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Below are some extracts from an Emmerdale Farm script - episode 1390, broadcast on 28 September 1989. My copy of the script was used by actor Martin Dale, Police Sergeant Ian MacArthur in the show from 1980 to 1994.
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SC. 2. INT. FARM PARLOUR. NIGHT. 3.
TIME: 22.15 EDDIE AND ANNIE ON THE SOFA WITH COCOA.
ANNIE: Are you sure you didn't mind leaving the dance early?
EDDIE: No, no. Once they start into the Latin American I've had it anyway. How's your knees?
ANNIE: Better than they deserve to be. I'd forgotten how much I enjoyed dancing. You're very good, Eddie.
EDDIE: Aye, I know. Used to go down the Conservative Club.
ANNIE: (TEASING) And what's a good steelworker doing down the Conservative Club, may I ask?
EDDIE: (GRIN) Using the dance floor. It were a good one. (BEAT) You should come and try it.
ANNIE: Sorry?
EDDIE: Come and stay for a weekend, and I'll take you dancing again. They'll not miss you for a day or two.
ANNIE: (GENTLE) Thanks, Eddie, but I don't think so. If you don't mind.
EDDIE: As long as you don't mind me asking.
ANNIE: I'm very flattered.
EDDIE: So you should be. I've not asked a lass back for a weekend since before the war. She said no as well. (BEAT) It's quiet here, isn't it? Where is everybody?
ANNIE: Still down at the pub, I imagine. They always have a bit of a celebration come harvest home.
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SC. 4. INT. WOOLPACK BAR. NIGHT. 3.
TIME: 23.15
AMOS AND WILKS CLOSING AND CLEARING UP.
AMOS: I don't understand it, Mr Wilks. One minute it's standing room and mind your backs, next minute it's like the Marie Celeste. What's going on?
WILKS: (DISINTERESTED) No idea.
AMOS: It's that beer. First thing in the morning I'm writing a strong letter to the brewery.
WILKS: You do that.
AMOS: Joe, Matt. (BEAT) Jock and Bill. I mean usually I have to take the yard-broom to 'em. Even Annie and her Eddie only stayed -
WILKS: He is not her Eddie, he's - he's a visitor. She only left because she'd promised to go to some daft dance with him.
AMOS: Yes, I know, I'm sorry.
WILKS: Sorry? No need to say sorry to me, Amos. No skin off my nose.
AMOS: No, but -
WILKS: The person that should be saying sorry is that Eddie. Dragging her off like that. She's not the dancing sort. Too polite for her own good.
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ANNIE: Well? What have you got to say for yourselves?
KATE: Sorry, I'm not with you.
ANNIE: Oh yes you are, my girl. You're part of this family now, and what goes for them goes for you too.
JOE: Now hang on a minute -
ANNIE: You be quiet! I'm ashamed of the lot of you!
MATT: But what have we done?
Annie: (BEAT) Taken me for a fool for a start. D'you seriously think I've not heard the talk of the Home Farm wheat? And d'you seriously think when I hear the machinery coming into the yard at midnight I can't put two and two together? Did you get permission?
JOE: Hardly.
ANNIE: Then it's theft. Plain and simple.
JOE: It's not a simple theft at all, Ma, it's... it's - getting a harvest in! We haven't thoight about what to do with it yet.
ANNIE: (CYNICAL) Oh aye?
KATE: Nobody's been told to harvest. Have you forgotten the damage Rigg and his lot did to us? That was worse than theft!
ANNIE: (NOT QUITE SO CERTAIN) Two wrongs don't make a right and never did!
JOE: They owe us, Ma.
MATT: It'll rot where it stands if we don't get it in.
ANNIE: What d'you mean it WILL rot? Have you not finished?
JOE: (BEAT) Not quite.
Matt (LOW) You're not going to tell us to leave it, are you Ma?
ON ANNIE MAKING A DIFFICULT DECISION.
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PETE: I am glad you came over.
RACHEL: Are you?
PETE: Yes.
RACHEL: Didn't have much choice really.
PETE: What d'you mean?
RACHEL: Just what I say. I don't seem to be in control any more. When you whistle I come running.
PETE: It's the same for me.
RACHEL: (SHAKES HEAD, SMILES) I don't think it is.
PETE: Alright, I don't run. I drive. I sit outside schools.
RACHEL: How did you know I'd come out?
PETE: (SHRUGS) I didn't. I just had to chance it.
RACHEL: (STATEMENT, NOT QUESTION) It's not just a one night stand, is it.
PETE: Doesn't look like it.
RACHEL: (WHISPER) Good. (BEAT) It's funny. Specially being here. Sometimes I hate Lynn.
PETE: Why?
RACHEL: I don't know. Straight jealousy, I suppose. She's got you and I haven't. I keep wanting to tell her what a good thing she's got.
PETE LOOKS ALARMED.
RACHEL: Don't worry, I won't. (LAUGH) It's pathetic, really, isn't it! Not rocking the boat 'cause you know you'll be the first one overboard if you do.
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TIME: 13.30
AMOS, WHITELEY AND WINSTANLEY ARE WALKING TOWARDS THE FIELD. THEY DO NOT SEE AT FIRST THAT IT IS NOW HARVESTED.
WHITELEY: T'others have been taking the mickey out of Amos - reckoning it were space ships or some such twaddle.
AMOS: (QUICKLY) What ignorant folk say, Bill Whiteley, is of no interest to intelligentsia. Mr Winstanley here'll soon be able to make up his own mind. (HE TAKES OUT A NOTEBOOK) I measured them, you know. They were twenty one foot precisely... or as precisely as I could measure not having a measure with me, but happen you'll have one of those... and they were... (SMILES) Well, you can see for yourself.
THEY GO THROUGH A GATE/OVER A STYLE AND ARRIVE AT FIELD.
ALL THREE STARE AT A FIELD OF STUBBLE. AMOS GOBSMACKED.
AMOS: Heck.
WINSTANLEY RAISES HIS EYEBROWS QUIZZICALLY. AMOS SCURRIES INTO THE FIELD.
AMOS: Honestly, Mr Winstanley. This was the centre of one, (PACING, GESTICULATING) and... and it reached over to about here... and there was another one just that way... and a third one over there... (HE LOOKS HOPEFULLY AT WINSTANLEY, BUT THERE IS NO RESPONSE). You know, like I said, in a sort of triangle. (HE LOOKS DOWN) Look, look, if you come here you can still see where some of the stubble's bent over.
WHITELEY: That's 'cause you've stood on it.
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TIME 16.03
TURNER STANDS IN THE KITCHEN, PUTTING KETTLE ON, TAKING SOCKS AND SHOES OFF, FOLLOWED BY SHIRT AND TROUSERS, WHICH HE BUNDLES INTO WASHING MACHINE IN THE MANNER OF THE "LEVI 501" AD. IT IS NOT A PRETTY SIGHT. AS HE IS REMOVING HIS TROUSERS, ALICE PASSES THE DOORWAY, AND GASPS IN UNDERSTANDABLE SURPRISE. TURNER JUMPS OUT OF HIS SKIN AND PULLS TROUSERS UP AGAIN.
TURNER: Who the devil are you?
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Other events of the episode...
Amos discovered that Mr Winstanley, the man he believed was a university professor interested in crop circles, was actually a university caretaker; Eric Pollard (Christopher Chittell) got wind of the harvesting going on at Home Farm and began to make comments; Joe wanted Kate to have a baby. They talked and Kate confessed that she was finding it hard to give up her independence and that although she was happy to be married to Joe, she also felt invaded...