Wreckers Page #2

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Their father beat them. Flack-fleck-giddley-geck.

Not that you could see anything.

- David never told me.

- Where is he? I like clever boys!

- But you have been torturing her.

- What?! I - she used to torture us!

- Poor old pretty, she hasn't got any kids to look after her.

- Oh that's what kids are for!

- Remember Mister Dixon?

- Sure!

- He used to beat the crap out of us - well,the lads, that is.

- Of you, you mean.

- Yeah, because I took it up for Davy.

- Oh, come on.

- What did you do to him?

He was just always the one there when everyone else turned and run;

it was always him standing like: "What?! It wasn't me! It wasn't me! I didn't do it!"

'Till he sent you away.

He had his pale impostor.

- Ten years ago, Dawn.

- Oh, give or take.

Far from the prying eyes of the state.

Banged his head against the wall.

Yeah, that's why I work looking after the troubled kids.

That's why I joined the f***ing army.

- Hey, remember that time you held my head in the water trough? I tell you, I almost choked.

- No!

- Yeah.

- Where was David?

- I remember that.

- I don't know, elsewhere.

You nicked my girlfriend.

- I? Nicked your girlfriend - I was thirteen, how could I nick your girlfriend?!

- You looked at her.

- That day, I was dancing around my handbag, and someone all scrawny, little scruffy...

- Me?

- Feller comes up to me. Aye, you - Nick -

...starts giving it the big-in coming on and the Mister Trustworthy here,

older lad, comes up and saves me.

You know they forced me to do that?

You Johnson boys! Oh, demand and the struggle.

Yeah, well, that's all over now.

Marriage is just so restful, isn't it, Dawn?

You don't have to choose anymore.

- Hello.

- Well, if you didn't laugh, you'd cry, eh?

Miss Hedges told me about your dad. That he beat you.

Who is that, Dad? He used to f*** us up the ass, eh?

He's too much.

- Well, you wanted him to stay.

- Did I?!

- Why didn't you tell me?

- Listen, not here, Dawn. All right,mate, can I have one more gin and tonic, please?

- Oh God!

- Shhh, come in.

- What are you doing?

- Come on!

- You go on!

- No, I can't, cause Gary won't have that.

Blimey, love!

Here.

Be careful, don't rip it.

Lent me this, Davy boy!

Come on, guys, move out of the way.

...Tis you, 'tis you must go and I must bide.

But come you back when summer's in the meadow...

- Shoking!

...Or all the valley's hushed and white with snow...

...And be up here in sunshine or in shadow...

- Wah-wah!

...Oh Davy boy, oh Davy boy, I love you so.

Hateful!

- Dave, I hear someone in there.

- Hmm?

Think there's someone in there.

- There is! There is, David, look! Look!

- All right, all right.

- David, somebody in here! There's somebody in there, Dave, look!

Nick?

- It's over, mate, I was in there! When....when he got out of tank, he was all on fire, Dave! He was burning!!!

- Nick?

I pulled him away, I tried to save him, I was saying: Where's the fire brigade? Where are they?

But it was... there was nobody there! I tried to put it down, I jumped on top of him, like that.

But it went through, I couldn't save him!

- You all right.

- Look!

- Look at me, look....

- Look, no!

- It's all right. It's all right-look at me.

Don't. I've done enough.

Is he all right?

Poor Nick.

Why didn't you tell me about your dad?

Because I don't want to think about it.

Because.... because he was full of hate, self hate. Because I hate him.

- Why did we come here?

- Because I wanna do some good in the place that my dad was a tosser.

- Do you really like the country side?

- You are the one with the chickens.

- David....

- I love you.

Why has he come back?

- I used to hold him. That's all, I mean, you saw!

- Hold me like that.

He needs help.

You can't help Nick; can't save him.

Hello?

Nick. Have you thought about talking to someone? You know - about your experiences.

- We think you need professional help.

- We?!

- There's no shame in going off on one, you know; I can talk to someone. We all need help.

- You may do.

And you.

...I opened the door and I was suddenly in the ruined city;

it looked as it....as it... was bombed.

The ground was hot ash with dead bodys scattered everywhere...

Take a break, have a look at it; if it's one body, is this a "body" without the "S"?

And if it's plural, you put "ies" in there, now that makes "the bodies";

but that's brilliant, you've done that really, really well. Try to read down from there.

...The building... the buildings were all smashed to pieces....

So what do you know about professional help?

I was mugged, in London. David went in, that's how we met. I had some counselling after that.

- Oh. Well, he likes a barney.

- Really?

- I have not seen him fight except that one time.

- What was it like? Really?

- Better than sex.

Um...it's....um....it's like there's one of me out there, fighting

and one of me here, um....and I can't ....quite...make the two of them to....um....

I know

I can't have one record, see, that's.... that's the trouble.

-Should I get the bowl?

- Yeah. And put some towel on that.

OK. Can we just do guys, 'course the beginning... actually I just wanna hear them first of all.

- Dawn! All right?

- Yeah.

- You walking?

- Yeah!

- So how you finding it?

- Well...it's a big old church.

- It's beautiful.

- It is.

- Those angels are famous.

- Really?

- Yeah.

Churches make me feel sad somehow.

- Yeah?

- Uh-huh.

- Why?

....Wait for me to come and save you, do you remember?!

- You've frightened me earlier.

- Sorry. He gets to me sometimes.

I hardly know you, do I?

- We're trying for a baby.

- Nice.

- Yeah well, it's taking it's sweet time.

- Nick one. I'll do it for you.

- I was stolen, well - adopted.

- Really?

Well that worked out well, as far as I can see.

They're dead now. They were older. I miss them. Like you never really...

I had to shut up; my mistake. In the bar. I couldn't see.

- David!

- How did you know we were here?

- You've seen enough?

- It's a wreck, innit?

- Nick. Nick. Nick! It's all right. It's all right, it's all right, it's all right. It's all right, it's all right, it's all right, it's all right.

- Nick!

It's all right, it's all right, Nick.

What's happened?

That was wide open. He must've left it open in his sleep.

You did that!

Why would I open the hen hatch?

This is just like when you killed your rabbit!

He left the hatch opened in the middle of the night, let the dogs out, all in his sleep, when he was a kid!

- You did that, you opened the hatch door and you blamed it on me, you killed it!

- You bed-wetter!

- You little sh*t!

- Stop it!

Dawn. Dawn. Dawn! Dawn!!! Dawn!!!

You Johnson boys.

...Come on, Judy!...

- Bring them here.

Should we get rid of him?

- Where to?

- He's got mates. What about his ex?

David...Did you let the dog into the hen hatch?

Sorry. I was only joking.

Can you stand, please?

You awake now?!!

- Dave, I'm sorry. Dave! I'm sorry.Dave!

- Don't.

- Dave!

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