Coronation Street 11th July 2024
Coronation Street 11th July 2024
Transcript
00:00I'm sorry.
00:30I'm sorry I couldn't come back until now.
00:33I couldn't.
00:36I was so scared.
00:40And at first I sort of just hoped it'd all blow over.
00:45But then I was scared of what might happen to me.
00:51I'm sorry.
00:54I saw her online.
01:00I saw those lads attacking you and I was beside myself.
01:04And now this.
01:10I had to come and see you.
01:12I had to come back.
01:15To see if he was...
01:17Hello.
01:19I suppose you're the niece.
01:21He's been asking if you can come and see him.
01:25Is he going to be alright?
01:26He's already a lot better than when he was brought in.
01:30Can I get you a cuppa or anything?
01:32No.
01:34No good to her.
01:36Holler if you change your mind.
01:38Try and get some rest.
01:40We'll look after him.
01:43Thanks.
01:56Thanks.
02:02Take care.
02:26It's alright. It's alright.
02:28I'm not going to hurt you.
02:30I just want to talk to you.
02:32Lauren, just talk.
02:35I'm not going to hurt you. You've got nothing to be afraid of.
02:38Alright?
02:40Okay?
02:45Let me out.
02:47I just want to talk to you.
02:49Lauren, please.
02:53I am so sorry.
02:54I'm so sorry for dragging you in here.
02:57I had to talk to you and I didn't want to risk...
02:59I only want to talk.
03:02What do you want?
03:05To see you.
03:07To see how you're doing.
03:10I want to help you.
03:15Help?
03:17Yeah.
03:19That's all I've ever wanted.
03:22To look after you.
03:25Thank you.
03:34Joel Dearing. Duty solicitor.
03:37I'm your knight in shining armour.
03:42My mum's a million miles away.
03:45She won't want anything to do with me.
03:49My dad's in prison.
03:52I don't want anything to do with him.
03:55Now,
03:57I don't mean for this to sound harsh.
03:59It may help me get you out of here,
04:01but you don't have anyone.
04:05I'm so sorry, Lauren.
04:07Everything you've been through,
04:09and now this.
04:11It's no wonder you temporarily took leave of your senses.
04:17I swear I will do my best to get you out of here.
04:21And when you're out, here's my personal number.
04:24Call me any time, day or night.
04:27I won't let you down.
04:32My knight in shining armour, yeah?
04:34Yeah.
04:39Dee Dee couldn't believe I'd got you off on a caution.
04:43She was so impressed.
04:45The first time we met.
04:48Not even a year ago, and now look at us, we're
04:51planning on getting married.
04:55Please don't mess that up for us, eh?
05:00For her.
05:03Did you have any plans on me back then?
05:07When you walked into that interview room and you saw me all alone?
05:11No family? Friends?
05:14Plans?
05:16I don't know what you mean.
05:18You were simply a client who needed legal assistance, that's all.
05:22Right.
05:24So that knight in shining armour thing,
05:26doesn't sound like usual solicitor stuff.
05:29I was showing you a bit of kindness.
05:36A little housewarming present?
05:38Oh, thanks.
05:40I'll open it now, eh? Have you got a corkscrew?
05:43Oh, er, I don't know.
05:46I'll have to get you one.
05:49Cheers.
05:51And thanks for yesterday.
05:53I was convinced I'd be charged.
05:56No problem.
06:02Er, I should be making tracks.
06:05Yeah.
06:07Well, you've got my number now.
06:09Mm-hm.
06:11I'll see you tomorrow.
06:12Well, you've got my number now.
06:14Mm-hm.
06:16Call me if you need anything. Legal, corkscrew, whatever.
06:19See you.
06:21Laters.
06:39So I thought I had this.
06:41This chance of making some money.
06:43You know, like a little job on the side.
06:45It's not happening now and I didn't know where else I could ask, so...
06:48Not a problem at all.
06:53I will pay you back the second I can.
06:55It's no rush. It's what I'm here for.
07:00When Ryan told me he was moving back into Carlos...
07:02And then...
07:04you blackmailed him?
07:06To pay you back.
07:08I was desperate.
07:10And then I helped you.
07:12Well, the goodness of your heart, though, was it?
07:15Of course it was.
07:20What other reason could there have been?
07:25OK, so come on.
07:28What's all this about?
07:32I can't do it.
07:34I can't.
07:36You can't do what?
07:38Be a grown-up.
07:40What do you mean?
07:42All this.
07:44All what?
07:45All this.
07:49It's like every day there's some...
07:51A new bill.
07:54I've turned the fridge off because there's an out in it.
07:57I've got no money on my electric card anyway.
08:00And I'm freezing.
08:02I'm freezing all the time.
08:05I'm sleeping in my coat.
08:07I'm covered in old blankets and anything else I can find.
08:10I'm behind on the rent.
08:13I can't do it. I can't.
08:15I can't live like this. I can't be an adult.
08:17Hey, hey, we've spoke about this.
08:19I've got cash.
08:20But I already owe you loads.
08:21No.
08:22I do.
08:24I knew when I lent you that money
08:26that I might not see it again.
08:27And that's fine.
08:28It's not.
08:30If you can pay me back one day,
08:32brilliant,
08:33but I never expected you to.
08:37It's not right.
08:40Well,
08:41hey,
08:42I know I've bored you to death
08:44with my life lessons,
08:46but
08:47as your self-appointed life coach,
08:48you should know by now that the world
08:50is not fair.
08:53I get paid
08:54loads
08:55to do what I do.
08:58And it pains me that you're sleeping in your coat
09:00to keep warm
09:01while I can,
09:03I don't know, I can just go out
09:04and spend 20 quid on a bottle of wine.
09:0720 quid?
09:0820 quid.
09:10It's a really nice one.
09:14Yeah, but
09:15it's 20 quid.
09:23Look,
09:24I don't know you really well,
09:25but
09:26what I do know is
09:27if you were in the same position as me,
09:29you'd help some out too, wouldn't you?
09:33You would.
09:35Yeah, I like to think I could.
09:41But I've never...
09:44I could never imagine being able to do that.
09:48Oh, you will.
09:53You will.
09:55You're too good
09:56and nice.
09:57Don't.
10:01Good things happen to good people.
10:04I swear.
10:05But that's just it.
10:08What if I'm not good?
10:10You know what?
10:11If bad things happen to me,
10:12because I deserve it.
10:13Don't go down that road again.
10:14It's just so hard.
10:17So hard.
10:20And I can't see how things are ever going to get any easier.
10:25Of course it will.
10:26You've got me in your corner, haven't you?
10:29Look,
10:31this is
10:32no big deal for me.
10:33I've got money.
10:36So I'm going to put some credit on your electricity card,
10:39I'm going to get some food for your fridge
10:41and I'm going to pay your rent.
10:45No buts.
10:46I'm going to sort this for you, OK?
10:50OK?
10:53I don't know if I'll be able to pay you back.
11:00And I...
11:01I don't care if you don't.
11:10I wish there was something I could do for you.
11:13Something to say thank you.
11:28It's OK.
11:31It's going to be alright.
12:02I should...
12:03Yeah.
12:09I'll get some cash for you tomorrow.
12:12Sort you out.
12:16You're making it like I was paying you for it.
12:20I don't need to pay for it, I'd never pay for it.
12:23I don't need to pay for it.
12:26I don't need to pay for it.
12:27I don't need to pay for it.
12:28I don't need to pay for it.
12:31I haven't charged for it either, but...
12:33you always give me cash when we did it.
12:35Don't be so disgusting.
12:36I'm just saying it how it was.
12:39That's what happened.
12:41You can't say it didn't, right?
12:45Gold money, whatever, but...
12:48it's what you did.
12:50It might have made you feel better,
12:52but it just made me feel worse.
12:56I...
12:57I helped you.
12:58I...
12:59No!
13:01No!
13:23Oh, sorry.
13:25I thought...
13:27I've always been good to you.
13:30I always treated you right.
13:43You're lying.
13:45To yourself, maybe.
13:47You're lying.
13:49I should know.
13:51I should know.
13:53I should know.
13:56I'm an expert at it.
14:01Because I was lying to you.
14:05Lying to myself.
14:09Lying to others.
14:13I lied to everyone.
14:16But at least I knew I was lying.
14:18You didn't.
14:19You were thinking.
14:21You were nice.
14:22No!
14:23Are you messing me around?
14:24No, I'm not.
14:25You are!
14:26I don't want to do this!
14:29Are you playing games?
14:31I don't have time for games.
14:33I'm not playing games.
14:35I've got you!
14:36Get off me, Joel!
14:42Ow.
14:46Lauren...
14:48I have a thousand and one things that I need to be doing.
14:51So stop messing me around!
14:56Come on.
15:02I won't be long.
15:05Well...
15:09Come on!
15:11And then you'd buy me things to make yourself feel better.
15:14To make yourself feel better.
15:17Might as well have done a collar.
15:18It makes you look nicer, doesn't it?
15:23A little bit more respectable.
15:28Almost.
15:29Dressing me up.
15:31Like one of your playthings.
15:33You weren't complaining at the time.
15:38You are proper deluded.
15:40You were happy.
15:41I wasn't!
15:42Why are you rewriting what went on?
15:47I was scared of you.
15:52You were scared of me?
15:55Why?
15:56Why were you scared of me?
16:01You hurt me.
16:07Come on.
16:09No, you...
16:10You loved it a bit rough.
16:12No girl has ever loved what you did to me.
16:15And I asked you to stop.
16:19But you won't listen.
16:21No.
16:22You won't listen.
16:25I asked you so many times.
16:28So many times.
16:29So many...
16:30Shh!
16:38That day...
16:40That last day.
16:41The last time I saw you.
16:43You're listening to Weatherfield FM.
16:44Online and on digital.
16:46The time is 2 o'clock on Friday 23rd February.
16:49Let's head right over to our newsroom.
17:11DOOR KNOCKS
17:23Right, Bobby.
17:25SCREAMS
17:27Shut your dirty mouth.
17:31You don't make a sound without my say so.
17:34Understood?
17:36You hurt me.
17:41Like you.
17:42Don't listen, please.
17:44Please, please.
17:48We have to make time for this.
17:49I've been calling you for days.
17:51Yeah, I know, and I've been trying to find my time for you.
17:53Shut up.
17:55Liar.
17:58You don't want me coming here.
18:00You said you don't want me.
18:03You said you don't want me doing this.
18:08I'm in charge, not you.
18:13How dare you say you don't want this.
18:17Stop.
18:18No, I swear.
18:20I've been trying to find time so that I was ready for what you wanted.
18:29I said...
18:33SCREAMS
18:44Please, Joel, I don't like this.
18:46I don't want to do this any more. You're scaring me.
18:49I don't want this.
18:51This is what we do.
18:53It's what I pay you for.
18:55Not any more.
18:57Go, now, or I'll call the police.
19:00You'll call the police? What exactly will you tell them?
19:05That you're trying to kill me.
19:07I'm not trying to kill you.
19:09Get out!
19:11The police wouldn't believe you, anyway.
19:14Your word against mine.
19:16Well, Dee Dee would believe me.
19:20Help! Help!
19:23No!
19:27Don't say her name!
19:30SCREAMS
19:51Lauren.
19:52Lauren!
19:59SCREAMS
20:30MUSIC PLAYS
20:33MUSIC CONTINUES
20:57And that's why I had to disappear.
21:00I had to.
21:03Or you'd have killed me.
21:05No.
21:07Sorry.
21:09Or we were playing a game.
21:12Is that what we were doing?
21:14Was I getting it rough because that's what I liked?
21:16Is that what you think?
21:18No.
21:20You left me for dead.
21:24You just left.
21:27All of this...
21:29it stops now.
21:33I'm ending this.
21:37Where do you think you're going?
21:39Move.
21:46I thought you said you were scared of me.
21:51I was.
21:54But now I'm not.
21:56Oh.
21:57And why's that?
21:59You found some inner power?
22:01You go, girl.
22:02I'm not scared of you.
22:04Because I'm not alone anymore.
22:06Oh.
22:07Have you got a boyfriend?
22:09Some big bloke who's going to treat you really nice?
22:13No.
22:14No.
22:15Then who?
22:18Move.
22:20Don't be silly.
22:21No, don't.
22:22Don't.
22:24Don't.
22:27No.
22:29No.
22:47No.
23:03Is...
23:05Is it mine?
23:10Well, I haven't slept with anyone else.
23:13I don't put it about, despite what you might think.
23:17How?
23:18I mean, how far gone are you?
23:21Is it too late to make it go away?
23:24I'm just wondering how...
23:27I, if...
23:29Five months.
23:30Five months?
23:40Have you told anyone about it?
23:44I haven't got anyone else to tell.
23:49That's a relief.
23:52No, I...
23:54So how come you've let it get this far?
23:57I mean, I thought you might not have wanted to keep it,
24:00considering what you said about how you felt about me.
24:02I didn't realise at first.
24:06Not for a bit.
24:10And then when I...
24:12When I did realise, when I knew for definite,
24:15I don't know, I just started to feel things
24:18I could never imagine feeling.
24:26This might have had something to do with you at the start,
24:29but it's got nothing to do with you now.
24:32OK.
24:33It's mine.
24:38I feel him move.
24:43Him.
24:48Or her.
24:53They're moving around inside me, and it's...
24:58..for the first time since I...
25:01I can't remember.
25:06I've got... I've got someone.
25:09I've got someone.
25:12SHE SOBS
25:16Lauren...
25:18..we have to talk about this.
25:20Don't talk about...
25:22OK, look, I get it, I do.
25:25I get what you're saying, but, Lauren, please, if you'd let me,
25:28I would love to be a part of the baby's life.
25:30No, you nearly killed me, then left me for dead.
25:32No, I didn't. I went to get help. I left to get help.
25:35You have to believe me.
25:37It's the absolute truth.
25:40After... Well, us.
25:43Me, I...
25:45I was in a total state.
25:48I legged it from the flat. I ran as fast as I could.
25:54Yeah, I suppose I could have just called for an ambulance straightaway,
25:57but I don't know, I wasn't thinking straight.
26:00But then I saw this ambulance heading along the road.
26:03I ran towards it, waving my arms around, calling for it to stop.
26:06I was so desperate to get help, to get you out of the flat,
26:10but I didn't know what to do.
26:12I was running around like a headless chicken.
26:19They must have had an urgent call.
26:21They put their sirens on and they sped off before they saw me.
26:27Then I came to my senses and I realised I could just call for an ambulance.
26:32I couldn't find my phone.
26:35I thought I must have dropped it when I was running around.
26:40So I ran back to the flat, to you.
27:32Oh, no!
27:37But the door was locked. I couldn't understand, but then...
27:40I presumed you were OK and you'd locked me out.
27:42I called to you through the letterbox, begging you to open the door,
27:45telling you over and over again that I'd made a mistake.
27:48No! No, no, no!
27:51No!
28:02HE BREATHES HEAVILY
28:10Then I thought you might not be there.
28:12I... I thought you might have gone to the hospital.
28:17I searched everywhere for you.
28:19Oh, no! No!
28:22HE GROANS
28:32Hey, we're at home this weekend. Everton?
28:35Shut up, it's smashing, right? I mean, on paper.
28:38Oh, well, that's the thing, we don't play on paper, do we?
28:41Tell me about it.
28:43Oh, well, it should be a busy weekend.
28:45Days, weeks passed and I kept asking around for you.
28:50But nobody had heard anything.
28:53I thought you might have gone back down south to your mum's or a mate's somewhere.
28:58I was so worried about you.
29:02Yeah.
29:04Absolutely.
29:06I made a mistake.
29:08I flipped out and I hurt you.
29:10I know that.
29:12And I hate myself so...
29:14You should.
29:17I mean, it was no-one else's fault, was it?
29:20I ain't done out to deserve that.
29:22I ain't done out to deserve that.
29:27No-one deserves what you did.
29:31No-one deserves getting spanked over the head with a massive lump of wood, not just once.
29:38You hit me. Again. And again.
29:41I'm so sorry. I've got issues.
29:43What do you think?
29:45I've got issues that I need to work on and I've already started.
29:49I have.
29:51I'm, erm...
29:53I'm seeing a counsellor now.
29:56And...
29:58she's helping me work through these feelings.
30:04You're getting off hurting women?
30:11I shouldn't have hurt you. I shouldn't.
30:14And this... this is no excuse.
30:17But I'm... I'm...
30:20I messed up.
30:25All the time.
30:27We were together, eh?
30:29And I was giving you the worldly, wise voice of experience,
30:32telling you how you should live your life.
30:35I had no right.
30:37I had no right.
30:45I've never told anyone this before, but...
30:51when I was a kid,
30:53I found out my mum was having an affair.
30:56I saw it with my own eyes.
30:58My mum with another man.
31:02And my dad must have found out about it too.
31:04And, well, he went downhill.
31:07From there, he got depressed.
31:09Like...
31:11properly depressed.
31:22Roy?
31:23It's OK.
31:25Hello, Laura.
31:27No.
31:28It's Nina.
31:30Hello.
31:33Lauren.
31:40You probably thought my life was all sunshine and rainbows
31:43in comparison to yours, but...
31:46my dad, he's better now.
31:48But...
31:50when he was at his lowest, he took it out on me.
31:54I was only a kid and he used me as a punching bag.
31:58My mum must have known about it.
32:01He told me not to tell her.
32:03He threatened me, but she must have known,
32:05she must have, but she did nothing.
32:10This therapy, counselling,
32:12made me realise that this is where it all started.
32:20In my head, my mum destroyed my dad
32:23and then she chose not to protect me when he started to hurt me.
32:28When I...
32:31lost it with you...
32:36that's what was going on on the inside.
32:41But...
32:43I know now.
32:45And I'm changing...
32:48I'm changing my thinking, I'm sorting myself out.
32:51I swear to you, Lauren, I swear I will never...
32:55I swear I will never lay a finger on you again.
32:59Ever.
33:07So, erm...
33:10go on.
33:12Let's get out of here.
33:16Please, Lauren, let's...
33:18let's go somewhere where we can talk properly.
33:22Give me this chance and you won't regret it.
33:26Let me make amends.
33:32Please.
33:34Please.
33:52Rest. You need to rest.
33:56I saw Lauren.
33:58You saw Lauren?
34:00Here, here. She was here.
34:04Erm, Roy, Lauren's not been here.
34:07Lauren's...
34:09was here.
34:11I've been with you the whole time and I've not seen Lauren or anyone else.
34:14It was before... before you...
34:18before you came.
34:22Lauren was here.
34:24Yes.
34:32Excuse me.
34:34Sorry to bother you, but I was just wondering if anyone has been in to see my uncle before me.
34:38You're his immediate family. There's no-one else?
34:41Yeah, just me.
34:42And I imagine they didn't allow you in until he was comfortable?
34:45Yeah, yeah, that's right.
34:46Then no-one else would have been here before you.
34:48Oh, OK. Thank you.
34:55SIGHS
35:04What are you thinking?
35:07Tell me, please.
35:12I'm thinking...
35:16that I don't believe a single word that falls out of your mouth.
35:19It's the truth. You've got to be...
35:21No, no.
35:23You've said what you've had to say, and good for you,
35:25but I need you to get out of my way now.
35:27Please, Lauren...
35:28No, Joel!
35:30You tried to kill me.
35:35Have you any idea what that's like?
35:38I thought I was going to die.
35:41I laid there thinking I was dying.
35:44And if I weren't, then I soon would be if you knew I was alive.
35:49I lay there, holding my breath,
35:51praying that you'd go.
35:55And when you did,
35:57when the door closed and I dared to,
36:00I got up and I left.
36:02Without a second thought of what I needed or where I was going.
36:05I'm sorry. I legged it away.
36:08Away from...
36:10from my home.
36:14The one place where I belonged.
36:17I finally, once in my life, I belonged somewhere.
36:22Friends.
36:24People that cared about me.
36:29Everyone except you.
36:32I had to leave that.
36:35Everything good in my life because of you.
36:43I had blood pouring from my head
36:46and my hair was soaked with it,
36:48and I'd just run.
36:50Terrified that you'd be round the next corner.
36:52I couldn't breathe.
36:55My head hurt.
36:57My chest hurt.
37:00Every little bit of me...
37:04hurt.
37:10I had to keep running.
37:13I was tired.
37:15I was tired.
37:19But I couldn't stop.
37:24Eventually, I got into town.
37:27Started asking people for money.
37:30A quid for a bed for a night.
37:33I knew it would risk it.
37:37But I had to keep my head down.
37:41It took hours.
37:43Hours.
37:45But I ended up with enough to get on the coach.
37:49Where to?
37:54I got on the coach.
37:57I sat at the back.
37:59It felt like I'd only started breathing normally again once we got on the motorway.
38:05And I started thinking about what had happened.
38:09And I just cried.
38:13I couldn't...
38:15I couldn't stop.
38:17The tears were just pouring from my face.
38:22I couldn't work out how I got myself into this mess,
38:25but I knew it was my fault.
38:27Yeah.
38:29I mean, I was the one that made you flip out
38:31because I didn't give you what you wanted.
38:35But then you always just did
38:38what you wanted anyway.
38:40So I thought maybe it wasn't that after all.
38:44Maybe it was because I hinted I'd blackmail you.
38:48But you knew I could do it.
38:51You knew I'd done it to Ryan.
38:53That thought never entered my mind.
38:55Oh, I know.
38:56Cos you exploded.
38:59You suddenly lost it.
39:04And that's something else, that.
39:07An immediate reaction.
39:10Not a calculated thing.
39:14But I figured it out
39:18when I was sat at the back of that coach.
39:23That the reason you snapped
39:28was because I said her name.
39:33Dee Dee.
39:35You lay one finger on me
39:37and I will scream this entire building down.
39:46She's mad, innit?
39:49Her name.
39:51Out of my mouth.
39:53Your beautiful girlfriend's name.
39:56Out of the mouth of your dirty little bit on the side.
40:04How dare I say her name?
40:07How dare I bring her and everything she means to you
40:11into your head when you're with me?
40:16But that's what I did that day, innit?
40:19That's what I did wrong.
40:24Do you know what?
40:26Days, weeks after it happened,
40:28do you know what blinding realisation I had, Jo?
40:33I hadn't done anything.
40:38I had done nothing to deserve nearly getting beaten to death.
40:42Cos nobody deserves that.
40:44Nobody.
40:47It had absolutely nothing to do with me.
40:52But it 100% had everything to do with you.
40:57Look at me.
40:59Look at me!
41:02You're the problem.
41:04You're the problem.
41:07Not me. You.
41:11So, no, I don't want to talk to you.
41:14And I don't want you anywhere near me and my baby.
41:17Mine. Not yours.
41:22Because deep down,
41:24I know how little you think of me.
41:28To you, I'm just a problem.
41:32Something to be gotten rid of.
41:35You're wrong.
41:40Where are you going?
41:58Oh, God.
42:01Where?
42:16Door closing.
42:19Door opening.
42:27Door closing.
42:31Door closing.
42:37Hi, baby, OK? I'm good. Where are you?
42:40Just heading into work. Problem with some admin, really.
42:43Boring thing, you know.
42:45Oh, isn't it weird?
42:48Oh, yeah, I wish it could.
42:50Just bumped into an old client hanging around outside the building.
42:53She's got a bit of a grudge.
42:55She got a custodial back in the day.
42:57A nightmare, yeah.
42:59Are you running?
43:01The sooner I sort this problem, the sooner I can rest.
43:11Are you sure you're OK, though?
43:13Yeah, yeah.
43:15All right, well, do you want me to come round on a mercy mission
43:18with some food and a bottle of wine?
43:20Oh, you know, that would be lovely. But?
43:22But I don't know how long I'm going to be. I might be half an hour.
43:25I might be an all-nighter.
43:27OK, OK, it'll just not work too hard, yeah?
43:30Yeah.
43:32Not yet.
43:34I love you, too.
43:39Go! Go! Go!
43:41Just go! Drive!
43:45Drive! Drive! Stop!
43:47SHE SOBS
44:17MUSIC PLAYS