Chicken Page #4

No.

Oi!

Um...

He told me that you'd left,

and I... was just coming

to see if he was okay.

Yeah.

Could you tell him

I came, please?

Yeah, well, here I am.

Boom.

I just wanted to see

if he was okay.

Hey, listen.

Let me ask you something.

Do you like him?

Yes.

Like something attracted

you to him as a friend.

You like him?

It's just life, innit?

I mean, to something bad.

It's noth... It's not that bad.

It's just bad luck...

and I, um...

I need to get moving...

and keep moving...

until it goes quiet.

And now...

now is my chance.

I don't want him messed up

with me, not anymore.

I got to burn

the f***ing bridge.

Listen.

When I go...

I'm asking you...

don't let him follow me.

- Okay.

- Promise me.

- Promise.

- Cross your heart.

- I promise. I have to go now.

- Cross your heart!

Um. Okay. I cross my heart.

Pity.

Because we were f***ing

born wrong, both of us.

But...

you like him.

He's lucky.

Yeah.

He's lucky.

All right, little man.

- [grunting]

- Oi! Oi!

- I hate you!

- Whoa, whoa! Oi, stop it!

Whoa! Hey, whoa!

- [screams]

- [Polly] Stop it!

[Polly] Stop!

F***ing stop it!

- [Annabell] Stop!

- [Polly] Don't!

[Annabell] Stop!

Listen, you go for me again and

I will break your f***ing head!

- Stop it!

- [Richard whimpers]

Okay?

[Richard] Polly, let go.

Please get off. Please get off.

Please, come on.

- [Polly] No.

- Please go!

- [Polly] No!

- You said you're sorry.

[Polly] Okay, listen.

It's not so easy...

- as that. Okay?

- [Richard whimpers]

- [Richard sobs] Let go.

- It's not so easy as that.

- [Richard] Come on.

- [Polly] Okay?

- [Richard screams] It is!

- No, listen. No, it ain't.

- It is easy!

- Listen!

Listen, we got a problem!

We got a problem!

They don't want you!

Yeah? They don't want you!

And who can blame them, right?

- [Richard sobs]

- Shh!

- No.

- Shh.

- Listen.

- No!

- Shh. Shush!

- [Richard] Get off me!

Shush! Listen, listen,

listen, little man.

Little man, I've got something.

I've got something.

Okay?

And it's time for me to move on.

No, no, no! You said.

- Yeah.

- No!

- No, listen.

- No, you said!

Please stay with me!

Shush a little! Listen!

You'll be okay.

She'll help you!

She will help you!

- Please! No, she won't. Please!

- Yes, she will.

Okay, listen! Listen.

Be a f***ing grown-up!

Be a man!

Be a man! Be a man!

Okay?

Look. Look.

My... No, no,

listen, listen, listen, listen.

My time is up.

- [Richard] It isn't!

- I can't... I cannot...

- I cannot do it anymore.

- [Richard sobs]

My time... My time is up.

I've done my share.

- No, no...

- I have. I'm done! I'm done!

- I've done my share.

- No, please, no, no, no!

- Okay? It's time.

- [Richard] No!

No! Please! You can't leave me!

We're family!

[Polly] Family didn't stop

your dad topping himself.

[sobs]

- Get off me!

- Richard, wait!

- Where you going? Wait, Polly!

- Come on, man!

- You're breaking my heart!

- Please, Polly! Please!

- Richard, stop your sh*t!

- Please!

- Please, Polly! Don't do this!

- No! I've done my share!

- Where am I going to go, Polly?

- Try your c*nt of a mom.

Don't say that, Polly!

Don't say that!

[Polly] You keep struggling,

I'll f***ing break you!

- No! Don't hurt him.

- [Polly] F*** off!

[Richard whimpering]

You listen here, boy. Okay?

You listen.

- Please get off me.

- Your mom was a c*nt.

- No, she wasn't.

- You want to know?

You want to know?

Your mom was a f***ing monster!

- Stop it! Polly!

- [Polly] She was!

Listen to me for once

in your f***ing life!

Just listen to me!

Yeah, every night

she'd drink herself raw

and then she'd f***

anything that moves.

And one night...

And one night...

And you remember this whenever

you think of your loving mom,

yeah? One night

she come in my room.

She came in my room, Richard,

and she took her knickers down.

And she sat on me.

[Richard] No!

Get off me! Get off me!

- [Polly] She sat on me.

- No, please.

And then nine months later,

there you were.

No, please! Please!

Please! [sobs]

And now it's time

for you to fly the nest.

[Polly snarls] F***!

- [Richard] I don't believe you!

- Good luck with that one.

- Polly!

- [Annabell] No!

Get off!

Please!

[Annabell] Leave him!

You... Right, you...

You take care of him.

He's still my boy.

[sobs] Polly!

You take care of him!

Please, he's going.

He said he's going.

Please, please,

can you go and get him? Please?

[Richard sobs]

You dropped it before, so...

I didn't look inside.

Thanks.

Do you...

Do you want him to come back?

Don't know.

[Annabell] Do you think he will?

[Richard] Probably not.

[Richard] My mom... My mom never came back this far.

Last night...

Last night I left the cage open,

and um...

Fiona... You know, my chicken,

she died.

And it was my fault.

The fox got her.

I should have looked after her.

I do do things.

I do do things.

Richard, that's not your fault.

It is, 'cause I left it open

and Fiona got eaten.

It's not your fault.

That's just... things

that happen, okay?

[Richard] This morning,

I buried her, and...

when I was burying her...

she had these, um...

It was in her tummy,

she had all these eggs.

No, but they weren't, um...

they weren't like real eggs.

They were just like yolk,

you know, like orange yolk?

I ate them. I ate them. I did.

I was hungry.

I was hungry, I was,

and I ate them.

Okay, come in.

Okay.

Sit down.

Um... Do you want,

like, a tea or coffee?

Um...

Have you got Marmite?

As a drink?

[sobs] No. I just want a tea.

Okay.

[clinking]

[sniffles]

[Annabell sighs]

You know, I was speaking

to my dad before.

He said that we're looking for

someone to help us on the farm,

and then I told him

that you were a farmer.

And so you can, you know,

come stay with us and help us.

You told him I was a farmer?

Yeah.

That's what you are, isn't it?

Yeah.

Yeah.

- Yeah.

- That's right.

Thank you.

Mom, this is Richard.

Richard, this is my mom.

Hi.

Is Annabell

looking after you okay?

Yes, she's made me...

- [Annabell's mom] Good.

- Made me a tea.

It's nice.

Well, I'm going

to get some rest.

Okay.

Annabell, there are some sheets

in the box on the landing.

Mom?

Thank you.

[Annabell]

Okay. I'll be back in a second.

[rain pours outside]

[door opens, closes]

Richard!

Richard!

- [Annabell sobs]

- [fire roars]

[Richard] Annabell!

- I did it!

- You're f***ing crazy!

[Richard] No. I did it.

How cool is that?

Look at the window.

[Richard laughs]

- Oh, my God!

- That's my caravan.

- That's my caravan.

- [laughs]

That's my caravan!

[both laughing]

[Richard] Oh, oh, oh!

Look in the air.

Look! Look at the thing.

Look at the thing.

Oh, my God.

[soft music playing]

[door opens]

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