dress, surely?
15:21 - So do I call you both dad now?
15:24 - You call us whatever you want.
15:27 - I think I'll stick with Jay.
15:27 - See, I'd like to say a few words, so you can sit down.
15:31 Can you make it quick then,
15:33 for that marketing spectrum on the cases, the nightmares.
15:36 I was in the gym earlier, I was doing a bit of boxing,
15:40 you see, and it made me think about a time
15:42 when we were kids and you gave me a bloody nose
15:44 when we were sparring.
15:46 No, 'cause dad and him, they wanted to toughen me up
15:48 before I went in the nick.
15:50 Wanted to make sure I could handle myself.
15:52 I was useless.
15:53 - Obviously.
15:54 - I couldn't lay a glove on him,
15:55 but I remember at the end he turned around
15:56 and he said that I was a good fighter.
15:59 I would have been all right in the nick,
16:00 and it was a draw, all a lie.
16:04 But that's the way it's always been.
16:07 You have always been there for me.
16:11 You are my best mate.
16:15 More than that, you're my brother.
16:17 And now officially a co-parent as well.
16:22 - Well, with Callum as well.
16:25 - Three men and a baby.
16:26 - I ain't no baby.
16:28 - No, too right.
16:29 More like you'd be looking after them, wouldn't you, mate?
16:31 - I'll tell you something.
16:33 This girl will be very, very happy today.
16:36 So I want to raise a glass to...
16:42 To future and family.
16:44 - Future and family.
16:45 - Future and family.
16:46 - Cheers.
16:47 - Cheers.
16:47 - Come and get it.
16:49 - Oh, look.
16:50 (men chattering)
16:53 - Yes, please.
16:54 - I'm all right.
16:55 - There we go.
16:58 - Thank you.
16:59 - You all right?
16:59 - How's he doing?
17:00 - Yeah, he seemed a bit off earlier,
17:02 but seems a lot better now.
17:04 - Why?
17:05 - Just checking on him.
17:08 Make sure he knows that you're there for him.
17:10 - I'm not sure.
17:11 (men chattering)
17:13 - So, can I stay for a while?
17:21 - I don't think that is such a good idea.
17:27 - Patrick, please, I don't have nowhere else to go.
17:30 But after everything that happened
17:35 between you and me in Birmingham-
17:37 - Yeah, well, Andy.
17:38 - I'm glad I remind you
17:39 that it was you who turned up out of the blue
17:41 and swept me off my feet.
17:43 - It was a bit of fun.
17:44 - Oh, fun.
17:46 - Yeah, man.
17:47 You said so yourself when you ended it.
17:49 - Oh, so this is revenge?
17:50 - What?
17:51 - Because I choose Antonov for you.
17:52 - No.
17:53 - You want to dig at me.
17:54 - No.
17:54 - No.
17:56 Anyway, you know what?
17:57 This was a bad mistake.
17:58 I shouldn't have come here.
17:59 - Where are you going?
18:00 - Your care.
18:02 - Of course I care.
18:02 - Well, you have a very strange way
18:04 of showing it, Mr. Truman.
18:05 - Yeah, Andy, you can stay.
18:07 - Take care of yourself.
18:09 - Do you want Andy?
18:10 - So all, like, the corners,
18:12 you have to get in this.
18:14 - I can get it.
18:15 - Excuse me.
18:16 - Sorry.
18:16 - True love, yeah?
18:23 Killer.
18:24 - I don't know how many more times
18:27 I need to tell you, Callum, I'm fine.
18:29 - Well, you weren't earlier, Ben.
18:30 And even honey's not a strange cell.
18:31 - Yeah, but it's just Lola and...
18:34 - Right, yeah.
18:36 Okay, all right, well, then talk to me.
18:38 - Yeah, later.
18:39 - Here you go.
18:43 You know, I don't do nothing for you.
18:46 I remember that, you know.
18:48 You sparring with Jay.
18:49 Thought you got banged up.
18:51 I don't say it often enough, but I'm proud of you.
18:56 - Why?
18:58 - Oh, it's, um, it doesn't matter what life throws at you,
19:01 you just dust yourself down and you go again, don't you?
19:03 If it'll do us a favor,
19:07 get another round in, will you?
19:08 - What's your last slave done of?
19:10 - Smacking them up.
19:11 - Jay, I forgot the cake.
19:14 - Ben.
19:14 - It's all right, it's only the house.
19:15 I'll be five minutes.
19:16 - Actually, do you know what?
19:17 I'm gonna come with you.
19:18 I need a bit of fresh air.
19:19 Is that all right?
19:20 - So, now you're officially my dad number two.
19:26 - Yeah.
19:27 - We have to establish roles.
19:29 - Roles?
19:30 - Well, one of you needs to be my dad, dad.
19:33 And the other needs to be the mom, dad type thing.
19:36 You're more girly than my real one,
19:38 so I think that should be you.
19:39 - What do you mean, I'm more girly?
19:41 - So, I'm 11 now,
19:43 and it ain't gonna be long until I start to become,
19:46 you know, a...
19:48 - A?
19:50 - A woman, Jay.
19:52 I'm gonna get my period soon.
19:54 Megan at school already got hers.
19:56 - Right.
19:58 - And when it happens, I'm gonna need pads,
20:02 painkillers, a hot water bottle, and loads of chocolate.
20:06 - All right, well, I think I can do that.
20:08 - Also, we need to talk bras.
20:11 - Ben, can I come in?
20:13 Can we talk?
20:13 - About what?
20:15 What have you just said to Callum?
20:16 - Just that I'm worried about you.
20:18 - Yeah, but I'm fine.
20:19 See, I think it's over the top,
20:26 but Jay insisted on a cake.
20:29 - Ben, I don't think you are fine.
20:35 (dog barking)
20:38 - Yeah.
20:39 You're right.
20:41 I mean, today's meant to be a happy day,
20:45 and I guess it's just another reminder that she's not here.
20:49 - I don't think it's about Lola either.
20:51 I've seen the cuts on your hands,
20:55 and all those red dots around your eyes,
20:58 they look like burst blood vessels when you've...
21:00 - When you've...
21:01 (wind blowing)
21:04 - So I saw your face earlier when the food came out.
21:08 It was the same as last week.
21:09 You couldn't get away from it quicker.
21:10 - I think you've had too much to drink.
21:12 - Well, I think I know the signs, Ben.
21:13 - I don't know what you're talking about,
21:14 and you need to stay out of my business, okay?
21:16 - I know what you're going through.
21:17 - What?
21:18 You know what?
21:20 I'm not you, honey.
21:21 I don't need help.
21:23 So just go back to your simple little life
21:28 with Billy and the kids, and leave me alone, okay?
21:32 (door opening)
21:34 - Right.
21:45 Right, sirloin, new potatoes,
21:50 veg marinated in garlic.
21:51 Oh, and a bottle of Sancerre in the fridge.
21:53 - I've already had my lunch.
21:54 - Right.
21:57 Okay, well,
22:00 you know, I can save it for dinner.
22:02 - It was so easy for you, wasn't it?
22:04 Just to assume that I cheated.
22:06 - 'Cause I'm--
22:07 - Firing blanks, yeah, I know.
22:09 You made us use condoms all the time as well.
22:10 What was that about?
22:12 - Well, safe sex, Sonia.
22:13 - Why did you get tested if you didn't want kids?
22:21 - What?
22:22 - Why did you get your sperm tested?
22:23 'Cause you must have done, right?
22:24 To find out you were infertile.
22:29 - You do want kids.
22:30 Just not with me.
22:33 - Ben, look,
22:47 forgive me if I'm wrong, okay?
22:51 But I think you might have an eating disorder.
22:55 (crickets chirping)
22:58 Do you remember my ex-boyfriend, Adam?
23:12 Good looking, successful.
23:14 When we went out together,
23:20 I'd see women, women I didn't even know, stare at us.
23:25 And they were thinking,
23:26 "How the hell did someone like her
23:28 "end up with someone like him?"
23:31 And do you know something, he knew it too.
23:36 Well, let me forget it.
23:39 That wasn't good enough for him.
23:41 Oh, and even though he slept with anything that moved,
23:45 I was the lucky one.
23:47 I should be grateful that he took pity on me
23:52 and was allowed to call myself his partner.
23:54 (chuckles)
23:56 But, gradually, it wore me down to nothing.
24:04 I was like a shell.
24:09 So the food and the purging,
24:17 that was the one thing I knew
24:20 I did have some sort of control of.
24:22 (footsteps thudding)
24:25 It destroyed me physically and mentally,
24:27 trying to hide it from all the people
24:29 that really cared about me, really loved me.
24:31 And sometimes, now, when the pressure is a bit too much,
24:39 the thoughts can still enter my mind,
24:42 but I know I have to fight it because,
24:45 well, I have to,
24:46 because the relief wouldn't last very long.
24:52 And you've been through a lot, Ben.
24:55 You have been through more in 27 years
24:58 than most people do in a lifetime.
25:00 And so all that trauma, you know, it does take its toll.
25:05 You need some help.
25:08 Please, Ben, open the door to me.
25:16 Let me help you.
25:17 (dog barking)
25:19 Listen,
25:36 okay, but if you do ever, ever want anyone to talk to,
25:45 please come and find me, yeah?
25:47 Remember that I'll be there for you, okay, no matter what.
26:12 (sniffling)
26:14 (glass shattering)
26:37 (crying)
26:39 (sniffling)
26:41 (crying)
26:43 (sniffling)
26:46 (crying)
26:57 (upbeat music)
27:05 - For details of organizations which offer advice
27:12 and support with eating disorders,
27:13 go online to the BBC Action Line website.
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