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Message: <blockquote data-quote="James from London" data-source="post: 121461" data-attributes="member: 22">2001Belinda Peacock, speaking about her husband Neville in October 2001: You know the last time he took me out? His mother's birthday in March. Three hours listening to her breaking wind. [We haven't had sex] for months. That's why I bought the wig. I caught him drooling over Baby Spice on the telly. Thought he might fancy a change — blondes have more fun and all that.Kat Slater: Did it work?Belinda: He said I looked like Margaret Thatcher.Big Mo: That's enough to put anyone off.Belinda: No, it really turned him on. After he said that though, I just couldn't.Belinda speaking in 2001: I've recently taken up golf.Lauren Branning: Dad taught me [to play cribbage].Angel Hudson, gangster, on Paul Trueman: I got caught once [by] some cheeky shade. He won all my [poker] games with a marked deck.Anthony Trueman, speaking in April 2001: Where have you been? What have you been doing?Paul: For the most part, just keeping my head down, getting by. Till this morning.Anthony: So you'd never seen them before?Paul: No. Just jumped out from nowhere.Anthony: Have you been to the police?Paul: What, with my record?Anthony: So did these lads take much?Paul: Just about everything — wages, wallet, mobile.Kevin Wicks to Shirley: I never forgave you.Kevin: We [the Wicks family] don't hang around nursing old wounds.Pat: Who taught you that one — Brian?Kevin: No. My son, James. He was a special kid, Pat.Carly Wicks to Kevin: [Jimbo] was the apple of your eye.Carly on Jimbo: Dad loved him to bits and Deano worshipped him.Dean Wicks: I used to be good at sport as a kid.Carly: It was always swimming you was good at, weren't it, Dean?Carly on Dean: He used to be part of this team down at the sports centre and this coach said he could have competed and that.Pat: He didn't, did he?Dean: Once. I did once.Dean on Jimbo: Weeks he's been getting up with me, setting the alarm half an hour early ...Carly: Dragging him out of bed ...Dean: Counting my push ups ...Carly: Yeah and kicking you [Dean] up the backside!Dean: He was keeping me going, all for one swim race. Anyway, morning of the race comes and I am so wired. Jimbo goes, he goes, "I'll be there at the finish. Focus on me. Swim to me."Carly: Yeah, and he did, he did.Dean: I did. I swam to him and I trumped the lot of them. I come first.Carly: And he was so pleased.Deano: His eyes glistened — and Jimbo hardly ever cried. So I said to him, "You know only half of that was down to me, right, because that was us, working together." And do you know what he said? "We're making memories, bruv."Dean on Jimbo: He knew what it meant to feel alive.Kevin: [Dean] made a promise to Jimbo before he died that he was going to live the life his brother always wanted, the life he never had.Shirley: I always thought about them, Carly and Deano. I always thought about them.Kevin: James, our first born — you ever think about him?Shirley: Of course I did.Kevin: Well, that did him the world of good, your thoughts. He battled every step of the way, you know — my beautiful boy. He was a proper warrior. And I sat by his bed and I held his hand and I talked to him while he lay dying. I listened to him drowning in his own lungs. He was in such pain, it was almost a relief when he finally let go. And where were you, Shirley, when all that was going on, eh? Where were you, eh? In a boozer, getting lashed off your face?Shirley: Yeah, think I probably was.Dean on Shirley: She wasn’t there when he was sick, she wasn’t there when he died. Dean: Jimbo died in agony without his mother there. It was horrible, but we got through it because of my dad.Kevin, kissing Shirley just before his death in 2007: That's from Jimbo. Before he went. I swore I'd never give it you, but ... "It's for my mum," he said. "For my mum. She's my only mum."Pam Coker: I’ve dressed more [dead bodies] than I can count. Most you forget, faces in a crowd, but the ones that go before their time …Max Branning: How old was he, your boy what passed?Kevin: Twenty.Max: That's terrible.Kevin: Yeah, I know.Kevin: The twenty-seventh of April is the day Jimbo died.Kevin: You knew what happened to Jimbo?Shirley: Of course.Kevin: You knew. And you didn't even come to his funeral. Your own son.Shirley: He died. What was I supposed to do — die with him?Dean on Shirley: She didn’t even go to his funeral and we really needed her that day. I had a look for her. She wasn’t there. She was nowhere to be seen. She’s never been there when we needed her, not once.Shirley: Jimbo died and I didn’t even go back. Just lost meself in a bottle.Carly: Mum, all I ever wanted was you there.Shirley: But you had your dad.Kevin: The sky came down when my boy died. I couldn't see. There was no point. For a while, I was the meanest, angriest person alive, lashing out — even at people trying to be friendly. Months, years — I couldn't properly feel nothing, except on my own.Kevin on Jimbo's death: Carly took it hard. She was his second mother. Deano took it specially hard because Jimbo, well, they were best mates as well as brothers.Mick Carter: I always fancied having a little brother I could boss around.Dean: When I think back to when Jimbo died, all the times I could have done with a big brother — I’ve been so lost.Dean: After [Jimbo died], I couldn't bring myself to go down to the pool on my own. I had this timetable he'd writ out, but I couldn't go near the water without smelling that stuff they put in it and throwing up.Kevin on Dean: It's a funny thing, Pat, but up until then, he'd always been a bit quiet. Then overnight, Dean became "Deano" — to everyone else but me — and suddenly he was the life and soul. Carly and me thought, "Well, maybe he just can't grieve properly," but then you realise he's just doing it in his own way.Minty Peterson: How comes you know so much about the Bible?Kevin: You know what it's like. During hard times, we all look for meaning somewhere.Alice Lord, a family neighbour, to Tanya: Last time I spoke to your sister was ages ago and do you know what she said? "She's dumped me, Aunty Alice. She don't phone, she don't call, nothing."Tanya: Aunty Rainie — the one who's never sent [Abi] so much as a birthday card.Tanya to Abi: I remember when you used to be up at the crack of dawn on your birthday.Abi on a teddy bear key ring: I’ve had him since I was little and he’s lucky, I swear.Abi Branning to Tanya: You used to love this one [‘Where the Wild Roses Grow’ by Nick Cave & Kylie Minogue].Tanya to Lauren: Do you remember that karaoke bar in Cyprus? Your dad hated it.Tanya: Do you remember that time on holiday when Lauren wanted to swim out to that great big rock? I wasn't really taking much notice and you said you thought it was further than she thought and that she'd never make it back. She just pooh-poohed you didn't she?Abi: She told me to shut up.Tanya: Next thing you know, someone's done just that, had to be rescued.Abi: I just read the sign at the beach.Tanya: Yeah, because you're you — a sensible head on young shoulders.Abi on Lauren: I remember when I was little, wishing she was different, that she’d suddenly wake up one morning and be like, “Let’s talk about animals and dresses” and plait each other’s hair.Abi: This silly game we used to play when I was little — if I could count to a hundred without blinking, everything would be all right.Max to Abi: Do you remember when you was little? You used to sneak into our bed and lecture me about turtles and rainforests.Tanya to Max: That picture Abs did of you looking like an egg.Tanya to Abi: I remember this little girl, third day of school, who had to draw a bird in art. You came home. You weren’t happy with it. We thought it was fantastic. It went straight on the fridge, but no, you tore it down. You made me dig out the paints and clear the table. None of us were allowed to have our dinner, were we? Till you’d done it again and done it better. You’ll always be my baby, with her tongue out, painting a bird.Max: Abi, you look beautiful.Abi: You always say that, even when I had chicken pox.Max: Yeah well, I like a spotty kid.Max on Lauren and Abi: I used to take them to Barking Park, take one of them boats out. They used to love all that.Tanya to Max: Don’t fall in this time, eh? You had goose poo all down you!Max to Lauren: You used to beg me to take you over there.Abi: Nothing can beat the [burger van] outside Highbury. My dad used to take me there. He used to get me the works, like onions, cheese, can of cherryade.Mark Reynolds [Zsa Zsa Carter’s father] died 17.7.2001Shirley Carter on Mark Reynolds: He’s six foot under in Plaistow.Tina Carter: I made a right hash of it with Zsa Zsa.“Tosh” Mackintosh: You’re just saying that. I bet you were great.Tina: No. There were days when I would have done anything to stop her crying. Sometimes you just want to walk away, but you can’t because it’s a kid and you’ve got to worry about someone else and you’ve got responsibilities and it’s really hard.Tina: I had Zsa Zsa and I couldn’t cope. A kid with a kid, and I was on my own. I made a right mess of it.Linda Carter to Tina: You had a family. You screwed it up.Zsa Zsa Carter: My mum was useless. Tina: I was a terrible mum to Zsa Zsa. I mean, really awful. Because I wasn’t ready.Tina on herself and Zsa Zsa: We had matching outfits. We had to go round pretending to be the Queen’s Russian nieces. Got a few funny looks when we signed on at the social.Tosh: I used to want to be the prince.Mick to Tina: You’ve always been an airhead, a bit dozy, quite sweet with it.Zsa Zsa on Tina: She was just some sad self-pitying selfish excuse of a woman.Lucas Johnson on Trina: She’s never been much of a mother.Trina on her son Jordan: For years he was the last thing I thought about.Yolande Trueman on Trina: Was she a good cook?Jordan Johnson: I don’t think so. Don’t know. Can’t remember. Haven’t seen her since I was five.Lola Pearce: I always wanted to be a mum, like even when I was little. I used to play this make-believe game in Chatsburn House.Sharon Rickman: That’s the children’s home?Lola: Yes. Down the road, they had this little park with a climbing frame. I used to take all me dolls down there and pretend it was a proper home. I used to line them up and I used to feed them and read them a book and put them to bed. That’s the kind of mum I wanted to be.Nancy Carter: I used to love a playground. Saying that though, there were a time I proper face-planted off the monkey bars and then my dad bought me an ice cream so I wouldn’t tell my mum.Tamwar Masood: I was never much of a playground kid.Stacey Slater: My mum bought me one of those toys when I was a kid — you know, the head that you can style the hair on.Linda: I tried that one with Nancy. Shaved the hair off.Stacey: What’s all this I hear about you shaving the hair off a doll’s head when you were a kid?Nancy: I swear she [Linda] grounded me for a week.Linda on her children: I wish I’d enjoyed it more when they were little. At least when they were little, you chose who they played with. You knew where they was. Then if Nancy kicked off, you could throw her over your shoulder and take her home.Linda: Remember when they were little, when they had pushchairs and we’d take them to the park?  Mick: Remember when Nancy got her big head stuck in the railings? Linda: At least they needed you.Mick on his children: How cute they were.Lola: Always wanted a younger brother or sister.Walter, Patrick Trueman's partner in a scam operation: Do you remember that guy's wife [in] Charlottesville? "Do something, Roger, do something!"Paul Trueman, speaking in 2001: You've been in Trinidad all this time?Patrick: South Tobago. Word used to get back about the two of you [Paul and Anthony].Pat: You never remarried?Patrick: No divorce, no — you see, her [Audrey] being a Catholic. Well, both of us.Patrick on Audrey: I didn't even get a chance to say sorry [for abandoning her and the children] before she passed away, God rest she soul.Paul: How did you know about [Audrey's death]?Patrick: One of your cousins on the island.Patrick on a woman he met on his flight back to England: Her husband had run off with the children's nanny. Boy, she cried on me shoulders all the way from Trinidad. I tell you, by the time the plane touched down, she drunk about seven miniature of rum. Lord God, I couldn't let her drive in that state, could I? So I went to get the car while she went to collect her luggage.Paul: She gave you her keys?Patrick: She must have liked me face, you see. But seriously though, time was getting on so when she wasn't at the door ...Anthony: You thought you'd do a bunk.Patrick: God forgive. I just couldn't afford to be late for your poor mother's funeral.Patrick: You see, I'd planned to be here for the funeral, but by the time I got through customs ...Kevin to Dean: This [silver tankard] was your granddad’s, then mine.Geoff Morton, giving Kate a brooch: Your mam wanted you to have it.Kate Morton on her mother: She got ill and then she died.Geoff to Kate: It's been so hard since your mam passed away. When I had me job, it wasn't so bad.Andy Hunter: Me old mum got ill, emphysema from the face. Her lungs were shrinking so she was slowly suffocating. It got so bad she couldn't do nothing for herself so I says to the wife, "Why don't we have her move in with us?" I didn't expect her to look after her. Said we'd get a nurse or something, but I just wanted my mum to be where she was loved, you know? The wife says, "No way." [So] I set her up with a nursing agency. She had twenty-four hour cover, some were better than others, and a couple of months later, she got an infection and they rushed her off in an ambulance, blue lights flashing.Dennis Rickman: Three days, three nights. I bought you a clean shirt. Sat in that little grey room with your mum — tiny, choking out what was left of her lungs. You must have held her hand for hours.Andy: Yeah well, someone's dying in your face, the least you can do is hold their hand, isn't it?Dennis: You sat, you waited and you hoped. You said there was always hope.Andy: She didn't visit me mum once, Bev. I mean, not even those last three days. She didn't come and sit with us once.Dennis: Always was more ornament than use, your ex.Andy: You fancy her?Dennis: Yeah.Andy: You should have said. She had a younger sister, you know.Andy: After that, me and the wife, we just drifted apart. I thought that was me finished with women.Tom Banks: My marriage to Sadie was over. That's why I decided to move back [to Walford].Andy to Dennis: You're like a yo-yo, bouncing from one thing to the next — care, prison, girls, us [The Firm].Dennis: I used to work for Jack Dalton.Den Watts: And what did you do for him?Dennis: This and that.Den: And what does that mean?Dennis: You know what it means. Nothing big, minor league - "tame nutter”.Andy to Dennis: It was always such a pleasure to watch you work. When someone don't care what happens to them, gives them the edge, don't you think?Jack Dalton to Dennis: You used to be a bright boy.Jack: You were always a good boy, Dennis.Dennis: I've no good memories of [those times].Dennis: I never [knew what I wanted to do]. I mean I've had jobs, loads of them ...Vicki Fowler: You've just never stuck with them.Dennis: I just couldn't hack it, I suppose — somebody looking over me shoulder all the time.Dennis: I can box. I used to do a bit out in Tottenham.Den: [You were a] scrapper, eh? Bit of a temper?Dennis: Yeah.Eddie Moon on Michael: He’s always had a bit of a temper.Anthony Moon on “Breakfast at Tiffany’s”: That’s my mum’s favourite [film], that is.Tyler Moon: They [his mother and Anthony] were close.Anthony: Dad’s worked so hard all his life and he’s given me and Tyler so many chances.Eddie: The times I’ve given these two [Tyler and Anthony] a good hiding.Tyler: Yeah, like when Anthony swapped your old Atmos clock for a BMX. It weren’t even a proper BMX. It was like one of them German ones, a Spricht or something.Eddie: I remember that. 1946, that clock was. I’d only had it a week.Tyler: He actually thought you’d be pleased!Anthony Moon: And it was pink!Eddie: Yeah, I gave you what for.Anthony: I tried me best, Dad.Eddie: Story of your life.Kate Morton to her father Geoff: Aidan Johnson, remember him? Remember kicking him half to death in the cells? You took early retirement — you didn't have much choice.Geoff Morton: I had a letter through from the force after what happened. They said I'd probably lose my pension.Kate: Well, that's the price you pay for being a bully.Geoff on his friends in the police force: They all disappeared afterwards. Didn't want to be tarred with the same brush.Frank Driver, policeman, mid-story: ... And then they kicked me back to uniform. Of course, it’s all a misunderstanding but mud sticks, doesn’t it? Ollie [Walters] was the only one that stuck by me. He’s a good copper.Jimmie Broome, lawyer: You were a police officer.Jack Branning: Detective Inspector, actually.Kate on her father's alcoholism: I watched my dad sinking for twenty years — always there to make sure he didn't go completely under, but never actually able to get him out of the water because only he could do that himself.Little Mo Morgan: When you were in the police, you must have worked with hundreds of women [who were victims of sexual assault].Kate: It was different. I was PC Morton. I had a uniform, it wasn't me.Kate on Dennis: I knew him. I knew him well.Phil Mitchell: Where did you meet?Kate: In a bar in Brighton.Jake Moon: You ever worked in a bar?Tina Stewart: Once or twice. Hopeless I was. I could never refuse a free drink. I should have [just taken the money], but I was too drunk by then.Dennis: The Kate I remember could drink anyone under the table.Kate on Dennis: He ran with a nasty crew.Tony Jamison: You're his [Jack Dalton's] blue-eyed boy.Dennis: I was once.Dennis: Jack helped me out.Andy: Once maybe, and then you went down for it.Dennis on Jack Dalton: He'd snap his fingers, I'd do some damage. That's how I got my sentence.Tony Jamison to Dennis: You helped him [Jack], we both did, and he hung us out to dry.Dennis: I took the fall for you.Jack Dalton: No, no, no. You got caught, which is something very different.Dennis to Kate: You were a risk taker — a policewoman with a weakness for bad boys. Very sexy.Dennis to Kate: There was something about you in that uniform I really liked.Dennis on himself and Kate: We liked each other a lot.Kate on Dennis: I liked him. I liked him quite a lot. We went out for a month or two when I lived in Brighton. We were never more than a casual fling.Kate: We were never compatible.Dennis: I seem to recall we were pretty compatible in the bedroom department.Kate: But that's about it.Kate on Dennis: I was never what you could call his soulmate. We had a mutual interest in sex and that was about it.Kate: We had a lot of sex, nothing much else and then we finished.Phil: So that was it, just sex?Kate: Yes. Just sex. Meaningless.Sean Slater: Do you know how many girls I’d had by the time I was [eighteen]? Four hundred and thirty five. No, hold on — three. Or was it twenty-six? Or it might have been none at all. I was on so many drugs at the time, I don’t really remember.Dennis: Our last night together — that was that flashiest hotel I've ever stayed in. We didn't sleep a wink.Kate: And you conveniently forgot to tell me it would be our last night.Dennis: That's why I wanted to make it so special.Kate: You just vanished into thin air.Dennis: I was trying to protect you.Kate: It didn't feel like it at the time.Kate on Dennis: That night that he stood me up in the hotel in Brighton, I thought he'd found someone or something else to entertain him. That had been his style.Kate on Dennis: After the way his mam treated him and living in care, he's [been] taught never to drop his guard.Dennis: You know me — here today, gone tomorrow.Kate: Where did you go?Dennis: I was sent down.Phil on Dennis: GBH, three years. Must have been a bit of a bad boy.Dennis: If I'd been caught for half the things I'd done, I'd still be in [prison], staring at the walls.Dennis to Jack Dalton: You said you'd always look after us.Dennis, speaking about Jack in 2003: The boss said he'd see us all right. He owes us twenty [grand]. That was the deal.Dennis: When we [himself and Tony] went down for doing that bloke, we never mentioned your name.  Neither of us did.Jack: Of course you kept quiet, Dennis. It's the nature of the job.Buster Briggs: I ain’t been the most reliable of blokes, have I? In and out of nick most of me life. Dean: What were you inside for?Buster: Money laundering, bit of B&E and before that … I can’t remember precisely. I never did none of the things I did, neither. I was set up every single time!Derek Branning: I’ve been away, courtesy of Her Majesty.Jackie Bosch to Derek: I’d heard you’d been inside. Wasn’t really surprised.Michael Moon on Derek: There’s a reason he was banged up. You don’t get ten years inside for shoplifting.Derek: I’ve seen death, Patricia. Horrible it is, horrible.Derek: I know how to dump a body, believe you me, Max.Derek: I’ve done some very bad things. I’ve been in prison.Alice Branning: Joey told me.Carol Jackson on Derek: He'a spent most of his life behind bars — kids he never saw, endless lies.Derek: The nick changes a man.Shirley: I had a mate in the nick. The one thing she couldn’t cope with when she came out was that everything was normal. She thought everything would have changed but it hadn’t. Everything was exactly the same.Dennis on prison: Does your head in in there, thinking about the outside. You learn to keep your thoughts to yourself in there.Derek on his wife: I was in the nick for ten years and I never missed her once.Derek: When I was stuck away for all those years, I knew there’d be things I’d never get the chance to do, you know — family. That was all right. That was the life I led and I was OK with that.Cora on Derek: Ten years, a decade — that’s a long time, missing out at Her Majesty’s Pleasure, locked out, everyone carrying on without you. Derek told me he kept going all those years, ten years, hoping that one day he’d get a chance to make it up to you all [his family].Derek to Joey: I tried. I sent you a birthday card every year, didn’t I?Derek to Joey: Once a year on your birthday, I used to lie there and I’d close my eyes and I’d take myself back to that night [Joey’s seventh birthday]. Just once a year, I’d let myself remember what I’d left behind me on the outside, let myself grieve.Joey on Derek: Alice, he’s never so much as sent you a birthday card.Alice Branning: Yeah, and he sent you one every year.Joey: And we all know why. Just playing games.Derek to Carol: I did try to keep in touch from time to time, wrote letters. I even called, but do you know what? I got no reply.Carol: Yeah well, maybe it was my message to you, Derek — “Keep your nose out of my life.”Alice: I’ve never been to the dogs. Mum was never big on gambling.Derek: I love it.Alice: That’s why she weren’t big on it.Derek: I suppose your mum’s told you some pretty bad things about me.Alice: She’s said nothing, nothing good, nothing bad. She said whatever she thought about you was none of my business, that you were my dad and one day I could make my own mind up about you.Derek: That was very wise of her.Alice: Whereas Joey — Joey always said you were a waste of good air.Derek: He always did have a mouth on him, Joey.Alice to Derek: [Mum] said you was up yourself, quick-tempered, thought you was all that. She never said it to my face, but I could tell she hated you. She never to my face, but  — I guess just in case you came back. You know where she is. Same place she’s always been. Same place I’ve been my whole life.Joey and Alice’s address:5 Melwood PlaceBarnetLondonEN5 4RQDerek: You spend as much time as I have inside, you learn to spot a nut job at twenty paces.Derek: I label all my foodstuffs because when I was in the ... to stop scavengers nicking them.Derek: I haven’t slept past 6am in years.</blockquote>

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