1 00:00:24,692 --> 00:00:29,489 Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. 2 00:00:29,572 --> 00:00:31,199 Choose a fucking big television. 3 00:00:31,282 --> 00:00:32,951 Choose washing machines, cars... 4 00:00:33,034 --> 00:00:35,036 compact disc players and electrical tin openers. 5 00:00:38,540 --> 00:00:40,583 Gangway! Run! 6 00:00:46,422 --> 00:00:49,842 Choose good health, low cholesterol and dental insurance. 7 00:00:49,926 --> 00:00:52,178 Choose fixed-interest mortgage repayments. 8 00:00:52,262 --> 00:00:55,223 Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. 9 00:00:57,016 --> 00:00:59,310 Choose leisure wear and matching luggage. 10 00:00:59,394 --> 00:01:02,855 Choose a three-piece suite on hire purchase in a range of fucking fabrics. 11 00:01:02,939 --> 00:01:05,817 Choose DIY and wondering who the fuck you are on a Sunday morning. 12 00:01:05,900 --> 00:01:09,112 Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit-crushing game shows... 13 00:01:09,195 --> 00:01:11,948 stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth. 14 00:01:20,081 --> 00:01:21,249 Jammy goal! 15 00:01:21,332 --> 00:01:23,459 Choose rotting away at the end of it all. 16 00:01:23,543 --> 00:01:25,020 Pissing your last in a miserable home... 17 00:01:25,044 --> 00:01:26,313 nothing more than an embarrassment... 18 00:01:26,337 --> 00:01:29,549 to the selfish, fucked-up brats that you've spawned to replace yourself. 19 00:01:29,632 --> 00:01:31,634 Choose your future. Choose life. 20 00:01:38,766 --> 00:01:41,769 But why would I want to do a thing like that? 21 00:01:46,190 --> 00:01:50,111 I chose not to choose life. I chose something else. 22 00:01:50,194 --> 00:01:51,613 And the reasons? 23 00:01:52,697 --> 00:01:54,824 There are no reasons. 24 00:01:54,907 --> 00:01:57,410 Who needs reasons when you've got heroin? 25 00:02:08,630 --> 00:02:10,632 Goldfinger's better than Dr. No. 26 00:02:12,550 --> 00:02:15,803 Both of them are a lot better than Diamonds Are Forever... 27 00:02:15,887 --> 00:02:20,391 a judgment reflected in its relatively poor showing at the box office. 28 00:02:21,684 --> 00:02:23,186 And in which field, of course... 29 00:02:23,269 --> 00:02:25,146 Thunderball... 30 00:02:25,229 --> 00:02:27,148 was a notable success. 31 00:02:28,024 --> 00:02:30,610 People think it's all about misery and desperation... 32 00:02:30,693 --> 00:02:33,446 and death and all that shite, which is not to be ignored. 33 00:02:33,529 --> 00:02:36,074 Fuck off! Doss cunt. 34 00:02:37,408 --> 00:02:40,995 But what they forget is the pleasure of it. 35 00:02:41,871 --> 00:02:44,540 They're all dead, right, mate? 36 00:02:45,375 --> 00:02:47,043 You prick! 37 00:02:48,503 --> 00:02:50,213 Otherwise we wouldn't do it. 38 00:02:51,381 --> 00:02:54,217 - Do you want me to? - Yeah. 39 00:02:54,300 --> 00:02:56,052 Pure as the driven snow, that shit. 40 00:03:01,557 --> 00:03:05,228 After all, we're not fucking stupid. At least we're not that fucking stupid. 41 00:03:18,199 --> 00:03:20,660 Take the best orgasm you've ever had... 42 00:03:20,743 --> 00:03:24,288 multiply it by a thousand and you're still nowhere near it. 43 00:03:25,289 --> 00:03:28,084 It beats any meat injection. 44 00:03:31,045 --> 00:03:34,841 That beats any fucking cock in the world. 45 00:03:34,924 --> 00:03:38,403 When you're on junk, you have only one worry, scoring. 46 00:03:38,486 --> 00:03:42,366 And when you're off it, you're suddenly obliged to worry about all sorts of other shite. 47 00:03:42,390 --> 00:03:45,685 Got no money, can't get drunk. Got money, drinkin' too much. 48 00:03:45,768 --> 00:03:49,397 Can 't get a girl, no chance of a ride. Got a girl, too much hassle. 49 00:03:49,480 --> 00:03:54,318 You have to worry about bills, about food, about some football team that never fucking wins. 50 00:03:54,402 --> 00:03:57,572 About human relationships and all the things that really don't matter... 51 00:03:57,655 --> 00:04:01,492 when you've got a sincere and truthful junk habit. 52 00:04:02,869 --> 00:04:05,621 I'd say, in those days, he was a muscular actor. 53 00:04:07,582 --> 00:04:10,960 With all the presence of someone like Cooper or Lancaster... 54 00:04:11,043 --> 00:04:13,796 but combined with a sly wit... 55 00:04:15,131 --> 00:04:17,592 to make him a formidable romantic lead. 56 00:04:18,593 --> 00:04:21,554 And closer, in that respect, to Cary Grant. 57 00:04:42,408 --> 00:04:46,370 The only drawback, or at least the principal drawback... 58 00:04:46,454 --> 00:04:48,724 is that you have to endure all manner of cunts telling you that... 59 00:04:48,748 --> 00:04:52,335 No way would I poison my body with that shite. 60 00:04:53,544 --> 00:04:55,546 All them fucking chemicals. 61 00:04:57,298 --> 00:04:59,008 No fucking way. 62 00:05:01,219 --> 00:05:05,264 It's a waste of your life, man, poisoning your body with that shite. 63 00:05:05,348 --> 00:05:09,268 Every chance you've had, son, you've blown it. 64 00:05:09,352 --> 00:05:11,646 Stuffing your veins with that filth. 65 00:05:11,729 --> 00:05:14,774 From time to time, even I have uttered the magic words. 66 00:05:20,363 --> 00:05:22,698 Never again, Swanney. I'm off the scag. 67 00:05:22,782 --> 00:05:24,700 - Are you serious? - Yeah, no more. 68 00:05:24,784 --> 00:05:27,662 - I'm finished with that shite. - Well, that's up to you, man. 69 00:05:27,745 --> 00:05:30,432 Gonna do it right this time. Gonna get it sorted out, get off it for good. 70 00:05:30,456 --> 00:05:33,835 - I'm sure I've heard that one before. - The Sick Boy method. 71 00:05:33,918 --> 00:05:36,587 Well, it really worked for him, eh? 72 00:05:36,671 --> 00:05:38,923 Well, he's always been lacking in moral fiber. 73 00:05:39,006 --> 00:05:42,260 - He knows a lot about Sean Connery. - That's hardly a substitute. 74 00:05:42,343 --> 00:05:45,304 - You need one more hit? - No, I don't think so. 75 00:05:45,388 --> 00:05:48,391 For the long night that lies ahead? 76 00:05:49,559 --> 00:05:53,229 We called him Mother Superior on account of the length of his habit. 77 00:05:53,312 --> 00:05:56,732 Of course, I'd have another shot. After all, I had work to do. 78 00:06:13,499 --> 00:06:16,168 Relinquishing junk. Stage one, preparation. 79 00:06:21,048 --> 00:06:24,594 For this, you will need one room which you will not leave. 80 00:06:24,677 --> 00:06:27,430 Soothing music. Tomato soup, ten tins of. 81 00:06:29,223 --> 00:06:32,351 Mushroom soup, eight tins of, for consumption cold. 82 00:06:33,644 --> 00:06:36,230 Ice cream, vanilla, one large tub of. 83 00:06:36,314 --> 00:06:38,524 Magnesia, milk of, one bottle. 84 00:06:38,608 --> 00:06:41,027 Paracetamol, mouthwash, vitamins. 85 00:06:41,110 --> 00:06:44,947 Mineral water, Lucozade, pornography. 86 00:06:46,657 --> 00:06:48,951 One mattress. One bucket for urine... 87 00:06:49,035 --> 00:06:51,454 one for feces and one for vomitus. 88 00:06:53,289 --> 00:06:56,834 One television and one bottle of valium, which I've already procured from my mother... 89 00:06:56,918 --> 00:07:01,881 who is, in her own domestic and socially acceptable way, also a drug addict. 90 00:07:06,010 --> 00:07:07,470 Now I'm ready. 91 00:07:07,553 --> 00:07:10,348 All I need is one final hit to soothe the pain... 92 00:07:10,431 --> 00:07:11,974 while the valium takes effect. 93 00:07:15,269 --> 00:07:18,356 Mikey? Aye, yeah, it's Mark Renton. 94 00:07:18,439 --> 00:07:20,816 Look, I wondered, could you help me out? 95 00:07:20,900 --> 00:07:23,319 This was typical of Mikey Forrester. 96 00:07:24,320 --> 00:07:25,780 What the fuck are these? 97 00:07:26,656 --> 00:07:29,051 Under the normal run of things I would have nothing to do with the cunt... 98 00:07:29,075 --> 00:07:31,160 but this was not the normal run of things. 99 00:07:31,243 --> 00:07:35,831 Opium suppositories. Ideal for your purposes. 100 00:07:35,915 --> 00:07:37,750 Slow release. 101 00:07:37,833 --> 00:07:39,585 Bring you down gradually. 102 00:07:40,836 --> 00:07:44,465 - Custom-fucking-designed for your needs. - I want a fucking hit. 103 00:07:44,548 --> 00:07:47,843 That's all I've got, man. Take it or leave it. 104 00:07:58,854 --> 00:08:01,732 - Are you feeling better now then, eh? - Aye. 105 00:08:01,816 --> 00:08:05,194 For all the good they've done me, I might as well have stuck them up my arse. 106 00:08:07,488 --> 00:08:09,448 Heroin makes you constipated. 107 00:08:09,532 --> 00:08:11,450 The heroin from my last hit is fading away... 108 00:08:11,534 --> 00:08:13,869 and the suppositories have yet to melt. 109 00:08:16,497 --> 00:08:18,708 I'm no longer constipated. 110 00:08:26,882 --> 00:08:30,386 I fantasize about a massive pristine convenience. 111 00:08:30,469 --> 00:08:36,142 Brilliant gold taps, virginal white marble, a seat carved from ebony... 112 00:08:36,225 --> 00:08:38,728 a cistern full of Chanel No. 5 and a flunky... 113 00:08:38,811 --> 00:08:41,522 handing me pieces of raw silk toilet roll. 114 00:08:41,605 --> 00:08:44,650 But under the circumstances, I'll settle for anywhere. 115 00:09:05,755 --> 00:09:07,423 Fuck. 116 00:10:39,598 --> 00:10:42,101 Yes, a fucking dancer! 117 00:11:20,639 --> 00:11:23,559 And now, now I'm ready. 118 00:11:25,644 --> 00:11:28,874 The downside of coming off junk was I knew I would need to mix with my friends again... 119 00:11:28,898 --> 00:11:30,983 in a state of full consciousness. 120 00:11:31,066 --> 00:11:35,696 It was awful. They reminded me so much of myself I could hardly bear to look at them. 121 00:11:35,779 --> 00:11:39,158 Take Sick Boy for instance. He came off junk at the same time as me. 122 00:11:39,241 --> 00:11:42,411 Not because he wanted to, you understand, but just to annoy me. 123 00:11:42,494 --> 00:11:46,874 Just to show me how easily he could do it, thereby downgrading my own struggle. 124 00:11:46,957 --> 00:11:49,210 Sneaky fucker, don't you think? 125 00:11:49,293 --> 00:11:52,546 And when all I wanted to do was lie there and feel sorry for myself... 126 00:11:52,630 --> 00:11:56,091 he insisted on telling me once again about his unifying theory of life. 127 00:11:56,175 --> 00:11:59,386 It's certainly a phenomenon in all walks of life. 128 00:11:59,470 --> 00:12:01,013 What do you mean? 129 00:12:02,056 --> 00:12:05,684 Well, at one point, you've got it, then you lose it. 130 00:12:05,768 --> 00:12:08,562 And it's gone forever. All walks of life. 131 00:12:09,563 --> 00:12:12,691 Georgie Best, for example, had it, lost it. 132 00:12:12,775 --> 00:12:15,402 Or David Bowie or Lou Reed. 133 00:12:15,486 --> 00:12:17,404 Lou Reed. Some of his solo stuff's not bad. 134 00:12:17,488 --> 00:12:20,324 No, it's not bad, but it's not great either, is it? 135 00:12:20,407 --> 00:12:23,207 And in your heart you kind of know that although it sounds all right... 136 00:12:23,285 --> 00:12:26,121 it's actually just shite. 137 00:12:28,415 --> 00:12:29,792 So, who else? 138 00:12:31,377 --> 00:12:34,755 Charlie Nicholas, David Niven, Malcolm McLaren, Elvis Presley... 139 00:12:34,838 --> 00:12:38,467 Okay, okay. So what is the point you're trying to make? 140 00:12:39,969 --> 00:12:41,887 All I am trying to do, Mark... 141 00:12:41,971 --> 00:12:46,141 is to help you understand that The Name of the Rose is merely a blip... 142 00:12:46,225 --> 00:12:49,395 on an otherwise uninterrupted downward trajectory. 143 00:12:49,478 --> 00:12:51,230 What about The Untouchables? 144 00:12:52,898 --> 00:12:56,026 - I don't rate that at all. - Despite the Academy Award? 145 00:12:57,361 --> 00:13:00,781 That means fuck-all. It's a sympathy vote. 146 00:13:02,992 --> 00:13:06,120 So, we all get old. We can't hack it anymore and that's it? 147 00:13:07,329 --> 00:13:08,747 Yeah. 148 00:13:08,831 --> 00:13:10,416 That's your theory? 149 00:13:11,917 --> 00:13:14,128 Yeah. 150 00:13:14,211 --> 00:13:16,547 Beautifully fucking illustrated. 151 00:13:18,048 --> 00:13:19,174 Give me the gun. 152 00:13:20,634 --> 00:13:22,136 Give me the gun. 153 00:13:28,892 --> 00:13:30,894 Do you see the beast? 154 00:13:30,978 --> 00:13:33,564 Have you got it in your sights? 155 00:13:33,647 --> 00:13:35,899 Clear enough, Miss Moneypenny. 156 00:13:35,983 --> 00:13:40,696 This should present no significant problems. 157 00:13:47,369 --> 00:13:49,038 Fucking hell! 158 00:13:49,663 --> 00:13:53,542 For a vegetarian, Rents, you're a fuckin' evil shot. 159 00:13:54,543 --> 00:13:56,378 No! Get off! 160 00:13:56,462 --> 00:14:00,841 Without heroin I attempted to lead a useful and fulfilling life as a good citizen. 161 00:14:06,889 --> 00:14:08,474 - Good luck, Spud. - Cheers, cowboy. 162 00:14:08,557 --> 00:14:11,685 Now remember, if they think you're not trying, you're in trouble, right? 163 00:14:11,769 --> 00:14:15,522 First hint of that, and they'll be onto the DHSS, this cunt is not trying. 164 00:14:15,606 --> 00:14:18,150 - And your giro's fuckin' finished, right? - Right. 165 00:14:18,233 --> 00:14:21,236 - But, then again, try too hard... - You might get the fuckin' job. 166 00:14:21,320 --> 00:14:23,030 - Exactly. - Nightmare. 167 00:14:23,113 --> 00:14:25,699 It's a tightrope, Spud. It's a fuckin' tightrope. 168 00:14:25,783 --> 00:14:29,536 I just get pure shy with the interviewer cats. I get all nervous. 169 00:14:29,620 --> 00:14:32,456 I can't answer any of their questions, like I'm a footballer... 170 00:14:32,539 --> 00:14:34,833 and I get nerves on the big occasion, man. 171 00:14:34,917 --> 00:14:38,921 - Try some of this, Spud. - A little dab of speed is just the ticket, mate. 172 00:14:40,798 --> 00:14:45,594 No, I went to Craignewton. I just put down Royal Edinburgh College to help get the job. 173 00:14:45,677 --> 00:14:47,721 There's too much discrimination in this town, man. 174 00:14:47,805 --> 00:14:50,516 They're both schools, right? We're all in this together. 175 00:14:50,599 --> 00:14:53,352 And I wanted to put across the general idea rather than the details. 176 00:14:53,435 --> 00:14:55,479 Like people get all hung up on details. 177 00:14:55,562 --> 00:14:57,940 Like which school did I go to? How many grades did I get? 178 00:14:58,023 --> 00:15:00,609 Could be like six. Could be none. It's not important. 179 00:15:00,692 --> 00:15:03,904 What is important is that I am, yes? 180 00:15:03,987 --> 00:15:07,866 Mr. Murphy, do you mean that you lied on your application? 181 00:15:07,950 --> 00:15:09,993 No, well, yes. 182 00:15:10,077 --> 00:15:13,705 Only to get my foot in the door. Showing initiative and that like. 183 00:15:13,789 --> 00:15:15,892 But you were referred here by the Department of Employment. 184 00:15:15,916 --> 00:15:19,795 There was no need for you to get your foot in the door, as you put it. 185 00:15:19,878 --> 00:15:21,922 Yeah, cool. 186 00:15:22,005 --> 00:15:25,384 Whatever you say. Sorry. You're the man, the dude in the chair. 187 00:15:25,467 --> 00:15:29,304 I am merely here... Like, well, obviously, I'm here like, but... 188 00:15:29,388 --> 00:15:32,933 Mr. Murphy, what exactly attracts you to the leisure industry? 189 00:15:34,685 --> 00:15:36,895 In a word, pleasure. 190 00:15:36,979 --> 00:15:39,648 Like, my pleasure in other people's leisure. 191 00:15:39,731 --> 00:15:41,942 Do you see yourself as having any weaknesses? 192 00:15:44,987 --> 00:15:47,656 Yes, 'cause, like, I'm a bit of a perfectionist actually! 193 00:15:47,739 --> 00:15:51,952 Yes, I am. See, for me, it's got to be the best, or it's nothing at all. 194 00:15:52,035 --> 00:15:54,663 Like things get a bit dodgy, I just cannot be bothered. 195 00:15:54,746 --> 00:15:58,250 But I'm getting good vibes about this interview thing today though, man. 196 00:15:58,333 --> 00:16:00,544 Seems to me like it's going pretty well. 197 00:16:02,588 --> 00:16:04,214 Thank you, Mr. Murphy. 198 00:16:05,215 --> 00:16:08,302 - We'll let you know. - The pleasure was mine, man. 199 00:16:08,385 --> 00:16:10,971 Spud had done well. I was proud of him. 200 00:16:11,054 --> 00:16:15,017 He fucked up good and proper. You had to hand it to Spud. 201 00:16:17,352 --> 00:16:18,729 Picture the scene. 202 00:16:18,812 --> 00:16:22,900 The other fuckin' week there doin' the fuckin' Volley with Tommy playing pool. 203 00:16:22,983 --> 00:16:25,152 I'm playin' like Paul fuckin' Newman by the way... 204 00:16:25,235 --> 00:16:27,362 givin' the boy here the tannin' of a lifetime. 205 00:16:28,739 --> 00:16:32,826 So it comes to the last shot, the deciding ball of the whole tournament. 206 00:16:32,910 --> 00:16:36,270 I'm in the black, and he's sittin' in the corner looking all fucking biscuit-arsed... 207 00:16:36,622 --> 00:16:38,665 when this hard cunt comes in. 208 00:16:38,749 --> 00:16:41,668 Obviously fucking fancied himself like. 209 00:16:41,752 --> 00:16:43,337 Starts staring at me. 210 00:16:43,420 --> 00:16:47,007 Looking at me, right fucking at me, as if to say, come ahead, square go. 211 00:16:47,841 --> 00:16:50,737 You know me. I'm not the type of cunt that goes looking for fucking bother... 212 00:16:50,761 --> 00:16:53,972 but at the end of the day, I'm the cunt with the pool cue... 213 00:16:54,056 --> 00:16:57,434 and he can get the fat end in his puss any time he fucking wanted like. 214 00:16:57,518 --> 00:17:00,646 So I squares up, casual like. 215 00:17:00,729 --> 00:17:04,650 What does the hard cunt do? Or the so-called hard cunt? 216 00:17:04,733 --> 00:17:06,109 Shites it. 217 00:17:06,193 --> 00:17:09,947 Puts down his drink, turns and gets the fuck out of there. 218 00:17:10,030 --> 00:17:13,575 And after that, well, the game was mine. 219 00:17:18,580 --> 00:17:21,792 And that was it. That was Begbie's story. 220 00:17:21,875 --> 00:17:24,169 Or, at least, that was Begbie's version of the story. 221 00:17:24,253 --> 00:17:27,339 But a couple of days later, I got the truth from Tommy. 222 00:17:27,422 --> 00:17:31,176 You always got the truth from Tommy. That was one of his major weaknesses. 223 00:17:31,260 --> 00:17:35,264 He never told lies, he never took drugs and he never cheated on anyone. 224 00:17:36,098 --> 00:17:40,769 It was Wednesday morning. We were in the Volley playing pool. That much is true. 225 00:17:40,852 --> 00:17:45,857 But Begbie is playing absolutely fucking gash. 226 00:17:45,941 --> 00:17:49,486 He's got a hangover so bad, he can hardly hold the fucking cue, never mind pot a ball. 227 00:17:49,570 --> 00:17:52,906 I'm doing my best to lose, you know, trying to humor him like. 228 00:17:52,990 --> 00:17:57,452 But it's not doing any good. Every time I touch a ball, I seem to pot something. 229 00:17:57,536 --> 00:17:59,871 Every time Begbie goes near the table, he fucks it up. 230 00:18:00,956 --> 00:18:01,956 Fuck's sake. 231 00:18:04,209 --> 00:18:06,670 So, he's got the hump, right. 232 00:18:07,129 --> 00:18:09,172 But finally I managed to set it up... 233 00:18:09,256 --> 00:18:12,759 so all he has to do is to pot the black to win one game... 234 00:18:12,926 --> 00:18:16,138 to salvage a little bit of pride and maybe not kick my head in, right. 235 00:18:16,888 --> 00:18:20,183 So, he's on the black. Pressure shot. 236 00:18:23,312 --> 00:18:25,647 And it all goes wrong big time. 237 00:18:27,983 --> 00:18:29,484 Fuck! 238 00:18:31,361 --> 00:18:33,488 He picks on this specky, wee gadge at the bar... 239 00:18:33,572 --> 00:18:36,408 and accuses him of putting him off by looking at him. 240 00:18:36,491 --> 00:18:39,012 Could you believe it? The poor wee cunt hasn't even glanced in our direction. 241 00:18:39,036 --> 00:18:41,830 - Fuck off! - He was gonna chib him, I tell you. 242 00:18:42,789 --> 00:18:45,375 Then I thought he was gonna do me. 243 00:18:47,919 --> 00:18:49,838 The beggar's fucking psycho, man. 244 00:18:51,465 --> 00:18:55,469 But he's a mate. You know? So what can you do? 245 00:18:55,552 --> 00:18:57,054 Can I borrow this? 246 00:18:57,137 --> 00:18:59,431 What, indeed, could one do? 247 00:18:59,514 --> 00:19:02,059 Just stand back and watch and try not to get involved? 248 00:19:04,227 --> 00:19:07,189 Begbie didn't do drugs either. He just did people. 249 00:19:07,272 --> 00:19:10,067 That's what he got off on. His own sensory addiction. 250 00:19:13,737 --> 00:19:15,030 Nobody move! 251 00:19:16,406 --> 00:19:17,824 That lassie got glassed... 252 00:19:17,908 --> 00:19:21,370 and no cunt leaves here till we find out what cunt did it! 253 00:19:21,453 --> 00:19:23,372 Who the fuck are you? 254 00:19:49,981 --> 00:19:54,194 - Lizzy, you've been so good to me. - Tommy, come in me. 255 00:19:55,070 --> 00:19:58,657 And as I sat watching the intimate and highly personal video... 256 00:19:58,740 --> 00:20:02,160 stolen only hours earlier from one of my best friends... 257 00:20:02,244 --> 00:20:05,747 I realized that something important was missing from my life. 258 00:20:52,169 --> 00:20:55,380 - I read it in Cosmopolitan. - It's an interesting theory. 259 00:20:55,464 --> 00:20:57,382 Actually, it's a nightmare. 260 00:20:57,466 --> 00:21:01,344 I've been desperate for a shag, but watching him suffer was just too much fun. 261 00:21:02,596 --> 00:21:04,389 - You should try it with Tommy. - What? 262 00:21:04,473 --> 00:21:07,184 And deny myself the only pleasure I get from him? 263 00:21:07,267 --> 00:21:09,686 - Did I tell you about my birthday? - No, what happened? 264 00:21:09,770 --> 00:21:12,272 He forgot. Useless motherfucker. 265 00:21:39,299 --> 00:21:41,176 What are you two talking about? 266 00:21:42,260 --> 00:21:45,263 Football. What are you talking about? 267 00:21:45,347 --> 00:21:46,807 Shopping. 268 00:21:47,891 --> 00:21:50,435 The situation was becoming serious. 269 00:21:50,519 --> 00:21:54,397 Young Renton noticed the haste with which the successful in the sexual sphere... 270 00:21:54,481 --> 00:21:58,276 as in all others, segregated themselves from the failures. 271 00:22:08,161 --> 00:22:10,831 Heroin had robbed Renton of his sex drive... 272 00:22:10,914 --> 00:22:13,500 but now it returned with a vengeance. 273 00:22:13,583 --> 00:22:17,254 And as the impotence of those days faded into memory... 274 00:22:17,337 --> 00:22:20,966 grim desperation took ahold in his sex-crazed mind. 275 00:22:21,049 --> 00:22:24,010 His post-junk libido, fueled by alcohol and amphetamine... 276 00:22:24,094 --> 00:22:28,056 taunted him remorselessly with his own unsatisfied desire. 277 00:22:28,139 --> 00:22:30,725 Dot, dot, dot. 278 00:23:28,199 --> 00:23:32,370 And with that, Mark Renton had fallen in love. 279 00:23:41,796 --> 00:23:44,567 Excuse me, excuse me. I don't mean to harass you, but I was very impressed... 280 00:23:44,591 --> 00:23:47,361 with the capable and stylish manner in which you dealt with that situation. 281 00:23:47,385 --> 00:23:51,056 - I was thinking to myself, now this girl's special. - Thanks. 282 00:23:51,139 --> 00:23:53,099 - What's your name? - Diane. 283 00:23:53,183 --> 00:23:55,310 - Where are you going, Diane? - I'm going home. 284 00:23:55,393 --> 00:23:57,103 - Where's that? - It's where I live. 285 00:23:57,187 --> 00:23:59,689 - Great. - What? 286 00:23:59,773 --> 00:24:02,984 I'll come back with you if you like, but I'm not promising anything. 287 00:24:03,068 --> 00:24:05,320 Do you find that this approach usually works? 288 00:24:05,403 --> 00:24:07,906 Or, let me guess, you've never tried it before. 289 00:24:07,989 --> 00:24:11,117 In fact, you don't normally approach girls. Am I right? 290 00:24:11,201 --> 00:24:14,162 The truth is that you're a quiet, sensitive type... 291 00:24:14,245 --> 00:24:18,166 but if I'm prepared to take a chance I might just get to know the inner you... 292 00:24:18,249 --> 00:24:22,587 witty, adventurous, passionate, loving, loyal... 293 00:24:22,671 --> 00:24:23,672 Taxi! 294 00:24:24,923 --> 00:24:27,342 A little bit crazy, a little bit bad. 295 00:24:27,425 --> 00:24:30,845 But, hey, don't us girls just love that? 296 00:24:33,890 --> 00:24:37,227 Well, what's wrong, boy? Cat got your tongue? 297 00:24:37,310 --> 00:24:38,310 I left something... 298 00:24:40,188 --> 00:24:41,690 You getting in or not, pal? 299 00:25:03,503 --> 00:25:05,088 Do you understand? 300 00:25:05,714 --> 00:25:08,967 I expect you to be a considerate and thoughtful lover. 301 00:25:09,050 --> 00:25:11,302 Generous but firm. 302 00:25:11,386 --> 00:25:13,138 - What? - Failure on your part... 303 00:25:13,221 --> 00:25:15,306 to live up to these very reasonable expectations... 304 00:25:15,390 --> 00:25:19,394 will result in swift resumption of a non-sex situation. 305 00:25:20,228 --> 00:25:21,521 Right? 306 00:25:34,242 --> 00:25:35,493 Diane. 307 00:25:36,911 --> 00:25:38,872 - What? - Shut up! 308 00:26:19,913 --> 00:26:21,289 Wake up, Spud. 309 00:26:22,332 --> 00:26:23,833 Wake up. 310 00:26:23,917 --> 00:26:25,418 Sex. 311 00:26:27,212 --> 00:26:28,922 Casual sex. 312 00:26:36,262 --> 00:26:40,058 - Tommy, let's put the tape on. - Now? 313 00:26:40,141 --> 00:26:42,727 I want to watch ourselves while we're screwing. 314 00:26:42,811 --> 00:26:45,814 So let's see what I'm missing. 315 00:26:58,618 --> 00:27:00,036 Not much. 316 00:27:05,500 --> 00:27:07,418 And there's the captain, Archie Gemmill... 317 00:27:07,502 --> 00:27:09,462 picking it up from the outside. 318 00:27:09,546 --> 00:27:12,048 I think he wants to go himself. How far is he gonna go? 319 00:27:12,132 --> 00:27:15,552 He's going all the way, and he scores! 320 00:27:15,635 --> 00:27:17,554 Oh, what a magnificent goal! 321 00:27:17,637 --> 00:27:20,515 Gemmill at his very best! 322 00:27:20,598 --> 00:27:22,892 What a penetrating goal that was! 323 00:27:24,144 --> 00:27:27,522 I haven't felt that good since Archie Gemmill scored against Holland in 1978. 324 00:27:30,567 --> 00:27:33,444 Renton, you can't sleep here. 325 00:27:33,528 --> 00:27:35,029 - What? - Out. 326 00:27:36,156 --> 00:27:38,074 - Come on. - No argument. 327 00:27:38,158 --> 00:27:42,203 You can sleep on the sofa in the hall or go home. It's up to you. 328 00:27:42,954 --> 00:27:44,956 And don't make any noise. 329 00:27:46,207 --> 00:27:47,834 Jesus. 330 00:27:54,883 --> 00:27:57,427 What do you mean, it's gone? Where has it gone, Tommy? 331 00:27:57,510 --> 00:27:59,387 It'll be here somewhere! 332 00:28:01,890 --> 00:28:03,975 I might have returned it by mistake. 333 00:28:04,058 --> 00:28:06,477 Returned it? Where? 334 00:28:06,561 --> 00:28:08,938 The video shop, Tommy? 335 00:28:09,022 --> 00:28:10,940 The fucking video shop? 336 00:28:11,900 --> 00:28:16,112 So every punter in Edinburgh is jerking off to our video? 337 00:28:16,738 --> 00:28:19,949 Oh, God, Tommy, I feel sick! 338 00:28:53,900 --> 00:28:55,652 - Hi. - Hello. 339 00:29:40,780 --> 00:29:42,740 Come in and sit down. 340 00:29:42,824 --> 00:29:45,326 - Like some coffee? - Aye. 341 00:29:47,495 --> 00:29:50,081 - You must be Mark. - Aye, that's me. 342 00:29:55,878 --> 00:29:59,257 - You're a friend of Diane's? - More a friend of a friend, no? 343 00:29:59,340 --> 00:30:01,009 Right. 344 00:30:03,052 --> 00:30:05,013 Are you her flatmates? 345 00:30:07,098 --> 00:30:08,766 Flatmates? 346 00:30:08,850 --> 00:30:10,351 I must remember that one. 347 00:30:12,020 --> 00:30:13,646 Morning. 348 00:30:28,703 --> 00:30:31,414 - Good morning, Spud. - Morning, Gail. Mr. Houston. 349 00:30:32,123 --> 00:30:34,042 - Mrs. Houston. - Morning, Spud. 350 00:30:34,125 --> 00:30:36,544 Sit down and have some breakfast. 351 00:30:39,380 --> 00:30:41,132 Sorry about last night, by the way. 352 00:30:41,215 --> 00:30:43,509 That's all right. I slept fine on the sofa. 353 00:30:45,553 --> 00:30:49,265 I had a bit much to drink. I had a bit of an accident. 354 00:30:49,349 --> 00:30:54,437 Don't worry, son. These things happen. Does a man good to cut loose once in a while. 355 00:30:54,520 --> 00:30:57,732 Only this one could do with being tied up once in a while. 356 00:30:57,815 --> 00:30:59,817 I'll put the sheets in the machine. 357 00:30:59,901 --> 00:31:02,820 - No, no, no. I'll wash them. - There's no need. 358 00:31:02,904 --> 00:31:05,114 - No, it's no problem. - It's no problem for me either. 359 00:31:05,198 --> 00:31:08,201 - I'd rather take care of it myself actually. - Honestly, it's no problem. 360 00:31:08,284 --> 00:31:10,411 - Really, no! - Spud, they're my sheets! 361 00:31:23,591 --> 00:31:26,552 - I don't see why not. - Because it's illegal, that's why not. 362 00:31:26,636 --> 00:31:29,013 - What, holding hands? - No, not holding hands. 363 00:31:29,097 --> 00:31:33,101 Well, in that case, you can do it. You were quite happy to do a lot more last night. 364 00:31:33,184 --> 00:31:35,788 Yeah, that's what's illegal. Do you know what they do to people like me inside? 365 00:31:35,812 --> 00:31:38,773 They cut your balls off and flush 'em down the fucking toilet. 366 00:31:38,856 --> 00:31:40,858 Calm down. You're not going to jail. 367 00:31:40,942 --> 00:31:43,444 Well, that's very easy for you to say, Diane. 368 00:31:43,528 --> 00:31:46,114 - Can I see you again? - Certainly not. 369 00:31:46,197 --> 00:31:49,117 If you don't see me again, I'll tell the police. 370 00:31:52,245 --> 00:31:53,788 I'll see you around then. 371 00:32:07,677 --> 00:32:10,888 - Now what? - We go for a walk. 372 00:32:10,972 --> 00:32:13,224 - What? - A walk. 373 00:32:14,725 --> 00:32:16,102 - Where? - There. 374 00:32:18,771 --> 00:32:20,731 Are you serious? 375 00:32:54,265 --> 00:32:55,850 What are you waiting for? 376 00:33:00,271 --> 00:33:02,148 This is not natural, man. 377 00:33:02,899 --> 00:33:05,359 It's the great outdoors! 378 00:33:05,443 --> 00:33:07,528 It's fresh air! 379 00:33:07,612 --> 00:33:10,072 Look, Tommy, we know you're getting a hard time off Lizzy... 380 00:33:10,156 --> 00:33:13,117 but there's really no need to take it out on us. 381 00:33:13,201 --> 00:33:15,203 Doesn't it make you proud to be Scottish? 382 00:33:15,286 --> 00:33:18,372 It's shite being Scottish! 383 00:33:18,456 --> 00:33:20,374 We're the lowest of the low! 384 00:33:20,458 --> 00:33:22,877 The scum of the fucking Earth! 385 00:33:22,960 --> 00:33:26,464 The most wretched, miserable, servile, pathetic trash... 386 00:33:26,547 --> 00:33:29,050 that was ever shat into civilization! 387 00:33:29,133 --> 00:33:32,970 Some people hate the English. I don't! They're just wankers! 388 00:33:33,054 --> 00:33:36,516 We, on the other hand, are colonized by wankers! 389 00:33:36,599 --> 00:33:40,645 Can't even find a decent culture to be colonized by! 390 00:33:40,728 --> 00:33:43,648 We're ruled by effete arseholes! 391 00:33:43,731 --> 00:33:45,775 It's a shite state of affairs to be in, Tommy! 392 00:33:45,858 --> 00:33:49,779 And all the fresh air in the world won't make any fucking difference! 393 00:33:59,330 --> 00:34:00,998 Sorry, man. Sorry. 394 00:34:01,082 --> 00:34:04,085 No, I'm sorry. Look, I appreciate it, Tommy... 395 00:34:04,168 --> 00:34:06,546 At or around this time, Spud, Sick Boy and I... 396 00:34:06,629 --> 00:34:09,507 made a healthy, informed, democratic decision... 397 00:34:09,590 --> 00:34:11,968 to get back on heroin as soon as possible. 398 00:34:12,051 --> 00:34:13,761 It took about 12 hours. 399 00:34:18,599 --> 00:34:21,519 It looks easy this, but it's not. 400 00:34:21,602 --> 00:34:24,397 It looks like a doss, like a soft option. 401 00:34:24,480 --> 00:34:29,110 But living like this is a full-time business. 402 00:34:47,753 --> 00:34:50,256 Ursula Andress. 403 00:34:50,339 --> 00:34:52,800 The quintessential Bond girl. 404 00:34:52,883 --> 00:34:54,802 That's what everyone says. 405 00:34:54,885 --> 00:34:59,098 The embodiment, right, of his superiority to us. 406 00:34:59,181 --> 00:35:02,685 Beautiful, exotic, highly sexual... 407 00:35:02,768 --> 00:35:07,064 yet totally unavailable to anyone apart from him. 408 00:35:08,149 --> 00:35:11,193 Shite. I mean, let's face it, mate. 409 00:35:11,277 --> 00:35:14,864 She'd shag one punter from Edinburgh, she'd shag the whole fucking lot of us. 410 00:35:26,292 --> 00:35:29,670 - Well done. - Yep, I knew he was gonna do that. 411 00:35:40,514 --> 00:35:43,643 Lizzy's gone, Mark. She's gone and fucking dumped me. 412 00:35:46,020 --> 00:35:47,647 It was that videotape... 413 00:35:48,648 --> 00:35:51,817 and that Iggy Pop business and all other sorts of shite. 414 00:35:52,526 --> 00:35:56,238 She told me where to go and no fucking mistake. 415 00:35:56,322 --> 00:36:00,284 I said to her, I said, look, is there any chance of getting back together? 416 00:36:00,368 --> 00:36:02,536 No way. No fucking way. 417 00:36:03,704 --> 00:36:05,206 Honor Blackman... 418 00:36:05,289 --> 00:36:08,626 a.k.a. Pussy Galore, right? 419 00:36:08,709 --> 00:36:11,420 What a total fucking misnomer. 420 00:36:12,880 --> 00:36:16,050 I mean, I would not touch her with yours. 421 00:36:16,592 --> 00:36:19,053 I want to try it, Mark. 422 00:36:19,136 --> 00:36:24,225 You're always going on about how it's the ultimate hit and that. Better than sex. 423 00:36:28,229 --> 00:36:31,774 Come on, man. I'm a fucking adult. I can find out for myself. 424 00:36:37,071 --> 00:36:38,572 I've got the money. 425 00:36:41,659 --> 00:36:42,910 Personality. 426 00:36:43,744 --> 00:36:46,330 I mean, that's what counts, right? Personality. 427 00:36:46,414 --> 00:36:49,583 I mean, that's what keeps a relationship going through the years. 428 00:36:51,919 --> 00:36:53,379 Like heroin. 429 00:36:54,088 --> 00:36:55,548 I mean... 430 00:36:56,549 --> 00:36:59,260 heroin's got great fucking personality. 431 00:37:13,482 --> 00:37:16,819 Swanney taught us to adore and respect the National Health Service... 432 00:37:16,902 --> 00:37:19,029 for it was the source of much of our gear. 433 00:37:19,113 --> 00:37:22,032 We stole drugs. We stole prescriptions or bought them... 434 00:37:22,116 --> 00:37:25,494 sold them, swapped them, forged them, photocopied them. 435 00:37:25,578 --> 00:37:27,705 Or traded drugs with cancer victims... 436 00:37:27,788 --> 00:37:33,085 alcoholics, old-aged pensioners, AIDS patients, epileptics and bored housewives. 437 00:37:33,169 --> 00:37:37,715 We took morphine, diamorphine, cyclozine, codeine, temazepam... 438 00:37:37,798 --> 00:37:40,259 nitrazepam, phenobarbitone, and sodium amytal... 439 00:37:40,342 --> 00:37:44,472 dextropropoxyphene, methadone, nalbuphine, pethidine, pentazocine... 440 00:37:44,555 --> 00:37:47,475 buprenorphine, dextromoramide, chlormethiazole. 441 00:37:48,058 --> 00:37:52,480 The streets are awash with drugs you can have for unhappiness and pain, and we took them all. 442 00:37:53,522 --> 00:37:57,485 Fuck it, we would have injected vitamin C if only they'd made it illegal. 443 00:38:07,369 --> 00:38:10,372 Pardon me, may I use your bathroom? Thank you. 444 00:38:22,176 --> 00:38:23,302 You're a psycho! 445 00:38:33,938 --> 00:38:36,941 Hey, Rent boy. No fucking smack. 446 00:38:42,488 --> 00:38:44,990 But the good times couldn't last forever. 447 00:38:49,245 --> 00:38:50,996 My God, no! 448 00:38:52,540 --> 00:38:55,292 I think Allison had been screaming all day... 449 00:38:55,376 --> 00:38:58,462 but it hadn't really registered before. 450 00:38:58,546 --> 00:39:00,965 She might have been screaming for a week for all I knew. 451 00:39:01,048 --> 00:39:03,050 It had been days since I'd heard anyone speak. 452 00:39:03,133 --> 00:39:06,637 Though surely someone must have said something in all that time. 453 00:39:06,720 --> 00:39:08,031 Surely to fuck someone must have. 454 00:39:08,055 --> 00:39:10,683 - Allison? Allison! - Help me, please! 455 00:39:10,766 --> 00:39:12,059 Calm down! 456 00:39:12,852 --> 00:39:15,688 Everything's gonna be just fine. 457 00:39:15,771 --> 00:39:17,731 Nothing could have been further from the truth. 458 00:39:18,524 --> 00:39:21,443 In point of fact, nothing was gonna be just fine. 459 00:39:21,527 --> 00:39:24,071 On the contrary, everything was gonna be bad. 460 00:39:24,154 --> 00:39:25,656 Bad. 461 00:39:25,739 --> 00:39:29,201 I mean, everything was gonna be even worse than it already was. 462 00:39:46,886 --> 00:39:48,387 Fuck. 463 00:39:56,437 --> 00:39:58,355 It wasn't my baby. 464 00:39:58,439 --> 00:40:02,026 She wasn't my baby. Baby Dawn, she wasn't mine. 465 00:40:02,109 --> 00:40:06,697 Spud's, Swanney's, Sick Boy's? I don't know. 466 00:40:06,780 --> 00:40:09,325 Maybe Allison knew, maybe not. 467 00:40:10,159 --> 00:40:12,536 I wished I could think of something to say. 468 00:40:12,620 --> 00:40:15,456 Something sympathetic, something human. 469 00:40:15,539 --> 00:40:17,207 Say something, Mark. 470 00:40:20,461 --> 00:40:22,796 Fucking say something! 471 00:40:29,303 --> 00:40:30,679 I'm cooking up. 472 00:40:48,447 --> 00:40:50,574 Cook us up a shot, Rent. 473 00:40:50,658 --> 00:40:52,785 I really need a hit. 474 00:40:54,286 --> 00:40:55,746 And so she did. 475 00:40:55,829 --> 00:40:58,832 I could understand that. To take the pain away. 476 00:41:00,709 --> 00:41:03,712 So I cooked up, and she got a hit. 477 00:41:03,796 --> 00:41:05,673 But only after me. 478 00:41:05,756 --> 00:41:07,758 That went without saying. 479 00:41:09,385 --> 00:41:11,387 Well, at least we knew who the father was now. 480 00:41:12,888 --> 00:41:15,349 It wasn't just the baby that died that day. 481 00:41:15,432 --> 00:41:19,311 Something inside Sick Boy was lost and never returned. 482 00:41:19,395 --> 00:41:22,815 It seemed he had no theory with which to explain a moment like this. 483 00:41:22,898 --> 00:41:24,942 Nor did I. 484 00:41:25,025 --> 00:41:27,820 Our only response was to keep on going and fuck everything. 485 00:41:27,903 --> 00:41:29,989 Pile misery upon misery. 486 00:41:30,072 --> 00:41:32,574 Heap it up on a spoon and dissolve it with a drop of bile. 487 00:41:32,658 --> 00:41:36,787 Then squirt it into a stinking, purulent vein and do it all over again. 488 00:41:36,870 --> 00:41:40,791 Keep on going, getting up, going out, robbing, stealing, fucking people over. 489 00:41:40,874 --> 00:41:44,962 Propelling ourselves with longing towards the day that it would all go wrong. 490 00:41:45,045 --> 00:41:50,467 Because no matter how much you stash or how much you steal, you never have enough. 491 00:41:50,551 --> 00:41:53,220 No matter how often you go out and rob and fuck people over... 492 00:41:53,303 --> 00:41:55,764 you always need to get up and do it all over again. 493 00:41:57,725 --> 00:41:59,476 Gangway! 494 00:41:59,560 --> 00:42:02,646 Sooner or later, this kind of thing was bound to happen. 495 00:42:09,069 --> 00:42:11,739 Because shoplifting is theft, which is a crime... 496 00:42:11,822 --> 00:42:16,243 and, despite what you may believe, there is no such entity as victimless crime. 497 00:42:16,326 --> 00:42:19,830 Heroin addiction may explain your actions, but it does not excuse them. 498 00:42:19,913 --> 00:42:22,124 Mr. Murphy, you are a habitual thief... 499 00:42:22,207 --> 00:42:24,293 devoid of regret and remorse. 500 00:42:24,376 --> 00:42:27,671 In sentencing you to six months imprisonment, my only worry is... 501 00:42:27,755 --> 00:42:30,090 that it will not be long before we meet again. 502 00:42:30,174 --> 00:42:34,553 Mr. Renton, I understand that you have entered into a program of rehabilitation... 503 00:42:34,636 --> 00:42:38,348 in an attempt to wean yourself away from heroin. 504 00:42:38,432 --> 00:42:40,434 The suspension of your sentence... 505 00:42:40,517 --> 00:42:43,854 is conditional on your continued cooperation with this program. 506 00:42:43,937 --> 00:42:47,191 Should you stand guilty before me again, I shall not hesitate... 507 00:42:47,274 --> 00:42:49,276 to impose a custodial sentence. 508 00:42:49,359 --> 00:42:51,820 Thank you, Your Honor. 509 00:42:51,904 --> 00:42:54,948 With God's help, I'll conquer this terrible affliction. 510 00:43:10,547 --> 00:43:11,840 What can you say? 511 00:43:12,299 --> 00:43:14,551 Well, Begbie had a phrase for it. 512 00:43:14,635 --> 00:43:17,387 It was fucking obvious that that cunt was going to fuck some cunt. 513 00:43:17,471 --> 00:43:20,057 Well, I hope you learned your lesson, son. 514 00:43:20,140 --> 00:43:23,811 My son, I thought I was gonna lose you there. 515 00:43:23,894 --> 00:43:27,940 You're nothin' but trouble to me, but I still love you. 516 00:43:28,023 --> 00:43:31,568 You'd better clean up your fucking act, sunshine. Cut that shite out forever. 517 00:43:31,652 --> 00:43:34,613 You listen to Francis, Mark. He's talking sense, kid. 518 00:43:34,696 --> 00:43:38,909 You're fucking right I am. See, inside, you wouldn't last two fucking days. 519 00:43:38,992 --> 00:43:41,829 There's better things than the needle, Rents. Choose life. 520 00:43:41,912 --> 00:43:43,956 I remember when you were a wee baby. 521 00:43:44,039 --> 00:43:47,626 Oh, mama's little baby loves shortening, shortening 522 00:43:47,709 --> 00:43:50,671 Mama's little baby loves shortening bread 523 00:44:03,559 --> 00:44:06,395 I'm sorry, Mrs. Murphy. 524 00:44:06,478 --> 00:44:09,648 It wasn't fair, Spud going down and not me. 525 00:44:11,608 --> 00:44:13,861 Well, it's not our fault! 526 00:44:14,903 --> 00:44:17,823 Your boy went down because he was a fucking smack-head! 527 00:44:17,906 --> 00:44:21,076 If that's not your fault, then I don't know what is! 528 00:44:22,828 --> 00:44:25,873 I was the fucking cunt that tried to get him off it. 529 00:44:28,709 --> 00:44:30,878 I'll get the fucking drinks then. 530 00:44:34,173 --> 00:44:36,383 I wished I'd gone down instead of Spud. 531 00:44:37,134 --> 00:44:42,181 Here I was surrounded by my family and my so-called mates, and I've never felt so alone. 532 00:44:42,264 --> 00:44:44,266 Never in all my puff. 533 00:44:47,477 --> 00:44:50,105 Since I was on remand, they've had me on this program. 534 00:44:50,189 --> 00:44:52,316 The state-sponsored addiction. 535 00:44:52,399 --> 00:44:56,570 Three sickly sweet doses of methadone a day instead of smack. 536 00:44:56,653 --> 00:44:58,822 But it's never enough. 537 00:44:58,906 --> 00:45:01,575 And, at the moment, it's nowhere near enough. 538 00:45:02,659 --> 00:45:06,997 I took all three this morning, and now I've got 18 hours to go till my next shot... 539 00:45:07,080 --> 00:45:09,583 and the sweat on my back like a layer of frost. 540 00:45:10,667 --> 00:45:13,754 I need to visit the Mother Superior, for one hit. 541 00:45:14,838 --> 00:45:16,965 One fucking hit... 542 00:45:17,049 --> 00:45:19,801 to get us over this long, hard day. 543 00:45:23,555 --> 00:45:26,850 - What's on the menu this evening, sir? - Your favorite dish. 544 00:45:26,934 --> 00:45:28,352 Excellent. 545 00:45:28,435 --> 00:45:30,729 - Usual table, sir? - Why, thank you. 546 00:45:30,812 --> 00:45:35,359 - Would sir care to pay for his bill in advance? - No, stick it on my tab. 547 00:45:35,442 --> 00:45:40,489 Regret to inform, sir, credit limit was reached and breached some time ago. 548 00:45:40,572 --> 00:45:42,282 Well, in that case... 549 00:45:43,116 --> 00:45:45,702 Hard currency. That'll do nicely. 550 00:45:45,786 --> 00:45:48,830 Can't be too careful when we're dealing with your type, can we, sir? 551 00:45:50,749 --> 00:45:53,543 Would sir care for a starter? Some garlic bread, perhaps? 552 00:45:53,627 --> 00:45:58,131 No, thank you. I'll proceed directly to the intravenous injection of hard drugs, please. 553 00:45:58,215 --> 00:46:00,259 As you wish, sir. 554 00:46:00,342 --> 00:46:02,302 As you wish. 555 00:46:59,651 --> 00:47:03,363 Perhaps sir would like me to call for a taxi? 556 00:49:12,742 --> 00:49:16,705 Open your eyes! Wake up! Come on, wake up! 557 00:50:47,963 --> 00:50:51,466 I don't feel the sickness yet, but it's in the post, that's for sure. 558 00:50:52,884 --> 00:50:55,345 I'm in the junkie limbo at the moment. 559 00:50:55,428 --> 00:50:59,558 Too ill to sleep, too tired to stay awake. 560 00:50:59,641 --> 00:51:02,686 But the sickness is on its way. 561 00:51:02,769 --> 00:51:06,773 Sweat, chills, nausea, pain and craving. 562 00:51:06,856 --> 00:51:10,944 Need, like nothing else I've ever known, will soon take hold of me. 563 00:51:11,027 --> 00:51:12,779 It's on its way. 564 00:51:18,743 --> 00:51:21,830 Ooh, you got green eyes, ooh, you got blue eyes 565 00:51:22,622 --> 00:51:25,333 Ooh, you got gray eyes 566 00:51:25,417 --> 00:51:28,753 And I've never seen anyone 567 00:51:28,837 --> 00:51:30,922 Quite like you before 568 00:51:31,881 --> 00:51:35,093 No, I've never met anyone 569 00:51:35,176 --> 00:51:37,178 Quite like you before 570 00:51:53,612 --> 00:51:55,447 We'll help you, son. 571 00:51:56,489 --> 00:51:59,492 You'll stay here with us till you get better. 572 00:52:00,035 --> 00:52:01,703 Gonna beat this together. 573 00:52:01,786 --> 00:52:03,079 Maybe I... 574 00:52:03,163 --> 00:52:05,707 Maybe I should go back to the clinic. 575 00:52:05,790 --> 00:52:08,543 No clinics. No methadone. 576 00:52:09,461 --> 00:52:12,339 That only made you worse. You said so yourself. 577 00:52:13,923 --> 00:52:16,259 You lied to us, son. 578 00:52:16,343 --> 00:52:18,428 Your own mother and father. 579 00:52:18,511 --> 00:52:20,347 - You could bring us some jellies. - No! 580 00:52:21,473 --> 00:52:24,434 You're worse coming off that than you are with the heroin. Nothing at all! 581 00:52:24,517 --> 00:52:26,811 It's a clean break this time. 582 00:52:26,895 --> 00:52:28,914 You're staying here where we can keep an eye on you. 583 00:52:28,938 --> 00:52:32,651 I appreciate what you're trying to do, I really do, but I just need one more score. 584 00:52:33,193 --> 00:52:35,862 Just bring me one more hit, please. 585 00:52:36,446 --> 00:52:38,865 I need one more fucking hit! 586 00:52:40,283 --> 00:52:41,951 You fuck! 587 00:52:45,080 --> 00:52:47,540 Bitch! Bitch! 588 00:53:00,845 --> 00:53:02,472 Well... 589 00:53:02,555 --> 00:53:04,766 this is a good fucking laugh, isn't it? 590 00:53:06,184 --> 00:53:08,728 You sweat that shite out of your system. 591 00:53:08,812 --> 00:53:11,314 'Cause if I come back and it's still here... 592 00:53:11,398 --> 00:53:13,400 I'll fucking kick it out. 593 00:53:14,609 --> 00:53:15,944 Okay? 594 00:53:25,161 --> 00:53:26,830 God. 595 00:53:41,928 --> 00:53:43,972 Question number one. 596 00:53:44,055 --> 00:53:47,225 The human immunodeficiency virus is a... 597 00:53:48,226 --> 00:53:51,438 - Retrovirus. - Retrovirus is the right answer! 598 00:54:01,114 --> 00:54:03,241 It's a mug's game, Mrs. Renton. 599 00:54:04,659 --> 00:54:07,746 I mean, I'm not saying I was blameless myself. Far from it. 600 00:54:07,829 --> 00:54:11,833 But there comes a time when you have to turn your back on all that nonsense... 601 00:54:11,916 --> 00:54:14,169 and just say no. 602 00:54:18,798 --> 00:54:20,383 Just say no. 603 00:54:20,467 --> 00:54:23,261 Oh, my God, she's dead! 604 00:54:51,956 --> 00:54:53,583 Question number two. 605 00:54:53,666 --> 00:54:58,630 HIV binds to which receptor on the host lymphocyte? 606 00:54:58,713 --> 00:55:00,465 Which receptor is that? 607 00:55:07,055 --> 00:55:08,640 CD-4. 608 00:55:08,723 --> 00:55:11,476 CD-4 is the right answer! 609 00:55:15,688 --> 00:55:19,067 Better than sex, Rents. Better than sex. 610 00:55:20,401 --> 00:55:22,111 The ultimate hit. 611 00:55:23,404 --> 00:55:26,491 I'm a fucking adult. I can find out for myself. 612 00:55:27,951 --> 00:55:29,953 Well, I'm finding out, all right. 613 00:55:35,708 --> 00:55:37,836 Tommy. 614 00:55:41,464 --> 00:55:44,259 Stop it. Dawn, stop it. 615 00:55:44,342 --> 00:55:48,054 Is he guilty or not guilty? 616 00:55:51,391 --> 00:55:52,725 He's our son. 617 00:55:59,899 --> 00:56:01,734 No! Dawn! 618 00:56:04,904 --> 00:56:06,197 Stop! 619 00:56:09,242 --> 00:56:11,494 Dawn! Not me! 620 00:56:11,578 --> 00:56:13,079 Stop! 621 00:56:18,918 --> 00:56:20,086 Mark. 622 00:56:29,470 --> 00:56:31,598 There's something you need to do. 623 00:57:00,877 --> 00:57:03,087 Come alive, 35. 624 00:57:03,671 --> 00:57:05,506 Box of tricks, 66. 625 00:57:08,301 --> 00:57:10,011 Mark, you get the house! 626 00:57:10,094 --> 00:57:12,597 House! House! 627 00:57:12,680 --> 00:57:14,474 For goodness sake, Mark. 628 00:57:15,683 --> 00:57:18,645 It seems, however, I really am the luckiest guy in the world. 629 00:57:18,728 --> 00:57:21,123 Several years of addiction right in the middle of an epidemic... 630 00:57:21,147 --> 00:57:23,733 surrounded by the living dead. 631 00:57:23,816 --> 00:57:27,570 But not me. I'm negative. It's official. 632 00:57:28,905 --> 00:57:31,908 And once the pain goes away, that's when the real battle starts. 633 00:57:31,991 --> 00:57:33,910 Depression, boredom. 634 00:57:33,993 --> 00:57:37,413 You feel so fucking low, you want to fucking top yourself. 635 00:57:40,375 --> 00:57:42,335 Tommy! 636 00:57:48,257 --> 00:57:50,134 Tommy, it's Mark, man. 637 00:57:58,893 --> 00:58:00,395 All right, mate? 638 00:58:22,875 --> 00:58:25,336 - Gettin' out much, Tommy? - No. 639 00:58:30,049 --> 00:58:31,926 Following the game at all? 640 00:58:32,010 --> 00:58:33,636 No. 641 00:58:35,096 --> 00:58:36,806 Me neither really. 642 00:58:48,026 --> 00:58:49,902 You take the test? 643 00:58:51,821 --> 00:58:53,364 Aye. 644 00:58:55,533 --> 00:58:56,743 Clear? 645 00:58:57,952 --> 00:58:59,412 Aye. 646 00:59:01,581 --> 00:59:03,416 That's nice. 647 00:59:06,294 --> 00:59:07,545 I'm sorry, Tommy. 648 00:59:10,673 --> 00:59:12,633 Got any gear on you? 649 00:59:13,634 --> 00:59:15,636 No, I'm clean, man. 650 00:59:16,763 --> 00:59:18,681 Well... 651 00:59:18,765 --> 00:59:20,266 sub us then, mate. 652 00:59:21,726 --> 00:59:23,561 I'm expecting a rent check. 653 00:59:37,992 --> 00:59:39,577 Thanks, Mark. 654 00:59:40,369 --> 00:59:42,121 No bother. 655 00:59:46,042 --> 00:59:48,753 No bother. None at all. 656 00:59:48,836 --> 00:59:50,963 Not for me anyway. 657 00:59:51,047 --> 00:59:55,384 Still, it's easy to be philosophical when it's some other poor cunt with shite for blood. 658 01:00:03,893 --> 01:00:06,646 - What do you want? - Are you clean? 659 01:00:06,729 --> 01:00:08,689 - Yes. - Is that a promise then? 660 01:00:08,773 --> 01:00:10,399 Yes, it is, as a matter of fact. 661 01:00:10,483 --> 01:00:12,276 Calm down. I'm only asking. 662 01:00:17,323 --> 01:00:19,117 Is that hash I can smell? 663 01:00:19,200 --> 01:00:21,577 - No. - I wouldn't mind a bit if it is. 664 01:00:21,661 --> 01:00:24,122 - Well, it isn't. - It smells like it. 665 01:00:24,205 --> 01:00:27,291 - You're too young. - I'm too young for what? 666 01:00:36,259 --> 01:00:38,594 You're not getting any younger, Mark. 667 01:00:38,678 --> 01:00:42,849 The world's changing. Music's changing. Even drugs are changing. 668 01:00:42,932 --> 01:00:45,518 You can't stay in here all day dreaming about heroin... 669 01:00:45,601 --> 01:00:47,603 and Ziggy Pop. 670 01:00:47,687 --> 01:00:48,855 It's Iggy Pop. 671 01:00:49,605 --> 01:00:52,150 Whatever. I mean, the guy's dead anyway. 672 01:00:52,233 --> 01:00:55,653 Iggy Pop is not dead. He toured last year. Tommy went to see him. 673 01:00:55,736 --> 01:00:58,739 The point is, you've got to find something new. 674 01:01:01,325 --> 01:01:04,412 She was right. I had to find something new. 675 01:01:04,495 --> 01:01:06,539 There was only one thing for it. 676 01:01:50,541 --> 01:01:52,293 Lifestyle Letting Agency. 677 01:01:52,376 --> 01:01:54,587 Yes, it's a beautifully converted Victorian town house. 678 01:01:55,254 --> 01:01:58,925 Ideally located on a quiet road near to the local shops and transport. 679 01:01:59,675 --> 01:02:01,886 This one's two bedrooms and a kitchen/diner. 680 01:02:01,969 --> 01:02:04,722 Fully fitted, in excellent decorative order. 681 01:02:04,805 --> 01:02:07,058 Lots of storage space and all mod cons. 682 01:02:07,141 --> 01:02:10,436 It's going at £320 a week. 683 01:02:17,652 --> 01:02:21,072 I settled in not too badly and kept myself to myself. 684 01:02:21,155 --> 01:02:24,909 Sometimes, of course, I thought about the guys, but mainly I didn't miss them at all. 685 01:02:24,992 --> 01:02:29,205 After all, this was boomtown, where any fool could make cash from chaos and plenty did. 686 01:02:29,288 --> 01:02:30,998 Tell you what I've got. 687 01:02:31,082 --> 01:02:34,252 I've got a beautifully converted Victorian town house. 688 01:02:34,335 --> 01:02:36,420 I quite enjoyed the sound of it all. 689 01:02:36,504 --> 01:02:38,256 Profit, loss, margins... 690 01:02:38,339 --> 01:02:40,758 takeovers, lending, letting, subletting... 691 01:02:40,841 --> 01:02:44,095 subdividing, cheating, scamming, fragmenting, breaking away. 692 01:02:44,178 --> 01:02:46,097 Who's got the keys to Telegraph Road? 693 01:02:46,180 --> 01:02:50,268 There was no such thing as society. Even if there was, I had nothing to do with it. 694 01:02:51,477 --> 01:02:55,314 For the first time in my adult life, I was almost content. 695 01:02:56,482 --> 01:03:00,653 Dear Mark, I'm glad you found a job and somewhere to live. 696 01:03:00,736 --> 01:03:02,738 School is fine at the moment. 697 01:03:02,822 --> 01:03:05,324 I'm not pregnant, but thanks for asking. 698 01:03:05,408 --> 01:03:08,744 Your friend, Sick Boy, asked me last week if I would like to work for him... 699 01:03:08,828 --> 01:03:11,163 but I told him where to go. 700 01:03:11,247 --> 01:03:15,751 I met Spud, who sends his regards. Or at least I think that's what he said. 701 01:03:18,796 --> 01:03:21,132 No one has seen Tommy for ages. 702 01:03:21,215 --> 01:03:24,468 And, finally, Francis Begbie has been on television a lot this week... 703 01:03:25,177 --> 01:03:26,977 as he is wanted by the police in connection... 704 01:03:27,013 --> 01:03:29,974 with an armed robbery in a jeweler's in Corstorphine. 705 01:03:30,057 --> 01:03:32,852 Take care. Yours with love, Diane. 706 01:03:40,276 --> 01:03:41,527 Francis Begbie. 707 01:03:47,033 --> 01:03:48,826 Oh, no. 708 01:03:48,909 --> 01:03:50,536 Armed robbery? 709 01:03:50,619 --> 01:03:55,291 What, with a replica? How the fuck can it be armed robbery with a fucking replica? 710 01:03:55,374 --> 01:03:57,084 Fucking scandal. 711 01:03:57,168 --> 01:03:59,045 And the gear. Look. 712 01:04:02,089 --> 01:04:05,551 Supposed to be fucking solid silver. It's fucking garbage. 713 01:04:05,634 --> 01:04:08,613 Those young couples investin' all their fucking hopes in that stuff and all. 714 01:04:08,637 --> 01:04:11,557 - It's a scandal, Franco. - Too fucking right it is. 715 01:04:11,640 --> 01:04:15,227 How about the wee pot noodles by the way? I'm fucking Lee Marvin. 716 01:04:24,111 --> 01:04:25,404 Hey, Rents. 717 01:04:25,488 --> 01:04:27,990 Begbie settled in in no time at all. 718 01:04:29,033 --> 01:04:31,786 Found me fucking cigarettes. 719 01:04:39,668 --> 01:04:41,003 Aye, right. 720 01:05:03,067 --> 01:05:04,360 It's me. 721 01:05:06,570 --> 01:05:07,988 Begs. 722 01:05:14,495 --> 01:05:17,373 Yeah, the guy's a psycho. But it's true. 723 01:05:17,456 --> 01:05:19,917 He's a mate also. What can I do? 724 01:05:40,354 --> 01:05:42,898 Pop down to bookie's and put a line on for us. 725 01:05:42,982 --> 01:05:45,317 Can you not go yourself? 726 01:05:45,401 --> 01:05:48,797 I'm serious here. I'm a fugitive from the law, and I can't even walk the fuckin' streets. 727 01:05:48,821 --> 01:05:50,281 You go. 728 01:05:51,282 --> 01:05:52,616 Here. 729 01:05:54,076 --> 01:05:56,328 Doncaster. Four-forty. 730 01:05:56,412 --> 01:05:58,873 Five pound to win. Bad Boy. 731 01:06:08,007 --> 01:06:10,426 Fucking buy some fucking beer and all. 732 01:06:17,349 --> 01:06:18,476 Come on, Bad Boy. 733 01:06:18,559 --> 01:06:21,729 Come on, son. Come on, son. Come on! Come on! 734 01:06:21,812 --> 01:06:23,647 Yeah! 735 01:06:30,654 --> 01:06:34,033 Bad Boy! 736 01:06:34,116 --> 01:06:36,243 Came in at 16 to 1. 737 01:06:36,327 --> 01:06:39,663 And with the winnings, we went out to celebrate. 738 01:07:08,817 --> 01:07:11,403 Diane was right. The world is changing. 739 01:07:11,487 --> 01:07:13,656 Music is changing. Drugs are changing. 740 01:07:13,739 --> 01:07:15,699 Even men and women are changing. 741 01:07:15,783 --> 01:07:19,703 One thousand years from now, there'll be no guys and no girls, just wankers. 742 01:07:19,787 --> 01:07:21,413 Sounds great to me. 743 01:07:26,085 --> 01:07:28,254 It's just a pity no one told Begbie. 744 01:07:45,563 --> 01:07:48,023 Fuck! Fuck! 745 01:07:48,107 --> 01:07:52,027 If you ask me, we're heterosexual by default not by decision. 746 01:07:52,111 --> 01:07:54,655 It's just a question of who you fancy. 747 01:07:54,738 --> 01:07:58,242 It's all about aesthetics. And it's fuck-all to do with morality. 748 01:07:58,325 --> 01:07:59,785 Fuck! 749 01:08:01,662 --> 01:08:04,081 But you try telling Begbie that. 750 01:08:04,164 --> 01:08:06,584 I'm not a fucking buftie, and that's the end of it. 751 01:08:07,293 --> 01:08:09,295 Let's face it. It could have been wonderful. 752 01:08:12,631 --> 01:08:15,718 Fucking listen to me, you piece of junkie shit. 753 01:08:15,801 --> 01:08:17,386 A joke's a fucking joke. 754 01:08:17,469 --> 01:08:20,180 You mention that again, and I'll cut you up. 755 01:08:21,181 --> 01:08:22,808 You understand? 756 01:08:27,938 --> 01:08:32,610 Since I last saw him, Sick Boy had reinvented himself as a pimp and a pusher... 757 01:08:32,693 --> 01:08:35,404 and was here, he said, to mix business and pleasure, 758 01:08:35,487 --> 01:08:38,616 setting up contacts, as he constantly informed me... 759 01:08:38,699 --> 01:08:42,661 for the great smack deal that was one day going to make him rich. 760 01:08:48,792 --> 01:08:50,169 Good chips. 761 01:08:51,211 --> 01:08:53,589 I can't believe you did that. 762 01:08:56,175 --> 01:08:59,928 I got a good price for it. Rents, I need the money. 763 01:09:00,012 --> 01:09:02,264 It was my fucking telly! 764 01:09:02,348 --> 01:09:05,267 Christ, if I'd known you were gonna get so humpty about it... 765 01:09:05,351 --> 01:09:07,436 I wouldn't have bothered. 766 01:09:10,022 --> 01:09:13,108 Fucking rented anyway. 767 01:09:13,192 --> 01:09:15,527 Are you gonna eat that? 768 01:09:20,949 --> 01:09:22,993 Have you got a passport? 769 01:09:23,077 --> 01:09:24,703 Why? 770 01:09:24,787 --> 01:09:26,455 I met this bloke. 771 01:09:26,538 --> 01:09:28,791 Runs a hotel, brothel. 772 01:09:28,874 --> 01:09:30,793 Loads of contacts. 773 01:09:30,876 --> 01:09:34,630 Does a nice sideline in punting British passports to foreigners. 774 01:09:34,713 --> 01:09:36,465 Get you a good price. 775 01:09:36,548 --> 01:09:39,468 And why would I want to sell my passport? 776 01:09:43,639 --> 01:09:45,307 It was just an idea. 777 01:09:47,142 --> 01:09:48,811 I had to get rid of them. 778 01:09:48,894 --> 01:09:52,064 Sick Boy didn't do his drug deal, and he didn't get rich. 779 01:09:52,147 --> 01:09:55,901 Instead, he and Begbie just hung around my bedsit looking for things to steal. 780 01:09:55,984 --> 01:09:59,738 I decided to put them in the worst place in the world. 781 01:10:26,432 --> 01:10:28,350 But, of course, they weren't paying any rent. 782 01:10:28,434 --> 01:10:30,769 So when my boss found two desperate suckers who would... 783 01:10:30,853 --> 01:10:34,106 Sick Boy and Begbie were bound to feel threatened. 784 01:10:34,189 --> 01:10:36,608 Yep, lots of storage. 785 01:10:36,692 --> 01:10:39,278 All mod cons, 320 quid a week. 786 01:10:43,240 --> 01:10:44,616 And that was that. 787 01:10:45,409 --> 01:10:49,037 But by then we had another reason to go back. Tommy. 788 01:10:49,705 --> 01:10:53,625 Tommy knew he'd got the virus, but he never knew he'd gone full blown. 789 01:10:54,668 --> 01:10:56,378 What was it, pneumonia or cancer? 790 01:10:56,462 --> 01:10:59,047 No, toxoplasmosis. 791 01:10:59,131 --> 01:11:01,216 It's like a stroke. 792 01:11:01,300 --> 01:11:03,218 How's that? 793 01:11:03,302 --> 01:11:05,471 He wanted to see Lizzy again. 794 01:11:06,805 --> 01:11:08,557 She wouldn't even let him near the house. 795 01:11:08,640 --> 01:11:11,769 So he bought her a present. He brought her this kitten. 796 01:11:11,852 --> 01:11:16,315 - But Lizzy told him where to fucking stick it. - Exactly. 797 01:11:16,398 --> 01:11:19,151 I'm not wantin' that cat, she says. Get the fuck, right. 798 01:11:19,234 --> 01:11:22,404 So there's Tommy stuck with this kitten. 799 01:11:22,488 --> 01:11:24,406 You can imagine what happened... 800 01:11:24,490 --> 01:11:26,867 To those of us gathered here today... 801 01:11:26,950 --> 01:11:31,830 Thomas McKenzie filled a number of different roles in our lives. 802 01:11:31,914 --> 01:11:34,142 - Thomas was a son, a brother and a friend. - The thing was neglected... 803 01:11:34,166 --> 01:11:36,418 pissing and shitting all over the place. 804 01:11:36,502 --> 01:11:38,754 Tommy's lying about fucked out of his eyeballs... 805 01:11:38,837 --> 01:11:40,756 on smack or downers. 806 01:11:40,839 --> 01:11:44,676 He never knew you could get toxoplasmosis from cat shit. 807 01:11:45,803 --> 01:11:49,515 A loving man who had a great lust for life. 808 01:11:49,598 --> 01:11:51,934 - A keen musician... - Neither did I. What is it? 809 01:11:52,017 --> 01:11:54,228 Fucking horrible. 810 01:11:54,311 --> 01:11:57,898 - It's like an abscess in your brain. - Fucking hell. 811 01:11:57,981 --> 01:11:59,358 Then what happened? 812 01:11:59,441 --> 01:12:01,902 He starts getting these headaches... 813 01:12:01,985 --> 01:12:05,405 so he just uses more smack, you know, for the pain. 814 01:12:05,489 --> 01:12:07,699 And then he has a stroke. 815 01:12:07,783 --> 01:12:10,536 A fucking stroke, just like that. 816 01:12:11,537 --> 01:12:14,581 Gets home from the hospital and dies three weeks later. 817 01:12:16,208 --> 01:12:19,461 He'd been dead for ages before the neighbors complained about the smell... 818 01:12:19,545 --> 01:12:21,672 and got the police to break down the door. 819 01:12:22,714 --> 01:12:24,758 Tommy was lying facedown in a pool of vomit. 820 01:12:24,842 --> 01:12:28,303 He has gone from us, but we have many things... 821 01:12:28,387 --> 01:12:30,264 to remember him by. 822 01:12:30,347 --> 01:12:31,640 The kitten was fine. 823 01:12:31,723 --> 01:12:34,560 Would you all please rise now for the committal? 824 01:12:38,897 --> 01:12:42,985 Do you think I would leave you crying 825 01:12:43,068 --> 01:12:47,489 When there's room on my horse for two 826 01:12:48,657 --> 01:12:52,870 Climb up here, Tommy, don't be dying 827 01:12:53,579 --> 01:12:57,708 I can go just as fast with two 828 01:12:57,791 --> 01:13:02,713 When we grow up we'll both be soldiers 829 01:13:02,796 --> 01:13:06,758 And our horses will not be toys 830 01:13:07,843 --> 01:13:12,556 And I wonder if we'll remember 831 01:13:12,639 --> 01:13:16,852 When we were two little boys 832 01:13:20,022 --> 01:13:22,149 - Tommy. - Tommy. 833 01:13:26,820 --> 01:13:28,780 Did you tell him yet? 834 01:13:29,781 --> 01:13:31,617 - On you go. - What? 835 01:13:32,451 --> 01:13:34,202 There's this mate of Swanney's. 836 01:13:34,286 --> 01:13:36,872 - You know the guy. Mikey Forrester. - Aye. 837 01:13:38,206 --> 01:13:39,708 Well... 838 01:13:40,667 --> 01:13:43,170 he's come into some gear. 839 01:13:43,253 --> 01:13:45,756 - A lot of gear. - How much gear? 840 01:13:47,758 --> 01:13:49,551 About two kilos. 841 01:13:50,510 --> 01:13:52,721 So he tells me. 842 01:13:52,804 --> 01:13:55,891 He got drunk in a pub down by the docks last week... 843 01:13:55,974 --> 01:13:58,518 where he met two Russian sailors. 844 01:13:58,602 --> 01:14:03,357 They're fucking carrying the stuff. For sale there and then, like. 845 01:14:03,440 --> 01:14:06,234 So he wakes up next morning... 846 01:14:06,318 --> 01:14:09,363 realizes what he's done, gets very fucking nervous. 847 01:14:10,155 --> 01:14:11,740 He wants rid of this, right? 848 01:14:11,823 --> 01:14:14,910 - So? - So he met me. 849 01:14:14,993 --> 01:14:18,747 And I offered to take it off his hands at a very reasonable price... 850 01:14:18,830 --> 01:14:22,167 with the intention of punting it on myself to a guy I know in London. 851 01:14:23,210 --> 01:14:25,087 We've just come back from Tommy's funeral... 852 01:14:25,170 --> 01:14:28,632 and you're talking about a scag deal? 853 01:14:29,466 --> 01:14:30,759 Aye. 854 01:14:34,513 --> 01:14:36,431 What was your price? 855 01:14:36,515 --> 01:14:38,433 - Four grand. - You haven't got four grand. 856 01:14:38,517 --> 01:14:41,436 - We're 2,000 short. - Well, that's tough. 857 01:14:42,521 --> 01:14:46,608 Look, Mark, every cunt knows you've been saving up in London. 858 01:14:46,692 --> 01:14:49,611 I'm sorry, boys. I do not have two grand. 859 01:14:49,695 --> 01:14:51,822 Aye, you fucking do. 860 01:14:53,407 --> 01:14:55,033 I've seen your bank statement. 861 01:14:55,117 --> 01:14:57,285 For fuck's sake. 862 01:14:57,369 --> 01:15:01,915 2,133 pound. 863 01:15:01,999 --> 01:15:05,210 Two kilos. What is that, ten years? 864 01:15:05,293 --> 01:15:08,880 Mikey Forrester. Russian sailors. What the fuck are you boys on? 865 01:15:09,506 --> 01:15:13,218 Spud, you've already been to jail. You like it so much you want to go back? 866 01:15:13,885 --> 01:15:15,721 I just want the money, Mark. 867 01:15:16,471 --> 01:15:20,183 If everybody keeps their fucking mouth shut, there'll be no cunt going to jail. 868 01:15:25,564 --> 01:15:29,985 There were a lot of possibilities running through my mind about what might happen in London. 869 01:15:30,068 --> 01:15:33,199 Things I didn't want to talk to anyone about. Ideas best kept to myself. 870 01:15:36,283 --> 01:15:38,577 What no one told me was that when we bought the smack... 871 01:15:38,660 --> 01:15:41,580 some lucky punter would have to try it out. 872 01:15:45,709 --> 01:15:47,419 Begbie didn't trust Spud. 873 01:15:47,502 --> 01:15:49,796 Sick Boy was too careful these days. 874 01:15:49,880 --> 01:15:53,050 So I rolled up my sleeve, I spiked my vein... 875 01:15:53,133 --> 01:15:55,177 and I did what had to be done. 876 01:15:58,597 --> 01:16:00,682 It's good. 877 01:16:00,766 --> 01:16:02,976 It's really fucking good. 878 01:16:08,440 --> 01:16:10,484 Yeah, that hit was good. 879 01:16:10,567 --> 01:16:13,278 I promised myself another one before we got to London. 880 01:16:13,361 --> 01:16:16,073 Just the one like, just for old time's sake. 881 01:16:16,948 --> 01:16:18,867 Just to piss Begbie off. 882 01:16:19,785 --> 01:16:22,245 This was his nightmare. 883 01:16:22,329 --> 01:16:24,539 The dodgiest scam in a lifetime of dodgy scams... 884 01:16:24,623 --> 01:16:28,126 being perpetrated with three of the most useless and unreliable fuckups in town. 885 01:16:30,170 --> 01:16:31,880 I knew what was going on in his mind. 886 01:16:31,963 --> 01:16:34,382 Any trouble in London, and he would dump us immediately. 887 01:16:34,466 --> 01:16:37,052 One way or another, he had to. 888 01:16:37,135 --> 01:16:40,889 If he got caught with a bag full of smack on top of that armed robbery shit... 889 01:16:40,972 --> 01:16:43,809 he was going down for 15 to 20. 890 01:16:43,892 --> 01:16:48,939 Begbie was hard, but not so hard that he didn't shite it off 20 years in prison. 891 01:16:56,279 --> 01:16:58,698 This was to be my final hit. 892 01:16:58,782 --> 01:17:00,700 But let's be clear about this. 893 01:17:00,784 --> 01:17:03,954 There's final hits and final hits. 894 01:17:04,037 --> 01:17:06,039 What kind was this to be? 895 01:17:10,961 --> 01:17:12,212 Did you bring the cards? 896 01:17:12,963 --> 01:17:14,381 - What? - The cards! 897 01:17:14,464 --> 01:17:16,550 The last thing I told you was to mind the cards. 898 01:17:16,633 --> 01:17:18,552 Well, I've not brought them. 899 01:17:21,138 --> 01:17:24,724 - Fucking boring after a while without the cards. - I'm sorry. 900 01:17:26,017 --> 01:17:28,687 - But fucking late, like. - Why didn't you bring them? 901 01:17:28,770 --> 01:17:31,314 'Cause I fucking told you to bring them, you doss cunt! 902 01:17:32,816 --> 01:17:34,025 Christ. 903 01:18:21,406 --> 01:18:23,241 These are your friends, right? 904 01:18:23,325 --> 01:18:26,494 These are the guys I told you about. Okay. 905 01:18:26,578 --> 01:18:28,788 - Well, is he here? - Yeah, he's here. 906 01:18:28,872 --> 01:18:30,790 You didn't get followed or nothing, did you? 907 01:18:31,458 --> 01:18:34,127 - Didn't get followed. - Okay. 908 01:18:51,353 --> 01:18:53,271 - All right. - Hi. 909 01:18:56,608 --> 01:18:59,110 Straight away he clocked us for what we were. 910 01:18:59,194 --> 01:19:02,155 Small-time wasters with an accidental big deal. 911 01:19:12,916 --> 01:19:14,125 Excuse me, gentlemen. 912 01:20:08,263 --> 01:20:09,556 So... 913 01:20:10,557 --> 01:20:13,059 how much would you like for this? 914 01:20:15,353 --> 01:20:17,272 Twenty thousand. 915 01:20:18,523 --> 01:20:21,776 Well, I don't think it's worth much more than 15. 916 01:20:21,860 --> 01:20:25,405 This was a real drag to him. He didn't need to negotiate. 917 01:20:25,488 --> 01:20:28,092 I mean, what the fuck were we going to do with it if he didn't buy it? 918 01:20:28,116 --> 01:20:30,702 Sell it on the streets? Fuck that. 919 01:20:30,785 --> 01:20:32,037 Well, 19. 920 01:20:32,704 --> 01:20:35,373 Terribly sorry. I can't go to 19. 921 01:20:38,209 --> 01:20:39,753 Well, fucking 16 then. 922 01:20:42,088 --> 01:20:43,465 Okay. 923 01:20:43,548 --> 01:20:46,301 Well, fucking 16 it is then. 924 01:20:50,513 --> 01:20:53,850 These, gentlemen, are £2,000 bundles. 925 01:20:53,933 --> 01:20:55,435 That's two. 926 01:20:57,020 --> 01:20:59,064 That's four. 927 01:20:59,147 --> 01:21:01,107 We settled on £16,000. 928 01:21:01,191 --> 01:21:04,110 He had a lot more in the suitcase, like, but it was better than nothing. 929 01:21:04,194 --> 01:21:06,780 And two more make eight. 930 01:21:12,243 --> 01:21:14,079 Thank you very much, gentlemen. 931 01:21:14,746 --> 01:21:17,332 I'd just like to say, it's been a pleasure haggling with you. 932 01:21:17,415 --> 01:21:18,917 Fucking better be. 933 01:21:21,878 --> 01:21:23,088 Okay? 934 01:21:25,507 --> 01:21:27,175 Yes! 935 01:21:30,095 --> 01:21:32,847 And just for a moment, it felt really great. 936 01:21:32,931 --> 01:21:36,351 Like we were all in it together, like friends. Like it meant something. 937 01:21:36,434 --> 01:21:39,562 A moment like that can touch you deep inside. 938 01:21:39,646 --> 01:21:42,023 But it doesn't last long. Not like £16,000. 939 01:21:42,107 --> 01:21:45,360 So what about you, Spud? Any major investments on the horizon at all? 940 01:21:45,443 --> 01:21:48,738 - Gonna buy yourself a wee island in the sun? - For four grand? 941 01:21:48,822 --> 01:21:51,950 One palm tree, a couple of rocks and a fucking sewage outflow. 942 01:21:54,953 --> 01:21:58,665 I don't know, man. I'm gonna get something for my ma, I think. 943 01:21:59,249 --> 01:22:01,000 Get some good speed. 944 01:22:01,084 --> 01:22:03,044 No bicarb. 945 01:22:03,128 --> 01:22:06,214 - Then get a girl, take her out, treat her right. - And shag her senseless. 946 01:22:06,297 --> 01:22:09,717 No, man! True love. True love. 947 01:22:09,801 --> 01:22:13,680 But I could really handle some hot sex with a Jewish princess! 948 01:22:14,472 --> 01:22:17,058 - You daft cunt! - Or a Catholic! 949 01:22:17,142 --> 01:22:20,262 If you're gonna waste it on a bird, you may as well fucking leave it all to me. 950 01:22:20,311 --> 01:22:21,789 - Get our drinks. - I got a round already. 951 01:22:21,813 --> 01:22:23,773 - I got the last ones. - It's your round, Franco. 952 01:22:26,526 --> 01:22:28,611 Okay. Same again? 953 01:22:28,695 --> 01:22:30,905 Right. I'm off for a piss. 954 01:22:30,989 --> 01:22:33,741 See when I get back the money's still here, okay? 955 01:22:33,825 --> 01:22:36,119 The moment your back's turned, we're out the door. 956 01:22:36,202 --> 01:22:37,829 Yeah, I'll be right fucking after you. 957 01:22:37,912 --> 01:22:40,248 You'll never catch us, you flabby bastard. 958 01:22:40,331 --> 01:22:42,000 See you when I get back. 959 01:22:42,584 --> 01:22:46,504 Be halfway down the street with the money, I'd fucking kill you. 960 01:22:46,588 --> 01:22:48,256 I thought you might, Franco. 961 01:22:49,257 --> 01:22:51,176 Thought you might. 962 01:22:55,054 --> 01:22:57,348 Are you game for it? 963 01:22:57,432 --> 01:22:59,184 What? 964 01:23:00,602 --> 01:23:02,395 Well? 965 01:23:03,271 --> 01:23:05,106 Are you serious? 966 01:23:12,780 --> 01:23:15,742 Don't know. Don't know. What do you think? 967 01:23:17,410 --> 01:23:18,912 Still here, I see. 968 01:23:18,995 --> 01:23:22,040 - Well, we wouldn't run out on a mate. - Why not? I know I would. 969 01:23:24,125 --> 01:23:25,585 Where's Franco? 970 01:23:27,962 --> 01:23:30,131 For fuck's sake! 971 01:23:30,215 --> 01:23:31,799 Sorry, mate. I'll buy you another one. 972 01:23:31,883 --> 01:23:35,094 You've ruined my fucking suit, you fucking idiot! 973 01:23:35,178 --> 01:23:37,180 I'm sorry. I didn't mean it. 974 01:23:37,263 --> 01:23:39,849 Sorry's not going to dry me off, you cunt. 975 01:23:39,933 --> 01:23:41,935 Cool down, Franco. The man says he's sorry. 976 01:23:42,018 --> 01:23:44,771 You sorry enough for being a fat cunt. 977 01:23:44,854 --> 01:23:48,608 Fuck you. If you can't hold a pint, you shouldn't be in the pub, mate. Fuck off. 978 01:24:04,040 --> 01:24:05,542 Don't do it, man. 979 01:24:07,961 --> 01:24:09,754 For fuck's sake! 980 01:24:09,837 --> 01:24:12,215 - Fucking nice one, Franco! - Shut it. 981 01:24:12,298 --> 01:24:15,718 - You cut me, man! - You were in my fucking way. 982 01:24:19,681 --> 01:24:24,269 Anybody else want to get in my fucking way? You? 983 01:24:25,812 --> 01:24:28,189 You? 984 01:24:32,694 --> 01:24:33,945 Hey, Rent boy... 985 01:24:35,697 --> 01:24:38,741 you bring me down a fucking smoke. 986 01:24:38,825 --> 01:24:42,078 - I think we'd better go, Franco! - I've got to go to the hospital! 987 01:24:42,161 --> 01:24:45,123 You're not going to any fucking hospital, and you're staying there! 988 01:24:48,293 --> 01:24:50,503 You bring me down a fucking cigarette. 989 01:24:57,051 --> 01:24:58,886 And the bag. 990 01:28:29,096 --> 01:28:32,099 Now I've justified this to myself in all sorts of ways. 991 01:28:32,183 --> 01:28:34,936 It wasn't a big deal, just a minor betrayal. 992 01:28:35,019 --> 01:28:39,065 Or we'd outgrown each other. You know, that sort of thing. 993 01:28:39,148 --> 01:28:42,985 But let's face it. I ripped them off, my so-called mates. 994 01:28:43,778 --> 01:28:46,030 But Begbie, I couldn't give a shit about him. 995 01:28:46,113 --> 01:28:49,193 And Sick Boy, he'd have done the same to me, if he'd only thought of it first. 996 01:28:50,701 --> 01:28:55,748 And Spud-Well, okay, I felt sorry for Spud. He never hurt anybody. 997 01:29:02,213 --> 01:29:04,173 Bastard! 998 01:29:10,763 --> 01:29:12,765 Bastard! 999 01:29:22,942 --> 01:29:25,570 Open up. Open up now! 1000 01:29:25,653 --> 01:29:26,988 Bastard! 1001 01:29:28,114 --> 01:29:29,615 Bastard! 1002 01:29:30,283 --> 01:29:32,743 So why did I do it? 1003 01:29:32,827 --> 01:29:35,830 I could offer a million answers, all false. 1004 01:29:35,913 --> 01:29:37,957 The truth is that I'm a bad person. 1005 01:29:38,040 --> 01:29:41,544 But that's gonna change. I'm going to change. 1006 01:29:41,627 --> 01:29:43,671 This is the last of that sort of thing. 1007 01:29:43,754 --> 01:29:47,675 Now I'm cleaning up, and I'm moving on. Going straight and choosing life. 1008 01:29:47,758 --> 01:29:49,969 I'm looking forward to it already. 1009 01:29:50,052 --> 01:29:51,971 I'm gonna be just like you. 1010 01:29:52,054 --> 01:29:54,891 The job, the family, the fucking big television... 1011 01:29:54,974 --> 01:29:58,728 the washing machine, the car, the compact disc and electrical tin opener... 1012 01:29:58,811 --> 01:30:01,063 good health, low cholesterol, dental insurance... 1013 01:30:01,147 --> 01:30:03,983 mortgage, starter home, leisure wear, luggage... 1014 01:30:04,066 --> 01:30:07,570 three-piece suite, DIY, game shows, junk food, children... 1015 01:30:07,653 --> 01:30:10,239 walks in the park, nine-to-five, good at golf... 1016 01:30:10,323 --> 01:30:13,075 washing the car, choice of sweaters, family Christmas... 1017 01:30:13,159 --> 01:30:15,745 indexed pension, tax exemption, clearing the gutters... 1018 01:30:15,828 --> 01:30:18,789 getting by, looking ahead, the day you die.