Post by alexcase on Jun 22, 2004 18:06:44 GMT 1
Betty is decked out in white trousers, a polo-neck and white visor clutching a tennis racket in both hands as she makes her way over to the court where she sets up the machine and begins to hit balls in the other direction until her newly wed husband arrives.
Betty: Ralf, I'm bored up here on my own I think I'm going down to the village.
Ralf: Great idea!
Betty: Oh okay, I'll go and get dressed.
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Down in the village there's a board been erected on the triangular junction revealing plans for a bypass to be built around the village one side on where the Hotten Road now stands and the other behind Mill Cottage.
Edna: They cant do this! Its the countryside.
Viv: People have got to get places fast these days
Edna: And if they need to stop off at your shop then I guess thats fine aswel?
Viv: Thats even better Edna!
Viv rushes into the post office calling out "Bob"
Paddy: Whats this?
Edna: Oh Paddy they want to build a bypass right over your surgery.
Paddy: They can't do that, its my land, well mine and Zoe's..."Tate Estates" its Zoe, she's doing all this!
*Paddy and Edna see Betty come charging down the street*
Edna: Or maybe not! Is your husband got anything to do with this?
Betty: What? *Reads sign* Well.. thats the company but he wouldnt do anything to the village would he? I knew he bought Mill Cottage off Rodney but...
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Back up at Home Farm Betty walks towards Ralf who is surveying a brand new shiny convertible.
Betty: What are you planning to do with the village?
Ralf: Oh you found out, I'm planning on putting a by-pass down the sides, it'll prosper, I'm telling you I can see it now, but there's no space for big houses around there, you cant sttract the market people want rural retreats.
Betty: So what are you doing with it?
Ralf: A motel of course! Part of my motorway hotels. I'll dedicate it to you!
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Over at Victoria Cottage Zoe is on her lunch break and watching day-time TV when she hears a familiar voice call out, "Darling..." Zoe turned and stood there in the living flesh, wearing her brunette hair in a neat bob on the top of her hair, dark sunglasses and bright red lipstick, she has a big burberry macintosh on and beneath that a pair of hipster black trousers, polished off with red stilletos, she took of her coat to reveal the red sleaveless v-neck with white blouse beneath, and then the sunglasses and stood there was a very smart looking 63 year old woman, who looked 10 years younger. But what shocked Zoe was , that stood there was a women who she buried 20 years ago, it was none other than....Jean Tate her mother.
Jean: I know your going to be pretty freaked right now Zo darling, but here's the facts, I never died of cancer your father cheated on me with that bitch of a secretary so I left him, he was SO ashamed that his wife has left him he decided to tell you all I was dead, I'd been living in London and sending you birthday cards/letters but you never replied, I thought "i dont blame you" I left you, but now I learn the truth I come back and find my eldest son poisened himself to death, Frank's dead, Kim's on the run from the police and you! Well darling, your a lesbian but yet you have a child from a schizophrenic episode and also bringing up Christopher's two children, one from a prostitute and one from a woman who was pushed off a cliff by her daranged lover...well haven't we fallen darling, you see what happens when mummy isnt here to help, so I've come to live up here, Uncle Ralfie has employed me to manage the building of Mill Cottage Motel.
Zoe: Mum? *begins to sob, they hug for a long time until Scott walks in*
Scott: Zoe?
Zoe: This is my mum!
Betty: Ralf, I'm bored up here on my own I think I'm going down to the village.
Ralf: Great idea!
Betty: Oh okay, I'll go and get dressed.
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Down in the village there's a board been erected on the triangular junction revealing plans for a bypass to be built around the village one side on where the Hotten Road now stands and the other behind Mill Cottage.
Edna: They cant do this! Its the countryside.
Viv: People have got to get places fast these days
Edna: And if they need to stop off at your shop then I guess thats fine aswel?
Viv: Thats even better Edna!
Viv rushes into the post office calling out "Bob"
Paddy: Whats this?
Edna: Oh Paddy they want to build a bypass right over your surgery.
Paddy: They can't do that, its my land, well mine and Zoe's..."Tate Estates" its Zoe, she's doing all this!
*Paddy and Edna see Betty come charging down the street*
Edna: Or maybe not! Is your husband got anything to do with this?
Betty: What? *Reads sign* Well.. thats the company but he wouldnt do anything to the village would he? I knew he bought Mill Cottage off Rodney but...
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Back up at Home Farm Betty walks towards Ralf who is surveying a brand new shiny convertible.
Betty: What are you planning to do with the village?
Ralf: Oh you found out, I'm planning on putting a by-pass down the sides, it'll prosper, I'm telling you I can see it now, but there's no space for big houses around there, you cant sttract the market people want rural retreats.
Betty: So what are you doing with it?
Ralf: A motel of course! Part of my motorway hotels. I'll dedicate it to you!
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Over at Victoria Cottage Zoe is on her lunch break and watching day-time TV when she hears a familiar voice call out, "Darling..." Zoe turned and stood there in the living flesh, wearing her brunette hair in a neat bob on the top of her hair, dark sunglasses and bright red lipstick, she has a big burberry macintosh on and beneath that a pair of hipster black trousers, polished off with red stilletos, she took of her coat to reveal the red sleaveless v-neck with white blouse beneath, and then the sunglasses and stood there was a very smart looking 63 year old woman, who looked 10 years younger. But what shocked Zoe was , that stood there was a women who she buried 20 years ago, it was none other than....Jean Tate her mother.
Jean: I know your going to be pretty freaked right now Zo darling, but here's the facts, I never died of cancer your father cheated on me with that bitch of a secretary so I left him, he was SO ashamed that his wife has left him he decided to tell you all I was dead, I'd been living in London and sending you birthday cards/letters but you never replied, I thought "i dont blame you" I left you, but now I learn the truth I come back and find my eldest son poisened himself to death, Frank's dead, Kim's on the run from the police and you! Well darling, your a lesbian but yet you have a child from a schizophrenic episode and also bringing up Christopher's two children, one from a prostitute and one from a woman who was pushed off a cliff by her daranged lover...well haven't we fallen darling, you see what happens when mummy isnt here to help, so I've come to live up here, Uncle Ralfie has employed me to manage the building of Mill Cottage Motel.
Zoe: Mum? *begins to sob, they hug for a long time until Scott walks in*
Scott: Zoe?
Zoe: This is my mum!