Tenko. S03 E08. A Death and a Dance.

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First broadcast 2nd December 1984.  Kate is distraught when Tom dies and seeks comfort from Sister Ulrica, who comes to the funeral even though Tom was a protestant.  Ann Bell - Marion Jefferson Claire Oberman - Kate Norris Stephanie Cole - Dr. Beatrice Mason Jean Anderson - Lady Jocelyn 'Joss' Holbrook Patricia Lawrence - Sister Ulrica Elspet Gray - Phyllis Bristow Elizabeth Chambers - Mrs. Domenica Van Meyer Lizzie Mickery - Maggie Thorpe (as Elizabeth Mickery) Emily Bolton - Christina Campbell Cindy Shelley - Alice Courtenay Jonathan Newth - Brigadier Clifford Jefferson Preston Lockwood - Stephen Wentworth Burt Kwouk - Major Yamauchi Damien Thomas - Jake Haulter Nigel Greaves - Harry Alderston-Bennett Peter Benson - Jim Barbara Yu Ling - May (as Barbara Yu-Ling) James Walker - Vicar Ron Gregory - Soldier

Transcript

00:30...buttons.

00:39Fashion mostly for pigs.

00:42Fashion mostly for pigs.

00:45Easy. Style. Style.

00:49I'd better stir my stumps.

00:53I suppose you're going to sit there all day.

00:56There's no law against it.

00:57Phyllis is always telling me to put my feet up.

01:00Yes, and me.

01:01Dare put mine up will be the day they carry me off.

01:05Bea.

01:07Beatrice!

01:09Change your mind.

01:11Come down to Stephen's again and make yourself useful.

01:13Not much of use last time I came, was I?

01:15Oh, my sainted aunt, you're not still in a huff about that.

01:18Since Stephen obviously prefers to work in a shambles, I don't see the point.

01:21Apologize for not appreciating your labors.

01:23At least he would have done if you hadn't slammed out.

01:26Prefer not to discuss it.

01:27Oh, have it your own way.

01:29If you want to be a misery.

01:35Hi.

01:36Hope you have a good day.

01:37And you.

01:37Beatrice.

01:46Hmm?

01:47I hope you don't mind me calling you, Beatrice.

01:49Only Doctor seems silly now you're not one anymore.

01:52And anyway, I feel, now that I'm older,

01:55all the others call you by your Christian name, so I...

01:57Call me what you like.

02:00Actually, I wanted to ask you a favour.

02:03Do you think you could brush up my tango?

02:05What?

02:05I remember how spiffing you were that first evening with Colonel Smithers.

02:09Only I'm going to the tea dance this afternoon, you see, with Harry.

02:12And my foxtrot's fine.

02:14And my waltz.

02:15And my quickstep.

02:16But if you ask me to tango, I'll be sunk.

02:19Sorry, my tangoing days are over.

02:25Thanks, I'll bring it back to you.

02:27Bye.

02:27Hello, Kate.

02:37Morning, Phyllis.

02:38Oh, how's Tom?

02:40Any progress?

02:41Well, he bucked up a bit yesterday.

02:42Started to talk about his childhood.

02:44That sounds more like it.

02:45Makes a change from the camp.

02:47Mind you, I'll feel more optimistic when he starts to talk about the future.

02:51I'm taking some papers in today.

02:53Thought I'd try and interest him in what's going on back home.

02:55Jolly good.

02:56Well, there's one item here should put a spark in his eye.

02:59What's that?

03:00His football team, Queen's Park Rangers.

03:02The top of the third division.

03:03See you later.

03:23Hello, Jim.

03:25Kate.

03:28How are you?

03:29Oh, no, way to take...

03:31You'd best not go in there.

03:33Not till you've had a word with someone.

03:35Tom?

03:36Is he worse?

03:38Oh, worse!

03:39What is it?

03:40Where's sister?

03:44He's dead, isn't he?

03:48I'm sorry.

03:49I really can't thank you enough, Jake.

04:04I said any time.

04:05Well, I knew you were working out of Chang'e.

04:09I'm still not clear why you want to go there.

04:12Nor am I entirely.

04:14That sounds rather enigmatic.

04:17To tell you the truth, I was hoping to visit our old commandant, Major Yamouchi.

04:21We don't have to treat them as they've treated us.

04:26A very Christian sentiment.

04:33Well, whether I'll be allowed to see him is another matter.

04:36They let Christina Campbell visit him, didn't they?

04:38Yes, but there was someone breathing down their necks the whole time.

04:41I would like to see him on his own.

04:43Say who you are and there should be no trouble.

04:45Caesar's wife being above suspicion.

04:47Quite.

04:47Or perhaps Caesar doesn't know about the proposal, is it?

04:55I wouldn't be visiting him as Clifford's wife.

04:58In that case, you may prefer to take a leaf from my book.

05:02Bypass the red tape.

05:04How?

05:05Ignore it.

05:07Ask permission to do something and you automatically lay yourself open.

05:10I can't just walk in there.

05:13Could with the right person.

05:15Someone who knew his way around.

05:17I was owed a favor by the chap in charge of Yamaha, which is block.

05:22How do you know which block he's in?

05:25I make it my business to know things.

05:47I make it my business to know things.

05:48So, you know what I can do?

05:53Okay.

05:53I'm going to get my business to know things.

05:54I'm going to get my business to know things.

05:55How do you know the problem?

05:56I'm going to get to know things.

05:57I'm going to get to know things.

05:58Oh, what are you doing here?

06:03Hoping to see you.

06:05I had quite a job getting in.

06:07The nun I spoke to said the sisters here

06:09were only allowed visitors at certain times.

06:11I'm a guest here. The rules do not apply.

06:14That's what I told her, but she still seemed a bit put out.

06:18That must have been Sister Luke.

06:21She disapproves of me.

06:23Oh, dear. So they put you on to domestic duties?

06:26Light domestic duties. They don't give me any proper work to do.

06:30When you think how we used to scrub out those huts.

06:34Heave buckets from the latrines.

06:36Dig trenches, chop firewood.

06:39I was not so feeble then.

06:43Why have you come?

06:47Tom's dead.

06:49Oh.

06:52My dear.

06:53I heard when I got to the hospital.

06:58I needed to...

07:00to talk to someone.

07:02I mean, one of our group.

07:05I tried to ring Marion, but she's not at home.

07:09So I thought I'd come here.

07:10I'm glad you did.

07:13Even if it's put you in the doghouse with the other nuns?

07:15The doghouse is now my natural environment.

07:28I won't stay long.

07:28Mrs. Jefferson.

07:40Major Yamuchi.

07:42I have not expected to see you again.

07:47I thought I'd find out how you were.

07:50It is better I am dead.

07:52Are they treating you badly?

07:55No.

07:56But for Japanese soldier,

07:59death is better than prison.

08:14You sit down.

08:16Sit down.

08:28I write to my daughter.

08:31They allow you paper.

08:33Christina Campbell brought it for me.

08:35She also visit here.

08:38Yes, she told me.

08:39I write the letter.

08:44But I do not know if my daughter receive it.

08:47Oh, I'm sure it'll be sent.

08:49It may take some time.

08:50I mean, I do not know if she is alive.

08:53She or my grandson.

08:57They live in Nagasaki.

09:06Would you like me to make some inquiries?

09:08No, please.

09:10Not to trouble.

09:12There would be no trouble.

09:14I'll go through the Red Cross.

09:19I am most grateful.

09:22Let me have the details before I go.

09:28And, uh, how are you?

09:32You are looking more well.

09:35Oh, I'm feeling much better.

09:36I have met your husband.

09:47He, uh, interrogate me.

09:50Yes.

09:52He is a good soldier.

09:55Major, there's something I want to tell you.

09:58I kept a diary in the camp.

10:00A second one, I mean, after the first was destroyed.

10:02I know.

10:07Why else does Christina Campbell take paper from my office?

10:11They're going to use it in evidence against you.

10:20I would like you to know I tried to prevent it.

10:23Why?

10:24If you write the truth.

10:27You put things in a diary that's the truth as you see it at that time.

10:32Well, it's never that simple, is it?

10:34No.

10:42What do you think?

10:44What will it do?

10:45Phyllis borrowed it for me.

10:46It's a special favor.

10:47I can't wear the same old things I always wear.

10:48It's very feminine.

10:50Yes, perhaps he won't notice this skirt.

10:52Men always like women to look feminine.

10:55Let's have a try fringe.

10:56Come in.

10:59Thank heaven someone's here.

11:01What is the matter?

11:02A bad news, I'm afraid.

11:04Ah, Beatrice.

11:05What is it?

11:06Tom.

11:07Kate's Tom.

11:08He passed away in the night.

11:09Oh my God, let me sit down.

11:11I feel quite shattered.

11:14How do you think Kate feels?

11:15Funerals this afternoon.

11:17Now, I'll be representing Ratwee, but it's her chum she'll need.

11:20Marion should know.

11:21I've tried her home.

11:22Seven said she was out.

11:23Kate had already phoned.

11:24You could try the brigadier's office.

11:26He'll know where she is.

11:26Good idea.

11:27She'll want Christina.

11:28I'll send a boy to fetch her.

11:29And Joss, but I'll go and fetch her.

11:31Oh, no, you won't, my girl.

11:32You're not even dressed.

11:33This thing is not necessary.

11:35The boy can fetch Christina and Joss.

11:37They're both in the Chinese quarter.

11:39As you wish.

11:40Ah, the other problem's clothes.

11:42I doubt Kate's got nothing black.

11:45I suppose you couldn't lend her something, Dominica.

11:47Unfortunately, I have nothing black.

11:49Yes, you have.

11:50There's that lovely dress you wore.

11:51Oh, I'm back, yes, but it would never fit Kate.

11:53She's such a hefty girl.

11:56She may try to, if she wishes.

11:59Splendid.

12:00Dare say she'll manage to squeeze into it.

12:03Armbands should do for the rest of you.

12:05I'll get some blackout material.

12:06Where's Kate now?

12:08She's on her way back, I expect.

12:23I feel I've failed him.

12:25You?

12:27I should have been able to give him more.

12:29But you are beat him every day.

12:32Physically, maybe.

12:34Perhaps he sensed uncertainty.

12:37Uncertainty?

12:39About what?

12:41Him and me.

12:43The future.

12:44I'd sit there going on about the wonderful life we were going to have.

12:51And all the time, I was trying to convince myself as much as him.

12:57Jim, this friend of his, was telling me how Tom used to go on.

13:02About us settling down.

13:04Kids.

13:06Domestic bliss.

13:08That's all I wanted before the camp.

13:10But since, it wouldn't have been enough, Ulrika.

13:15Those years changed many things.

13:18I could never have given up medicine.

13:21You still wish to become a doctor?

13:23More than anything.

13:26That's what's so awful.

13:27When I first heard, after the initial shock, it wasn't grief I felt.

13:37It was relief.

13:42You must not feel guilty.

13:45Guilt destroys.

13:47You must praise God for the love that you had

13:50and be thankful that Tom will soon be with you in eternal grace.

13:56Yes.

13:57I could never have told anyone else that.

14:03I would have seemed disloyal to Tom.

14:07But telling you, it's like a confession, I suppose.

14:13I wish you could come to the funeral.

14:15That's not that I do not wish to come.

14:18Or that the Reverend Mother would actually forbid me.

14:21I understand.

14:22I cannot.

14:23Daft, though, isn't it?

14:24Same God.

14:25So many splinter groups.

14:27One thing about the camp.

14:30When anyone died there, never mind what religion,

14:32we all mourn together.

14:39Marion.

14:40Marion.

14:46Oh, Kate.

14:47I pounded your message when I got home.

14:59I came up once.

15:00I knew you would.

15:02How are you feeling?

15:04Bitter than I was.

15:07I called in to see Ulrica.

15:08And now you're here.

15:09And now you're here.

15:13Well, I've tried to be practical.

15:20I've got a couple of black outfits and a hat, just in case you're stuck.

15:24Oh, thanks.

15:25I was worrying about that.

15:35Yes, Kate.

15:36That is most becoming.

15:37It's not a bad fit.

15:38Turn around.

15:39It's much better than my dress would have been.

15:41Must hang on you.

15:42Most of my old clothes do.

15:44Joss, can you cut me an armband, too?

15:46Here, take this one.

15:47You should get to see us.

15:48Look, Kate, are you sure you don't mind me not coming to the funeral?

15:51Of course not.

15:53You go to your tea dance.

15:54Have fun.

15:54Well, if you're really sure.

15:55She said so, Alice.

15:57Kate, you know that I would be with you if I were Protestant.

15:59And had I not promised Phyllis to look after a certain little person.

16:03Oh, honestly.

16:04But I shall be with you in spirit.

16:06Pink gin.

16:07I shouldn't be surprised.

16:08It's all right, Dominica.

16:10I'll have plenty of moral support.

16:12There's Marion and Joss and Christina.

16:14And me.

16:16Oh, no, B.

16:17You don't have to.

16:19I know I don't.

16:20But you're an atheist.

16:21It won't mean anything to you.

16:22She did not even go to the Thanksgiving service.

16:25I thought, uh, thought you might like me to come.

16:28Oh, you really don't have to, though.

16:31Thanks all the same.

16:37Very well, then.

16:40I think so, yeah.

16:41It just came.

16:42All right, thanks.

16:55What's up with you, then, Connie?

17:07Get a partner.

17:07Ah, it's you.

17:09Must be losing your touch.

17:11Several people have asked me to dance.

17:13But under the circumstances, it seems hardly fitting.

17:15What circumstances?

17:17With the funeral about to take place.

17:21Didn't you know?

17:22Kate's young men.

17:27So you finally snuffed it?

17:29If you must put it so crudely.

17:32I'm surprised you didn't know.

17:34Joss and Christina were fetched.

17:35Ed and Marion, of course.

17:37No surprise to me.

17:38I'm not one of the select.

17:41I'm not one of the select.

18:08I'm not one of the exploreiments.

18:38There's Brigadier Jefferson.

18:49Brigadier Jefferson.

18:58You look beautiful.

19:02In the camp when they came to release us,

19:05one of them was doing me for a boy.

19:06The chap must have been mad.

19:08I think I've changed a bit since then.

19:10It's no mistaking you're a girl now.

19:13It's all right. He's gone.

19:16That's better.

19:18Not too close.

19:20Mrs Van Mayer's watching.

19:23I wish we could be alone.

19:25Yes, so do I.

19:30I suppose if we went outside,

19:32that Van Mayer woman would be down like a shot.

19:34It's all right.

19:37Look, she's gone.

19:39And I'm not very good at the tango.

19:41Nor am I.

19:42Let's get out of here before she comes back.

19:48The actress is around with me.

19:50Jet away in her room as usual.

19:52I suggested that she came and watched her dance.

19:55One does what's best to encourage her.

19:56I'm not a depressed emotion.

19:58She'll rise above it.

19:59We all have crosses to bear.

20:00Oh, frigate, dear.

20:02I thought that I'd find you.

20:04Mrs Van Mayer?

20:06Miss Thorpe?

20:07Dominico, please now to be a friend.

20:09I was looking for my wife.

20:10Is she here?

20:11She's attending the funeral.

20:12Kate's young man.

20:14I had no idea.

20:16You're not the only one.

20:17A merciful release.

20:19I suppose so.

20:21He was suffering terribly for my both mentally and physically.

20:24Another victim of Yamuchi.

20:26Yes.

20:28How are your investigations progressing?

20:30Coming on.

20:31I hope you have collected plenty of evidence against him.

20:34He's got other prisoners to investigate with Argin Mucci.

20:37Of course.

20:37You are doing a wonderful job.

20:39That explains why Miss Bristow was trying to get hold of Marion.

20:41I gather she telephoned my office.

20:43That was my idea.

20:44I thought you might know where she was,

20:46but luckily she turned up here.

20:47Been shopping, presumably.

20:48I imagine so.

20:50No.

20:51She went up to Changi with Jake.

20:52Changi?

20:53Why shouldn't Marion go there?

20:54Search me.

20:56She asked Jake to give her a lift.

20:59Yes.

21:00Yes, I remember.

21:01She did mention it.

21:02Visiting a friend's grave.

21:03So many pets.

21:05Right.

21:06I'm off then.

21:07I want a word of hope to Superbecky.

21:11I must be going too.

21:12Oh, no.

21:13Please stay for a moment now that you are here.

21:15We so seldom get a chance to talk with you.

21:18Well, it's really...

21:19I've been to the funeral too had I not promised to stay with Alice.

21:21She is there somewhere dancing to your young officer.

21:24Harry Alder...

21:25Aldous.

21:26Tim Bennett, really.

21:27Quite a little romance blossoming there.

21:30Oh, did he hurry.

21:32When I was that age, I had a string of admirers.

21:36You probably find that hard to believe.

21:37No, no, not at all.

21:41It is kind of you to say so, but I fear the camp has taken its toll.

21:45Yes, in those days I was the pen of the ball.

21:49Let me tell you about my first meeting with my dear husband, Young.

21:53He sat a ball at the embassy and by the end of the evening he had proposed.

21:57Not if I accepted him at first, of course, even though I knew he was the one.

22:01In the midst of life, we are in death.

22:06Of whom may we seek for succor, but of thee, O Lord,

22:10who for our sins are justly displeased.

22:14Yet, O Lord God most holy,

22:18O Lord most mighty,

22:20O holy and most merciful Savior,

22:22deliver us not into the bitter pains of eternal death.

22:28Thou knowest, Lord, the secrets of our hearts.

22:32Shut not thy merciful ears to our prayer,

22:35but spare us, Lord most holy.

22:39O God most mighty,

22:41O holy and merciful Savior,

22:44thou most worthy judge eternal.

22:46Suffer us not at our last hour

22:49for any pains of death.

22:52to fall from thee.

22:56For as much as it hath pleased almighty God of his great mercy

23:00to take unto himself

23:02the soul of our dear brother here departed,

23:06we therefore commit his body to the ground.

23:10Earth to earth,

23:13ashes to ashes,

23:17dust to dust.

23:18Hang on.

23:22Don't chuck yourself out yet.

23:24I want a word with you first.

23:25Not much good if I did from here.

23:26I'd only end up in that palm tree.

23:30Didn't go to the funeral then?

23:32As Kate pointed out,

23:33I wouldn't have been much use to her.

23:35Not much use to anyone these days.

23:37Lord lovers,

23:38Van Mare was right about you.

23:39It's true.

23:40Well he can be of use to me.

23:42I need some advice.

23:44What sort of advice?

23:45Professional.

23:45I no longer have a profession.

23:48Aye.

23:49Being struck off, have we?

23:51Might as well have been.

23:52Oh, give over.

23:54I'll tell you something.

23:56When you first came to our camp,

23:58I didn't take too much.

23:59I thought you were a right bossy cow.

24:02But I did admire your guts.

24:05You wouldn't have thrown your hand in there,

24:07nor let anyone else throw in theirs either.

24:14What did you want to ask me?

24:17Well,

24:18the thing is I've been feeling a bit off colour

24:20and I thought that...

24:21Blame me now, Alice.

24:23Alice, what happened?

24:24She's got hysterics.

24:26Now stop that.

24:27Come on, we don't want any of that.

24:28Don't have a son.

24:30It's all right, it's all right.

24:32I've got you.

24:33Come on, come and sit down.

24:34I've lost my handkicks.

24:37Oh, here.

24:39Now,

24:40will you try and tell us what happened?

24:42Oh, I can't.

24:43Oh, isn't it obvious?

24:44Look at her.

24:45Did lover boy have a go at you?

24:46Please, Maggie, just leave this to me.

24:48Is that right, Alice?

24:49Did Harry get carried away?

24:51Come on, you must tell me, Alice.

24:53Come on, it's only me and Maggie.

24:59We went outside

25:00and he kissed me

25:02and I wanted him to.

25:04It was nice, that.

25:07But then he started...

25:09His face went all funny

25:10and he didn't look like Harry anymore.

25:13I tried to stay back with him.

25:16Yes, I know, I know, I know.

25:19I won't have a baby, will I?

25:21Christ, he didn't get that far, did he?

25:22Daddy will kill me if I do.

25:24Look, did intercourse take place?

25:27You must tell me, Alice.

25:30I don't know.

25:31Well, you must know.

25:33I'm not sure exactly what it means.

25:36But did he penetrate...

25:37Did he go the whole hog?

25:39Oh, no!

25:42No!

25:43He put his hand there and he sort of rubbed my toe.

25:47And he said all that happened, Alice.

25:48Yes.

25:48Oh, thank heaven.

25:49Is that all right, then?

25:51Well, he won't have a baby, if that's what you mean.

25:53Have you seen Alice?

26:02I finally missed him.

26:04Where is she?

26:05In a bath.

26:06A bath?

26:07Why should she want a bath?

26:08Because she needed one.

26:10I do not understand.

26:12Whilst you were making cow's eyes at Clifford Jefferson,

26:15she was being half raped.

26:16Rape?

26:16Scared out of her wits any road.

26:18By whom?

26:18Harold Flynn, who do you think?

26:20Not that nice young man.

26:22So much for your chaperoning.

26:24I cannot believe it.

26:26She must have let him on.

26:27Maybe.

26:28But she didn't know what she was letting herself in for.

26:31Oh, you unfiless, you make me sick.

26:34You keep her away from me.

26:36At least I'd have told her what's what.

26:38She didn't know a thing.

26:39Oh, poor child, I must go to her.

26:40Don't you dare.

26:41Beatrice is in with her.

26:42But Beatrice is an old maid.

26:44How could she...

26:44Beatrice is a doctor.

26:46In case you'd forgotten.

26:48She's also worth ten of you.

26:52That doctor who saw us when we first arrived.

27:01She asked me if I knew the facts of life.

27:04I told her I did.

27:05Oh, Alice.

27:07You should have asked me.

27:09Or Marion.

27:11And I was embarrassed.

27:13I thought I'd just pick it up as I went along.

27:15Oh, Alice.

27:18It's your body.

27:19Got a right to know how it works.

27:22Extraordinary.

27:23What?

27:24I sounded just like Nellie, then.

27:27That nurse he died?

27:28Yes.

27:30She got very cross with me once.

27:32It's when Sally Markham was in labour

27:34and I told the poor girl not to ask questions.

27:36And I was wrong.

27:38One should always ask questions.

27:39I should never be able to look at Harry again.

27:43Well, if he's wise, he'll steer clear of this place.

27:45I don't think he meant to.

27:47You know, he just...

27:48Well, got carried away.

27:49Yes, I know.

27:50It does happen.

27:50It's horrible.

27:51Alice.

27:53You mustn't let this put you off.

27:56Men?

27:57Well, that side of things.

27:59Can so easily.

28:00I had a similar experience.

28:05Yes, strange to relate.

28:07The young man did once set his cap at me.

28:11Happened on the way home from a dance.

28:13One of my father's church hops.

28:16Which I never told anyone.

28:19I was too ashamed of myself.

28:21And afterwards I put up a barrier.

28:25Threw myself into my studies.

28:27Not that I regret that, but who knows?

28:29You might have married and had children.

28:32Well, might have had something to fall back on when I could no longer work.

28:37Come on.

28:37Let's get you dressed.

28:41Pity the Padre couldn't join us.

28:43He had another service to get back to.

28:45Nice chap.

28:46He was in Changi with Stephen.

28:48Just holding the fort here till the bishop can find a replacement.

28:51We've got Ulrich her anyway.

28:52Thank you so much.

28:54So sorry.

28:57Yes, glad she could come.

28:58Beginning to get a bit of a tear away, old Ulrich.

29:03Well, what are your plans now, Kate?

29:06To get on the first boat back home.

29:08There's no point in hanging around Rapples any longer.

29:11We should have news of our ship soon.

29:13Thanks.

29:14Rappley can't wait to get rid of us.

29:15Oh, I don't know, Kate.

29:18I think Phyllis is quite fond of our lot.

29:20I won't count her as Rappley any longer.

29:23If you were at a loose end while you're waiting for your ship, Stephen would be glad of some help.

29:29Thanks.

29:30But I'll be up at the hospital.

29:32Some of the patients on Tom's ward, I'd like to see them through.

29:36You'll be a good doctor.

29:37Oh, I hope so.

29:39Then all this will have been for something.

29:41Excuse me.

29:44Hello.

29:45I just want to say thank you so much.

29:46Let me leave you to have a chat.

29:49Hello, Charles.

29:50Extraordinary coincidence.

29:51That chap comes from the same part of the world as me.

29:54What's that?

29:54Cambridge.

29:55My old stamping ground.

29:57Oh, thereabouts.

29:58Village of Caldercott.

29:59Stones row from Grantchester.

30:00Know it well.

30:02That's where Rupert Brooke wrote his famous poem about the old vicarage.

30:05Just now the lilac is in bloom.

30:08Oh, yes.

30:08It's a wonderfully evocative place.

30:11When I get back, and I sometimes wonder if I ever will,

30:13the first thing I'm going to do,

30:15make sure the good old church clock still stands at ten to three.

30:18And Israel, honey, still for tea.

30:20You were actually up and scared with the garden in the year.

30:25Do you like more tea?

30:29Oh, yes.

30:32I believe you worked for the Jeffersons before the occupation.

30:35Yes, I worked for them long time.

30:37I look after Master Ben when he's a small boy.

30:41Mrs. Jefferson told me your own sons were killed by the Japanese.

30:44Yes.

30:46I'm sorry.

30:48It must have been dreadful here.

30:50I heard about it from a relative.

30:53My mother was Chinese.

30:55Our people lost everything.

30:56Yes.

30:57We've so much to do.

31:01How is your husband?

31:07Fine, fine.

31:08He's, uh, he's very busy, of course.

31:10It must be hard simply to resume your old life.

31:14It isn't all roses, but I expect we'll soon adjust.

31:18We've got Christina and May chatting away.

31:22Do you think Christina will stay in Singapore?

31:24Yes, I do.

31:26She's becoming more and more Chinese.

31:28The British haven't done much to encourage her.

31:30Poor Christina.

31:31Why, she's fortunate.

31:33Perhaps she's finding her true self.

31:35And you, Ulricha?

31:36I still search.

31:39Meant a lot to Kate, your coming to the funeral.

31:41To me also.

31:43It was all right with the Reverend Mother, was it?

31:45Oh, she's a wise woman.

31:47She knows my spirit is not tranquil.

31:50She allows me to look into my own conscience.

31:54But it can't be wrong to stand by your friends.

31:57No, that cannot be wrong.

31:59But neither can it be wrong for me to work when there's so much need.

32:03By work, I do not mean watering the flowers or sweeping down the convent stairs.

32:09Surely our Lord can find better use for me.

32:12At least in the camp, I felt...

32:17We always get back to the camp.

32:22It is impossible to pretend it did not happen.

32:26Yes, even if one tries.

32:29When we were first liberated,

32:31my concern was for the dead,

32:33the people who had not had a proper burial,

32:35whose grave was not marked.

32:37I intended to go to the authorities

32:39and to raise...

32:41What is that expression of Joss?

32:44Merry hell.

32:46Yes.

32:49But since I have been here,

32:51I have become more and more convinced

32:53that it is not the dead that the Lord intends me to serve,

32:56but the living.

32:57If only he would show me in what manner.

33:12There you are.

33:13I couldn't stomach Van Mare a second longer.

33:17Alice, you okay now?

33:18Hmm.

33:19Still a bit shaken up, but she'll survive.

33:21Bounce back.

33:23Hmm, I think so.

33:24Imagine not knowing at 17.

33:30I don't remember not knowing.

33:33I'll have a word with Phyllis.

33:35See if she can get her on an earlier boat.

33:37As soon as she's home now, the better.

33:39Out of harm's way.

33:40I reckon so.

33:45Did you ask me something?

33:47Hello there.

33:48I'll have to wait again.

33:50Not interrupting, am I?

33:51Yes, you are.

33:53But I'm getting used to it.

33:55Good evening, Beatrice.

33:56Evening.

33:57You're looking for Joss.

33:58She's not here.

33:59I wasn't actually.

34:00It's you I wanted to see.

34:01I'll shove off then.

34:03See you in the bar.

34:05Yes.

34:05Yes, all right.

34:06I won't be a minute.

34:09Sorry to barge in,

34:10but I haven't seen you lately.

34:12No, and I don't often come down.

34:14I prefer my own company.

34:15I'm glad I found you.

34:17I feel I owe you an apology

34:18to that business the other week.

34:20I'd really rather not rake over old coals.

34:21Oh, no.

34:22Please let me explain.

34:24The last thing I wanted was to upset you.

34:27Unforgivable after your sterling work.

34:29But when Joss and I get our teeth into something,

34:32frankly, we wouldn't notice

34:33if Lady Louie and a fleet of clerks

34:35moved in on us.

34:36I think Lady Louie might have taken it

34:38with a bit more grace.

34:39Oh, I don't know.

34:40They say she gets pretty rattled at times.

34:43Anyway, the thing is,

34:44I was wondering if you could bear to look in again.

34:47Well, quite apart from your orderly mind,

34:49we desperately need some medical guidance.

34:52But do say if it's too much for you.

35:01Well, come again.

35:09I won't be long, ma'am.

35:12I'd better go and change.

35:14Twine will be home soon.

35:17Yes.

35:24Sorry, Maggie.

35:25Something I seem to be wanted in all directions.

35:27Best stay around a bit longer, then.

35:29Don't you?

35:29You'll like a drink?

35:30No, thank you.

35:32So, what's your problem?

35:35I think I'm pregnant.

35:37And I do know the facts of life.

35:39I don't know if it's not a picture.

35:42Uh, fuck, why don't we, um...

35:44I want to talk to you.

35:56You've been in Singapore less than a month.

35:58You can't be certain.

35:58It didn't happen either.

36:00Someone from the men's camp.

36:03Kate and I broke out one afternoon

36:05when we were waiting for our famous liberators.

36:07We met this chap on the road.

36:10He and I made up for lost time.

36:15You look like Kate did.

36:18No.

36:19Given up, casting judgment.

36:21Look, how many times did you, uh,

36:23did you see this man?

36:23Only the once.

36:25And you.

36:26It was quite a once.

36:28What about your periods?

36:29You surely didn't have those in camp.

36:31No, not regular.

36:33Just the occasional show.

36:34Well, most of them did.

36:36But I haven't had one since I got back.

36:38I suppose it's possible.

36:40Add to that the fact that I...

36:41I think I'm bigger here.

36:43Well, that could be the improved diet.

36:45And I've been sick as a dog every morning for the past week.

36:48Yes, well, that could be an indication.

36:50Well, let's have a look at you.

36:52Shall we, uh, shall we go to Jake's?

36:54Might be more private.

36:55Good.

37:25pardon me ma'am. oh oh may. Twan is late home. I expect he stayed on at the office. you wish we

37:46wait dinner? hmm please and thank you for rallying around this afternoon at such short notice. oh it

37:53is no trouble. we are glad to see you entertain your friends. oh yes it was nice in spite of the

37:59circumstances. I think you miss them now you're back here. three and a half years is a long time

38:05being together. it is also a long time to be away from Twan. you don't miss much do you? you never

38:12did. I know you many years now. it isn't easy just to pick up the strings to resume life as if nothing

38:20had happened. miss Campbell she say the same thing. Christina? she says she no longer the same

38:27person. she no longer want the same thing. she's still young. she can start afresh without having

38:32to... she isn't married or anything. you and Twan will grow together again. I don't know. oh may if

38:43only we could put the clock back. yes. do you remember when we first came out here? when master Ben was

38:50little? yes. and your sons weren't much bigger and they used to come and play. I'm... I am sorry I forgot.

38:59no it is good I talk of them. must have been dreadful for you when they were killed. to begin with I wish I'd die also.

39:09then I start to live for the day when you and Twan come home. I say to myself

39:16ma'am will return. then everything will be as before. if only that were possible.

39:22well it looks as though you're right. inso far as one can be certain at this stage.

39:30oh didn't it? life and death. he kills one off he starts another.

39:34oh god. don't know where he had to pick on me though. she'll need to have a urine test done.

39:39give me a sample first thing in the morning. I'll take it up to the hospital.

39:42righto. not that I need to be told.

39:47I've been pregnant before.

39:52if you are what will you do?

39:56I'm not sure. but I'll have to decide quick won't I?

40:04good evening ma'am.

40:16hello Marian. hello darling.

40:19sorry Emily. didn't think you'd be back from the funeral.

40:23you heard.

40:25I was at Raffles earlier. Dominica told me.

40:28they came back here for tea after.

40:30ah. how's Kate taking it?

40:33quite well. I think she was prepared.

40:36tragic. still shouldn't have much trouble finding someone else.

40:40attractive girl like that.

40:42don't think she wants anyone else. she wants to pursue a career.

40:46that's what she says at the moment.

40:48doesn't want to end up like poor old Beatrice.

40:53have a drink?

40:53ah you've got one. you could top it up.

41:00what took you to Raffles?

41:03looked in to see if you'd turn up.

41:05Phyllis Bristow rang my office this morning.

41:07she was trying to get hold of you.

41:09oh yes yes there was a message when I arrived home.

41:12shopping were you?

41:14no.

41:16I went up to Changi.

41:18with Jay Coulter I gather.

41:20you knew.

41:20your friend Maggie let it slip.

41:25then why didn't you ask me straight out?

41:27I had every intention of telling you.

41:28you might have told me before the event.

41:30I had to pretend I knew.

41:32I wasn't going to be made a fool of.

41:33I'm sorry I didn't know Jake had told Maggie.

41:38I on earth did you go up there.

41:40it's hardly a joy ride even with the magnetic Mr. Halter.

41:42I went to see major Yamouchi.

41:47you did what?

41:48I visited Yamouchi.

41:50I didn't tell you because I knew you'd stop me.

41:54you were damn right.

41:58Christ Marianne how do you think that must have looked?

42:00brigadier's wife visiting one of the...

42:02I didn't go as your wife.

42:03I went as an ex-leader.

42:04you think they'd have let you in if you hadn't been my wife?

42:06I don't know if you're being naive or if you're doing this deliberately.

42:16that man is being tried as a war criminal.

42:18there is enough evidence in your diary.

42:19he's also a human being.

42:21I wanted to see that he didn't show you much humanity.

42:23and if we behave the same does that put it right?

42:26anyway sometimes he did show compassion.

42:29when he withheld the drugs.

42:30we dropped those bombs on them isn't that enough?

42:37I just don't understand you Marianne.

42:39no you don't.

42:40all I ask is a little loyalty.

42:44and I don't consider that I am being a...

42:46tisnt you want far more than that.

42:47you want me to be exactly as I used to be.

42:49a well-groomed line-towing reflection of yourself.

42:52no mind of my own.

42:53I didn't expect that before and I don't now.

42:55what I do think I'm entitled to is a certain awareness of my position.

43:00I know you have been through a lot and I have tried to make allowances.

43:02my god it's been a strain hasn't it?

43:04yes frankly it has.

43:07you don't like my attitudes.

43:08you resent my friends.

43:09I have nothing against your friends.

43:10some of my friends.

43:12what I do resent is playing second fiddle to them.

43:14that's not true.

43:14oh yes it is you spend most of your time over there

43:17and when you are here you're more concerned about their problems than mine.

43:19and I wouldn't have another drink.

43:21so now I drink too much do I?

43:22yes you do.

43:22get in surprising I need a bloody drink!

43:28there is no need to shout like a fishwife.

43:30if I shout you might hear what I'm trying to say.

43:34ma'am.

43:34you want dinner now?

43:36no no not yet.

43:39we'll let you know when we're ready.

43:41yes tuan.

43:48what are you trying to say?

43:52don't think there's any future for us Clifford.

43:57not together.

43:58how are you trying to play?

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