"[TRUCK BEEPING]" "Ah!" "[PIGEONS COOING]" "[STARTING TO CRY]" "[SQUEAL]" "[SQUEAL]" "[POUNDING ON DOOR]" "So." "When did you last see your brother?" "CASE WORKER:" "At 9:00 o'clock this morning, your brother" "Casey, who's 14 years old, visited the foster parents" "Of your younger brother, Severino, 10 months." "And abducted him." "Did you know about this?" "This ain't nothing to do with me." "Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah." "Ah." "Ah." "[GULLS]" "[MUSIC PLAYING]" "[CAN OPENING]" "Do you want a drink, mate?" "Cheers." "Here, look." "Eleanor." "Ellie." "Two months and three days old." "I was in Kandahar when she was born." "Nice." "Me a daddy." "You know what, though?" "I'm going to do the right thing, man." "H:" "Yeah?" "Yeah." "I mean, what happened to being a father," "Do you know what I mean?" "Kid needs a father." "So you got a father, then, or..." "Dead or something?" "Fucked off." "I'm fostered, me." "Eight mums, three dads, two boyfriends," "A granddad with a thing in his heart." "What do you call them things?" "Um, fucking pacemaker." "Yeah." "You know, they'll make your heart beat and that." "Yeah." "Yeah." "He was good, that granddad." "He got me in the army." "He's dead now." "Wait a minute." "I've got a photo." "That's him." "That's my granddad." "Left me his gaff down in Wells." "When my kids are, like, four or five," "We're all going to go down there." "Make toast on the fire." "Take walks down the woods." "You know?" "Proper family shit, do you know what I mean?" "Here you are." "Here's the place, if you ever need" "Someone to crash out or something." "Someone to stay." "Get right tossed, do you know what I mean?" "Cheers." "[DOG BARKS]" "[DOG BARKS]" "CASEY:" "Shouldn't go near dogs." "Some dogs bite." "[BARKING]" "Not all dogs." "But some dogs." "[BARKING, GROWLING]" "WOMAN OUTSIDE:" "Eddie!" "You're in for it now." "SEVERINO: [CRYING]" "Give it to me." "What?" "Where's my money, man?" "I don't have it." "You are so full of shit." "SEVERINO: [CRYING]" "H:" "That's my money and you have no right to steal it." "I never stole nothing." "Now you said we could stay together." "You said if Mum died, we'd be all right." "Because we've got cash of our own, and we could get a fish!" "I never said nothing about a fish." "I found that money, man, it's mine." "When they took Sevy away, man, you didn't do nothing." "He's family." "What you want me to do, Case?" "Huh?" "You want me to be Mum?" "Well, tough." "Mum's dead." "I know Mum's dead." "I know." "So where's the money?" "Inverness." "What?" "I've got to go to Inverness, to find my dad," "Because he'll know what to do." "You sent my money to Inverness?" "Yeah, to a PO box." "And we've got to go to a delivery office" "And sign for it." "And only the named person can sign for it." "So you've got to come with us if you want to get it." "I don't have to do nothing." "I've got sausages." "The police come round." "The police are after you." "And when they get you, they're going to look you up, man." "Because you've gone and nicked a baby." "No, I ain't." "You've nicked a baby." "How can they say that." "I ain't nicked nothing." "How can I nick a baby that's my brother?" "CASEY:" "Mum loved it here." "H:" "No, she didn't." "We come here 'cause it was cheap." "Well, I liked it." "They're going to find you, Case." "You think the police can't find a boy with a baby" "If they want to?" "No, 'cause my dad'll take us in." "He ain't never even visited." "Yeah, but that's 'cause he lives in Scotland." "It's a long way." "But when he sees us, he'll want us." "I've seen you and I don't want you." "How do I know the money's really there?" "How do I know you haven't chucked it in a bin" "Or spent it or something?" "'Cause I said so." "And a promise is a promise." "[MUSIC PLAYING" " ELECTRONIC DANCE]" "[LAUGHING AND SQUEALING]" "Ah." "Ah." "Ah!" "Ah!" "Ah, la la!" "You seeing all these people, see?" "Ain't they got jobs to go to?" "There ain't no table seats." "I can't go nowhere without a table seat." "SEVERINO: [SQUEALS]" "Been trying to ring you, girl." "Where you been?" "You lie!" "No, I'm going crew with Seems, innit?" "Yeah." "I'm gonna bang up that waste man." "He don't know what's coming, girl." "No, I'll never go home." "This is me, now, on the open road." "Speak to Seems, yeah?" "Yeah." "Yeah, yeah, yeah." "Bye." "Bye!" "Hiya." "Ah, it was easy." "Mum and Dad went to the airport 5:00 AM." "They're halfway to G by now." "Everyone thinks I'm staying with someone else." "I ain't got much credit, Seems, yeah?" "SEEMA:" "I've got to go." "Yeah." "I'll call ya." "Okie-doke." "Okie-doke?" "You say some funny shit, girl." "You always this noisy?" "Or maybe you think you're doing us a favor," "Listening in to private conversations." "You're the one shouting." "I ain't shouting." "I just got a big mouth." "Better get used to it." "Do you like Westerns?" "Oh, she loves them, boy!" "She thinks she's some cowboy on a ranch somewhere." "You know they used to use mules to put their provisions on?" "Mules are half-horse, half-donkey." "Are they?" "Which one's the mummy?" "I'm not sure it matters." "Uh, see me eating?" "Think I want to talk about donkeys" "Having sexual relations?" "VENETIA:" "We don't have to break in or nothing." "I've got a key." "I know what you're thinking." "Poor man." "Robbing his flat, that ain't nice." "But let me tell you, this man is a snake." "And he owes me and me mum big time." "Whatever I get, I'll share it." "Fair's fair." "So what do you say?" "Don't need the hassle." "CASEY:" "Yeah, but we ain't got no money, and they need our help." "I told you, Case, forget it." "No way." "Did he really take all your mum's money?" "Christmas eve." "He sods off with my mum's giro, the kettle," "And my Bobby Goulet." "See what I mean?" "Nasty." "[LOW GROWL]" "[GROWLING]" "What's this bloke do?" "Drug dealer." "You want it, he can get it." "Shit." "CASEY:" "Agh." "Come on." "[DOG BARKING]" "Shit!" "Hey, come on." "Not that way, another way." "Yo!" "Open up!" "Open the door!" "[DOGS BARKING, SHOUTING]" "I'll get over there and kill ya!" "SEVERINO:" "Ah!" "CASEY:" "Sanctuary." "That's what we got here." "No one can touch you when you got sanctuary." "See?" "Always keep my word." "You reckon they can see us?" "Who?" "The dead." "No." "I think they can." "Saying, look at those two, up there." "Smoking." "Sitting on us." "If only we were alive." "Had another chance." "We'd be so clever." "Wouldn't fuck up nothing." "Reckon that's how it works." "People die and they see all their mistakes." "No." "You don't say much, do you?" "No." "Wonder what my mum will be like when she's dead," "'Cause she's fucking useless now." "Long as she's got her man, she couldn't a" "Toss about no one else." "Think it's nice, what you're doing." "Looking after your brothers." "No one looks after each other no more." "Not unless there's something in it for them." "Going to Cardish tomorrow." "Yeah?" "Better get my beauty sleep." "So how many boyfriends did your mum have?" "VENETIA:" "She had loads, Case." "But I'm only visiting the ones that left owing us money." "There are 11,952 post offices in the UK." "Bye." "Come on, say bye-bye." "Bye." "See you then." "Oy, come on." "Charming." "CONDUCTOR (ON SPEAKER):" "Morning, ladies and gentlemen." "This is your service to Inverness." "Your service to Inverness." "They're on to us, man." "You've got to do exactly what I say, all right?" "Got to go." "No." "We're getting a different bus, OK?" "VENETIA:" "Go." "Now!" "Oh, my lord." "Seems, the baby's only gone and shat himself." "Oh, I've got crap on my sleeve." "SEVERINO: [CRIES]" "VENETIA:" "Have you got the baby bag?" "SEEMA:" "I thought you had it." "I give it to you, girl." "Hey you, nice policeman." "Hold my baby a short time." "Got this exploding bottom." "You want him, you keep him." "Stinks up the whole house, man." "Boy, that baby smells weird." "SEVERINO: [CRIES]" "VENETIA:" "Thank you." "You must be in some big trouble for the police" "To be chasing you like that." "You thought about this?" "They can tell where you are by your phone." "We've got to lay low for a bit, OK?" "No, we're going the wrong way." "No, this is this." "They'll be watching the dad's place, won't they?" "Thinking we'll go there." "So we don't." "I've got a secret place." "In the woods." "It's like a cowboy place, where outlaws go." "We'll be safe there." "Just you and me, together." "And when things cool off, we'll go up to Scotland, all right?" "Secret place?" "VENETIA:" "Whoo!" "Whoo!" "Go on, Case your turn." "H:" "Yeah!" "VENETIA:" "Yeah!" "Now you've disappeared." "You're free." "I've got one more bloke I'm gonna sort out." "You coming or what?" "[ALARM]" "30 quid for the DVD, 50 for the Xbox." "Sorry, Case." "Didn't offer us nothing for the baby." "Nah, this baby ain't for sale." "This is a nice baby." "SEVERINO: [SQUEAL]" "VENETIA:" "So, with the cash, that's for you." "Come on, Case." "We've got to go." "Oh, we've got a secret place we're" "Not supposed to tell anyone about." "That's where we're sleeping tomorrow." "Innit?" "[GULLS]" "CASEY:" "Are you and her best friends?" "SEEMA:" "Yeah, we've been together since nursery." "CASEY:" "Oh, I wish I had a best friend." "SEEMA:" "You don't need one." "You've got H." "CASEY:" "Yeah." "Well, we've got the same mum, but different dads, so he's" "Half my brother and half an ordinary person." "SEEMA:" "Which half's the ordinary half?" "CASEY:" "Uh, (LAUGHING) his bottom." "VENETIA:" "You know the color magenta?" "It's like this really hot pink." "The walls are magenta, the windows, ivory," "And I'm gonna have a shit-up sound system." "I'll do blokes, too, 'cause blokes" "Should take care of their hands." "Get their nails nice." "Boy!" "These need attention." "Once I got myself set up, you come in quick time, boy." "I'll fix you up." "Why's this bloke have a place out" "Here in the middle of nowhere?" "H:" "It's an outlaw place." "You have got to be joking." "I ain't going in there." "SEVERINO: [CRYING]" "[STARTING TO CRY]" "Oh, it's nice." "I didn't know this was a granddad." "I wish we had a granddad." "Well you can have mine, shit." "Ugh." "VENETIA:" "What is that?" "H:" "That's shit." "VENETIA:" "What's wrong?" "I hate spiders." "Over here." "I hate things that move like that." "Yeah." "Me too." "You running away?" "No." "I've got to go back." "Going to uni." "We're looking for my dad." "I never seen him, but his best friend had a glass eye" "That he could take out and look around corners." "Mum told me." "Maybe she should give him a call." "Let him know you're coming." "No." "No, I can't do that." "It's gonna be a surprise." "We're going to be like a real family." "H, and Sevy, and Dad and me." "VENETIA:" "Do you remember Reggie, at school, Seems?" "He could eat stones, right?" "He was crap at everything." "Crap at maths..." "Crap at games." "And his skin was, like, horrible, weren't it, Seems?" "So one day, he's like, I can eat stones." "So we're all there, and he's going" "Round collecting stones in the playground." "So we're like, yeah, Reggie." "Eat that one." "And he does!" "Going round." "Eating stones." "Everyone's cheering." "Used to have it on me phone." "It was a bit brilliant." "Eating stones." "Fuck's going on?" "All right, mate?" "LENNY:" "What the fuck's going on?" "Fucking come to my granddad's house." "You little fucking bitch!" "You little prick!" "Come here!" "SEVERINO: [CRIES]" "VENETIA:" "Need some chocolate." "Calm us down." "When I was little, we always had chocolate after a fight." "You like us to piss off?" "Don't care what you do." "Who's the baby belong to?" "My brother." "He was in foster care." "My other brother nicked him." "Fuck's sake." "Where's your kids?" "Their mum." "She left me, the bitch." "Taking the baby with her like it was a suitcase or something." "That's my baby, do you know what I mean?" "Slag." "Do you know something, right?" "In Afghanistan, they don't name their kids" "Till they're about five." "How come?" "'Cause most of them don't live that long, so why bother?" "You ever think about getting out of the army?" "Doing a run or something?" "Go AWOL?" "Why'd I want to do that?" "It's the only home I've ever had, mate." "Think I should go down there?" "No." "Maybe I should go down there." "Well, go down, then, if you want to." "You will any way." "What's that meant to mean?" "Seems?" "You always do this." "Find some boy." "No I don't." "Don't mean nothing." "Just having a laugh, that's all." "He's nice, though." "Don't you think he's nice?" "He doesn't speak." "Uh, what planet are you on, girl?" "Boys don't speak." "I want intelligent conversation, I've got my best mate, don't I?" "Got you." "Gonna crash outside tonight, man." "Talking about her is doing my head in." "Cheers." "Cheers." "Hey, fuck her, man." "Yeah." "SEVERINO: [CRYING]" "Casey." "Hey, Case!" "SEVERINO: [STOPS CRYING]" "[CRYING AGAIN]" "[STOPS CRYING]" "VENETIA:" "It was nice, what you did." "Protecting me." "No one's ever done that before." "All my life, I'm the one protecting everyone else." "My mum, my sister." "You stick up for people." "Your brothers." "It's not like that." "I've got money." "Cash I found on a debt collecting job." "Casey posted it to Inverness so I'd come with him." "That's why I'm here." "Thinks his dad will take him in." "What do you think?" "Maybe he will." "It's not up to me, is it?" "All I've got to do is just get him there." "Sounds good to me." "Why you got this?" "Four leaf clover." "My nan gave it me." "She used to collect us from school." "And go out on Friday for the eve." "Had this cross inside the door to stop the house burning down." "Told us she had a fairy living in the wheelie bin." "And now, we believed her." "Casey used to be dead careful putting the rubbish," "In case he squished it." "She was good, though." "Looked after us." "They might wake up." "My mum used to shag when I was in the room." "I can't do it." "In case they wake up." "OK." "Chocolate?" "Mm." "Way I see it were, I've got two choices." "I'm pissed off with her, so I fuck off out my kid's life." "Or, I say, I'm the father, I'm going to do the right thing." "I'm going to get access to my kids." "I'm going to start saving up for her." "I'm going to be there Christmas and birthdays." "Do you know what I mean?" "I'm not walking out on her like our dads did on us." "We piss off, it makes us just as bad as them." "Do you know what I mean?" "Look at her." "She can grow up to be a doctor, an artist... anything," "If I stick around and I help her." "H:" "Casey!" "Case!" "Case." "VENETIA:" "You sure he's dead?" "SEEMA:" "We need to call the police." "Tell them there's been an accident." "H:" "No we don't." "No police." "SEEMA:" "But it was an accident." "He got hit by a truck." "VENETIA:" "He's right." "No police." "SEEMA:" "If we don't call the police, we'll get into trouble." "VENETIA:" "We've just got to keep calm." "SEEMA:" "Give me my phone." "Shut the fuck up!" "We've got a baby who's nicked." "The police come, it's over." "It's all right for you." "You can go home." "We ain't got nowhere we can go." "I wonder what it's like to be dead." "VENETIA:" "You've got to get out of here, girl." "Probably already wish you was never here." "SEEMA:" "Why can't you come with me?" "I've still got things to do." "You know that." "And you like that boy." "Yeah, I do." "But you're still my friend, Seems," "And you've got to get back home." "A thing like this could mess up your whole life." "I ain't got nothing that ain't messed up already." "I'll see you again, though." "Won't I?" "Yeah." "Course you will." "Better take this." "It's my old phone." "I'm going to take her into town, and get her out of here." "I could meet you." "In Inverness." "But you got to say it." "That you want me to come." "You want me to?" "Yeah." "Yeah." "Got to go." "No." "He's got to be buried, like Mum, to keep him safe." "No!" "Stop!" "Don't touch me!" "Don't touch me, you bastard!" "You shit bag!" "I ain't interested, Case!" "You never even come to Mum's funeral!" "What?" "You're always running away!" "Well, I didn't run away." "I stayed, and I..." "I buried Mum, and, and I put her handbag" "In, even though the man said I couldn't, I still..." "H:" "You think you know everything, don't you?" "What do you mean?" "Forget it." "No." "Tell me." "When Mum found out she was going to have Sevy," "She said to me, when the baby comes," "I don't want you having nothing to do with it." "She said... she said, I'll tell you what." "I'll give you some money to go away." "It would leave me a bit short, but it'd be worth it, just" "To know, we'd never have to see you again." "CASEY:" "Put him in his sleeping bag, to keep him safe." "Put his baby in with him." "[BLEATING]" "What is that?" "Sheep." "Fell off of a van this morning." "Said he should have left it by the road." "Now we have to get the vet out." "Have it put to sleep." "You're gonna kill it?" "[BLEATING]" "What..." "Get rid of it." "What, here?" "You heard me." "It will get run over." "If you don't get rid of it, I'm going." "Well then walk to Inverness!" "'Cause no one's going to give you" "A lift with a sodding sheep, are they?" "Go on." "Walk." "Get away from me." "SEVERINO: [SQUEALS]" "Yeah, you and me both, Sevy." "[BRAKES]" "[CAR DOOR]" "(SLAVIC ACCENT) It's unusual, I think, to travel with sheep." "Ah, he's a rescue sheep." "My grandmother, when married, she" "Take her chicken on honeymoon." "Her chicken love her so much, would not eat" "Or sleep when my grandmother is not there." "She can stay in mountains, in cupboards, at pillow," "Go on holiday... very good, huh?" "Yeah." "Go." "Good." "What was the chicken's name?" "Her name was Carolina." "We go?" "I go Scotland." "This is good?" "Go on." "[BLEATING]" "Whoo!" "(AMERICAN ACCENT) Hey there." "Lovely here, isn't it?" "You in the service?" "Army." "Yeah, he just got back from Afghanistan." "You hear that, Grace?" "Hey." "Let me shake your hand." "I've got so much respect for guys like you." "Guys who are really doing something." "Good work." "See that bloke, thinking I was a real soldier." "Looking at you like you're something special." "Man, people just think I'm a piece of shit." "They grab their handbags when they see me coming." "Well you do steal stuff." "Not handbags." "I wish I could have done something." "Been good at sport or something." "Yeah, I wanted to be good." "Mum was always telling me to be good." "I just kept messing up." "We're not good, but we ain't bad." "Are we?" "We're just not anything special." "VENETIA:" "Hiya." "SEVERINO: [WHINING]" "VENETIA:" "So." "What's been happening?" "A promise is a promise." "Shit." "Where's it from?" "H:" "Dunno." "I'm gonna see your dad's, and you've got to stay here, OK?" "No." "No, you've got to stay here, because the cops" "Will know his address, won't they?" "They could be waiting for you." "But you stay here with Venetia." "You get some chips and stuff." "OK?" "[DOG BARKING]" "WOMAN:" "Jamey?" "Jamey." "So?" "What do you want?" "Casey." "He thinks you'll take him in, with our little brother." "Right." "H:" "Our mum died." "Ah." "The police said." "Look." "If it's money you're after, I mean, I could do something." "I could help out." "I could talk to you on the telephone." "We don't need no money." "You've got another kid." "Sweetheart, maybe you should go into the kitchen" "And make a cup of tea." "Casey, he don't have nowhere else he can go." "Well, the thing is, we don't have any room." "I'll tell Casey you're dead, OK?" "Because you being dead is more kind to him" "Than him knowing that you're alive" "And you don't give a shit." "When'd he die?" "I don't know." "Just said he was dead." "Sorry, Case." "We could live with you." "Got to go back." "We can't go back." "They'll... they'll take Sevy away." "And you'll go and I'll be all on my own." "Mum wanted us to stay together." "We... we've got to stay together." "Mum didn't want me having nothing to do with you." "I told you." "But you... you can do Sev's bottle." "And you can mash up his food, now, and everything." "You're nearly as good as me." "I'd just mess up." "No, Mum..." "Mum made a mistake." "Everyone makes mistakes." "You've come all this way, and you've looked after us." "You're a good boy, really." "You're nice." "You're only eighteen." "There are girls with kids younger than me." "Yeah, but they got mums to help them." "You ain't got no one." "You get a job, a room... we could find some place together." "You're kidding me, right?" "We're the same." "No one's ever taken care of us." "So now, we take care of each other." "We get a little room." "Paint the walls magenta." "In a couple of years, Casey comes to visit." "His big brother's sorted himself out." "Got himself together." "That's when you can help him." "But he's never just going to give" "Himself up, agree to go back." "We'll take him down the sea." "Casey'd like that." "Show him a really good time." "Something to remember." "Then we walk away." "Call the police." "They'll be OK." "You can write to Case." "Explain." "He'll understand." "You can't fix everything, H. No matter" "How much you might want to." "VENETIA:" "You want to go on this, Case?" "No, I ain't gone on the whirly." "VENETIA:" "It's OK." "One and the baby." "Look, Sev." "A giant teacup." "That's Sevy's hat." "He might be cold." "OPERATOR:" "Hold tight." "SEVERINO:" "Ah, ah, ah!" "I can't." "Babe, I know it's hard." "He'll be so scared." "You go back now, you're throwing it all away." "You can be free." "Do anything you like." "You got all that money." "You got me." "You got me, H." "I'm sorry." "Fuck you, then, H!" "You hear me?" "Fuck you!" "Casey!" "Casey!" "Case!" "Casey!" "How many times I told you about wandering off?" "Look, we got you a chocolate apple." "Everything's OK." "CASEY:" "Where's Venetia?" "She" "H:" "Had to go." "She had stuff to do." "It's all right, Case." "It's gone." "No, it can't have." "If Venetia took it, then let her have it." "CASEY:" "But that's our money for our future." "Money don't buy you a future, Case." "We got that." "We can get more." "Two smart boys like us." "No problem." "Sev bumped his head." "H:" "When?" "When we got off the ride, but there weren't no blood." "There weren't no blood." "We've got a baby here, bumped his head." "Have your name, please?" "[BABY CRYING]" "DOCTOR:" "Your brother should be fine." "We'll keep him in overnight for observation." "No, he's got to come with us, 'cause" "He can't go to sleep unless I sing him his song." "He'll be all right, Case." "No, but he cries if I don't sing him his song." "DOCTOR:" "We'll look after him." "No, but I never got to say goodbye." "Let go of my..." "CASEY:" "Sevy!" "H:" "You don't have to hold him like that!" "[SCREAMING]" "SEVERINO: [CRYING]" "TELLER:" "I'm afraid this is no longer legal tender." "What does that mean?" "TELLER:" "We can't change it." "It's not real money anymore." "MAN:" "And what about the baby, when you're at work?" "I know girls who've got kids." "They could be together, playing." "There's hordes of blokes ain't got no job, and they got kids." "I'll get a job." "Take care of them." "We are going to recommend that you receive ongoing support," "That your brother is offered foster care," "And that your brother Severino is fostered with a view" "To adoption." "You all deserve a life." "This is the best way we can try to give you one." "Don't I get no say?" "Fuck you." "Can't smoke, sorry." "Couple of years, you'll be out, man." "I'll send you a post card from every place I go." "You could stick them on the ceiling," "Pretend we're on the road." "I'm not allowed to stick things on the walls." "You want to wear these like a real soldier?" "You look good, man." "Yeah." "[MUSIC PLAYING]"