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00:00Meet Miss Higgins and try and lick these new arrangements into shape.
00:04You do have to wonder what it all bodes.
00:11I keep thinking about how we counted every step all the way to the top of York Minster.
00:17And now I'm counting every step all the way back to your front door in Lenartas' house.
00:22Because there were hardly any left before it's over.
00:25It was a beautiful view from the top of York Minster.
00:29And nothing is over.
00:32It felt like another beginning, didn't it?
00:34Yes, it did.
00:37Let's go and make another cup of coffee before we go back to the ordinary world.
00:42You think it's rats, Mr Buckley?
00:45Nasty, greedy things. Niner things with their incisors.
00:48This lead pipe. If they know that, they'd get poisoned.
00:51I want them poisoned. I use this flat for prayer meetings.
00:54It's not rats. It's just...
00:57The soldiers perished. It's not tissue paper, this, Fred.
01:03Hang on.
01:06Look.
01:08I reckon you need to pull all these out.
01:10Refit it with proper plastic.
01:13I just put something on their house.
01:14Did you hear?
01:15We're moving back to Poplar.
01:17Moss Street.
01:18Oh, Walthamstow didn't rain long then.
01:20No!
01:21Never mind your geographical teacher.
01:23This young man is wheezing like a creaking gate.
01:27Hey, use your inhaler, son.
01:28It's all right.
01:29He just gets like this every time we pull up floorboards.
01:31He's all right.
01:37Hello, Mrs Walthamst.
01:38Fred.
01:39What's all this?
01:42Greetings, Pastor Robinson.
01:44And greetings, Rosalie.
01:46You didn't see the plumber's van outside?
01:49Perhaps your mind was on other matters.
01:58Good afternoon, Miss Figgins.
02:00I've been sent to hold the fort while you're at clinic.
02:02Master Timothy Turner.
02:05Or should that be Doctor?
02:08A little bird informed me that a certain set of examinations
02:12have not only been passed, but passed with flying colours.
02:15Yes.
02:17The pen you gave me stood me in very good stead.
02:21Of course, I won't be writing it.
02:22any prescriptions out with it until I'm formally qualified.
02:25All good things will happen in time.
02:36Mrs Hennessy, we discussed the merits and demerits
02:39of peanut butter jars last week.
02:42Leave your sample with me.
02:44And if you cannot find a seat, you make you against the wall.
02:49I'll be extra alert for signs of protein in that one.
02:52Well, and diabetes in the rosehip syrup bottle.
02:58Honestly, Aisha, I'm still a bit full from our lunch.
03:02Feed mother, feed baby.
03:05Maybe I'll just nibble on one while I'm waiting.
03:08Ruth can.
03:10Oh, hello, Ruth, dear.
03:11I'm sorry we're still finding our feet in our new location.
03:15Sister Julianne will see you behind the screens in the far corner.
03:19I come.
03:20I have to go in on my own.
03:22You know the drill.
03:31Is there somewhere I can put this?
03:33Um, a paper towel, perhaps?
03:36I was thinking more like the bin.
03:41I love this sort of food, but my mum-in-law keeps trying to feed me and I'm not that
03:45hungry.
03:45We do advise small, frequent meals at this stage of the pregnancy.
03:53Nurse Crane said that in mother craft class.
03:55I had to translate it for my mother-in-law and I think she only heard frequent.
04:00I don't think it will be too long before baby puts in an appearance.
04:04Have we delivered the home birth pack to you yet?
04:06No.
04:07I'm so glad I'm having it in my own bed.
04:10Babies are born at home in my husband's tradition and I was born at home with Nunata's nuns,
04:14so it's something that sort of makes us the same.
04:17I'll put by tomorrow with the pack, and then we'll be all prepared.
04:34Kindly desist forthwith.
04:36Those cards contain confidential medical information.
04:39I work for the National Health Service.
04:42In which case I should not need to point out the proprietors.
04:46I'm starting to think we were moved here for a reason.
04:50Now we're on National Health premises.
04:52Can't they just breeze in at will?
04:54It's the thin end of the wedge.
04:55If they want information about our district cases, then they should put in a formal request.
05:00The administrator claims they can demand access without notice.
05:03But as we have previously discussed, we are under no obligation to do everything they ask.
05:15I'm not sure she's any nearer to deciding.
05:17Whether to accept the new rules or close Nunata's house.
05:21Sheila, if she delays any longer, it won't be up to her.
05:24And what happens after that will happen to us all.
05:28Are you not partaking in pudding, sister?
05:33Can it be preserved?
05:35I find my appetite does not keep the hours that once it did.
05:41I will put some foil on it.
05:45Standard of cakes has gone right down while Sister Veronica's been away.
05:49This is the second time this week I've made a sponge so bad we've had to pour custard on it.
05:54You pour away.
05:56Custard's one of the things I miss most when I'm in America.
05:58Is there anything else you yearn for whilst you are overseas?
06:02I could be flippant and say lemon curd and electric kettles.
06:06But above all else, I miss the respect for midwifery we're so used to over here.
06:12May I suggest we turn our attention to the matter of St. Raymond's Feast Day.
06:18There will be the usual Eucharist in the chapel in the morning.
06:21And then I thought, as the holiday falls on a bank holiday Monday,
06:26a strawberry tea might be appropriate.
06:33Good evening, Mrs. Barrowman.
06:35Now, you look like a woman on a mission.
06:38I'm a woman in search of comestibles.
06:41My Ivan and his family, they're moving house tomorrow,
06:44so I'm going to christen the kitchen by making their tea.
06:48Ivan did me a favour and a half this morning,
06:50sorting the burst pipe inside an hour.
06:54Have you got any luncheon meat?
06:57At the bottom left, dear, next to the soap powder.
07:01Oh.
07:03I'm going to take three tins.
07:06Oh.
07:06I hope you're planning fritters.
07:08There's nothing like the smell of frying to make a house a home.
07:12Yeah, well, all I can smell at the moment is wet paint and plaster dust.
07:15Still, it's on a better bus route.
07:18Now, Suzanne's got into the grammar school.
07:21Gran, they've got rulers and protractors.
07:23Grammar school?
07:24Well, let's hope this is the beginning of great things for you.
07:28Pick yourself out a rubber.
07:29I'll let you have it half-prouse.
07:31Oh.
07:39Last orders for Ovaltine.
07:47I can't drink anything.
07:49My face is lathered in complexion food.
07:52Why didn't you come down and join us in the parlour?
07:56I can't seem to settle, Phyllis.
07:58I knew this constant to-ing and fro-ing would have you all frayed around the edges.
08:03I wish I was the only thing that was frayed.
08:08My marriage isn't exactly thriving under the current conditions.
08:13Are you spending too much time apart?
08:16We're certainly not doing enough together.
08:20He has his business interests and I have...
08:23this.
08:25You say that as though this weren't enough.
08:28Won't be enough for anybody if it all comes to an end.
08:32If you know more than you're cracking on, Trixie,
08:34then that's your business and I'm not going to press you.
08:38But there's been a sword of Damocles hanging over Ninata's house
08:42for almost as long as I've been here.
08:45And we've always lived to fight another day
08:47and deliver another baby.
08:53Things have been changing all the time, haven't they?
08:56Yes.
08:58And we're still here.
09:02Though I can't answer for your epidermis
09:05if you leave that face back on much longer.
09:13Midwife calling?
09:17You're welcome.
09:25You've certainly got everything
09:27and everyone organised, Ruth.
09:30Dill was well on his way up the ladder at the factory,
09:33but yet to start out as a government presser.
09:35A good manager must have experience of every department.
09:37It's not management.
09:39It's woman's work.
09:43It is all right, isn't it?
09:44The flat?
09:45The flat is spotlessly clean
09:47and this is clearly a home full of love.
09:51I inspect for that too.
09:53It's much more important.
09:55You wouldn't have found that in the house I grew up in.
09:59My mum ran off and left us when I was eight
10:03and my dad hardly knew what to do with us.
10:09Please?
10:14We wanted to ask you something, sister.
10:19Can Dill was stay with me when the baby's born?
10:23But of course.
10:26I want it because I do not want Ruth to be afraid.
10:30And I won't be if Dill was with me.
10:35Madge, I found the tomato sauce.
10:38What was it?
10:38It was in the tea chest for the bedding.
10:43Susie, you'll have to go on the camp bed
10:44until that new mattress is delivered.
10:47You know what I mean, Fritz?
10:48Oh, she'd be like lunch and meat, apparently.
10:52It means you don't like your cooking.
10:55Hey!
10:56Shut up!
10:58Give her some more sauce.
11:03Thank you for wanting to be with me.
11:07I don't want to be outside the door,
11:09waiting for my mother to come out and tell me how you're doing.
11:12At least that's not going to happen now.
11:13The mother is always in the room with the mother.
11:17I do everything I can to respect your customs, Dillwa.
11:21But if we don't do some things our way,
11:25we aren't going to know who we are.
11:28Please, don't let her in the room.
11:41Oh, Suzanne, love,
11:43I need you to go to the phone box and ring the doctor.
11:46It's dark.
11:48The phone hasn't been connected
11:49and nobody else is well enough to go.
11:51Paul's still in the outside, love,
11:53and his asthma's bad.
11:54The operator will help you find the number.
11:56Put your coat and shoes on.
12:00Ivan?
12:02Can you let me in?
12:04Fine.
12:05Fine, move.
12:14Just keep puffing on it as often as you feel you need to.
12:18The stress of the vomiting has aggravated your asthma.
12:22I'm hoping that's fair enough.
12:23You know, I haven't worn the old porcelain turban like that in years.
12:27I know it's tough,
12:28but if it is something you've all eaten,
12:31then the best thing is to let your body clear itself of the poison.
12:34I know my mum's cooking a glitters in here.
12:37You're shivering, Ivan.
12:39I can see your goosebumps from here.
12:41You can take paracetamol for fever.
12:46Lovely.
12:47Then go to bed and keep yourselves warm.
12:50Tees up,
12:51and Suzanne's busy putting water beside your beds.
12:54You're a bit overqualified to be a waiter, aren't you?
12:58Chip off the old block, eh?
12:59Nothing like a lad following in his father's footsteps.
13:03Paul's working with Ivan now.
13:05They did half the renovations to this house.
13:07All mod cons.
13:08Send you to Eaton, if you please.
13:10Put it on, if need be.
13:13This is going to seem like a bad dream by tomorrow, Teton.
13:18Do warm!
13:22Shh!
13:23They must see me.
13:32I need him to go to the telephone box
13:35and ring the Nartis house.
13:37I shall...
13:38I telephone.
13:39You sit.
13:40You rest.
13:44Are you heading out already?
13:46Angela and I are practising our bus route for the grammar school.
13:49She's a bit worried about the change at the top of the commercial route.
13:53It'll soon become second nature.
13:55Aren't you wearing your blazer to get you in the mood?
13:58It's a rehearsal, not a dress rehearsal.
14:05They should put you two on the television.
14:07It's like watching a dance routine.
14:09London Palladium, here we come.
14:11Let's get you into the bed, honey.
14:21Hello.
14:22Are you the lady who's about to become a grandma?
14:24Yes.
14:26Tell her.
14:29Go!
14:31Mother, go!
14:35Ma, have no problem with that?
14:54Is it because of Paul's asthma that you're making a return visit?
14:58He was the one that worried me.
15:01But everyone in the house is affected apart from Suzanne,
15:05which makes them vulnerable.
15:13The bedroom curtains are still drawn.
15:32Doctor calling.
15:35Hello.
15:46Stop being sick.
15:47I've used up nearly all my inhaler and my head's splitting.
15:51You're dehydrated, which won't help.
15:54Are your parents upstairs?
15:55They haven't come down yet.
16:02They're stuck.
16:03They're stuck.
16:03I can't get out.
16:05Ruth, you're really there.
16:07It's just all happened so fast.
16:09You've hardly had a chance to catch your breath.
16:11Listen to the nursery, Ruth.
16:13Do you know what you'll be doing?
16:17Well, you obviously do.
16:19That's it, Ruth.
16:20Keep pushing.
16:22Just like that.
16:23Your wife's a quick learner.
16:30Mr. Barrowman?
16:34Mrs. Barrowman?
16:36Dr. Turner's going to come up and see you in a minute.
16:38I'll see you in a minute.
16:39I'll see you in a minute.
16:40I'll see you in a minute.
16:40No.
16:40Yeah.
17:20Dad?
17:22Dad!
17:23No!
17:32That's it, Daniel!
17:33You did it!
17:34And it's a boy!
18:03You've given me a son.
18:17No pulse.
18:20No pupil reflexes.
18:22No.
18:25You poor little love.
18:33I think Mr. Barrowman has gone too.
18:40First, we need an ambulance for Paul.
18:43He's in respiratory distress.
18:45And then we need to call the police.
18:51I've gone a bit faint.
19:00Deep breaths.
19:03Then we need to get you outside.
19:06I think I know what this is.
19:10Why can't I go back inside?
19:12Look, you're to sit on the pavement and wait for the ambulance to arrive.
19:15I'll wait with you.
19:16Where's my mum and my dad?
19:18I can't go to hospital without them knowing.
19:21Dr. Turner's in charge of everything that's happening inside.
19:26It's not an ambulance.
19:27It's not an ambulance.
19:28It's a police car.
19:36Is this bad?
19:37Not necessarily.
19:38But the placenta should have come away by now.
19:41We don't want you to go to hospital, honey.
19:43I don't either.
19:44I think you may have a full bladder and sometimes that gets in the way.
19:48If you can pass water, that may help.
19:51I'll get you a bedpan.
19:52Can we have it ladies only for that bit?
19:56I think you've seen enough for one day.
20:07I hear your wife cry and I cry.
20:10I hear the baby cry and I cry.
20:14Why are you speaking in English?
20:16Think like an Englishman.
20:18You understand like an Englishman.
20:21Ruth has just given birth.
20:24It was not easy.
20:26It's not easy now.
20:28Not easy.
20:29Because she'd need a mother.
20:33A mother has known her pain.
20:37A mother gives ease.
20:39A mother gives peace.
20:41A husband can't give that.
20:43What?
20:44She wanted me there.
20:47All is well, it ends well.
20:49Road past water and then the afterbirth.
20:55It's not for you to even hear such things.
21:00We have a young man, asthmatic, dehydrated from food poisoning and suspected exposure to carbon monoxide.
21:08Where's my mum and dad and my sister?
21:10Stay with him.
21:11Keep them on an even queue.
21:18I tell you, there is nothing like a cream horn after a successful delivery.
21:24I'm more of a custard tart girl, really.
21:28Honey, what are you fretting about?
21:31Mrs. Wallace phoned Cyril last night and she wants to speak to him about his conduct and also his conscience.
21:38Are you surprised?
21:41He's a pastor who walks into his flat, which is also his church, with a woman who is not his
21:47wife carrying bags from a weekend away.
21:50And bumps into the principal elder.
21:52I had hoped you'd tell me not to worry.
21:54That's not what friends are for.
21:56Hmm.
22:01Where's my grandson?
22:03It's through there.
22:05He's resting and receiving oxygen.
22:07I could come in with you if you'd like that.
22:10What I'd like is to have my son and my daughter in law and my granddaughter still alive.
22:17I'd like them to have seen a competent doctor who hadn't tucked them into their deathbeds with kind words and
22:24no action.
22:28Oh, no.
22:43Three deaths in one family.
22:45Mrs. Higgins says if the statements are signed, she'll deal with them immediately.
22:51I don't think I've ever had to do harder paperwork than this.
22:56Age 11
22:59She might have been in Angela's class
23:03I told them to go to bed and keep warm
23:10And when we found them
23:13Her little hand was hardly cold at all
23:26You're a good man, Pastor Robinson
23:29And you're doing a good job navigating this church through some very choppy waters
23:34But you haven't come here to tell me what I'm doing well, have you, Mrs. Wallace?
23:39No, I have not
23:42I have come here to tell you that you're compromising your position
23:46And you're compromising that young girl
23:49Nobody at church knows you went away together
23:51Nobody at church?
23:53You don't think the Almighty got a church?
23:57The Almighty see everything
23:59And what's more, he knows his way to York Minster
24:04I'm sorry, Mrs. Wallace
24:08We are modern people
24:11Living in a modern world
24:13Wrestling with some very modern problems
24:17But sometimes, Pastor Robinson
24:20The best way of protecting ourselves
24:23And those we love
24:25Is by being a little bit old-fashioned
24:28You understand?
24:31Because I require you to understand
24:39How?
24:39I mean, how?
24:42Was it the food my Nan cooked?
24:44Paul, everything is going to have to be reviewed by the coroner
24:49Ultimately, they will pronounce a verdict
24:51I don't need a verdict
24:52I just need to know
24:54Because if I don't know, I can't believe they're dead
25:02Paul, from what the lab tests tell us
25:05The food your Nan cooked probably made you all ill
25:08But that's a simple case of bacteria with the tinned meat
25:14Not her fault at all
25:17Suzanne never had any, anyway
25:21Yesterday
25:23I suspected
25:24That the problem
25:27Was
25:27Carbon monoxide poisoning
25:31And now the post-mortem
25:33Have said exactly the same thing
25:38The signs are clear and unmistakable
25:40It's in the air, isn't it?
25:42Carbon monoxide
25:42Only in very small amounts
25:46When there's too much
25:48It becomes very dangerous
25:50Why would there be too much?
25:53If a heating system develops problems
25:55It was a brand new boiler
25:58My dad fitted it himself
26:08Oh
26:11I helped him, Dr. Turner
26:23Timothy said everything Daddy did
26:25When he went out to that family was appropriate
26:27Why is he so upset?
26:33Angela
26:34Every so often
26:35When you work in medicine
26:37We
26:37Say a case gets under her skin
26:40This case has got under Daddy's skin
26:47Hello?
26:48Oh, Mrs. Turner
26:49I rang the surgery
26:51But Dr. Turner wasn't there
26:53We've just had the public health inspectors at the shop
26:58Public health inspectors
27:00We're under investigation for selling contaminated meats
27:03And they've taken I don't know how many tins off the shelf
27:07Well, I only picked them up from the cash and carry two days ago
27:11I knew
27:12I knew Match Barrowman
27:13She was on the Play Street subcommittee
27:17And now they've gone
27:20Possibly because of something
27:21That we sold
27:25I think we all have to remain calm
27:30Nobody really knows who or what is to blame for this
27:38How did you get on with Mrs. Wallace?
27:41We're going to have to go for a walk
27:43The gas inspectors nearly finished
27:45Well, once the boiler's stripped out
27:47I'd have no objection to Paul moving back in
27:50I don't know where you get your flaming nerve
27:52You should be locked up for what you said to my grandson
27:55Telling him he killed his family by fitting a dodgy boiler
27:59Mrs. Barrowman
27:59Only the coroner can say what happened
28:02I hope he finds you guilty of criminal negligence
28:07And strikes you off
28:09If you'd sent them all to hospital
28:11They'd still be alive
28:21We can't turn the clock back, Cyril
28:24Not in terms of morals
28:25And not in terms of what having sex has done to me and my body
28:30And for us and our relationship
28:32Masaline
28:33Stop it
28:34Sleeping together isn't going to turn me into a virgin again
28:36And I wouldn't want it to
28:38I wouldn't want it to either
28:40Because I feel just the same as you
28:44But I am not yet divorced
28:45And I am still a pastor
28:47And I don't like putting you in harm's way
28:49I'm not in harm's way
28:51I'm on the pill
28:52There is more than one type of harm, Masaline
28:56Maybe we should wait now
28:59Until I'm in a position to put a ring on your finger
29:02And do things decently
29:04I have two things to say in response to that
29:07A. I'm sure Mrs. Wallace would be delighted
29:10B. If that's a proposal of marriage
29:13It's very poorly thought through
29:15And you can keep it
29:32Thank goodness you went in so early
29:36Under no circumstances must any patients be allowed to see it
29:39I'll route out some turps
29:48Oh, Phyllis
29:51Whatever is this?
29:54No one is to contact the police
29:56Patrick, this is a clear case of criminal damage
29:59And probably slander
30:02That family have suffered
30:04And are suffering enough
30:07There's no proof at all that that
30:11Vandalism is anything to do with them
30:13I meanwhile have had to give short shrift
30:16To a reporter from the Gazette
30:19He asked questions about
30:21Potential malpractice
30:23In front of patients
30:24What did you see?
30:26Well, I mainly reminded him
30:27That it is against the law
30:29To print, publish or speculate
30:30On any details of a medical case
30:32Whilst an inquest is pending
30:34Miss Higgins, that isn't true
30:37The Mam's very junior
30:39And you know better
30:41No further rebuff was required
30:43I don't think anyone knows anything right now
30:46Until we hear from the coroner
30:48I'm not seeing any more patients
31:03This feeling inside me
31:05Could never deny me
31:08The right to be wrong
31:09If I choose
31:11And this pleasure I get from saying
31:14Winning a bet
31:22Nothing good, nothing bad
31:25Nothing ventured
31:26Nothing gained
31:28Nothing still born or lost
31:30Nothing further than proof
31:33Nothing wilder than you
31:35Nothing older than time
31:37Nothing sweeter than white
31:39Nothing physically reckless
31:41Holding, holding, losing, blind
31:43Nothing I couldn't say
31:45Nothing wilder than I cost today
31:47Nothing right
31:49You know, Cyril called again this morning, don't you?
31:53Before you came down to breakfast
31:55Perhaps he had a sleepless night too
32:00I don't know what we're supposed to say to each other
32:08The matter of my ablutions
32:11Generally falls to Sister Catherine
32:14Sister Catherine is standing in for Sister Veronica
32:17At the Head Lice Conference this morning
32:20And set off looking as though
32:22Nothing could make her happier
32:28Do you recollect
32:29What it was like to be
32:31At the beginning of all this?
32:34Yes, I do
32:35If only barely sometimes
32:38I've watched so much water
32:40Flow underneath the bridge
32:45The question is, Sister
32:48Do we watch the water
32:49Or are we the water?
32:52Because if it is the latter
32:55You speak not of change
32:57But of we
32:59Ourselves being changed
33:01Or changing
33:05It is a riddle
33:08Is it not?
33:11It is indeed
33:20Sister
33:21How long have your feet been as swollen as this?
33:26It is a recent development
33:30Let us not speak of it
33:39Dad
33:42What good is shutting yourself away going to do?
33:45It'll do less harm than trying to treat patients when I'm not trusted
33:49And I can use the time to study the latest statistics on the rise in epidurals
33:54Trust is essential, isn't it?
33:58It's like clean hands
34:00Or a steady hand with a lancet
34:03Like antibiotics
34:06Black coffee on the night shift
34:09Can't be a GP without it, son
34:13You're going back to factory and baby not named?
34:16We can't decide on the name yet, Aisha
34:18When we decide, we'll do it then
34:24She wait, please
34:25She's sick?
34:28Are you sick?
34:30Sick of being cooped up
34:34I just need some fresh air
34:42Miss Higgins
34:43Um
34:44Can I ask Dr. Turner
34:46To make a house call on Sister Monica Joan
34:51She seems to have developed some new symptoms
34:56I'm afraid that until the Barrowman family situation resolves
34:59He doesn't feel able to see any patients
35:04I understand
35:06In the scheme of things, I suspect this is not urgent
35:19Hi
35:22You stay home
35:24The baby needs fresh air, Aisha
35:26And I need to get into a routine
35:33Please don't go out
35:37I'm only popping out for an hour
36:07A change of sheets
36:08I've cleaned everything
36:10But you will not let me do anything
36:12With that pillowcase
36:15Oh lad
36:17Do you really think
36:18This is the best place for you to be lying
36:20While you come to terms with everything
36:22That's happened
36:23How can I come to terms with it
36:25I helped my dad put that boiler in
36:27It's my fault and I'm the one that's still here
36:30It's not your fault
36:32There are plenty of others you can blame
36:33What about you
36:35And your cooking
36:36Come on
36:38You're both going through something
36:40That no one should ever have to endure
36:42Alone or separately
36:45You'll face it better together
36:52I can smell my dad's hair on this pillowcase
36:55Oh
37:00Oh
37:01Oh
37:05Rod
37:06I think I need the doctor
37:07What is it to me?
37:08Root
37:33Root
37:35I think I need the doctor. I could walk there.
37:39I go for doctor.
37:44You walk. I walk with you.
37:56Every single person touched by this case is in torment.
38:00Can we not do something to at least get a preview of the detail?
38:06Dr. Turner's on the police surgeon roster.
38:09He feels he can't ask for early access to the documents
38:12because he's perceived to have a vested interest.
38:16The baby's mother lying in street by five stairs.
38:20I think she'd die.
38:22Oh, no, no.
38:24Dr. Turner!
38:33It's Ruth Kahn.
38:34She delivered a few days ago.
38:36She just opened her eyes, said something about seeing lights.
38:40Her ankles are swollen.
38:42Looks like postnatal preeclampsia.
38:44Ambulance?
38:45She's on the brink of fitting.
38:49We need bromothol now.
38:51Can you fetch some?
38:52It's too late for 999.
38:54I'll drive her there myself.
38:55Now run.
39:00It's all right, Ruth.
39:02I'm not going to leave you.
39:05Do you need a hand with those?
39:09Yes.
39:10And we wouldn't mind a bit of fridge space if you've got any to spare in your flat.
39:16I'm sorry I lost my temper.
39:19It was certainly a spectacle.
39:21If you hadn't been shouting at me, I would have quite enjoyed it.
39:25And you were right.
39:27It was a terrible marriage proposal.
39:30Was it a marriage proposal?
39:34Yes.
39:37Will you give me the chance to do a better one?
39:42This is better already.
39:46But why don't you take me away for the weekend?
39:50Discreetly.
39:52And ask me then.
39:54You know your own mind, don't you?
39:56I'm a grown woman and a feminist.
39:59And they're a cathedral town for length and breadth of England.
40:10Mr. Parry is still with Ruth.
40:13He says you stopped her from tipping over into full-blown acclampsia.
40:18She hasn't had any seizures?
40:20None.
40:21That would have been a very different story.
40:26We don't always get to write the endings we choose in this profession.
40:31But sometimes we do.
40:33And sometimes there isn't an ending.
40:36And those stories are the best.
40:41I'm sorry for pushing you away, Aisha.
40:44A mother cannot be pushed away.
40:46Ever.
40:48A mother always at your shoulder.
40:51And it is good.
40:55I never knew that before.
40:59I didn't know what to do with that kind of love.
41:04But I do now.
41:13For showing me.
41:19It's all written down there in good plain English.
41:23It's as thorough as it comes, Mrs. Barrowman.
41:25And it states very clearly that it was the boiler that was faulty.
41:31Not the way it was fitted.
41:32It had a defective valve.
41:36What happened was nothing to do with anyone who was there that night.
41:41Or anyone here today.
41:46Meanwhile, all the tins of meat have been recalled.
41:49And the cash and carry will be prosecuted.
41:54I'm sorry if I acted out of turn.
41:58That's all right.
42:00But I think if you did want to sue the boiler manufacturer, there would be a case to answer.
42:06Well, we've got a family to say goodbye to.
42:11And a life to build.
42:13Haven't we, lad?
42:21It's Mrs. Russell, isn't it?
42:24What can I do for you?
42:25It's not for me, sister.
42:27It's for one of me neighbours.
42:30Well, a sort of neighbour.
42:32I reckon there's a baby on the way.
42:37I can remember you sisters coming out all glowers and in all weathers.
42:46We still do.
42:49Midwife calling.
42:51I don't need a midwife.
42:52My dear.
42:53I'm afraid it seems very likely that you did.
42:56I don't need a ruddy midwife.
42:58Oh!
43:08What we'll do is take a gentle look at you and then we'll decide what to do.
43:12Oh, I don't know why you're saying we this or we that like we're friends or something, because we ain't
43:18friends.
43:18Don't you talk to the sister like that.
43:21And we ain't friends neither.
43:25Mrs. Russell, I don't see any means of heating water in here.
43:31Would you return to your flat and boil a kettle for me?
43:39It's such a shame Sister Veronica missed the Eucharist, but her plate from Hong Kong must have still been in
43:44the air.
43:45And it's also a shame that your brother can't join us, Trixie.
43:49He's become quite a fixture on high days and holidays.
43:53Oh, I know, but he's gone to Lido de Jeslo with a friend from his national service days.
43:57At least I get to rearrange some flowers in his absence.
44:04This is the salt, this is.
44:06Lana, the sense of pressure that you're feeling is because your baby's head is descending through your pelvis.
44:12It's almost ready to be born.
44:14Send for a bloody ambulance.
44:15Lana, it's too late.
44:24How's things?
44:27Sault in front of my dad's toes.
44:30Seems the first step towards what he would have wanted.
44:34Following in his footsteps and all that.
44:40Me too.
44:42Delivering insulin to a self-injecting diabetic.
44:48This is a lead dressing tool.
44:51He had it so many years, it's been more into his grip.
44:56It's old-fashioned, but...
44:58I'm gonna keep it.
45:01That sort of thing that is, doesn't it?
45:13Could you organise a urine, Sam?
45:15Next time she feels like getting up.
45:19She has been needing a lot of rest lately.
45:22I do not require repose.
45:24It is almost invariably forced upon me.
45:31If you feel like it, I can bring you a strawberry scone to nibble on later.
45:43She's a pretty little thing.
45:49I'm paying particular attention to her eyes as I bathe her, in case there's any infection.
45:56Are you saying I'm dirty?
45:57We take the same approach with every newborn.
46:03I want to hold her.
46:06When you've, um, finished your cigarette, perhaps?
46:09I want to hold her.
46:25Get your hands off my baby.
46:27I didn't ask you to come here.
46:29And get your hands off me.
46:32Who asked you to come here in the first place?
46:56The mother was angry, and she was distressed.
47:00She wasn't unusual in that.
47:04And she needed every ounce of love I could show her.
47:09She spat at you, and she assaulted you.
47:14And the only thing that stopped me turning my back on her and running out of that squalid room
47:21was the fact that I was there as an act of Christian witness.
47:31Did that give you courage?
47:33It gave me purpose.
47:36And it gave me strength.
47:37And it reminded me that we are missionaries here in the East End.
47:44And I'd rather go and be a missionary elsewhere
47:47than be forced to pretend to be something we are not.
47:58Sister.
48:00Have you made your decision?
48:04Sister Julianne, Sister Veronica has arrived back from Hong Kong.
48:07She's waiting in your office.
48:09And insists she'll see no one but you.
48:12I came back to Poplar via the mother house.
48:17I needed to confer with Mother Mildred
48:19because I have been feeling increasingly unhappy.
48:26I wasn't unaware of it.
48:29But our work is not about our happiness.
48:34It is about seeking no reward other than knowing that we do his will.
48:42If you are quoting St. Ignatius of Loyola,
48:46then you are omitting the bit about giving and not counting the cost.
48:51And I can't keep on giving and not counting the cost any longer.
48:57But you must.
48:59We must.
49:00We must, sister.
49:01It is what we do.
49:03It is what I have done.
49:05And done for too long.
49:07I have loved and served.
49:12And I have saved other women's children for decades.
49:18If anyone were mine or felt like mine for a day or even an hour,
49:28I had to hand it back
49:31and stand there trying not to scream
49:35because my arms were empty.
49:40Why didn't you tell me this before?
49:43Because I hoped I could bear it.
49:45And I can't.
49:47I can't.
50:10I've been given permission to go away
50:13for six weeks
50:16while I decide
50:18if I want to give up my vows and leave the order.
50:26All right, I'm pulling.
50:28I'm pulling the dice.
50:29I'm going to get this.
50:31Push.
50:32Come on.
50:33Yeah, that one.
50:39Come in.
51:07I couldn't let you go without coming to see you.
51:12I've stood exactly where you're standing now.
51:16Well, I hope you were standing in better shoes than these.
51:20There are no lace-ups in the charity cupboard
51:23and I can only walk in lace-ups.
51:26There is a knack to court shoes.
51:33Please, don't put your arms around me.
51:37I'm scared.
51:38I might break apart.
51:43Beryl,
51:44do you have somewhere to go?
51:48I've been offered a room
51:50in a Christian retreat house
51:52near Grave's End.
51:54There are no other religious there
51:55and I'm assured
51:57no questions will be asked.
52:01Let me find you a pair of tights.
52:04You'll feel more pulled together
52:05in a proper outfit.
52:19You were right about
52:20Sister Monica Jones' oedema.
52:23It points to kidney failure.
52:25But tests will tell us more.
52:31This was always going to come,
52:33wasn't it?
52:35In one form or other.
52:37And when it does,
52:40it's going to feel like
52:42the ravens leaving the Tower of London.
52:46The end of the known world.
52:50One could say that about so many things.
52:55Yes.
52:58I'm telling the board
52:59that if the Order
53:01are not permitted to work
53:03in a missionary capacity,
53:05we are leaving Poplar
53:08at the end of the year.
53:11And that is final.
53:27Do you know what you want, Sister?
53:29Apart from a baby
53:31to call my own?
53:33No.
53:35Sometimes I don't think
53:36anyone knows anything, really.
53:46I'll walk with you
53:47as far as the post office.
53:50This must go
53:51with the first post
53:52in the morning.
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