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00:00It is special, and it deserves celebration, so may God bless you and keep you always.
00:06This is your Bible, Cyril. It's the one you bought from British Guyana.
00:11It came with me on my journey, so it's only right you have it at the start of yours.
00:20Go straight to Mrs. Kovach with these aids. Occupational therapy kept her waiting long enough.
00:26How long has she had multiple sclerosis?
00:28Five years, according to her notes.
00:31I'll read them before I set off.
00:33You're not setting off anywhere till I'm sure you fix that box to your bicycle correctly.
00:38Nurse Clifford is perfectly capable of managing the straps.
00:43With respect, Nurse Crane, it was you who encouraged me to go on the Prevention of Accidents course.
00:50Nurse Crane, before you get started, the roster may need recalibrating.
00:56St. Kovach have called, and they are short-staffed yet again.
01:00They have asked if one of our midwives might be seconded to maternity.
01:03Is that usual? More usual than it ought to be.
01:06Is this Sister Brooks asking again?
01:08Sister Marcus, I'm not sure we're familiar with her.
01:12I wondered if you might oblige, Nurse Highland.
01:15I know you enjoy hospital work.
01:17I would only go if Nurse Crane is agreeable.
01:19I'm agreeable enough.
01:21As long as you get in there and apprise them their shortcomings vis-à-vis early discharge and the incorrect
01:28management of sutures.
01:30I will tell Sister Marcus to expect you.
01:38Oh, isn't he looking absolutely champion?
01:44He's getting so bonny.
01:45Oh, it's so lovely to be at this quieter point in his chemotherapy cycle.
01:50We're on our way to feed the ducks at the river, but I've forgotten to bring the bread.
01:54I don't suppose you'd mind watching him for a moment while I pop into the shop.
01:58It would be an absolute pleasure.
02:00Hello.
02:02Hello.
02:05Sister Marcus, I'm Nurse Highland.
02:08The only thing better than being punctual is being early.
02:12A maternity ward must run like clockwork or it doesn't run at all.
02:17Babies do tend to turn up when they want to.
02:20Indeed.
02:21But we have two ladies booked in for induction tomorrow.
02:24That at least we can prepare for.
02:27Our senior midwives are all on the delivery ward this morning.
02:30I need you to supervise Mr. Parry's antenatal clinic.
02:33Of course, Sister Marcus.
02:35I always enjoy clinic work on the district.
02:37This is nothing like the district.
02:44Good morning.
02:45I'm here to see Mrs. Vera Kovac.
02:48Please do come in.
02:52Nurse Clifford.
02:53Pleasure to meet you.
02:55This is my husband, Laszlo.
02:57We fled Hungary together during the revolution
03:00and he's been by my side ever since.
03:03He comes home every day at lunchtime to take me for a walk.
03:08But I'm too exhausted today.
03:10Tomorrow will be better.
03:12And if it isn't, I will carry you in my arms down the road
03:15just so you can see the sun.
03:18Look after her, please, Nurse.
03:20She's my treasure.
03:22I absolutely shall.
03:26Service.
03:27Service.
03:36I'm sorry I didn't catch your name.
03:38Agata Bolasza.
03:39My cousin who came from Hungary to help me round the house.
03:42Yes.
03:42I always say.
03:44God sent her.
03:50I've been here an hour.
03:52My urine's not even been tested yet.
03:54We've very checked out today so we can only have one urine sample at a time.
03:57Well then.
03:58Could you?
03:58I'll test it myself.
04:00Come on, girls.
04:01Who else is sick of waiting?
04:02Come on.
04:03Do it ourselves.
04:04Go.
04:11All right, ladies.
04:12Stop what you're doing and take a seat.
04:15One more peep out to any of you and you'll go to the bottom of today's list.
04:21Now, I know you've been waiting a long time, so I'm going to send for the tea trolley.
04:26How does that sound?
04:29Tea and biscuits all round, free of charge.
04:39It is so frustrating not to be able to do the small things.
04:44You start to feel like half a person and you worry other people see you like that too.
04:51Your husband certainly doesn't.
04:54He seems utterly devoted.
04:57This hand does seem a little stiff still.
05:01I'll refer you back to the physiotherapist.
05:05Mrs Kovach, what's this?
05:08I lost my grip on a cup of tea.
05:12I couldn't really feel it at the time.
05:15That's possibly because of your condition.
05:17It's showing signs of infection.
05:20We'll need to dress it every day.
05:27Well, pop onto the couch for me, Mrs Hudson.
05:29Miss?
05:30But I generally just go by Eileen.
05:35You gave a good account of yourself out there, nurse.
05:37I was raised to take no nonsense.
05:39So was I.
05:40Number one rule in life.
05:41I was told, give as good as you get and never back down.
05:45As long as you do it with a smile.
05:47Only three weeks until your due date.
05:49How are preparations going for baby's arrival?
05:52I don't normally ask that.
05:54I'm on a budget, but I have been knitting.
05:58And have there been any changes since your last appointment?
06:02Yes, nurse.
06:04I, er...
06:06Went to the lab just after I got here.
06:11Is this fresh blood?
06:14Yeah.
06:20I've just been in the stock room and none of those old papers has been cleared out.
06:25I found these old comics.
06:27They're great.
06:29Reggie, the whole point of a spring clean is to make space.
06:34They can't stay here.
06:36You'll have to think of something else.
06:42I shall arrange for Miss Hudson to have a soft tissue x-ray and she must be admitted to the
06:46ward.
06:47You mean stay in? How long for?
06:50Well, let's see what the x-ray tells us, but we should assume for the remainder of repregnancy.
06:58There's something wrong with the baby, isn't there?
07:01Honey, let's not jump to conclusions.
07:03I can't stay in. I haven't got anything with me.
07:06Is there no one who could pop in with a night dress and some toiletries?
07:09I'm doing this on my own, nurse.
07:12The hospital has guns. I'll make sure you're kitted out.
07:26Oh, I didn't mean to wake you. I found some of Nurse Clifford's favourite tulips on the market and I
07:31wanted to give her a surprise.
07:33Young love was ever thus.
07:36I'm also hoping to ask her for help with a sermon.
07:44I've been asked to be a guest preacher at St. Oswald's, and it's a different style to my own church.
07:52As a Pentecostalist, do you wait for the Holy Spirit to move you?
07:59Yes, usually.
08:01Oh.
08:03I have yearned for some Anglican clergy to do likewise.
08:08I have been given a text from Paul to start me off.
08:12For we walk by faith, not by sight.
08:16That is from the Corinthians.
08:18I would offer my assistance, but it is the voice of the fresh, nascent faith that you should heed.
08:28Age has attenuated me.
08:31You are the wisest soul I know.
08:34I'm going to leave you to get on with your rest.
08:37Rest is for the dissolute.
08:40I am merely closing my eyes in pursuit of mental clarity.
08:52Good morning.
08:54I thought I was doing well being half an hour early.
08:57I have been here half an hour already.
09:00I always try to get ahead with rosters and notes before my shift begins, so I can concentrate on our
09:07patience.
09:08I think of it as oiling the machine.
09:13Is there anything you could assign to me? I'm here to help. I aim to become a world sister too
09:19one day.
09:20I'm glad you used the word one day. I've been here fifteen years and I was passed over for promotion
09:27four times.
09:29What made the difference in the end?
09:32Being exceptionally good at my job and persevering.
09:37If you want to succeed Nurse Highland, you will have to work harder than everyone else.
09:43Getting earlier than everyone else. And oil that machine better than anyone else.
09:51Can you do that?
09:53I can try. And I will try. I'm trying already.
09:58I know. But make no mistake. They are looking for reasons not to promote women like us.
10:08Whatever else you do, do not stick your head above the parapet.
10:15Say ouch if I hurt you. Burns can be very painful.
10:20No, you have a very gentle touch, Nurse.
10:23Well, one way and another I change a lot of dressings. And I handle a lot of babies.
10:32Watching a child come into the world must be a most magical thing.
10:38I hoped for so long to have my own child.
10:45But life is sweet in so many other ways.
10:50Soft tissue x-ray of the uterus reveals great free placenta previa,
10:54with the placenta lying completely over the os when closed,
10:59and up to three fingers dilation.
11:01Is that bad?
11:03It's not optimal.
11:06And it's due to the risk of hemorrhage.
11:08Will perform a cesarean section as soon as you reach 38 weeks.
11:11Bed rest in the meantime, and I will see you daily.
11:17This is a cesarean section.
11:19They cut you open.
11:20It takes months to recover.
11:21I can't have that, Nurse.
11:23I know it's not what you want.
11:24But you're in the best place.
11:26Mr. Parry's going to look after you, and so am I.
11:38Agata?
11:46Agata?
11:48Why were you eating from the bin?
11:49I was not eating.
11:52You are mistaken.
11:54I have a tea cake in my bag.
11:56Would you like it?
11:59Yeah.
12:00I thought I might fancy a snack.
12:02I'm not hungry.
12:10Agata, have you hurt your arm?
12:12No, it is nothing.
12:15Please, you must go now.
12:17I'm afraid I won't leave until you let me look at it.
12:26You have a burn that's turning septic.
12:29You must come to the doctor and get it treated.
12:32No, I cannot go to the doctor.
12:34Agata!
12:36Why not?
12:39Agata, I want you!
12:41Because I do not leave this house.
12:49I have your iron pills, Miss Hudson.
12:51Twice a day on Mr. Parry's orders.
12:53He certainly gives plenty of them.
12:55I hate using bedpans. I can't get any sleep.
12:58In this hospital night, he's rubbing my neck red raw.
13:14I'm sorry.
13:16My Aunty Mora always said big girls don't cry.
13:20I'm scared girls cry.
13:22Tired ones too.
13:24You've had a tough couple of days.
13:28I was feeling all gung-ho and can-do about bringing up a baby on me own,
13:33and now I'm just lying here thinking about it.
13:37I'm terrified.
13:41Who's Aunty Mora?
13:43Will she be on hand to her?
13:48She brought me up after my mum passed away.
13:52Never had any children of her own.
13:54Didn't have a mother of my own.
13:58So you filled each other's gaps.
14:00I was raised by my grandmother.
14:02I understand how it works.
14:05Do you understand how it can not work?
14:09You were each other's everything.
14:12Then you grew up and wanted more.
14:19I'd only got half of what I hoped for.
14:22A baby.
14:23No wedding ring.
14:26She wanted me to go away to have it and then give it up.
14:30I said no.
14:31You were entitled to say no.
14:34She called me a tart.
14:36I wouldn't mind.
14:38Only she works at a club called Ostrichogogo.
14:41I have strippers.
14:47She swore she'd never speak to me again.
14:51We'd have to have that.
14:58Hello Christopher.
15:03Did y'all have a lovely time together?
15:08We're watching Blue Peter.
15:12When Blue Peter in 29 years time comes out here they'll be able to dig up this box and see
15:16exactly what we were like and what we were doing here today.
15:19A time capsule?
15:21We should make it our own.
15:23Mum?
15:23Do you have any spare time capsules we could use?
15:27We could bury them in the garden.
15:29Here they are.
15:32Oh!
15:34Tell you what Reg.
15:37Spring cleaning ain't for the faint hearted.
15:39I reckon we've earned a shandy down at the Hand and Shears.
15:43Yes.
15:44I can't.
15:45I'm busy.
15:47Bring what?
15:49Making it home capsule.
15:54I saw Agatha eating out of the bin, Miss Higgins.
15:57And not only was that burn extremely infected, she says she's not allowed to leave the house.
16:02I have nothing under her surname, Velasa.
16:05And she's not registered at the Kovach's address.
16:08Without an address, I can't locate her local hospital number.
16:11She may not have one, but she needs medical attention, Miss Higgins.
16:16Can we register her with this practice and arrange a home visit?
16:22I can set her up as a temporary patient, using the Kovach's address.
16:27But if her relatives are mistreating her, as you describe, you may need to think carefully before you intervene, lest
16:34it render her situation even worse.
16:37I don't think it could be much worse.
16:40Sister, Eileen Hudson's blood pressure seems a little high.
16:45What's the reading?
16:46130 over 90.
16:48I believe anxiety is to blame.
16:50She's distressed about her family situation and worried about bringing up her child alone.
16:55It's good to take note of these things, but this is a very busy world, and we have to focus
17:02on the medical issues.
17:03We always have time for a few kind words, but we don't have time for emotional involvement.
17:14Would you do that for a file that will go absolutely spare?
17:18Reginald Jackson!
17:21I need a tin for my tongue capsule.
17:26Well, that is all well and good, but did it have to be my button tin?
17:32You said we needed to make more space.
17:39I don't think I've ever known Dennis to be so quiet.
17:43They're writing lists of things to put into their time capsule.
17:47They're making more just like on Blue Peter.
17:49It's captured their imagination ever so much.
17:52Daddy, do you think there will be doctors in year 2000?
17:55Of course there will, but there'll be robots and they'll use rocket launches to fight to their appointments.
18:02No, they won't. They'll just beam themselves everywhere like they do in Star Trek.
18:07Well, I hope we'll still have some humans as doctors in the future.
18:11Why?
18:12Well, because people often keep quiet about what's bothering them.
18:16You need human ears to hear that.
18:32Poplar, 7982. Who's speaking, please?
18:40Eileen, is that you?
18:44Well, if it is, there is nothing I've got to say to you.
19:02Goodness! You'll be in Australia if you carry on like that.
19:06Are you by any chance doing a Blue Peter time capsule?
19:10What are you going to bury?
19:12I'm putting comics in.
19:15People will always want funny things to read.
19:18You can do one with a Bible.
19:20I suppose I could.
19:22It wouldn't be very original though.
19:24Or have many jokes in.
19:32This feels lovely. Is it a hospital one?
19:35I found it at an artist's house.
19:37It's been freshly laundered.
19:39Did you have some breakfast this morning?
19:41They brought it around ever so early.
19:43Soggy cornflakes. I couldn't face it.
19:45I can't say I blame you.
19:46I'll find you a couple of rounds of toast.
19:48Did I hear the word toast?
19:50None for you, I'm afraid.
19:52You're having operation this afternoon.
19:55Why?
19:57Has something else gone wrong?
19:58Mr. Perry's unhappy with your blood pressure.
20:19Mr. Perry is not here.
20:21I know.
20:22I saw them leave for their midday walk.
20:24I've come to dress the burn on your arm.
20:26Mr. Perry must not know.
20:27Do I make her angry?
20:29You not receiving the care you need makes me angry, Agatha.
20:32But also, if you can tell me how this happened, it might help us to decide what we should do.
20:40Mr. Perry threw the water at me from the kettle.
20:51She hurt me.
20:53She hurts me all the time.
20:58One minute I'm scared, the next I'm excited.
21:02Let's go with excited.
21:04I'll be right in the room with you, honey.
21:13Agatha, can you tell me why Vera would do this to you?
21:20She wants me to have a baby.
21:22Why does she want you to have a baby?
21:25Not for me, for her.
21:28She cannot, so I must.
21:31When I bleed, she hits me.
21:35So you aren't pregnant now?
21:38I wish yes, so he will stop.
21:42But I think no.
21:45So he keeps on.
21:48He?
21:50Who is he?
21:51Hustle.
21:55They say I belong to them, that all is permitted.
21:58None of this is permitted.
22:01This is rape.
22:03Have you ever tried to run away?
22:07I have no papers.
22:09They took my passport and I have no money.
22:14Because they don't pay you?
22:18I get to have you ever asked anyone for help.
22:22I think that I am asking that.
22:36Go into your tractor, please.
22:44P.P.
22:46P.P. rising.
22:48P.P. rising.
23:01Two minutes past two.
23:18Perfect.
23:18P.P.
23:19And now we turn our attention to the delivery of our erstwhile adversary, the Prusetta.
23:25Orgometrian, if you'd be so kind.
23:26P.P.
23:30P.P.
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23:36P.P.
23:37P.P.
23:38P.P.
23:38P.P.
23:38Agatha needs every kind of help, Cyril.
23:40I can put her on the Ninatus books as an antenatal patient.
23:43But we have to find her somewhere safe to live now.
23:46Before she is injured again.
23:47Before she is raped again.
23:49And before she actually gets pregnant.
23:51P.P.
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24:09P.P.P.
24:21But I need you to listen.
24:22Hold that door.
24:24This is the address of a women's hostel.
24:26They will take you in and you will be safe.
24:34Sorry, ladies.
24:35I just took a jug of lemon barley out to Reggie.
24:38He's been digging like a navvy all afternoon.
24:41Every child at the knit clinic was talking about time capsules.
24:46They're even doing one at John Tess School.
24:47The headmaster has contacts at the Raw Mint.
24:49And it's going to include samples of every current banknote.
24:53It's fascinating to try to think that far ahead.
24:56I'll be 55 in the year 2000.
25:00I was 55 in the general strike.
25:05During the abdication.
25:08My recollections fade.
25:11But it matters not to God.
25:13For whom a thousand years is but a day.
25:18I wonder how many babies will have been born in Poplar by the time they dig these capsules up.
25:24And who will be delivering them if Narnata's house isn't here anymore?
25:28That's an interesting assumption, Miss Aylward.
25:30I suggest we refrain from speculation at present.
25:35Sister Veronica, would you like to lead us in the grace?
25:43Oh, what's all this?
25:45Are we having a jumble sale?
25:47Daddy, it's for our time capsule.
25:49I've had to remove a sachet of angel delight and a box of chocolate fingers that somehow made their way
25:54into the capsule.
25:55We might be hungry in the year 2000.
25:58I think we should take a photo of us all together when we bury it.
26:02And one all together when we dig it up.
26:05We won't be together in the year 2000.
26:08Christopher won't be in England anymore, will he?
26:11That's right.
26:13As soon as he's better, he's going home to mummy in Hong Kong.
26:19Her BP has stabilised and her blood loss is normal.
26:24That can be the last of the 30-minute observations.
26:27Hourly checks from now on.
26:35Baloo and I have had an idea about something to put in the 13th popular time capsule.
26:40But what suggestions do you have, Pak?
26:44We should bury a car because in the year 2000 it will all be spaceships.
26:51Thank you, Neil, but I think we may struggle to get a car into a biscuit tin.
26:57What we thought was that we would include a selection of Cub Scout badges.
27:03And each of you can write a letter about one of the badges and what you did to earn it.
27:09Hands up who thinks that's a good idea.
27:13Thank you, Andrew.
27:15Your hand went up first, so you get first pick of the badges.
27:18Now, are there any questions?
27:22My teeth just come out.
27:24Can I put that in?
27:26Can I put some money?
27:27Can I put that in?
27:31How much longer will you feel?
27:34She's young.
27:35And she's healthy.
27:37She's not like me.
27:39She should have conceived by now.
27:41It will happen soon.
27:43I will make sure of it.
27:58Where are you going with those?
28:00Don't start to soak them.
28:02Do that.
28:03And they'll come to me.
28:23Agatha, come to me.
28:34Oh, Eileen.
28:36I was just coming to do your observations.
28:38I didn't know you were awake.
28:41Are you in a lot of pain?
28:42I don't know where my baby is.
28:44I thought we'd be in a cop where I could see a man woke up now.
28:49Didn't they get her out?
28:52Honey, you've just had an operation, so you're not thinking straight just yet.
28:56You have a beautiful little girl.
28:59And she's up in the nursery, giving you some peace and quiet.
29:02A girl.
29:05I need to see the nurse for me, baby.
29:08After I've checked you over, I'm going up to the nursery and I'll bring her down in a bassinet.
29:14Only for five minutes, mind.
29:17I just need to see that she's real.
29:25We are full, but we will always find a corner somewhere, if you're under Ninata's house.
29:32This whole store's not so bad, you know, love.
29:38I wouldn't usually ask to speak with you so late at night, but I find I'm unable to take my
29:43sisters into my confidence as much as I would like.
29:46They know some things, but not all.
29:50I understand.
29:52But since Easter, when the board gave us their ultimatum...
29:55Since Lent, when I told them I would make a decision at the time of our choosing.
30:00Well, I've been talking to the Lady Emily about how they're financed.
30:04And it's extremely interesting.
30:06Why have you been talking to the Lady Emily?
30:07That clinic is run for the benefit of the rich, not the needy.
30:11Our mission lies with the poor.
30:21Nenata's house, Sister Julian.
30:24I'm afraid Nurse Clifford is not here.
30:27We do have another midwife on duty, who will come and see Agatha.
30:35Here she is.
30:37Excited as anything to meet her mummy.
30:41Eileen!
30:46I'm cold.
31:06I need help.
31:08We have a major postpartum hemorrhage.
31:18We've got a little girl who needs you, Eileen.
31:27Can you hear her, Eileen?
31:29She needs you.
31:31She needs her mother.
31:35What is this baby doing here?
31:37We can't get the bleeding to stop.
31:39It's too substantial.
31:40I'll call Mr. Parry.
31:41She needs her uterus back in.
31:43We have to get her to theatre.
31:47You must have been terrified to run out of the house without even a handbag or your purse.
31:52I have no handbag and no purse.
31:54And I'm afraid now this is not a good place.
31:56But it is a safe place, and sometimes that's the only thing that matters.
32:00Although I grant you, it isn't the writs.
32:06Agatha, the wardress, the lady at the door, thought you might be expecting a baby if you were sent here
32:12by Ninata's house.
32:15No.
32:15I think no.
32:17I don't want a baby.
32:18I don't want anything.
32:25Please, Agatha, will you let me examine you?
32:33I am your friend.
32:41All will be well.
32:43You didn't have to wait to receive the news.
32:48I wanted to.
32:53Rosalyn?
32:54Hello, Trixie.
32:56I was just coming back from kitchen duty at the men's shelter.
32:59Shall I make us some Horlicks?
33:01Yes.
33:03Please do.
33:11I'm sorry, Trixie.
33:12I just had to get her out of that house.
33:27I think it was very necessary.
33:29But you took sole responsibility in a situation which could have become extremely dangerous.
33:34It was already extremely dangerous.
33:37And it's even more so now.
33:39Agatha is expecting a baby.
33:43She said she was having periods.
33:45When I questioned her, there seems to have been nothing but light spotting for some time.
33:50And the fundal height suggests she's about three months.
33:55What if the Kovachers find out and try to get her back?
33:59It makes everything worse, doesn't it?
34:02Yes, it does.
34:05You're a good nurse, Rosalyn.
34:07And a good woman.
34:08But please don't make any more bold moves without speaking to someone more senior first.
34:40You have a very rare blood check, Miss Hudson.
34:43AB negative.
34:44You've now had all the hospital had in store and we're awaiting supplies.
34:49Does there have to be special blood?
34:51Can I just have the normal kind?
34:54They tried a substitute group overnight, honey.
34:56But your body wasn't having it.
34:58Sometimes a family member will have the same blood type.
35:01If we test them, they might be able to donate immediately and solely for you.
35:05I've got no family.
35:11Come on now, no squabbling.
35:15I never realised burying a time capture would be such a feat of diplomacy.
35:19I saw less complicated maps in Alamein.
35:22I've just about squeezed them all in.
35:25Have you room for one more?
35:27I've had a wee idea.
35:29I don't reckon there's a single corner left.
35:32Unless you take Regisole.
35:35There's nothing going in there apart from fresh air and old soil.
35:39Has he lost interest?
35:40No.
35:41He's gone off the idea of burying his comics.
35:46We'll send off a urine sample, but you do seem to be about three months pregnant.
35:53Don't make me go back to that house.
35:55Nobody is making you go back to that house, sweetie.
35:58No.
35:58But we are going to have to get you sleeping somewhere clean and comfortable.
36:02And eating properly.
36:05I eat for the baby, yes?
36:07For the baby and for yourself.
36:10I want to do blood tests and weigh you.
36:13I think you may be very malnourished.
36:17That's no good for either of you.
36:20Laszlo and Vera do not know there is a child.
36:23And you are under no obligation to tell them.
36:26But Laszlo is the father and Vera wants to be the mother.
36:29If we move you here, to our maternity home,
36:33we don't need to concern ourselves with what they want.
36:36And with your permission, I am going to the police.
36:40No, not police.
36:41Laszlo and Vera say I will go to jail because I am illegal.
36:45I have no papers.
36:46You have no papers because they stole them from you.
36:50Meanwhile, you have been tortured, imprisoned, starved and raped.
36:58Agatha, you are not the one who has committed a crime.
37:22Thank you, Mr. Perry.
37:28Sister, Eileen's pulse is becoming weak and thready.
37:32We've just been told that national supplies of AB blood are extremely low.
37:37There may be none available for days and she has no family we can ask.
37:43Because I took time to get to know her, I can tell you she does have family.
37:47She has an aunt whom I think I can find.
37:51We do not have the time for you to go on a wild goose chase.
37:54Sister, I'm sticking my head above the parapet.
38:03And if it helps our patient, I'm not stopping you.
38:10I will.
38:12Thank you very much.
38:15It was as expected?
38:17The police, I am afraid to say, had no interest in the terrible sexual abuse Agatha suffered.
38:24The officer called it a bit of he said, she said.
38:29Such a woeful dereliction of duty.
38:33However, they were interested in the theft of Agatha's passport.
38:37And they're going round to the Kovacs' this afternoon.
38:55We're not hiring.
38:56Like the uniform could come in useful.
38:59I'm not here for that.
39:01I understand you have a niece called Eileen.
39:07I have one.
39:09She made it very clear she's going to go her own way in life.
39:12I'm no longer interested in anything she has to say.
39:15Eileen has had the baby and she is very, very sick.
39:23I want you to see why I'm high.
39:25That's all.
39:27I want you to see why I'm high.
39:28I want you to be respectable.
39:30You don't have to make amends with her.
39:32You don't even have to see her.
39:34She desperately needs a blood transfusion.
39:36And there's a possibility you might be a match.
39:45This is all rather novel.
39:48I had hoped to surprise you.
39:50And then realised if it wasn't advertised,
39:52we wouldn't have anything to put in it.
39:55So many of our mothers have brought little things along.
39:58Just because of word of mouth.
40:00Dozens of nappy pins.
40:03Pink and blue.
40:04And quite a few name bracelets from the maternity home.
40:08During the war,
40:09we used to write the baby's names on sticking plaster.
40:13Taped across their back.
40:14I don't think that sounds hygienic.
40:16But all these souvenirs are lovely.
40:23I had a prolapse cord with Claire.
40:26She would have died if it hadn't been for Nanata's house.
40:30That is just perfect.
40:38Good afternoon, Mrs. Kovach.
40:40I've come to collect Agatha's belongings.
40:42Where is she?
40:44She's asked that we don't disclose her whereabouts.
40:46The police have been here.
40:48Raking through every cupboard, every drawer.
40:50I imagine they were looking for her passport.
40:52They found it.
40:53It wasn't lost.
40:54It wasn't stolen.
40:56Nor was it yours to withhold.
40:58We need to know she's safe.
41:00She's safe now.
41:01And she's receiving medical attention.
41:03She's our flesh and blood.
41:05She's not too clever in the head.
41:06She needs our protection.
41:08I beg to differ as it happens.
41:11And Agatha needs her clothes.
41:15Now you can let me in, or I shall send for the police again.
41:25The result of Miss Hudson's art have come back.
41:29A, B, negative.
41:30We have a match?
41:31We do.
41:32And you did the right thing.
41:43You need to keep your fluids up when you're donating blood.
42:01I think Eileen is going to lead a good life.
42:04She loves her daughter as much as you love her.
42:10I'll be off now.
42:13Done all I can.
42:16I'm not sure that's true.
42:19You did very well with your main course, I must say.
42:22Dr. Turner's keen to see you put some weight on.
42:24This is the best food I have had in England.
42:27Wristles and cabbage.
42:28Oh, sweetie, you're breaking my heart.
42:31And these clothes are breaking my heart a little, too.
42:35But they're yours.
42:37And you're entitled to them.
42:38I don't want them.
42:40These men of that house, these men of him.
42:42We can certainly arrange for them to be laundered.
42:45Or burnt.
42:49There's a cupboard at Nonata's house full of lovely things
42:51passed on from women and children
42:53for other women and children who might need them.
42:57Take it out of the fire.
42:59But not these.
43:01This Bible came with me.
43:02It stays on the journey.
43:04I have a Bible that traveled around the world.
43:07At home in Hungary, the communists made us afraid
43:10to practice our religion.
43:11I thought when I came here
43:14I could go to church and pray where there were statues.
43:18I was wrong.
43:20I have not been in a church since I came to this country.
43:23This book was all I had.
43:26At least it was something.
43:29It was not enough.
43:36Good evening.
43:38Mr. and Mrs. Kovach.
43:40I'm about to close the surgery for the evening,
43:43but may I be of assistance?
43:44We are looking for my young relative,
43:46Agatha Bollosha.
43:47We are very concerned about her.
43:49We were told she needed medical assistance.
43:52There is nobody of that name registered with this practice.
43:55And the only patients on the premises are our maternity cases.
44:00A nurse from this practice has been to our home.
44:03Miss Higgins, when does the rag and bone man come?
44:06Agatha says she doesn't want to keep any of us.
44:08Agatha!
44:10Agatha, where are you?
44:15Police!
44:15Don't you dare trespass on a hospital premises in this way.
44:18Get out!
44:19Get out now!
44:20Are you here because you're having a baby?
44:22She is here because she was starving and brutalized and required nursing.
44:26Anything else is none of your business.
44:28Have you been telling your stories again?
44:29She's not well.
44:30You see, nurse, in the head.
44:32She needs to come home.
44:34Don't you, Agatha?
44:35You can't take care of a baby, Agatha.
44:38Agatha, if you come home, we can look after you and the child.
44:43You can look after me again and we can all be happy together like we used to be.
44:48We were never happy together.
44:49I was never happy at all.
44:51We gave you a home.
44:53Without us, you are nothing.
44:55That is enough.
44:57Agatha is a human being.
44:59You stole her freedom for long enough, but you aren't going to erase her.
45:07And I am telling you to go, because I am someone.
45:12I can choose.
45:13I can speak.
45:14Do you hear me?
45:24Oh, you look as though you've had a long day.
45:28The terrible way people can treat each other.
45:32It still surprises me, even after all this time.
45:36Some things are always difficult.
45:41What's all this?
45:43Teddy wanted a photo of Petula for the time capsule.
45:46I knew we had one from Easter.
45:48As I was looking, I came across this.
45:55This time between Christopher's chemotherapy sessions has felt so precious.
46:00It's all precious, isn't it?
46:03Every second we get to spend with them.
46:11Well, someone certainly looks brighter.
46:14They sell it at the proper blood.
46:16Where'd you get it from?
46:18I asked your aunt to donate.
46:20If her group proved to be the same as yours.
46:23And it was, and she agreed.
46:26Would you like to see her?
46:28Would she come after all the things we said?
46:42Is that her?
46:44A little girl?
46:45And is that you?
46:47She's been right beside her all day.
46:50The little girl needs her family.
46:52Just like me and you, love.
46:54I should never have said the things I said.
46:56I should have backed down.
46:58And so should I.
47:01And I am not your mother.
47:03And I never have been.
47:04No.
47:06You are everyone.
47:08You've been my mum.
47:10My dad.
47:11My aunt.
47:13And my best friend.
47:19That's tough girls.
47:21We don't let them see us cry.
47:23But we do.
47:27Don't let this one be scared to feel her feelings.
47:48Thank you, nurse.
47:52Laszlo and Vera can't hurt you anymore, Agatha.
47:56They have no power over you.
47:57And the police have charged them with false imprisonment.
48:00Then they are the ones who will be in jail?
48:03It is very likely.
48:05As your social worker, I'd help to guide you through the court case.
48:09Where am I to live so that they will not find me?
48:12There is quite a large Hungarian community in Stoke-on-Trent.
48:16And I found a mother and baby home there that you might like to consider.
48:20Once all your papers are in order.
48:22We might also be able to get you home to Hungary.
48:26If that's what you decide.
48:28I decide?
48:31I am not ready to decide.
48:34That's all right.
48:35We're here to help you when you do.
48:41I found you the most gorgeous coat.
48:45Are you ready for our outing?
48:49It's nice of you to let the nightless house use your spot.
48:56What if I had changed my mind?
48:59It's too late to change your mind.
49:21Mother Mary, she has everything in my religion.
49:26Thank you for letting me see her again.
49:28I always think Mary was so brave, giving birth on a dirt floor with no one to help her.
49:34A mother's love is often indivisible from a mother's courage.
49:47Good morning, sister.
49:49Early again.
49:50I could set my watch by you.
49:53You've done well this week, Nurse Highland.
49:56It's certainly been interesting.
49:57Which is what I wanted.
49:59I spoke to Mr. Parry and asked if he'd be agreeable to you remaining with us here for a few
50:05more weeks.
50:07He was.
50:08I hope you'll consider it.
50:10I'd be delighted to.
50:13I'll do the staffing roster.
50:15You set up the cleaning tests.
50:17Got to keep oil in that machine.
50:20Goodness me!
50:22We had a brainwave!
50:22Careful down those stairs!
50:24It's about the time capsule.
50:25We think Christopher will love it.
50:27Ooh!
50:29We're going to need lots and lots of paint.
50:35My Huntley and Palmer's biscuit tin should suffice for the capsule.
50:44Whatever is amiss.
50:45It's just this description one of the boys has written.
50:53The silver arrow badge is very special.
50:57I got mine building a campfire.
51:01Our leaders are called Arkela and Baloo.
51:07They are very, very old ladies.
51:10So they will be dead in the year 2000 when you open this.
51:16But I don't want you to forget them.
51:20So this is what they look like.
51:32Well, as they have been so creative, perhaps we should be too.
51:37Well, what do we do?
51:38Well, what do we do?
51:40Well, what do we do?
51:44Well, I don't know.
51:48I wonder what they do.
51:49Well, what do we do?
51:53Well, what do we do?
51:53Well, what do we do?
51:59But I'm not gay and I'm gay and I'm gay.
52:11I did not expect to be so moved by this.
52:16Whatever happens to the Order in the future,
52:18we will have always been here.
52:21And perhaps that's all that matters.
52:29Do you like it, Mummy?
52:32Oh, it's perfect.
52:35In fact, I think we should make another one.
52:39May, would you like to send one to your mum in Hong Kong?
52:42I'm sure she'd love to see it.
52:48And what else are we hoping for in the year 2000?
52:53What about a magic oven that could cook a whole dinner in five minutes?
52:59Rocket boots!
53:00Flying calves!
53:01Mandate needles of a sticking in material, not people.
53:05Two cameras!
53:06Two cameras!
53:07And there's no service!
53:09There's no test!
53:34I saved you a tulip.
53:38Do you still need help with your sermon?
53:40No.
53:42two cameras!
53:57We promise our children.
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