Ladybird Ladybird Page #7

- It's not safe for you to go.

We'll tell them without shouting.

They don't have to think we are mad.

We'll tell them... they will understand

they made a mistake.

But we have to be gentle.

How can I be nice to them

when they took five of my kids?

One of yours! How can I do that?

How can I stand there

and smile at them?

I can't talk to them.

I can't go back to that court no more.

You don't go shouting.

You have to be gentler.

Explain to them. We have to be nice.

I don't know.

But you have to tell them.

We have to.

Ooh. Have you been crying?

Have you been crying?

Have you?

She knows it's us, look.

Yes, she knows.

She knows our voices, you know.

- She does.

- She knows how we hold her,

- our smell.

- Smells!

Listen to him! Smell!

Speak for himself.

She does remember. She's made of us,

you know? She's made of us.

Yeah?

Her nose is all running.

There.

How's she got a cold when people

are supposed to be looking after her?

- Do you want to hold her?

- OK.

Ooh! How are you?

You miss us, eh?

It's OK, it's OK.

We'll see you again, you know.

We'll see you again.

- Maggie, your time's up.

- Oh, f*** off.

Come on.

Come on, little one.

As I was saying before...

Here y'are, love.

Do you want sugar?

- Here, have a biscuit.

- Thank you.

As I was saying before,

he's all right. I mean, look at him.

He's placid, he's kind...

- Thank you.

- Well, you are.

If anyone's the mouthy one, it's me.

I'm just sick and tired of people,

every time they look at us,

it's like he's gonna kick me head in -

and he's not.

You've only got to... Stick a bomb

up his arse and it wouldn't move him.

And all right, I do lose me temper,

I'm not lying to you about that,

and I can't help it.

I mean, I am angry, I'm f***ing...

I mean...

I've said it again.

I said I wouldn't swear. I'm sorry.

I mean, I do get angry,

I'm not lying about that, I don't.

And I know me own throat...

me mouth cuts me own throat.

Me mouth works before me brain.

I can't help that, that's just me.

And all we want is the baby back.

She's done nothing,

George has done nothing

and I can't see

what I've done wrong neither.

- Do you want a biscuit, Mary?

- Mmh. May.

Oh, May. Sorry.

I mean, as I was saying before,

even if I was guilty

of what everyone's saying of us,

I mean, what about... George?

I mean, he's Zoe's dad.

He's being... had all kinds

of fingers pointed at him.

And he's the innocent party in all this.

I mean, I can take it all.

But I don't think it's fair on George

because he's not that type of person to...

- Do you want a biscuit?

- No, thanks.

Oh, go on, you might as well.

Cos I went out of my way to get them. Go on.

Thanks.

How's communication between you two?

Do you speak Spanish?

Me? God, it takes me

all the time to speak English.

He's the one that speaks

all the languages.

Tell her what languages you speak.

Well, it's Portuguese, German, French

and some Italian.

- Apart from my own language, Spanish.

- So he's the clever one.

But we do OK in English.

Do you find if you can't communicate

that you get frustrated at all,

that you might misinterpret each other?

- No.

- It depends.

How d'you think

he's gonna communicate?

With f***ing tom-tom drums

or something like that?

It all depends. It's not only language

you use to communicate to other people,

especially the one you love.

So you feel together

you have a fairly stable relationship?

Yeah, and only

we need our baby, yeah?

Supportive relationship...?

Actually, I can't stand his f***ing guts!

Is that what you want to hear?

- Is that the way you talk to your children?

- No, it's not!

With you people I haven't had a f***ing

chance to say good morning to my children!

- Perhaps you've never tried!

- Haven't I? How do you f***ing know, eh?

Don't, Maggie...

She thinks you're a f***ing alien

from outer space, for f***'s sake!

We have to talk to them.

That's what you wanna hear, isn't it?

Do you think, Maggie, that Social Services

like to take your children away?

They love doing things

to f*** people's brains up.

- Oh, do they?

- Yeah.

Do they really?

They're not there to help, are they?

If you would help yourself, Maggie,

the help is there for you and Zoe if you...

If you wanted to help him or Zoe,

you'd bring her back here!

What you see here is pain.

All you are seeing is pain.

And that is part because

our hearts has been broken

because you take our kid away.

- We took your...

- Listen, Miss f***ing social worker!

You listen to my f***ing pain!

What did youse do for me when I was little?

My father sexually abused me!

Was that an environmentally healthy

safe place to f***in' be?

No! So you whipped me

into the f***ing home!

Did it do me any good? Did it f***!

No wonder I'm f***ed up,

these f***ed my life up

and they're f***ing it up again!

Take the book in your right hand

and read the oath.

I swear by Almighty God

that the evidence I shall give

shall be the truth, the whole truth

and nothing but the truth.

Mrs Higgs, would you give

the court your full name and address, please.

Pamela Higgs, 35 Margaret Court.

Mrs Higgs, you say in your affidavit

that in your opinion

the relationship between Miss Conlan

and Mr Arellano is a violent one.

- Yes.

- Why do you say that?

They're always shouting, screaming.

She's always calling for help.

- She's lying!

- I know he's hitting her.

How do you...

how do you come to say that?

Every night she screams and hollers

and he hits her.

They're shouting so loud,

you just can't help looking in.

And what have you seen?

I see him holding onto her,

and her screaming to get away from her.

A couple of months ago

she had a big black eye...

That's a lie!

I had a black eye cos I fell over her f***ing

whisky bottles her and her sidekick left out.

- You vicious old b*tch!

- Mr Anderson,

I must refer to you once more

about your client.

This behaviour must not

be tolerated in this court.

Let's see if he's in.

- Yeah, he's got a bit of a beard.

- Yeah, that's him.

Yeah, OK.

Mr Arellano, why can you

not return to your native country?

Well, I seem to be an enemy

of the government, so they say.

And which government is this?

Which country is your native country?

It's Paraguay.

Mr Arellano, have you taken part,

directly or indirectly

in any violent acts against

the Paraguayan government?

No. No. The whole country

is involved in violence.

Let me say this.

There is a little boy... is about six

in the house where I used to work

in my country.

Every day he tries to drown himself.

He puts some water in a little bath

and he look at it, he want to find a river

he wants to put his face in the water...

He's looking for his mother.

He watched when the soldiers

killed his mother - they drowned her -

so he's looking for his mother

in the water.

And I said, that's wrong.

And I said that to...

to... the people I talked to.

And I'm not a violent man.

Rate this script:0.0 / 0 votes