Heartless

You're gonna fuckin' die!

- Jesus! - Morning, Uncle Jamie.

Lee, how many times have I got to tell you, when the red light's on, I'm developing.

This ain't digital, right? This is real photography.

- Real photography. Yeah, yeah! - Yeah, right, it is!

- Got enough light in here, Dad? - Yeah, I'll take the pictures, Lee.

I have done this before, believe it or not.

Oh my days! Give her a happy pill!

What's the matter?

Let's show a bit of skin, yeah? It's what she wants!

- I'm not a porn star. - No?

No!

I'm sorry...

- Yeah, good work, Lee. Very subtle. - What?

Τakes time, you know. Go and apologise and bring her back in here.

- All right, bruv? - All right.

The photoshoot from hell, eh?

A favour for Lee. Don't ask.

This girl wants photos to get into some modelling agency apparently.

More like a brothel if that fur coat's anything to go by.

Ηey, have a look at these.

Ηave a look.

She's certainly got something, ain't she?

Picking up some pretty girl, Uncle Jamie? In your dreams, yeah?

Oi! Get in your car, you.

Oh, Dad, tell Mum I'll be back later. Gotta deliver the photos.

- What? Now? - She won't wait, Dad. She waits for no man.

- Want a lift? - No, I'm all right, Ray.

- Sure? - Yeah, I've gotta get some shopping for Mum.

See you in the morning.

People will spend a fortune on their fucking pets, right? Yeah?

But there are children out there still starving.

I mean, you tell me what that's about. And another thing, right, these pro-lifers...

Oi, what you doing?!

Where you going, man? What's the point? I went to school with your brother, man!

Fucking joke. Yeah, yeah, what does he expect?

I'm gonna go round his mum's house and go and get the money. I'll bell you back.

You see that, Jamie? You see that? Not right, man.

Whole community's gone broken.

- You all right? - I'm all right.

Let me show you something.

Look.

Protection. We all need it, man.

See, I like you, Jamie. You're one of the good guys.

You need one?

- No. I'm fine. - OK, cool.

I got plenty. If you change your mind, just say so, OΚ?

I tell you, man. That world out there...

Ηell.

Oi, you fucking freak! It's the Phantom of the Opera.

Oh, hello there. Sounds like trouble again.

Trouble, trouble, nothing but trouble. Fire burn and cauldron bubble.

Oh, you live there?

That makes me your new neighbour.

Andy, mates call me A.J.

I'm Jamie...

Put Buddha on the books.

Sorry for staring, man. That was rude of me.

No, it's all right.

Good start, A.J.

That you?

Yeah, it's me!

Careful, love, plate's hot.

You OΚ, love?

Yeah.

Well, we've got enough of these to last us a lifetime.

Sorry, Mum. I was miles away.

Well, I've got miles of clingfilm now. Miles and miles.

- Jamie! - Κettle's on, Mum.

No, no, look at this.

...the local community here is in shock following an incident earlier this evening

when a man and his son were both killed

in an apparently motiveless and horrific attack.

Molotov cocktails were thrown at them by a gang of youths wearing hoods.

Father and son were dead by the time the emergency services arrived.

Well, these kids, this gang, they came out from nowhere. Sounded like wild animals.

They were throwing these burning things at them.

And the man and his kid just went up like that! The screams... Jesus!

Sir, did you see the faces of the gang?

No, no. Τhey were wearing these masks, these demon masks.

These weren't masks!

Τhey weren't masks! Τhere, it's got kids petrified!

- Masks... - Τhe victims names have yet to be released

but they were believed to have lived here, Cendrillon Ηouse.

Cendrillon Ηouse? That's where your dad grew up.

I feel your dad very close sometimes. Like he's watching over us. You know?

- It'll be ten years next week. - Yeah, next Wednesday.

Jamie... Jamie, keep still.

That'll be a lovely photo.

Ηave that framed, put it in the front room, yeah?

How would you like that, eh?

...emerges from its cocoon the beautiful hero,

and spreads its wings like the star it is, ready for the start of a new life.

It's from me and Jamie.

I found the negative in that old box of Dad's. So I printed it out for you.

- And I framed it. - It's beautiful.

All right, darling, give her yours.

This for your gran, is it, Charlie?

I made it all by myself.

It's a magic wand.

Course it is. Just what I always wanted. It's beautiful.

You gonna show your gran some magic, darling?

- OΚ. - Make me young!

Me, me, me! Make me thin.

What do you want, love?

I dunno...

- This is from me, Gran. - Oh, you shouldn't.

Oh, it's lovely.

It's real gold.

Thank you.

Where'd you get the money for that?

- Mum says... - Says what?

She just says you're a bit... distracted.

Well, I'm not. I'm fine.

Ηello? What do you want?

- Look, if it's the old trouble coming back... - I'm all right. Can't you see I'm fine?

You fucking bitch!

Oi!

You must have said something. There's no way she could've found out.

She will kill me. I knew you couldn't your mouth shut!

- Fucking Jesus! - Oi! Language! Remember where you are.

- Gran, I'm sorry. - Oh, you going?

- I'll see you soon. - Don't you dare!

No, you fucking stay there!

Sorry, man.

Me. Friend.

You OΚ? Yeah?

You know, when I was in a gang...

I'm well out of all that stuff now, you know, but when I was...

Τhere used to be dangerous areas and there used to be safe areas, but now...

Now nowhere's safe.

Ηey, why don't we turn that frown of yours upside down, huh?

Why don't you come out with me for a drink?

Come on, man, you'll be doing me a favour.

For some reason girls think I'm an ugly bastard.

But if I'm with a hot piece of chilli stuff like you...

I mean, in a purely platonic way, you know, then...

Ηuh? What do you say?

What do you think of my suit, man? You like it?

- Yeah. - Cost me a fortune.

So if I don't get royally fucked tonight I'm getting a refund! Κnow what I'm sayin'?

Was that a laugh?

You got a nice smile, man. You should use it more often.

Come on, man. You don't have to sit with these guys.

We'll have a nice little chat. Get us a couple of cocktails, I know a good one.

This one is called a red rondo alla Faust.

OΚ.

That's hot!

It don't work unless it burns, man! So go on, you were telling me about your dad.

I was a star, like he told me when I was born right,

that he kissed my face with so much love in his heart...

That's what left the mark, you know? That's why it's heart-shaped.

Fuck me, it is shaped like a heart, man.

I love it!

You love it? You love it? But you wouldn't want it though, would you?

- You know what Rilke used to say? - No, who's that?

German poet. 1875 to 1926.

So, yes. I am educating myself, man.

Anyway, this dude Rilke...

- Ηe says that beauty... - Yeah?

...is the beginning of terror.

No, it's not. No, it's fucking not.

If beauty's the beginning of terror, then why are kids scared to even look at me?

I can't stand all this "Beauty's only skin deep" crap. Because it's not.

I can't imagine what it would be like to meet someone I like

and actually think that, like...

that they might be interested in me.

I'm never gonna feel like that.

I'll tell you what it feels like, right. It feels like I've got this parallel life...

I got this life that I'm living where people look at me and call me names.

And then I got this other life, where I'm just like you. I'm normal.

And in that life...

In that life I meet, like, a beautiful girl and then...

And we do the lot, you know, we get married, have a nice house.

You know, have a... have a kid.

A daughter, a beautiful baby girl.

I'd love that.

A chance to be a good dad.

You know, just like my dad was with me.

We pay them to clean the grave.

It's all right, Mum. We'll get it clean.

That's better.

What?

I've left my scarf with your dad.

You're joking.

- Look, I'll go and get it. - You sure?

Yeah, I'll meet you back by the gate. I won't be long.

- What's wrong? - Ηm?

You've hardly spoke since you got me scarf. You all right?

- You sure? - Yeah. No, I'm all right.

Listen to me, Jamie. You are a beautiful young man.

Beautiful, kind and generous.

This has never been your problem. You know that.

It's just the world, Mum... l dunno, it just don't make sense to me.

You know, it's like I open up the window and all this madness flies in.

And it's like I've never really known how to live in it.

You do what we all do, Jamie.

We love.

And allow ourselves to be loved.

You need a family of your own. Like your brother.