This programme contains strong language
THEY SHOUT JUBILANTLY
PUNTERS WHOOPING
# I hear silence
# I hear silence in my heart...
INDISTINCT CHATTER
No more bets.
# Turn your back and run from me... #
Hiya. Are we good?
It stinks of perfume now!
Thanks! Your wife's going to kill ya!
LAUGHTER
SHE SIGHS, SNIFFLES
INDISTINCT STREET NOISE
BIRDS CALLING OVERHEAD
SHE BREATHES HEAVILY
Argh!
SHE SOBS
PANTING
Are you OK?
Y... Er...
Dropped the keys.
Sorry.
Are you sure?
Yeah... I'm fine. Honest. Great.
Honest to God.
I've got kids.
SHE FORCES A LAUGH
Sorry.
And I'm all right.
I need to... No, yeah. Of course. Sorry.
CAR DOOR SLAMS
ENGINE STARTS
SHE EXHALES DEEPLY
MUSIC: This Is The Day by The The
# Well, you didn't wake up this morning cos you didn't go to bed
# You were watching the whites of your eyes turn red
# The calendar on your wall was ticking the days off
# You've been reading some old letters
# You smile and think how much you've changed
# All the money in the world
# Couldn't buy back those days... #
HE SPLUTTERS
# You pull back the curtains
# And the sun burns into your eyes
# You watch a plane flying across the clear blue sky
# This is the day your life will surely change
# This is the day when things fall into place
# You could have done anything if you wanted... #
PHONE PINGS
# And all your friends and family think that you're lucky
# But the side of you they'll never see
# Is when you're left alone with your memories...
# ..that hold your life together like glue. #
All right?
Yeah, sound.
You? Laughing.
Have you got it?
I nearly had it but, um... I didn't...
It's more that you didn't ring me.
Yeah... I'm out of order... Too fucking right you're out of order!
I'm going to have to give it a dig. No, you don't have to.
Are you going to pay me?
Then, I'll have to give it a dig.
Pain in the arse, this, starting my day off like this.
I've got Dupuytren's contracture.
If I don't give you a dig, other people start taking the piss.
I'll tell 'em. Yeah. What you say and what you do...
Oh, yeah. Fair enough.
What happened to that five bags you said you had last week?
Oh...
Get in.
Shit.
Come on.
Fuck off.
Fuck off!
LOUD KICKS
Every couple of days.
You'll have to sort your life out, you know, lad.
Anyway, er...
..I need...
Don't you dare drop your head.
Cos if I hit the top of your skull and I hurt this hand again...
LOUD THUMP
Argh!
Agh...argh.
Get the water on it.
Ah-ah-ah.
You ducked, you twat!
I didn't, I didn't.
Shut up!
Where are you going with your life, Matty?
Do you have a mate? I don't want to have to keep
knocking fuck out of you every other week.
I'll get your money. No, you won't.
I've been thinking. You're never going to get
the sixteen-and-a-half. Sixteen-and-a-half grand!
Fuck me.
It may well come to that, Matthew.
Anyhow, I think there's a way out of this for you.
Yeah? Yeah.
Go on, then. What? I want you to mind something for me. No. Yeah.
No. Yes. I can't get involved with drugs.
You can and you will. I can't do that, Paul.
Please, mate. You know my mum, for one thing.
I can't have coke in the house.
What if the bizzies... I...I wouldn't last two minutes in prison.
You do... I can't, I can't. Matty. No! Matty, you just have to mind it.
When the lads come to yours, get what they need.
I'll knock 100 off your debt. No, I'm an addict.
I'm in recovery. You'll end up
in recovery if you don't shut the fuck up.
I've got an addictive personality. If I have gear in the house...
What if I fall off the wagon and start having a toot?
Then what? Then what? I'll fucking kill you.
So, don't.
I'll get the bag out the boot, sort you out a phone.
No, no. I need to think.
Oh!
Outside with that.
Thought you'd gone home. Forgot something.
She's smoking in the corridor.
Yeah, but, I mean, it's not my job.
ELECTRONIC BEEPS
WHISPERS: Oh, quick. Come on.
WHISPERS: I'll do you.
Outside with that.
Ey.
What's with the bottle?
A door punched me. Did you go home last night?
Er, well, I slept in my office.
You should go home. What? Says you. I'm paid to be here.
What's your excuse?
I got to crack on. Good luck.
You all right, lad? What happened to your grid?
Not now, Alan. What happened to you?
Um... Just a, er...
..a door. A door knob.
Are you really getting your head down in the office?
Why is everyone so interested in where I'm sleeping?
PRINTER WHIRS
KEY TURNS IN DOOR
Shit.
ELECTRONIC BEEPS
DISTANT VOICES
PRINTER WHIRS
What are you doing here?
What are YOU doing here?
That's 14.
Hit me.
Are you sure you don't want nothing?
I asked for bacon, they gave me sausage.
Oh, God. Give it here.
Yeah, please. Two sugars.
I hate sausage. It's just teeth and testicles.
Teeth?
That's the worst thing I just said.
How much have you taken?
Matty? What?
I said, how much have you robbed? Don't say robbed.
Well, what is it, then?
Don't know, just... Not robbed, though.
Just...don't say that.
Er, last week I had...
..I don't know, like, a couple of hundred, maybe? I don't...
..I don't keep check. You don't know how much?
Wait, you just take it? I balance the books and I...
I don't remember.
Are you lying? No! I spend it and I forget.
What'd you buy?
Er, I don't really... I don't really buy, as such.
I just sort of...
Like, it goes and I...that's...
I gamble a bit.
A bit.
What about you? About a grand.
A grand?
Shush.
What, a grand, though? Even after a big pay-out?
It was a busy night, there was plenty in there.
But a grand, though! Yes. Jesus!
I'm not proud. I don't want to take it.
Fuck's sake, Leanne.
Do you have a system when you're taking it?
Matthew?
LEANNE'S VOICE FADES
Matty.
Matty! HAND SLAPS THE TABLE
Yes, yes, Leanne. Look, do you have a system?
No, I just...like...
When I'm sure, I'll just dip it.
EXCITED LAUGHTER
Fucking knew that was due.
Mwah!
MEN LAUGH
What? I didn't say anything.
Oh, you're too chaotic. What?
You're not thinking it through. It's not a Rubik's cube, Lee.
It's just...it's a bit of robbing, isn't it?
That's what we've been calling it, robbing?
Look, we have to stop.
We have to stop, Matty. I mean it.
Look, if I go to prison, my kids...
Not going prison. I mean it.
I fucking mean it. That's twice tonight,
people talking about prison. I ain't going prison.
Well, the way you're doing it, you are.
The way you're doing it, the thing...
..the way you're doing it, we both are.
We have to stop, Matty.
So we stop.
Yeah. Yeah.
It's the stuff off the floor.
What?
The abattoir sausages. It's the stuff off the floor.
No, it isn't. Yeah, it is.
My mate told me. He works in one. Mick the Meat.
Mick the Meat? Yeah, his car stinks of meat.
Yeah, well, it would.
People always get caught in the end, Lee.
Yeah.
VAN DOOR UNLOCKS
PHONE RINGS
Yeah, yeah.
You all right, lad?
Them shitbags behaving themselves?
Yeah. Yeah. All sound, so all's good.
Listen, now, sitting around baby-sitting a load of scallies,
spending your money all night, it's doing me head in.
I feel like a dope.
You feel like a dope because you are a dope,
you...fucking dope.
So do what you're doing and be grateful for what you're doing.
HE HANGS UP
Dickhead.
DIAL TONE
DOOR UNLOCKS
STAIR CREAKS
DOOR CREAKS
HE WHISPERS: Robbing bastards.
I knew it.
Ah, f...
Fuck's sake.
Like a baby elephant on them stairs. You were always the same.
Jesus Christ, Mother, you scared the life out of me there.
What were you doing in your father's office?
I was looking for something. At this time of the morning?
When did anyone ever sleep in this house, eh?
What were you looking for?
Figures.
Figures. You know, I was checking the books from our casino.
Do you really want to know?
Nanna!
CAT MEOWS
Nanna. Nanna, love.
Hello, love.
What are you doing? I was getting the milk in.
He hasn't been.
Come on.
He's late. Yeah.
I'll have nothing for our Sharon's breakfast.
She'll have to have a jam tart.
Maybe a French fancy.
What about the cat?
No, no, no.
That cat belongs to the neighbours. You haven't got a cat.
Ruby!
Cup of tea? No, no, you sit down.
Here you go, Nanna. I'll get that.
INDISTINCT VOICES UPSTAIRS
Custard cream for Sharon. No, no, no. You sit down.
Sharon's dead, Nanna.
Sharon? Yeah.
My Sharon? Yeah. Dead?
18 months ago. You forget.
We're supposed to remind you.
I don't know why.
Look, you just... You get confused.
It's me age. Yeah.
I know.
Look.
Wah.
Here you go, look.
You've got the box.
Oh...
Right. What's your favourite?
Did you know her?
Yeah. I'm Leanne.
She was my mum.
Leanne?
I'm on my own now.
No, you're not.
I'll look after you.
DISTANT VOICES
Ruby!
All right, I'm coming! Give me a minute.
FOOTSTEPS THUMP ON STAIRS
Nanna was outside again.
Did you leave the door unlocked?
Ruby?
I'm 12. It shouldn't be my problem.
Sorry.
You got a cob on again? Shut up, you.
I should be getting her breakfast.
No, stay there, Nanna. You all right, Nanna?
Hey, where's your uniform? I gave you the letter.
What? Charity.
Oh. You never told me.
I don't have to wear it. Save the planet or something.
Has he been? I don't remember a letter.
Did you leave the keys in the door? Nope.
Well, someone did. Weren't me.
Look, we need to make sure that Nanna doesn't get out.
Idiot. She could have froze to death.
It's June. She's old.
I'm 65.
Oh, you're 81.
I'll make sure the door is locked.
Thanks. Toast is burning. Oh!
LEANNE GROANS
Can I have £20, please? What? What for?
Charity. I told you.
There's, uh...
..i-in my coat.
Nice one, Mum. See yous later, OK?
Has somebody fed the cat?
Oh, God.
Leanne.
Here, darling.
Leanne.
Yeah!
PHONE RINGS
Hey, listen, before, listen... I am grateful. I'm just...
Fuck off. We're nine grand down this month,
so sack every one of them scally pricks
because they can't be trusted.
The money we're laundering over them tables
isn't showing up in the casino bank deposits,
so some fucker's robbing.
Sack them, OK?
Every one of them gone.
What about our Neil? I can't sack him. He's family.
Our Shirley'll kill me.
OK, well, he can stay. Just him.
If you can't trust family...
HE COUNTS UNDER HIS BREATH
All right? I was putting your money through.
It's not my money. It's your daughter's.
Yeah, obviously. Yeah. Sorry. I was putting her money through.
All of it? Absolutely.
All right, Matt?
MUTTERS: Oh, come on.
320.
320?
320's not all of it.
Well, it's all I've got.
1,100 is all of it, Matty.
1,100 into my bank account, too.
Not in shitty fivers and tenners.
Well, I'm wiped.
Honest, it's all I have.
She's your daughter.
Yeah, I know. I'm sorry.
Do you want to see her?
I'll make her late for school, so...
MAN: All right?
DOG BARKS
Yeah, I need to go.
He's gone.
Don't want your last 20.
Please sort yourself out, Matty. You look awful.
Oh, yeah, cheers! I mean it.
She loves you so much.
Please try.
Work and that.
I'm just so tired all the time.
You lying rat!
You've got money.
He's got money!
You sly rat! You've got money!
No, it's for my bills.
Please stop... I am working all hours
and you are taking food out of your daughter's mouth
and wasting it on horses and... No, I'm not.
It's not mine. I'm not lying! It's for my bills.
What are you waving for, dickhead?
CAR ENGINE STARTS
Oh, yeah. Very nice!
This is classic.
Fuck's sake.
Go inside!
DOG BARKS
MUFFLED VOICES
DOOR BANGS
FROM INSIDE FLAT: Kendo, door!
You all right?
Terry said I could knock on.
RAP MUSIC PLAYS IN BACKGROUND
The fuck are you looking at?
PAPER RUSTLES
Sit down, lad.
Got a lighter?
No.
Well, how you going to smoke weed, then, dickhead?
Shit, man.
Thanks.
PHONE DIALS
BANGING
What? Open the door, dickhead!
INTERCOM BUZZES
TV PLAYS IN BACKGROUND
Leave that. Look at me.
I'm shattered, lad.
Focus. No, I know, yeah.
I just...
Heavy night.
And I haven't had my tablets, either.
Focus, lad. Focus. Look at me.
Everyone else is being sacked.
What? Why? We need someone to help you.
Were they robbing?
According to Gary, yeah. So, they're all gone.
We need someone we can trust.
What about me ma? Would she work with us?
Our Shirley? Are you having a laugh?
I want people who WON'T rob.
What about her?
Who is she? My fiancee.
How long have you known her?
About...two months.
Six months, dickhead.
Hey.
Can you count?
Mm.
OK. Yeah. Yeah.
The pair of yous, listen in.
Pay attention. This is how it works.
We use taxis to bang out the gear, all round the city.
We sell the coke, we get the money.
Like, LOTS of money.
Could you help me out?
Too much money.
More money than we can launder through the taxi books
without it looking shady.
So, we launder it through the books of the...
MUMBLES: I don't know.
..the casino.
And that's where you come in.
You play the tables, you spend the money,
you lose the money.
It goes in their bank clean.
And my boss, your boss, can do whatever he wants with it.
What if I lose?
You're meant to lose. But you're supposed to win.
We don't want you to win.
Well, but casinos, like... You're supposed to win, aren't you?
How many fucking times do I have to tell you?
You're supposed to lose, you fucking dope.
Hmm.
We launder the money through the casino.
It goes in dirty, and it comes out clean.
Well, then, why don't we just bet it all in one go?
Like, why do we have to keep playing all night?
It'll take hours. I'll get tired.
Because we don't want to attract attention! Jesus!
The woman who owns the place doesn't know.
And the staff who work there don't know.
And most of all, the taxman doesn't know.
We bet little and often until it all goes away.
Is she special needs?
Don't think so.
All right, from the top.
Hiya, Nanna.
He hasn't been yet.
Postman gave me this.
It's another one from the hospital.
Go to bed. You look shattered.
Thanks, Kel.
Come on, Nanna.
SHE SIGHS
Oh...
SHE SNIFFLES
# Our sanctuary's broken
# We had it all
# Our sanctuary's broken
# We had it all
# Our sanctuary's broken
# We had it all
# Our sanctuary's broken... #
Thought you were asleep.
Have we got any wrapping paper?
What do you want wrapping paper for? Have we got any?
It's bad for the environment.
Since when did you care about the environment?
Since the road by the bus stop started flooding.
That's the drains, Mum.
So, we haven't got any wrapping paper?
SHE OPENS A DRAWER
Thank you.
Here y'are.
Oh. Cheers.
SHE CLOSES THE DRAWER
If I can't see you, I won't want you.
If anyone looks, they won't know.
SHE MUTTERS IN HER SLEEP
SHE GASPS
Oh, fucking hell.
Oh, God.
CAT MEOWS
CAT PURRS
Danny?
Uh...
Yeah.
What are you doing? Looking for my shoes.
Your shoes aren't going to be here. Yeah, no...
Your shoes aren't going to be here
because I kicked you out six months ago. I know.
Kicked you out because we finished seeing each other.
So, why am I seeing you right now in my bedroom?
Who let you in?
Your nan.
I think she thinks I'm the milkman.
I'd better be going, then. Yeah.
You better had.
Hey, what have you got there? My shoes, I told you.
Shit. No, Danny!
No, please! Danny, no!
No! Oh, shit!
Oh, shit! Dan!
Fuck! Danny!
No! No, Danny, please!
I need it! Danny!
Danny, don't!
No, Danny, please!
Please! It's for me kids!
ENGINE STARTS
Danny, no!
No! No!
SHE SOBS
SHE SCREAMS
Fuck!
SHE GROANS
Lee?
What's going on? Who's that?
Are you all right?
Lee? Where's my keys?
I need my keys. He's robbed my money.
Who? Danny. Danny, your ex, Danny?
No, Daniel O' Fucking Donnell, Kelly!
Of course my ex Danny! Where are my keys?
Well, how much?
£34,000.
34 grand?!
Oh, I feel sick.
Jesus, Leanne. How?
SHE SOBS
LOUD KNOCKING
Police! Open the door!
Shit, lads! Shit!
What the fuck have you done?
Grass!
You're fucking done, lad. You're getting it now, lad.
JUMBLED SHOUTING
Come in here, quickly.
I didn't... No!
Give me what you've got.
Now!
Chuck it.
Thank you.
Oh, my God!
Thank God you're here.
Thank you.
ALARM BEEPS
HE COUGHS
What are you looking for under there?
HE GROANS
Monsters.
How did you get in?
Great to see you, too.
HE COUGHS
Depeche Mode, 12 inch, New Life.
I wish.
Vince Clarke.
Before he ran off with Moyet.
I liked them better after he went.
They got miserable.
Well, there's nothing wrong with miserable.
HE GROANS
HE SIGHS
How's school? Cliche.
I'm doing my best. No, you're not.
We're doing the Black Death. I've got to write about
the socioeconomic impact of the plague on serfdom.
Do you know anything about it?
I know what it's like to be a serf.
Go on, then.
It made them better off, the serfs.
They were suddenly in demand because...
There was no-one to work the land.
So, people had to pay them what they were worth,
else their turnips didn't get dug up.
You did know.
Yeah, I was just seeing if you did.
What's with the wrapping paper?
Um...
It's a, uh...
HE COUGHS
It's a present for other staff.
Christmas paper?
Secret Santa. It's June.
Come early.
You looked sad before,
outside Mum's.
You looked sad.
That's cos I was with your mum.
Dad!
I'm sound, babe.
Honest, I am.
Listen, I've got to go and see a man about a dog in a minute.
You go make us a cup of tea, babe, while I go and have a wee, please.
HE SIGHS
Thank you.
DOOR OPENS AND CLOSES
TOILET FLUSHES
Where's Emily?
Hmm? Emily.
She must have gone, love.
Oh!
Oh...
PHONE DIALS
This is Danny's phone. Leave a message, you muppet.
BEEP
Please listen. I...I need that money.
I need it for a deposit on a house. Just give me it back.
This is Danny's phone.
Leave a message, you muppet.
BEEP
That money is for me kids. Will you just call me?!
This is Danny's phone.
BEEP
Danny, you can't hide forever, do you hear me?
BEEP
Danny, will you fucking ring me now?!
PHONE DIALS
Leave a message, you muppet.
BEEP
Right, I'm ringing the bizzies.
This is Danny's phone.
BEEP
Do you think I won't ring the bizzies? Cos I will.
This is Danny's phone.
Leave a message, you muppet.
BEEP
Don't make me do it, Danny.
BEEP
Danny, I swear to God.
This is Danny's phone.
Leave a message, you muppet.
BEEP
Danny, I am going to ring you and ring you and ring you
until you answer, do you hear me?
You can't hide. Give me it back.
Leanne Chappel?
Yeah. Thanks.
Stop. Don't...
Argh!
One of my kids with a social worker!
Like I don't have enough on my plate without worrying
what a stranger's thinking! I work every night battling to
keep this family together. They're not charging me with anything.
Hi. Hiya.
Who are you? Paige. I was with Thomas today.
In the drug den? He went there to save me.
Thomas didn't want me to go to the flat.
He said that it wasn't safe and that I shouldn't hang out there,
but I went anyway.
He only went there to get me away from them.
It's my fault he was there when the police turned up.
Why didn't you say?
How old are you? 17.
How are you getting home? My mum's coming for me.
All right, then. Well, OK. Thanks.
Thanks for letting me know he was doing the right thing.
I'd give you a lift, but I've got to get to work.
Honestly, she'll be right here. Come on, then. I'm going to be late.
We can drop him. My mum don't mind,
and she'll literally be two minutes away.
Plus, she'll want to thank him.
LEANNE SIGHS
Are you OK with that?
Yeah. You sure? Absolutely.
All right. Come here.
I've got to get to work. But I'll bell you later.
Let your mum know I said thank you. I will.
Thanks for that.
It's fine. I'll get us an Uber.
Sound.
MUSIC: Stripped by Depeche Mode
PHONE DIALS
Hi, this is Emily. Leave a message after the tone.
I'll call you back.
BEEP
Emily, it's Dad. It's not what you think it is.
Please give me a call back.
# Let me see you stripped
# Down to the bone... #
ECHOING LAUGHTER
# Let me see you stripped
# Down to the bone
# Metropolis
# Has nothing on this
# You're breathing in fumes
# I taste when we kiss
# Take my hand
# Come back to the land
# Where everything's ours
# For a few hours
# Let me see you stripped
# Down to the bone
# Let me see you stripped
# Down to the bone... #
You OK? 11 grand.
What's up?
Get us a gallon of oil out the back
and drop it off at Deano's on the way out for us, will you?
Yeah. Ta, lad.
SOBBING
Did you get it?
Yeah, but...
..did you get it?
Yeah.
Sound.
See you, then.
JAUNTY PIANO MUSIC
# I'm scared of the things I think of
# When night comes along
# Something gets hold of me
# Something... #
I've been covering the cage. Do you want me to stay on?
No. I'm fine, thanks.
# Oh, it's a wicked world... #
..nothing today. Tell Irina.
# Oh
# I need
# Somebody to hold me... #
OK. Call Tony.
BOTH: I need to speak to you.
I'm fucked. So am I.
I know we said that we wouldn't... I know we said that,
but my ex just cleaned me out. He's robbed me.
I don't think I can get it back, but I need it. I need it really badly.
It was for a house. When Nanna goes into care,
the council won't let me have the house,
and she's got dementia, and I love her, and...
The kids, we're going to be kicked out on the street, Matty.
In a bed and breakfast, homeless. Can you imagine?
They've got school. Our Ruby's at that age, and I...
I just can't.
I'm just skint.
Meet me at the safe.
# Oh
# It's a wicked world
# Awaits the ones
# Our young girls bear
# Oh
# I need somebody to hold me
# In the fading light
# Of this coming night
# In the fading light
# Of this coming night... #
There's no way we'll get caught.
Absolutely no way on Earth.
# In the fading light
# Of this coming night
# In the fading light
# This is the night. #