
Downtime
- Year:
- 1997
- 90 min
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So if you'll excuse me,
I'll now be escorting our newly
arrived representative...
up to the woman's flat, where we
expect a very speedy resolution
to this whole unfortunate affair.
Thank you.
Excuse me, excuse me.
Come here any time of any day
and this place is dead.
Come here when someone's about
to die and the place wants to party.
What the f*ck's all that noise
out there, man, Jimmy?
There's a huge crowd down here.
There must be a couple of hundred people.
The woman, Chrissy Long, 26...
is understood to have been standing
out there for nearly 2 hours now.
Chrissy! Chrissy!
That's Rosey, man.
that's Rosey!
Jesus Christ! Come on... up!
A constable? You've got
What's he saying, you know,
"Look at all the things you've got
to live for."?
You can't just talk these cases
down like that.
That's why you're here.
Any wonder she wants
to kill herself.
Look at the state of this place.
It's falling apart.
The whole building is condemned...
there's only 10 families left in it.
And that's because they can't find anywhere else to
place them.
Just tell her you love her.
She's only 15... and I don't
love her anyway, man!
Aye, I know, but fucking
tell her so then...
F*ck her or else you want, man.
She's on holiday though
with her mum and dad,
so I can't tell her, can l?
Rob, look.... I know
you won't wanna do this..
but there is no-one better
at face-to-face.
You're right.
I don't wanna do this!
No.
Mike... employed to build
was a tribe of lndians
called the Mohawk
from a small reservation
near Montreal.
Why? Because they have
no fear of heights.
Me? I'm from a small semi
near Whitley bay
and I'm shit scared of them!
'Lads, weren't he fucking daft
to tell her in the first place, eh?
Jacko, man, she said she didn't mind!
She said I could get off
That's right, like, man.
She said she didn't mind, like.
Aye, ask Hammy, he was there!
Give him a break, man, Jacko.
She's only 15, isn't she?
- I told you that!
- I know, yer shite!
Not telling. Well that's like
kind to them, innit?
Just tell her you love her.
You fucking love it!
She's on holiday
with her mum and dad.
and going out all the time.
It must be really cold up there
and it looks like it's going to rain.
Hello.
Hi, Jake.
Who the f*ck are you?
It's a bit chilly here, isn't it?
Are you gonna jump?
Ma, don't.
Amazing really isn't it, we're not
better equipped to deal with the cold.
D'you realize, if we lived on the moon
we'd die of frostbite every night.
If we lived on the moon
you could f*ck off now
cos I'd step off here
and float around.
But right now we're on the earth...
and I'm gonna die.
No, no, no, no, no, that's not right,
you're not meant to jump!
I'm only here
because my mate said
that only one in 40 suicide attempts
But... she says she's gonna jump!
She... Excuse me,
don't jump while I'm gone.
I can't say right now where or...
or why he's gone.
He's leaving her.
He's just left her.
I can fucking hear that, man.
And take the kid.
No, let us through,
she's my friend.
It's all right, it's all right,
I know her.
Mrs Mulcahy, come through.
Wait here, please. Please.
Great, still here?
- You know why?
- Why what? What this time?
Why you'll fall and puree
on the pavement?
Stun me.
- Gravity.
- No shit!
Yup, it's a universal force of
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