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00:00The ordinary seldom seems miraculous.
00:05The slow, steady circling of the hands on the clock face, each time of day with its
00:11appointed task.
00:14To ask us if we love the daily round is like asking if we cherish breathing.
00:22We let our routines nourish us without a second thought.
00:27This is who we are.
00:28This is what is needed.
00:31This is what we do.
00:33Ah, tea.
00:36Best drink of the day.
00:39Fetch a packet of records cakes.
00:45Cyril's back from his conference today, so I've ordered in his guardian.
00:50Fred, there's water coming out of the ceiling.
00:54Oh, flipping it.
00:56It's one minute past.
01:03Sorry, Nurse Green.
01:04It's my fault.
01:05I went to see if there was any post.
01:08And we've had a card from Sister Veronica in Hong Kong.
01:11The post on a sterile surface.
01:17Christopher doing nicely.
01:19New hibiscus clinic thriving.
01:22Sister Hilda in her element.
01:24Element underlined.
01:26We may now turn our attention to the particularly trying day we have ahead.
01:30Do we really have to move clinic to the annex at St Cuthbert's?
01:34The Board of Health have given us no notice.
01:38Dr Turner has tried his utmost, but there's been no reprieve.
01:41I know that, Annex.
01:42The screens and equipment are totally inadequate.
01:44We'll be taking our own accoutrements.
01:46Don't you worry.
01:47Meanwhile, we do have both Nurse Aylward and Nurse Clifford coming back today.
01:52Will you get a chance to go to bed this morning and catch up on some sleep?
01:56No.
01:57I'm going to meet Miss Higgins and try and lick these new arrangements into shape.
02:03You do have to wonder what it all bodes.
02:11I keep thinking about how we counted every step all the way to the top of York Minster.
02:15And now I'm counting every step all the way back to your front door in Lunata's house.
02:21Because there are hardly any left before it's over.
02:25It was a beautiful view from the top of York Minster.
02:28And nothing is over.
02:32It felt like another beginning, didn't it?
02:34Yes, it did.
02:37Let's go and make another cup of coffee before we go back to the ordinary world.
02:42You think it rats, Mr Buckley?
02:44Nasty greedy things, niner things with their incisors.
02:47This lead pipe.
02:49If they know that, they'd get poisoned.
02:51I want them poisoned.
02:52I use this flat for prayer meeting.
02:54It's not rats, it's just the soldiers perished.
02:57It's not tissue paper, this, Fred.
02:59Oh!
03:00Oh!
03:01Oh!
03:02Hang on.
03:05Look.
03:06I reckon you need to pull all these out.
03:09Re-fit it with proper plastic.
03:11I just put something on their house.
03:13Did you hear?
03:14We're moving about the poplar.
03:15Moss Street.
03:16Oh, Walthamstow didn't rain long then.
03:18No!
03:19Never mind your geographical teacher.
03:22This young man is wheezing like a creaking gate.
03:25Hey, use your inhaler, son.
03:27It's all right.
03:28He just gets like this every time we pull out floorboards.
03:30He's all right.
03:31Hello, Mrs. Wallace.
03:37Fred.
03:38What's all this?
03:40Greetings, Pastor Robinson.
03:42And greetings, Rosalie.
03:44You didn't see the plumbers van outside?
03:47Perhaps your mind was on other matters.
03:57Good afternoon, Miss Figgins.
03:59I've been sent to hold the fort while you're at clinic.
04:01Master Timothy Turner.
04:03Or should that be doctor?
04:07A little bird informed me that a certain set of examinations
04:11have not only been passed, but passed with flying colours.
04:15Yes, that pen you gave me stood me in very good stead.
04:20Of course, I won't be writing any prescriptions out with it
04:22until I'm formally qualified.
04:24All good things will happen in time.
04:36Mrs. Hennessy, we discussed the merits and demerits
04:38of peanut butter jars last week.
04:41Leave your sample with me.
04:43And if you cannot find a seat, you make you against the wall.
04:48I'd be extra inert for signs of protein in that one.
04:52And diabetes in the rosehip syrup bottle.
04:57Honestly, Aisha, I'm still a bit full from our lunch.
05:01Feed mother, feed baby.
05:03Maybe I'll just nibble on one while I'm waiting.
05:07Ruth can?
05:08Oh, hello, Ruth, dear.
05:10I'm sorry we're still finding our feet in our new location.
05:13Sister Julianne will see you behind the screens in the far corner.
05:18I come.
05:19I have to go in on my own.
05:21You know the drill.
05:31Is this somewhere I can put this?
05:32Um, a paper towel, perhaps?
05:34I was thinking more like the bin.
05:40I love this sort of food, but my mum-in-law keeps trying to feed me and I'm not that hungry.
05:43We do advise small, frequent meals at this stage of the pregnancy.
05:52Nurse Crane said that in mother-craft class.
05:54I had to translate it for my mother-in-law and I think she only heard frequent.
05:58I don't think it will be too long before baby puts in an appearance.
06:02Have we delivered the home birth pack to you yet?
06:05No.
06:06I'm so glad I'm having it in my own bed.
06:08Babies are born at home in my husband's tradition and I was born at home with Nanata's nuns,
06:13so it's something that sort of makes us the same.
06:15I'll put by tomorrow with the pack and then we'll be all prepared.
06:20Kindly desist forthwith.
06:35Those cards contain confidential medical information.
06:38I work for the National Health Service.
06:40In which case I should not need to point out the proprieties.
06:44I'm starting to think we were moved here for a reason.
06:48Now we're on national health premises.
06:51Can they just breeze in at will?
06:53It's the thin end of the wedge.
06:54If they want information about our district cases then they should put in a formal request.
06:59The administrator claims they can demand access without notice.
07:03But as we have previously discussed,
07:05we are under no obligation to do everything they ask.
07:14I'm not sure she's any nearer to deciding.
07:16Whether to accept the new rules or close Nanata's house.
07:19Sheila, if she delays any longer, it won't be up to her.
07:23And what happens after that will happen to us all.
07:26Are you not partaking in pudding, sister?
07:30Can it be preserved?
07:34I find my appetite does not keep the hours that once it did.
07:39I will put some foil on it.
07:42The standard of cakes has gone right down while Sister Veronica's been away.
07:48This is the second time this week I've made a sponge so bad we've had to pour custard on it.
07:53You pour away.
07:54Custard's one of the things I miss most when I'm in America.
07:57Is there anything else you yearn for whilst you are overseas?
08:01Could be flippant and say lemon curd and electric kettles.
08:05But above all else, I miss the respect for midwifery we're so used to over here.
08:10May I suggest we turn our attention to the matter of St. Raymond's Feast Day.
08:17There will be the usual Eucharist in the chapel in the morning.
08:21And then I thought, as the holiday falls on a bank holiday Monday, a strawberry tea might be appropriate.
08:32Good evening, Mrs. Barrowman.
08:35Now you look like a woman on a mission.
08:37I'm a woman in search of comestibles.
08:41My Ivan and his family, they're moving out tomorrow.
08:44So I'm going to christen the kitchen by making their tea.
08:48Ivan did me a favour and a half this morning, sorting the burst pipe inside an hour.
08:53Have you got any luncheon meat?
08:56At the bottom left, dear, next to the soap powder.
09:00Oh.
09:02I'm going to take three tins.
09:04Oh.
09:05I hope you're planning fritters.
09:07There's nothing like the smell of frying to make a house a home.
09:11Well, all I can smell at the moment is wet paint and plaster dust.
09:14Still, it's on a better bus route.
09:17Now, Suzanne's got into the grammar school.
09:20Gran, they've got rulers and protractors.
09:22Grammar school.
09:24Well, let's hope this is the beginning of great things for you.
09:27Pick yourself out a rubber.
09:28I'll let you have it half-prouse.
09:30Oh.
09:31Last orders for Ovaltine.
09:43I can't drink anything.
09:47My face is lathered in complexion food.
09:51Why didn't you come down and join us in the parlour?
09:54I can't seem to settle, Phyllis.
09:57I knew this constant to-ing and fro-ing would have you all frayed around the edges.
10:02I wish I was the only thing that was frayed.
10:05My marriage isn't exactly thriving under the current conditions.
10:12Are you spending too much time apart?
10:15We're certainly not doing enough together.
10:17He has his business interests and I have this.
10:24You say that as though this weren't enough.
10:26It won't be enough for anybody if it all comes to an end.
10:30If you know more than you're cracking on, Trixie, then that's your business and I'm not going to press you.
10:37But there's been a sword of Damocles hanging over Ninata's house for almost as long as I've been here.
10:44And we've always lived to fight another day and deliver another baby.
10:53Things have been changing all the time, haven't they?
10:55Yes.
10:57And we're still here.
10:59Though I can't answer for your epidermis if you leave that face back on much longer.
11:12Midwife calling?
11:16You're welcome.
11:24You've certainly got everything and everyone organised, Ruth.
11:29Deal was well on his way up the ladder at the factory.
11:31But he had to start out as a government presser.
11:33A good manager must have experience of every department.
11:36This not management.
11:38This woman's work.
11:39It is alright, isn't it?
11:43The flat?
11:44The flat is spotlessly clean.
11:47And this is clearly a home full of love.
11:50I inspect for that too.
11:52It's much more important.
11:54You wouldn't have found that in the house I grew up in.
11:57My mum ran off and left us when I was eight.
12:01And my dad hardly knew what to do with us.
12:05Sorry.
12:05Why not?
12:07We...
12:08can she leave a stable?
12:09Can she leave a stable?
12:11Why not?
12:12Can she leave a stable, Ruth?
12:13Can she leave a stable in the normal room?
12:15She's a great wife.
12:16I'll do it.
12:17Will she leave a stable?
12:18Can you leave a stable?
12:19Can be a stable?
12:20I wish I had a stable?
12:21Can we leave a stable in the house if you're dead?
12:23Oh, I don't want to be by the workplace?
12:24I want it because I do not want Ruth to be afraid.
12:29And I won't be if Dil was with me.
12:35Madge, I found the tomato sauce.
12:37No, what?
12:38It was in the tea chest for the bedding.
12:42Susie, you'll have to go on the camp bed
12:44until that new mattress is delivered.
12:46You know what I mean, Fritz?
12:47Oh, she didn't like lunch and meat, apparently.
12:51It means you don't like your cooking.
12:54Hey, give us some more sauce.
13:02Thank you for wanting to be with me.
13:06I don't want to be outside the door,
13:09waiting for my mother to come out and tell me how you're doing.
13:11At least that's not going to happen now.
13:13The mother is always in the room with the mother.
13:16I do everything I can to respect your customs, Dilwa.
13:21But if we don't do some things our way,
13:23we aren't going to know who we are.
13:27Please, don't let her in the room.
13:40Oh, Suzanne, love.
13:42I need you to go to the phone box and ring the doctor.
13:44It's dark.
13:47The phone hasn't been connected
13:48and nobody else is well enough to go.
13:50Paul's still in the outside lab and his asthma's bad.
13:53The operator will help you find the number.
13:55Put your coat and shoes on.
13:59Ivan!
14:02Can you let me in?
14:03Fine.
14:04Fine, move.
14:05Just keep puffing on it as often as you feel you need to.
14:17The stress of the vomiting has aggravated your asthma.
14:21I'm hoping that's fair enough.
14:22You know, I haven't worn the old porcelain turban like that in years.
14:26I know it's tough, but if it is something you've all eaten,
14:30then the best thing is to let your body clear itself of the poison.
14:33I know me mum's cooking a good, isn't it?
14:36You're shivering, Ivan.
14:38I can see your goosebumps from here.
14:40You can take paracetamol for fever only.
14:46Then go to bed and keep yourselves warm.
14:50Tees up and Suzanne's busy putting water beside your beds.
14:53You're a bit overqualified to be a waiter, aren't you?
14:57Chip off the old blue guy.
14:59Nothing like a lad following in his father's footsteps.
15:02Paul's working with Ivan now.
15:04They did half the renovations to this house.
15:06All mod cons.
15:08Sent you're eating, if you please.
15:09Put it on, if need be.
15:12This is going to seem like a bad dream by tomorrow tea time.
15:17Do all!
15:21Shh!
15:22They were sleeping.
15:26You sit, you sit.
15:32I need him to go to the telephone box
15:34and ring the Nartis house, Aisha.
15:37I telephone.
15:38You sit.
15:39You rest.
15:43Are you heading out already?
15:45Angela and I are practising our bus route for the grammar school.
15:48She's a bit worried about the change at the top of the commercial road.
15:52It'll soon become second nature.
15:54Aren't you wearing your blazer to get you in the mood?
15:56It's a rehearsal, not a dress rehearsal.
15:59It should put you two on the television.
16:07It's like watching a dance routine.
16:08London Palladium, here we come.
16:10Let's get you into the bed, honey.
16:12Let's get you into the bed, honey.
16:12Let's get you into the bed, honey.
16:20Hello.
16:20Are you the lady who's about to become a grandma?
16:23Yes.
16:24Tell her.
16:26Go!
16:28Mother, go!
16:30Mother, go!
16:31Mother, have you been in the bed, honey?
16:36Mother, have you been in the bed?
16:38Is it because of Paul's asthma that you're making a return visit?
16:57He was the one that worried me.
17:00But everyone in the house is affected apart from Suzanne,
17:04which makes them vulnerable.
17:08The bedroom curtains are still drawn.
17:31Doctor calling.
17:35Hello.
17:38Stop being sick.
17:47I've used up nearly all my inhaler and my head's splitting.
17:50You're dehydrated, which won't help.
17:53Are your parents upstairs?
17:54I haven't come down yet.
18:01They're stuck.
18:02They're stuck.
18:03I can't get out.
18:04Riz, you're really there.
18:06It's just all happened so fast.
18:08You've hardly had a chance to catch your breath.
18:10Listen to the nurse with me.
18:12You know what I should be doing.
18:14Well, you obviously do.
18:18That's it, Ruth.
18:20Keep pushing.
18:21Just like that.
18:22Your wife's a quick learner.
18:29Mr. Barrowman?
18:33Mrs. Barrowman?
18:34Dr. Turner's going to come up and see you in a minute.
18:37Let's go.
19:07Dad?
19:19Dad!
19:21That's it, Daniel.
19:32You did it.
19:33And it's a boy.
19:37You've given me a son.
20:03No pulse.
20:19No pupil reflexes.
20:21No.
20:25You poor little love.
20:28I think Mr. Barrowman has gone too.
20:39First, we need an ambulance for Paul.
20:42He's in respiratory distress.
20:44And then we need to call the police.
20:50I've gone a bit faint.
20:51Good breaths.
21:02Then we need to get you outside.
21:05I think I know what this is.
21:09Why can't I go back inside?
21:11Look, you're to sit on the pavement and wait for the ambulance to arrive.
21:14I'll wait with you.
21:15Where's my mum and my dad?
21:17I can't go to hospital without them knowing.
21:20Dr. Turner's in charge of everything that's happening inside.
21:25It's not an ambulance.
21:27It's a police car.
21:28Is this bad?
21:36Not necessarily.
21:38But the placenta should have come away by now.
21:40We don't want you to go to hospital, honey.
21:42I don't either.
21:44I think you may have a full bladder.
21:46And sometimes that gets in the way.
21:48If you can pass water, that may help.
21:50I'll get you a bedpan.
21:51Can we have it ladies only for that bit?
21:55I think you've seen enough for one day.
21:58I hear your wife cry and I cry.
22:10I hear the baby cry and I cry.
22:13Why are you speaking in English?
22:16Think like an Englishman.
22:18You understand like an Englishman.
22:20Ruth has just given birth.
22:23It's not easy.
22:25It's not easy now.
22:26It's not easy.
22:27It's not easy.
22:29Because she'd need mother.
22:33A mother has known her pain.
22:36Mother gives ease.
22:38Mother gives peace.
22:40Husband can't give that.
22:42She wanted me there.
22:46All's well that ends well.
22:48Road past water and then the afterbirth.
22:54It's not for you to even hear such things.
22:56We have a young man, asthmatic, dehydrated from food poisoning and suspected exposure to carbon monoxide.
23:07Where's my mum and dad and my sister?
23:09Stay with him.
23:11Keep him on an even keel.
23:12I tell you, there is nothing like a cream horn after a successful delivery.
23:23I'm more of a custard tart girl, really.
23:27Honey, what are you fretting about?
23:29Mrs. Wallace phoned Cyril last night and she wants to speak to him about his conduct and also his conscience.
23:37Are you surprised?
23:40He's a pastor who walks into his flat, which is also his church, with a woman who is not his wife, carrying bags from a weekend away.
23:49And bumps into the principal elder.
23:51I had hoped you'd tell me not to worry.
23:53That's not what friends are for.
23:55Where's my grandson?
24:03It's through there.
24:04He's resting and receiving oxygen.
24:07I could come in with you if you'd like that.
24:09What I'd like is to have my son and my daughter in law and my granddaughter still alive.
24:16I'd like them to have seen a competent doctor who hadn't tucked them into their deathbeds with kind words and no action.
24:25Three deaths in one family.
24:43Miss Higgins says if the statements are signed, she'll deal with them immediately.
24:47I don't think I've ever had to do harder paperwork than this.
24:55Age 11.
24:58She might have been in Angela's class.
25:03I told them to go to bed and keep warm.
25:06And when we found them, her little hand was hardly cold at all.
25:25You're a good man, Pastor Robinson.
25:27And you're doing a good job navigating this church through some very choppy waters.
25:33But you haven't come here to tell me what I'm doing well, have you, Mrs. Wallace?
25:38No, I have not.
25:41I have come here to tell you that you're compromising your position.
25:45And you're compromising that young girl.
25:48Nobody at church knows you went away together.
25:50Nobody at church.
25:53You don't think the Almighty got a church?
25:57The Almighty see everything.
25:59And what's more, he knows his way to York Minster.
26:04I'm sorry, Mrs. Wallace.
26:07We are modern people.
26:10Living in a modern world.
26:12Wrestling with some very modern problems.
26:15But sometimes, Pastor Robinson,
26:20the best way of protecting ourselves and those we love
26:24is by being a little bit old-fashioned.
26:28You understand?
26:30Because I require you to understand.
26:38How?
26:39I mean, how?
26:41Was it the food my nan cooked?
26:43Paul, everything is going to have to be reviewed by the coroner.
26:48Ultimately, they will pronounce a verdict.
26:50I don't need a verdict.
26:51I just need to know.
26:54Because if I don't know, I can't believe they're dead.
27:00Paul, from what the lab tests tell us,
27:04the food your nan cooked probably made you all ill.
27:08But that's a simple case of bacteria with the tinned meat.
27:14Not her fault at all.
27:16Suzanne never had any, anyway.
27:20Yesterday,
27:22I suspected
27:23that the problem
27:26was carbon monoxide poisoning.
27:29And now the post-mortem
27:33have said exactly the same thing.
27:37The signs are clear and unmistakable.
27:39It's in the air, isn't it?
27:41Carbon monoxide?
27:42Only in very small amounts.
27:45When there's too much,
27:47it becomes very dangerous.
27:49Why would there be too much?
27:50if a heating system develops problems.
27:55It was a brand new boiler.
27:58My dad fitted it himself.
28:07Oh.
28:11I helped him, Dr. Turner.
28:15Oh.
28:16I helped him.
28:17Timothy said everything Daddy did
28:25when he went out to that family
28:26was appropriate.
28:27Why is he so upset?
28:32Angela,
28:33every so often
28:35when you work in medicine,
28:36we say a case gets under her skin.
28:40This case has got under Daddy's skin.
28:42PHONE RINGS
28:43PHONE RINGS
28:44PHONE RINGS
28:45Hello?
28:47Oh, Mrs. Turner.
28:49I rang the surgery,
28:51but Dr. Turner wasn't there.
28:53We've just had
28:54the public health inspectors
28:55at the shop.
28:57Public health inspectors?
28:59We're under investigation
29:01for selling contaminated meats.
29:03And they've taken
29:04I don't know how many tins
29:05off the shelf.
29:06Well, I only picked them up
29:07from the cash and carry
29:08two days ago.
29:10I knew
29:11Match Barrowman.
29:13She was on the
29:14Play Street subcommittee
29:16and now they've gone.
29:19Possibly because of something
29:21that we sold.
29:24I think we all
29:26have to remain calm.
29:29Nobody really knows
29:30who or
29:31what is to blame
29:32for this.
29:37How did you get on
29:38with Mrs. Wallace?
29:40We're going to have
29:40to go for a walk.
29:42The gas inspectors
29:43nearly finished.
29:45Well, once the boiler
29:45is stripped out,
29:46I'd have no objection
29:47to Paul moving back in.
29:49I don't know where
29:50you get your flaming nerve.
29:52You should be locked up
29:53for what you said
29:54to my grandson
29:54telling him he killed
29:56his family
29:56by fitting a dodgy boiler.
29:58Mrs. Burraman,
29:59only the coroner
30:00can say what happened.
30:02I hope
30:03he finds you guilty
30:04of criminal negligence
30:06and strikes you off.
30:08If you'd sent them
30:09all to hospital,
30:11they'd still be alive.
30:20We can't turn
30:21the clock back, Cyril.
30:23Not in terms of morals.
30:25And not in terms of
30:27what having sex
30:28has done to me
30:28and my body
30:29and for us
30:30and our relationship.
30:31Masalind.
30:32Stop it.
30:33Sleeping together
30:33isn't going to turn me
30:34into a virgin again
30:35and I wouldn't want it to.
30:37I wouldn't want it to either
30:38because I feel
30:40just the same as you.
30:43But I am not yet divorced
30:44and I am still a pastor
30:46and I don't like
30:47putting you in harm's way.
30:48I'm not in harm's way.
30:51I'm on the pill.
30:52There is more than
30:53one type of harm, Masalind.
30:55Maybe we should
30:56wait now.
30:57Until I'm in a position
31:00to put a ring on your finger
31:01and do things decently.
31:04I have two things
31:05to say in response to that.
31:07A, I'm sure
31:08Mrs Wallace would be delighted.
31:10B, if that's a proposal
31:12of marriage,
31:13it's very poorly thought through
31:14and you can keep it.
31:15Thank goodness you went in
31:33so early.
31:35Under no circumstances
31:36must any patients
31:37be allowed to see it.
31:38I'll root out some turps.
31:48Phyllis!
31:50Whatever is this?
31:53No one is to contact the police.
31:55Patrick,
31:56this is a clear case
31:57of criminal damage
31:59and probably slander.
32:01That family
32:02have suffered
32:03and are suffering
32:05enough.
32:07There's no proof
32:08at all
32:08that that
32:09vandalism
32:11is anything
32:12to do with them.
32:13I meanwhile
32:14have had to give
32:15short shrift
32:15to a reporter
32:16from the Gazette.
32:18He asked questions
32:19about
32:20potential malpractice.
32:22In front of patients?
32:24What did you see?
32:25Well,
32:25I mainly reminded him
32:26that it is
32:27against the law
32:28to print,
32:29publish or speculate
32:29on any details
32:31of a medical case
32:32whilst an inquest
32:33is pending.
32:34Miss Higgins,
32:35that isn't true.
32:37The Mam's very junior
32:38and you know better.
32:40No further rebuff
32:41was required.
32:42I don't think
32:43anyone knows
32:44anything right now.
32:46Until we hear
32:46from the coroner,
32:47I'm not seeing
32:49any more patients.
33:25You know,
33:49Cyril called again
33:51this morning,
33:51don't you?
33:52Before you came down
33:53to breakfast.
33:55Perhaps he had
33:55a sleepless night too.
33:59I don't know
34:00what we're supposed
34:01to say to each other.
34:08The matter of my ablutions
34:10generally falls
34:12to Sister Catherine.
34:13Sister Catherine
34:14is standing in
34:15for Sister Veronica
34:16at the Head Lice
34:18conference this morning
34:19and set off
34:21looking as though
34:21nothing could make her happier.
34:24Do you recollect
34:28what it was like
34:30to be
34:30at the beginning
34:32of all this?
34:33Yes, I do.
34:35If only barely sometimes.
34:37I've watched so much
34:38water
34:39flow
34:40underneath
34:40the bridge.
34:41The question is,
34:45do we watch the water
34:49or are we the water?
34:51Because if it is the latter,
34:54you speak not of change,
34:57but of we ourselves
34:59being changed
35:00or changing.
35:02it is a rhythm.
35:06Is it not?
35:10It is indeed.
35:19Sister,
35:20how long
35:22have your feet
35:22been as swollen
35:23as this?
35:23It is a recent
35:26development.
35:29Let us not
35:30speak of it.
35:39Dad,
35:40what good is
35:42shutting yourself away
35:43going to do?
35:44It'll do less harm
35:45than trying to treat
35:46patients when I'm not
35:47trusted.
35:48And I can use
35:50the time
35:50to study
35:51the latest
35:51statistics
35:52on the rise
35:53in epidurals.
35:54Trust
35:55is essential,
35:56isn't it?
35:57It's like
35:58clean hands.
36:00Oh,
36:00a steady hand
36:01with a lancet.
36:03Like
36:03antibiotics.
36:05Black coffee
36:06on the night shift.
36:08Can't be a GP
36:09without it, son.
36:13You're going back
36:13to factory
36:14and maybe not named?
36:15We can't decide
36:16on the name yet,
36:17Aisha.
36:18When we decide,
36:19we'll do it then.
36:23She wait,
36:24please.
36:25She's sick?
36:27Are you sick?
36:29Sick of being
36:30cooped up.
36:33I just need
36:34some fresh air.
36:41Miss Higgins?
36:43Can I ask
36:44Dr. Turner
36:45to make a house call
36:47on Sister Monica Jones?
36:48she seems to have
36:51developed
36:51some new symptoms.
36:55I'm afraid
36:56that until
36:56the Barrowman family
36:57situation resolves,
36:59he doesn't feel
36:59able to see
37:00any patients.
37:03I understand.
37:06In the scheme of things,
37:07I suspect
37:08this is not
37:09urgent.
37:09you stay home.
37:22The baby needs fresh air,
37:25Aisha,
37:25and I need to get
37:26into a routine.
37:27please don't go out.
37:36I'm only popping out
37:37for an hour.
37:38I'm only popping out of the
37:39shower.
37:48I'm only popping out of the
37:49shower.
37:50I changed the sheets, I've cleaned everything, but you will not let me do anything with that
38:11pillowcase. Oh lad, do you really think this is the best place for you to be lying while you come to terms with everything that's happened? How the hell can I come to terms with it? I helped my dad put that boiler in. It's my fault and I'm the one that's still here. It's not your fault. There are plenty of others you can blame. What about you? And your cooking? Come on. You're both going through something that no one should ever have to endure.
38:41Or alone. Or separately. You'll face it better together.
38:52I can smell my dad's hair on this pillowcase.
38:56Oh.
38:59Oh.
39:01Oh.
39:01Oh.
39:05Rod?
39:08Rod?
39:11I think I need the doctor.
39:36I could walk there.
39:38I go for doctor.
39:39You walk.
39:45I walk with you.
39:46No!
39:49No!
39:51No!
39:51No!
39:51No!
39:51No!
39:51No!
39:53No!
39:53No!
39:54No!
39:55Every single person touched by this case is in torment.
40:00Can we not do something to at least get a preview of the details?
40:04Dr. Turner's on the police surgeon roster.
40:08He feels he can't ask for early access to the documents because he's perceived to have a vested interest.
40:14The baby's mother lying in street by fire stairs.
40:19I think she'd die.
40:21Oh, no, no.
40:24Dr. Turner!
40:32It's Ruth Kahn.
40:33She delivered a few days ago.
40:35She just opened her eyes, said something about seeing lights.
40:39Her ankles are swollen.
40:41Looks like postnatal preeclampsia.
40:43Ambulance?
40:44She's on the brink of fitting.
40:48We need Bromathol now.
40:50Can you fetch some?
40:51It's too late for 999.
40:53I'll drive her there myself.
40:55Now run.
40:59It's all right, Ruth.
41:00I'm not going to leave you.
41:04You need a hand with those?
41:08Yes.
41:09And we wouldn't mind a bit of fridge space if you've got any to spare in your flat.
41:15I'm sorry I lost my temper.
41:18It was certainly a spectacle.
41:21If you hadn't been shouting at me, I would have quite enjoyed it.
41:25And you're right.
41:26It was a terrible marriage proposal.
41:28Was it a marriage proposal?
41:33Yes.
41:37Will you give me the chance to do a better one?
41:41This is better already.
41:44But why don't you take me away for the weekend?
41:49Discreetly.
41:50And ask me then.
41:52You know your own mind, don't you?
41:56I'm a grown woman.
41:57And a feminist.
41:58And they're a cathedral town for length and breadth of England.
42:02Mr. Parry is still with Ruth.
42:12He says she stopped her from tipping over into full-blown acclampsia.
42:17She hasn't had any seizures?
42:19None.
42:21That would have been a very different story.
42:23We don't always get to write the endings we choose in this profession.
42:30But sometimes we do.
42:33And sometimes there isn't an ending.
42:36And those stories are the best.
42:37I'm sorry for pushing you away, Aisha.
42:43A mother cannot be pushed away.
42:46Ever.
42:47A mother always at your shoulder.
42:51And it is good.
42:54I never knew that before.
42:55I didn't know what to do with that kind of love.
43:03But I do now.
43:13For showing me.
43:18It's all written down there in good plain English.
43:22It's as thorough as it comes, Mrs. Barrowman.
43:24And it states very clearly that it was the boiler that was faulty.
43:30Not the way it was fitted.
43:32It had a defective valve.
43:36What happened was nothing to do with anyone who was there that night.
43:40Or anyone here today.
43:45Meanwhile, all the tins of meat have been recalled.
43:49And the cash and carry will be prosecuted.
43:51I'm sorry if I acted out of turn.
43:57That's all right.
43:59But I think if you did want to sue the boiler manufacturer, there would be a case to answer.
44:06Yeah.
44:06We've got a family to say goodbye to.
44:10And a life to build.
44:13Haven't we, lad?
44:21It's Mrs. Russell, isn't it?
44:23What can I do for you?
44:24It's not for me, sister.
44:26It's for one of me neighbours.
44:28Well, a sort of neighbour.
44:31I reckon there's a baby on the way.
44:33I can remember you sisters coming out at all glowers and in all weathers.
44:45We still do.
44:48Midwife calling.
44:50I don't need a midwife.
44:51My dear, I'm afraid it seems very likely that you did.
44:55I don't need a ruddy midwife.
45:07What we'll do is take a gentle look at you and then we'll decide what to do.
45:11Oh, I don't know why you're saying we this or we that like we're friends or something.
45:16Because we ain't friends.
45:17Don't you talk to the sister like that.
45:20And we ain't friends neither.
45:24Mrs. Russell, I don't see any means of heating water in here.
45:30Would you return to your flat and boil a kettle for me?
45:38It's such a shame Sister Veronica missed the Eucharist.
45:41But her plane from Hong Kong must have still been in the air.
45:44And it's also a shame that your brother can't join us, Trixie.
45:48He's become quite a fixture on high days and holidays.
45:52Oh, I know, but he's gone to Lido de Jeslo with a friend from his national service days.
45:56At least I get to rearrange some flowers in his absence.
46:03This is the salt this is.
46:05Lana, the sense of pressure that you're feeling is because your baby's head is descending through your pelvis.
46:10It's almost ready to be born.
46:13Send for a bloody ambulance!
46:14Lana, it's too late.
46:23How's things?
46:26Sorting through my dad's tools.
46:29Seems the first step towards what he would have wanted.
46:33Following in his footsteps and all that.
46:35Me too.
46:42Delivering insulin to a self-injecting diabetic.
46:47This is a lead dressing tool.
46:50Yeah, there's so many years it's been worn to his grip.
46:55It's old-fashioned, but...
46:57I'm going to keep it.
47:00That sort of thing matters, doesn't it?
47:02Could you walk and ask a urine, son?
47:14Next time she feels like getting up.
47:18She has been needing a lot of rest lately.
47:21I do not require repose.
47:24It is almost invariably forced upon me.
47:27If you feel like it, I can bring you a strawberry scone to nibble on later.
47:43She's a pretty little thing.
47:44I'm paying particular attention to her eyes as I bathe her, in case there's any infection.
47:55Are you saying I'm dirty?
47:57We take the same approach with every newborn.
48:02I want to hold her.
48:05When you've, um, finished your cigarette, perhaps.
48:08I want to hold her.
48:11Get your hands off my baby.
48:26I didn't ask you to come here.
48:29Get your hands off me.
48:32Who asked you to come here in the first place?
48:34The mother was angry, and she was distressed.
49:00She wasn't unusual in that.
49:01And she needed every ounce of love I could show her.
49:09She spat at you, and she assaulted you.
49:13And the only thing that stopped me turning my back on her and running out of that squalid room
49:21was the fact that I was there as an act of Christian witness.
49:30Did that give you courage?
49:32It gave me purpose, and it gave me strength, and it reminded me that we are missionaries here in the East End.
49:43And I'd rather go and be a missionary elsewhere than be forced to pretend to be something we are not.
49:51Sister, have you made your decision?
50:03Sister Julianne, Sister Veronica has arrived back from Hong Kong.
50:07She's waiting in your office, and insists she'll see no-one but you.
50:10I came back to Poplar via the mother house.
50:16I needed to confer with Mother Mildred, because I have been feeling increasingly unhappy.
50:23I wasn't unaware of it, but our work is not about our happiness.
50:34It is about seeking no reward, other than knowing that we do his will.
50:41If you are quoting St Ignatius of Loyola, then you are omitting the bit about giving, and not counting the cost.
50:50And I can't keep on giving, and not counting the cost any longer.
50:56But you must.
50:58We must, Sister. It is what we do.
51:02It is what I have done, and done for too long.
51:06I have loved, and served, and I have saved other women's children for decades.
51:17If anyone were mine, or felt like mine, for a day or even an hour,
51:26I had to hand it back, and stand there trying not to scream,
51:34because my arms were empty.
51:39Why didn't you tell me this before?
51:42Because I hoped I could bear it, and I can't.
51:46I've been given permission to go away for six weeks.
52:14while I decide if I want to give up my vows and leave the order.
52:26Oh, then.
52:27All right, I'm pulling, I'm pulling you guys.
52:29Let's get us.
52:30Of course.
52:31Come on.
52:32Yeah, that one.
52:32Come in.
52:54Come in.
52:54I couldn't let you go without coming to see you.
53:11I've stood exactly where you're standing now.
53:14Well, I hope you were standing in better shoes than these.
53:20There are no lace-ups in the charity cupboard, and I can only walk in lace-ups.
53:25There is a knack to court shoes.
53:27Please, please, don't put your arms around me.
53:36I'm scared.
53:38I might break apart.
53:42Beryl, do you have somewhere to go?
53:45I've been offered a room in a Christian retreat house near Grave's End.
53:53There are no other religious there, and I'm assured no questions will be asked.
54:00Let me find you a pair of tights.
54:03You'll feel more pulled together in a proper outfit.
54:05You were right about Sister Monica Jones' oedema.
54:22It points to kidney failure.
54:25But tests will tell us more.
54:30This was always going to come, wasn't it?
54:33In one form or other.
54:37And when it does, it's going to feel like the ravens leaving the Tower of London.
54:45The end of the known world.
54:50One could say that about so many things.
54:57I'm telling the board that if the Order are not permitted to work
55:02in a missionary capacity,
55:04we are leaving Poplar.
55:07At the end of the year.
55:10And that is final.
55:11Do you know what you want, Sister?
55:28Apart from a baby to call my own?
55:33No.
55:34Sometimes I don't think anyone knows anything, really.
55:37I'll walk with you as far as the post office.
55:49This must go with the first post in the morning.
55:52Some things bring joy, year after year, summer after summer.
56:15They have delighted us before, and they will again.
56:20We trust the tides and the rhythm of the seasons,
56:24the tilt of the sunflower's face towards the sky.
56:29When the wind blows a little colder, do we even notice it?
56:37Or if we do, do we think it will not be for long?
56:42Because one day it may blow cold forever, but not yet.
56:49Not now.
56:51While miracles are ordinary and still within our reach.
56:55While miracles are ordinary and still within our reach.
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