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00:00The greatest gift we've ever had, and we can't abandon her.
00:03So I've come home to die.
00:05My last was a stillborn.
00:07No, it's the baby left to be found.
00:11It's not safe.
00:13Give me the key.
00:25We don't get snow in the Caribbean, but...
00:28Nothing's ever perfect.
00:30I don't think it could be more perfect.
00:36Keys?
00:37Money.
00:38I'm afraid it really is that simple.
00:42Who let it simple?
00:44We have paid a deposit on that rental.
00:47You mistake our intentions, sir.
00:50We're a religious order, and we've come here to do good, not harm.
00:55We're doing women's work.
00:58I'm surprised they don't have any interest at all to men.
01:01With guns or without.
01:03The other sister said they were doing Jesus' work.
01:06Jesus' work belongs to the Devil!
01:09Give him the keys.
01:11Give him the keys.
01:12Ah!
01:14Ah!
01:19Ah!
01:20Ah!
01:21Ah!
01:23Ah!
01:25Ah!
01:29Wait!
01:30Wait!
01:31Wait!
01:32Get off!
01:33I took your money, all of it.
01:56Do not be kind to me.
01:57You were at least as frightened as we were of that man.
02:01And I suspect you have been so for a great deal longer.
02:05Has he been here before, Mrs. Ma?
02:08Many times.
02:10I pay him to keep my business safe.
02:13I think you need to pay someone to keep you safe from him.
02:15Mrs. Ma, what has happened here tonight is not acceptable.
02:20If we have brought trouble to your door, that is not acceptable either.
02:24And we will move on as soon as we are able.
02:27You keep holding her claws while I check her temperature.
02:36Do you think she's opioid addicted, sister?
02:40You've more experience of that than me.
02:43It's a different type of crime.
02:48I think she's cold and hungry.
02:52Feels the want of her mother's arms around her.
02:54Babies are not ignorant creatures.
03:03Ladies, Nurse Clifford and I were wondering, since everything's now running smoothly,
03:09whether we might be permitted to have a little seasonal gathering here at the Nauta's house?
03:14I love the idea of a seasonal gathering, but it's sadly not up to me to give permission.
03:22It would really just be ourselves, plus a few of our friends from nursing and hospital circles.
03:29Will there be popular music playing, and will there be dancing, and the presence of young men?
03:35Well, Cyril will be coming, and we thought we'd invite Harry Chopra and Timothy.
03:43I consider myself persuaded.
03:47Life is short.
03:49And Christmas, as we are so frequently reminded, comes but once a year.
03:54Queenie, I know it's hard to talk about what went wrong with the baby that you lost.
04:09But not talking might make it harder, in a different way.
04:17I think this Wendoline is dried.
04:20If you pass me a rag, I can get ahead with it.
04:22They said I wasn't to see it.
04:34Even though I heard it cry.
04:37Queenie, if you heard your baby cry, it wasn't stillborn.
04:42It was a girl.
04:45They told me that.
04:47I said I wanted her baptized.
04:49But they said that the priest came too late.
04:58If you don't feel like eating, then you must try and keep up for liquids.
05:02Soup would be particularly good.
05:03Soup?
05:04I never cared much for soup.
05:07When I was a child, soup was a sign that ends were not meeting.
05:11But now, soup is a sign that I am meeting my end.
05:16You don't have to joke about this, Mr. Fisher.
05:20Not unless you want to.
05:22Nothing really matters now but your comfort.
05:24And there are things we can do with regard to that.
05:27Even though there are things that we can't change.
05:31Isn't that right, nurse?
05:32That's absolutely right.
05:35What would you most like to happen over the next few weeks, Mr. Fisher?
05:39I came here because I wanted to come home.
05:42But I failed to allow for the fact that home is where your family are.
05:46Or were.
05:49Mine are all gone, so...
05:52Ghosts are good companions for the heart.
05:57But they're not company.
05:59Are you saying you don't want to be alone?
06:02I asked the midwife what happened to the baby.
06:14All she would say was she had the biggest eyes.
06:17And she said biggest, like it was a compliment.
06:21She was kindly.
06:24Two other nurses came in and washed me.
06:28Touring.
06:29I was dirty.
06:30I heard one of them say that my baby had no head.
06:40I knew they were lying because the kindly midwife said that she had the biggest eyes.
06:49I wish I could tell you what happened to your daughter.
06:52But I can tell you the truth.
06:56That she was loved.
06:57Lovin's not the same as being baptized, though, is it?
07:03I believe it's very similar.
07:16More hot water.
07:19Now you have to give her name.
07:21Chinese and English.
07:22What your name?
07:24I'm afraid it's not really with it.
07:26It's Phyllis.
07:28It is too hard to say.
07:30We sisters all have two names, too.
07:32The one we were born with and the one we took when we gave our lives to Jesus.
07:37What yours?
07:38Pamela.
07:39Semi-classical with rather a nice ring, too.
07:41Sister Julianne was baptized Louise.
07:48I know two bargirls called Louise.
07:51You a good name?
07:53Beryl.
07:54Beryl Burroughs.
07:55Although the surname isn't relevant.
07:58Beryl's a precious stone, isn't it?
08:01And we can't say this one isn't a little gem.
08:04Beryl, it is.
08:05Dr. Turner's surgery?
08:13Oh, Miss Higgins.
08:14I've been offered half a dozen shifts on male surgical.
08:17At St. Cuthbert's?
08:18Yes.
08:19I'll be supernumerary, but it's under Mr. Beryl.
08:21Mr. Beryl is held in the very highest regard.
08:26Oh, I assume, however, that if you take up this chance,
08:29it may threaten the stability and security of the children's routine.
08:32It could be devastating.
08:35Queenie's had no complications at all in this pregnancy,
08:40apart from mild anemia, despite her age,
08:43and despite the fact that it's her ninth.
08:46But she is desperately anxious.
08:49Well, does she think the same disaster might be visited again?
08:52How can I tell her it won't,
08:54if I don't know what happened either?
08:59Oh, that's clever.
09:01It is a better use for this contraption than the plucking up and putting on of shoes,
09:07which is supposedly its purpose.
09:08Sister Honoka Jo,
09:11I wondered if I might ask for your help.
09:20It's good.
09:22Certainly stable.
09:24You're doing well, lass.
09:25What is lass?
09:26Well, it means girl.
09:28It's what we call a term of endearment.
09:33It's a way of being kind.
09:35My mother used to say le le.
09:38Where is your mother, Yu-chan?
09:41In our village in Guangdong.
09:45If she's still alive.
09:48Could you write to her?
09:51A letter?
09:51A letter?
09:51She does not know how to read.
09:58I do not know what to say.
10:03How I come here.
10:06How I have a baby.
10:10We need you to stay well and happy
10:13until this baby comes.
10:16I'll be your mother until then.
10:31Hibiscus Street isn't part of my division,
10:33but it's notorious, even within Kowloon.
10:36There are four branches of Triad active in Hong Kong,
10:39and they run everything.
10:41Gambling, prostitution, drugs, the whole nine yards.
10:44Which is why our work there is so essential.
10:47The old clinic came under a branch run by a crook
10:49who calls himself the Cormorant.
10:51The Cormorant?
10:53He's a Liverpool Chinese.
10:54Born there and deported here during the war.
10:57Never went back.
10:58Why should he?
10:59He's made a decent living over here.
11:01Runs a nightclub called the Crimson Lantern
11:03and other rackets.
11:04How come you know all this,
11:06but crime's still running rampant?
11:08Knowing what Triad are doing
11:09doesn't mean we can stop them.
11:11We don't want to put you in a difficult position, Derek,
11:14but the sisters need advice.
11:17My advice is they should look for premises
11:19outside the Cormorant's area.
11:22They've done something to offend him,
11:23and he won't let it go.
11:24Oh, Esther.
11:47Oh, where did you appear from?
12:00I've seen entrances on stage like that,
12:04but generally they involve a trap door.
12:07The landlord provided the key,
12:09and the district nurse hung it on a string
12:11inside the letterbox.
12:14What year were you born?
12:171897.
12:19Then you cannot be the child
12:21I delivered in this chamber.
12:23I did not arrive in Poplar until 1903.
12:27My brother Sammy,
12:28he was born in 1903,
12:31and the others came after him.
12:33Then you must be the child
12:38with the large, round eyes
12:39that sat on the bed
12:41and watched as I bathed
12:43this infant sibling.
12:45You had a remarkable gaze.
12:48Even then.
12:49Yes, I remember that.
12:52And I hope I remember you.
12:55I am most grateful for your assistance.
12:58Good day.
13:01Harry.
13:02Yes, Auntie.
13:03Miss Higgins.
13:05Just while we're in the surgery.
13:07Now, take Dr. Watkins her coffee.
13:09Then I need you
13:11to go to the records office for me.
13:16All right.
13:20And that was our kindly supporter
13:22at the British Army base,
13:24informing us that Sister Prudence
13:26also tested positive for tuberculosis.
13:28And so have two of the children.
13:30This is a really vicious strain.
13:33Thank goodness we've all been vaccinated.
13:36We will have to get them transferred
13:37to the sanatorium
13:38and fumigate their room
13:40as well as Sister Edith's.
13:41Patrick,
13:42there's something you need to see.
13:46Hello, Teddy, dear.
13:47Teddy, whatever happened to the Christmas tree?
13:58Petula knocked it down.
14:00Where are the girls?
14:01In their bedroom.
14:03They were nail varnish.
14:05Nail varnish?
14:06Angela and May Turner.
14:08Hello, Miss Higgins.
14:14I have brought savoury mince
14:16and a peach blancmange.
14:18You will come and eat it.
14:20After which,
14:21we will re-erect the Christmas tree,
14:24erase all evidence of these manicures,
14:27and discuss a plan
14:29for the remainder of your parents' absence.
14:31There are photographs and letters in this bag
14:37that we sent to Esther from England.
14:40There are also what look to be her personal belongings.
14:43There's a comb and lipstick and underclothes
14:45and a child's shoe.
14:48Mrs. Barr,
14:49Esther is a very, very important person to our family.
14:52This is her daughter, May,
14:57who is our daughter now.
14:59You make good life for this girl.
15:02Esther has another child now.
15:05A little boy.
15:09A little boy who was missing his shoe.
15:12Possibly missing his mother?
15:14Mrs. Ma,
15:15we don't even know if they're together anymore.
15:17Sister Edith, no.
15:21You are Sister Edith.
15:33Mrs. Forsythe,
15:35the midwife who attended your little girl's birth
15:39took great care to record her birth and her death
15:42in the proper way.
15:44I said she was kindly.
15:45And it seems that your daughter
15:48was born with a condition
15:49called anencephaly.
15:52The top of her head
15:54hadn't developed in the womb
15:55as it should have done.
15:57And her brain would have been
15:58very badly affected.
16:00Could it have hurt her?
16:01No.
16:03I hurt her crying.
16:04All babies cry, Queenie.
16:07It's a sign of life.
16:10And it's beautiful.
16:12Even if that life doesn't last very long.
16:14Was it something I did?
16:20No, Queenie.
16:22It wasn't.
16:23I can promise you that.
16:25All I want
16:26is to hold a life child in my arms
16:28and to tell it that it's mine.
16:31The child's name is Christopher.
16:41She will protect him with her life.
16:45His father wants to take him from her.
16:48And his father is a criminal.
16:50A gangster?
16:51Of the worst kind.
16:54He has offspring by numerous women.
16:57But Christopher is his only son.
17:02What has Esther done to make him turn on her like this?
17:06Every time she conceived, she came to us.
17:09Aghast that this had happened again.
17:11But all she ever wanted was love.
17:16It happens the world over.
17:19I've seen it time and time again.
17:21No.
17:22You have not seen a man like this.
17:26They call him the Coomerant.
17:29He has ordered her and her child to be hunted down like dogs.
17:35At one point, we persuaded Mrs. Ma to hide her.
17:39But Sister Edith, it's as though they are both vanished.
17:42There is one place she thought that no one could ever find her.
17:51Will you tell me where it is?
17:53I must.
17:55For when I die, the waters will close over her.
18:01What does that say?
18:02I think those two pictograms together mean for auction.
18:06We won't be going down that route.
18:08We won't be going down the rental route or the purchase route either, Sister.
18:11I'm going to have taken every penny you possess.
18:14We're quite accustomed to poverty.
18:16Yes, we gave up money when we gave up men.
18:20What about this one?
18:21It says Dancing Girls.
18:22You've dropped off property and drifted into nightclubs.
18:26I can read this one.
18:29It says Police.
18:30Huh.
18:31We've got no apartment number, no floor number.
18:53We just have to keep on going.
18:55Keep on looking.
18:56How can she even survive like this?
19:10I want to find her.
19:12I just don't want to find her here.
19:14Esther?
19:32Esther?
19:36Esther?
19:37Can we talk to you?
19:39I have Mrs. Turner with me.
19:59Hello, Hugh.
20:00You must be Christopher.
20:02I'll be waiting to meet you.
20:04I'll be waiting to meet you.
20:06Do you keep forgetting that it's advert?
20:12Yes.
20:12And it's not even the absence of cold that I marvel at.
20:15It's the absence, the absolute erasure of weariness.
20:18Do you feel it too?
20:19I've never felt such energy in years.
20:22You have to let us get you out of here.
20:25It is somewhere where you can be nursed and given food and shelter.
20:29I don't go out.
20:30I stay here.
20:32I always stay here.
20:33The altar in the corner is beautiful, Esther.
20:38I pray always for you and for the souls of my parents.
20:43They had no sons.
20:45Christopher's father wants him very much, doesn't he?
20:48He will give him a wicked life.
20:50Make his child a criminal.
20:51Sisters, I don't doubt your sincerity.
20:58And I do accept that you and your associates have been targeted by local undesirables.
21:04Triad.
21:05Let's call a spade a spade, shall we?
21:06We have been targeted by triad.
21:08The Order of St. Raymond and Artis have given shelter to abandoned babies,
21:12provided medicine and alternative employment to street girls,
21:16and persuaded addicts to turn their backs on heroin.
21:21That, according to Mrs. Ma, is our crime.
21:24A young man enslaved to drugs is at the mercy of his masters.
21:29He will do whatever he is asked to do in exchange for the one thing that will give his body peace.
21:35But if he is freed from addiction, if he finds there is a better way to live,
21:40he will turn his back on crime itself.
21:42They become free men.
21:44And, sometimes, police informants.
21:48I'm not going to deny that.
21:50Then you cannot deny the fact that we are doing you a service,
21:54and in so doing, warrants your protection.
21:57And how do you propose that we provide that?
22:01Properties vacant.
22:02Third column across, fourth paragraph down.
22:05This was an annex of the old training school.
22:09No longer in use, standing empty,
22:11and crucially, still in police possession.
22:14I can't believe we're leaving them.
22:21We are coming back tomorrow with food.
22:23They're both sick, Sheila.
22:25But I need to run some tests on the little boy.
22:28There's something very, very wrong with him.
22:39Mind your fingers!
22:41Everything's under control!
22:42I need tasters!
22:45Joyce, you can pronounce judgment on the whiskey cream punch.
22:50Sears, I want your opinion on the coconut frappe.
22:54That's going to give my snowballs a run for them, aren't it?
22:56I know, it slips down like a tart stocking, doesn't it?
22:59Sears?
23:00It's divine.
23:01Call me a miracle worker.
23:03It's mainly condensed milk.
23:04Oh, Geoffrey, that's going to make it very calorific.
23:06It's Christmas.
23:07I have personally declared an amnesty on slenderizing.
23:12I have a drink.
23:15Ninata's house, midwife speaking.
23:17Hi, Trixie.
23:18I've just been observing a bowel and anastomosis.
23:20That's nice.
23:21I asked you around the canteen.
23:22I've drummed up a few more for the party.
23:23I'm missing into staying the night with the children.
23:27Everyone's bringing a bottle.
23:33Ninata's house, midwife speaking.
23:35Nurse Haleward, are you able to come to the maternity home?
23:37Queenie Forsyth has just arrived.
23:42Hello, Mum.
23:45Busy again?
23:48I've managed to persuade Hong Kong Rotary Club to offer a modest grant to the sisters to set up a new clinic.
23:55I'm trying to work out if it will stretch.
23:59Chin up. Sun's over the yard on.
24:01Derek, gin and tonic.
24:03Leather.
24:04Thank you, Grace.
24:05I'm not sure.
24:06I wouldn't normally imbibe when I've got the ready reckoner out.
24:09Mum, please, take a break.
24:11Please stop doing stuff.
24:12Stop doing sums.
24:14It's all I can ever remember.
24:15You with your head in a column of figures.
24:17It's who I am, Derek.
24:19I know.
24:20I'd love it not to be.
24:22Just for half an hour.
24:24Just while we have a drink together.
24:25In the sun.
24:26Shall we do something together tomorrow?
24:30All right.
24:40Very good.
24:42Esther, I think Christopher may have a problem with his kidneys.
24:59I need to take him to a hospital.
25:02No.
25:03You stay here.
25:05Will you let Doctor examine you now, Esther?
25:08Esther, we can talk about Christopher after that.
25:15Esther.
25:16You have breast milk soaking through your clothing.
25:20You don't still feed Christopher, do you?
25:24No.
25:26There is no baby.
25:28Not here.
25:30Have you given birth to another child, Esther?
25:32If there is another baby, will you tell us where it is?
25:41I leave my daughter where she will be safe.
25:46I leave her with sisters.
25:48I'll step off the restaurant.
25:51In a box.
25:51Two copies of the Pickwick papers.
26:00One from the popular public library.
26:05The other from mine own shelves.
26:09I am driven from my heart by the frivolities of youth.
26:13Oh, they have formed memories of the frivolities of youth.
26:16The appreciation of such pleasures pass me by.
26:22Any regrets?
26:24That is between myself and the Almighty.
26:33We can take you back with us, Esther.
26:36We can reunite you with your baby.
26:38I cannot go back to Hibiscus Street.
26:40My daughter is saved and my son's not.
26:41Esther.
26:43Have you had to choose one child over the other?
26:46My son's father only want him.
26:48He will kill for him.
26:50Is this man the cormorant?
26:52Your little girl's father, too.
26:54I made you life.
26:55I thought he was a better one.
26:57A better man.
27:01I was wrong.
27:12You are better moving than I expected.
27:15When do you think it's a good time to start party games?
27:29I don't think it's ever a good time to start party games.
27:31Oh, so well.
27:33This house is full of nooks and crannies.
27:34It's just crying out for a game of sardines.
27:36I have Tuximari and Baby Luke up for the night on the side, Hort.
27:51Very fast asleep already.
27:57Nurse Aylward, could you listen to Baby's heartbeat for me?
28:01What's wrong with his heartbeat?
28:02Nothing's wrong, Queenie.
28:03We just like to keep an eye on things.
28:05I want to go home.
28:06I'm not good here.
28:07I can't do it here.
28:08Holy Mary, Mother of God.
28:09I can't do it.
28:10Sweetheart, this is where you need to stay as calm as you can
28:12and save as much strength as you can.
28:14You're going to be able to start pushing this baby out soon.
28:18The heartbeat's dropping and she's exhausted.
28:20We need to get her to hospital.
28:2120 minutes doesn't count as rapid transfer in my book, I'm afraid.
28:40The practice doctor is not answering her telephone
28:42and the flying squad are not available.
28:43We need an ambulance as soon as possible.
28:47I hoped I'd find you.
28:51Now this is a good part of the game.
28:58It's bedlam out there.
29:00There are three medical students in the airing cupboard.
29:03Why don't we just go to your bedsitter for a bit?
29:07This is all getting so raucous.
29:09As long as we don't do anything improper.
29:13We never do anything improper.
29:15The rules of the studio couch are very firmly established.
29:18If you haven't got the strength to push, just pant, Queenie.
29:29The ambulance is on its way.
29:32Queenie, would you like us to wake Marie?
29:33And she could come and hold your hand.
29:35No, I'd be after worrying about her.
29:37I have seven children alive and living in a world.
29:40But the only one I can think about now is one inside of me.
29:43I need to hold it in my arms.
29:49We've had half an hour of second stage contractions
29:52and there's been no descent of the head.
29:55I'm going to deliver this baby now.
29:57My forceps.
29:59But only doctors deliver my forceps.
30:01Sister, we don't have the luxury of making that distinction.
30:04This baby's heartbeat isn't picking up
30:05but if we delay, we're going to lose it.
30:12I'm not sure I know where the rules of this game are.
30:15I mean, we are sat in a cupboard
30:16with no drinks
30:17and there's no room for dancing.
30:20So we have to wait to be discovered
30:22and then the next person who discovers us
30:25has to squeeze in
30:26and the next one and the next one.
30:28Right.
30:31Found you.
30:31What do we do now?
30:37We wait, apparently.
30:42Well, to misquote Captain Oates, I'm coming in.
30:50And that may be some time.
30:53Oh, can I smell old clothes?
30:56Yes.
30:58My whole childhood's flashing before my eyes in here.
31:00I can see the jumper I wore in grammar school.
31:04Oh, I see nurse's uniforms.
31:07And a nun's habit.
31:09Ow.
31:11Sweetie, I know you're tired
31:12but three women are stronger than one on her own.
31:16We're going to work together
31:17to get this baby out and in your arms.
31:22Together.
31:23Queenie, do you hear that?
31:24We're all going to join forces.
31:25Yes.
31:25Yes.
31:30Will you tell me when you can see his head?
31:36Jeffrey Franklin, Timothy Turner, Harry Chopra.
31:39What are you doing in my bedroom?
31:42Good things come to those who wait.
31:43Jeffrey!
31:44Try to bear down, Queenie.
31:46As soon as you feel the next contraction,
31:48bear down.
31:49I can hear the oculips.
32:15I can hear the oculips.
32:15I can hear the oculips.
32:15And it's out.
32:25No ambulance required.
32:39Do you hear that, Queenie?
32:42Isn't that a beautiful sound?
32:43Glory be, but I love it.
32:46You are mine.
32:48And you are complete.
32:51And you are mine.
32:54And you're crying.
32:55They didn't even tell me if you're a boy or a girl.
32:58Oh, sorry.
32:59I forgot.
33:00It's a boy.
33:01It's a boy.
33:01place.
33:02Smash, smash, smash!
33:09Ooh.
33:10Baby Lord, my baby Lord, I need you
33:15oh, I need you.
33:16Oh.
33:18Boy, you always treat me better.
33:20Break my heart and eat me anyway.
33:24Tell me what it have to be wrong.
33:27to make you stay away so long.
33:30How many old recollections and how many dormant sympathies does Christmas time awaken?
33:43Year after year, we met on that day a merry and joyous circle.
33:49Many of the hearts that throbbed so gaily then have ceased...
33:54have ceased to beat.
33:57Many of the looks that shone so brightly then...
34:03have ceased to glow.
34:10The hands we grasped...
34:13have grown cold.
34:17The eyes we sought have hid their lustre in the grave,
34:20and yet the old house, the room, the merry voices and smiling faces,
34:24the jest, the laugh, crowed upon our mind at each recurrence of the season,
34:28as if the last assemblage had been but yesterday.
34:32Happy, happy Christmas that can win us back to the delusions of our childish days.
34:39That said, I'm Jewish, Sister Monica Joan.
34:45Well, that does not prevent us from being companions in nostalgia.
34:49Christmas is but one instance of a glimmer into the darkness.
34:54Christmas?
34:55Yes.
34:56We have our Feast of Lights too.
34:59Hanukkah.
35:00It falls almost on the same date as Christmas this year.
35:07Oh, yes.
35:10My name's Janus.
35:11No.
35:12AnyÛ©.
35:13No.
35:14No, no.
35:15No, I've been smiling.
35:17ushed with aognizant.
35:18Who's a good girl.
35:20I've never met.
35:21I've never met.
35:22Oh, yeah!
35:23I've never met.
35:24There's no good girl.
35:25You're a good girl.
35:26I've never met.
35:27All right.
35:28Just a girl.
35:29You're a good girl.
35:30I'm dressed as a nurse.
35:32If it's any consolation.
35:34You weren't the only one.
35:36Is there anything else I need to know?
35:44It's alright, Tonya.
35:46I think we're safe.
36:00If that unholy racket you're making is supposed to be my punishment.
36:20I accept it.
36:21As long as it's followed by strong black coffee.
36:24Oh, you'll get coffee.
36:26And it will be accompanied by a dustpan, a brush and a pair of rubbered loves.
36:30I suppose we ought to roll up our sleeves.
36:32We?
36:33We?
36:34Geoffrey, I have been up all night delivering a baby.
36:38And I've been wielding a bucket for this poor lamb.
36:41Florence Nightingale's got nothing on me.
36:47Good morning, Rosalyn.
36:48Or should I say, Nurse Clifford?
36:50I'm sorry.
36:51I stayed the night at Cyril's.
36:53Morning orders will take place in three minutes.
36:56You're not at his house, charlady speaking.
37:01Has no one observed that I did not sleep in my accustomed bed last night?
37:05Sister Monica Joan, this morning that is scarcely cause for comment.
37:08Our charge, Mr Fisher, fell into a decline before midnight.
37:13I assisted him to his bed, then deemed it inexpedient to leave him.
37:19Oh, good morning, Harry.
37:24The cloud of cologne on which you enter does nothing to reassure me.
37:28Would you like a cup of coffee, Harry?
37:30A cup of coffee, Harry.
37:31And it's a little warm.
37:32It's a little warm.
37:33Would you like a cup of coffee?
37:34What could I do?
37:36Merry Christmas, and thank you very much to all concerned.
38:06I was afraid both Christopher and his mother would test positive for TB, but I was wrong.
38:34They're clean.
38:34You weren't wrong about this, though.
38:36Unilateral renal mass.
38:38Right hand side.
38:40There isn't a scrap of fat on him.
38:42I could feel it on palpation.
38:45Soft tissue x-ray can be quite equivocal.
38:48Nothing equivocal about this, though.
38:51Wilms tumour.
38:52Haven't seen a Wilms in general practice for nearly a decade, but...
38:56Yes, cancer of the kidney.
38:59And he's two years old.
39:01There was nothing here for him. I know that.
39:04But...
39:06Nine months ago, we did have a Remi sergeant whose daughter had it.
39:10We got the family sent back to the UK on compassionate grounds.
39:13Did they lose her?
39:14Far from it.
39:15There's a new chemotherapy being trialled at one of the London hospitals.
39:19Brutal, but spectacular.
39:21Is it working?
39:22Yes.
39:23I had a penny.
39:24A bright new penny.
39:25I took my penny to the market square.
39:26I wanted a rabbit.
39:27A little brown rabbit.
39:28And I looked for a rabbit most everywhere.
39:29For I went to the store with a sold sweet lavender.
39:34Only a penny for a bunch of lavender.
39:37Have you got a rabbit?
39:38Because I don't want lavender.
39:39They didn't.
39:40They didn't have a rabbit.
39:41Not anywhere there.
39:42You must be baby Beryl's mummy.
39:43Esther would like to feed Beryl.
39:53And sister, do you think she's hungry?
39:55Well, most certainly.
39:57She's hungry.
39:58They didn't have a rabbit. Not anywhere there.
40:03You must be baby Beryl's mummy.
40:07Esther would like to feed Beryl.
40:09Sister, do you think she's hungry?
40:11Well, most certainly. She is a peckish little thing.
40:28I can remember lying in bed and seeing exactly this view of the snow pouring.
40:40There were four of us under the Eiderdar.
40:43David, Sammy, Isaac and me.
40:49I have often pondered what it must be like to share a bed with others.
40:55It's more.
41:01Knock, knock!
41:03Oh, it's not that com plan of yours again, is it?
41:07No matter how often you gussy it up with those paper umbrellas of yours, I'm still bored of it.
41:13It's actually a whisky cream punch.
41:15A recipe that proves so efficacious at our Christmas party, I'm thinking of applying for a patent.
41:20Oh, is it? Is it?
41:24Is it the 22nd today?
41:27It's the 21st, Mr. Fisher.
41:30Oh.
41:32Then it's tomorrow.
41:33What's tomorrow, old chap?
41:35The first night of Chanukah.
41:39The Feast of Lights.
41:43Would you like me to find a rabbi for you, Mr. Fisher?
41:47It wouldn't hurt.
41:48Can you just take a kitty halfway round the world, Doc?
41:57If he needs life-saving medical treatment, and his mother gives permission, yes.
42:02But you don't have to adopt him?
42:04No, thank God.
42:06It took us years to adopt me.
42:08Christopher won't have years.
42:10He may not even have months if we don't act fast.
42:13It's good of the army to donate stuff.
42:15I just hadn't reckoned on there being so much of it.
42:17We need a taxi.
42:19We're in luck.
42:26Hibiscus House, 79 Elgin Gardens, please.
42:33Blimey.
42:38You know, Mum, you've done great things.
42:41Here?
42:42In Hong Kong?
42:43Well, here.
42:44And at home.
42:45I've only heard about you being mayor in Tower Hamlets.
42:47But now I've seen you, being someone.
42:50Doing something in a city I can barely get to grips with.
42:53All I've done is raise a bit of money.
42:55And got people who can help talking to people who need help.
42:59It's what I do.
43:00Perhaps because it's all I can do.
43:02Well, that's not nothing.
43:04I'm sorry.
43:06I needed evidence before I could respect you for it.
43:09There's no need to be sorry.
43:11For anything.
43:12Ever.
43:13You're my son.
43:18Hello, Grace, dear.
43:20Do you need something?
43:21Mr. Fred and the doctor are in trouble.
43:23What sort of trouble?
43:24Worse than trouble.
43:25They're in danger.
43:26Please, don't ask me how I know this.
43:28If you don't tell me, I can't act on the information.
43:32My husband works for the comrade.
43:34I hear talking on the phone.
43:36Not taking right away my son to England?
43:38If we don't, you'll die.
43:39I do not know what our parents are chatting with.
43:48There's more than a dad with MUR MUR MUR MUR MUR MUR MUR MUR MUR MUR MUR MUR MUR MUR WITH DUFF YOU DO NOT TAKE?
43:57You do not taking my son to England?
43:59If we don't, he will die.
44:00Not taking my son to England.
44:02you don't know we are literally losing our life to England?
44:05die. You don't know that? You've given me no proof of that? Only proof that you're
44:11even a doctor? I can assure you his credentials are totally bona fide. I'm
44:16Eva Lascousa. What school did you go to? Liverpool Institute. My father had an
44:23ironmonger's shop in Cornwallis Street. I probably walked right past it. When war
44:32broke out, they took me to a chef to be deported. I had an English wife I never
44:37saw again. Sometimes you lose people. Sometimes they're stolen. Or you are. Are
44:47you a gambling man, Dr. Tanner? No. I am. If you want my son, you have to play me for
44:54them. How about Marjan? What cards? Poker? What do you want to do? Blackjack? You choose.
45:09Ahami!
45:10Amen!
45:11V'Azachotala could be replaced.
45:12It is Eden, which has not been censorship but still helpful.
45:14Actually don't care what Paul said.
45:15Apparently he enjoyed.
45:16Something is necessary to kill him and fix him without a doubt.
45:19What would you do?
45:21God was independent, he has not property 아니
45:23s Hans anizers volvaux Dei.
45:23God said nothing.
45:24He could not refuse to the tve and have an imos terrorist.
45:27Of would you?
45:28God's Bible subtitle.
45:28God expects him to the Church of Kings,
45:30He says same z Gayom,
45:32God bless him,
45:34Jesus is a word of message.
45:35Amen.
45:36Amen.
45:37Amen.
45:51Is he allowed to choose a deputy?
45:53I could play on his behalf.
45:54I don't think that would help, Fred.
45:57You can play as many games as you want.
46:01With cards, with words.
46:04With me.
46:05But if Christopher's life is lost, who will pray for him at your altar?
46:11Who will pray for you?
46:13Who will carry on your family line?
46:18You could have all of those things.
46:21I can find a Chinese doctor for him.
46:24I could be the one that saves his life.
46:27Or you could just have your pride.
46:30It doesn't matter who saves his life.
46:33As long as it's saved.
46:36And if it is saved, I guarantee I will send him back to you.
46:47Let's continue this conversation elsewhere, shall we?
46:50No.
46:51Doctor.
46:53Take the kiss.
46:55Yes.
46:55Tell him to give him a chance.
47:08Let him breathe as nature intended him to breathe.
47:13There is no consolation for him now, in artificial air.
47:28That's her, old chap.
47:29It will take time to rebuild.
47:57But the foundations have been laid.
48:02Are you happy to be staying on?
48:05Yes.
48:06Because I don't doubt our purpose here.
48:09Are you happy to be going home?
48:13Yes.
48:14Because I'm more convinced than ever that our work is vital, wherever we are called.
48:20Where do you imagine we'll be called next?
48:21I don't imagine.
48:22I don't imagine.
48:24But I will go and do whatever I am asked.
48:31Things are ticking along like clockwork, Doctor.
48:33Well done, Yuchan.
48:35Pre-eclampsia isn't easy, but you did everything you were told.
48:39Do you lie down?
48:39There's no hard work.
48:41Good lass.
48:42Good lass.
48:43I'm glad this baby is arriving before we leave.
48:50But if it's the first baby born in the new brunch house, it seems to me it should be brought
48:56into the world by one of the sisters.
48:59Yes.
49:00It should.
49:01Oh, I'm keeping people waiting.
49:17They're all just as they were.
49:22When I were here.
49:26When we were all at home.
49:31a little girl, you child.
49:54Congratulations.
49:58You're not good, darling.
50:01Just look at her, and laugh, she's gorgeous.
50:10You have been my mother, now I'm her.
50:14I give a name that always brings your best to me.
50:19We all agreed that Phyllis was too hard to say.
50:22No, Phyllis.
50:24Last.
50:25Last is easy to say.
50:27I'm happy to remember.
50:31I have seen death before, it is terrible, and it can be beautiful.
50:40I think today it was that.
50:42I have seen lovers come to fetch the dying.
50:46I have seen mothers come.
50:50But I have known no lover, I have born no child.
50:56And my parents spurn me.
50:58I have asked myself, more often of late than in years gone by,
51:05who will come for me when my time on earth concludes?
51:10Your sisters will come for you.
51:13Those you knew in life.
51:15Those who coached you through the novitiate.
51:18Those who knelt beside you in prayer.
51:22And by the beds of everyone you served.
51:26So many sisters will come.
51:29God can't have you yet, sister.
51:32We can't spare you.
51:33We should perhaps turn our attention for the return of those we love.
51:46The Hong Kong party.
51:48Let us light a light for the living and marvel at them while we may.
51:53Christopher, you're going to give your mummy a kiss.
52:12Please, give him all.
52:16I've got a coat to put on him, as well as this cardigan.
52:21It used to belong to his sister.
52:22I like them.
52:28Bring in wops.
52:38Make sure you're smiling.
52:39Smile!
52:40Mario!
52:54The little boy will get better.
52:56We're in here.
52:58There's every chance he'll get better.
53:00Till then we just have to take care of him.
53:02And be his family.
53:04Oh, they're here!
53:06Oh, miss you!
53:08Oh, miss Higgins, haven't they managed?
53:10Well, help me.
53:12And this is Christopher.
53:14You look so sweet.
53:16Baby Christopher!
53:18Isn't he small?
53:20His hair feels like wine.
53:26Christopher, actually.
53:28Couldn't be something dying to see your face.
53:32Christmas can start now, can't it?
53:34Yes, it can.
53:36Yes, it can.
53:38Because I made tea and you're home.
53:40Oh!
53:42Oh!
53:44Oh!
53:45Oh!
53:46Oh!
53:47Oh!
53:48Oh!
53:49Oh!
53:50Oh!
53:51Oh!
53:52Oh!
53:53Oh!
53:54Oh!
53:56Oh!
53:57What?
53:59Oh!
54:00Oh!
54:01Oh!
54:02Oh!
54:03Does Christmas come at the end of the year?
54:06Or does it provide its turning point?
54:10Is it the moment where we close the door on all that has passed in the months that have preceded it?
54:17Or is it the time where we open our arms and say,
54:21Come, we are ready. We will embrace it all.
54:25Christmas begins with a baby.
54:28Therefore, Christmas is all that is unknown.
54:31All we must cherish and all we must shield from the winds of fortune like a candle flame.
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