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00:00The End
00:30Oh, my God.
01:00Meh, meh, meh, meh, meh, meh, meh, meh.
01:28Mr, hey, mister! Can you pass up the ladder? We're coming out today.
01:35Are you?
01:36They said ten days. It's been more like ten months.
01:40You were sick. They always take precautions.
01:49Can that cow go anywhere it likes?
01:52No.
01:52What's it doing?
01:55Come and look at this, Phil.
01:56Go away!
01:58Stop it!
02:00Stop it!
02:02Stop it!
02:03Go away!
02:05Stop it!
02:06one of the characters
02:35has gone to the charters vegetable plot
02:37let's drive her away
02:39get her back to the pasture
02:41but it won't go
02:44I tried
02:45very naughty
02:48come on
02:49come on
02:52come on
02:54she was eating all pet's
02:58vegetable
02:58well what was the point
03:06of building that fence
03:07a murder Hubert
03:08and do you know
03:09he said that Lewis Fern
03:10just stood there watching
03:11while the beast did it
03:12a bully for him
03:13I can't see Lewis
03:14dealing with an errant cow
03:15well he only had to chase it off
03:17he's just not a very practical person
03:19well nor were you
03:20look at him out there
03:27digging that trench with Alan
03:28I think the only shovel
03:30he'd ever handled
03:31was a teaspoon
03:32probably was
03:33some find it harder
03:34to adapt than others
03:35well he gets on my nerves
03:37takes all sorts
03:39to make a world pet
03:40and that's what
03:41are trying to do here
03:41aren't we
03:42you'll probably find yourself
03:49on a charge for that mate
03:51what
03:52court of inquiry
03:54into why the cow
03:55wasn't stopped
03:56from gobbling up
03:56the come and dance
03:57vegetables
03:57aren't you being
04:00a bit childish
04:01gets more like
04:03the army every day
04:11and you've not been sick again
04:12no
04:12I expect it was
04:16something you ate
04:17I never thought
04:17it was anything else
04:18shall I leave our gear up here
04:19what I mean
04:20I expect you'll both
04:23be staying in the White House
04:24oh it's alright
04:25we've got a tent
04:25that's useful
04:26has been
04:27but cold
04:28come on
04:30I'll show you around
04:31Arthur's right pet
04:34the square peg
04:35won't fit into a round hole
04:36you can't just throw them out
04:37I wouldn't dream of it
04:39just try to whittle off
04:41the edges a little bit
04:41and make the square pegs round
04:43or find square holes
04:47what
04:48well we've no right
04:50to lick people into shape
04:51we have to find out
04:53where their natural talents lie
04:54and make use of them
04:55we're having drainage problems
05:03we now know that most of the water
05:05comes from up there
05:05so we're laying that land drain
05:07to get it away
05:08before it soaks down
05:08into the fields there
05:09I'll show you the workshop
05:12alright
05:13that's a nice looking bird
05:18maybe I'll stay a bit yet eh
05:21now what are you dreaming about
05:25what is it
05:53where are you off to
05:59Lewis
06:02there's wood ash boiling in there
06:08and mutton fat in there
06:10tomorrow we start bringing them together
06:12and we end up with glycerine on the bottom
06:14and soap on the top
06:15that's soap
06:16in the making
06:17oh it doesn't smell like soap
06:20you're telling me
06:21hello
06:23I bet you're out of quarantine
06:25have they
06:26well come on Alan
06:27faster immigration
06:28with a clean bill of health
06:29you wouldn't talk like that
06:30if one of them had the disease
06:31I thought you were digging
06:35that ditch out there
06:36on me
06:37on me
06:46on me
06:46on me
06:48on me
06:49Forgive me.
07:06God, forgive me.
07:16Have you got a curing bacon?
07:17Never tried.
07:18No, I had Daniela.
07:20She used to work in a restaurant.
07:21And a very good restaurant it was.
07:24Very nice client.
07:25Very smart.
07:26We not even cook pasta.
07:29Except to Italian who insist.
07:30Brought you some extra rations, Daniela.
07:32I suppose these two will be staying here with you.
07:34This is Arthur Russell.
07:36He's in charge of the provisions, amongst other things.
07:38Hello.
07:38Hello.
07:39Hello, Claire.
07:40Where possible, we try to give everyone their own plot of land.
07:43All the produce is pooled,
07:44and once a week, Arthur doles out the supplies to the various kitchens.
07:47Do you know anything about farming?
07:50Not really.
07:52What did you study at university?
07:53History of art.
07:54Oh.
07:55Well.
07:56What's that?
08:11This is the valve.
08:13Neither did I have some old bits of gas pipe I found.
08:15Is that where the gas will come out?
08:17Oh, hopefully.
08:19How's the slurry, Hubert?
08:20Waste of good pig dung, if you ask me.
08:22Hold it up in the sack, and I'm making four of them.
08:25How's it going?
08:48It's just an experiment.
08:50If it works at all, I'll fix a bit of drain pipe to it.
08:53Then fix that at the top and we'll have a constant supply.
08:57What, with a similar outlet at the other end, I suppose?
08:59Yes, of course.
09:00What's the point if it's all going to run out again?
09:02Well, by that time, the bacteria will have done its work.
09:06Could you give me that bit of wire, John?
09:14How's Jenny this morning?
09:19She's all right.
09:20She's helping them plant out the sugar beet.
09:23Feels up to her, does she?
09:24She pulls her weight as much as anyone else here.
09:27Oh, I don't doubt that.
09:30That should be that.
09:31All we've got to do is to get as much air out as we can.
09:35So, if I manipulate the valve,
09:37with the rest of you, squeeze up as much of the air as you can.
09:41Okay?
09:44That's it.
09:47John!
09:48John!
09:49Jenny wants you, John!
09:50She's been calling for you all morning.
09:53We're making gas.
09:55Well, she wants you.
09:57Now.
09:58Go on, John.
09:59We can manage.
09:59But I wanted to see the gas come.
10:01Yeah, well, that won't happen for days.
10:03Well, you run along.
10:04Well, that should be about as good a vacuum as we can manage.
10:15All we've got to do now is heat it up.
10:19It's just post-natal depression.
10:21She'll be out in the fields this afternoon.
10:23Nobody's criticizing Greg.
10:24Where have you been, Lewis?
10:37No one seems to have made any progress with that drainage at all this morning.
10:42What's happened to Alan?
10:45Ditch is important.
10:46I went to the woods to think a few things over.
10:51I know it's hard work.
10:53If we don't get that drainage sorted out, we're going to be in real trouble.
10:56Can you do it up for me?
11:07What's the idea?
11:09You'll understand.
11:15He's wearing his shirt and pullover back to front.
11:18Guess why?
11:20Why?
11:21Well, to show what he is.
11:23A white collar that does up at the back.
11:26Well, go on, guess.
11:30I'll give up.
11:32A dog collar.
11:33Lewis is a parson.
11:35A parson?
11:37You mean a priest?
11:38I might have known.
11:39Well, isn't that lovely?
11:41Our own priest.
11:44Oh, mamma mia.
11:46The things I've said in front of him.
11:49Why your life?
11:52I'm afraid that Greg must have thought me quite mad.
11:54But you see, if I wanted to profess my faith, it would have been a very feeble excuse to say that I no longer have my clerical collar.
12:02What became of it?
12:04Well, I don't know.
12:06In all the panic, there wasn't much time for religion, was there?
12:10Even here we have enough to do just to keep ourselves alive.
12:14At least that was the excuse I made myself, I'm ashamed to say.
12:17Why be ashamed?
12:20Survival comes first.
12:22Not necessarily.
12:24Of course it does.
12:26I see that you're not a believer, Pat.
12:28I don't know.
12:29Is anyone these days?
12:30Oh, I hope so.
12:32On what possible grounds?
12:34Well, faith wouldn't be faith if there had to be grounds for it.
12:36But please don't draw me into a theological argument.
12:41It's just that if there are any members of the community you feel the need for God,
12:45well, at least they'll be able to see by my...
12:47by my cloth that I'm here to help.
12:50Otherwise it makes no difference.
12:53Except in one way.
12:59Student, were you?
13:00Yeah, Nottingham.
13:00Where'd you meet Judy, then?
13:04In Grimsby.
13:05We took a yacht.
13:06Finally ran the ground up South Wales.
13:11Who's he?
13:15Don't tell me you're coming back to dig.
13:19Why not?
13:21It's Philip, isn't it?
13:22That's right.
13:23It was you trying to deal with that cow this morning, wasn't it?
13:26Yes.
13:28And not very effectively, I'm afraid.
13:31Well, let's get on with digging this trench, then, shall we?
13:43Do you think he means to start a church?
13:46Hmm?
13:47Well, Lewis.
13:48Oh, I'm sure it's this teat of yours that's making Paul ill.
13:51Even in the old days, babies had colic, Jenny.
13:54In the old days, we had doctors to tell us it was colic.
13:58Now, we just hope it is.
14:01Well, Ruth told you that there was nothing to worry about.
14:03Anyway, you should be having my milk, not cow's milk.
14:07Jenny, what's the matter?
14:10You've always made the best of things before.
14:11But why should he have to?
14:18One day, he's going to learn what life was like before he was born, before we messed it
14:22all up for him.
14:23Well, it wasn't your fault.
14:24Well, I brought him into this world, what's left of it.
14:27And Paul Pittman died because of it.
14:32I can understand Lewis taking his clerical collar off.
14:35Well, what I can't understand is how he has the nerve to put it back on again.
14:45In our village, the priest was not a nice man at all.
14:47Daniela, never once did I see him smile.
14:52No one liked him.
14:54Daniela, is there a pail I can use anywhere?
14:57Well, then one day he's gone.
15:02To teach the novices at his seminary.
15:05And for long weeks, we have no priest at all.
15:09And everyone not seemed to know what was right anymore.
15:11Daniela, I have to take this ash over to the workshop.
15:13Is there a pail that I can use anywhere?
15:16Outside at all.
15:17Oh, thank you.
15:23But he came back.
15:25And I remember saying my rosary that morning with...
15:27with a sudden lightness in my heart.
15:32Capisce?
15:34Everything was right again.
15:37That is how I feel this morning, Father Lewis.
15:40Please, don't call me father.
15:41What do I call you, then?
15:45Lewis, I don't want this to make any difference.
15:49Now, I must get this ash over to the workshop.
15:52Well, it is not that work you should be doing.
15:57Judy!
15:59You must be carrying the bucket of ashes to the workshop for Father Lewis.
16:02Presto!
16:03I'll take it myself, Daniela.
16:05Will you be saying mass on Sunday?
16:07What?
16:08And before it, Padre.
16:09It is long time since I made my confession.
16:14Daniela, I am not a Roman Catholic priest.
16:16I am just a humble...
16:18Ruth will be waiting for me in the workshop.
16:23I see.
16:24Non-combatant duties now, is it?
16:26Helping the women in the house.
16:28Still, can't have the Padre getting his hands dirty, can we?
16:31I'll join you in the trench as soon as I've taken this over to the workshop.
16:34Don't worry, mate, it's almost finished.
16:36We must have done more on it yesterday than I thought.
16:39Not you.
16:40Him.
16:41He was out there digging this morning before you were up.
16:43I don't believe you.
16:44He was too.
16:45Out there at dawn he was.
16:46He should be in his devotions, not dig in the ditches.
16:49Go and carry that pill for him.
16:50Here I can manage.
16:51I'm supposed to help you.
16:53It's not help I need.
16:54I work, I cook, I scrub.
16:56No one ever say to Daniela, she's lazy, she need help.
16:59Find someone who cannot manage.
17:01Like me.
17:02You can manage anywhere, I should think.
17:05So I'm not scared of being kicked out.
17:08Come on, help us dig.
17:08All right.
17:09That is not the woman's work.
17:11Come on, we're not back to all that again.
17:12I think we are not back to anything.
17:16What?
17:17Will you be getting out of my kitchen?
17:19For it equivatelli!
17:21Oh, morning, vicar.
17:30You don't have to call me that, Hubert.
17:34I suppose you'll be wanting us all to go to church every Sunday, will you?
17:37I don't know how many of you would come if I did.
17:41I'll get some more water.
17:46We play the fields and scatter.
17:49Horace's festival.
17:49Well, that was the only time I ever went to church.
17:53Great bowls of bread and sheaves of corn and maras, so big than they ought to be, all laid out among the pews.
18:01Never did find out what happened to them afterwards.
18:04Vicar had a good tucking, I reckon.
18:06Nah, it used to go to the hospitals, didn't it?
18:09You were church girl, were you?
18:10What, me?
18:12Nah.
18:12Wife used to make me clean the car on a Sunday morning, do odd jobs around the house, Sunday mornings.
18:20I don't think that formal worship is all that important.
18:25I can be a good Christian without going to church.
18:28That means you won't be holding services, does it?
18:30Well, I hadn't intended to, but if the people want me to, do you think anyone will?
18:38Nah, I don't suppose so.
18:40Really all a bit too busy, aren't we?
18:43Yeah.
18:43No priests for the wicked.
18:46Anyway, we've got no in-books.
18:47Can't have a church without in-books, can you?
18:49I'll come to your harvest festival, mate.
18:50Perhaps I should hold a service.
19:01What do you think?
19:02It's up to you, Vicar.
19:05I wasn't even a vicar in Chapman.
19:07I only assisted the vicar.
19:09That's where you come from, is it?
19:11My sister used to live in Chapman.
19:14A very gentle old parish.
19:16Never more than 20 in the congregation and not one under 60.
19:19Yeah, well, it's a right mixed bunch you've got for a flock now, isn't it?
19:23Well, Charles is the only good shepherd here, and no one else.
19:26Lewis.
19:27Yes, Greg?
19:27Are you busy?
19:28Ah, just giving you another hand.
19:30The trench is all but finished.
19:31Yeah, I saw that.
19:32No, it's just that if you're passing, you might pop in and see Jenny.
19:36Well, of course, is something wrong?
19:37No, no, no, but she's a bit down, depressed.
19:41Been a bit quiet since Paul died.
19:43It's understandable.
19:45She doesn't believe in God, I'm afraid, but I think a chat would do her some good.
19:50Conversion is not much in my line, Greg.
19:53What is in your line?
19:59There'll be church parade and all ranks expected to attend.
20:03Commandant reading the lesson, I've seen it all.
20:04When were you in the army?
20:06As a kid.
20:07What kind of army was that?
20:09My dad was a regular soldier.
20:11I was brought up in my quarters, until they tried to make me an apprentice, and then I
20:15got out fast.
20:16But here I am, back into it all over again.
20:19Even got a sky pilot on our backs.
20:21I stripped for Jesus once.
20:22You did what?
20:24There was some pop singer.
20:25I forget his name.
20:26Enjoy yourself, he said.
20:27And if you can make some money at the same time, I'll send it to the homeless in the name
20:30of Jesus.
20:31So I stripped.
20:32Yeah, but why that?
20:33A boyfriend and me were at a club and the stripper had broken her ankle.
20:37Just for laughs, I took her place.
20:38I got 20 quid and I gave it all to Jesus.
20:41It's true!
20:42Hey, perhaps you should do it for the Padre.
20:44That'd liven up his services, no end.
20:46I don't think he'd approve.
20:47I'd approve.
20:4820 quid?
20:49Nowadays you make up for money.
20:51In other ways.
20:52In the name of Jesus?
20:54God is love, I was told.
20:57Not in the way you mean.
20:59Oh, I don't know.
21:00God is everywhere, I was told.
21:02Oh, really?
21:03Even in this heap of muck?
21:04I suppose so.
21:06Yeah, love.
21:06So much for God, then.
21:11Well, why don't you go and look for him?
21:13If he's not putting up fences or digging trenches or repairing a windmill, he'll be out sowing
21:17sugar beet, which is where I should be, only I happen to be rather busy doing something
21:21else.
21:22Yes, sir.
21:23Is there something that I can do to help?
21:25Yes, help Greg.
21:27Yes, I'm not in the way, am I?
21:29No.
21:30John?
21:32John?
21:32Will you come and hang up the washing for me, please?
21:36How's the baby?
21:43Don't tell me you've come to baptise him.
21:45Good gracious, no.
21:47I wouldn't mind if driving out the devil got rid of his conic.
21:50Well, it could, too.
21:51I remember once baptising a child that had been crying all the way through the service
21:55till I ducked him into the font and he came up smiling.
21:59God be praised.
22:00A miracle.
22:01Oh, I think it had more to do with tipping him suddenly backwards and up again.
22:04It brought up the wind.
22:05I didn't seriously think it was the magical effect of holy water.
22:12Were you surprised to hear that I was a clergyman?
22:14I was surprised you admitted you were.
22:16Well, I'm not ashamed of it.
22:19Well, where was God in the plague?
22:22Man made the plague.
22:23God made man?
22:25Free.
22:26That was the greatness of the gift.
22:27Free to destroy himself.
22:29If he chose.
22:30And God just watched.
22:32I can understand how you feel.
22:34I felt at one time.
22:36But we just have to accept rather than question, don't we?
22:40Paul Pittman died for me so that my baby could be born into a world that's just a desert.
22:45You'll be telling me next to us all God's will.
22:48No, I don't believe that.
22:49But I do believe that one day good will come of it.
22:53John, I want you!
22:55We just have to believe that in the end...
22:57It will have proved to have been worth it.
22:59The dying.
23:06Will you tell Greg that I called?
23:08Yes.
23:11You know, we should be getting some more soap soon.
23:13That goo!
23:14Well, it cleans nappies.
23:16I want real soap.
23:17I want nappies that come in crisp hygienic packets.
23:21And safety pins and chemists.
23:23I want a little blue baby bath.
23:26I want a doctor to call in once a week to say he's doing fine and a hospital on hand if he's not.
23:32Will bitterness help?
23:36And don't drop them in the muck this time.
23:43What can you say to help?
23:46Trust in the Lord?
23:48What again?
23:51I'd better go.
23:55Thank you for calling, vicar.
23:57I'm sorry I couldn't offer you a cup of tea.
23:59Oh, Lewis.
24:07Come in here a minute, will you?
24:08I've got something to show you.
24:13Look at this.
24:14I unearthed it amongst a pile of junk.
24:16Now, you could do with this.
24:18A prayer desk?
24:19It's lost one side, but I'm sure Jack could fix that.
24:22Look at this carving.
24:22I don't want a prayer desk, Arthur.
24:26Well, you could use it for your services, as a lectern.
24:28Put your Bible on it.
24:30Well, I'm not sure that I should be holding a service.
24:33You see, I left Cheltenham in rather a hurry, like most people.
24:36And, well, there was an army truck going with some soldiers, and I went with them, just as I was.
24:42Well, the fact is, I don't even have a Bible with me.
24:44Well, you could use mine.
24:45Yes, I found it rather a comfort after, after my wife and sons were, well, certain passages.
24:57While shepherds washed their socks by night, all seated on the ground, the angel of the...
25:09Socks.
25:10It weren't socks.
25:12Eh?
25:13Flocks, that's what it were.
25:15Washed their flocks.
25:18I thought it was socks.
25:21Washed their socks?
25:23No, flocks.
25:25Flocks of sheep.
25:28Wought to be dipped, really.
25:30Dipped their flocks.
25:32You bet.
25:34Oh, good night, Daniel.
25:35I think I'll turn in.
25:37The angel of the Lord came down in.
25:40How does it go on from there?
25:42You see, you can't remember what's the bit you're going to do when no one can't remember the hymns.
25:46Well, perhaps we should make up our own.
25:47I hope they don't let you try washed their socks.
25:50No, Alan's right.
25:51I mean, we're making a fresh start with everything else.
25:54Why not religion, too?
25:55Why make a start with that at all?
26:00Who needs all that superstitious claptrap, anyway?
26:03Bishops and choir boys and babes in a manger.
26:07When I think of all those churches and cathedrals and sky pilots like Louis here, telling you what's good for you.
26:12Yes.
26:12I wonder what became of Il Papa.
26:14I went to San Pietro once.
26:17Many thousand people in the piazza.
26:19And Il Papa at the window, giving us his blessing.
26:22I expect the big piazza is still there.
26:26I shall be saying a short service on Sunday in the yard at 11 o'clock.
26:30You'll need him, books.
26:32We'll sing what we can and say a few prayers.
26:39And we'll have readings from the Bible.
26:40And Mass?
26:43Daniela, I am not empowered by you.
26:45But, but, Father!
26:46You can make your communion afterwards if you wish.
26:49With my sins forgiven?
26:51Daniela, I am not worthy to hear you.
26:54What's this?
26:56It must be very uncomfortable wearing your shirt back to front.
27:00So I made you a proper one, Father.
27:02What did she make it from?
27:04Her own skirt.
27:05What about the collar?
27:06Bit of sacking, I think.
27:07Starts with the flour paste.
27:09He looks like a real parson now.
27:11And I've no new clothes for Paul at all.
27:13If Daniela's got that much time...
27:15What have you asked her?
27:16Well, I just think there are more important things to do in this place than make a bib and tucker for the parson.
27:19Well, sure there is.
27:20The sugar-beaten oats that's so.
27:23And cabbage, kale and potatoes for the winter.
27:26And teaching people the kind of crafts we need here.
27:28Not to mention planning some kind of schooling for the children.
27:30All right, Greg.
27:30Look, we need a telephone system, power for tools, some kind of motorized transport, but a planned program.
27:37Not this bumbling, inefficient amateurism, letting everyone do his own thing.
27:40There's one thing I can't stand at the moment is Charles' damn patience with everyone.
27:44Come in.
27:45Ah, that's what I might find you here.
27:49You know, uh, you know that plough Jack was supposed to be mending for us?
27:53Well, hasn't he done it yet?
27:54He hasn't even started on it.
27:56You know what he is doing?
27:58Who's going to do without that?
28:00Yeah, of course he can.
28:02But look at it.
28:03Arthur says that that's, which years old, be made by somebody who probably couldn't even read and write.
28:08So what?
28:09Well, I thought if I could carve something on this side as beautiful as that on that side.
28:14It would take ages.
28:17Well, what's the hurry?
28:18I bet it's the trouble with some of you people.
28:19You're in too much of a hurry.
28:21Yeah, yeah.
28:21If you don't get that plough, then...
28:23You'll get it today.
28:24The last world went wrong because we pushed ahead so fast it got out of control.
28:29This time, let's get our values right.
28:32Treat progress as a bonus.
28:34Yeah, too true.
28:35I say, that's coming on well, Jack.
28:39Well, it frightens me.
28:41There's little enough commitment here as it is without a priest to undermine it.
28:45Undermine it?
28:46Oh, I'm sure there's nothing subversive about Lewis.
28:49There's more to life than just making a living, Greg.
28:52Oh, you believe that now.
28:54Next winter, we could all be starving.
28:57Even the most primitive societies had their gods.
29:00It wasn't ignorance bliss.
29:03Well, religion does just provide something to fall back on.
29:06An insurance against failure.
29:08So why bother to work?
29:09And everything you lack is going to be made up for you in the next world.
29:13Hmm.
29:13Accept your lot.
29:15Don't question.
29:16Blessed are the meek.
29:17Blessed are the poor.
29:19Greg is right.
29:20It gives even non-believers an excuse to opt out.
29:22Yes, well, some non-believers find other excuses for that, Jenny.
29:26Oh, tell me such a hustler, Greg.
29:29This commitment you want, then people must be allowed to find it for themselves in their own way.
29:32And maybe Lewis can help them do that.
29:34Look, are you prepared to take that risk?
29:36We have got no authority to impose a way of life on other people.
29:39Look, a lot of people want authority.
29:42They're not interested in working it out for themselves.
29:44They want to be told, freed from responsibility.
29:47That's why they're responding to Lewis.
29:50You've no right to impose a way of life on anyone.
29:53In your position, Charles, you're having the right not to.
29:57Can John and I go down the river?
29:59No.
30:00At least, not yet.
30:00You can give Paul his bottle first.
30:02Oh, can I?
30:03Now, you know how to do it.
30:06And give him plenty of time for burps.
30:08I know.
30:10Wait, John, I've got to feed Paul first.
30:13Oh, we've problems enough without worrying about religion or leadership.
30:17Just how much sugar beet are we planting, Greg?
30:20It's only a flower.
30:22But think of its complexity.
30:25Think of everything that went into it to bring it to such living beauty.
30:29And it blooms there unseen, whether we're here or not.
30:34That sky.
30:36That owes nothing to man either.
30:38Needs us to see it.
30:40I wonder.
30:42Certainly we're here to see it.
30:45Beauty, truth, love, goodness.
30:50Aspects of God which man has the power to realise in himself.
30:53It's the quality of life that matters.
30:59How we live.
31:01Not how long.
31:02What's happening about this ditch then?
31:06We've others to dig yet.
31:08Unless we can drain that high ground and stop it saturating the fields down there, everything we've just planted will rot.
31:13Then what do we live on?
31:14Give me a hand with the pipes, Alan.
31:18I'm surprised you care.
31:20Not much quality of life in laying drains, is there?
31:22I suppose it would have mattered to God that almost everyone in the world was wiped out by the plague.
31:26Just as long as he can still send up for sunset once a day.
31:29But we weren't all wiped out.
31:31You and I weren't, for a start.
31:32Oh, yeah.
31:33Chosen few, are we?
31:35There will always be some survivors after any catastrophe.
31:38Enough to start again, and perhaps do better.
31:40You scare me.
31:44Well, how do you come to terms with what happened then?
32:00Well, come on.
32:01We'd better get on with this trench.
32:03Yes, do it.
32:10Lizzie, you can milk the cows, can't you?
32:13I'll have a go.
32:14Anyway, we'll be back by then.
32:16You coming, are you?
32:17Yeah, why not?
32:20Tell Greg and Charles where we going, will you, Daniela?
32:23We won't be long.
32:24Does Father Louis know?
32:26Of course not.
32:26It's supposed to be a surprise for him.
32:28Well, you coming, Hubert.
32:30Two miles at least.
32:34Where are you off to, then?
32:36Why, fancy a walk, do you?
32:37Yeah.
32:40Wash their socks.
32:55Don't you think it's too dry?
32:57Oh, for the time being.
32:59Hubert said it's going to rain later on.
33:01Yeah, and if it doesn't?
33:02Oh, we'll just have to water it in ourselves, I suppose.
33:05Uh-huh, if you say so.
33:07Thanks, Jenny.
33:12Funny it should take religion, of all things, to make me snap out of it.
33:15I shouldn't have blown my top at Charles at that, should I?
33:18Well, it made me see sense, at least.
33:21No, it's just that I've been going on complaining that people aren't working hard enough, and we've...
33:25You've got me and the children hanging around your neck.
33:28No, it's not that.
33:29It's, uh...
33:31Well, we've been getting more than we've been earning.
33:32Not that Charles, mind it.
33:36It's that I find some maddening about it.
33:38My poor, hunted Greg.
33:42Greg!
33:44Greg!
33:45That ditch we've been digging has flooded!
33:48Well, they...
33:49They must have unearthed the spring or fractured a pipe from the well.
33:53Where are they all?
33:54Well, Lewis has gone to tell Greg.
33:56I haven't seen the other three at all.
33:58Look, if we dig a channel down there, we should get rid of it.
34:01Yes, look, Harry, would you make a start on that?
34:02I'll go get some help.
34:03Just hope it won't get into my stores, that's all.
34:12Hubert!
34:13Hubert!
34:14Hubert, can you give us a hand, Elaine?
34:18Where's Hubert?
34:19Gone off with Jack and Danum.
34:21I said I'd do the milking if they won't back.
34:23You've gone off?
34:25Or Jack too?
34:25Where?
34:34It's gone off for what, Lizzie?
34:36Hymn books?
34:37According to Daniela, they left about an hour ago.
34:39That water gets in here.
34:42Thanks.
34:43Three grown men on a two-mile trunk over the hills to get hymn books for a church.
34:48Well, I never sent them. Are you sure?
34:49You but left Lizzie to milk the cows.
34:51But we can manage without hymn books.
34:52If we get everything over the side, it won't matter if it comes in or not.
34:55Why didn't they ask me first?
34:57They wanted it to be a nice surprise for him.
35:00But Jack, he asked me to tell you.
35:02He said they will be home very soon.
35:06Did those two kids, Philip and, um, um, Judy,
35:09they go with them too?
35:11There's no sign of them either.
35:12It's as if the whole place has suddenly died on us.
35:14They will soon be back.
35:17Ecco.
35:19This two is going to be a nice surprise for il padre.
35:25May as well tell them, I suppose.
35:39Where have you been?
35:41The ditch you were digging has flooded.
35:42We've had to shift half the stores and dig a drain.
35:46We needed every hand we could find.
35:47And where the hell are you?
35:48In the treehouse.
35:51Look, if you don't want to work with this community, you can leave.
35:54That's just what we're going to do.
35:56We thought we'd move on tomorrow.
35:59Come and talk.
36:00Does Charles know that you've been wasting your time doing this?
36:10But, father!
36:11I don't want a surplus any more than I wanted them to go and fetch him books.
36:18You and I depend upon these people, Daniela.
36:21They're strong, practical and efficient.
36:24And if it wasn't for them, you and I would have starved to death long ago.
36:27If people are going to start letting down Charles, I'm going to wish that I'd never put this on.
36:34Where's Greg?
36:36Oh, he went off after we finished digging the channel in the lane.
36:39You know those two who just joined us?
36:41What are their names?
36:42Philip and Judy.
36:43Yeah, they're leaving tomorrow.
36:45Moving on.
36:46Where will they go?
36:47Where is they have to go?
36:49We thought we'd make our way to the coast.
36:51Look, we're going to try and find another boat.
36:53Load up with supplies from any warehouses around.
36:55They're all contaminated.
36:57Not all.
36:58How will you know which?
36:59The risk is enormous.
37:01So we'll take some risks.
37:03At least we'll enjoy life while we have it.
37:05We're in love.
37:06Well, that won't feed you.
37:07Look, why are you always so worried about food all the time?
37:10We might sail across to the continent and see what's happening over there.
37:13We're free.
37:14God will provide.
37:15Maybe, maybe not.
37:17We're really not worried.
37:18You can't tell people what to believe.
37:28Is it because of Lewis?
37:30There's a lot in what he says.
37:32I mean, there are other things.
37:34Beauty, truth, goodness, things like that.
37:37Things that matter.
37:38More than living?
37:39It's how you live, he says, and he's right, really.
37:42Who cares about making soap?
37:44After all, if you can come through the plague, you can come through anything.
37:48We'll just take each day as it comes.
37:50We'll get by.
37:51We did before.
37:52If not, why worry?
37:57It's such a waste.
37:58What good would you be doing?
38:01Look, we need young people here.
38:03Can't you see we're trying to build a new world here?
38:04Well, that's more like the old one to me.
38:06Alan thinks he's just like the army.
38:07Well, Ella's wrong.
38:09Oh, well, why didn't you print some money, fix a wage rate for different jobs,
38:12and then people could buy what they earned from Arthur Russell's store?
38:14Make a nice supermarket, that bond.
38:16You could even have a till.
38:17We don't need money.
38:18You seem to have everything else.
38:20We share the fruits of our neighbours here.
38:21Yeah, each according to his needs and each to his ability.
38:23What's wrong with that?
38:24Just that when they tried it in Russia, they soon found you need a few bosses around
38:28to keep the peasants working for the common good.
38:30No bosses here.
38:30There's a boss class here, which doesn't like the threat from Lewis.
38:34Well, in Russia, they didn't like people to believe in God either,
38:37in case it took their minds off their walls.
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