About Time Page #8
Really? Yes.
Okay, thanks.
God.
Where's Posy?
I left her downstairs.
Not leaving the door open to the
room with the manuscript in it?
I don't think so.
Look at me. Look me in
And talk me through this.
Basically my life is over.
I really need to go out for just
like two minutes, maybe one.
Don't you dare!
Don't you dare answer that!
What am I gonna do?
I think that we should
really answer the phone.
?f you answer
the goddamn phone,
I will kill you with the phone.
I won't answer the phone,
but I do need to get out.
No, no getting out,
no getting out. No.
Okay, right.
Sorry, Mr McEwan.
We read most of your book but,
you see, the rest of it was
coloured on or shredded.
Yeah.
I had no idea Posy
actually knew how to use
that machine.
In a way that's impressive.
What is it? How can I help you?
Mary.
No, everything... Sorry.
Your son will explain.
?t's your mother.
Hi, Mum.
No, no, it's okay. We'll...
We'll come straight down.
Okay, bye.
Hello, darling.
Mum. How are you?
Honestly?
Why not?
I am f***ing furious.
I am so uninterested in
a life without your father.
Mary. Come on,
let's make some tea.
How are you?
Yeah, I'm fine.
Did you eat?
Yes, of course.
Desmond.
How are you?
I'm very well, thanks.
Though a little hot.
Your father,
I think, is not so well.
Cancer.
Yes.
I'm very unhappy about it, Tim.
At your wedding
he said he loved me.
He does. I know.
That was
the best day of my life.
So this is probably the worst.
Dad.
For God's sake.
Not you, too.
What?
Well, Kit Kat's just rolled up blubbing
her eyes out and now you're here.
What's Mum been saying?
The truth.
Yeah, well,
apart from that?
?t may have been the
smoking but I couldn't
undo that as it was
before you were all born.
And anyway, your mother definitely
wouldn't have gone out with me
if I hadn't been
such a sexy smoker.
I did get diagnosed as soon as
possible, but it was too late.
How long have we got?
You know, it, it could be years.
How long really?
Weeks, I'm afraid.
Have we had this
conversation before?
Yeah.
What happened?
I hugged you.
Sorry.
I think I just thought
with the time thing...
No, I never said
we could fix things.
I specifically never said that.
Life's a mixed bag,
no matter who you are.
Look at Jesus.
He was the Son of God,
for God's sake, and look
how that turned out.
I know, but
you must see
I feel a bit cheated.
Don't. In fact,
feel the opposite.
The only people who
give up work at 50
are the time travellers
with cancer who want
to play more table tennis
with their sons.
Right.
So that's been the deal?
I'm sorry we had to call.
It's suddenly got very bad.
And I have something very
important to tell you.
Or, let me check,
do you want to
know the big secret,
out for yourself like I did?
Christ,
there's another secret?
Less dramatic.
Much more important.
The real mothership.
No, go on. Tell me.
Let's save some time.
And so he told me his
secret formula for happiness.
Part one of the two part plan
was that I should just get on
with ordinary life,
living it day by day,
like anyone else.
This is our current statement with a
revised paragraph there, highlighted.
Rupert. Rupert, is that
the best you can do?
No. Absolutely not.
We can change that.
ltem number two.
Good afternoon, sir. Are you
eating in or taking away today?
Take away, please.
Yeah? No problem.
Lovely, that's 4.24 then, please, sir.
Thank you kindly.
Lovely. And there's your change, sir.
76 pence change.
Thanks. Thank you. Hello there.
Are you eating in
or taking away?
Do you find the Defendant, John
Welbeck, guilty or not guilty of fraud?
Not guilty.
And that is the verdict of you all? Yes.
Thank you. You may be seated.
Thank God.
Let the Defendant
be discharged.
Be upstanding in court.
Lights out? Yeah.
Tough day.
But then came
part two of Dad's plan.
He told me to live every day
again almost exactly the same.
The first time with all the
tensions and worries that
stop us noticing how
sweet the world can be,
but the second time noticing.
Okay, Dad.
Let's give it a go.
What's our statement
at the moment?
This is it with the revised...
Robert, this does not pass.
Is this the best you can do?
I'll leave you two
to thrash this out.
Ooh.
Good afternoon, sir.
Good afternoon.
Are you eating in or taking away today?
Take away, please.
Would you like a bag?
That's fine.
Lovely. That's 6.23 then, please.
And enjoy the rest of your day.
Thank you. Bye-bye.
Hello, there.
Look around you! What?
?sn't this room beautiful?
Yeah.
Come on.
Not guilty.
Fantastic!
So not such
a bad day after all?
No. it was pretty good really.
Very good day, actually,
as it turns out.
Well, that's a relief,
because if it had
been a very bad day,
I thought I might have had to have
had sex with you to make up for it.
Goodnight.
?t was a very, very bad day.
?t went very, very badly.
I got fired from my job.
And then I killed a man.
That is a very bad day.
?t's terrible. Yeah.
Like the worst day ever.
So sorry.
Some days, of course, though,
you only want to go through once.
You okay?
Right, are we ready for this?
'Course we're not. Hateful day.
Just give me one minute.
This is so brilliant.
Dickens is so good on
actual jokes, actual gags.
Where have you come from?
?t's the...
Okay.
Big day.
Thanks for dropping in.
How's Uncle Desmond's suit?
?mmaculate.
Excellent.
Did I mention I wanted
the Nick Cave track?
?t's taken care of.
Thank you.
Can I just read
you this one bit?
Read away,
I've got lots of time.
?'l think the Romans
must have aggravated
?'one another very
much with their noses.
?'Perhaps they became the restless
people they were in consequence.
?'Anyhow, Mr Wopsle's Roman
nose so aggravated me...?'
What do you
think about the kids?
What about them?
Not many of them, are there?
What?
Well, I mean two?
?t's more than
the Chinese are allowed.
I just thought
that maybe, you know,
it was time for
the insurance baby.
What?
In case one of them
is really smart,
we don't want the other one to
And if we had a third one, then
we could have two happy dummies.
What do you think?
It was the toughest
decision of my life.
Saying 'yes' to
the future meant
saying 'goodbye'
to my dad. Forever.
Why don't we wait a bit?
Absolutely.
You're right. Yeah.
How about now?
Or now?
Now?
Yeah,
okay.
Really?
Dad always wished
there had been more of us.
So...
Anyway, we might try
and nothing happens.
Exactly.
Really could be tonight.
And you cannot believe
the detail in which
I know the route
to the hospital.
Yay.
Will you excuse me for a sec?
Just have to go downstairs.
and it's 17-20 in
this incredibly tight contest
being played by
the two most physically
perfect players in
the history of the game.
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