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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.
12:05We wanted to ask you something, Sister.
12:16Can Dilwa stay with me when the baby is born?
12:21But, of course, I want it because I do not want Ruth to be afraid.
12:28And I won't be if Dil was with me.
12:34Madge, I found the tomato sauce.
12:37It was in the tea chest for the meeting.
12:40Susie, you'll have to go on the camp bed until that new mattress is delivered.
12:45You know what I mean, Fritz?
12:47Oh, she'd be like lunch and meat, apparently.
12:50It means you don't like your cooking.
12:53Hey!
12:55Stop!
12:57Give her some more sauce.
13:02Thank you for wanting to be with me.
13:06I don't want to be outside the door, waiting for my mother to come out and tell me how you're doing.
13:10At least that's not going to happen now.
13:12The mother is always in the room with the mother.
13:15I do everything I can to respect your customs, Dilwa.
13:20But if we don't do some things our way, we aren't going to know who we are.
13:26Please, don't let her in the room.
13:29Oh, Suzanne, love. I need you to go to the phone box and ring the doctor.
13:45It's dark.
13:46The phone hasn't been connected and nobody else is well enough to go.
13:49Paul's still in the outside lab and his asthma's bad.
13:52The operator will help you find the number.
13:54Put your coat and shoes on.
13:55Ivan!
13:56Can you let me in?
13:57Fine.
13:58Why me?
13:59Just keep puffing on it as often as you feel you need to.
14:16The stress of the vomiting has aggravated your asthma.
14:19I'm hoping that's fair enough.
14:21You know, I haven't worn the old porcelain turban like that in years.
14:25I know it's tough, but if it is something you've all eaten, then the best thing is to let your body clear itself of the poison.
14:33I know my mum's cooking and get it in years.
14:36You're shivering, Ivan.
14:38I can see your goosebumps from here.
14:40You can take paracetamol for fever only.
14:45Then go to bed and keep yourselves warm.
14:49Tees up and Suzanne's busy putting water beside your beds.
14:53You're a bit overqualified to be a waiter, aren't you?
14:56Chip off the old blue guy.
14:58Nothing like a lad following in his father's footsteps.
15:01Paul's working with Ivan now.
15:03They did half the renovations to this house.
15:05All mod cons.
15:07Send you eating if you please.
15:09Put it on if need be.
15:11This is going to seem like a bad dream by tomorrow tea time.
15:17Dua!
15:20Shh!
15:21They were sleeping.
15:26You sit, you sit.
15:32I need him to go to the telephone box and ring the Nartis house Aisha.
15:37I telephone.
15:38You sit.
15:39You rest.
15:43Are you heading out already?
15:44Angela 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.
15:51It'll soon become second nature.
15:53Aren't you wearing your blazer to get you in the mood?
15:56It's a rehearsal, not a dress rehearsal.
16:04They should put you two on the television.
16:06It's like watching a dance routine.
16:07London Palladium, here we come.
16:10Let's get you into the bed, honey.
16:11Hello.
16:12Are you the lady who's about to become a grandma?
16:14Yes.
16:15Tell her.
16:16Go!
16:17Mother, go!
16:18Mother, go!
16:19Mother, go!
16:20Mother, are you the lady who's about to become a grandma?
16:23Yes.
16:24Tell her.
16:25Go!
16:26Mother, go!
16:27Mother, go!
16:28Mother, go!
16:29Mother, go!
16:30Mother, go!
16:34Mother, are you the lady who's about to go?
16:36Is it because of Paul's asthma that you're making a return visit?
16:53He was the one that worried me.
16:54But everyone in the house is affected apart from Suzanne, which makes them vulnerable.
17:00The bedroom curtains are still drawn.
17:13Doctor calling.
17:34Hello.
17:39I've stopped being sick. I've used up nearly all my inhaler. My head's splitting.
17:50You're dehydrated, which won't help. Are your parents upstairs?
17:54I haven't come down yet.
18:01They're stuck. They're stuck. I can't get out.
18:04Ruth, you're really there. It's just all happened so fast. You've hardly had a chance to catch your breath.
18:10Listen to the message, Ruth.
18:12You know what I should be doing.
18:16Well, you obviously do.
18:18That's it, Ruth. Keep pushing. Just like that.
18:22Your wife's a quick learner.
18:29Mr. Barrowman?
18:30Mrs. Barrowman?
18:35Dr. Turner's going to come up and see you in a minute.
18:37Herrscher, come on up and see you in a minute.
19:02There she goes.
19:02Daniel?
19:03Dad?
19:19Dad!
19:30That's it, Daniel.
19:32You did it!
19:34It was a boy!
20:02You've given me a son.
20:04No pulse.
20:06No pupil reflexes.
20:20You poor little love.
20:32I think Mr. Barrowman has gone too.
20:38First, we need an ambulance for Paul. He's in respiratory distress. And then we need to call the police.
20:46I've gone a bit faint.
20:48Deep breaths.
20:50Deep breaths.
20:52Then we need to get you outside. I think I know what this is.
21:06Why can't I go back inside?
21:10Look, you're to sit on the pavement and wait for the ambulance to arrive. I'll wait with you.
21:14Where's my mum and my dad? I can't go to hospital without them knowing.
21:18Dr. Turner's in charge of everything that's happening inside.
21:22It's not an ambulance. It's a police car.
21:27Is this bad?
21:28Not necessarily, but the placenta should have come away by now. We don't want you to go to hospital, honey.
21:41I don't either.
21:43I think you may have a full bladder and sometimes that gets in the way.
21:47If you can pass water, that may help. I'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.
22:06I hear your wife cry and I cry. I hear the baby cry.
22:10I hear the baby cry and I cry.
22:13Why are you speaking in English?
22:15Think like an Englishman. You understand like an Englishman.
22:20Ruth has just given birth. It's not easy. It's not easy now.
22:27Not easy. Because she'd need a mother. A mother has known her pain.
22:35Mother gives ease. Mother gives peace.
22:40A husband can't give that.
22:43She wanted me there.
22:46All's well then ends well.
22:48Ruth passed water and then the afterbirth.
22:50It's not for you to even hear such things.
22:59We have a young man. Asthmatic.
23:02Dehydrated from food poisoning and suspected exposure to carbon monoxide.
23:07Where's my mum and dad and my sister?
23:09Stay with him. Keep him on an even keel.
23:15No.
23:17I 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?
23:30Mrs. 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,
23:45with 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.
23:54That's not what friends are for.
23:55Hmm.
24:01Where'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.
24:26Oh, no.
24:28Oh, no.
24:29Oh, no.
24:31Oh, no.
24:33Oh, no.
24:35Oh.
24:37Oh.
24:42Three deaths in one family.
24:44Miss 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.
24:54Oh, age 11.
24:57She might have been in Angela's class.
25:00I told them to go to bed and keep warm.
25:06And when we found them, her little hand was hardly cold at all.
25:14You're a good man, Pastor Robinson.
25:28And you're doing a good job navigating this church through some very choppy waters.
25:32But 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.
25:44And you're compromising that young girl.
25:48Nobody at church knows you went away together.
25:51Nobody at church?
25:53You don't think the Almighty go to church?
25:56The Almighty see everything.
25:59And what's more, he knows his way to York Minster.
26:02I'm sorry, Mrs. Wallace.
26:08We are modern people.
26:10Living in a modern world.
26:12Wrestling with some very modern problems.
26:15But sometimes, Pastor Robinson,
26:19the best way of protecting ourselves and those we love
26:24is by being a little bit old fashioned.
26:27You understand?
26:28Because I require you to understand.
26:37How?
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.
26:47Ultimately, they will pronounce a verdict.
26:50I don't need a verdict. I just need to know.
26:53Because if I don't know, I can't believe they're dead.
26:56Paul, from what the lab tests tell us,
27:02the food your Nan cooked probably made you all ill.
27:08But that's a simple case of bacteria with the tinned meat.
27:13Not her fault at all.
27:14Suzanne never had any anyway.
27:18Yesterday, I suspected that the problem was carbon monoxide poisoning.
27:29And now the post-mortem have said exactly the same thing.
27:34The signs are clear and unmistakable.
27:39It's in the air, isn't it? Carbon monoxide?
27:42Only in very small amounts.
27:44When there's too much, it becomes very dangerous.
27:49Why would there be too much?
27:51If a heating system develops problems.
27:55It was a brand new boiler.
27:56My dad fitted it himself.
28:08Oh.
28:11I helped him, Dr. Turner.
28:15Oh.
28:16Timothy said everything Daddy did when he went out to that family was appropriate.
28:27Why is he so upset?
28:31Angela, every so often when you work in medicine,
28:36we say a case gets under her skin.
28:39This case has got under Daddy's skin.
28:41Hello?
28:43Oh, Mrs. Turner.
28:45I rang the surgery, but Dr. Turner wasn't there.
28:48We've just had the public health inspectors at the shop.
28:52Public health inspectors?
28:54We're under investigation for selling contaminated meats.
28:59They've taken I don't know how many tins off the shelf.
29:02I only picked them up from the cash and carry two days ago.
29:06I know.
29:07I knew Match Barrowman.
29:09She was on the Play Street subcommittee and now they've gone.
29:18Possibly because of something that we sold.
29:23I think we all have to remain calm.
29:28Nobody really knows who or what is to blame for this.
29:32How did you get on with Mrs. Wallace?
29:36We're going to have to go for a walk.
29:38The gas inspectors nearly finished.
29:40Well, once the boilers stripped out,
29:41I'd have no objection to Paul moving back in.
29:44I don't know where you get your flaming nerves.
29:46You should be locked up for what you said to my grandson,
29:47telling him he killed his family by fitting a dodgy boiler.
29:49Mrs. Barrowman, only the coroner can say what happened.
29:51I don't know where you get your flaming nerves.
29:53You should be locked up for what you said to my grandson,
29:55telling him he killed his family by fitting a dodgy boiler.
29:57Mrs. Barrowman, only the coroner can say what happened.
30:00I hope he finds you guilty of criminal negligence
30:06and strikes you off.
30:08If you'd sent them all to hospital,
30:11they'd still be alive.
30:21We can't turn the clock back, Cyril.
30:23Not in terms of morals.
30:24And not in terms of what having sex has done to me and my body
30:29and for us and our relationship.
30:31Mrs. Barrowman.
30:33Stopping sleeping together isn't going to turn me into a virgin again.
30:35And I wouldn't want it to.
30:37I wouldn't want it to either.
30:39Because I feel just the same as you.
30:43But I am not yet divorced, and I am still a pastor,
30:46and I don't like putting you in harm's way.
30:47I am not in harm's way.
30:48I am not in harm's way.
30:50I am on the pill.
30:52There is more than one type of harm, Azalind.
30:55Maybe we should wait now.
30:58Until I am in a position to put a ring on your finger
31:01and do things decently.
31:03I have two things to say in response to that.
31:07A, I'm sure Mrs. Wallace would be delighted.
31:10B, if that's a proposal of marriage,
31:13it's very poorly thought through and you can keep it.
31:15Thank goodness you went in so early.
31:34Under no circumstances must any patients be allowed to see it.
31:39I'll root out some turps.
31:46Oh, Phyllis!
31:49Whatever is this?
31:52No one is to contact the police.
31:55Patrick, this is a clear case of criminal damage.
31:59And probably slander.
32:01That family have suffered.
32:04And are suffering enough.
32:07There is no proof at all that that vandalism
32:11is anything to do with them.
32:12I, meanwhile, have had to give short shrift to a reporter
32:16from the Gazette.
32:18He asked questions about potential malpractice.
32:22In front of patients?
32:24What did you see?
32:25Well, I mainly reminded him that it is against the law
32:28to print, publish or speculate on any details of a medical case
32:32whilst an inquest is pending.
32:34Miss Higgins, that isn't true.
32:37The Mam's very junior and you know better.
32:38No further rebuff was required.
32:42I don't think anyone knows anything right now.
32:46Until we hear from the coroner,
32:47I'm not seeing any more patients.
33:08lost in their memory.
33:09To our patients, we read our seminars.
33:11Dear doctors, we see that people were going to survive
33:14and we were talking to them.
33:15And we take the latest videos.
33:17These are the ones that we're seeing today.
33:18Who is at the time that people can then go,
33:20get up to their texts.
33:21They're not going to work on their timeline,
33:22we may have arrived.
33:24What's what they do?
33:25So they're going to be with them.
33:27They're going to be here,
33:29to the very first time.
33:31And the next day,
33:32to go,
33:33to the next few days.
33:35We'll be going to go right now.
33:36You know, Cyril called again this morning, don't you?
33:52Before you came down to breakfast.
33:55Perhaps he had a sleepless night too.
33:59I don't know what we're supposed to say to each other.
34:06The matter of my ablutions generally falls to Sister Catherine.
34:13Sister Catherine is standing in for Sister Veronica
34:16at the head lice conference this morning
34:19and set off looking as though nothing could make her happier.
34:27Do you recollect what it was like to be at the beginning of all this?
34:33Yes, I do.
34:34If only barely sometimes.
34:37I've watched so much water flow underneath the bridge.
34:44The question is, Sister,
34:47do we watch the water or are we the water?
34:51Because if it is the latter,
34:54you speak not of change,
34:57but of we ourselves being changed or changing.
35:02It is a rhythm, is it not?
35:10It is indeed.
35:19Sister,
35:20how long have your feet been as swollen as this?
35:23It is a recent development.
35:29Let us not speak of it.
35:39Dad,
35:39what good is shutting yourself away going to do?
35:44It'll do less harm than trying to treat patients when I'm not trusted.
35:48And I can use the time to study the latest statistics on the rise in epidurals.
35:55Trust is essential, isn't it?
35:57It's like clean hands.
36:00Oh,
36:00a steady hand with a lancet.
36:03Like antibiotics.
36:05Black coffee on the night shift.
36:07Can't be a GP without it, son.
36:13You're going back to factory and maybe not named?
36:15We can't decide on the name yet, Aisha.
36:18When we decide, we'll do it then.
36:23She might face.
36:25She's sick?
36:27Are you sick?
36:29Sick of being cooped up.
36:31I just need some fresh air.
36:41Miss Higgins?
36:42Um,
36:44can I ask Dr. Turner
36:45to make a house call on Sister Monica Joan?
36:50She seems to have developed some new symptoms.
36:55I'm afraid that until the Barrowman family situation resolves,
36:59she doesn't feel able to see any patients.
37:03I understand.
37:06In the scheme of things,
37:07I suspect this is not urgent.
37:21You stay home.
37:24The baby needs fresh air, Aisha,
37:25and I need to get into a routine.
37:27Please don't go out.
37:36I'm only popping out for an hour.
37:38I'm only popping out for an hour.
37:38I'm coursing out for an hour.
38:08I've cleaned everything, but you will not let me do anything with that pillowcase.
38:14Oh, lad.
38:16Do you really think this is the best place for you to be lying while you come to terms with everything that's happened?
38:22How can I come to terms with it?
38:24I helped my dad put that boiler in.
38:26It's my fault, and I'm the one that's still here.
38:29It's not your fault.
38:31There are plenty of others you can blame.
38:33What about you?
38:34And you're cooking.
38:36Come on.
38:36You're both going through something that no-one should ever have to endure, alone or separately.
38:45You'll face it better together.
38:52I can smell my dad's hair on this pillowcase.
39:05Rod?
39:06I think I need the doctor.
39:15I do not.
39:22I think I need the doctor.
39:25I think I need the doctor.
39:29Do not care.
39:29I think I need the doctor.
39:36I could walk there.
39:38I go for doctor.
39:43You walk.
39:45I walk with you.
39:55Every single person touched by this case is in torment.
39:59Can we not do something to at least get a preview of the details?
40:05Dr. Turner's on the police surgeon roster.
40:08He feels he can't ask for early access to the documents
40:11because he's perceived to have a vested interest.
40:15The baby's mother lying in the street by five stairs.
40:19I think she'd die.
40:21Oh, no, no.
40:23Dr. Turner!
40:29It'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.
40:45We need Bromathol now.
40:50Can you fetch some?
40:52It's too late for 999.
40:53I'll drive her there myself.
40:55Now run.
40:59It's all right, Ruth.
41:01I'm not going to leave you.
41:02You need a hand with those?
41:08Yes.
41:09And we wouldn't mind a bit of fridge space
41:11if 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,
41:22I would have quite enjoyed it.
41:25And you're right.
41:25It was a terrible marriage proposal.
41:30Was 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.
41:53You know your own mind, don't you?
41:56I'm a grown woman and a feminist.
41:58And they're a cathedral town for the length and breadth of England.
42:02Mr. Parry is still with Ruth.
42:12He says she stopped her from tipping over into full-blown eclampsia.
42:15She hasn't had any seizures?
42:19None.
42:21That would have been a very different story.
42:25We don't always get to write the endings we choose in this profession.
42:29But 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.
42:52I never knew that before.
42:58I didn't know what to do with that kind of love.
43:03But I do now.
43:13For showing me.
43:14It's all written down there in good plain English.
43:22It's as thorough as it comes, Mrs. Barrowman.
43:25And it states very clearly that it was the boiler that was faulty.
43:30Not the way it was fitted.
43:31It had a defective valve.
43:35What 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.
43:53I'm sorry if I acted out of turn.
43:57That's all right.
43:58But I think if you did want to sue the boiler manufacturer,
44:03there would be a case to answer.
44:06Yeah.
44:07We've got a family to say goodbye to.
44:10And a life to build.
44:13Haven't we, Len?
44:20It'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.
44:36I can remember you sisters coming out at all glowers and in all weathers.
44:45We still do.
44:48Midwife calling.
44:49I 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.
44:56What 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?
45:35It'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.
45:51Oh, 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.
46:11It's almost ready to be born.
46:13Send for a bloody ambulance.
46:14Lana, it's too late.
46:21How'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.
46:39Me too.
46:42Delivering insulin to a self-injecting diabetic.
46:47This is a lead dressing tool.
46:49Yeah, there's so many years it's been worn to his grip.
46:55It's old-fashioned, but...
46:58I'm gonna keep it.
47:00That sort of thing matters, doesn't it?
47:12Could you walk and ask a urine sample?
47:15Next time she feels like getting up.
47:16She has been needing a lot of rest lately.
47:21I do not require repose.
47:24It is almost invariably forced upon me.
47:30If you feel like it, I can bring you a strawberry scone to nibble on later.
47:34She's a pretty little thing.
47:48I'm paying particular attention to her eyes as I bathe her, in case there's any infection.
47:55Are you saying I'm dirty?
47:56We 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.
49:04And 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?
49:33It gave me purpose, and it gave me strength,
49:36and it reminded me that we are missionaries here in the East End.
49:42And I'd rather go and be a missionary elsewhere
49:47than be forced to pretend to be something we are not.
49:57Sister?
49:59Have you made your decision?
50:03Sister Julianne, Sister Veronica has arrived back from Hong Kong.
50:07She's waiting in your office,
50:08and 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,
50:18because I have been feeling increasingly unhappy.
50:25I wasn't unaware of it.
50:29But our work is not about our happiness.
50:33It is about seeking no reward other than knowing that we do his will.
50:42If you are quoting St Ignatius of Loyola,
50:45then 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.
51:00It is what we do.
51:02It is what I have done.
51:04And done for too long.
51:06I have...
51:08loved...
51:10and...
51:11served...
51:12and I have saved other women's children for decades.
51:16If anyone were mine,
51:18or felt like mine...
51:22for a day or even an hour...
51:26I had to hand it back...
51:30and stand there trying not to scream...
51:34because my arms were empty.
51:37Why didn't you tell me this before?
51:42Because I hoped I could bear it.
51:44And I can't.
51:46And I can't.
51:46I've been given permission to go away.
52:13For six weeks.
52:14while I decide
52:18if I want to give up my vows and leave the order.
52:26Oh, then.
52:27All right.
52:27I'm pulling.
52:28I'm pulling.
52:28Let'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.
53:09I've stood exactly where you're standing now.
53:16Well, I hope you were standing in better shoes than these.
53:20There are no lace-ups in the charity cupboard,
53:22and I can only walk in lace-ups.
53:24There is a knack to court shoes.
53:32Please don't put your arms around me.
53:34I'm scared I might break apart.
53:39Beryl, do you have somewhere to go?
53:47I've been offered a room in a Christian retreat house near Gravesend.
53:52There 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,
54:39it'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
54:58that if the Order
55:00are not permitted to work
55:02in a missionary capacity
55:03we are leaving Poplar
55:06at the end of the year.
55:10And that is final.
55:11Do you know what you want, Sister?
55:29Apart from a baby
55:30to call my own?
55:33No.
55:34Sometimes I don't think anyone
55:36knows anything, really.
55:37I'll walk with you
55:46as far as the post office.
55:49This must go
55:50with the first post
55:51in the morning.
55:52Some things bring joy
56:10year after year,
56:12summer after summer.
56:15They have delighted us before
56:17and they will again.
56:19We trust the tides
56:22and the rhythm of the seasons,
56:24the tilt of the sunflower's face
56:28towards the sky.
56:31When the wind blows a little colder,
56:34do we even notice it?
56:37Or if we do,
56:39do we think
56:39it will not be for long?
56:41Because one day
56:43it may blow cold forever,
56:46but not yet.
56:49Not now,
56:51while miracles are ordinary
56:53and still within our reach.
56:55and still within our reach.
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