ANDREA TATE:
James, it's very unusual for you not to have eaten your food up. Are you unwell.
JAMIE TATE:
I've got to tell you something, mum, and i don't want you to get mad.
ANDREA TATE:
Go ahead, son.
JAMIE TATE:
Well...
BERNARD TATE:
Man, i could eat a moose. Morning son.
ANDREA TATE:
James was about to tell me something.
BERNARD TATE:
What is it son, you in trouble i won't be mad. I, too, am in trouble with the law and have to go to Wigan.
JAMIE TATE:
It doesn't matter.
MARCEL TATE:
got the jitters, James.
BERNARD TATE:
What does he mean?
JAMIE TATE:
Nothing.
BERNARD TATE:
If any of you are in trouble, i can try to help.
ANDREA TATE:
We aren't here to judge. you're 15 and are prone to mistakes.
JAMIE TATE:
Were Marcel and me a mistake.
BERNARD TATE:
No, and don't you ever think that. I remember i had a stroke in 1965, Andrea nursed me back to health, and we married, went to Barbados, and had you two on a trip to Wolverhampton.
ANDREA TATE:
I always wanted kids. I saw that ambition in Bernard's eyes. Anyway, that Barbados honeymoon was amazing.
BERNARD TATE:
The only thing i disliked was the suggestion by you to stay in Leytonstone.
ANDREA TATE:
I like to explore. Anyway, you didn't want to go to Bolton, Bury, or Oldham markets because you thought you were going to be robbed.
BERNARD TATE:
I don't have a good reputation in Manchester. Anywhere else is fine.
JAMIE TATE:
I'm just feeling a bit unwell.
ANDREA TATE:
go and get some rest, James.
BERNARD TATE:
Somethings not right with that lad, he's hiding something big from us, and i wish he had the guts to say it.
ANDREA TATE:
Maybe if he's hiding something, which i don't think he is, he doesn't want to tell you because he's scared of what you'll say.
BERNARD TATE:
You're saying that I'm hard to talk to. I don't aim to be if i am.
ANDREA TATE:
I know, but sometimes you can be like me on my bad days, and sometimes we see that.
MARCEL TATE:
I think James has a girlfriend,
BERNARD TATE:
Why hasn't he told us?
MARCEL TATE:
I don't see why he hasnt told us, not as if she's pregnant, is she?
YOU ARE READING
Birmingham Road: Episode 1
General FictionIt's 10th July 1985 Dawn Taylor seeks salvation at the Tates, which exposes their secret and rips the Tate family apart.
