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Why would you?

- I'm so busy.

- You must be.

I let my friend convince me to go

on one of those skydiving things,

I mean can you believe it?

Who does that? I mean it's

crazy, but I did it! I did it!

- Skydiving!

- Yeah!

- Oh right.

- It was mental.

Who pays someone to throw them

out of an airplane?

It's not a substitute for a

personality is it?

Sad,

lonely

woman.

Be ruthless, Ruth.

Anyway, I'm sorry

I wasted your time.

A little word of advice.

Get it out of your system, the

motherhood thing. You know?

Sort out your own business before

you interfere in other people's.

Oh I will...

I'm sorry, Ella. I've had to

make some really harsh cuts.

It's a cutthroat

world, you know?

You know you should

get out more and have more fun.

I really believe that.

Because activity weekends - you're

never going to get a shag on those.

Might see if I can...

It's a nice chair actually.

Where can I get one of these?

That

was perfect.

Don't get too cocky.

You'll stand out from the crowd.

Remember who's the mastermind.

You wouldn't have done it

without me,

would you?

Would you?

It was a group decision.

It was a matter of life or

death.

It's a tragic

incident and people are aware

of the dangers but just...

We were unlucky today. Very

unlucky, you know.

In these situations there's

nothing you can do really.

Nothing you can do.

Dead eyes.

Dead eyes.

- Tom, isn't it?

- Yeah.

- Hi!

- Hi!

We spoke on the phone.

Ah, yes. Yes, how are you?

- I'm good. How are you?

- Well.

Yeah, I'm just here for the

induction, so...

What sort of level were you

interested in?

Well, I'm a beginner but I feel

quite confident actually.

I feel like I'd like to go quite

advanced.

Absolutely, absolutely.

Your first time.

So you wouldn't know what to do

with this equipment?

You know, I'm kind of - I've

been reading up about it, so..

Um, I mean, this is um, like, this

is a kind of safety rope, isn't it?

It's a rope.

Kind of think you wouldn't put

more than seven people on this.

Sorry, what are you getting at?

Are you here for a lesson?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Of course.

Yeah.

The thing is that I couldn't

teach you,

because of your

current condition.

Alright, look, don't worry about

that. Because um,

the thing is I am really fit.

I have been up to all sorts. You would not

believe what I've been doing recently.

Sure, but if something were to

go wrong

then I'd be to blame, you know?

You'd be to blame,

yeah.

Have you been to blame many

times before?

Sorry, my 8pm is here.

Sorry I couldn't teach you.

That's alright.

- Didn't have a problem earlier, did you?

- I didn't... I'm sorry.

You knew I was pregnant, you

were still going to teach me.

It's very slippery.

No.

No!

I'll do it.

I promise.

I'm trying...

You f***ing do it.

I'm trying.

Just bring you up a little bit

today, Ruth.

So I can have a feel around.

See how the baby is. Oop, there we go.

Sorry, that's -

that a bit better? Bit far down now.

I'll pop you back up.

All these new technical things

do bother me. How's that?

- Yeah, that's good.

- Lovely.

Alright, so I'm just going to

lift your top up.

There's a - I like to do this. Get my

hands warmed up. My mum taught me this.

Don't learn that at college.

Okay

I'm just going to press here,

down the side.

There you go.

Ooh, there you go.

She doesn't like that.

I'm just feeling for the head.

Well it's in this area.

It's in the stomach area.

Even I know that.

Yeah

Don't worry, she's got a head. She's

thinking all the time, a bit too much.

We discussed blood pressure

didn't we last time.

To monitor your blood pressure.

So are you looking after yourself,

eating well - how are you sleeping?

Well she's not really letting me

sleep, so..

- No?

- No.

And that's affecting your

mind,

your rationality.

Just have to

make a few notes, you see, I have

to monitor this. It's my job to

keep track of everything.

What do you mean?

Well if there's anything untoward

or anything difficult occurring,

I need to get in touch with

social services.

No! I don't want you to report

it to social services.

- Well...

- Why would you report it to social services?

Only if there's something that's bothering

you but we need to make sure that you're...

No, no, no. I don't want you to

becontacting social services. At all.

It's not personal, we do it

with everybody.

It's just so that we can see

that you're alright and...

No, no, no. They interfere

and mess around, I mean what we

talking about here?

We're talking about, what

we talking about?

We're talking about like adoption,

aren't we? No. Not at all.

If you tell social services about

me, we're talking about adoption.

- Look, you're alright.

- And I know what they do.

Take a seat.

What they do is they give your

baby, they steal it from you

and they give it to some f***ing

child-hungry middle-class couple

and then I won't get to see

the baby again.

Do you know what it's not even

going to happen

because this baby is attached to

me with a f***ing cord.

She wouldn't even let it happen.

That's not going to happen,

Ruth.

You have to trust me.

You have got to start thinking

about what's best.

It's all about you and your

choices.

Sit down.

What do you mean?

What I mean is

nobody

is going to take this baby away

from you -

if you make the right choices.

You have to decide what is right

and what's wrong.

Send me a sign.

Loneliness,

it's the worst.

But luckily, you'll never be

alone. Because you've got me.

Isn't that great?

I despise crowds.

Look at this lot.

Out on the rape.

The next morning they'll all

be "It wasn't me".

Animals.

A f***ing zoo this town.

A kind soul

is as rare

as a unicorn.

Claire?

Yeah.

I'm Josh.

Oh, hi.

Not who you're expecting?

No, but that's fine, so...

Come in anyway.

This is lovely!

Yeah, welcome.

The spare room's upstairs. There's

extra rooms up there as well.

Zac's room's up there.

Yeah, Zac's buddha's in there.

Pride of place for some reason.

- OK!

- Look, I'm just in the middle of cooking.

Do you mind if I stop it burning?

- Go for it.

Is it OK if I just put my stuff

down?

Yeah, yeah of course, make

yourself at home...

- This should be alright.

- Really lovely.

Thank you.

Yeah it's quite, it's all

chilled out, it's a nice spot.

Yeah Zac isn't here I'm afraid.

No rush.

He's not here much to be honest,

OK.

Which means he never cleans,

but...

- That's a bit annoying.

- Oh no! It's never messy, I do it.

OK.

- Yeah. He's... he's lovely, he's lovely.

- Yeah.

- He's just kind of a bit away with the fairies.

- Fickle.

- No, he's kinda head-in-the-clouds.

- Flawed.

- He's always got projects...

- Bit of a pig.

No no no he's a lovely

boy to live with really.

OK, great

Yeah. I mean do you want to sit

down?

Erm, yeah.

Sorry I don't mean to pry, but

what's, you know...

Yeah, ok, I -

I was with someone

and you know we were committed and

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