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Man: Everybody be quiet, please.
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We'’re going for a wild track,
room tone.
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Thanks.
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Man: 165. Take 1. Plate.
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[piano music]
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Man 1: When you have
an adversary,
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the thing you have to do
if you really want to prevail,
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is do the unimaginable.
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Do something
that is just so out there,
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that no-one'’s
even going to dream
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that you would
think of doing that.
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Man 2: So, many of us
would think,
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if we had our time over again,
what would we do?
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In fact, he tried to do
exactly the same thing
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he had done the first time.
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Woman: To rewind your life
and be someone different.
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What would possess someone
to do that?
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Man: He did have a strange
facial appearance in some ways.
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Did he have some kind of
cosmetic surgery?
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Because it was a rather
mask-like face that he had.
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It was an unusual face.
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Man: Anything is possible here.
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I'’m telling you,
this guy is a charmer.
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He'’s not what you think he is.
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He never was.
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[clap]
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Interviewer: Can we just begin
with you telling me your name?
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Uh, you would have known me
as Brandon Lee.
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Tell us what you know
of Brandon Lee.
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Brandon Lee said
he staged the hoax
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because he was
frustrated and angry.
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Brandon Lee has published
his story on the internet
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and describes how his secret
double life was discovered.
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Brandon Lee has broken off ties
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with the production company
filming his life story.
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Shooting is scheduled
to begin next summer
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with Alan Cumming
in the lead role.
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Interviewer: Okay.
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Where is the best place to start
do you think?
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Brandon: I guess that would be
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when I came to your school
in 1993.
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[school bell ringing]
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Brandon: I remember my first day
at Bearsden Academy.
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The prospect of it
was just so daunting.
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It was just awful,
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just like hell. [chuckles]
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I don'’t believe in hell
in my philosophy,
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other than self-made hell.
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That was self-made hell.
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♪ I, I got a new life
You would hardly recognize me ♪
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♪ I'm so glad ♪
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♪ How can a person
Like me care for you? ♪
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♪ Ah, why do I bother ♪
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♪ When you're
Not the one for me ♪
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♪ Is enough enough? ♪
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♪ I saw the sign ♪
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♪ And it opened up my eyes
I saw the sign ♪
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♪ Life is demanding ♪
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♪ Without understanding ♪
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♪ I saw the sign ♪
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♪ And it opened up my eyes ♪
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♪ I saw the sign ♪
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♪ No one's gonna drag you up ♪
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♪ To get into the light
Where you belong ♪
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♪ But where do you belong? ♪
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Bearsden Academy
was an ancient school.
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It was scary going up there.
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This huge grey monolith.
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It looked like a factory,
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eh, churning out the students.
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♪ Under the pale moon ♪
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♪ For so many years
I've wondered who you are ♪
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I remember it
as being very old-fashioned.
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Probably on its last legs
when we were at school.
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Aye, it was a terrible,
it was a terrible building.
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With leaky roofs and no heating
and mold on the walls.
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Bearsden Academy
was a bit of a time-warp.
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Welcome to 5th Year,
boys and girls.
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This is an important year
for you.
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You'’re sixteen years old,
the age of majority.
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But the majority of you
are a bunch of wasters.
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Eh, what?
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So, this is the year
I want to start
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seeing some maturity
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in this classroom.
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Have no fear.
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Fear doesn'’t do you any good.
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♪ No one's gonna drag you up ♪
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♪ To get into the light
Where you belong ♪
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♪ But where do you belong? ♪
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Hmm...
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Brandon: I was almost in tears
when I walked into the school.
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Then of course,
I quickly quelled that
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because I was going
into a situation
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where you didn'’t want
to be crying, you know?
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Jono: It was Junior year,
day one.
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The classroom door opened
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and there he was.
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There was a guy
who looked about forty,
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standing in the corner.
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He had a briefcase.
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And he was wearing
a school tie.
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He definitely wore a blazer.
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- Yeah.
- He was in full regalia.
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Alexis: And it was the blazer
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and the satchel kind
of suitcase
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that stuck out
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because we were all rucksacks
and just ordinary jackets
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parka jackets, whatever.
And that kind of...
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it made you double take.
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I remember looking at him
and thinking "“Oh."
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- [gasps]
- Iffy: He looked
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like a man.
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Brodie: Funny hair, glasses.
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More stubble for some reason
than your average pupil.
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He was quite gaunt looking
though and he was really pale.
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Scott: His skin looked older.
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And he had these tight curls
in an almost kind of...
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I remember it kind of coming
down the back of his head,
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his curly hair.
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[murmurs]
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Girl: Who'’s he?
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First impression was
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what'’s a teacher
doing in uniform?
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He looked significantly older.
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I do remember clearly turning
to one of my friends at the time
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saying "“Oh, we'’ve got
a new student teacher."”
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You know? And that was it.
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I remember him
having quite a deep voice.
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He had a weird accent.
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- Hello. Is this class 5
- C?
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The accent...
Couldn'’t really place it.
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Brandon: I remember sitting
at the front and thinking,
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"Well, everyone can see me
and I can'’t see anyone."
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I remember thinking,
"“What'’s he doing sitting here?"”
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Cause if he'’s a student teacher,
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shouldn'’t he be
sitting with the teacher?
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I remember the name call.
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- Donald Lindsay
- Here, miss.
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- Brian Mackinnon.
- Here, miss.
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And then it got to the end
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and my name was
tagged on at the end
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because I was a late arrival.
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And our new comrade,
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Brandon Lee.
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Shan: And I suddenly shot up
in my seat and said...
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Brandon Lee?
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Here, Miss.
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The same name as Bruce Lee'’s son
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who died maybe
not even two months ago
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on the filming of The Crow?
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It was all over the news.
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Brandon Lee was accidentally
shot and killed
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in the set of his movie,
The Crow.
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Being inquisitive and curious,
I had to go up to him and say
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"“Listen, do you know
you'’ve got the same name
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as Bruce Lee'’s son
who'’s just died?"”
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And he said to me,
straight as a die,
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"Hey man, I didn'’t know
Bruce Lee had a son."
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"Did he die?"
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People talked about it.
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"“Oh, he'’s got the same name
as Bruce Lee'’s son!"”
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You know what...
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My name is Brian Mackinnon
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and there are other
Brian Mackinnons
out there, so...
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We do not know when
we will die.
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We get to think of life
as an inexhaustible well.
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How many more times
will you remember
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a certain afternoon
of your childhood
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and yet it all seems limitless?
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Mr. Gunn: My first impression
of Brandon
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was that he seemed
a little bit older
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than the majority of the pupils.
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He wasn'’t quite
the fresh-faced youth
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that you expect
from fifth year pupils.
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But when I enquired
about his background,
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I realized that there
were reasons for that.
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He had been...
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with his mother in Canada
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who was an opera singer,
moved around a lot.
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[operatic singing]
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Brandon: I was quite close
to my Mum
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when I was young.
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She was the coolest character
you could imagine, my mother.
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[operatic singing]
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Gregor: He travelled the world
and his mother toured.
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He basically just
travelled with her.
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It was unlike anything
any of us had ever experienced.
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None of us knew the kids
of travelling musicians.
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Yeah.
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Mr. Gunn: He had not gone to
a normal school in Canada,
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but he had been
privately tutored.
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His mother had been
separated from his father
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who was a Professor in London.
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[phone ringing]
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Brandon: Dad was kind of,
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you know a...
I suppose a kind of
typical Dad.
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I wasn'’t maybe so close to him
in some ways.
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So, you never really knew
what he was thinking.
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I never did anyway.
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[operatic singing]
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Brandon: But my Mum,
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she was the one human being
I ever felt close to.
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You know, in that way
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you know, you can tell
what they are thinking,
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sensing and feeling.
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My Mum probably knew
almost as soon as I did.
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Medicine.
That was what I wanted to do.
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She could pretty much
read my mind.
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Does that sound weird?
[chuckles]
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That'’s how it was.
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Yeah.
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[applause]
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- [brakes screeching]
- [screaming]
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[crash]
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[long beeping noise]
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Mrs. Montgomery:
They'’d been in a car accident.
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And his face
had been slightly burned
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and this scarring
was a result of that.
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[medical equipment beeping]
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Mrs. Montgomery: Unfortunately,
his mother hadn'’t survived...
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[birds cawing]
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Mrs. Montgomery: And so,
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having been brought up
in Canada,
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when she died,
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he went to live
with his grandmother
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in Bearsden.
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[lively string music]
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Gregor: Bearsden
is the nicest part of Glasgow.
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It'’s a little slice of heaven
tucked away
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- in the west end of the city.
- [chuckles]
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Val: Bearsden is the posh place.
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[laughs]
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Whether it is or not,
that'’s what people think.
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[chuckles]
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Charlotte: People live
in a bubble in Bearsden
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and it'’s a lovely bubble.
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Neil: If you mention it to other
people in Glasgow,
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they go "“woo!"”
You get the handbag arms. Woo!
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Woo, you'’re from Bearsden.
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Eleanor: The sort of people
that live in Bearsden
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are probably...
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rich people. [laughs]
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Doctors and lawyers
and solicitors and
dentists and...
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Surgeons. [chuckles]
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Really, really crooked
accountants.
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Kirsten: It changes very quickly
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from a fairly large
and posh-ish type area,
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to... not.
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Where we were was
more towards
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- Spam Valley perhaps.
- [Simon chuckles]
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I have no idea
what Spam Valley is.
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[chuckles] I hate to tell you,
you lived in Spam Valley.
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Donald: Spam Valley refers
to people who...
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according to the legend
258
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ate Spam all week
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in order to be able to afford
a house in Bearsden.
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[chuckles]
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Jono: But Brandon'’s Gran,
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she was like
the next level down.
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She was renting a flat
from the council.
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So, while it wasn'’t like
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he was living in the projects,
or anything.
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Compared to the rest of the kids
in Bearsden,
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he kind of was.
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Nicola: The principal
of Bearsden Academy
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was a man called Norman Mcleod.
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For me, Norman Mcleod
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was... a great man.
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Mr. Mcleod was very...
traditional.
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You never saw him
without his black cape.
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His black graduation gown.
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He wore that all the time.
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Which led to his nickname
of Batman.
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Mr. Mcleod-- Batman!
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So, if you heard
"“Batman'’s coming,"”
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you felt like a criminal
and you had to scarper.
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- Mr. McLeod: Stop right there!
- [gasps]
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Val: Officially the school
was run by Mr. Mcleod.
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But his second, Mrs. Holmes...
283
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I think she probably ran it.
284
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Mr. Gunn: I remember Mrs. Holmes
being a very efficient lady.
285
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And made sure people
knew who was the boss.
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Well, the second boss,
in her case.
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I guess you'’ve always
got to have
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a kind of good cop, bad cop.
289
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And Mrs. Holmes
was always very strict.
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Neil: She was Mr. McLeod'’s
sort of...
291
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- [students gasp]
- ...field marshal.
292
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[chuckles]
She did all the dirty stuff.
293
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Get to detention!
294
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Oh, she was a poisoned
wee bastard, wasn'’t she?
295
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[chuckles]
296
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I still remember
having to get up
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and salute at the start of
Classical Studies Class
298
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and give it the...
299
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Um, what was it?
Chaíre Didáskale.
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Chaíre Didáskale, or something.
301
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[chuckles]
302
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Donald: It was a sort of a,
you know,
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kind of an Adolf sort of
a salute, wasn'’t it?
304
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[chuckles]
305
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- Ian: Left arm.
- Craig: Left arm.
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Straight salute.
Forty-five degrees.
307
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- Forty-five degrees.
- Open hand.
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Like a little, kind of,
Nuremburg rally.
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Class: Chaíre Didáskale
310
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Chaíre Didáskale, like that.
311
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Enunciate, pronounciate.
312
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Class: Chaíre Didáskale
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Let'’s not beat about the bush.
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- It was weird.
- Yeah.
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I think I probably fancied her
a bit as well.
316
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Interviewer: Really?
317
00:14:55,764 --> 00:14:57,418
Yeah, there was a kind of
318
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that sort of strict
no-nonsense thing.
319
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[chuckles]
320
00:15:02,902 --> 00:15:04,207
You can use that.
321
00:15:05,252 --> 00:15:07,645
[desk creaking]
322
00:15:07,863 --> 00:15:09,082
[students gasping]
323
00:15:10,126 --> 00:15:11,606
Can we put our hands down, Miss?
324
00:15:11,780 --> 00:15:13,086
[school bell ringing]
325
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[chatter]
326
00:15:17,612 --> 00:15:20,658
Shan: Brandon spent a lot
of his time on his own.
327
00:15:20,832 --> 00:15:22,399
He'’d have lunch on his own
328
00:15:22,573 --> 00:15:23,531
you wouldn'’t see him around
during break time,
329
00:15:23,705 --> 00:15:25,054
he'’d disappear.
330
00:15:25,359 --> 00:15:27,491
Break times at Bearsden Academy
could be
331
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like a prison exercise area.
332
00:15:29,972 --> 00:15:31,104
It felt like that sometimes.
333
00:15:31,495 --> 00:15:33,715
Oi, come here a minute,
you prick!
334
00:15:33,889 --> 00:15:35,064
Girl: What age are you?
335
00:15:35,238 --> 00:15:36,979
Brandon: The yard, at break,
336
00:15:37,153 --> 00:15:40,113
it was almost like being behind
enemy lines without an enemy.
337
00:15:40,287 --> 00:15:41,288
Can you understand that?
338
00:15:41,592 --> 00:15:43,159
A stranger in a strange land.
339
00:15:44,508 --> 00:15:47,076
He was getting picked on
by first years
340
00:15:47,250 --> 00:15:48,686
and we were in fifth year,
you know.
341
00:15:48,860 --> 00:15:49,992
They were calling him names.
342
00:15:50,166 --> 00:15:51,385
[laughter]
343
00:15:51,646 --> 00:15:53,213
You'’re a pure old man.
Are you my Dad?
344
00:15:53,561 --> 00:15:57,043
Some of the kids used to call
Brandon Lee "Thirty-something."
345
00:15:57,217 --> 00:15:59,219
- Boy: Here, Thirty-something.
- Thirty- something.
346
00:15:59,393 --> 00:16:00,350
He'’s ancient.
347
00:16:00,524 --> 00:16:01,961
Can you get drink for me, mate?
348
00:16:02,135 --> 00:16:03,005
Brandon: I...
I just didn'’t notice
349
00:16:03,179 --> 00:16:04,746
the kids I went to school with.
350
00:16:04,920 --> 00:16:06,269
It wasn'’t a thing for me.
351
00:16:06,443 --> 00:16:08,750
I just wanted to get
to where I needed to be.
352
00:16:09,969 --> 00:16:13,276
There was a good few
of the lads, you know going,
353
00:16:13,450 --> 00:16:15,670
giving him a bit of...
giving him a wee bit of stick.
354
00:16:15,844 --> 00:16:17,019
- [students laughing]
- So, I thought, I'’ll go up
355
00:16:17,193 --> 00:16:18,542
and speak to him about Canada.
356
00:16:18,716 --> 00:16:20,370
Because the poor guy
357
00:16:20,544 --> 00:16:21,893
doesn'’t look
like he'’s fitting in too well.
358
00:16:22,068 --> 00:16:23,504
And I went up to him and said
359
00:16:23,678 --> 00:16:25,549
"“Oh, so I hear
you'’re from Canada."
360
00:16:25,810 --> 00:16:28,596
Ehm. "I used to live in Canada
as well."”
361
00:16:28,770 --> 00:16:31,120
To which
he went "“ba-ba-de-bap."”
362
00:16:31,686 --> 00:16:33,079
And kind of legged it
363
00:16:33,296 --> 00:16:34,732
and I thought that'’s very rude.
364
00:16:37,735 --> 00:16:41,130
I remember in Biology class,
365
00:16:41,435 --> 00:16:44,655
I sat across from a chap
called Stefen Addo.
366
00:16:45,917 --> 00:16:47,397
Stefen was a nice guy.
367
00:16:48,485 --> 00:16:49,704
You want to borrow mine?
368
00:16:49,878 --> 00:16:51,010
I have a bunch of them.
369
00:16:51,271 --> 00:16:53,012
Thank you, that'’s very kind.
370
00:16:53,186 --> 00:16:55,275
Stefen: Brandon'’s friendship
with me developed
371
00:16:55,536 --> 00:16:56,798
in Biology probably,
372
00:16:56,972 --> 00:16:58,756
because we sat
next to each other.
373
00:16:59,583 --> 00:17:01,977
He was polite, he was friendly.
374
00:17:02,151 --> 00:17:04,066
He took an interest in you.
375
00:17:04,240 --> 00:17:05,720
What'’s your plans for college?
376
00:17:05,894 --> 00:17:07,200
Where you gonna go?
377
00:17:07,374 --> 00:17:08,418
- I don't know.
- Everything he said
378
00:17:08,679 --> 00:17:10,812
used to be
immensely interesting.
379
00:17:11,247 --> 00:17:13,989
Did you know that if you cut
the arm off a star fish,
380
00:17:14,163 --> 00:17:15,773
the limb will regenerate
381
00:17:15,947 --> 00:17:18,167
and become
an entirely new starfish?
382
00:17:18,341 --> 00:17:19,734
Wow, really?
383
00:17:20,213 --> 00:17:23,477
He could also do a very funny
Clint Eastwood impression.
384
00:17:23,781 --> 00:17:26,219
So, do you feel lucky, punk?
385
00:17:26,480 --> 00:17:27,350
[laughter]
386
00:17:28,351 --> 00:17:29,526
Here, do another one.
387
00:17:30,049 --> 00:17:31,354
Brandon: I saw
the Clint Eastwood movies
388
00:17:31,528 --> 00:17:32,877
when I was little.
389
00:17:33,400 --> 00:17:36,968
I could put on accents
and things just to amuse people.
390
00:17:37,143 --> 00:17:39,014
You know, whatever it takes.
391
00:17:39,623 --> 00:17:42,017
He was just
an all-round nice guy.
392
00:17:44,106 --> 00:17:46,021
What are you doing
after class today?
393
00:17:46,195 --> 00:17:47,675
Brandon: Bearsden Academy
wasn'’t like, you know,
394
00:17:47,849 --> 00:17:49,546
being in a London school
or something.
395
00:17:49,981 --> 00:17:53,028
There'’s only a few people
who weren'’t like Anglo-Saxons.
396
00:17:53,202 --> 00:17:54,551
[grunts]
397
00:17:55,161 --> 00:17:57,250
It'’s a little station where
the rich people live, you know.
398
00:17:57,424 --> 00:17:58,903
Well-to-do people.
399
00:17:59,382 --> 00:18:01,689
And there'’s the attitude
that accompanies it.
400
00:18:04,866 --> 00:18:07,695
Stefen: There was quite a lot
of racism going on.
401
00:18:08,043 --> 00:18:09,349
I had a few...
402
00:18:10,350 --> 00:18:14,267
hate mail letters
delivered to my home by pupils.
403
00:18:21,622 --> 00:18:23,798
Just the usual abuse really.
404
00:18:26,409 --> 00:18:28,281
I remember there was a guy
at the school.
405
00:18:28,716 --> 00:18:32,111
He was the big bully guy
that you didn'’t mess with.
406
00:18:32,981 --> 00:18:34,678
And one day,
407
00:18:34,896 --> 00:18:36,245
Stefen told me this guy
just came out of nowhere
408
00:18:36,419 --> 00:18:37,768
and punched him in the nose.
409
00:18:38,247 --> 00:18:39,596
- [bully grunts]
- Brandon: And bled his nose.
410
00:18:40,162 --> 00:18:41,946
Stefen: A guy got me
in a headlock
411
00:18:42,121 --> 00:18:44,645
and was just
punching me in the head.
412
00:18:44,819 --> 00:18:45,776
Everyone was around,
413
00:18:45,950 --> 00:18:47,430
no one said a thing.
414
00:18:49,171 --> 00:18:50,694
Brandon: Stefen was
a gentle fellow, you know,
415
00:18:50,868 --> 00:18:52,348
he wouldn'’t fight back.
416
00:18:52,653 --> 00:18:53,567
Interviewer:
What would you have done
417
00:18:53,741 --> 00:18:55,177
if you had been there for that?
418
00:18:55,351 --> 00:18:56,613
For what?
419
00:18:57,048 --> 00:18:58,354
Interviewer: For Stefen
getting punched in the nose.
420
00:18:59,616 --> 00:19:01,357
I'’d have probably
stopped the guy.
421
00:19:02,793 --> 00:19:04,360
It's okay. It will all work out.
422
00:19:04,534 --> 00:19:06,145
Stefen: Our friendship
meant a lot to me
423
00:19:06,319 --> 00:19:08,930
because I didn'’t have
that kind of
424
00:19:09,104 --> 00:19:12,760
social interaction
with a lot of people at school.
425
00:19:13,891 --> 00:19:15,154
Except Brandon.
426
00:19:18,461 --> 00:19:19,636
[grunts]
427
00:19:23,510 --> 00:19:25,076
Brian: How did I feel
when Brandon arrived?
428
00:19:25,251 --> 00:19:27,166
I was delighted.
429
00:19:27,340 --> 00:19:29,864
Eh, so there was someone else
to take the heat.
430
00:19:30,169 --> 00:19:31,648
There was someone who was
431
00:19:31,822 --> 00:19:33,694
a little bit goofier looking
than I was.
432
00:19:34,347 --> 00:19:36,087
There was someone who was...
433
00:19:36,436 --> 00:19:38,829
definitely more
socially awkward than I was.
434
00:19:39,003 --> 00:19:40,440
And there was someone else
who I thought,
435
00:19:40,614 --> 00:19:42,050
"“This is great."
436
00:19:42,224 --> 00:19:43,878
"All of these
tribes that don'’t want me,
437
00:19:44,052 --> 00:19:45,358
they can deal with him now."”
438
00:19:45,532 --> 00:19:48,056
[dance music playing]
439
00:19:48,230 --> 00:19:51,059
I was a...
I wouldn'’t say a techno-nerd,
440
00:19:51,233 --> 00:19:52,974
but I listened
to a lot of techno music
441
00:19:53,801 --> 00:19:55,368
And...
442
00:19:55,542 --> 00:19:58,327
something happened
at some point in fourth year.
443
00:19:58,501 --> 00:20:01,069
It was one of these
horrible moments of when...
444
00:20:01,243 --> 00:20:03,376
somebody puts their foot in it.
445
00:20:03,637 --> 00:20:05,856
And can I
remember asking Brian,
"“What music do you like?"”
446
00:20:06,030 --> 00:20:07,510
And he was like
"“I like techno."”
447
00:20:07,684 --> 00:20:09,251
And everyone was like
"“Oh, right,
448
00:20:09,599 --> 00:20:11,079
what band do you like?"”
And he went "“2 Unlimited."”
449
00:20:11,253 --> 00:20:12,733
♪ No, no, no, no ♪
450
00:20:12,907 --> 00:20:15,431
♪ No, no, there'’s no limit ♪
451
00:20:15,649 --> 00:20:17,041
And it was like his credibility
452
00:20:17,216 --> 00:20:19,870
went from there
to through the floor.
453
00:20:20,044 --> 00:20:21,045
[students laughing]
454
00:20:21,220 --> 00:20:22,221
2 Unlimited, they'’re crap, mate.
455
00:20:22,395 --> 00:20:23,352
2 Unlimited?
456
00:20:23,570 --> 00:20:24,875
That'’s so embarrassing.
457
00:20:25,136 --> 00:20:26,703
I knew him, Brian Mackinnon,
458
00:20:26,877 --> 00:20:28,401
he was cool.
459
00:20:30,707 --> 00:20:32,405
He hung out with
Donald Lindsay.
460
00:20:32,840 --> 00:20:36,452
Donald sat beside me in
Physics.
461
00:20:36,626 --> 00:20:37,975
He would pick his nose
462
00:20:38,149 --> 00:20:39,586
and put it underneath
the bench.
463
00:20:40,326 --> 00:20:42,806
[chuckles] I shouldn'’t say that
because I like Donald.
464
00:20:44,025 --> 00:20:45,461
Donald: Most of
what I can remember
465
00:20:45,635 --> 00:20:47,550
talking to Brandon about
466
00:20:47,724 --> 00:20:49,509
was... music.
467
00:20:49,900 --> 00:20:51,728
♪ When I first saw you ♪
468
00:20:51,902 --> 00:20:53,687
♪ Something stirred within me ♪
469
00:20:53,861 --> 00:20:55,515
Brandon had a way
of introducing you
470
00:20:55,689 --> 00:20:59,083
to bands you might not
have discovered otherwise.
471
00:20:59,258 --> 00:21:03,697
♪ If I could have held you
I would have held you ♪
472
00:21:04,132 --> 00:21:07,004
♪ Rip it up and start again ♪
473
00:21:07,178 --> 00:21:11,139
I always liked music
with that guitar twang.
474
00:21:11,922 --> 00:21:13,707
Brian: I remember
Brandon essentially
475
00:21:13,881 --> 00:21:15,099
giving me a history lesson
476
00:21:15,274 --> 00:21:16,884
in like 80s punk bands.
477
00:21:18,146 --> 00:21:19,800
Brandon: Television,
a band I like,
478
00:21:20,017 --> 00:21:21,889
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry.
479
00:21:22,237 --> 00:21:24,195
Brian: Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Television.
480
00:21:24,370 --> 00:21:25,632
They weren'’t like 90s bands.
481
00:21:25,806 --> 00:21:27,373
it was all 80s bands
that fed into it.
482
00:21:27,634 --> 00:21:29,505
♪ And there were times
I'’d take my pen ♪
483
00:21:29,679 --> 00:21:31,377
♪ And feel obliged
To start again ♪
484
00:21:31,551 --> 00:21:32,943
♪ I do profess ♪
485
00:21:33,117 --> 00:21:34,510
♪ That there are things
In life ♪
486
00:21:34,771 --> 00:21:36,425
♪ That one can't
quite express ♪
487
00:21:36,599 --> 00:21:38,732
♪ Rip it up and start again ♪
488
00:21:38,993 --> 00:21:41,952
Brandon had a knowledge
of bands before our time
489
00:21:42,170 --> 00:21:43,432
because...
490
00:21:44,172 --> 00:21:46,174
Just because
he had an interest in music.
491
00:21:46,348 --> 00:21:48,176
Otherwise,
perhaps he spent a lot of time
492
00:21:48,350 --> 00:21:49,873
in second hand record shops
493
00:21:50,047 --> 00:21:52,789
where you could find records
by all those bands.
494
00:21:53,355 --> 00:21:55,183
Becoming sixteen, seventeen,
495
00:21:55,488 --> 00:21:57,490
music you know
it shapes you a wee bit.
496
00:21:58,142 --> 00:21:59,709
♪ Rip it up and rip it up ♪
497
00:21:59,883 --> 00:22:02,843
♪ Rip it up and start again. ♪
498
00:22:03,147 --> 00:22:05,367
He fundamentally
informed my music taste.
499
00:22:07,674 --> 00:22:09,632
Having been
this socially awkward,
500
00:22:09,806 --> 00:22:11,155
uncomfortable techno kid,
501
00:22:11,591 --> 00:22:12,896
like everything ch...
502
00:22:13,114 --> 00:22:14,550
like it felt
as if my whole identity changed.
503
00:22:18,467 --> 00:22:19,903
♪ Rip it up ♪
504
00:22:22,123 --> 00:22:24,691
Brandon'’s life plan was...
505
00:22:25,039 --> 00:22:27,607
to go to medical school
and become a doctor.
506
00:22:30,174 --> 00:22:31,698
Brandon: I remember Biology.
507
00:22:32,307 --> 00:22:33,961
I had a great teacher.
508
00:22:34,440 --> 00:22:35,832
A Miss Makitchen.
509
00:22:36,006 --> 00:22:37,181
She was rather nice.
510
00:22:37,617 --> 00:22:41,272
Now, Gary, can you tell me
the medical term
511
00:22:41,447 --> 00:22:43,187
for what I'’m pointing at here?
512
00:22:43,492 --> 00:22:46,234
Eh, it'’s a willy, Miss.
513
00:22:46,930 --> 00:22:48,323
Urgh.
514
00:22:48,845 --> 00:22:50,412
It became
a bit of a running joke.
515
00:22:50,717 --> 00:22:52,153
Because as soon as there was
a question nobody could answer,
516
00:22:52,327 --> 00:22:54,155
everybody'’s attention
just turned to Brandon,
517
00:22:54,329 --> 00:22:55,896
said "“Brandon, do you know?"”
518
00:22:56,070 --> 00:22:57,637
Of course, ten out of ten times
he always knew.
519
00:22:57,811 --> 00:22:59,334
He always knew the answer.
520
00:22:59,726 --> 00:23:02,119
Brandon: Well, Miss, your finger
is on the bulbourethral gland.
521
00:23:02,293 --> 00:23:04,426
It'’s otherwise
known as Cowper'’s gland,
522
00:23:04,600 --> 00:23:06,428
after the anatomist,
William Cowper
523
00:23:06,602 --> 00:23:07,734
Oh, for fuck sake.
524
00:23:07,908 --> 00:23:09,213
Because I remember she said
525
00:23:09,388 --> 00:23:11,607
"Sometimes Brandon
teaches me Biology."
526
00:23:12,042 --> 00:23:16,003
You know Brandon,
sometimes you teach me Biology.
527
00:23:17,874 --> 00:23:19,136
I thought oh,
I'’m getting somewhere.
528
00:23:19,310 --> 00:23:21,182
This is good.
This is a good report.
529
00:23:22,096 --> 00:23:23,619
- [student snoring]
- Gregor: I still remember
530
00:23:23,837 --> 00:23:25,055
one of the teachers
saying to us:
531
00:23:25,229 --> 00:23:26,709
"Look at Brandon."
532
00:23:26,883 --> 00:23:28,755
"He is ten times better
than any of you wasters."
533
00:23:28,972 --> 00:23:33,107
He was one of the better pupils
and was a potential A candidate.
534
00:23:33,629 --> 00:23:35,762
Uh, Sir, I have a question.
535
00:23:36,153 --> 00:23:39,113
He asked Mr. Gunn
to define time.
536
00:23:39,461 --> 00:23:41,289
Of course,
I mean within the Copenhagen
537
00:23:41,463 --> 00:23:42,725
interpretation of quantum time.
538
00:23:42,899 --> 00:23:44,335
Huh?
539
00:23:44,814 --> 00:23:47,382
We all just kind of
looked around and went "“What?"”
540
00:23:47,556 --> 00:23:48,905
I don'’t think
I would have given him
541
00:23:49,079 --> 00:23:51,386
much of a response in a class.
542
00:23:51,604 --> 00:23:52,909
Because...
543
00:23:53,083 --> 00:23:55,129
we have no idea
how time works, really...
544
00:23:55,303 --> 00:23:57,000
or what the concept is.
545
00:23:57,174 --> 00:23:59,960
But surely, the paradoxes
that relativity introduced...
546
00:24:00,177 --> 00:24:02,266
- [snoring]
- ...mean that travel can exist
547
00:24:02,441 --> 00:24:04,530
within space time
or the multiverse.
548
00:24:04,791 --> 00:24:06,183
Well, Brandon,
549
00:24:06,357 --> 00:24:08,011
the idea of going back in time
is something
550
00:24:08,185 --> 00:24:10,927
that has appealed to people
through the generations.
551
00:24:11,101 --> 00:24:12,712
But the evidence
that it'’s not possible is...
552
00:24:12,886 --> 00:24:15,497
that we haven'’t seen
anyone from the future.
553
00:24:17,194 --> 00:24:18,848
[dogs barking]
554
00:24:19,283 --> 00:24:21,024
Stefen: I'’d normally
find myself at Brandon'’s house
555
00:24:21,198 --> 00:24:22,330
to watch a video,
556
00:24:22,504 --> 00:24:23,984
to have something to eat,
557
00:24:24,288 --> 00:24:27,596
to maybe do some study together.
558
00:24:27,857 --> 00:24:29,511
I did go to Brandon'’s house
559
00:24:29,685 --> 00:24:31,252
to work on some assignments,
560
00:24:31,426 --> 00:24:33,297
or some homework,
or some school projects.
561
00:24:33,820 --> 00:24:36,518
And I met his grandmother
as well.
562
00:24:37,345 --> 00:24:40,827
Brandon'’s grandmother
was a fairly quiet person.
563
00:24:41,218 --> 00:24:42,611
Sorry to interrupt
564
00:24:42,916 --> 00:24:45,179
but would youse like a
wee biscuit and a cup of tea?
565
00:24:45,962 --> 00:24:49,313
She was just a nice,
kind of quiet Glaswegian lady.
566
00:24:49,705 --> 00:24:52,012
OK. I'’ll get out the way
567
00:24:52,186 --> 00:24:55,232
and let you brainboxes
get on with it.
568
00:24:55,406 --> 00:24:57,887
He used to help me
with my homework
569
00:24:58,061 --> 00:25:00,281
and help me
in my exam studies.
570
00:25:00,455 --> 00:25:03,589
The square on the hypotenuse
is equal to the sum...
571
00:25:03,763 --> 00:25:05,939
Stefen: I don'’t know
who else he helped,
572
00:25:06,113 --> 00:25:08,419
but... it certainly
benefited me,
573
00:25:08,594 --> 00:25:10,944
not just from
a friendship point of view,
574
00:25:11,118 --> 00:25:13,207
but academically as well.
575
00:25:14,730 --> 00:25:16,602
I have a genius level IQ.
576
00:25:17,124 --> 00:25:19,953
My IQ was recorded
at 158 when I was eight.
577
00:25:20,127 --> 00:25:21,563
and 162 at nine.
578
00:25:21,737 --> 00:25:23,696
And that'’s as high as it goes.
579
00:25:24,697 --> 00:25:27,830
[snoring]
580
00:25:28,048 --> 00:25:32,879
Now class, in this scene,
Willy Lomon tells his son Biff
581
00:25:33,053 --> 00:25:35,229
that the key to success in life,
582
00:25:35,403 --> 00:25:37,144
is simply to be well liked,
583
00:25:37,318 --> 00:25:38,624
to be popular.
584
00:25:38,798 --> 00:25:40,321
But what is Arthur Miller
suggesting
585
00:25:40,495 --> 00:25:42,323
about Willy'’s state of mind?
586
00:25:42,497 --> 00:25:44,543
We were doing
Death of a Salesman,
587
00:25:44,717 --> 00:25:46,370
and I just remember the
first time
588
00:25:46,545 --> 00:25:48,503
he answered a question.
589
00:25:48,764 --> 00:25:51,245
Well, Miss,
in Willy Loman'’s head,
590
00:25:51,419 --> 00:25:54,248
he doesn'’t see his son
as a thirty-four-year-old man.
591
00:25:54,422 --> 00:25:57,338
To him, Biff is a
high school sophomore again.
592
00:25:57,686 --> 00:26:00,254
So, Miller is implying
a psychotic delusion.
593
00:26:00,428 --> 00:26:03,474
Perhaps, as an
allegorical or metaphorical
594
00:26:03,649 --> 00:26:05,694
hallucination of chronology.
595
00:26:06,173 --> 00:26:08,741
Craig: And I just remember
just closing my jotter.
596
00:26:09,219 --> 00:26:11,352
Every kid was just looking
at each other thinking
597
00:26:11,526 --> 00:26:12,614
"What was that about?"”
598
00:26:12,832 --> 00:26:15,356
You know?
It was so off-the-wall.
599
00:26:15,530 --> 00:26:18,098
And I think looking back,
600
00:26:18,272 --> 00:26:20,927
Mrs. Ogg had seen the potential
in him.
601
00:26:21,101 --> 00:26:23,582
This kid is maybe
quite special.
602
00:26:23,756 --> 00:26:25,366
She obviously thought,
603
00:26:25,758 --> 00:26:27,586
"Well, he'’d be a really good
lead role in the school show."
604
00:26:29,370 --> 00:26:32,199
Brandon: Mrs. Ogg one day
in English class said
605
00:26:32,982 --> 00:26:35,115
"“We'’re looking for boys
for the school play"”
606
00:26:35,289 --> 00:26:39,510
and heads down, nobody
was interested-- me especially.
607
00:26:39,685 --> 00:26:40,773
And she said...
608
00:26:40,990 --> 00:26:43,993
Brandon, it'’s South Pacific.
609
00:26:44,167 --> 00:26:45,473
You could do that.
610
00:26:45,647 --> 00:26:48,215
Uh, maybe I could
help out backstage?
611
00:26:48,389 --> 00:26:50,304
Brandon, come on.
612
00:26:50,478 --> 00:26:52,088
With that accent,
613
00:26:52,393 --> 00:26:56,005
I think we could think
of something better for you.
614
00:26:56,789 --> 00:26:59,618
Well before I knew it,
I was in the audition room.
615
00:27:00,009 --> 00:27:01,620
I remember the terror of it.
616
00:27:02,490 --> 00:27:03,839
[singing off-key]
617
00:27:04,231 --> 00:27:06,233
Stefen: It tended to be
very popular people
618
00:27:06,625 --> 00:27:09,628
who were taking
part in the school show.
619
00:27:09,802 --> 00:27:12,413
I wasn'’t that sort of person.
[chuckles]
620
00:27:13,849 --> 00:27:15,634
Mr. McAlinden: Brandon Lee
simply didn'’t have
621
00:27:15,851 --> 00:27:17,897
- the personality
or the talent.
- [Brandon singing]
622
00:27:18,071 --> 00:27:20,247
But I thought, you know,
he has an American accent,
623
00:27:20,421 --> 00:27:24,077
and this is about Americans
on a South pacific island.
624
00:27:24,251 --> 00:27:26,209
And I thought they'’re going
to say, "“Thank you, next."”
625
00:27:26,383 --> 00:27:28,211
But no. [chuckles]
626
00:27:28,385 --> 00:27:29,430
They loved me.
627
00:27:29,604 --> 00:27:30,910
And I got the part.
628
00:27:31,345 --> 00:27:32,738
I just walked out thinking...
629
00:27:33,303 --> 00:27:34,478
"Oh dear."
630
00:27:35,349 --> 00:27:37,830
Brandon was playing the part
631
00:27:38,004 --> 00:27:39,440
of Lieutenant Cable
632
00:27:39,614 --> 00:27:41,485
and I was playing
the role of Liat.
633
00:27:41,660 --> 00:27:43,270
- Say cheese!
- Brandon: Cheese.
634
00:27:43,574 --> 00:27:45,185
Nicola: I played Bloody Mary
635
00:27:45,359 --> 00:27:47,448
and part of the story
636
00:27:47,709 --> 00:27:48,971
is me trying to set
my daughter Liat
637
00:27:49,145 --> 00:27:51,974
up with this Lieutenant Cable
638
00:27:52,148 --> 00:27:53,802
from the American army.
639
00:27:58,546 --> 00:28:00,983
Val: The awkward bit
about rehearsals
640
00:28:01,288 --> 00:28:05,205
was Liat and Lieutenant Cable
were meant to be in love.
641
00:28:05,988 --> 00:28:08,208
I was supposed
to kiss this girl, Liat,
642
00:28:08,382 --> 00:28:10,166
who was another girl
from my year.
643
00:28:10,645 --> 00:28:12,342
- [smacking sound]
- I didn'’t want to kiss her
644
00:28:12,778 --> 00:28:15,258
And I was getting into trouble
with Mrs. Thomson for that.
645
00:28:15,432 --> 00:28:16,346
[grumbles]
646
00:28:16,564 --> 00:28:18,131
Every rehearsal,
647
00:28:18,348 --> 00:28:19,872
Mrs. Thomson would say
648
00:28:20,046 --> 00:28:22,178
"“Right Brandon,
I want you to do the kiss now."”
649
00:28:22,352 --> 00:28:24,398
And he would be like, "“No, no,
we'’ll do it on the night."”
650
00:28:24,572 --> 00:28:28,663
And he refused, refused,
to kiss this girl.
651
00:28:28,837 --> 00:28:30,273
And she said,
"“Look, you just do it."
652
00:28:30,447 --> 00:28:32,536
"You just go, you just do it,
you just kiss."”
653
00:28:32,711 --> 00:28:33,842
- [smacking sound]
- Come on you two,
654
00:28:34,016 --> 00:28:35,496
it'’s just a kiss.
655
00:28:35,670 --> 00:28:37,541
Brandon: Valerie is looking
as if to say
656
00:28:37,803 --> 00:28:39,630
"“Why won'’t you kiss me?
What'’s wrong with me?"”
657
00:28:39,805 --> 00:28:42,416
Maybe she thought I was gay
or something, I don'’t know.
658
00:28:44,418 --> 00:28:45,680
[buzzing]
659
00:28:51,120 --> 00:28:55,255
♪ Younger than
Springtime am I ♪
660
00:28:55,516 --> 00:28:59,346
♪ Gayer than laughter am I ♪
661
00:28:59,520 --> 00:29:03,002
♪ Angel and lover
Heaven and Earth ♪
662
00:29:03,176 --> 00:29:05,961
♪ Am I ♪
663
00:29:06,222 --> 00:29:10,096
♪ With you ♪
664
00:29:11,662 --> 00:29:12,881
He was a really good singer.
665
00:29:13,621 --> 00:29:15,492
He sung like an angel.
666
00:29:15,928 --> 00:29:17,320
[laughs]
667
00:29:17,625 --> 00:29:21,107
♪ Younger than springtime
Are you ♪
668
00:29:21,629 --> 00:29:25,459
♪ Softer than starlight
Are you ♪
669
00:29:26,286 --> 00:29:27,940
I suppose
I did feel self-conscious
670
00:29:28,114 --> 00:29:30,420
about doing the...
the kissy bit.
671
00:29:31,030 --> 00:29:33,597
It wasn't even remotely
romantic. [chuckles]
672
00:29:33,772 --> 00:29:36,644
♪ Warmer than winds of June ♪
673
00:29:36,818 --> 00:29:42,563
♪ Are the gentle lips
You gave me ♪
674
00:29:42,737 --> 00:29:44,826
Brandon: When we actually
did have to kiss in the play,
675
00:29:45,044 --> 00:29:47,220
it was probably
a more avuncular kiss
676
00:29:47,394 --> 00:29:49,396
than she'’d gotten
from any of her uncles.
677
00:29:49,962 --> 00:29:51,920
It was more a...peck.
678
00:29:52,268 --> 00:29:53,704
It was...
679
00:29:54,096 --> 00:29:55,619
and that'’s what we managed.
680
00:29:55,968 --> 00:29:58,318
[chuckles] Which was enough
for fifth year at school.
681
00:29:58,927 --> 00:30:01,538
He didn'’t properly kiss her.
Nae tongues.
682
00:30:01,712 --> 00:30:02,757
[chuckles]
683
00:30:03,889 --> 00:30:04,977
[smack]
684
00:30:05,281 --> 00:30:09,068
- [cheering]
- [applause]
685
00:30:09,416 --> 00:30:12,680
South Pacific was...
it was a hit.
[chuckles]
686
00:30:12,898 --> 00:30:14,813
It was a really
successful school show,
687
00:30:14,987 --> 00:30:17,206
as a result of him being in it.
688
00:30:17,554 --> 00:30:19,687
He was noticeably better
689
00:30:19,861 --> 00:30:21,602
than most of the other people,
690
00:30:21,776 --> 00:30:24,953
or all the other people actually
in the... in the production.
691
00:30:25,127 --> 00:30:26,694
Yeah, uh huh.
692
00:30:26,868 --> 00:30:28,957
Mr. Macalindin: I remember
the then rector,
693
00:30:29,131 --> 00:30:31,830
the headteacher, of the school
saying,
694
00:30:32,004 --> 00:30:33,396
"“You know Paul,
nobody'’s going to
695
00:30:33,570 --> 00:30:36,356
remember maths lessons
in Bearsden Academy."
696
00:30:36,530 --> 00:30:38,706
"But everybody is going
to remember the school musical."
697
00:30:38,880 --> 00:30:39,968
- Student 1: Bravo!
- Student 2: Woohoo!
698
00:30:40,142 --> 00:30:41,970
Student 3: Go on yourself,
Brandon!
699
00:30:42,144 --> 00:30:43,624
Take a bow, Brandon!
700
00:30:43,798 --> 00:30:45,844
The rector, Mr. Mcleod,
stood up to say thank you
701
00:30:46,018 --> 00:30:47,323
to everybody for taking part.
702
00:30:47,497 --> 00:30:48,542
[applause]
703
00:30:49,325 --> 00:30:51,284
But I remember he specifically
picked out Brandon and said...
704
00:30:51,458 --> 00:30:53,416
Brandon only arrived last year
705
00:30:53,590 --> 00:30:56,724
but he acts like he has been
with us from the very beginning.
706
00:30:56,898 --> 00:30:58,813
And we thought, yeah he'’s right,
707
00:30:58,987 --> 00:31:00,989
it does feel like
he has been here forever.
708
00:31:01,250 --> 00:31:02,730
- Student 1: Bravo!
- Student 2: Woohoo!
709
00:31:03,122 --> 00:31:05,689
- Go on yourself, Brandon!
- Student 3: Well done, Brandon!
710
00:31:10,085 --> 00:31:13,045
I saw a change in Brandon
around that time.
711
00:31:13,219 --> 00:31:16,048
Because he'’s suddenly
in a different place.
712
00:31:16,222 --> 00:31:18,528
He'’s not that lonely boy
anymore.
713
00:31:21,792 --> 00:31:23,098
He was good company.
714
00:31:23,403 --> 00:31:24,360
But he was very valuable
because he had a car.
715
00:31:25,231 --> 00:31:26,145
[music playing]
716
00:31:26,319 --> 00:31:27,798
[engine starts]
717
00:31:28,016 --> 00:31:29,713
He had been spotted driving.
718
00:31:29,888 --> 00:31:32,891
But we were all too young
to even have passed our test.
719
00:31:33,761 --> 00:31:35,806
Grant: A bunch of us
were at traffic lights
720
00:31:35,981 --> 00:31:37,678
and pressed the button
to cross the road, you know.
721
00:31:37,852 --> 00:31:40,159
And then his... him in a car.
722
00:31:40,420 --> 00:31:42,074
He'’s driving a car, stops...
[imitates brakes screeching]
723
00:31:42,248 --> 00:31:43,858
...at the traffic lights,
you know?
724
00:31:44,424 --> 00:31:45,599
[brakes screeching]
725
00:31:49,385 --> 00:31:52,736
Fuck, there'’s that guy,
that new kid from Canada.
726
00:31:53,085 --> 00:31:54,042
Huh?
727
00:31:54,695 --> 00:31:57,306
He just sort of like
waved over, you know.
728
00:31:57,828 --> 00:32:00,483
Like that is unusual,
that is a bit strange.
729
00:32:02,964 --> 00:32:05,445
He had obviously
learned before he left Canada.
730
00:32:05,619 --> 00:32:07,926
You get your driving license
a year younger in Canada.
731
00:32:08,404 --> 00:32:10,276
[car engine rumbling]
732
00:32:10,667 --> 00:32:13,018
Neil: And it was just fun to go
driving listening to music
733
00:32:13,192 --> 00:32:16,151
with the windows down,
at full volume. [chuckles]
734
00:32:17,544 --> 00:32:19,807
♪ Do you remember
The first time? ♪
735
00:32:20,851 --> 00:32:22,592
♪ I can'’t remember
A worse time ♪
736
00:32:24,855 --> 00:32:27,946
♪ But you know that we've
Changed so much since then ♪
737
00:32:28,120 --> 00:32:30,165
♪ Oh yeah, we've grown ♪
738
00:32:32,341 --> 00:32:35,562
He would take us to the cinema,
sometimes we would go bowling.
739
00:32:35,823 --> 00:32:37,390
[cheering]
740
00:32:37,564 --> 00:32:38,782
Lasertag...
741
00:32:38,957 --> 00:32:40,871
[indistinct]
742
00:32:41,176 --> 00:32:43,700
Suddenly we access to the city,
we had access to record shops.
743
00:32:46,138 --> 00:32:48,270
Nicola: We used to go out
for dinner together, or...
744
00:32:48,444 --> 00:32:49,924
we would go round
to each other'’s houses.
745
00:32:51,839 --> 00:32:55,756
I ended up at his house
at a house party.
746
00:32:55,930 --> 00:32:57,671
- In his house?
- Yeah.
747
00:32:57,845 --> 00:32:59,716
Craig: There was like some kids
from the year below us,
748
00:32:59,890 --> 00:33:01,501
some kids from our year.
749
00:33:01,675 --> 00:33:03,938
But the mix of kids
was quite strange.
750
00:33:05,113 --> 00:33:06,332
[music thumping]
751
00:33:06,636 --> 00:33:08,725
Stefen: I'’d initially said
752
00:33:08,899 --> 00:33:11,728
that I didn'’t want to go,
but then just thought,
753
00:33:11,902 --> 00:33:15,341
"“Right, I'’m just going
to go and see what happens."”
754
00:33:15,689 --> 00:33:17,299
And I went,
755
00:33:17,517 --> 00:33:19,084
and one of my
bullies was there.
756
00:33:19,823 --> 00:33:20,911
[gasps]
757
00:33:21,129 --> 00:33:22,652
Stefen: And it was all fine.
758
00:33:22,826 --> 00:33:23,871
Hey!
759
00:33:24,132 --> 00:33:25,481
[both laughing]
760
00:33:25,916 --> 00:33:28,658
Brandon improved that situation,
761
00:33:28,832 --> 00:33:31,487
where I wasn'’t going
to be at the receiving end
762
00:33:31,661 --> 00:33:33,359
of any bullying as such.
763
00:33:35,970 --> 00:33:38,973
My credibility increased,
764
00:33:39,321 --> 00:33:41,976
being known as being
one of Brandon'’s friends.
765
00:33:42,542 --> 00:33:43,717
[rattling]
766
00:33:44,935 --> 00:33:47,547
He may have been quite
knowledgeable about cocktails.
767
00:33:47,721 --> 00:33:48,635
[chuckles]
768
00:33:49,766 --> 00:33:51,116
[gasps]
769
00:33:51,377 --> 00:33:53,161
I just remember him
going into the kitchen
770
00:33:53,335 --> 00:33:55,120
and all I heard was,
771
00:33:55,511 --> 00:33:57,383
"“Who'’s touched my Chardonnay?"”
772
00:33:57,557 --> 00:33:59,428
- Eh, what?
- What did he say?
773
00:33:59,602 --> 00:34:01,735
I thought that'’s the first time
I'’ve heard that at a party.
774
00:34:01,909 --> 00:34:02,953
What the fuck'’s Chardonnay?
775
00:34:03,128 --> 00:34:04,303
- What a dafty.
- [laughter]
776
00:34:05,782 --> 00:34:06,957
Ah, forget it.
777
00:34:07,132 --> 00:34:08,872
Who wants
to go to a discotheque?
778
00:34:09,047 --> 00:34:09,917
[cheering]
779
00:34:10,744 --> 00:34:12,224
[whooping]
780
00:34:13,355 --> 00:34:15,531
Everybody was in a good mood,
quite merry.
781
00:34:15,705 --> 00:34:17,533
And we'’re driving
out of Bearsden,
782
00:34:17,707 --> 00:34:19,318
towards Glasgow,
783
00:34:19,492 --> 00:34:20,797
fairly fast.
784
00:34:21,537 --> 00:34:23,539
And the next thing we hear,
785
00:34:23,713 --> 00:34:25,498
a police siren
coming up the road,
786
00:34:25,672 --> 00:34:27,413
but quite far behind
us, though.
787
00:34:27,761 --> 00:34:30,416
And Brandon,
his face turned white.
788
00:34:30,981 --> 00:34:32,722
[police siren wailing]
789
00:34:35,247 --> 00:34:37,118
Stuart: And he sort of said
"Guys, guys,
790
00:34:37,292 --> 00:34:38,728
eh there'’s the police
coming up."
791
00:34:38,902 --> 00:34:40,426
"I think I might
have been speeding."
792
00:34:40,600 --> 00:34:42,167
"They'’re going to pull
me over."
793
00:34:42,341 --> 00:34:44,038
'When I show them
my driver'’s license,
794
00:34:44,212 --> 00:34:46,475
it'’s going to be under
a slightly different name."”
795
00:34:47,911 --> 00:34:50,436
And we were like "“What?
What are you talking about?"”
796
00:34:50,914 --> 00:34:53,743
And he said "“I'’ve got
this driver's license, you see,
797
00:34:53,917 --> 00:34:56,355
and my dad gave it to me."”
798
00:34:57,486 --> 00:34:58,922
And we'’re like "“Okay."”
799
00:34:59,097 --> 00:35:00,663
He said, "But the way
he had to do it is,
800
00:35:00,837 --> 00:35:03,101
is somebody else'’s name
and date of birth on it."
801
00:35:03,579 --> 00:35:05,320
And he said his Dad was some
802
00:35:05,494 --> 00:35:08,193
kind of attaché
to the Canadian embassy.
803
00:35:08,367 --> 00:35:10,412
You know, people thought
he might be a spy.
804
00:35:10,586 --> 00:35:12,458
He said, "Don'’t worry,
the police will look at it
805
00:35:12,632 --> 00:35:15,243
and it will all be fine.
Just let me do the talking."
806
00:35:15,417 --> 00:35:16,505
"Please don'’t say anything."
807
00:35:16,679 --> 00:35:18,028
"Don'’t get my Dad into trouble."
808
00:35:18,203 --> 00:35:19,421
"This could be
really bad for him."
809
00:35:19,813 --> 00:35:21,771
[police siren wailing]
810
00:35:22,032 --> 00:35:23,556
He's kind of now going at
811
00:35:23,730 --> 00:35:26,167
thirty miles an hour
with white knuckles
812
00:35:26,341 --> 00:35:28,822
panicking that this police car
is going to pull him over.
813
00:35:28,996 --> 00:35:31,781
But in the end, the police car
just went racing past us.
814
00:35:35,176 --> 00:35:37,178
And uh,
we just kind of forgot about it.
815
00:35:37,352 --> 00:35:40,050
We went out into town
and had a good night.
816
00:35:45,839 --> 00:35:47,710
[phone keys beeping]
817
00:35:48,189 --> 00:35:49,756
[line ringing]
818
00:35:49,973 --> 00:35:51,149
Good afternoon,
819
00:35:51,323 --> 00:35:52,585
Bearsden Academy,
Janice speaking.
820
00:35:52,933 --> 00:35:54,456
Mr. Gunn: One lunch time
there was a phone call
821
00:35:54,674 --> 00:35:56,589
saying that his father had died.
822
00:35:56,763 --> 00:35:58,939
This is the father
who lived in London.
823
00:35:59,809 --> 00:36:02,551
And the office
had asked me to go
824
00:36:02,725 --> 00:36:04,423
and try and find him
and tell him.
825
00:36:06,860 --> 00:36:10,037
I said "“Has your father
been ill recently?"”
826
00:36:10,211 --> 00:36:12,039
And he said
that he had been ill.
827
00:36:12,300 --> 00:36:14,607
And I said "“Well, I'’m sorry
to tell you, he'’s died."”
828
00:36:17,697 --> 00:36:19,525
And his immediate reaction was,
829
00:36:19,699 --> 00:36:22,658
"“Oh, I thought I was maybe
in trouble for something."”
830
00:36:22,832 --> 00:36:24,225
Which seemed rather strange,
831
00:36:24,399 --> 00:36:26,793
after I just told him
his father had died.
832
00:36:28,925 --> 00:36:30,362
Brandon: I know all about death,
833
00:36:31,232 --> 00:36:32,842
sudden death, and...
834
00:36:33,234 --> 00:36:35,628
you know,
that it can come at any moment
835
00:36:36,542 --> 00:36:38,544
so I just...
I just live in the moment
836
00:36:42,330 --> 00:36:44,550
Nicola: Brandon and his Gran
seemed really close.
837
00:36:44,724 --> 00:36:47,727
But obviously his Mum
had died, his Dad had died.
838
00:36:47,901 --> 00:36:49,729
Then so she was all he had.
839
00:36:50,947 --> 00:36:53,689
She was now
a mother figure to him.
840
00:36:57,302 --> 00:36:58,955
Brandon:
They weren'’t taking students
841
00:36:59,173 --> 00:37:00,914
directly from fifth year
to medical school anymore.
842
00:37:01,088 --> 00:37:02,742
They hadn'’t for a few years.
843
00:37:04,004 --> 00:37:05,484
But after he died...
844
00:37:05,658 --> 00:37:07,181
I just decided really quickly
845
00:37:07,486 --> 00:37:09,096
that was what I was going to do.
846
00:37:09,270 --> 00:37:10,837
I was going to turn that around
847
00:37:11,316 --> 00:37:12,752
and that was my plan.
848
00:37:14,014 --> 00:37:17,844
Stefen: It got to
our Higher exams. And...
849
00:37:18,061 --> 00:37:19,802
as expected by everyone,
850
00:37:20,107 --> 00:37:21,543
he got all As.
851
00:37:22,283 --> 00:37:26,635
And I knew he was going on
to do medicine at Dundee.
852
00:37:28,507 --> 00:37:30,204
The staff were
certainly concerned
853
00:37:30,378 --> 00:37:33,773
that he was going to do medicine
straight from fifth year.
854
00:37:33,947 --> 00:37:35,557
Come on, boy.
855
00:37:35,862 --> 00:37:37,603
Mrs. Montgomery: Medicine is too
difficult to do that.
856
00:37:37,777 --> 00:37:40,562
And some of the teachers
had spoken to him about it,
857
00:37:41,302 --> 00:37:45,437
saying that really
you'’re a bit young to be going.
858
00:37:45,611 --> 00:37:48,266
You really should
wait the extra year.
859
00:37:48,614 --> 00:37:50,485
And he wouldn'’t do it,
860
00:37:50,703 --> 00:37:51,617
he wouldn'’t take the advice.
861
00:37:55,360 --> 00:37:56,839
Brandon:
When I went up to Dundee,
862
00:37:57,013 --> 00:37:58,754
everything was right
and it was in place
863
00:37:58,928 --> 00:38:00,103
and I was happy.
864
00:38:02,323 --> 00:38:04,760
Medicine was...
It was like the tide, you know?
865
00:38:05,283 --> 00:38:07,459
I was always going to do that.
There was nothing else.
866
00:38:09,112 --> 00:38:11,811
That'’s the direction.
There'’s never been another one.
867
00:38:14,944 --> 00:38:16,076
And then...
868
00:38:16,337 --> 00:38:17,991
the tide somehow got stopped.
869
00:38:27,566 --> 00:38:28,871
Neil: Sometimes we would see
870
00:38:29,045 --> 00:38:30,569
his car parked
at Bearsden Station.
871
00:38:30,743 --> 00:38:32,919
And that'’s how we knew
he was back in Glasgow.
872
00:38:33,136 --> 00:38:34,660
Mrs. Montgomery:
I knew that things
873
00:38:34,834 --> 00:38:36,096
hadn'’t worked out for him
in Dundee
874
00:38:36,270 --> 00:38:38,272
because of the grapevine.
875
00:38:38,446 --> 00:38:39,752
I didn'’t know
876
00:38:40,579 --> 00:38:42,798
why it had gone wrong.
877
00:38:42,972 --> 00:38:46,585
But obviously,
a lot of people were saying,
878
00:38:46,846 --> 00:38:49,065
"“Well, I told you so,
he was too young."
879
00:38:49,239 --> 00:38:53,026
So, a few of us went
round to his house.
880
00:38:53,896 --> 00:38:55,811
[knocking]
881
00:38:57,683 --> 00:38:59,337
Brandon: Almost as soon as
I got back from Dundee,
882
00:38:59,554 --> 00:39:01,121
five of them
came to the door.
883
00:39:01,295 --> 00:39:02,862
They hammered, and hammered,
and hammered
884
00:39:03,036 --> 00:39:04,559
I had to go to the door.
885
00:39:05,212 --> 00:39:07,214
That'’s when he told us the news.
886
00:39:07,693 --> 00:39:09,825
I'’ve had to quit university.
887
00:39:10,217 --> 00:39:11,827
It'’s okay, they'’ve said I can
888
00:39:12,001 --> 00:39:14,047
start again next year
when you guys do.
889
00:39:14,700 --> 00:39:16,397
But why, Brandon?
890
00:39:17,529 --> 00:39:19,182
It'’s my Grandmother, she...
891
00:39:20,140 --> 00:39:21,663
she died.
892
00:39:24,536 --> 00:39:26,102
Nicola: Obviously, we knew
893
00:39:26,276 --> 00:39:27,582
he had lost his mother
and his father already.
894
00:39:27,756 --> 00:39:29,758
And his Gran was all he had.
895
00:39:29,932 --> 00:39:31,630
And that'’s why he
was living in Scotland
with her.
896
00:39:31,804 --> 00:39:34,894
So, now to lose her as well
he was totally alone in life.
897
00:39:35,068 --> 00:39:36,635
And it was heart-breaking.
898
00:39:37,984 --> 00:39:39,551
My Grandma had died
899
00:39:39,725 --> 00:39:42,075
and they just wanted
to be nice friends, you know.
900
00:39:42,249 --> 00:39:43,946
- [girl speaking indistinctly]
- Come out and we'’ll help you.
901
00:39:44,207 --> 00:39:45,687
Or we'’ll take you for a drink.
902
00:39:45,861 --> 00:39:47,167
Or will take you
for something to eat.
903
00:39:47,428 --> 00:39:49,299
You know, sympathy,
just people being nice.
904
00:39:49,865 --> 00:39:52,651
And that'’s when...
the holiday came about.
905
00:39:53,260 --> 00:39:54,870
[phone ringing]
906
00:39:55,044 --> 00:39:56,045
Uh, hello?
907
00:39:56,219 --> 00:39:58,570
Hi Brandon, it'’s Jemma.
908
00:39:59,048 --> 00:40:01,442
- Yeah, from school.
- Oh.
909
00:40:01,964 --> 00:40:03,923
Nicola: Jemma attracted people
910
00:40:04,227 --> 00:40:05,359
that maybe needed friendship.
911
00:40:05,533 --> 00:40:07,535
Jemma was a collector of people.
912
00:40:07,709 --> 00:40:09,537
I think that'’s the best way
to describe her.
913
00:40:09,755 --> 00:40:10,973
How are you doing Brandon?
914
00:40:11,147 --> 00:40:13,106
I'’ve not seen you in ages.
915
00:40:13,323 --> 00:40:16,718
Nicola: I don'’t think she became
as friendly with Brandon
916
00:40:16,936 --> 00:40:19,460
until he actually left school.
917
00:40:20,461 --> 00:40:22,985
Which seems bizarre
thinking back.
918
00:40:23,159 --> 00:40:25,597
I don'’t really know
how that became the case.
919
00:40:26,075 --> 00:40:29,078
Listen Brandon, do you
remember my friend Cheryl?
920
00:40:29,252 --> 00:40:30,428
[giggling]
921
00:40:30,602 --> 00:40:32,604
Her and I were
just talking about you.
922
00:40:33,996 --> 00:40:36,608
Nicola: Cheryl was a girl
from Bearsden
923
00:40:36,782 --> 00:40:39,437
who... was quite upper-class.
924
00:40:39,698 --> 00:40:41,003
- Can you believe...
- Nicola: She...
925
00:40:41,177 --> 00:40:43,310
wanted to go to Uni
and become a doctor.
926
00:40:43,832 --> 00:40:44,833
Same as Brandon.
927
00:40:47,880 --> 00:40:50,404
Cheryl wasn'’t one of my
favorite persons in those days.
928
00:40:50,578 --> 00:40:53,276
She could be
quite a nasty person.
929
00:40:54,843 --> 00:40:56,236
Kirsten: She was...
930
00:40:56,410 --> 00:40:57,846
A good kid.
931
00:40:58,151 --> 00:40:59,500
Very nice girl.
932
00:41:00,762 --> 00:41:03,504
That Cheryl
was a nasty piece of work.
933
00:41:03,939 --> 00:41:05,027
[laughs]
934
00:41:05,288 --> 00:41:06,638
Cheryl, I...
935
00:41:06,899 --> 00:41:08,248
I wouldn'’t say she was
a nice person,
936
00:41:08,422 --> 00:41:10,076
uh, from experience.
937
00:41:11,730 --> 00:41:13,558
Ugh, for god's sake.
938
00:41:13,732 --> 00:41:15,777
Get out my way, boy.
939
00:41:15,995 --> 00:41:17,562
Shan: Cheryl was definitely
one of those kids
940
00:41:17,736 --> 00:41:18,954
that felt she was a
bit elevated
941
00:41:19,128 --> 00:41:21,217
over most other people
in the class.
942
00:41:21,391 --> 00:41:23,524
I'’m sure she'’s lovely now,
but...
943
00:41:24,003 --> 00:41:26,440
She was sometimes just mean
to people for the sake of
944
00:41:26,614 --> 00:41:28,094
it I think.
945
00:41:29,225 --> 00:41:30,357
It was just in her nature.
946
00:41:30,879 --> 00:41:33,316
- Cheryl'’s had this great idea.
- [giggling]
947
00:41:33,491 --> 00:41:35,797
We should all go
on holiday together.
948
00:41:36,668 --> 00:41:38,060
I didn'’t even know this girl.
949
00:41:38,234 --> 00:41:39,627
She wants to go on holiday.
950
00:41:39,801 --> 00:41:41,324
They wouldn'’t take no
for an answer.
951
00:41:41,673 --> 00:41:43,457
Look, it'’s not just us.
952
00:41:43,892 --> 00:41:45,590
I'’ve asked Nicola to come too.
953
00:41:45,764 --> 00:41:48,418
And you know her from
the school musical, don'’t you?
954
00:41:49,202 --> 00:41:51,639
Nicola: Jemma was really keen
for me to go on holiday,
955
00:41:51,813 --> 00:41:54,773
so, I ended up going
away with Jemma, Cheryl,
956
00:41:55,208 --> 00:41:57,297
and at the time... Brandon Lee.
957
00:42:00,953 --> 00:42:04,043
This is going to be
the best holiday ever.
958
00:42:04,260 --> 00:42:07,916
England. England.
959
00:42:08,264 --> 00:42:09,701
I don'’t really understand
960
00:42:09,875 --> 00:42:11,746
the relationship between,
you know,
961
00:42:11,920 --> 00:42:13,618
Cheryl and Jemma
962
00:42:14,053 --> 00:42:16,185
and Nicola and Brandon.
963
00:42:16,446 --> 00:42:18,144
I didn'’t even know
they were friends.
964
00:42:18,318 --> 00:42:20,625
I was like oh,
are they all friends?
965
00:42:20,799 --> 00:42:21,756
Yeah.
966
00:42:21,974 --> 00:42:24,063
Cheers guys-- here'’s to us.
967
00:42:24,237 --> 00:42:25,891
- Chin-chin!
- Cheers!
968
00:42:26,065 --> 00:42:27,588
- Man: Cheers.
- Gemma: Happy Holidays
969
00:42:27,806 --> 00:42:29,285
Interviewer: Would you have gone
on holiday on your own
970
00:42:29,503 --> 00:42:31,113
- with three girls?
- No, definitely not.
971
00:42:31,287 --> 00:42:32,462
They would never have asked me.
972
00:42:32,637 --> 00:42:33,638
No.
973
00:42:33,942 --> 00:42:35,553
[laughs]
974
00:42:35,988 --> 00:42:37,642
You'd have been happy
to go down the shops
975
00:42:37,816 --> 00:42:39,121
with three girls at that age.
976
00:42:39,948 --> 00:42:41,820
♪ Dale a tu cuerpo
Alegría Macarena ♪
977
00:42:41,994 --> 00:42:44,518
♪ Que tu cuerpo es pa' darle
Alegría y cosa buena ♪
978
00:42:44,692 --> 00:42:46,912
♪ Dale a tu cuerpo, alegría
Macarena ♪
979
00:42:47,216 --> 00:42:49,088
♪ Hey Macarena, ay ♪
980
00:42:49,305 --> 00:42:53,353
The holiday was your
average 17-year-olds holiday.
981
00:42:53,527 --> 00:42:55,529
Eh, until everything
went a bit mad.
982
00:42:55,834 --> 00:42:57,313
Look out, Brandon! Brandon!
983
00:42:57,487 --> 00:42:59,228
You spilt my drink.
984
00:42:59,402 --> 00:43:01,796
There was some...
trouble in a pub.
985
00:43:02,101 --> 00:43:04,277
He got into some bother,
a fight, in a pub.
986
00:43:04,451 --> 00:43:06,496
- What'’s your problem, dude?
- Brandon, no!
987
00:43:06,671 --> 00:43:07,976
You feel lucky, punk?
988
00:43:08,368 --> 00:43:10,109
Police were called,
and he ended up in jail.
989
00:43:10,283 --> 00:43:11,763
- [police siren]
- Brandon!
990
00:43:11,937 --> 00:43:13,547
This has ruined my holiday!
991
00:43:13,721 --> 00:43:15,636
They went back to the apartment
to get his passport.
992
00:43:15,810 --> 00:43:17,333
And there was two passports.
993
00:43:17,507 --> 00:43:21,468
One had one identity,
one had another identity.
994
00:43:21,642 --> 00:43:23,601
Because that'’s
how he got caught, didn'’t he?
995
00:43:23,775 --> 00:43:26,168
With having two passports.
996
00:43:27,126 --> 00:43:29,215
Jemma, look at this.
997
00:43:29,389 --> 00:43:30,912
Which one is he?
998
00:43:31,130 --> 00:43:34,220
Well, that was Brandon,
banged up abroad, shocking!
999
00:43:34,394 --> 00:43:36,614
♪ Hey Macarena, ay ♪
1000
00:43:37,310 --> 00:43:39,573
I think that'’s
the official story.
1001
00:43:39,747 --> 00:43:41,270
Is it... Is it?
1002
00:43:41,662 --> 00:43:43,316
Sunburn and a criminal record.
1003
00:43:44,404 --> 00:43:47,059
That'’s the official
rumored story.
1004
00:43:47,799 --> 00:43:50,366
Is that so--
Have you heard that story?
1005
00:43:50,540 --> 00:43:53,152
♪ Hey Macarena, ay ♪
1006
00:43:53,326 --> 00:43:55,371
What Cheryl did
the minute she came home,
1007
00:43:55,545 --> 00:43:57,591
she told her parents.
1008
00:43:58,592 --> 00:44:01,987
And her mother went
to Bearsden Academy
1009
00:44:02,727 --> 00:44:04,076
to see Mr. Mcleod.
1010
00:44:04,859 --> 00:44:07,427
[indistinct]
1011
00:44:07,601 --> 00:44:10,082
Thank you for bringing
this to my attention.
1012
00:44:10,256 --> 00:44:11,736
I will investigate further.
1013
00:44:11,910 --> 00:44:13,041
Cheryl's mother:
I should think so.
1014
00:44:13,346 --> 00:44:15,391
[school bell ringing]
1015
00:44:21,310 --> 00:44:23,661
Mr. Mcleod asked me
to come into his room
1016
00:44:23,835 --> 00:44:27,360
to look at a photograph
from some years before.
1017
00:44:28,187 --> 00:44:30,058
And said "Does that
remind you of anyone?"
1018
00:44:30,842 --> 00:44:32,626
And we looked at the photograph
1019
00:44:32,887 --> 00:44:34,628
and we said, "“Not really, no."”
1020
00:44:34,802 --> 00:44:36,369
He said "“Brandon Lee?"”
1021
00:44:36,543 --> 00:44:39,807
Sir, do you think time travel
is feasible?
1022
00:44:40,286 --> 00:44:41,853
Well, Brandon,
1023
00:44:42,418 --> 00:44:44,290
we'’ve yet to meet anyone who'’s
travelled from another time.
1024
00:44:44,464 --> 00:44:47,336
So, I'’d say that proves
that it'’s not possible.
1025
00:44:47,859 --> 00:44:49,164
Huh.
1026
00:44:49,599 --> 00:44:52,428
Impossible imshmossible,
you can get around impossible.
1027
00:44:52,951 --> 00:44:55,127
I watched Mission Impossible
when I was little.
1028
00:44:55,301 --> 00:44:57,346
And that was
very influential for me,
1029
00:44:57,520 --> 00:44:59,218
especially the first season.
1030
00:45:00,175 --> 00:45:02,612
Mr. Gunn: I didn'’t
recognize his photograph
1031
00:45:02,787 --> 00:45:05,833
to the Brandon Lee
I knew in my Physics class.
1032
00:45:06,138 --> 00:45:07,705
It looked like a...
1033
00:45:08,183 --> 00:45:09,489
fifteen-year-old boy.
1034
00:45:14,712 --> 00:45:16,626
Brandon:
I got a letter from Mcleod.
1035
00:45:16,801 --> 00:45:18,237
"Something has come
to my attention
1036
00:45:18,411 --> 00:45:20,152
that may affect your
future and education."
1037
00:45:20,326 --> 00:45:22,284
"Could you make an
appointment to see me?"
1038
00:45:24,678 --> 00:45:25,940
Hello, Bran...
1039
00:45:26,593 --> 00:45:27,942
Come in.
1040
00:45:29,161 --> 00:45:30,771
Brandon: Mcleod had this folder.
1041
00:45:31,337 --> 00:45:32,686
This document
1042
00:45:32,947 --> 00:45:34,993
your report card
from one year ago.
1043
00:45:35,210 --> 00:45:36,516
He said,
1044
00:45:36,908 --> 00:45:38,213
"I compiled it from the reports
from various teachers."
1045
00:45:38,387 --> 00:45:39,867
"I'’ve never written
a better report.
1046
00:45:40,215 --> 00:45:43,566
Now, this document
is a report card for a pupil
1047
00:45:43,741 --> 00:45:45,264
who first attended this school
1048
00:45:45,438 --> 00:45:47,353
twenty years ago.
1049
00:45:48,397 --> 00:45:50,182
Brandon: He showed me
the report for him.
1050
00:45:50,356 --> 00:45:52,140
He said I shouldn'’t be
showing you this but, you know,
1051
00:45:52,314 --> 00:45:53,533
it is ten out of ten.
1052
00:45:53,707 --> 00:45:55,361
You can see it is very similar.
1053
00:45:55,927 --> 00:45:58,973
You do realize,
as far as I'’m concerned,
1054
00:45:59,365 --> 00:46:01,976
it would appear that you'’re
not who you say you are.
1055
00:46:02,629 --> 00:46:04,936
Yeah, I knew something bad
was going to happen then.
1056
00:46:05,153 --> 00:46:07,329
So, I decided that I was going
1057
00:46:07,547 --> 00:46:09,375
to get on the first plane
in the morning.
1058
00:46:11,856 --> 00:46:14,467
One of the office staff
came to me
1059
00:46:15,163 --> 00:46:16,556
and asked me...
1060
00:46:17,296 --> 00:46:18,601
Hi Ronna,
1061
00:46:19,037 --> 00:46:20,560
do you by any chance
have a copy of that videotape
1062
00:46:20,734 --> 00:46:22,257
that was done of South Pacific?
1063
00:46:22,431 --> 00:46:24,694
I'’m trying to get a hold of one
really urgently.
1064
00:46:24,999 --> 00:46:27,306
I managed to get a hold
of one for her
1065
00:46:27,741 --> 00:46:29,743
and I gave her it.
1066
00:46:29,917 --> 00:46:31,266
And she said to me,
1067
00:46:31,440 --> 00:46:34,226
as she was leaving my classroom,
1068
00:46:34,400 --> 00:46:36,663
Watch the six o'’clock
news tonight, Ronna.
1069
00:46:36,837 --> 00:46:38,491
You'’ll find it interesting.
1070
00:46:39,057 --> 00:46:41,929
So, I went home and remembered
1071
00:46:42,582 --> 00:46:43,975
to watch the news.
1072
00:46:44,410 --> 00:46:46,847
[news tune]
1073
00:46:51,721 --> 00:46:54,246
Tonight, we can reveal
that a thirty-two-year-old man
1074
00:46:54,420 --> 00:46:56,552
has spent the
last year posing as a...
1075
00:46:56,857 --> 00:46:58,424
Sixteen-year-old schoolboy.
1076
00:46:58,598 --> 00:46:59,904
And I'’m thinking
1077
00:47:00,078 --> 00:47:01,906
what fucking idiot
has fell for that?
1078
00:47:02,602 --> 00:47:04,386
Bearsden Academy...
1079
00:47:04,865 --> 00:47:05,866
What?
1080
00:47:06,998 --> 00:47:08,913
And instantly you think:
Brandon!
1081
00:47:09,174 --> 00:47:10,915
This is the bizarre case
of the schoolboy
1082
00:47:11,089 --> 00:47:13,787
who is thirty-two years old.
1083
00:47:14,092 --> 00:47:15,354
I was...
1084
00:47:16,834 --> 00:47:19,271
absolutely astonished.
1085
00:47:19,445 --> 00:47:20,794
I couldn'’t...
1086
00:47:21,577 --> 00:47:23,753
I couldn'’t comprehend
what I was feeling.
1087
00:47:24,406 --> 00:47:27,496
Reporter: Brandon Lee was rather
older than his classmates.
1088
00:47:28,236 --> 00:47:30,151
About fifteen years older.
1089
00:47:31,413 --> 00:47:33,328
I knew there was something
about that guy.
1090
00:47:33,502 --> 00:47:35,287
Brandon Lee was not Brandon Lee.
1091
00:47:35,461 --> 00:47:37,724
He was no teenager either,
he was thirty-two!
1092
00:47:37,898 --> 00:47:40,596
I remember just being
utterly shocked.
1093
00:47:40,770 --> 00:47:44,165
And I remember finding it
quite hilarious at the time.
1094
00:47:44,339 --> 00:47:45,775
Sean, how old are you, mate?
1095
00:47:45,950 --> 00:47:48,387
- Uh, fifty-six.
- [laughter]
1096
00:47:48,561 --> 00:47:50,345
But Brandon being twice our age
1097
00:47:50,519 --> 00:47:52,870
wasn'’t even the most
shocking part of the story.
1098
00:47:53,044 --> 00:47:55,916
Brandon Lee studied
for a year at his old academy.
1099
00:47:56,264 --> 00:47:59,964
He went back to school
he originally went to.
1100
00:48:00,138 --> 00:48:01,748
Brandon Lee was
1101
00:48:01,922 --> 00:48:03,532
originally enrolled here
in 1975.
1102
00:48:03,706 --> 00:48:05,665
He was
at Bearsden Academy before this?
1103
00:48:05,839 --> 00:48:07,536
- Yes!
- Huh?
1104
00:48:07,710 --> 00:48:09,016
From that moment on,
1105
00:48:09,234 --> 00:48:10,757
it was just a media circus.
1106
00:48:10,931 --> 00:48:12,193
To that end, the authorities...
1107
00:48:12,367 --> 00:48:13,760
David: At the front gate,
1108
00:48:13,934 --> 00:48:16,371
it was packed with reporters,
TV cameras.
1109
00:48:16,676 --> 00:48:19,897
People were running after you
with microphones.
1110
00:48:20,985 --> 00:48:22,682
The streets were buzzing.
1111
00:48:22,987 --> 00:48:24,902
We didn'’t really
suspect anything at all.
1112
00:48:25,076 --> 00:48:27,252
We were outside the school,
Billy Big Balls,
1113
00:48:27,513 --> 00:48:29,471
waiting for our
fifteen minutes.
1114
00:48:29,645 --> 00:48:31,212
Everybody was a bit shocked
when he first turned up,
1115
00:48:31,386 --> 00:48:32,779
because he looked
like a teacher sort of thing.
1116
00:48:32,953 --> 00:48:34,650
Did he have some
kind of cosmetic surgery?
1117
00:48:34,824 --> 00:48:38,219
Because it was a rather
mask-like face that he had.
1118
00:48:38,393 --> 00:48:39,612
It was an unusual face.
1119
00:48:40,743 --> 00:48:42,745
Woman: The headmaster,
Norman Macleod,
1120
00:48:42,920 --> 00:48:46,053
says Brandon Lee certainly
made an impact on him.
1121
00:48:46,227 --> 00:48:47,925
He really was an ideal pupil.
1122
00:48:48,099 --> 00:48:52,233
A polite, well-spoken,
gentlemanly young man.
1123
00:48:52,407 --> 00:48:53,756
Y'’know he managed
to keep his story
1124
00:48:53,974 --> 00:48:55,062
constant all the time,
1125
00:48:55,236 --> 00:48:56,411
and never let it slip at all.
1126
00:48:56,585 --> 00:48:58,413
His mother was an opera singer.
1127
00:48:58,587 --> 00:49:01,982
He had toured the world
with his mother.
1128
00:49:02,330 --> 00:49:04,506
He told us
that both his parents had died
1129
00:49:04,680 --> 00:49:06,030
and he was living
with his grandma.
1130
00:49:06,204 --> 00:49:08,075
A string of lies
1131
00:49:08,728 --> 00:49:11,209
that spans a whole year.
1132
00:49:11,383 --> 00:49:12,819
And he was being taught
1133
00:49:13,037 --> 00:49:14,516
by the same teachers
that taught him back then!
1134
00:49:14,690 --> 00:49:16,823
Reporter: Around forty teachers,
half the staff,
1135
00:49:16,997 --> 00:49:18,781
had worked there at the time,
1136
00:49:18,956 --> 00:49:21,088
but none recognized him.
1137
00:49:21,262 --> 00:49:22,916
Mrs. Montgomery:
Many of the teachers
1138
00:49:23,090 --> 00:49:24,874
who had taught him said
1139
00:49:25,179 --> 00:49:28,356
"“I wondered who it was
he put me in mind of."”
1140
00:49:28,530 --> 00:49:30,054
A lot of our viewers
might be thinking,
1141
00:49:30,228 --> 00:49:31,969
how on Earth could the.
teachers have been taken in
1142
00:49:32,143 --> 00:49:34,101
After all, some of them
taught him the first time round.
1143
00:49:34,493 --> 00:49:35,668
Interviewer:
If you were teaching there
1144
00:49:35,842 --> 00:49:37,409
in the 1970s,
1145
00:49:37,583 --> 00:49:39,715
how did you not recognize him
again in the 90s?
1146
00:49:40,325 --> 00:49:42,980
Oh, because he had
changed physically quite a bit.
1147
00:49:43,545 --> 00:49:45,243
He did look much older.
1148
00:49:45,895 --> 00:49:46,766
What?
1149
00:49:46,940 --> 00:49:48,333
[laughing]
1150
00:49:48,507 --> 00:49:51,118
Tell us what you know
of Brandon Lee.
1151
00:49:52,163 --> 00:49:55,122
At this stage and time,
we don'’t know a great deal.
1152
00:49:55,296 --> 00:49:58,082
We have not yet
definitively identified
1153
00:49:58,299 --> 00:50:00,388
his previous name.
1154
00:50:00,562 --> 00:50:03,348
But that is the subject
of discussion later today.
1155
00:50:03,565 --> 00:50:04,871
[knocking]
1156
00:50:08,005 --> 00:50:10,137
Opened the front door and...
1157
00:50:10,703 --> 00:50:12,313
it'’s mid-morning.
1158
00:50:12,487 --> 00:50:15,186
And there were journalists
at the front door,
1159
00:50:15,534 --> 00:50:17,492
immediately asking,
"Am I Brian Mackinnon?"
1160
00:50:17,710 --> 00:50:19,451
Both: Are you Brian Mackinnon?
1161
00:50:20,278 --> 00:50:21,888
I had no idea.
I was Brian Mackinnon.
1162
00:50:22,062 --> 00:50:23,542
Reporters: It'’s Brian.
It'’s Brian Mackinnon.
1163
00:50:23,716 --> 00:50:25,370
Brian Mackinnon,
why did you do it?
1164
00:50:25,674 --> 00:50:27,589
How old am I? Am I thirty-two?
1165
00:50:27,763 --> 00:50:30,157
How have you made yourself
look so young Brian?
1166
00:50:30,331 --> 00:50:31,332
Am I seventeen?
1167
00:50:31,506 --> 00:50:33,030
Have you
had the plastic surgery?
1168
00:50:33,204 --> 00:50:34,683
Brian: At the time,
I just thought,
1169
00:50:34,857 --> 00:50:36,381
why do they want to
know who Brian Mackinnon is
1170
00:50:36,555 --> 00:50:38,426
and what Brian Mackinnon'’s done?
1171
00:50:39,210 --> 00:50:41,995
Well, most people these days
can'’t wait to leave school.
1172
00:50:42,169 --> 00:50:44,606
But not thirty-two-year-old,
Brian Mackinnon.
1173
00:50:44,911 --> 00:50:46,043
Oh shit.
1174
00:50:46,217 --> 00:50:47,609
Newsreader: He managed to fool
1175
00:50:47,783 --> 00:50:49,698
the education authorities
into believing
1176
00:50:50,003 --> 00:50:51,918
that he was actually
seventeen-year-old,
Brandon Lee.
1177
00:50:52,136 --> 00:50:54,486
Seventeen-year-old
Brian Mackinnon watching this.
1178
00:50:54,660 --> 00:50:56,096
My mind was blown!
1179
00:50:56,270 --> 00:50:57,402
I mean -
1180
00:50:57,576 --> 00:50:59,012
It was his pal.
1181
00:50:59,839 --> 00:51:02,363
His pal who is
a thirty-two-year-old man
1182
00:51:02,537 --> 00:51:05,627
and it'’s his pal that'’s got
the same fucking name as him.
1183
00:51:05,932 --> 00:51:07,412
It was-- why?
1184
00:51:07,586 --> 00:51:08,935
Was the first question.
1185
00:51:09,109 --> 00:51:10,545
Why did he do it?
1186
00:51:11,024 --> 00:51:12,765
Interviewer: He had a burning
ambition to study medicine.
1187
00:51:12,939 --> 00:51:14,419
Yes.
1188
00:51:14,680 --> 00:51:17,900
At thirty students
are deemed too old actually...
1189
00:51:18,118 --> 00:51:19,815
At thirty you are deemed
too old
1190
00:51:20,077 --> 00:51:21,643
to study in the medical field.
1191
00:51:21,817 --> 00:51:24,124
I think that'’s probably
the reason for all of this.
1192
00:51:24,385 --> 00:51:25,865
He then went
to university in Dundee
1193
00:51:26,039 --> 00:51:27,519
as a medical student.
1194
00:51:27,693 --> 00:51:29,869
But dropped out after one term,
1195
00:51:30,043 --> 00:51:32,132
claiming there was
a death in the family.
1196
00:51:32,350 --> 00:51:33,916
[knocking]
1197
00:51:34,569 --> 00:51:35,875
It'’s my grandmother.
1198
00:51:36,049 --> 00:51:37,224
She died.
1199
00:51:37,398 --> 00:51:38,660
[birds cawing]
1200
00:51:39,096 --> 00:51:41,315
He was totally alone in life,
it was heart-breaking.
1201
00:51:44,753 --> 00:51:46,451
Jono: The press finally found
1202
00:51:46,625 --> 00:51:47,887
the right Brian Mackinnon'’s
house.
1203
00:51:48,061 --> 00:51:49,628
And his car was outside,
1204
00:51:49,845 --> 00:51:51,412
but no one was coming or going.
1205
00:51:51,586 --> 00:51:53,240
And then a florist van arrived
1206
00:51:53,501 --> 00:51:55,024
and a bunch of
flowers got delivered.
1207
00:51:55,199 --> 00:51:56,591
And the door opened.
1208
00:51:56,852 --> 00:51:57,984
And there was...
1209
00:51:58,767 --> 00:52:00,813
Brandon'’s dead gran.
1210
00:52:01,379 --> 00:52:04,599
I think by the time we saw
Brandon'’s gran on the news,
1211
00:52:04,773 --> 00:52:06,123
we were past the
point of being surprised.
1212
00:52:06,297 --> 00:52:08,255
So, her rising from the dead,
1213
00:52:08,429 --> 00:52:10,866
it was just a case of
"Well, oh right then."
1214
00:52:12,172 --> 00:52:13,782
Neil: Brandon'’s grandmother
1215
00:52:14,000 --> 00:52:15,436
was besieged at her home
by reporters
1216
00:52:15,610 --> 00:52:17,046
and she didn'’t want
to leave the house.
1217
00:52:17,308 --> 00:52:19,179
We'’ll all go away,
if you come out and speak.
1218
00:52:23,488 --> 00:52:25,142
Gregor: So, at that point
the police showed up
1219
00:52:25,316 --> 00:52:26,491
and the reporters asked them
1220
00:52:26,665 --> 00:52:28,188
the identity of the woman
1221
00:52:28,362 --> 00:52:30,277
who just answered the door
and taken the flowers.
1222
00:52:30,451 --> 00:52:31,713
Man: She is
Brandon'’s mother though,
1223
00:52:31,887 --> 00:52:33,106
the so-called
"Brandon'’s mother"?
1224
00:52:33,324 --> 00:52:34,325
Well, I don'’t know
the full story,
1225
00:52:34,499 --> 00:52:35,891
so I wouldn'’t like to comment.
1226
00:52:36,370 --> 00:52:37,893
Man: But it'’s her son
that the news has been about?
1227
00:52:38,067 --> 00:52:39,417
It'’s her son
that you'’re all apparently here
1228
00:52:39,591 --> 00:52:41,070
to photograph and talk to.
1229
00:52:41,810 --> 00:52:43,551
It'’s her son?
1230
00:52:43,725 --> 00:52:45,249
Her son isn'’t there,
she doesn'’t know where he is.
1231
00:52:45,423 --> 00:52:47,903
So, not only is she not dead,
1232
00:52:48,252 --> 00:52:50,079
but she'’s not his gran either.
1233
00:52:50,254 --> 00:52:52,038
That'’s one of those realizations
that came on slow, I suppose.
1234
00:52:52,212 --> 00:52:53,431
I didn'’t...
1235
00:52:53,996 --> 00:52:55,215
I think we were still
referring to her as his gran.
1236
00:52:55,389 --> 00:52:56,521
Even though,
we now logically knew
1237
00:52:56,695 --> 00:52:58,087
that she couldn'’t be.
1238
00:52:58,479 --> 00:53:00,655
The story was that he was...
1239
00:53:00,829 --> 00:53:02,831
He lost his parents,
1240
00:53:03,180 --> 00:53:05,051
and his mum was his gran.
1241
00:53:05,225 --> 00:53:06,879
But his gran was his mum.
1242
00:53:07,184 --> 00:53:08,576
You know?
1243
00:53:08,924 --> 00:53:11,971
No, the story was
that Brandon'’s mum was dead
1244
00:53:12,145 --> 00:53:14,408
and then Brandon'’s
gran was dead.
1245
00:53:14,582 --> 00:53:16,454
But actually,
Brian'’s mum was alive
1246
00:53:16,628 --> 00:53:18,412
and she was Brandon'’s gran.
1247
00:53:18,586 --> 00:53:20,806
Who had been dead
but now was alive again.
1248
00:53:23,635 --> 00:53:25,593
Newsreader: The Peter Pan
of Bearsden Academy,
1249
00:53:25,767 --> 00:53:27,726
thirty-two-year-old,
Brian Mackinnon,
1250
00:53:27,900 --> 00:53:30,163
flew home on Saturday
amid rumors
1251
00:53:30,337 --> 00:53:32,644
that he had spent the
last week at a German clinic,
1252
00:53:32,818 --> 00:53:34,341
avoiding the furor
1253
00:53:34,515 --> 00:53:36,343
that he'’s been unmasked
as a fraud.
1254
00:53:36,778 --> 00:53:39,128
The press seemed
to be outside my door,
1255
00:53:39,303 --> 00:53:41,783
spinning nonsense
before I got back from Europe.
1256
00:53:42,393 --> 00:53:44,960
But I didn'’t see it as being
quite that big, you know.
1257
00:53:45,134 --> 00:53:46,266
To me It seemed
like a little thing
1258
00:53:46,440 --> 00:53:47,920
It was just a means to an end.
1259
00:53:48,137 --> 00:53:49,443
It should have occurred to me.
1260
00:53:49,704 --> 00:53:50,879
It was something
I was oblivious to maybe.
1261
00:53:51,053 --> 00:53:52,533
And I shouldn'’t have been
that...
1262
00:53:52,751 --> 00:53:55,406
that was sort of something new
in human history.
1263
00:53:55,623 --> 00:53:57,408
When Brian Mackinnon
returned home last night
1264
00:53:57,582 --> 00:53:58,844
by taxi at eight o'’clock,
1265
00:53:59,018 --> 00:54:00,715
he refused to talk
to waiting press.
1266
00:54:00,889 --> 00:54:02,369
But until he does so,
1267
00:54:02,717 --> 00:54:05,590
the intense media interest
in his story will continue.
1268
00:54:06,155 --> 00:54:08,593
Brandon: They misrepresented,
1269
00:54:08,984 --> 00:54:10,116
big time.
1270
00:54:11,335 --> 00:54:12,423
You know you get things
in the pr...
1271
00:54:12,597 --> 00:54:13,946
It has been suggested.
1272
00:54:14,120 --> 00:54:17,166
A source close to so and so
says that...
1273
00:54:17,341 --> 00:54:20,300
And finally, the strange story
of false identity,
1274
00:54:20,474 --> 00:54:23,260
dogged perseverance,
and momentary indiscretion.
1275
00:54:23,956 --> 00:54:25,523
Lee'’s secret was discovered
1276
00:54:25,697 --> 00:54:27,786
when he went on holiday
with former classmates
1277
00:54:27,960 --> 00:54:30,049
to Tenerife this summer.
1278
00:54:30,223 --> 00:54:32,704
There was a
disturbance at a bar
and Lee was arrested.
1279
00:54:33,270 --> 00:54:35,184
Police found
that Lee had two passports
1280
00:54:35,359 --> 00:54:37,404
One showing him at seventeen,
1281
00:54:37,665 --> 00:54:39,101
the other as thirty-two.
1282
00:54:39,276 --> 00:54:41,016
There was no two passports.
1283
00:54:41,190 --> 00:54:43,236
There was no fight
in a Spanish bar.
1284
00:54:43,410 --> 00:54:44,498
There was no police
1285
00:54:44,759 --> 00:54:46,370
and he was never
put in a Spanish prison.
1286
00:54:47,153 --> 00:54:49,851
None of that was true.
It was all lies
1287
00:54:55,509 --> 00:54:57,032
The minute
I arrived in Tenerife,
1288
00:54:57,206 --> 00:54:58,469
Jemma said to me...
1289
00:54:58,686 --> 00:55:00,775
Brandon'’s got something
to tell you.
1290
00:55:02,473 --> 00:55:04,301
Nicola: He then showed
me his passport
1291
00:55:04,518 --> 00:55:06,085
And that was when he said.
1292
00:55:06,259 --> 00:55:07,913
My name isn'’t Brandon Lee
1293
00:55:08,087 --> 00:55:09,828
and I'’m not a teenager.
1294
00:55:10,002 --> 00:55:12,178
So suddenly, as he got to
the end of the sentence,
1295
00:55:12,352 --> 00:55:14,180
the Canadian accent stopped
1296
00:55:14,615 --> 00:55:16,574
and he had a Scottish accent.
1297
00:55:16,965 --> 00:55:18,576
My name is Brian Mackinnon
1298
00:55:18,793 --> 00:55:20,578
and I'’m thirty-two years old.
1299
00:55:20,752 --> 00:55:21,927
[gasps]
1300
00:55:22,754 --> 00:55:24,059
Eleanor: I can'’t imagine what it
would have been like for them
1301
00:55:24,233 --> 00:55:26,758
to then be on holiday
with this old man.
1302
00:55:27,802 --> 00:55:31,066
Nicola: Jemma and Cheryl
knew prior to going on holiday.
1303
00:55:31,328 --> 00:55:33,547
I don'’t know why I wasn'’t told
prior to going on holiday.
1304
00:55:33,721 --> 00:55:35,680
But they did know
prior to going on holiday.
1305
00:55:36,245 --> 00:55:37,856
I know that to be a fact.
1306
00:55:38,596 --> 00:55:40,424
Nicola, can you
promise me something?
1307
00:55:40,598 --> 00:55:41,599
Nicola: And he said like,
1308
00:55:41,773 --> 00:55:43,601
please don'’t tell anyone.
1309
00:55:43,775 --> 00:55:45,516
Blah, blah, blah,
can you keep this a secret?
1310
00:55:45,690 --> 00:55:47,648
And I was like, "Not a problem."
1311
00:55:47,866 --> 00:55:49,215
Did not bother me at all.
1312
00:55:49,389 --> 00:55:50,999
And then we carried on.
We went out that night.
1313
00:55:51,173 --> 00:55:52,653
And carried on
like everything was normal.
1314
00:55:52,827 --> 00:55:55,003
It just, it didn't...
It didn'’t faze me.
1315
00:55:58,006 --> 00:56:00,705
I don'’t understand why he would
go away on holiday with them.
1316
00:56:02,707 --> 00:56:04,491
I didn'’t even know
they were friends.
1317
00:56:07,451 --> 00:56:08,843
It'’s just a little bit odd.
1318
00:56:09,061 --> 00:56:10,149
A little bit strange.
1319
00:56:12,064 --> 00:56:14,153
Nicola: The only explanation
I have is the fact
1320
00:56:14,327 --> 00:56:15,633
that he had people
that were his friends
1321
00:56:15,807 --> 00:56:17,112
and he wasn'’t
used to having that.
1322
00:56:17,286 --> 00:56:18,723
And he was caught up.
1323
00:56:18,897 --> 00:56:20,289
He was caught up
in the friendship.
1324
00:56:20,464 --> 00:56:21,900
And it was something
he wasn'’t used to
1325
00:56:22,161 --> 00:56:23,380
and he had
never had before.
1326
00:56:24,381 --> 00:56:26,383
It is just the most bizarre...
1327
00:56:27,209 --> 00:56:28,515
bizarre thing.
1328
00:56:29,734 --> 00:56:31,388
Gemma:
♪ Hey, Macarena ♪
1329
00:56:31,562 --> 00:56:32,780
[laughing]
1330
00:56:32,998 --> 00:56:34,739
- We totally nailed that.
- I know!
1331
00:56:35,087 --> 00:56:37,219
It was only one or two nights in
1332
00:56:37,916 --> 00:56:40,484
that the big fight happened.
1333
00:56:40,832 --> 00:56:42,790
[laughter]
1334
00:56:43,051 --> 00:56:45,097
Nicola: We came home
after a few drinks.
1335
00:56:45,271 --> 00:56:47,491
And the guys
from the apartment next door,
1336
00:56:47,665 --> 00:56:49,928
they basically trashed
the outside of our room.
1337
00:56:50,102 --> 00:56:51,712
And Cheryl went wild.
1338
00:56:51,930 --> 00:56:53,758
Like mental, she was furious.
1339
00:56:54,149 --> 00:56:55,455
I'’m going round...
1340
00:56:55,934 --> 00:56:57,544
Brandon: She'’d had a few
and she was uptight
1341
00:56:57,718 --> 00:56:59,241
and decided she was
going to sort them all out
1342
00:56:59,503 --> 00:57:01,722
And I thought, these guys
looked a wee bit iffy.
1343
00:57:01,896 --> 00:57:03,985
I'’m going round.
Don'’t try and stop me.
1344
00:57:04,246 --> 00:57:05,987
Brandon: I tried to stop her
and stood in her way.
1345
00:57:06,161 --> 00:57:07,511
Whoa, whoa. Cheryl, stop.
1346
00:57:08,033 --> 00:57:10,296
Nicola: Brian was trying
to calm her down at this point.
1347
00:57:10,818 --> 00:57:13,517
And... she just
wouldn'’t calm down.
1348
00:57:13,691 --> 00:57:15,301
I will not clam down.
1349
00:57:15,475 --> 00:57:17,521
I understand a bit
about the core
1350
00:57:17,695 --> 00:57:19,827
and the inception of hysteria
1351
00:57:20,001 --> 00:57:22,830
and how powerful
it is in adolescence.
1352
00:57:23,048 --> 00:57:24,484
[giggling]
1353
00:57:24,789 --> 00:57:26,530
Brandon: The forces
that can give rise to it
1354
00:57:26,704 --> 00:57:28,836
and the damage that can ensue,
if it gets out of control.
1355
00:57:29,010 --> 00:57:30,664
- [snickering]
- Those bastards!
1356
00:57:30,969 --> 00:57:33,275
Eventually,
I kind of went icy and said,
1357
00:57:33,580 --> 00:57:35,408
"If you want to go
and commit suicide,
1358
00:57:35,582 --> 00:57:37,149
don'’t drag us all into it."
1359
00:57:37,323 --> 00:57:39,151
Nicola: And then she
turned on him.
1360
00:57:39,456 --> 00:57:40,805
She was saying
1361
00:57:40,979 --> 00:57:42,981
like, "How dare you
tell me what to do?"
1362
00:57:43,155 --> 00:57:44,722
"You'’re not my Dad."
1363
00:57:44,983 --> 00:57:47,246
"You'’re not even who you
said you were" and all this.
1364
00:57:47,507 --> 00:57:48,726
"You'’re a liar."
1365
00:57:48,900 --> 00:57:50,379
Bringing all
that kind of stuff up.
1366
00:57:50,554 --> 00:57:52,556
Cheryl:
This is the worst holiday ever.
1367
00:57:52,730 --> 00:57:53,687
Brandon:
She didn'’t take that well.
1368
00:57:53,861 --> 00:57:55,254
She went crying into her room.
1369
00:57:55,472 --> 00:57:57,082
And the door would get slammed.
1370
00:57:57,256 --> 00:57:59,563
And the door would
get slammed again.
1371
00:58:00,259 --> 00:58:02,609
- [door slams]
- Brandon: And I figured, hmm,
1372
00:58:02,783 --> 00:58:04,176
female hysteria...
1373
00:58:04,481 --> 00:58:05,830
How is that going to pan out?
1374
00:58:07,179 --> 00:58:08,789
[birds chirping]
1375
00:58:09,094 --> 00:58:10,487
Nicola: The atmosphere
the next morning was awful.
1376
00:58:10,661 --> 00:58:11,792
I thought things
would have calmed down,
1377
00:58:12,010 --> 00:58:13,272
but no one was talking.
1378
00:58:15,230 --> 00:58:17,668
Hey, do you want
to walk down to the beach?
1379
00:58:17,842 --> 00:58:19,887
I was really intrigued
to learn this story
1380
00:58:20,061 --> 00:58:22,107
because it is such
an interesting story.
1381
00:58:22,281 --> 00:58:24,544
So, I would like sit down
and ask him about his life
1382
00:58:24,718 --> 00:58:26,764
and where it got
to the point he was.
1383
00:58:28,287 --> 00:58:30,985
So, you'’re not Canadian,
are you?
1384
00:58:31,159 --> 00:58:32,639
Where did you grow up?
1385
00:58:33,379 --> 00:58:35,599
Brandon: I moved to Bearsden
when I was twelve.
1386
00:58:36,164 --> 00:58:38,732
Before that we lived
in a place called Milton.
1387
00:58:39,298 --> 00:58:41,605
It was just a housing scheme...
1388
00:58:41,779 --> 00:58:43,302
Post-war, I think.
1389
00:58:43,476 --> 00:58:44,956
And I don'’t have
fond memories of it.
1390
00:58:45,130 --> 00:58:47,132
But it was concrete
and it was rough.
1391
00:58:47,524 --> 00:58:49,700
You know with gangs
and things like that.
1392
00:58:50,352 --> 00:58:51,615
And drugs were coming in.
1393
00:58:52,311 --> 00:58:54,748
And my mum decided
she was going to try
1394
00:58:54,922 --> 00:58:57,534
and get me right out of there.
1395
00:58:58,404 --> 00:59:00,624
[news theme music]
1396
00:59:00,885 --> 00:59:02,974
Woman: This baby boy
is two weeks old.
1397
00:59:03,148 --> 00:59:05,063
He'’s more than
twice as likely to die
1398
00:59:05,411 --> 00:59:07,065
before the age of sixty-five,
1399
00:59:07,239 --> 00:59:10,285
as a baby born less
than a mile away in Bearsden.
1400
00:59:12,374 --> 00:59:15,639
Brandon: So, then my Mum
got this job in Bearsden.
1401
00:59:15,813 --> 00:59:19,164
And we moved there
in October 1975.
1402
00:59:19,338 --> 00:59:23,647
♪ Sha-na-na,
sh-na-na-na-na-na ♪
1403
00:59:23,821 --> 00:59:25,474
Bearsden is the posh place
1404
00:59:25,649 --> 00:59:26,737
[chuckles]
1405
00:59:27,868 --> 00:59:29,566
Brandon: She wanted
what was best.
1406
00:59:30,262 --> 00:59:32,394
Woo, you'’re from Bearsden!
1407
00:59:32,656 --> 00:59:34,571
Bad things
don'’t really happen in Bearsden.
1408
00:59:35,484 --> 00:59:37,791
Brandon: My Mum had the notion
that Bearsden Academy
1409
00:59:38,052 --> 00:59:39,227
was as close
to a private school,
1410
00:59:39,401 --> 00:59:41,403
as she could get.
1411
00:59:41,578 --> 00:59:44,232
♪ I don'’t know what
They talk '‘bout in my school ♪
1412
00:59:44,406 --> 00:59:47,801
♪ But I seem to be
Like some kind a fool ♪
1413
00:59:47,975 --> 00:59:50,456
- - ♪ Sha-na-na, sh-na-na-na-na ♪
- ♪ Oh, yeah ♪
1414
00:59:51,022 --> 00:59:53,764
I remember my first day
at Bearsden Academy.
1415
00:59:54,329 --> 00:59:55,853
I noticed that the boys,
1416
00:59:56,027 --> 00:59:57,768
because they were
middle-class lads,
1417
00:59:57,942 --> 00:59:59,944
they were stronger,
more robust looking fellas,
1418
01:00:00,118 --> 01:00:01,510
and...
1419
01:00:02,076 --> 01:00:04,383
had quite serious fist fights
to show who was eh, dominant.
1420
01:00:05,166 --> 01:00:07,168
♪ Well I know my
Teacher had no soul ♪
1421
01:00:07,429 --> 01:00:08,996
♪ And that school didn'’t
Teach no rock '‘n'’ roll ♪
1422
01:00:09,257 --> 01:00:10,607
♪ Sha-na-na,
sh-na-na-na-na-na ♪
1423
01:00:10,781 --> 01:00:12,478
Most of the children
going to the school
1424
01:00:12,652 --> 01:00:14,393
were from
professional families.
1425
01:00:14,567 --> 01:00:16,569
Doctors, dentists, lawyers.
1426
01:00:16,743 --> 01:00:18,832
♪ I failed my Geography
But that don'’t bother me ♪
1427
01:00:19,006 --> 01:00:20,704
♪ Sha-na-na,
sh-na-na-na-na-na ♪
1428
01:00:20,878 --> 01:00:23,228
Jono: Brian'’s Dad
was the local lollipop man.
1429
01:00:24,229 --> 01:00:26,579
And his Mum was the warden
in the old folks'’ home
1430
01:00:26,753 --> 01:00:28,712
Her job came
with accommodation.
1431
01:00:28,929 --> 01:00:30,975
That was how they managed
to move to Bearsden
1432
01:00:31,149 --> 01:00:34,195
Bandon Lee definitely had
1433
01:00:34,369 --> 01:00:37,068
a more sociable time in school
in the mid-90s,
1434
01:00:37,242 --> 01:00:40,071
as Brian Mackinnon
did in the 1970s.
1435
01:00:41,159 --> 01:00:45,163
♪ Sha-na-na-na-na-na-na-na ♪
1436
01:00:45,337 --> 01:00:47,426
I wasn'’t like one
of the pretty kids.
1437
01:00:47,731 --> 01:00:49,080
that anyone would
want to go out with
1438
01:00:49,254 --> 01:00:51,560
So, I didn'’t even bother asking.
1439
01:00:53,084 --> 01:00:55,434
I was brought up
to be impersonal,
1440
01:00:55,913 --> 01:00:58,306
to hold back from people.
1441
01:00:59,264 --> 01:01:01,570
I just had a sense
that it wasn'’t my time
1442
01:01:01,745 --> 01:01:03,268
for that sort of thing yet.
1443
01:01:03,442 --> 01:01:06,445
♪ With my mind on
other things ♪
1444
01:01:06,619 --> 01:01:09,187
♪ Until that school
bell rings ♪
1445
01:01:09,491 --> 01:01:11,842
♪ And in my childhood dreams ♪
1446
01:01:12,016 --> 01:01:14,714
♪ I would hear
Little Richard scream ♪
1447
01:01:14,932 --> 01:01:16,803
Brian: When you'’re
sixteen years old,
1448
01:01:17,021 --> 01:01:18,326
there'’s a point
where you come of age,
1449
01:01:18,500 --> 01:01:19,893
and you start
defining yourself,
1450
01:01:20,067 --> 01:01:21,939
and you really have
a sense of your own,
1451
01:01:22,113 --> 01:01:24,289
you know, your own
identity for the first time.
1452
01:01:28,206 --> 01:01:29,424
Brandon: Medicine.
1453
01:01:29,598 --> 01:01:31,165
That was what I wanted to do.
1454
01:01:32,689 --> 01:01:34,342
My Mum probably knew
1455
01:01:34,865 --> 01:01:36,649
almost as soon as I did.
1456
01:01:37,302 --> 01:01:40,218
We could usually tell what
one another were thinking
1457
01:01:40,435 --> 01:01:41,828
- Almost a...
- [snoring]
1458
01:01:42,220 --> 01:01:43,961
...a telepathic connection.
1459
01:01:44,135 --> 01:01:46,398
Well, I say almost, truly!
1460
01:01:47,486 --> 01:01:49,967
Then my Mum was, you know,
she wasn'’t a medic
1461
01:01:50,141 --> 01:01:52,796
but she had pretty close
knowledge of a doctor.
1462
01:01:54,623 --> 01:01:57,496
She came from a poor background.
1463
01:01:57,931 --> 01:02:00,978
Had she had the
education opportunities,
1464
01:02:01,152 --> 01:02:02,283
she probably would
have ended up being
1465
01:02:02,457 --> 01:02:03,720
a Professor or something.
1466
01:02:03,937 --> 01:02:06,244
She was an
immensely smart individual.
1467
01:02:06,461 --> 01:02:08,420
Nicola: She wanted him
to become a doctor.
1468
01:02:08,594 --> 01:02:10,335
And I think it was
his Mum'’s belief in that
1469
01:02:10,509 --> 01:02:12,467
that maybe had
him believe in that.
1470
01:02:12,641 --> 01:02:15,253
One day my mother said to me:
1471
01:02:15,601 --> 01:02:18,386
"Your dreams are separate
from your waking life."
1472
01:02:18,909 --> 01:02:21,215
"But for some people
you can go further than that."
1473
01:02:21,389 --> 01:02:22,651
"You can be aware of the fact
1474
01:02:22,869 --> 01:02:24,218
that you'’re dreaming
1475
01:02:24,479 --> 01:02:26,307
when you'’re dreaming."
1476
01:02:26,568 --> 01:02:28,353
"When you'’re
inside a lucid dream,
1477
01:02:28,527 --> 01:02:30,877
you can begin to use that
1478
01:02:31,617 --> 01:02:33,358
to get what you want."
1479
01:02:33,924 --> 01:02:37,057
I think he was fulfilling
his dreams, as it were.
1480
01:02:37,231 --> 01:02:38,537
His dream
was to become a doctor.
1481
01:02:39,320 --> 01:02:43,368
I went to study medicine
at Glasgow University in 1980.
1482
01:02:43,934 --> 01:02:45,849
Reporter:
The doctors of 1980
1483
01:02:46,327 --> 01:02:48,634
studying at
Glasgow University'’s world
famous Medical School,
1484
01:02:48,852 --> 01:02:50,375
gain practical experience.
1485
01:02:52,072 --> 01:02:53,508
Brandon: It started off great.
1486
01:02:53,682 --> 01:02:55,380
I was getting A's
in my class tests.
1487
01:02:55,554 --> 01:02:58,600
But then everything
just changed on a dime.
1488
01:03:00,385 --> 01:03:01,995
It started off like the flu.
1489
01:03:02,387 --> 01:03:03,605
The weight-loss.
1490
01:03:03,780 --> 01:03:06,304
I was feeling
constantly thirsty.
1491
01:03:06,478 --> 01:03:07,740
My heart was racing.
1492
01:03:07,914 --> 01:03:10,525
I had headaches, night sweats.
1493
01:03:10,699 --> 01:03:12,832
I couldn'’t dream properly.
1494
01:03:13,050 --> 01:03:15,530
I couldn'’t do that anymore,
that was terrifying.
1495
01:03:16,314 --> 01:03:17,794
[panting]
1496
01:03:17,968 --> 01:03:20,492
I failed my exams
in the first year.
1497
01:03:20,971 --> 01:03:22,973
And then when I was
eventually called up
1498
01:03:23,147 --> 01:03:24,975
to see the dean
1499
01:03:25,279 --> 01:03:27,194
and the advisor of studies
one day,
1500
01:03:27,368 --> 01:03:29,196
they were just like
bad cop, bad cop
1501
01:03:29,370 --> 01:03:30,589
You are failing,
you are failing.
1502
01:03:30,763 --> 01:03:31,851
You're failure.
1503
01:03:32,025 --> 01:03:32,939
Brandon: Medicine isn'’t for you.
1504
01:03:33,113 --> 01:03:34,680
They were desperate
1505
01:03:34,985 --> 01:03:36,073
to get to the point
where they could exclude me.
1506
01:03:36,638 --> 01:03:40,512
It was just brutal
and nasty and bad.
1507
01:03:41,165 --> 01:03:43,254
Get out, you'’re a failure!
1508
01:03:43,471 --> 01:03:44,821
Brandon: It felt like
the end of the world.
1509
01:03:47,127 --> 01:03:48,650
Brian tried
1510
01:03:48,825 --> 01:03:50,435
applying to various
medical schools after that.
1511
01:03:50,609 --> 01:03:52,089
But nothing worked out for him.
1512
01:03:52,350 --> 01:03:53,830
And he eventually
started working
1513
01:03:54,004 --> 01:03:55,222
in the local health club.
1514
01:03:57,877 --> 01:04:00,401
Brandon: But then you know,
a little bit of time passes
1515
01:04:00,575 --> 01:04:03,100
and you begin to plan
and scheme again,
1516
01:04:03,274 --> 01:04:04,884
on maybe a long game...
1517
01:04:06,581 --> 01:04:07,713
but you know,
1518
01:04:08,583 --> 01:04:09,671
you'’re thirty years old.
1519
01:04:10,585 --> 01:04:12,457
It'’s just that decade long...
1520
01:04:12,631 --> 01:04:14,459
Well, decade and a half
long gap.
1521
01:04:15,503 --> 01:04:17,592
By that time, he was too old
1522
01:04:18,028 --> 01:04:19,420
to study medicine.
1523
01:04:19,594 --> 01:04:21,118
Because I think
over the age of thirty,
1524
01:04:21,292 --> 01:04:23,250
they wouldn'’t let you back in.
1525
01:04:25,122 --> 01:04:28,429
Brandon: My life had been held
back for no good reason.
1526
01:04:28,603 --> 01:04:31,345
And all the other lives of
the kids I went to school with,
1527
01:04:31,519 --> 01:04:33,391
their lives had
maybe not gone to plan,
1528
01:04:33,565 --> 01:04:37,003
but they had at least
moved forward, you know?
1529
01:04:37,177 --> 01:04:39,179
The defining factor
of when he decided
1530
01:04:39,397 --> 01:04:40,877
to go back to
Bearsden Academy,
1531
01:04:41,051 --> 01:04:42,966
was I think
the death of his father.
1532
01:04:46,186 --> 01:04:48,406
Brandon: My father who had been
diagnosed with cancer,
1533
01:04:48,797 --> 01:04:50,234
was close to death.
1534
01:04:50,799 --> 01:04:52,932
And I'’m sitting with him
1535
01:04:53,237 --> 01:04:55,282
and he said to me...
1536
01:04:55,587 --> 01:04:59,112
You know Brian,
I never lost confidence in you.
1537
01:05:00,026 --> 01:05:01,332
Thanks, Dad.
1538
01:05:01,593 --> 01:05:03,247
But do you think
I will ever be able to do
1539
01:05:03,464 --> 01:05:05,640
something meaningful
with my life?
1540
01:05:06,467 --> 01:05:09,122
Everybody has their day, son.
1541
01:05:11,951 --> 01:05:14,432
It was my Mum
that was with him when he died.
1542
01:05:14,606 --> 01:05:17,261
She said he sat up,
as if he was seeing something,
1543
01:05:17,435 --> 01:05:19,350
sucking in his last breath
1544
01:05:19,654 --> 01:05:21,265
and then he died.
1545
01:05:21,482 --> 01:05:22,614
And that just...
1546
01:05:23,789 --> 01:05:26,574
That put me into something
I had never experienced before.
1547
01:05:27,358 --> 01:05:30,056
I was angry, not in a kind of,
you know,
1548
01:05:30,274 --> 01:05:33,016
raging blood-boiling way.
1549
01:05:33,190 --> 01:05:34,974
It was cold.
1550
01:05:35,148 --> 01:05:37,716
And I thought, "Well, if this
is going to have any meaning,
1551
01:05:38,804 --> 01:05:40,545
his death, his suffering,
1552
01:05:40,980 --> 01:05:42,460
let it be this."
1553
01:05:45,463 --> 01:05:46,725
- You're failure.
- Failure.
1554
01:05:46,899 --> 01:05:48,248
Brandon:
To hell with those guys,
1555
01:05:48,422 --> 01:05:49,641
you know, that have
stopped you.
1556
01:05:49,989 --> 01:05:51,773
both men: You're just
not good enough.
1557
01:05:51,948 --> 01:05:53,166
Brandon: Get this done.
1558
01:05:53,775 --> 01:05:55,690
When you have an adversary,
you...
1559
01:05:56,430 --> 01:05:59,216
The thing you have to do,
if you really want to prevail,
1560
01:05:59,477 --> 01:06:00,957
is do the unimaginable.
1561
01:06:02,610 --> 01:06:04,917
Do something
that is just so out there,
1562
01:06:05,091 --> 01:06:06,440
that no one is even
going to dream
1563
01:06:06,614 --> 01:06:08,486
that you would think
of doing that.
1564
01:06:09,052 --> 01:06:10,357
[phone keys beeping]
1565
01:06:10,662 --> 01:06:12,098
Interviewer:
Whose responsibility was it
1566
01:06:12,272 --> 01:06:13,273
for admitting Brandon Lee
to the school?
1567
01:06:13,447 --> 01:06:14,883
[line ringing]
1568
01:06:15,275 --> 01:06:17,538
I think it was Mrs. Holmes
who interviewed him originally.
1569
01:06:18,017 --> 01:06:20,498
Seriously? I did not know that.
1570
01:06:21,281 --> 01:06:22,848
[gasps] Mrs. Holmes.
1571
01:06:23,240 --> 01:06:25,372
Class: Chaíre Didáskale.
1572
01:06:25,720 --> 01:06:28,680
You would definitely put her
bottom of the list
1573
01:06:28,854 --> 01:06:30,247
in terms of people
who would get it...
1574
01:06:30,421 --> 01:06:31,813
- Wrong.
- ... wrong.
1575
01:06:32,075 --> 01:06:33,554
[phone ringing]
1576
01:06:33,728 --> 01:06:35,078
Brandon: Holmes, yes,
that was her name.
1577
01:06:35,252 --> 01:06:36,775
Holmes.
1578
01:06:37,123 --> 01:06:38,472
Brandon: Of course,
I'’m not talking as myself.
1579
01:06:38,690 --> 01:06:40,300
I'’m talking
as this fictive father.
1580
01:06:40,474 --> 01:06:42,999
So, I had to put on
a bit of pomp.
1581
01:06:43,173 --> 01:06:44,870
So, I told her my name was...
1582
01:06:45,088 --> 01:06:47,786
William Lee,
I'’m a Professor of Zoology,
1583
01:06:48,004 --> 01:06:50,267
and I wish to send
my son Brandon
1584
01:06:50,441 --> 01:06:51,703
to enroll at your school.
1585
01:06:51,964 --> 01:06:54,140
Why, yes, Professor.
1586
01:06:54,488 --> 01:06:56,621
Just send him straight to me.
1587
01:06:58,144 --> 01:06:59,537
Brandon: And it was towards
the end of May,
1588
01:06:59,711 --> 01:07:01,278
I think I showed up.
1589
01:07:01,539 --> 01:07:03,497
So, it was not long
before my thirtieth birthday.
1590
01:07:04,281 --> 01:07:05,891
You must be Brandon.
1591
01:07:06,239 --> 01:07:08,763
Your father has told me
great things about you.
1592
01:07:09,025 --> 01:07:10,374
Take a seat.
1593
01:07:10,548 --> 01:07:12,158
I'’ll be with you in a minute.
1594
01:07:12,593 --> 01:07:15,770
McLaverty, get in here!
1595
01:07:16,119 --> 01:07:18,904
Brandon: Some boy came in,
a first year who
had misbehaved.
1596
01:07:19,078 --> 01:07:22,603
McLaverty,
look at the state of you.
1597
01:07:23,082 --> 01:07:24,301
Detention!
1598
01:07:24,475 --> 01:07:25,911
- Go.
- Brandon: She suddenly
1599
01:07:26,085 --> 01:07:27,608
turned from being
very sweet with me
1600
01:07:27,782 --> 01:07:30,176
to being very nasty
And then right back, you know.
1601
01:07:30,394 --> 01:07:31,699
And I thought...
1602
01:07:31,960 --> 01:07:33,745
I'’ll be real careful
of any human being
1603
01:07:33,962 --> 01:07:35,747
that wields
any kind of authority.
1604
01:07:36,008 --> 01:07:37,966
Anyway, Brandon,
1605
01:07:38,358 --> 01:07:39,620
where were we?
1606
01:07:44,016 --> 01:07:45,583
Brandon: All I really showed
1607
01:07:45,800 --> 01:07:47,541
was a letter
from a fictive tutor.
1608
01:07:47,715 --> 01:07:49,239
She had the letter
1609
01:07:49,413 --> 01:07:51,023
from my would-be Dad,
again fictitious.
1610
01:07:51,458 --> 01:07:53,634
I just need
to see your birth certificate.
1611
01:07:53,895 --> 01:07:55,245
Brandon: And she had
a tick list.
1612
01:07:55,854 --> 01:07:57,638
You'’ve no birth certificate?
1613
01:08:00,946 --> 01:08:04,210
I'’ve... I call it...
I call it mesmerism.
1614
01:08:06,517 --> 01:08:10,086
I have skills
where I can hypnotize people.
1615
01:08:10,347 --> 01:08:13,263
And get into their psyche,
that sort of thing.
1616
01:08:13,437 --> 01:08:15,395
I can do that.
I had to learn to do that.
1617
01:08:16,309 --> 01:08:18,572
That'’s okay, Brandon.
1618
01:08:19,007 --> 01:08:20,922
I'’ll believe you.
1619
01:08:27,190 --> 01:08:28,669
Mind-control.
1620
01:08:28,887 --> 01:08:30,106
Right...
1621
01:08:30,497 --> 01:08:32,804
He used his powers
of mind-control
1622
01:08:33,935 --> 01:08:36,634
to make her sa...
1623
01:08:36,895 --> 01:08:38,853
Oh, like in Star Wars.
1624
01:08:39,027 --> 01:08:41,987
He looked into her eyes
and said: "Don'’t."
1625
01:08:42,161 --> 01:08:44,163
"These are not the droids
you'’re looking for."
1626
01:08:44,685 --> 01:08:47,819
These aren'’t the drones
you'’re looking for, no?
1627
01:08:47,993 --> 01:08:49,516
Interviewer: Droids.
1628
01:08:50,082 --> 01:08:51,953
Yeah, droids, I beg your...
I'’m not a fan of that Star Wars.
1629
01:08:52,128 --> 01:08:54,304
I was more an Alien kind of guy.
1630
01:08:59,657 --> 01:09:01,485
Did Mrs. Holmes
not want to be interviewed?
1631
01:09:01,659 --> 01:09:02,747
Interviewer: No.
1632
01:09:03,226 --> 01:09:04,531
Did she say why?
1633
01:09:05,141 --> 01:09:06,359
Oh.
1634
01:09:06,838 --> 01:09:08,405
She does not remember
ever meeting Brandon Lee?
1635
01:09:10,058 --> 01:09:11,277
[chuckles]
1636
01:09:11,451 --> 01:09:12,539
I mean...
1637
01:09:16,108 --> 01:09:18,066
She doesn'’t remember
anything at all?
1638
01:09:19,894 --> 01:09:21,853
Do we think
she is just saying that?
1639
01:09:22,027 --> 01:09:23,159
Why would she?
1640
01:09:23,550 --> 01:09:24,943
- Mind-control.
- [chuckles]
1641
01:09:25,378 --> 01:09:26,814
I'’m going with...
I'’m going with mind-control.
1642
01:09:26,988 --> 01:09:27,554
Okay we'’ll go
with the mind-control, yeah.
1643
01:09:27,728 --> 01:09:28,599
Yeah.
1644
01:09:28,860 --> 01:09:30,253
[alarm clock ringing]
1645
01:09:30,644 --> 01:09:32,080
Brandon:
Making one little difference
1646
01:09:32,255 --> 01:09:33,865
can make all the difference.
1647
01:09:34,170 --> 01:09:36,737
So, the hair change
was the main thing.
1648
01:09:36,911 --> 01:09:41,438
Brandon Lee had a mop
of reddish-brown...
1649
01:09:42,265 --> 01:09:45,703
I wouldn'’t say it was permed
but it was curly-ish hair.
1650
01:09:47,748 --> 01:09:49,141
At first,
1651
01:09:49,576 --> 01:09:51,361
I was actually using curlers
on my hair in the morning.
1652
01:09:52,449 --> 01:09:55,626
So, he actually put curlers in
every night
1653
01:09:56,017 --> 01:09:57,105
to curl his hair?
1654
01:09:58,716 --> 01:10:00,370
Shit.
1655
01:10:00,544 --> 01:10:02,154
Brandon: Eventually,
I figured out if I get a perm,
1656
01:10:02,328 --> 01:10:03,895
I won'’t have to go through that
every morning
1657
01:10:04,069 --> 01:10:05,462
and get up an hour early.
1658
01:10:06,027 --> 01:10:08,204
- I wouldn'’t have thought that.
- [both laugh]
1659
01:10:08,900 --> 01:10:10,118
[birds chirping]
1660
01:10:10,293 --> 01:10:11,511
Brandon:
I would go out the house.
1661
01:10:11,772 --> 01:10:13,383
I would go down the road
a little in the morning
1662
01:10:13,557 --> 01:10:14,949
before I put the tie on.
1663
01:10:16,647 --> 01:10:18,953
That took huge balls
on his part.
1664
01:10:19,171 --> 01:10:21,782
He'’s got big balls to....
One, to do it.
1665
01:10:21,956 --> 01:10:23,610
But to go back to the same
school?
1666
01:10:23,784 --> 01:10:24,872
That'’s phenomenal.
1667
01:10:26,744 --> 01:10:28,136
Brandon: That whole chaos
1668
01:10:28,311 --> 01:10:30,269
almost seemed
like remote from me.
1669
01:10:30,704 --> 01:10:32,140
Because my life
had already been destroyed.
1670
01:10:32,315 --> 01:10:34,142
So, chaos was my element.
1671
01:10:34,491 --> 01:10:36,362
- Donald Lindsay.
- Here miss.
1672
01:10:36,623 --> 01:10:37,929
Brian Mackinnon.
1673
01:10:38,190 --> 01:10:39,800
My name is Brian Mackinnon.
1674
01:10:40,279 --> 01:10:41,672
And there are other
Brian Mackinnon'’s
out there, so...
1675
01:10:42,368 --> 01:10:44,675
They called out Brian Mackinnon
at one point
1676
01:10:44,849 --> 01:10:47,504
And, you know, a kind if wave
of adrenaline went through me.
1677
01:10:47,678 --> 01:10:49,201
Then natural impulse
was to put your hand up.
1678
01:10:49,375 --> 01:10:50,898
And I really had to, you know,
1679
01:10:51,072 --> 01:10:53,031
really stop myself
to keep my hand down.
1680
01:10:53,292 --> 01:10:55,468
I can only imagine the blood
must have left his system
1681
01:10:55,642 --> 01:10:56,948
at that point.
1682
01:10:58,079 --> 01:10:59,516
But what do you do?
1683
01:10:59,690 --> 01:11:01,605
I think
he must have shat his pants.
1684
01:11:02,258 --> 01:11:03,868
Carol: Immediately,
when the story broke,
1685
01:11:04,042 --> 01:11:05,739
I just thought that was
just the strangest thing.
1686
01:11:06,566 --> 01:11:07,828
The person he had befriended...
1687
01:11:08,002 --> 01:11:09,134
Befriended
1688
01:11:09,308 --> 01:11:10,353
...had the same name as him.
1689
01:11:10,527 --> 01:11:12,050
[laughter]
1690
01:11:12,311 --> 01:11:13,704
Brian: For Brandon,
it would have been much easier
1691
01:11:13,878 --> 01:11:15,401
to just ignore me all together.
1692
01:11:16,054 --> 01:11:17,795
But I think that is why
1693
01:11:17,969 --> 01:11:20,188
he shared some of the music
with me that he shared.
1694
01:11:20,363 --> 01:11:21,842
In becoming friends
1695
01:11:22,016 --> 01:11:23,104
with sixteen-year-old
Brian Mackinnon,
1696
01:11:24,323 --> 01:11:26,325
thirty-two-year-old Brandon Lee
1697
01:11:26,934 --> 01:11:28,458
became friends with...
1698
01:11:28,632 --> 01:11:30,808
Yeah, a shadow of his old self.
1699
01:11:31,417 --> 01:11:33,289
Brandon Lee
1700
01:11:33,463 --> 01:11:35,769
Brandon Lee was accidentally
shot and killed
1701
01:11:35,943 --> 01:11:37,771
on the set of his movie,
The Crow.
1702
01:11:38,076 --> 01:11:40,687
You know after I found out
about the Brandon Lee thing,
1703
01:11:40,861 --> 01:11:42,428
I thought I should have
been hip to...
1704
01:11:42,646 --> 01:11:43,821
to that, but I wasn'’t.
1705
01:11:44,474 --> 01:11:45,475
Honest.
1706
01:11:46,824 --> 01:11:48,216
Brandon is a popular name.
1707
01:11:48,391 --> 01:11:50,088
Is it not? Brandon.
1708
01:11:51,437 --> 01:11:54,222
There was Brandon from 90210.
1709
01:11:54,397 --> 01:11:56,486
- What was that? Ehm...
- Urgh.
1710
01:11:57,313 --> 01:11:59,880
Brandon: I came across Brandon
on the television.
1711
01:12:00,054 --> 01:12:01,360
[Beverly Hills 90210
theme tune playing]
1712
01:12:01,534 --> 01:12:02,709
Brandon:
There was a show on called
1713
01:12:02,883 --> 01:12:05,625
Beverley Hills 2-0-1-0,
or something.
1714
01:12:05,973 --> 01:12:07,584
My name is uh, Brandon Walsh.
1715
01:12:07,932 --> 01:12:09,194
Brandon Walsh.
1716
01:12:10,935 --> 01:12:12,937
That is where he said
he got the name.
1717
01:12:13,198 --> 01:12:15,853
Oh, did he? High-five.
1718
01:12:16,375 --> 01:12:17,985
- Seriously?
- I like this guy.
1719
01:12:18,159 --> 01:12:19,770
I actually like Brandon Lee.
1720
01:12:19,944 --> 01:12:21,293
[chuckles]
1721
01:12:21,467 --> 01:12:23,382
Well if you think about it
90210 Brandon
1722
01:12:23,556 --> 01:12:25,558
was the perfect teenager.
1723
01:12:25,819 --> 01:12:27,343
He was handsome, popular,
1724
01:12:27,517 --> 01:12:29,257
could drive a car.
1725
01:12:29,693 --> 01:12:31,347
Jono: Nah,
I call bullshit on that.
1726
01:12:31,608 --> 01:12:33,523
He arrived in our class
a month
1727
01:12:33,784 --> 01:12:36,395
after Brandon Lee died
on the set of The Crow.
1728
01:12:36,613 --> 01:12:39,442
The Crow is a story about a man
who comes back from dead
1729
01:12:39,703 --> 01:12:41,835
to seek revenge
on his assassins.
1730
01:12:42,009 --> 01:12:43,446
Was he coming back
to avenge wrongs,
1731
01:12:43,620 --> 01:12:45,099
just like The Crow in the film.
1732
01:12:45,361 --> 01:12:46,797
Well, he was definitely
coming back to right a wrong,
1733
01:12:47,014 --> 01:12:48,538
there'’s no question about that.
1734
01:12:48,973 --> 01:12:50,322
Brandon Lee: It really is a role
1735
01:12:50,496 --> 01:12:52,193
that you have to
take risks with.
1736
01:12:52,368 --> 01:12:54,848
You tell me how somebody
who comes back from the dead
1737
01:12:55,022 --> 01:12:56,023
is going to behave.
1738
01:12:56,197 --> 01:12:57,938
Oh, right.
1739
01:12:58,112 --> 01:12:59,984
- You get it?
- Yeah, I get it.
1740
01:13:00,288 --> 01:13:03,466
- I'’m glad the penny'’s dropped.
- [laughs]
1741
01:13:04,031 --> 01:13:05,468
[operatic singing]
1742
01:13:08,427 --> 01:13:09,950
So, his mother
was an opera singer...
1743
01:13:10,124 --> 01:13:11,256
- Who...
- Okay.
1744
01:13:11,430 --> 01:13:12,779
...died in a car crash
1745
01:13:12,953 --> 01:13:14,346
That was a back story.
1746
01:13:14,520 --> 01:13:15,652
I didn'’t have it written for me.
1747
01:13:15,826 --> 01:13:17,218
I was making it up
as I go along.
1748
01:13:17,393 --> 01:13:19,003
Boy: Here, Thirty-something!
1749
01:13:19,177 --> 01:13:20,526
Girl: He'’s ancient.
1750
01:13:20,874 --> 01:13:22,223
Brandon: It is a wee bit
like an acting role.
1751
01:13:22,398 --> 01:13:24,878
You just had to
say get in character.
1752
01:13:25,096 --> 01:13:27,446
Yeah, that'’s about
as close as it comes.
1753
01:13:27,620 --> 01:13:30,623
He sounded
like he came from Canada,
1754
01:13:30,797 --> 01:13:33,191
because that'’s
where he said he came from.
1755
01:13:33,365 --> 01:13:34,758
I can just do these things.
1756
01:13:35,019 --> 01:13:37,543
I can put on accents
just to amuse people.
1757
01:13:37,804 --> 01:13:40,154
Switch between
Russian and American.
1758
01:13:40,328 --> 01:13:42,374
And, you know,
whatever it takes.
1759
01:13:42,548 --> 01:13:44,115
You feel lucky, punk?
1760
01:13:44,289 --> 01:13:45,551
[laughter]
1761
01:13:45,812 --> 01:13:47,510
Jono: My favorite thing
in all of this
1762
01:13:47,771 --> 01:13:49,468
is Miss Makitchen in Biology
1763
01:13:49,686 --> 01:13:51,470
teaching sex education
1764
01:13:51,688 --> 01:13:54,212
to a child who
was older than she was.
1765
01:13:54,473 --> 01:13:57,476
Sometimes Brandon
teaches me Biology.
1766
01:13:58,129 --> 01:13:59,173
Jonny: As soon
as there was a question
1767
01:13:59,347 --> 01:14:00,740
nobody could answer,
1768
01:14:01,045 --> 01:14:02,481
everybody'’s attention
just turn to Brandon.
1769
01:14:02,655 --> 01:14:04,352
Well Miss,
in Willy Lomon'’s deluded head,
1770
01:14:04,527 --> 01:14:07,791
his thirty four year old son
is a high school sophomore again
1771
01:14:08,095 --> 01:14:10,446
with all his life ahead of him.
1772
01:14:10,750 --> 01:14:12,535
Interviewer: Did you like
being a teenager again?
1773
01:14:12,926 --> 01:14:15,668
No, it was just awful.
Just like, hell.
1774
01:14:15,929 --> 01:14:17,757
No, it was just awful.
Just like, hell.
1775
01:14:17,975 --> 01:14:19,585
It'’ll be okay.
1776
01:14:20,151 --> 01:14:23,154
Stefen: Our friendship
meant a lot to me.
1777
01:14:23,371 --> 01:14:26,462
And I should hope
it meant a lot to him as well.
1778
01:14:26,897 --> 01:14:28,855
Brandon: I know the kids
at the school,
1779
01:14:29,160 --> 01:14:31,205
they'’re human beings.
1780
01:14:31,510 --> 01:14:33,599
But to me
they were just ciphers.
1781
01:14:33,860 --> 01:14:36,428
You know, that wasn'’t
what I was focusing on.
1782
01:14:37,734 --> 01:14:40,214
That'’s awful to say
but that is what it was like.
1783
01:14:41,433 --> 01:14:43,391
Although he said he never
wanted to make friends,
1784
01:14:43,566 --> 01:14:46,351
he never wanted to be
involved in anything, he did.
1785
01:14:46,525 --> 01:14:48,092
Brian: He was able
to do all of the things
1786
01:14:48,266 --> 01:14:50,703
he wasn'’t able to do
in the 1970s.
1787
01:14:51,051 --> 01:14:52,966
To make the friendships
that he had,
1788
01:14:53,140 --> 01:14:55,403
to go on holiday with friends,
1789
01:14:55,578 --> 01:14:57,667
to taking the part
in the school show.
1790
01:15:01,845 --> 01:15:04,108
Scott: You would want
to keep under the radar
1791
01:15:04,282 --> 01:15:06,719
Not attract unwanted attention
to yourself.
1792
01:15:06,937 --> 01:15:08,242
So...
1793
01:15:08,416 --> 01:15:10,506
taking the lead role
in the school show
1794
01:15:11,245 --> 01:15:12,682
is bizarre.
1795
01:15:12,856 --> 01:15:14,248
Hiding in plain sight.
1796
01:15:14,510 --> 01:15:16,033
That'’s about the best place
you can hide.
1797
01:15:16,424 --> 01:15:19,950
Brandon sang
"“Younger than Springtime."”
1798
01:15:20,254 --> 01:15:24,171
♪ Younger than
Springtime am I ♪
1799
01:15:24,476 --> 01:15:28,959
He was almost taunting people
to find out what the truth is.
1800
01:15:29,437 --> 01:15:31,701
Brandon:
I always looked youthful.
1801
01:15:32,963 --> 01:15:34,399
And I was an active dreamer
of things
1802
01:15:34,573 --> 01:15:36,444
you can do
to keep yourself young.
1803
01:15:37,054 --> 01:15:41,928
♪ Angel and lover
Heaven and Earth am I ♪
1804
01:15:42,102 --> 01:15:44,017
Bruce: Taking a role
in a school play
1805
01:15:44,235 --> 01:15:45,845
is a perfect fit for him,
1806
01:15:46,063 --> 01:15:48,021
because he was acting
every day of his life.
1807
01:15:48,239 --> 01:15:49,936
It'’s as
if you'’re living in a film.
1808
01:15:50,894 --> 01:15:53,026
He thinks he is the lead part
in his own film.
1809
01:15:58,162 --> 01:15:59,380
[static]
1810
01:16:02,732 --> 01:16:07,345
So, this is the only footage
that exists of Brandon Lee.
1811
01:16:07,563 --> 01:16:08,999
This is the video
1812
01:16:09,173 --> 01:16:11,131
of the school production
of South Pacific.
1813
01:16:12,611 --> 01:16:14,482
I'’m glad somebody recorded it.
This is cool.
1814
01:16:14,744 --> 01:16:16,136
[tense music]
1815
01:16:16,615 --> 01:16:18,225
Interviewer: Have you ever
seen this before?
1816
01:16:18,399 --> 01:16:19,400
No.
1817
01:16:23,840 --> 01:16:26,494
Look, he'’s got two silhouettes.
Talk about foreshadowing.
1818
01:16:26,669 --> 01:16:27,757
[chuckles]
1819
01:16:29,323 --> 01:16:30,803
Mr. Macalindin:
And here'’s Brandon
1820
01:16:31,717 --> 01:16:33,937
being called by Bali Ha'’i.
1821
01:16:39,420 --> 01:16:44,164
♪ Bali Ha'’i may call you ♪
1822
01:16:45,035 --> 01:16:48,778
♪ Any night, any day ♪
1823
01:16:49,082 --> 01:16:50,431
Mrs. Montgomery:
It'’s interesting
1824
01:16:50,606 --> 01:16:53,130
because when I see
this... video.
1825
01:16:53,304 --> 01:16:55,175
I haven'’t seen it
for a very long time,
1826
01:16:55,349 --> 01:16:57,613
I think he does look older.
1827
01:16:58,309 --> 01:17:00,267
I think he looks older.
1828
01:17:00,964 --> 01:17:03,314
♪ Bali Ha'’i ♪
1829
01:17:03,793 --> 01:17:06,056
♪ Bali Ha'’i ♪
1830
01:17:06,622 --> 01:17:09,842
♪ Bali Ha'’i ♪
1831
01:17:10,060 --> 01:17:12,497
Oh, the singing is rotten.
It'’s just awful.
1832
01:17:12,758 --> 01:17:14,368
[applause]
1833
01:17:14,542 --> 01:17:16,893
He'’s horribly off-key
but it'’s so charming.
1834
01:17:17,894 --> 01:17:20,810
♪ And when your youth ♪
1835
01:17:20,984 --> 01:17:25,423
♪ And joy invade my arms ♪
1836
01:17:25,684 --> 01:17:29,906
♪ And fill my heart
As now they do ♪
1837
01:17:30,428 --> 01:17:31,777
Oh, here we go.
1838
01:17:31,951 --> 01:17:33,300
"Younger Than Springtime."
Oh, my goodness.
1839
01:17:33,605 --> 01:17:37,827
♪ Then younger than springtime
Am I ♪
1840
01:17:38,001 --> 01:17:42,179
♪ Gayer than laughter, am I ♪
1841
01:17:42,745 --> 01:17:44,964
Oh, is this the kiss scene.
1842
01:17:46,052 --> 01:17:52,232
♪ Heaven and earth
Am I with you ♪
1843
01:17:55,322 --> 01:17:57,237
Oh, he was quite happy
to kiss my hand.
1844
01:17:57,934 --> 01:18:02,025
♪ Younger than Springtime
Am I ♪
1845
01:18:02,373 --> 01:18:04,157
David: From what I'’ve heard,
1846
01:18:04,418 --> 01:18:07,073
it was just
a cheeky kind of peck.
1847
01:18:07,334 --> 01:18:09,032
♪ Angel and lover ♪
1848
01:18:09,380 --> 01:18:11,643
♪ Heaven and earth, am I ♪
1849
01:18:11,861 --> 01:18:13,340
Val: My memory was,
1850
01:18:13,514 --> 01:18:14,733
it was...
1851
01:18:20,173 --> 01:18:21,566
[applause]
1852
01:18:21,827 --> 01:18:23,568
It'’s quite a passionate kiss.
1853
01:18:30,575 --> 01:18:32,098
Oh, there'’s two!
1854
01:18:32,272 --> 01:18:34,622
He went back.
He went back for another one.
1855
01:18:35,014 --> 01:18:36,668
How many nights
did we do this for?
1856
01:18:37,103 --> 01:18:38,975
Lindsay: How many times
did it happen?
1857
01:18:39,149 --> 01:18:40,541
I don'’t know.
1858
01:18:40,977 --> 01:18:42,152
An uncomfortable number
because it'’s more than none.
1859
01:18:42,326 --> 01:18:44,894
[both chuckling]
1860
01:18:49,594 --> 01:18:51,944
E... That'’s just so weird.
1861
01:18:53,380 --> 01:18:54,773
[applause]
1862
01:18:56,775 --> 01:18:59,778
Val: I haven'’t looked
at this film since, and it'’s...
1863
01:19:01,606 --> 01:19:02,912
Interviewer: It's what?
1864
01:19:09,875 --> 01:19:11,529
I haven'’t got words
at the moment.
1865
01:19:12,660 --> 01:19:14,140
Sam: She was sixteen, right?
1866
01:19:14,706 --> 01:19:16,055
Over sixteen.
1867
01:19:16,229 --> 01:19:17,491
Nothing wrong with that.
1868
01:19:18,144 --> 01:19:19,842
- It's legal, eh?
- [Iffy chuckles]
1869
01:19:20,364 --> 01:19:22,670
Was it morally acceptable
1870
01:19:23,628 --> 01:19:27,850
for a thirty-two year old man
to kiss a sixteen-year-old girl?
1871
01:19:29,416 --> 01:19:30,548
No.
1872
01:19:33,290 --> 01:19:34,944
But you'’re just a kid.
1873
01:19:36,206 --> 01:19:38,208
Well, part of you feels a bit...
1874
01:19:40,558 --> 01:19:42,081
Eh...
1875
01:19:42,865 --> 01:19:44,127
Icky.
1876
01:19:45,693 --> 01:19:46,694
[chuckles]
1877
01:19:47,043 --> 01:19:50,873
- [cheering]
- [applause]
1878
01:19:51,177 --> 01:19:52,352
That was a semi-uncomfortable
1879
01:19:52,526 --> 01:19:54,224
walk down memory lane, that was.
1880
01:19:56,443 --> 01:19:57,923
Bruce: He must have really
1881
01:19:58,315 --> 01:20:00,404
wanted to be a doctor but...
1882
01:20:00,578 --> 01:20:02,319
That'’s not how...
That'’s not becoming a doctor.
1883
01:20:02,493 --> 01:20:04,016
- No.
- You don'’t stand on a stage
1884
01:20:04,190 --> 01:20:06,497
and kiss a sixteen-year-old girl
to become a doctor.
1885
01:20:08,064 --> 01:20:10,283
Mr. Macalindin:
He was playing Brandon Lee,
1886
01:20:10,457 --> 01:20:12,808
playing Lieutenant Cable,
1887
01:20:13,025 --> 01:20:15,811
playing a mediocre
high school actor.
1888
01:20:15,985 --> 01:20:17,290
Whilst at the same time,
1889
01:20:17,508 --> 01:20:19,640
fooling absolutely everybody
around him
1890
01:20:19,902 --> 01:20:22,208
uh, that he was
a sixteen-year-old teenager.
1891
01:20:22,643 --> 01:20:24,384
One of the pleasures of teaching
1892
01:20:24,732 --> 01:20:27,692
lies in watching young people
grow up.
1893
01:20:27,910 --> 01:20:29,476
and what did we see tonight?
1894
01:20:29,912 --> 01:20:32,436
Confidence, maturity.
1895
01:20:33,611 --> 01:20:35,743
Jono: Part of me thinks
it genuinely is mind-control.
1896
01:20:36,092 --> 01:20:38,268
Because what is mind-control,
1897
01:20:38,529 --> 01:20:41,271
if it'’s not standing
in front of hundreds of people
1898
01:20:41,445 --> 01:20:43,403
and convincing them
that a thirty-year-old man
1899
01:20:43,577 --> 01:20:44,927
is a sixteen-year-old
school boy?
1900
01:20:45,710 --> 01:20:47,016
Headmaster: Now, Brandon Lee,
1901
01:20:47,190 --> 01:20:49,105
I'’m delighted to say
1902
01:20:49,366 --> 01:20:50,933
he behaves and acts
1903
01:20:51,107 --> 01:20:53,196
as if he has been a pupil
at Bearsden Academy
1904
01:20:53,370 --> 01:20:54,545
from the very beginning.
1905
01:20:54,719 --> 01:20:55,981
And we are delighted
to have him.
1906
01:20:56,199 --> 01:20:57,156
[laughter]
1907
01:20:57,330 --> 01:20:58,897
Stuart: That'’s the line.
1908
01:20:59,071 --> 01:21:00,594
I always thought
that was a mythical line.
1909
01:21:00,768 --> 01:21:01,857
- What does he do?
- Wow. Fabulous.
1910
01:21:02,031 --> 01:21:03,206
Look at Brandon'’s face.
1911
01:21:03,554 --> 01:21:05,034
Mr. Macleod: He behaves and acts
1912
01:21:05,208 --> 01:21:06,862
as if he has been a pupil
at Bearsden Academy
1913
01:21:07,036 --> 01:21:08,254
from the very beginning.
1914
01:21:08,428 --> 01:21:09,952
And we'’re delighted to have him.
1915
01:21:14,913 --> 01:21:17,524
Mr. Macleod: I mean hindsights,
we are all good with
hindsights.
1916
01:21:17,916 --> 01:21:21,006
But, eh, it'’s one
of those remarks which, eh...
1917
01:21:21,224 --> 01:21:24,183
have probably become
quite famous.
1918
01:21:24,575 --> 01:21:26,359
Reporter: The Brandon Lee
saga has caused
1919
01:21:26,533 --> 01:21:29,275
considerable embarrassment
for a number of individuals
1920
01:21:29,449 --> 01:21:31,712
and puts the system
of recruiting secondary pupils
1921
01:21:31,887 --> 01:21:33,410
under the microscope.
1922
01:21:34,541 --> 01:21:36,282
Gregor: By the time
Brandon'’s story broke,
1923
01:21:36,456 --> 01:21:38,458
Mrs. Holmes had left Bearsden,
1924
01:21:38,632 --> 01:21:40,156
moved onto another school
1925
01:21:40,330 --> 01:21:42,245
and got a promotion
to becoming a headmistress.
1926
01:21:43,028 --> 01:21:45,030
Meanwhile, Mr. Macleod went
on TV
1927
01:21:45,204 --> 01:21:47,859
and said that it was him
that interviewed Brandon
1928
01:21:48,033 --> 01:21:49,730
and let him into the school.
1929
01:21:49,905 --> 01:21:53,299
Mr. Macleod: In front
of me stood a very composed
1930
01:21:53,473 --> 01:21:56,128
articulate young man.
1931
01:21:56,302 --> 01:21:58,478
He arrived in this school
with credentials,
1932
01:21:58,652 --> 01:22:00,785
impeccable credentials.
1933
01:22:01,438 --> 01:22:02,656
Birth certificate?
1934
01:22:03,309 --> 01:22:04,484
No,
1935
01:22:04,702 --> 01:22:06,051
but I'’ll believe you.
1936
01:22:10,142 --> 01:22:12,188
Mr. Macleod always accepted it
1937
01:22:12,710 --> 01:22:14,320
as his responsibility
1938
01:22:15,278 --> 01:22:17,193
as the headmaster.
1939
01:22:17,367 --> 01:22:18,890
So, that'’s not what happened?
1940
01:22:19,064 --> 01:22:22,024
No, Mrs. Holmes
was saved by Batman.
1941
01:22:23,416 --> 01:22:24,940
Mr. Macleod: And I thought,
well,
1942
01:22:25,114 --> 01:22:27,159
if he'’s spent his life
touring the world
1943
01:22:27,333 --> 01:22:29,118
with an opera singing mother,
1944
01:22:29,466 --> 01:22:31,903
uh, private tutoring,
1945
01:22:32,599 --> 01:22:37,213
then this kind of
cosmopolitan manner
1946
01:22:37,517 --> 01:22:39,955
eh, was all part of the...
part of the course.
1947
01:22:44,307 --> 01:22:45,917
[operatic singing]
1948
01:22:53,794 --> 01:22:55,971
Brandon: The police coming in
to my Mum'’s house.
1949
01:22:56,145 --> 01:22:57,233
There was no crime committed.
1950
01:22:57,450 --> 01:22:58,582
Technically.
1951
01:22:58,756 --> 01:23:00,279
Whatever your moral stance.
1952
01:23:00,453 --> 01:23:02,020
And certainly, my mother
did nothing wrong.
1953
01:23:15,773 --> 01:23:18,471
She'’s already fainted
once or twice in the house.
1954
01:23:19,603 --> 01:23:21,257
So, she'’s pretty upset.
1955
01:23:31,223 --> 01:23:32,572
Reporter: Did she know
he was at the school?
1956
01:23:32,746 --> 01:23:34,096
I have no idea.
1957
01:23:34,357 --> 01:23:35,271
Reporter: Has this come
as a surprise to her?
1958
01:23:35,445 --> 01:23:36,489
Apparently so.
1959
01:23:37,142 --> 01:23:39,623
I would appeal to you all,
give her a break please.
1960
01:23:39,797 --> 01:23:41,016
She doesn'’t know anything.
1961
01:23:41,277 --> 01:23:42,800
There is no point
in hanging about.
1962
01:23:43,061 --> 01:23:44,758
According to May Mackinnon,
1963
01:23:44,932 --> 01:23:47,500
Brian has said that the time
he spent at Bearsden Academy,
1964
01:23:47,674 --> 01:23:49,328
was the happiest year
of his life.
1965
01:23:49,502 --> 01:23:50,938
She went on to add
1966
01:23:51,113 --> 01:23:53,463
that thirty-two-year-old Brian
was a fine son.
1967
01:23:54,899 --> 01:23:57,815
Brian: I can'’t put my finger
on whether...
1968
01:23:58,772 --> 01:24:01,210
Brian'’s mum was
involved in this or not.
1969
01:24:01,906 --> 01:24:03,951
I suspect that she wasn'’t.
1970
01:24:04,648 --> 01:24:06,302
I like to think that she wasn'’t
1971
01:24:06,476 --> 01:24:08,260
I also like
to see the best in people.
1972
01:24:09,827 --> 01:24:12,569
Lindsay: If she knew
that he was going
back to school
1973
01:24:13,265 --> 01:24:17,574
to assume the identity
of a sixteen-year-old child,
1974
01:24:17,748 --> 01:24:19,576
I don'’t think that
would have happened.
1975
01:24:19,750 --> 01:24:21,404
I don'’t think she knew about it.
1976
01:24:22,840 --> 01:24:24,102
Interviewer:
Did your mother know
1977
01:24:24,276 --> 01:24:25,451
what you were doing?
1978
01:24:25,843 --> 01:24:28,237
No, my mother
was not made aware
1979
01:24:28,411 --> 01:24:29,977
of what was going on.
1980
01:24:31,109 --> 01:24:32,458
Brian: If he acted alone,
1981
01:24:32,632 --> 01:24:34,852
then it'’s one person who is
1982
01:24:35,635 --> 01:24:39,813
delusional, narcissistic
and has...
1983
01:24:41,206 --> 01:24:42,990
maybe some issues around reality
1984
01:24:43,165 --> 01:24:44,862
and some issues around ethics.
1985
01:24:45,689 --> 01:24:47,647
If two people
come up with something
1986
01:24:47,821 --> 01:24:49,693
then it becomes
much more insidious
1987
01:24:49,867 --> 01:24:51,260
And it becomes a...
1988
01:24:51,477 --> 01:24:53,871
It just takes
a slightly more sinister turn.
1989
01:25:00,747 --> 01:25:03,228
- Brandon/
- Brian: She came
from a poor background.
1990
01:25:03,881 --> 01:25:05,752
Eleanor: The sort of people
that live in Bearsden
1991
01:25:05,926 --> 01:25:07,276
are rich people. [chuckles]
1992
01:25:07,711 --> 01:25:09,800
Mrs. Montgomery:
Doctors, dentists, lawyers.
1993
01:25:09,974 --> 01:25:11,802
She wanted him
to become a doctor.
1994
01:25:11,976 --> 01:25:14,065
She didn't see
why he couldn'’t become a doctor.
1995
01:25:14,239 --> 01:25:15,675
It was his father'’s dying wish
1996
01:25:15,849 --> 01:25:17,721
that Brian
should become a doctor.
1997
01:25:17,895 --> 01:25:19,853
And Mrs. Mackinnon
said she'’d promised
1998
01:25:20,027 --> 01:25:22,639
that she would do all she could
to help him.
1999
01:25:26,817 --> 01:25:28,035
Interviewer: If she didn'’t know,
2000
01:25:28,297 --> 01:25:29,994
who did she think you were
2001
01:25:30,212 --> 01:25:33,040
coming to the house
to study for school?
2002
01:25:34,651 --> 01:25:36,609
[chuckles] Good question.
2003
01:25:40,135 --> 01:25:41,658
Good point. Good point.
2004
01:25:41,832 --> 01:25:43,355
Ehm, I suppose, yeah...
2005
01:25:45,009 --> 01:25:46,793
Now I think about it,
2006
01:25:46,967 --> 01:25:50,057
she must have been in on it
and treated me like, you know,
2007
01:25:50,232 --> 01:25:53,322
one of Brandon'’s, Bri--
Yeah, Brandon'’s school friends.
2008
01:25:53,974 --> 01:25:56,281
I'’ve heard that...
2009
01:25:58,109 --> 01:26:00,546
that Brian told her
that Brandon was a nickname
2010
01:26:01,243 --> 01:26:04,898
Okay, so if his nickname
is Brandon, what'’s her nickname?
2011
01:26:05,508 --> 01:26:07,249
- - You met his Mum/
- Gran?
- Yeah.
2012
01:26:07,423 --> 01:26:08,641
And he called her?
2013
01:26:08,859 --> 01:26:10,034
He called her Gran
when I was there.
2014
01:26:10,208 --> 01:26:11,514
- He called her Gran?
- Uh-huh.
2015
01:26:11,688 --> 01:26:13,124
And what did she say?
2016
01:26:13,298 --> 01:26:14,430
She went along with it.
2017
01:26:26,485 --> 01:26:28,487
Bruce: So, hang on,
the bit I don'’t get is,
2018
01:26:28,661 --> 01:26:30,620
if it was a death bed promise
to his Dad
2019
01:26:30,794 --> 01:26:32,578
that made him
come back to school,
2020
01:26:32,970 --> 01:26:35,625
how come his Dad
died months after
2021
01:26:35,799 --> 01:26:37,583
he was back at school with us?
2022
01:26:38,062 --> 01:26:39,716
Good afternoon,
Bearsden Academy.
2023
01:26:40,543 --> 01:26:41,761
Interviewer:
How did you find out
2024
01:26:41,935 --> 01:26:43,807
that Brandon'’s father had died?
2025
01:26:44,764 --> 01:26:47,202
What came in was a call
to the school office
2026
01:26:47,376 --> 01:26:49,421
from his grandmother,
apparently.
2027
01:26:50,030 --> 01:26:51,554
Saying that his father had died
2028
01:26:51,728 --> 01:26:54,078
and she was sending a car
to collect him.
2029
01:26:54,818 --> 01:26:55,949
Oh.
2030
01:26:57,821 --> 01:26:59,214
- So... oh.
- Yeah.
2031
01:26:59,388 --> 01:27:01,868
So, his father
was alive and well
2032
01:27:02,042 --> 01:27:03,957
at the time
when he started school.
2033
01:27:04,131 --> 01:27:05,002
Interviewer: No.
2034
01:27:05,176 --> 01:27:06,395
No.
2035
01:27:07,091 --> 01:27:09,702
- No, his real father. No?
- No.
2036
01:27:10,181 --> 01:27:11,748
This is the made up one?
2037
01:27:11,922 --> 01:27:13,271
That wasn'’t his Granny calling.
2038
01:27:13,489 --> 01:27:14,707
That was his Mum
calling the school
2039
01:27:14,881 --> 01:27:16,274
that she knew he was in.
2040
01:27:16,709 --> 01:27:20,278
Uh-huh, to say...
So, she'’s... Oh, so she'’s... Oh!
2041
01:27:20,452 --> 01:27:21,801
So, she'’s complicit.
2042
01:27:21,975 --> 01:27:23,977
- Because she knew about it.
- Fuck sake.
2043
01:27:24,456 --> 01:27:26,545
- Oh my God.
- Eek!
2044
01:27:27,198 --> 01:27:28,591
Oh!
2045
01:27:28,765 --> 01:27:32,682
Hello, I'’m Brandon Lee'’s
grandmother.
2046
01:27:33,683 --> 01:27:36,642
I'’m afraid
I'’ve had some awful news.
2047
01:27:39,254 --> 01:27:42,082
Brian'’s mother would have done
anything for him.
2048
01:27:43,127 --> 01:27:45,434
Brandon, I'’m sorry to tell you,
2049
01:27:45,869 --> 01:27:47,610
you'’re father has died.
2050
01:27:47,784 --> 01:27:49,873
Interviewer: Have you ever had
to do that before or since?
2051
01:27:50,047 --> 01:27:51,178
No.
2052
01:27:51,353 --> 01:27:53,442
No, fortunately.
2053
01:27:54,269 --> 01:27:56,096
Interviewer: So, that'’s the only
time you'’ve told a child...
2054
01:27:56,271 --> 01:27:57,924
- Yes.
- ...that their parent has died?
2055
01:27:59,448 --> 01:28:00,884
Interviewer:
How do you feel about it now?
2056
01:28:01,841 --> 01:28:03,843
I feel I don'’t know
if it is true or not.
2057
01:28:05,149 --> 01:28:08,239
I don'’t know whether it was
his father who had died.
2058
01:28:08,457 --> 01:28:11,198
Or whether it was some reason
2059
01:28:11,373 --> 01:28:13,113
to get out of school
for something special.
2060
01:28:13,288 --> 01:28:14,593
I don'’t know.
2061
01:28:14,767 --> 01:28:15,986
I still don'’t know.
2062
01:28:17,379 --> 01:28:20,207
Bandon: I fell behind
in the study for...
2063
01:28:20,425 --> 01:28:22,514
a Physics class test.
2064
01:28:22,949 --> 01:28:25,604
So, I realized I'’m going
to have to be sick that day.
2065
01:28:25,778 --> 01:28:27,519
It'’s just a class test,
they'’ll let me off with that.
2066
01:28:27,693 --> 01:28:28,868
How do I get round it?
2067
01:28:29,347 --> 01:28:30,479
I see.
2068
01:28:32,002 --> 01:28:33,046
Right
2069
01:28:34,787 --> 01:28:36,223
That does seem
2070
01:28:36,485 --> 01:28:37,573
rather an extreme way
of dodging a Physics test,
2071
01:28:37,747 --> 01:28:38,791
I have to say.
2072
01:28:43,405 --> 01:28:46,582
Nicola: I think Brian
and his Mum believed
2073
01:28:46,756 --> 01:28:49,280
they could do anything
to get what they
wanted in life.
2074
01:28:50,803 --> 01:28:52,849
They have common personalities
in that respect
2075
01:28:53,240 --> 01:28:54,720
That they both think...
2076
01:28:54,981 --> 01:28:56,505
I don'’t know
how to put it without going,
2077
01:28:56,679 --> 01:28:58,115
"They'’re both fucking mental."
2078
01:28:58,333 --> 01:29:00,596
Do you know what I mean?
Like, how can I...
2079
01:29:00,770 --> 01:29:03,033
How can we say like,
that they'’re both nuts?
2080
01:29:03,207 --> 01:29:04,730
His Mum was mental.
2081
01:29:04,991 --> 01:29:06,863
She was...
That'’s where he gets it from.
2082
01:29:07,907 --> 01:29:09,300
Reporter: Today,
Brian Mackinnon'’s mother
2083
01:29:09,474 --> 01:29:11,084
told me that he was
not at home.
2084
01:29:11,258 --> 01:29:13,522
It was unlikely
he would give interviews,
2085
01:29:14,044 --> 01:29:16,655
given the lies that journalists
have told about him.
2086
01:29:17,569 --> 01:29:19,919
Brandon: When you get that
attack in the press
back in '95,
2087
01:29:20,093 --> 01:29:21,791
someone saying
he has to sort out
2088
01:29:21,965 --> 01:29:23,967
his relationship
with his mother.
2089
01:29:24,620 --> 01:29:26,230
So, effectively
it'’s calling you,
2090
01:29:26,448 --> 01:29:27,579
forgive my language...
2091
01:29:27,753 --> 01:29:29,146
A motherfucker.
2092
01:29:31,714 --> 01:29:33,716
Mrs. Montgomery:
It was an obsession
2093
01:29:34,412 --> 01:29:36,545
with getting to be a doctor.
2094
01:29:37,850 --> 01:29:40,810
A thirty-two-year-old man
who posed as a school boy
2095
01:29:40,984 --> 01:29:43,639
to get the
qualifications needed to study
for a medical degree,
2096
01:29:43,813 --> 01:29:46,816
has lost his place
at Dundee University.
2097
01:29:46,990 --> 01:29:49,688
Universities are now
insisting on all students
2098
01:29:49,862 --> 01:29:52,387
starting or re-sitting
a first year,
2099
01:29:52,561 --> 01:29:54,693
presenting a birth certificate
or passport.
2100
01:29:55,041 --> 01:29:57,740
So, Brian Mackinnon
will not return to Dundee.
2101
01:29:59,306 --> 01:30:01,613
Jono: So that was him
thrown out of Dundee.
2102
01:30:01,787 --> 01:30:03,876
And then the press
had a field day, digging up
2103
01:30:04,050 --> 01:30:06,139
the first time he had been
kicked out of medical school.
2104
01:30:06,313 --> 01:30:08,272
Reporter 1: The doctors of 1980
2105
01:30:08,751 --> 01:30:11,101
studying at
Glasgow University'’s world
famous medical school,
2106
01:30:11,275 --> 01:30:13,146
gain practical experience.
2107
01:30:13,320 --> 01:30:15,105
Reporter 2: Brian Mackinnon
felt cheated
2108
01:30:15,279 --> 01:30:17,847
by Glasgow University'’s
medical faculty
2109
01:30:18,021 --> 01:30:19,979
and he said they had
robbed him of a chance
2110
01:30:20,153 --> 01:30:21,546
to become a doctor.
2111
01:30:21,894 --> 01:30:23,548
Brandon: You have an institution
2112
01:30:23,722 --> 01:30:25,550
that is supposed to be
an educational institution.
2113
01:30:26,203 --> 01:30:28,379
A university who will
hold a press conference
2114
01:30:28,553 --> 01:30:30,163
to correct the public record
2115
01:30:30,425 --> 01:30:31,991
and tell nothing but lies.
2116
01:30:32,165 --> 01:30:33,602
Newsreader: This afternoon
2117
01:30:34,037 --> 01:30:35,212
the dean of Glasgow University'’s
medical faculty said,
2118
01:30:35,517 --> 01:30:37,475
Mackinnon just wasn'’t
good enough.
2119
01:30:37,649 --> 01:30:40,347
He was asked to leave
after he had been given
2120
01:30:40,522 --> 01:30:43,002
every possible
chance of succeeding,
2121
01:30:43,176 --> 01:30:45,614
even with a second year re-sit.
2122
01:30:45,962 --> 01:30:48,617
Eh, which he then failed
to complete successfully.
2123
01:30:49,400 --> 01:30:50,836
Mrs. Montgomery: Brian thinks
2124
01:30:51,010 --> 01:30:52,795
that the whole world
is against him.
2125
01:30:52,969 --> 01:30:55,319
And that people don'’t want him
to get a medical degree.
2126
01:30:55,667 --> 01:30:56,929
And that there are people
2127
01:30:57,103 --> 01:30:58,931
deliberately standing
in his way.
2128
01:30:59,279 --> 01:31:01,412
Brandon: What they did
was presented
2129
01:31:01,586 --> 01:31:04,807
as bona fidè papers
that were falsified.
2130
01:31:05,895 --> 01:31:08,550
Guys that are willing
to do that, probably are...
2131
01:31:09,594 --> 01:31:11,596
you know, not big on conscience.
2132
01:31:12,684 --> 01:31:14,425
Woman: If there is no trust
between a patient and a doctor,
2133
01:31:14,599 --> 01:31:15,992
then there is nothing left.
2134
01:31:16,166 --> 01:31:17,254
The fact that
he has falsified papers
2135
01:31:17,428 --> 01:31:18,951
and has admitted to it,
2136
01:31:19,125 --> 01:31:21,606
rather calls his honesty
into question.
2137
01:31:29,484 --> 01:31:30,876
Interviewer:
What happened to Cheryl?
2138
01:31:31,050 --> 01:31:32,530
Sorry?
2139
01:31:32,791 --> 01:31:33,923
Interviewer: The girl
he argued with on holiday.
2140
01:31:34,097 --> 01:31:35,490
She went to Dundee
2141
01:31:36,229 --> 01:31:38,101
after she left school
2142
01:31:38,275 --> 01:31:39,929
and did her degree there.
2143
01:31:40,538 --> 01:31:43,498
Reporter: Competition for places
on medical courses is fierce
2144
01:31:43,672 --> 01:31:45,369
and the question mark
2145
01:31:45,717 --> 01:31:47,240
hanging over Brandon Lee'’s
future at the university
2146
01:31:47,414 --> 01:31:49,025
has resulted
in a flood of queries
2147
01:31:49,199 --> 01:31:51,418
from people whose applications
had been turned down.
2148
01:31:51,593 --> 01:31:53,159
It is a very popular course
2149
01:31:53,333 --> 01:31:54,596
We have twelve applications
2150
01:31:54,770 --> 01:31:56,772
for every place
that is available.
2151
01:31:56,946 --> 01:31:58,600
And we should make it clear
that eh...
2152
01:31:58,774 --> 01:32:00,253
all places are now taken.
2153
01:32:01,037 --> 01:32:02,386
Interviewer:
What does Cheryl do now?
2154
01:32:02,995 --> 01:32:04,040
She'’s a doctor.
2155
01:32:04,997 --> 01:32:06,608
Cheryl is a doctor.
2156
01:32:11,787 --> 01:32:13,353
Iffy: I always thought, well,
2157
01:32:13,528 --> 01:32:16,008
that he actually could
have got away with this,
2158
01:32:16,443 --> 01:32:20,273
if he hadn'’t gone on this
damn holiday with these lassies.
2159
01:32:28,673 --> 01:32:31,241
Man: Ladies and Gentlemen,
to whom it concerns.
2160
01:32:31,415 --> 01:32:33,330
It'’s the Late Late Show
2161
01:32:34,070 --> 01:32:36,289
and here is your host,
Gay Byrne.
2162
01:32:36,463 --> 01:32:38,030
Would you welcome please,
Brian Mackinnon.
2163
01:32:38,204 --> 01:32:40,555
He made the world headlines
and I'’m not surprised.
2164
01:32:40,729 --> 01:32:41,860
[applause]
2165
01:32:42,165 --> 01:32:43,253
Sit down, Brian.
2166
01:32:44,515 --> 01:32:46,517
- Brandon/
- Brian: I really think
subconsciously
2167
01:32:47,039 --> 01:32:48,998
I wanted to be caught, you know,
2168
01:32:49,172 --> 01:32:52,392
because it was... it'’s so...
it'’s such a disgusting
2169
01:32:52,567 --> 01:32:53,916
self-degrading feeling
2170
01:32:54,090 --> 01:32:56,266
to have to... to do
something like that
2171
01:32:56,440 --> 01:33:00,400
to go under a false persona,
a false, you know, identity.
2172
01:33:02,925 --> 01:33:04,753
Brian: I used to see him
walking down the street.
2173
01:33:04,970 --> 01:33:06,363
He would turn around
2174
01:33:06,537 --> 01:33:08,278
and walk back up
the road if he saw me.
2175
01:33:08,452 --> 01:33:10,628
I don'’t know whether he is
ashamed or embarrassed,
2176
01:33:11,194 --> 01:33:12,630
or...
2177
01:33:13,762 --> 01:33:15,154
Maybe, I don'’t know,
2178
01:33:15,328 --> 01:33:17,026
maybe he just doesn'’t
want to know me.
2179
01:33:20,638 --> 01:33:22,292
Shan: I'’d see him in the street.
2180
01:33:22,597 --> 01:33:25,817
But he looked quite disheveled
and just a different person.
2181
01:33:26,035 --> 01:33:28,037
A completely different
person from who he was.
2182
01:33:28,298 --> 01:33:29,691
Interviewer: Well, he was.
2183
01:33:29,865 --> 01:33:31,518
True, he was
a different person, yes.
2184
01:33:31,693 --> 01:33:32,998
Good point.
2185
01:33:33,346 --> 01:33:35,000
Interviewer: Did you like
being seventeen again?
2186
01:33:35,174 --> 01:33:37,481
No, I had no like for it at all.
2187
01:33:37,655 --> 01:33:40,397
My main feeling throughout
the year was, you know,
2188
01:33:40,571 --> 01:33:41,964
God can'’t this be over.
2189
01:33:42,355 --> 01:33:45,402
Nicola: I lost touch with Brian
over the years.
2190
01:33:45,576 --> 01:33:47,883
I did hear that his Mum
had passed away.
2191
01:33:48,057 --> 01:33:49,536
For real this time.
2192
01:33:49,711 --> 01:33:52,235
Ehm, and obviously
I know he was very close to her
2193
01:33:52,409 --> 01:33:54,150
and that would
have hit him really hard.
2194
01:33:58,023 --> 01:33:59,546
Interviewer: But you didn'’t
feel that you were
2195
01:33:59,721 --> 01:34:01,679
almost flaunting
the danger?
2196
01:34:01,853 --> 01:34:02,985
No.
2197
01:34:03,246 --> 01:34:03,986
Wasn'’t there an element of that
in it?
2198
01:34:04,160 --> 01:34:05,030
No, absolutely not.
2199
01:34:05,204 --> 01:34:06,510
Look at me,
2200
01:34:07,119 --> 01:34:08,381
- I'’m thirty-two years old.
- I was terrified. No way.
2201
01:34:08,947 --> 01:34:10,209
Yes, he was a liar.
2202
01:34:11,297 --> 01:34:13,691
Ehm, that'’s a very
harsh thing to say but...
2203
01:34:14,039 --> 01:34:15,345
he was.
2204
01:34:18,609 --> 01:34:20,393
- Brandon/
- Brian:
There was a kiss required.
2205
01:34:20,567 --> 01:34:24,093
But I managed to get off with,
with not performing the kiss.
2206
01:34:28,010 --> 01:34:30,012
Donald: If it was my children
who were at school
2207
01:34:30,186 --> 01:34:32,841
with somebody who
had pretended to be sixteen,
2208
01:34:33,015 --> 01:34:34,843
you would expect that
he would have to account for it
2209
01:34:35,017 --> 01:34:36,627
in some way.
2210
01:34:36,975 --> 01:34:39,761
So... But then he didn'’t,
there was no charges pursued.
2211
01:34:40,326 --> 01:34:43,329
Were there any ramifications?
I would have put him in prison.
2212
01:34:43,590 --> 01:34:46,637
Although he hasn'’t done
anything wrong, but he'’s lied.
2213
01:34:48,987 --> 01:34:50,336
He lied about his life.
2214
01:34:52,034 --> 01:34:53,600
You can follow your dreams
2215
01:34:54,514 --> 01:34:55,907
without deceiving people.
2216
01:34:56,821 --> 01:34:58,301
[applause]
2217
01:35:02,044 --> 01:35:05,047
Reporter: It'’s a story which is
seemingly never-ending.
2218
01:35:05,438 --> 01:35:08,485
And he'’s still trying to gain
entry into a medical faculty
2219
01:35:08,659 --> 01:35:10,139
at a Scottish University.
2220
01:35:10,313 --> 01:35:12,054
I want my career back.
2221
01:35:12,228 --> 01:35:14,621
I'’m still strong, fit,
bright, sharp
2222
01:35:14,796 --> 01:35:16,449
and I'’ve got a lot to offer.
2223
01:35:16,623 --> 01:35:18,147
Maybe I can make a difference.
2224
01:35:22,151 --> 01:35:23,848
David: So, if I was lying
in a hospital bed
2225
01:35:25,284 --> 01:35:26,982
and he walks in as the doctor...
2226
01:35:29,941 --> 01:35:32,552
Stefen: If Brian needed
to treat me...
2227
01:35:33,728 --> 01:35:36,774
I would probably
allow that to happen
2228
01:35:36,948 --> 01:35:39,124
because I believe...
2229
01:35:39,298 --> 01:35:40,952
someone'’s personal life
2230
01:35:41,126 --> 01:35:43,476
shouldn'’t interfere
with their professional life.
2231
01:35:47,219 --> 01:35:50,745
If professionally,
he is a capable doctor,
2232
01:35:51,571 --> 01:35:53,095
uhm...
2233
01:35:57,316 --> 01:35:59,449
Depends what'’s wrong with me.
[chuckles]
2234
01:35:59,623 --> 01:36:01,320
Nah, of course not.
2235
01:36:01,494 --> 01:36:02,669
No.
2236
01:36:02,844 --> 01:36:05,324
He fraudulently
went to school...
2237
01:36:05,498 --> 01:36:07,109
[laughs] And lied.
2238
01:36:11,069 --> 01:36:12,505
Gregor: Do you know what?
2239
01:36:12,767 --> 01:36:14,507
I'd... I'’d give it a go.
2240
01:36:14,681 --> 01:36:16,074
- Would you?
- Aye.
2241
01:36:16,553 --> 01:36:18,816
Aye, if he came in the room,
whacked on the rubber glove,
2242
01:36:18,990 --> 01:36:20,383
I'’d be like that,
do you know what?
2243
01:36:20,557 --> 01:36:21,601
[laughs]
2244
01:36:21,819 --> 01:36:22,994
This is where we'’re at
2245
01:36:23,168 --> 01:36:24,779
and I'’m just going
to roll with it.
2246
01:36:24,953 --> 01:36:26,737
You'’re on your own then.
2247
01:36:28,478 --> 01:36:31,568
[birds chirping]
2248
01:36:41,578 --> 01:36:43,232
Interviewer: What does Brian
do now?
2249
01:36:44,755 --> 01:36:46,888
I don'’t think he does
anything very much now.
2250
01:36:47,584 --> 01:36:49,760
I mean, I don'’t think
he works at all.
2251
01:36:49,934 --> 01:36:51,718
I'’ve seen him very often
2252
01:36:51,936 --> 01:36:55,200
walking along the road
just up from the post office,
2253
01:36:55,374 --> 01:36:56,811
so I think he does
a lot of walking.
2254
01:37:01,337 --> 01:37:02,729
It was maybe ten years ago
2255
01:37:02,947 --> 01:37:04,775
they pulled
Bearsden Academy down.
2256
01:37:04,949 --> 01:37:06,385
They sold off the land
2257
01:37:06,777 --> 01:37:08,866
and built an estate
of really expensive houses
2258
01:37:09,040 --> 01:37:10,825
called Academy Grove.
2259
01:37:10,999 --> 01:37:12,522
They named
one of the streets in it,
2260
01:37:12,696 --> 01:37:14,219
Norman Macleod Crescent.
2261
01:37:14,567 --> 01:37:17,832
Mr. Mcleod: Brandon Lee,
he behaves and acts
2262
01:37:18,006 --> 01:37:19,703
as if he has been a pupil
at Bearsden Academy
2263
01:37:19,877 --> 01:37:21,139
from the very beginning.
2264
01:37:21,313 --> 01:37:23,011
And we are
delighted to have him.
2265
01:37:23,185 --> 01:37:24,751
Jono: Mr. Macleod never got
to see that though.
2266
01:37:24,926 --> 01:37:26,362
He died not even a year
2267
01:37:26,579 --> 01:37:28,277
after the Brandon Lee scandal
broke.
2268
01:37:29,626 --> 01:37:30,975
I remember he always
used to say to us
2269
01:37:31,149 --> 01:37:32,672
at the start of
every school year,
2270
01:37:32,847 --> 01:37:35,284
"This is the most
important year of your life."
2271
01:37:35,458 --> 01:37:36,851
This is your
most important year.
2272
01:37:37,025 --> 01:37:38,243
It didn't matter
what year you were in
2273
01:37:38,417 --> 01:37:40,463
This was your
most important year.
2274
01:37:40,985 --> 01:37:42,944
I think what he was
trying to say was
2275
01:37:43,118 --> 01:37:45,860
past is past
and that'’s behind you.
2276
01:37:46,208 --> 01:37:48,427
The only thing you have
the power to change
2277
01:37:48,601 --> 01:37:49,994
is what lies ahead.
2278
01:37:54,433 --> 01:37:58,350
♪ One more step
Along the world I go ♪
2279
01:37:58,524 --> 01:38:01,832
♪ One more step
Along the world I go ♪
2280
01:38:02,528 --> 01:38:06,663
♪ From the old things
To the new ♪
2281
01:38:06,837 --> 01:38:11,146
♪ Keep me travelling
Along with you ♪
2282
01:38:14,627 --> 01:38:16,325
Stefen: Since school, ehm...
2283
01:38:16,499 --> 01:38:18,283
And I must also say
2284
01:38:18,457 --> 01:38:20,155
thanks to Brandon
2285
01:38:20,329 --> 01:38:22,026
and us studying together,
2286
01:38:22,635 --> 01:38:24,637
ehm, I went to study pharmacy.
2287
01:38:26,291 --> 01:38:27,771
I'’m glad that Brandon
2288
01:38:27,945 --> 01:38:30,078
was who Brandon was.
2289
01:38:31,253 --> 01:38:33,429
Because he made my school life
2290
01:38:34,169 --> 01:38:35,735
more bearable.
2291
01:38:36,432 --> 01:38:38,956
And if anything
was different back then,
2292
01:38:39,391 --> 01:38:41,002
I wouldn'’t be who I am today.
2293
01:38:41,176 --> 01:38:43,439
- Thanks very much.
- OK, bye-bye.
2294
01:38:44,179 --> 01:38:46,224
Interviewer: Was Brandon Lee
a real person?
2295
01:38:46,703 --> 01:38:48,096
He...
2296
01:38:48,792 --> 01:38:50,489
Interviewer: Is there much
of a difference between
2297
01:38:50,663 --> 01:38:51,795
Brandon Lee
and Brian Mackinnon?
2298
01:38:51,969 --> 01:38:53,536
I mean, who am I talking to now?
2299
01:38:53,753 --> 01:38:55,364
Oh, you'’re talking
to Brian Mackinnon, of course.
2300
01:38:55,538 --> 01:38:58,062
And the difference
is simply a name.
2301
01:38:59,020 --> 01:39:01,544
All I can say is,
what is a person?
2302
01:39:03,415 --> 01:39:06,941
♪ Round the corners
Of the world I turn ♪
2303
01:39:07,376 --> 01:39:11,293
♪ More and more
About the world I learn ♪
2304
01:39:11,989 --> 01:39:15,514
♪ And the new things
That I see ♪
2305
01:39:15,688 --> 01:39:19,214
♪ You'’ll be looking at
Along with me ♪
2306
01:39:19,475 --> 01:39:23,783
♪ And it'’s from the old
I travel to the new ♪
2307
01:39:24,175 --> 01:39:27,962
♪ Keep me travelling
Along with you ♪
2308
01:39:28,223 --> 01:39:29,311
Where is the castle?
2309
01:39:29,528 --> 01:39:30,573
There.
2310
01:39:30,965 --> 01:39:32,618
[laughter]
2311
01:39:32,792 --> 01:39:35,491
♪ As I travel through
The bad and good ♪
2312
01:39:35,665 --> 01:39:39,364
♪ Keep me travelling
The way I should ♪
2313
01:39:39,538 --> 01:39:43,238
♪ And where I see
No way to go ♪
2314
01:39:43,499 --> 01:39:45,718
♪ You'’ll be telling me ♪
2315
01:39:45,892 --> 01:39:47,851
♪ The way I know ♪
2316
01:39:53,857 --> 01:39:59,123
Dave McKinlay!
2317
01:39:59,689 --> 01:40:03,649
♪ Give me courage
When the world is rough ♪
2318
01:40:03,823 --> 01:40:07,871
♪ Keep me loving t
Thought the world is tough ♪
2319
01:40:08,045 --> 01:40:11,788
♪ Leap and sing in all I do ♪
2320
01:40:12,180 --> 01:40:15,357
♪ Keep me travelling
Along with you ♪
2321
01:40:15,792 --> 01:40:17,663
♪ And it'’s from the old ♪
2322
01:40:17,924 --> 01:40:20,275
♪ I travel to the new ♪
2323
01:40:20,449 --> 01:40:22,233
♪ Keep me travelling ♪
2324
01:40:22,407 --> 01:40:24,757
♪ Along with you ♪
2325
01:40:24,931 --> 01:40:27,586
Coming up today in the studio,
we hear from the man...
2326
01:40:27,760 --> 01:40:31,590
♪ You are older
Than the world can be ♪
2327
01:40:31,764 --> 01:40:35,812
♪ You are younger
Than the life in me ♪
2328
01:40:35,986 --> 01:40:40,121
♪ Ever old and ever new ♪
2329
01:40:40,295 --> 01:40:43,776
♪ Keep me traveling
Along with you ♪
2330
01:40:43,950 --> 01:40:48,520
♪ And it'’s from the old
I travel to the new ♪
2331
01:40:48,694 --> 01:40:54,222
♪ Keep me travelling
Along with you ♪
2332
01:41:02,491 --> 01:41:04,275
Interviewer: When you look
at that photo of Brandon,
2333
01:41:04,493 --> 01:41:05,972
do you feel stupid?
2334
01:41:07,017 --> 01:41:08,323
[chuckles]
2335
01:41:08,801 --> 01:41:09,976
It'’s odd because we did
just accept that he was sixteen.
2336
01:41:10,151 --> 01:41:11,195
I know.
2337
01:41:11,630 --> 01:41:12,718
Yep.
2338
01:41:15,504 --> 01:41:17,201
Interviewer: Okay, so...
2339
01:41:17,375 --> 01:41:18,811
So did you, you mug.
2340
01:41:18,985 --> 01:41:21,292
[both women and interviewer
laughing]
2341
01:41:27,168 --> 01:41:29,257
Jono: Brian is still
around Bearsden.
2342
01:41:29,431 --> 01:41:30,997
He is often spotted
in the local library
2343
01:41:31,172 --> 01:41:32,347
on the computers.
2344
01:41:33,522 --> 01:41:35,393
I think I know
what he is doing on them.
2345
01:41:38,004 --> 01:41:40,833
David: Brian is still
applying to...
2346
01:41:41,007 --> 01:41:43,053
medical universities and stuff.
2347
01:41:43,271 --> 01:41:44,924
And it'’s... He'’s stuck.
2348
01:41:45,099 --> 01:41:47,231
If he feels that, you know,
2349
01:41:47,405 --> 01:41:51,061
I was destined for this
and I'’m only going for this...
2350
01:41:55,413 --> 01:41:56,893
- Brandon/
- Brian:
I just want my medical degree.
2351
01:41:57,067 --> 01:41:59,504
I want to know, that I know,
what I know.
2352
01:42:02,246 --> 01:42:04,335
Maybe a medical school dean
somewhere
2353
01:42:04,509 --> 01:42:06,294
in an English, German
2354
01:42:06,468 --> 01:42:08,557
or Swedish speaking
part of the world,
2355
01:42:08,731 --> 01:42:10,341
maybe they'’d think twice.
2356
01:42:15,738 --> 01:42:18,393
Stefen:
I feel given his notoriety,
2357
01:42:19,133 --> 01:42:21,309
it'’s highly unlikely
2358
01:42:22,136 --> 01:42:24,877
any medical school
is going to allow him
2359
01:42:25,226 --> 01:42:27,619
to study medicine.
2360
01:42:28,490 --> 01:42:31,014
Unless he changes his identity
again.
2361
01:42:34,800 --> 01:42:37,020
- Brandon/
- Brian: I still get
glimpses of possible futures,
2362
01:42:37,238 --> 01:42:40,197
because... I have got tricks
up my sleeve.
2363
01:42:44,549 --> 01:42:46,464
Why did he not let you film him?
2364
01:42:46,638 --> 01:42:49,467
Why does he not want us
to see what he looks like now?
2365
01:42:55,517 --> 01:42:57,519
- Brandon/
- Brian:
When you have an adversary,
2366
01:42:57,693 --> 01:43:00,522
the thing you have to do,
if you really want to prevail,
2367
01:43:00,696 --> 01:43:02,567
is do the unimaginable.
2368
01:43:03,002 --> 01:43:05,048
Do something that is
just so out there,
2369
01:43:05,222 --> 01:43:06,832
that no one is
even going to dream
2370
01:43:07,006 --> 01:43:08,834
that you would
think of doing that.
2371
01:43:09,879 --> 01:43:11,446
Man: I began to think
2372
01:43:11,620 --> 01:43:13,491
did he have some
kind of cosmetic surgery?
2373
01:43:13,665 --> 01:43:16,929
Because it was a rather
mask-like face that he had.
2374
01:43:17,103 --> 01:43:18,801
It was an unusual face.
2375
01:43:19,367 --> 01:43:23,719
♪ And it'’s from the old
I travel to the new ♪
2376
01:43:23,893 --> 01:43:29,333
♪ Keep me travelling
Along with you ♪
2377
01:43:31,944 --> 01:43:35,818
♪ ["My Old School" playing] ♪
2378
01:43:40,301 --> 01:43:45,610
♪ I remember
The thirty-five sweet
goodbyes ♪
2379
01:43:47,395 --> 01:43:50,136
♪ When you put me
On the Wolverine ♪
2380
01:43:50,311 --> 01:43:51,573
♪ Up to Annandale ♪
2381
01:43:54,793 --> 01:43:57,492
♪ It was still September ♪
2382
01:43:57,883 --> 01:44:00,930
♪ When your daddy
Was quite surprised ♪
2383
01:44:02,888 --> 01:44:05,282
♪ To find you
With the working girls ♪
2384
01:44:05,456 --> 01:44:06,762
♪ In the county jail ♪
2385
01:44:08,981 --> 01:44:12,811
♪ I was smoking
With the boys upstairs ♪
2386
01:44:12,985 --> 01:44:16,554
♪ When I, I heard about
The whole affair ♪
2387
01:44:16,728 --> 01:44:18,991
♪ I said oh no ♪
2388
01:44:19,165 --> 01:44:21,864
♪ William and Mary won't do ♪
2389
01:44:24,040 --> 01:44:26,912
♪ Well I did not think
The girl ♪
2390
01:44:27,391 --> 01:44:31,308
♪ Could be so cruel ♪
2391
01:44:31,613 --> 01:44:34,529
♪ And I'm never going back ♪
2392
01:44:34,964 --> 01:44:39,403
♪ To my old school ♪
2393
01:44:56,028 --> 01:45:01,425
♪ Oleanders growing
Outside her door ♪
2394
01:45:03,601 --> 01:45:07,301
♪ Soon they're gonna be in
bloom. Up in Annandale ♪
2395
01:45:11,043 --> 01:45:12,828
♪ I can't stand her ♪
2396
01:45:13,959 --> 01:45:16,571
♪ Doing what she did before ♪
2397
01:45:18,616 --> 01:45:22,359
♪ Living like a gypsy queen
In a fairy tale ♪
2398
01:45:24,840 --> 01:45:28,539
♪ Well I hear the whistle
But I can't go ♪
2399
01:45:28,713 --> 01:45:32,151
♪ I'm gonna take her down
To Mexico ♪
2400
01:45:32,326 --> 01:45:37,548
♪ She said oh no
Guadalajara won't do ♪
2401
01:45:39,768 --> 01:45:42,814
♪ Well I did not think
The girl ♪
2402
01:45:43,119 --> 01:45:47,079
♪ Could be so cruel ♪
2403
01:45:47,253 --> 01:45:50,387
♪ And I'm never going back ♪
2404
01:45:50,648 --> 01:45:55,131
♪ To my old school ♪
2405
01:46:30,601 --> 01:46:35,693
♪ California tumbles
Into the sea ♪
2406
01:46:38,000 --> 01:46:41,786
♪ That'll be the day I go
Back to Annandale ♪
2407
01:46:45,616 --> 01:46:50,839
♪ I tried to warn you
About Chino and Daddy Gee ♪
2408
01:46:53,015 --> 01:46:56,975
♪ But I can't
seem to get to you
Through the U.S. Mail ♪
2409
01:46:59,456 --> 01:47:03,765
♪ Well I hear the whistle
But I can't go ♪
2410
01:47:04,026 --> 01:47:06,637
♪ I'm gonna take her down
To Mexico ♪
2411
01:47:06,811 --> 01:47:11,947
♪ She said oh no
Guadalajara won't do ♪
2412
01:47:14,253 --> 01:47:17,431
♪ Well I did not think
The girl ♪
2413
01:47:17,605 --> 01:47:21,739
♪ Could be so cruel ♪
2414
01:47:21,913 --> 01:47:24,916
♪ And I'm never going back ♪
2415
01:47:25,177 --> 01:47:31,140
♪ To my old school ♪