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THE STORY OF TRACY BEAKER EPISODE 12 Based on the book by Sändningsdatum: 10 april 2003

MIKE: Hey, hey! You'll find it works better if you don't try and beat it to death.

TRACY: I've finished now, anyway.

MIKE: "The Dumping Ground Gazette." We usually go for something more traditional - like, y'know, "House Newsletter".

TRACY: You've got to learn to let go of the past, Mike. Now I've got the catchy title, all I need's the big juicy story to go with it.

MIKE: Well, that's why you're the Editor, Kiddo - if anyone can sniff out a story, it's you.

ELAINE: Justine, why don't you take your bag upstairs?

JUSTINE: Okay.

ELAINE: Ah, Jenny...can I have a word please?

JENNY: Yeah, sure. Come in.

TRACY: Justine! What's in the bag?

JUSTINE:...Check this out!

TRACY: A TV! You won't be allowed to keep that in your room.

JUSTINE: Elaine's said I can.

TRACY: That is so unfair!

ELAINE: I did what I thought was right. She was extremely upset about her father.

JENNY: It doesn't mean you have to grant a privilege that's against House Rules! I mean, what are the other kids going to think?

TRACY: If Justine Littlewood's got a TV in her room, I want one too.

JENNY: What happened to the rule about knocking?

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ELAINE: Tracy, I gave Justine permission to have a television in her room - anyway it's not a very big one, is it?

TRACY: It's not a very big one?!!! It's still a TV!

TRACY: Once you start breaking basic rules like that...it'll get totally out of hand...people will start taking terrible liberties....

TRACY: ...then who knows where it will end.

TRACY: Even a rubbish social worker like you, knows you can't give something to one kid, and not give it to the others. I shall be writing this up for the Dumping Ground Gazette.

ELAINE: I don't think it'll be a very interesting story, Tracy.

TRACY: It'll be interesting all right.

TRACY: Today, the Gazette...

TRACY: ...tomorrow, the World.

TRACY: Never underestimate the power of the press!

LOUISE: I can't believe you've got a TV! That is soooooo cool! Where is it?

JUSTINE: Ta da!

LOUISE: It's tiny!

JUSTINE: So? It won't stop me watching it...when no-one else is allowed to.

LOUISE: Right! Who cares how big the screen is?

PETER: Tracy said you've got a TV!

JUSTINE: Shove off, Weed - you know the rules. Boys aren't allowed in girls' rooms.

PETER: If you let me watch, I'll give you this...

TRACY: Mike! Mike! I've found a monster story!

MIKE: Yeah? Big enough to fill the front page?

TRACY: Big enough to fill the whole newsletter! I'm going to get rid of Elaine the Pain for good!

TRACY: Poor dopey Elaine won't even know what hit her.

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TRACY: Go on - dish the dirt. I know you hate her. I'll quote you as "an anonymous source."

MIKE: You can put me down as the King of Siam - you are not getting one word out of me about Elaine.

TRACY: See! You do hate her, otherwise you would have said something nice.

RYAN: That's about as good a picture as you're going to get. I could fiddle with the contrast, if you like?

JUSTINE: I'll do it, thanks. The TV's kind of special.

RYAN: Hey! "Werewolf Zombie" is the midnight movie tonight. I don't suppose you want to watch it, do you?

JUSTINE: Well, sure. It's just we might have to ...negotiate ...terms. It's just that Peter had to pay. And there is that risk - you know, of boys in my room, which might bump up the price a bit?

RYAN: Look, give him a quote and we'll get back to you.

ELAINE: Fancy a coffee, Duke?

DUKE: Great. I hear you've upset the Editor. Must have been something bad - she's starting a campaign to get you fired!

ELAINE: I know this might sound silly, Duke, but sometimes I get the feeling that Tracy doesn't like me.

TRACY: I'd like to know what you think about Justine Littlewood having a TV in her room?

ADELE: How'd she swing that?

TRACY: Elaine the Pain said she could. But it's totally unfair...

ADELE: Not if she lets us watch.

TRACY: ...so I've decided to get Elaine sacked over it.

ADELE: Don't start stirring things up - you'll spoil it for everyone.

TRACY: If we don't stamp out favouritism, kids like Justine Littlewood are going to make our lives impossible!

TRACY: I'll take that as a "no comment".

ELAINE: Cup of coffee for the worker.

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MIKE: Oh, yeah, lovely.

MIKE: I was just er....making sure it was secure.

Cheers.

ELAINE: Mike...Do you think the kids see me as too authoritarian?

MIKE: Well, not really...I...

MAXY: Gangway!

ELAINE: Maxy likes me, don't you, Maxy?

MAXY: You smell funny.

ELAINE: Anyone fancy a bit of a kickabout?

RYAN: Um...Maxy's around somewhere, he'll give you a game.

ELAINE: Oh. Okay then. Some other time.

RYAN: Yeah.

ZAC: How creepy was that?

RYAN: Urgh!

TRACY: I'd like to interview you on behalf of all the other children, who are totally hacked off, 'cos they're not allowed TVs in their rooms.

JUSTINE: They don't look hacked off, to me.

TRACY: See what Elaine's started! Now you've got boys in your room! No I haven't.

PETER: Hey! Ohh...

TRACY: Yes, but you had. And that's against the rule.

JUSTINE: Peter goes in and out of your room all the time.

TRACY: Sorry, can't stand here and chat, have an anti-TV expose to write.

ELAINE: Hello, Peter!

PETER: I don't play football!

JENNY: ...apparently, Elaine asked Ryan and Zac if they wanted to play football!

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MIKE: She must be desperate!

JENNY: Well won't kill her to try a little bit harder, will it? I'm sick to death of her riding roughshod over everybody's feelings.

TRACY: Can I quote you on that?

JENNY: Tracy!!

ADELE: ...so I'll come just before midnight, then?

JUSTINE: Great - I was going to watch it anyway.

LOUISE: Justine...

JUSTINE: Not now, Lou. Of course you're going to have to contribute something, it's just the others have been paying. It wouldn't be fair otherwise.

Here's my scale of charges.

ADELE: Oh. Okay - I s'pose it'll be worth it, to see the gig. CJ tried to get tickets, but they'd sold out.

LOUISE: Justine! Adele's concert clashes with Ryan and Zac's film.

JUSTINE: I know.

ELAINE: Just came to see how the Newsletter's coming along.

TRACY: Unless you've got a TV in your bag, it's coming along very nicely.

ELAINE: Tracy, I know you're angry because we haven't been spending enough quality time together lately. But it's not Justine's fault, so don't take it out on her.

TRACY: I'm not. I'm taking it out on you.

TRACY: When the daily papers get hold of my article...

TRACY: ...about how you have favourites, how you're always telling us stuff, then changing your mind...

TRACY: ...and how you break the rules all the time...

TRACY: ...your career is going to be over!

TRACY: Get your hair done, Elaine - you're going to be front page news.

LOUISE: Justine...d'you really think the others'll keep paying to watch your TV, when they can watch downstairs for free?

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JUSTINE: It's more fun up here. And they won't be able to watch TV anyway after ten o'clock. My prices are pretty reasonable 'til then.

JUSTINE: Lou...about tonight...you know you have to pay, don't you?

LOUISE: I'm your best mate!

JUSTINE: Wouldn't be...

LOUISE:...fair on the others. Right.

ELAINE: I'm off.

JENNY: Is Tracy getting to you? Shall I have a word?

ELAINE: I'm more than qualified to deal with the likes of Tracy Beaker, thank you very much.

JENNY: I'll take that as a "no" then, shall I?

JUSTINE: Here's my scale of charges.

RYAN: We only want to watch the midnight movie, Justine - not fly to Hollywood and meet the director.

JUSTINE: Yes, but...

ADELE: Did you say "midnight movie?"

RYAN: Yeah.

ADELE: That's when my concert starts!

JUSTINE: Ah. Bit of a technical hitch, I'm double booked.

RYAN/ZAC/ADELE: What?!!

JUSTINE: So I've decided ...the choice of programme goes to the highest bidder.

RYAN: You're joking!

ADELE: You have lost it, girl!

JUSTINE: Let me know when you want to start bidding.

TRACY: Now d'you see why my anti-TV article is so important? Evil Elaine has turned an innocent girl into a greedy, selfish, money-grabber. A woman like that should not be in charge of kids in care.

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TRACY: Talk to me, people!

ZAC: Well, y'know, like me and Ryan...

TRACY: Okay, okay, one at a time...

JUSTINE: Adele? Still on for the concert?

ADELE: CJ's taping it for me.

JUSTINE: Oh.

JUSTINE: Ryan?

RYAN: Huh?

JUSTINE: Adele's dropped out - normal rates apply.

RYAN: You wish!

JUSTINE: Louise? You can watch for nothing.

LOUISE: Wouldn't be fair on the others.

JENNY: Come in.

Thank you for knocking, Tracy.

TRACY: Thank you for inviting me in, Jenny.

JENNY: Something tells me you have a request.

TRACY: I've come to type up my article.

JENNY: May I see?

"Stupid Social Worker Gives Grieving Kids Grief in Tactless TV Treats Trauma."

TRACY: Is that a stonker of a headline, or what?

JENNY: "Social worker, Elaine 'the Pain' Boyack, has upset the kids in her care. She's broken a House Rule, by giving permission for one of the girls - not even one of the nice ones - to have a TV in her room, when none of the others are allowed." Tracy!

TRACY: Don't stop now - you're getting to the good bit.

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JENNY: "The Gazette says: protect these poor, defenceless, children by giving this useless social worker the sack!" Tracy - you can't print a story like this!

TRACY: I knew you'd take sides with Elaine the Rubbish Pain.

JUSTINE: Oh no!

JUSTINE: It's broken! I was watching it and the screen went black. It's completely dead.

TRACY: I guess you're just like the rest of us again.

JUSTINE: My Dad gave me this.

TRACY: So? He's always getting you things.

JUSTINE: He's gone away. He's gone to work up North.

TRACY: But he's coming back, right?

JUSTINE: He doesn't know! That's why he gave me this...... as a going away present.

TRACY: That's terrible!

TRACY: I didn't know that's why he gave you the TV, Justine.

JUSTINE: 'S okay.

JENNY: I see the rule about knocking's gone walkabout again.

TRACY: Nobody knocks in an emergency, Jenny. I am here to type up my new front page. Justine's TV has broken and I am running a campaign to get her another one.

JENNY: Tracy - if Justine's TV's broken, then that's the end of it. We can't get her another one, for all the reasons you've spent all day campaigning about.

TRACY: That was before I was in possession of all the facts! You should have told me that that TV was a going away present from her Dad.

JENNY: Tracy Beaker, you old softie!

TRACY: Am not! You won't catch me feeling sorry for a spoilt Daddy's girl like Justine Littlewood. And I can't get Elaine the Pain fired, if there isn't a TV to get her fired over. I'm only doing what any decent journalist would do - covering the news as it breaks. You'll have to excuse me Jenny, I can't keep my readers waiting.

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