Jamie.
[music playing]
Jamie!
I think you owe us, Jamie.
Morning, Victoria.
Morning.
Tea?
Uh, yes, please.
Listen, darling, why don't you stay here and relax and sort it
out with Tony next week, hmm?
Relax?
Well, just a thought.
I'm sorry, I have to go back.
I don't tear somebody's head off about this, I'm going insane.
Such a civilized place, Oxford.
[dog growling and barking]
Bloody, I thought it was running for me.
[laughter]
Well, if you're going to insist on pulling
frauds to help this company.
Dad-- a wingsy minor fraudlet.
Half a million pounds.
I wish I'd seen the [inaudible]..
[car horn]
Was that--
Lunchbox.
Yeah.
Terrific sense of humor.
He's going to need it.
Good morning, Madam Stollman.
You out, Lunchbox?
Where's the spark plugs?
It's chaos here.
No organization.
How am I supposed to nick anything?
What are you whining for? Top left.
Got them. [inaudible]
Again?
Deal with it.
It would be cheaper for him to buy a new bloody car.
Who's complaining?
Hello.
Wouldn't it be easier if I came in?
I ascribe shagging.
The British hate the fuss.
If you keep it up for long enough,
they're bound to give in.
Sorry?
Tony Stanhope, using Tori's research.
Oh, you're going to see each other today?
Wrong questions, you would say.
The course of true love--
Closed for road works--
permanently.
I'll phone this afternoon, after I've
spoken to Professor Garfitt.
Good luck [inaudible].
Thanks.
Eagerness.
That's what I admire about you, Stephen
I'm psyching myself up for Fitchford.
Today's the inquisitions swoops on the accounts department.
I wonder what Peter will feel about that?
Craig's Law, rule number one, never tell Fitchford anything.
Then he can't argue about it.
Busy today, Peter?
What's that?
Today, I thought we'd go through the accounts for
the past five years together.
Then get Lorraine to put them on that.
Proper invoicing, stock control, cash flow, et cetera.
The usual.
Starting today.
Why wasn't I told?
Because I didn't want to worry you.
There's a word for this, son.
Accounting, sir.
And my brother said, no, silly.
It's a paperweight.
Oh, Mr. Crane, this came for you yesterday.
We go there every year.
You pay a bit more.
But the food's worth it.
And they always remember your name.
And they don't switch the lights off and sing happy birthday.
Marcus, you bastard.
Happy birthday, Lorraine.
Stephen, I've sorted out a desk for you.
And I hope you'll be comfortable.
What's the matter, Robert, don't you trust me?
I trust everyone.
It's pathetic risking our jobs for a bit of pocket money.
And prison, Gerald.
You forgot prison.
Look, stop panicking.
I just need a day to sort the invoices out.
And Crane isn't actually expecting to find anything.
So he won't.
We haven't got a day.
It's not exactly [inaudible],, is it Gerald?
Look, I don't care, lads.
I'm out.
No.
You're in.
All we've got to do is stay calm.
All right?
And find ourselves a bit of time.
ROBERT: Well, you could have told us earlier, Peter.
I'm sorry, Robert.
I'd hoped we wouldn't have to.
As it is, we only need about 30,000.
But we do need it now.
I thought you were speaking to the bank last week.
That's so vague.
ROBERT: Well, I must say I'm not optimistic
about another overdraft.
Mr. Bailey and I had words the last time we met.
Perfect.
That's today down the toilet.
I've made an appointment for this morning.
It took a bit of doing.
But they managed to make room for us.
Smashing.
All right.
Well, give us a call when you're ready to go.
That's all right Mr. Fitchford,
you just stay here and do whatever you do.
Well, if you don't mind, there's a fair amount
to get through here all right.
Forgive me asking, but are you mad?
I mean, how many Sonyas do you think there are in the village?
No, no, no.
Forget it.
But just let me call you in the future.
All right.
What?
When?
All right.
I'll be there.
All right.
Yeah.
Of course I do.
Young people today.
No patience.
It's very good of you to see us on such short notice, Mr.
Bailey.
Yes.
There comes a time in the life of every business--
How much?
30 grand for two months.
I thought.
I thought I'd discussed such an arrangement with Mr. Fitchford
on the phone last week.
No?
Obviously some wires crossed here.
I'll just have a word with my--
I think you'll find I've already sanctioned the relevant loan
for this particular account.
I'm sure you're right.
Then why are you here?
I wanted to meet you, Mr. Bailey.
And what a pleasure it's been.
What a waste of time.
Has Fitchford ever shown any unusual symptoms?
Glazed eyes, trembling hands, sexual advances
towards furniture?
It's most unlike Peter.
[inaudible] as a retirement present.
So I suppose we were lucky to see Bailey so quickly.
I don't think ours ideas of lucky are common, Robert.
Stephen, do you think you could
find it in you to be a little bit more patient with Peter?
You know, I don't think he likes me.
Well, he probably feels threatened.
Just give him time.
Will you?
This [inaudible] house, put them on my desk.
This is stolen and fetch.
That's all.
I bet he suspects.
Doubt it.
Just routine.
One clear day is all I need to make the books sweet.
Meantime, just mess up the rest.
Well, any ideas?
No.
Don't have ideas.
Jamie, we didn't ask you to borrow six months pay.
No.
We didn't ask you to gamble it all down the [inaudible]..
That's true.
We didn't ask you to desert.
He wasn't running away from you.
All right.
All we're saying is you should have
made a few more arrangements.
Yeah, well, that's me all over, isn't it, really?
Careless with details.
5,000 of them.
The bread of deceit is sweet to man.
But afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.
So the facts remain depressingly familiar.
We've [inaudible] to get our money back.
And in three days, Jamie, we'll be deserters like you.
You owe us.
You're broke.
So are we.
Your dad isn't.
Nature abhors a vacuum.
My dad.
Oh, he must've made a startling impression on you two.
Kind, tolerant, liberal, enlightened.
Sort of man who thinks nothing of forking out
for other people's gambling.
Hello, son.
How are you?
I haven't seen you since you were trying
to push your head through the wall the night
you killed your mother.
And you need five grand.
Bit of bad luck on the [inaudible]..
Of course, son.
American Express?
Oh, dear.
All's well that ends well.
Fancy a pint.
Just a [inaudible].
All right.
Let's get on with it.
Well, that was quick.
Get on with what?
The accounts.
Well, I think there might be a bit of a problem.
What?
Without milk?
No sugar?
There was a temp in recently to help after the fire.
And everything is in a bit of a mess.
It'll take us a while to sort it out I reckon.
You have just wasted my entire morning at the bank.
Now you tell me--
It's not the end of the world, sonny.
What?
The whole thing is a waste of time anyway.
What's the matter with you?
You've been behaving like a cretin ever since I got here.
Might not be as quick as some, but--
What are we paying you for?
You can't even keep a file.
Sorry, it's not my fault.
Well, whose is it?
Roger Rabbit?
Can I be honest with you Mr. Fitchford?
I've been wondering that myself.
You are systematically wasting my time, Mr. Fitchford.
It's making it jolly difficult for you and me to be friends.
You--
Stephen.
All right.
I've just got to go to London to kill somebody this afternoon.
And there's no point in me staying here now.
See you later.
No patience.
Young people.
Yes, I understand your point of view.
You're saying he's pinched your research.
Well, I must say I taught Tony as an undergraduate.
I do find it difficult to believe in the first instance--
He's not an undergraduate anymore.
No indeed as you say.
Are you interested in my opinion?
Or do you just want someone to shout at?
Both, frankly.
You'll have a devil's own job proving
it one way or the other.
You'll drag him and yourself through the mud.
You'll smear the department doing it.
And under the present [inaudible]
with their predilection for abolishing grants,
you'll get no thanks for that.
Now, Victoria, you're a fine student with a potentially
brilliant future.
One has to take a long term view.
If I understand your proposition,
you are suggesting that I sacrifice two years of my work
to a failing academic in order to save
the department's reputation.
That is a willful misrepresentation
of what I just said.
I see.
Well, what did you mean?
Stubbornness is the intellectual prerogative
of donkeys and boars, Victoria.
Don't disappoint me.
I've got an idea.
Double or quits?
JAMIE: Close.
Go on.
JAMIE: It's October soon.
Popular month for weddings.
And birthdays.
I'll be 21.
And?
And I come into 20% of Douglas Motors.
You know how much that's worth?
No.
That's what we'll toss for.
I get heads.
What do you say?
All or nothing?
20% of nothing is nothing.
We are running out of time.
Silent.
Both of you.
We're off to your dads.
Now.
We've got to be back in France tomorrow.
My guy stays with her.
Soon.
What?
We'll go soon.
I want to talk to Lucy first.
Do you trust me?
Listen.
Don't you leave me with him.
Do you trust me?
I don't know why.
Whatever happens today, don't worry.
All right?
What's going to happen today?
Whatever happens, they won't hurt you.
They won't hurt a girl.
Not honorable.
What do you mean?
Whatever harms, please Jamie.
I'm not going back to my father with them.
What are you going to do then?
Something else.
Come on, then.
Got any jigsaws?
Hello.
Don't touch me.
What was that phone call about yesterday?
You are going to give me a credit for that paper.
It doesn't work like that.
I collected the samples.
I gave you the project.
Tony.
I am entitled.
To nothing.
Are you interested in the work or just getting the credit?
Has someone put you up to this?
What?
The white boy in the suit perhaps?
I give you due warning, Tony.
You give me credit for what is mine,
or I will drag both of us kicking and screaming
through every tribunal.
Oh, can't say, Victoria.
What's the point?
Wouldn't get you anywhere.
I don't care.
I have carried you academically and emotionally for five years.
And that's all right.
But I will not be betrayed.
I am running very, very low on nobility.
Now listen carefully, Marcus.
You ever, ever send me a fax like that at work again
and you are dead meat.
It was a joke.
The money you owe me is a tax free slush fund.
And now that the news that I conned Blake to keep them
afloat has arrived down at Douglas Motors,
I am trying to keep squeaky clean for a week.
For a change you mean.
Well, forget it, [inaudible].
You don't help.
Give us the cash.
Look, I gave it to Jo.
She said she'd be seeing you before I did.
And when you didn't bother answering the fax--
You did what?
Jo?
Jo that won't talk to me Jo?
Jo that hates me Jo?
Oh, god.
Jo that loathes and despises me.
And you handed her my life savings?
Oh, god.
Are you by any chance free tonight?
Cheap, but not free.
That's a great deal of money.
What a pity it isn't mine.
Not necessarily.
Possession is 10 tenths of the law.
Every time I come back to England there's
less things that work properly.
Trains, phones, buses.
I blame the parents.
Here.
I hope your dad's got that sort of money lying around.
Yeah, he can get it from the factory in petty cash.
Did you talk about the money when you were there?
No.
You know you seem to be a down to earth sort of person.
Afternoon.
Hello.
I know I came in here for something.
But it just slipped right out of my mind.
My wife will kill me.
She's out.
Pardon?
Sonya.
Oh.
Boo!
Sonya, this is ridiculous.
It's got to stop.
I know.
We have to go away.
Don't we?
What is happening to this country.
Jimmy.
There was chanting at Lourdes last year.
Chanting.
Holy on natural pursuit cricket.
And on the question of unnatural pursuits,
how progresses our campaign with the fair Joanna Franklyn?
We're going out to dinner again tonight.
Piers.
Piers, do I detect a certain reluctance to expand?
Not at all.
Dear heart, a word of admonition from your confessor.
Never confuse the initiative for survival
with the pursuit of happiness.
It can only end in tears.
Yes, Jimmy, really only meant say that I haven't--
Hm?
That there's been no significant change
in our relationship.
No matter.
Cometh the hour.
Cometh the man.
Of course she's very charming.
How singularly unlike our father.
I confess, I am beginning to find
his company rather tiresome.
This ghastly imbroglio with hopeless motors
and Stephen Crane.
But of course you love it.
Of course.
But winning is the thing, dear boy.
Great deal of money at stake here.
Reputations.
One must keep Crane away from Franklyn.
Ergo, one must keep Crane away from Franklyn's daughter.
Perhaps Franklyn will lose interest.
I fear his fascination for motor vehicles
and the lure of an under performing asset
will sustain his frenzy for the foreseeable future.
Hello, Willie.
Don't you Willie me, you bastard.
Well, sir, was Jimmy very cross about his lights?
Bastard can't even remember my name.
Oh, he's was terrible with names, Jimmy.
And people.
People and names.
Can I- Can I use your phone, Willie?
No.
[phone ringing]
James Blake's office.
Yes, she's just gone in to see Mr. Blake.
Can I take a message?
Mr. Goodfellow.
Stephen, what are you up to?
Ackerman and Phelps confidential.
Touching upon precisely with this matter.
I know you'll forgive me for reminding you
of the paramount importance of confidentiality
in all our dealings with--
Meaning keep away from Stephen.
Well, it's none of your business, Jimmy.
But I have absolutely nothing to do with him now.
Excuse me, Jo, there's a Mr. Goodfellow
in reception for you.
Very urgent.
Tell him I'm in a meeting.
He said if you said you weren't in a meeting,
he'd come up.
All right.
Like Macbeth in Dunsinane, young Crane grows isolated.
Soon we shall reach into Douglas Motors
and placard its rotten heart.
I sometimes think somebody up there likes me.
You what?
Crane disappearing off to London like that.
Get back to work.
I'm off to do some proper work.
You missed the fun.
I'll join you later.
Bring some cake.
Where are you going?
I thought I'd nip off a bit early today.
I'll make it up tomorrow.
You're really taken a piss, you are.
Oh, come on.
Don't tell me you ain't got off early before.
Things are changing.
You want to watch it.
Or?
Or you'll shock me.
Is that right, [inaudible]?
Oh, Robert will be tickled.
Won't he.
Of course he wouldn't care that you knew about this for ages
without telling him.
And you reckon your personal ties with the management
that stands you in good stead.
You want watch yourself for next union election mate.
All right, lads?
Piss off, Gavin.
First, I'd like to know why you
slammed the phone down on me.
And why you assume I'm trying to jump Victoria Douglas?
Then I want my money back.
You live in the same house together.
I find you in restaurants together.
I catch you in pubs together.
I hear of you and [inaudible] together.
Why the hell should I assume you like her?
What money? - Jo.
You owe me. You bastard.
- Yeah? - Yeah.
Yeah?
Yes.
Every time you come near something appalling
happens to me.
Go on.
Then name two things.
Go on.
In the five months I've known you, you have blackmailed me
naked in a corridor, dragged me into two massive frauds,
wrecked my relationship with my father,
got me sacked from a lucrative job, stolen my phone,
blown up my car, and thrown cold pudding down my buffers
in a restaurant.
Apart from that.
All I want is my car back.
And we can call it quits, and we don't
have to see each other again.
All right.
And the money?
Wait here.
Didn't the doctor tell you to slow down?
Yes.
And I shall do exactly that when I have a spare moment.
Don't worry, Peter.
The doctors give me these.
And I spend a large part of my working life in the laboratory.
But I should make three score and 10.
I don't mean to go on about Stephen Crane.
But how long do you reckon he's going to be here?
The shorter sentence as he can get away with I imagine.
With time off for good behavior.
I wonder what your father would have made of him.
I think--
I think he would've strung him up ceremonially
from the bucking pole.
Just for denting his own leopard.
My father would never compromise on quality, Peter.
And neither will I. Now, which is why I got Stephen in.
He's an absolutely genius, devious, and cunning rascal
I could find.
And if that's what it takes, that's what it'll get.
All right.
What's up?
Did you really mean what you said about not seeing me again?
Yes.
No.
I know I'm not worth it.
I take you for granted.
I'm never there when you need me.
I always expect you to be there when I need help.
I don't how you put up with it for so long.
You're better off without me.
I know that inside.
It's just--
Yes?
I'm sorry.
It just seems like all the wheels
have fallen off at the moment.
Heaving Douglas Motors out of the toilet
when they hate me for doing it.
Pretending to be a consultant when my own life
is the most spectacular mess.
And then there's you.
And then as if that isn't enough--
What?
My shoelace just snapped.
I'm sorry.
Forget it, Dex.
Can I keep your car, Jo?
No.
Well, how I'm going to get back?
And don't call me Dex.
I can recommend public transport.
Recommend it?
You can't even remember it.
It will take hours, Jo.
Stephen, let's give it a rest for a while.
Why?
He's gone.
What?
He's done a runner.
Oh terrific, Ade.
Well done.
Take you hands of me.
You got any more good ideas?
Oh, yeah. Yeah.
I know.
Well, maybe we should go camping in his old man's garden
until Jamie comes to his funeral.
Shut up.
Lucy, where did he go?
I'm talking to you?
Do you know what I once saw?
I once saw a man bite a girl's nose off.
OK, Adrian, this is what we do.
Bloody buses only go every two hours.
What do you need me for?
You'll help us present our case so to speak.
Do you want know what I think?
No.
I think you'd wasting your time.
You heard what Jamie said about his dad.
But what about the prodigal son?
The thing about the prodigal son, he actually went home.
Didn't he?
I don't remember a bunch of his mates
turning up with [inaudible].
How about it, mate?
Teeth are talking.
What do they say?
They say Nick [inaudible].
I see why he joined the Legion.
Many happy returns.
Robert, can you do me a small favor?
Is it legal?
Robert.
[inaudible].
Cheers.
I was just wondering if you could put this package
in the safe for me.
Stolen presumably?
Of course.
It is the repayment of a personal loan between friends.
Believe that, you'll believe anything.
Well, I'll say it is not the safest place in the world.
We don't usually keep real sums of money on the premises.
Well, we never see any.
That's all right.
Sorry about losing my temper earlier.
However.
You're right.
Everything's going to be all right.
Well, when we got rid of all the unskilled workers.
What?
Robert, Peter, Gavin.
Lunchbox.
Oh, we'd miss his sense of humor.
Where is he?
Near the booze.
He bumped off early to do one of his car repairs.
Again?
They've been putting in a bid for this place, sir.
Back in a minute.
He's had it coming.
Excuse me, mate.
You couldn't service my car?
Well, I haven't got your wife, [inaudible],,
but we're a bit-- uh--
Oh.
Just a bit of work in me spare time.
You know?
Enterprise economy and all that.
Why?
What was wrong with it?
Nothing.
Except it's not just your spare time.
Is it?
I wouldn't normally mind.
But you see, you're a pain in the ass.
You're right.
Well, sorry.
Won't happen again.
Just it was a bit of a rush job.
Yellow card tool box.
Gosh.
Shit.
Go on, then!
Go on!
Get the bloody filth.
Get your prize [inaudible],, Douglas, go on!
Lunchbox, you've got no idea.
Have you?
This is the bit where we do the deal.
The next stage is?
Departmental committee to listen to my case.
What do they do it they think you've got that?
Well, it's a bit late now to stop Tony publishing my work.
But I could get a credit for it.
Still seems hard to believe.
I know Tony is not everybody's cup of tea.
But always struck me as being an amiable chap.
Dad, you're a hopeless judge of character.
Yes, I think I probably am.
What's on your mind?
Jamie.
He jumps into my mind from time to time.
- Dad. - I know.
He isn't.
I know.
It's just a little flurry of excitement.
Bit of hope.
At least I know he's still alive.
The party really is over, Gerald.
You've got a minute.
Goodnight, everybody.
And goodnight, Peter.
Can't stop now.
Yes, you can.
See.
Excuse me a minute.
Tony, what a surprise.
Look, Toy, I want to talk to you.
Toy?
Why did you do it, Peter?
Few years back, we had a bit of a rough patch.
We all of us had to work too hard
to keep the company's head above water.
A lot of worry.
Killed old man Douglas.
I made a mistake in the bookkeeping.
A bad one.
I was so tired.
I lost track of a payment for some seat leather.
Didn't dare tell Robert.
He had so much on his plate.
He needed confidence in the people around him.
When I found the money later, I kept it.
Keep the money once and you go on keeping it.
Gerald and Lunchbox?
Oh, they found out what was going on.
They wanted in.
I had no choice.
What happens now?
I'm afraid you ought to resign.
Stay for a while.
Supervise Lunchbox and Gerald putting their stuff
back into the system.
Then hand it over.
Robert doesn't need to know where you're going.
Look a bit funny though. Won't it?
Three of us going all of the sudden like that.
Gerald and Lunchbox are skilled workers.
Worth their weight in gold.
Especially now they aren't nicking it at the same time.
And of course Gerald is one of the union boys.
He'll be useful in your pocket.
Yep.
Can you smell it?
I can smell it.
What?
What are you doing here?
Looking for a drinking partner.
What are you still doing here?
Oh, I'm just thinking about things.
Peter Fitchford handed in his resignation today.
Why?
I haven't the faintest idea.
God.
He's been here ages.
Since before you were born.
I'm sorry.
It's all right.
Just getting old.
Like me, I suppose.
Nobody gets to like you.
No.
Still, We're over the worst.
Hello, Gavin.
It's Lucy.
Jamie's girlfriend.
But I'm terribly sorry to bother you.
We're looking for Mr. Douglas.
There's no answer at his door.
He should be back by now.
I'll give him a call.
You sure that's no trouble?
No.
You want to come in and wait?
Thank you.
These are my pals.
Right.
I insist you buy me a drink.
How did it go today?
Grim.
[inaudible].
You're only young once.
And that was a long time ago.
What's the book you're reading?
"U-Pb Zircon Dating of Granitoid
Plutons from the West Coast Province
of Peninsula Malaysia."
Oh, Yeah.
I read that one last week.
Drags a bit in the middle.
Dad.
Can't think where he is.
Sometimes pops in the bell for a quick pint on his way home.
More tea, anyone?
Lovely.
Oh, yes, I met them.
Piper and--
McCarthy.
So how long have you got?
I don't know.
No long.
Day or so.
The police?
They can always give the Legion
my address and my real name.
They'll always be someone.
Extradition.
And these Arabs are after you.
They're not the problem.
No?
Look, can't we buy you out?
Yes.
But--
But we don't appear to have much choice.
Do we?
90,000 francs to buy three years of the service.
That's about 9,000 pounds sterling.
Jamie, I just don't have that kind of money here.
I mean, tomorrow the bank.
You don't.
Dad, please.
They've got to go back tonight.
It's my last chance to sort things out.
We don't keep money in the safe.
It just seem like a good idea at the time.
Bloke from home.
Went into the city.
Where I come from, there are no tracks
left to come the wrong side of.
Are your parents still there?
In a manner of speaking.
Oh, you're so secretive, Stephen.
Who told you that?
You had good home?
You know it is.
Oh, deprived childhood.
Childhood?
It's a different world here.
Different values.
Forgive me, Stephen.
Can't you get rid of them?
I enjoy their company.
That's him.
Stay here, dad.
It's better.
5,000 dead on.
Sorry about earlier.
Wanted to come alone.
Are you coming with us?
No.
[inaudible]
Goodbye, Jamie.
All right?
I'm as well as can be expected in the circumstances.
Sorry about all of that.
Adrian, give Lucy a lift back with you.
I'll be in touch.
I need other time now.
OK, Jamie.