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Christmas Special 2025 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.
01:26Yeah!
01:36Wait, wait, wait.
01:38Wait!
01:39Stop!
01:40Get off, get off, get off.
01:41Get off!
01:56It took your money, all of it.
02:03Do not be kind to me.
02:06You were at least as frightened as we were of that man.
02:09And I suspect you have been so for a great deal longer.
02:13Has he been here before, Mrs. Ma?
02:17Many times I pay him to keep my business safe.
02:21I think you need to pay someone to keep you safe from him.
02:24Mrs. Ma, what has happened here tonight is not acceptable.
02:28If we have brought trouble to your door, that is not acceptable either.
02:33And we will move on as soon as we are able.
02:40You keep holding her clothes while I check her temperature.
02:45Do you think she's opioid addicted, sister?
02:49You've more experience of that than me.
02:52It's a different type.
02:54I think she's cold and hungry.
03:01Feels the want of her mother's arms around her.
03:06Babies are not ignorant creatures.
03:13Ladies, Nurse Clifford and I were wondering,
03:16since everything's now running smoothly,
03:18whether we might be permitted to have a little seasonal gathering here at the Narcissus House?
03:24I love the idea of a seasonal gathering,
03:26but it's certainly not up to me to give permission.
03:32It would really just be ourselves.
03:36Plus a few of our friends from nursing and hospital circles.
03:39Will there be popular music playing, and will there be dancing, and the presence of young men?
03:46Well, Cyril will be coming, and we thought we'd invite Harry Chopra and Timothy.
03:53I consider myself persuaded.
03:56Life is short.
04:00And Christmas, as we are so frequently reminded, comes but once a year.
04:06Morning.
04:09I'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, in a different way.
04:29I 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.
04:49Queenie, 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 baptised.
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.
05:41Even though there are things that we can't change.
05:44Isn't that right, nurse?
05:46Isn'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.
05:57But I failed to allow the fact that home is where your family are.
06:01Or were.
06:04Mine are all gone, so...
06:07Ghosts 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.
06:29All she would say was she had the biggest eyes.
06:32And she said biggest, like it was a compliment.
06:37She was kindly.
06:40Two other nurses came in and watched me.
06:44Touring.
06:45I was dirty.
06:47I heard one of them say that my baby had no head.
06:56I knew they were lying because the kindly midwife...
07:02said 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.
07:21I believe it's very similar.
07:32More 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 hot to say.
07:48We sisters all have two names, too.
07:50The one we were born with
07:52and the one we took when we gave our lives to Jesus.
07:55What's yours?
07:55Pamela.
07:57Semi-classical with rather a nice ring to it.
08:00Hmm.
08:02Sister 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?
08:18And we can't say this one isn't a little gem.
08:23Beryl, it is.
08:26Tag it.
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.
08:44Oh, I assume, however, that if you take up this chance,
08:48it may threaten the stability and security of the children's routine.
08:52It 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?
09:14If I don't know what happened either.
09:20Oh!
09:21That'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?
09:33I wondered if I might ask for your help.
09:35It's good.
09:42It'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?
10:13She does not know how to read.
10:20I do not know what to say.
10:25I come here.
10:28I have a baby.
10:30We need you to stay well and happy
10:36until this baby comes.
10:42I'll be your mother until then.
10:54Hibiscus Street isn't part of my division,
10:57but 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.
11:22Why 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.
12:50I did not arrive in Poplar until 1903.
12:53My brother, Sammy.
12:55He was born in 1903
12:57and the others came after him.
13:01Then
13:01you must be the child with 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.
13:19And I hope I remember you.
13:22I am most grateful for your assistance.
13:25Good day.
13:28Harry.
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.
13:41All right.
13:48And that was our kindly supporter
13:50at the British Army base
13:51informing us that Sister Prudence
13:54also 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.
14:10Patrick.
14:10Patrick, there's something you need to see.
14:15Hello, Teddy, dear.
14:24Teddy, whatever happened to the Christmas tree?
14:27Petula knocked it down.
14:29Where are the girls?
14:30In their bedroom, playing with nail varnish.
14:34Nail varnish.
14:36Angela and May Turner.
14:41Hello, Miss Higgins.
14:43I have brought savoury mince and a peach blancmange.
14:47You will come and eat it.
14:49After which, we will re-elect the Christmas tree,
14:54erase all evidence of these manicures,
14:57and discuss a plan for the remainder of your parents' absence.
15:01There 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.
15:30You make good life for this girl.
15:33But Esther has another child now.
15:36A little boy.
15:41A little boy who was missing a shoe.
15:43And possibly missing his mother?
15:46Mrs. Ma, we don't even know if they're together anymore.
15:51Sister Edith, no.
15:53You are Sister Edith.
16:00Mrs. Ma.
16:05Mrs. Forsythe,
16:07the midwife who attended your little girl's birth
16:11took great care to record her birth and her death in the proper way.
16:17I 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.
16:33Could it have hurt her?
16:34No.
16:35But I hurt her crying.
16:37All babies cry, Queenie.
16:40It's a sign of life.
16:43And it's beautiful.
16:45Even if that life doesn't last very long.
16:51Was it something I did?
16:53No, Queenie.
16:55It wasn't.
16:56I can promise you that.
16:58All I want to
16:59is to hold a life child in my arms
17:02and to tell her that it's mine.
17:12The child's name is Christopher.
17:15She will protect him with her life.
17:19His father wants to take him from her.
17:21And his father is a criminal.
17:24A gangster?
17:26Of the worst kind.
17:29He has offspring by numerous women.
17:32But Christopher is his only son.
17:37What has Esther done to make him turn on her like this?
17:40Every time she conceived, she came to us.
17:43Aghast that this had happened again.
17:46But all she ever wanted was love.
17:52Happens the world over.
17:54I've seen it time and time again.
17:56No.
17:57You have not seen a man like this.
18:01They call him the Coomerant.
18:03He has ordered her and her child
18:07to be hunted down like dogs.
18:10At one point,
18:12we persuaded Mrs. Ma to hide her.
18:15But Sister Edith,
18:16it's as though they are both vanished.
18:20There is one place
18:22she thought that no one could ever find her.
18:27Will you tell me where it is?
18:28Yes, I must.
18:31For when I die,
18:32the waters will close over her.
18:37What does that say?
18:39I think those two pictograms together
18:41mean for auction.
18:43We won't be going down that route.
18:45We won't be going down the rental route
18:46or the purchase route either, Sister.
18:49I'm going to have taken every penny you possess.
18:51We're quite accustomed to poverty.
18:53Yes, we gave up money
18:54when we gave up men.
18:57What about this one?
18:58It says dancing girls.
19:00You've dropped off property
19:01and drifted into nightclubs.
19:03Yes.
19:05I can read this one.
19:06It says police.
19:08Huh.
19:10Found one, found 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 like this?
19:37How can she even survive like this?
19:48I want to find her.
19:50I just want to find her here.
19:52Esther?
20:09Esther?
20:12Esther?
20:15Esther?
20:17Can we talk to you?
20:18I have Mrs. Turner with me.
20:21I love you.
20:40You must be Christopher.
20:42I'll be waiting to meet you.
20:44Do you keep forgetting that it's advert?
20:52Yes.
20:52And it's not even the absence of cold that I marvel at.
20:55It's the absence, the absolute erasure of weariness.
20:59Do you feel it too?
21:00I've never felt such energy in years.
21:02You have to let us get you out of here.
21:06To somewhere where you can be nursed and given food and shelter.
21:10I don't go out.
21:12I stay here.
21:13I always stay here.
21:16The altar in the corner is beautiful, Esther.
21:19I pray always for you.
21:21And for the souls of my parents.
21:24They had no sons.
21:26Christopher's father wants him very much, doesn't he?
21:28He will give him a wicked life.
21:31Make his child a criminal.
21:36Sisters, I don't doubt your sincerity.
21:39And I do accept that you and your associates have been targeted by local undesirables.
21:45Triad.
21:46Let's call a spade a spade, shall we?
21:48We have been targeted by triad.
21:50The Order of St Raymond and Nautas have given shelter to abandoned babies, provided medicine
21:55and alternative employment to street girls, and persuaded addicts to turn their backs
22:02on heroin.
22:03That, according to Mrs. Ma, is our crime.
22:06A young man enslaved to drugs is at the mercy of his masters.
22:11He will do whatever he is asked to do in exchange for the one thing that will give his body peace.
22:18But if he is freed from addiction, if he finds there is a better way to live, he will turn
22:24his back on crime itself.
22:25They become free men.
22:27And, sometimes, police informants.
22:31I'm not going to deny that.
22:33Then you cannot deny the fact that we are doing you a service, and in so doing, warrants
22:39your protection.
22:40And how do you propose that we provide that?
22:44Properties vacant.
22:45Third 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.
22:58I can't believe we're leaving them.
23:05We are coming back tomorrow, with food.
23:07They're both sick, Sheila.
23:09But, I need to run some test on the little boy.
23:13There's something very, very wrong with him.
23:24Mind your fingers!
23:25Everything's under control!
23:27What?
23:28I need tasters.
23:30Joyce, you can pronounce judgment on the whiskey cream punch.
23:34Sis, I want your opinion on the coconut frappe.
23:39That's going to give my snowballs a run for their money.
23:41I know, it slips down like a tart stocking, doesn't it?
23:44Sis?
23:45It's divine.
23:46Call me a miracle worker.
23:48It's mainly condensed milk.
23:50Oh, Geoffrey, that's going to make it very calorific.
23:52It's Christmas.
23:52I have personally declared an amnesty on slenderizing.
23:55Ugh.
24:01Ninota's house, midwife speaking.
24:02Hi, Trixie.
24:03I've just been observing a bowel and anastomosis.
24:05That's nice.
24:06I asked you around the canteen.
24:07I've drummed up a few more for the party.
24:09And Miss Higgins is staying the night with the children.
24:13Everyone's bringing a bottle.
24:19Ninota's house, midwife speaking.
24:21Nurse Haleward, are you able to come to the maternity home?
24:23Queenie Forsyth has just arrived.
24:29Hello, Mum.
24:32Busy again?
24:33I've managed to persuade Hong Kong Rotary Club to offer a modest grant to the sisters to set up a new clinic.
24:42I'm trying to work out if it will stretch.
24:46Chin up.
24:47Sun's over the yard on.
24:49Derek, gin and tonic.
24:51Madam?
24:51Thank you, Grace.
24:52I'm not sure.
24:53I wouldn't normally imbibe when I've got the ready reckoner app.
24:56Mum, please take a break.
24:58Please stop doing stuff.
25:00Stop doing sums.
25:01It's all I can ever remember.
25:02You with your head in a column of figures.
25:05It's who I am, Derek.
25:07I know.
25:08But I'd love it not to be.
25:10Just for half an hour.
25:11Just while we have a drink together.
25:13In the sun.
25:14Shall we do something together tomorrow?
25:16All right.
25:29Very good.
25:42Esther.
25:42I think Christopher may have a problem with his kidneys.
25:48I need to take him to a hospital.
25:51No.
25:52We'll stay here.
25:54Will you let Doctor examine you now, Esther?
25:58We can talk about Christopher after that.
26:04Esther.
26:05You have breast milk soaking through your clothing.
26:10You don't still feed Christopher, do you?
26:12No.
26:15There is no baby.
26:18Not here.
26:19Have you given birth to another child, Esther?
26:23If there is another baby,
26:26will you tell us where it is?
26:28I leave my daughter where she will be safe.
26:36I leave her with sisters.
26:38I'll step off the restaurant.
26:41In a box.
26:42Two copies of the Pickwick papers.
26:51One from the popular public library.
26:56The other from mine own shelves.
26:58Oh.
26:58I am driven from my heart by the frivolities of youth.
27:04Oh, I have fond memories of the frivolities of youth.
27:07The appreciation of such pleasures pass me by.
27:13Any regrets?
27:15That is between myself and the Almighty.
27:17We can take you back with us, Esther.
27:27We can reunite you with your baby.
27:29I cannot go back to Hibiscus Street.
27:31My daughter is saved and my son's not.
27:33Esther.
27:34Have you had to choose one child over the other?
27:38My son's father only want him.
27:40He will kill for him.
27:42Is this man the cormorant?
27:44Your little girl's father, too?
27:46I made you alive.
27:48I thought he was a better one.
27:50A better man.
27:53I was wrong.
28:03Oh!
28:05You're all going to come home with an axe!
28:06What's that?
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.
28:30Oh!
28:33Hey!
28:34Oh!
28:34I have Tux and Marie and Baby Luke up for the night in the side halt.
28:45They're both fast asleep already.
28:51Nurse Aylward, could you listen to Baby's heartbeat for me?
28:55What's wrong with his heartbeat?
28:56Nothing's wrong, Queenie.
28:57We just like to keep an eye on things.
28:59I want to go home.
29:00I'm not good here.
29:01I can't do it.
29:02You're only married, Mother of God.
29:03I can't do it.
29:04Sweetheart, this is where you need to stay as calm as you can and 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.
29:16By now to disperse as soon as you get to the landing, all of the lights will be turned off.
29:3120 minutes doesn't count as rapid transfer in my book, I'm afraid.
29:35The practice doctor is not answering her telephone and 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.
30:08We 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 wake Marie and she could come and hold your hand?
30:31No, I'd be after worrying about her.
30:34I have seven children alive and living underwater.
30:37But the only one I can think about now is the one inside of me.
30:41I need to hold it in my arms.
30:47We've had half an hour of second stage contractions and 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.
31:02This baby's heartbeat isn't picking up and 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 and there's no room for dancing.
31:17So we have to wait to be discovered and then the next person who discovers us has to squeeze in.
31:25And 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.
31:50Oh, can I smell old clothes?
31:55Yes.
31:57My whole childhood's flashing before my eyes in here.
32:00I can see the jumper I wore in grammar school.
32:03Oh, I see nurse's uniforms.
32:07And a nun's habit.
32:09Ow.
32:11Sweetie, I know you're tired.
32:12But three women are stronger than one on her own.
32:15We're going to work together to get this baby out and in your arms.
32:22Together.
32:23Queenie, do you hear that?
32:24We're all going to join forces.
32:32Will you tell me when you can see his head?
32:37Jeffrey Franklin, Timothy Turner, Harry Chopra.
32:40What are you doing in my bedroom?
32:42Good things come to those who wait.
32:44Jeffrey!
32:45Try to bear down, Queenie.
32:47As soon as you feel the next contraction, bear down.
32:54Now.
32:54Now.
32:57Here.
33:00Here.
33:00I can hear the ambulance.
33:25And it's out.
33:26No ambulance required.
33:29No ambulance required.
33:42Do you hear that, Queenie?
33:44Isn't that a beautiful sound?
33:46Glory be, but I love you.
33:49You are mine.
33:51And you are complete.
33:52And you're crying.
33:58They didn't even tell me if you're a boy or a girl.
34:01Oh, sorry.
34:02I forgot.
34:03He's a boy.
34:04He's a boy.
34:22I was dead.
34:24How many old recollections, and how many dormant sympathies does Christmastime awaken?
34:36How many old recollections and how many dormant sympathies does Christmas time awaken?
34:48Year after year, we met on that day a merry and joyous circle.
34:54Many of the hearts that throbbed so gaily then have ceased...
34:59Have ceased to beat.
35:03Many 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 as if the last assemblage had been but yesterday.
35:38Happy, happy Christmas that can win us back to the delusions of our childish days.
35:46That said, I'm Jewish, says to Monica Joan.
35:53That does not prevent us from being companions in nostalgia.
35:57Christmas is but one instance of a glimmer into the darkness.
36:02It falls almost on the same date as Christmas this year.
36:15It falls almost on the same date as Christmas this year.
36:15Christmas is not over.
36:37I'm dressed as a nurse.
36:40If it's any consolation, you weren't the only one.
36:44Is there anything else I need to know?
36:53It's all right, honey. I think we're safe.
37:07If that unholy racket you're making is supposed to be my punishment, I accept it.
37:31As long as it's followed by strong black coffee.
37:34Oh, you'll get coffee. And 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?
37:44Geoffrey, I have been up all night delivering a baby.
37:48And I've been wielding a bucket for this poor lamb.
37:51Florence Nightingale's got nothing on me.
37:57Good morning, Rosalyn. Or should I say, Nurse Clifford?
38:00I'm sorry. I stayed the night at Cyril's.
38:03Morning orders will take place in three minutes.
38:10Nonata's house, charlady speaking.
38:12Has no one observed that I did not sleep in my accustomed bed last night?
38:16Sister Monica Joan, this morning that is scarcely cause for comment.
38:19Our charge, Mr Fisher, fell into a decline before midnight.
38:24I assisted him to his bed, then deemed it inexpedient to leave him.
38:33Oh, good morning, Harry.
38:35The cloud of cologne on which you enter does nothing to reassure me.
38:39Would you like a cup of coffee, Harry?
38:41Merry Christmas.
38:51And thank you very much to all concerned.
39:11for this one.
39:12Stay tuned.
39:13We've arrived to get to my desk.
39:14We've arrived.
39:15Please call it your block.
39:17No one was afternoon.
39:18We've arrived.
39:19We've arrived.
39:20I've arrived.
39:22You were lucky.
39:23I hear you.
39:24About six days later.
39:25There we go.
39:26I'm like, how are you waiting for us?
39:28I wonder how are you waiting for us.
39:30We've arrived.
39:31We've arrived.
39:32I was afraid both Christopher and his mother would test positive for TB, but I was wrong.
39:48They're clean.
39:49You weren't wrong about this, though. Unilateral renal mass.
39:52Right-hand side.
39:54There isn't a scrap of fat on him. I could feel it on palpation.
39:59A soft tissue x-ray can be quite equivocal. Nothing equivocal about this, though. Wilms' tumour.
40:07I haven't seen a Wilms in general practice for nearly a decade, but yes, cancer of the kidney. And he's two years old.
40:16There was nothing here for him. I know that.
40:20But nine 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. There'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. A 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.
40:59For I went to the store with this old, sweet lavender.
41:04Only a penny for a bunch of lavender.
41:07Have you got a rabbit? Because I don't want lavender.
41:11They didn't have a rabbit. Not anywhere there.
41:20You must be baby Beryl's mummy.
41:24Esther would like to feed Beryl.
41:26Sister, do you think she's hungry?
41:28Well, most certainly.
41:29She 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 eider down.
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.
42:15Knock, knock.
42:22Oh, it's not a com plan of yours again, is it?
42:25No matter how often you gussy it up with those 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?
42:40Is it?
42:41Is it the 22nd today?
42:46It's the 21st, Mr. Fisher.
42:49Oh.
42:51Then it's tomorrow.
42:53What's tomorrow, old chap?
42:55The first night of Hanukkah.
42:59A 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.
43:55You know, Mum, you've done great things.
44:02Here?
44:03In Hong Kong?
44:04Well, here and at home.
44:06I've only heard about you being mayor in Tower Hamlets.
44:08But now I've seen you being someone, doing something in a city I can barely get to grips with.
44:14All I've done is raise a bit of money and got people who can help talking to people who need help.
44:21It's what I do.
44:22Perhaps because it's all I can do.
44:24Well, that's not nothing.
44:27I'm sorry.
44:28I needed evidence before I could respect you for it.
44:31There's no need to be sorry for anything, ever.
44:35You're my son.
44:40Hello, 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.
44:59You're not taking my son to England.
45:26If we don't, he will die.
45:29You don't know that?
45:31You've given me no proof of that?
45:34Or any proof that you're even a doctor?
45:37I can assure you, his credentials are totally bona fide.
45:41I'm Eva Lascausa.
45:43What school did you go to?
45:45Liverpool Institute.
45:46My father had an ironmunker shop in Cornwaller Street.
45:52I probably walked right past it.
45:53When war broke out, they took me to a chef 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. Tanner?
46:15No.
46:16I am.
46:17If you want my son, you have to play me for them.
46:20How about Marjol?
46:25What cards?
46:26Poker?
46:27Shemir Defei?
46:29Blackjack?
46:31You choose.
46:31Baruch Atah Adonai,
46:46Eloheinu,
46:47Melech HaOlam,
46:49Asher Kitschanu
46:52B'Mitzvot Av
46:54V'Tziwanu
46:56Lahad Liknes
46:58Shelecha
46:59Hanukah
47:02Amen.
47:04Amen.
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?
47:40Who will carry on your family line?
47:43You could have all of those things.
47:49I can find a Chinese doctor for him.
47:53I could be the one that saves his life.
47:55Or you could just have your pride.
47:58It doesn't matter who saves his life.
48:01As long as it's saved.
48:03And if it is saved,
48:06I guarantee
48:07I will send him back to you.
48:15Let's continue this conversation elsewhere, shall we?
48:19Go.
48:20Doctor.
48:22Take the kiss.
48:23Tell him to give him a chance.
48:39Let him breathe as nature intended him to breathe.
48:47There is no consolation for him now
48:50in artificial air.
48:58That's her, old chap.
49:17Oh, I see.
49:18It 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?
49:44Yes.
49:46Because I'm more convinced than ever
49:47that our work is vital
49:49wherever we are called.
49:51Where do you imagine we'll be called next?
49:54I don't imagine.
49:56But I will go and do
49:58whatever I am asked.
50:02Things are ticking along like clockwork, Doctor.
50:05Well done, Yuchan.
50:07Pre-eclampsia isn't easy,
50:09but you did everything you were told.
50:10Do you lie down?
50:11There's no hard work.
50:13Good lass.
50:15Good lass.
50:19I'm glad this baby's arriving before we leave,
50:23but if it's the first baby born in the 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.
50:52when they were here.
51:00When we were all alone.
51:02A little girl, you child.
51:28Congratulations.
51:28Just look at her.
51:38And now she's gorgeous.
51:44You have been my mother.
51:47Now I'm hers.
51:49I give a name that always bring your thanks to me.
51:54We all agreed that Phyllis was too hard to say.
51:57Not Phyllis.
51:59Less.
52:00Less 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.
52:26But 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.
52:41Who will come for me when my time on earth concludes?
52:46Your sisters will come for you.
52:48Your sisters will come for you.
52:49Those 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.
53:14We should perhaps turn our attention for the return of those we love.
53:23The Hong Kong party.
53:26Let us light a light for the living and marvel 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.
53:59It used to belong to his sister.
54:01I like them.
54:09Bring in wops.
54:17Make sure you're smiling.
54:18Smile!
54:21Quick, 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?
54:53And this is Christopher.
54:55He looks so sweet.
54:57Oh, baby Christopher.
54:59Isn'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.
55:23Does Christmas come at the end of the year?
55:47Or does it provide its turning point?
55:51Is it the moment where we close the door on all that has passed in the months that have preceded it?
55:59Or is it the time where we open our arms and say,
56:03We come, we are ready, we will embrace it all.
56:08Christmas begins with a baby.
56:10Therefore, Christmas is all that is unknown.
56:14All we must cherish.
56:16And all we must shield from the winds of fortune like a candle flame.
56:21Christmas is all in the summer.
56:23The Vacuum in the Yea, we must have how it is.
56:25Christopher.
56:26Christmas is all that is unknown.
56:27Christmas is all that is unknown.
56:29Christmas is all that is unknown.
56:32All we must cook.
56:38Christmas is all that is fetched in the year.
56:41Christmas is forty days to eat.
56:43Mt. Votherapy
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