- 14 minutes ago
First broadcast 13th/18th April 1978.
Maria Aitken - Jemima Shore
Renée Asherson - Mother Ancilla
Susan Engel - Sister Agnes
David Burke - Tom Amyas M.P.
James Laurenson - Alexander Skarbek
Sylvia Coleridge - Sister Boniface
Doran Godwin - Sister Lucy
Margaret D'Arcy - Sister Clare
Kate Binchy - Sister Edward
Linda Slater - Dodo
Sarah Webb - Margaret
Michèle Winstanley - Blanche (as Michele Winstanley)
Mary Healey - Beatrice O'Dowd
Patsy Kensit - Tessa
Catrina Hylton - Mandy
Ronald Mayer - Dr. Mayhew
Maria Aitken - Jemima Shore
Renée Asherson - Mother Ancilla
Susan Engel - Sister Agnes
David Burke - Tom Amyas M.P.
James Laurenson - Alexander Skarbek
Sylvia Coleridge - Sister Boniface
Doran Godwin - Sister Lucy
Margaret D'Arcy - Sister Clare
Kate Binchy - Sister Edward
Linda Slater - Dodo
Sarah Webb - Margaret
Michèle Winstanley - Blanche (as Michele Winstanley)
Mary Healey - Beatrice O'Dowd
Patsy Kensit - Tessa
Catrina Hylton - Mandy
Ronald Mayer - Dr. Mayhew
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00:00:02Ms. Shaw?
00:00:05Ms. Shaw?
00:00:08Are you all right, Ms. Shaw?
00:00:11Yes, of course I'm all right.
00:00:15What the hell are you doing in the tower, sister?
00:00:18This isn't the tower, Ms. Shaw.
00:00:21It's the chapel.
00:00:23The chapel?
00:00:30Oh, poor Ms. Shaw.
00:00:33You've got quite a nasty bump here on the back of your head.
00:00:37What the hell did I get here?
00:00:39You must have fallen and hit your head on something, I should think.
00:00:44Yes, but how did I get here, into the chapel?
00:00:47I mean, wherever I fell, it wasn't here.
00:00:51You're not quite yourself yet, Ms. Shaw.
00:00:54You could say that again.
00:00:55You probably forgot just how you came to be here.
00:00:58Well, a blur on the head can do that, you know.
00:01:02Yes.
00:01:03Yes.
00:01:07I thought...
00:01:09Yes?
00:01:12I thought I'd lost my torch.
00:01:15Relax, Ms. Shaw.
00:01:17Don't try to remember.
00:01:20And don't strain yourself.
00:01:23Yes, of course, you must be right.
00:01:25I must have fallen and hit my head.
00:01:28Yes.
00:01:30I can't remember anything else.
00:01:32No.
00:01:46I'm sleeping in the cubicle at the end of the big dormitory, and I was wakened by this noise from
00:01:53the chapel.
00:01:55It must have been your fall.
00:01:58Would you hear it from so far away?
00:02:01Oh, yes.
00:02:02The noise carries up the well of the staircase.
00:02:05I came down here and found this door open.
00:02:09Did you open it, Ms. Shaw?
00:02:11I don't know.
00:02:12I... I don't know.
00:02:15Then I heard it groan and I found you.
00:02:18You don't remember opening it, Ms. Shaw?
00:02:23The last thing I remember is drinking a cup of coffee in my room.
00:02:31Oh, I think I had better go to the infirmary after all.
00:02:51There's a lot of dust for such a clean chapel.
00:02:59You must rest, Ms. Shaw.
00:03:12I'll go and wake Sister Lucy.
00:03:32If you really want to avoid any further nasty bumps on the head,
00:03:37why don't you go back to London on television where you belong?
00:03:41No, this is a warning.
00:03:51Sister Lucy is not in her room.
00:03:55I'll take you to the infirmary myself.
00:04:05You're surprisingly strong, Sister.
00:04:08It's not a question of strength.
00:04:09It's just how you use your body.
00:04:12I learned it in my profession in the world.
00:04:15What was your profession in the world, Sister?
00:04:19Weightlifter.
00:04:21I trained as a dancer.
00:04:23A dancer?
00:04:24Shush.
00:04:25Later I became an actress.
00:04:27Of course, that makes sense.
00:04:28But then where did you...
00:04:29Oh, really, Ms. Shaw.
00:04:30I don't think you should talk.
00:04:32Then you know.
00:04:33I got your name, Sister Agnes.
00:04:36I'm sorry I wasn't there.
00:04:37A little bother with Tessa Justin.
00:04:40Nightmares again.
00:04:42About seeing a nun.
00:04:45I thought I heard a noise in the chapel, so I went down there.
00:04:50I suppose I stumbled and hit my head in the dark.
00:04:53We must take better care of you, my child.
00:04:56When I asked you to help us, I certainly didn't ask you to get hit over the head, did I?
00:05:01We prayed for you at mass, of course.
00:05:04No, don't look cross, dear child.
00:05:06We feel God should take you under his special care, as you are doing his work here.
00:05:11Now, a little visit of Thanksgiving, Jemima.
00:05:14In the chapel.
00:05:15Oh, no, my...
00:05:16For your safe deliverance.
00:05:18You make it sound as though I've had a baby.
00:05:20No, as far as I'm concerned, I owe my safe deliverance to Sister Agnes and nobody else.
00:05:25I think after my experience in the chapel, I'll stick to my self-imposed rule and not pay any stray
00:05:31fidgets there.
00:05:32And you're incorrigible, Jemima.
00:05:34Incorrigible, aren't you?
00:05:36Ah, my bell.
00:05:38It's Sister Edward's funeral today.
00:05:40That will be to tell me that the family have arrived.
00:05:43Mrs O'Dowd is such a dear woman and Sister Edward was her youngest child.
00:05:46I must go and greet them.
00:05:49Take care of our patient, Sister Boniface.
00:05:54Yes, Reverend.
00:05:56May the choir of angels welcome you, and where the actresses before noon on them, there may you have it
00:06:02done with us.
00:06:05What a tiny coffin.
00:06:06Sister Edward was tiny.
00:06:09How do they choose the six nuns to carry the coffin?
00:06:12Is it just the six strongest, or are they particular friends of the deceased?
00:06:16Oh, not particular friends, Miss Shaw.
00:06:18Nuns of the Tower of Ivory have no particular friends.
00:06:21The rule of our foundress is most specific on that point.
00:06:24Yes, I'd forgotten.
00:06:25Particular friendships within the community are not pleasing in the sight of God,
00:06:28since they distract the religious from her work in God's holy cause,
00:06:32and can give scandal to other godly women.
00:06:35Oh, come on, Sister, you know I didn't mean that.
00:06:38I beg your pardon, I overreacted.
00:06:41But communities have to be very strict about that sort of thing.
00:06:44I mean, even the very innocent type of particular friendship can cause disharmony and disruption.
00:06:50But surely it...
00:06:51To the participants themselves, I assure you.
00:06:54Think of...
00:06:55Well, you were a particular friend of Sister Miriam.
00:06:59They were only schoolgirls.
00:07:01Perhaps I'd better investigate the topic on my programme.
00:07:03Please, Miss Shaw.
00:07:05I'm only joking, Sister.
00:07:12Oh, dear.
00:07:14Blondes should not wear purple.
00:07:16So vulgar.
00:07:18She looks familiar somehow.
00:07:21Beatrice O'Dowd.
00:07:22Beatrice.
00:07:24She might have spared our reverend mother that coat.
00:07:26Oh, why?
00:07:27She was a nun here.
00:07:30Well, I thought I recognised her, but she doesn't look old enough.
00:07:32No, you wouldn't have known her, but she was a nun for 15 years.
00:07:35And she gave it up after all that time?
00:07:37She was mistaken in her vocation and released from her vows.
00:07:41A foolish sort of person.
00:07:44Sister Edward was, no doubt.
00:07:46Beatrice is her eldest sister.
00:07:50Miss Shaw?
00:07:52Hello, Miss Shaw.
00:07:54Sorry.
00:07:55Are you getting better?
00:07:57Yes.
00:07:57That's because we prayed for you.
00:07:59Oh, thanks.
00:08:00No, I just felt like a stroke.
00:08:02And I was getting a book from her own.
00:08:03Have you had lunch?
00:08:04Yes.
00:08:04Then come and have coffee with us.
00:08:06It'll do you good.
00:08:07Our coffee's much better than Sister Claire's.
00:08:09Blanche pinched her for my mother.
00:08:11Come on.
00:08:11We've just got time before we left.
00:08:12Come on.
00:08:16Come on.
00:08:17Hi.
00:08:17Hi.
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00:08:25Hi.
00:08:26Hi.
00:08:27Hi.
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00:08:37How's that?
00:08:38It's for the bazaar.
00:08:40It's the Christmas bazaar this week.
00:08:41Hurry up, you lot.
00:08:43Come on.
00:08:44Where should we go?
00:08:45It's not fair.
00:08:48Would you like to sit here, Miss Shaw?
00:08:49Oh, thanks.
00:08:51Oh.
00:08:52Sorry, Miss Shaw.
00:08:54Oh.
00:08:55Is it a bit early for a Christmas bazaar?
00:08:57Mother Anzilla always has it early.
00:08:59Then no one can say they bought their Christmas presents already.
00:09:01that's clever of her she's very clever oh cunning i'd say oh really this is a pretty plush convent
00:09:09isn't it well oh it is we have basins in our rooms you know and carpets better than a hotel
00:09:16my mother said i doubt if a nun's got such luxuries in their cells wouldn't you say nuns are better
00:09:21off working in africa or looking after the sick and teaching a lot of upper class brats in a plushy
00:09:26convent sister miriam didn't agree with all this luxury didn't she she wanted to leave the convent
00:09:32lands to the poor how do you know that she told us you she liked us we were her girls
00:09:38i see sort of
00:09:39miss brodie touch she knew we shared a concern about the way wealth is shared out well she didn't leave
00:09:45her lands to the poor did she how do you know she didn't well we wouldn't be sitting here if
00:09:49she had
00:09:49would we her will carried out her father's intention and entrusted the lands to the community that was
00:09:54her original will coffee uh is there any milk goodness no milk would spoil the taste oh sugar thank you
00:10:15oh it's delicious um what was that you were saying about an original will sister miriam told
00:10:21if she was going to make another will another will yes you see blanche and i lessons are starting
00:10:27girls lessons oh hell she could be out of bed she thought it might be a good eye
00:10:38christ tessa justin what the hell are you doing here
00:10:41so you should be yourself bloody fourth formers a stupid dare i suppose she must have heard every word we
00:10:48said
00:10:54me
00:11:17Within the tower of the church dwell many witnesses to the word of God.
00:11:21Some of these witnesses lean out from their tower and cry out,
00:11:26Here be the tower of God's church.
00:11:28Others of the witnesses dwell secretly within the tower,
00:11:32and their words are never heard in the outside world.
00:11:35Nevertheless, the prayers of these secret witnesses are their words.
00:11:40These secret witnesses are most acceptable to God.
00:11:56If you don't believe Sister Miriam made a new will,
00:12:00why don't you look for the will yourself?
00:12:03And you might ask your schoolgirlfriends about a certain piece of paper they signed.
00:12:10Secret witnesses.
00:12:16Jemima! How nice!
00:12:18You don't mind if I call you Jemima, do you?
00:12:20You've seen you so much on the telly, you know.
00:12:22It's lucky being able to see you here, isn't it?
00:12:25Is it?
00:12:26Yes, we discussed seeing you in London, you know.
00:12:28Well, no, actually, I didn't, then.
00:12:30Well, I said yes, but the other said...
00:12:31Oh, of course!
00:12:33You're with Alex? Mr Scarbeck?
00:12:35That's right, at the television studios.
00:12:36Yes, I thought I'd seen you before.
00:12:38Yes, I am Mr Scarbeck's personal aide.
00:12:40Good Lord.
00:12:42Well, now, as I was saying, we discussed seeing you in London
00:12:45and then, lo and behold, you turn up in the convent itself.
00:12:48We realised you were one jump ahead of us in your thinking.
00:12:51Was I?
00:12:52Oh, dear, you're going so fast.
00:12:53I mean, could you begin again at the beginning?
00:12:55I mean, why did you want to see me in London?
00:12:57Well, now, Rosabelle Powerstock was such a particular friend of mine.
00:13:01Really?
00:13:02Oh, yes.
00:13:05Well, from the first moment,
00:13:07from the very first moment I saw your programme on the telly,
00:13:11I was with Rosa all away.
00:13:13In fact, I believe it was me suggested the handover.
00:13:16Oh.
00:13:17But be that as it may,
00:13:18Mother Ancilla certainly thought so.
00:13:20And that, Jemima,
00:13:21is when she decided to get me out at all costs.
00:13:24Get you out?
00:13:26Nothing and no one stands in the way of Mother Ancilla
00:13:28when she's made up her mind to do a thing.
00:13:30No, but surely, I mean, I understood.
00:13:31You went of your own accord.
00:13:32Oh, in a sense, yes.
00:13:33I was in a state of crisis for years.
00:13:36My vows, I mean.
00:13:37Oh, yes, of course.
00:13:39I'd have gone sooner or later.
00:13:40I was way ahead of Rosa in that.
00:13:42But she'd have gone in the end,
00:13:43if she'd lived.
00:13:46No, I wanted to stay here to see the thing go through.
00:13:49Thing?
00:13:49The handover of the land, I mean,
00:13:51but you know all about that.
00:13:53I could have supported Rosa through it all.
00:13:55The lawyers, Mother Ancilla, the lot.
00:13:57I was so much stronger than her.
00:14:00Yes, Rosa was never sure.
00:14:01She needed my strength.
00:14:03If I'd been here,
00:14:04she'd never have had that nervous breakdown.
00:14:06She'd never have shut herself up that ghastly tower
00:14:08if they hadn't sent me away,
00:14:10using the excuse of particular friendship.
00:14:13Deliberate victimisation.
00:14:14Mother Ancilla said Rosa'd been very ill.
00:14:17And wrapped you round her little finger, I'll be bound.
00:14:19She's got a lot to answer for.
00:14:21And the charm she can switch on when she feels like it.
00:14:24But she didn't fool my little sister.
00:14:26Sister Edward?
00:14:27Yes.
00:14:27What did she...
00:14:28She knew the truth about Mother Ancilla.
00:14:32There was another will, you know.
00:14:36Oh.
00:14:37You know?
00:14:39Well, a hint was dropped.
00:14:40Who by?
00:14:42Oh, the girls just gossiping.
00:14:43Which girls?
00:14:44Friends of Rosa's.
00:14:45What, Margaret and Coay?
00:14:47Hmm.
00:14:47She made a lot of them.
00:14:49Weak, you know, and after I left, well, she'd known, had she?
00:14:53Margaret and Blanche witnessed the will.
00:14:56They didn't actually read what was in it,
00:14:58but Rosa told them quite frankly what it was.
00:15:00But I hoped...
00:15:04Jemima, there is a girl here who knows where Rosa hid the will.
00:15:08Why should she hide it?
00:15:10Oh, fear, indecision.
00:15:12If I'd been hit...
00:15:12Oh, well, I wasn't so.
00:15:13There we are.
00:15:14But Mother Ancilla is aware, too,
00:15:17that someone knows where it is hidden.
00:15:20And she...
00:15:24Dear Beatrice,
00:15:26we're all so pleased that you come down to see us,
00:15:29even on this sad occasion.
00:15:31The community are longing to see you.
00:15:34Thank you, Mother.
00:15:35I'll go down now.
00:15:36And how is your work going, my child?
00:15:39Splendidly.
00:15:40In spite of recent setbacks,
00:15:42we think we have found a way around our problems.
00:15:44I'm pleased to hear it.
00:15:45Just because your plans did not work out one way
00:15:47does not mean they are displeasing to God in every way.
00:15:51Thank you, Mother.
00:15:52Often our Lord comes to our aid in the most unexpected ways.
00:15:57I'll bear your words in mind.
00:16:00You can take it, Mother,
00:16:02that our project will go ahead.
00:16:05Rosobel Powerstock's will shall prevail.
00:16:08Now, if you will excuse me,
00:16:10I'll go and look up some of my particular friends in the community.
00:16:16Monsieur, we'll be in touch.
00:16:23Acting the big executive.
00:16:26Of course she is.
00:16:27Working for that dreadful man, Alexander Scarbeck.
00:16:30As his personal aid.
00:16:31Mrs O'Dow tells me Beatrice is completely under the influence of that scoundrel.
00:16:36He's hardly that.
00:16:36A nasty man.
00:16:38At war with society.
00:16:40Very attractive to women.
00:16:41Oh, Beatrice is so easily led and so ridiculously romantic.
00:16:45That voice.
00:16:46Shattering on, embroidering things.
00:16:49Silly child.
00:16:51And, oh dear, that jersey and coat.
00:16:53Nuns have no taste at all in clothes.
00:16:55Yes, actually working with Scarbeck.
00:16:59And under his thrall, Tom.
00:17:01Under his thrall.
00:17:03Well, then she's quite mad.
00:17:05Look, Gemma, are you taking vows or something, staying in that place so long?
00:17:10Darling, I'm caught up in a battle of wills, you might say.
00:17:15Wills?
00:17:15Well, several people's conflicting wills.
00:17:18Certainly Mother Ancilla's to preserve the convent at all costs.
00:17:21And then there's the last will and testament of poor Rosabelle.
00:17:24Oh, various other things.
00:17:28Oh, can you hold on a minute?
00:17:35Sister?
00:17:41Sorry, darling.
00:17:43No, she hid the will.
00:17:45The second will.
00:17:46Well, what did she do that for?
00:17:48Well, I'd like to know.
00:17:49Perhaps someone hid it when she died.
00:17:52Yes.
00:17:53Look, dearest, what are we going on about these damn wills for?
00:17:57I want you.
00:17:58When are you coming back to London?
00:18:01Willful!
00:18:04Willful!
00:18:04Oh, that's Tessa Justin for you.
00:18:07Tessa?
00:18:09Wanting a private interview with you tonight.
00:18:14You were telephoning.
00:18:16Little madam.
00:18:18Said she had some private information that she had to tell you.
00:18:22I said, be off with you.
00:18:24Don't come bothering me, Shaw, when she's sick.
00:18:27She said she had to tell you what she knows.
00:18:30Well, I wonder perhaps I could see her now.
00:18:32Certainly not, darling.
00:18:33Well, she'll be in bed by now.
00:18:35And you must rest.
00:18:38Popping up for books and telephone calls.
00:18:41It'll never get well.
00:18:42Well, Tessa can wait till morning.
00:18:45She's got a busy day tomorrow.
00:18:47Oh, the bazaar.
00:18:49Yes.
00:18:49And her mother is to open it.
00:18:53There, Tessa can wait to see you till all the excitement is over.
00:18:57But knowing that one, she'll probably have forgotten all about it.
00:19:02Well, I must say I am rather tired.
00:19:04Oh, yes.
00:19:07Sleep might try out.
00:19:15How's it going?
00:19:16Not bad.
00:19:16I'm just getting more coffee.
00:19:36I never worry about that.
00:19:38What happens if a child is not winning anything at all?
00:19:41Well, that's a promise.
00:19:42The hopes are too small to overstands.
00:19:45Well, that's the way we used to do it at Northern Ireland.
00:19:47You make more money that way.
00:19:49And it's all for charity, isn't it?
00:19:51The poor, the natural.
00:20:02Leave Miss Shaw alone.
00:20:04She can't be bothered with you lot now.
00:20:05Oh, thank you, Margaret.
00:20:07Coffee, Miss Shaw?
00:20:08Oh, no, not just now, thank you.
00:20:09It's all right.
00:20:11Well, I'm sure it is, but I just had...
00:20:18No one's brought here.
00:20:20Oh, what a shame.
00:20:21What is it?
00:20:21A pen holder.
00:20:23Yes, of course.
00:20:24Well, I'll buy it.
00:20:26Mandy!
00:20:27There you are, Mandy.
00:20:29Lady Polly's just about to make her speech,
00:20:31and Mandy is to present the bouquet.
00:20:34Shelley Skylar.
00:20:35I was reading it again last night.
00:20:37It's such a joyful piece.
00:20:39Do you remember we discussed the nature of Christian pantheism
00:20:42as expressed in that poem?
00:20:43Now, it occurred to me that...
00:20:45Oh, excuse me, do you want to...
00:20:47Can I help you, Mr. John?
00:20:48I was reading my daughter's essay,
00:20:51and I feel somewhat...
00:20:54Anxious.
00:20:55I suppose you could call it this.
00:20:56Yes, but if we could just...
00:20:58Oh, yes, yes.
00:20:59Then we'll have to...
00:21:00Yes, I'll show you.
00:21:01Yes, I'll show you.
00:21:18All right, thank you.
00:21:24I'm sure you'll all agree it's been such a splendid day,
00:21:27and I'm pleased to say that most of our work has been sold.
00:21:31There'll be a few moments after Lady Polly's speech
00:21:33when you can snap up those last few bargains
00:21:36and drink a final cup of coffee.
00:21:39Lady Polly.
00:21:44Thank you, Mother Ancilla.
00:21:48How very kind of you to ask me to open this...
00:21:51Clothes.
00:21:51What?
00:21:52Clothes.
00:21:53Oh, clothes, this splendid fate.
00:21:58It's a bazaar.
00:21:59Ah, yes.
00:22:01Bazaar.
00:22:03Well, anyway,
00:22:04I am sure this is not a death worse than a fate,
00:22:09even though my fate may be trying to open it.
00:22:14Clothes it, she means.
00:22:15Clothes it.
00:22:16Oh.
00:22:17Oh, leave him, leave him.
00:22:19I get a bitch in a thunderstown.
00:22:21What was that, Charles?
00:22:24Well, anyway,
00:22:26thank you for a lovely fate
00:22:28in both senses of the word,
00:22:30and I now declare the whole thing at an end.
00:22:34And that is,
00:22:36closed
00:22:36till next year.
00:22:44I've lost a big pay.
00:22:46Probably sold.
00:22:47My Mother Ancilla
00:22:48in a wild fit of enthusiasm.
00:23:07Sir Charles, he's such a fascist beast.
00:23:10How do you know?
00:23:11I understand that she missed my speech.
00:23:14How could she miss my speech?
00:23:16My child is great, Lady Polly.
00:23:17But I haven't seen her the whole evening.
00:23:21Mandy, do you know where Tessa is?
00:23:23Jemima, dear.
00:23:24So nice to have you up and about again.
00:23:26Now, have you seen Tessa, Justin?
00:23:28You do know her, don't you?
00:23:30Well, yes, I know her.
00:23:31I saw her last night.
00:23:32But not today.
00:23:33I've been in the infirmary all morning.
00:23:35Of course.
00:23:36She's nowhere to be found.
00:23:42Now, why wasn't this note of Tessa's given to your mother earlier, Mandy?
00:23:47Oh, do be quiet, darling.
00:23:49I'm trying to concentrate.
00:23:50Oh, give the note to me, Polly.
00:23:52Really, you should chain your spectacles round your neck and save us all this trouble.
00:23:56I had them round my neck, Charles.
00:23:58I always had them there.
00:24:01Dear Mama and Papa, I didn't know Tessa could type.
00:24:05Did you know she could type, Polly?
00:24:06Read it, Charles.
00:24:08If you really want to know where I am, I've gone to stay with Aunt Claudia.
00:24:14Claudia?
00:24:15I'm unhappy here, and she won't make me come back.
00:24:20I've got plenty of money, has she, Polly, daughter?
00:24:22Oh, give it to me.
00:24:24So, don't worry.
00:24:26You're loving Tessa.
00:24:29Don't worry.
00:24:30Of course we should worry, Claudia.
00:24:31It's mad.
00:24:32You know she's mad.
00:24:33Mad as a hatter.
00:24:34Living in the Lake District and thinking cats and dogs could speak and not being on the telephone.
00:24:38We shall have to drive up there.
00:24:40Oh, no, we can't do that.
00:24:41Spanish ambassador's coming to dinner.
00:24:43Oh, my God, how could she do this to us?
00:24:46So thoughtless.
00:24:47Oh, control yourself, Polly.
00:24:48And Mandy, stop that noise.
00:24:50You're as thoughtless as your sister hanging on to this note so long.
00:24:53I wonder if I see the note.
00:24:55Yes.
00:24:57I mean, as I remember, your mother was pretty pixelated, Mrs.
00:25:00I don't know what you mean by pixelated.
00:25:02Mother, this is most distressing, but I'm afraid we must go.
00:25:05My responsibilities and all that.
00:25:08Now, we'll telegraph my sister, Claudia.
00:25:10She's not touching her eyebrows.
00:25:11And I'm sure Tessa will be all right.
00:25:13This old man did be once a mother's out of the way.
00:25:16I'm so sorry, Sir Charles and Lady Polly.
00:25:19Sister Boniface, will you take Mandy?
00:25:21This way, Mandy.
00:25:22I had no idea Tessa was unhappy.
00:25:24None of her nightly.
00:25:26She never said anything to give that impression.
00:25:28Yeah, yeah, well, children are unpredictable.
00:25:30I, I never understand why.
00:25:32Oh, no, no.
00:25:33I'm sitting there.
00:25:34I'm quite sure that everything's going to be all right.
00:25:36It's not the only thing I thought.
00:25:46Poor Mother Ancilla.
00:25:48I had to call Dr. Mayhew.
00:25:50Is she ill again?
00:25:51Heart, I'm afraid.
00:25:52One of her attacks again.
00:25:53She collapsed almost immediately after Sir Charles left.
00:25:56Well, it was the strain of it all.
00:25:58The bizarre, the child vanishing.
00:26:00I told you she was overdoing it at the time,
00:26:02but it's no use talking to some
00:26:03like banging your head on a brick wall.
00:26:05Well, I wonder perhaps I could see her.
00:26:07Goodness, no, she's resting.
00:26:09Now, these should help until the doctor gets here.
00:26:12Now, please look after yourself, Miss Shaw.
00:26:14I don't like you leaving the infirmary so soon.
00:26:16I think the doctor ought to see you when he comes.
00:26:19Ah, I've got Mother Ancilla's pills.
00:26:21Pills, pills.
00:26:23That's all she ever thinks about.
00:26:25It's my man.
00:26:27I'm worried about Mother Ancilla.
00:26:29Not the Reverend Mother.
00:26:31After all, she and I have very little time left anyway.
00:26:34No, it's more than that.
00:26:37I've been praying in the chapel.
00:26:39Yes, and coming too quickly up the stairs, Sister.
00:26:42I took my troubles to our lady
00:26:44who lost the infant Jesus in the temple.
00:26:48She told me to come to you.
00:26:50The child.
00:26:52Tessa.
00:26:52Yes.
00:26:53Disappearing like that, leaving that note.
00:26:56It is not like a...
00:26:58It is beautifully tight.
00:27:01Tessa can't type.
00:27:03Beatrice O'Dowd couldn't have done it better herself.
00:27:06Beatrice O'Dowd?
00:27:06Mia was used to teach the girls' title.
00:27:08She was a private secretary.
00:27:10Beatrice O'Dowd is Scarbeck's age.
00:27:12She never taught Tessa.
00:27:12She was too young then.
00:27:14And there's another thing to mind.
00:27:16Tessa is a show-off.
00:27:19If she were unhappy, we'd all know about it.
00:27:22She'd paint it on the roof of the chapel if she could.
00:27:26Not disappear.
00:27:28No fun in that, is there?
00:27:30Not seeing all the fuss for herself.
00:27:33Mother Ancilla knows this as well, doesn't she?
00:27:36And Sister Lucy, who won't listen to me,
00:27:38talks about sibling rivalry.
00:27:42Rivalry?
00:27:42Oh, well, Mandy presenting the book here to her mother,
00:27:46so Tessa seeks her father's sister.
00:27:48I do wish I could talk to Mother Ancilla.
00:27:51No one can see her until the doctor's been.
00:27:55One feels lost without her.
00:27:58I am acting, Reverend Mother,
00:28:01as the oldest member of the community.
00:28:04Good.
00:28:05Good.
00:28:06Oh, do you mind?
00:28:07Tessa wanted to talk to you, didn't she?
00:28:10I stopped you going to her.
00:28:13Poor child.
00:28:15I'm so very sorry about that.
00:28:18So very sorry.
00:28:21Now, I'm a frightened old woman.
00:28:25Sit down.
00:28:28Now, listen, Sister.
00:28:31Mother Ancilla asked me to come here
00:28:33because she was anxious about the community.
00:28:36She wanted me to uncover whatever was discordant
00:28:40at the heart of the convent.
00:28:42At first, I was skeptical.
00:28:43It seemed a monstrous kind of suggestion,
00:28:45but now I know Tessa didn't write that note.
00:28:48I know it.
00:28:49I've had some exactly the same.
00:28:51There are forces at work in the convent
00:28:54making use of the legend of the Black Nun,
00:28:56and I don't know yet whether they're good or evil.
00:28:58Our Lady will help you to find out.
00:29:01Well, it would be nice to think so.
00:29:05Sister,
00:29:06you must know everything there is to know about these buildings.
00:29:09Yes.
00:29:10Is it possible there's any connection between the chapel and the tower?
00:29:13I mean, a secret passage or something in the old part of the buildings.
00:29:19Sister,
00:29:20Sister, please, a life may depend on it.
00:29:23So many years have passed.
00:29:26Perhaps.
00:29:28Perhaps a vow taken so many years ago.
00:29:33Please.
00:29:36I'm sure our Lord would...
00:29:40When I was of novice,
00:29:42we knew there was an entrance to something.
00:29:46A room, a passage.
00:29:49We never went through the door.
00:29:52No one, as far as I know,
00:29:53has ever been through that door.
00:29:55And the door, where was it?
00:29:57In what was the medieval chapel.
00:30:00It is now our crypt.
00:30:04My first broken vow.
00:30:09Ah.
00:30:10When I was a novice,
00:30:12an historian came here
00:30:14and talked a lot of rubbish about the Blessed Eleanor.
00:30:18He'd been researching into medieval sources
00:30:20and had come to the conclusion
00:30:22that there could very well be
00:30:23a secret passage
00:30:25from the crypt to the tower,
00:30:28built so that Dame de Turell
00:30:30could visit the Blessed Eleanor at night
00:30:33for no good reason.
00:30:35He asked if he could see
00:30:37the doors of the crypt.
00:30:38Would you believe it?
00:30:40Of course, he wasn't a Catholic.
00:30:43And I can tell you,
00:30:44he was sent away with his tail between his legs.
00:30:48Then the Reverend Mother of that time
00:30:50called us all together
00:30:52and said that no passage existed
00:30:55and that we were never to speak of the door again.
00:31:00And you never did?
00:31:02Not until now.
00:31:05Ever.
00:31:08Do you know, Dremanna,
00:31:10I think I'm the only person
00:31:11left alive
00:31:12who knows how to find that door.
00:31:14No, sister.
00:31:16I'm afraid you're wrong.
00:31:18There is somebody
00:31:19who knows how to find that door.
00:31:21I'm sure of it.
00:31:23Will you show me too?
00:31:28For the greater glory of God.
00:31:32Yes.
00:31:34Now?
00:31:36No.
00:31:38No, tonight.
00:31:40Won't be missed then, perhaps.
00:31:43Yes, tonight.
00:31:45Dremyne.
00:31:48I'm afraid.
00:31:50Afraid, my child?
00:31:51Of what I may find.
00:31:54Nothing but a dirty old room.
00:31:56A passage.
00:31:58Very dirty.
00:31:59We never cleaned in there.
00:32:00Oh, sister.
00:32:02Our lady will go with you.
00:32:04And I'm afraid that
00:32:05what may happen tonight
00:32:07will change the convent forever.
00:32:10Always change, my child.
00:32:12Except our belief.
00:32:34Dearest Tom,
00:32:36just in case anything should...
00:32:38Come in.
00:32:40Sorry to disturb you, Miss Shaw.
00:32:42Can you spare a moment
00:32:43to speak to Mandy just in?
00:32:44Come in, Mildy.
00:32:46She can't go to sleep.
00:32:48She keeps saying that she has
00:32:49something that she must tell you.
00:32:50She won't tell it to anyone else.
00:32:53I didn't want to fetch
00:32:53Sister Lucy.
00:32:55Of course I'll talk to her.
00:32:58I'm not telling it to her.
00:33:01Yes, of course I'll go, Miss Shaw.
00:33:03Don't cry, Mandy.
00:33:05Tell your story to Miss Shaw
00:33:06and then you can go fast asleep.
00:33:11I'm frightened of nuns.
00:33:13Tell me your story, Mandy.
00:33:14That note.
00:33:16The one Tessa wrote.
00:33:17Not from Tessa.
00:33:18A horrible nasty nun
00:33:20gave that note to me.
00:33:21And told you not to tell.
00:33:23She said she'd take me away
00:33:24like Tessa if I did.
00:33:26Oh.
00:33:27There, there.
00:33:28Don't worry.
00:33:30What did she look like?
00:33:31Did you recognise her?
00:33:33She had no face.
00:33:36Don't worry about anything at all.
00:33:38I'll find Tessa.
00:33:40Now I'm in charge
00:33:42and everything will be all right.
00:33:45Sister Agnes.
00:33:48I think she'll go back to bed now.
00:33:50Off you go.
00:33:51Thank you, Miss Shaw.
00:34:18Secret Heart of Jesus,
00:34:20Pray for me.
00:34:24It's no use. I can't pray for myself.
00:34:28I can pray for Tessa, perhaps.
00:34:32Tessa, St. Teresa.
00:34:35Little flower, protect your Tessa Justin.
00:34:50.
00:34:52.
00:34:54.
00:34:54I don't know.
00:35:25for the greater glory of God.
00:35:28Jemina I shall leave this panel open.
00:35:31now you must be back before early service.
00:35:33otherwise someone may close it and then where would you be?
00:35:36the crypt is so cold and dark. no windows and so very deep down.
00:35:40sister please stop it.
00:36:03it's quite clean.
00:36:05of course it is. we clean it.
00:36:11is that Mary Queen of Heaven?
00:36:14goodness no it's the blessed Eleanor herself.
00:36:18she was Queen of England you know. very briefly.
00:36:21oh wouldn't it be lovely if we had a Catholic Queen again.
00:36:25it's very old you know.
00:36:28there are some coffins here as old as that too.
00:36:31really?
00:36:32some of the early nuns named Tourelle among them.
00:36:36they stayed here all through the Reformation
00:36:39thanks to the mercy of our Lord and the protection of our Lady.
00:36:44blessed Eleanor I regret went to Belgium.
00:36:47that's where she came from wasn't it?
00:36:49of course I shouldn't say regret like that.
00:36:53she did perform some miracles when she went there
00:36:55which she might not have felt inclined to do.
00:36:57she'd remained here in her home ground as you might say.
00:37:01well no use putting off the witching hour.
00:37:04better get started.
00:37:05I didn't see any coffins.
00:37:07behind you see.
00:37:09there's a grill.
00:37:18all come to dust as you might say.
00:37:20oh very dusty indeed.
00:37:23we never clean in there.
00:37:25only the Reverend Mothers are laid there now.
00:37:28so rather uncillable.
00:37:30in God's good time she will rest there too.
00:37:34well I'm glad they're all behind bars.
00:37:36I don't much fancy those coffins in their contents.
00:37:39my child.
00:37:40it is behind those bars you have to go.
00:37:44in there?
00:37:45that's where the entrance to the secret passage is.
00:37:48hidden behind the coffins.
00:37:50not in there. not in that charnel house.
00:37:53I can't.
00:37:54my child.
00:37:56what harm can those poor remains do to you?
00:38:00all right show me now.
00:38:03there.
00:38:05through here first.
00:38:07you'll find it stiff.
00:38:09it hasn't been opened for a generation.
00:38:11yes it must be that since the last Reverend Mother died.
00:38:14ah.
00:38:16not so stiff after all.
00:38:21now the door is on the left.
00:38:24yes I'm sure it is.
00:38:25yes behind the coffins.
00:38:38someone has moved them.
00:38:40oh my child.
00:38:41do you still want to go?
00:38:43no I don't want to go at all.
00:38:45well I must.
00:38:46let me come with you.
00:38:47no sister.
00:38:58thank god it stinks.
00:39:01it's the damp earth.
00:39:02so far underground.
00:39:06I.
00:39:07I.
00:39:08I will pray in the chapel until you come back.
00:39:12there now.
00:39:13another torch for you.
00:39:15in case your battery runs out.
00:39:16what about you?
00:39:18nuns can see in the dark.
00:39:20god bless you my child.
00:39:22keep you from harm.
00:39:28the powers of darkness.
00:39:33darkness has no power my child.
00:39:36no.
00:39:38only those that make use of it.
00:39:41oh come on.
00:39:42oh come on.
00:39:42don't come on.
00:39:44oh come on.
00:39:58oh come on.
00:40:01uh.
00:40:11PIANO PLAYS
00:40:41PIANO PLAYS
00:41:12PIANO PLAYS
00:41:25PIANO PLAYS
00:41:27PIANO CONTINUES
00:41:28PIANO CONTINUES
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00:41:30PIANO CONTINUES
00:41:43PIANO CONTINUES
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00:41:58Yes, sir. I've come to hear the story you wanted to tell me.
00:42:02Look at me.
00:42:05See? I'm not a nun.
00:42:08Oh, take me home.
00:42:10Oh, there, there.
00:42:11The nun.
00:42:12The nun. She...
00:42:18Shh. Now, tell me later.
00:42:20Tell me later.
00:42:28The black nun whispering in the night.
00:42:31She said she'd put a pillow over my head.
00:42:35No one would listen to me.
00:42:37She had no faith, Miss Shaw.
00:42:41Sister Bonnie said she'd smack me.
00:42:44But when I was getting ready for the bazaar,
00:42:47I got a message to say that Maura and Papa and the sanctuary wanted to see me.
00:42:53I thought it was odd, but their nuns are very odd, aren't they, Miss Shaw?
00:42:58So I went, and then the black nun dragged me away from Maura and Papa.
00:43:05Weren't there anywhere.
00:43:06Yes, tell me later.
00:43:09She kept asking me questions.
00:43:12Where is the will? Where is the will? Over and over.
00:43:15And if I didn't tell, I'd never go home again.
00:43:18I kept saying all I knew.
00:43:21What did you tell her?
00:43:23Well, Sister Miriam was in the nun's parlour.
00:43:26She came up and she caught hold of me.
00:43:28She was batty, Miss Shaw.
00:43:30Worse than the other nuns.
00:43:32But we quite liked her.
00:43:33What did Sister Miriam say to you?
00:43:35She said she'd made a new will.
00:43:37She pushed her face right into mine and said it.
00:43:40Then she said something about it being in a safe place.
00:43:43Did she tell you where the safe place was?
00:43:45No.
00:43:46I told the nun that.
00:43:47And those silly big girls.
00:43:48They thought I knew too, but I don't be sure.
00:43:51Truly I don't.
00:43:53All Sister Miriam said was something about the Brides of Christ.
00:43:57Being safe among the Brides of Christ.
00:44:00She was batty.
00:44:02She came out of the nun's parlour, you said?
00:44:05Yes.
00:44:06I was outside.
00:44:08And that nun, she kept shaking me and...
00:44:13What was that?
00:44:14Did you hear anything?
00:44:17Well, never mind.
00:44:18Go on.
00:44:19And that nun, she had no face and she kept shaking me and saying,
00:44:23when she came back.
00:44:24I'd better remember a bit more.
00:44:25When she came back.
00:44:26Now come on.
00:44:27We must go.
00:44:28Now you must be brave and quiet.
00:44:31Now Miss Torch belongs to Sister Bonifaz.
00:44:33Now don't drop it.
00:44:34Hold on to it.
00:44:35She's waiting for us in the sacristy.
00:44:36Off you go.
00:44:36Oh let's hurry.
00:44:37Miss Shaw.
00:44:39Miss Shaw.
00:44:40Yes, I'm coming.
00:44:53Miss Shaw.
00:44:56Miss Shaw.
00:45:06Miss Shaw.
00:45:08Miss Shaw.
00:45:10Miss Shaw.
00:45:11Miss Shaw.
00:45:12Miss Shaw.
00:45:13Miss Shaw.
00:45:13Miss Shaw.
00:45:13Miss Shaw.
00:45:13Miss Shaw.
00:45:30Who's that?
00:45:45Who's that?
00:45:54and life through the heart.
00:45:56Heartless so crude.
00:45:59I know you.
00:46:01Somehow I know you.
00:46:03Indeed you do.
00:46:05Dear Jemima.
00:46:09Christ, it's you.
00:46:10Don't bless me, please.
00:46:12It's not your sin at all.
00:46:15Do I make a good nun?
00:46:18Nuns are dedicated to the service of God.
00:46:20I am dedicated to the service of past projects.
00:46:23Mother Ansela was right.
00:46:25You are a fanatic.
00:46:26I am.
00:46:27Why?
00:46:29Why this revolting masquerade?
00:46:32God, you're a murderer.
00:46:36How pretty you are.
00:46:38Lucky to my man.
00:46:41Well, there's no time for romantic daliens.
00:46:47You can't do this.
00:46:49I'll just tie you up for a moment.
00:46:50A moment.
00:46:53How did you find out about the passenger?
00:46:55I hate to gossip.
00:46:57I know a document.
00:46:58I do things thoroughly, Jemima.
00:47:00I've been right through blessed Eleanor's treasury.
00:47:04She's a whore in ourselves.
00:47:07But now I think I have a clue as to whereabouts it.
00:47:11I love it in Roosevelt's last moment, testament.
00:47:14Yes.
00:47:15Yes.
00:47:16Tessa's babbling to you in the tower, which I so fortunately overheard.
00:47:21Yes, I think I have a fairly substantial clue as to where that will is hidden.
00:47:26Well, where is it to be?
00:47:29Out here, the beloved Eleanor.
00:47:32I don't know, the coffins.
00:47:35What's that?
00:47:36You're agnostic, Jemima.
00:47:39You dusty bones cut, aren't you?
00:47:44Surely you're not afraid of ghosts.
00:47:55Tessa will have roused the convent by now.
00:47:58I have an intelligent accomplice.
00:48:00Where is Sister Bobby?
00:48:01Dealt with hours ago.
00:48:03No.
00:48:03Just lured away, Jemima.
00:48:05Just lured away.
00:48:06Mother Ancilla have need of her.
00:48:24There's your splendid intelligence now, Jemima.
00:48:27You forgot, Reverend Mother always keeps that door padlocked.
00:48:29More than running for nothing.
00:48:35Well, I'm afraid you can't stay here.
00:48:36You might attract attention.
00:48:38No.
00:48:39You'll have to be the crypt where no one will find you.
00:48:45Investigator.
00:48:46The victim of her own adventurous spirit.
00:48:49And you look like the devil.
00:48:50Ah, hardly that.
00:48:51All for the good of the cause.
00:48:53And your vanity.
00:48:56You can always try a few pranks if you get lonely.
00:48:59Or the bones prove too much.
00:49:01A few Hail Marys work wonders for the nerves.
00:49:03What would you know about that?
00:49:04Well, my parents were Catholics.
00:49:06Polish Catholics.
00:49:07You didn't know that, did you?
00:49:08No, I didn't.
00:49:09Yes.
00:49:09Poland.
00:49:10Their ignorance and suspicion are so deeply engraved in the hearts of the peasants that nothing,
00:49:14not even communism, can stamp it out.
00:49:17There.
00:49:19I'll leave you the torch.
00:49:20The batteries will last for a while longer.
00:49:23And you will have plenty to think about.
00:49:26Like your beloved Rosabelle, for instance.
00:49:29Stupid girl.
00:49:30You twisted her mind.
00:49:32No.
00:49:33No, I merely directed her mind to a new way of thinking.
00:49:36Strange creature full of so many sudden impulses.
00:49:40No wonder she had a nervous breakdown.
00:49:41You drove her to it.
00:49:42How you misunderstand me.
00:49:44She just couldn't make up her mind.
00:49:47That childish business of hiding second will.
00:49:51If she could escape responsibility in that way.
00:49:56There.
00:49:59St. Jemima of the Coffins.
00:50:01I'll pray for you.
00:50:04Don't bother to scream.
00:50:05No one will hear you.
00:50:22You're so strong, Jemima.
00:50:25No.
00:50:28Someone will find me.
00:50:30Sooner or later, someone will find me.
00:50:33Safe among the Brides of Christ.
00:50:43I'm too late.
00:50:46Rosabelle, I'm too late.
00:50:50Christ, the good shepherd, laid down his life for his sheep.
00:50:54Let us praise him with grateful hearts as we pray.
00:50:58Response.
00:50:58Lord, nourish the lives of your people.
00:51:01Christ, our Lord, in the holy pastors,
00:51:04you reveal your love for us.
00:51:06May we never be deprived of the care you show through them.
00:51:10Response.
00:51:10Lord, nourish the lives of your people.
00:51:13Through your sacred ministers,
00:51:15you are present in our midst as the shepherd of our souls.
00:51:19Never cease to guide us through their teaching and encouragement.
00:51:23Response.
00:51:24Lord, nourish the lives of your people.
00:51:25Lord, nourish the lives of your people.
00:51:26Lord, nourish the lives of your people.
00:51:26Sacred heart of Jesus, pray for me.
00:51:30Joseph, father of Jesus, pray for me.
00:51:34St. Teresa, little flower, pray for me.
00:51:39Lord, please let someone come.
00:51:46Now.
00:51:59Miss Shaw?
00:52:00Sister Agnes.
00:52:02Oh, poor Miss Shaw, I was here.
00:52:06What has happened to you?
00:52:09Is Tessa all right?
00:52:11Tessa?
00:52:13Tessa ran away.
00:52:14She didn't run away.
00:52:16There's no sign of Tessa anywhere.
00:52:18My God, you've got her.
00:52:20Oh, poor Miss Shaw.
00:52:22You are in a monstrous state.
00:52:26I must get you back to your room.
00:52:28No, there's something I have to do first.
00:52:30Sister, you look for Tessa.
00:52:33Now, just one moment.
00:52:35I found Tessa.
00:52:37You don't understand what's going on here.
00:52:39Perhaps it is you who doesn't understand what is going on here.
00:52:44Come now, I must take you back to your room.
00:52:46No, I'm all right.
00:52:51I left Sister Bonnie in the chapel.
00:52:53Yes, she was praying there, but she was called away.
00:53:00May the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, give you a spirit of wisdom and perception
00:53:06of what is revealed to bring you to full knowledge of him.
00:53:10May he enlighten the eyes of your mind so that you can see what hope his call holds for you,
00:53:17what rich glories he has promised the saints will inherit.
00:53:21I prayed to every saint I could think of.
00:53:25That was right, I know.
00:53:27No.
00:53:28Principles of a lifetime gone in a moment of fear.
00:53:32At least your prayers were answered.
00:53:35Perhaps.
00:53:37At any rate, you came.
00:53:39Yes.
00:53:43Now, I really think you should lie down in your room.
00:53:45Sister?
00:53:46Yes?
00:53:46Sister Agnes.
00:53:47Yes?
00:53:48Tessa Justin.
00:53:49I found her sobbing in her room.
00:53:51I took her straight to Sister Lucy.
00:53:52Sister Lucy?
00:53:52The child was distraught.
00:53:53Well, yes, to the infirmary.
00:53:54I thought that was best.
00:53:55I think perhaps you ought to see her.
00:53:56Yes, yes, I'll go straight away.
00:53:58Jemima?
00:54:02Jemima.
00:54:04What a state you're in.
00:54:07You've been walking under the moon.
00:54:09You look absolutely exhausted.
00:54:12Let me take off your coat.
00:54:15Were you thinking of Shelley's night?
00:54:18Swiftly walk o'er the western wave, spirit of night?
00:54:22Or Shelley's moon, perhaps?
00:54:25Art thou pale for weariness?
00:54:28Well, you're certainly that, my child.
00:54:36Till I leave you now.
00:54:38You'll want to rest and recollect in tranquility.
00:54:41Eh?
00:54:48I'll see that Sister Claire brings you some coffee.
00:55:03I'll see that Sister Claire brings you some coffee.
00:55:03Where the hell did you put it?
00:55:31Thank you, Jemima.
00:55:39It's not my scene at all.
00:55:40Knives and so forth.
00:55:41But needs mustn't.
00:55:43Just don't scream, Jemima.
00:55:52You saved me a lot of bother.
00:55:53I might have been hours looking for this.
00:55:56Now, can I safely let you go?
00:56:00You really should have been a nun, Jemima.
00:56:02You know how their minds work.
00:56:04Oh, Sister Lucy, thank God.
00:56:08I've dealt with the child.
00:56:12You're...
00:56:13You're the accomplice.
00:56:15Yes.
00:56:16What have you done to Tessa?
00:56:17She's sleeping it off.
00:56:19No need for anything more drastic than a nice soothing sedative.
00:56:22She's a mixed up child, highly strung.
00:56:24Who will believe her silly tales of towers and crypts and black nuns?
00:56:28I've got the will.
00:56:29I knew you'd find it.
00:56:30Now, let's get away from here.
00:56:32Now, what are we going to do with you, Jemima?
00:56:36No good putting you back in the crypt.
00:56:38I've thought of that.
00:56:40A pill.
00:56:40Let me persuade her to take a pill.
00:56:42Oh, well, I'm both of you quite mad.
00:56:44Then I can take her to her room, see her into bed.
00:56:47Mr. Edward, that was you.
00:56:49Almost an accident.
00:56:51She would have died anyway.
00:56:52Even if she had been able to reach for her pill,
00:56:54she would have died in a year or less.
00:56:56And she was dangerous, beginning to ask too many questions.
00:56:59Hush!
00:57:00Don't let's have any nonsense, Miss Shaw.
00:57:03You just take one of these.
00:57:04Quite painless, a deep sleep,
00:57:06and the death of Jemima Shaw, television star.
00:57:09How sad.
00:57:10An overdose.
00:57:11But, of course, she was hopelessly involved with a married man, an MP.
00:57:15Sister Lucy will type your farewell note for you, Jemima.
00:57:17And then a tribute on news at ten and all forgotten.
00:57:20Television is so ephemeral, Miss Shaw.
00:57:22No one forgot the Paris Projects programme.
00:57:25That wasn't television.
00:57:26That was Alex himself, his strengths and beliefs reaching the public.
00:57:30Come on.
00:57:31Sister Lucy!
00:57:34I can assure you I know how to use this gun, Mr. Scarbeck.
00:57:37Please drop that knife.
00:57:39I'll call the police.
00:57:40No!
00:57:41Please, monsieur.
00:57:42Sister Lucy's car is in the driveway.
00:57:44Sister Lucy can drive them away.
00:57:45You will leave this convent immediately.
00:57:47Here are your clothes.
00:57:49I found them in the sacristy.
00:57:51How taste is of you to leave them there.
00:57:54Take them and go.
00:57:56Hurry!
00:57:59The children are out.
00:58:00Sister, they're criminals!
00:58:19Why?
00:58:20Why did you let them go?
00:58:22You're as crazy as they are.
00:58:25What could I do, monsieur?
00:58:27Think of it.
00:58:28The convent in an uproar.
00:58:30Our work all undone.
00:58:31Mother and Silla dying.
00:58:33Do we want her to die with the name of the blessed Eleanor dragged through the newspapers?
00:58:36We went through it once with Sister Miriam.
00:58:38Do we want it again?
00:58:39Mother and Silla has suffered so much.
00:58:42You lost all sense of reality.
00:58:44Do stop waving that gun around.
00:58:47Oh, this.
00:58:50It comes from the acting cupboard.
00:58:54We did murder at the vicarage last term.
00:58:56Agatha Christie.
00:58:57It was delightful.
00:58:58You would have enjoyed it.
00:59:00I didn't think Sister Lucy would recognize it.
00:59:02The state she was in.
00:59:03All those pills she takes.
00:59:05I see.
00:59:07You're quite an actress yourself.
00:59:10I was an actress once.
00:59:13Yes, I believe you told me.
00:59:14Not a very good one, I'm afraid.
00:59:17Not a very good nun.
00:59:18That is a compliment I value.
00:59:20Unworthy than I am.
00:59:23This must go back to the infirmary where it belongs.
00:59:26Sister, when I first came here you warned me off.
00:59:30Did you suspect about Sister Lucy then?
00:59:33You were in added complication.
00:59:35And television being so worldly.
00:59:37And its standards, not those of the convent.
00:59:40Yes, I do see.
00:59:42What made you first suspect?
00:59:44Tessa's nightmares.
00:59:46Sister Lucy's attitude towards them.
00:59:48So many suspicious little things about Sister Lucy.
00:59:50Unaccountable absences at night.
00:59:52Then, finally, Tessa's running away note.
00:59:55Typed on the infirmary typewriter.
00:59:57She wasn't with us very long.
00:59:58Sister Boniface was never satisfied with the nature of Sister Lucy's vacation.
01:00:02You knew about the black nun?
01:00:05Suspicions only.
01:00:06The sight of a mysterious nun disappearing around corridors.
01:00:09I began to watch.
01:00:12When you were making your novena that night in the chapel, that was just a cover-up.
01:00:17Certainly not.
01:00:18I would never pretend to make a novena.
01:00:21Our good Lord would never forgive me.
01:00:23Besides, I had a lot to pray about, hadn't I?
01:00:25Sister, they were murderers.
01:00:28Murderers and you let them go.
01:00:30I mean, forgiveness of your enemies is all very well.
01:00:32Forgiveness is for Almighty God who sees into every heart.
01:00:36Nevertheless, we must call the police.
01:00:39What proof have we got?
01:00:41The police will investigate, rake up dirt.
01:00:43What proof is there?
01:00:46God will dispose of it all.
01:00:48We can't leave everything to God.
01:00:50Well, that is for you to decide, Miss Shaw.
01:00:52What's it got to do with me?
01:00:53You are of the world.
01:00:54Sister, that is passing the buck.
01:00:58I have my duties here.
01:01:00Scarbeck and Lucy left Sister Miriam to die.
01:01:06Perhaps she wanted to die.
01:01:08Oh, you don't believe him?
01:01:10I believe in the justice of our Lord.
01:01:14Well, I wish I did.
01:01:16What about Tessa?
01:01:18She will be exposed to questioning and Mandy too.
01:01:20Shouldn't they be allowed to grow up and forget?
01:01:22Forget?
01:01:23It will fade from their minds as time passes.
01:01:29What about the will?
01:01:31Sister Miriam's second will,
01:01:32leaving everything to Scarbeck and Pye's projects.
01:01:35The will isn't found yet, is it, Miss Shaw?
01:01:38Well, if it is,
01:01:42we must put our trust in Almighty God.
01:02:32I,
01:02:34Rosabelle Powerstock,
01:02:36known as Sister Miriam of the Order of the Tower of Ivory, being in sound mind in spite of pressures
01:02:45about me, to hereby revoke all other wills. I have prayed to our Blessed Lady to help me
01:02:54and guide me. I therefore leave the lands surrounding the convent of the Blessed Eleanor
01:03:01in their entirety to Jemima Shaw, who has always been so much stronger than I. She will know
01:03:11what to do with them. She will know what to do with them. She will know. She will know.
01:03:31You're right to put your trust in God. There will be no changes at the convent of the Blessed Eleanor.
01:03:38There will be changes, Miss Shaw, but they will be decided by the community.
01:03:44Mother Ancilla has just given me her dying voice as the new Mother Superior.
01:03:51Merci, her.
01:03:54I must have a few further questions.
01:04:02You knew, didn't you? You knew about the will. That's why you asked me to come here.
01:04:08I suspected. She admired you so much.
01:04:13But I didn't know what it was.
01:04:15I thought, if you came here, got to know us again, understand our work, then, if Sister Miriam had left
01:04:27you the property,
01:04:28you would see that it was worth preserving for us.
01:04:33And you did, didn't you?
01:04:36I did it because you were good and he was evil.
01:04:41Oh, that's simple, Jemima. Good and bad, how do we know?
01:04:47Our blessed Lord knows.
01:04:49But we just have to try to be sure we are doing the work that he wants us to do
01:04:56on this earth.
01:05:00Do you think, Jemima, that one day you might...
01:05:05Oh, no, Mum. Never.
01:05:08Faith's a gift, they're saying. It hasn't been given to me.
01:05:13My child, do you wish you believed?
01:05:17Well, perhaps the panacea of prayer and God will provide.
01:05:23Indeed does, Jemima.
01:05:25He will help you.
01:05:27He will see that you receive the gift of faith.
01:05:32Or I'll get after him.
01:05:41Goodbye, Sister.
01:05:43Sister Agnes wanted to come.
01:05:45No, I've seen her.
01:05:46God bless you.
01:05:46She is with Mother Ancilla.
01:05:48You will come again, won't you, Jemima?
01:05:51We could have another adventure.
01:05:55I'm sorry you're going, Miss Shaw.
01:05:56These are for you.
01:05:58Oh, how lovely.
01:05:59Thank you very much.
01:06:01Have you time for coffee?
01:06:03No, I haven't, I'm sorry.
01:06:04Yes, well, they've changed all the programme schedules at MTV, so I'm not very sure.
01:06:08When are you going to interview the Pope?
01:06:11Oh, I don't know.
01:06:12Now, girls, you must let Miss Shaw go.
01:06:15Bye-bye.
01:06:16Bye-bye. See you again.
01:06:17When are you coming back again?
01:06:19There's so much I want to discuss with you.
01:06:21Shelley's influence on Mary Godwin.
01:06:24Oh, now girls, please, please, please, please, now stop.
01:06:28Quietly.
01:06:28Sorry, Sister.
01:06:30Sorry, Sister.
01:06:30Bye-bye, Sister.
01:06:31Bye-bye, Sister.
01:06:36Bye-bye, Sister.
01:06:52Miss Shaw.
01:06:53Miss Shaw, it's Mr. Anyott.
01:06:54He said, Miss Shaw.
01:06:59Tell him I've left, please.
01:08:01And his own faith may expect to reach heaven one day.
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