Paranoid

Toby, where are you doing here?

I wanted to welcome you home

Oh, thanks

Do you want to snuggle in for a bit?

I can't, I have a job starting at eleven

Oh, you've only just got back

What are those?

They keep me awake

So was it good being back in the States?

The Starr Report

So, did you go to lots of parties?

One brilliant one

I fell asleep on the roof garden as soon as I got there

and by the time I woke up everyone had gone

Were you with anyone?

What?

When you woke up?

I was on my own the whole time

Hey, how is it?

Oh, flat out

I know and I have another job in two hours

Yeah? Well, I have chocolate croissants

Oh, thanks, I'm starving

The commercial want get your number did you call

He wants to take me to this place in the country for the weekend

Very sexy voice

He had extremely promising song at that party

Are you going?

I'm really wasted but I think I will

And lose the sunshine, thank you

Great

Can we, can we, can we start the mottled effect in the bedroom now?

Hey, here she is at last

Can we have a bit of quiet?

They booked me in for the show at lunchtime

I didn't know about it till I got off the plane

You're in demand

We won't be able to afford you soon

You still okay for tonight?

Definitely

Right, and you haven't mentioned it to anyone, have you?

No, why?

Oh, you know how it is, gossip

It's the lifeblood of the industry

I got you a welcome home present

But you can't open it now

You must bring it along this evening

See you in a minute

I got the tickets

Sorry?

I got the tickets for the Lounge Lizards

Oh, no, I'm going away for the weekend

Where?

To Meg's place in Brighton

I promised, I haven't seen her since she's had her baby

Well, I'II, I guess I'll get Imogen to come instead then

Maybe we can catch a movie when I get back?

I, I should go to work I suppose, I'll see you later

Sometimes you should just make a clean break

Otherwise, they just keep clinging on thinking they've still got a chance

He's my friend

Hello, who is it? Hello?

Bastard

INCOMING CALL UNIDENTIFIED

Chloe, we're off

That creep just rang again

Did he say anything?

No, he never says anything, he doesn't even breathe

How do you know it's a 'he'?

It has to be the guy that found my filofax I left it in Cappussionos

Someone turned it in. Two days later the phone calls started

You should call the police

I'll change my number on Monday

We should go

Have a good time, okay?

Don't do anything I wouldn't do Yes, all right, thank you

Chloe

How are you feeling?

Gross

Where are we?

We're almost there

How long did I sleep?

Couple of hours

You can freshen up when we get there Make yourself look gorgeous

I've told Stan you're rare beauty

Who's Stan?

Stanley Kowalski

He wrote Black Hole. One of the great songs of the 80s

Bit before your time, I think

Yeah, it's a great old place

It used to be a hotel, it's about a hundred and fifty years old, I think

Gordon, Chloe

Come in

Are we the last?

Yeah, they've all been here for hours

Where are we tonight?

The green room

Okay, you wanna get cleaned up don't you, lady?

Gordon, see, madam up to her suite will you?

The bathroom is up the corridor by the stairs

Television's got a video

There's a whole library of films if you want

Don't worry about the doll, by the way

There's one in every room just about

The people that lived here before left them

I got a fox in mine, Renard the fox

So, how long have you known Ned?

Not long, a few months, why?

No reason

I'll see you down there

Great, you don't even have the balls to speak.

You can't even talk dirty, you are pathetic, you know that

People who do this sort of stuff are really pathetic

Where have you been all this time?

I missed you

You only just got back and now you're gone again

I can't keep up with you

The police are tracing this call you know

Jesus

I'm sorry I'm not very good

I just gotta go join the others. Bye

Hiya

Here she is, Dixon's latest squeeze

We can eat at least, this is Chloe, everyone

Chloe, this is Stan, Bryan, Ellis, Vox, Anja

and Rachel

Hello, Chloe, everyone, we're starving so we're glad to see you

Bloody famished

Have a seat, Have some mulled wine

I'm gonna give you a mug. You've got a lot of ground to make up

Chloe's just flown in from New York so she's a little bit jet lagged

Oh, you can't afford to be jet lagged

Or you won't get at word in edgeways

You look as if you're in need of a good feed, Chloe, you're not bulimic, are you?

She eats like a pig, I can speak, you know

Well, thank God for that

Shut up, Ellis, finish your story

Very well

Mikey was determined to get back on

the bandwagon but by then the boys had moved on

And they certainly didn't need any help from a hack image-maker

So, round he goes to Murray Phelps

But there's no way Murray's gonna broker a deal cos he know the boys think

he's a fudge packing, Bible bashing plonker

So where are you from exactly?

Recognise anyone?

I'll tell you what when you're Stateside that's Stan

And what about the big girl with make-up on?

That's you

Ned showed us some of your spread in a couple of magazines

You have a really wild look sometimes

Great mouth

I did some modeling for a while but I never had the patience for it

Where did you stay in New York?

The Soho Grande

It's kind of new

It's great city, Great energy

There's more energy on the streets than any place I know

Do, do you go there a lot?

Oh, I did an album there once Studio in Tribeca

Were you all members?

Oh, all, all the boys were, obviously, except for Gordon and Ray

I was still at school

Ray was kind of our PR lady

Stan's still in the business still writing

Still hovering on the edge of greatness

What sort of stuff do you write?

Just stuff I like

And no-one else does

Very true

Here she's the world champion

Did you win?

It's a bit late, say we'II, we'll play tomorrow, yeah?

Oh, take that thing out, they're poisonous

It's a taxi

Oh, Jesus

Hello, Eve, come in, join the party

Sorry to barge in.

When I heard you were all getting together I felt a tiny bit left out

Did you forget to tell me? No, I thought you were busy

It's not really a proper reunion, is it, with one person missing?

This is Anja, Vox and Chloe, Gordon's

latest squeeze

You're doing well for yourself Gordon

How is everybody?

Very jolly?

Oh, exceedingly jolly, Eve

Well, especially for seeing you

D'you drive all the way up here on your own? We could've driven up together

I wasn't sure I was gonna make it myself actually

didn't think I was gonna get back from the studio in time

You could've given Chloe a lift

Save Gordon the trouble of driving all the way up to London and back

Oh, come on, Eve

We all know Ned's an arsehole, why rub it in?

Did you have a good chat on the way up?

I was asleep most of the way

Did you have a late night?

It's so hard to imaging anyone being bored

by Ned. He's such an entertaining creep