[Godber has just asked Fletch if he would make it outside of prison]
With you, it's different. I mean, you're young, you're 'ealthy, you've go an honest face.
Is that enough?
Yeah, I think so, yeah. Character, that's what I can read there. That's what you've got, son. Character. [pats him on the shoulder] You're a good lad.
So you think, Fletch, that if somebody cared for me. Like, a girl, like, she'd... uh... forgive me past misdemeanours?
Yeah. If she's any sort of human being, yes she would, yeah. Any human being would. [places his hand on his shoulder] You see, you've got to learn to believe in yourself, ain't ya, eh? 'Cause I believe in ya.
Do ya?
Of course I do, yeah.
[handing him an envelope] Oh, well, I'll post this, then. Could you get your mucker, Barrowclough to post it in the village for me quite, like?
[Reading envelope] Who is it? BBC?
Yeah. It's on plain notepaper, so they won't know it's from a prisoner.
"'Ello Young Lovers Corner?" Is all this soul searching just for the benefit of that slag Denise?
No! Not 'er.
Who, then?
[tentative] Ingrid.
[obviously shocked and infuriated, smiles falsely] My Ingrid?
[poetically] Our eyes met across the crowded room.
My daughter Ingrid?
[continuing] And though we didn't know each other, we both knew -
[interrupting him in fury] You think I'd let my daughter Ingrid hang out with the likes of you!? [Grabs him by the shirt and raising his fist] A JUVENILE DELINQUENT FROM THE BACKSTREETS OF BIRMINGHAM!!!
Fletch! Fletch! Fletch! Be careful!
WHY!?
You've crushed your ping-pong ball.
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