The music in the background
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SYLVIA TANNER:
I don't know why you lot are worrying.
ALAN TANNER:
I love you, but we need to be prepared for the worst.
SYLVIA TANNER:
Look at this photo of our Wesley. It's fading now. Maybe that's a sign.
ALAN TANNER:
Some discolouration on the picture isn't an accurate representation of your mental health.
SYLVIA TANNER:
I can remember Maxine's birth. You were stuck at a meeting in Fleetwood, and Dennis had to deliver her.
ALAN TANNER:
I didn't give dad credit much, but on that day, he was a true legend.
SYLVIA TANNER:
Then we had Renee and Juliet, and they got dragged around Europe and the world because of your F1 career.
ALAN TANNER:
And i haven't been the best husband, i have a child down south that i don't really know or have even spoken to in 20 years.
SYLVIA TANNER:
With Alzheimer's, it's nearing the end of the road for me, but you wouldn't shut Wesley or Maxine out, so you should reconnect.
ALAN TANNER:
I remember our trip to Kilmarnock. We stayed over and got food poisoning.
SYLVIA TANNER:
Yeah, i remember, then they tried to rip us off.
ALAN TANNER:
We should have gone on more trips, rather than being here supping beer we should have explored.
SYLVIA TANNER:
We tried, and maybe you should have been more lenient with Oliver. You've made the same mistakes he did.
ALAN TANNER:
After today, i could have been more lenient.
SYLVIA TANNER:
I never liked Peter Clinton. He was too rotten for this happy neighbourhood.
ALAN TANNER:
Neither, i can remember when you'd been sent down and he jeered me so i cut the brakes on his car.
SYLVIA TANNER:
What type?
ALAN TANNER:
Vauxhall Cortina.
SYLVIA TANNER:
What was the judge like with me?
ALAN TANNER:
What do you mean, you remember, don't you.
SYLVIA TANNER:
No, when was it?
ALAN TANNER:
2002, you came out 2 weeks after our David was born.
SYLVIA TANNER:
Our David?
ALAN TANNER:
Maxine's son.
SYLVIA TANNER:
Our Maxine didn't have any kids. She tried with Neil Huntingdon in high school, the useless toerag.
ALAN TANNER:
I think it's time for bed for you, Sylvia.
SYLVIA TANNER:
When will dad be in?
ALAN TANNER:
You haven't talked to your dad since 1987, we last invited him round here in 1980 when he and Sugden got into a fight.
SYLVIA TANNER:
You're lying.
ALAN TANNER:
I'm not. I wish i was. Anyway, last time i heard that after he served his time in prison, he went to Kidderminster.
SYLVIA TANNER:
May you tuck me in?
ALAN TANNER:
coming up, sweetheart.
(Alan grabs a photo of his mother and a separate frame with the whole Tanner family along with the Suttons, tears well up in his eyes)
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Masefield Avenue: Episode 21,513
General FictionIt's 10th January 2019 As Krista warms to the community after her return thanks to Oliver and Caleb, Jeffrey seeks help from his friends but will the method of a pub brawl give way to a cunning plan by a long-time resident
