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00:28The Lone Ranger
00:30Oh, my God.
01:02Knife!
01:09Oi! No!
01:10I got lost, Dad.
01:14Pete!
01:19Hey, they're out, gals. What do you think you're doing?
01:21Okay, that's fine enough.
01:22Yeah, but you can't do that.
01:24They're out. What do you think you're doing?
01:27Knife!
01:28Just a minute.
01:30What do you think you're gonna do?
01:34What do you think you're doing?
01:38A butcher!
01:47Great.
01:54I'm the next.
01:57That's not it.
01:58I had a knife.
02:09It was a no-nut.
02:11What is it?
02:11I had a knife first.
02:26Okay.
02:33Any better, mate?
02:34Afraid not.
02:35I've got the shakes and the splitting head.
02:38Temperature and all, eh?
02:40I think you'd best get up to the house.
02:41No, really. I'll be...
02:42Oh, go on, Helen.
02:43Come on.
02:48Here you go.
02:49Here.
02:52Here, do you reckon he's caught it?
02:57For what?
02:58Well, that bloke that came here last week.
03:01The one who came to see Ruth?
03:02Yeah. Talking to Arthur, wasn't he?
03:04So?
03:05Well, they had sickness. That's why they wanted Ruth.
03:08Could have passed it on.
03:10You'd best keep the others clear of him, just in case.
03:12Okay.
03:18So we haven't got enough troubles at the moment.
03:20Shearer?
03:22Well, foot rot, stillborn calves,
03:24dogs salvaging the flock,
03:27this damned eternal reign,
03:28and now this stupid knitting
03:29to try and salvage some hay.
03:30They're getting more like Farmer Giles every day.
03:34Professional worry guts.
03:36A farmer in temperament, perhaps,
03:37but not in practice.
03:39Wait.
03:40Wait.
03:40Oh, what is it now?
03:43Quick, quick!
03:44They're killing the cows!
03:46You've got to come!
03:48Is this another one of your silly jokes?
03:50No, Greg!
03:51Where?
03:51Where?
03:52Up the field!
03:53But who?
03:54The people!
03:55Up the field!
03:56The knife!
03:56What people, John?
03:57What people?
03:59Well, at least this way we'll know
04:01whether the fault lies with my oven or not.
04:02I wonder if it's something to do with the yeast.
04:05Arloes weren't collapsing like this last year.
04:07It's funny, it's just started happening recently.
04:09Hello?
04:12Ruth!
04:14No, don't come too close.
04:16Why not?
04:16Just in case I'm still infected.
04:18What with?
04:19We were terribly worried about you.
04:21Ruth?
04:21Oh, it's just a vigorous strain of flu, I think.
04:25Just flu?
04:26We thought perhaps you were.
04:27Well, it's still very nasty.
04:28A lot of them went under.
04:29Well, they died.
04:31Yes.
04:34The older ones, the ones with the least resistance.
04:37There were too few left to keep the settlement going.
04:39That bad?
04:41I brought some of them with me.
04:44Here?
04:44Well, the younger ones, the...
04:46So, where are they?
04:47They're up at the top pasture still.
04:52Come on, girl.
04:53What's going on?
04:55That's...
04:55Come on.
04:57Cloverblood.
04:58That's what?
05:00This pride cretin herded the young stock onto this fresh clover.
05:05Who are you and where are you from?
05:06That's a good girl.
05:08We came in with Ruth.
05:09So keep your distance.
05:10She said we may be carrying infection.
05:13Come on, girl.
05:14Bloat, you say?
05:15Aye.
05:16Acute flatulence.
05:17Due to Coomer analogy, it could have been fatal.
05:20You knifed them?
05:21Yes, to puncture the room and let out the gas.
05:25They'll heal up in no time.
05:28It don't look too bad.
05:29A bit groggy.
05:31Yes.
05:32Instead of dead.
05:37Clover bloat.
05:38Dad.
05:40You know now, don't you?
05:43Look, there isn't any danger.
05:46All five of them had it earlier on, so there's little chance of them still being infected.
05:51And we've been on the road for two days.
05:54Even so.
05:55No unnecessary risk.
05:56Quite right.
05:58I thought it best to put them all up in the old mill.
06:01Well, until I can be absolutely sure.
06:03Charlie won't like that very much.
06:04Why?
06:05We're all at panic stations trying to save some hay.
06:08We've been rigging it out as a sort of drying barn.
06:10Well, that won't please Mark Carter, B.S.C. Ag.
06:14Who?
06:16Their leader.
06:17Just that I get very mad.
06:20And I see livestock suffering through blind ignorance like that.
06:26Well, in fact, Jack is not our stockman.
06:29No?
06:30No.
06:31He's supposed to be up here fixing this.
06:33And Hubert asked him to keep an eye on them.
06:37Well, that's too bad.
06:41He does never let hungry youngsters onto fresh clover after a cold night.
06:47Yes, of course you're right.
06:48I'm sorry.
06:49We'll forgive you.
06:53We've got rather a lot to learn.
06:55Yeah.
06:57Okay, let's start with that disaster over there, shall we?
07:05Oh, damn rain.
07:08We're going to have to try and barn cure it.
07:10How?
07:11Sort of string it up in the mill.
07:14You're kidding.
07:15Short stuff like this.
07:16What else?
07:17Well, that's no great problem.
07:19Rake it into heaps.
07:21Seal it off with old plastic sheets.
07:22Come autumn, it'll make fair silage fodder.
07:27You're a genius.
07:29Let's say an agronomist guru.
07:33Anyway, we can't have you cluttering up our mill with a load of rotting grass, can we?
07:37What?
07:38We're unclean.
07:40The bearers of pestilence.
07:42Your Ruth reckons to quarantine us in the mill for a couple of days.
07:50You don't kick it with your toe.
07:52Yes, you do.
07:53No, you don't.
07:54That's why the ball goes all over the place.
07:56You kick it like this.
08:03And these five were the only survivors from the whole settlement.
08:06There were a few others, seven or eight.
08:09They went off to try and join Bolt's crowd.
08:11Why was that?
08:13I don't know.
08:15There's a bit of a generation gap going, I suppose.
08:19Ruth!
08:21Hello, Alan.
08:22Hi.
08:23I told me you were back.
08:25Can you spare a minute?
08:26Sure.
08:27What's the matter?
08:28It's Arthur.
08:41Home, sweet home, kids.
08:52Guru's ashram?
08:53No way, Mr. Vaughan.
08:55Carter's castle, all right.
08:57Court jester.
08:59I'll make a tour of the estate, squire.
09:03See you later.
09:19You must be pet the pig lady.
09:22That's right.
09:23Mark Carter.
09:24I thank you to keep your infectious distance, Mr. Carter.
09:37Well, you can't still eat it, you know.
09:40Thanks.
09:41Stew it well.
09:42We're not that short of meat.
09:44Please yourself.
09:46Think you can diagnose the trouble?
09:48Same as the rest.
09:50These?
09:51Well, they're not exactly thriving, are they?
09:53Well...
09:53They're anemic for a start.
09:55Look at the paleness of those droppings.
09:57So they need iron?
09:59Badly.
10:00And you think that's what killed this one?
10:02Simple iron deficiency?
10:04No, it's more like a combination of that, worms, and B. coli infection.
10:09Look at them.
10:09They're all scouring.
10:11B. coli?
10:12Or some such gut pathogen.
10:16So what do I do?
10:18This is a build-up from the drug culture farming.
10:21Before the death, pigs were all pumped full of antibiotics, as a matter of course.
10:25The result?
10:26They've lost a natural resistance.
10:29So what you're saying is these ones really need more antibiotics?
10:32Yeah, and a good vermicide.
10:34Except we can't afford to use up precious drugs on livestock.
10:37So what do you suggest?
10:39Get them all outside?
10:40We tried that.
10:41No good.
10:42You what?
10:43We nearly lost the whole litter.
10:45They all came out in red blotches and they got fever.
10:46Well, they can't have been any worse than this lot, can it?
10:48They died.
10:50So did this one.
10:54All right.
10:55All right.
10:55But if you want my advice, you'll get them out into some good pasture for two weeks
11:01and then move them to new ground.
11:02And if they start dying again?
11:04It's like I say, there's nothing we can't safely eat, as long as it's well cooked.
11:08Ugh.
11:09Meet a vegetarian.
11:12Okay, pet.
11:13Where's the midden?
11:14Down there.
11:15Oh, don't tell me.
11:16I know.
11:17I ought to stew that up for porridge.
11:22Nonsense, Arthur.
11:23A couple of days and we'll have you write at springtime.
11:31You'll have to be up soon.
11:32Eh?
11:33Hey, making time.
11:35All those youngsters you brought in.
11:37And there's your place on the management committee.
11:38And the stores.
11:40Oh, stores.
11:42Leave it, Ruth.
11:44Can I get the message?
11:45Oh.
11:48Oh.
11:48Oh.
11:48Oh.
12:03That lot should be spread.
12:05Yeah, well, not if I can help it.
12:07Eh?
12:08Should be spread on the land for soil fertility.
12:11Yeah, well, there are other uses.
12:13Such as?
12:15Don't you ever hear of methane?
12:16Yeah, marsh gas.
12:18Highly combustible hydrocarbon.
12:20Suitable for fueling an internal combustion engine.
12:23Are you some sort of an engineer?
12:26Are you some sort of a farmer?
12:28No sweat.
12:30You're really looking to that lot for methane?
12:33Come on, my promifer's out here.
12:35Promifer?
12:35What's that?
12:40Prototype muck into fuel refinery.
12:55Here we are.
12:56I've got you some nice hot soup.
12:57I couldn't fit.
12:59Are you sure?
13:00Sorry.
13:04Looks like Mina's got a touch of it now.
13:06She got the shivers this evening.
13:09Sorry.
13:10Oh, come on, Arthur.
13:13You're strong.
13:14You've got nothing to fear from this old flu.
13:16Now, you just have to rest and keep warm.
13:19You don't think it could be something else?
13:31Long died out.
13:33But, like Paul, a mutation, like myxomatosis.
13:39We're not rabbits, Arthur.
13:42The ones I blame are those people from Mark Carter's settlement.
13:46Sending that man here and spreading the infection.
13:49Damn irresponsible.
13:53Can't get this one off.
13:55I'll do it.
13:59Watch it.
14:00Sorry.
14:04Sorry.
14:06Sorry.
14:13See you.
14:13Seems like a friendly enough crowd, don't they?
14:16Greg Preston's got his head screwed on.
14:19I mean the moody.
14:21You know, relaxed.
14:22Yeah, you're right, Sal.
14:24No dreary rules about behaviour.
14:26Rules?
14:27How do you mean rules, Mel?
14:28No juvenile conventions.
14:31This mill's a bit of all right too, eh?
14:33Mmm.
14:34Smashing.
14:35We're going to have to get some rules sorted on the husbandry side.
14:38Shambolic lot.
14:40Husbandry.
14:41Oh, you sorted out those cows for the master.
14:44Heifers.
14:45You're as bad as that clod jack.
14:47Likes the input down, would you?
14:50You what?
14:52Before he can do any more damage.
14:55Look, what is this?
14:57Their place, that's what.
14:58Not yours.
15:00Theirs.
15:01So?
15:01I only want to help him along.
15:15All right, get in there.
15:16Come on.
15:19Give us a hand then, girl.
15:28What's all this for then, Hubert?
15:30Progress.
15:32Sorry?
15:33Latest order that I command.
15:35All chicks inside.
15:40Yeah, but why?
15:43But why?
15:46Some more in the garden.
15:52But hang on, Hubert, what's it all for?
15:54From now on, all fowl have got to be kept in the deep letter.
15:57Well, who said?
15:58Young cock-a-doodle-doodle come in with Ruthie.
16:01Mark Carter?
16:02Yeah.
16:03Flying in the face of nature.
16:05Dynatural.
16:06Well, we have been losing a lot to the dogs lately.
16:09Not half as many as we'll lose.
16:11Factory farming them like this.
16:13Soon see how much he knows.
16:15Well, he has got a university degree.
16:17Oh, has he now?
16:18We don't know now about sheep.
16:20Telling me to move my flock from the river field.
16:23Saying they was all wasting away with flukes and scabs and foot rot and...
16:29Well, you must admit that there has been a lot laying recently.
16:32And I think if Mark Carter says we ought to put them in the...
16:34Keep away from there, Lizzie!
16:37Hey!
16:38What are you doing, Charles?
16:39Get in there.
16:40Come on.
16:46There you are, Mark.
16:48Can't fault that.
16:49Even, weed-free, sturdy.
16:52Aye.
16:52There's a few daisies, but it's a fair-looking crop.
16:55From a bag of merchants' stock seed we found.
16:58What variety?
16:58Um, Mary, Morris, er...
17:01Morris, Morris Templar.
17:04When did you saw it?
17:05Early last month.
17:08Last...
17:11What's wrong?
17:13Oh, the waste!
17:14It was what?
17:16The value of good seed we eaten, you have to throw it away!
17:20That and all your useless work with it.
17:22I don't follow.
17:24Stop grazing.
17:25That's what this lot's fit for now.
17:27Now, cattle fodder.
17:29Vernalization.
17:30Have you ever heard that word before?
17:31It means frosting.
17:33Well, it's exactly.
17:34We wait until the spring after the hard frost.
17:36And Morris Templar's a winter wheat.
17:38It has to be frosted.
17:40Frosted in the ground.
17:41It's nature's time clock.
17:44But it's germinated.
17:45Yes, but it'll be blind.
17:47Sterile.
17:48It won't come into ear.
17:51You lot have better learn to eat grass.
17:53You won't get any bread from this lot.
18:05Poor old Mina, too.
18:07I'm afraid, sir.
18:09And Arthur's right, Dad.
18:11Mind you, he's been off colour for weeks now.
18:13Yeah, not surprising, really.
18:15Hmm?
18:16Well, you mean in the absence of a suitable lady to take his fancy?
18:20He's not the only one, is he?
18:22Sure done the birds, are you?
18:24Ah!
18:25Oh, damn!
18:26Oh!
18:28I'm sorry, love.
18:32I can get some more Brian, shall I?
18:38You better get yourself some more trousers while you're at it.
18:44I think he fancies you.
18:45Oh, really?
18:50Jack?
18:51Not now, lad.
18:52You promised you'd show me that new kick again?
18:54Not now, lad.
18:55No, I'm busy.
18:58Everyone's always busy.
18:59There's never any time for anything that's really important.
19:04Well, what do you think of our place?
19:05Does it appeal to you?
19:07Seems okay.
19:09Well, we could certainly do with some young blood.
19:11Charming.
19:13What was it like at your last place?
19:14Oh, okay.
19:17I hear some of them prefer to go and join John Bolt's settlement.
19:20Yes, the older lot.
19:22There'd been quite a few split before that, too.
19:24Split?
19:26Drifted off, deserted.
19:28Why?
19:29Restless, wanted a change.
19:32The unhappy under Mark Carter?
19:34But no.
19:36Yeah, well, he's a bit young to be a leader.
19:39All that responsibility.
19:42Yeah.
19:45Mind you, if we'd had someone like you.
19:51So what do we do?
19:53Are you really asking?
19:54Why?
19:56Suppose I draw you up a five-year plan.
19:58Crop rotation, livestock management.
20:01Get you sorted out, eh?
20:04Suicides?
20:06Yes, two of them.
20:08Well, living in that big old place or like on top of each other.
20:13Yeah, we had a similar set-up once.
20:15It's not easy.
20:18No.
20:19Well, there's no reason why the five of you shouldn't stay on down at the mill.
20:23Separate, you mean?
20:24Well, as long as you all muck in on the work schedules.
20:26Sure.
20:27Terrific.
20:30Alan!
20:32Hi.
20:33You see Ruth, anyway?
20:34Sorry.
20:36Well, she's in the kitchen garden, I think.
20:38Why?
20:40It's, uh...
20:41It's okay, I'll get it.
20:43Is it off?
20:44Yeah.
20:49Excuse me, Melanie.
20:51No, it's not the yeast.
20:53Do you remember last year's harvest?
20:54All I remember is the rain.
20:56Yes, and the way the grain was starting to sprout in the stooks before we could thresh it.
21:00Please.
21:01Well, that's why we get this.
21:02It's, um...
21:04What's it?
21:04An enzyme affecting the starch.
21:08Mark Carter?
21:09Who else?
21:10He saw me bringing them across the yard.
21:12He would.
21:13But it's marvellous.
21:14Now all we have to do is...
21:15Not content with condemning our pigs and our wheat and our hens and our...
21:20Now he's trying to teach us how to cook.
21:24Greg, I was just...
21:27What's wrong?
21:29It's Arthur.
21:31Not?
21:35Poor old devil.
21:37Oh, no.
21:40Oh, dear God.
21:42Exactly.
21:45People are scared already.
21:47Panicky.
21:49And this will knock morale right over, unless...
21:56Well, I think we should keep it quiet.
21:59Pretend he isn't dating them just for a while.
22:01At least until Peggy and Mina are past the crisis stage.
22:05Peggy is well now.
22:06I think so.
22:07But...
22:08Oh, we'll tell Charles, of course, but no one else.
22:10You may be too late.
22:11Why?
22:12You're forgetting Alan.
22:14He knows.
22:21Hey.
22:23Are we popular?
22:25You're what?
22:26One of them's died now.
22:28The flu?
22:29What else?
22:31Gee.
22:33That fella Alan told me thinks that some of them are in a mood to come down here and sort
22:37us out.
22:38What?
22:38No chance.
22:39Hardly blame them if they did.
22:41Not their style, is it?
22:42Too decent, aren't they?
22:43Too damn dorsy.
22:45Who isn't, according to you?
22:49Do you fancy some stew, Mel?
22:51Yeah.
22:52You're a lord of old stumblebombs.
22:54Oh, it's all right.
22:56Hello.
22:57What are you after?
22:59I've recruited him, Mark.
23:01You've what?
23:03Carter's commune.
23:04Right?
23:05What about the quarantine?
23:06I've talked to Ruth.
23:08She says you're OK now.
23:09It's been two days.
23:11Do you fancy some stew?
23:13Oh, yeah.
23:14Good time.
23:18He just packed up all his gear and moved in with them.
23:21Yeah, well, so what?
23:23He's susceptible to the flu.
23:24He'll have caught it from poor old Arthur, anyway.
23:25Oh, it's not the quarantine I'm worried about.
23:27Go on what, then?
23:28I mean, he's their age group, isn't he?
23:29Makes sense for him to go down there.
23:31Well, they're supposed to be functioning together as a community,
23:33not starting a splinter group down at the mill.
23:39Never hear of the generation gap, old man.
23:43Exactly.
23:44But according to Ruth, that was the trouble of their last sermon.
23:47Sure, all living on top of each other.
23:49And that young Carter's not the sort of...
23:50Now, what's wrong with him?
23:51He's a bright lad.
23:51He has a farm, yeah, but I'm talking about personality.
23:54Exactly.
23:54That's my point.
23:55In order to function together as a community of personalities,
23:58we have to be integrated, a team.
24:00And you reckon that we're compatible?
24:02Got to be.
24:03But gently.
24:05You tried coming the old heavy parent act.
24:07Greg, I want to avoid a them-and-us situation.
24:09I want to kindle a sense of community, responsibility, roots, children and so on.
24:15Admit it, they're a pretty disturbed bunch, huh?
24:17Well, it's understandable.
24:18Yeah, but they're cautious, twitchy, uptight.
24:20So?
24:21You make them feel cornered.
24:22Face them as social obligations.
24:23They don't just scarper.
24:26I don't see it.
24:27Give them the mill for Pete's sake.
24:29Let them do their own thing.
24:30They'll come round.
24:34Marjory, is this what they are, giving us their diseases?
24:37Oh, do shut up, Hubert.
24:38So they did.
24:42Well, it's lucky for our heifers that Mark Carter's here now.
24:45Not so lucky for our Arthur.
24:47Our Arthur?
24:48Since when were you two such mates?
24:50Women experts.
24:51Do stop going on about him.
24:54Don't be so greedy.
24:56What gets my goat is telling that kid Lizzie,
24:58your lamb's got to be chopped.
25:00He what?
25:01Well, he's absolutely right.
25:03Hubert, you should have castrated it last month with the others.
25:05Her pet!
25:06Well, it's getting far too big now.
25:08Carter told Lizzie that he were too...
25:10Well, someone's got to.
25:11It's cruel just to leave it.
25:13But...
25:13No, the wretched thing's far too runty ever to make a good breeding ram, anyhow.
25:19Anyway,
25:20like I said,
25:21he's a blooming factory farmer.
25:23Now, listen, you obstinate old man.
25:26And the more we can learn from Mark Carter, the better.
25:28You were doing all right before.
25:29You believe that, do you?
25:30You're beginning to sound like Charlie.
25:32Mark Carter this, Mark Carter that.
25:34Yeah.
25:35With cause.
25:36I hope so.
26:05Go and play.
26:06Downstairs with the others.
26:09May I not worship at your feet, Master?
26:11I thought you fancied that Alan blow.
26:13Oh, did you now?
26:14You've lured him down here to join us anyway.
26:17If I fancy anyone,
26:18it's that dishy Greg Preston.
26:20Hmm.
26:26Mel!
26:33It's a plan for a total shake-up.
26:38Get some efficiency going, eh?
26:40They need it.
26:42It's your big weapon, isn't it?
26:44Sorry?
26:45Make you feel small, don't they?
26:48Who?
26:49Greg and that Charles Vaughn.
26:53You're on the twist.
26:54Am I, Mark?
26:56Isn't that what this is all about?
26:59Oh, what?
27:01You want to knock them.
27:03Show them up.
27:04Get at them.
27:04Listen, Mel.
27:05There's the start of something really good here.
27:08I mean it.
27:14You mustn't blame yourself, you know.
27:20For what happened back there, the other settlement.
27:23You mustn't blame yourself.
27:28Who said anything about...
27:30Well, you won't let on.
27:32Don't worry.
27:36It's the same pattern of fatalities they had at the Carter settlement.
27:40Oh, yes.
27:42You see, the reason I wanted to keep Arthur's death a secret
27:44was because if we didn't, all the older people...
27:47Ruth.
27:49Hello.
27:51Look, Mark.
27:52How's the, er...
27:53How's the plan coming along?
27:55Oh, it's midnight oil stuff.
27:56Yes?
27:57Yeah, great.
27:58So, look.
27:59Just for starters.
28:01I'll speak to you later, Charles.
28:03Hmm?
28:04Yes.
28:05Yes, yes, all right.
28:11Right, well.
28:12Let's make a start, shall we?
28:14What about your curing?
28:15Oh, oh, priorities.
28:24Where's Jack?
28:25I asked him to scold out this gut for me ages ago.
28:28You know, he really is the limit.
28:29Pep, do you think I'm going to make skinless sausages?
28:31He's ill, Pep.
28:35Not him, too.
28:36I'm afraid so.
28:44Look, I...
28:45Mark, I don't know what...
28:47I don't understand this.
28:48You mean no grazing at all?
28:50Aye.
28:51Well, I can see that the logic of ploughing up the pastures for growing crops.
28:55They're wheat-free and they're high in soil fertility.
28:57Yes, yes, yes.
28:58Sure, fine.
28:59But that means bringing all the livestock into these yards and barns.
29:02Yeah.
29:04Well, this strikes me as absurd.
29:06I mean, a cow's got legs, it's got teeth, it's a mobile mowing machine.
29:08If we yard them here, we have to cut all the fodder and bring it in here, all by hand,
29:12instead of them going out there by themselves to graze it.
29:15Also leaving their dung out there instead of us having to cart it out there.
29:18Squire, that is the whole point.
29:22Look, I know I'm being a bit slow, but what is?
29:26Their dung.
29:27For methane farming.
29:29Sorry?
29:31Greg's going to want every drop of it we can save him.
29:34Greg, you mean for his promifer?
29:36Yes, to produce the methane to power the tractor.
29:39To cultivate, mow, harvest.
29:42To get farming again.
29:44Power, Squire.
29:50Oh, dear.
29:52What's wrong? It's great.
29:53Oh, yes, yes, yes.
29:54Perhaps eventually Greg might succeed, but...
29:58The only way we will succeed...
29:59No, no, no, Mark, listen, let me finish.
30:03Our plan of survival is geared to self-sufficiency.
30:07Well, naturally.
30:08So we never become dependent upon anything that we can't ultimately replace by making it ourselves.
30:13Yeah, I agree.
30:14Well, now, you are suggesting the whole revision of our farming system
30:18to stockpile the muck, which...
30:20For fuel?
30:21Which we don't even know whether we can harness.
30:25No.
30:26No, Mark.
30:27No, I'm sorry.
30:28It's...
30:29Not now.
30:30Later, perhaps, but...
30:33Ruth said you had a joint leadership thing going here.
30:37You and Greg, together.
30:40Yes?
30:41Perhaps it's time you had a word with your partner.
30:44Build me a nice new dispensary cupboard, Jack.
30:47Oh, yeah.
30:49And a lock to keep out the kids.
30:53Jack.
30:56It's Emlyn who worries me.
30:58Emlyn?
30:59Emlyn Hughes.
31:01In a cup.
31:04I mean, the Ambers have got a good defence, but...
31:08If Emlyn gets way down the centre there,
31:11he gets that left foot going.
31:13Leadership exists to make the decisions...
31:15And you've no right to deny your people progress, efficiency.
31:20Do you reckon to run this place as a sort of kibbutz democracy, right?
31:23Roughly.
31:24Right.
31:25Well, call a meeting and we'll put it to them.
31:30Or else.
31:33Just do it, eh?
31:43Thanks for your support.
31:46I think he's got a point.
31:49Well, we should gamble everything on the success of that promifor contraption.
31:53I mean, about calling a meeting.
31:58All right this evening, then.
32:05Oh, I've cleared this mess up.
32:07Yeah, let's hope it's worthwhile.
32:09Yeah.
32:10So we're to start cutting the river field next.
32:12Oh, give us a break.
32:14Long overgrown already.
32:15Yeah, that's true.
32:17Didn't take long, did it, mate?
32:19What?
32:20Well, for us lot to start carrying your lot.
32:22They try.
32:23You reckon?
32:24We'll take it easy now we're here.
32:26How about the rest of the day off then?
32:28Oh, yeah.
32:29Take a swim.
32:30Fair, aren't it?
32:32Listen, you witless mob.
32:34You want to get with it?
32:36The six of us together, we've got power.
32:38Here he goes.
32:40Muscle power.
32:41Strength.
32:42We've got to use that power.
32:44We've got to show them that we can use it.
32:46That doesn't mean slacking off to swim.
32:49We can really get something going here.
32:52We?
32:54You mean you?
32:55What, like a last place?
32:57You know what we had going there, don't you?
32:59What?
33:00Agro-culture.
33:02Agro-culture, that's right.
33:04Yeah.
33:31Agro-culture, that's right.
33:41That's the thing about piggies.
33:43You can use up everything except the squeak.
33:47I suppose Mark could be right.
33:50Rubbish.
33:50He's a fraud.
33:51What?
33:52The other day, he told me that my pigs were a bunch of stunted, wormy cripples and that
33:57I had to pen them up outside.
33:58Now in this, he says they have to be housed in a piggery.
34:01No, it's just his priority for muck conservation.
34:03Over the pig's health.
34:05The point is, Pat, if I challenge him, if I reject this and our lot support me...
34:11Well, they must.
34:12Oh, perhaps.
34:13What happens then?
34:15Mark Carter probably storms off in a sup.
34:17Exactly, and he takes the others with him.
34:19Well, too bad.
34:20Oh, we need them, Pat.
34:21We depend upon them all.
34:22Mark Carter's know-how, most of all.
34:24They fly so high, and they reach the sky.
34:35And like my dream, fly, fly.
34:40Oh, she's always hiding.
34:44I am...
34:48I am...
34:50I am...
34:53I am...
35:18Oh, what a goal.
35:26Priorities.
35:27Yes.
35:28All right, so you've made some mistakes.
35:29Two and a hour, winter wheat and spring.
35:31All right.
35:33But efficient farming isn't everything.
35:35My responsibility to this community...
35:36Is firstly as a leader.
35:39All right, so you organise our farming effort.
35:41But more important surely, Charlie, is your concern for us as people.
35:45Grass instead of bread?
35:46No.
35:48Tolerance and guidance.
35:51Doesn't fill bellies.
35:52But it gives us a sense of togetherness.
35:55Something I bet Mark Carter's lot never had.
35:59I'm sorry to barge you, but Jack's disappeared.
36:03What?
36:04Your doors are at me.
36:05It just seems to have wandered off.
36:08Jack.
36:09He was delirious earlier on.
36:11I thought he was improving.
36:12He's up and down.
36:13I was trying to tell you earlier on.
36:15What?
36:15About resistance to the bug.
36:17It was just the flu bug, you said.
36:18Yes.
36:19Except that with all those I've treated.
36:21All the fatal cases.
36:23They just seem to give up.
36:24What?
36:25It's as if they didn't want to recover.
36:27Didn't want to?
36:29Yes.
36:30It's as if it's related in some way to morale.
36:33Do you think that that affects their resistance to infection?
36:36Look, take me.
36:39Take all of us here.
36:41We're too busy to be sick.
36:43We live healthy, fulfilled lives.
36:46Whereas others like Arthur and Mina...
36:49So you think that their response, well...
36:51The fatalities at least, that they're...
36:53Well, they're sort of psychological.
36:55Yes.
36:56And I'm sure it stems directly from the death.
36:5818 months.
37:00Call it delayed shock, bereavement neurosis, sustained grief.
37:05Even guilt at having survived.
37:07Oh, surely not.
37:08It tallies, pet.
37:08It tallies exactly with what was known as the broken heart syndrome.
37:13Acute depression, neurosis, suicides, minimal resistance to infection,
37:19and an abnormally high death rate.
37:22All right, then.
37:23Arthur, yes.
37:25Even Peggy.
37:26But not cheery old Jack or Mina.
37:29You can't tell me those two are demoralised or grieving or whatever.
37:33Well, Mina's not been the same since that chap on the barge died.
37:36People can be pretty subtle at hiding their true emotions.
37:39Not Jack.
37:40I think about it.
37:43Oh, they better keep looking.
37:45Show us, Jack, how to kick.
37:48You don't kick with the toe, do you?
37:50Ah, no.
37:51You, um...
37:52You use the, um...
37:54The instep.
37:55I guess you, you can control it that way, you see.
37:59You do it.
38:01Right, yeah.
38:02Give it here.
38:04Um...
38:05Now, you curve the foot round, you see.
38:07Hey!
38:08Everyone's looking for you, Jack!
38:10Looking for me?
38:11Oh, come on, Jack.
38:13Forget her.
38:13Please, we're wasting time.
38:15You promised you would.
38:16Yeah.
38:17Look, I'll show you how Emlyn does it, shall I?
38:20Who's Emlyn?
38:22Emlyn?
38:23It's terrific, Emlyn.
38:25It's terrific.
38:28All right.
38:30The fact is, I failed with poor old Arthur.
38:33Not you.
38:34Yes.
38:35It's what I was talking about yesterday, the need for a sense of community, roots.
38:40I mean, dammit, we've been here a year or more, and only one baby born.
38:43One!
38:44Well, these youngsters I brought with me, maybe they'll help on that side, eh?
38:49You mean Master Carter and Co?
38:51All that young man's likely to do is disrupt us.
38:54Oh, pet.
38:55Well, so he is.
38:56He's intolerant and immature.
38:58Just because he is young.
39:00What you should do at this meeting this evening is take him down a peg or two.
39:05Well, the best got him pray, then.
39:07Hang about.
39:07Hang about.
39:08There's plenty of time.
39:08Sit down.
39:09Oh, come on.
39:10Listen, listen.
39:11We can use this meeting.
39:12To get you in as bot?
39:13No, thanks.
39:14To get the management committee going, that's all.
39:16Greg Preston on the mechanisation, me on the farming.
39:19I wrote culture.
39:21Squire Vaughan is the, er, social worker.
39:25Maybe you, Mel, to organise the females.
39:28Oh, big deal.
39:30He's got your own number, Mel.
39:31What if they don't buy it?
39:34They'll buy it.
39:36It's too much to lose if they don't.
39:39Oh, aye.
39:42So, the way I see it, this, er, this methane farming is going to mean a lot of extra work
39:46for us all.
39:47Hard, tiring, physical work.
39:51Special, special crops to be grown for the livestock fodder.
39:54All to be cultivated.
39:55Planted.
39:57Harvested.
39:57By hand.
39:58Then to be brought into the yard, once again, by hand.
40:01So that all the livestock's dung can be conserved.
40:04Factory farming.
40:05Well, er, some of you might feel that it's a bit premature.
40:10Others might feel that it's, er, it's a bit ambitious.
40:13That we should only conserve and process the dung from the pigs.
40:16That's a waste, I guess.
40:17Well, some of you may feel that it's worth the gamble.
40:21Well, it's your sweat.
40:23And it's your toil.
40:26That's what you'll be voting on.
40:28Greg?
40:33All right, Mark.
40:36Thank you, Squire.
40:38Of course, I can see that, er,
40:41some of the veterans of this settlement are not going to welcome some really hard graft.
40:44What are you talking about?
40:46Luke.
40:47Up to now, what have you been at?
40:49Bloody, bloody.
40:50You've been messing about with a bit of a...
40:53veg.
40:54Trying to mend fences, keeping off the dog packs.
40:56It's little more than shepherding.
40:59It's leisurely old nomad stuff.
41:01You're a bloomin' nerve you've got.
41:02Now listen, listen.
41:03All I'm saying is that it's time to stop playing at it and start farming.
41:08You've got to make use of science.
41:10Use it to get on top.
41:11And not stumble on at the mercy of the weather.
41:16But to farm properly, you've got to have power.
41:21Now then.
41:22You're a genius of an engineer over there reckons he can get that from muck.
41:25That's a waste of good pig dung, that is.
41:27It's a matter of simple priorities.
41:30You either muddle on as you have been doing or you get stuck in.
41:33Now wait a minute.
41:34You told me the other day that in order to make my pigs healthy, I had to pen them up
41:38outside.
41:39That's right, love, but since then...
41:40Now, because of this grand muck design, you say I have to bring them inside again.
41:44On the contrary, love.
41:45I checked up on that disease you mentioned, where they came out in blotches and got fever, died.
41:50It's called irisipolis.
41:52It's picked up from the soil.
41:53So as it happens, it's better off that we have the pigs inside.
41:57Twister, prove anything if you're a so-called expert.
42:00There's just one thing, Mark.
42:02Professor.
42:02Well, what are you going to do if they reject this plan of yours?
42:06Reject?
42:06Yeah.
42:07Well, they'd hardly be that stupid.
42:09But if they do...
42:11Well, good luck to them.
42:14You mean that you'll pull out?
42:16Yeah.
42:17This lot too.
42:18You too, if you've got any sense.
42:19And if they vote in favour of it?
42:21Well, fine.
42:23Well, what about Charles and his leadership of this settlement?
42:26Would you, speaking personally, would you still fully accept it?
42:30Not on the farming side.
42:31Would you tell us why not?
42:33Oh, come on, Greg.
42:35Man, look at the nonsense he's been making of it.
42:37Winter wheat sown in spring.
42:40Yes, it's a fair point.
42:41It's a serious mistake, and we're all going to suffer because of it.
42:44But do you think that Charles, as leader, should be allowed to make...
42:47Now, just a minute, Charles.
42:48Let's get it absolutely clear.
42:49Now, we're going to be voting for you to give up a crucial part of your authority to Mark.
42:53Only on the farming side.
42:54Well, fair enough.
42:56But you mentioned earlier this business of priorities.
42:59Aye.
43:00Well, what would you rate higher?
43:02A question of, well, farming efficiency like this excellent plan of yours, or, well, say,
43:08a question concerning, well, the morale of a settlement?
43:10I don't know what the morale's got to do with my five-year plan.
43:13No, no, no.
43:14What I meant was that if it came to a straightforward choice, I mean, if you as the acknowledged
43:19farming authority said that we had to harvest a certain crop on a particular day, and Charles
43:24said that we ought to postpone it for 24 hours because people were tired or one or two other things...
43:29Luke, you want to survive.
43:30Now, that means grub enough to see you through the winter.
43:33So, farming efficiency, successful settlement?
43:37Aye.
43:38Right.
43:40Well, what happened to the settlement you were leading before you came here?
43:44As far as you know about that.
43:49Yeah?
43:49What about it?
43:51Well, it wasn't successful.
43:53It failed, didn't it?
43:56Just.
43:57Threw it through an outbreak of flu.
44:00The flu had nothing to do with it.
44:02From what I heard, it was fainting through a simple case of demoralisation.
44:07Never.
44:08Rubbish.
44:09Well, what about the desertions?
44:12Yeah, a few useless drop-outs.
44:15And the suicides?
44:19Well, they just couldn't cope.
44:21Yeah, you mean they couldn't cope with you and your leadership.
44:23Your intolerance and your contempt for age and inefficiency.
44:27No.
44:28A settlement's morale reflects the worth of its leadership.
44:32And by all accounts, yours had none.
44:41All right.
44:42All right.
44:43If that's your priority, then vote for him.
44:46It's your funeral.
44:48You are...
44:49Come on.
44:59You won't back down for anything.
45:02You can't tell him anything.
45:03I don't tell him anyway.
45:05But so what?
45:07We all cope before Lord Carter honored us with his presence.
45:10And cheerfully at that.
45:11Carter happened to show us something else too.
45:13What?
45:14How lucky we are to have Charles Vaughan.
45:16Right.
45:17Yes.
45:19Thank you one in all.
45:20Donations in the box, please.
45:22However, he's not infallible.
45:25I think this plan of Carter's makes good sense.
45:28In fact, I think it's essential.
45:30I've got every hope for my promifer.
45:32And I'm all for stockpiling as much muck for the monster as we possibly can.
45:39Well, Greg's the engineer.
45:42If he has that much confidence, then he can have my vote.
45:46And the sweat that goes with it.
45:52Mark!
45:54He must be upstairs.
45:55Hey, Mark.
45:57Hey, Mark.
45:57Couldn't you just...
45:58Couldn't you, like, climb down for once, eh?
46:00Just for once, eh?
46:01Look.
46:02Do you have to be on top lead all the time.
46:06Listen!
46:07Who the hell says I want to?
46:10Well, then.
46:11Well, it's just that...
46:13Well, they're an okay crowd here.
46:15You reckon I'm staying, see?
46:18Great.
46:19Look, Mark!
46:20He just said it, didn't he?
46:22That bloke Greg Preston.
46:23Leading is just not my scene.
46:26I mean, okay.
46:27They're making a screaming nonsense of it all, but who cares?
46:30It's just that if we pull out, we'll leave him short on muscle.
46:33Oh, you can't do that.
46:35Of course you can't pull out.
46:37It's time you lot got responsible.
46:40Yeah, learned your priorities.
46:42What about you?
46:44Well, I've got talent, haven't I?
46:45I've got know-how.
46:46Right.
46:47It adds up to a duty.
46:48I'm going to rove about, sorting out all the other stumbling amateurs around here.
46:54Yes.
46:55You can call me the roving guru, eh?
47:00Ta-da!
47:04Mel?
47:05Do you fancy that idea?
47:08Terrific.
47:10For you, master.
47:16You really fancy him, eh?
47:18Who?
47:19That old bloke Greg.
47:21No.
47:22Just my independence.
47:25That's what I'm offering you.
47:26The roving bit make the whole other country have a place.
47:30No, thanks.
47:32Mel!
47:32Oh, forget it, Mark.
47:37Oh, forget it, Mark.
47:43You gonna stay, then?
47:49Bit late now, innit?
47:54I'll be off first thing in the morning.
48:00Good luck.
48:02I'll call in on you.
48:03Around autumn.
48:04Yeah, see how the promifer's getting on.
48:06I'll have tractor power by then.
48:08Methane farming in action.
48:10No chance, squire.
48:11What?
48:12With your priorities,
48:14you lot,
48:15you'll be sitting back eating grass,
48:17playing bingo.
48:20Come on.
48:29Bingo.
48:32There's an idea.
48:35There's an idea.
49:05you're king.
49:06You're king.
49:08I want a cake.
49:09Just for you.
49:25You're who?
49:26Well.
49:30You're like you.
49:31My heart.
49:31Here, you're going toakvency.
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