The Navigators Page #11

- I know he could, mate.

- So get an ambulance! Mick!

- John, just listen!

If there's an incquiry, if that control box signal

bloke gets involved tonight,... we've had it!

I don't know what you're talking about!

John, just go and get an ambulance!

The man's gone f***ing mad!

- Yeah, but if we get him back up there...

- If there's an incquiry, we've all had it.

He's right, mate. And if we get him back up

there, mate, he'll get taken care of cquicker.

- We'll get him up here cquicker, mate!

- You might hurt him!

But we can't get an ambulance crew down here

till we've got possession!

We don't even know where signal post is !

- He's right, Paul.

- Nobody's checked it.

- You get an ambulance, we'll carry him.

- We'll get him up there cquicker, mate.

- Go on, Paul.

- No, no, I'll do it, I'll do it!

- You go! Go on!

- Are you sure, mate?

- Don't f***ing let us down.

- Please! Just go!

Come on, get the shoulders .

Get the shoulders, Paul.

Mick, I can't do it, man!

- Paul!

- I can't do it! I can't do it, Mick.

- Paul, come on, man!

- I can't move an injured man.

- Look, I know we shouldn't...

- We shouldn't move an injured man, Mick.

There's a lot of things we shouldn't do!

I shouldn't be hanging a bucket off that bridge!

We shouldn't be working wi'out a lookout.

But we have!

- How are we gonna explain that?

- Mick, you might kill him!

- He might die if he f***ing stays here!

- But you can't go moving him, can ya?

F***ing... Hey! Look... !

- You don't know what damage has been done!

- Paul! Paul! Just help me get him up there!

- But you might kill him!

- He might die if he stays here!

- We'll get an ambulance in two minutes !

- But at least an ambulance'll see to it properly!

Hey, we're gonna lose us jobs .

Paul, you got me this job, didn't ya?

I've only been on it three years .

I've just been six weeks

without earning a penny, mate.

I don't know what to... I don't know...

I can't move him, can l?

Paul, listen, if we get him up on there,

we'll say car hit him.

What the f*** does it matter

if a train hits him or a car hits him?

- It don't matter!

- You can't go f***ing saying a car's hit him!

- Why not?

- Because you haven't got a story.

So what we gonna do, then?

Are we gonna get signalman involved?

Incquiry?

Paul, we ain't even got a lookout patch wi' us

tonight. I don't know if there's one in van, even.

An ambulance crew's gonna be ages

before we get possession.

But you're gonna hurt him if you move him.

- He's already hurt, mate.

- You might even kill him.

- Yeah, we might kill him if we leave him.

- Think about it.

We might kill him if we leave him.

- Oh, Mick... We shouldn't be doing this .

- I know we shouldn't. I know we shouldn't.

We shouldn't be doing this .

- Come on, let's get him up. Yeah?

- All right. Come on.

Come on, Jimmy. All right, Jim.

- (Jim groans )

- Steady with him, Mick.

Come on, Jim, we'll have you up in two minutes .

Steady. Steady.

Yeah, I'm under his legs .

All right, one, two, three...

- Are you all right, Jim?

- I've got him. Just try and be careful.

It's all right, Jim, mate, we'll get you up here

and get an ambulance.

All right, Jim.

Come on. All right, Jim.

Steady! Steady, steady.

Go on.

Oh, f***! Oh, it's tangled up .

- (Jim groans )

- Have you got it?

Oh, I've got it! Oh, f***!

Get on that grass bit there. It's too muddy.

F***ing hell!

(Both grunt with exertion)

F***ing hell, he's a heavy bastard!

- Give us a hand, John.

- They'll be here in a few minutes, mate.

- Is he still breathing?

- Yeah, he's all right.

Just put him down here.

Come on, just here, just here, just here.

- Steady, steady.

- (Breathe heavily)

- Sh*t!

- Just watch his head, watch his head.

Right.

Jim... Jim were up here...

..mixing concrete.

And you were coming down

with a bucket of stuff...

(Breathes heavily) You heard a car s peed past...

and you heard a thud.

You shot back...

and you found him lying like this .

- John? Yeah?

- Yes .

- That's all you know.

- Aye.

- Paul? Paul?

- Yeah, mate, yeah.

Good. Right then.

Jim, if you can hear me, mate,...

..you were hit by a car.

You weren't down side of track.

You weren't hit by a train.

You were hit by a car. All right, mate?

Just hold on, they'll be here soon.

- Oh, here they are, look, here they are.

- Thank Christ!

- You're all right now, Jim.

- Just watch him. I've got him. Watch him.

You all right, Jim?

Here you go, mate.

You all right, lads ?

- All right.

- All right, Gerry?

- What a bad do, eh?

- Terrible, mate. Terrible accident.

So, er,... when's funeral, then?

Tuesday morning, mate. Eleven o'clock.

Up at, er, up at City Road cemetery.

Is, er,... there gonna be an incquiry?

Nay, there's no need.

Well, they know what hap pened, don't they?

What? Hit and run?

Yeah, mate. Yeah.

So, er,... where were you lads

when it hap pened, then?

- Working.

- We were working down embankment.

So... where were Jim? On his own?

- Yeah.

- He were up top, on bridge. Mixing cement.

- So nobody got number plates or owwt like that?

- No.

I've got his bag anyway, look, Gerry.

There's his pen in there, an' all.

I thought somebody could take it to his mother's .

I thought it could be you.

- Well, why don't you take it round?

- He res pected you more than me, didn't he?

Yeah, but she's... she's gonna as k

some cquestions, you know.

- She should talk...

- She'll still be in shock.

We'll see her after t'funeral.

- Is that Harpic not about, then?

- There's nobody here now. Just me, that's all.

- When do you finish, then?

- Next Friday.

- He's still here, then.

- Don't see him much. Not seen him for ages .

- Now then, Bill?

- Hi, Gerry.

Hiya.

I've... just had a phone call this morning

about Jim. Is it right?

- Yeah, it's right.

- Tragic, mate.

What a waste.

Did he... Did he know anything about it?

Was he... aware of it?

No.

He were a good mate.

You know what, we s pend all this time and

money and effort making the railways safe

and he gets hit by a car.

- Yeah, the roads were really bad that night.

- Yeah, yeah. I know, yeah.

Terrible.

Look, l... I'm sorry, lads, but I've got

one or two things to wrap up in the office...

- Yeah, we've gotta go.

- ..and I've gotta go.

- Yeah, we've gotta shoot, haven't we?

- I'll... I'll see you later.

- See you later, Bill.

- See you on Tuesday, Gerry? Gerry? Tuesday.

You will take it round, won't you, Gerry?

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