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S15 E05
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00:00A card from Sister Veronica in Hong Kong.
00:02A post on a sterile surface.
00:08Christopher doing nicely.
00:10New hibiscus clinic thriving.
00:12Sister Hilda in her element.
00:15Element underlined.
00:17We may now turn our attention to the particularly trying day we have ahead.
00:21Do we really have to move clinic to the annex at St Cuthbert's?
00:26The Board of Health have given us no notice.
00:28Dr Turner has tried his utmost, but there's been no reprieve.
00:32I know that, Annex.
00:33The screens and equipment are totally inadequate.
00:35We'll be taking our own accoutrements, don't you worry.
00:39Meanwhile, we do have both Nurse Aylward and Nurse Clifford coming back today.
00:44Will you get a chance to go to bed this morning and catch up on some sleep?
00:48No.
00:49I'm going to meet Miss Higgins and try and lick these new arrangements into shape.
00:54You do have to wonder what it all bodes.
00:58I keep thinking about how we counted every step all the way to the top of York Minster.
01:07And now I'm counting every step all the way back to your front door in Lenata's house.
01:12Because there were hardly any left before it's over.
01:14It was a beautiful view from the top of York Minster.
01:19And nothing is over.
01:22It felt like another beginning, didn't it?
01:24Yes, it did.
01:25Let's go and make another cup of coffee before we go back to the ordinary world.
01:32You think it's rats, Mr Buckley?
01:35Nasty, greedy things.
01:36Niner things with their incisors.
01:38This lead pipe.
01:39If they know that, they get poisoned.
01:41I want them poisoned.
01:43I use this flat for prayer meeting.
01:44It's not rats.
01:46It's just, the soldiers perished.
01:48It's like tissue paper, this, Fred.
01:51Oh, oh, oh!
01:55Hang on.
01:56Look.
01:58Oregon, you need to pull all these out.
02:01Refit it with proper plastic.
02:03I just put something on a new house.
02:04Did you hear?
02:05We're moving about the poplar.
02:07Moss Street.
02:08Oh, Waltham's still didn't rain long, then.
02:10No!
02:11Never mind your geographic little chicha.
02:13This young man is wheezing like a creaking gate.
02:16Hey, use your inhaler, son.
02:18It's all right.
02:18He just gets like this every time we pull up floorboards.
02:21He's all right.
02:26Hello, Mrs Wadders.
02:28Fred.
02:29What's all this?
02:32Greetings, Pastor Robinson.
02:34And greetings, Rosalie.
02:35You didn't see the plumber's van outside?
02:39Perhaps your mind was on other matters.
02:48Good afternoon, Miss Figgins.
02:49I've been sent to hold the fort while you're at clinic.
02:52Master Timothy Turner.
02:54Or should that be doctor?
02:58A little bird informed me that a certain set of examinations
03:02have not only been passed, but passed with flying colours.
03:05Yes.
03:06That pen you gave me stood me in very good stead.
03:11Of course, I won't be writing any prescriptions out with it
03:13until I'm formally qualified.
03:15All good things will happen in time.
03:16Mrs. Hennessey, we discussed the merits and demerits of peanut butter jars last week.
03:32Leave your sample with me.
03:34And if you cannot find a seat, you make you against the wall.
03:39I'd be extra alert for signs of protein in that one.
03:42Well, and diabetes in the rosehip syrup bottle.
03:48Honestly, Aisha, I'm still a bit full from our lunch.
03:52Feed mother, feed baby.
03:55Maybe I'll just nibble on one while I'm waiting.
03:58Ruth can.
03:59Oh, hello, Ruth, dear.
04:01I'm sorry we're still finding our feet in our new location.
04:05Sister Julianne will see you behind the screens in the far corner.
04:09I come.
04:10I have to go in on my own.
04:12You know the drill.
04:13Is there somewhere I can put this?
04:23Um, a paper towel, perhaps.
04:26I was thinking more like the bin.
04:31I love this sort of food, but my mum-in-law keeps trying to feed me
04:34and I'm not that hungry.
04:35We do advise small, frequent meals
04:38at this stage of the pregnancy.
04:41Nurse Crane said that in mother-craft class.
04:45I had to translate it for my mother-in-law
04:47and I think she only heard frequent.
04:50I don't think it'll be too long before baby puts in an appearance.
04:54Have we delivered the home birth pack to you yet?
04:56No.
04:57I'm so glad I'm having it in my own bed.
05:00Babies are born at home in my husband's tradition
05:02and I was born at home with Ninata's nuns,
05:04so it's something that sort of makes us the same.
05:06I'll put by tomorrow with the pack
05:10and then we'll be all prepared.
05:24Kindly desist forthwith.
05:26Those cards contain confidential medical information.
05:29I work for the National Health Service.
05:32In which case, I should not need to point out the proprieties.
05:36I'm starting to think we were moved here for a reason.
05:40Now we're on National Health premises.
05:42Can they just breeze in at will?
05:43It's the thin end of the wedge.
05:45If they want information about our district cases,
05:48then they should put in a formal request.
05:49The administrator claims they can demand access without notice.
05:54But as we have previously discussed,
05:56we are under no obligation to do everything they ask.
06:04I'm not sure she's any nearer to deciding.
06:07Whether to accept the new rules or close Ninata's house.
06:11Sheila, if she delays any longer, it won't be up to her.
06:14And what happens after that will happen to us all.
06:17Are you not partaking in pudding, sister?
06:23Can it be preserved?
06:25I find my appetite does not keep the hours that once it did.
06:31I will put some foil on it.
06:35Standard of cakes has gone right down
06:37while Sister Veronica's been away.
06:39This is the second time this week I've made a sponge so bad
06:42we've had to pour custard on it.
06:44You pour away?
06:45Custer's one of the things I miss most when I'm in America.
06:48Is there anything else you yearn for whilst you are overseas?
06:52I could be flippant and say lemon curd and electric kettles.
06:56But above all else,
06:57I miss the respect for midwifery we're so used to over here.
07:02May I suggest we turn our attention
07:04to the matter of St. Raymond's Feast Day.
07:08There will be the usual Eucharist in the chapel in the morning.
07:11And then I thought, as the holiday falls on a bank holiday Monday,
07:16a strawberry tea might be appropriate.
07:20Hmm.
07:22Oh, good evening, Mrs. Barrowman.
07:25Now you look like a woman on a mission.
07:28I'm a woman in search of comestibles.
07:30My Ivan and his family, they're moving out tomorrow,
07:34so I'm going to christen the kitchen by making their tea.
07:38Ivan did me a favour and a half this morning,
07:40sorting the burst pipe inside an hour.
07:43Oh, good.
07:44Have you got me luncheon meat?
07:47At the bottom left, dear, next to the soap powder.
07:50Oh.
07:53I'm going to take three tins.
07:55Oh.
07:56I hope you're planning fritters.
07:58There's nothing like the smell of frying to make a house a home.
08:02Yeah, well, all I can smell at the moment is wet paint and plaster dust.
08:05Still, it's on a better bus route.
08:08Now, Suzanne's got into the grammar school.
08:11Gran, they've got rulers and protractors.
08:13Grammar school.
08:14Well, let's hope this is the beginning of great things for you.
08:18Pick yourself out a rubber.
08:19I'll let you have it half-price.
08:20Oh!
08:28Last orders for Ovaltine.
08:37I can't drink anything.
08:39My face is lathered in complexion food.
08:42Why didn't you come down and join us in the parlour?
08:46I can't seem to settle, Phyllis.
08:48I knew this constant to-ing and fro-ing would have you all frayed around the edges.
08:53I wish I was the only thing that was frayed.
08:58My marriage isn't exactly thriving under the current conditions.
09:03Are you spending too much time apart?
09:06We're certainly not doing enough together.
09:07He has his business interests and I have this.
09:15You say that as though this weren't enough.
09:18It won't be enough for anybody if it all comes to an end.
09:21If you know more than you're cracking on, Trixie, then that's your business and I'm not going to press you.
09:28But there's been a sword of Damocles hanging over Ninata's house for almost as long as I've been here.
09:35And we've always lived to fight another day and deliver another baby.
09:39Things have been changing all the time, haven't they?
09:46Yes.
09:48And we're still here.
09:52Though I can't answer for your epidermis if you leave that face back on much longer.
09:57Midwife calling?
10:07You're welcome.
10:15You've certainly got everything and everyone organised, Ruth.
10:20Deal was well on his way up the ladder at the factory, but yet to start out as a government presser.
10:24A good manager must have experience of every department.
10:28This is not management.
10:30This is woman's work.
10:33It is alright, isn't it?
10:34The flat.
10:35The flat is spotlessly clean.
10:38And this is clearly a home full of love.
10:41I inspect for that too.
10:43It's much more important.
10:45You wouldn't have found that in the house I grew up in.
10:49My mum ran off and left us when I was eight.
10:52And my dad hardly knew what to do with us.
10:59Please?
11:04We wanted to ask you something, sister.
11:09Can Dilwa stay with me when the baby's born?
11:13But of course.
11:14I want it because I do not want Ruth to be afraid.
11:20And I won't be if Dilwa's with me.
11:25Madge?
11:26I found the tomato sauce.
11:28No, what?
11:28Look in the tea chest for the bedding.
11:33Susie, you'll have to go on the camp bed until that new mattress is delivered.
11:37You know what I mean, Fritz?
11:38Oh, she'd be like lunch and meat, apparently.
11:42It means you don't like your cooking.
11:45Hey!
11:46Yes!
11:47Oh, come on!
11:48Give her some more sauce.
11:53Thank you for wanting to be with me.
11:57I don't want to be outside the door,
11:59waiting for my mother to come out and tell me how you're doing.
12:02At least that's not going to happen now.
12:03The mother is always in the room with the mother.
12:06I do everything I can to respect your customs, Dilwa.
12:11But if we don't do some things our way,
12:14we aren't going to know who we are.
12:17Please, don't let her in the room.
12:31Oh, Suzanne, love.
12:32I need you to go to the phone box and ring the doctor.
12:35It's dark.
12:38The phone hasn't been connected and nobody else is well enough to go.
12:41Paul's still in the outside lab and his asthma's bad.
12:44The operator will help you find the number.
12:46Put your coat and shoes on.
12:50Ivan!
12:52Can you let me in?
12:54Fine.
12:55Fine, move.
12:56Just keep puffing on it as often as you feel you need to.
13:08The stress of the vomiting has aggravated your asthma.
13:11I'm hoping that's fair enough.
13:13You know, I haven't worn the old porcelain turban like that in years.
13:16I know it's tough, but if it is something you've all eaten,
13:21then the best thing is to let your body clear itself of the poison.
13:24I know me mum's cooking and glitters in here.
13:26You're shivering, Ivan.
13:29I can see your goosebumps from here.
13:32You can take paracetamol for fever.
13:36Lovely.
13:36Then go to bed and keep yourselves warm.
13:40Tees up and Suzanne's busy putting water beside your beds.
13:44You're a bit overqualified to be a waiter, aren't you?
13:47Chip off the old bloke, eh?
13:50Nothing like a lad following in his father's footsteps.
13:53Paul's working with Ivan now.
13:55They did half the renovations to this house.
13:57All my cons.
13:59Send to your eating, if you please.
14:00Put it on, if need be.
14:03This is going to seem like a bad dream by tomorrow, tea time.
14:08Gilmore!
14:12Shh!
14:13Tim was sleeping.
14:17You... you sit, you sit.
14:19I need him to go to the telephone box
14:25and ring the Nartis house, Aisha.
14:28I telephone, you sit, you rest.
14:34Are you heading out already?
14:36Angela and I are practising our bus route for the grammar school.
14:39She's a bit worried about the change at the top of the commercial road.
14:43It'll soon become second nature.
14:45Aren't you wearing your blazer to get you in the mood?
14:47It's a rehearsal, not a dress rehearsal.
14:55They should put you two on the television.
14:57It's like watching a dance routine.
14:59London Palladium, here we come.
15:00Let's get you into the bed, honey.
15:10Hello, I'm...
15:12Are you the lady who's about to become a grandma?
15:14Yes.
15:15Tell... her.
15:20Go!
15:21Mother, go!
15:26Mama!
15:26Have you been to bed for a while?
15:28Is it because of Paul's asthma that you're making a return visit?
15:48He was the one that worried me.
15:51But everyone in the house is affected apart from Suzanne,
15:55which makes them vulnerable.
15:58The bedroom curtains are still drawn.
16:21Doctor calling.
16:25Hello.
16:28Stop being sick.
16:37I've used up nearly all my inhaler and my head's splitting.
16:41You're dehydrated, which won't help.
16:44Are your parents upstairs?
16:45I haven't come down yet.
16:46I'm stuck.
16:53I can't get out.
16:55Ruth, you're really there.
16:57It's just all happened so fast.
16:59You've hardly had a chance to catch your breath.
17:01Listen to the message, Ruth.
17:03Do you know what you'll be doing?
17:04Well, you obviously do.
17:09That's it, Ruth.
17:10Keep pushing.
17:12Just like that.
17:13Your wife's a quick learner.
17:20Mr. Barrowman?
17:24Mrs. Barrowman?
17:25Dr. Turner's going to come up and see you in a minute.
17:28I'll be right back.
17:58Dad?
18:11Dad!
18:12Dad!
18:22That's it, Daniel.
18:23You did it.
18:24It was a boy.
18:28Dad?
18:53You've given me a son.
18:55Dad?
18:55Dad?
18:56Dad?
18:56Dad?
18:57No pulse, no pupil reflexes, you poor little love.
19:23I think Mr. Barrowman has gone too.
19:27First, we need an ambulance for Paul, he's in respiratory distress.
19:35And then we need to call the police.
19:41I've gone a bit faint.
19:45Good breaths.
19:51Then we need to get you outside.
19:55I think I know what this is.
20:00Why can't I go back inside?
20:02You're to sit on the pavement and wait for the ambulance to arrive.
20:05I'll wait with you.
20:06Where's my mum and my dad?
20:07I can't go to hospital without them knowing.
20:11Dr. Turner's in charge of everything that's happening inside.
20:16It's not an ambulance.
20:18It's a police car.
20:21Is this bad?
20:26Not necessarily, but the placenta should have come away by now.
20:31We don't want you to go to hospital, honey.
20:33I don't either.
20:34I think you may have a full bladder and sometimes that gets in the way.
20:38If you can pass water, Dad may help.
20:41I'll get you a bedpan.
20:42Can we have it ladies only for that bit?
20:46I think you've seen enough for one day.
20:48I hear your wife cry and I cry.
21:00I hear the baby cry and I cry.
21:04Why are you speaking in English?
21:06Think like an Englishman.
21:08You understand like an Englishman.
21:11Ruth has just given birth.
21:13It was not easy.
21:16It's not easy now.
21:17It's not easy because she'd need a mother.
21:23A mother has known her pain.
21:27Mother gives ease.
21:29Mother gives peace.
21:31A husband can't give that.
21:34She wanted me there.
21:37All's well, it ends well.
21:39Ruth passed water and then the afterbirth.
21:45It's not for you to even hear such things.
21:47We have a young man, asthmatic, dehydrated from food poisoning and suspected exposure to carbon monoxide.
21:57Where's my mum and dad and my sister?
22:00Stay with him.
22:01Keep them on an even queue.
22:03I tell you, there is nothing like a cream horn after a successful delivery.
22:13I'm more of a custard tart girl, really.
22:15Honey, what are you fretting about?
22:19Mrs. Wallace phoned Cyril last night and she wants to speak to him about his conduct and also his conscience.
22:28Are you surprised?
22:29He'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 and bumps into the principal elder.
22:41I had hoped you'd tell me not to worry.
22:43That's not what friends are for.
22:45That's not what friends are for.
22:47Where's my grandson?
22:52It's through there.
22:54He's resting and receiving oxygen.
22:56I could come in with you if you'd like that.
22:58What I'd like is to have my son and my daughter-in-law and my granddaughter still alive.
23:05I'd like them to have seen a competent doctor who hadn't tucked them into their deathbeds with kind words and no action.
23:14Oh no.
23:18Oh no.
23:23Three deaths in one family.
23:34Miss Higgins says if the statements are signed, she'll deal with them immediately.
23:38I don't think I've ever had to do harder paperwork than this.
23:44Oh, age 11.
23:47She might have been in Angela's class.
23:51I told them to go to bed and keep warm.
24:00And when we found them, her little hand was hardly cold at all.
24:16You're a good man, Pastor Robinson.
24:19And you're doing a good job navigating this church through some very choppy waters.
24:23But you haven't come here to tell me what I'm doing well, have you, Mrs. Wallace?
24:28No, I have not.
24:31I have come here to tell you that you're compromising your position.
24:35And you're compromising that young girl.
24:38Nobody at church knows you went away together.
24:41Nobody at church?
24:43You don't think the Almighty go to church?
24:46The Almighty see everything.
24:48And what's more, he knows his way to York Minster.
24:51I'm sorry, Mrs. Wallace.
24:54We are modern people.
24:58Living in a modern world.
25:00Wrestling with some very modern problems.
25:04But sometimes, Pastor Robinson, the best way of protecting ourselves and those we love is by being a little bit old fashioned.
25:17You understand?
25:19Because I require you to understand.
25:28How?
25:29I mean, how?
25:31Was it the food my Nan cooked?
25:33Paul, everything is going to have to be reviewed by the coroner.
25:38Ultimately, they will pronounce a verdict.
25:40I don't need a verdict.
25:41I just need to know.
25:44Because if I don't know, I can't believe they're dead.
25:48Paul, from what the lab tests tell us, the food your Nan cooked probably made you all ill.
25:58But that's a simple case of bacteria with the tinned meat.
26:03Not her fault at all.
26:06Suzanne never had any anyway.
26:09Yesterday, I suspected that the problem was carbon monoxide poisoning.
26:21And now the post-mortem have said exactly the same thing.
26:26The signs are clear and unmistakable.
26:29It's in the air, isn't it? Carbon monoxide?
26:32Only in very small amounts.
26:35When there's too much, it becomes very dangerous.
26:39Why would there be too much?
26:41If a heating system develops problems.
26:45It was a brand new boiler.
26:47My dad fitted himself.
26:49Oh.
26:50I helped him, Dr. Turner.
27:04Oh.
27:05I helped him.
27:08Timothy said everything Daddy did when he went out to that family was appropriate.
27:17Why is he so upset?
27:20Angela, every so often when you work in medicine, we say a case gets under her skin.
27:29This case has got under Daddy's skin.
27:37Hello?
27:38Oh, Mrs. Turner.
27:39I rang the surgery, but Dr. Turner wasn't there.
27:43We've just had the public health inspectors at the shop.
27:47Public health inspectors?
27:49We're under investigation for selling contaminated meat.
27:53They've taken I don't know how many tins off the shelf.
27:56Well, I only picked some up from the cash and carry two days ago.
28:01I knew Match Barrowman.
28:03She was on the Play Street subcommittee and now they've gone.
28:09Possibly because of something that we sold.
28:16I think we all have to remain calm.
28:19Nobody really knows who or what is to blame for this.
28:26How did you get on with Mrs. Wallace?
28:29We're going to have to go for a walk.
28:31The gas inspectors nearly finished.
28:34Well, once the boilers stripped out, I'd have no objection to Paul moving back in.
28:38I don't know where you get your flaming nerves.
28:41You should be locked up for what you said to my grandson.
28:44Telling him he killed his family by fitting a dodgy boiler.
28:47Mrs. Barrowman, only the coroner can say what happened.
28:52I hope he finds you guilty of criminal negligence and strikes you off.
28:57If you'd sent them all to hospital, they'd still be alive.
29:11We can't turn the clock back, Cyril.
29:13Not in terms of morals.
29:15And not in terms of what having sex has done to me and my body and for us and our relationship.
29:21Masaline.
29:22Stopping sleeping together isn't going to turn me into a virgin again.
29:25And I wouldn't want it to.
29:27And I wouldn't want it to either.
29:29Because I feel just the same as you.
29:33But I am not yet divorced.
29:34And I am still a pastor.
29:36And I don't like putting you in harm's way.
29:38I'm not in harm's way.
29:40I'm on the pill.
29:42There is more than one type of harm, Masaline.
29:45Maybe we should wait now.
29:48Until I'm in a position to put a ring on your finger and do things decently.
29:54I have two things to say in response to that.
29:57A, I'm sure Mrs. Wallace would be delighted.
30:00B, if that's a proposal of marriage, it's very poorly thought through and you can keep it.
30:10Thank goodness you went in so early.
30:25Under no circumstances must any patients be allowed to see it.
30:28I'll route out some turps.
30:38Phyllis!
30:40Whatever is this?
30:43No one is to contact the police.
30:45Patrick, this is a clear case of criminal damage.
30:49And probably slander.
30:51That family have suffered.
30:54And are suffering enough.
30:57There's no proof at all that that vandalism is anything to do with them.
31:03I meanwhile have had to give short shrift to a reporter from the Gazette.
31:07He asked questions about potential malpractice.
31:12In front of patients?
31:14What did you see?
31:15Well, I mainly reminded him that it is against the law to print, publish or speculate on any details of a medical case whilst an inquest is pending.
31:24Miss Higgins, that isn't true.
31:27The mam's very junior and you know better.
31:30No further rebuff was required.
31:33I don't think anyone knows anything right now.
31:36Until we hear from the coroner.
31:37I'm not seeing any more patients.
31:40as you.
31:42Thank you for the� 사람.
31:44This feeling inside me could never deny me
31:57The right to be wrong if I choose
32:01And this pleasure I get from saying
32:04Winning a bet is to lose
32:07Nothing good, nothing bad, nothing ventured
32:16Nothing gained, nothing still born or lost
32:20Nothing further than proof, nothing wilder than you
32:25Nothing older than time, nothing sweeter than wine
32:29Nothing physically reckless, hopelessly blind
32:33Nothing I couldn't say, nothing wild, cause today
32:37Nothing right
32:38You know, Cyril called again this morning, don't you?
32:43Before you came down to breakfast
32:45Perhaps he had a sleepless night too
32:47I don't know what we're supposed to say to each other
32:58The matter of my ablutions
33:00Generally forced to Sister Catherine
33:04Sister Catherine is standing in for Sister Veronica
33:07At the Head Lice Conference this morning
33:10And set off looking as though nothing could make her happier
33:14Do you recollect what it was like to be at the beginning of all this?
33:24Yes, I do
33:25If only barely sometimes
33:27I've watched so much water flow underneath the bridge
33:32The question is, Sister
33:37Do we watch the water
33:39Or are we the water?
33:42Because if it is the latter
33:44You speak not of change
33:47But of we ourselves being changed
33:51Or changing
33:53It is a rhythm
33:57Is it not?
34:01It is indeed
34:02Sister
34:10How long have your feet been as swollen as this?
34:15It is a recent development
34:17Let us not speak of it
34:22Dad
34:30What good is shutting yourself away going to do?
34:35It'll do less harm than trying to treat patients when I'm not trusted
34:38And I can use the time to study the latest statistics on the rise in epidurals
34:44Trust is essential, isn't it?
34:48It's like clean hands
34:49Or a steady hand with a lancet
34:53Like antibiotics
34:55Black coffee on the night shift
34:57Can't be a GP without it, son
35:01You're going back to factory and maybe not named?
35:06We can't decide on the name yet, Aisha
35:08When we decide, we'll do it then
35:11She wait for us
35:15She's sick?
35:18Are you sick?
35:20Sick of being cooped up
35:21I just need some fresh air
35:26Miss Higgins?
35:33Um
35:33Can I ask Dr. Turner to make a house call on Sister Monica Joan?
35:41She seems to have developed some new symptoms
35:43I'm afraid that until the Barrowman family situation resolves
35:49He doesn't feel able to see any patients
35:52I understand
35:55In the scheme of things, I suspect this is not urgent
36:00You stay home
36:13The baby needs fresh air, Aisha
36:16And I need to get into a routine
36:18Please don't go out
36:24I'm only popping out for an hour
36:29A change of sheets
36:58I've cleaned everything
37:00But he will not let me do anything with that pillowcase
37:03Oh, lad
37:06Do you really think this is the best place for you to be lying
37:10While you come to terms with everything that's happened?
37:13Oh, how can I come to terms with it?
37:15I helped my dad put that boiler in
37:17It's my fault
37:18And I'm the one that's still here
37:20It's not your fault
37:22There are plenty of others you could blame
37:23What about you?
37:25Eh?
37:26And you're cooking
37:26Come on
37:27You're both going through something
37:30That no one should ever have to endure
37:32Alone
37:33Or separately
37:34You'll face it better together
37:38I can smell my dad's hair on this pillowcase
37:45Root
37:56Root
37:57Root
38:00I think I need the doctor.
38:27I could walk there.
38:28I go for the doctor.
38:34You walk.
38:35I walk with you.
38:46Every single person touched by this case is in torment.
38:50Can we not do something to at least get a preview of the details?
38:55Dr Turner's on the police surgeon roster.
38:59He feels he can't ask for early access to the documents because he's perceived to have a vested interest.
39:05The baby's mother lying in street by fire stairs.
39:09I think she'd die.
39:11Oh no.
39:12No.
39:13Dr Turner.
39:14It's Ruth Cannes.
39:15She delivered a few days ago.
39:17She just opened her eyes, said something about seeing lights.
39:29Her ankles are swollen.
39:32Looks like postnatal preeclampsia.
39:34Ambulance?
39:35She's on the brink of fitting.
39:39We need Bromathol now.
39:41Can you fetch some?
39:42It's too late for 9-9-9.
39:43I'll drive her there myself.
39:45Now run.
39:50It's all right, Ruth.
39:52I'm not going to leave you.
39:55You need a hand with those?
39:59Yes.
40:00And we wouldn't mind a bit of fridge space if you've got any to spare in your flat.
40:06I'm sorry I lost my temper.
40:09It was certainly a spectacle.
40:11If you hadn't been shouting at me, I would have quite enjoyed it.
40:15And you were right.
40:17It was a terrible marriage proposal.
40:21Was it a marriage proposal?
40:24Yes.
40:28Will you give me the chance to do a better one?
40:32This is better already.
40:35But why don't you take me away for the weekend discreetly and ask me then?
40:44You know your own mind, don't you?
40:47I'm a grown woman.
40:48And a feminist.
40:50They're a cathedral town for length and breadth of England.
41:00Mr Parry is still with Ruth.
41:03He says you stopped her from tipping over into full-blown eclampsia.
41:08She hasn't had any seizures?
41:10None.
41:12That would have been a very different story.
41:17We don't always get to write the endings we choose in this profession.
41:21But sometimes we do.
41:24And sometimes there isn't an ending.
41:27And those stories are the best.
41:28I'm sorry for pushing you away, Aisha.
41:34A mother cannot be pushed away.
41:37Ever.
41:39A mother always at your shoulder.
41:42And it is good.
41:45I never knew that before.
41:46I didn't know what to do with that kind of love.
41:54But I do now.
42:04For showing me.
42:06It's all written down there in good plain English.
42:13It's as thorough as it comes, Mrs Barrowman.
42:16And it states very clearly that it was the boiler that was faulty.
42:21Not the way it was fitted.
42:23It had a defective valve.
42:26What happened was nothing to do with anyone who was there that night.
42:31Or anyone here today.
42:35Meanwhile, all the tins of meat have been recalled.
42:38And the cash and carry will be prosecuted.
42:44I'm sorry if I acted out of turn.
42:48That's all right.
42:50But I think if you did want to sue the boiler manufacturer, there would be a case to answer.
42:56Yeah.
42:58We've got a family to say goodbye to.
43:01And a life to build.
43:03Haven't we, Lady?
43:08It's Mrs Russell, isn't it?
43:13What can I do for you?
43:15It's not for me, sister.
43:17It's for one of me neighbours.
43:19Well, a sort of neighbour.
43:22I reckon there's a baby on the way.
43:27I can remember you sisters coming out at all glowers.
43:31And in all weathers.
43:36We still do.
43:39Midwife calling.
43:41I don't need a midwife.
43:43My dear.
43:44I'm afraid it seems very likely that you do.
43:46I don't need a ruddy midwife.
43:58What we'll do is take a gentle look at you and then we'll decide what to do.
44:02I don't know why you're saying we this or we that like we're friends or something.
44:07Because we ain't friends.
44:09Don't you talk to the sister like that.
44:11And we ain't friends neither.
44:12I guess we can't.
44:13Mr Russell?
44:15Um, Mrs Russell?
44:17I don't see any means of heating water in here.
44:21Would you return to your flat and boil a kettle for me?
44:29It's such a shame Sister Veronica missed the Eucharist.
44:32But her point from Hong Kong must have still been in the air.
44:35And it's also a shame that your brother can't join us, Trixie.
44:39He's become quite a fixture on high days and holidays.
44:43Oh, I know, but he's gone to Lido de Jeslo with a friend from his national service days.
44:46At least I get to arrange some flowers in his absence.
44:51This is the salt, this is.
44:56Lana, the sense of pressure that you're feeling is because your baby's head is descending through your pelvis.
45:02It's almost ready to be born.
45:03Send for a bloody ambulance.
45:05Lana, it's too late.
45:14How's things?
45:17I'm sorting through my dad's toes.
45:19Seems a first step towards what he would have wanted.
45:24Following in his footsteps and all that.
45:30Me too.
45:32Delivering insulin to a self-injecting diabetic.
45:35This is a lead dressing tool.
45:41Yeah, there's so many years, it's been worn to his grip.
45:46It's old-fashioned, but I'm going to keep it.
45:51That sort of thing that is, doesn't it?
45:52Could you organise a urine sample next time she feels like getting up?
46:09She has been needing a lot of rest lately.
46:11If you feel like it, I can bring you a strawberry scone to nibble on later.
46:25She's a pretty little thing.
46:38I'm paying particular attention to her eyes as I bathe her, in case there's any infection.
46:46Are you saying I'm dirty?
46:48We take the same approach with every newborn.
46:53I want to hold her.
46:56Well, you've, um, finished your cigarette, perhaps.
46:59I want to hold her.
47:02Get your hands off my baby.
47:17I didn't ask you to come here.
47:20Get your hands off me.
47:22Who asked you to come here in the first place?
47:25The mother was angry, and she was distressed.
47:51She wasn't unusual in that.
47:52And she needed every ounce of love I could show her.
48:00She spat at you, and she assaulted you.
48:04And the only thing that stopped me turning my back on her and running out of that squalid room
48:11was the fact that I was there as an act of Christian witness.
48:18Did that give you courage?
48:24It gave me purpose.
48:26And it gave me strength.
48:27And it reminded me that we are missionaries here in the East End.
48:34And I'd rather go and be a missionary elsewhere
48:37than be forced to pretend to be something we are not.
48:41Sister, have you made your decision?
48:54Sister Julianne, Sister Veronica has arrived back from Hong Kong.
48:57She's waiting in your office.
48:59And insists she'll see no one but you.
49:01I came back to Poplar via the mother house.
49:06I needed to confer with Mother Mildred because I have been feeling increasingly unhappy.
49:16I wasn't unaware of it.
49:18But our work is not about our happiness.
49:25It is about seeking no reward other than knowing that we do his will.
49:33If you are quoting St Ignatius of Loyola, then you are omitting the bit about giving and not counting the cost.
49:40And I can't keep on giving and not counting the cost any longer.
49:47But you must.
49:49We must, Sister.
49:51It is what we do.
49:53It is what I have done.
49:55And done for too long.
49:57I have loved and served.
50:02And I have saved other women's children for decades.
50:08If anyone were mine, or felt like mine, for a day or even an hour,
50:17I had to hand it back and stand there trying not to scream because my arms were empty.
50:28Why didn't you tell me this before?
50:32Because I hoped I could bear it.
50:35And I can't.
50:36I've been given permission to go away for six weeks.
51:05Just while I decide if I want to give up my vows and leave the order.
51:16All right, I'm pulling.
51:19I'm pulling.
51:19Let's get this.
51:20Push.
51:22Come on.
51:23Yeah, that one.
51:23Come in.
51:45Come in.
51:45I couldn't let you go without coming to see you.
52:01I've stood exactly where you're standing now.
52:05Well, I hope you were standing in better shoes than these.
52:10There are no lace-ups in the charity cupboard, and I can only walk in lace-ups.
52:16There is a knack to court shoes.
52:23Please don't put your arms around me.
52:25I'm scared I might break apart.
52:33Beryl, do you have somewhere to go?
52:38I've been offered a room in a Christian retreat house near Gravesend.
52:42There are no other religious there, and I'm assured no questions will be asked.
52:51Let me find you a pair of tights.
52:54You'll feel more pulled together in a proper outfit.
52:56You were right about Sister Monica Jones' oedema.
53:13It points to kidney failure.
53:16But tests will tell us more.
53:21This was always going to come, wasn't it?
53:24In one form or other.
53:27And when it does, it's going to feel like the ravens leaving the Tower of London.
53:36The end of the known world.
53:40One could say that about so many things.
53:43I'm telling the board that if the Order are not permitted to work in a missionary capacity,
53:55we are leaving Poplar at the end of the year.
54:01And that is final.
54:02Do you know what you want, Sister?
54:19Apart from a baby to call my own?
54:23No.
54:25Sometimes I don't think anyone knows anything, really.
54:28I'll walk with you as far as the post office.
54:40This must go with the first post in the morning.
54:43Some things bring joy, year after year, summer after summer.
55:05They have delighted us before, and they will again.
55:10We trust the tides and the rhythm of the seasons.
55:15The tilt of the sunflower's face towards the sky.
55:19When the wind blows a little colder, do we even notice it?
55:28Or if we do, do we think it will not be for long?
55:32Because one day it may blow cold forever, but not yet.
55:38Not now, while miracles are ordinary and still within our reach.
55:44And still within our reach.
55:50She's about to have the baby.
55:51We think. I just keep getting this.
55:53Oh, here it comes again.
55:54Hello, Harmony. I'm a nurse.
55:56I'm sorry you've been hurt.
55:57There is no reason to treat me as an invalid.
56:01I saw a streaming Poplar. Guarantee.
56:03And if I win, you'll get that bike.
56:05One would hope they were above such pettiness,
56:07when there is so much at stake.
56:09And if I win, I don't know what to do now.
56:10Oh, yep.
56:11And I won't do that.
56:12We're by the end of the day.
56:13If you want to have a steak.
56:14And in a way.
56:15I won't go for the steak.
56:17I won't go for the steak.
56:18I won't go for the steak.
56:19I'm doing so much.
56:20I don't want to have a steak.
56:21I want to.
56:22I got a steak.
56:23I'm going to go for the steak.
56:24If I don't do this.
56:26I'll have a steak.
56:27I don't know.
56:28I can damage it.
56:29I can't do this.
56:30But here you can't put this stuff in the steak.
56:31Let me go.
56:32You can't do this.
56:33You can't lie.
56:34I can't do that.
56:35How do you have lunch?
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