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The Forsytes S01E02
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00:00And so it begins, the crumbling of the polished façade, the unravelling of the carefully
00:15curated life we've built for ourselves, free of scandal and inconvenient truths, of hidden
00:26desires and secret longings, but should they emerge, do we let them lie, or do we pursue
00:35them, and are we prepared for the consequences?
00:43Who's bossed that lady that just called?
00:48Did she upset you?
00:51No, no, not at all, I just, um, come here and take your link tips.
00:56But it's horrible.
01:00Oh, so is whooping cough.
01:05Now, go and do your reading.
01:07Go.
01:07So, I was thinking, Mama, I need a new riding coat, so should we visit Miss Louisa today?
01:22Oh, er... I think not. She mentioned last night she's booked up for several months in advance. Well, she'll fit me in. And I want to take some bonbons for the children. No. No?
01:37No. Their mother may not want them to have sweet things. It's so sad, Grandma Ma. Her father died before they were born and she had to bring them up all alone. So brave.
02:08Recommendable. All the more reason not to overburden her. Are you joining us for the opera tonight?
02:14What is it? Traviata?
02:18All that weeping and wailing annoys me.
02:21June, you should wear the pink silk.
02:23I've invited the cartarets to our box.
02:27Why?
02:28So we can all become better acquainted.
02:40Wow.
02:42June must be thrilled. So many young men clamoring to dance.
02:45What a picture she looked.
02:47And that gown was a triumph.
02:49Almost a disaster. But the girl worked wonders.
02:51Girl?
02:52You were ogling her, remember?
02:54That little chick a bit. You might have introduced me.
02:56I took care not to.
02:58She seemed awfully thick with Jo.
03:00The dressmaker?
03:01Who is this?
03:02Pretty young thing. Quite charming.
03:04Remind me, why she was thick with Jo?
03:06Well, perhaps he was thanking her for saving the day.
03:08Can you get an appointment with her?
03:10That's what I'm hoping for.
03:12After June's bore, everyone will be after her.
03:15Shall we?
03:16Oh.
03:22What are you doing?
03:29Seeking employment.
03:32I was a typist.
03:34Oh, how demeaning.
03:37I need something to tide me over until I can find a way to pay for Paris.
03:41Oh, you're still persisting with that madness.
03:44Yes. Why wouldn't I?
03:54Sir?
03:55Yeah.
03:57Good?
04:03Congratulations.
04:05Very much. Thank you very much.
04:07Very well done.
04:08Very nice.
04:09Thank you, sir.
04:09Good to see you.
04:13The point is, there is no prior instance of a chairman resigning.
04:17No.
04:17And therefore no precedent for the eldest son's accession before his father's death.
04:21So in the case of Jo...
04:22Increasingly at odds with the aims of the firm.
04:24If it were brought before the board, how much further he might deviate?
04:28How that could endanger the future of the company?
04:30The sheer insanity of the prizing tradition over merit.
04:33It's archaic.
04:34It's wasteful.
04:35And if it goes ahead, a missed opportunity.
04:37It is not a foregone conclusion.
04:39I will insist it be brought before the board.
04:41In the meantime, we build the case against Jo.
05:07I saw her.
05:20At the pool, last night.
05:22The girl from Venice?
05:25Louisa.
05:26How did she come to be there?
05:28She makes gowns.
05:30June's gown.
05:32She's a widow.
05:33She lives in Soho.
05:33Do you have any idea?
05:34No, not an inkling.
05:37Will you see her again?
05:39I don't know.
05:48Were you told who to marry?
05:49I chose freely.
05:53Your father was my first love.
05:58And when he died, I was sure I would never get over him.
06:02But he did.
06:04Nothing compares to first love.
06:06We persuade ourselves the fever is real.
06:10And then, if we're lucky, we meet our true soulmate and discover something more profound.
06:18So, Papa's your soulmate?
06:22Like magnets, perhaps.
06:24The attraction of opposites.
06:26Gentlemen, today I can announce that Forsyte & Co. has been offered a unique opportunity.
06:42My old friend, Sir Jimmy Buckland, has finally succeeded in his scheme to deploy a tribe from
06:47upper India to the gold mines of Ceylon.
06:49Carried in the teeth of great difficulties, it should double the output of his mines.
06:52And caught to the lives of his workers.
06:55Well, whether one expires of miserable old age on one's own barren soil or prematurely
06:59of damp at the bottom of a foreign mine, I hardly...
07:01Surely of small consequence, as long as it benefits the shareholders.
07:05Well, I imagine it's of some consequence to the widows.
07:09May I continue?
07:14Sir Jim, as a personal favour to me, has given us advance notice so that we may use the information
07:20to our advantage, by offering our clients, and indeed ourselves, the chance to invest.
07:27It is, quite literally, a golden opportunity.
07:33It's a risk.
07:35Which we have an impeccable record for calculating.
07:39Still feels like gambling to me.
07:46Are we agreed?
07:47Yes.
07:49Adjourned.
07:49I'll be back later.
07:55I have an appointment.
07:56Anyone we know?
07:58No.
07:58No.
08:19Is it to your taste?
08:24I could admire the tonal qualities, but no.
08:26It doesn't move me.
08:28May I ask what does?
08:31A more vibrant style.
08:34Something which captures the fleetiness of a moment rather than preserves it in aspic.
08:39You're a romantic.
08:40My stepmother says I'm utterly unfit for decent society.
08:44Your crime?
08:45I dance.
08:47The polka?
08:49The waltz?
08:50The ballet.
08:52Ah.
08:53My mother was a dancer and I seem to have inherited her...
08:57Talent?
08:58Passion.
08:59There, I said it.
09:00Now's your chance to escape.
09:02And yet...
09:04As you see, I'm still here.
09:08No escape.
09:11No escape.
09:12No escape.
09:13so no escape from what the opera the carter it's the scheme to throw me to the wolves
09:35Horatio oh isn't he more of a poodle
09:38well look who I have I know she's not mine but I take her with me when I'm feeling vexed or
09:49miserable and she always cheers me up is that why you got her
09:54she was a gift from a friend someone I met in Italy an attachment short-lived let me guess
10:08she wasn't suitable you were forbidden to pursue her we just went our separate ways
10:13and then you met mama yes
10:18I'm not sure I want to fall in love sounds like torture
10:24they can also be magnificent
10:28Jo never seems to learn is today in the boardroom wittering on about widows and gambling oh poor
10:41Cyril how he frets when he knows I'm going out shall I stay behind and pet him for you oh dear no that
10:46would defeat the whole purpose of the evening the purpose being to dangle June and I before the
10:50carterets and hope they bite what he fails to grasp is the need for us to be led by sound commercial
10:55nurse darling we simply want you to find someone who deserves you before to maintain our position
11:01as London's premier brokers the board should be worried and you look so handsome the board will
11:05be worried she won't be able to resist you make sure of that
11:09so glad you could join us lady carteret oh my dear to be seen in the company the illustrious force
11:39sites who wouldn't leap at the chance lovely to see so many young people it's sad to think
11:48they're seldom masters of their own fate I like to think we take their views into account tradition
11:55is what counts stability no impulsive changing of the guard but sometimes is it not a fresh perspective
12:04that is exactly what is needed provided the proposed candidates up to the task I understand
12:09you're an avid reader but I have you read Frankenstein no I you'll find you have some sympathy for the
12:21creature no will of its own forced to do another's bidding until of course it rebels
12:27ah you seem to have left my wife at home perhaps I could prevail on your father or you could just not drink
12:42oh my cousins mama I might just um of course
12:50I do beg your pardon are you hurt
13:08do I look like a damsel in distress on the contrary
13:14are you with friends family my mother thinks this is the place to meet the right people
13:21would I fall into that category I seriously doubt it do I sense a renegade
13:28do you in foresight
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14:23I adore Traviata.
14:30Makes one positively melt, don't you find?
14:53I adore Traviata.
15:05Urta, urta, tutta fia.
15:23Did you miss me, Pudding?
15:31Oh, don't suck.
15:33I promise I'll make it up to you.
15:35Always affecting, Traviata.
15:38Lost love and all that.
15:43Perhaps we should be celebrating love found.
15:47Perhaps we should.
15:53Can you believe June tonight?
16:07Determined not to cooperate.
16:09The Carterets, our plans.
16:15Will you speak to her?
16:18Saying what?
16:20That there's a time and a place for everything.
16:24And the time for June is now.
16:26She's 18.
16:32She has to put away childish things.
16:38She worships you.
16:40If you tell her, we would only ever choose someone worthy of her.
16:44But perhaps you think your father made the wrong choice for you.
17:03I made the choice.
17:04Oh, my God.
17:18I made the choice.
17:20You must go.
17:38I can't bear to leave you.
17:42Your family needs you.
17:44Your father has summoned you home.
17:48And I return.
17:50Where will you be?
17:52Florence, Rome?
17:55Will you write to me?
17:57Tell me where you'll be.
17:58Don't stop.
18:02Let's not pretend.
18:06What?
18:07These past few months...
18:09Have been the most precious of my life.
18:11And mine too, but...
18:13I always knew they would come to an end.
18:18Why must they?
18:20Because I am a lady's maid and you are a gentleman.
18:24I want to know a gentleman that will marry a lady's maid.
18:29You're dreaming.
18:33Believe me, I'm not.
18:34If you still feel this way in a year's time.
18:41I feel the same way in 50 years' time.
18:48Then I have your address.
18:51All right.
18:51Wherever you are, I'll come to you.
19:00I'll come to you.
19:00I'll come to you.
19:00I'll come to you.
19:04I'm in.
19:13I'll come to you.
19:14I'll come to you.
19:15I'll come to you.
19:16Louisa. Louisa, please.
19:46Please, keep your voice down. My assistant is asleep. Why have you come?
19:59Honestly, I don't know. To prove you aren't a figment of my imagination.
20:09I want to see the only person who ever completely understood me.
20:19Dude, we are very different now. Yet here we are.
20:34Do you still paint?
20:39Really. It's one of the many things I gave up to serve the god of commerce.
20:46Sad to hear it.
20:50Well, tell me about your husband. Late husband.
20:54Is there any point in...
20:56Well, were you happy? Did you love him?
21:03That's my assistant. She sleepwalks. You must go.
21:13Please don't come here again.
21:15I can't eat.
21:16I can't eat.
21:17I can't eat.
21:17I can't eat.
21:25In this way, everything is so sweet.
21:28In this way, there is even better.
24:02Not that I lay claim to any form of artistry.
24:05Perhaps you underestimate yourself.
24:17You're dancing.
24:18Is it the only profession you've ever considered?
24:21I've prepared for it my whole life.
24:23And if my audition goes well...
24:25Your audition?
24:26I sold my jewelry to go and try for the Cordy Ballet.
24:29In Paris?
24:30Yes, in Paris.
24:31And when would this be?
24:33I leave in a month.
24:35I'm convinced he has Miss Carteret in his sights.
24:49Parcheter told me he's on the river this afternoon with a picnic.
24:53Which can only mean...
24:55An imminent announcement.
24:57I'm sure we can all agree Olivia Carteret is an excellent choice.
25:01Certainly fits the bill for a man destined to be chairman.
25:06Miss Heron, we've known each other a matter of weeks.
25:10So I have no right to question any choice you might make.
25:13But today when I heard you speak of Paris...
25:14Oh, you've got me rash, irresponsible.
25:16Far from it.
25:17I understood the impulse.
25:20The desire.
25:20And I'd recognised that I wish to encourage it.
25:24Encourage?
25:25It's true that Paris has a somewhat shady reputation.
25:29Though I myself found it captivating.
25:31You've been?
25:33In my youth.
25:34And would not be averse to visiting again.
25:37If you were there.
25:40Though my family will no doubt they disapprove.
25:43Perhaps.
25:44We needn't tell them.
26:00Mrs. Forsyte.
26:04I hope I'm not disturbing you.
26:08Won't you take a seat?
26:14I've always been curious about you.
26:18The girl who first captured his heart.
26:22Not that he ever spoke of you.
26:24One just instinctively knows.
26:27That one wasn't the first.
26:32What made you come to my house?
26:35You begged me to.
26:37And you were curious.
26:38And hoped to see him.
26:41I've never attempted to see him.
26:43I've never tried to contact him.
26:45I've never asked him for anything.
26:48Does he know about the children?
26:51No.
26:52You understand he never can.
26:54It would ruin him.
26:56In his business, reputation is everything.
26:59And in mine.
27:01I came here with nothing.
27:03Single-handedly raised.
27:04His two children.
27:06Whilst building a business.
27:07Do you seriously imagine that I wish to endanger my own good name?
27:10And should he try to see you?
27:11I will tell him to go away.
27:15I will tell him to go away.
27:41I thought your scrawling days were long gone.
28:06Something you wanted, Sam.
28:07Perhaps you should give it all up.
28:09Quit the grind and daub away to your heart's content.
28:14Perhaps I should.
28:16Why don't you?
28:19Ask my father or yours.
28:21Of course.
28:24You're here to save us.
28:27How noble.
28:32Good day to you, Sam's.
28:39What did I say?
28:47First time we boxed at Oxford.
28:49I never make it as a fighter, because I like to submen.
28:54Remind me why we became friends.
28:56Because we both needed a punch bag.
28:58And I was missing size.
28:59So, brother.
29:03A number of us have been speaking, and we're keen to hear Joe's vision for the company.
29:10Vision?
29:11Hmm.
29:12The head of the vote.
29:13What vote?
29:15There'll be no vote.
29:16The decision is mine.
29:17Yeah, but it must be ratified.
29:19It's tradition.
29:21Eldest son to eldest son.
29:22Well, with respect.
29:24Well, you broke with tradition when you pushed Joe into the chair before your demise.
29:29Even so...
29:29I mean, surely.
29:31You want all the board to be fully behind the new appointment?
29:35Don't think I don't know what you're about.
29:38You have your eye on the prize for Soames.
29:41I think we both know he's the better man for the job.
29:52Isaac, just curious.
29:56Did you pick up any sense from the other partners, what they think of Joe's promotion?
30:02I know what I think.
30:04Tell me.
30:06He's passionate.
30:07Struggles to compromise.
30:09Hmm.
30:10But that's why this company needs him.
30:13In ten years, he's never let you down.
30:18I don't believe he ever will.
30:23Thank you, Isaac.
30:35Your father just told me.
30:38Beggars believe the idea of a vote.
30:41Expected.
30:43Well, you know James is setting you up to fail.
30:45Quite.
30:48Disappoint him.
30:48You have the vision, the ability.
30:54You deserve it.
30:56We deserve it.
30:58So let's be very considered about our next move.
31:03I'll throw it away in a moment of madness.
31:06Syrup.
31:22Syrup.
31:23Poor.
31:24Poor.
31:26Poor.
31:27Syrup.
31:28Poor.
31:29Poor.
31:29Oh!
31:30Not done, Syrup.
31:32That's so fun.
31:33There you go, clever dog.
31:38Someone's looking pleased with themselves.
31:41Happy Miss Carteret.
31:42Happy Soames, if there's any sense.
31:44Which I'm certain he does.
31:46Well, I mustn't be late.
31:48I told June I'd take her with me, but Frances has forbidden her to go.
31:51Go where?
31:52The dressmaker, Mrs Louisa.
31:55Who also does wedding gowns.
31:57Why did Frances forbid her?
31:58No idea, but she was absolutely insistent.
32:00June is not to go.
32:02Well, I'm heading into town myself.
32:03Can I drop you?
32:04Silk Street in Soho.
32:06There's a jeweler's nearby.
32:08Won't you join us?
32:10No.
32:10I will make my own arrangements.
32:20My dear.
32:21Are you quite well?
32:23Yes.
32:24That is, a matter has come to my attention.
32:31I'm not quite sure how to manage it.
32:37That will be, um, Mrs Darty.
32:46Uh, is Mrs Burnham home?
32:52Children, put those down.
32:54Come here.
33:00Hello.
33:02Are you...
33:03My children, yes.
33:12And their father?
33:14He died.
33:16A long time ago.
33:17Before we were born.
33:21How old are you?
33:22Ten.
33:23Hannah, take the children.
33:25But, Mama, please do as I say.
33:26I need to speak with this child.
33:27I'll come to you soon.
33:28Who is their father?
33:42Who is their father?
33:46Is he dead?
33:49Is he?
33:49As good as
33:57Dear God, Louisa, you couldn't think to tell me
34:04What should I have said?
34:08No claim on you, we barely knew each other
34:10I saw myself for what I was
34:13A diversion
34:15I loved you
34:18You desired me as I desired you
34:21And what we had was brief and careless
34:24And could never have come to anything
34:27You should have looked for me
34:31After Venice, you knew my family, you knew my name
34:34I did look for you
34:35When I knew I was with child
34:37I had every intention of seeking you out
34:40So why didn't you?
34:42I read about your marriage in the newspaper
34:44What else could I do but make my own arrangements?
34:51Earn enough to set aside for my confinement
34:53I took in mending, embroidery, anything I could to provide for my child
34:57Children, as it turned out
35:01But if you told me
35:03Then what?
35:04You had a wife, a stepchild, a family name
35:07Was I supposed to be your guilty secret?
35:12Better to find my own means to provide for my children
35:15Our children
35:17Our children
35:23They can never know
35:26Please don't make this difficult
35:30Our lives need not be thrown into disarray
35:35Simply because we happen to meet again
35:36As you wish
35:45But first I'd like to see the children again
35:50Don't do this
35:54Please let me see them, Louisa
35:57Please
36:00Children, come here
36:14And it is certain
36:20The children are his
36:22Beyond doubt
36:24And he doesn't know
36:28Does anyone?
36:30Nor must they
36:31James and Soames especially
36:33Indeed
36:34How trustworthy is this girl?
36:37Could she threaten to expose him?
36:38I don't believe she will
36:39She's posing as a widow
36:42Good
36:42And a respectable dressmaker
36:44So we are confident the matter will go no further
36:47We are
36:50Come
36:58This is a friend of mine
37:02Hello
37:10I'm Jo
37:13How funny
37:15So am I
37:16But everyone calls me Joss
37:20May I call you Joss?
37:23I'm Holly
37:30I know he looks older
37:32But we're twins
37:33It's a pleasure to meet you, Holly
37:38Are you crying?
37:44Yes, I am crying
37:45Are you sad?
37:50No
37:51I'm happy
37:54Happier than you can imagine
37:58Sorry
38:02I don't wish to scare you
38:06That's the last thing
38:07That's the last thing I want
38:08Please, you must leave
38:09I have clients to you
38:11The back door, this way
38:13Please don't come here again
38:23I'll see you at dinner, pa
38:42I'll see you at the last time
38:43Come on
38:44Come on, I don't want to
38:58Thank you
38:59Thank you
38:59I was told you were looking for me
39:22I came just now from Soho
39:28Yes
39:29From the dressmaker, Louisa
39:32She and I knew each other years ago
39:35I'm aware
39:37I've seen her myself
39:40Then you know about
39:43The children
39:43Yes
39:45Nothing about their existence
39:53Is simple
39:55And clearly there are consequences
39:59Yes
40:00The possibility of discovery
40:04How it can be used against you
40:08Just as we're in touching distance
40:11Of everything we've worked for
40:13We're a partnership
40:18A family
40:19Let's not complicate all
40:22Compromise
40:23We can put all of this behind us
40:26And go on as before
40:26I don't think you understand
40:29I can't go on as before
40:32Before I was unaware
40:34But you're under no obligation
40:36I can't wish away two human beings, Francis
40:38You mean to acknowledge them
40:44I mean not to know their existence
40:47For now
41:00Promise me
41:03No one need know
41:05It would be catastrophic
41:09For you as chairman
41:12For us as a family
41:14For me as your wife
41:15I promise
41:19How could you
41:27I promise
42:27What did you hear?
42:55All of it.
42:57I knew her before your mother and I ever met.
43:07But it makes no difference to us.
43:09You're still my beloved daughter.
43:10Except now I have to share you.
43:12No.
43:12Mama has to share you.
43:13No.
43:13It's her, isn't it, Luisa?
43:28The one who gave you this.
43:29Forgive me, Miss Herron, but in the spirit of our recent conversation, I wanted to bring you a gift.
43:55Oh, they're beautiful.
44:06Oh, thank you.
44:07I hope they might speed you on your way to Paris and the fulfillment of your desires.
44:15Oh, Mr. Forsyte, you've been such a friend to me.
44:19I hope so.
44:22I do.
44:25And yet...
44:28With your permission, I would like to think of myself as more than a friend.
44:36Forgive me.
44:43I'm well-schooled in matters of business.
44:46Less so in matters of the heart.
44:48Which, to be frank, has never been touched by a single soul until...
44:59Believe me, I never intended to speak so soon, but your imminent departure...
45:05I can no longer leave unsaid what I've known from the moment I saw you.
45:10You are my heart's desire.
45:18I cannot imagine a life without you.
45:24Mr. Forsyte, this is...
45:27unexpected.
45:29But not, I hope, unwelcome.
45:32I...
45:33To be truthful, I'm a little astonished.
45:37We scarcely know each other.
45:39But what we do know might lead us to be hopeful.
45:44Perhaps.
45:48Um...
45:48Then let me say one more thing.
45:55I'm convinced we could be happy.
45:59But if you find we cannot,
46:01though, God help me, I'll move heaven and earth to make us so,
46:04I will release you, and you will be free.
46:09That's...
46:11That's...
46:12Very generous.
46:15But if you agree to our engagement,
46:18we will go to Paris together.
46:21And from there, plan our future.
46:25And it will be all that you've dreamed of.
46:28And more.
46:28Just imagine, Cyril,
46:39dear Soames engaged and replacing Joa's chair.
46:44That day could be closer than you think.
46:47Come on, child.
47:08Spit it out.
47:09That day could be closer than you think.
47:11That day could be closer than you think.
47:11That day could be closer than you think.
47:12That day could be closer than you think.
47:13That day could be closer than you think.
47:14That day could be closer than you think.
47:15That day could be closer than you think.
47:16That day could be closer than you think.
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