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Have You Got A Pencil And Paper Handy?

Exterior - Day - Toot Hill

Vince arranges to meet Penny on Toot hill as friends - she is perplexed.

With a plastic cigarette the small talk involves Vince again trying to give up smoking for 16 years and his collisions with nursers in pursuit of this.

Penny walks off and sits on a park bench but Vince does not follow. She senses a man sitting next to her and pours out her heart to him

The man leaves and Vince walks up from the other side - she pretends she has said nothing. The conversation picks up

They discuss how they were in love and Vince says he's not in love anymore and Penny accepts just to be friends. He invites her to see his new flat's decoration.

Interior - Night - Vince's Flat

Penny arrives and calls Vince on the intercom

They describe the flat

They settle with small sherries "very large for a small one"

The neighbours are a Young West Indian couple Floyd and Loretta have banned Vince from having parties.

They sit down for the meal prepared from a takeaway

Vince tops up Penny's drink but only wets the side of his - he proposes a toast

Penny doesn't eat a lot of the meal

The conversation moves to her marriage to graham

Penny is saddened by this and wants to go home. Vince is insisting she stays and phones her mother

Penny is adamant she will not stay so Vince moves the game up a gear

They recount how long they were engaged and how long they were going out for

they discuss life since the jilting Penny suggesting she could have had

The talk wanders on to pregnancies

Vince begins to turn the tables as his charm polishes up. he takes insults of insensitiveness and being a rat.

He finally convinces her with a poem "Penny - for your thoughts" he wrote after the wedding and recites it

Interior - Night - Vince's Bedroom

Penny is in bed after making the phonecall and Vince walks in

He gets into bed and snuggles up to her she is nervous and wearing a pyjama jacket and vest (liar) for protection

She asks for music and to prove he;s not insensitive he wheels in his stereo and speakers. He asks what she wants to hear

As he returns Penny has taken the opportunity to get dressed and leave. Vince puts on a Cat Stevens record "He's a Muslim now" and they recount how they saw him in Hammersmith Odeon

Vince is desperate for her to remain and offers her bacon sandwiches if she stays. The music in the background becomes more audible. And they relax back onto the bed.

Unfortunately the music happens to that which Vince used the lyrics of in his poem. Penny sits colt upright as she recognises it.

This time he lets her go knowing he's lost and says goodbye at the door

Penny storms off "never call me again" and Vince goes to bed as the credits roll

The phone rings and its is Penny telling Vince to phone her at work. He doesn't know the number