- 5 months ago
First broadcast 10th December 1981.
Just before Judith Bowen dies, Marion promises her that she'll take care of Debbie.
Ann Bell - Marion Jefferson
Renée Asherson - Sylvia Ashburton
Stephanie Beacham - Rose Millar
Louise Jameson - Blanche Simmons
Patricia Lawrence - Sister Ulrica
Stephanie Cole - Dr. Beatrice Mason
Jeananne Crowley - Nellie Keene
Claire Oberman - Kate Norris
Emily Bolton - Christina Campbell
Veronica Roberts - Dorothy Bennett
Ann Queensberry - Judith Bowen
Karin Foley - Debbie Bowen
Elizabeth Chambers - Mrs. Van Meyer
Joanna Hole - Sally Markham
Maya Woolfe - Gerda
Lindsay Ingram - Cynthia James
Burt Kwouk - Capt. Yamauchi
Eiji Kusuhara - Lt. Sato
Takashi Kawahara - Shinya
Just before Judith Bowen dies, Marion promises her that she'll take care of Debbie.
Ann Bell - Marion Jefferson
Renée Asherson - Sylvia Ashburton
Stephanie Beacham - Rose Millar
Louise Jameson - Blanche Simmons
Patricia Lawrence - Sister Ulrica
Stephanie Cole - Dr. Beatrice Mason
Jeananne Crowley - Nellie Keene
Claire Oberman - Kate Norris
Emily Bolton - Christina Campbell
Veronica Roberts - Dorothy Bennett
Ann Queensberry - Judith Bowen
Karin Foley - Debbie Bowen
Elizabeth Chambers - Mrs. Van Meyer
Joanna Hole - Sally Markham
Maya Woolfe - Gerda
Lindsay Ingram - Cynthia James
Burt Kwouk - Capt. Yamauchi
Eiji Kusuhara - Lt. Sato
Takashi Kawahara - Shinya
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00:00THE END
00:30Only the Nets could decide that they want vegetable plots in the middle of Auckland.
00:38Would they let us dig in back in April when we suggested it?
00:41Oh, no! Had to make it difficult for us, didn't they?
00:44This will kill me without a doubt. No such luck.
00:48We'll all be laid out before Earth.
01:00What do you think I should? No.
01:22I suppose the better.
01:25Saint Dimanche.
01:27That's very good. Now, let's see if you can remember the months.
01:43You've already said goodbye to Philip.
01:46Back to work. Let's try the months again.
01:50John King. Thirteen years.
01:55That's my boy.
01:57I think they can see you cry.
01:59He's only thirteen, Sylvia.
02:02He's Ben's age.
02:09You think she was seeing him off to boarding school?
02:12Hmm?
02:15At least we know there is a men's camp.
02:17Somewhere.
02:29Bastards.
02:31Oh, no!
02:35No!
02:36No!
02:37What the hell is that?
02:38No!
02:39No!
02:40No!
02:41No!
02:42No!
02:43No!
02:44No!
02:45No!
02:46No!
02:47No!
02:48You hear me?
02:49For Christ's sake, they've just taken her son away!
02:51Sadistic little bully!
02:53Be quiet!
02:54Go back to work!
02:55Go quick!
02:56Or I'll punish!
02:58You know obey!
02:59No relations!
03:01No sleep!
03:02Stand all day in sun!
03:05Rebell!
03:06Obey!
03:07Please, Lieutenant, if you just leave her to us,
03:10Sylvia, take her to her hut and stay with her.
03:14Now, the rest of us, better get on with our work.
03:23As you wish.
03:24Wow!
03:25That was a near one.
03:26Have they taken him?
03:27Yeah.
03:28Light, Philip.
03:29Look on the bright side.
03:30He could be with his dad.
03:31With a bit of luck, your dad's there, too.
03:32And my fiancé.
03:33He suffers from asthma.
03:34What?
03:35Daddy, he needs special medicines.
03:36Perhaps it's better now that he can't think he's here.
03:37What's wrong with her?
03:38Stomach ulcers.
03:39Whoopi?
03:40Whoopi?
03:41It's all right, Mummy.
03:42I'm here.
03:43Can I do for you?
03:44Thanks.
03:45Whoopi?
03:46Whoopi?
03:47Whoopi?
03:48Whoopi?
03:49Whoopi?
03:50Whoopi?
03:51Whoopi?
03:52Whoopi?
03:53Whoopi?
03:54Whoopi?
03:55Whoopi?
03:56Whoopi?
03:57Whoopi?
03:58Whoopi?
03:59Whoopi?
04:00Whoopi?
04:01Whoopi?
04:02Whoopi?
04:03Whoopi?
04:04Whoopi?
04:05Whoopi?
04:06Whoopi?
04:07Whoopi.
04:08How is your mother today?
04:10Quieter.
04:11Would you like me to pray with you?
04:15If you want.
04:18I know you're not of my faith.
04:21You're Protestants, are you not?
04:23We can still share our prayers.
04:26Is Dr. Hemorrhage again?
04:28Yes.
04:29Isn't there anything we can do?
04:31She needs a blood transfusion.
04:33I wish to God we had some morphia.
04:36At least then she could go in peace.
04:38What about Blanche?
04:40They'd take everything away from us if they could.
04:45They can.
04:46That's terrible.
04:47That poor boy.
04:49Speaking for myself, I think it is good that he goes...
04:52You what?
04:53What?
04:54That boy always he was troubled.
04:55Making noise.
04:56Stealing food.
04:57No respect for his superiors.
04:58Who makes you think you're so flaming superior you're selfish old bitch?
05:02How dare you speak to me like that?
05:04Because it's the truth!
05:05You are right.
05:06She thinks only of herself.
05:07Would you side with the British against your own compatriot?
05:10And bakeries like her I'd prefer not to have.
05:14Bloody cow!
05:16Your English is improving.
05:20Lieutenant Sarto say women have disobeyed his orders.
05:25That's true.
05:26I'm sorry.
05:27You admit it?
05:28Yes.
05:29But I beg for your understanding.
05:32They were very upset at the way Lieutenant Sarto treated Mrs. Green.
05:37How did he treat her?
05:39He tried to force her away from the gates when she was too distraught to understand his threats.
05:45Distraught?
05:49Senseless.
05:50With grief.
05:52As anyone would be had their child just been taken from them.
05:55He is no longer a child!
05:57That is why he is sent to men's camp.
05:59To her he is.
06:01I have a son of the same age.
06:04I know what such a separation means.
06:06You should not blame me.
06:08These are my orders.
06:11I don't blame you, Commandant.
06:13You are a man of compassion.
06:18You care.
06:22Your son?
06:23Where is he?
06:25In England.
06:26I also had a son.
06:29He was killed in China when he was 18.
06:33How dreadful.
06:35He died fighting for his country.
06:38What better end could father desire for his son?
06:44You would like to write to your son?
06:46Oh, yes.
06:53We would all like to be able to write to our families.
06:55Then, so shall it be.
06:58Each woman shall be given postcard.
07:01God will bring to hearts later.
07:04Oh, thank you, Commandant.
07:06Your kindness will be greatly appreciated.
07:09Now you return to your work.
07:11Yes.
07:12What about Lieutenant Sato?
07:25All Japanese love children.
07:28They know grief of mother.
07:30Lieutenant Sato knows such grief.
07:32There will be no punishment.
07:42Well, tell us the worst.
07:44He's not going to punish us.
07:45He's going to give us permission to write postcards home.
07:47I'll be gibberish.
07:50He's the most extraordinary man.
07:53Well, at times he seems quite human.
07:57Shouldn't be taken in by that.
07:59Animals, a lot of them.
08:00Now, there's a vast difference between the Commandant and that obvious Sato.
08:02Only the difference between a tiger and a rat.
08:05Well, at least Jamochi seems to have a conscience.
08:07If he's such a thoroughly decent Jamochi.
08:09I didn't say that.
08:10How can he stand by and watch what's going on in the sick bay?
08:13Well, he doesn't watch, does he?
08:15Never goes near the place.
08:17Just as he conveniently absents himself
08:19when there's anything happening in the punishment hut.
08:21Well, doesn't that prove my point?
08:22He's capable of feeling guilt.
08:24Now, there's something to work on.
08:32Will you spare a moment, Blanche?
08:36As long as you take the blame when old Sato comes yapping.
08:43What?
08:44Well, I don't like to ask you again, but we need Morphea.
08:47Morphea?
08:48I know it's probably impossible.
08:49For Judith, is it?
08:50No.
08:51No, she's not in any pain.
08:52With any luck she'll just slip away.
08:55There's no hope for her then?
08:56No.
08:57Her heart won't take much more.
08:58It was weak before all this.
09:00Debbie, no?
09:01I intend to prepare her today.
09:04Shit.
09:07It's like the ten little nigger boys, innit?
09:10Only there's a hundred of us to go.
09:11Oh, come on now.
09:12I'd say most of us were standing up to it pretty well.
09:14Would you?
09:16So who's the Morphea for then?
09:18It's for one of the Dutch women.
09:19She's got stomach and intestinal ulcers.
09:21If we could just get ahold of...
09:22No, I couldn't.
09:23She is in considerable pain.
09:24I'm sorry, but I'm sick of being used.
09:26Do you think I like asking you?
09:27Then ask someone else!
09:28I didn't mind getting quinine for Judith.
09:30I'm damned if I'm gonna do anything for the bloody Dutch.
09:33When did they ever do anything for us, hmm?
09:35They want Morphea.
09:36They can go and play up to the bloody nips.
09:38Ask Mrs Van Mare.
09:39She's gonna moan anyway.
09:40She might as well do it in mock ecstasy.
09:42Keep your voice down.
09:43I suppose it's no good appealing to your better nature.
09:48No, doctor!
09:49It isn't!
09:52The tart with the art of gold only belongs in Hollywood movies.
09:55What I just said about the Dutch...
10:08I didn't mean you.
10:10Of that, I am relieved.
10:12Hey!
10:13Where'd you learn your English?
10:16Well, some at school.
10:18And now I have lessons with an English woman in the camp.
10:21Oh, yeah, there's quite a lot of that going on, isn't there?
10:23I was gonna have a go at teaching English myself,
10:25but I thought old Van Mare would blow it for me.
10:27This common woman does not speak the English of the king.
10:35You'd round here, did you?
10:36Oh, about, uh...
10:3850 kilometers.
10:40Oh.
10:41So you know the area quite well.
10:42Oh, yes.
10:43I know it fairly well.
10:52It's time you went to the cookhouse, Debbie.
10:54You won't help your mother by starving yourself.
10:58I'm going to have my lunch now, Mummy.
11:02She doesn't understand.
11:04I know, but it's best to keep on talking to her all the same.
11:08I won't be long.
11:09See you later.
11:10And you?
11:11Yes.
11:17Oh, Judith.
11:18Oh, that's it.
11:27Time you had a break too, Missy.
11:30I'll go when Beatrice gets back.
11:32You never let up these days, Nellie.
11:36All work and no play.
11:38You want to watch it or you end up like her.
11:40She's not so bad.
11:43She's changed quite a bit recently.
11:45You mean she occasionally lets slip the odd Kate or Nellie?
11:49It's a start.
11:50She'll never unburn.
11:52I don't know.
11:53She's been very nice to me ever since I...
11:56Well, ever since...
11:57Well, she hasn't to me.
12:00Know what I'd like to do?
12:01I'd like to get a rip-roaring drunk.
12:04That's the only way you'd ever see the real Beatrice.
12:18Who's the person I was looking for?
12:21Just tell me her little chat.
12:25If it's about Mummy, you needn't tell me.
12:31How much longer will it be?
12:33Not long, no.
12:34I thought not.
12:36People have stopped telling me to go for lessons.
12:40You must be brave.
12:42Try not to be too distressed when it happens.
12:44In many ways, it'll be a merciful release for her.
12:47Before she died, I wish.
12:50What do you wish?
12:51Nothing.
12:53Anyway, what's the use of wishing?
12:57God! The smell in here!
12:59Shh, Blanche!
13:00I thought the arts were bad enough.
13:02Why are you trying keeping a sick base week
13:04when you haven't got enough water to wash anything?
13:06Can't you bring the stuff outside to air like we do our clothes?
13:09Look, when you're dealing with people who are sick and incontinent,
13:11it's not that simple.
13:12Jesus!
13:14What do you want anyway?
13:15I don't usually see your smiling face in here.
13:17Yeah, not likely to again, neither.
13:18Not if I can help it.
13:21Thought I'd, um...
13:24Look in on Judith.
13:25Judith.
13:29She won't recognise you.
13:31Just lies there muttering away.
13:34Lord knows what she's on about.
13:41Dorothy.
13:42No, thank you.
13:43Well, surely you want to write to your parents?
13:45Tell them what? They're better off not knowing.
13:47Oh, go on, Doddy.
13:48At least you can tell them you're all right.
13:50Yes, and you can ask for a parcel.
13:52I'll leave one anyway.
13:54Now, they've only provided us with two pencils,
13:56so we'll have to write in rota.
13:58We're only allowed 25 words.
13:59It shouldn't take long.
14:00Well, that affects everything.
14:01It is 25 words.
14:03Me neither.
14:04I was hopeless at Pracy at school.
14:06Does the 25 words include the address?
14:08No, nor does it include the, uh, compulsory sentence.
14:12Compulsory what?
14:13What do you mean?
14:14They've asked us to incorporate one of a selection of...
14:18...propaganda sentences.
14:19Oh, there had to be a snag, didn't there?
14:21I know, darling.
14:23Bloody cheap.
14:24Anyone failing to do so will have her card destroyed.
14:27Who's to say they're going to send them anywhere?
14:29I have the Commandant's word for it.
14:30We don't all share your faith in your mortgage.
14:32Right.
14:33Well, I'm prepared to give them the benefit of the doubt.
14:35If there's a remotest chance of getting a communication out of here, I'm taking it.
14:39Nit propaganda or no.
14:40Me too.
14:41My family must be worried sick.
14:42Marion, what are the sentences?
14:45Yeah, better hear them before we hit the roof.
14:48I'll read them out.
14:50First one.
14:53Have no concern for us, dear hearts.
14:56We are living in a dreamland of joy and contentment, with food in plenty and beautiful scenery.
15:02A dreamland?
15:03Nightmare, perhaps.
15:04Well, perhaps you prefer this one.
15:05I doubt it.
15:06Since being interned here, we have come to respect the numerous virtues of our kind and generous hosts.
15:21We are indeed most fortunate women.
15:24Tired?
15:25No more tired than you must be.
15:26I've got my second wind.
15:27Why don't you go and lie down for a while?
15:28I'll call you if there's any change.
15:29I'd rather stay here.
15:31I'd rather stay here.
15:32I'd rather stay here.
15:33My sister Ulricha wouldn't hover around her all the time.
15:34Some people find that comforting.
15:36I don't think Judith does.
15:49It's funny.
15:53My sister Ulrich wouldn't hover around her all the time.
15:59Some people find that comforting.
16:02I don't think Judith does.
16:05It's funny.
16:07Better put her down as a religious sort.
16:17Never give up, do they?
16:19Her father was exactly the same.
16:22They told him that the biggest blaspheming drunk in the parish was dying.
16:26He'd have been there at the bedside waiting for the last-minute miracle.
16:31Surprising how often it happens.
16:34What does it mean?
16:36Nothing more than touching wood.
16:38Perhaps I'm more superstitious than you are.
16:41You Catholics are all superstitious.
16:43You are a Catholic, aren't you?
16:45Elapsed.
16:47Still feel guilty?
16:49Sometimes.
16:51Don't tell Sister Ulrich.
16:53There'll be no stopping her.
16:59Your father was a vicar then?
17:01Yes.
17:03All good God-fearing folk, my family.
17:07What happened to you?
17:09Saw a different kind of light.
17:12Followed it in spite of him.
17:14He didn't want you to go in for medicine?
17:16I suppose he'd have minded my mopping brows for a while
17:19before following my sister's shining example
17:22and marrying a suitably upright young man.
17:25A career woman.
17:27Nothing about them in the Bible.
17:29They were always on at me to find myself a man.
17:37Doctor, can you come?
17:38Mrs Boyne is trying to say something.
17:41Well, what have you put?
17:43No, it's hardly a literary gem.
17:45Ship torpedoed, interned at above camp,
17:48health moderate but need vitamins,
17:50cigarettes, whiskey, antiseptic,
17:52malaria pills and rat poison.
17:55Hope you are well.
17:57No one then follows their beastly sentence.
17:59Which one did you choose?
18:00Number four.
18:01Our kind hosts allow us to dance, smoke and play rounders.
18:04And my happiness would be complete
18:06if you were here also, dearest one.
18:08Who said so?
18:09My great aunt and bar.
18:12With any luck, she will deduce that all is not worth.
18:15You should think you've gone round a flaming bear.
18:17I probably will have by the time this reaches out.
18:21What did you put, Doddy?
18:25Dennis dead, Violet dead.
18:27This place is a dreamland of milk and honey.
18:34She's right, it's a waste of time.
18:41Of course it isn't.
18:42They'll never get there.
18:43We stand a better chance of making it ourselves.
18:45Don't be so silly.
18:46I mean it.
18:47Guards are getting sloppier all the time.
18:48There's several places you can get out under the wire.
18:50She's right there.
18:51And what if you did?
18:52You'd be crawling with nips outside.
18:54Scrawling with nips?
18:55Blanche, you know what the commandant said about escape.
18:58Someone mentioned escape.
19:00Yeah, but we weren't thinking of going right this minute.
19:03You speak for yourself.
19:05Marion, we've been here six bloody months now.
19:08No one else is gonna come and get us out.
19:09So much to the allies.
19:11Marion, Blanche thinks we should set up an escape committee.
19:13Then why not?
19:14My dear girl, you might just as well set up a suicide committee.
19:17Sylvia's right. Escape is out of the question.
19:19Oh, those fighting talk. I thought you two were soldiers wives.
19:22I seem a bit feeble.
19:23Should we examine the possibilities?
19:25There is no possibility.
19:27Now, in the first place, none of us know the terrain.
19:29The Dutch do?
19:30Quite apart from that, this is an island.
19:32Exactly. Even if by some incredible stroke of luck,
19:34one managed to reach the coast without being shot.
19:36Or killed by wild animals.
19:37Yes.
19:38Do you know what it's like in the jungle?
19:39If one managed to reach the shore, what then?
19:41The natives must have boats.
19:43Or we could build a raft.
19:44Well, why not people have before now?
19:46Like Robinson Crusoe.
19:47And what will you do? Build it here and carry it with you?
19:50Or chop down a few trees when you get there?
19:52Oh, very funny.
19:53Where do you head for?
19:55All the other islands must be occupied by the Japs too.
19:57One wouldn't stand on Earth.
19:59Look, we wouldn't anyway.
20:01We're none of us exactly in the pink of health.
20:03We'd collapse with exhaustion before we made first base.
20:05I suppose that's true.
20:06There's the others back here to consider too.
20:08If anyone did try to escape,
20:09can you imagine the repercussions for the rest of us?
20:11Absolutely!
20:13It's not on, Blanche.
20:15There's no point in even thinking about it.
20:17We just sit here, do we?
20:19Wait for our number?
20:20No.
20:21We try and make the best of it.
20:23Stop your bloody best of it!
20:25Do you think we don't all feel just as invalid?!
20:32Better collect up the cards.
20:36Dorothy?
20:39Dorothy?
20:43I didn't have to waste the paper.
20:52If anyone does make a run for it,
20:53I wouldn't discuss it in front of her.
20:55You might as well stick up a notice on the guard hut.
20:59Mary, could you come to the sickbay, please?
21:01Judith is asking for you.
21:02Yes, yes, of course.
21:04What do you mind?
21:05Oh.
21:12Is that her for the chalk?
21:14The address doesn't think she'll last the night.
21:21A hundred little internees in their tenko line.
21:25One made a run for it.
21:27Just in the nick of time.
21:28Judith?
21:29Judith?
21:30Judith?
21:34Judith?
21:36It's me.
21:39You wanted to see me.
21:43What is it?
21:44Debbie?
21:45Debbie?
21:46Debbie?
21:47I...
21:48Yes?
21:49When I...
21:50When...
21:51When...
21:52Will you...
21:54You want me to look after her?
22:08Yes, of course I will.
22:10I'll take care of her as if she were my own.
22:12Promise.
22:13And afterwards, when all this is over, I'll trace your relatives.
22:27I'll make sure that she finds her...
22:29What is it?
22:31Clive.
22:32Is there something else you want to say?
22:33Clive.
22:34Is there something else you want to say?
22:35Clive.
22:36Clive.
22:37Clive.
22:38Clive.
23:00I used to be proud of my skin.
23:02She's wrong, you know.
23:03Hmm?
23:04Marion.
23:05Would be possible.
23:06What would?
23:07Escape.
23:08It would be.
23:09For the right people.
23:11Don't look at me.
23:12It's not that I wouldn't give my eye teeth to be out of here.
23:18Sometimes I think I'm gonna go start breathing mad.
23:23You?
23:24I don't sound so surprised.
23:27Oh, it's just that you always seem so cheerful.
23:31Someone's gotta be.
23:33And the way you throw yourself into things, like the rounders.
23:37At least it's something physical.
23:39Smash a ball over the fence.
23:41It's the next best thing to being out there yourself.
23:44You know what I dream about?
23:49Hmm?
23:50Riding across miles and miles of open country.
23:57That's when I'm not having the one where Tom descends in a parachute and ravishes me on Yamamuchi's doorstep.
24:03You'd only just got engaged, hadn't you, when we left Singapore.
24:09I just made love with them for the first time, too.
24:13Oh, I'm glad we made it the once.
24:17What about you?
24:18What?
24:19No, you never talk about your love life back then.
24:22I didn't really have one.
24:24Oh, come on.
24:25An attractive girl like you.
24:29It was difficult.
24:33Oh, yeah.
24:34I suppose it would have been.
24:35But I did meet someone a few weeks before we left.
24:42He was English and in the army.
24:46In fact, I wouldn't have been on the ship at all but for him.
24:49He did you a big favor then?
24:51He did.
24:54Oh, anyway, we were alive.
24:58Some of us.
25:05I'm lucky to be out of it.
25:27Not like that poor wretch.
25:30I never thought I'd wish a patient dead.
25:33Better prepare the body.
25:35Oh, and don't forget to set her teeth aside.
25:37You can't be squeamish. There's plenty needing.
25:39Just scream.
26:01At least you know she loved you.
26:03like some mothers no one can take that away from you
26:09is your mother dead no she buggered off and left me when i was seven
26:18blanche there's something i i want to tell you
26:29yeah i'm jewish our name isn't really bowen it's cohen
26:40yeah i know
26:42how when gentiles are delirious they don't pray in hebrew
26:51i'm glad you know
27:00but i think that's right
27:10and i'll be fine
27:12and i'll be fine
27:14and i'll be fine
27:17and i'll be fine
27:21yeah
27:23you got another book there goes the murderer blanche it's what he is it's him that keeps
27:43the medicines from us keeps the rations down the near starvation he told marion it was out of his
27:47hands cock soon love satan at least he doesn't pretend to be anything but what he is you're going
27:55to the burial not likely i'm sick of bloody funerals tell me when there's a wedding and i might go
28:17on
28:20on
28:24on
28:29on
28:32on
28:37on
28:44oh holy and most merciful God we commend this our sister to thy loving care we give thanks
28:58that it has pleased thee to deliver her from the miseries of this sinful world
29:03what do you think? you know we ought to have a mannequin parade with prizes for the most
29:11original creations here we have Blanche dressed in a sack decorated with sequins
29:15help me out I can't be here I'm not serious about going are you? deadly oh come on ducky you heard what they said
29:24I've got it all worked out chummed up with this dutch girl Gerda she knows the area she's gonna draw me a map
29:31also she has got contacts outside natives used to be their servants now she can put me in touch with
29:38one of them they can get hold of a boat for me and you'd sail for where? well they'd tell me for
29:43where they'd know where we're safest they would and if you were picked up? I use my fatal charm
29:53at least I'll be doing it for myself it's all pie in the sky Blanche it is I find a better chance
30:00out there than I do here bunk it is not that bad the ones that have died have been old all week so
30:05far but then so far we have only had malaria and dysentery soon it is going to be berry berry oh
30:10yes it is I overheard Beatrice saying so and then maybe even cholera how do you fancy a dose of that?
30:16not badly
30:17it's not just death I'm scared of neither
30:22so you survive so what then who wants to get out of here white-haired and toothless
30:28I've already lost one there is always the hope that the allies will show up
30:33you used to be the voice of realism always quoting your journalist chum
30:38you used to be the voice of light relief yeah well I ran out of chokes
30:44will you come with me Rose? oh no I could do with the company
30:52and you're the nearest thing I've got to a friend
30:57oh please we could do it together I bet we could
31:03a week ago I might have said yes
31:06well what happened? I don't recall no handouts
31:12yes we heard there was a men's camp
31:15and if Bernard is around somewhere I might as well hang on
31:22I thought you didn't love him
31:27so did I
31:30you won't say nothing
31:34promise?
31:35I promise
31:37the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ
31:42the love of God
31:43and the fellowship of the Holy Ghost
31:45be with us evermore
31:47Amen
31:48Sally
32:02hello
32:04never seen see you these days
32:08not to talk to
32:09no well
32:11kept very busy in the sickbay
32:13how are you?
32:17fine
32:17how are you?
32:19oh fine
32:19well
32:25I have to get back to the hut
32:28I've got some mending to do
32:29no skin
32:34yes sister
32:36tell me of what fate are you?
32:39I was brought up a catholic
32:40I never see you at my weekly service
32:44I'm no longer a practicing one
32:47a lost sheep
32:48I'm afraid so
32:50lost sheep can be held back to the fold
32:53let us talk together sometime
32:54I don't think there'd be much point in that sister
32:58is there much point in your life as it is?
33:01there
33:05that's better
33:06should stand up to a bit
33:08when will you go?
33:12as soon as I've got my accoutrements together
33:14food, knife, tools
33:16something dark to wear
33:17so I won't be seen
33:17how will you get it all?
33:20initiative
33:20ducky
33:21whoops
33:22you
33:34you
33:34it's fine
33:37so
33:39Oh, that's over there.
34:03Bye-bye.
34:03Bye-bye.
34:09Bye-bye.
34:39Save some room for lunch, Debbie.
34:46It's chips, your favourite.
34:48What we fondly call chips.
34:50Fried banana skin hasn't quite the same ring.
34:53Not bad, though, considering.
34:54And to follow my latest speciality.
34:57You've managed to do something with our one and only line.
35:00I dreamt up this new recipe, marmalade pudding.
35:03Thought we'd ride out for supper.
35:05Oh, what is it?
35:05There's a sort of roly-poly made of gaplet flour and rice.
35:10Hello, Debbie.
35:12Hello.
35:13Coming to lessons this morning?
35:15What is it today?
35:16Arithmetic for the little ones.
35:18And I'm doing French with the others.
35:19Oh, I know you must get bored.
35:24You're so much more advanced than the rest.
35:26I was wondering if you'd like to do some extra classes with me.
35:33Instead of just grammar and vocabulary, we could try some literature.
35:38Without books?
35:39Oh.
35:40One of the Dutch women has a collection of the Maupassant short stories.
35:44And I know quite a few French poems.
35:48How about it?
35:49What's that?
35:51Oh, I was suggesting Debbie and I did some French literature together.
35:55That's a good idea.
35:56I was wondering if you couldn't give a hand with some of the smaller children.
36:00Help them with their reading and writing.
36:02They respond better to you, young ones.
36:05Think about it anyway.
36:07All right.
36:08Mrs. Jefferson?
36:11Oh.
36:12Ah.
36:13Mrs. Jefferson, I wish to speak to you.
36:15I have a complaint.
36:15Oh, that makes a change.
36:17Couldn't you wait till after that?
36:18No, it cannot wait.
36:19I demand an investigation.
36:21Into what?
36:22The stealing in the camp.
36:24First, my black silk peatramas.
36:25I'll stole them from off the bushing line.
36:27Sure.
36:27Well, I'm very sorry to you about that.
36:28Now, in the night, my bag is missing.
36:31Which of your bags would that be, Mrs. Van Lack?
36:33Yeah, you're not exactly sure.
36:34My brown, all this quality, leather, gold, initials.
36:36What makes you think that one of our people took it?
36:38Yeah, maybe one of the nips took a fancy to it.
36:40Mm, they're always nosing around a hub.
36:43Do they also take this fancy to my black silk pyjamas?
36:46Who?
36:46Funny, ladies, orientals.
36:49It was not a Jap who took them.
36:52I know who took them.
36:54I can tell you who took them.
36:57It was the British children.
37:00Oh, they are stealing from the gun.
37:02Oh, Mr. Van Mayer, that is simply not true.
37:04Of course it is.
37:05Is it you, Debbie?
37:05Now, did you take your fancy to Mrs. Van Mayer's silk pyjamas?
37:10Anyway, it isn't just the Dutch you have things stolen.
37:12No, only last night I had my airbrush took.
37:14Told you, didn't I, Marion?
37:15I had my cigarettes taken.
37:16It's the nips, I'm sure.
37:18Well, I am not so sure because...
37:20You wish to take the matter further, Mrs. Van Mayer,
37:22would you kindly do so through your leader?
37:24I do find this public mudslinging awfully undignified.
37:28Here, here.
37:29Pfft.
37:34Blanc.
37:35Blanc.
37:51Blanc.
37:52Blanc.
37:52Blanc.
37:53Marian said you wanted some water. That's all there is.
38:11Thanks. She'll be over later.
38:14Dag, mevrouw Keuls.
38:16Wat ruikt dat lekker.
38:19Hollandschartel.
38:21Harder, hè?
38:23Need any help?
38:27Just de-weeviling the rice.
38:29I'm good at that.
38:32Didn't know you spoke Dutch.
38:34I didn't, till I came here.
38:37But I've picked up quite a bit now.
38:40Must have a good ear for languages.
38:41French, Dutch.
38:43What else do you speak?
38:45A little German.
38:47And Hokkien, of course.
38:50Of course.
38:51I wish I could learn some Japanese.
38:54Seems such a ways not to.
38:56What did you do in Singapore?
38:59Bit of everything.
39:01You didn't teach at all.
39:03No.
39:03Why?
39:06I only wondered.
39:07Oh.
39:08Seemed to have a knack for it.
39:10Oh, that's something else I've learned since I've been here.
39:14What?
39:14When we get out.
39:18I think that's what I'd like to do.
39:20Teach.
39:23Is Blanche there?
39:24She's over there, Debbie.
39:25Debs.
39:27Why didn't you tell me?
39:29Tell you what?
39:30You're getting out of here, aren't you?
39:32For Christ's sake, how do you know?
39:33Saw you behind the wash house.
39:35What the hell?
39:36I looked to see what you buried.
39:37I found the bag and everything.
39:39You tell and I'll do you.
39:40I don't care, I will.
39:42I mean it.
39:42So do I.
39:44I'll tell everyone, including the Commandant,
39:46unless you take me with you.
39:48Oh, Zebby.
39:54I can't.
39:56You can't leave me here.
39:58I need to be mad to take a flaming kid along.
40:02Please, Blanche.
40:03Now Mum is dead, you're the only one who I...
40:06You're the only one.
40:09It's not that I don't love you nor nothing.
40:13It's just that you're better off with marrying a man.
40:15It's not so bad, really.
40:17Then why are you going?
40:20I wouldn't be a nuisance.
40:22I'd do everything he said.
40:24Odds are we'd be caught and shot.
40:26You must think it's worth a risk.
40:28Even if we weren't, there are things I'm going to have to do
40:30that I don't want for you.
40:31If I was a child, I'm not anymore.
40:33It's not a matter of age.
40:36It's a matter of...
40:39experience.
40:44Mum is dead.
40:45Daddy must be too.
40:47I was sick before we left Singapore.
40:49There's no one left to make decisions for me now.
40:52Can't I make my own?
40:56I don't want to stay here.
40:57I hate it.
40:58I'm sorry.
40:59I can't take you because I care.
41:04And because you care, I know you won't split.
41:07You don't care.
41:08You just think you'll be better off without me.
41:10Too bloody right I would, but...
41:13It's not just that.
41:16Honest.
41:17Remember how you felt when your mother buggered off?
41:20I'll feel the same if you leave me behind.
41:24I can't.
41:31Oh for proper life.
41:33You know what?
41:35Extraordinary thing.
41:36What?
41:37was talking to Christina just now she mentioned she spoke Chinese you know I
41:42clean forgotten. about her mother? only for a moment of course. still six months and it's come to that.
41:50this place is a great lover. not to forget entirely. we've started to see each other as people.
41:56now I'd say that was a good thing. very well. one day we'll get back to normal.
42:03I don't think for any of us normal will ever be quite the same again. I must admit she's a plucky
42:08little thing. she was the most nervous to begin with. she knuckled to and made the best of it not like
42:13some of the whiners we've got. she's really started to come out of herself. perhaps she never had a
42:17chance to be herself before. mind you her father was a scot stalwart race. he must have had great
42:24courage to marry as he did. all that courageous called him damn irresponsible. I still say it
42:32doesn't do to forget. could be dangerous. they're not half as dangerous as starting
42:38to see our captors as people. I can't agree. I think that's our only hope.
42:44just to let you know. tonight's the night.
42:56I wish you'd change your mind after all the trouble I've been to.
43:07will you cover for me in the hut? right. if they ask where I am say I'm out gadding with the guards.
43:23you know I think you're a bloody fool don't you?
43:26yeah.
43:28than I always was.
43:31I'll say ta-da then. good luck.
43:36I'll miss you.
43:41I'll send you a parcel when I'll get back home.
43:48I think we should. yes. a magazine would be fun. we could call it tenko times. oh no.
43:58we could have competitions and cartoons. stories and sketches. and a gossip column for all the latest rumors.
44:05and horoscopes perhaps. yes. yes. and what about a page for beauty problems?
44:10my hair is a little dry. what do you suggest? try putting your head down the well.
44:15rose could be editor. what?
44:18well you could be editor of this new magazine we're planning. wasn't your chap a journalist?
44:26yes. so you'd have all the know-how. only one snag as far as I can see.
44:31what's that? well when we don't even have any toilet rolls what are we going to do for paper?
44:35that'll be a problem. I know how difficult it is finding any for lessons.
44:39perhaps branch could get us some. where is Blanche? she just went out.
44:44off on one of her good will prouds I expect. we'll ask her in the morning.
44:48now could you all just shut up? some of us want to go to sleep.
44:51ready for lights out everyone? shhh!
45:14alright.
45:22let's go.
45:29Oh, my God.
45:59What are you doing?
46:22You're escaping, aren't you?
46:25Oh, bloody hell!
46:27Look, I won't tell anybody, I promise.
46:30I know your promises.
46:31I swear it, I won't.
46:34Then swear on Violet's soul.
46:38All right.
46:39Say it.
46:40We swear. On Violet's soul.
46:42On Violet's soul.
46:57You know too, don't you?
47:12You know what?
47:14About Blanche.
47:16Try it.
47:17I thought you did.
47:22She'll never make it.
47:26Not with Debbie.
47:28What did you say?
47:33She's only a kid.
47:36They'll be caught at once.
47:37She's taken Debbie.
47:39You didn't know?
47:41You didn't know?
47:43Oh.
47:47Oh, my God.
47:48Oh, my God.
48:04Marianne.
48:06Marianne.
48:07Marianne.
48:08Rose.
48:09What is it?
48:10It's Debbie.
48:11What about her?
48:12Look.
48:13Where is she?
48:20We're too late.
48:21I promised her mother I'd look after her.
48:24Blanche doesn't stand that much chance with Debbie.
48:28Oh, God.
48:31Poor Marianne.
48:33What can we do?
48:34I don't know.
48:35We can't just stand here and wait for the shots.
48:38There's nothing we can do unless...
48:40What?
48:41Unless we go to young Uchi.
48:44You mean turn them in?
48:46If we report it before the Japs find out for themselves,
48:48then at least we can plead for them.
48:50He might show mercy, at least to Debbie.
48:52Some hope of that.
48:54You think she has more hope of surviving out there?
48:57No.
48:58No.
49:00I'm your father.
49:01No!
49:03No.
49:09No.
49:11No.
49:12No.
49:14No.
49:15No.
49:16No.
49:17No.
49:20No.
49:21No.
49:22No.
49:23No.
49:24No.
49:26No.
49:27So, let's go.
49:57It wasn't me. It wasn't. It was Rose and Marion.
50:20Stop. What? I see to you now.
50:27We did the right thing. We did the only thing.
50:32He won't have them shot. Not Debbie. Not a child.
50:36Are you trying to convince me?
50:57We did the right thing.
51:02We did the right thing.
51:07We did the right thing.
51:11We did the right thing.
51:16We did the right thing.
51:20We did the right thing.
51:25We did the right thing.
51:29We did the right thing.
51:32We did the right thing.
51:37We did the right thing.
51:41We did the right thing.
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