Somewhere Boy

Daddy!

Hold on.

HE SIGHS

Whoa. Come on, lad.

Let's go to the toilet.

Go on, mate.

You finished, Joe?

Joe?

THUMP

Ah! Sorry.

What are you doing in here?

I-I couldn't sleep.

And you thought you'd just come in here, in the dark?

Come on, Joe. Back to bed, mate.

DOOR CLOSES

Put it down. Look. We can go and do some drawing.

Mum! Joe!

Hiya, Danny love.

You all right? I was just gonna make you some breakfast.

I'm gonna go out, actually. Oh, er, where you going?

Just... Just a walk.

Why don't you hold on for an hour or so, and then we'll take you out?

It's better than walking round by yourself.

But I-I'll be...

I don't want to go out. Listen, can you just put that down

and you two go upstairs and get your pens. Now.

Look, come and sit here, all right?

You must be starving. Come on.

I-I'm fine. Come on, Danny.

Listen, we will talk about everything.

I know you must have a lot of questions.

You know, about your mum.

No. I don't.

OK.

Right.

To me.

Here, Sam, it's yours.

Nice.

Sam.

Come on.

Yours.

Yours.

Jesus! Whose?!

Muppet! Who's kicked that? Aaron.

Nice one, mate.

Wanker.

I'll get it.

Sorry. Don't worry about them lot.

Aaron.

We're going up The Gunner for the match, if you're up for it.

Oh.

Um...

Er, right, well...

Cool, yeah. If, if I'm...

Yeah, cool.

You all right?

No, just, Sam just asked if I wanna go to t'pub to watch game later on.

So I'm... Oh, yeah?

Yeah.

Might just...

...schwing by.

Well, no harm "schwinging by".

You can borrow my car if you like.

Yeah? Mm. Yeah, cheers.

Can I come?

Oh, I don't...

You wouldn't like it. Too, er, busy and noisy.

I don't mind.

Mum?

Maybe... Maybe it's a good idea, yeah.

Do Danny good to get out. Mum?

It's just up the road.

Be nice.

Aaron.

All right.

Great. I'll go and get ready.

It's not for, like, two hours.

Can everyone just calm the fuck down?

Blue Skies Are Around The Corner by Jack Hylton.

# Blue skies around the corner

# Walk round the corner with me

# Just round the corner you'll see

# Those blue skies... #

I found the monster.

What?

The man that killed my mum.

His name's Mark Denscome.

He lives on a farm.

Mead Farm. How?

I looked on your phone.

Can we go? To the farm?

No, we can't go to the fucking farm.

Don't go on my fucking phone again.

FOOTBALL ON TV

What you having?

Oh, yeah, I'll take a Coke, please.

Get a drink, you can't just stand there.

Hmm...

Can I have a Martini?

A Martini?

Fucking hell.

Yeah.

What?

Oh, right. You all right?

Oh, shift up.

All right, Sam, this is my cousin Danny.

You all right?

What's he drinking?

Oh... Oh, he just...

It's a Martini.

He thinks he's fucking James Bond.

Licence to be a massive dickhole.

There you go, love.

Cheers, babe.

Where's Danny?

Er, he's with Aaron.

Gone to the pub.

What? It's fine. They're not kids.

Yeah, I know. It's just...

What?

I've got a spade bit missing.

What's a spade bit?

It goes in a drill.

It's got, like, a blade bit on it, and a spiker.

I was using it the other day. It's gone.

Right, so, what, you lost it? Mm, yeah.

Erm...

Or I was thinking maybe Danny might have it.

What? Why would Danny have it?

I dunno. It's just... You know, he's a bit... You know?

No, I don't know. A bit what?

Weird. You've lost it.

I haven't!

Well, how big is it? I dunno, about three inches.

How big's a car? What?

Yeah, cos can you remember when you lost the car?

Hey! Yeah, but that was only for, like, five minutes,

weren't it, babe?

HUBBUB AND FOOTBALL ON TV

Should we talk to your friends?

Yeah, yeah, course.

Um, d'you reckon he's gonna put Felipe on?

Hey, babe.

Is everything OK?

D'you reckon he's gonna play Felipe? Jesus.

The Shadow.

What's that?

It's just what we used to call you.

The Shadow, why?

You never said anything, and you were always just... there.

Oh, right.

Cool.

Erm, I'll get 'em in, anyone wanna drink?

There you go.

I want to go.

I'm not taking you home.

I don't want to go home.

I want to go to Mead Farm. Why?

I want to see the man that killed my mum. Fuck's sake.

This is why I didn't want you to come. I just wanted to...

..hang out with my pals and watch the match, and just be normal.

They're not your friends.

What? Course they are.

Why aren't they nice to you then?

Cos...

It's... It's cos of you, all right?

It's cos I've turned up to t'pub with a little fucking weirdo.

That's why.

I just wanted to watch the match.

I'll be back in a minute, all right? Mum, where you going?

I'll be back in a minute. Here, look.

Have a look at that.

That's a wonderful cross, and a goal!

ALL CHEER

Get in. Come on, lad.

Let's go!

Excuse me. What's up?

Can you tell me how to get to Mead Farm?

Ugh! I dunno why they play this shit.