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Christmas Specials 2025: Episode 2

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00:00We don't get to know in the Caribbean, but nothing's ever perfect.
00:14I don't think it could be more perfect.
00:20Keys.
00:21Money.
00:23I'm afraid it really is that simple.
00:26Who let it simple?
00:29We have paid a deposit on that rental.
00:32You mistake our intention, sir.
00:35We are a religious order, and we've come here to do good, not harm.
00:42We're doing women's work.
00:44I'm surprised it's of any interest at all to men, with guns or without.
00:49The other sister said they were doing Jesus' work.
00:53Jesus' work belongs to DEVIL!
00:56Give him the keys.
00:59Oh.
01:00Cool.
01:02Oh.
01:03Yeah.
01:04Yeah!
01:05Yeah!
01:06Yeah!
01:07Aw.
01:08Yeah!
01:09Wait, wait!
01:11Aw.
01:12Aw.
01:13Aw.
01:14Aw.
01:16Aw!
01:17Aw.
01:18Aw!
01:19Get up, get up, get up, get up, get up.
01:40I took your money, all of it.
01:44Do not be kind to me.
01:46You were at least as frightened as we were
01:48of that man.
01:50And I suspect you have been so for a great deal longer.
01:54Has he been here before, Mrs. Ma?
01:57Many times.
01:59I pay him to keep my business safe.
02:02I think you need to pay someone to keep you safe from him.
02:05Mrs. Ma, what has happened here tonight is not acceptable.
02:09If we have brought trouble to your door,
02:12that is not acceptable either.
02:14And we will move on as soon as we are able.
02:17You keep holding her clothes while I check her temperature.
02:25Do you think she's opioid-addicted, sister?
02:29You've more experience of that than me.
02:32It's a different type of crime.
02:35I think she's cold and hungry.
02:41Feels the want of her mother's arms around her.
02:45Babies are not ignorant creatures.
02:49Ladies, Nurse Clifford and I were wondering, since everything's now running smoothly,
03:01whether we might be permitted to have a little seasonal gathering here at Nanata's house?
03:06I love the idea of a seasonal gathering.
03:08But it's certainly not up to me to give permission.
03:12It would really just be ourselves.
03:18Plus a few of our friends from nursing and hospital circles.
03:22Will there be popular music playing and will there be dancing?
03:26And the presence of young men?
03:28Well, Cyril will be coming.
03:32And we thought we'd invite Harry Chopra and Timothy.
03:36Timothy!
03:37I consider myself persuaded.
03:41Life is short.
03:43And Christmas, as we are so frequently reminded, comes but once a year.
03:49Morning.
03:51I'm looking for Queenie.
03:53Queenie, I know it's hard to talk about what went wrong with the baby that you lost.
04:04But not talking might make it harder.
04:08In a different way.
04:13I think this Wendoline is dried.
04:15If you pass me a rag, I can get ahead with it.
04:19They said I wasn't deceived.
04:28Even though I heard it cry.
04:33Queenie, if you heard your baby cry, it wasn't stillborn.
04:38It was a girl.
04:40They told me that.
04:43I said I wanted her baptized.
04:46But they said that the priest came too late.
04:51If you don't feel like eating, then you must try and keep up your liquids.
04:58Soup would be particularly good.
05:00Soup?
05:01I never cared much for soup.
05:04When I was a child, soup was a sign that ends were not meeting.
05:09But now, soup is a sign that I am meeting my end.
05:14You don't have to joke about this, Mr. Fisher.
05:18Not unless you want to.
05:20Nothing really matters now but your comfort.
05:23And there are things we can do with regard to that.
05:26Even though there are things that we can't change.
05:29Isn't that right, Nurse?
05:31That's absolutely right.
05:33What would you most like to happen over the next few weeks, Mr. Fisher?
05:38I came here because I wanted to come home.
05:41But I failed to allow the fact that home is where your family are.
05:45Or were.
05:47Mine are all gone, so ghosts are good companions to the heart.
05:57But they're not company.
06:00Are you saying you don't want to be alone?
06:02I asked the midwife what happened to the baby.
06:15All she would say was she had the biggest eyes.
06:18And she said biggest like it was a compliment.
06:23She was kindly.
06:26Two other nurses came in and watched me.
06:29Touring.
06:31I was dirty.
06:33I heard one of them say that my baby had no head.
06:39They knew they were lying because the kindly midwife said that she had the biggest eyes.
06:51I wish I could tell you what happened to your daughter.
06:54But I can tell you the truth.
06:58That she was loved.
07:01Love is not the same as being baptized though, is it?
07:06I believe it's very similar.
07:08More hot water.
07:22Now you have to give her name.
07:25Chinese and English.
07:27What your name?
07:29I'm afraid it's not very with it.
07:31It's Phyllis.
07:32It is too hard to say.
07:34We sisters all have two names too.
07:37The one we were born with and the one we took when we gave our lives to Jesus.
07:42What yours?
07:43Pamela.
07:44Semi-classical with rather a nice ring to it.
07:47Sister Julienne was baptized Louise.
07:53I know two bar girls called Louise.
07:57You a born name?
07:59Beryl.
08:00Beryl Burroughs.
08:02Although the surname isn't relevant.
08:04Beryl's a precious stone, isn't it?
08:07And we can't say this one isn't a little gem.
08:10Beryl?
08:11It is.
08:12Dr. Turner's surgery?
08:20Oh, Miss Higgins.
08:21I've been offered half a dozen shifts on male surgical.
08:23At St. Cuthbert's?
08:25Er, yes.
08:26I'll be super numerous, but it's under Mr. Borelli.
08:29Mr. Borelli is held in the very highest regard.
08:33Oh, I assume however that if you take up this chance, it may threaten the stability and security of the children's routine.
08:40It could be devastating
08:45Queenie's had no complications at all in this pregnancy apart from mild anemia despite her age and
08:52Despite the fact that it's her ninth, but she is desperately anxious
08:58What does she think the same disaster might be visited again? How can I tell her it won't if I don't know what happened either?
09:04Oh
09:10That's clever. It is a better use for this contraption than the plucking up and putting on of shoes, which is supposedly its purpose
09:20Sister Monica Jo I wondered if I might ask for your help
09:30It's good certainly stable
09:34You're doing well lass
09:36What is lass?
09:38It means girl
09:40It's what we call a term of endearment
09:44It's a way of being kind
09:46My mother used to say leu leu
09:50Where is your mother Yu Chan?
09:52In our village in Guangdong
09:56If she's still alive
09:59Could you write to her?
10:02A letter?
10:05She not know how to read
10:11I not know what to say
10:12Come on, come here
10:19I have a baby
10:23We need you to stay well and happy
10:28Until this baby comes
10:33I'll be your mother until then
10:35I'll be your mother
10:36I'll be your mother
10:42I'll be your mother
10:45Hibiscus Street isn't part of my division but it's notorious even within Kowloon
10:50There are four branches of Triad active in Hong Kong, and they run everything.
10:55Gambling, prostitution, drugs, the whole nine yards.
10:58Which is why our work there is so essential.
11:01The old clinic came under a branch run by a crook who calls himself the Cormorant.
11:06The Cormorant?
11:08He's a Liverpool Chinese, born there and deported here during the war.
11:12Never went back, and why should he?
11:14He's made a decent living over here.
11:16Runs a nightclub called the Crimson Lantern and other rackets.
11:20How comes you know all this, but crime's still running rampant?
11:24Knowing what Triad are doing doesn't mean we can stop them.
11:26We don't want to put you in a difficult position, Derek, but the sisters need advice.
11:33My advice is they should look for premises outside the Cormorant's area.
11:38They've done something to offend him, and he won't let it go.
11:50Oh, Esther.
12:04Oh, where did you appear from?
12:19I've seen entrances on stage like that.
12:22But generally they involve a trap door.
12:25The landlord provided the key, and the district nurse hung it on a string inside the letterbox.
12:33What year were you born?
12:361897.
12:38Then you cannot be the child I delivered in this chamber.
12:43I did not arrive in Poplar until 1903.
12:46My brother Sammy, he was born in 1903, and the others came after him.
12:54Then you must be the child with the large round eyes that sat on the bed and watched as I bathed this infant sibling.
13:06You had a remarkable gaze, even then.
13:10Yes, I remember that.
13:13And I hope I remember you.
13:16I am most grateful for your assistance.
13:19Good day.
13:22Harry.
13:23Yes, Auntie?
13:25Miss Higgins.
13:27Just while we're in the surgery.
13:29Now, take Dr. Watkins her coffee.
13:31Then I need you to go to the records office for me.
13:39All right.
13:39And that was our kindly supporter at the British Army base, informing us that Sister Prudence also tested positive for tuberculosis.
13:51And so have two of the children.
13:54This is a really vicious strain.
13:56Thank goodness we've all been vaccinated.
13:59We will have to get them transferred to the sanatorium and fumigate their room as well as Sister Edith's.
14:05Patrick, there's something you need to see.
14:07Hello, Teddy, dear.
14:19Teddy, whatever happened to the Christmas tree?
14:22Petula knocked it down.
14:24Where are the girls?
14:25In their bedroom, playing with nail varnish.
14:30Nail varnish.
14:31Angela and May Turner.
14:33Hello, Miss Higgins.
14:39I have brought savoury mince and a peach blancmange.
14:43You will come and eat it.
14:44After which, we will re-erect the Christmas tree, erase all evidence of these manicures, and discuss a plan for the remainder of your parents' absence.
14:57There are photographs and letters in this bag that we sent to Esther from England.
15:06There are also what look to be her personal belongings.
15:09There's a comb and lipstick and underclothes, and a child's shoe.
15:14Mrs. Ma, Esther is a very, very important person to our family.
15:22This is her daughter, May, who is our daughter now.
15:27You make good life for this girl.
15:29But Esther has another child now.
15:33A little boy.
15:34A little boy who was missing his shoe.
15:40And possibly missing his mother.
15:43Mrs. Ma, we don't even know if they're together anymore.
15:48Sister Edith, no.
15:49You are Sister Edith.
16:00Mrs. Forsyth.
16:04The midwife who attended your little girl's birth took great care to record her birth and her death in the proper way.
16:14I said she was kindly.
16:16And it seems that your daughter was born with a condition called anencephaly.
16:22The top of her head hadn't developed in the womb as it should have done.
16:27And her brain would have been very badly affected.
16:30Could it have hurt her?
16:32No.
16:32But I heard her crying.
16:34All babies cry, Queenie.
16:37It's a sign of life.
16:41And it's beautiful.
16:43Even if that life doesn't last very long.
16:45Was it something I did?
16:51No, Queenie.
16:53It wasn't.
16:55I can promise you that.
16:57What I want to do is to hold a life child in my arms.
17:01And to tell it that it's mine.
17:03The child's name is Christopher.
17:13She will protect him with her life.
17:17His father wants to take him from her.
17:20And his father is a criminal.
17:22A gangster?
17:23Of the worst kind.
17:25He has offspring by numerous women.
17:30But Christopher is his only son.
17:34What has Esther done to make him turn on her like this?
17:39Every time she conceived, she came to us.
17:43Aghast that this had happened again.
17:44But all she ever wanted was love.
17:51It happens the world over.
17:53I've seen it time and time again.
17:55No.
17:56You have not seen a man like this.
18:01They call him the Coomerant.
18:04He 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.
18:19There is one place she thought that no one could ever find her.
18:27Will you tell me where it is?
18:29I must.
18:31For when I die, the waters will close over her.
18:37What does that say?
18:38I think those two pictograms together mean for auction.
18:43We won't be going down that route.
18:45We won't be going down the rental route or the purchase route either, sister.
18:49That gang have taken every penny you possess.
18:51We're quite accustomed to poverty.
18:53Yes, we gave up money when we gave up men.
18:57What about this one?
18:59It says dancing girls.
19:00You've dropped off property and drifted into nightclubs.
19:03Oh, please.
19:05I can read this one.
19:06It says police.
19:08Huh.
19:09That one, that one.
19:12We've got no apartment number, no floor number.
19:31We just have to keep on going.
19:34Keep on looking.
19:36How can she even survive like this?
19:39I want to find her.
19:51I just don't want to find her here.
19:54I want to find her here.
20:11Esther?
20:13Esther?
20:17Esther?
20:18Can we talk to you?
20:21I have Mrs. Turner with me.
20:23I have Mrs. Turner with me.
20:42Hello, Hugh.
20:42You must be Christopher.
20:44I'll be waiting to meet you.
20:46Do you keep forgetting that it's Advent?
20:50Yes.
20:51And it's not even the absence of cold that I marvel at.
20:58It's the absence, the absolute erasure of weariness.
21:02Do you feel it too?
21:03I've never felt such energy in years.
21:05You have to let us get you out of here.
21:09To somewhere where you can be nursed and given food and shelter.
21:13I don't go out.
21:15I stay here.
21:16I always stay here.
21:17The altar in the corner is beautiful, Esther.
21:22I pray always for you and for the souls of my parents.
21:27They had no sons.
21:29Christopher's father wants him very much, doesn't he?
21:32He will give him a wicked life.
21:35Make his child a criminal.
21:36Sisters, I don't doubt your sincerity.
21:43And I do accept that you and your associates have been targeted by local undesirables.
21:49Triad.
21:50Let's call a spade a spade, shall we?
21:52We have been targeted by triad.
21:54The Order of St. Raymond and Natas have given shelter to abandoned babies, provided medicine and alternative employment to street girls, and persuaded addicts to turn their backs on heroin.
22:07That, according to Mrs. Ma, is our crime.
22:11A young man enslaved to drugs is at the mercy of his masters.
22:16He will do whatever he is asked to do in exchange for the one thing that will give his body peace.
22:22But if he's freed from addiction, if he finds there is a better way to live, he will turn his back on crime itself.
22:30They become free men.
22:32And, sometimes, police informants.
22:36I'm not going to deny that.
22:38Then you cannot deny the fact that we are doing you a service, and in so doing, warrants your protection.
22:45And how do you propose that we provide that?
22:49Property's vacant.
22:50Third column across, fourth paragraph down.
22:54This was an annex of the old training school.
22:58No longer in use, standing empty, and, crucially, still in police possession.
23:07I can't believe we're leaving them.
23:10We are coming back tomorrow with food.
23:13They're both sick, Sheila.
23:14But I need to run some tests on the little boy.
23:18There's something very, very wrong with it.
23:29Mind your fingers.
23:31Everything's under control.
23:33What?
23:34I need tasters.
23:36Joyce, you can pronounce judgment on the whiskey cream punch.
23:41Sears, I want your opinion on the coconut frappe.
23:45That's going to give my snowballs a run for their money.
23:48I know.
23:48It slips down like a tart stocking, doesn't it?
23:50Sears?
23:51It's divine.
23:52Call me a miracle worker.
23:54It's mainly condensed milk.
23:56Oh, Geoffrey, that's going to make it very calorific.
23:58It's Christmas.
23:59I have personally declared an amnesty on slenderizing.
24:07Nannatus House, midwife speaking.
24:09Hi, Trixie.
24:10I've just been observing a bowel and astimosis.
24:12That's nice.
24:13I asked you around the canteen.
24:14I've drummed up a few more for the party.
24:16And Miss Higgins is staying the night with the children.
24:20Everyone's bringing a bottle.
24:26Nannatus House, midwife speaking.
24:28Nurse Haleward, are you able to come to the maternity home?
24:30Queenie Forsyth has just arrived.
24:36Hello, Mum.
24:37Busy again?
24:42I've managed to persuade Hong Kong Rotary Club
24:45to offer a modest grant to the sisters to set up a new clinic.
24:49I'm trying to work out if it will stretch.
24:53Chin up.
24:54Sun's over the yard on.
24:56Derek, gin and tonic.
24:58Leather.
24:59Thank you, Grace.
25:00I'm not sure.
25:01I wouldn't normally imbibe when I've got the ready reckoner app.
25:04Mum, please, take a break.
25:05Please stop doing stuff.
25:07Stop doing sums.
25:09It's all I can ever remember.
25:10You with your head in a column of figures.
25:13It's who I am, Derek.
25:15I know.
25:16But I'd love it not to be.
25:17Just for half an hour.
25:19Just while we have a drink together.
25:21In the sun.
25:22Shall we do something together tomorrow?
25:24All right.
25:35Very good.
25:38Esther, I think Christopher may have a problem with his kidneys.
25:56I need to take him to a hospital.
25:58No.
25:59No.
26:01We stay here.
26:03Will you let doctor examine you now, Esther?
26:06We can talk about Christopher after that.
26:13Esther.
26:15You have breast milk soaking through your clothing.
26:19You don't still feed Christopher, do you?
26:21No.
26:25There is no baby.
26:27Not here.
26:29Have you given birth to another child, Esther?
26:33If there is another baby,
26:35will you tell us where it is?
26:37I leave my daughter where she will be safe.
26:45I leave her with sisters.
26:48I'll step up a restaurant.
26:51In a box.
26:55Oh.
26:57Two copies of the Pickwick papers.
27:01One from the popular public library.
27:04The other from mine own shelves.
27:08Oh.
27:10I am driven from my heart
27:12by the frivolities of youth.
27:14Oh, I have formed memories
27:16of the frivolities of youth.
27:19The appreciation of such pleasures
27:21pass me by.
27:23Any regrets?
27:25That is a pity myself and the Almighty.
27:34We can take you back with us, Esther.
27:38We can reunite you with your baby.
27:40I cannot go back to Hibiscus Street.
27:42My daughter is saved and my son's not.
27:44Esther.
27:45Have you had to choose one child over the other?
27:49My son's father only want him.
27:51He will kill for him.
27:53Is this man the Cormorant,
27:55your little girl's father too?
27:57I made you alive.
27:59I thought he was a better one.
28:01A better man.
28:01A better man.
28:01I was wrong.
28:16Y'all got to move with an eye.
28:18It's a good man.
28:18I need to be my baby.
28:21I'm your love.
28:23All in a town.
28:25I'm your love.
28:27All in my dreams.
28:28I'm your love.
28:29When do you think it's a good time to start party games?
28:34I don't think it's ever a good time to start party games.
28:36Oh, so well.
28:38This house is full of nooks and crannies.
28:39It's just crying out for a game of sardines.
28:42I've tucked some Marie and baby Luke up for the night on the side halt.
28:57Very fast asleep already.
29:04Nurse Aylward, could you listen to baby's heartbeat for me?
29:06What's wrong with a third piece?
29:09Nothing's wrong, Queenie.
29:10We just like to keep an eye on things.
29:11I want to go home.
29:13I'm not good here.
29:13I can't do it.
29:14You're only married, Mother of God.
29:16I can't do it.
29:17Sweetheart, this is where you need to stay as calm as you can.
29:20And save as much strength as you can.
29:21We're going to be able to start pushing this baby out soon.
29:24Ah!
29:26The hubby's dropping and she's exhausted.
29:28We need to get her to hospital.
29:29Darling, darling, darling, darling, darling, darling, darling, darling, darling, darling.
29:39By now to disperse as soon as you get to the landing, all of the lights will be turned off.
29:4420 minutes doesn't count as rapid transfer in my book, I'm afraid.
29:48The practice doctor is not answering her telephone and the flying squad are not available.
29:52We need an ambulance as soon as possible.
29:55I hope I'd find you.
29:57Now this is a good part to do.
30:07It's bedlam out there.
30:09There are three medical students in the airing cupboard.
30:13Why don't we just go to your bedsitter for a bit?
30:16This is all getting so raucous.
30:19As long as we don't do anything improper.
30:23We never do anything improper.
30:25The rules of the studio catch up very firmly established.
30:30If you haven't got the strength to push, just pant, Queenie.
30:39The ambulance is on its way.
30:43Queenie, would you like us to wake Marie and she could come and hold your hand?
30:46No, I'd be after worrying about her.
30:48I have seven children alive and living under work, but the only one I can think about now is one inside of me.
30:55I need to hold it in my arms.
30:58We've had half an hour of second stage contractions and there's been no descent of the head.
31:07I'm going to deliver this baby now.
31:09My forceps.
31:11The only doctors deliver my forceps.
31:13Sister, we don't have the luxury of making that distinction.
31:16This baby's heartbeat isn't picking up and if we delay, we're going to lose it.
31:20I'm not sure I know what the rules of this game are.
31:28I mean, we are sat in a cupboard with no drinks and there's no room for dancing.
31:34So we have to wait to be discovered and then the next person who discovers us has to squeeze in.
31:40And the next one, then the next one.
31:42Right.
31:42What do we do now?
31:52We wait, apparently.
31:57Well, to misquote Captain Oates, I'm coming in.
32:05And that may be some time.
32:08Oh, can I smell old clothes?
32:11Yes.
32:13My whole childhood's flashing before my eyes in here.
32:16I can see the jumper I wore in grammar school.
32:19Oh, I see nurse's uniforms.
32:23And a nun's habit.
32:25Ow.
32:27Sweetie, I know you're tired.
32:29But three women are stronger than one on her own.
32:32We're going to work together to get this baby out and in your arms.
32:39Together.
32:39Queenie, do you hear that?
32:40We're all going to join forces.
32:48Will you tell me when you can see its head?
32:54Geoffrey Franklin, Timothy Turner, Harry Chopra.
32:57What are you doing in my bedroom?
32:59Good things come to those who've waited.
33:01Geoffrey!
33:02Try to bear down, Queenie.
33:04As soon as you feel the next contraction, bear down.
33:06Now.
33:14Here.
33:19I can hear the unclips.
33:20I can hear the unclips.
33:34And it's out
33:44No ambulance required
33:47Do you hear that, Queenie?
34:02Isn't that a beautiful sound?
34:04Glory be, but I love you
34:06You are mine
34:08And you are complete
34:11And you are mine
34:14And you're crying
34:16They didn't even tell me if you're a boy or a girl
34:19Oh, sorry
34:20I forgot
34:21It's a boy
34:23Baby Lord, my baby Lord
34:35I need you, oh, oh, I need you
34:39But all you do is treat me better
34:42Break my heart and leave me safe
34:46Tell me what did I do wrong
34:49To make you stay away so long
34:53How many old recollections
35:02And how many dormant sympathies does Christmas time awaken
35:06Year after year
35:08We met on that day
35:10A merry and joyous circle
35:12Many of the hearts that throbbed so gaily then
35:16Have ceased
35:17Have ceased to beat
35:22Many of the looks that shone so brightly then
35:27Have ceased to glow
35:29The hands we grasped
35:37Have grown cold
35:40The eyes we sought have hid their lustre in the grave
35:46And yet the old house, the room, the merry voices and smiling faces
35:50The jest, the laugh
35:52Crowded upon our mind at each recurrence of the season
35:55As if the last assemblage had been but yesterday
35:58Happy, happy Christmas
36:02That can win us back to the delusions of our childish days
36:06That said, I'm Jewish, Sister Monica Joan
36:12Well, that does not prevent us from being companions in nostalgia
36:17Christmas is but one instance of a glimmer into the darkness
36:22Yes
36:23We have our Feast of Lights too
36:27It falls almost on the same date as Christmas this year
36:35Joyce
36:58Hmm?
37:00I'm dressed as a nurse
37:02If it's any consolation
37:04You weren't the only one
37:06Is there anything else I need to know?
37:15It's alright, aren't you?
37:17I think we're safe
37:34If that unholy racket you're making is supposed to be my punishment
37:52I accept it
37:53As long as it's followed by strong black coffee
37:57Oh, you'll get coffee
37:58And it will be accompanied by a dustpan, a brush and a pair of rubbered loves
38:02I suppose we ought to roll up our sleeves
38:04We?
38:06We?
38:07Geoffrey
38:07I have been up all night delivering a baby
38:11And I've been wielding a bucket for this poor lamb
38:14Florence Nightingale's got nothing on me
38:16Good morning, Rosalyn
38:21Or should I say Nurse Clifford?
38:23I'm sorry
38:24I stayed the night at Cyril's
38:26Morning orders will take place in three minutes
38:28Nonata's house, charlady speaking
38:35Has no one observed that I did not sleep in my accustomed bed last night?
38:40Sister Monica Joan, this morning that is scarcely cause for comment
38:43Our charge, Mr Fisher, fell into a decline before midnight
38:48I assisted him to his bed
38:50Then deemed it inexpedient to leave him
38:54Oh, good morning, Harry
38:59The cloud of cologne on which you enter does nothing to reassure me
39:03Would you like a cup of coffee, Harry?
39:05Merry Christmas
39:15And thank you very much to all concerned
39:18Chase your rainbow anywhere you find it
39:31And maybe you'll find it tomorrow
39:35Love is a rainbow to light up your life
39:41It's a strong wind that blows away sorrow
39:45When you walk the long, lonely road
39:50When you're down and all the world can see
39:56When you want to run away and park
40:01I was afraid both Christopher and his mother would test positive for TB
40:10But if I was wrong, they're clean
40:12You weren't wrong about this, though
40:14Unilateral renal mass
40:16Right hand side
40:17There isn't a scrap of fat on him
40:20I could feel it on palpation
40:23Soft tissue x-ray can be quite equivocal
40:26Nothing equivocal about this, though
40:29Wilms tumor
40:31Haven't seen a Wilms in general practice for nearly a decade
40:34But yes, cancer of the kidney
40:38And he's two years old
40:40There was nothing here for him
40:42I know that
40:43But nine months ago, we did have a Remy sergeant whose daughter had it
40:49We got the family sent back to the UK on compassionate grounds
40:52Did they lose her?
40:54Far from it
40:54There's a new chemotherapy being trialed at one of the London hospitals
40:59Brutal, but spectacular
41:01Well, is it working?
41:04Yes
41:04I had a penny
41:08A bright new penny
41:11I took my penny to the market square
41:15I wanted a rabbit
41:17A little brown rabbit
41:20And I looked for a rabbit most everywhere
41:23For I went to the store
41:26For the sold sweet lavender
41:28Only a penny for a bunch of lavender
41:32Have you got a rabbit?
41:35Because I don't want lavender
41:36They didn't have a rabbit
41:43Not anywhere there
41:44You must be baby Beryl's mummy
41:49Esther would like to feed Beryl
41:51Sister, do you think she's hungry?
41:54Well, certainly
41:54She is a peckish little thing
41:57I can remember lying in bed
42:18And seeing exactly this view
42:21Of the snow
42:23Falling
42:24There were four of us under the Eidolon
42:27David
42:29Sammy
42:30Isaac
42:32And me
42:33I have often pondered what it must be like to
42:37Share a bed with others
42:40It's warm
42:42Knock, knock
42:48Oh, it's not the com plan of yours again, is it?
42:52No matter how often you gussy it up
42:54And this paper umbrellas of yours
42:56I'm still bored of it
42:58It's actually a whiskey cream punch
43:01A recipe that proves so efficacious
43:03At our Christmas party
43:04I'm thinking of applying for a patent
43:05Oh, is it?
43:07Is it?
43:08Is it the 22nd today?
43:14It's the 21st, Mr. Fisher
43:16Oh
43:17Then it's tomorrow
43:20What's tomorrow, old chap?
43:22The first night of Hanukkah
43:24Feast of lights
43:28Would you like me to find a rabbi for you, Mr. Fisher?
43:35It wouldn't hurt
43:37Can you just take a kitty halfway round the world, Doc?
43:46If he needs life-saving medical treatment
43:48And his mother gives permission, yes
43:50But you don't have to adopt him?
43:54No, thank God
43:55It took us years to adopt, May
43:57Christopher won't have years
43:59He may not even have months if we don't act fast
44:02It's good of the army to donate stuff
44:04I just hadn't reckoned on there being so much of it
44:07We need a taxi
44:08We're in luck
44:12Hibiscus house, 79 Elgin Gardens, please
44:21Blimey
44:23You know, Mum, you've done great things
44:31Here?
44:32In Hong Kong?
44:33Well, here and at home
44:34I've only heard about you being mayor in Tower Hamlets
44:37But now I've seen you being someone
44:40Doing something in a city I can barely get to grips with
44:43All I've done is raise a bit of money
44:46And got people who can help talking to people who need help
44:50It's what I do
44:51Perhaps because it's all I can do
44:54Well, that's not nothing
44:55I'm sorry
44:57I needed evidence before I could respect you for it
45:00There's no need to be sorry
45:02For anything, ever
45:04You're my son
45:06Hello, Grace, dear
45:11Do you need something?
45:14Mr. Fred and the doctor are in trouble
45:16What sort of trouble?
45:17Worse than trouble, they're in danger
45:19Please, don't ask me how I know this
45:21If you don't tell me
45:22I can't act on the information
45:25My husband works for the comrade
45:27I hear talking on the phone
45:29You're not taking my son to England
45:57If we don't, he will die
46:00You don't know that
46:01You've given me no proof of that
46:04Or any proof that you're even a doctor
46:07I can assure you
46:08His credentials are totally bona fide
46:11I'm even a scouser
46:13What school did you go to?
46:16Liverpool Institute
46:16My father had an ironmonger's shop in Cornwaller Street
46:21I probably walked right past it
46:27When war broke out
46:28They took me to a ship to be deported
46:31I had an English wife
46:33I never saw again
46:34Sometimes you lose people
46:37Sometimes they're stolen
46:40Or you are
46:41Are you a gambling man, Dr. Tanner?
46:46No
46:47I am
46:48I am
46:48If you want my son
46:50You have to play me for them
46:52How about Marjol?
46:56What cards?
46:58Poker?
46:59Shemir de Fer?
47:01Blackjack?
47:02You choose
47:03Baruch Atah Adonai
47:17Eloheinu melech haolam
47:21Asher kitshanu v'mitzvotav
47:26V'etsivanu l'hadliknev shel chanukah
47:35Oh, lady
47:37Amen
47:37Thank you
47:46Thank you
47:50Is he allowed to choose a deputy?
47:53I could play on his behalf
47:54I don't think that would help, Fred
47:56You can play as many games as you want
48:00With cards, with words
48:04With me
48:05But if Christopher's life is lost
48:08Who will pray for him at your altar?
48:12Who will pray for you?
48:14Who will carry on your family line?
48:17You could have all of those things
48:22I can find a Chinese doctor for him
48:25I could be the one that saves his life
48:29Or you could just have your pride
48:31It doesn't matter who saves his life
48:34As long as it's saved
48:36And if it is saved
48:39I guarantee I will send him back to you
48:43Let's continue this conversation elsewhere, shall we?
48:52Go
48:53Doctor
48:55Take the kiss
48:57Tell him to give him a chance
49:04Let him breathe as nature intended him to breathe
49:17There is no consolation for him now
49:24In artificial air
49:26That's her old chap
49:34That's her old chap
49:34That's her old chap
49:38Oh
49:39Oh
49:41Oh
49:43It will take time to rebuild
50:04But the foundations have been laid
50:07Are you happy to be staying on?
50:12Yes
50:12Because I don't doubt our purpose here
50:15Are you happy to be going home?
50:20Yes
50:21Because I'm more convinced than ever
50:23That our work is vital
50:25Wherever we are called
50:26Why do you imagine we'll be called next?
50:29I don't imagine
50:31But I will go and do whatever I am asked
50:35Things are ticking along like clockwork, Doctor
50:41Well done, Yuchan
50:43Pre-eclampsia isn't easy
50:45But you did everything you were told
50:47Do you lie down?
50:48There's no hard work
50:48Good lass
50:50Good lass
50:52I'm glad this baby's arriving before we leave
50:59But if it's the first baby born in the new brunch house
51:03It seems to me
51:04It should be brought into the world
51:06By one of the sisters
51:07Yes
51:09It should
51:11Oh
51:22I'm keeping people waiting
51:25They're all just as they were
51:30When they were here
51:34When we were all at home
51:39When we were all at home
51:43I hate me
51:57A little girl, you child
52:05Congratulations
52:06Look at her
52:12Just look at her
52:15And laugh
52:17She's gorgeous
52:18You have been my mother
52:24Now I'm hers
52:26I give a name
52:29I give a name
52:29That always bring your best to me
52:32We all agreed that Phyllis was too hard to say
52:35No Phyllis
52:36Less
52:38Less
52:38Less is easy to say
52:40I'm happy to remember
52:42I have seen death before
52:49It is terrible
52:51And it can be beautiful
52:53I think today it was that
52:56I have seen lovers come to fetch the dying
53:00I have seen mothers come
53:03But I have known no lover
53:07I have born no child
53:09And my parents spurned me
53:13I have asked myself
53:16More often of late than in years gone by
53:19Who will come for me
53:22When my time on earth concludes
53:26Your sisters will come for you
53:28Those you knew in life
53:31Those who coached you through the novitiate
53:34Those who knelt beside you in prayer
53:38And by the beds of everyone you served
53:42So many sisters will come
53:45God can't have you yet, sister
53:48We can't spare you
53:50We should perhaps
53:56Turn our attention
53:59For the return of those we love
54:03The Hong Kong party
54:05Let us light
54:07Light for the living
54:09And marvel at them while we may
54:11Christopher
54:24You're going to give your mummy a kiss
54:27Please
54:31Give him all
54:34I have a coat to put on him
54:38As well as this cardigan
54:39It used to belong to his sister
54:42I like them
54:44Bring in wops
54:51Make sure you're smiling
54:59Smile
55:01Smile
55:01The little boy will get better
55:17We're in here
55:18We're in here
55:18There's every chance he'll get better
55:20Till then we just have to take care of him
55:23And be his family
55:24Oh they're here
55:27Oh this is you
55:30All Miss Havens haven't been managed
55:33Well
55:33And this is Christopher
55:37You look so sweet
55:38Baby Christopher
55:40His hair feels like mine
55:46Christopher
55:50Couldn't be something dying to see your face
55:56Christmas can start now can't it
56:00Yes it can
56:01Because I'm a key
56:02And you're home
56:03Does Christmas come at the end of the year?
56:30Or does it provide its turning point?
56:34Is it the moment where we close the door on all that has passed in the months that have preceded it?
56:42Or is it the time where we open our arms and say come we are ready we will embrace it all
56:50Christmas begins with a baby
56:53Therefore Christmas is all that is unknown
56:57All we must cherish
56:59And all we must shield from the winds of fortune
57:03Like a candle flame
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