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2025 S14 E00 Christmas Special Pt 2
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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.
01:26Someone called them and the fourth person with somebody.
01:32ários bailaíam.
01:36Wait.
01:37Wait.
01:39Bye.
01:40Joe.
01:41Get off.
01:42Get off.
01:45I took your money. All of it. Do not be kind to me.
02:05You 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?
02:15Many 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 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.
02:36You keep holding her claws while I check her temperature.
02:45Do you think she's opioid addicted, sister?
02:49You've more experience of that than me.
02:51It's a different type of crime.
02:55I think she's cold and hungry.
03:01Feels the want of her mother's arms around her.
03:04Babies 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 Nanata's house?
03:24I love the idea of a seasonal gathering, but it's certainly not up to me to give permission.
03:33It 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?
03:46Well, Cyril will be coming, and we thought we'd invite Harry Chopra and Timothy.
03:54I 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.
04:11Queenie, I know it's hard to talk about what went wrong with the baby that you lost.
04:21But not talking might make it harder, in a different way.
04:30I think this window lean is dried.
04:32If you pass me a rag, I can get ahead with it.
04:41Queenie, if you've 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.
05:06If you don't feel like eating, then you must try and keep up your liquids.
05:15Soup would be particularly good.
05:17Soup?
05:18I 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.
05:34Not 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.
05:45Isn't that right, nurse?
05:46That's absolutely right.
05:49What would you most like to happen over the next few weeks, Mr. Fisher?
05:54I came here because I wanted to come home.
05:56But I failed to allow either the fact that home is where your family are or were.
06:04Mine are all gone, so ghosts are good companions for the heart.
06:10But they're not, they're not company.
06:14Are you saying you don't want to be alone?
06:17I asked the midwife what happened to the baby.
06:30All 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 watched me.
06:44Touring.
06:45I was dirty.
06:46I heard one of them say that my baby had no head.
06:57They knew they were lying because the kindly midwife said that she had the biggest eyes.
07:04I 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.
07:34More hot water.
07:36Now you have to give her name, Chinese and English.
07:41What your name?
07:42I'm afraid it's not very with it.
07:44It's Phyllis.
07:45It is too hot 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.
07:59Sister Julienne was baptized Louise.
08:06I know two bargirls called Louise.
08:10You a born name?
08:10Beryl.
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.
08:24Beryl, it is.
08:30Dr. 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. Borelli.
08:40Oh, Mr. Borelli 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.
08:52It 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.
09:06But 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, if I don't know what happened either?
09:16Oh, that's clever.
09:22It is a better use for this contraption than the plucking up and putting on of shoes,
09:27which is supposedly its purpose.
09:31Sister Annika Jo, I 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 lo lo.
09:59Where is your mother, Yu-chan?
10:02In our village in Guangdong.
10:07If she's still alive.
10:09Could you write to her a letter?
10:15She does not know how to read.
10:21I do not know what to say.
10:26I come here.
10:28I have a baby.
10:30We need you to stay well and happy until this baby comes.
10:42I'll be your mother until then.
10:54Hibiscus Street isn't part of my division but it's notorious even within Kowloon.
10:59There are four branches of Triad active in Hong Kong and 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 who 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 and why should he?
11:23He's made a decent living over here.
11:25Runs a nightclub called the Crimson Lantern and other rackets.
11:28How come you know all this but crime's still running rampant?
11:32Knowing what Triad are doing doesn't mean we can stop them.
11:35We don't want to put you in a difficult position, Derek, but the sisters need advice.
11:41My advice is they should look for premises outside the Cormorant's area.
11:45They've done something to offend him and he won't let it go.
11:57Oh, Esther.
12:11Oh, where did you appear from?
12:26I've seen entrances on stage like that, but generally they involve a trap door.
12:33The landlord provided the key and the district nurse hung it on a string inside the letterbox.
12:40What year were you born?
12:431897.
12:46Then you cannot be the child I delivered in this chamber.
12:50I did not arrive in Poplar until 1903.
12:53My brother Sammy, he was born in 1903 and the others came after him.
13:01Then you must be the child with the large round eyes
13:07that sat on the bed and watched as I bathed this infant sibling.
13:11Oh.
13:12You had a remarkable gaze.
13:15Even then.
13:16Yes, I remember that.
13:20And I hope I remember you.
13:23I am most grateful for your assistance. Good day.
13:29Harry.
13:29Yes, Auntie.
13:31Miss Higgins.
13:32Thank you. Just while we're in the surgery.
13:35Now, take Dr Watkins her coffee.
13:37Then I need you to go to the records office for me.
13:41All right.
13:48And that was our kindly supporter at the British Army base,
13:52informing us that Sister Prudence also tested positive for tuberculosis.
13:57And so have two of the children.
13:59This is a really vicious strain.
14:02Thank goodness we've all been vaccinated.
14:04We will have to get them transferred to the sanatorium
14:07and fumigate their room as well as Sister Edith's.
14:09Patrick, there's something you need to see.
14:15Hello, Teddy, dear.
14:24Teddy, whatever happened to the Christmas tree?
14:27Petula knocked it down.
14:28Where are the girls?
14:30In their bedroom, playing with nail varnish.
14:34Nail varnish?
14:35Angela and May Turner.
14:37Hello, Miss Higgins.
14:43I have brought savory mince and a peach blancmange.
14:47You will come and eat it.
14:50After which, we will re-erect the Christmas tree, erase all evidence of these manicures,
14:57and discuss a plan for the remainder of your parents' absence.
15:04There are photographs and letters in this bag that we sent to Esther from England.
15:10There are also what look to be her personal belongings.
15:13There's a comb and lipstick and underclothes, and a child's shoe.
15:18Mrs. Ma, Esther is a very, very important person to our family.
15:26This is her daughter, May, who is our daughter now.
15:31You make good life for this girl.
15:32But Esther has another child now.
15:37A little boy.
15:37A little boy who was missing his shoe.
15:43And possibly missing his mother.
15:46Mrs. Ma, we don't even know if they're together anymore.
15:51Sister Edith, no.
15:52You are Sister Edith.
16:03No!
16:05Mrs. Forsyth.
16:08The midwife who attended your little girl's birth,
16:11took great care to record her birth and her death in the proper way.
16:17I said she was kindly.
16:18And it seems that your daughter was born with a condition called anencephaly.
16:25The 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.
16:34I heard her crying.
16:36All babies cry, Queenie.
16:39It's a sign of life.
16:41And it's beautiful.
16:45Even if that life doesn't last very long.
16:47Was it something I did?
16:53No, Queenie.
16:55It wasn't.
16:57I can promise you that.
16:58All I want to do is to hold a life child in my arms.
17:02And to tell her that it's mine.
17:12The child's name is Christopher.
17:15She will protect him with her life.
17:17His father wants to take him from her.
17:22And his father is a criminal.
17:24A gangster?
17:25Of the worst kind.
17:27He has offspring by numerous women.
17:32But 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.
17:44Aghast that this had happened again.
17:45But all she ever wanted was love.
17:51It happens the world over.
17:54I've seen it time and time again.
17:56No, you have not seen a man like this.
18:00They call him the Coomerant.
18:05He has ordered her and her child to be hunted down like dogs.
18:09At one point, we persuaded Mrs. Ma to hide her.
18:15But Sister Edith, it's as though they are both vanished.
18:20There is one place she thought that no one could ever find her.
18:27Will you tell me where it is?
18:29I must.
18:31Or when I die, the waters will close over her.
18:37What does that say?
18:38I think those two pictograms together mean for auction.
18:42Well, we won't be going down that route.
18:44We won't be going down the rental route or the purchase route either, sister.
18:48I'm going to have taken every penny you possess.
18:51We're quite accustomed to poverty.
18:52Yes, we gave up money when we gave up men.
18:57What about this one?
18:58It says, Dancing Girls.
18:59You've dropped off property and drifted into nightclubs.
19:02Oh, please.
19:05Well, I can read this one.
19:06It says, Police.
19:07Huh.
19:09Oh, that one, that one!
19:11We've got no apartment number, no floor number.
19:30We just have to keep on going.
19:32Keep on looking.
19:34How can she even survive like this?
19:37I want to find her.
19:50I just don't want to find her here.
19:52No.
19:53I like her.
19:56Esther.
20:07Esther?
20:09Esther?
20:13Esther.
20:13Mr. Can we talk to you? I have Mrs. Turner with me.
20:21Hello, Hugh. You must be Christopher. I'll be waiting to meet you.
20:49Do you keep forgetting that it's advert? Yes. And it's not even the absence of cold that I marvel at. It's the absence, the absolute erasure of weariness.
20:58Do you feel it too? I've never felt such energy in years. You have to let us get you out of here. To somewhere where you can be nursed and given food and shelter. I don't go out. I stay here. I always stay here.
21:15The altar in the corner is beautiful, Esther. I pray always for you. And for the souls of my parents. They had no sons.
21:24Christopher's father wants him very much, doesn't he? He will give him a wicked life. Make his child a criminal.
21:31Sisters, I don't doubt your sincerity. And I do accept that you and your associates have been targeted by local undesirables.
21:44Triad. Let's call a spade a spade, shall we? We have been targeted by triad.
21:49The Order of St. Raymond and Artists have given shelter to abandoned babies, provided medicine and alternative employment to street girls, and persuaded addicts to turn their backs on heroin.
22:02That, according to Mrs. Ma, is our crime. A young man enslaved to drugs is at the mercy of his masters. He will do whatever he is asked to do in exchange for the one thing that will give his body peace.
22:17But if he is freed from addiction, if he finds there is a better way to live, he will turn his back on crime itself.
22:25They become free men. And, sometimes, police informants.
22:31I'm not going to deny that.
22:33Then you cannot deny the fact that we are doing you a service, and in so doing, warrants your protection.
22:40And how do you propose that we provide that?
22:43Properties vacant. Third column across, fourth paragraph down.
22:48This was an annex of the old training school.
22:52No longer in use. Standing empty. And, crucially, still in police possession.
23:02I can't believe we're leaving them.
23:04We are coming back tomorrow, with food. They're both sick, Sheila.
23:09But, I need to run some test on the little boy. There's something very, very wrong with him.
23:22Mind your fingers. Everything's under control. What?
23:28I need tasters. Joyce, you can pronounce judgement on the whiskey cream punch.
23:34Sis, I 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? Sis?
23:44It's divine. Call me a miracle worker. It's mainly condensed milk.
23:49Oh, Geoffrey, that's going to make it very calorific.
23:51It's Christmas. I have personally declared an amnesty on slenderizing.
23:55Oh.
24:00Nanata's house, midwife speaking.
24:02Hi, Trixie. I've just been observing a bowel and anastomosis.
24:05That's nice.
24:06I asked you around the canteen. I'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.
24:19Nanata's house, midwife speaking.
24:20Nurse Hilward, are you able to come to the maternity home?
24:23Queenie Forsyth has just arrived.
24:29Hello, Mum.
24:32Busy again?
24:34I've managed to persuade Hong Kong Rotary Club
24:37to offer a modest grant to the sisters to set up a new clinic.
24:41I'm trying to work out if it will stretch.
24:45Chin up. Sun's over the yard on.
24:48Derek, 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.
24:57Take a break.
24:58Please stop doing stuff.
24:59Stop doing sums.
25:00It's all I can ever remember.
25:01You with your head in a column of figures.
25:04It's who I am, Derek.
25:06I know.
25:07But I'd love it not to be.
25:09Just for half an hour.
25:10Just while we have a drink together.
25:12In the sun.
25:13Shall we do something together tomorrow?
25:16All right.
25:18All right.
25:28Very good.
25:29Esther.
25:30I think Christopher may have a problem with his kidneys.
25:47I need to take him to a hospital.
25:50No.
25:51We'll stay here.
25:53Will you let doctor examine you now, Esther?
25:57We can talk about Christopher after that.
26:04Esther.
26:05You have breast milk soaking through your clothing.
26:09You don't still feed Christopher, do you?
26:12No.
26:15There is no baby.
26:17Not here.
26:18Have you given birth to another child, Esther?
26:22If there is another baby, will you tell us where it is?
26:28I leave my daughter where she will be safe.
26:35I leave her with sisters, on the step of the restaurant.
26:40In a box.
26:45Oh.
26:47Two copies of the Pickwick papers.
26:50One from the popular public library.
26:55The other from mine own shelves.
26:58Oh.
27:00I am driven from my heart by the frivolities of youth.
27:03Oh, I have fond memories of the frivolities of youth.
27:08The appreciation of such pleasures pass me by.
27:12Any 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 is not.
27:33Esther.
27:34Have you had to choose one child over the other?
27:37My son's father only want him.
27:39He will kill for him.
27:41Is this man the cormorant your little girl's father too?
27:45I made you life.
27:47I thought he was a better one.
27:49A better man.
27:53I was wrong.
27:54I hardest hearing my song.
28:00P.O.P.
28:03P.O.P.
28:04I'L.P.
28:06Yeah I have to move in and it hurts Do you feel
28:14P.O.P.
28:20When 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 have Tux and Marie and Baby Luke up for the night on the sideboard.
28:45They're both fast asleep already.
28:49Nurse 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 her to hospital.
29:19Darling, darling, darling, darling, darling, darling, darling, darling, darling.
29:26By now, take this fast as soon as you get to the landing.
29:29All of the lights will be turned off.
29:31Twenty 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.
29:41Oh, I hoped I'd find you.
29:49Now, this is a good part of the game.
29:54It's bedlam out there.
29:56There are three medical students in the airing cupboard.
29:59Why don't we just go to your bed setter for a bit?
30:03This is all getting so raucous.
30:05As long as we don't do anything improper.
30:10We never do anything improper.
30:12The rules of the studio couch are very firmly established.
30:16If 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 wait Marie?
30:30And she could come and hold your hand.
30:31No, I'd be half-doring about her.
30:34I have seven children alive and living under work.
30:37But the only one I can think about now is what's 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
31:23has to squeeze in
31:24and the next one and the next one.
31:26Right.
31:29Found you.
31:34What do we do now?
31:36We wait, apparently.
31:38Well, to misquote Captain Oates, I'm coming in.
31:49And that may be some time.
31:52Oh, 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.
32:02Oh, 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
32:17to get this baby out and in your arms.
32:22Together.
32:23Queenie, do you hear that?
32:24We're all going to join forces.
32:25Yes.
32:32Will you tell me when you can see its 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.
32:54Now.
32:54Queenie.
32:55I can hear the oculots.
33:17I can hear the oculots.
33:21And it's out.
33:27No ambulance required.
33:38Shh.
33:42Do you hear that, Queenie?
33:44Isn't that a beautiful sound?
33:46Glory be, but I love you.
33:49You are.
33:49And 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.
34:19How many old recollections, and how many dormant sympathies does Christmas time awaken?
34:33To be continued...
35:04Many of the looks that shone so brightly then have ceased to glow.
35:16The hands we grasped have grown cold.
35:23The eyes we sought have hid their luster in the grave.
35:27And yet the old house, the room, the merry voices and smiling faces,
35:31the jest, the laugh, crowed upon our mind at each recurrence of the season,
35:36as if the last assemblage had been but yesterday.
35:40Happy, happy Christmas that can win us back to the delusions of our childish days.
35:46That 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.
36:01Christmas.
36:02Yes.
36:04We have our Feast of Lights too.
36:07Hanukkah.
36:10It falls almost on the same date as Christmas this year.
36:15Christmas.
36:23Christmas.
36:24Joyce, I'm dressed as a nurse.
36:41If it's any consolation, you weren't the only one.
36:44Is there anything else I need to know?
36:54It's all right, Tony. I think we're safe.
37:24If that unholy racket you're making is supposed to be my punishment,
37:30I accept it, as long as it's followed by strong black coffee.
37:35Oh, 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? We?
37:45Geoffrey, 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.
37:58Good morning, Rosalyn. Or should I say, Nurse Clifford?
38:01I'm sorry. I stayed the night at Cyril's.
38:04Morning orders will take place in three minutes.
38:10No, Nurse's house. Charlady speaking.
38:13Has no one observed that I did not sleep in my accustomed bed last night?
38:17Sister Monica Joan, this morning that is scarcely cause for comment.
38:20Our charge, Mr Fisher, fell into a decline before midnight.
38:25I assisted him to his bed, then deemed it inexpedient to leave him.
38:31Come here.
38:32Oh, good morning, Harry.
38:36The cloud of cologne on which you enter does nothing to reassure me.
38:40Would you like a cup of coffee, Harry?
38:41Merry Christmas.
38:52And thank you very much to all concerned.
39:11Thank you for your attention.
39:13My God's appreciation for it.
39:13This is all I need to drink.
39:14You will shopping.
39:15ongg juice, you will be hungry.
39:15Should I suffer once a day?
39:15I have been hungry.
39:174th Shots.
39:17You will not be friendly.
39:18You will
39:21have to sleep.
39:23I have hardly be hungry.
39:25Always who becomes is a big part.
39:29idad dist gat Rahul.
39:30I 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.
39:50Unilateral renal mass.
39:52Right-hand side.
39:54There isn't a scrap of fat on him.
39:57I 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.
40:18I 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 him?
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.
40:42I had a penny.
40:44A bright new penny.
40:46I took my penny to the market square.
40:49I wanted a rabbit, a little brown rabbit, and I looked for a rabbit most everywhere.
40:58For I went to the store with this old sweet lavender.
41:03Only a penny for a bunch of lavender.
41:07Have you got a rabbit?
41:09Because I don't want a rabbit.
41:10Because I don't want lavender.
41:11They...
41:12They didn't have a rabbit.
41:17Not anywhere there.
41:20You must be baby Beryl's mummy.
41:23I...
41:23Esther would like to feed Beryl.
41:25Sister, 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 of the snow falling.
41:58There were four of us under the eiderdale.
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 warm.
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 when there's paper umbrellas of yours, I'm still bored of it.
42:31It's actually a whiskey cream punch.
42:34A recipe that proves so efficacious at our Christmas party.
42:37I'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.
42:50And it's tomorrow.
42:53What's tomorrow, old chap?
42:55The first night of Hanukkah.
42:59A feast 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.
43:34It'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?
44:03In Hong Kong?
44:04Well, here and at home.
44:05I'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.
44:25I'm sorry.
44:27I 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.
44:59I'm here talking on the phone.
45:21You're not taking my son to England.
45:27If we don't, he will die.
45:29You don't know that?
45:32You'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.
45:43What school did you go to?
45:45Liverpool Institute.
45:45My father had an ironmunker's 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.
46:04Sometimes you lose people.
46:07Sometimes they're stolen.
46:09Or you are.
46:12Are you a gambling man, Dr. Turner?
46:14No.
46:16I am.
46:17If you want my son, you have to play me for them.
46:22How about Margell?
46:25What cards?
46:26Poker?
46:27Jamer de Fer?
46:29Blackjack?
46:31You choose.
46:31Me, I'm.
46:42Baruch Atah Adonai.
46:46Eloheinu.
46:47Melech HaOlam.
46:49asher kitshanu b'mitzvotav
46:54v'etsivanu lahad l'kneshe l'cha nukah
47:02Amen.
47:17Is he allowed to choose a deputy?
47:20I could play on his behalf.
47:22I 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?
47:47You 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,
48:06I guarantee I will send him back to you.
48:09Let's continue this conversation elsewhere, shall we?
48:19No.
48:20Doctor.
48:22Take the kit.
48:28Tell him to give him a chance.
48:30Let him breathe as nature intended him to breathe.
48:47There is no consolation for him now,
48:50in artificial air.
48:58That's her, old chap.
48:59It will take time to rebuild.
49:28But 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?
49:44Yes.
49:46Because I'm more convinced than ever
49:47that 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.
50:05Well done, you, Chan.
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 is arriving before we leave.
50:23But if it's the first baby born in a new branch 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.
50:55When they were here.
50:56When we were all at home.
51:18I hate me.
51:20I hate me.
51:20A little girl, you child.
51:28Congratulations.
51:32Look at her.
51:35Just look at her.
51:38And now she's gorgeous.
51:43You have been my mother.
51:47Now I'm hurt.
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.
52:09I have seen death before.
52:11It is terrible.
52:13And it can be beautiful.
52:15I think today it was that.
52:18I have seen lovers come to fetch the dying.
52:22I have seen mothers come.
52:26But I have known no lover.
52:28I have born no child.
52:31And my parents spurned me.
52:34I have asked myself more often of late than in years gone by.
52:41Who 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.
52:55Those who knelt beside you in prayer.
52:59And 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.
53:10We should perhaps turn our attention
53:19for the return of those we love.
53:23The Hong Kong party.
53:26Let us light, light for the living and
53:29marvel at them while we may.
53:31Christopher, you're going to give your mummy a case.
53:50Please, give him all.
53:55I have a coat to put on him as well as this cardigan.
53:58It used to belong to his sister.
54:02I like that.
54:09Bring in wops.
54:17Make sure you're smiling.
54:19Smile!
54:19Smile!
54:22Quick, quick, quick, quick, quick!
54:23The little boy will get better.
54:36We're in here.
54:37There's every chance he'll get better.
54:39Till then we just have to take care of him.
54:41And be his family.
54:44Oh, they're here!
54:46Oh, miss you!
54:49Oh, Miss Higgins, haven't they managed well?
54:51And this is Christopher.
54:55He looks so sweet.
54:57Baby Christopher!
55:00Isn't he small?
55:02His hair feels like mine.
55:07Christopher!
55:10Couldn'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!
55:21Does Christmas come at the end of the year, or 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
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.
56:08Christmas begins with a baby.
56:09Therefore, Christmas is all that is unknown, all we must cherish, and all we must shield from
56:18the winds of fortune like a candle flame.
56:21Christmas in the year, or what we must be able to wear, to the future of our
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