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- How can they do it at this price? - How d'you think?

They'll hire your staff and pay 'em less.

Daniel, you haven't heard.

Henry Pulis is in a coma. He was attacked last night.

Sylvie.

My Sylvie.

- Are you seeing someone? - It's none of your business

- if I am, but I'm not. - Don't lie to me, Sylvie.

I'm gonna get proof

Police said they have CCTV footage of a woman running away.

Why was he there?

Last time I was here, there was a... a woman over there. D'you know her?

This is all my doing. You don't deserve this.

Just fake care of the kids, please.

I'm a drunk.

Nothing mattered to me more than getting wasted.

Maybe there is a purpose you don't know yet...for you.

Maybe they're right. You can use what has happened to you to help people.

What kind of city would want me as a mayor?

They say, uh, people get the leader they deserve.

Our city picked a drunk for a mayor. Well done.

I'm getting a chance to pay for all the wrongs that I've done.

But right now, I've got to take the kids to school.

- (REPORTERS CLAMOUR) - Come on.

The thing to remember is, they want you to take charge.

So make a gesture. Do something to show them that you're going to lead.

Do it kindly.

Let's dive straight in. What's first on the list?

- Recycling and refuse collection. - And who said

politics wasn't sexy any more?

There is a broader issue,

which is that the whole city services contracts remain up for renewal,

postponed after Henry Pulis's death.

We've been holding onto the tenders until the new administration was in place.

Now, we can go through those on the table, but I really think we ought to open it out

- to bring in some more bids. - Maybe not.

We spend millions and millions of pounds of council money...

I've lost touch already!

Millions of pounds of taxpayers' money.

People like Henry Pulis take a thick slice of profit off the top.

Sorry, but the idea of taking services back into public ownership,

that's the land that time forgot!

- (CHUCKLING) - Well, that's not what I'm saying.

So, what are you proposing?

The people who do the work, they own the company, they run it.

There's a word for that - communism.

When I was a kid, it was called the Co-op.

Problem number one -

it won't work.

Problem number two -

it wasn't in the manifesto.

They didn't vote for who collects the rubbish.

They voted for someone to tell them the truth.

So let's do that. Let's spell it out, let them decide.

Hello.

Is it possible to speak to the mayor, please?

Not at the moment.

Well, can I leave a message?

Can I fake your name?

No 1... I don't really wanna leave my name.

Are you ready?

852 employees.

Equal shares in the company.

They vote in the management, who stand for re-election every year.

Three objectives.

One - provide the city with services.

They serve.

Two - take care of employees, who happen to be the shareholders.

Three - any profit goes back into the city.

Radical.

Democratic.

Daniel, please, you don't need to convert me. I'm a believer.

You do see the problem, though, don't you?

Enlighten me.

It's a world without incentive.

Today, I am my own boss, so how would I like to get up

and clear a shitty, rancid disease-hole of a drain?

Or would I rather just stay in bed?

You have no faith in humanity,Jerry.

Devil's advocate.

It will turn political, and it will turn on you-.

You sound to me more like the devil's best friend.

It's my job to spot the traps and pitfalls,

name them, shine a big light on them,

so that you, Mr Mayor,

can step right around them.

Come on, Jerry. let's shake the tree, see what falls out.

I thought we could go out again tonight and celebrate.

What d'you think?

I'm gonna go round to Daniel's.

Well, I can come.

It becomes too visible. I just don't think it's...

it's fair to ask people to collude.

How's business?

Daniel seems to think we're the People's Republic.

Aren't we?

It's two jobs, really - drugs and law.

Daniel, I can't take a job at City Hall.

It says here the mayor has a budget of £82 million.

You get to spend £82 million?

Hang on, it's not like getting a wallet full of cash and heading down to Gap.

- We're custodians. - Mm-hmm.

- Who knows what a custodian is? I'd head down to Zalando.

- That's a lot of shoes. - You're not telling me

you want to stay where you are, practising?

This is what you've always dreamed of.

- It's time for me to leave this town. - (LAPTOP BEEPS)

- A new life. What are you talking about?

Luke, does your laptop have to be on the table for every meal we have?

This pasta's fantastic.

It's pasta. It comes in a packet,

I boil it.

Right, I want you all to hear this.

If I can be half the person your mother is, I'll die happy.

When I was doing my best to rip this family apart, she held it together.

While I was running around like a selfish child,

she showed you what a real grown-up behaves like.

Alex, I can never repay you for what you've given me.

I don't care what the whole city thinks of me.

I just want to earn your respect.

Jeez, Dad! Can we not even have dinner without a Disney speech?

- Mum, can you pass me the...? - Yeah, sure.

Why do you want to leave now? We've only just got started.

I'm pregnant.

Well, that's great, isn't it?

I had an idea you and jerry were close. What's the deal with his marriage?

It'll ruin Jerry if I stay here.

And I won't give up this baby.

He doesn't know?

I don't want to tell him. I know how mad that is.

What are you doing?

Is he in there?

Tell him to come out.

There's no-one in there.

I'm getting the locks changed.

Can you not see what you're doing?

Can you not see how you scare Kim and Jeannie?

Get out of my house.

You idiot.

You wonder why I've had enough of you. This is why I've had enough of you.

It's all right.

I'm sorry.

I just want my family back.

I just want my family back.

Please!

Sylvie, please!

Get out!

Go!

Get out! Will you get out?!

No!

I don't want to talk to any more junior officers.

I want to speak to the person leading the investigation.

Well, get Detective Griffin to call me then.

My friend the Mayor.

Can we get a coffee?

Dad was a member of these clubs.

I've been looking through his stuff.

Midnight Moves, The Silhouette Bar.

If all he wanted was sex, those clubs have rooms.

So if it was about having a woman, why go to some seedy alleyway?

It makes no sense to say he was with this prostitute.

- Have you told the police this? - I don't want to.

They'll mess it up. It's like they don't want to know.

Ruth...listen to me.

I don't think she is a prostitute, this woman.

If she was, they would have found her.

- You have to stop this. - I want to go

to the alleyway where they found him. Will you come with me?

Tonight?

There's a woman downstairs who wants to see you. She says she knows you.

She won't rearrange for another day. Insists she has to see you now.

What are you doing here?

I was going to come and see you after you got out of the hospital,

but one or two things were happening.

You got yourself elected, so it was impossible.

You saved my life, so now you reckon I owe you. You've come to petition me

about hospital funding.

You're going to pick up a drink, mister.

Not possible.

I've seen you on TV.

You're on top of the world.

I hear the ticking of the clock.

You've got me worked out?

Yes, I have.

Do you know how far you are from drinking again?

This far. When the thought of a drink comes - and it will come -

call me.

(LAUGHING) You think I'm here with you

because I like you? Because we 're mates?

Because you matter one bit to me?

Danny, you cut this crap. You're beginning to sound like a drunk.

You get your act together.

My act, Henry?

My act is this.

I don't belong in my own skin!

Dad was talking about you that day.

The day he was killed.

He was cursing you.

Saying what an awkward swine you were.

He liked to get his own way.