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SKINS
2x01: Tony and Maxxie
Original Airdate: 2/11/2008
Written by: Bryan Elsley
Directed by: Aysha Rafaele
(The episode opens with organ music. The music swells to a finale. Loud bang. Maxxie begins a dance sequence. Techno music begins. Two other dancers join him, one male, one female. They finish their choreography and collapse onto the floor.)
MAXXIE: Pretty good fella, but not good enough.
MALE DANCER: Homo!
MAXXIE: Yeah, because I rule, basically...
MALE DANCER: Shit bender.Ah, Kelly, you're stankin'!
FEMALE DANCER: What about you, you sweaty fuck!
(Kelly jumps onto the male dancer.)
MALE DANCER: Aargh! Get away, you scummer.
(They start kissing.)
MAXXIE: Later then! (Maxxie walks over to Tony.) What you think of that, then? Tone?
TONY: What? Think of what?
MAXXIE: The moves... Me, Jonno and Kel worked it out.
TONY: It's OK.
(Cut to Tony and Maxxie sitting in a bus. A van drives by and blares his horns. Tony panics.)
MAXXIE: Hey! Nothing to worry about, dude. Yeah?
TONY: Yeah.
MAXXIE: It's all right. Everything's cool.
(Lyrics: "I want you to know, when I look in your eyes...")
(Cut to Maxxie and Tony walking down a street. A group of young girls are sitting on a car bonnet.)
GIRL 1 : Hi, Maxxie.
MAXXIE: Hey.
ALL: Hi.
GIRL 1: Who's that?
MAXXIE: That's Tony.
GIRL 1: Hey! What's up with you?
TONY: I had a traumatic subdural haematoma with motor and perceptional complications.
GIRL 2: Are you mental?
TONY: Yes.
GIRL 3: I'd still give you one.
GIRL 4: Totally. He's well fit. Yeah, Queenie?
GIRL 5: Yeah. He's buff.
MAXXIE: Hey come on, Tone. See you later, girls.
ALL: See you Maxxie! Bye!
GIRL 3: I wanna give Maxxie one.
GIRL 4: You can't. He's homosexual.
GIRL 3: Bummer.
(Cut to Maxxie's kitchen. Tony and Maxxie are sitting at the table.)
MAXXIE'S MUM: See? I remembered your favourite.
TONY: Thanks.
MAXXIE'S MUM: You've grown, Tony. And there's another two inches in you, easy. How's your Mum?
TONY: I don't remember you.
MAXXIE'S MUM: Oh, well. We used to have lovely chats when I was cleaning your mum's place. You were such a clever little lad.
TONY: I'm stupid now.
MAXXIE'S MUM: No.
(Maxxie hands Tony his plate of food - he has cut up the food for him.)
MAXXIE: Here you go, mate. (Maxxie's Mum hands him his plate.) Thanks, Mum.
MAXXIE'S MUM: Oh, we used to giggle. Well, you never did know what your mum was going to say next.
MAXXIE: Ketchup, Mum?
MAXXIE'S MUM: Yeah, right. (Maxxie Mum's gets the ketchup from the kitchen.) Bloody hilarious jokes she told. Filthy. Oh, a right laugh, your mum.
(Cut to Tony's mum sitting in the bathroom in her house. She looks sad. Effy enters.)
EFFY: Mum? I need to pee. (Pause) I can manage it myself usually.
TONY'S MUM: Yeah, sorry.
(Tony's Mum leave the room and pulls on an emergency cord which sounds an alarm.)
TONY'S MUM: Oh, fucking... fucking... fucking thing!
(Tony's Mum leaves the bathroom. Effy sits on the toilet and plays with the equipment, pleasuring herself.)
EFFY: Oh! Ooh. Oooh! Ooh la la!
(Cut to Maxxie's Dad dancing with his dog in a courtyard outside a block of flats. Lyrics: "One, two, three, go. Move your feet, we're going for a ride, yee-ha! Dip your hat and lean from side to side. Kick up those heels and hit the floor. Take the wheel, go round for more. Nothing's gonna stop my Friday night. Cos Friday night is made for dancing. Cos Friday night is made for fun. My Friday night is for romancing. My Friday night, my Friday night has just begun.")
MAXXIE'S DAD: Yee-ha!
(A group of teenage boys are watching him.)
BOY 1: Oi, look out. Here comes Batty Boy.
BOY 2: You wanna watch it, Dale. He'll slip you a big fat cock!
BOY 3: No fucking way, man!
BOY 1: Cockety-cock-cock!
BOY 2: Or he'll slurp you a big fat cock!
BOY 4: A big fucking cock, yeah. He'll be like, "All right, my lover!" and wank you silly all over his face and then he'll be like tying you up and shoving his big fat cock right up your arse and you wouldn't be able to fucking stop him cos it's fucking torture. You're shrieking and then yo'ure like... (The boy realises he has gone too far - the other boys are looking at each other.) I'm just saying fucking homos, though, innit? (They all begint o laugh.)
ALL: Yeah, fucking homos.
BOY 3: Fuckin' homos. We'll fuck them up.
BOY 2: Fuckin' queers!
MAXIE (amused): Lads...
BOY 1: Yeah, fuckin' 'omos!
(Maxxie walks over to his dad.)
MAXXIE'S DAD (to the dog): Nice one, Taz!
(Maxxie strokes the dog.)
MAXXIE: Hey, Taz!
MAXXIE'S DAD: All right, love?
MAXXIE: Yeah, tea's ready.
MAXXIE: Nice routine, Dad.
MAXXIE'S DAD: Nice? It's gonna fucking slay them at the regionals.
MAXXIE: Cool.
MAXXIE: I just wanted to ask, is it OK if I drop out of my A-levels and...
MAXXIE'S DAD: Come back?
MAXXIE: I wanna leave college and audition for musicals in London.
MAXXIE'S DAD: You're getting qualifications and you're coming to me on the building.
MAXXIE: But how's a history A-level gonna help me be a builder?
MAXXIE'S DAD: You'll be an educated builder.
MAXXIE: Dad, I want to be a dancer.
MAXXIE'S DAD: They have dancing every Thursday down the centre. You love that.
MAXXIE: No, but...
MAXXIE'S DAD: Pastimes. That's what we're into.
MAXXIE: Dad...
MAXXIE'S DAD: The rest isn't for us. Get the dog.
MAXXIE: Taz.
(The dog runs over to Maxxie. Him and his dad head back inside. On the way up the stairs, they walk past the group of teenage boys.)
BOY 3: Fucking turd burglar.
(Maxxie's dad grabs the boy by the throat and pushes him up against a wall.)
BOY 4: Watch out, Dale.
BOY 2: Fucking dog!
MAXXIE'S DAD (to the dog): Quiet, boy. (to the boy) You got something to say, kidder?
BOY 3: Say what I like. Free country, innit?
MAXXIE'S DAD: Fair point. But here's my suggestion, son. You tell your Dad what you said to Walter Oliver. All right, my lover? (to the group) Lads...
(Maxxie and his dad walk away. The group of boys begins to laught at Boy 3.)
BOY 2: You got fucked up, man!
BOY 5: Big, big time.
(Boy 3 punches the youngest boy of the group, who falls to the floor.)
(Cut to Tony in the bathroom in Maxxie's house. He is struggling to undo his belt.)
TONY: Sid? Sid! Sid!
(Maxxie's Mum enters the bathroom.)
MAXXIE'S MUM: Tony?
TONY: I need to pee. My hands don't work.
MAXXIE'S MUM: Well, I always sorted you out when you were a baby.
TONY: I got to register for college, sign my name on a form. But my head's forgotten bits of me. All sorts of bits...
MAXXIE'S MUM: Give it time, love.
TONY (indicating to his belt) : Just... I can aim.
MAXXIE'S MUM: Right...
(Maxxie's Mum helps Tony undo his belt.)
MAXXIE'S MUM: All right?
(Tony begins to urinate. Him and Maxxie's Mum begin to laugh, for no apparent reason.)
MAXXIE'S MUM: Bloody hell, Tone! You always did make me laugh.
TONY: You're making me miss.
MAXXIE'S MUM: You and every other bloke in this sodding house.
(Tony finishes urinating.)
MAXXIE'S MUM: Whatever happened to that nice lass you had?
(Tony doesn't reply.)
(Cut to Michelle in a bar, visibly drunk.)
MICHELLE: Oh, my God! OK, watch this! Watch this you bunch of pussy-fuckers, OK? One, two, three. Go! (Her and some friends take some shots.) Oh, my God! (Michelle starts kissing the man next to her.)
(Cut to Chris and Jal in a high-rise building.)
CHRIS: We on the right floor?
JAL: Dunno, do I?
CHRIS: All right...angry boots.
JAL: I want to get ready for the party.
CHRIS: Well, that'll take all of about 30 seconds, won't it?
JAL: I get ready. I dress up.
CHRIS: Nah...that's what we love about you, Jal... (ruffling her hair) Unstudied.
JAL: Fucking hell... I dress up!
CHRIS: Is this the door? (Chris looks through the glass.) Whoa. (Jal has a look through the glass. The camera shows us what they see. Maxxie's mum is on her knees in front of Tony. It looks like she is giving him oral sex. She is in fact halping him fasten his belt.) You don't see that every day.
MAXXIE'S MUM: It's open!
TONY: That'll be Sid. He's gonna take me home.
(Chris and Jal enter.)
MAXXIE'S MUM: Oh...Chris...Jalander. Oh, what a nice surprise. Came just at the right time.
CHRIS: Right...
TONY: Where's Sid?
MAXXIE'S DAD: Ah! Hi, guys. Hi, Tony, Chris. Hello, funny name. Where'd you lot spring from?
MAXXIE'S MUM: Just finished seeing to Tony.
CHRIS: Yeah. She was... seeing to him...
MAXXIE'S DAD: Great. (to Tony) How are you, lad?
TONY: Better, thanks. She's got warm hands.
MAXXIE'S DAD: Oh, they're lovely and warm. Always say that. (pause) So you're all dancing the night away tonight, huh? Yeah...bit of a party!
JAL (interrupting): It's not really a party.
CHRIS: Yeah, that's right.
TONY: What party?
(Cut to outisde. Tony, Chris and Jal are waiting for a bus.)
CHRIS: Look, sorry, Tone. But your mum says we gotta take you home.
JAL: Maybe your folks think it's a bit too soon to be going out.
TONY: Fuck my folks. (pause) Where's Sid?
CHRIS: Uh, he couldn't make it, mate. His dad made him stay in and...
JAL: Mow the grass.
CHRIS: Yeah, that's it. He's mowing the grass.
JAL: He couldn't make it, Tony. All right? Sid couldn't make it...
(Tony is visibly angry.)
(Cut to Sid's room. Sid is sitting in his room smoking. He is looking at pictures of Tony when he was in the hspital. Lyrics: "Where are you now, Mr Sensation...")
(Cut to Sid watching the TV screen in his room. Cassie jumps onto the screen.)
CASSIE: Hey! Hi, Sid! When are you coming to see me? Everyone's so lovely in Elgin. Here's my new friends, Rory and Lachlan.
(Two men jump onto the screen. Rory is carrying bagpipes, and Lachlan is carrying a bodhran.)
LACHLAN: All right, wee man?
RORY: Hello there, Sidney.
CASSIE: Rory's going to let me blow his chanter later.
RORY: It's easy. Ye just need to learn tae finger it.
CASSIE: And I've already been beating Lachlan's bodhran.
LACHLAN: Magic! Aye!
SID: What?!
CASSIE: I'm not very good.
LACHLAN: Aye, ye are!
CASSIE: Anyway, there's a present in there, Sid. And watch what I can do.
(Cassie blows a kiss to Sid. Rory plays the bagpipes, Lachlan beats the bodhran, and Cassie starts dancing. Sid opens the letter from Cassie. A pill falls out. It has the Scottish flag and the text "Mighty Scotland" on it. Sid takes a sip from a can of beer.)
SID: Mighty fucking Scotland.
(Cut to Maxxie's house. Maxxie and his father are having an argument.)
MAXXIE:Don't you care what I want?! Don't I get to decide?
MAXXIE'S DAD: Yeah. You're gonna decide to be a builder who dances in his spare time.
MAXXIE: I don't want to be a fucking builder!
MAXXIE'S DAD: What's wrong with it?
MAXXIE: Nothing. Nothing. I just... I can do this, Dad! (pause) You don't think I can do it, do you?
MAXXIE'S DAD: No, lad.
MAXXIE: Fucking hell! Thanks, Dad. It's not my fault, is it!?
MAXXIE'S DAD: What?
MAXXIE: That you're stuck in a fucking white van all your life.
(Maxxie rushes out of the room. His dad follows him.)
MAXXIE'S DAD: Don't you speak to me like that! I'll clout you round the fucking earhole.
MAXXIE: Like you clout the fucking dog?!
MAXXIE'S DAD: Don't bring the fucking dog into it. I'll have no fucking swearing in this house.
MAXXIE: Mum fucking swears at you all the time.
(Cut to Tony, Chris and Jal walking down a street. Tony is walking slower than Chris and Jal. Chris stops and turns around. Tony walks past them.)
TONY (angrily): Don't wait.
JAL: We said we'd take you home.
TONY: Don't wanna go home.
(Tony looks up and sees Anwar dancing in the middle of the street. He has headphones on and is singing.)
ANSWAR: Groove up on the party. Yo, when I'm cruising in my Lamborghini. The chicks see me, they go, "Mmm, wow, he's so sexy" And I might get my shot for the end of the night, 'cause pussy is pussy and baby, you're pussy for life. I wanna fuck you, fuck you. You already know I wanna fuck you, fuck you...
(Jal walks up behind him and hits him on the back of the head.)
ANWAR: Argh! Ow! (Anwar's trousers are loose and fall down. He pulls them back up.) Oh... Fuckin' hell... Sorry. I gotta remember to stand pimp in these.
JAL (mockingly): What's happening, "blood"?
ANWAR: I'm in for some serious slippy-slidey todger action at this party, man!
CHRIS: It's not...really a party.
ANWAR: Are you pissing me? It's the biggest night of the year. Everybody's going!
CHRIS: Yeah, except Tony.
ANWAR: Yeah? Shame, man. It's gonna be... Huh! Wah! Chugga-chugga-wah! Hit me! (Jal hits Anwar.) Ow!
JAL: Tony can't go. Remember?
TONY: Fuckers...
CHRIS: Yeah... Come on, mate.
JAL: I told you to keep quiet about the sodding rave. And why are you dressed as a crack dealer?
ANWAR: You think it's too much?
JAL: If I'd just met you, Anwar, I'd rather slit my wrists than give you one.
ANWAR: That's because you don't give anyone one. Yeah? Watch out or they'll take your tits into care.
JAL: Huh?
ANWAR: Because they don't get out enough. (Anwar starts laughing) You geddit? Your tits...
(They arrive at Tony's house and ring the doorbell. Tony's dad answers.)
ANWAR: Hello, Mr Stonem.
TONY'S DAD: Wondered where you were. (Tony walks inside)Thanks for bringing him back.
CHRIS: That's all right. No problem. Maybe we'll pop round... (Tony's Dad closes the door) ...tomorrow. Let's go get fucked.
(Cut to Tony's kitchen. Tony is sitting around the kitchen table with his family, having a meal.)
TONY'S MUM: Are you not going to have anything, Tony?
TONY: No.
TONY'S MUM: OK. So, um, what did you get up to today?
TONY'S DAD: He shouldn't be going out! I mean, he's wandering around, God knows where...
TONY'S MUM: Jim...
TONY'S DAD: We don't even know who he's with!
TONY'S MUM: Jim...
TONY'S DAD: I mean, he could have a bleed or a fit or...
TONY'S MUM: Yeah, Jim. He's here.
TONY'S DAD: Oh, fuck it.
TONY: Fuck it.
EFFY: Fuck it.
TONY'S DAD: All right, all right. Just... for Christ's sake, eat something! Look, Mum's made it easy. It's all...lovely and... bite-sized. Oh, sorry, sorry, sorry. Come on, let's talk about something else. Come on.
TONY'S MUM: Yeah, yeah, ok. Um, what do you want to talk about?
TONY: Dirty jokes.
TONY'S MUM: What?
TONY: Maxxie's mum says your jokes are filthy.
TONY'S MUM: You saw Jackie Oliver today?
TONY'S DAD: Jackie probably was thinking about someone else. Right, Anthea?
TONY'S MUM: Yeah, yeah... Anyway... This mate of mine's been going to the doctor, yeah?
TONY'S DAD: Who's that?
TONY'S MUM: Er, don't think you know him. Um, anyway he had to have some tests. He had palpitations or something... So, he eventually goes back to the doctor to get the results and, er, the doctor says, "Sit down. I'm afraid there's good news and there's bad news. The bad news is you've only got a month to live." My mate's like, devastated, he's gutted. But he pulls himself together and he says, "What's the good news?". And the doctor says, "See my new receptionist? Blonde. Great arse. Huge tits. Well, I'm fucking her."
EFFY: That's crap.
TONY: Yeah...
TONY'S MUM: My name's Anthea Stonem. Thank you and good night.
(Tony starts to laugh hysterically.)
TONY: They'll take her tits into care... They're gonna... They don't get out enough! I got it! I got it!
(Cut to Maxxie's room. He's listening to his parents fighting in another room. Johnny Cash's "Folsom Prison Blues" is playing.)
MAXXIE'S DAD: Look, I've told you before, he's not leaving college. That's it!
MAXXIE'S MUM: You don't need to be such a monster man about it! >
MAXXIE'S DAD: Who's being a monster man?
MAXXIE'S MUM: You is.
MAXXIE'S DAD: Bollocks!
MAXXIE'S MUM: What's eating you, you big old bully!?
MAXXIE'S DAD: Nothing! Nothing. Just, just leave it alone. He's not leaving, that's final.
(The doorbell rings. Maxxie's Dad answers it. It's a neighbour, Bandy. Dale, one of the boys from the beginning of the episode is standing next to Bandy. Maxxie and his mum also come to the door.)
BANDY: All right, Walter.
MAXXIE'S DAD: Bandy... How you doin'?
BANDY: Only passable, Walter. It seems like my Dale has overstepped his mouth.
MAXXIE'S DAD: Little misunderstanding, that's it.
BANDY (to the boy): What have you gotta say, dildohead?
DALE: Sorry, Mr Oliver.
BANDY: And...?
DALE: Sorry, Max.
BANDY: He's baked a cake of remorse.
(Dale hands a cake with "Sory" written on it in icing.)
MAXXIE'S DAD: Very nice.
BANDY: So we're all right then, Walter?
MAXXIE'S DAD: Water under the bridge, Bandy. How's the wife?
BANDY: Oh, not bad. They gave her early release. Still gotta wear the electronic tag, of course.
MAXXIE'S DAD: Bummer.
(Dale mouthes an insult to Maxxie.)
BANDY: Yeah. And they've banned her for life from operating a concrete mixer or a cattle prod.
MAXXIE'S DAD: It's probably for the best.
(Cut to Tony's room. Tony is struggling picking up a pen. Lyrics: "Gotta get bad before it gets good. It's gotta get bad before it gets good. It's gotta get bad before it gets good. I want it good now. But it's gotta get bad before it gets good. That's what you say. It's gotta get bad before it gets good. Stay with me. You know that you should. Cos it's gotta get bad before it gets good. You say you crushed me, but just me. Put your faith in me then wait patiently. You say it's hard now but good things come from this. So I'll keep on living on your promises. Gotta get bad before it gets good. It's gotta get bad before it gets good # It's gotta get bad before it gets good. You tell me lies. But you do it with style. Saying it'll come good in a little while. You keep on spinning your words. That beguile. Then you break your promises with a film star smile # Don't care what you say # Just show me what you did. Show me what you did.")
(With the music still playing cut to Maxxie in the courtyard in front of his building. He starts dancing. Cut back to Tony still struggling with the pen. Cut to Michelle taking a shower fully clothed. She is crying. Cut to Sid wathching Cassie dancing on his TV screen. Successive cuts between Maxxie, Tony, Michelle and Sid. Cut to Tony getting angry. He throws a TV screen into a mirror. His dad enters.)
TONY'S DAD: Oh, Tony! For fuck's sake. Come on! (Tony's dad wrestles Tony onto his bed.) Fucking hell.
TONY: Get off!
TONY'S DAD: Oh, fuck.
(Cut back to Maxxie. He has just finished dancing. From one of the flats looking out onto the courtyard, we hear a camera shutter. Maxxie sees a flash and turns around, but cn't see where the photographer is.)
(Cut to Tony. He is lying on his bed. His phone rings. It's Maxxie, standing inside his blcok of flats.)
MAXXIE: Tony? Are you all right?
TONY: No. Nobody wants me to come out any more.
MAXXIE: Oh, fuck it. Come anyway.
TONY: My dad won't let me go back to college.
MAXXIE: And mine won't let me leave. We're both bummed, bruv.
TONY: Why doesn't Sid come any more? Can't remember when he was here.
MAXXIE: He misses you, Tony.
TONY: I miss me.
MAXXIE: Come out. I'll get you dancing.
TONY: Yeah? You gonna gay me?
MAXXIE: Hey...Tony's here.
(Maxxie hangs up. He walks down the stairs but hears a noise. He turns around.)
MAXXIE: Who's that?
(Cut to a club. Kenneth is DJ-ing.)
KENNETH: Hello, everybody. I'd like to sing a little ditty that I hope you'll rather enjoy. Alastair, would you mind pressing play, please? Thanks awfully. Raaaas! Gimme a riddim blood. Mi gonna tear it up with a back ender. I wanna hear it big, blud. I wanna hear it hit out, blud! I wanna hear it massive! 'Cause we're takin' it uptown!
(Kenneth starts rapping. Anwar is in the crowd, dancing extravagantly. Maxxie walks over to the group.)
CHRIS: Hey Maxxie!
(Cut to Tony sneaking out of his house. Effy is standing outside the house. She is dressed up.)
TONY: Fuck me... You're just a kid.
EFFY: You're mental.
TONY: Thanks.
EFFY: Ready?
(Cut to the club. Everyone is dancing., except for Jal.)
CHRIS: Hey, Jal! Where's your moves?
(Jal walks away and starts dancing provocatively with a boy.)
ANWAR: Fuck me senseless.
CHRIS: Whoa!
MAXXIE: Yeah. He's hot, man.
CHRIS: Ah, you gay boy!
MAXXIE: Shut it!
(Chris, Maxxie and Anwar start jokingly pushing each oher around. Cut to Sid sitting down inside the club. He is reading a text message from Effy. It reads "He needs u wre the fuck r u". Sid reads another message from Tony. it reads "SJID SDN SID WWHEK HFDGHBEQJKL.". Tony has visibly had trouble using his hands. Sid looks up and sees Michelle dancing with a boy and then kissing him. Michelle looks over to Sid. he meets her gaze and they hold it. Michelle then rushes away. Sid is visibly not feeling well. He seems to be having some sort of panic attack.)
SID: Here I come, Cas. I'm coming!
(Sid starts dancing a scottish dance.)
(Cut to Effy and Tony walking up to the club. Tony seems hesitant.)
EFFY: It's OK, Tony. Come on.
(Abigail is standing outside with a group of friends.)
ABIGAIL (to her friends): No way. Look who's coming. It's Tony Stonem.
(Abigail turns around to Tony and feigns surprise.)
ABIGAIL: Oh, my God Tony, hi! You look so, so OK. Not like... Well, they said you were like a total mong, and I would have been so pissed if you were a vegetable and had to be switched off, yah?
TONY: Do I know you?
ABIGAIL: Tony! You do... You know me really rather well. Remember? You were a very naughty boy. But I forgive you... (She glances down at his cortch.) Is it all still working, yah?
TONY: Sorry. Can't place you.
ABIGAIL: You remember, Tony. How you said I was like your total dream shag?
TONY: I said that?
ABIGAIL: Because Michelle had the funny tits, and was so boring, and you wanted to go out with me because I had the longest tongue you ever...
EFFY (interrupting): He can't...place you.
ABIGAIL: Oh...
EFFY: Come on, Tone.
(Effy leads Tony away.)
EFFY: Tongue?
TONY (remembering): Oh, yeah.
(Cut to inside the club. Tony and Effy have entered. Tony struggles to make his way through the crowd. He panics.)
TONY: Ah! Get off! Ahh! Help! Wanna get out!
MAXXIE: Tony! Tony! (Tony doesn't see Maxxie. Maxxie sees that Tony doesn't look good.) Tony!
(Tony runs out of the club. Maxxie chases after him.)
MAXXIE: Get the fuck out of my way, will you!
(Outside the club, Maxxie looks for Tony.)
MAXXIE: Tony! Tone? (Maxxie hears a noise and wanders amongst some trees to one side of the club.) Tone? Tone? Stop fucking about, yeah? Wait... Wait.
(Maxxie walks a bit further and comes across the group of boys who were tormeting him at the beginning of the episode.)
BOY 1: All right, Blowjob.
BOY 2: Faggot.
DALE: Cocksucker!
BOY 3: Wanker!
BOY 4: All right, gay boy?
(Maxxie runs away.)
ALL: Fucking get him! Get him!
(Maxxie thinks he has lost them. He stops running.)
MAXXIE (under his breath): Tossers.
(Dale appears from nowhere and wrestles maxxie to the ground. They roll down a slope. Dale ends up on top of Maxxie. He starts kissing Maxxie. Maxxie pushes him away.)
DALE: Sent them the other way.
MAXXIE: The fucking cake. I should've knew it when I saw the hundreds and thousands.
DALE: Lemon Drizzle. It's a piece of piss.
MAXXIE: Dale, you can't just treat me like shit and then just... Just... Ah...fuck it!
(They start kissing.)
(Cut to Maxxie's house. Maxxie's dad is brushing his teeth. The doorbell rings. Maxxie's Mum opens the door.)
MAXXIE'S MUM: Jim? What's wrong?
TONY'S DAD: Sorry it's so late... I've lost Tony.
(Maxxie's Dad and Tony's Dad sit at a table. Maxxie's Dad pours Tony's dad some whiskey.)
TONY'S DAD: He doesn't answer his phone. I don't even know if he can. I can't keep him in. But... He's not right.
MAXXIE'S DAD: Who is? Everything's mental. This competition last week. Fucking break-dancing chihuahua. I mean, what's it come to?
TONY'S DAD: Right. You never know what's gonna happen till you're sitting in a hospital. And I'm thinking, I've really, really fucked up here, because I'm supposed to stop this happening. And now I don't know where he is. Something happens, suddenly you've lost them.
(Maxxie's dad looks at the photos of Maxxie hanging on the wall.)
MAXXIE'S DAD: His friends'll look after him.
(Cut to outside the club. Sid has just left the club. He sees Michelle sitting in the distance. He walks over and sits next to her.)
MICHELLE: What you on?
SID: Cass sent me a tab.
MICHELLE: She misses you, right? (pause) I don't know what I'm supposed to do. I go to see him. I went to see him.
SID (nidding back to the club): Well, I suppose you deserve some fun.
MICHELLE: Those guys just like my tits.
SID: Oh. Sweet. (pause) You're avoiding me.
MICHELLE: You make me think about him.
SID: You're not the only one, Chelle.
I was there every day trying to get him to say something. And everybody really, really fucked up and I'm just trying to... to... And nobody comes but me 'cause it's so terrible. You should have fucking helped me.
MICHELLE (in tears): All right! When it happened... before the bus... ..he was on the phone and he said something. I don't think he remembers. But he said...
SID (interrupting): Chelle.
MICHELLE: Fuck's sake, I'm trying to tell you this!
(Michelle looks around and sees Tony sitting a couple of meters behind them.)
MICHELLE: Oh, Jesus! Tony?
TONY: Hello.
(Tony gets up and walks away.)
SID: Wait, I'll go back with you.
TONY: Effy's taking me. (to Michelle) I will remember everything.
(Michelle runs away.)
SID: Where are you going?
MICHELLE: Not now, Sid!
(Lyrics: "Clouds part just to give us a little sun. There's a limit to your love , like a waterfall In slow motion..." Cut to Maxxie arriving back home after the night out. Tony is sitting in front of the front door, shivering.)
TONY (in tears): Got lost. Where do I fucking live?
(Inside Maxxie's house, his mum is on the phone to Tony's mum. Lyrics: "There's a limit to your love. Your love, love, love...")
MAXXIE'S MUM: Walter will run him round in the morning. Look, don't worry yourselves, OK. (Maxxie's mum hangs up. To Maxxie) She's a bit upset.
MAXXIE: Yeah.
MAXXIE'S MUM: College starts today. (She nods towards the living room.) He's in there, love. Talking, not shouting.
MAXXIE: OK.
(Maxxie walks into the living room. His dad is sitting at the table, eating.)
MAXXIE'S DAD: Lovely bit of cake, that. Young Dale's got the magic touch.
MAXXIE: He's got that all right.
MAXXIE'S DAD: You're good enough.
MAXXIE: Yeah. I am. I'm bloody good.
MAXXIE'S DAD: Get it from your old man, probably.
MAXXIE: Reckon?
MAXXIE'S DAD: I'm artistic, yeah. Not as artistic as you, mind.
MAXXIE: Some things is just the way they are.
MAXXIE'S DAD: Yup. I got lucky, didn't I? You didn't turn out like the fucking ASBO Army out there.
MAXXIE: No, Dad.
MAXXIE'S DAD: I feel like taking some fucking credit for it. OK?
MAXXIE: I'm never gonna be a builder, Dad.
MAXXIE'S DAD: You'll understand this one day, kid. You're everything I've got to show for my life. And I'm not ready for you to go, because I fucking love you too much. I'm an idiot, I know.
MAXXIE: I love you too, Dad.
MAXXIE'S DAD: So if you're not coming building, back to college. Give me the last year. And then it's game on. All right?
MAXXIE: All right.
MAXXIE'S DAD (to the dog): Taz. On your bed. At least the sodding dog does what he's told.
(Cut to Tony and Maxxie in Maxxie's room. Tony is sat at a desk, trying to write his name in a piece of paper.)
TONY: I can register if I write my name.
MAXXIE: It's more than that, Tony. It's not just signing your name.
TONY: Then fucking help me! Or are you going to be a complete fucking arse-wit like everyone fucking else I know?
MAXXIE: Whoa! He speaks. You gotta slow it down. Stop trying to write. It's just a shape your hand makes. Close your eyes and just kinda... dance it.
(Tony closes his eyes and is able to scrawl his name into the piece of paper.)
MAXXIE: Tone.
(Tony opens his eyes and sees he has written his name.)
TONY: Do I have to gay you now?
(They laugh. Lyrics from Asobi Seksu's Thursday: "On gentle ground, I'm waiting for you. In drops of dew, I wished that I were you. It seems you lost your way. You've let it all fall apart. Nothing's left here but you. And you remind me now that we've lost our way, the rest can all fall apart. All I see here is you. All it does is remind me...")