Five Minutes of Heaven Page #3

anything you're worried about,

you just stop us and, well,

basically, we're here for you.

OK. So it's very important

that you let us know if things

aren't feeling right.

Now, has Fiona taken you through

the format and so forth? Aye.

OK, good.

Just to briefly

put you in the picture on how

the day is going to pan out...

Now, you've got time to settle down

here and make yourself comfortable.

Will you have someone

in the bed for me?

Then, at some point, a make-up girl

will come in just to put a little,

you know, on your face.

Sometimes the camera

can make the skin shine.

So, she only needs a few minutes.

Then, when you're ready,

we'll do a little shooting...

filming, up here.

And then, at around 12,

you know, when it feels right,

we can go downstairs and...

you've seen the room, haven't you?

Aye. OK, good.

So, in terms of

your actual meeting with him,

it's important to remember,

for all of us to remember,

where we are trying to get to

in this programme - the truth.

'Yes, I know, I know what you want.

'Shake his f***ing hand

and we can all go home.'

The last thing I want to do

is push you into areas of your mind

where you don't want to go.

But it's important for us to

understand all the emotions in this.

Do you understand what I'm saying?

Aye. Aye, I understand.I know it's difficult.

Which is why

I don't want to push that,

but I do want you

to be truthful with how you feel.

What I'm saying really is,

I just want you to be you.

KNOCK ON DOOR:

Michael? Yeah.

Sorry. Yeah, I'm coming.

And you know, we are all

going to have an important day here.

I can't tell you how important

I think this is going to be

in terms of...

well,

in terms of what it's going to do.

This is the question

we are all wanting the answer to.

Truth and reconciliation.

What's at stake?

Is it possible?

That's it. Speech over.

'I can do handshakes, Michael!

And I can do victim.

'I can do handshake and victim

both at the same time.

'But I've made a decision

on this one.

'Reconciliation?

'You have no idea.'

A handshake?

For killing my brother?

For me taking the blame?

What do you think I am, a joke?

'If ever a man deserved

a knife run through him,

that scum of the earth.

'Truth and reconciliation?'

'I'm going for revenge.'

Oh, hi. I'm Vika.

Joe. How are you doing?

Your tea. Oh, aye. Thanks.

I'm the runner. The runner?

Do you mind

if I have a smoke out there?

Oh, no, no, no...

No, no, of course you can!

Come on, come on.

Here, have one of mine.It's OK, I...

No, Jesus, come on! Thank you.

Here.

Thank you.

You stay out here with me andThanks, but I...

I'm the star of the show.

You have to do what I say!

I've come to look after you

anyway, so... That's great!

Everyone's looking after me! They're

even worrying about my toaster.

You're a what? A runner?Yeah, it means I run around

A dogsbody, then! A dogsbody?

No, no! Runner's better -

I like runner.

Young Fiona here visited me

out of the blue one morning,

said she was a researcher

on a programme called One On One.

She was all posh and lovely, her

voice is all up here and down there

and the weather's

always doing something,

and every time she turns,

she smiles at me.

Would she smile at me

if she didn't know me and

I sat down next to her in the pub?

She'd call the police.

Ah! F***, I would! So, anyway,

And now look

what I've got myself into.

Maybe it's a good thing

you are here. Aye. Maybe it is.

Where are you from?

Vladivostok.

Vladivostok AND Belfast?

Does bad luck run in your family?

I like it here.

I like you here too. I like you!

So, she was sitting in my kitchen,

she says,

this is an important programme

about men who have become the man

they have become,

that you have become,

or some f***-knows thing.

Then she said it's more about

the man you could become.

"That's what excites us all

about this project," she said.

She had the light in her eyes,

the missionary light.

"It's about healing", she said.

"It's about reconciliation."

"What is that?" I said.

"People coming out of their graves?"

"No", she said, smiling.

"That's resurrection."

We want you to meet the man who

killed your brother, face to face.

I don't know. The thing is, it isn't

the way she was looking and talking,

and I wasn't really listening

to anything she was telling me.

It's just that...

she showed me a little kindness.

Well, I'm sure...

But I don't do kindness.

I f***ing hate kindness.

I don't let that in.

I let it in then, but never again.

The trouble with me is,

I've got all the wrong feelings.

But him? Oh, his feelings?

They are just right, just perfect!

He did it in cold blood, but now

look at the man he has become!

"What is it like to kill a man,"

they all ask him?

"Well, you have to understand..."

And off he goes again, telling

them all about this and that.

But hats off to him,

he's cracked it!

He knows they all love

to shake hands with a killer.

Is there someone with him? Oh, yes.Yes. That's important, you know?

Whatever he tells you

he's feeling about this,

he's going to be very angry.

I mean, very angry.

That anger could go in any direction.

I understand that.

You have to be prepared

to stop the filming at any moment.

We're not performing monkeys. No.

I realise

you have a programme to make

but what's happening to him

has to come first.

Yes, absolutely. You have to make

sure he doesn't come to any harm.

"Listen to him", they will say,

"and there is hope in the world!"

And you know what he's thinking?

"Do this gig well here

and I've got another 20 years

of pay cheques in front of me.

"I can talk about that day then and

this day now for the next 20 years,

"how I came face to face

with the brother of my victim,

"and how it was

the final act in my journey

towards a magnificent redemption,

"and how listening to me is

the way forward in life, plus VAT.

"And with their cheques

in my pocket, I will talk

unto the wretched of the world

"and I will heal them with my words,

"I won't have to work in a f***ing

egg carton factory ever again."

So!

The man shot my brother

three times in the head.

The man is having the life of Riley.

What should I do?

Do I shake his hand

or do I kill him?

Well, killing him

wouldn't be good for him.

For sure of that! But it wouldn't

be good for you either.

Oh, not good for me?

My five minutes of heaven?

How would that be not good for me?

KNOCK ON DOOR:

Joe, hi! Everything OK?

Aye. OK, aye.

They're just doing

a wee bit of filming downstairs

and then we're set to go, OK?

Can Cathy come in and do a wee bit

of make-up just to get you ready?

Aye. OK, aye. Hi, Joe.

I'm Cathy. How are you, all right?

Good, aye. I'm good. Lovely!

I just want to sit you down here.

There we go.

That's lovely.

Now, this is just

to take the shine off your skin.

F***, am I shining?

OK, Alistair, the camera's running,

so just in your own time.

In order for me...

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