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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.
01:11Je�드
01:28Wait, wait, wait!
01:29Please, stop!
01:30Get off, get off, get off!
01:32Get off, get off, get off, get off, get off.
01:52I took your money, all of it.
01:56Do not be kind to me.
01:58You 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 I pay him to keep my business safe.
02:13I think you need to pay someone to keep you safe from him.
02:16Mrs. Ma, what has happened here tonight is not acceptable.
02:20If we have brought trouble to your door, that is not acceptable either.
02:25And we will move on as soon as we are able.
02:31You keep holding her claws while I check her temperature.
02:35Do you think she's opioid addicted, sister?
02:39You've more experience of that than me.
02:42It's a different type of crime.
02:45I think she's cold and hungry.
02:50Feels the want of her mother's arms around her.
02:56Babies are not ignorant creatures.
02:59Ladies, 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.
03:17But it's sadly not up to me to give permission.
03:22It would really just be ourselves.
03:25Plus a few of our friends from nursing and hospital circles.
03:29Will there be popular music playing?
03:31And will there be dancing?
03:33And the presence of young men?
03:35Well, Cyril will be coming.
03:38And we thought we'd invite Harry Chopra and Timothy.
03:43I consider myself persuaded.
03:45Life is short.
03:48And Christmas, as we are so frequently reminded, comes but once a year.
03:54Morning.
03:55I'm looking for Queenie.
03:56Queenie, 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.
04:13In a different way.
04:15I think this Wendoline is dried.
04:20If you pass me a rag, I can get ahead with it.
04:23They said I wasn't deceived.
04:32Even though I heard it cry.
04:37Queenie, if you heard your baby cry, it wasn't stillborn.
04:42It was a girl.
04:44They told me that.
04:47I said I wanted her baptized.
04:50But 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.
05:01Soup would be particularly good.
05:03Soup?
05:04Soup.
05:05I 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.
05:17You 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.
05:30Isn't that right, Nurse?
05:31That's absolutely right.
05:33What would you most like to happen over the next few weeks, Mr. Fisher?
05:39I 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.
05:56But they're not company.
05:59Are you saying you don't want to be alone?
06:10I 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.
06:28Torin, I was dirty.
06:31I heard one of them say that my lady had no head.
06:41They 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.
06:55That she was loved.
06:57Love is not the same as being baptized though, is it?
07:02I believe it's very similar.
07:04More hot water.
07:06More hot water.
07:19Now you have to give her name.
07:21Chinese and English.
07:23What your name?
07:25I'm afraid it's not really with it.
07:26It's Phyllis.
07:27It 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.
07:42Hmm.
07:43Hmm.
07:45Sister Julienne was baptized Louise.
07:48I know two bar girls called Louise.
07:51You a bon name?
07:53Beryl.
07:54Beryl Boros.
07:55Although the surname isn't relevant.
07:57Beryl's a precious stone, isn't it?
08:00And we can't say this one isn't a little gem.
08:03Beryl.
08:04It is.
08:05Hmm.
08:10Dr. Turner's surgery?
08:13Oh, Miss Higgins.
08:14I've been offered half a dozen shifts on male surgical.
08:17At St. Cuthbert's?
08:18Er, yes.
08:19I'll be supernumerary, but it's under Mr. Borelli.
08:21Oh, Mr. Borelli is held in the very highest regard.
08:25Oh, 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.
08:37Queenie'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.
09:02It is a better use for this contraption
09:04than the plucking up and putting on of shoes,
09:07which is supposedly its purpose.
09:10Sister Honoka Jo?
09:12I wondered if I might ask for your help.
09:15It's good.
09:16Certainly stable.
09:17You're doing well, lass.
09:18What is lass?
09:19Well, it means girl.
09:20It's what we call a term of endearment.
09:21It's a way of being kind.
09:22My mother used to say lo lo.
09:25Where is your mother, Yu Chan?
09:28In our village in Guangdong.
09:30If she's still alive.
09:31Could you write to her?
09:32A letter?
09:33She does not know how to read.
09:34I don't know what to say.
09:35I don't know what to say.
09:36I don't know what to say.
09:37I don't know what to say.
09:38I don't know what to say.
09:39It's what we call a term of endearment.
09:40It's a way of being kind.
09:41My mother used to say lo lo.
09:42Where is your mother, Yu Chan?
09:43In Guangdong.
09:44If she's still alive.
09:48Could you write to her?
09:50A letter?
09:52She does not know how to read.
09:55I don't know what to say.
10:00How I come here.
10:05How I have a baby.
10:08We need you to stay well.
10:12And 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.
10:40Gambling.
10:41Prostitution.
10:42Drugs.
10:43The 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 who calls himself the Cormorant.
10:51The Cormorant?
10:52He's a Liverpool Chinese.
10:54Born there and deported here during the war.
10:57Never went back.
10:58And why should he?
10:59He's made a decent living over here.
11:01Runs a nightclub called the Crimson Lantern and other rackets.
11:04How come you know all this, but crime's still running rampant?
11:08Knowing what Triad are doing doesn't mean we can stop them.
11:11We don't want to put you in a difficult position, Derek, but the sisters need advice.
11:16My advice is they should look for premises outside the Cormorant's area.
11:21They've done something to offend him and he won't let it go.
11:25Oh, Esther.
11:46Oh, Esther.
11:55Oh, where did you appear from?
12:01I've seen entrances on stage like that.
12:04But generally they involve a... a trap door.
12:07The landlord provided the key.
12:09And the district nurse hung it on a string inside the letterbox.
12:14What year were you born?
12:171897.
12:19Then you cannot be the child I delivered in this chamber.
12:23I did not arrive in Poplar until 1903.
12:27My brother Sammy.
12:29He was born in 1903.
12:31And the others came after him.
12:34Then...
12:36You must be the child with the large round eyes.
12:40That sat on the bed and watched as I bathed this 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.
13:06Just while we're in the surgery.
13:07Now, take Dr. Watkins her coffee.
13:09Then I need you to go to the records office for me.
13:13All right.
13:14And that was our kindly supporter at the British Army base, informing us that Sister Prudence also tested positive for tuberculosis.
13:28And so have two of the children.
13:31This is a really vicious strain.
13:34Thank goodness we've all been vaccinated.
13:36We will have to get them transferred to the sanatorium and fumigate their room as well as Sister Edith's.
13:41Patrick.
13:42There's something you need to see.
13:44Hello, Teddy dear.
13:47Teddy, whatever happened to the Christmas tree?
13:57Petula knocked it down.
13:59Where are the girls?
14:00In their bedroom.
14:01Playing with nail varnish.
14:02Nail varnish?
14:03Angela and May Turner.
14:04Hello, Miss Higgins.
14:05I have brought savoury mince and a peach blancmange.
14:18You will come and eat it.
14:20After 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.
14:33There are photographs and letters in this bag that we sent to Esther from England.
14:39There are also what look to be her personal belongings.
14:43There's a comb and lipstick and underclothes, and a child's shoe.
14:48Mrs. Barr, Esther is a very, very important person to our family.
14:55This is her daughter, May, who is our daughter now.
15:00You make good life for this girl.
15:02But Esther has another child now.
15:06A little boy.
15:10A little boy who was missing his shoe.
15:12And possibly missing his mother.
15:14Mrs. Ma, we don't even know if they're together anymore.
15:19Sister Edith, no.
15:21You are Sister Edith.
15:23Mrs. Forsyth, the midwife who attended your little girl's birth took great care to record her birth and her death in the proper way.
15:44And I said she was kindly.
15:46And it seems that your daughter was born with a condition called anencephaly.
15:51The top of her head hadn't developed in the womb as it should have done.
15:57And her brain would have been very badly affected.
16:00Could it have hurt her?
16:01No.
16:02I heard her crying.
16:03All babies cry, Queenie.
16:06It's a sign of life.
16:10And it's beautiful.
16:12Even if that life doesn't last very long.
16:18Was it something I did?
16:20No, Queenie.
16:22It wasn't.
16:23I can promise you that.
16:25All I want is to hold a life child in my arms.
16:30And to tell it that it's mine.
16:39The child's name is Christopher.
16:42She will protect him with her life.
16:45His father wants to take him from her.
16:47And his father is a criminal.
16:50A gangster?
16:52Of the worst kind.
16:54He has offspring by numerous women.
16:58But 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.
17:12But all she ever wanted was love.
17:17It 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.
17:30He has ordered her and her child to be hunted down like dogs.
17:35At one point, we persuaded Mrs. Ma to hide her.
17:40But Sister Edith, it's as though they are both vanished.
17:43There is one place she thought that no one could ever find her.
17:51Will you tell me where it is?
17:53I must.
17:55Or when I die, the waters will close over her.
17:59What 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.
18:12That gang I've taken every penny you possess.
18:15We're quite accustomed to poverty.
18:16Yes, we gave up money when we gave up men.
18:20What about this one?
18:22It says Dancing Girls.
18:23You've dropped off property and drifted into nightclubs.
18:26Oh, please.
18:28I can read this one.
18:29It says Police.
18:30Huh.
18:32Oh, that one, that one!
18:34We've got no apartment number, no floor number.
18:37We just have to keep on going.
18:39Keep on looking.
18:41How can she even survive like this?
18:43I want to find her.
18:44I just can't find her.
18:46No.
18:49We've got no apartment number, no floor number.
18:52We've just had to keep on going.
18:55Keep on looking.
18:57How can she even survive like this?
19:00I want to find her. I just don't want to find her here.
19:30Esther? Esther? Esther, can we talk to you? I have Mrs. Turner with me.
19:42Hello, Hugh. You must be Christopher. I'll be waiting to meet you.
20:04Do you keep forgetting that it's Advent? Yes. And it's not even the absence of cold that I marvel at.
20:15It's the absence, the absolute erasure of weariness. Do you feel it too? I've never felt such energy in years.
20:22You have to let us get you out of here. It's somewhere where you can be nursed and given food and shelter.
20:28Esther, I don't go out. I stay here. I always stay here.
20:35The altar in the corner is beautiful, Esther.
20:38I pray always for you and for the souls of my parents. They have no sons.
20:45Christopher's father wants him very much, doesn't he?
20:48He will give him a wicked life, make 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. Let's call a spade a spade, shall we? We have been targeted by triad.
21:08The Order of St. Raymond and Artis have given shelter to abandoned babies, provided medicine and alternative employment to street girls, and persuaded addicts to turn their backs on heroin.
21:21That, according to Mrs. Ma, is our crime.
21:25A young man enslaved to drugs is at the mercy of his masters.
21:28He 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, he will turn his back on crime itself.
21:42They become free men. And, 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, and in so doing, warrants your protection.
21:57And how do you propose that we provide that?
22:01Properties vacant. Third column across. Fourth paragraph down.
22:05This was an annex of the old training school.
22:09No longer in use. Standing empty. And, crucially, still in police possession.
22:18I can't believe we're leaving them.
22:21We are coming back tomorrow with food. They're both sick, Sheila.
22:24But, I need to run some tests on the little boy.
22:28There's something very, very wrong with him.
22:39Mind your fingers!
22:40Everything's under control!
22:42What?
22:43I need tasters! Joyce, you can pronounce judgement on the Whiskey Cream Punch.
22:49Sirs, I want your opinion on the coconut frappe.
22:53That'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?
22:59Sirs?
22:59It's divine.
23:01Call me a miracle worker. It's mainly condensed milk.
23:04Oh, Geoffrey, that's going to make it very calorific.
23:06It's Christmas. I have personally declared an amnesty on Slender Rising.
23:15Nanata's house, midwife speaking.
23:16Hi, Trixie.
23:17I've just been observing a bowel and anastomosis.
23:19That's nice.
23:20I asked you around the canteen. I've drummed up a few more for the party.
23:23I'm missing and to stay in the night with the children.
23:27Everyone's bringing a bottle.
23:33Nanata's house, midwife speaking.
23:34Nurse Haleward, are you able to come to the maternity home?
23:37Queenie Forsyth has just arrived.
23:42Hello, Mum.
23:46Busy 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.
24:02Derek, gin and tonic.
24:03Madam?
24:04Thank you, Grace.
24:05I'm not sure. I wouldn't normally imbibe when I've got the ready reckoner out.
24:09Mum, please, take a break.
24:11Please stop doing stuff. Stop doing sums.
24:13It'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.
24:20But I'd love it not to be.
24:22Just for half an hour.
24:24Just while we have a drink together. In the sun.
24:26Shall we do something together tomorrow?
24:29All right.
24:30All right.
24:41Very good.
24:42Esther.
24:54I think Christopher may have a problem with his kidneys.
24:58I need to take him to a hospital.
25:01I need to take him to a hospital.
25:03You stay here.
25:04Will you let doctor examine you now, Esther?
25:08Esther.
25:09We can talk about Christopher after that.
25:11Esther.
25:12You have breast milk soaking through your clothing.
25:15You don't still feed Christopher, do you?
25:16No.
25:17There is no baby.
25:18Not here.
25:19Have you given birth to another child, Esther?
25:20If there is another baby, will you tell us where it is?
25:28I leave my daughter where she will be safe.
25:29I leave her with sisters at step of the restaurant in a box.
25:53two copies of the Pickwick papers
26:00one from the popular public library
26:03the other from mine own shelves
26:07I am driven from my heart by the frivolities of youth
26:13I have formed memories of the frivolities of youth
26:16the appreciation of such pleasures pass me by
26:21any regrets?
26:23that is between myself and the almighty
26:27we can take you back with us, Esther
26:35we can reunite you with your baby
26:37I cannot go back to Hibiscus Street
26:39my daughter is saved and my son's not
26:41Esther, have you had to choose one child over the other?
26:46my son's father only won him
26:48he will kill for him
26:49is this man the cormorant, your little girl's father too
26:53I made you alive
26:55I thought he was a better one
26:57a better man
26:58I was wrong
27:02when do you think it's a good time to start party games?
27:17I don't think it's ever a good time to start party games
27:31oh, so well
27:32this house is full of nooks and fannies
27:34it's just crying out for a game of sardines
27:36I have taxi Marie and baby Luke up for the night on the side halt
27:50very fast asleep already
27:52nurse Aylward, could you listen to baby's heartbeat for me?
28:00what's wrong with his heartbeat?
28:02nothing's wrong, Queenie
28:03we just like to keep an eye on things
28:04I want to go home
28:05I'm not good here
28:06I can't do it
28:07you're only married mother of god
28:08I can't do it
28:09sweetheart, 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
28:22talking
28:30armatic disperse as soon as we get to the landing
28:33all of the lights will be turned off
28:35twenty minutes doesn't count as rapid transfer in my book I'm afraid
28:39but the practice doctor is not answering her telephone
28:41and the flying squad are not available
28:42we need an ambulance as soon as possible
28:45as possible. I hoped I'd find you. Now this is a good party game. It's bedlam out there.
28:59There are three medical students in the airing cupboard. Why don't we just go to your bedsitter
29:06for a bit? This is all getting so raucous. As long as we don't do anything improper. We
29:14never do anything improper. The rules of the studio couch are very firmly established.
29:22If you haven't got the strength to push, just pant, Queenie. The ambulance is on its way.
29:31Queenie, would you like us to wake Marie and she could come and hold your hand? No, I'd
29:36be after worrying about her. I have seven children alive and living in her world, but the only
29:41what I can think about now is what's inside of me. I need to hold it in my arms.
29:49We've had half an hour of second stage contractions and there's been no descent of the head. I'm
29:55going to deliver this baby now. My forceps. Only doctors deliver my forceps. Sister, we don't
30:02have the luxury of making that distinction. This baby's heartbeat isn't picking up and if
30:06we delay we're going to lose it. I'm not sure I know where the rules of this game are.
30:14I mean we are sat in a cupboard with no drinks and there's no room for dancing. So we have to wait
30:21to be discovered and then the next person who discovers us has to squeeze in and the next one
30:27and then the next one. Right. Found you. What do we do now? We wait, apparently.
30:42Well, to misquote Captain Oates, I'm coming in.
30:45And that may be some time. Oh, can I smell old clothes? Yes. My whole childhood's flashing before
30:59my eyes in here. I can see the jumper I wore in grammar school. Oh, I see nurse's uniforms.
31:07And a nun's habit. Ow. Sweetie, I know you're tired, but three women are stronger than one on her own.
31:16We're going to work together to get this baby out and in your arms.
31:22Together. Queenie, do you hear that? We're all going to join forces.
31:31Will you tell me when you can see its head?
31:36Jeffrey Franklin, Timothy Turner, Harry Chopra. What are you doing in my bedroom?
31:42Good things come to those who've waited.
31:43Jeffrey!
31:44Try to bear down, Queenie. As soon as you feel the next contraction, bear down.
31:53Now.
31:54I can hear the oncolibs.
32:11I can hear the oncolibs.
32:23And it's out.
32:24Do you hear that, Queenie? Isn't that a beautiful sound?
32:43glory be, but I love it. You are mine. And you are complete. And you are mine.
32:54And you're crying. They didn't even tell me if you're a boy or a girl.
32:58Oh, sorry. I forgot. It's a boy.
33:09Baby Lord, my baby Lord, I need you. Oh, I need you.
33:16How many old recollections and how many dormant sympathies does Christmas time awaken year after
33:44year? We met, on that day, a merry and joyous circle. Many of the hearts that throbbed so
33:51gaily then have ceased to beat. Many of the looks that shone so brightly then
34:02have ceased to glow. The hands we grasped have grown cold.
34:17The eyes we sought have hid their lustre in the grave. And yet the old house, the room,
34:22the merry voices and smiling faces, the jest, the laugh, crowed upon our mind at each recurrence
34:28of the season, as if the last assemblage had been but yesterday. Happy, happy Christmas,
34:36that can win us back to the delusions of our childish days.
34:41That said, I'm Jewish, Sister Monica Joan. Well, that does not prevent us from being
34:48companions in nostalgia. Christmas is but one instance of a glimmering into the darkness.
34:54Christmas? Yes. Yes. We have our Feast of Lights too, Hanukkah.
35:03It falls almost on the same date as Christmas this year.
35:24Christmas is so beautiful.
35:28Joyce. Hmm?
35:30I'm dressed as a nurse. If it's any consolation, you weren't the only one.
35:36Is there anything else I need to know?
35:45It's all right, Tony. I think we're safe.
35:54If that unholy racket you're making is supposed to be my punishment, I accept it.
36:22As long as it's followed by strong black coffee.
36:25Oh, you'll get coffee. And 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? We?
36:35Geoffrey, I have been up all night delivering a baby.
36:38And I've been wielding a bucket for this poor lamb. Florence Nightingale's got nothing on me.
36:44Good morning, Rosalyn. Or should I say, Nurse Clifford?
36:50I'm sorry. I stayed the night at Cyril's.
36:53Morning orders will take place in three minutes.
36:55Nenata's house, charlady speaking.
37:02Has no one observed that I did not sleep in my accustomed bed last night?
37:06Sister Monica Joane, this morning that is scarcely cause for comment.
37:09Our charge, Mr Fisher, fell into a decline before midnight.
37:14I assisted him to his bed, then deemed it inexpedient to leave him.
37:23Oh, 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?
37:30Merry Christmas, and thank you very much to all concerned.
37:46The cloud of cologne on which you enter does nothing to reassure me.
37:52Chase your rainbow anywhere you find it, and maybe you'll find it tomorrow.
38:01Love is a rainbow to light up your life.
38:05It's a strong wind that blows away sorrow.
38:09I was afraid both Christopher and his mother would test positive for TB, but I was wrong.
38:33They're clean.
38:34You weren't wrong about this, though. Unilateral renal mass.
38:37Right hand side.
38:40There isn't a scrap of fat on him. I could feel it on palpation.
38:45Soft tissue x-ray can be quite equivocal.
38:49Nothing equivocal about this, though.
38:51Wilms tumor.
38:52Haven't seen a Wilms in general practice for nearly a decade, but yes, cancer of the kidney.
38:59And he's two years old.
39:01There was nothing here for him. I know that.
39:03But nine 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.
39:12Did they lose her?
39:13Far from it.
39:15There's a new chemotherapy being trialled at one of the London hospitals.
39:18Brutal, but spectacular.
39:21Is it working?
39:23Yes.
39:26I had a penny. A bright new penny. I took my penny to the market square.
39:33I wanted a rabbit. A little brown rabbit. And I looked for a rabbit most everywhere.
39:43For I went to the store with this old sweet lavender. Only a penny for a bunch of lavender.
39:50Have you got a rabbit? Have you got a rabbit? Because I don't want lavender.
39:55They don't.
39:58They didn't have a rabbit. Not anywhere there.
40:04You must be baby Beryl's mummy.
40:07Esther would like to feed Beryl. Sister, do you think she's hungry?
40:10Well, certainly. She is a peggish little thing.
40:31I can remember lying in bed and seeing exactly this view of the snow falling.
40:41There were four of us under the eidodon. David, Sammy, Isaac, and me.
40:49I have often pondered what it must be like to share a bed with others.
40:56It's warm.
41:02Knock, knock!
41:03Oh, it's not that com plan of yours again, is it?
41:07No matter how often you gussy it up and there's paper umbrellas of yours. I'm still bored of it.
41:12It's actually a whiskey cream punch. A recipe that proves so efficacious at our Christmas party. I'm
41:18thinking of applying for a patent.
41:20Oh, is it? Is it? Is it the 22nd today?
41:27It's the 21st, Mr. Fisher.
41:30Oh, then it's tomorrow.
41:33What's tomorrow, old chap?
41:35The first night of Hanukkah.
41:39A feast of lights.
41:43Would you like me to find a rabbi for you, Mr. Fisher?
41:46It wouldn't hurt.
41:55Can you just take a kitty halfway round the world, Doc?
41:57If he needs life-saving medical treatment and his mother gives permission, yes.
42:01But you don't have to adopt him.
42:05No, thank God. It took us years to adopt me.
42:09Christopher won't have years. He may not even have months if we don't act fast.
42:13It's good of the army to donate stuff. I just hadn't reckoned on there being so much of it.
42:18We need a taxi.
42:22We're in luck.
42:28Hibiscus House 79 Elgin Gardens, please.
42:31Blimey.
42:38You know, Mum, you've done great things.
42:40Here? In Hong Kong?
42:42Well, here and at home.
42:45I've only heard about you being mayor in Tower Hamlets.
42:47Now I've seen you being someone, doing something in a city I can barely get to grips with.
42:52All I've done is raise a bit of money and got people who can help talking to people who need help.
42:59It's what I do. Perhaps because it's all I can do.
43:02Well, that's not nothing.
43:04I'm sorry. I needed evidence before I could respect you for it.
43:08There's no need to be sorry for anything ever.
43:12You'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?
43:24They're worse than trouble. They're in danger. Please, 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. I hear talking on the phone.
43:44You're not taking my son to England.
44:04If we don't, he will die.
44:05You don't know that.
44:08You've given me no proof of that.
44:10Only proof that you're even a doctor.
44:12I can assure you, his credentials are totally bona fide.
44:16I'm even a scouser.
44:19What school did you go to?
44:20Liverpool Institute.
44:22My father had an ironmonger's shop in Cornwallet Street.
44:27I probably walked right past it.
44:31When war broke out, they took me to a ship to be deported.
44:34I had an English wife I never saw again.
44:39Sometimes you lose people.
44:42Sometimes they're stolen.
44:44Oh, you are.
44:47Are you a gambling man, Dr. Tanner?
44:49No.
44:50I am.
44:52If you want my son, you have to play me for him.
44:56How about Marjan?
44:59Four cards?
45:01Poker?
45:02Shemir de Fer?
45:03Blackjack?
45:03Blackjack.
45:05Not too much.
45:05Huh?
45:05No.
45:06Matestina.
45:06No.
45:07Let's go, man.
45:08Woo.
45:09Let's go.
45:09Yeah.
45:09Come!
45:12Bye-bye.
45:15Oh, God.
45:18God is.
45:20God is.
45:22God is.
45:22God is.
45:23God is.
45:24God is.
45:25God is.
45:26God is.
45:28God is.
45:29God is.
45:30God is.
45:31God is.
45:32Helecha Hanukkah
45:37Amen
45:46Thank you
45:49Thank you
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
46:00With cards, with words
46:04With me
46:05But if Christopher's life is lost
46:07Who 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
46:20I 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
46:29It doesn't matter who saves his life
46:33As long as it's saved
46:35And if it is saved
46:37I guarantee
46:38I will send him back to you
46:47Let's continue this conversation elsewhere, shall we?
46:49No
46:51Doctor
46:53Take the kiss
46:54Tell him to give him a chance
46:57What the heck?
46:59What the heck?
47:00Tell him to give him a chance
47:10Let him breathe as nature intended him to breathe
47:13There is no consolation for him now
47:17There is no consolation for him now
47:20In artificial air
47:24That's her old chap
47:26That's her old chap
47:28That's her old chap
47:29Yes
47:31Yes
47:32There is no reaction for him
47:33Nothing
47:34Awww
47:35Awww
47:37Awww
47:39Awww
47:40Awww
47:41Awww
47:43Awww
47:44Awww
47:46Awww
47:47Awww
47:48Awww
47:49it will take time to rebuild but the foundations have been laid
48:00are you happy to be staying on yes because i don't doubt our purpose here
48:09are you happy to be going home yes because i'm more convinced than ever that our work
48:17is vital wherever we are called where do you imagine we'll be called next i don't imagine
48:24but i will go and do whatever i am asked
48:28things are ticking along like clockwork doctor well done you chan pre-eclampsia isn't easy
48:36but you did everything you were told do you lie down this no hard work good lass good lass
48:44i'm glad this baby's arriving before we leave but if it's the first baby born in the new
48:53branch house it seems to me it should be brought into the world by one of the sisters
48:58oh i'm keeping people waiting they're all just as they were when i were here when we were
49:05when we were all at home
49:12when we were all at home
49:28when we were all at home
49:35oh
49:37oh
49:39oh
49:42oh
49:43oh
49:44oh
49:45oh
49:49oh
49:50oh
49:51oh
49:52Little girl, you child. Congratulations.
49:59Look at her.
50:02Just look at her.
50:04Alas, she's gorgeous.
50:10You have been my mother, now I'm her.
50:15I give a name that always brings your best to me.
50:18We all agreed that Phyllis was too hard to say.
50:22No, Phyllis.
50:23Lass.
50:25Lass is easy to say.
50:27I'm happy to remember.
50:34I have seen death before.
50:36It is terrible.
50:37And 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.
50:52I have born no child.
50:55And my parents spurned me.
50:59I have asked myself, more often of late than in years gone by.
51:04Who 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.
51:19Those who knelt beside you in prayer.
51:22And by the beds of everyone you served.
51:25So many sisters will come.
51:29God can't have you yet, sister.
51:32We can't spare you.
51:37We should perhaps turn our attention for the return of those we love.
51:46The Hong Kong party.
51:47Let us light a light with a living and marvel at them while we may.
52:05Christopher, are you going to give your mummy a kiss?
52:08Yes.
52:12Please.
52:14Give him all.
52:17I have a coat to put on him.
52:18As well as this card again.
52:21It used to belong to his sister.
52:24I like that.
52:31Bring in Womso.
52:38Make sure you're smiling.
52:39Look!
52:40Smile!
52:41Yes!
52:42Please!
52:43Please!
52:47Help!
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.
53:05Oh, they're here!
53:07I miss you.
53:09Oh, Miss Higgins.
53:10Haven't they managed?
53:11Well, help me.
53:13And this is Christopher.
53:15You look so sweet.
53:17Baby Christopher.
53:19Isn't he small?
53:22His hair feels like mine.
53:27Christopher.
53:30Couldn't be something dying to see your face.
53:33Christmas.
53:35Christmas can start now, can't it?
53:37Yes, it can.
53:38Because I made tea and you're home.
53:40Oh!
53:41Oh!
54:02Does Christmas come at the end of the year?
54:05Or does it provide its turning point?
54:09Is 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, come, we are ready.
54:23We will embrace it all.
54:24Christmas begins with a baby.
54:25Christmas begins with a baby.
54:27Therefore, Christmas is all that is unknown.
54:31All we must cherish.
54:33And all we must shield from the winds of fortune like a candle flame.
54:38The candle flame!
54:39when are the Caitlin still dying,
54:58and all we must die,
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