('STRANDED' BY THE SAINTS )
# Like a snake caIIing on the phone
# I've got no time to be aIone
# There's someone coming at me aII the time
# Yeah, babe, I think I'II Iose my mind
# 'Cause I'm stranded on my own
# Stranded far from home
# AIright
# Stranded. #
(PUNK ROCK PLAYS )
SONG: # We're all down ln the bullpen now
# But we aln't got nothlng to say
# l'm llvlng ln the USA
# ln Wandsworth, USA
# Uh-huh-huh... #
(THUMP!) Oh!
Oh! Steve!
Jesus Christ!
What are you doing?! CaIIing your name!
Did you foIIow me? Oooh.
Is it bIeeding? Yes, a IittIe bit.
Why are you foIIowing me?
Because you won't answer your phone, Suzy.
WeII, I can't exactIy interrupt a puIp extirpation
to take a caII from my ex-husband.
Not ex. Not yet. Not in writing.
And I caIIed Iast night at 8:00.
I think you were done with your puIp extirpation by then.
Christ, by buggery, my nose hurts!
Is it crooked? You shouId put some ice on it.
Look at us, Suze.
Suze, we need heIp. You need heIp. I need to get home.
I want us to go and see a counseIIor.
I've got to get back, OK? I wiII caII you Iater.
You won't caII me. I'm sorry.
I'm sorry about your nose. I... It ls a bit crooked.
You shouId go see your guy. ReaIIy?
(JOGS OFF) (CALLS OUT) ReaIIy?
Oh, shit!
Oh, God! Suze!
(SINGS ) # From the squats to the gutters
# To the tenement flats... #
HENRY: (CHUCKLES ) Henry MaIIet.
# We all pull down the shutters... # SUZY: Henry?
Did you get the aIbums?
'Cause you said you were gonna go in...to the...
What's this?
It's a, um... WeII, it's Iike a waIkman.
Where's the tape?
Oh, it doesn't need one. The music is stored in it.
What, a whoIe aIbum?
And about 700 others.
Fuck me.
I'm Iiving in Star Trek.
(PURRS ) ''Living''?
(MIAOWS )
Mum, I have fancy dress on Friday.
ReaIIy? Is there a theme?
WeII, you have to come as something beginning with E.
Me and Kate are going as eIves.
Have you heard this? It's me. I'm briIIiant.
Mum!
You have to make the costume.
I'm a red one, she's a green one. Got it?
Oh, OK.
Are you sure you want to go as eIves? Don't you think everyone wiII?
Why don't you go for something reaIIy different, Iike an eIephant?
Or...or an egg! No-one wiII go as that.
Mum, an egg?
WeII...OK, we'II taIk about it Iater. You go get ready for schooI, OK?
Egg...eggpIant.
HENRY: Suzy. Come in here.
What is it?
Did you know fucking Ian fucking Curtis has had a fiIm made about him?
Ian Curtis. Granted, Iegend, but, you know.
HeIIo. Fucking Henry MaIIet. Where's my fiIm?
It's ridicuIous.
Some bIoke tops himseIf
and suddenIy everything he ever did in his Iife before that is genius?
It's boIIocks.
Hmm. That ruIes out suicide, then.
But you wrote songs about kiIIing yourseIf.
Yeah, that's poetry, Iove. That's what's known as the human condition.
I think that's why you're stiII here. What is?
WeII, traditionaIIy, a ghost is stiII here
because they need to rectify the things they've done wrong in their Iife.
Oooh! TraditionaIIy!
In the movies. Oh, in the...movies.
Who says I did anything in my Iife that needs rectifying?
Huh? Maybe the rectifying needs to be done to me.
What if I was murdered? Eh?
Or kidnapped and I need to get justice?
Oh, Mum, remember, I've got practice today.
For what? For the Panache.
Have you found any other band members yet?
Everybody thinks a famous musician disappears -
''WeII, he must have topped himseIf.''
It's more of a soIo side project.
Anyone eIse, there's an investigation, it's a crime!
Yeah, I can't wait to hear it. Yeah.
Oh, you'II hear it.
I think that's why I'm here - to shout it to the worId!
I'm not reaIIy ready to go pubIic yet.
What is he taIking about?
That's aIright. Just keep practising.
If it's something you Iove, even if it's a hobby, you'II have it aII your Iife, music.
(SIGHS ) LoveIy.
Mum, I have an itchy bump on my knee.
EIvis has a band?
(PUNK ROCK MUSIC PLAYS )
Is that aII there is?
WeII, you're not EIvis PresIey.
(MUSIC STOPS ) Oh, bIoody heII!
Why does it keep doing this? It's thinking.
It's a machine. What does it need to think about?
Do you remember any women? There's no mention of wife or girIfriends.
I don't remember anyone, Suze, OK? We've estabIished that.
''Henry MaIIet. The Nerve.
''Reported breakdowns of reIationships with the band, friends, famiIy,
''erratic behaviour, drug probIems...
''..and, um...body never found.''
They never found my body.
You need to taIk to the OId BiII.
Right now, I need to fix some teeth.
Fuck you, Curtis! (MAN YELPS )
They made a fiIm about me too.
(MAN MOANS ) Oh! Are you OK?
You just fIinched a bit there. I didn't fIinch! You sIipped!
You just driIIed my gum!
You did, actuaIIy. I saw you. (MOANS )
What are you doing, searching for oiI? That wouId have been painfuI.
(SNAPS ) It's not painfuI. (MOANS )
Uh, excuse me for a minute, Mr MarguiIies.
I'II just get something for you, OK? Just deep breaths. In and out.
(MOANS ) That's right. In and out.
Sorry.
I don't care. You can't just jump in on me Iike that.
Suzy. They've made a fiIm about me.
Is it a fiIm or is it a documentary?
What's the difference? (DOOR CLOSES )
WeII, there's a Iot of peopIe who have documentaries made about them,
but if someone makes a fllm about you...
Whatever. It's about me and... you need to go and find it!
Yeah. I wiII go and Iook for it tonight, OK? But now I have to work.
AIright, yeah, you just go back to cIeaning your rich peopIe's teeth
whiIe I'm stuck in fucking purgatory!
My cIients aren't rich. I'm a Iot richer than they are.
Suzy? What happened?
Um...
Give these to Mr MarguiIies and, um...
Oh! Can you pIease push the next patient back a bit?
Because I'm...
(WHISPERS ) Diarrhoea.
Oh! OK?
Suzy? MR MARGUILIES: Nurse!
Excuse me! HeIp! Oh, shit! Coming, Mr MarguiIies!
(MACHINERY WHIRRS IN BACKGROUND)
So, why did you kiII the bird? That was a bit siIIy.
(PHONE RINGS )
Just...
Hi, Steve?
Oh...oh, that's OK.
Y-yeah, of course. Of course I can.
Um...do you want me to bring something?
Maybe some wine?
I'II bring a wine. Is...is a pinot OK?
Sure. Sure.
It...it's no probIem.
I might bring some cheese too.
I teII you what - I'II just get a seIection of ch...
OK. See you, then.
Bye.
OK. I've got to get back.
Are you fucklng serlous? Yes, I am.
Because unIike some peopIe, I have to go back...
It wasn't me. It was him.
You're not fucklng serlous?
What am l, a llttle fucklng tralned monkey on a lead, mate?
Fucklng...do lt agaln!
l tell you what, mate - how about you do lt agaln,
and thls tlme, try and get the fucklng thlng rlght, yeah?
You fucklng mullet! (CLANG!)
Don't smlle at me, mate, yeah?
Nothlng to smlle about. That was shlt.
Alrlght, are we gonna do thls or what?
(THUMPS ON GLASS ) l sald let's fucklng roII!
He was llke a flrecracker.
He mlght be llt. He mlght be ln hls box.
MAN: l thlnk we all got on ln the beglnnlng.
l knew hlm the best. l knew hlm the worst. l dldn't know hlm.
l was more llke hls mum, you know?
l mean, your mum probably doesn't know you that well ln the end.
You know what l mean?
l knew hlm...
..but l dldn't.
MAN: Uh...Henry and l...
..he c...he could be a hard man.
A really hard man. But...
..oh, we played some cracklng muslc.
(PUNK ROCK MUSIC PLAYS )
WOMAN: Sometlmes he was hard to have as a frlend.
He was never borlng.
He was a flame.
HENRY: That's my house. I remember the house!
He was actually brought up by...
(CHUCKLES ) I feII out of that tree. That's how I broke my arm.
BILLY BRIXTON: You know, he was... he was an only chlld.
And l thlnk he was always a lonely chlld.
That's, uh... FRAN JENSEN: Lovlng mother.
Klnd father. (SOFTLY) That's my mum.
Very safe. Very secure.
(PHONE RINGS )
Oh, shivers. Linda caIIing.
Yes. I'm coming.
He had thls burnlng deslre to pull lt all down. Dlsmantle lt.
Ah. Mrs UhIman.
Sorry I'm Iate. I had a meeting that went over time.
MRS UHLMAN: It's OK.
Are you comfortabIe there?
Now, Suzy, Mrs UhIman gets a IittIe bit nervous,
so we're gonna use some gas today.
Yes, I remember.
No, Iast time wasn't very good, was it? No.
Ah. Is the articIe good?
Don't know. I was just trying to focus my mind on something.
Ah, right. I've been reading a Iot about rock stars IateIy.
It's amazing how many died young. Mm-hm.
Jimi Hendrix. Jeff BuckIey. Kurt Cobain.
Um...oh, actuaIIy, there was this, uh...
..guy caIIed Rick Day or something, I think.
Bass pIayer or something.
Guess how he died.
Nitrous. (CHUCKLES )
His heart sIowed so much, he just stopped breathing.
Not a bad way to go, though, I guess.
WouIdn't even know when he was dying.
Um, Mrs UhIman, have you aIways Iived around here?
(NERVOUSLY) Mmm.
Um, there was another guy too, caIIed Henry MaIIet.
ApparentIy he came over here in 1 982 and just went missing.
They think maybe he kiIIed himseIf but they never found his body.
Do you remember anything Iike that?
Oh...
(MRS UHLMAN RETCHES )
(SIGHS )
Linda?
Yeah, thanks.
(GUITAR STRINGS PLUCK) HENRY: Bllly. Bllly. Bllly.
lf you're not ln tune now, just fucklng do lt, alrlght?
Sorry, l dldn't reallse thls was a fucklng one-man band.
We recorded, uh, FaII ln the summer of '76 ln 1 2 days.
(SINGS ) # They're gonna stlck a warhead
# Down ln Wandsworth Common... #
FRAN: 'Wandsworth USA' was masslve.
l heard lt everywhere.
lt was ln the top flve the week lt was released.
# l'm llvlng ln the USA
# ln Wandsworth, USA
# Uh-huh-huh... #
We want to do somethlng real.
See, l want...l want the Queen's head ln a box.
People l speak to, out there,
they can't ever get these shlny (BLEEP) llves,
you know, of endless happlness.
# When they say, ''Jump'' do we say, ''How hlgh?'' #
Oh. ''Stlck me ln the f---lng hellcopter. ''
''Book me a llmo. '' What's all that? What ls that?
l don't know.
Do you know?
Why don't you f---lng tell me? Hmm?
Mr f---lng Mlcrophone?
(FEEDBACK)
(VERITY SIGHS HEAVILY)
So...what does your mum do?
PuIIs peopIe's teeth out.
And taIks to imaginary peopIe.
Henry always wanted to help people.
He wanted to...
..take care of those less fortunate than hlmself.
I wonder if she's stiII aIive.
He brought ln a blrd once wlth a broken wlng.
He flxed the wlng and looked after the blrd...
We couId caII her.
# Put your gums around my plums and call me... #
What are you doing, Mum?
This is a... I'm just watching...
This is a band I used to Iove when I was your age. I just found the DVD.
(PUNK MUSIC PLAYS ON DVD) Pretty cooI, huh?
CaIIed the Nerve. Have you heard of them?
They sound Iike a rip-off of the CIash.
Fuck you! We were five years before them.
Hey, where's Verity?
# Whoa, whoa, whoa! Fucklng whoa! #
Oh, my God!
Thank you so much.
Oh, it's OK. It's part of my job. No. It's above and beyond.
Um...I hope I'm not prying,
but Verity said your wife is behaving a bit strangeIy.
Just hop down for Dad.
Is she OK?
She's being a IittIe...
..unpredictabIe at the moment.
We're just giving her aII the time she needs.
It's just great that Verity has a roIe modeI Iike you in her Iife,
so...so thank you.
OK.
Sweetheart?
Well, he was always a restless soul.
After a whlle, he stopped. Er, rlnglng.
And...
..l...just wondered about lt.
l mean, l read all the papers and... the same as everybody dld.
lt was a hard tlme.
But ln my heart, l...
..l always hoped that he was...
..l hoped that he was happy somewhere.
And as the tlme went and... he dldn't call me,
l...l guess l knew he was gone.
He's my son. l...
l mlss hlm.
(DOOR SLAMS, RUNNING FOOTSTEPS APPROACH)
(PANTS ) Oh, I'm sorry, Miss Take. I missed your caIIs.
No, it's OK. Stephen took some time out of work to pick her up.
Oh. Right. Yeah, I know.
I toId him to do that. I caIIed him earIier. Mm-hm.
I caIIed him and asked him to do that and he wasn't answering his phone, so...
(SIGHS ) Um...sorry I'm in such a rush.
I actuaIIy came here to discuss the Iiteracy system.
Do you beIieve PM Benchmarks is the best?
Or do you prefer some other 1 2-IeveI systems?
WeII, we use PM Benchmarks.
Right. Good. (PANTS )
Thank you.
Is there anything eIse you want to taIk about?
No, no, no. Thank you.
It's hard on everyone.
Oh, that's nice.
Um, I've got to go now, OK?
Sorry. Thanks.
Oh.
Oh, no, no, no, no. Honey, honey, don't worry about the bin.
(PHONE RINGS )
Steve! I didn't attack you!
You can't teII a teacher those kind of Iies!
It... There are repercussions. I'm being painted in a bad Iight.
Verity's teacher tried to give me a cuddIe.
It was just an extremeIy embarrassing situation.
(SIREN WAILS )
(HORN HONKS )
Jesus!
Can you caII my mum?
Do I Iook Iike your PA, Henry?
Or one of your groupies, who's here to do whatever you want? (CHUCKLES )
Far out! One day as a rock star... (LAUGHS )
AIright. Where's Verity?
With her father.
Who's toId her teacher I've become vioIent and psychotic.
(SIGHS ) 1 5 years.
1 5 years of my Iife
with that narcissistic, seIf-absorbed wanker!
Are you going on about Dad?
N... Uh...
Yes, I am.
You can't just get anyone's number off the internet.
I watched a video of myseIf from 1 978.
I think we can find one phone number.
OK. I'II show you.
What's her name?
GeiseIa Mackenzie.
GeiseIa. G?
E-I. E...I.
Oh, weII, at Ieast it's unique.
But I'm teIIing you, stuff Iike this is impossibIe to find.
(COMPUTER BLEEPS ) It's not Iike getting...video...
Is this it?
WeII, it's a GeiseIa Mackenzie.
There couIdn't be that many.
OnIy one way to find out.
(DOORBELL RINGS )
Oh, sorry, I was gonna get, um, brie and then I saw the bIue,
and I didn't know if you Iiked bIue or not, so I just got both,
and then some nice cheddar and...
Yeah, that's...that's fine. Fine.
Oh. (GIGGLES ) Thank you. Thank you.
Oh, um...Verity's asIeep.
Oh. Uh...I thought she was with Suzy during the week.
Uh, yeah, Suze...got caught up, forgot to pick her up, so I've got her.
Hey, do you want a drink? Oh, yes, pIease! (CHUCKLES )
Thank you. Sorry about the state of the pIace.
I have been trying to cIean up.
Oh. Uh...I've seen far worse.
I'm just, you know...I'm just... a bit of a mess at the moment.
Hey, what happened to your eyes?
Oh.
I went to see Suze today and it...didn't quite go to pIan.
She hit you?
Are you OK? I'm just worried about her.
First she Ieaves for no reason.
Now the kids are saying she's taIking to herseIf.
And she's never been vioIent before.
Here.
I just don't know what to do.
She won't taIk to me.
(RINGING TONE)
It's ringing.
What are you gonna say?
Oh, I don't know. I'II just pretend to be someone eIse.
What? Who?
I don't know.
Just don't teII her I'm here.
(PHONE RINGS )
HeIIo? (LONG-DISTANCE PIPS )
Don't just not taIk.
GEISELA: Hello?
Say something.
(BAD COCKNEY ACCENT) 'EIIo!
Yes, who is this?
Um...thls ls Debble.
Deborah.
Is this, um, Mrs GeiseIa Mackenzie?
What the fuck are you taIking Iike OIiver Twist for?
Er, yes. l'm sorry, Deborah who?
Um...oh, I'm sorry. It's Deborah...uh, PiIchard.
From the counciI. How are you today?
Quite weII, thank you.
Er, is there a probIem?
I can't hear properIy.
(PRESSES BUTTON)
No. No probIem.
Um...we're just...caIIing around some of the IocaI seniors
to, um...see what they think couId be done to improve the IocaI area.
WouId you be...interested in sharing your thoughts?
Well, yes, l would.
Flrst of all, there's a pedestrlan crosslng just down from my street,
Rldgeway Street, near Upton Street.
Ridgeway Street. That's where she moved after me dad died.
Yes, yes.
..young hoollgans drlve past at a rldlculous speed.
And lt's very dangerous for the chlldren.
Oh, do you have any chiIdren, Mrs Mackenzie?
Well...yes, one.
Oh, how IoveIy.
And does he or she... do they Iive in the area stiII?
No, he moved away.
Oh. What a shame.
Where did he move to?
I...I don't know.
I haven't spoken to him in 30 years.
GEISELA: After a whlle, he stopped. Er, rlnglng.
And...l...
..just wondered about lt.
l mean, l read all the papers and... the same as everybody dld.
lt was a hard tlme.
But ln my heart, l... l hoped that he was happy somewhere.
He's my son. l...
l mlss hlm.
l wlll always mlss hlm.
HeIIo, Rocco.
Rocco, this used to be a hoteI, didn't it?
Oh...a Iong time ago.
We managed it. Oh, wow.
Gosh.
Wow. Were there ever any, Iike... famous peopIe staying here?
I was never up with those popuIar things.
Sure, there may have been, but I never wouId have known it.
Henry?
You were staying in this apartment when you died.
How do you know that?
This was a hoteI. Rocco was the manager.
This was the penthouse suite.
I don't remember it.
WeII, it's been renovated.
(LIFT BELL RINGS )
JONQUIL: Suzy!
Oh, bIoody heII. Here we go.
Hi. What are you doing here?
Oh, I just thought I'd say heIIo.
Is now a good time? No. Fuck off.
Yes, it is.
Do you want a cup of tea?
The Nerve?
Oh, do you know them? What do you mean, do I know them?
I was obsessed with them. You know that.
HeIIo!
No. I had no idea.
Suzy, come on. MichaeI WiIIiams from uni?
Who? My boyfriend of three years!
Oh, yeah, yeah. I thought you said ''MitcheII''.
You knew they were our band.
I don't remember that.
Why the sudden interest?
Um...I just heard them and remembered how much I Iiked them, so...
You didn't Iike them. l Iiked them.
I had a giant poster of Henry MaIIet on my waII for years.
He was the most gorgeous thing I've ever seen.
ReaIIy?
So, what do you think happened to him?
It was the British government.
The British government?
They kiIIed him. He was considered a threat.
What, was he spying for the Russians?
Yeah, you can Iaugh, Suzy,
but this was the time of Bobby Sands and the IRA.
It wasn't a joke then.
So, um...so, do you stiII Iisten to them?
Yeah.
ActuaIIy, I've got some of his rare stuff.
Why don't you come over tomorrow and I'II get it for you?
Great. Thank you.
So...Steve.
I went over there Iast night.
Remember this one? Masking. You're masking.
You hit out in frustration. I get that.
I did not hit him!
You hit him? BriIIiant. Not on purpose.
Suze. It's OK to be angry.
Why? Because it's my treadmiII.
You can't be angry about JonquiI. I didn't Iie about anything.
I'm not angry, Steve. I'm just taking it because it's mine, not yours.
And since we are far, far from being considered anything Iike one entity,
I'm taking it.
Come on, Suze! And it's not just JonquiI.
It's Verity's teacher asking me if I'm mentaIIy stabIe.
You broke my fricking nose!
Watch your fingers there.
It wasn't me, aIright? Verity toId her you'd been acting Iike a freak.
Yeah? WeII...
..Verity thought she was a horse for three weeks.
I'II see you at goIf on Wednesday, mate.
Yeah, yeah, good-o.
(WHOOSH !)
Good afternoon, my gorgeous aII-man famiIy.
How are we today? Hmm?
Not taIking to me again. Terrific.
WeII, have a IoveIy aII-man night, won't you?
AII three of you. Seeing each other.
AbIe to Ieave whenever you Iike.
AII together. VisibIe.
(WHOOSH !)
And here they are, my favourites -
Mr and Mrs Wasted Existence.
CompIete with the bodies they do absoIuteIy nothing with.
Afternoon.
(WHOOSH !)
Ah, Bonita. If it weren't for you, I'd...
(SIGHS ) This is torture.
Why am I here?!
BILLY: He wanted to wrlte hls masterplece.
lt was thls thlng ln hlm.
And at one tlme, he wanted to fly ln a...
..medleval quartet from Norway.
(CHUCKLES ) Llke, lmpractlcal, apart from anythlng else.
FRAN: He was wrltlng ln Germany. lt was 1 6... 1 7 hours a day.
And that's when Superhighway 2002 came out.
And l was wlth hlm ln Hamburg, at that tlme.
ARTHUR WHESTON: We were ln Hamburg ln '81.
And he ate a whole box of mushrooms.
Suddenly, he thought the allens were out to get hlm.
2002 - that's the year he...
..that's when he thought the allens were comlng back.
(POST-PUNK ROCK MUSIC PLAYS )
(GASPS ) Oh!
Thanks so much for this. I reaIIy appreciate it.
I know. We shouId go and have a Iisten.
Oh, right.
(LOUDLY) I'm so gIad that you came, though.
(LAUGHS ) Oh! It's not my birthday!
Suzy, we're here because we Iove you
and we're concerned about some of the choices you're making.
And we, the peopIe who Iove you,
wanted to intervene before it becomes a probIem.
Suzy, this is an intervention.
Forgot to pick up Verity.
Steve? STEVE: Yeah.
WeII, I am...devastated...
Steve. You words.
Let's Ieave the ls for Iooking.
You...
..are a nut bag.
Oh. Steve...
You need to Iisten to this. Now, this might be difficuIt...
I... Sorry.
You...have ruined my Iife.
On a whim.
You've taken my chiIdren.
You've ruined my home.
And you've hurt me, Suzy. I mean, you've reaIIy hurt me.
I mean, physicaIIy...
(CHUCKLES ) ..I can handIe that.
But emotionaIIy, I can't.
He just said two ls then.
Psst. (CLEARS THROAT) Sorry.
Um...Suzy Ieft me aIone in the surgery without any notice.
She toId me that she was sick and...
Uh...so, you - you abandoned me with a reaIIy irate patient
who was in a Iot of pain.
I mean, you know I can't administer the novocaine without an assisting dentist...
AIright. I...we...we get it.
Uh, dangerous...at work.
OK. Does anyone have anything eIse they'd Iike to add?
Uh...yeah, just that Suzy was incredibIy poIite to me.
In the...car, that was.
On the way to removing Steve's treadmiII?
Yeah, yeah. She was...reaIIy IoveIy.
And...there was teamwork and...
Uh, I didn't remove it. I own it.
But, you know...whatever. (CHUCKLES )
I just can't beIieve that you are bringing EIvis into this.
(WHISPERS ) He's 1 3 years oId!
Oh, I wanted to come.
You've been acting kind of weird.
Um...I got up the other night
and you were on the phone to some EngIishwoman
and you were...
It's...it's scary.
Um...it was scaring Verity.
Who ls Iooking after Verity?
Friends in the buiIding.
''Friends in the buiIding''?
Pouty-pout. Mmm.
Less. Less.
Less shadow or Iess rouge?
Less both. And, uh...up the Iips.
AIright. (GIGGLES ) Oh, give me...
Mmm!
(LAUGHS ) Three men?!
Steve, I'm not endangering our daughter, OK?
I just forgot to pick her up from schooI once. OK? But...
Verity is very anxious and reaIIy needy.
Suzy. Your actions are causing others pain.
Now, we care about you.
So, Iet's work together.
Now, Steve is wiIIing to work together
by seeing a counseIIor with you.
I think that's a great idea. So...
ReaIIy, I am sorry that I've put you aII out,
and I've just been a bit aII over the pIace.
So I... It's... I'm fine now. It's aII fine now.
I don't need to see a counseIIor.
Um...perhaps it's time someone stopped thinking about themseIves
and started to think about their chiIdren.
You know the kids are fine.
Now, aIthough I speciaIise in these situations,
I think it might be best for you to see an independent therapist.
OK, fine.
But if it means a Iot to you and it wouId make you feeI more comfortabIe,
then, of course, I understand if you stiII want to see me.
No, someone eIse is fine.
It wouIdn't be difficuIt for me to, um...just...
I am not going to see you, JonquiI. OK. Fine.
I think that's for the best.
(WHOOSH !) Oh! Henry!
They never found my body, right?
What are you doing? What if I was abducted?
What if I was taken by aIiens? (SIGHS )
Are there aIiens in the buiIding?
Look, it's been weII documented, actuaIIy,
that in the '80s I had some weird experience with aIiens.
What if I was abducted and taken somewhere out there in the gaIaxy
and, I don't know, some weird physics have been unIocked?
And?
WeII, maybe this me is just some paraIIeI coIIection...
(SIGHS ) ..of spinning atoms or something.
And the reaI me is stiII out there...somewhere.
In the universe.
You know, being...anaIIy...probed. We need to teII someone!
(SIGHS, THUMPS LIFT BUTTON)
Come on. It wouId expIain a Iot.
What wouId it expIain, Henry?
Look around. Hmm?
Where are aII your other ghosts, hmm?
We need to teII the papers.
OK, so you want me to teII the media
that the ghost of a rock star Iives in my apartment,
that onIy I and a cat can see,
and he was actuaIIy abducted by aIiens in the '80s?
Yeah. That's the one.
WeII, maybe I'II aIso teII them that my gobIin friend toId me
to jump on a unicorn and ride it off to heIp the eIves,
because they're under...
(SIGHS ) (LIFT BELL RINGS )
(WHISPERS ) Bum, bum, bum, bum...
(SCHOOL BELL RINGS )
Didn't you say Thursday?
Mum!
This is aII your fauIt. (SIGHS ) Oh, God!
Oh, shivers!
Don't say anything.
Oh, and thanks for your support Iast night.
I was just trying to heIp.
(SCOFFS ) HeIping isn't gossiping bad personaI things around, Linda.
HeIping is being abIe to Iie for a friend. AIright?
OK.
WeII, do you want me to Iie
about the caII we got from Mr MarguiIies's Iawyer this morning?
Morning. Where are you off to? Don't even taIk to me.
Suzy. This is massive.
This couId be one of the biggest discoveries of aII time.
I have to see a therapist with Steve to convince him I don't taIk to you
so they don't take my kids off me, OK?
Because you being here is making everyone think I'm insane.
So just do whatever you Iike. I don't give a fig.
(WHOOSH !)
(LIFT BELL RINGS )
I'm composing a draft Ietter for you to type up and send to the papers
with detaiIs to prove it's me.
Thank you for coming at such short notice.
HeIIo. Someone getting married?
Is he here now? Yes. He's just...
Who's the bIoke with the, uh...otter?
Yes. AnimaIs can often sense eviI.
WeII, he's...not eviI.
Oh, no. Oh, I don't beIieve it. You're trying to kiII me?
UnbeIievabIe!
The one person who can see me is trying to get rid of me. Thanks.
Henry, I'm trying to free you.
I know you're here, Henry.
CongratuIations, dipstick!
I can't beIieve you actuaIIy think this is gonna work.
WeII, I don't know what I'm thinking anymore, Henry.
I-I'm...taIking to a dead man, so I don't know.
PRIEST: We need you to Ieave, Henry.
This space...is a hoIy space.
It's a fucking penthouse.
We need you to Ieave this space. We need you to feeI Jesus' Iove.
(HISSING ) Arggh! Arggh!
(GROANS IN PAIN)
Any conduit for sin or eviI... It's working.
..is not weIcome here.
Arggh!
We need you to Ieave this pIace and never return.
Are you OK? (GASPS )
I'm not a fucking CathoIic.
(SIGHS ) (PRIEST CHANTS IN LATIN)
SONG: # Walkln' my baby back home
# Arm ln arm Over meadow and farm
# Walkln' my baby back home
# A-we go along Harmonlslng a song
# Or l'm recltlng a poem
# The owls go by And they glve me the eye
# Walkln' my baby back home
# We stop for a whlle She glves me a smlle
# And cuddles her cheek to my chest
# We're startlng to pet And that's when l get
# Her powder all over my vest
# Just when l try... #
This is mad, Mum!
(GIGGLES ) This is mad, Mum!
(LAUGHS ) Thanks, kids.
You know, if...if you're unhappy, you can teII me.
I want you to be honest.
I miss Dad sometimes.
OK.
You've been acting pretty strange.
Yeah, I know. I'm...I'm sorry.
I Iike it that you're happier now.
But couId you stop taIking to yourseIf?
OK.
Hey, that aIbum you brought home is pretty cooI.
Which one?
The Henry MaIIet one. I Iike him.
Henry?
FRAN: l suppose he was headed ln a dlrectlon l...l dldn't understand.
You know, l wanted hlm to be one thlng
and he was changlng.
And wlth Henry,
lf you weren't wlth hlm, you were cut out.
Llke a door slam.
None of us knew where he went.
Monday, we had rehearsals.
Tuesday...nothlng.
Then l get a call. (CHUCKLES ) From bloody Australla.
BILLY: l got the call... uh, early one mornlng.
Uh, Rat told me, he says, uh, he'd been mlsslng for four days.
l...l knew. l just knew.
l sald nothlng.
l just went back to readlng the papers at the table wlth my wlfe.
(SIGHS ) Llke nothlng had happened.
And...people were asklng... what do l thlnk happened?
l don't thlnk. l know.
You know, your mlnd goes back over these thlngs.
l-l...l just wlshed he'd told me.
You know?
Before he dld lt.
HENRY: Did you bring your otter?
SUZY: I'm sorry.
Do you know, not one person on that fiIm reaIIy Ioved me.
Not one.
Don't be ridicuIous.
What about your mum?
She said she hasn't spoken to me for 30 years.
That's five years before I died.
I was a prick!
Your band. Your friends. They aII did.
After the fact, Suzy.
You couId see it in their eyes.
You know, everybody Ioves you when you're dead.
They may have struggIed to Iike you, but they definiteIy Ioved you.
Anyway, don't worry. (CHUCKLES ) I don't have any friends either.
Come on.
You've got Steve.
Pfft!
And you've got Jonkers.
And your kids.
And that weird Terry bIoke too.
He's got his IittIe eye on you.
AII I had was...rage.
And a Iot of groupies.
(CHUCKLES )
I thought you'd Ieft for good.
(ROCK BALLAD PLAYS )
HENRY: (SINGS ) # So many accusatlons
# For so llttle blame
# l'd ask you for your keys
# But l feel... #
It's you.
# l'd probably just lose them... #
It's beautifuI.
# So lt's all for the best... #
STEVE: No, no! Wait! Wait!
And...go.
# A stranger to your nest
# It pays to traveI Iight
# WhiIe running far from this
(GUITAR SOLO)
# WiII I become a phantom?
# An orphan to this mess?
# My past a strip of Iightning
# Aiming for your chest
# And time wiII sureIy find you
# A stranger to your nest
# It pays to traveI Iight
# WhiIe running far from this
# WhiIe running far from this... #