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S 14 2025 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.
01:26Yes.
01:28Yes!
01:29We're doing the wake of Chicken allá!
01:31We never trying to lose a death pass up!
01:36Wait, wait, wait!
01:37Hello!
01:42We're doing糸!
01:44He had to love heaven!
01:46We have toêtise and circle it will!
01:49Kidnap любим!
01:50I 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. Mahal?
02:15Many 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. Mahal, 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 of crime.
02:57I think she's cold and hungry.
03:01Feels the want of her mother's arms around her.
03:06Babies are not ignorant creatures.
03:07Ladies, 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 Nanata's 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.
03:40Will there be popular music playing, and will there be dancing, and the presence of young men?
03:47Well, Cyril will be coming, and we thought we'd invite Harry Chopra and Timothy.
03:53I consider myself persuaded.
03:58Life is short.
04:01And Christmas, as we are so frequently reminded, comes but once a year.
04:09Morning. I'm looking for Queenie.
04:13Queenie, I know it's hard to talk about what went wrong with the baby that you lost.
04:19But not talking might make it harder.
04:25In a different way.
04:30I think this window lean is dried.
04:32If you pass me a rag, I can get ahead with it.
04:43They said I wasn't deceived.
04:47Even though I heard it cry.
04:50Queenie, if you heard your baby cry, it wasn't stillborn.
04:55It was a girl.
04:58They told me that.
05:00I said I wanted her baptized.
05:04But they said that the priest came too late.
05:11If you don't feel like eating, then you must try and keep up your liquids.
05:15Soup would be particularly good.
05:17Soup?
05:17I never cared much for soup.
05:20When I was a child, soup was a sign that ends were not meeting.
05:24But now, soup is 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, even though there are things that we can't change.
05:44Isn't that right, nurse?
05:45Isn't that right, nurse?
05:46That's absolutely right.
05:49What would you most like to happen over the next few weeks, Mr. Fisher?
05:53I came here because I wanted to come home, but I failed to allow the fact that home is where your family are, or were.
06:04Mine are all gone, so...
06:06Ghosts are good companions for the heart.
06:10Ghosts are not company.
06:14Are you saying you don't want to be alone?
06:25I asked the midwife what happened to the baby.
06:28All she would say was she had the biggest eyes.
06:33And she said biggest, like it was a compliment.
06:37She was kindly.
06:40Two other nurses came in and watched me.
06:44Touring.
06:45I was dirty.
06:47I heard one of them say that my baby had no head.
06:52But they 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.
07:09But I can tell you the truth.
07:13That she was loved.
07:16Loving's not the same as being baptized, though, is it?
07:20I believe it's very similar.
07:22More hot water.
07:36Now you have to give her name.
07:38Chinese and English.
07:40What's your name?
07:42I'm afraid it's not very with it.
07:44It's Phyllis.
07:45It is too hard to say.
07:48We sisters all have two names, too.
07:50The one we were born with, and the one we took when we gave our lives to Jesus.
07:54What yours?
07:56Pamela.
07:57Semi-classical, with rather a nice ring to it.
08:00Hmm.
08:00Sister Julienne was baptized Louise.
08:06I know two bargirls called Louise.
08:10You a bon name?
08:11Uh, Beryl.
08:12Beryl Burroughs.
08:14Although the surname isn't relevant.
08:16Beryl's a precious stone, isn't it?
08:19And we can't say this one isn't a little gem.
08:23Beryl, it is.
08:24Dr. Turner's surgery.
08:32Oh, Miss Higgins.
08:33I've been offered half a dozen shifts on male surgical.
08:36At St. Cuthbert's?
08:37Uh, yes.
08:38I'll be supernumerary, but it's under Mr. Beryl.
08:40Oh, Mr. Beryl is held in the very highest regard.
08:46Oh, 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,
09:00apart from mild anemia, despite her age,
09:03and despite the fact that it's her ninth.
09:05But she is desperately anxious.
09:09Well, does she think the same disaster might be visited again?
09:12How can I tell her it won't,
09:14if I don't know what happened either?
09:16Oh, that's clever.
09:22It is a better use for this contraption
09:25than the plucking up and putting on of shoes,
09:27which is supposedly its purpose.
09:31Sister Annika Jo,
09:32I wondered if I might ask for your help.
09:35It's good.
09:42It's certainly stable.
09:45You're doing well, lass.
09:46What is lass?
09:48Oh, it means girl.
09:51It's what we call a term of endearment.
09:54It's a way of being kind.
09:56My mother used to say leu leu.
10:00Where is your mother, Yu-chan?
10:02In our village in Guangdong.
10:06If she's still alive.
10:10Could you write to her a letter?
10:15She does not know how to read.
10:20I don't know what to say.
10:22Come on, come here.
10:28I have a baby.
10:32We need you to stay well and happy
10:36until this baby comes.
10:42I'll be your mother until then.
10:46No.
10:47Hibiscus Street isn't part of my division,
10:56but it's notorious, even within Kowloon.
10:59There are four branches of Triad active in Hong Kong,
11:02and they run everything.
11:04Gambling, prostitution, drugs, the whole nine yards.
11:07Which is why our work there is so essential.
11:10The old clinic came under a branch run by a crook
11:13who calls himself the Cormorant.
11:15The Cormorant?
11:16He's a Liverpool Chinese.
11:18Born there and deported here during the war.
11:21Never went back.
11:22And why should he?
11:23He's made a decent living over here.
11:25Runs a nightclub called the Crimson Lantern
11:27and other rackets.
11:28How come you know all this,
11:30but crime's still running rampant?
11:32Knowing what Triad are doing
11:34doesn't mean we can stop them.
11:35We don't want to put you in a difficult position, Derek,
11:38but the sisters need advice.
11:41My advice
11:42is they should look for premises
11:44outside the Cormorant's area.
11:46They've done something to offend him,
11:48and he won't let it go.
11:49Oh, Esther.
12:12Oh, where did you appear from?
12:26I've seen entrances on stage like that,
12:30but generally they involve a trap door.
12:33The landlord provided the key
12:35and the district nurse hung it on a string
12:37inside the letterbox.
12:40What year were you born?
12:431897.
12:45Then you cannot be the child I delivered in this chamber.
12:49I did not arrive in Poplar until 1903.
12:53My brother, Sammy,
12:55he was born in 1903,
12:58and the others came after him.
13:00Then
13:01you must be the child
13:04with the large, round eyes
13:06that sat on the bed
13:08and watched as I bathed this infant sibling.
13:11You had a remarkable gaze
13:14even then.
13:16Yes, I remember that.
13:20And I hope I remember you.
13:22I am most grateful for your assistance.
13:25Good day.
13:29Harry.
13:29Yes, Auntie?
13:31Miss Higgins.
13:33Just while we're in the surgery.
13:35Now, take Dr Watkins her coffee.
13:37Then I need you
13:39to go to the records office for me.
13:44All right.
13:48And that
13:49was our kindly supporter
13:50at the British Army base
13:51informing us that
13:53Sister Prudence
13:54also tested positive
13:55for tuberculosis.
13:57And so have
13:58two of the children.
13:59This is a really vicious strain.
14:02Thank goodness
14:02we've all been vaccinated.
14:04We will have to get them
14:05transferred to the sanatorium
14:07and fumigate their room
14:08as well as Sister Edith's.
14:10Patrick.
14:11There's something you need to see.
14:15Hello, Teddy, dear.
14:24Teddy, whatever happened
14:25to the Christmas tree?
14:27Petula knocked it down.
14:29Where are the girls?
14:31In their bedroom.
14:33Playing with nail varnish.
14:34Nail varnish.
14:36Angela and May Turner.
14:42Hello, Miss Higgins.
14:44I have brought savoury mince
14:46and a peach blancmange.
14:47You will come and eat it.
14:49After which,
14:51we will re-erect
14:52the Christmas tree,
14:54erase all evidence
14:55of these manicures,
14:57and discuss a plan
14:59for the remainder
15:00of your parents' absence.
15:04There are photographs
15:06and letters in this bag
15:07that we sent to Esther
15:08from England.
15:10There are also
15:11what look to be
15:11her personal belongings.
15:13There's a comb
15:14and lipstick
15:15and underclothes
15:16and a child's shoe.
15:18Mrs. Barr,
15:20Esther is a very,
15:21very important person
15:22to our family.
15:23This is her daughter,
15:27May,
15:28who is our daughter now.
15:30You make good life
15:32for this girl.
15:33But Esther has another child now.
15:36A little boy.
15:41A little boy
15:42who was missing a shoe.
15:43And possibly missing his mother.
15:45Mrs. Barr,
15:47we don't even know
15:47if they're together anymore.
15:51Sister Edith,
15:52no.
15:53You are Sister Edith.
16:03Mrs. Forsythe,
16:07the midwife
16:09who attended
16:10your little girl's birth
16:11took great care
16:12to record her birth
16:14and her death
16:15in the proper way.
16:17I said she was kindly.
16:18And it seems
16:19that your daughter
16:20was born with a condition
16:22called anencephaly.
16:25The top of her head
16:26hadn't developed
16:28in the womb
16:28as it should have done.
16:29And her brain
16:30would have been
16:31very badly affected.
16:33Could it have hurt her?
16:34No.
16:35But I hurt her crying.
16:37All babies cry,
16:38Queenie.
16:40It's a sign of life.
16:41And it's beautiful.
16:45Even if that life
16:46doesn't last very long.
16:51Was it something I did?
16:53No, Queenie.
16:55It wasn't.
16:57I can promise you that.
16:58All I want to
16:59is to hold
17:00a life-child
17:01in my arms
17:02and to tell her
17:04that it's mine.
17:12The child's name
17:14is Christopher.
17:15She will protect him
17:16with her life.
17:19His father wants
17:19to take him from her.
17:22And his father
17:23is a criminal.
17:24A gangster?
17:25Of the worst kind.
17:27He has offspring
17:30by numerous women.
17:32But Christopher
17:33is his only son.
17:37What has Esther done
17:38to make him
17:39turn on her like this?
17:40Every time she conceived,
17:42she came to us.
17:44A gasp that this
17:45had happened again.
17:46But all she ever wanted
17:49was love.
17:52It happens the world over.
17:54I've seen it
17:55time and time again.
17:56No, you have not
17:58seen a man like this.
18:01They call him
18:02the Cormorant.
18:05He has ordered her
18:06and her child
18:07to be hunted
18:08down like dogs.
18:10At one point,
18:12we persuaded
18:13Mrs. Ma
18:14to hide her.
18:15But Sister Edith,
18:16it's as though
18:17they are both vanished.
18:20There is one place
18:22she thought
18:24that no one
18:25could ever find her.
18:26Will you tell me
18:27where it is?
18:29I must.
18:31For when I die,
18:32the waters
18:33will close over her.
18:37What does that say?
18:39I think those two
18:40pictograms together
18:41mean for auction.
18:43We won't be going
18:43down that route.
18:45We won't be going
18:45down the rental route
18:46or the poet's route
18:47either, Sister.
18:49I'm going to have taken
18:49every penny you possess.
18:51We're quite accustomed
18:52to poverty.
18:53Yes, we gave up money
18:54when we gave up men.
18:57What about this one?
18:58It says,
18:59Dancing Girls.
18:59You've dropped off property
19:01and drifted into nightclubs.
19:02So, please.
19:04I can read this one.
19:06It says,
19:07Police.
19:08Huh.
19:10That one!
19:11That one!
19:11We've got no apartment number,
19:29no floor number.
19:31We just have to keep on going.
19:33Keep on looking.
19:34How can she even survive
19:37like this?
19:48I want to find her.
19:50I just want to find her here.
20:04Lester?
20:12Lester?
20:15Lester?
20:17Can we talk to you?
20:19I have Mrs. Turner with me.
20:21I have Mrs. Turner with me.
20:34I love you.
20:40You must be Christopher.
20:43I'll be waiting to meet you.
20:50Do keep forgetting
20:51that it's advert.
20:52Yes.
20:52And it's not even
20:53the absence of cold
20:54that I marvel at.
20:55It's the absence,
20:56the absolute erasure
20:58of weariness.
20:59Do you feel it too?
21:00I've never felt
21:01such energy in years.
21:02You have to let us
21:04get you out of here.
21:06To somewhere
21:06where you can be nursed
21:08and 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
21:17is beautiful, Lester.
21:19I pray always for you
21:20and for the souls
21:22of my parents.
21:24They had no sons.
21:26Christopher's father
21:27wants him very much,
21:28doesn't he?
21:29He will give him
21:30a wicked life,
21:31make his child
21:32a criminal.
21:36Sisters,
21:37I don't doubt
21:38your sincerity
21:38and I do accept
21:40that you
21:41and your associates
21:42have been targeted
21:43by local
21:44undesirables.
21:45Triad.
21:46Let's call a spade
21:47a spade, shall we?
21:48We have been targeted
21:49by triad.
21:50The altar
21:51of St. Raymond
21:52and Artis
21:52have given shelter
21:53to abandoned babies,
21:54provided medicine
21:55and alternative employment
21:56to street girls
21:58and persuaded addicts
22:00to turn their backs
22:02on heroin.
22:03That, according to Mrs. Ma,
22:05is our crime.
22:07A young man
22:08enslaved to drugs
22:09is at the mercy
22:10of his masters.
22:11He will do whatever
22:12he is asked to do
22:13in exchange
22:14for the one thing
22:15that will give
22:16his body peace.
22:18But if he is
22:19freed from addiction,
22:20if he finds
22:20there is a better way
22:21to live,
22:22he will turn his back
22:24on crime itself.
22:25They become free men
22:27and sometimes
22:29police informants.
22:31I'm not going
22:32to deny that.
22:33Then you cannot
22:34deny the fact
22:35that we are
22:36doing you a service
22:37and in so doing
22:38warrants your protection.
22:40And how do you
22:41propose that we
22:42provide that?
22:44Properties vacant.
22:45Third column across,
22:46fourth paragraph down.
22:49This was an annex
22:51of the old training school.
22:52No longer in use,
22:53standing empty
22:54and crucially
22:56still in police
22:58possession.
23:02I can't believe
23:03we're leaving them.
23:05We are coming back
23:06tomorrow with food.
23:07They're both sick,
23:08Sheila.
23:09But I need to run
23:11some test on the
23:11little boy.
23:13There's something
23:13very, very wrong
23:14with him.
23:24Mind your fingers.
23:25Everything's under
23:26control.
23:27What?
23:28I need tasters.
23:30Joyce, you can
23:31pronounce judgment
23:32on the whiskey
23:33cream punch.
23:34Sis, I want your
23:36opinion on the
23:37coconut frappe.
23:39That's going to give
23:40my snowballs a run
23:41for their money.
23:41I know, it slips down
23:42like a tart stocking,
23:43doesn't it?
23:44Sis?
23:45It's divine.
23:46Call me a miracle
23:47worker.
23:48It's mainly
23:49condensed milk.
23:50Oh, Geoffrey,
23:50that's going to make
23:51it very calorific.
23:52It's Christmas.
23:53I have personally
23:53declared an amnesty
23:54on slenderizing.
23:55Nanata's house,
24:02midwife speaking.
24:02Hi, Trixie.
24:03I've just been
24:04observing a bowel
24:04and anastomosis.
24:05That's nice.
24:06I asked you around
24:07the canteen,
24:07I've drummed up
24:08a few more for the
24:09party, and Miss Higgins
24:10is staying the night
24:10with the children.
24:13Everyone's bringing
24:14a bottle.
24:19Nanata's house,
24:20midwife speaking.
24:21Nurse Haleward,
24:21are you able to come
24:22to the maternity
24:23home?
24:23Queenie Forsyth
24:24has just arrived.
24:25Hello, Mum.
24:32Busy again?
24:34I've managed
24:36to persuade
24:36Hong Kong Rotary
24:37Club to offer
24:38a modest grant
24:39to the sisters
24:40to set up
24:41a new clinic.
24:42I'm trying
24:43to work out
24:44if it will
24:44stretch.
24:46Chin up.
24:47Sun's over
24:47the yard on.
24:49Derek,
24:50gin and tonic.
24:51Madam?
24:51Thank you, Grace.
24:52I'm not sure.
24:53I wouldn't normally
24:54imbibe when I've
24:55got the ready
24:55reckoner out.
24:56Mum, please,
24:57take a break.
24:58Please stop doing
24:59stuff.
25:00Stop doing sums.
25:01It's all I can ever
25:01remember.
25:02You with your head
25:03in a column of figures.
25:05It's who I am,
25:06Derek.
25:07I know.
25:08But I'd love it not
25:09to be.
25:10Just for half an hour.
25:11Just while we have a
25:12drink together.
25:13In the sun.
25:13Shall we do something
25:15together tomorrow?
25:18All right.
25:29Very good.
25:30Esther, I think Christopher
25:45may have a problem
25:46with his kidneys.
25:48I need to take him
25:49to a hospital.
25:51No.
25:52We'll stay here.
25:53Will you let doctor
25:55examine you now,
25:57Esther?
25:58We can talk about
25:59Christopher after that.
26:04Esther.
26:05You have breast milk
26:07soaking through your
26:08clothing.
26:10You don't still feed
26:11Christopher, do you?
26:13No.
26:15There is no baby.
26:18Not here.
26:19Have you given birth
26:20to another child,
26:22Esther?
26:23If there is another
26:25baby, will you tell
26:27us where it is?
26:31I leave my daughter
26:32where she will be
26:33safe.
26:36I leave her with
26:37sisters at the
26:39step of the
26:39restaurant in a
26:41box.
26:45Oh.
26:47Two copies
26:48of the Pickwick
26:49papers.
26:51One from the
26:52popular public
26:53library.
26:56The other from
26:57mine own
26:57shelves.
26:58Oh.
27:00I am driven
27:01from my heart
27:02by the frivolities
27:03of youth.
27:04Oh, I have
27:05fond memories
27:05of the frivolities
27:06of youth.
27:08The appreciation
27:10of such pleasures
27:11pass me by.
27:13Any regrets?
27:15That is a bit
27:16to be myself
27:17and the
27:17almighty.
27:25We can take
27:26you back with us,
27:26Esther.
27:27We can reunite you
27:28with your baby.
27:29I cannot go back
27:30to Hibiscus Street.
27:31My daughter is
27:32saved and my son's
27:33not.
27:33Esther, have you
27:35had to choose one
27:36child over the
27:37other?
27:38My son's father
27:39only want him.
27:40He will kill
27:41for him.
27:42Is this man
27:43the cormorant
27:44your little girl's
27:45father, too?
27:46I made you
27:46alive.
27:48I thought he
27:48was a better
27:49one.
27:50A better man.
27:53I was wrong.
27:54when do you think
28:09it's a good time to start
28:22party good?
28:22I don't think it's
28:23ever a good time
28:24to start party good.
28:25Oh, so well.
28:26This house is full
28:27of nooks and crannies.
28:28It's just crying out
28:28for a game of
28:29sardines.
28:41I have Tux and Marie
28:42and Baby Luke
28:43up for the night
28:43on the sideboard.
28:45They're both fast
28:45asleep already.
28:46Nurse Aylward, could
28:52you listen to
28:53Baby's heartbeat
28:54for me?
28:55What's wrong with
28:55his heartbeat?
28:56Nothing's wrong,
28:57Queenie.
28:57We just like to
28:58keep an eye on
28:59things.
28:59I want to go
28:59home.
29:00I'm not good here.
29:01I can't do it.
29:02You're only married
29:03mother of God.
29:03I can't do it.
29:04Sweetheart, this is
29:05where you need to
29:06stay as calm as
29:06you can and save
29:08as much strength
29:08as you can.
29:09You're going to
29:09be able to start
29:10pushing this baby
29:11out soon.
29:13The heartbeat's
29:14dropping and she's
29:14exhausted.
29:15We need to get
29:15out of hospital.
29:19Darling, darling,
29:21darling, darling,
29:22darling, darling,
29:23darling, darling,
29:25darling, darling.
29:26By now, to disperse
29:27as soon as you get
29:28to the landing,
29:29all of the lights
29:29will be turned off.
29:3120 minutes doesn't
29:32count as rapid
29:33transfer in my book,
29:34I'm afraid.
29:35The practice doctor
29:36is not answering
29:36her telephone and
29:37the flying squad
29:38are not available.
29:39We need an ambulance
29:40as soon as possible.
29:42I hoped I'd find you.
29:44Now this is a good
29:51party game.
29:54It's bedlam out there.
29:56There are three
29:56medical students
29:57in the airing cupboard.
29:59Why don't we just
30:00go to your bedsitter
30:02for a bit?
30:03This is all getting
30:03so raucous.
30:05As long as we don't
30:07do anything improper.
30:08We never do
30:11anything improper.
30:12The rules of the
30:12studio capture
30:13are very firmly
30:14established.
30:16If you haven't
30:19got the strength
30:19to push,
30:20just pant, Queenie.
30:24The ambulance
30:26is on its way.
30:28Queenie,
30:29would you like us
30:29to wait Marie
30:30and she could come
30:31and hold your hand?
30:31No, I'd be
30:33after worrying about her.
30:34I have seven children
30:35alive and living
30:36underwater,
30:36but the only one
30:38I can think about
30:39now is what
30:40inside of me.
30:41I need to hold
30:43it in my arms.
30:47We've had half an hour
30:48of second stage
30:49contractions
30:49and there's been
30:50no descent of the head.
30:52I'm going to
30:53deliver this baby
30:54now.
30:55My forceps.
30:56The only doctors
30:57deliver my forceps.
30:58Sister,
30:59we don't have the
31:00luxury of making
31:00that distinction.
31:01This baby's heartbeat
31:02isn't picking up
31:03and if we delay
31:04we're going to
31:05lose it.
31:10I'm not sure
31:11I know what
31:11the rules of this
31:12game are.
31:13I mean,
31:13we are sat
31:13in a cupboard
31:14with no drinks
31:15and there's no
31:17room for dancing.
31:18So we have to
31:19wait to be
31:20discovered
31:20and then the
31:22next person
31:22who discovers
31:23us has to
31:23squeeze in
31:24and the next
31:25one and the
31:26next one.
31:26What do we
31:35do now?
31:36We wait,
31:37apparently.
31:41Well, to
31:42misquote Captain
31:43Oates, I'm
31:44coming in.
31:49And that may be
31:50some time.
31:52Oh, can I
31:54smell old clothes?
31:55Yes.
31:57My whole
31:57childhood's flashing
31:58before my eyes
31:59in here.
32:00I can see the
32:00jumper I wore
32:01in grammar
32:01school.
32:03Oh, I see
32:04nurse's uniforms
32:05and a nun's
32:08habit.
32:09Ow.
32:11Sweetie, I know
32:11you're tired,
32:12but three women
32:13are stronger than
32:14one on her own.
32:16We're going to
32:16work together
32:17to get this baby
32:18out and in your
32:19arms.
32:22Together.
32:23Queenie, do you
32:23hear that?
32:24We're all going
32:25to join forces.
32:32Will you tell
32:32me when you
32:33can see its
32:34head?
32:37Jeffrey Franklin,
32:38Timothy Turner,
32:39Harry Chopra.
32:40What are you doing
32:41in my bedroom?
32:42Good things come
32:43to those who've
32:44waited.
32:44Jeffrey!
32:45Try to bear
32:46down,
32:47Queenie.
32:47As soon as you
32:48feel the next
32:48contraction,
32:49bear down.
32:49now.
33:15I can hear the
33:16And it's out.
33:28No ambulance required.
33:33Do you hear that, Queen Eve?
33:44Isn't that a beautiful sound?
33:46I'm sorry, babe, 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.
34:16I forgot.
34:17I forgot.
34:18I forgot.
34:19I forgot.
34:20I forgot.
34:21I forgot.
34:22I forgot.
34:23I forgot.
34:24I forgot.
34:25I forgot.
34:26I forgot.
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34:29I forgot.
34:30I forgot.
34:31I forgot.
34:32I forgot.
34:33I forgot.
34:34I forgot.
34:35I forgot.
34:36I forgot.
34:37I forgot.
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34:39I forgot.
34:40I forgot.
34:41I forgot.
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34:43I forgot.
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34:48I forgot.
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34:50I forgot.
34:51I forgot.
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35:00I forgot.
35:01I forgot.
35:02I forgot.
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35:06I forgot.
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35:10I forgot.
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35:19have grown cold the eyes we sought have hid their luster in the grave and yet the
35:27old house the room the merry voices and smiling faces the jest the laugh
35:32crowed upon our mind at each recurrence of the season as if the last
35:36assemblage had been but yesterday happy happy Christmas that can win us back to
35:44the delusions of our childish days that said I'm Jewish system Monica Joan well
35:53that does not prevent us from being companions in nostalgia Christmas is but
35:58one instance of a glimmer into the darkness yes we have our feast of lights
36:06too it falls almost on the same date as Christmas this year
36:36Joyce I'm dressed as a nurse if it's any consolation you weren't the only one
36:44is there anything else I need to know
36:53it's all right I think we're safe
37:06if 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 go you'll get coffee and it
37:36will be accompanied by a dustpan a brush and a pair of rubber gloves suppose we
37:41ought to roll up our sleeves we we Jeffrey I have been up all night
37:47delivering a baby and I've been wielding a bucket for this poor lamb Florence
37:52Nightingale's got nothing on me
37:54good morning Rosalyn or should I say nurse Clifford I'm sorry I stayed the night at
38:03Cyril's morning orders will take place in three minutes
38:06no nurse's house charlady speaking has no one observed that I did not sleep in my
38:15accustomed bed last night sister Monica Joan this morning that is scarcely cause for
38:19comment our charge mr. Fisher fell into a decline before midnight I assisted him
38:26to his bed then deemed it inexpedient to leave him oh good morning Harry the
38:37cloud of cologne on which you enter does nothing to reassure me would you like a
38:40cup of coffee Harry
38:50Merry Christmas and thank you very much to all concerned
39:10you
39:23you
39:25you
39:27you
39:29you
39:31I was afraid both Christopher and his mother would test positive for TB but I
39:47was wrong they're clean you weren't wrong about this though unilateral renal mass
39:52right-hand side there isn't a scrap of fat on it I could feel it on palpation soft
40:00tissue x-ray can be quite equivocal nothing equivocal about this though Wilms tumor
40:07haven't seen a Wilms in general practice for nearly a decade but yes cancer of the
40:13kidney and he's two years old there was nothing here for him I know that but nine
40:22months ago we did have a remi sergeant whose daughter had it we got the family sent back to
40:26the UK on compassionate grounds did they lose him far from it there's a new chemotherapy being
40:32trialled at one of the London hospitals brutal spectacular is it working yes I had a penny right
40:45new penny I took my penny to the market square I wanted
40:51a rabbit a little brown rabbit and I looked for a rabbit most everywhere for I went to the store
41:00with a sold sweet lavender only a penny for a bunch of lavender have you got a rabbit because I don't want
41:10lavender they didn't have rabbit not anywhere there you must be baby Beryl's mommy Esther would like to feed
41:25Beryl sister do you think she's hungry well certainly she is a peckish little thing
41:31I can remember lying in bed and seeing exactly this view and the snow falling there were four of us under the eidodon
42:01doing it semi with Isaac and me I have often pondered what it must be like to share a bed with others
42:13it's more
42:15knock knock oh it's not a com plan of yours again is it no matter how often you gussy it up and there's paper umbrellas
42:29but how often you can get a piece of yours I'm still bored of this it's actually a whiskey cream punch a recipe that proves so efficacious at our Christmas party
42:36I'm thinking of applying for a patent
42:38oh is it is it the 22nd today
42:44it's the 21st Mr. Fisher
42:46oh
42:51then it's tomorrow
42:53What's tomorrow, old chap?
42:55The first night of Chanukah.
42:59The Feast of Lights.
43:03Would you like me to find a rabbi for you, Mr. Fisher?
43:08It wouldn't hurt.
43:15Can you just take a kitty halfway round the world, dog?
43:18If he needs life-saving medical treatment,
43:20and 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.
43:34It'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.
43:49Hibiscus House, 79 Elgin Gardens, please.
43:54Blimey.
43:59You know, Mum, you've done great things.
44:02Here? In 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,
44:11doing something in a city I can barely get to grips with.
44:14All I've done is raise a bit of money
44:16and got people who can help talking to people who need help.
44:20It's what I do.
44:22Perhaps because it's all I can do.
44:24Well, that's not nothing.
44:26I'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.
44:40Hello, 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.
45:25You're not taking my son to England.
45:27If we don't, he will die.
45:29You don't know that?
45:30You've given me no proof of that?
45:33Or any proof that you're even a doctor?
45:36I can assure you, his credentials are totally bona fide.
45:40I'm Eva Lascausa.
45:42What school did you go to?
45:44Liverpool Institute.
45:46My father had an ironmunker's shop in Cornwaller Street.
45:50I probably walked way past it.
45:53When war broke out, they took me to a chef to be deported.
46:00I had an English wife I never saw again.
46:03Sometimes you lose people.
46:06Sometimes they're stolen.
46:08Or you are.
46:10Are you a gambling man, Dr. Tanner?
46:14No.
46:15I am.
46:17If you want my son, you have to play me for them.
46:21How about Marjol?
46:24What cards?
46:26Polka?
46:27Shemeha Defei?
46:28Blackjack?
46:29You choose.
46:31You choose.
46:42Baruch at Adonai.
46:46Eloheinu melech haolam.
46:50Asher kitshanu be mitzvotav.
46:54Ve tzivanu lahad l'knev shel cha nukah.
47:02Amen.
47:03Amen.
47:04Amen.
47:19Is he allowed to choose a deputy?
47:20I could play on his behalf.
47:21I don't think that would help, Fred.
47:23You can play as many games as you want.
47:27With cards, with words.
47:30With me.
47:31But if Christopher's life is lost, who will pray for him at your altar?
47:37Who will pray for you?
47:40Who will carry on your family line?
47:43You could have all of those things.
47:48I can find a Chinese doctor for him.
47:52I 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, I guarantee I will send him back to you.
48:16Let's continue this conversation elsewhere, shall we?
48:19No.
48:20Doctor.
48:22Take the kiss.
48:29Tell him to give him a chance.
48:39Let him breathe as nature intended him to breathe.
48:47There is no consolation for him now, in artificial air.
48:58That's her old chap.
49:01Mm-mm.
49:02Mm-mm.
49:03Mm-mm.
49:04Mm-mm.
49:05Mm-mm.
49:06Mm-mm.
49:07Mm-mm.
49:08Ah!
49:09Hey!
49:10Oh!
49:11OK.
49:13Ah!
49:15Ah!
49:16Come on.
49:18Oh, I see.
49:21Ah!
49:23Hey!
49:24Come on.
49:25Come on.
49:26It will take time to rebuild.
49:29But the foundations have been laid.
49:33Are you happy to be staying on?
49:36Yes.
49:38Because I don't doubt our purpose here.
49:42Are you happy to be going home?
49:45Yes.
49:46Because I'm more convinced than ever that our work is vital,
49:49wherever we are called.
49:50Where do you imagine we'll be called next?
49:54I don't imagine.
49:56But I will go and do whatever I am asked.
50:02Things are ticking along like clockwork, Doctor.
50:04Well done you, Chan.
50:06Pre-eclampsia isn't easy, but you did everything you were told.
50:10Do you lie down?
50:11There's no hard work.
50:13Good lass.
50:15Good lass.
50:20I'm glad this baby's arriving before we leave.
50:22But if it's the first baby born in the new branch house,
50:25it seems to me it should be brought into the world by one of the sisters.
50:31Yes.
50:33It should.
50:34Oh.
50:47I'm keeping people waiting.
50:51They're all just as they were.
50:56When they were here.
51:00When we were all at home.
51:04What's happening?
51:05What are you doing?
51:07What are you doing?
51:09What are you doing?
51:11What are you doing?
51:14What are you doing?
51:16What am I who you are doing?
51:17What are you doing?
51:18I'm talking to Rebecca.
51:20What are you doing?
51:21You have nothing to add to them.
51:24What are you doing?
51:26You are a little girl, you tiny.
51:28Congratulations.
51:29I'm crying.
51:30Look at her.
51:36Just look at her.
51:38Alas, she's gorgeous.
51:44You have been my mother.
51:46Now I'm hers.
51:49I give a name that always brings your face to me.
51:54We all agreed that Phyllis was too hard to say.
51:57No, Phyllis.
51:58Lash.
52:00Lash is easy to say.
52:02I'm happy to remember.
52:09I 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.
52:30And my parents spurned me.
52:34I have asked myself more often of late than in years gone by.
52:42Who will come for me when my time on earth concludes?
52:46Your sisters will come for you.
52:50Those you knew in life.
52:52Those who coached you through the novitiate.
52:55Those who knelt beside you in prayer.
52:59And by the beds of everyone you served.
53:02So 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.
53:26Let us light light with a living and marvel at them while we may.
53:31Christopher.
53:32You are going to give your mummy a case.
53:49Please.
53:52Give him all.
53:55I have a coat to put on him.
53:57As 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.
54:19Smile!
54:20The little boy will get better.
54:36We're in here.
54:38As every chance he'll get better.
54:40Till then we just have to take care of him.
54:42And be his family.
54:45Oh, they're here.
54:47I missed you.
54:48Oh, Miss Higgins.
54:50Haven't they managed well.
54:53And this is Christopher.
54:55He looks so sweet.
54:57Aw, baby Christopher.
54:59Aw.
55:01Isn't he small?
55:03His hair feels like mine.
55:07Christopher.
55:11Couldn't be something dying to see your face.
55:15Christmas can start now, can't it?
55:17Yes, you can.
55:18Because I make tea and you're home.
55:21Aw.
55:22Aw.
55:23Woo!
55:24Bill.
55:25Um, yeah, we're home.
55:29Oh, yeah, we're home.
55:31Oh, yeah.
55:45Does Christmas come at the end of the year?
55:47Or does it provide its turning point?
55:50Is it the moment where we close the door on all that has passed in the months that have preceded it?
55:59Or is it the time where we open our arms and say, come, we are ready, we will embrace it all.
56:08Christmas begins with a baby, therefore Christmas is all that is unknown.
56:13All we must cherish and all we must shield from the winds of fortune like a candle flame.
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