Friends & Crocodiles Page #4

PAUL:
(LAUGHING) Here he comes.

...is this.

Paul...

you have vision, vision beyond your years...

because with you, there're no structures.

Freedom,

dreamtime,

daydreams and night dreams,

space.

The only thinking environment that makes sense.

You young people here,

do not forget this moment...

because I do not kneel before you, Paul...

but I do teeter.

You are the one and only

and we are truly, truly grateful.

- To Paul!

- ALL:
To Paul!

That's quite enough of that, all of you.

But thank you.

Thank you.

Right. Now, I think you need a bit of waking up.

I've bought myself a little present.

Lizzie.

MAN:
Oh my God!

All aboard!

Room upstairs.

All aboard.

Hurry up!

Hey, you know the route?

Because of the weight of the bus,

we have to keep to the main avenue.

- You do understand?

- I hear you, Lizzie.

Otherwise, it'll get stuck.

- The 98. All the way to Maida Vale.

- Maida Vale!

- Quiet, everyone.

- Well done.

(BUS HORN TOOTING)

(WHOOPING AND CHEERING)

Never has a bus been so full of talent.

What the hell is he doing?

Hold on!

(PEOPLE GASPING)

(PEOPLE GASPING)

That was the best bus ride ever.

It's stuck, Lizzie. Don't worry about it.

(PEOPLE CHUCKLING)

- We can't move it.

- I like it like that.

- Somebody could have got badly hurt.

- I've always wanted to drive a London bus.

I got a bit carried away.

- Some people had fun.

- LIZZIE:
Of course, that explains it all.

I don't belong here, do I?

- I really don't.

- That's exactly why I want you here, Lizzie.

- To bully me, cause me grief.

- That's a really great job, Paul.

Find somebody else to kick your arse.

I am working all the time in here...

going over and over things,

and sometimes I just need to let rip,

so I can start again.

There's a room you have never seen.

Let me show it to you.

Please meet me there tomorrow morning.

I'm here.

- Are you going to stay over there all the time?

- Depends what you've got to show me.

I see you've got him a new tank.

Is that what you wanted me to see?

His new home?

No.

Those shops are the first thing I bought,

at the age of twenty-one.

My father was a Dagenham car worker.

I was determined not to do that, not to work there.

I saw these derelict shops, all along a high street.

I formed a consortium, I bought the lot.

The whole of the empire

comes from that first purchase.

All that work, and now you can drive a London bus

around your estate.

And out there is all the work you've done,

everything beautifully colour-coded.

Would you work with me to bring all that stuff

out there, into here? Into this?

Channel it into an action plan.

You'll know all about my finances.

You'll sit in at meetings

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