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like some sort of vigilante or something.

[chuckles]

Yeah, heard that as well.

What an idiot.

Well, you know,

maybe this is just the start.

Maybe he's gonna change

this place for the better.

What? By setting fire to cars

and getting into fights?

To clean this place up,

he'll have to do a lot more than that.

-You know the exams?

-Mm-hmm.

Well, I haven't been

back to school since...

And I wondered

if maybe you wanted to go together.

-To the exams?

-Like, the world's most boring date.

[chuckles]

Okay.

What the f***, man?

[phone vibrating]

[people shouting]

[siren wailing in distance]

-You shouldn't go through my room.

-You shouldn't have flick knives.

-How about we focus on that?

-This is bullshit.

Innit just?

-Where do you go at night?

-Walking.

-With this?

-No.

Actually, I took it off someone else.

That's one less knife on the street.

Oh. So, this is you doing your civic duty.

Maybe.

What's happened to you, Tom?

You never used to get into trouble,

and now it's all bullet wounds

and knives.

-Nan...

-Well, where does it end, Tom?

I'll tell you where it ends,

jail or the morgue.

I'm trying to do something, Nan.

I'm trying to do something good.

[scoffs]

No, you're not.

[man] Things are a little out of control,

wouldn't you say, Cutz?

I-I know, boss.

Half our boys are in the cells.

Ellman, I'm gonna sort this out,

believe me.

It's not about what I believe.

It's about what you believe.

Do you believe

that if you don't make this right,

I'll hold you personally responsible?

Yeah, of course.

And do you believe that the man

I hold personally responsible

won't be walking around on this Earth

for very much longer?

No. No, I don't.

-Better make it right, then.

-I will, Ellman, trust me.

I'm gonna sort this out

as soon as possible, but--

-[Ellman hangs up]

-Hello?

I've got half my boys nicked right now.

People are taking money from my account!

The f***ing audacity!

I need answers today!

I need every piece of technology!

Laptops, phones, anything.

You will knock on everyone's flat.

Your own mothers, your cousin,

your sister, I don't give a f***.

Understood?

-Yeah.

-Yeah.

-Yes.

-He said, do you understand?

-[all] Yes!

-What you standing here for? Move!

Oi, Cass.

Yo, Cutz.

Big Kees. What you saying, bruv?

-What's happening? You all right?

-Yeah, man. What you saying?

Nothing, man, I just wanted

to ask you a little question.

You see, if someone put a gun

to your f***ing face like this here, huh?

And said, "Give me names,"

would you do it?

No?

Or if it was a car and it was burning?

Would you do that?

Would you drop my name?

-What about Ellman?

-Of course not.

It doesn't make sense.

Eugene and-- They've been nicked.

And nothing happened to you.

-I'm confused as well.

-You're confused?

It's cool, man. Do your thing.

You're all right, man. You're good, man.

Knock, knock.

Take everything. I don't care if it's

an old school Game Boy. You get it.

[indistinct shouting]

Really, bruv?

[Nan speaking indistinctly]

There were four lads

who pushed their way in.

They looked threatening.

They were tall, like that.

All in black, you know,

hoods up and stuff and...

They was asking for everything electric.

They took my phone, took my laptop.

They took the bloody TV and all.

Went into my grandson's...

[man]

I mean, I-I've never met the guy...

[static]

[overlapping chatter]

[man] ...like we were talking about

last week, we were saying...

-[Ellman] You found him?

-[Cutz] Either that or we scared him off.

I ain't heard nothing for days,

so I reckon it's over, boss.

[Ellman]

All right, I'll get a new delivery in.

Go to the yard tonight to pick it up.

-We can't afford any more trouble.

-Leave it to me, boss.

[chuckles]

Got ya.

You're not leaving until you tell me

exactly where you're going.

I'm not a kid anymore.

I don't have to tell you everything.

You know, I see your mom in you

when I look at you.

-She was a junkie.

-She was your mother.

And she was my daughter.

She made mistakes, but she was kind.

And she was good. She loved you.

She didn't know how to cope,

and I should have been there for her.

So, I will say to you

what I wished I had said to her.

I love you.

Come home.

Don't wait up.

[door opens, closes]

[boy]

Yay!

[indistinct chatter]

You all right, sweetheart?

Looking for some business?

I got a tenner somewhere.

Could do with a little sucky-suck.

Why don't you take that tenner

and shove it up your ass, my darling?

I knew your granddad back in the day.

We used to call him "The Pencil."

-Know what I mean?

-[all laughing]

Shut up, man.

-Ms. Harvey.

-Yeah, Danny, can I have a word?

Tell me, have you noticed

Tom behaving oddly recently?

[chuckles]

He's always been odd, but...

Yeah, he's been different

since the accident.

-It wasn't an accident.

-No, I suppose not.

But, yeah, he has changed. He...

[sighs]

He's angry, and I...

I don't know what he's gonna do.

But I do know I don't want him

to get hurt anymore,

so will you look out for him, Danny?

Yeah, yeah. Of course, I will, Ms. Harvey.

I'll definitely do that.

You're a good boy. Thanks.

[siren wailing in distance]

[car beeps, door unlocks]

[car door opens]

[car door closes]

-[phone dings, vibrates]

-[indistinct chatter on TV]

[car engine starts]

Sh*t.

[helicopter whirring in distance]

[indistinct police radio chatter]

[man] The accident there that's left much

of the A12 between Blackwall Tunnel and...

[indistinct chatter]

[indistinct chatter continues]

[man] Use your weight to build power

and follow through the strike.

-Use your left here.

-Parallel with the wrist.

Hit your opponent in the chest.

[overlapping chatter]

-Then find your opponent's weak spot...

-[overlapping chatter continues]

[yells]

Follow through the strike.

Get on him.

-Till he's dead!

-Step him out!

[high-pitched electronic screeching]

[all screaming]

[screeching continues]

Knock this sh*t out!

[groans, shouts]

[screaming]

[phone vibrating]

[man on TV] "At first, everything

was perfect until I fell pregnant."

Tell me more, sweetheart,

because you're the one I feel sorry for.

[woman] Well, when I got

pregnant with my daughter,

everything started to get depressing.

It was hard at first. Then it started--

Lucy.

Nice of you to show up, Tom.

-I know. I'm... I'm sorry I wasn't there.

-No, listen.

You said you would come with me.

You said that.

-I know. I'm sorry.

-Forget it.

Look, I'm sorry. I've been busy.

-I promise you, I'll make it up to you.

-Busy?

I wish I could explain,

but things have been...

-I haven't been myself.

-No, seriously, Tom, just forget it.

[gasps]

Cass, man.

I've known him since forever.

He was a d*ckhead, but...

Yeah.

So, what happened to you?

Oh, just... got jumped, that's all.

I haven't seen you around lately.

Been revising.

It's not what I've heard.

My cousin Tia says

you haven't been in exams.

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