The Forsytes S01E02 (2025)
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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.
09:08The portraits, the scheme to throw me to the wolves.
09:23so 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 i'm not sure i want to fall in love sounds like torture
10:24well you can also be magnificent
10:28joe never seems to learn he's today in the boardroom
10:37wittering on about widows and gambling oh poor cyril how he frets when he knows i'm going out
10:43shall i stay behind and pet him for you oh dear no that would defeat the whole purpose of the
10:48evening the purpose being to dangle june and i before the carterets and hope they bite what he
10:52fails to grasp is the need for us to be led by sound commercial nurse darling we simply want you to
10:58find someone who deserves you before to maintain our position as london's premier brokers the board
11:03should be worried and you look so handsome the board will be worried she won't be able to resist
11:07i will make sure of that
11:09so glad you could join us lady carteret
11:29so glad you could join us lady carteret oh my dear to be seen in the company the illustrious
11:38foresights who wouldn't leap at the chance
11:42lovely to see so many young people but sad to think they're seldom masters of their own fate
11:50i like to think we take their views into account tradition is what counts stability no impulsive
11:58changing of the guard
11:59but sometimes is it not a fresh perspective that is exactly what is needed provided the
12:06proposed candidates up to the task i understand you're an avid reader but i
12:12have you read frankenstein no i you'll find you have some sympathy for the creature no will of its own
12:23forced 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
13:13on 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
13:28june foresight philip bussini
13:35buccaneer
13:38and i think this is the place to meet the right people
13:53and i think this is the place to meet them
13:57i think it's the place to meet them
13:59CHOIR SINGS
14:29CHOIR SINGS
14:59CHOIR SINGS
15:29Did 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.
15:48Can 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.
17:04I made the choice.
17:05Thank you, God.
17:18You must go.
17:38I can't bear to leave you.
17:42Your family needs you.
17:44Your father has summoned you home.
17:46And every time, where will you be?
17:52Florence, Rome?
17:55Well, you write to me.
17:57Tell me where you'll be.
17:58Joel, stop.
18:02Let's not pretend.
18:06What?
18:08These past few months...
18:09Have been the most precious of my life.
18:11And mine too, but...
18:14I always knew they would come to an end.
18:16Why must they?
18:20Because I am a lady's maid and you are a gentleman.
18:24And what?
18:24And no gentleman ever married 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.
18:59I'll come to you.
19:00I'll come to you.
19:00I'll come to you.
19:00I'll come to you.
19:32Louisa, Louisa, please.
19:51Please, keep your voice down.
19:54My assistant is asleep.
19:58Why have you come?
20:03Honestly, I don't know.
20:08To prove you aren't a figment of my imagination.
20:13Or to see the only person who ever completely understood me.
20:19Did. We are very different now.
20:22Yet here we are.
20:23Do you still paint?
20:40Really.
20:42It's one of the many things I gave up to serve the God of Commerce.
20:47Sad to hear it.
20:48Well, tell me about your husband.
20:53Late husband.
20:55Is there any point in...
20:57Well, were you happy?
21:01Did you love him?
21:02Uh, that's...
21:08That's my assistant.
21:09Um, she sleepwalks.
21:11You must go.
21:14Please don't come here again.
21:15You must go.
21:27You must go.
21:31You must go.
21:42God bless you.
22:12God bless you.
22:42God bless you.
23:10You needn't have gone to such trouble. I'm happy with bread and cheese.
23:13Oh, so am I.
23:14And when nature arranges a feast for the soul, what more does one need?
23:20When we lived in Paris, we used to picnic by the Seine.
23:23You were happy there.
23:28When my mother was alive and I could watch her dance.
23:31And you were destined to follow in her footsteps.
23:33As you were destined to follow your father's.
23:35I seem to have a talent for numbers.
23:40In their own way, they have the magic which intrigues me.
23:43You make them sound quite mysterious.
23:45Well, they are.
23:46Also immensely practical.
23:49Like you, one learns techniques, one practices one's craft.
23:53But beyond that, one learns to trust one's instincts.
23:56Exactly that?
24:02Not that I lay claim to any form of artistry.
24:05Perhaps you underestimate yourself.
24:07You're dancing.
24:19Is 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.
24:37Oh.
24:46I'm convinced he has Miss Carteret in his sights.
24:49Parcheter told me he's on the river this afternoon.
24:52With 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.
25:03For a man destined to be chairman.
25:06Miss Heron.
25:08We'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 thought me rash, irresponsible.
25:16Far from it.
25:17I understood the impulse.
25:19The desire.
25:20And I'd recognized 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.
25:32In 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 we needn't tell them.
25:45Mrs. Forsyte.
26:04I hope I'm not disturbing you.
26:08Won't you take a seat?
26:09I'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.
26:28What made you come to my house?
26:36You begged me to.
26:37And you were curious.
26:40And 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?
26:50No.
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?
27:14I will tell him to go away.
27:15I will tell him to go away.
27:29I will tell him to go away.
27:59I thought your scrawling days were long gone.
28:06Something you wanted, Sam.
28:07Perhaps you should give it all up.
28:10Quit 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.
28:29Good day to you, Sam's.
28:45What did I say?
28:47First time we boxed at Oxford.
28:49I never make it as a fighter because I like to submen.
28:51Remind me why we became friends.
28:56Because we both needed a punch bag.
28:58And I was missing size.
29:02So, brother.
29:04A number of us have been speaking and, uh...
29:07Well, 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 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.
29:43Isaac, just curious.
29:56Did you pick up any sense for any 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.
30:09But 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.
30:42Well, you know James is setting you up to fail.
30:45Quite.
30:48Disappoint him.
30:50You have the vision, the ability.
30:54You deserve it.
30:56We deserve it.
30:58So let's be very considered about our next move.
31:01I'll throw it away in a moment of madness.
31:06Zero.
31:06Four.
31:23Four.
31:24Four.
31:26Four.
31:27Zero.
31:28Four.
31:29Four.
31:29Someone'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, who 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 jewellers nearby.
32:08Won't you join us?
32:10No, I will make my own arrangements.
32:20My dear, are 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.
32:40Uh, is Mrs Byrne at 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.
33:18Before 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.
33:27With this, Jeb, I'll come to you soon.
33:28Who is their father?
33:46Is he dead?
33:49Is he?
33:49That's good, Alice.
34:02Dear God, Louisa, you couldn't think to tell me.
34:05What should I have said?
34:08No claim on you.
34:09We barely knew each other.
34:12I saw myself for what I was.
34:14A diversion.
34:17I loved you.
34:18You desired me as I desired you.
34:21And what we had was brief and careless.
34:25And could never have come to anything.
34:30You should have looked for me.
34:32After Venice.
34:33You knew my family.
34:34You knew my name.
34:34I did look for you.
34:36When I knew I was with child.
34:38I 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.
34:54I took in mending, embroidery, anything I could to provide for my child.
35:00Children, as it turned out.
35:02But if you told me.
35:03Then what?
35:05You had a wife, a stepchild, a family name.
35:07Is that supposed to be your guilty secret?
35:12Better to find my own means to provide for my children.
35:17Our children.
35:21Our children.
35:25They can never know.
35:29Please don't make this difficult.
35:30Our lives need not be thrown into disarray simply because we happen to meet again.
35:45As you wish.
35:49But first I'd like to see the children again.
35:53Don't do this.
35:56Please let me see them, Louisa.
35:57Please.
36:13Children, come here.
36:18And it is certain the children are his?
36:23Beyond doubt.
36:27And he doesn't know.
36:29Does anyone?
36:30Nor must they.
36:32James and Soames especially.
36:34Indeed.
36:35How trustworthy is this girl?
36:37Could she threaten to expose him?
36:38I don't believe she will.
36:40She's posing as a widow.
36:42Good.
36:42And a respectable dressmaker.
36:45So we are confident the matter will go no further?
36:49We are.
36:50Come.
36:58Come.
37:00This is a friend of mine.
37:10Hello.
37:13I'm Joe.
37:14How funny.
37:15So am I.
37:18But everyone calls me Joss.
37:22May I call you Joss?
37:29I'm Holly.
37:31I know he looks older.
37:32But we're twins.
37:33It's a pleasure to meet you, Holly.
37:40Are you crying?
37:44Yes, I am crying.
37:48Are you sad?
37:50No.
37:53I'm happy.
37:57Happier than you can imagine.
37:58Sorry.
38:05I don't wish to scare you.
38:07That's the last thing I want.
38:08Please, you must leave.
38:10I have clients to you.
38:12The back door, this way.
38:21Please don't come here again.
38:28I'll see you at dinner, pa.
38:42I don't want to.
39:06I don't want to.
39:09I was told you were looking for me.
39:26I came just now from Soho.
39:29Yes?
39:31From the dressmaker, Louisa.
39:34She and I knew each other years ago.
39:36I'm aware.
39:39I've seen her myself.
39:42Then you know about...
39:43The children.
39:44Yes.
39:51Nothing about their existence is simple.
39:57And clearly there are consequences.
40:00Yes.
40:02The possibility of discovery.
40:06How it can be used against you.
40:09Just as we're in touching distance of everything we've worked for.
40:16We're a partnership.
40:18A family.
40:20Let's not complicate or compromise.
40:24We can put all of this behind us and go on as before.
40:26I don't think you understand.
40:30I can't go on as before.
40:33Before, I was unaware.
40:35But you're under no obligation.
40:36I can't wish away two human beings, Francis.
40:42You mean to acknowledge them?
40:44I mean not to know their existence.
40:54I mean not to know their existence.
40:55I mean not to know their existence.
40:57I mean not to know their existence.
40:59For now.
41:02Promise me.
41:04No one need know.
41:07It would be catastrophic.
41:10For you as chairman.
41:13For us as a family.
41:14For me as your wife.
41:15I promise.
41:26How could you?
41:45How could you?
42:15How could you?
42:45What did you hear?
42:55All of it.
42:56I 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.
43:13It'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.
44:23I 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.
47:09Bright house,
47:20that night.
47:21I'm just yelling.
47:23I know
47:25I know
47:25I know
47:25I know
47:27But
47:28That night
47:29I know
47:29It's
47:30I know
47:31I know
47:32The night
47:33I know
47:34I know
47:34But
47:35And I know
47:36It's
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