The Paper Lads season 2 episode 7
The Paper Lads season 2 episode 7
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00:30Come along with me, the night has opened up its eyes to see day.
00:44A thousand moving just as one, a feeling that's so certain
00:51that when this day is done, the paper light will
00:57come with the dawn casting light on the play, acting it out in our own special way,
01:03making our entrance and reading the lines, the story of people who live by the time.
01:27You've grown a bit. No. I've been away too long then.
01:45Six months, two weeks and three days. How many hours? I don't know.
01:52It's good to see you, lad.
01:55Hey, why aren't you at school?
01:57Come to see you.
02:00Why didn't Mervis come?
02:02We had an agreement.
02:04That must be history.
02:06I'm to come to meet you and then I'm going home tonight to the Pitchers.
02:08Why?
02:09To let you be with Mervis.
02:10On my first night here?
02:12You've got it worked out, the pair of you.
02:16How is she?
02:18Mervis, how is she?
02:20I don't know.
02:21Well, you live with her.
02:22No, you do.
02:23Ian.
02:24It's all right. I'm glad you're back, though.
02:28Aye.
02:33The dog, where's Ian?
02:34He'll be here in a minute, Mr Crawford. He's gone to the station to meet his dad.
02:37Is his dad coming back today?
02:39Well, that's what he's gone to the station for, stupid.
02:41Well, I didn't know, did I?
02:43Well, he's just told you.
02:44Well, he's late. I'll scalp him.
02:45Don't worry, he won't be.
02:46He already is, isn't he?
02:48Is he going out tonight, then, Mr Crawford?
02:50He is. He's taken many of the pictures,
02:52and he's not going to have any excuse to get out of it whatsoever,
02:55so come on, you lot, move!
03:00You're late.
03:01Sorry, Mr Crawford.
03:02If you must eat ice cream in the street, try and buy it here.
03:06My dad bought it for us.
03:07Oh, he's back, then?
03:08Aye, this afternoon.
03:09How is he?
03:10Fine.
03:11Mrs Crawford.
03:12Mm-hm?
03:13After I've done Newham, can I stay here?
03:15For what?
03:16I'm going to the Pitchers.
03:17Oh?
03:18Leave my dad with Mavis.
03:19Oh, well, that's nice of you.
03:21Can I?
03:22Why, of course you can.
03:23Which one's he going to?
03:24The Odeon.
03:25Oh, well, he can come with us, then.
03:27You're going to the Pitchers?
03:29Mm-hm.
03:30Has been known.
03:31Oh, well, I'm not going with him.
03:33Then I want to go with us.
03:35Not in the back room.
03:36I'll see what Gog's doing.
03:37Oh, suit yourself.
03:39Thanks all the same.
03:44Hey, Gog.
03:45What?
03:46What are you doing tonight?
03:47Why?
03:48Fancy going to the Pitchers?
03:49Nah.
03:50Aren't you going to be with your dad?
03:51No.
03:52Mavis Carter.
03:53Mavis Carter.
03:57Do you want to come back to our place?
03:59I've got this money.
04:00Oh, aye?
04:01And we're giving it.
04:02How much?
04:03£1.50.
04:05All right, you're on.
04:07What?
04:08I don't know.
04:09I think of something.
04:10How?
04:11Just spend it.
04:12We can't have good money lying around.
04:17Baz's back.
04:18Aye, he came flying in and out again in a hurry.
04:21Oh.
04:22Why?
04:23You had a loose end?
04:24No, not especially.
04:25Because Ian's looking for company tonight.
04:27Isn't he going to be at home?
04:28With his dad just back, like.
04:30Apparently not.
04:31That Mavis Carter, I think she'll...
04:33You think she'll what?
04:35Well, he is...
04:36I mean, she's not even one of the family.
04:38Oh, she's nice enough, though, is Mavis.
04:41And she's been good to Ian,
04:44even though he doesn't see it.
04:45Good to him?
04:46It's not her fault she's not married.
04:48Well, what are you sticking up for her for?
04:50Somebody's got to.
04:52She's got Ian's dad, hasn't she?
04:54Aye.
04:55How do I start all this?
04:57Oh, Ian.
04:59He'll be going with Garg.
05:01Well, you can go too.
05:03I get sick of men's company sometimes.
05:09Don't know.
05:11Don't know.
05:12After Mum died, he was...
05:14Well, we both were...
05:15Of course, he was only little.
05:17It was four and a half years ago.
05:19Of course, she knew, like, she'd been in hospital
05:21and she was quite ill.
05:23Do you want a chip? I've got some.
05:25I've got too many.
05:27Told you.
05:28I'll eat them.
05:30I don't know how he met Mavis.
05:32I knew he was seeing someone before he let on to me,
05:34but I don't know how he met her.
05:36Who looked after you?
05:38Went into care for a bit, then she moved in.
05:40Must have been better than care.
05:41You don't live with her.
05:43Did she hit you?
05:45No.
05:46We fight.
05:47What, real fighting?
05:48Oh, aye.
05:49Could you see Mavis caught her wrestling?
05:50Some women do.
05:51Not Mavis.
05:52No.
05:53We must wipe our feet and we must be in on time
05:55and we mustn't do this and we must do that.
05:57All of them are like that.
05:59Their mothers, anyway.
06:01Yes, but...
06:03she's not me mam.
06:05I'd have eaten them.
06:07You've had enough.
06:08Let the fishes have a go.
06:09What, fish and chips?
06:12I suppose he thought it was for the best,
06:14with you being in care and that.
06:16I mean, he wouldn't want you to stop in care, would he?
06:21Do you hate her?
06:22She's not me mam.
06:24I know that.
06:25Well, then.
06:26Your mam's dead.
06:28Sorry.
06:30No, you're right.
06:32Though I don't know what it means.
06:34How?
06:35I know she's not here anymore, but I don't know what it means.
06:38Just that she's dead?
06:40Aye.
06:42I suppose they love each other.
06:44Who?
06:45Dad and her.
06:48Do you miss her, then?
06:49Your mam?
06:50I don't know.
06:51But I don't think you can go and change her out to somebody else.
06:54Maybe you can.
06:56As well as.
06:57Not instead, but as well as, you know.
06:59Oh, I don't know.
07:00What does she think of you?
07:02Don't know.
07:03We never speak to each other.
07:05Well, how do you know you hate her if you never speak to her?
07:10Come on, we'd better go.
07:21How will he get in?
07:22Through the door, of course.
07:23I do live there.
07:27He's not that old, your dad.
07:30I suppose he needs someone.
07:32Yeah, but Mavis can't.
07:34Bleurgh!
07:43That you, Jack?
07:45No, it's me, Mavis.
07:47Eee, Mavis! That's funny.
07:49Do you know, I was just thinking about you.
07:51Oh?
07:52Ah, you know, with Stan being back.
07:54How is he?
07:55He's very well.
07:56Mm-hm.
07:57Er, not disturbing you, am I?
07:59No, love, no.
08:02Are you all right?
08:03Yes, I'm fine.
08:05Mm-hm.
08:06Eee, well, I'm going to put the kettle on.
08:09You'd like a coffee?
08:10Mm-hm.
08:14That'll not take more than a minute.
08:17He's, er, asked me to marry him.
08:20Stan?
08:21Who else?
08:23Eee, that's great news.
08:25Eee, I'm really glad, Mavis.
08:29Now, what are you looking so long-faced about?
08:32It'll never work, Ginny.
08:34Not with Ian. I know that now.
08:36Well, I've always known it, really.
08:39It'll not work.
08:41It's up to Stan, isn't it?
08:43Stan?
08:44He suggested I tell him.
08:46Aye?
08:47Well, I'm not going to.
08:51Why are you telling me all this?
08:54Oh, no.
08:56No, it's not for me to tell Ian.
08:58It's for his dad.
09:00Well, I thought maybe...
09:01I mean, you're that close to him.
09:03I am not.
09:05I'm not that close.
09:09You know something, pet?
09:11The trouble is partly that you treat him like a child.
09:14And he's not.
09:16You've got to handle him like you handle Stan.
09:20He's a bright lad.
09:22Caring lad.
09:24If he could see you now,
09:26I don't think he'd stand in your way.
09:31So, I'm to tell him.
09:33Did Stan send you here?
09:36Ginny, the last thing he wants to do is to hurt his son.
09:40What with Hilda's death, Ian's been through a lot.
09:44I come second, you know.
09:46I mean, I don't mind that.
09:48I know it's right.
09:49It is not right.
09:51I keep telling you he's not a child any more.
09:54Parents only last for so long, you know.
09:57Any minute now and he'll not be wanting neither you or Stan.
10:06I made you a coffee.
10:08Shouldn't you be at school?
10:10On a Saturday.
10:11Oh, I... I forgot.
10:13I heard you go out early, I thought.
10:15Paper earned.
10:16You still do it?
10:17Course.
10:18What you looking at?
10:21Dry land.
10:26How long you back for?
10:27Oh, I'm not really sure.
10:29Couple of months, I think.
10:30And where you going next time?
10:32North Atlantic run, I think.
10:34They're fitting out at the moment.
10:36Might take longer.
10:38Mavis still out?
10:40Yeah.
10:48We're going to get married?
10:50Who?
10:52Why?
10:53She wants it.
10:54And you?
10:55I want it, too.
10:56For both of us.
10:58For all three of us.
11:00It's not fair on her, man.
11:02What with her neighbours...
11:03Hey, where you off?
11:04Out!
11:20I said, why?
11:41It's probably Nout.
11:42I told them.
11:46About us.
11:48Ah, he's probably got things to do, you know, Saturday mornings,
11:52meeting in the coffee bars.
11:54They still have coffee bars.
11:57I remember there used to be one called the Two Feet.
12:00Oh, well, we used to meet there.
12:05I'm going, Stan.
12:06I'm not coming between you two no more.
12:09I've had enough!
12:11And the next time you see your son, you can tell him he's won.
12:17MUSIC PLAYS
12:20DOOR SLAMS
12:21MUSIC CONTINUES
12:23Nip it.
12:32Haven't you got a home to go to?
12:34What do you want here?
12:35I want to get my sketchpad from the back, Mr Crawford.
12:38Go on, then.
12:47What a mess.
12:48I remember once you and me had a bargain.
12:51You were going to keep this place tidy.
12:53Yeah.
12:54Well?
12:55Have you seen my sketchpad?
12:58Where had you put it?
13:00I don't know. I haven't used it for a bit.
13:04Are you all right, pet?
13:05Yes.
13:08Mrs Crawford? Mm-hm?
13:11Once you've been made before, you can't get back into church again, can you?
13:14Yes, I think you can.
13:16I mean, we were. You weren't mad before.
13:18Mr Crawford was, like your dad.
13:20Yeah.
13:21Oh, well, I'll have to buy us another sketchpad, then.
13:24Ian?
13:25What?
13:26Are you going to tell us?
13:31You already know, don't you?
13:34Got a good idea.
13:35They're going to get wed, Mavis and me darl.
13:37Soon? I don't know.
13:39You'll have to start thinking about a present.
13:41A present? Well, you'll be chief guest.
13:44Closest to them, you know.
13:48How did you know, anyway?
13:49HE CHUCKLES
13:50It's been on the cards for quite a while.
13:53And they had been living together, you know.
13:55What stopped them?
13:57Mavis, it was you.
13:58Me? Oh, Ian, you've never given her a chance.
14:02Flippin' H! What are the rest of them going to think when I suddenly go into a wedding?
14:06Well, you don't need to tell them.
14:07Oh, look, you must be joking.
14:09Is that all that's worrying you?
14:12No, but it'll do for a start.
14:14Ian!
14:15What?
14:16While you're here, will you give us a hand down with these boxes?
14:19I'm going out. Oh, go on.
14:22Be a sport, eh?
14:28Right.
14:39Hello, Mrs...
14:41Miss... Miss Carton.
14:44Oh, you're, um, Ian's friend.
14:46Gog.
14:48I'd change that name if I were you.
14:50It's not my real one. Is Ian in?
14:53I don't know. He wasn't going to come out, but they were a while back.
14:57What time is it, anyway?
14:58Dunno. Maybe three.
15:01In the afternoon.
15:03Are you all right?
15:05Yes.
15:07He's maybe gone to the shop.
15:09I wouldn't be a bit surprised.
15:11Oh, well. Try them, Mavis.
15:17Goodbye...
15:19Gog.
15:25Ian. Your dad's here.
15:27Oh.
15:28You couldn't let us know where you were.
15:30Sorry.
15:31Hello, Stan. You'll not remember me, but...
15:33Hi. Ginny.
15:35You look like you always did.
15:37Well, there's a few grey hairs up here, you know.
15:39Well, how are you?
15:41Not so bad.
15:42Just back.
15:43Ginny.
15:44Uh-huh. Oh, yes, I'm coming.
15:47Ely, there's one thing about a business.
15:49There's never a dull moment.
15:51I'm sorry if you were looking for him, but it was a chance too good to miss.
15:54Do you know, I've got this place cleared in a quarter of the time with his help.
15:58What's he on, then? Time and a half?
16:00You Armstrongs are very alike.
16:06What?
16:08I don't know where you were.
16:09You should have asked Mavis.
16:11She went out.
16:12When?
16:13Shortly after you.
16:14Where?
16:16I don't know.
16:20Did you have a laugh?
16:22Well, if we did, it was a bloody short one.
16:26When are you getting married, then?
16:28No idea.
16:33She says she won't now.
16:35You want a roll-up?
16:37Oh, forget it.
16:39What are you going to do?
16:43I don't know, son.
16:47I don't think I'm very good at all this, do you?
16:49No.
16:56Do you still miss your mum?
16:58Sometimes.
16:59I don't think about it often.
17:01Just sometimes.
17:02You?
17:03Oh, aye.
17:04Poor Mavis.
17:06Why?
17:07She doesn't stand a chance, does she?
17:11Do you really not like her?
17:13You're not at all?
17:15I don't know.
17:16She nags a bit.
17:18What do you want to get married for again, anyway?
17:20Aye, I think it's about time I settled down, don't you?
17:23What, and didn't go away to sea?
17:25Oh, you'd never get a job.
17:27I've had one offered.
17:29Mind, I haven't told all you.
17:31Oh?
17:32Parts here in the garage.
17:33Here in Newcastle?
17:34Mm-hm.
17:35And you take it?
17:37I don't know.
17:40You get used to the sea, man.
17:43But it's a young man's game, innit?
17:45You're not that old.
17:47Oh?
17:48Are you sending us away now?
17:50No.
17:51You know where it'd be better, you know?
17:53For Mavis.
17:55Aye.
17:56Do you want a cup of coffee?
17:58Are you allowed to?
17:59Of course, I work here.
18:02Huh?
18:06DOORBELL RINGS
18:11You're early.
18:12I've not come to work yet. I'm looking for Ian.
18:14Oh, he's out the back.
18:16Hang on a minute, he's got his dad with him.
18:19I've just seen Mavis Carter.
18:21Where?
18:22Down by the river.
18:24What was she doing?
18:26Sitting.
18:28And?
18:30She'd been crying if you ask me.
18:36No, Mavis.
18:38What are you doing here?
18:40Just walking.
18:41Get away.
18:44Your friend tell you where it was?
18:46No.
18:48Yeah.
18:51What do you want?
18:53To say I'm sorry.
18:55For what?
18:56I don't know.
18:58Did she tell you we're here?
19:00Aye.
19:02Did your da know we're here?
19:04Aye. He went in the shop, came looking for us.
19:07He didn't come looking for me.
19:09Well, it was easier to come looking for me.
19:11I mean, you could have been anywhere, couldn't you?
19:16You'd better marry him.
19:18Why?
19:19He wants you to.
19:21He's got a funny way of showing it.
19:23You should do it quick if I were you.
19:25Why?
19:26Before he changes his mind.
19:28Well, thanks very much.
19:30I doubt it'll work, Ian.
19:32Because of us.
19:33We've gone all right, really, for the past two years.
19:35Just be the same. Just have to change your name, that's all.
19:38So what's the point of getting married?
19:40You're so keen on it.
19:42I want to belong somewhere, Ian.
19:44I don't want to be Miss Carter for the rest of my life.
19:47I want to have his children. Have you thought of that?
19:49Aye.
19:52Sometimes when he goes away, I think he'll never come back.
19:56Then I remember he will because of you.
19:59I want him to come back because of me.
20:01Better still if he didn't go away altogether.
20:04Eh?
20:05Oh, I didn't say that.
20:09What's in your book?
20:10Sketches.
20:11Can I look?
20:18These are really good, Ian.
20:22That one's like a French Impressionist.
20:24What do you know about it, anyway?
20:26I'm not just a pretty face, you know.
20:30Come on.
20:31Where to?
20:32Home. I've got an evening round to do, man.
20:45I don't know. He just went off then.
20:47He did?
20:48Aye.
20:49To see Mavis?
20:50Apparently like.
20:51And what did his dad do?
20:52He said he was going home.
20:53What do you reckon?
20:54Shut up, you two. Watch it.
20:56Well, it's got nothing to do with us, has it?
20:58Well, he can't help being interested, Baz.
21:00Besides, Gogs, well, you're his best friend, aren't you?
21:03I don't know.
21:05Do you think she'll wear a wedding dress?
21:07We don't know it's that.
21:08Of course it is.
21:09What?
21:10Mavis Carter in a white dress.
21:12Mavis Carter?
21:15Honestly, you two, you don't even know Mavis Carter.
21:18Well, we can still talk about her, can't we?
21:20All right, you three, stop the chat.
21:22If Ian isn't in in five minutes,
21:24I'll want one of you to do his round for him.
21:26Oh, heck, we're stretched as it is, Mrs Crawford.
21:29It's always the women who are the worst in an industrial dispute.
21:33I do think we should stick together, though, don't you?
21:36I'll do his round for him.
21:38It will not be my fault if the papers are late.
21:40You know what they're like.
21:41Everything all right?
21:42How?
21:43With Ian?
21:44Oh, you can ask him yourself, can't you?
21:46Oh.
21:47What?
21:48You're late again.
21:49Sorry.
21:50No-one's going to do your round for you.
21:52Go away, Gog, you were...
21:54All right.
21:55All right.
21:56Have you been arranging already?
21:58Yeah, I told you.
21:59Shut up.
22:00All right.
22:01Going to be best man?
22:02You'll have to have a haircut, then.
22:04Who's getting married?
22:05Oh, as if she didn't know.
22:07My da?
22:08No.
22:09Who to, Ian?
22:10Mavis Carter.
22:11Mavis Carter.
22:13Listen, she may be Mavis Carter,
22:15but she's going to be Mavis Armstrong.
22:17That makes all the difference, right?
22:20Well, are you lot going to deliver papers tonight, or are you not?
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