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Call The Midwife Season15 Episode8

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00:00Very well, we shall do the tests again.
00:03The level of disregard for the comfort and convenience of an elderly patient is unforgivable.
00:11I don't know what that ice cream van's doing.
00:14Mrs. Bianchi's having some strong peers.
00:16We're going to get her settled and take a look at her.
00:19Oh, they're lasting a minute each.
00:21And how often are they coming?
00:24Well, I don't know.
00:26Am I meant to write them all down?
00:27Is that, by any chance, your ice cream van parked outside, Mr. Bianchi?
00:31Yes, it is.
00:33I only got it last summer.
00:34Best ice cream in Poplar, guaranteed.
00:36I'm sure it is, but at the present moment, we're more interested in delivering babies than ice cream.
00:42Would you mind turning off the music?
00:45Oh, sorry.
00:54What do you want me to do with these, then?
00:59I'll take the run of beans.
01:01We can have those with the chops I've planned.
01:03Everything else can go to the Harvest Festival.
01:06What?
01:06Even the marrows?
01:08They would have won first prize in the multicultural show if I'd have been ready in time.
01:12They're bigger than toddlers' legs, Fred.
01:15And I haven't the time to be stuffing them with mince and making a white sauce.
01:21I'll take them to the nurse's house, then.
01:24The children will march from there to the church in a procession.
01:28Your produce will be widely admired.
01:33You're not in labour just yet, honey.
01:35These are just what we call Braxton Hicks contractions.
01:38It's your body rehearsing for the rating.
01:40I feel a bit of a fool now.
01:43And it's taken Tony away from his van.
01:45That van's our whole livelihood now I've stopped working.
01:48Have I missed it?
01:49Ah, it's all right.
01:50Yes, sir.
01:51It was a false alarm.
01:56Good job we never told no one.
01:58I'll get me leg pulled something rotten.
02:03Is there anything you need taking to the post office, sister?
02:07I'm rather more concerned about a letter I took to the post office two weeks ago.
02:11The one you wrote to the Board of Health?
02:13Yes.
02:14Telling them we would close Nanata's house if we were no longer allowed to work.
02:19as Christian missionaries.
02:21I expected a response from them at the very least.
02:24It's entirely likely that they're playing games.
02:26Keeping you waiting because you kept them waiting.
02:29One would hope they were above such pettiness
02:32when there is so much at stake.
02:37Come on, let's go.
02:38Come on, let's go.
02:40Come on, this way.
02:44Idiot!
02:45You took her in too early.
02:46Hey, bruv, you coming to football tonight?
02:48I don't know, Matteo.
02:50I'm not really in the mood.
02:51You stop coming to football, you stop coming swimming.
02:54You need to make the most of your freedom while you've got it.
02:58Come on, let's go.
02:59You got everything?
03:00Let's go.
03:01See you, baby brother.
03:02You got the bag?
03:03Come on, let's go.
03:05I do not have unlimited quantities of copacular matter in my veins.
03:10Sister, you're a nurse.
03:12You know as well as I do that blood replenishes itself.
03:17And we need to get to the bottom of what ails you.
03:20We all know what ails me.
03:23I am merely ancient and presumed frail as a consequence.
03:30Sister, I have five minutes before I leave on my rounds.
03:34Would you like me to move the television into your room?
03:36Do you suppose I'm at the point of expiry?
03:40There is no reason to treat me as an invalid,
03:44as the analysis of my blood will testify.
03:53Ladies and gentlemen,
03:54the doors to tonight's wrestling in the main hall will open in five minutes.
04:06Do you try to say, do you give up?
04:13In one, in two, so, so many in two, so many in two.
04:19I've learned so much about deferment since I gave up drink.
04:25I've learned you can bear anything if you pretend it's forever.
04:30I can postpone.
04:32I can wait.
04:34But putting things off until tomorrow doesn't always work.
04:38Because what if tomorrow never comes?
04:44I've been postponing a decision for a long time now.
05:10it's not a decision about drink it's a decision about work and work is my other addiction
05:20is there a doctor in here anyone I'm a nurse that'll do it's a concussion
05:28you're staging sporting events you're legally obliged to have medical help on the premises
05:32don't know nothing about no legal obligations um this is her harmony savage hello harmony
05:39I'm a nurse I'm sorry you've been hurt occupationalised did you lose consciousness
05:45or did you remain aware of your surroundings I never went out I was just putting on a bit of
05:50a show punters like it I've got to go back out finish your job whoa you were out cold
05:58I did the count but it's over Brenda the butcher won fair and square
06:06you'll have gone to give out the prize money
06:09if you can't be absolutely sure that you weren't knocked out I really think you ought to go to the
06:15casualty department I'm gonna go home to bed
06:20oh hello sweetie
06:25who's this
06:26Carl my boy he comes to all my fights
06:31come on let's pack up and get you in the van
06:34you really must not drive after blacking out however briefly
06:39any better ideas
06:42I know it was a false alarm to that heat but
06:47made me think how real all this is
06:52how we've made a proper grown-up life
06:56you do go on
06:59it's like me and the baby of the family gave you a great big chip on your shoulder
07:03no it wasn't that
07:05it was being the one who is no good at all the things the others did
07:10it's not your fault you won't cut out for the tiling trade
07:13besides
07:15I'd rather have
07:16a bit of soft scoop
07:18than a hundred yards of mosaic flooring
07:21come on
07:22like that
07:23what's that
07:25nothing
07:25Tony there's blood on your singlet
07:29what is it show me
07:37how long have you had this
07:38oh wow
07:42I'll put a plaster on it
07:44you will not
07:46in the morning I'm ringing the doctor
07:57out
07:58out
07:58get
08:03wrestling was all I knew
08:04even as a little girl
08:06my dab was burnt savage
08:07lamb of pamphlet
08:09god rest him
08:10I used to watch him every time he fought
08:12it's rather wonderful that you followed in his footsteps
08:14it would be even more wonderful if it were legal
08:16there's a whole ladies circuit up north
08:18just as legitimate as the men's
08:19but
08:20in London we're outlaws
08:22I really would like you to be seen by a doctor
08:25if at all possible harmony
08:26oh my real name's Gwen
08:29thanks for seeing us home
08:32come on little inn
08:45giving up doing sports and everything
08:48so unsightly
08:51I probably just banged it
08:57it looks like a sebaceous cyst to me
09:02antibiotics will take the edge off it
09:04but I think it needs to be removed
09:07I've got a baby to any day
09:09all the more reason to get it out of the way
09:12I'll call St Cuthbert's myself
09:23now that is a bird song
09:26I can easily identify
09:28the lesser spotted buck
09:31ah sister how you keeping
09:34I'm keeping on
09:37if a little more desiccated
09:40with every week the passes
09:43perhaps that I should not linger
09:46lest you
09:47sweep me up with all the other dead leaves
09:50I've got a bag of donuts in my shed
09:52would they cheer you up a bit?
09:54are they jam filled?
09:55no they're the ones with the holes in
09:57then I will forego them
09:59do you detect
10:00a chill in the breeze today?
10:03I reckon I felt the first nip
10:06I like it when the seasons start to turn though
10:10that time of year
10:11mayst in me behold
10:13when yellow leaves
10:15or none or few
10:16do hang upon those boughs
10:20that shake with cold
10:23bare ruined choirs
10:26where late the sweet birds sang
10:29in me
10:31thou seest the twilight of such day
10:35as after sunset
10:37fadeth in the west
10:39which by and by
10:42like night doth
10:43take away
10:45their second self
10:48that seals up all
10:50in rest
11:07sister monica joan
11:09what's brought this on?
11:14time
11:14Mr. Buckle
11:17its passage
11:18and its sheer
11:20weary
11:21accumulation
11:24would you like a cup of tea?
11:27if you will sit
11:29and take one with me
11:40well Miss Savage
11:41I'm not seeing anything
11:42that needs further tests
11:44any other bumps or bruises
11:46you'd like me to look at?
11:47I've got a rash
11:48keeps coming up
11:49sort of
11:49on the back of my shoulder
11:52if you just
11:53slip your blouse off
11:54dear
11:55don't believe
11:56I've ever met
11:57a lady wrestler before
11:59imagine it's
12:00quite physically taxing
12:02I call over sometimes
12:04fight or no fight
12:15I think I know
12:17what this is
12:17it's a skin virus
12:19called herpes gladiatorum
12:22gladiator
12:22like in Spartacus
12:24I love a bit of Kirk Douglas
12:26don't we all
12:28I'm afraid this comes
12:29from grazing your skin
12:30on grubby canvas
12:32in the ring
12:33your best bet
12:34is to wash it daily
12:35with medicated soap
12:36and bathe the blisters
12:38in salt water
12:39can I do that
12:40with my hips and my knees?
12:41do you have a rash
12:42there as well?
12:43no we just hurt
12:44all the time
12:45Miss Savage
12:46are you able to take
12:47a break from your work
12:48for a while?
12:49no
12:49I've got mouths to feed
12:51mine and my little boys
12:59I've been looking forward
13:00to this moment
13:00all day
13:01I popped on a market
13:03and bought myself
13:04and no purse
13:05slippers for the winter
13:10I never knew
13:11you could love
13:11a bit of sheepskin
13:12on your feet
13:13till I came to live
13:13in England
13:15me neither
13:17I'm sorry child
13:19you all wrapped up
13:20in something
13:22I'm trying to work out
13:23exactly when I started
13:25taking a pill
13:26calculated against
13:27the number of
13:27actual pills
13:28you have to take
13:29before it protects you
13:31and why is that?
13:32I've never missed
13:33a single one
13:36I'm wondering if
13:36it's throwing my hormones
13:38out of whack
13:38I mean
13:39it can do that
13:39can't it?
13:41child
13:41the whole point of the pill
13:42is to throw your hormones
13:43out of whack
13:45that's how it stops you
13:46getting pregnant
13:48are you late?
13:50I've been late before
13:53and things just sort of
13:55corrected themselves
13:57that would have been
13:59before you had a boyfriend
14:02do you think
14:03you need to do with us?
14:05no
14:06not yet
14:13do you want to tap?
14:14do you want to give up?
14:15you're short
14:19do you want to tap?
14:27do you want to give up?
14:29do you want to give up?
14:31yes
14:31hey
14:32is that a close fist?
14:34no
14:34no
14:35no
14:35no
14:36no
14:36no
14:39no
14:40no
14:40no
14:40no
14:41no
14:41no
14:41no
14:54no
15:01no
15:04are you feeling sick?
15:07this is not good honey
15:09but we're going to do a test
15:11I'll help you
15:12I don't want anyone to know
15:13they won't
15:18my name is Higgins
15:20have the samples gone off to the laboratory yet?
15:22they will be dispatched very shortly but if you wish to add any to the list I'm afraid you must
15:27see to the paperwork yourself
15:45nurse?
15:45good morning Gwen
15:47Dr. Turner
15:48Dr. Turner remembered an iodine preparation he thought might help with your skin condition
15:51I told him I'd drop it off
15:54have you been in another fight?
15:56yes
15:57yes
15:57and I didn't win that one either
16:05new school stay old chap
16:06I overslept again
16:08I don't like going in late cause gets told off
16:11I imagine you're exhausted after a match
16:13I'm always exhausted but I'm a mum aren't I?
16:16no
16:17and it's just me
16:18I weren't tired
16:20I mean I was slacking
16:22I'm a stepmother to a little boy of Carl's age
16:25that certainly keeps one on one's toes
16:27I hope he talks like you do
16:29you've got a lovely way of putting things
16:32can I make you a cuppa?
16:34a cuppa would actually be extremely welcome
16:37but I should be making you one
16:42I'm sorry I'll have to get out
16:55that's all I've got this time I'll give you the full amount next week
17:00I've heard that before and more than once
17:02I am not a charity
17:11now there ain't nothing in here but feathers
17:14I'm officially skint
17:15do you keep your money in a cushion cover?
17:17I don't trust banks
17:19at least that's where I know my money is
17:20even when I've got none
17:24sorry I've gone all dizzy
17:29Mr. Bianchi
17:31I'm Mr. Penn Warden
17:32I'll be removing this cyst for you
17:34do you mind if I take a look?
17:44don't want to go hacking away on the wrong side
17:53could just drain this
17:54but I'm leaning on the side of getting the whole thing out
18:03your bloods may come back perfectly normal
18:06but I strongly suspect that if you'd have almost passed out in front of Dr. Turner
18:10he'd want to check your iron levels
18:12maybe I just need a tonic
18:14maybe you do
18:16I just think that as another woman who's often had to stand on her own two feet
18:20you need to be in better condition than this
18:23you're on your own with your kitty
18:26no
18:27but I was very much on my own for a long time
18:30before he and his father came into my life
18:33I know what it feels like to be fighting an invisible opponent
18:37I've fought invisible ones and all
18:39and I've no doubt you're extremely good at it
18:42but you need someone more than a wrestling promoter in your corner
18:45let us help find out what's causing your malaise
18:50Nurse Clifford's gone out to the cinema
18:52but Nurse Hyland says we can have the box
18:55her new slippers came in
18:56could there be a more perfect showcase for nature's bounty
19:00oh!
19:01we can do a lot with ribbon and crypt paper
19:04and that's before we start tying bows around marrows
19:06oh!
19:07these lamentable scissors
19:09they wouldn't cut butter
19:11shall I see if I can find a sharper pair?
19:13what we really need is sister Veronica and her magic pinking shears
19:18how long has she gone to the mother house for?
19:22a lengthy retreat
19:24I wasn't allowed to ask
19:26it's her private spiritual business
19:28do you suppose she took her pinking shears?
19:32I would settle for her implements if we can't have her
19:35hmm
20:01what's sister Monica Joan?
20:03I was hoping it was something that could be treated
20:08but chronic kidney disease is just
20:10something that takes old people gently but kindly
20:14but it takes them
20:16how long has she been ill with this?
20:19I suspect not long
20:22how long does she have?
20:26the same
20:29unless we can persuade her to accept what treatment there is
20:33she'll progress to end stage renal failure fairly quickly
20:39till that day comes
20:41we'll just have to love her as we always have
20:44but a bit more carefully
20:52you look happy
20:55today is a happy day
20:58I got a letter from the solicitor
21:00the decree absolute
21:01I'm officially a single man
21:06everything we do now is ours
21:08our choice to make
21:11the board of health requested a meeting
21:13I told them your diary was full
21:15but they were most insistent
21:16it's in your diary for Friday
21:18thank you
21:20I anticipate the usual fun and games
21:24I need to see Anthony Bianchi
21:26I've just had his histopathology results through from the hospital
21:30should I make an appointment for him?
21:33no
21:33I'll call in on him today
21:37we told you the truth
21:38sister Veronica is on retreat
21:41you told us she had gone on retreat to the mother house
21:44she would need her cross in the mother house
21:46she would need her shoes
21:47our sister needed our discretion and I gave that willingly and with love
21:52I'm sorry if you feel that you should have been informed
21:58I'm sorry if I have been arrogant in thinking I deserved an explanation
22:05I can't tell you everything
22:06too much of it is personal to her
22:08but I can say she is struggling with her vows
22:11and has been given leave of absence for a while
22:15she is staying at the Oliver Christian Retreat Centre
22:18at Gravesend
22:20alone
22:23without anyone she knows
22:25or any friends to support her
22:29sister
22:31out of all of us
22:32sister Veronica emits the most love
22:35she needs the most love
22:37she does not know what she needs or wants
22:41and that is why she has had to go away
22:48go
22:49morning
22:51have you come to see Tina?
22:53Mr. Bianchi
22:54we have come to see you
22:59I can't have breast cancer
23:03it's a women's disease
23:05we know all about that because his mum died of it
23:09I know
23:10Oh, she was a lovely lady.
23:14And even in the five years since she passed away,
23:18we've learned so much about it.
23:21I can't have it.
23:24I'm a man.
23:26It is rare in men, especially for someone of your age.
23:30But it's not unheard of.
23:32Everyone has breast tissue, Tony.
23:35Men and women.
23:37We have less of it,
23:39but it only takes a couple of cells to go rogue
23:43and a tumour can start to develop.
23:46I have had some specialist training
23:49and there are new treatments and new approaches to surgery.
24:01Should I have done something sooner when I first felt the lump?
24:05We are going to focus on the future now, Tony.
24:09And we are going to be with you every step of the way.
24:15I don't care whereabouts in your body it is.
24:19You've got the big C. We have to face up to it.
24:22We can face up to it together.
24:25Without telling people.
24:26What is that going to achieve, Tony?
24:30You need help.
24:32You need love.
24:34Tina.
24:37Money.
24:39Dignity.
24:41I need to feel like a man.
24:46There's a bike for sale.
24:52Maybe for your birthday, eh?
24:55If you're in your next flight.
25:00Come on.
25:05Yes?
25:07Doctor.
25:09Gwen Savage's records arrive from her previous practice.
25:12She's been suffering with tiredness and joint pain for five years.
25:17Did the blood test we did show anything?
25:19Nothing at all conclusive.
25:22Just markers for minor inflammation, slightly low white blood count.
25:27Could the pain relate to the wrestling?
25:30I saw her in the ring and it's incredibly physical.
25:33But an impact injury would be on one side, not both.
25:38It's as though I'm missing something.
25:41I never liked that.
25:43They said those Braxton Hicks pains was my body tuning up for the baby to be born.
25:48I got used to them, but they've got worse since I found out Tony isn't well.
25:53You've an immense amount to contend with at the moment.
25:56But baby's head is engaged, Tina.
25:59I really don't think you'll have very long to wait.
26:02Oh, this reading is just a little bit higher than I'd like.
26:08We can't have anything else go wrong.
26:10Nothing's going to go wrong.
26:12But I do want you to come over to the maternity home with me.
26:16So Dr. Turner can take a look at you.
26:32Any chance of a 99?
26:34I've an elderly friend.
26:35Might like a bit of a pick-ney-up.
26:38What's the matter, pal?
26:43Brian?
26:47You ain't put me down for a single match.
26:50I can't afford to promote wrestlers who keep losing.
26:53Look, I can raise my game.
26:55My dad used to say, aim up, things will look up.
26:59Your dad was one of the best there ever was.
27:01The Lamb of Panther was revered.
27:05Look, all I can offer you right now is the adult fixtures.
27:08Oh no, no.
27:09Adult fixtures is one step away from stripping, Brian.
27:12I keep it clean.
27:13It's a place down Deptford where they roll about in jelly.
27:17Girls earn 30 quid about.
27:1830 quid?
27:20I pay 20.
27:24Bring your own bikini.
27:35Usually Tina reads stuff for me, but I don't want to worry all this.
27:40There's going to be further surgery and a radiography assessment.
27:51I'm going to have to stop working.
27:53It won't be for long.
27:55I mean, you've got a family to support you.
27:58I've only just proved to him that I'm a man.
28:01I'm making a go of the van, earning my own living.
28:04And now I've got a woman's disease.
28:06They can't provide.
28:10I'm telling him nothing.
28:19Geoffrey Franklin?
28:20Mr. Franklin, it's Sister Catherine from Nanata's House.
28:24It's about Sister Veronica.
28:27And...
28:28I'm calling you in confidence.
28:32I see.
28:33I don't like leaving you on your own, Tony.
28:37Don't be daft.
28:39I'm fine.
28:42Look.
28:45Got my appointment through already.
28:48Nothing to be done till then.
28:51It's you and the baby we need to think about now.
28:55Alright.
28:57Just promise me.
28:59You'll tell your brothers.
29:03I promise.
29:09You'll need to take these diuretics first thing in the morning, as you don't want to be up all hours
29:14of the night.
29:15We can bring the commode into your room.
29:18The commode will not be entertained.
29:20You may come to revise that opinion.
29:23Your tone is brisk, given that my days are numbered.
29:31Everybody's days are numbered, Sister.
29:34Mine as well as yours, one way and another.
29:42But you may be going on for quite a long time.
29:46Possibly feeling slightly better than you have done.
29:49Given that we know what ails you now.
29:53Maybe I do not care to go on for quite a long time.
29:59Let's see how we do, shall we?
30:02With these diuretics.
30:20Carl?
30:30Carl?
30:42We'll proceed with a full mastectomy of your right breast.
30:46We'll remove the breast tissue, along with the lymph nodes and the pectoralis major muscle.
30:54I don't want to do this.
30:55I promise you scarring will be minimal.
30:58And at least you won't be having to deal with foam rubber falsies like my lady patients.
31:09Come on, Carl. Where are they?
31:23Come on, Carl. Where are they?
31:27Come on, Carl. Where are they?
31:31He's been in the same place?
31:31Including him.
31:32Oh, thank God.
31:35Do you want to go in and speak with them?
31:37Gwen, what's happened?
31:39I couldn't wake up this morning.
31:40Carl took himself to school.
31:43He's the worst I've ever felt.
31:45What's this on your face, Gwen?
31:47It's like this all the time.
31:48I'll cover it with pan stick, usually.
32:08You waiting for your wife?
32:10My husband says he can't stand the smell of this place.
32:13Drops me at the door and waits in the pub.
32:18Mr Bianchi?
32:22Is this ever itchy or sore?
32:25No.
32:25And it's never all blisters like the one on my back.
32:28It's more like a sunburn.
32:30You've been covering it up with panstick because it's such a strange shape.
32:34Like a butterfly.
32:37That herpes gladiatorum on your back was a complete red herring.
32:42This is what leads us to your diagnosis.
32:45Have you ever heard of a condition called lupus?
32:49Nobody in your family has ever had it?
32:51Or mentioned it?
32:52No.
32:53Do you think that's what I've got?
32:55This rash is so distinctive.
32:58I'd put money on it as a diagnosis.
32:59How long will it take to get rid of it?
33:02It's going to be about management rather than cure.
33:06But I promise you we can get you feeling better.
33:10Can't be cured.
33:11But I need to win matches again.
33:14Gwen, you are too unwell to fight.
33:20Tony, thank God.
33:22I've been worried sick.
33:23How'd it go at the hospital?
33:24It was all fine.
33:27Your doctor's very pleased with me.
33:29Oh, really?
33:31So, um, what happens next?
33:33What treatment are they giving you?
33:35So many pills I'll be rattling.
33:39The important thing is that you are getting some rest.
33:43Not worrying yourself, silly.
33:45I'm not now.
33:45I've heard your voice.
33:47I love your voice.
33:49Now I'll ever get to talk on the phone.
33:53Because we're together all the time.
33:55And we'll be together again soon.
34:15Tony!
34:17Tony!
34:18We're going down the pub.
34:19You're coming?
34:21Tony!
34:43Beryl burrows as I live and breathe.
34:51Do tell me you're en route to a harvest festival with that dreary swag, because at the very
34:57least it would provoke a degree of fellow feeling in me.
34:59I'm on potato peeling duty, there's a rota in the retreat house.
35:04Stop, stop, before you completely break my heart.
35:08Come here almost every day, sometimes I have an eclair, and when the fancier takes me I
35:14have a cream split.
35:16You get a cherry on a cream split, and there's this little burst of flavour when you bite it.
35:22Tell me you've eaten fish and chips in the street too, in broad daylight.
35:26Twice.
35:28Although sometimes it feels as though it's the things I don't do that tell me more about
35:34where I am now, or where I might go next.
35:37What don't you do?
35:40I don't pray.
35:42I came here to pray, or at least to decide what I ought to be praying for, but I can't.
35:49And do you know why?
35:51It's not different enough to the convent, Beryl.
35:54And all the snatched patisserie in the world can't disguise the fact that you are still living
35:59the same sort of half-life, trapped underneath a similar godly bell jar.
36:06And how do you propose a change that?
36:09Come and stay with me.
36:10Geoffrey.
36:12I am still technically a nun.
36:16I can't live with a man.
36:17You could lodge with a kindly confirmed bachelor.
36:27You've missed two appointments at the hospital, Tony.
36:31Do you have anyone to talk to?
36:34Do you have anyone to talk to?
36:35Your brothers, perhaps?
36:37No, I can't.
36:40Not with it being, you know, breast cancer.
36:44It's so humiliating.
36:46I can hear them now.
36:49Your typical Tony.
36:53Doctor Turner and I delivered a baby at the maternity home last week.
36:57And the mother asked if the older brother could come in and meet him.
37:02We placed the baby in his little arms and he was awestruck.
37:08This was his brother.
37:12He promised right then and there to teach him everything he knew.
37:17Older's the best fighting moves.
37:18A cat gun was mentioned.
37:21And something about which jelly babies tasted best.
37:26Green ones.
37:29According to Enzo.
37:31Always gave me the green ones.
37:34Brothers look after each other, Tony.
37:37I've seen it with my own boys.
37:41Right now I shouldn't be moaning about me.
37:45I should be looking after Tina.
37:47Doctor Turner says she can come home if you're feeling up to it.
37:52Of course I'm feeling up to it.
37:58Something tells me something's gonna happen tonight.
38:05I read in the papers that Gem and I people will make it tonight.
38:12Stars will be shining.
38:14Stars will be shining.
38:14My sign is aligning with love.
38:19So come on and make it.
38:21Let's take everything that we've been dreaming of.
38:25Something tells me something's gonna happen tonight.
38:33Something tells me something's gonna happen tonight.
38:40Something's gonna happen tonight.
38:53You stay in the dressing room tonight, promise?
38:57Promise.
38:58And if I win, you'll get that bike.
39:02My precious boy.
39:25You keeping up with those peppermints, child?
39:28I'm first on call tonight and I still feel quite queasy.
39:31But it's not just in the morning.
39:34Maybe the pill itself doesn't agree with me.
39:38I popped into the surgery when no-one was there to check on your results.
39:43I think we need to have a talk.
39:50Oh, I can't seem to get comfortable.
39:54My back is killing me.
39:59Right, Tony, the sheets are wet.
40:05Do you think your walls have broken?
40:07I thought they'd be more of a whoosh.
40:11Oh, I don't feel right, Tony.
40:14Oh.
40:15Hi.
40:16Hi.
40:17Hi.
40:18Joyce, what am I going to do?
40:21The pill was supposed to be foolproof.
40:24Honey, the pill was invented by man and is taken by women.
40:28It's always going to be subject to human error.
40:31I will lose my job.
40:33I will have to tell my parents and I hardly speak to them as it is
40:36because they don't approve of Cyril.
40:38What?
40:38I approve of Cyril.
40:39He is a good man and he will support you, whatever you choose to do.
40:45Choose to do?
40:47Joyce, I'm not even going to consider an abortion.
40:52That's why it's so hard.
40:54That's why I'm going to get the sack.
40:56I can't.
40:57Talk to Cyril.
40:59You've got time before you have to tell anybody else.
41:02And I will cover for you in any way I can.
41:09You have enough of peppermint and wash your face.
41:20Please take your seats for tonight's Teeny Mutant Steamy Bikini extravaganza of a fight.
41:27TELLS
41:28TELLS
41:28TELLS
41:30TELLS
41:31Lennatas house, midwife speaking.
41:33I'm ringing up about Tina Bianchi.
41:35We think she got into labour.
41:37I've been timing them for two minutes apart.
41:39TELLS
41:39TELLS
41:41TELLS
41:42Rosalyn?
41:43Rosalyn!
41:44Come quickly.
41:4515, 20.
41:47As promised.
41:49Put on a good show for the gents with you girls.
41:52They like a bit of hair pulling.
41:55Hair pulling's an illegal move.
41:57It's not an illegal game though, is it Gwen?
42:00Who's going to complain?
42:02Don't do this Gwen.
42:03Please.
42:04What are you doing here?
42:05You're putting yourself in real danger if you fight tonight.
42:07Your body is severely weakened from lupus.
42:10And your chances of getting injured are high.
42:12And what would Carl do then?
42:13Look, if you're not going to fight, you can hand that money back right now.
42:44A midwife is on her way, and I'm going to stay with you.
42:47On the end of this phone until she gets there.
42:52She keeps saying she wants to push.
42:55Tell her to blow.
42:56Tell her to blow as if she is blowing out candles.
42:59Tina, don't push.
43:00Blow.
43:01Blow.
43:03Blow.
43:05That's it.
43:06Do it with me.
43:31Do you want to attack?
43:33Do you want to give up?
43:36Do you want to attack?
43:37Do you want to describe exactly what you can see?
43:39I don't know what I can see.
43:44I think it might be the baby's head.
43:56No.
43:59No!
44:03No!
44:20Can you hear me? Gwen? Gwen? Call for an ambulance. Quickly!
44:31Mr. Bianchi, you need to get ready to deliver this baby yourself, but you must not hang up. Do you
44:37hear me?
44:46Oh, I can see. I can see the egg. It's sort of moving around. I can see its face.
44:56Good. Now, very gently place your hands under its head. Wait for the next big contraction and guide the body
45:03out.
45:04Don't pull. There's something blue wrapped around its neck. Is that supposed to be there?
45:08It's the cord. All you have to do is slip your finger underneath it and lift it over the baby's
45:14head. It should slide off quite easily.
45:22Have you managed to move it? It works.
45:26It's off.
45:27No!
45:28I'm dragging it off.
45:30No!
45:34No!
45:35No!
45:36No!
45:37No!
45:38No!
45:39No!
45:41No!
45:41It's a boy, Tina.
45:42Can you get a boy?
45:43Yes!
45:44Oh!
45:46You got a little boy.
45:49Oh!
45:50No!
45:51No!
45:54No!
45:56No!
45:57No!
45:59Oh!
46:02No!
46:04No!
46:07No!
46:09No!
46:10We delivered our son.
46:13Just look at you.
46:17Well, someone was in a hurry to get into the world.
46:22Wait till we tell all your uncles about this.
46:30There's your...
46:32There's my boy.
46:37You were lucky you didn't cause any more damage to your body.
46:40At least I got the rent money out of it.
46:43Gwen, the hospital are asking who will be looking after Carl whilst you're in here.
46:47They're willing to talk to social services.
46:48I bet they are.
46:50Social services will take him off me.
46:52I'm sure that isn't the case.
46:54But, Gwen, you're treading a dangerous path in London,
46:59even if your health allowed you to keep on fighting.
47:03There are alternatives.
47:05Just as there's alternatives to keeping your money in a cushion cover.
47:09And are you gonna tell me what they are?
47:12Because I'd listen to you.
47:15You've told me you know what it is to find things hard.
47:24Another one for the footy team.
47:26A striker.
47:27My turn now.
47:28My turn.
47:29Oh, be careful.
47:34Mrs. Turner's just helping Tina to freshen up.
47:37And then Master Bianchi needs to have his lunch.
47:40The Neo-Papa did a good job on his own then, Doctor.
47:43Not many people could deliver their own son single-handed.
47:47But Tony did.
47:48Yeah.
47:50This man, hmm?
47:52He's a proper man.
47:54He certainly is.
47:55And I salute him.
47:57And I salute him.
48:00Bravo!
48:07Let's...
48:11Something's come up...
48:13...that I'm...
48:15...not gonna be able to do single-handed.
48:22I've got cancer.
48:41Brisk cancer.
48:42Brisk cancer.
48:42Oh.
48:43Tony.
48:46I wish Mumma was here.
48:51No.
48:52No.
49:03You are the best of us, little brother.
49:04You are.
49:07And we...
49:08...will not let you go.
49:36I spoke to the surgery, Gwen.
49:38All your records will be sent to the new GP we found for you up north.
49:41Thanks, Nurse.
49:43I've got to start looking after myself now, haven't I?
49:46She's not going to be a rusher anymore.
49:48I know.
49:50Would you like a hand putting that in the van?
49:52Or are you planning on pedalling all the way to Blackpool?
49:55Thanks, Nurse.
50:00And thanks for the advice.
50:03It's like a bold move, taking a job in a gym.
50:05Training other women.
50:08But it's legal in Lancashire, Gwen.
50:11And you won't be exploited.
50:12It will give your body time to recover.
50:15And my dad would like it.
50:16Good old lamb of pamphering his contacts.
50:18Thanks.
50:19Thanks.
50:31Thanks.
50:33Thanks, Nurse.
50:43Thanks, Nurse.
50:45Thanks, Nurse.
50:48Thanks for watching, everyone.
50:49Take care of my work.
50:51No. I'm afraid I don't.
50:55It seems you've made a decent fist at moving your weekly clinic onto hospital premises.
51:01Yes. There was some grumbling from patients about bus fares, but I think we're on an even keel.
51:08Good. Because speaking scientist to scientist, and to paraphrase our friend Charles Darwin,
51:14it is not necessarily the strongest or most intelligent of any given species that survives.
51:20It's the one most adaptable to change.
51:23I know that. And I know I can't look after my patients properly if I don't adapt.
51:29A very good attitude to have. Which is why we're placing you front and centre of our plans.
51:37And closing you down.
51:43Closing us down?
51:44Not as a GP, although you'll probably want to join forces with someone else now.
51:49There are real incentives for group practices.
51:53But the council are not going to renew the licence for the maternity home.
51:59But the licence runs out in a matter of weeks.
52:03It's always been renewed as a formality.
52:06This is the brave new world, Turner. There is no always anymore.
52:11There isn't even an always for me. The council will have to hand everything over to the National Health.
52:17But while you still have power, you're doing this. To us and to Nonata's house.
52:23Oh. Nonata's house. They were forever outliers. And eccentric.
52:31Threatwood, what is the logic in all of this? How is it going to benefit the patients?
52:38I knew you'd say that. And it's why we chose to put you at the vanguard.
52:44No matter what goes on somewhere far away in the offices of Whitehall, there will always be patients.
52:52And you say that as though it's a problem.
52:59I'm so sorry, Cyril.
53:02You wanted to take responsibility, but I was absolutely certain that nothing could be better than this magnificent wonder drug
53:10that gave me control over my own body.
53:12We both agreed it was what we wanted.
53:15That it would let us have other things we wanted.
53:18And wanted very much.
53:22We just didn't want this, did we?
53:26I think that it's something that has happened a little out of order.
53:33But I wouldn't have taken you to bed if I didn't mean to marry you.
53:37And I always meant to marry you.
53:40And build a life with you.
53:42And building a life with you means more than just rings and mortgages and bricks and mortar.
53:52Did you ever close your eyes and try to see our children?
53:58I see our children every day with my eyes wide open.
54:03I see them crossing the street in popular or swinging on a swing down at the wreck.
54:09And I think, we could have a little boy like that one.
54:14Or that little girl has a smile like hers.
54:22I thought I'd have to be patient.
54:24And I'm not very good at being patient.
54:28I would not say patience has been our distinguishing characteristic.
54:34And now it doesn't have to be.
54:37I'm not.
54:38I'm not.
54:40I'm not.
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