Remember The January, Arthur? The family boat?
Yeah.
A whole family living on something the size of ten of these fucking barrels.
Hmm.
Remember that night at Tile Cross? Sixteen of us sleeping on the boat. The coppers come. We all swim like rats. Except for Arthur. Arthur holds them off with a boat hook, all on his own. And I remember. I climbed back up on the lock and I looked back, and I saw you waving that fucking boat hook in the coppers' faces...
[Laughs]
On your own. That's when I realized, when I had on you on the ground, all those years ago, it's cause you let me win.
[Laughs]
You wanted me to win. You've wanted me to win ever since.
What chance do I have if you... start doing that again [motioning to the wine]? Eh?
You'll stop. You'll stop because the family needs you to. It's like that long tunnel on the Dudley stretch. Remember Dudley Canal, line number one, 3,172 yards of fucking pitch blackness? And rats swimming.
Yeah
And then we come round the corner and there'd be a shaft of light, and then we'd know. And then, you and me, we'd both know it was nearly done. That's where we are now Arthur. Just a few more yards to go. And then you will change your ways. And I'll change the fucking world.
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