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2025 S00E19 Christmas Special Part2
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00:00How else can an entire building just collapse?
00:03Esther Tankev is the greatest gift we've ever had.
00:06And we can't abandon her.
00:08So I've come home to die.
00:10My last was a stillborn.
00:12No!
00:13It's her baby, left to be found.
00:16It's not safe.
00:18Give me the key.
00:30We don't get snow in the Caribbean, but nothing's ever perfect.
00:35I don't think it could be more perfect.
00:41Keys.
00:42Money.
00:44I'm afraid it really is that simple.
00:47Who let it simple?
00:50We have paid a deposit on that rental.
00:53You mistake our intentions, sir.
00:56We are a religious order.
00:58And we've come here to do good, not harm.
01:03We're doing women's work.
01:05I'm surprised it's of any interest at all to men.
01:08With guns or without.
01:10The other sister said they were doing Jesus' work.
01:13Jesus' work belongs to DEVIL!
01:17Give him the keys.
01:26He made the key.
01:27And he made the key.
01:29I will carry the keys.
01:30.
01:36Wait.
01:37Wait.
01:38Wait!
01:39Get off!
01:40Get off!
01:41Get off!
01:42Get off!
01:43Get off!
01:44Woo!
01:46Woo!
01:47Woo!
01:48Woo!
01:49Woo!
01:51Woo!
01:52Woo!
01:53Woo!
01:54Woo!
01:55It took your money, all of it.
02:03Do not be kind to me.
02:06You were at least as frightened as we were of that man.
02:09And I suspect you have been so for a great deal longer.
02:13Has he been here before, Mrs. Ma?
02:17Many times I pay him to keep my business safe.
02:21I think you need to pay someone to keep you safe from him.
02:24Mrs. Ma, what has happened here tonight is not acceptable.
02:28If we have brought trouble to your door, that is not acceptable either.
02:33And we will move on as soon as we are able.
02:40You keep holding her clothes while I check her temperature.
02:45Do you think she's opioid addicted, sister?
02:49You've more experience of that than me.
02:52It's a different type.
02:54I think she's cold and hungry.
03:01Feels the want of her mother's arms around her.
03:06Babies are not ignorant creatures.
03:08Ladies, Nurse Clifford and I were wondering, since everything's now running smoothly,
03:19whether we might be permitted to have a little seasonal gathering here at the Narcissus house?
03:24I love the idea of a seasonal gathering, but it's certainly not up to me to give permission.
03:29It would really just be ourselves, plus a few of our friends from nursing and hospital circles.
03:39Will there be popular music playing, and will there be dancing, and the presence of young men?
03:46Well, Cyril will be coming, and we thought we'd invite Harry Chopra and Timothy.
03:53I consider myself persuaded.
03:56Life is short.
03:59And Christmas, as we are so frequently reminded, comes but once a year.
04:06Morning.
04:07I'm looking for Queenie.
04:08Queenie, I know it's hard to talk about what went wrong with the baby that you lost, but not talking might make it harder in a different way.
04:26I think this window lean is dried.
04:31If you pass me a rag, I can get ahead with it.
04:42They said I wasn't deceived.
04:47Even though I heard it cry.
04:49Queenie, if you heard your baby cry, it wasn't stillborn.
04:54It was a girl.
04:57They told me that.
05:00I said I wanted her baptized.
05:03But they said that the priest came too late.
05:07If you don't feel like eating, then you must try and keep up your liquids.
05:14Soup would be particularly good.
05:16Soup?
05:17I never cared much for soup.
05:19When I was a child, soup was a sign that ends were not meeting.
05:23But now soup was a sign that I am meeting my end.
05:30You don't have to joke about this, Mr. Fisher.
05:33Not unless you want to.
05:35Nothing really matters now but your comfort.
05:38And there are things we can do with regard to that.
05:41Even though there are things that we can't change.
05:44Isn't that right, Nurse?
05:46That's absolutely right.
05:48What would you most like to happen over the next few weeks, Mr. Fisher?
05:53I came here because I wanted to come home.
05:56But I failed to allow the fact that home is where your family are.
06:00Or were.
06:02Mine are all gone, so...
06:05Ghosts are good companions for the heart.
06:09But they're not company.
06:14Are you saying you don't want to be alone?
06:15I asked the midwife what happened to the baby.
06:29All she would say was she had the biggest eyes.
06:32And she said biggest like it was a compliment.
06:37She was kindly.
06:40Two other nurses came in and washed me.
06:43Touring.
06:44And I was dirty.
06:46I heard one of them say that my baby had no head.
06:57I knew they were lying because the kindly midwife said that she had the biggest eyes.
07:05I wish I could tell you what happened to your daughter.
07:08But I can tell you the truth.
07:12That she was loved.
07:16Loving's not the same as being baptized, though, is it?
07:19I believe it's very similar.
07:33More hot water.
07:35Now you have to give her name.
07:38Chinese and English.
07:39What your name?
07:41I'm afraid it's not very with it.
07:43It's Phyllis.
07:44It is too hot to say.
07:46We sisters all have two names, too.
07:49The one we were born with.
07:51And the one we took when we gave our lives to Jesus.
07:54What yours?
07:55Pamela.
07:56Semi-classical with rather a nice ring to it.
07:59Sister Julienne was baptized Louise.
08:05I know two bar girls called Louise.
08:08You a born name?
08:10Beryl.
08:11Beryl Burroughs.
08:12Although the surname isn't relevant.
08:14Beryl's a precious stone, isn't it?
08:17And we can't say this one isn't a little gem.
08:20Beryl.
08:21It is.
08:22Beryl.
08:23It is.
08:24Beryl.
08:25It is.
08:30Dr. Turner's surgery?
08:31Oh, Miss Higgins.
08:32I've been offered half a dozen shifts on male surgical.
08:35At St. Cuthbert's?
08:36Yes.
08:37I'll be supernumerary, but it's under Mr. Borelli.
08:40Mr. Borelli is held in the very highest regard.
08:44Oh, I assume, however, that if you take up this chance,
08:48it may threaten the stability and security of the children's routine.
08:51It could be devastating.
08:56Queenie's had no complications at all in this pregnancy.
08:59Apart from mild anemia.
09:01Despite her age and despite the fact that it's her ninth.
09:05But she is desperately anxious.
09:08Well, does she think the same disaster might be visited again?
09:11How can I tell her it won't?
09:13If I don't know what happened either.
09:19Oh!
09:21That's clever.
09:22It is a better use for this contraption
09:24than the plucking up and putting on of shoes,
09:27which is supposedly its purpose.
09:30Sister Annika Jo,
09:32I wondered if I might ask for your help.
09:41It's good.
09:42Certainly stable.
09:44You're doing well, lass.
09:46What is lass?
09:47Oh, it means girl.
09:49It's what we call a term of endearment.
09:53It's a way of being kind.
09:55My mother used to say le le.
09:59Where is your mother, Yu Chan?
10:01In our village.
10:02In Guangdong.
10:03If she's still alive.
10:04Could you write to her?
10:05A letter?
10:06She does not know how to read.
10:08I do not know what to say.
10:10I do not know what to say.
10:19Come on, come here.
10:20I have a baby.
10:21know what to say I come here I have a baby we need you to stay well and happy
10:37until this baby comes I'll be your mother until then
10:51Hibiscus Street isn't part of my division but it's notorious even within Kowloon there are
10:59four branches of triad active in Hong Kong and they run everything gambling prostitution drugs
11:06the whole nine yards which is why our work there is so essential the old clinic came under a branch
11:12run by a crook who calls himself the cormorant the cormorant he's a Liverpool Chinese born there
11:19deported here during the war never went back and why should he he's made a decent living over here
11:24runs a nightclub called the Crimson Lantern and other rackets how comes you know all this but
11:30crime's still running rampant knowing what triad are doing doesn't mean we can stop them we don't
11:36want to put you in a difficult position Derek but the sisters need advice my advice is they should
11:43look for premises outside the cormorant area they've done something to offend him and he won't let
11:49let it go
11:56oh Esther
12:16oh where did you appear from I've seen entrances on stage like that but generally they involve a
12:31a trap door the landlord provided the key and the district nurse hung it on a string inside the
12:38letterbox what year were you born 1897 then you cannot be the child I delivered in this chamber
12:49I did not arrive in Poplar until 1903 my brother Sammy he was born in 1903 and the others came after
12:59then you must be the child with the large round eyes that sat on the bed and watched as I bathe
13:10this infant sibling you had a remarkable gaze even then yes I remember that and I hope I remember you
13:21I am most grateful for your assistance good day
13:26Harry yes auntie miss Higgins thank you just while we're in the surgery now take dr. Watkins her coffee
13:36then I need you to go to the records office for me
13:43alright
13:47and that was our kindly supporter at the British army base informing us that sister prudence also tested positive for tuberculosis
13:56and so have two of the children
13:59this is a really vicious strain thank goodness we've all been vaccinated
14:03we will have to get them transferred to the sanatorium and fumigate their room as well as sister Edith's
14:09Patrick there's something you need to see
14:12you need to see
14:14hello Teddy dear
14:24Teddy whatever happened to the Christmas tree
14:27Petula knocked it down
14:29where are the girls?
14:31in their bedroom
14:33playing with nail varnish
14:35nail varnish
14:36Angela and May Turner
14:39hello Miss Higgins
14:44I have brought savory mince and a peach blemange
14:47you will come and eat it
14:49after which
14:51we will re-elect the Christmas tree
14:53erase all evidence of these manicures
14:57and discuss a plan for the remainder of your parents absence
15:02there are photographs and letters in this bag that we sent to Esther from England
15:08there are also what look to be her personal belongings
15:13there's a comb and lipstick and underclothes
15:16and a child's shoe
15:18Mrs. Barr
15:19Esther is a very very important person to our family
15:25this is her daughter May
15:27who is our daughter now
15:29you make good life for this girl
15:32Esther has another child now
15:35a little boy
15:37a little boy who was missing his shoe
15:42and possibly missing his mother
15:44Mrs. Ma we don't even know if they're together anymore
15:48Sister Edith no
15:49you are Sister Edith
15:50no
15:51you are Sister Edith
16:05Mrs. Forsythe
16:07the midwife who attended your little girl's birth
16:11took great care to record her birth and her death in the proper way
16:16I said she was kindly
16:18and it seems that your daughter was born with a condition called anencephaly
16:24the top of her head hadn't developed in the womb as it should have done
16:29and her brain would have been very badly affected
16:32could it have hurt her?
16:34no
16:35but I heard her crying
16:37all babies cry Queenie
16:39it's a sign of life
16:42and it's beautiful
16:45even if that life doesn't last very long
16:51was it something I did?
16:53no Queenie
16:55it wasn't
16:56I can promise you that
16:58all I want to
16:59is to hold a life child in my arms
17:02and to tell her that it's mine
17:12the child's name is Christopher
17:14she will protect him with her life
17:17his father wants to take him from her
17:21and his father is a criminal
17:23a gangster?
17:24of the worst kind
17:26he has offspring by numerous women
17:31but Christopher is his only son
17:36what has Esther done to make him turn on her like this?
17:40every time she conceived she came to us
17:43aghast that this had happened again
17:46but all she ever wanted was love
17:51it happens the world over
17:53I've seen it time and time again
17:55I've seen it time and time again
17:56no
17:57you have not seen a man like this
18:01they call him the Cormorant
18:05he has ordered her and her child to be hunted down like dogs
18:10at one point
18:12we persuaded Mrs. Ma to hide her
18:14but Sister Edith it's as though they have both vanished
18:19there is one place
18:23she thought that no one could ever find her
18:26will you tell me where it is?
18:28I must
18:30for when I die the waters will close over her
18:34what does that say?
18:39I think those two pictograms together mean for auction
18:43we won't be going down that route
18:45we won't be going down the rental route or the purchase route either sister
18:49I'm going to have taken every penny you possess
18:51we're quite accustomed to poverty
18:53yes we gave up money when we gave up men
18:56what about this one?
18:58it says dancing girls
19:00you've dropped off property and drifted into nightclubs
19:03please
19:05well I can read this one
19:06it says police
19:08huh
19:10found one! found one!
19:11we've got no apartment number no floor number
19:30we just have to keep on going
19:33keep on looking
19:35how can she even survive like this?
19:41I want to find her
19:50I just don't want to find her here
20:09Esther?
20:12Esther?
20:15Esther?
20:17can we talk to you?
20:19I have Mrs. Turner with me
20:21hello you
20:27you must be Christopher
20:29I'll be waiting to meet you
20:31hello you
20:36you must be Christopher
20:42I'll be waiting to meet you
20:43I'm waiting to meet you
20:50do keep forgetting that it's advert
20:51yes
20:52and it's not even the absence of cold that I marvel at
20:55it's the absence of the absolute erasure of weariness
20:59do you feel it too?
21:00I've never felt such energy in years
21:03you have to let us get you out of here
21:04to somewhere where you can be nursed and given food and shelter
21:10I don't go out
21:12I stay here
21:13I always stay here
21:16the altar in the corner is beautiful Esther
21:19I pray always for you
21:21and for the souls of my parents
21:24they had no sons
21:25Christopher's father wants him very much doesn't he?
21:29he will give him a wicked life
21:31make his child a criminal
21:36sisters I don't doubt your sincerity
21:39and I do accept that you and your associates
21:42have been targeted by local undesirables
21:45triad
21:47let's call a spade a spade shall we
21:49we have been targeted by triad
21:51the Order of St Raymond and Artists
21:53have given shelter to abandoned babies
21:55provided medicine and alternative employment
21:57to street girls
21:59and persuaded addicts
22:01to turn their backs on heroin
22:03that according to Mrs Ma is our crime
22:06a young man enslaved to drugs
22:09is at the mercy of his masters
22:11he will do whatever he is asked to do
22:14in exchange for the one thing
22:16that will give his body peace
22:18but if he is freed from addiction
22:20if he finds there is a better way to live
22:22he will turn his back on crime itself
22:25they become free men
22:27and sometimes police informants
22:31I'm not going to deny that
22:33then you cannot deny the fact
22:35that we are doing you a service
22:37and in so doing
22:39warrants your protection
22:41and how do you propose that we provide that?
22:44properties vacant
22:45third column across
22:46fourth paragraph down
22:48this
22:50was an annex of the old training school
22:52no longer in use
22:53standing empty
22:55and crucially
22:57still in police possession
22:59I can't believe we are leaving them
23:02I can't believe we are leaving them
23:05we are coming back tomorrow
23:07with food
23:08they are both sick Sheila
23:10but I need to run some test on the little boy
23:13there is something very very wrong with him
23:15mind your fingers
23:26everything is under control
23:28I need tasters
23:30Joyce
23:32you can pronounce judgement on the whiskey cream punch
23:34Sears
23:36I want your opinion on the coconut frappe
23:38that's going to give my snowballs a run for their money
23:41I know it slips down like a tart stocking doesn't it
23:44sis?
23:46it's divine
23:47call me a miracle worker
23:49it's mainly condensed milk
23:50oh Geoffrey that's going to make it very calorific
23:52it's Christmas
23:53I have personally declared an amnesty on slenderizing
23:55oh
24:01Ninotta's house, midwife speaking
24:02Hi Trixie
24:03I've just been observing a bowel and anastomosis
24:05that's nice
24:06I asked you around the canteen
24:07I've drummed up a few more for the party
24:09and Miss Higgins is staying the night with the children
24:13everyone's bringing a bottle
24:19Ninotta's house, midwife speaking
24:20Nurse Haleward
24:21are you able to come to the maternity home?
24:22Queenie Forsyth has just arrived
24:29Hello Mum
24:32Busy again?
24:34I've managed to persuade Hong Kong Rotary Club
24:38to offer a modest grant to the sisters to set up a new clinic
24:42I'm trying to work out if it will stretch
24:46Chin up, sun's over the yard on
24:49Derrick, gin and tonic
24:50Madam?
24:51Thank you Grace
24:52I'm not sure
24:53I wouldn't normally imbibe when I've got the ready reckoner app
24:56Mum, please take a break
24:58Please stop doing stuff
24:59Stop doing sums
25:00It's all I can ever remember
25:02You with your head in a column of figures
25:05It's who I am Derrick
25:07I know
25:08But I'd love it not to be
25:10Just for half an hour
25:11Just while we have a drink together
25:12In the sun
25:13Shall we do something together tomorrow?
25:17Alright
25:18Alright
25:29Very good
25:30Esther
25:31I think Christopher may have a problem with his kidneys
25:48I need to take him to a hospital
25:50No
25:51No
25:52We'll stay here
25:54Will you let doctor examine you now, Esther?
25:58We can talk about Christopher after that
26:04Esther
26:06You have breast milk soaking through your clothing
26:10You don't still feed Christopher, do you?
26:12No
26:16There is no baby
26:18Not here
26:19Have you given birth to another child, Esther?
26:23If there is another baby
26:26Will you tell us where it is?
26:31I leave my daughter where she will be safe
26:36I leave her with sisters
26:37Are the step of the restaurant
26:40In a box
26:46Oh
26:48Two copies of the Pickwick papers
26:50One
26:52From the popular public library
26:56The other from mine own shelves
26:58Oh
27:00I am driven from my heart
27:02By the frivolities of youth
27:04Oh, they have fond memories
27:05Of the frivolities of youth
27:08The appreciation of such pleasures
27:11Pass me by
27:13Any regrets?
27:15That is between myself and the almighty
27:18We can take you back with us, Esther
27:27We can reunite you with your baby
27:29I cannot go back to Hibiscus Street
27:31My daughter is saved and my son's not
27:33Esther
27:34Have you had to choose one child over the other?
27:38My son's father only want him
27:40He will kill for him
27:42Is this man the cormorant
27:44Your little girl's father too?
27:46I made you life
27:48I thought he was a better one
27:50A better man
27:53I was wrong
27:54I have to make you life
27:57I have to move the night
28:01I will lie
28:02I have to cry in my soul
28:04Oh!
28:05You all have to move with an axe
28:06I can hear it
28:08I need my baby
28:09I will love
28:11I'm gonna try my daddy
28:12I'm gonna try my baby
28:14I'm gonna try my baby
28:15When do you think it's a good time to start party games?
28:22I don't think it's ever a good time to start party games.
28:25Oh, Cyril, this house is full of nooks and crannies.
28:28It's just crying out for a game of sardines.
28:41I've tucked some Marie and baby Luke up for the night on the sideboard.
28:45You're very fast asleep already.
28:51Nurse Aylward, could you listen to baby's heartbeat for me?
28:55What's wrong with his heartbeat?
28:56Nothing's wrong, Queenie. We just like to keep an eye on things.
28:59I want to go home. I'm not good here. I can't do it.
29:02You're only married, Mother of God. I can't do it.
29:04Sweetheart, this is where you need to stay as calm as you can
29:07and save as much strength as you can.
29:09You're going to be able to start pushing this baby out soon.
29:13The heartbeat's dropping and she's exhausted.
29:15We need to get out of hospital.
29:21By now to disperse as soon as you get to the landing,
29:29all of the lights will be turned off.
29:3120 minutes doesn't count as rapid transfer in my book, I'm afraid.
29:35The practice doctor is not answering her telephone
29:37and the flying squad are not available.
29:39We need an ambulance as soon as possible.
29:42I hoped I'd find you.
29:44Now this is a good part of the game.
29:54It's bedlam out there.
29:56There are three medical students in the airing cupboard.
29:58Why don't we just go to your bedsitter for a bit?
30:03This is all getting so raucous.
30:05As long as we don't do anything improper.
30:09We never do anything improper.
30:12The rules of the studio couch are very firmly established.
30:15If you haven't got the strength to push, just pant, Queenie.
30:25The ambulance is on its way.
30:28Queenie, would you like us to wake Marie?
30:30And she could come and hold your hand.
30:31No, I'd be after worrying about her.
30:34I have seven children alive and living under work.
30:37But the only one I can think about now is the one inside of me.
30:41I need to hold it in my arms.
30:47We've had half an hour of second stage contractions
30:49and there's been no descent of the head.
30:52I'm going to deliver this baby now.
30:55My forceps.
30:56But only doctors deliver my forceps.
30:58Sister, we don't have the luxury of making that distinction.
31:01This baby's heartbeat isn't picking up
31:03and if we delay, we're going to lose it.
31:10I'm not sure I know what the rules of this game are.
31:13I mean, we are sat in a cupboard with no drinks
31:15and there's no room for dancing.
31:18So we have to wait to be discovered
31:20and then the next person who discovers us has to squeeze in
31:24and the next one and the next one.
31:26Right.
31:29Found you.
31:31What do we do now?
31:36We wait, apparently.
31:41Well, to misquote Captain Oates, I'm coming in.
31:49And that may be some time.
31:50Oh, can I smell old clothes?
31:55Yes.
31:57My whole childhood's flashing before my eyes in here.
32:00I can see the jumper I wore in grammar school.
32:03Oh, I see nurse's uniforms.
32:07And a nun's habit.
32:09Ow.
32:11Sweetie, I know you're tired.
32:12But three women are stronger than one on her own.
32:15We're going to work together to get this baby out and in your arms.
32:22Together.
32:23Queenie, do you hear that?
32:24We're all going to join forces.
32:25Will you tell me when you can see his head?
32:37Geoffrey Franklin, Timothy Turner, Harry Chopra.
32:40What are you doing in my bedroom?
32:42Good things come to those who wait.
32:44Geoffrey!
32:45Try to bear down, Queenie.
32:47As soon as you feel the next contraction, bear down.
32:49Now.
32:55Queenie!
33:00Here.
33:11Queenie!
33:14Queenie!
33:15I can hear the oculots.
33:18Queenie!
33:19And it's out.
33:27No ambulance required.
33:37Shh!
33:42Do you hear that, Queenie?
33:44Isn't that a beautiful sound?
33:46Glory be, but I love you.
33:48You are mine.
33:51And you are complete.
33:54And you are mine.
33:57And you're crying.
33:58They didn't even tell me if you're a boy or a girl.
34:01Oh, sorry.
34:02I forgot.
34:03It's a boy.
34:18Bye.
34:31You are making a difference.
34:34And I do believe that you are.
34:36Here, listen.
34:37That must be true.
34:38Mission for you.
34:39Wait.
34:39How many old reflections?
34:43and how many dormant sympathies does Christmastime awaken.
34:47Year after year, we met on that day a merry and joyous circle.
34:53Many of the hearts that throbbed so gaily then have ceased...
35:01...have ceased to beat.
35:04Many of the looks that shone so brightly then have ceased to glow.
35:13The hands we grasped have grown cold.
35:23The eyes we sought have hid their lustre in the grave.
35:26And yet the old house, the room, the merry voices and smiling faces...
35:31...the jest, the laugh, crowed upon our mind at each recurrence of the season...
35:35...as if the last assemblage had been but yesterday.
35:39A happy, happy Christmas that can win us back to the delusions of our childish days.
35:47That said, I'm Jewish, says to Monica Joan.
35:53Well, that does not prevent us from being companions in nostalgia.
35:57Christmas is but one instance of a glimmer into the darkness.
36:01Yes. We have our Feast of Lights too.
36:07We are also going to be...
36:09...cough.
36:10It falls...
36:11...on the same day as Christmas this year.
36:15Joyce, I'm dressed as a nurse.
36:40If it's any consolation, you weren't the only one.
36:44Is there anything else I need to know?
36:53It's all right, Tony.
36:55I think we're safe.
37:14If that unholy racket you're making is supposed to be my punishment, I accept it.
37:31As long as it's followed by strong black coffee.
37:34Oh, you'll get coffee.
37:36And it will be accompanied by a dustpan, a brush and a pair of rubbered loves.
37:40I suppose we ought to roll up our sleeves.
37:42We?
37:43We?
37:44Geoffrey, I have been up all night delivering a baby.
37:48And I've been wielding a bucket for this poor lamb.
37:51Florence Nightingale's got nothing on me.
37:53Good morning, Rosalyn.
37:58Or should I say, Nurse Clifford?
38:00I'm sorry.
38:01I stayed the night at Cyril's.
38:03Morning orders will take place in three minutes.
38:06Oh.
38:07Oh.
38:08In Art's house, charlady speaking.
38:12Has no one observed that I did not sleep in my accustomed bed last night?
38:16Sister Monica June, this morning that is scarcely cause for comment.
38:19Our charge, Mr. Fisher, fell into a decline before midnight.
38:24I assisted him to his bed, then deemed it inexpedient to leave him.
38:34Oh, good morning, Harry.
38:36The cloud of cologne on which you enter does nothing to reassure me.
38:39Would you like a cup of coffee, Harry?
38:41Merry Christmas.
38:52And thank you very much to all concerned.
39:11a dangerous thing about your chest.
39:12I love your,.
39:13I should really describe my chest every day as you roll out.
39:16I'll tell you.
39:17Do not mind.
39:18You're having a passion every day.
39:19I think I would have to let myselfby prove it to my chest.
39:23You're probably worth it.
39:24Let me know.
39:25You mean you don't a grabbing Ralphie's or you wouldn't관 Center?
39:27Moon?
39:28I'm gonna hate my chest every day.
39:30And you're afraid of him.
39:32Maybe Nothing else, moves you like him.
39:33If he's gonna just lay for it.
39:36Don't you hardship you for something,
39:38surprisingly?
39:39I was afraid both Christopher and his mother would test positive for TB, but I was wrong.
39:48They're clean.
39:49You weren't wrong about this, though. Unilateral renal mass.
39:52Right-hand side.
39:54There isn't a scrap of fat on him. I could feel it on palpation.
40:00Soft tissue x-ray can be quite equivocal.
40:03Nothing equivocal about this, though.
40:06Wilms tumor.
40:07Haven't seen a Wilms in general practice for nearly a decade, but...
40:11Yes, cancer of the kidney.
40:14And he's two years old.
40:16There was nothing here for him. I know that.
40:21But...
40:21Nine months ago, we did have a Remy sergeant whose daughter had it.
40:25We got the family sent back to the UK on compassionate grounds.
40:28Did they lose her?
40:29Far from it.
40:30There's a new chemotherapy being trialled at one of the London hospitals.
40:34Brutal, but spectacular.
40:37Is it working?
40:39Yes.
40:39I had a penny.
40:44A bright new penny.
40:46I took my penny to the market square.
40:49I wanted a rabbit.
40:53A little brown rabbit.
40:55And I looked for a rabbit most everywhere.
40:58For I went to the store with a salt, sweet lavender.
41:03Only a penny for a bunch of lavender.
41:07Have you got a rabbit?
41:09Because I don't want lavender.
41:11They...
41:12They didn't have a rabbit.
41:16They didn't have rabbit.
41:17Not anywhere there.
41:20You must be baby Beryl's mummy.
41:24Esther would like to feed Beryl.
41:26Sister, do you think she's hungry?
41:27Well, well, certainly she is a peckish little thing.
41:31I can remember lying in bed and seeing exactly this view.
41:54The snow and the snow falling.
41:59There were four of us under the Eiderdown.
42:02David, Sammy, Isaac and me.
42:07I have often pondered what it must be like to share a bed with others.
42:14It's more.
42:20Knock, knock.
42:22Oh, it's not a comp plan of yours again, is it?
42:25No matter how often you gussy it up with this paper umbrellas of yours,
42:30I'm still bored of it.
42:31It's actually a whiskey cream punch.
42:34A recipe that proves so efficacious at our Christmas party.
42:36See, I'm thinking of applying for a patent.
42:39Oh, is it?
42:40Is it?
42:43Is it the 22nd today?
42:46It's the 21st, Mr. Fisher.
42:49Oh.
42:51Then it's tomorrow.
42:53What's tomorrow, old chap?
42:55The first night of Hanukkah.
42:56Feast of lights.
43:03Would you like me to find a rabbi for you, Mr. Fisher?
43:08It wouldn't hurt.
43:09Can you just take a kitty halfway round the world, Doc?
43:18If he needs life-saving medical treatment, and his mother gives permission, yes.
43:23But you don't have to adopt him?
43:25No, thank God.
43:27It took us years to adopt me.
43:29Christopher won't have years.
43:31He may not even have months if we don't act fast.
43:33It's good of the army to donate stuff.
43:36I just hadn't reckoned on there being so much of it.
43:38We need a taxi.
43:43We're in luck.
43:44Hibiscus House, 79 Elgin Gardens, please.
43:54Blimey.
44:00You know, Mum, you've done great things.
44:02Here?
44:03In Hong Kong?
44:04Well, here and at home.
44:06I've only heard about you being mayor in Tower Hamlets.
44:09But now I've seen you being someone, doing something in a city I can barely get to grips with.
44:14All I've done is raise a bit of money, and got people who can help talking to people who need help.
44:21It's what I do.
44:22Perhaps because it's all I can do.
44:24Well, that's not nothing.
44:27I'm sorry.
44:28I needed evidence before I could respect you for it.
44:31There's no need to be sorry for anything, ever.
44:35You're my son.
44:38Hello, Grace, dear.
44:42Do you need something?
44:44Mr. Fred and the doctor are in trouble.
44:46What sort of trouble?
44:47Worse than trouble.
44:48They're in danger.
44:49Please, don't ask me how I know this.
44:51If you don't tell me, I can't act on the information.
44:55My husband works for the comrade.
44:57I hear talking on the phone.
44:59You're not taking my son to England.
45:26If we don't, he will die.
45:29You don't know that?
45:31You've given me no proof of that?
45:34Or any proof that you're even a doctor?
45:37I can assure you, his credentials are totally bona fide.
45:41I'm Eva Lascausa.
45:42What school did you go to?
45:45Liverpool Institute.
45:46My father had an ironmunker shop in Cornwallis Street.
45:52I probably walked right past it.
45:56When war broke out, they took me to a ship to be deported.
46:01I had an English wife I never saw again.
46:03Sometimes you lose people.
46:07Sometimes they're stolen.
46:09Or you are.
46:12Are you a gambling man, Dr. Tanner?
46:15No.
46:16I am.
46:17If you want my son, you have to play me for them.
46:22How about Margell?
46:25Four cards?
46:26Poker?
46:27Jameer de Fer?
46:29Blackjack?
46:29No choose.
46:31No choose.
46:41Baruch atah Adonai,
46:46Eloheinu melech haolam,
46:50Asher kitchanu v'mitzvotav,
46:54V'tzivanu lahad l'knev shel chanukah.
47:03Amen.
47:04Amen.
47:18Is he allowed to choose a deputy?
47:20I could play on his behalf.
47:21I don't think that would help, Fred.
47:25You can play as many games as you want.
47:28With cards, with words.
47:32With me.
47:33But if Christopher's life is lost,
47:35who will pray for him at your altar?
47:39Who will pray for you?
47:41Who will carry on your family line?
47:43You could have all of those things.
47:49I can find a Chinese doctor for him.
47:53I could be the one that saves his life.
47:55Or you could just have your pride.
47:58It doesn't matter who saves his life.
48:01As long as it's saved.
48:04And if it is saved,
48:05I guarantee
48:07I will send him back to you.
48:15Let's continue this conversation elsewhere, shall we?
48:19No.
48:20Doctor.
48:22Take the kiss.
48:23Tell him to give him a chance.
48:39Let him breathe as nature intended him to breathe.
48:43There is no consolation for him now,
48:50in artificial air.
48:58That's her, old chap.
48:59It will take time to rebuild.
49:29But the foundations have been laid.
49:33Are you happy to be staying on?
49:36Yes.
49:37Because I don't doubt our purpose here.
49:42Are you happy to be going home?
49:44Yes.
49:46Because I'm more convinced than ever
49:47that our work is vital,
49:49wherever we are called.
49:51Where do you imagine we'll be called next?
49:53I don't imagine.
49:55But I will go and do whatever I am asked.
50:02Things are ticking along like clockwork, Doctor.
50:05Well done, Yuchan.
50:07Pre-eclampsia isn't easy,
50:08but you did everything you were told.
50:11Do you lie down?
50:11There's no hard work.
50:13Good lass.
50:15Good lass.
50:16I'm glad this baby's arriving before we leave.
50:23But if it's the first baby born in a new brunch house,
50:26it seems to me it should be brought into the world
50:29by one of the sisters.
50:30Yes.
50:32Yes.
50:33It should.
50:44Oh.
50:46I'm keeping people waiting.
50:50They're all just as they were.
50:52When they were here.
51:00When we were all alone.
51:02Oh.
51:02A little girl you take.
51:28Congratulations.
51:28You have been my mother.
51:47Now I'm house.
51:48I give a name that always bring your best to me.
51:54We all agreed that Phyllis was too hard to say.
51:57No, Phyllis.
51:59Lass.
52:00Lass is easy to say.
52:02I'm happy to remember.
52:04I have seen death before.
52:11It is terrible.
52:13And it can be beautiful.
52:16I think today it was that.
52:18I have seen lovers come to fetch the dying.
52:22I have seen mothers come.
52:24But I have known no lover.
52:28I have born no child.
52:31And my parents spurned me.
52:35I have asked myself more often of late than in years gone by.
52:40Who will come for me when my time on earth concludes?
52:47Your sisters will come for you.
52:50Those you knew in life.
52:52Those who coached you through the novitiate.
52:56Those who knelt beside you in prayer.
52:58And by the beds of everyone you served.
53:03So many sisters will come.
53:06God can't have you yet, sister.
53:09We can't spare you.
53:15We should perhaps turn our attention for the return of those we love.
53:23The Hong Kong party.
53:25Let us light, light for the living and marvel at them while we may.
53:43Christopher, you're going to give your mummy a kiss.
53:50Please, give him all.
53:55I have a coat to put on him, as well as this card again.
53:59It used to belong to his sister.
54:02I like that.
54:09Bring in wops.
54:17Make sure you're smiling.
54:18No.
54:19Smile!
54:19Smile!
54:21Quick, quick, quick, quick!
54:25The little boy will get better.
54:35We're in here.
54:37His every chance will get better.
54:39Till then we just have to take care of him.
54:41And be his family.
54:43Oh, they're here!
54:45Dad!
54:46Oh, miss you!
54:49Oh, Miss Havens, haven't they managed well?
54:53And this is Christopher.
54:55He looks so sweet.
54:57Baby Christopher!
54:59Aw!
55:00Isn't he small?
55:02His hair feels like mine.
55:07Christopher!
55:08Couldn't be something dying to see your face.
55:15Christmas can start now, can't it?
55:17Yes, it can.
55:18Because I'm a tea and you're home.
55:21Oh, my goodness.
55:23Does Christmas come at the end of the year?
55:47Or does it provide its turning point?
55:51Is it the moment where we close the door on all that has passed in the months that have
55:58preceded it?
55:59Or is it the time where we open our arms and say, come, we are ready.
56:05We will embrace it all.
56:07Christmas begins with a baby.
56:10Therefore, Christmas is all that is unknown.
56:14All we must cherish.
56:16And all we must shield from the winds of fortune like a candle flame.
56:21And all we must treat them in the past.
56:26We will embrace it all.
56:38We will embrace it all.
56:39Christmas again.
56:42Come on.
56:45Bye.
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