1 00:00:32,240 --> 00:00:34,459 Choose life. Choose a job. 2 00:00:34,534 --> 00:00:36,662 Choose a career. Choose a family. 3 00:00:36,745 --> 00:00:38,463 Choose a fucking big television. 4 00:00:38,538 --> 00:00:43,339 Choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players, electrical tin openers. 5 00:00:53,637 --> 00:00:56,937 Choose good health, low cholesterol and dental insurance. 6 00:00:57,015 --> 00:00:59,393 Choose fixed-interest mortgage repayments. 7 00:00:59,643 --> 00:01:01,236 Choose a starter home. 8 00:01:01,311 --> 00:01:02,528 Choose your friends. 9 00:01:04,022 --> 00:01:06,070 Choose leisure wear and matching luggage. 10 00:01:06,149 --> 00:01:10,029 Choose a three-piece suite on hire purchase in a range of fucking fabrics. 11 00:01:10,111 --> 00:01:13,331 Choose DIY and wondering who the fuck you are on a Sunday morning. 12 00:01:13,406 --> 00:01:14,407 Choose sitting on that couch 13 00:01:14,491 --> 00:01:16,869 watching mind-numbing, spirit-crushing game shows 14 00:01:16,993 --> 00:01:19,587 stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth. 15 00:01:27,212 --> 00:01:28,304 Tommy, go! 16 00:01:28,380 --> 00:01:30,382 Choose rotting away at the end of it all, 17 00:01:30,465 --> 00:01:32,263 pissing your last in a miserable home, 18 00:01:32,342 --> 00:01:35,186 nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked-up brats 19 00:01:35,262 --> 00:01:37,185 that you've spawned to replace yourself. 20 00:01:37,264 --> 00:01:39,312 Choose your future. Choose life. 21 00:01:46,106 --> 00:01:49,201 But why would I want to do a thing like that? 22 00:01:53,363 --> 00:01:58,210 I chose not to choose life. I chose something else. And the reasons? 23 00:02:00,036 --> 00:02:01,913 There are no reasons. 24 00:02:02,289 --> 00:02:05,168 Who needs reasons when you've got heroin? 25 00:02:15,677 --> 00:02:18,180 Goldfinger is better than Dr. No. 26 00:02:19,931 --> 00:02:23,105 Both of them are a lot better than Diamonds Are Forever. 27 00:02:23,184 --> 00:02:27,564 A judgement reflected in its relatively poor showing at the box office. 28 00:02:28,982 --> 00:02:33,783 And in which field, of course, Thunderball was a notable success. 29 00:02:35,405 --> 00:02:39,455 People think it's all about misery and desperation and death, and all that shite 30 00:02:39,534 --> 00:02:41,127 which is not to be ignored. 31 00:02:41,202 --> 00:02:43,204 Fuck off! Jealous cunt. 32 00:02:44,789 --> 00:02:47,963 But what they forget is the pleasure of it. 33 00:02:48,960 --> 00:02:50,712 They're all dead, right, mate? 34 00:02:52,589 --> 00:02:53,715 You prick! 35 00:02:55,800 --> 00:02:57,598 Otherwise we wouldn't do it. 36 00:02:58,803 --> 00:03:01,147 - Do you want me to do it? - Yeah. 37 00:03:01,264 --> 00:03:03,813 Pure as the driven snow, that shit, Danny. 38 00:03:08,772 --> 00:03:13,573 After all, we're not fucking stupid. Or at least we're not that fucking stupid. 39 00:03:25,246 --> 00:03:29,342 Take the best orgasm you ever had, multiply it by a thousand 40 00:03:29,417 --> 00:03:31,966 and you're still nowhere near it. 41 00:03:32,629 --> 00:03:34,848 It beats any meat injection. 42 00:03:38,301 --> 00:03:41,430 That beats any fucking cock in the world. 43 00:03:42,305 --> 00:03:45,104 When you're on junk, you have only one worry, scoring. 44 00:03:45,183 --> 00:03:49,529 When you're off it, you're suddenly obliged to worry about all sorts of other shite. 45 00:03:49,604 --> 00:03:52,949 Got no money, can't get drunk. Got money, drinking too much. 46 00:03:53,024 --> 00:03:56,904 Can't get a girl, no chance of a ride. Got a girl, too much hassle. 47 00:03:57,028 --> 00:03:59,122 You have to worry about bills, about food, 48 00:03:59,197 --> 00:04:01,325 about some football team that never fucking wins, 49 00:04:01,408 --> 00:04:05,163 about human relationships, and all the things that really don't matter 50 00:04:05,245 --> 00:04:08,590 when you've got a sincere and truthful junk habit. 51 00:04:10,041 --> 00:04:13,170 I'd say, in those days, he was a muscular actor. 52 00:04:14,838 --> 00:04:18,513 With all the presence of someone like Cooper or Lancaster, 53 00:04:18,591 --> 00:04:21,014 but combined with a sly wit 54 00:04:22,512 --> 00:04:25,436 to make him a formidable romantic lead 55 00:04:26,099 --> 00:04:29,069 and closer in that respect to Cary Grant. 56 00:04:49,706 --> 00:04:53,210 The only drawback, or at least the principal drawback, 57 00:04:53,293 --> 00:04:56,137 is that you have to endure all manner of cunts telling you... 58 00:04:56,212 --> 00:04:59,136 No way would I poison my body with that shit. 59 00:05:00,759 --> 00:05:02,887 All them fucking chemicals. 60 00:05:04,471 --> 00:05:06,064 No fucking way. 61 00:05:08,433 --> 00:05:12,529 It's a waste of your life, man, poisoning your body with that shit. 62 00:05:12,812 --> 00:05:15,986 Every chance you've had, Son, you've blown it. 63 00:05:16,524 --> 00:05:18,947 Stuffing your veins with that filth. 64 00:05:19,110 --> 00:05:22,705 From time to time, even I have uttered the magic words. 65 00:05:27,535 --> 00:05:29,708 Never again, Swanney. I'm off the skag. 66 00:05:30,121 --> 00:05:31,498 - Are you serious? - Yeah. 67 00:05:31,623 --> 00:05:35,127 - No more. I'm finished with that shite. - Well, that's up to you, man. 68 00:05:35,210 --> 00:05:36,211 Gonna do it right this time, 69 00:05:36,294 --> 00:05:37,921 gonna get it sorted out, get off it for good. 70 00:05:38,004 --> 00:05:41,349 - I'm sure I've heard that one before. - The Sick Boy method. 71 00:05:41,800 --> 00:05:45,850 - It really worked for him, eh? - He's always been lacking in moral fibre. 72 00:05:45,970 --> 00:05:49,520 - He knows a lot about Sean Connery. - That's hardly a substitute. 73 00:05:49,641 --> 00:05:51,234 You need one more hit. 74 00:05:51,684 --> 00:05:55,484 - No, I don't think so. - For the long night that lies ahead. 75 00:05:56,815 --> 00:06:00,570 We called him Mother Superior on account of the length of his habit. 76 00:06:00,652 --> 00:06:03,997 Of course I'd have another shot. After all, I had work to do. 77 00:06:20,755 --> 00:06:23,725 Relinquishing junk. Stage one, preparation. 78 00:06:28,263 --> 00:06:31,187 For this you will need one room, which you will not leave. 79 00:06:31,391 --> 00:06:34,861 Soothing music. Tomato soup, ten tins of. 80 00:06:36,396 --> 00:06:39,821 Mushroom soup, eight tins of, for consumption cold. 81 00:06:40,942 --> 00:06:45,743 Ice cream, vanilla, one large tub of. Magnesia, milk of, one bottle. 82 00:06:45,864 --> 00:06:50,540 Paracetamol, mouthwash, vitamins, mineral water, Lucozade, 83 00:06:50,827 --> 00:06:52,955 pornography. 84 00:06:53,663 --> 00:06:54,880 One mattress. 85 00:06:54,956 --> 00:06:58,711 One bucket for urine, one for faeces, and one for vomitus. 86 00:07:00,295 --> 00:07:02,468 One television and one bottle of Valium, 87 00:07:02,547 --> 00:07:05,141 which I've already procured from my mother, who is, 88 00:07:05,216 --> 00:07:09,517 in her own domestic and socially acceptable way, also a drug addict. 89 00:07:13,141 --> 00:07:14,688 Now I'm ready. 90 00:07:14,767 --> 00:07:17,520 All I need is one final hit to soothe the pain 91 00:07:17,604 --> 00:07:19,857 while the Valium takes effect. 92 00:07:22,525 --> 00:07:25,495 Mikey. Aye. Yeah, it's Mark Renton. 93 00:07:25,570 --> 00:07:27,993 Look, I wondered, could you help me out? 94 00:07:28,072 --> 00:07:30,700 This was typical of Mikey Forrester. 95 00:07:31,576 --> 00:07:33,294 What the fuck are these? 96 00:07:33,369 --> 00:07:34,791 Under the normal run of things 97 00:07:34,871 --> 00:07:38,501 I'd have nothing to do with the cunt, but this wasn't the normal run of things. 98 00:07:38,583 --> 00:07:40,335 Opium suppositories. 99 00:07:41,252 --> 00:07:43,300 Ideal for your purposes. 100 00:07:43,588 --> 00:07:46,467 Slow release, bring you down gradually. 101 00:07:48,176 --> 00:07:50,349 Custom fucking designed for your needs. 102 00:07:50,428 --> 00:07:52,055 I want a fucking hit. 103 00:07:52,263 --> 00:07:54,857 That's all I've got, man. Take it or leave it. 104 00:08:06,027 --> 00:08:08,280 Are you feeling better now, then, eh? 105 00:08:08,363 --> 00:08:12,334 Oh, aye. For all the good they've done me, I might as well have stuck them up my arse. 106 00:08:14,786 --> 00:08:16,754 Heroin makes you constipated. 107 00:08:16,829 --> 00:08:21,255 The heroin from my last hit is fading away, and the suppositories have yet to melt. 108 00:08:23,878 --> 00:08:25,801 I'm no longer constipated. 109 00:08:34,305 --> 00:08:37,650 I fantasise about a massive, pristine convenience, 110 00:08:37,725 --> 00:08:42,652 brilliant gold taps, virginal white marble, a seat carved from ebony, 111 00:08:42,730 --> 00:08:44,732 a cistern full of Chanel No. 5 112 00:08:44,816 --> 00:08:48,616 and a flunky handing me pieces of raw silk toilet roll. 113 00:08:49,153 --> 00:08:52,657 But under the circumstances, I'll settle for anywhere. 114 00:09:13,011 --> 00:09:14,183 Fuck. 115 00:10:47,146 --> 00:10:49,274 Yes, you fucking dancer! 116 00:11:28,104 --> 00:11:29,196 And now, 117 00:11:29,605 --> 00:11:30,822 now I'm ready. 118 00:11:32,775 --> 00:11:35,244 The downside of coming off junk was I knew I'd need 119 00:11:35,319 --> 00:11:38,243 to mix with my friends again in a state of full consciousness. 120 00:11:38,322 --> 00:11:39,414 It was awful. 121 00:11:39,490 --> 00:11:42,994 They reminded me so much of myself, I could hardly bear to look at them. 122 00:11:43,119 --> 00:11:46,589 Take Sick Boy, for instance. He came off junk at the same time as me 123 00:11:46,664 --> 00:11:49,759 not because he wanted to, you understand, but just to annoy me. 124 00:11:49,834 --> 00:11:54,180 Just to show me how easily he could do it, thereby downgrading my own struggle. 125 00:11:54,255 --> 00:11:56,349 Sneaky fucker, don't you think? 126 00:11:56,466 --> 00:11:59,766 And when all I wanted to do was lie there and feel sorry for myself, 127 00:11:59,844 --> 00:12:03,519 he insisted on telling me once again about his unifying theory of life. 128 00:12:03,639 --> 00:12:06,939 It's certainly a phenomenon in all walks of life. 129 00:12:07,018 --> 00:12:08,691 What do you mean? 130 00:12:09,437 --> 00:12:14,193 Well, at one point you've got it, then you lose it, and it's gone forever, 131 00:12:14,317 --> 00:12:16,035 all walks of life. 132 00:12:16,861 --> 00:12:19,865 Georgie Best, for example, had it, lost it. 133 00:12:20,490 --> 00:12:22,709 Or David Bowie, or Lou Reed. 134 00:12:22,783 --> 00:12:24,785 Lou Reed, some of his solo stuff is not bad. 135 00:12:24,869 --> 00:12:27,622 No, it's not bad, but it's not great either, is it? 136 00:12:27,830 --> 00:12:30,629 And in your heart, you kind of know that although it sounds all right, 137 00:12:30,708 --> 00:12:32,961 it's actually just shite. 138 00:12:35,713 --> 00:12:37,215 So, who else? 139 00:12:38,549 --> 00:12:42,474 Charlie Nicholas, David Niven, Malcolm McLaren, Elvis Presley. 140 00:12:42,553 --> 00:12:45,853 Okay, so what's the point you're trying to make? 141 00:12:47,308 --> 00:12:52,064 All I am trying to do, Mark, is to help you understand that The Name of the Rose 142 00:12:52,146 --> 00:12:56,572 is merely a blip on an otherwise uninterrupted downward trajectory. 143 00:12:56,734 --> 00:12:59,078 And what about The Untouchables? 144 00:13:00,071 --> 00:13:01,744 I don't rate that at all. 145 00:13:01,906 --> 00:13:04,034 Despite the Academy award? 146 00:13:04,700 --> 00:13:07,749 That means fuck-all. It's a sympathy vote. 147 00:13:10,414 --> 00:13:14,260 So, we all get old, we can't hack it any more and that's it? 148 00:13:14,585 --> 00:13:15,837 Yeah. 149 00:13:15,920 --> 00:13:17,718 That's your theory? 150 00:13:19,090 --> 00:13:20,262 Yeah. 151 00:13:21,551 --> 00:13:23,724 Beautifully fucking illustrated. 152 00:13:25,429 --> 00:13:26,897 Give me the gun. 153 00:13:27,765 --> 00:13:29,392 Give me the gun. 154 00:13:36,023 --> 00:13:37,866 Do you see the beast? 155 00:13:37,942 --> 00:13:40,411 Have you got it in your sights? 156 00:13:40,945 --> 00:13:43,118 Clear enough, Miss Moneypenny. 157 00:13:43,239 --> 00:13:47,119 This should present no significant problems. 158 00:13:56,877 --> 00:14:00,723 For a vegetarian, Rents, you're a fucking evil shot. 159 00:14:03,884 --> 00:14:08,060 Without heroin, I attempted to lead a useful and fulfilling life as a good citizen. 160 00:14:14,145 --> 00:14:16,068 - Good luck, Spud. - Cheers, cowboy. 161 00:14:16,147 --> 00:14:17,239 - Now remember. - What? 162 00:14:17,315 --> 00:14:19,192 If they think you're not trying, you're in trouble, right? 163 00:14:19,317 --> 00:14:22,821 First hint of that and they'll be on to the DHSS, "This cunt is not trying." 164 00:14:22,945 --> 00:14:25,323 - And your Giro's fucking finished, right? - Right. 165 00:14:25,448 --> 00:14:28,622 - But then again, try too hard... - You might get the fucking job. 166 00:14:28,701 --> 00:14:30,374 - Exactly. - Nightmare. 167 00:14:30,494 --> 00:14:33,168 It's a tightrope, Spud. It's a fucking tightrope. 168 00:14:33,289 --> 00:14:35,712 See, I just get pure shy with the interviewer cats. 169 00:14:35,833 --> 00:14:38,803 I get all nervous and I can't answer any of their questions 170 00:14:38,878 --> 00:14:42,007 like I'm a footballer and I get nerves on the big occasion. 171 00:14:42,131 --> 00:14:43,303 Try some of this, Spud. 172 00:14:43,382 --> 00:14:46,056 Yeah, a little dab of speed is just the ticket, man. 173 00:14:47,511 --> 00:14:49,764 No, I went to Craigie, Craignewton. 174 00:14:49,847 --> 00:14:52,896 I just put down Royal Edinburgh College to help get the job. 175 00:14:53,017 --> 00:14:55,019 There's too much discrimination in this town, man. 176 00:14:55,102 --> 00:14:56,319 'Cause they're both schools, right? 177 00:14:56,395 --> 00:14:58,898 We're all in this together, and I wanted to put across 178 00:14:59,023 --> 00:15:02,573 the general idea rather than the details. People get all hung up on details. 179 00:15:02,693 --> 00:15:05,367 Like, which school did I go to? How many grades did I get? 180 00:15:05,488 --> 00:15:08,037 Could be six, could be none. It's not important. 181 00:15:08,157 --> 00:15:10,876 What is important is that I am, yes? 182 00:15:11,535 --> 00:15:15,130 Mr Murphy, do you mean that you lied on your application? 183 00:15:15,206 --> 00:15:19,052 No! Well, yes. Only to get my foot in the door. 184 00:15:19,502 --> 00:15:21,129 Showing initiative and that, like. 185 00:15:21,212 --> 00:15:23,681 But you were referred here by the Department of Employment. 186 00:15:23,756 --> 00:15:27,226 There was no need for you to get your "foot in the door" as you put it. 187 00:15:27,551 --> 00:15:30,179 Yeah, cool. Whatever you say. 188 00:15:30,262 --> 00:15:32,640 Sorry, you're the man, the dude in the chair. 189 00:15:32,723 --> 00:15:36,023 I am merely here. Obviously, I'm here. 190 00:15:36,102 --> 00:15:40,027 Mr Murphy, what exactly attracts you to the leisure industry? 191 00:15:41,857 --> 00:15:43,734 In a word, pleasure. 192 00:15:44,235 --> 00:15:46,738 Like, my pleasure in other people's leisure. 193 00:15:46,862 --> 00:15:49,206 Do you see yourself as having any weaknesses? 194 00:15:52,243 --> 00:15:55,998 Oh, yes! 'Cause I'm a bit of a perfectionist, actually. Yes, I am. 195 00:15:56,080 --> 00:15:59,175 See, for me it's got to be the best or it's nothing at all. 196 00:15:59,250 --> 00:16:02,254 Like, if things get a bit dodgy, I just cannot be bothered. 197 00:16:02,378 --> 00:16:05,598 But, hey, I'm getting good vibes about this interview thing today, though, man. 198 00:16:05,715 --> 00:16:08,764 Seems to me like it's going pretty well, eh? 199 00:16:09,885 --> 00:16:11,262 Thank you, Mr Murphy. 200 00:16:12,388 --> 00:16:14,140 We'll let you know. 201 00:16:14,765 --> 00:16:16,017 The pleasure was mine, man. 202 00:16:16,100 --> 00:16:18,102 Spud had done well, I was proud of him. 203 00:16:18,227 --> 00:16:21,902 He fucked up good and proper. You had to hand it to Spud. 204 00:16:24,483 --> 00:16:27,362 Picture the scene. The other fucking week there 205 00:16:27,445 --> 00:16:29,914 down the fucking Volley. Me and Tommy playing pool. 206 00:16:29,989 --> 00:16:32,333 I'm playing like Paul fucking Newman by the way. 207 00:16:32,450 --> 00:16:34,794 Giving the boy here the tanning of a lifetime. 208 00:16:36,245 --> 00:16:39,875 So it comes to the last shot, the deciding ball of the whole tournament. 209 00:16:39,957 --> 00:16:43,882 I'm on the black and he's sat in the corner looking all fucking biscuit-arsed 210 00:16:43,961 --> 00:16:48,137 when this hard cunt comes in, obviously fucking fancied himself. 211 00:16:48,924 --> 00:16:50,676 Starts staring at me, 212 00:16:50,801 --> 00:16:54,601 looking at me, right fucking at me, as if to say, "Come ahead, square go." 213 00:16:54,680 --> 00:16:58,150 You know me. I'm not the type of cunt that goes looking for fucking bother 214 00:16:58,267 --> 00:17:01,316 but at the end of the day I'm the cunt with the pool cue 215 00:17:01,437 --> 00:17:04,782 and he can get the fat end in his puss any time he fucking wanted, like. 216 00:17:05,107 --> 00:17:07,360 So I squares up, casual like. 217 00:17:07,985 --> 00:17:09,487 What does the hard cunt do? 218 00:17:09,612 --> 00:17:13,333 Or the so-called hard cunt. Shites it, 219 00:17:13,449 --> 00:17:18,125 puts down his drink, turns and gets the fuck out of there, and after that, 220 00:17:19,663 --> 00:17:21,665 well, the game was mine. 221 00:17:25,669 --> 00:17:27,091 And that was it. 222 00:17:27,171 --> 00:17:31,221 That was Begbie's story. Or at least that was Begbie's version of the story. 223 00:17:31,842 --> 00:17:34,561 But a couple of days later I got the truth from Tommy. 224 00:17:34,678 --> 00:17:38,273 You always got the truth from Tommy. It was one of his major weaknesses. 225 00:17:38,349 --> 00:17:42,070 He never told lies, he never took drugs, and he never cheated on anyone. 226 00:17:43,479 --> 00:17:48,076 It was Wednesday morning. We were in the Volley playing pool, that much is true. 227 00:17:48,192 --> 00:17:51,696 But Begbie is playing absolutely fucking gash. 228 00:17:52,530 --> 00:17:55,374 He's got a hangover so bad he can hardly hold the fucking cue, 229 00:17:55,449 --> 00:17:56,871 never mind pot a ball. 230 00:17:57,117 --> 00:18:00,087 I'm doing my best to lose, you know, trying to humour him, like. 231 00:18:00,204 --> 00:18:01,751 But it's not doing any good. 232 00:18:01,872 --> 00:18:04,500 Every time I touch a ball, I seem to pot something. 233 00:18:04,583 --> 00:18:07,553 Every time Begbie goes near the table, he fucks it up. 234 00:18:07,628 --> 00:18:09,130 Oh, fuck's sake. 235 00:18:11,048 --> 00:18:13,471 So, he's got the hump, right? 236 00:18:14,134 --> 00:18:18,355 But, finally, I managed to set it up so all he has to do is to pot the black 237 00:18:18,430 --> 00:18:21,183 to win one game, to salvage a little bit of pride 238 00:18:21,267 --> 00:18:24,066 and maybe not kick my head in, right? 239 00:18:24,228 --> 00:18:27,323 So, he's on the black, pressure shot. 240 00:18:30,484 --> 00:18:33,078 Then it all goes wrong, big time. 241 00:18:35,155 --> 00:18:36,327 Fuck! 242 00:18:38,242 --> 00:18:40,620 He picks on this specky wee gadge at the bar 243 00:18:40,744 --> 00:18:43,463 and accuses him of putting him off by looking at him. 244 00:18:43,581 --> 00:18:44,548 I couldn't believe it. 245 00:18:44,623 --> 00:18:46,296 The poor wee cunt hasn't even glanced in our direction. 246 00:18:46,375 --> 00:18:47,342 Fuck off! 247 00:18:47,418 --> 00:18:49,091 He was going to chib him, I tell you. 248 00:18:50,087 --> 00:18:52,806 Then I thought he was going to do me. 249 00:18:55,259 --> 00:18:57,933 The beggar is fucking psycho, man. 250 00:18:58,637 --> 00:19:01,982 But he's a mate, you know. So what can you do? 251 00:19:02,808 --> 00:19:03,980 Can I borrow this? 252 00:19:04,518 --> 00:19:06,361 What indeed could one do? 253 00:19:06,437 --> 00:19:09,862 Just stand back and watch, and try not to get involved? 254 00:19:11,150 --> 00:19:12,777 Begbie didn't do drugs either. 255 00:19:12,860 --> 00:19:15,784 He just did people, that's what he got off on. 256 00:19:15,863 --> 00:19:17,365 His own sensory addiction. 257 00:19:23,621 --> 00:19:28,343 That lassie got glassed and no cunt leaves here till we find out what cunt did it. 258 00:19:28,459 --> 00:19:30,006 Who the fuck are you? 259 00:19:50,856 --> 00:19:51,982 Oh, Tom. 260 00:19:58,739 --> 00:20:01,162 - Oh, Lizzy, it's so good. - Oh, Tom, I'm coming. 261 00:20:02,326 --> 00:20:06,047 As I sat watching the intimate and highly personal video 262 00:20:06,163 --> 00:20:09,508 stolen only hours earlier from one of my best friends, 263 00:20:09,583 --> 00:20:13,508 I realised that something important was missing from my life. 264 00:20:59,883 --> 00:21:02,978 - I read it in Cosmopolitan. - It's an interesting theory. 265 00:21:03,053 --> 00:21:04,555 Actually, it's a nightmare. 266 00:21:04,638 --> 00:21:06,436 I've been desperate for a shag 267 00:21:06,557 --> 00:21:09,060 but watching him suffer was just too much fun. 268 00:21:09,727 --> 00:21:10,979 You should try it with Tommy. 269 00:21:11,061 --> 00:21:14,486 What, and deny myself the only pleasure I get from him? 270 00:21:14,565 --> 00:21:15,817 Did I tell you about my birthday? 271 00:21:15,899 --> 00:21:19,449 - No, what happened? - He forgot. Useless motherfucker. 272 00:21:46,805 --> 00:21:48,478 What are you two talking about? 273 00:21:49,683 --> 00:21:50,935 Football. 274 00:21:51,268 --> 00:21:52,770 What are you talking about? 275 00:21:52,853 --> 00:21:54,025 Shopping. 276 00:21:55,314 --> 00:21:57,737 The situation was becoming serious. 277 00:21:57,816 --> 00:22:01,036 Young Renton noticed the haste with which the successful 278 00:22:01,111 --> 00:22:06,117 in the sexual sphere, as in all others, segregated themselves from the failures. 279 00:22:15,584 --> 00:22:20,636 Heroin had robbed Renton of his sex drive, but now it returned with a vengeance. 280 00:22:21,006 --> 00:22:23,850 And as the impotence of those days faded into memory, 281 00:22:23,926 --> 00:22:27,396 grim desperation took a hold in his sex-crazed mind. 282 00:22:27,930 --> 00:22:31,605 His post-junk libido, fuelled by alcohol and amphetamine 283 00:22:31,683 --> 00:22:35,404 taunted him remorselessly with his own unsatisfied desire. 284 00:22:35,479 --> 00:22:37,607 Dot, dot, dot. 285 00:23:35,080 --> 00:23:38,710 And with that, Mark Renton had fallen in love. 286 00:23:49,094 --> 00:23:51,517 Excuse me, excuse me. I don't mean to harass you, but I was very impressed 287 00:23:51,597 --> 00:23:54,771 with your capable and stylish manner of dealing with that situation. 288 00:23:54,850 --> 00:23:57,228 I was thinking to myself, "Now, this girl's special." 289 00:23:57,311 --> 00:23:58,403 Thanks. 290 00:23:58,478 --> 00:24:00,105 - What's your name? - Diane. 291 00:24:00,189 --> 00:24:02,362 - Where are you going, Diane? - I'm going home. 292 00:24:02,441 --> 00:24:04,489 - Where's that? - It's where I live. 293 00:24:04,568 --> 00:24:05,660 Great. 294 00:24:05,736 --> 00:24:06,828 What? 295 00:24:06,904 --> 00:24:10,329 I'll come back with you if you like, but I'm not promising anything. 296 00:24:10,407 --> 00:24:12,705 Do you find that this approach usually works? 297 00:24:12,784 --> 00:24:15,253 Or let me guess, you've never tried it before. 298 00:24:15,329 --> 00:24:18,503 In fact, you don't normally approach girls, am I right? 299 00:24:18,582 --> 00:24:21,381 The truth is that you're a quiet, sensitive type 300 00:24:21,460 --> 00:24:25,681 but if I'm prepared to take a chance, I might just get to know the inner you. 301 00:24:25,756 --> 00:24:30,136 Witty, adventurous, passionate, loving, loyal. 302 00:24:30,219 --> 00:24:31,436 Taxi! 303 00:24:32,095 --> 00:24:35,395 A little bit crazy, a little bit bad. But, hey, 304 00:24:35,933 --> 00:24:38,311 don't us girls just love that? 305 00:24:39,144 --> 00:24:40,236 Eh? 306 00:24:40,979 --> 00:24:44,108 Well, what's wrong, boy? Cat got your tongue? 307 00:24:44,691 --> 00:24:45,908 I left something... 308 00:24:47,903 --> 00:24:49,905 Are you getting in or not, pal? 309 00:25:10,801 --> 00:25:15,978 Do you understand? I expect you to be a considerate and thoughtful lover. 310 00:25:16,139 --> 00:25:19,143 - Generous but firm. - What? 311 00:25:19,226 --> 00:25:22,776 Failure on your part to live up to these very reasonable expectations 312 00:25:22,854 --> 00:25:26,700 will result in swift resumption of a non-sex situation. 313 00:25:27,401 --> 00:25:28,618 Right? 314 00:25:41,498 --> 00:25:42,670 Diane? 315 00:25:44,209 --> 00:25:46,337 - What? - Shut up! 316 00:26:27,127 --> 00:26:28,549 Wake up, Spud. 317 00:26:29,796 --> 00:26:30,922 Wake up. 318 00:26:31,548 --> 00:26:32,674 Sex. 319 00:26:34,343 --> 00:26:35,936 Casual sex. 320 00:26:43,560 --> 00:26:45,813 Tommy, let's put the tape on. 321 00:26:46,063 --> 00:26:47,155 Now? 322 00:26:47,356 --> 00:26:49,734 I want to watch ourselves while we're screwing. 323 00:26:50,484 --> 00:26:52,987 So, let's see what I'm missing. 324 00:27:05,999 --> 00:27:07,342 Not much. 325 00:27:11,338 --> 00:27:14,467 There's the captain, Archie Gemmill, 326 00:27:14,549 --> 00:27:16,222 picking it up from the outside. 327 00:27:16,676 --> 00:27:19,976 I think he wants to go himself. Is he gonna go? 328 00:27:20,055 --> 00:27:21,978 He's going all the way. And he scores! 329 00:27:22,766 --> 00:27:24,564 What a magnificent goal! 330 00:27:25,060 --> 00:27:27,154 Gemmill at his very best. 331 00:27:27,229 --> 00:27:29,982 What a penetrating goal that was! 332 00:27:31,400 --> 00:27:35,200 I haven't felt that good since Archie Gemmill scored against Holland in 1978. 333 00:27:37,864 --> 00:27:39,081 Right. 334 00:27:39,533 --> 00:27:40,876 You can't sleep here. 335 00:27:40,951 --> 00:27:42,328 - What? - Out. 336 00:27:43,286 --> 00:27:44,458 Come on. 337 00:27:44,621 --> 00:27:48,842 No argument. You can sleep on the sofa in the hall or go home, it's up to you. 338 00:27:50,168 --> 00:27:52,546 And don't make any noise. 339 00:27:53,588 --> 00:27:54,840 Jesus. 340 00:28:01,680 --> 00:28:05,059 What do you mean, "It's gone"? Where has it gone, Tommy? 341 00:28:05,142 --> 00:28:06,735 It'll be here somewhere. 342 00:28:09,229 --> 00:28:12,199 - I might have returned it by mistake. - Returned it? 343 00:28:12,774 --> 00:28:15,527 Where? The video shop, Tommy? 344 00:28:16,278 --> 00:28:18,280 The fucking video shop? 345 00:28:19,239 --> 00:28:22,960 So every punter in Edinburgh is jerking off to our video? 346 00:28:23,952 --> 00:28:26,751 God, Tommy, I feel sick. 347 00:29:01,156 --> 00:29:02,874 - Hi. - Hello. 348 00:29:10,916 --> 00:29:12,042 Fuck. 349 00:29:48,036 --> 00:29:49,913 Come in and sit down. 350 00:29:50,205 --> 00:29:51,923 Like some coffee? 351 00:29:52,123 --> 00:29:53,249 Aye. 352 00:29:54,876 --> 00:29:57,425 - You must be Mark. - Aye, that's me. 353 00:30:03,385 --> 00:30:06,685 - Are you a friend of Diane's? - More a friend of a friend, no? 354 00:30:06,763 --> 00:30:07,855 Right. 355 00:30:10,559 --> 00:30:12,357 Are you her flatmates, like? 356 00:30:14,187 --> 00:30:15,609 Flatmates? 357 00:30:16,106 --> 00:30:18,200 I must remember that one. 358 00:30:19,442 --> 00:30:20,739 Morning. 359 00:30:35,584 --> 00:30:38,258 - Good morning, Spud. - Morning, Gail. 360 00:30:38,336 --> 00:30:40,555 Mr Houston. Mrs Houston. 361 00:30:40,630 --> 00:30:43,679 Morning, Spud. Sit down and have some breakfast. 362 00:30:46,595 --> 00:30:48,268 Sorry about last night, by the way. 363 00:30:48,346 --> 00:30:50,974 That's all right. I slept fine on the sofa. 364 00:30:52,642 --> 00:30:56,192 I had a bit much to drink, had a bit of an accident. 365 00:30:56,855 --> 00:30:59,074 Don't worry, son. These things happen. 366 00:30:59,149 --> 00:31:01,993 Does a man good to cut loose once in a while. 367 00:31:02,068 --> 00:31:04,867 This one could do with being tied up once in a while. 368 00:31:04,946 --> 00:31:08,917 - I'll put the sheets in the machine now. - No, I'll wash them. 369 00:31:08,992 --> 00:31:10,744 - There's no need. - No, it's no problem. 370 00:31:10,827 --> 00:31:12,249 It's no problem for me, either. 371 00:31:12,329 --> 00:31:15,253 - I'd rather take care of it myself, actually. - Honestly, it's no problem. 372 00:31:15,332 --> 00:31:17,755 - Really, no! - Spud, they're my sheets. 373 00:31:31,014 --> 00:31:33,608 - I don't see why not. - Because it's illegal, that's why not. 374 00:31:33,683 --> 00:31:36,027 - What, holding hands? - No, not holding hands. 375 00:31:36,144 --> 00:31:37,862 In that case you can do it. 376 00:31:37,937 --> 00:31:40,190 You were quite happy to do a lot more last night. 377 00:31:40,273 --> 00:31:41,741 Yeah, and that's what's illegal. 378 00:31:41,816 --> 00:31:43,534 Do you know what they do to people like me inside? 379 00:31:43,610 --> 00:31:46,079 They cut your balls off and flush them down the fucking toilet. 380 00:31:46,154 --> 00:31:50,625 - Calm down. You're not going to jail. - That's very easy for you to say, Diane. 381 00:31:50,700 --> 00:31:53,499 - Can I see you again? - Certainly not. 382 00:31:53,662 --> 00:31:56,962 If you don't see me again, I'll tell the police. 383 00:31:59,501 --> 00:32:01,344 I'll see you around then. 384 00:32:14,808 --> 00:32:16,151 Now what? 385 00:32:16,893 --> 00:32:18,145 We go for a walk. 386 00:32:18,228 --> 00:32:20,196 - What? - A walk. 387 00:32:22,023 --> 00:32:23,696 - Where? - There. 388 00:32:25,902 --> 00:32:27,324 Are you serious? 389 00:33:01,730 --> 00:33:03,607 What are you waiting for? 390 00:33:04,357 --> 00:33:05,734 Hey, Tommy. 391 00:33:07,402 --> 00:33:09,279 This is not natural, man. 392 00:33:10,071 --> 00:33:12,119 It's the great outdoors. 393 00:33:13,074 --> 00:33:14,291 It's fresh air. 394 00:33:14,367 --> 00:33:17,462 Look, Tommy, we know you're getting a hard time off Lizzy 395 00:33:17,537 --> 00:33:20,290 but there's really no need to take it out on us. 396 00:33:20,623 --> 00:33:24,969 - Doesn't it make you proud to be Scottish? - It's shite being Scottish. 397 00:33:25,795 --> 00:33:29,641 We're the lowest of the low. The scum of the fucking earth. 398 00:33:30,133 --> 00:33:33,888 The most wretched, miserable, servile, pathetic trash 399 00:33:33,970 --> 00:33:36,564 that was ever shat into civilisation. 400 00:33:36,639 --> 00:33:40,314 Some people hate the English, I don't. They're just wankers. 401 00:33:40,435 --> 00:33:43,655 We, on the other hand, are colonised by wankers. 402 00:33:43,897 --> 00:33:47,322 Can't even find a decent culture to be colonised by. 403 00:33:48,067 --> 00:33:50,445 We're ruled by effete arseholes. 404 00:33:50,820 --> 00:33:53,164 It's a shite state of affairs to be in, Tommy. 405 00:33:53,239 --> 00:33:57,665 And all the fresh air in the world won't make any fucking difference. 406 00:34:06,669 --> 00:34:09,138 Sorry, man. Sorry. No, I'm sorry. 407 00:34:09,506 --> 00:34:11,099 I appreciate it, Tommy. 408 00:34:11,174 --> 00:34:12,676 At or around this time, 409 00:34:12,801 --> 00:34:16,351 Spud, Sick Boy and I made a healthy, informed, democratic decision 410 00:34:16,471 --> 00:34:18,815 to get back on heroin as soon as possible. 411 00:34:18,890 --> 00:34:20,858 Took about 12 hours. 412 00:34:25,814 --> 00:34:28,192 It looks easy this, but it's not. 413 00:34:28,733 --> 00:34:31,577 It looks like a doss, like a soft option 414 00:34:31,861 --> 00:34:35,707 but living like this, it's a full-time business. 415 00:34:55,051 --> 00:34:59,807 Ursula Andress, the quintessential Bond girl. 416 00:35:00,390 --> 00:35:02,233 That's what everyone says. 417 00:35:02,308 --> 00:35:05,653 The embodiment, right, of his superiority to us. 418 00:35:06,563 --> 00:35:09,988 Beautiful, exotic, highly sexual, 419 00:35:10,066 --> 00:35:14,162 yet totally unavailable to anyone apart from him. 420 00:35:15,405 --> 00:35:18,500 Shite. I mean, let's face it, mate. 421 00:35:18,575 --> 00:35:22,125 She'd shag one punter from Edinburgh, she'd shag the whole fucking lot of us. 422 00:35:34,090 --> 00:35:36,764 Yep, I knew he was going to do that. 423 00:35:47,687 --> 00:35:51,362 Lizzy's gone, Mark. She's gone and fucking dumped me. 424 00:35:53,192 --> 00:35:54,819 It was that videotape. 425 00:35:55,820 --> 00:35:58,949 And that Iggy Pop business and all other sorts of shit. 426 00:35:59,699 --> 00:36:02,873 She told me where to go and no fucking mistake. 427 00:36:03,620 --> 00:36:05,213 I said to her, I said, 428 00:36:05,288 --> 00:36:07,882 "Is there any chance of getting back together?" 429 00:36:07,957 --> 00:36:09,459 But no fucking way. 430 00:36:11,002 --> 00:36:15,382 Honor Blackman, a.k.a. Pussy Galore, right? 431 00:36:15,965 --> 00:36:18,718 What a total fucking misnomer. 432 00:36:20,303 --> 00:36:22,806 I mean, I wouldn't touch her with yours. 433 00:36:23,890 --> 00:36:25,892 I want to try it, Mark. 434 00:36:26,184 --> 00:36:29,609 You're always going on about how it's like the ultimate hit and that. 435 00:36:29,687 --> 00:36:31,234 Better than sex. 436 00:36:35,652 --> 00:36:39,577 Come on, man, I'm a fucking adult, I can find out for myself. 437 00:36:44,494 --> 00:36:45,837 I've got the money. 438 00:36:49,332 --> 00:36:52,506 Personality, I mean, that's what counts, right? 439 00:36:52,835 --> 00:36:57,762 Personality, I mean, that's what keeps a relationship going through the years. 440 00:36:58,925 --> 00:37:00,393 Like heroin. 441 00:37:01,344 --> 00:37:02,436 I mean, 442 00:37:03,346 --> 00:37:06,020 heroin's got great fucking personality. 443 00:37:20,571 --> 00:37:23,950 Swanney taught us to adore and respect the National Health Service, 444 00:37:24,033 --> 00:37:26,161 for it was the source of much of our gear. 445 00:37:26,244 --> 00:37:29,214 We stole drugs, we stole prescriptions or bought them, 446 00:37:29,288 --> 00:37:32,212 sold them, swapped them, forged them, photocopied them. 447 00:37:32,542 --> 00:37:37,048 Or traded drugs with cancer victims, alcoholics, old-age pensioners, 448 00:37:37,213 --> 00:37:40,057 AIDS patients, epileptics and bored housewives. 449 00:37:40,383 --> 00:37:44,479 We took morphine, diamorphine, cyclizine, codeine, temazepam, 450 00:37:44,721 --> 00:37:47,520 nitrezepam, phenobarbitone and sodium amytal, 451 00:37:47,598 --> 00:37:51,774 dextropropoxyphene, methadone, nalbuphine, pethidine, pentazocine, 452 00:37:51,894 --> 00:37:54,989 buprenorphine, dextromoramide, chlormethiazole. 453 00:37:55,231 --> 00:37:58,861 The streets are awash with drugs you can have for unhappiness and pain 454 00:37:58,943 --> 00:38:00,616 and we took them all. 455 00:38:01,320 --> 00:38:05,416 Fuck it, we would have injected vitamin C if only they'd made it illegal. 456 00:38:14,417 --> 00:38:17,762 Pardon me, may I use your bathroom? Thank you. 457 00:38:29,599 --> 00:38:30,771 Stop, psycho. 458 00:38:41,277 --> 00:38:43,826 Rent-boy. No fucking smack. 459 00:38:49,786 --> 00:38:52,710 But the good times couldn't last forever. 460 00:38:59,879 --> 00:39:04,976 I think Allison had been screaming all day, but it hadn't really registered before. 461 00:39:05,635 --> 00:39:08,354 She might have been screaming for a week for all I knew. 462 00:39:08,429 --> 00:39:10,557 It'd been days since I heard anyone speak. 463 00:39:10,640 --> 00:39:13,735 Surely someone must've said something in all that time. 464 00:39:13,810 --> 00:39:16,279 Surely to fuck someone must have. 465 00:39:16,395 --> 00:39:18,238 - Allison! - Help me, please! 466 00:39:18,314 --> 00:39:19,440 Calm down. 467 00:39:20,316 --> 00:39:22,569 Everyone's going to be just fine. 468 00:39:22,693 --> 00:39:25,037 Nothing could have been further from the truth. 469 00:39:25,780 --> 00:39:28,533 In point of fact, nothing was going to be just fine. 470 00:39:28,616 --> 00:39:31,369 On the contrary, everything was going to be bad. 471 00:39:31,452 --> 00:39:36,299 Bad, I mean, everything was going to be even worse than it already was. 472 00:39:36,582 --> 00:39:39,461 My God! No, my God! 473 00:39:53,933 --> 00:39:55,105 Fuck! 474 00:39:55,184 --> 00:39:57,312 Please, please! 475 00:40:03,818 --> 00:40:08,540 It wasn't my baby. She wasn't my baby. Baby Dawn, she wasn't mine. 476 00:40:09,407 --> 00:40:12,911 Spud's, Swanney's, Sick Boy's, I don't know. 477 00:40:14,036 --> 00:40:16,380 Maybe Allison knew, maybe not. 478 00:40:17,331 --> 00:40:21,586 I wished I could think of something to say. Something sympathetic. 479 00:40:21,669 --> 00:40:22,795 Something human. 480 00:40:22,879 --> 00:40:24,506 Say something, Mark. 481 00:40:27,758 --> 00:40:31,262 Fucking say something, huh? 482 00:40:36,475 --> 00:40:37,692 I'm cooking up. 483 00:40:55,661 --> 00:40:59,541 Cook us up a shot, Rents. I really need a hit. 484 00:41:01,584 --> 00:41:04,508 So she did, I could understand that, 485 00:41:04,754 --> 00:41:06,222 to take the pain away. 486 00:41:07,924 --> 00:41:10,222 So I cooked up and she got a hit. 487 00:41:10,843 --> 00:41:14,268 But only after me, that went without saying. 488 00:41:16,891 --> 00:41:19,770 Well, at least we knew who the father was now. 489 00:41:20,019 --> 00:41:22,568 It wasn't just the baby that died that day. 490 00:41:22,647 --> 00:41:25,992 Something inside Sick Boy was lost and never returned. 491 00:41:26,567 --> 00:41:29,992 It seemed he had no theory with which to explain a moment like this. 492 00:41:30,071 --> 00:41:31,288 Nor did I. 493 00:41:32,240 --> 00:41:35,210 Our only response was to keep on going and fuck everything. 494 00:41:35,576 --> 00:41:39,956 Pile misery upon misery, heap it up on a spoon and dissolve it with a drop of bile. 495 00:41:40,039 --> 00:41:44,010 Then squirt it into a stinking, purulent vein and do it all over again. 496 00:41:44,085 --> 00:41:48,135 Keep on going, getting up, going out, robbing, stealing, fucking people over. 497 00:41:48,214 --> 00:41:52,264 Propelling ourselves with longing towards the day that it would all go wrong. 498 00:41:52,343 --> 00:41:54,391 Because no matter how much you stash 499 00:41:54,470 --> 00:41:56,893 or how much you steal, you never have enough. 500 00:41:56,973 --> 00:42:00,147 No matter how often you go out and rob and fuck people over, 501 00:42:00,226 --> 00:42:02,570 you always need to get up and do it all over again. 502 00:42:06,565 --> 00:42:10,160 Sooner or later this kind of thing was bound to happen. 503 00:42:16,450 --> 00:42:19,078 Because shoplifting is theft, which is a crime, 504 00:42:19,161 --> 00:42:23,587 and despite what you may believe, there is no such entity as victimless crime. 505 00:42:23,666 --> 00:42:27,216 Heroin addiction may explain your actions, but it does not excuse them. 506 00:42:27,336 --> 00:42:31,261 Mr Murphy, you are a habitual thief, devoid of regret and remorse. 507 00:42:31,340 --> 00:42:33,718 I'm sentencing you to six months' imprisonment. 508 00:42:33,801 --> 00:42:37,522 My only worry is that it will not be long before we meet again. 509 00:42:37,596 --> 00:42:41,942 Mr Renton, I understand that you have entered into a programme of rehabilitation 510 00:42:42,018 --> 00:42:45,318 in an attempt to wean yourself away from heroin. 511 00:42:45,563 --> 00:42:47,611 The suspension of your sentence 512 00:42:47,690 --> 00:42:51,069 is conditional on your continued co-operation with this programme. 513 00:42:51,152 --> 00:42:53,325 Should you stand guilty before me again, 514 00:42:53,404 --> 00:42:56,408 I shall not hesitate to impose a custodial sentence. 515 00:42:57,074 --> 00:42:59,042 Thank you, Your Honour. 516 00:42:59,118 --> 00:43:02,042 With God's help, I'll conquer this terrible affliction. 517 00:43:17,928 --> 00:43:19,054 What can you say? 518 00:43:19,555 --> 00:43:21,432 Well, Begbie had a phrase for it. 519 00:43:21,599 --> 00:43:25,320 It was fucking obvious that cunt was going to fuck some cunt. 520 00:43:25,394 --> 00:43:27,146 Hope you've learned your lesson, Son. 521 00:43:27,229 --> 00:43:31,154 My son, I thought I was going to lose you there. 522 00:43:31,233 --> 00:43:34,578 You're nothing but trouble to me, but I still love you. 523 00:43:35,738 --> 00:43:39,038 You'd better clean up your fucking act, sunshine. Cut that shite out forever. 524 00:43:39,116 --> 00:43:42,040 Listen to Francis, Mark. He's talking sense, kid. 525 00:43:42,119 --> 00:43:45,794 Fucking right I am. See, inside, you wouldn't last two fucking days. 526 00:43:45,873 --> 00:43:49,002 There are better things than the needle, Rents. Choose life. 527 00:43:49,251 --> 00:43:51,345 I remember when you were a wee baby. 528 00:44:10,689 --> 00:44:12,691 I'm sorry, Mrs Murphy. 529 00:44:13,734 --> 00:44:16,613 It was not fair, Spud going down and not me. 530 00:44:18,823 --> 00:44:20,700 Well, it's not our fault. 531 00:44:21,992 --> 00:44:24,745 Your boy went down because he was a fucking smack-head. 532 00:44:24,829 --> 00:44:27,457 If that's not your fault, then I don't know what is. 533 00:44:30,084 --> 00:44:32,837 I was the fucking cunt that tried to get him off it. 534 00:44:36,132 --> 00:44:38,009 - I'll get the fucking drinks then, eh? - Aye. 535 00:44:41,345 --> 00:44:44,098 I wished I'd gone down instead of Spud. 536 00:44:44,348 --> 00:44:47,727 Here I was, surrounded by my family and my so-called mates 537 00:44:47,810 --> 00:44:51,189 and I've never felt so alone. Never in all my puff. 538 00:44:54,567 --> 00:44:57,320 Since I was on remand, they've had me on this programme, 539 00:44:57,403 --> 00:44:59,656 the state-sponsored addiction, 540 00:44:59,738 --> 00:45:03,834 three sickly sweet doses of methadone a day instead of smack. 541 00:45:03,909 --> 00:45:05,832 But it's never enough. 542 00:45:06,078 --> 00:45:08,752 And at the moment, it's nowhere near enough. 543 00:45:10,040 --> 00:45:13,840 I took all three this morning and now I've got 18 hours to go till my next shot 544 00:45:13,919 --> 00:45:16,968 and a sweat on my back like a layer of frost. 545 00:45:17,882 --> 00:45:20,977 I need to visit the Mother Superior for one hit. 546 00:45:22,052 --> 00:45:23,850 One fucking hit 547 00:45:24,180 --> 00:45:26,933 to get us over this long, hard day. 548 00:45:30,853 --> 00:45:34,107 - What's on the menu this evening, sir? - Your favourite dish. 549 00:45:34,190 --> 00:45:35,282 Excellent. 550 00:45:35,816 --> 00:45:38,035 - Usual table, sir? - Why, thank you. 551 00:45:38,110 --> 00:45:41,284 Would sir care to pay for his bill in advance? 552 00:45:41,447 --> 00:45:43,040 No, stick it on my tab. 553 00:45:43,115 --> 00:45:44,458 I regret to inform, sir, 554 00:45:44,533 --> 00:45:47,753 credit limit was reached and breached quite some time ago. 555 00:45:47,828 --> 00:45:49,580 Well, in that case... 556 00:45:50,372 --> 00:45:52,795 Hard currency, that'll do nicely. 557 00:45:52,875 --> 00:45:56,675 Can't be too careful when we're dealing with your type, can we, sir? 558 00:45:57,713 --> 00:46:00,717 Would sir care for a starter? Some garlic bread, perhaps? 559 00:46:00,799 --> 00:46:05,555 No, thank you. I'll proceed directly to the intravenous injection of hard drugs, please. 560 00:46:05,638 --> 00:46:09,233 As you wish, sir. As you wish. 561 00:47:07,283 --> 00:47:10,412 Perhaps sir would like me to call for a taxi? 562 00:49:19,915 --> 00:49:21,167 Open your eyes. 563 00:49:21,500 --> 00:49:24,003 Wake up. Come on. Wake up. 564 00:50:55,344 --> 00:50:59,815 I don't feel the sickness yet, but it's in the mail, that's for sure. 565 00:51:00,015 --> 00:51:02,359 I'm in the junkie limbo at the moment. 566 00:51:02,643 --> 00:51:04,020 Too ill to sleep. 567 00:51:04,353 --> 00:51:06,276 Too tired to stay awake. 568 00:51:06,814 --> 00:51:09,192 But the sickness is on its way. 569 00:51:09,942 --> 00:51:14,038 Sweat, chills, nausea, pain and craving. 570 00:51:14,321 --> 00:51:18,292 A need like nothing else I've ever known will soon take hold of me. 571 00:51:18,367 --> 00:51:20,165 It's on its way. 572 00:52:00,909 --> 00:52:02,752 We'll help you, Son. 573 00:52:04,246 --> 00:52:07,341 You'll stay here with us until you get better. 574 00:52:07,416 --> 00:52:09,089 We're going to beat this together. 575 00:52:09,209 --> 00:52:11,837 Maybe I should go back to the clinic. 576 00:52:12,087 --> 00:52:15,762 No! No clinics. No methadone. 577 00:52:16,717 --> 00:52:19,721 That only made you worse, you said so yourself. 578 00:52:21,096 --> 00:52:25,602 You lied to us, Son, your own mother and father. 579 00:52:25,726 --> 00:52:27,774 - You could bring us some jellies. - No! 580 00:52:28,437 --> 00:52:30,531 You're worse coming off that than you are with the heroin. 581 00:52:30,606 --> 00:52:33,359 - Nothing at all! - It's a clean break this time. 582 00:52:33,442 --> 00:52:36,036 You're staying here where we can keep an eye on you. 583 00:52:36,111 --> 00:52:38,284 I appreciate what you're trying to do, I really do, 584 00:52:38,363 --> 00:52:42,618 but I just need one more score. Just bring me one more hit, please. 585 00:52:43,744 --> 00:52:45,963 I need one more fucking hit! 586 00:52:47,456 --> 00:52:48,799 You fuck! 587 00:52:52,586 --> 00:52:54,588 Hit. Hit. 588 00:53:08,226 --> 00:53:11,776 Well, this is a good fucking laugh, ain't it? 589 00:53:13,482 --> 00:53:17,988 You sweat that shite out of your system because if I come back and it's still here, 590 00:53:18,487 --> 00:53:20,831 I'll fucking kick it out. 591 00:53:22,074 --> 00:53:23,291 Okay. 592 00:53:32,501 --> 00:53:33,673 God! 593 00:53:49,977 --> 00:53:54,528 Question number one. The human immunodeficiency virus is a... 594 00:53:55,524 --> 00:53:58,698 - Retrovirus? - Retrovirus is the right answer. 595 00:54:08,453 --> 00:54:10,876 It's a mug's game, Mrs Renton. 596 00:54:11,832 --> 00:54:15,177 I mean, I'm not saying I was blameless myself, far from it, but 597 00:54:16,336 --> 00:54:19,715 there comes a time when you have to turn your back on that nonsense 598 00:54:19,840 --> 00:54:21,683 and just say no. 599 00:54:26,054 --> 00:54:28,148 Just say no. 600 00:54:28,223 --> 00:54:30,897 Oh, my God, she's dead. 601 00:54:59,421 --> 00:55:00,673 Question number two. 602 00:55:00,756 --> 00:55:05,683 HIV binds to which receptor on the host lymphocyte? 603 00:55:05,761 --> 00:55:07,763 Which receptor is that? 604 00:55:14,603 --> 00:55:15,775 CD4. 605 00:55:16,021 --> 00:55:18,740 CD4 is the right answer. 606 00:55:23,070 --> 00:55:26,370 Better than sex, Rents. Better than sex. 607 00:55:27,574 --> 00:55:29,292 The ultimate hit. 608 00:55:30,702 --> 00:55:34,047 I'm a fucking adult, I can find out for myself. 609 00:55:35,123 --> 00:55:37,626 Well, I'm finding out, all right. 610 00:55:43,465 --> 00:55:44,717 Tommy. 611 00:55:46,635 --> 00:55:47,761 No! 612 00:55:51,890 --> 00:55:55,485 Is he guilty? Or not guilty? 613 00:55:58,772 --> 00:55:59,989 He's our son. 614 00:56:07,239 --> 00:56:09,583 Don't! Dawn! 615 00:56:09,658 --> 00:56:13,333 Dawn! Stop! 616 00:56:15,163 --> 00:56:16,289 No! 617 00:56:16,498 --> 00:56:18,671 No! Don't do this to me! 618 00:56:18,959 --> 00:56:20,256 Stop! 619 00:56:26,633 --> 00:56:27,805 Mark. 620 00:56:29,678 --> 00:56:30,804 Mark. 621 00:56:31,888 --> 00:56:33,014 Mark. 622 00:56:36,643 --> 00:56:38,816 There's something you need to do. 623 00:56:58,623 --> 00:56:59,795 Ow! 624 00:57:08,300 --> 00:57:10,143 Come alive, 35. 625 00:57:10,719 --> 00:57:12,642 Box of tricks, 66. 626 00:57:14,389 --> 00:57:15,561 Mark! 627 00:57:15,640 --> 00:57:17,142 Mark, you've got a house. 628 00:57:17,851 --> 00:57:19,228 House, house! 629 00:57:20,061 --> 00:57:21,483 For goodness' sake, Mark. 630 00:57:22,898 --> 00:57:25,572 It seems, however, I really am the luckiest guy in the world. 631 00:57:25,692 --> 00:57:28,571 Several years of addiction right in the middle of an epidemic, 632 00:57:28,653 --> 00:57:30,655 surrounded by the living dead. 633 00:57:31,031 --> 00:57:33,250 But not me. I'm negative. 634 00:57:33,658 --> 00:57:35,376 It's official. 635 00:57:36,203 --> 00:57:39,173 And once the pain goes away, that's when the real battle starts. 636 00:57:39,247 --> 00:57:40,999 Depression, boredom. 637 00:57:41,374 --> 00:57:44,753 You feel so fucking low, you want to fucking top yourself. 638 00:57:47,964 --> 00:57:48,965 Tommy. 639 00:57:50,425 --> 00:57:51,426 Tommy! 640 00:57:55,555 --> 00:57:57,432 Tommy, it's Mark, man. 641 00:58:06,066 --> 00:58:07,784 You all right, mate? 642 00:58:30,382 --> 00:58:32,430 - Getting out much, Tommy? - No. 643 00:58:37,305 --> 00:58:39,774 - Following the game at all? - No. 644 00:58:42,435 --> 00:58:44,563 No, me neither, really. 645 00:58:55,323 --> 00:58:57,166 You take the test? 646 00:58:59,119 --> 00:59:00,291 Aye. 647 00:59:02,956 --> 00:59:04,173 Clear? 648 00:59:05,250 --> 00:59:06,467 Aye. 649 00:59:08,837 --> 00:59:10,339 That's nice. 650 00:59:13,675 --> 00:59:14,847 I'm sorry, Tommy. 651 00:59:18,305 --> 00:59:20,057 Got any gear on you? 652 00:59:20,849 --> 00:59:22,476 No, I'm clean, man. 653 00:59:24,144 --> 00:59:26,897 Well, sub us then, mate. 654 00:59:29,107 --> 00:59:30,529 I'm expecting a rent cheque. 655 00:59:45,373 --> 00:59:46,875 Thanks, Mark. 656 00:59:47,667 --> 00:59:49,044 No bother. 657 00:59:53,715 --> 00:59:57,345 No bother. None at all. Not for me, anyway. 658 00:59:58,261 --> 01:00:00,013 Still, it's easy to be philosophical 659 01:00:00,096 --> 01:00:03,396 when it's some other poor cunt with shite for blood. 660 01:00:11,191 --> 01:00:12,659 What do you want? 661 01:00:12,734 --> 01:00:14,702 - Are you clean? - Yes. 662 01:00:14,778 --> 01:00:17,907 - Is that a promise then? - Yes, it is, as a matter of fact. 663 01:00:18,073 --> 01:00:20,246 Calm down, I'm only asking. 664 01:00:24,579 --> 01:00:27,207 - Is that hash I can smell? - No. 665 01:00:27,415 --> 01:00:30,259 - I wouldn't mind a bit if it is. - Well, it isn't. 666 01:00:30,585 --> 01:00:32,758 - It smells like it. - You're too young. 667 01:00:32,879 --> 01:00:34,881 I'm too young for what? 668 01:00:43,598 --> 01:00:45,771 You're not getting any younger, Mark. 669 01:00:45,975 --> 01:00:50,105 The world's changing, music's changing, even drugs are changing. 670 01:00:50,563 --> 01:00:54,909 You can't stay in here all day dreaming about heroin and Ziggy Pop. 671 01:00:55,110 --> 01:00:56,737 It's Iggy Pop. 672 01:00:56,945 --> 01:00:59,289 Whatever. I mean, the guy's dead anyway. 673 01:00:59,447 --> 01:01:02,872 Iggy Pop is not dead. He toured last year. Tommy went to see him. 674 01:01:02,951 --> 01:01:05,830 The point is, you've got to find something new. 675 01:01:08,581 --> 01:01:11,300 She was right. I had to find something new. 676 01:01:11,835 --> 01:01:13,678 There was only one thing for it. 677 01:01:57,547 --> 01:01:58,969 Lifestyle Letting Agency. 678 01:01:59,048 --> 01:02:01,892 Yes. It's a beautifully converted Victorian town house. 679 01:02:02,552 --> 01:02:06,147 Ideally located in a quiet road near to the local shops and transport. 680 01:02:07,015 --> 01:02:09,313 This one's two bedrooms and a kitchen/diner. 681 01:02:09,392 --> 01:02:12,020 Fully fitted, in excellent decorative order. 682 01:02:12,145 --> 01:02:13,522 Lots of storage space. 683 01:02:13,646 --> 01:02:17,492 All mod cons and it's going at 320 pounds a week. 684 01:02:25,241 --> 01:02:28,495 I settled in not too badly and kept myself to myself. 685 01:02:28,578 --> 01:02:30,205 Sometimes, of course, I thought about the guys, 686 01:02:30,288 --> 01:02:32,256 but mainly I didn't miss them at all. 687 01:02:32,373 --> 01:02:33,875 After all, this was boomtown, 688 01:02:33,958 --> 01:02:36,586 where any fool could make cash from chaos, and plenty did. 689 01:02:36,711 --> 01:02:38,054 Tell you what I've got. 690 01:02:38,171 --> 01:02:41,721 I've got a beautifully converted Victorian town house. 691 01:02:42,050 --> 01:02:43,848 I quite enjoyed the sound of it all. 692 01:02:43,927 --> 01:02:48,728 Profit, loss, margins, takeovers, lending, letting, sub-letting, sub-dividing, 693 01:02:48,890 --> 01:02:51,359 cheating, scamming, fragmenting, breaking away. 694 01:02:51,434 --> 01:02:53,357 Who's got the keys to Talgarth Road? 695 01:02:53,436 --> 01:02:55,279 There was no such thing as society. 696 01:02:55,396 --> 01:02:58,741 And even if there was, I most certainly had nothing to do with it. 697 01:02:58,900 --> 01:03:02,746 For the first time in my adult life I was almost content. 698 01:03:03,905 --> 01:03:07,751 "Dear Mark, I'm glad you found a job and somewhere to live. 699 01:03:08,243 --> 01:03:12,749 "School is fine at the moment. I'm not pregnant, but thanks for asking. 700 01:03:12,914 --> 01:03:16,418 "Your friend Sick Boy asked me last week if I would like to work for him. 701 01:03:16,584 --> 01:03:18,211 "But I told him where to go. 702 01:03:18,294 --> 01:03:23,050 "I met Spud who sends his regards. Or at least I think that's what he said. 703 01:03:26,052 --> 01:03:27,850 "No one has seen Tommy for ages. 704 01:03:27,929 --> 01:03:31,979 "And finally, Francis Begbie has been on television a lot this week, 705 01:03:32,225 --> 01:03:35,445 "as he is wanted by the police in connection with an armed robbery 706 01:03:35,562 --> 01:03:37,405 "in a jeweller's in Corstorphine. 707 01:03:37,480 --> 01:03:40,074 "Take care. Yours, with love, Diane." 708 01:03:47,615 --> 01:03:48,832 Francis Begbie. 709 01:03:54,414 --> 01:03:55,757 Oh, no. 710 01:03:55,957 --> 01:03:57,755 Armed robbery? 711 01:03:57,834 --> 01:03:58,926 What, with a replica? 712 01:03:59,002 --> 01:04:02,222 How the fuck can it be armed robbery with a fucking replica? 713 01:04:02,297 --> 01:04:05,972 Fucking scandal. And the gear... Look. 714 01:04:09,345 --> 01:04:12,645 Supposed to be fucking solid silver, it's fucking garbage. 715 01:04:13,141 --> 01:04:16,065 Those young couples investing all their fucking hopes in that stuff and all. 716 01:04:16,144 --> 01:04:19,023 - It's a scandal, Franco. - Too fucking right it is. 717 01:04:19,105 --> 01:04:20,903 How about one of these Pot Noodles by the way? 718 01:04:20,982 --> 01:04:22,984 I'm fucking Lee Marvin. 719 01:04:31,451 --> 01:04:32,623 Hey, Rents. 720 01:04:32,702 --> 01:04:35,376 Begbie settled in, in no time at all. 721 01:04:36,497 --> 01:04:38,340 I've got no fucking cigarettes. 722 01:04:47,050 --> 01:04:48,427 Aye, right. 723 01:05:10,156 --> 01:05:11,248 It's me. 724 01:05:13,826 --> 01:05:15,169 Rents. 725 01:05:21,876 --> 01:05:23,298 Yeah, the guy's a psycho. 726 01:05:23,378 --> 01:05:27,099 But it's true, he's a mate and all, so what can you do? 727 01:05:46,442 --> 01:05:50,197 Hey. Pop down the bookies and put a line on for us. 728 01:05:50,363 --> 01:05:52,457 Can you not go yourself? 729 01:05:52,699 --> 01:05:54,417 Well, seeing as how I'm a fugitive from the law 730 01:05:54,492 --> 01:05:57,416 and I can't even walk the fucking streets, you go. 731 01:05:58,746 --> 01:05:59,838 Here. 732 01:06:01,374 --> 01:06:05,754 Doncaster. 4:40. 5 pounds to win. Bad Boy. 733 01:06:15,471 --> 01:06:18,065 Buy some fucking beer and all. 734 01:06:24,772 --> 01:06:27,525 Come on, Bad Boy. Come on, son. Come on, son. 735 01:06:27,608 --> 01:06:29,610 Come on. Come on. Yeah! 736 01:06:33,406 --> 01:06:34,578 Yeah. 737 01:06:37,952 --> 01:06:40,296 Bad Boy. 738 01:06:41,456 --> 01:06:43,458 Came in at 16-to-1. 739 01:06:43,583 --> 01:06:45,631 And with the winnings, we went out to celebrate. 740 01:07:16,282 --> 01:07:18,705 Diane was right. The world is changing. 741 01:07:18,826 --> 01:07:23,047 Music is changing, drugs are changing, even men and women are changing. 742 01:07:23,331 --> 01:07:27,177 1,000 years from now, there'll be no guys and no girls, just wankers. 743 01:07:27,293 --> 01:07:29,091 Sounds great to me. 744 01:07:33,674 --> 01:07:35,517 It's just a pity no one told Begbie. 745 01:07:52,527 --> 01:07:55,201 Fuck! Fuck! 746 01:07:55,446 --> 01:07:57,949 You see, if you ask me, we're heterosexual by default, 747 01:07:58,032 --> 01:07:59,454 not by decision. 748 01:07:59,534 --> 01:08:01,787 It's just a question of who you fancy. 749 01:08:01,869 --> 01:08:05,294 It's all about aesthetics and it's fuck-all to do with morality. 750 01:08:05,706 --> 01:08:06,878 Fuck! 751 01:08:09,043 --> 01:08:11,216 But you try telling Begbie that. 752 01:08:11,462 --> 01:08:14,386 Look, I'm not a fucking buftie and that's the end of it. 753 01:08:14,549 --> 01:08:16,802 Let's face it, it could have been wonderful. 754 01:08:19,720 --> 01:08:23,020 Fucking listen to me, you piece of junkie shit. 755 01:08:23,641 --> 01:08:27,487 A joke's a fucking joke, you mention that again and I'll cut you up. 756 01:08:28,646 --> 01:08:30,239 You understand? 757 01:08:35,736 --> 01:08:37,079 Since I last saw him, 758 01:08:37,154 --> 01:08:40,158 Sick Boy had reinvented himself as a pimp and a pusher 759 01:08:40,241 --> 01:08:42,744 and was here, he said, to mix business and pleasure, 760 01:08:42,869 --> 01:08:46,089 setting up contacts, as he constantly informed me, 761 01:08:46,205 --> 01:08:50,335 for the great smack deal that was one day going to make him rich. 762 01:08:56,048 --> 01:08:57,550 Good chips. 763 01:08:58,426 --> 01:09:00,554 I can't believe you did that. 764 01:09:03,431 --> 01:09:05,604 I got a good price for it. 765 01:09:05,892 --> 01:09:07,439 Rents, I need the money. 766 01:09:07,518 --> 01:09:09,566 It was my fucking telly. 767 01:09:10,396 --> 01:09:15,402 Christ, if I'd known you were going to get so Humpty about it, I wouldn't have bothered. 768 01:09:17,695 --> 01:09:19,743 Fucking rented anyway. 769 01:09:20,740 --> 01:09:22,742 Are you going to eat that? 770 01:09:28,205 --> 01:09:31,254 - Have you got a passport? - Why? 771 01:09:31,959 --> 01:09:35,759 I met this bloke who runs a hotel, brothel. 772 01:09:36,088 --> 01:09:37,635 Loads of contacts. 773 01:09:38,090 --> 01:09:41,890 He does a nice sideline in punting British passports to foreigners. 774 01:09:41,969 --> 01:09:43,892 Get you a good price. 775 01:09:43,971 --> 01:09:46,474 And why would I want to sell my passport? 776 01:09:50,895 --> 01:09:52,647 It was just an idea. 777 01:09:54,398 --> 01:09:56,150 I had to get rid of them. 778 01:09:56,275 --> 01:09:59,404 Sick Boy didn't do his drug deal and he didn't get rich. 779 01:09:59,487 --> 01:10:03,492 Instead, he and Begbie just hung around my bed-sit looking for things to steal. 780 01:10:03,616 --> 01:10:06,836 I decided to offer them one of London's most desirable properties. 781 01:10:33,521 --> 01:10:35,444 But, of course, they weren't paying any rent. 782 01:10:35,523 --> 01:10:38,276 So when my boss found two desperate suckers who would, 783 01:10:38,359 --> 01:10:41,033 Sick Boy and Begbie were bound to feel threatened. 784 01:10:41,529 --> 01:10:46,660 Yep. Lots of storage. All mod cons, 320 quid a week. 785 01:10:50,496 --> 01:10:51,839 And that was that. 786 01:10:52,707 --> 01:10:55,335 But by then we had another reason to go back. 787 01:10:55,501 --> 01:10:56,798 Tommy. 788 01:10:57,044 --> 01:11:00,969 Tommy knew he'd got the virus, like, but he never knew he'd gone full-blown. 789 01:11:02,216 --> 01:11:04,059 What was it, pneumonia or cancer? 790 01:11:04,176 --> 01:11:08,181 No, toxoplasmosis. It's like a stroke. 791 01:11:08,723 --> 01:11:10,191 How's that? 792 01:11:11,058 --> 01:11:12,685 He wanted to see Lizzy again. 793 01:11:14,228 --> 01:11:16,230 She would not let him near the house. 794 01:11:16,397 --> 01:11:19,071 So he bought her a present. He brought her this kitten. 795 01:11:20,192 --> 01:11:22,035 But Lizzy told him where to fucking stick it? 796 01:11:22,111 --> 01:11:23,488 Exactly. 797 01:11:23,571 --> 01:11:26,370 "I'm not wanting a cat," she says, "Get to fuck, right." 798 01:11:27,074 --> 01:11:31,170 So there's Tommy, stuck with this kitten. You can imagine what happened. 799 01:11:31,245 --> 01:11:33,339 To those of us gathered here today, 800 01:11:34,040 --> 01:11:38,170 Thomas McKenzie filled a number of different roles in our lives. 801 01:11:38,419 --> 01:11:39,841 Thomas was a son... 802 01:11:39,920 --> 01:11:43,766 The thing was neglected, pissing and shitting all over the place. 803 01:11:43,841 --> 01:11:48,267 Tommy was lying about, fucked out of his eyeballs on smack or downers. 804 01:11:48,596 --> 01:11:51,941 He never knew you could get toxoplasmosis from cat shit. 805 01:11:53,100 --> 01:11:56,104 a loving man who had a great lust for life. 806 01:11:57,772 --> 01:12:01,072 - Neither did I. What is it? - Fucking horrible. 807 01:12:01,901 --> 01:12:05,451 - It's like an abscess in your brain. - Fucking hell! 808 01:12:05,529 --> 01:12:06,701 Then what happened? 809 01:12:07,239 --> 01:12:12,040 He starts getting these headaches, so he just uses more smack, for the pain. 810 01:12:12,953 --> 01:12:16,207 And then he has a stroke. A fucking stroke. 811 01:12:16,290 --> 01:12:17,917 Just like that. 812 01:12:18,959 --> 01:12:22,634 He gets home from the hospital and dies three weeks later. 813 01:12:23,214 --> 01:12:26,889 He'd been dead for ages before the neighbours complained about the smell 814 01:12:26,967 --> 01:12:29,811 and got the police to break down the door. 815 01:12:29,929 --> 01:12:32,227 Tommy was lying face down in a pool of vomit. 816 01:12:32,306 --> 01:12:36,436 He has gone from us, but we have many things to remember him by. 817 01:12:37,436 --> 01:12:38,653 The kitten was fine. 818 01:12:38,771 --> 01:12:41,820 Would you all please rise now for the committal? 819 01:13:27,486 --> 01:13:29,033 - Tommy. - Tommy. 820 01:13:34,201 --> 01:13:36,124 Did you tell him yet? 821 01:13:37,037 --> 01:13:38,209 On you go. 822 01:13:38,330 --> 01:13:39,502 What? 823 01:13:39,707 --> 01:13:43,302 There's this mate of Swanney's. You know the guy, Mikey Forrester. 824 01:13:43,377 --> 01:13:44,549 Aye. 825 01:13:47,965 --> 01:13:50,059 He's come into some gear. 826 01:13:50,551 --> 01:13:52,895 - A lot of gear. - How much gear? 827 01:13:55,055 --> 01:13:59,026 About two kilos. So he tells me. 828 01:14:00,186 --> 01:14:03,406 He got drunk in a pub down by the docks last week 829 01:14:03,480 --> 01:14:05,699 where he met two Russian sailors. 830 01:14:06,233 --> 01:14:10,329 They're fucking carrying the stuff. For sale there and then, like. 831 01:14:10,404 --> 01:14:15,251 So, he wakes up next morning, realises what he's done, 832 01:14:15,326 --> 01:14:19,081 gets very fucking nervous. He wants rid of this, right? 833 01:14:19,246 --> 01:14:20,338 So? 834 01:14:20,414 --> 01:14:22,007 So, he met me, 835 01:14:22,374 --> 01:14:26,095 and I offered to take it off his hands at a very reasonable price 836 01:14:26,212 --> 01:14:29,591 with the intention of punting it on myself to a guy I know in London. 837 01:14:29,673 --> 01:14:32,597 We've just come back from Tommy's funeral 838 01:14:32,676 --> 01:14:35,099 and you're talking about a skag deal? 839 01:14:36,764 --> 01:14:37,936 Aye. 840 01:14:41,852 --> 01:14:43,729 What was your price? 841 01:14:43,938 --> 01:14:46,111 - Four grand. - You haven't got four grand. 842 01:14:46,232 --> 01:14:49,281 - We're 2,000 short. - Well, that's tough. 843 01:14:50,027 --> 01:14:53,873 Look, Mark, every cunt knows you've been saving up down in London. 844 01:14:53,948 --> 01:14:56,872 I'm sorry, boys, I do not have two grand. 845 01:14:57,117 --> 01:14:58,960 Aye, you fucking do. 846 01:15:00,746 --> 01:15:02,544 I've seen your bank statement. 847 01:15:02,873 --> 01:15:04,466 For fuck's sake. 848 01:15:04,625 --> 01:15:09,381 2,133 pounds. 849 01:15:09,755 --> 01:15:12,474 Two kilos. What is that, ten years? 850 01:15:12,758 --> 01:15:16,729 Mikey Forrester, Russian sailors, what the fuck are you boys on? 851 01:15:16,887 --> 01:15:18,560 Spud, you've already been to jail. 852 01:15:18,639 --> 01:15:21,062 What's the deal? You like it so much, you want to go back? 853 01:15:21,225 --> 01:15:23,319 I just want the money, Mark. 854 01:15:23,560 --> 01:15:28,487 If everybody keeps their fucking mouth shut, there'll be no cunt going to jail. 855 01:15:32,278 --> 01:15:35,498 I hadn't told anyone everything that was running through my mind 856 01:15:35,572 --> 01:15:37,165 about what might happen in London. 857 01:15:37,241 --> 01:15:40,415 There were a lot of possibilities I didn't want to talk to anyone about. 858 01:15:40,494 --> 01:15:42,667 Ideas best kept to myself. 859 01:15:43,497 --> 01:15:45,841 What no one told me was that when we bought the smack, 860 01:15:45,916 --> 01:15:48,840 some lucky punter would have to try it out. 861 01:15:52,756 --> 01:15:56,932 Begbie didn't trust Spud. Sick Boy was too careful these days. 862 01:15:57,011 --> 01:16:01,687 So I rolled up my sleeve, I spiked my vein, and I did what had to be done. 863 01:16:05,853 --> 01:16:10,029 It's good. Oh, it's really fucking good. 864 01:16:15,446 --> 01:16:17,540 Yeah, that hit was good. 865 01:16:17,698 --> 01:16:20,622 I promised myself another one before we got to London. 866 01:16:20,701 --> 01:16:25,878 Just the one hit, just for old times' sake. Just to piss Begbie off. 867 01:16:27,041 --> 01:16:28,759 This was his nightmare. 868 01:16:28,876 --> 01:16:31,720 The dodgiest scam in a lifetime of dodgy scams, 869 01:16:31,795 --> 01:16:35,971 being perpetrated with three of the most useless and unreliable fuckups in town. 870 01:16:37,092 --> 01:16:38,890 I knew what was going on in his mind. 871 01:16:38,969 --> 01:16:41,688 Any trouble in London, and he would dump us immediately. 872 01:16:41,764 --> 01:16:44,062 One way or another, he had to. 873 01:16:44,308 --> 01:16:48,188 If he got caught with a bag full of smack on top of that armed robbery shit, 874 01:16:48,270 --> 01:16:50,898 he was going down for 15 to 20. 875 01:16:51,231 --> 01:16:56,237 Begbie was hard. But not so hard that he didn't shite it off 20 years in prison. 876 01:17:03,577 --> 01:17:06,080 This was to be my final hit. 877 01:17:06,246 --> 01:17:10,592 But let's be clear about this. There's final hits and final hits. 878 01:17:11,251 --> 01:17:13,253 What kind was this to be? 879 01:17:18,258 --> 01:17:20,977 - Did you bring the cards? - What? 880 01:17:21,095 --> 01:17:23,974 The cards, the last thing I told you was to mind the cards. 881 01:17:24,306 --> 01:17:26,104 I've not brought them. 882 01:17:28,435 --> 01:17:31,063 It's fucking boring after a while without the cards. 883 01:17:31,146 --> 01:17:32,272 I'm sorry. 884 01:17:33,148 --> 01:17:35,617 - Bit fucking late. - Why didn't you bring them? 885 01:17:35,692 --> 01:17:39,447 'Cause I fucking told you to bring them, you doss cunt! 886 01:17:39,947 --> 01:17:41,039 Christ. 887 01:18:28,704 --> 01:18:30,456 These are your friends, right? 888 01:18:30,539 --> 01:18:32,337 These are the guys I told you about. 889 01:18:32,416 --> 01:18:33,542 Okay. 890 01:18:33,709 --> 01:18:35,962 - Well, is he here? - Yeah, he's here. 891 01:18:36,044 --> 01:18:38,092 You didn't get followed or nothing, did you? 892 01:18:38,172 --> 01:18:40,174 We didn't get followed. 893 01:18:40,257 --> 01:18:41,429 Okay. 894 01:18:58,775 --> 01:19:00,618 - All right. - Hi. 895 01:19:03,906 --> 01:19:06,329 Straightaway he clocked us for what we were. 896 01:19:06,408 --> 01:19:09,082 Small-time wasters with an accidental big deal. 897 01:19:20,422 --> 01:19:21,719 Excuse me, gentlemen. 898 01:20:15,602 --> 01:20:19,027 So, how much would you like for this? 899 01:20:22,651 --> 01:20:23,698 20,000. 900 01:20:25,946 --> 01:20:28,995 I don't think it's worth much more than 15. 901 01:20:29,116 --> 01:20:32,666 This was a real drag to him. He didn't need to negotiate. 902 01:20:32,786 --> 01:20:35,335 What the fuck were we going to do with it if he didn't buy it? 903 01:20:35,455 --> 01:20:38,129 Sell it on the streets? Fuck that. 904 01:20:38,375 --> 01:20:42,130 - Well, 19. - Terribly sorry, I can't go to 19. 905 01:20:45,299 --> 01:20:47,142 Well, fucking 16 then. 906 01:20:49,970 --> 01:20:52,814 Okay. Well, fucking 16 it is then. 907 01:20:57,811 --> 01:21:00,985 These, gentlemen, are 2,000 pound bundles. 908 01:21:01,481 --> 01:21:03,028 That's two. 909 01:21:04,151 --> 01:21:05,949 That's four. 910 01:21:06,028 --> 01:21:08,372 We settled on 16,000 pounds. 911 01:21:08,488 --> 01:21:11,788 He had a lot more in the suitcase, but it was better than nothing. 912 01:21:12,826 --> 01:21:14,043 make eight. 913 01:21:19,166 --> 01:21:21,669 Thank you very much, gentlemen. 914 01:21:21,793 --> 01:21:24,546 I'd just like to say it's been a pleasure haggling with you. 915 01:21:24,671 --> 01:21:26,218 Fucking brand new, by the way. 916 01:21:29,384 --> 01:21:30,476 Okay? 917 01:21:32,679 --> 01:21:33,771 Yes! 918 01:21:35,015 --> 01:21:36,392 Fucking... 919 01:21:37,184 --> 01:21:39,858 And just for a moment it felt really great. 920 01:21:39,978 --> 01:21:43,528 Like we were all in it together, like friends, like it meant something. 921 01:21:43,690 --> 01:21:46,113 A moment like that, it can touch you deep inside. 922 01:21:46,193 --> 01:21:49,367 But it doesn't last long. Not like 16,000 pounds. 923 01:21:49,446 --> 01:21:50,618 So, what about you, Spud? 924 01:21:50,697 --> 01:21:52,540 Any major investments on the horizon at all? 925 01:21:52,616 --> 01:21:54,618 Going to buy yourself a wee island in the sun? 926 01:21:54,701 --> 01:21:56,123 What, for four fucking grand? 927 01:21:56,203 --> 01:21:58,752 One palm tree, a couple of rocks and a fucking sewage outflow. 928 01:22:02,042 --> 01:22:03,464 I don't know, man. 929 01:22:03,543 --> 01:22:05,796 I'm going to get something for my ma, I think. 930 01:22:06,380 --> 01:22:09,600 Get some good speed, no bicarb. 931 01:22:10,258 --> 01:22:12,602 Then get a girl, take her out, treat her right. 932 01:22:12,678 --> 01:22:16,524 - And shag her senseless? - No, man, true love. True love. 933 01:22:17,391 --> 01:22:21,362 But I could really handle some hot sex with a Jewish princess tonight. 934 01:22:21,436 --> 01:22:23,564 - You daft cunt. - Or a Catholic. 935 01:22:23,647 --> 01:22:27,322 If you're going to waste it on a bird, you might as well fucking leave it all to me. 936 01:22:27,401 --> 01:22:29,529 - Now get the drinks in. - I got a round already. 937 01:22:29,611 --> 01:22:32,285 - I got the last one. - It's your round, Franco. 938 01:22:33,782 --> 01:22:35,500 Okay. Same again? 939 01:22:35,575 --> 01:22:36,667 Right. 940 01:22:36,743 --> 01:22:38,370 I'm off for a piss. 941 01:22:38,453 --> 01:22:40,922 See when I get back that money's still here, okay? 942 01:22:40,997 --> 01:22:43,250 The moment your back's turned we're out the door. 943 01:22:43,333 --> 01:22:47,338 - Yeah? I'll be right fucking after you. - You'll never catch us, you flabby bastard. 944 01:22:47,504 --> 01:22:49,381 By the way, see, when I get back... 945 01:22:49,756 --> 01:22:52,555 We'll be halfway down the street with the money. 946 01:22:52,634 --> 01:22:56,309 - I'd fucking kill you. - I thought you might, Franco. 947 01:22:56,388 --> 01:22:58,140 Thought you might. 948 01:23:02,310 --> 01:23:04,153 Are you game for it? 949 01:23:04,563 --> 01:23:05,655 What? 950 01:23:07,899 --> 01:23:09,151 Well? 951 01:23:10,026 --> 01:23:11,824 Are you serious? 952 01:23:19,995 --> 01:23:22,418 I don't know. What do you think? 953 01:23:24,166 --> 01:23:27,636 - Still here, I see. - Aye. We wouldn't run out on a mate. 954 01:23:28,170 --> 01:23:29,968 Why not? I know I would. 955 01:23:31,006 --> 01:23:32,599 Where's Franco? 956 01:23:35,302 --> 01:23:39,023 - For fuck's sake! - Sorry, mate. I'll buy you another one. 957 01:23:39,097 --> 01:23:42,476 You've ruined my fucking suit, you fucking idiots. 958 01:23:42,559 --> 01:23:43,981 I'm sorry. I didn't mean it. 959 01:23:44,060 --> 01:23:46,279 Sorry is not going to dry me off, you cunt. 960 01:23:46,354 --> 01:23:49,233 Cool down, Franco. The man says he's sorry. 961 01:23:49,357 --> 01:23:51,735 Not sorry enough for being a fat cunt. 962 01:23:51,902 --> 01:23:52,994 Fuck you. 963 01:23:53,069 --> 01:23:56,539 If you can't hold a pint you shouldn't be in the pub, mate. Now, fuck off. 964 01:24:12,339 --> 01:24:14,057 No, Frank, not that, man. 965 01:24:14,132 --> 01:24:16,510 Oh, fuck's sake. 966 01:24:17,135 --> 01:24:19,513 - Fucking nice one, Franco. - Shut it. 967 01:24:19,596 --> 01:24:22,975 - You cut me, man. - You were in my fucking way. 968 01:24:23,058 --> 01:24:24,310 Help! 969 01:24:27,145 --> 01:24:30,115 Anybody else want to get in my fucking way? 970 01:24:30,565 --> 01:24:31,691 You? 971 01:24:34,027 --> 01:24:35,199 You? 972 01:24:40,242 --> 01:24:41,585 Hey, Rent-boy. 973 01:24:43,078 --> 01:24:45,501 You bring me down a fucking smoke. 974 01:24:45,580 --> 01:24:48,834 - I think we'd better go, Franco. - I've got to go to the hospital, man. 975 01:24:48,917 --> 01:24:52,217 You're not going to any fucking hospital. You're staying there. 976 01:24:55,590 --> 01:24:57,718 You bring me down a fucking cigarette. 977 01:25:04,307 --> 01:25:05,775 And the bag. 978 01:28:36,269 --> 01:28:39,648 Now I've justified this to myself in all sorts of ways. 979 01:28:39,731 --> 01:28:42,450 It wasn't a big deal, just a minor betrayal. 980 01:28:43,151 --> 01:28:46,496 Or we'd outgrown each other, you know, that sort of thing. 981 01:28:46,613 --> 01:28:50,459 But let's face it, I ripped them off, my so-called mates. 982 01:28:50,658 --> 01:28:52,956 But, Begbie, I couldn't give a shit about him. 983 01:28:53,286 --> 01:28:57,666 And Sick Boy would have done the same to me if he'd only thought of it first. 984 01:28:58,500 --> 01:29:02,721 And Spud, okay, I felt sorry for Spud. He never hurt anybody. 985 01:29:09,219 --> 01:29:10,641 Bastard! 986 01:29:17,894 --> 01:29:19,487 Bastard! 987 01:29:25,652 --> 01:29:27,245 Right. Move away, everybody. 988 01:29:27,320 --> 01:29:29,322 What's going on in there? 989 01:29:30,406 --> 01:29:33,000 Open up. Open up now! 990 01:29:35,328 --> 01:29:36,671 Bastard! 991 01:29:37,497 --> 01:29:39,090 So, why did I do it? 992 01:29:40,166 --> 01:29:43,045 I could offer a million answers, all false. 993 01:29:43,169 --> 01:29:45,263 The truth is that I'm a bad person. 994 01:29:45,338 --> 01:29:48,683 But that is going to change. I'm going to change. 995 01:29:48,758 --> 01:29:50,852 This is the last of that sort of thing. 996 01:29:50,927 --> 01:29:54,773 Now I'm cleaning up and I'm moving on, going straight and choosing life. 997 01:29:55,056 --> 01:29:57,229 I'm looking forward to it already. 998 01:29:57,350 --> 01:29:59,398 I'm going to be just like you. 999 01:29:59,519 --> 01:30:01,942 The job, the family, the fucking big television. 1000 01:30:02,021 --> 01:30:05,821 The washing machine, the car, the compact disc, an electrical tin opener, 1001 01:30:05,900 --> 01:30:08,494 good health, low cholesterol, dental insurance, 1002 01:30:08,570 --> 01:30:12,165 mortgage, starter home, leisure wear, luggage, three-piece suite, 1003 01:30:12,240 --> 01:30:16,746 DIY, game shows, junk food, children, walks in the park, 9:00 to 5:00, 1004 01:30:16,870 --> 01:30:20,420 good at golf, washing the car, choice of sweaters, family Christmas, 1005 01:30:20,540 --> 01:30:23,168 indexed pension, tax exemption, clearing gutters, 1006 01:30:23,251 --> 01:30:25,879 getting by, looking ahead, the day you die.