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00:00The End
00:52I've said it before no you stay here
00:58what can you be thinking of
01:02all there is to do here and you talk of riding off to find Tom
01:08Charles will find him
01:09that's why he went
01:14now go and finish those bill hooks we need for the forge
01:19ain't got no iron
01:22how do you suppose I'd manage with you two gone as well
01:28they want to ride off
01:31to find Tom they said
01:34Charles is doing that
01:35that's what I said
01:38Charles has been gone for ten days
01:41how much longer we supposed to wait
01:43he had a gun
01:44a real big shot eh
01:46Poetians maps a good horse
01:49I've lost one son already
01:51and if you two go as well
01:53will you come back
01:56even if we don't find Tom
02:01hasn't he got through to you yet
02:03what
02:04nobody who leaves here comes back
02:08not even your Charles
02:11it's all right
02:16he's
02:20he's
02:33he's
02:35he's
02:38he's
02:40he's
02:40Let's go.
03:20we should never have let him go
03:24no one had to look for Tom
03:25and one of the boys should have gone
03:30and their brother after all
03:32I'd rather trust Charles to find him and notice to
03:37finding Edith's eldest son
03:39isn't really our concern
03:41we've recovered their farm and got rid of Broad
03:44I did that
03:45a lot of thanks I got
03:47we all appreciate it Hubert
03:49there's one that didn't but if it hadn't been for me
03:52yes yes we know Hubert
03:55I bet he wishes I was with him now
03:58he hasn't been eaten by dogs that is
04:21if they can't get organized here on their own they never will
04:25every day we're stuck here Greg could be getting further and further away
04:30this is the only place we have found where they managed to produce more than they need
04:34there's enough wool in this loft from last summer shearing to clothe hundreds of people
04:39enough cheese is stored as well
04:41but unless they can soon exchange it for the things they want they let it all run down
04:45well why not send Steve and Owen to find people to trade with
04:50they do little enough here
04:52Steve and Owen don't care
04:54you know that
04:56sitting around with their bows and arrows
04:58wishing they could ride with Broad again
05:00they could be making tools we need in a forge
05:04they're just not interested
05:07they'll settle down again once Tom gets perfect
05:09Tom?
05:10I'm sick and tired of hearing about Tom
05:13you never met him
05:14true
05:14but he's as practical as Greg
05:17he found this place at the time of the plague
05:20rounded up all the sheep he could find
05:23feathered together a herd of cattle
05:26well we can't just abandon everything he started
05:30we have to find Greg
05:32and we will
05:34but there are more important things
05:37Jenny
05:39people in my country are starving
05:45what's the matter with you Betty me old love eh
05:48she kept lifting her tail just now
05:50eh did she
05:54well I just swelled up
05:56how long has she been in calf then
05:58you better ask Edith
06:00no you had
06:01go on she's starving
06:03find out if she should have
06:07don't fret me old darling
06:09we'll do all we can for you
06:12but Betty's not due for another three months
06:15you could easily have got that wrong
06:16are you sure it's not one of the other cows?
06:19no it's Betty
06:19just started
06:20Hubert says
06:22well if she's gonna start early
06:25it could happen again
06:27again?
06:28this last calf we had was born dead
06:30well when was that?
06:32last month
06:32on Brad's place
06:36well that's not surprising
06:38the way things were there
06:39well what's so worrying about a stillborn calf
06:42it's happened before?
06:44that's why it's worrying
06:46two abortions in a row
06:49I left to herself
06:51she'd eat her own afterbirth
06:52they like the taste of it
06:54they would all start up again
06:56what would start up again?
06:58brucel
07:00brucelosis?
07:01that's right
07:02like what she said
07:03could be that
07:06Charles is coming up
07:08from the river
07:08Charles?
07:10I'll go Jenny
07:11hold the edge steady
07:13just once more
07:14he's back
07:15yeah
07:16on foot
07:27Tom
07:28hello Agnes
07:29are you alright?
07:31we've been so anxious
07:32I'm just tired that's all
07:33you're not here?
07:34no not now
07:35what happened?
07:36Nancy
07:36did you find Tom?
07:38no
07:38but I met a few people who had news of Greg
07:40where is he?
07:41it wasn't enough to leave me to it
07:43well what's been happening here?
07:45oh what of me?
07:46read it
07:46she's inside
07:47she'll tell you about it
07:48she's making soup
07:49I think it's carrot
07:50I'm so cold
08:12that's the lock
08:14well at least the mother's free of it now
08:18can't be sure of that
08:19she didn't touch her calf
08:21or the placenta
08:24go scrub out the cow shaft
08:26isolate her Hubert
08:27in case she gets infected again
08:29by the others
08:30bit late for that
08:32she could be the only healthy cow
08:34we've got left
08:49could have been just a bad carving
08:55and there's no news at all of Tom
09:00I'm sorry
09:02I need him Charles
09:04I need him here
09:09come on let's go inside
09:17rabies
09:18well if it's all going rabid out there as well
09:20it's just something else we have to contend with Ginny
09:22now Charles what about this man who said he'd seen Greg?
09:26oh it was weeks ago
09:27he said
09:28he was looking into the possibilities
09:30of some open cast mining
09:31about 30 miles from here
09:32well then we must go there
09:34I tried to find him for you Jenny
09:35but he'd moved on
09:38anyway we
09:38we can't go anywhere yet
09:40well the cows will be all right
09:42once they've aborted
09:43they've got rid of the disease surely
09:44but it'll be a year
09:46before any of our bullocks
09:47are ready to serve them
09:48if Brad hadn't taken our bull
09:50oh I think I saw him this afternoon
09:52the boys could recapture it
09:56our whole livelihood depends on those cows
10:00can humans catch it?
10:03well it's possible it's not fatal
10:05Hubert's the one most likely to have picked it up
10:08so keep away from him
10:18hey watch it
10:25what'd you keep out of there for will you?
10:27well you're not bothered
10:28well I'm used to it aren't I?
10:30I'm the one that does other people's dirty work for them aren't I?
10:34you got back safely then
10:36I managed
10:38who was your guardian angel this time?
10:43but look
10:45I know from every
10:47rational point of view
10:48you did right to kill Broad
10:50but you must understand
10:52that for me
10:52well it
10:54takes a bit of getting used to
10:57I'm sorry
10:59better not
10:59you might get infected
11:01the cow disease I mean
11:03how do you know it's a disease then?
11:05we don't
11:06but we're not taking any chances lad
11:08well there's one man who could tell us
11:10isn't there?
11:11perhaps Owen and I should ride out and find him
11:14Bill Sheridan
11:17he's much too far away
11:18you and Tom rode over there once?
11:20that is a question
11:21but first you won't let us go and find Tom
11:23and now you won't let us go and find the one man who won't be there to save your stupid
11:27cattle
11:28Bill's not a vet
11:29he just knows about homeopathic medicine
11:31how could he vaccinate?
11:33perhaps he could cure
11:34are these the people you told us about before?
11:37yeah they're miles away
11:37two days at least
11:40well the boys will be all right
11:41they'd not come back
11:42you said that about Charles
11:44he wanted to come back
11:45they don't
11:46of course we do
11:47you've done nothing
11:48ever since we got back here
11:50we guarded the seat
11:51well that was quite important
11:52wasn't it?
11:53you're looking for any excuse to ride off
11:55you're not interested in making a success of this farm
12:00is it true what she says Steve?
12:06come on Owen
12:07better go and calm her down
12:13Edith is right
12:14they're broads boys
12:15it's hot
12:16then I'll go
12:17oh Jenny
12:18by boat
12:19that's what we were going to do before wasn't it?
12:22keep to midstream and I'll be safe enough
12:23Jenny if anybody goes the boys go
12:25and if they don't come back
12:27you'll not leave Edith to cope on her own
12:29and you'll not leave her with a useless herd of cattle either
12:33that's true
12:34so the sooner we get the vet
12:35the sooner we can get on after Greg
12:45I could have gone on my own
12:47nobody should ever go anywhere on their own
12:49you did
12:50that's a mistake I learnt from
12:53it didn't have to be you to come
12:56look Jenny
12:58I've got reasons of my own for coming along
13:00so don't get the idea I'm here just to protect you
13:03thanks for the warning
13:09ciao
13:19you know
13:22it's a long time since I heard you laugh
13:25well it's a long time since there's been anything to laugh at
13:28it's getting better Jenny
13:30it's getting better all the time
13:35catch the bull
13:37no one else here could possibly do it
13:39it's in Brodsfield but it may not stay there
13:42so if you and Owen ride out first
13:44I thought you were afraid we might ride off for good
13:46it's a risk I'll have to take
13:51Steve
13:52your mother needs you
13:56if all our calves are going to be born dead
13:58we need that bull
14:03there I was
14:05twenty miles from home
14:07all by myself
14:09nothing to protect myself but that stick
14:11do you know
14:12I was cold and I was wet
14:14and I felt exhilarated
14:15you felt what?
14:17exhilarated
14:17I don't know something stupid
14:18a bird was singing
14:21that's jungle noises
14:22that's Brods jungle
14:23ah but it's all ours Jenny
14:25you know that 30 miles to the northeast of here
14:27there's a railway with a full working steam train on it
14:30and coal they just spoon out of the ground beside it
14:34is that the scene that Greg found?
14:36rivers that aren't polluted anymore
14:37fish
14:38timber
14:39coal
14:40all the fruits of the earth
14:42just waiting
14:43waiting for us
14:44us?
14:45privileged
14:47the lucky ones
14:48those that survived
14:50oh we
14:51we should be exhilarated Jenny
14:53you know we're so damned
14:57lucky
15:02it would help if you were a little more friendly to them
15:04young healthy boys
15:06you must have seen how they look at you
15:08I certainly have
15:10and what's wrong with that?
15:11nice boys
15:12they're almost your age
15:14the way you cold shoulder them
15:17it's not surprising
15:17they're so restless
15:24I'm sorry Agnes
15:25so you should be
15:33why don't you come with us then?
15:35to catch a bomb?
15:40we'd look after you
15:42I bet you would
15:43then?
15:44why not?
15:48perhaps Agnes
15:49they'd come too
15:51if you like
15:53really?
15:54well isn't that great?
15:55what?
15:56it's a nursemaid
15:58go on our own
15:59maybe it's coming back
16:00on our own
16:01I said
16:03I don't look so worried
16:05we'll come back
16:06I promise
16:07unless we're gore to death
16:09that is
16:10or get a lucky break
16:11pick up a couple of birds
16:12with a local calf
16:13drop in at the pub
16:15point of export please
16:16what's that at the cinema?
16:17Saxon the single girl
16:18I just don't want to have to spend another night on the river
16:31you were all right last night
16:32weren't you?
16:33safe as houses
16:34take it easy
16:35there's no rush
16:38who's that?
16:39who's that?
16:41what?
16:43listen
16:45it's a car
16:49can't be
16:50it is
16:51you know it is
16:58well if it was a car
16:59it's long gone by now
17:03Charles
17:12hey
17:26did you hear anything just then?
17:28a car
17:31impossible
17:33that's what we thought
17:36where have you come from?
17:39downriver
17:42we're looking for a man called Bill Sheridan
17:44do you know him?
17:47does he know you?
17:49he knows a friend of ours
17:51Edith Walter
17:53ah well
17:55you've got a good way to go to Bill Sheridan's house
17:58you know it?
18:00I hope I've not forgotten my own home
18:03come on
18:16come on cowboy give us a hand
18:19I done my bit
18:20I got that rope around that brute's neck
18:22up to you now
18:23my brother you are
18:27friends of who?
18:28the Walters
18:30you remember them
18:31rather fancied
18:32Tom Walters
18:33I remember
18:34oh Ben
18:35but they live miles away
18:36no it's just two days row
18:38with the blisters to show for us
18:40oh where did you spend the night?
18:42I could in midstream
18:43there you are
18:44nothing can harm you
18:46if you keep away from the banks
18:47oh sorry
18:49well uh
18:49how did you meet the Walters?
18:51they rode by one day last summer
18:53Edith and Tom
18:54they said they had a mill down there
18:56on the lookout for anyone with grain
18:58not that we could help
18:59we just grow enough for ourselves
19:00yes most people do
19:03oh is Tom these days
19:05not bad looking is he?
19:06I don't know I've not met him
19:08well he's still looking for grain
19:10he went off about uh
19:11three months ago
19:12and hasn't come back
19:14from what I can remember it Tom
19:15he can look after himself
19:16this is likely to be torn to pieces
19:18by the dogs as anyone Bill
19:19you know that
19:22well see my pharmacy
19:23why is one of you ill?
19:25Edith's having trouble with her cows love
19:26she thinks I can help
19:28I hope it's nothing serious
19:29you think it's brucellosis?
19:31Bill will give you something to give him
19:33it's the beauty of homeopathic medicine
19:34you do it yourself
19:35no need to have a vet
19:38she's from London
19:39her husband was a bus driver
19:42she was carrying this child when I met her
19:43where was that?
19:46wondering about the M1
19:48she'd been on a train from Derby
19:50till it came to a halt in mid-country
19:52poor Alice
19:53didn't know where she was
19:56how many cows has Edith got?
19:58um
19:59twenty
19:59people?
20:00fifteen
20:02hmm
20:03we had an outbreak of brucellosis ourselves
20:06in these parts some time ago
20:07this is all they've got left
20:09where did all this come from?
20:12homeopathic pharmacy
20:14that's where I was going when I met Alice
20:16my wife had died
20:17had the baby in the car
20:19I thought if I could get to that pharmacy
20:21I could save him
20:22do you understand about homeopathic medicine?
20:23the basics yes
20:24my parents were fanatics about it
20:27I knew what I was looking for
20:29as it seemed to have protected me from the plague
20:32oh come along
20:33others survived too
20:34but
20:35not so many were
20:36quite so exposed to it as I was
20:38I was an orderly in the county hospital
20:41till I
20:43found myself alone
20:47hmm
20:49so uh
20:51all of this came from that pharmacy?
20:55well most of it I've made up myself
20:56I've got
20:57a distillery outside for the alcohol
20:59and
21:00I grow what I want
21:02then I filch things from the
21:03woods and hedges on my rounds
21:06not that all of this can be replaced
21:07you don't know anybody with business in Whitstable do you?
21:11Whitstable?
21:11who could bring me back some oyster shells
21:14is that what this is made for?
21:16well it's not all herbs and
21:18juices and
21:19poisons
21:20but it's all organic
21:21part of nature
21:22right?
21:22like man
21:24maybe
21:24was always the best medicine
21:26maybe not
21:27but
21:28well if you go to the
21:29x-ray department of the
21:30county hospital
21:31the intensive care unit
21:33or the fully computerized operating theater
21:35if you're looking for scrap metal
21:37you'll find plenty there
21:38there's no other use for it
21:39never will be
21:40but
21:42look
21:43this is growing
21:43all about
21:44it's part of nature
21:45like us
21:46for our use
21:47if enough people learn about it
21:52look you
21:54said you had an outbreak of brucellosis before
21:56did you cure it?
21:58well unless they never had the disease in the first place
22:01which is always possible
22:04half the people who send for and don't need him
22:06they just take advantage
22:08just how many people are there around here anyway?
22:11more than you'd think
22:11once it gets about you're a doc or a vet you soon find out
22:15they had him treating rabies the other day
22:18and half of that was just imagination
22:20rabies?
22:21where was that?
22:23you've been treating rabies?
22:25well it turned out it wasn't as serious as they thought
22:30people will panic
22:31you're telling me
22:32Charles was there
22:34they hunted him like a mad dog
22:37that was you
22:38you heard?
22:40yes
22:42let's have supper shall we?
22:44we want to make an early start in the morning
22:46thank you
22:52you can cure rabies can you?
22:55well I can set people's minds at rest about it anyway
22:58see what I mean?
23:00half the time you needn't go at all
23:02of course I do
23:04reassurance is part of the treatment
23:06the people's fears are part of the disease
23:09it's the patient who must treat
23:10not the illness
23:12that's why you'll go and see their cattle won't you?
23:14funny to tell them it's not brucellosis at all
23:17all that way
23:18and all that danger just to put their minds at rest
23:22well what about my mind?
23:24that could use some reassurance too while you're away
23:26I'm not going Alice
23:28I've made up a pack for Charles if it is brucellosis
23:31told him what to do
23:33now let's have supper shall we?
24:07you aren't coming to bed
24:09it's been dark for hours
24:11I thought I'd read a while
24:13well
24:14by that light
24:15I'm not sleepy
24:18that car wasn't either
24:21she wake me up with her bellowing
24:24Edith
24:25she's not
24:26Hubert is coping
24:28we must go and help
24:29he won't let you
24:31he doesn't want anyone else in the cow shed
24:33why is he so stupid?
24:35considerate
24:38thinks of others
24:39can humans really get it?
24:41yes
24:44perhaps this time it'll be alright
24:46a good healthy cough
24:50there's a chance
24:53at least this one went her full time
25:04did Steve and Owen catch the bull?
25:07I haven't heard
25:08didn't they say?
25:11they're not back
25:13but it's nearly midnight
25:16another reason I'm waiting up
25:20they said they'd come back
25:22they promised
25:25I did offer to go with them
25:29they didn't want me to
25:37I expect they'd make camp somewhere
25:40they'll probably be back in the morning
25:51even at home in Norway
25:54I never found it easy to make friends
25:56or from my father
25:59and these days travelling as we do
26:03well
26:03it's best to travel light isn't it?
26:06I think so
26:08I couldn't bear to be Jenny
26:13what are you looking at?
26:22Hubert's
26:22I thought Edith might like some apples
26:28oh thank you
26:28I remember her saying there weren't any fruit trees on that farm
26:31yes there are any fruit is what they can pick wild
26:33I thought we might send that grain we were given too Bill
26:36at least they've got a mill
26:39will you give her that when you get there?
26:41it's all right Alice
26:42I can manage from what Bill's told me
26:44the reassurance wouldn't be the same from you
26:47it's got to come from him
26:52if something does happen
26:55maybe one of you would come back and tell me
26:57Alice
26:59do you think I could stay here with you?
27:01till he does come back
27:02sort of hostage
27:05sort of friend
27:07get out of the way there Ted
27:10don't get in there and mock neither
27:11keep away from my cows
27:12if you know what's good for you
27:15hey don't go to my cowshade
27:18Peter
27:19have you seen Stephen Owen?
27:21how could I?
27:22I spent all night in the cowshade
27:23didn't I?
27:23their horses are in the field
27:24they must be bagged
27:25well I ain't seen them
27:27don't think I want to particularly
27:30come on there get out of there
27:32you crazy
27:50it's the isolation that gets her down
27:52she's always been a town girl
27:54well
27:56perhaps you should move
27:59to a town
28:02railway station over there somewhere
28:03yeah half a mile up
28:05the road from the bridge
28:07close as that
28:08do you know it?
28:09I passed through it on my way back from the Dales
28:12they've got a working railway in the Dales
28:14aye I know
28:15and cold to feed it
28:19you know it runs out of track about 20 miles from here
28:22I've got to link it up
28:24lay 20 miles of track
28:26Irish knobbies did it in the 19th century
28:29all manual labour
28:30there's no one unemployed around here
28:33they're all too busy feeding themselves
28:34aye
28:36most of what they grow goes to waste
28:38you know you kill a
28:39sheep or a pig
28:42there's only two or three of you to share it
28:44it all goes bad
28:45there's no preservatives
28:47not just meat either
28:50you look at what's growing around here
28:54you know that grain
28:55you take it to eat it
28:57you know where it came from?
28:59payment you said for medical services
29:01that's right
29:02for the brucellosis
29:03no
29:05the rabies
29:07the man who tried to hunt you down drew that
29:09Sanders
29:12how much
29:14how much wheat does he grow?
29:17enough to fill a very big granary where most of it's rotting
29:21why didn't you tell Tom and his mother that when they came to this?
29:23I didn't know about it then
29:28Alice
29:30Alice isn't the only one who's lonely you know
29:33I met people up in the dales who were living in holes
29:36you've got to get them together
29:39they don't even know each other most of them
29:41they don't want to
29:43they go about with guns
29:45distrust and suspicion it'll get them nowhere
29:47you'd never get them together
29:48not even to talk to them
29:51I
29:52I couldn't
29:54but I think you could
29:57how?
29:59well let's just think
30:02say you uh
30:04you let it be known
30:06that you were gonna leave the area
30:09and before you went
30:11you were gonna pass on all the fruits of your medical knowledge
30:14that'd soon bring them
30:17you know you remind me of a bloody politician
30:20who knows we might need them yet
30:22they weren't all rogues
30:24I don't know everyone around here you know
30:26well
30:28you read that
30:29get to know a few more
30:33where do you get this?
30:34a man called Fenton
30:38I knew him
30:39aye
30:40well he wrote down all the names
30:42and even the addresses of all the people he met
30:45but all he ever did was write
30:47whimsical little observations on them for his own amusement
30:52if I could only get some of them together
30:55well you tell them you expect some payment for your knowledge
30:59anything they could bring
31:02where should I tell them to come to?
31:06railway station
31:08you can get to it by the old tracks or along the river
31:12and you tell them to be there
31:14Friday after we get back
31:17what Friday?
31:19good a day as any for market day isn't it?
31:31hey! hey!
31:33come back here!
31:37what was that on the roof?
31:38it's methane!
31:40you'd run a car on it
31:41I know someone who could
31:43if he had the right equipment and if it was him
31:45Greg? it can't have been
31:47I didn't see who was driving
31:49but he'd have stopped
31:51well whoever it was
31:52I'd like to have had a talk to him
31:54it's just association
31:56car, methane, Greg
31:58what would Greg be doing here?
32:00well you said he was interested in this place when he came with you
32:02you told me so yourself
32:03he's have come to find us
32:05he doesn't know we're here
32:06so Jenny stayed with Alice, did she?
32:10aye, so she wouldn't be lonely
32:12what did Bill say about the cows?
32:14oh, with a little luck we may save some of them
32:18he's dosing them now
32:19him and Hubert
32:22you got the bull back?
32:23no
32:25no Stephen Owen either
32:32there it is
32:34well he won't get far with that thing round his neck
32:37as long as he's not tethered to anything he won't strangle himself
32:39they must have been disturbed
32:41or they'd have ridden off or tethered it properly
32:44I think they went that way
32:45the undergrowth's trampled
33:27what were they trying to do? take a train?
33:32well there's no evidence that they came here at all
33:35except for that track we think they followed
33:37and something else
33:40yes
33:44thank you
33:46you know I came through here the other day
33:49broads carriages are down that way
33:52there's no track that way for 20 miles
33:54but where did they go?
33:56they leave the bull, their horses, their crossbows, why?
34:02perhaps they heard a car
34:04they'd drop everything then and go off towards the sound
34:06Greg?
34:07if it was him in the car
34:08but the boys have been gone four days
34:11no
34:13it was four days ago that Jenny and I heard it
34:16all the flowers here to do with his pharmacy
34:20you know I reckon I'd have been a grass widow with Bill even in the old world
34:24gardening, fishing
34:25can't you just see him?
34:28how do you protect yourself? I mean you've got the river one side but what's the other?
34:32barbed wire
34:33we found it in an army camp
34:36nothing can ever get in here
34:39you'd like wild dogs for company?
34:41no, just the odd neighbour to drop in once in a while
34:44the only other person I ever see at all is an old lady the other side
34:47take the children to see sometimes
34:50still I can't complain
34:52my Harry would never have managed
34:54lifting his arm in the pubs about all he ever did in his spare time
34:59mind you he took me with him sometimes
35:02Saturday nights in the pub
35:05never see those days again will we
35:07Alice! Jenny!
35:09they're back!
35:14we kept telling ourselves you couldn't possibly be back in six days and you made it in five
35:19are the cows going to be all right?
35:21some maybe it's a bit early to tell
35:27hello love
35:30what's for supper?
35:31you and your stomach
35:33he's given us enough cheese to live on for a year
35:39well at least he's treated them there's nothing what he can do
35:43well we must move on then
35:45Steve and Owen have gone
35:47ah well that's not going to stop us
35:50I'll take one of those
35:55Jenny
35:57there's some other news as well
36:00past you?
36:01Greg?
36:03and you let him drive away?
36:04it may not have been him
36:06but if it was he'll be back
36:07why? why do you say that?
36:08because that's the second time that car's been there
36:11oh to think I was there myself the first time
36:14I'm so close
36:16look
36:18if he's as interested in that railway as I think he is
36:20I know where he might be now
36:22he'll be up at that coal seam in Dovedale
36:24they talked about him there
36:25they said he was interested in getting a national system going
36:28well now listen
36:30we're a lot nearer here
36:31than we were at Edith's farm
36:33so no time's been wasted
36:35we'll go there tomorrow
36:36you can't
36:37we must
36:39it means going up river
36:41to reach Sanders farm
36:44across his land
36:45past Fenton's place
36:47right to the rain this country
36:50but you said it was under control now
36:52as long as Charles isn't seen there again
36:53you know he hasn't got it
36:55I wouldn't bank on them assuming that
36:57they'll shoot on sight
36:59if Greg is at that coal seam
37:01I'll take you Jenny
37:04they'll give me a chance to tell
37:05everyone I can about your cunning scheme
37:07to get them to the station
37:09station?
37:10what station?
37:11I'll take the kids as well Alice
37:12leave them with Mrs Judd for a few days
37:14then you can go down river with Charles
37:16and we'll all meet again on market day
37:18market?
37:20do you think they'll come?
37:21oh if Bill is convinced them that you really intend to leave
37:24oh yes they'll come
37:25it's a mighty long way from some of those small holdings
37:27oh it doesn't matter if only four or five of them turn up
37:30as long as you make a start
37:31establish a bridgehead
37:33and as long as they promise to come once a week
37:35just to barter?
37:37no no no market day was always more than that
37:39that's where you came to catch up on the gossip
37:42have a few beers where you met your friends
37:45that's what all this is about isn't it?
37:47making friends
37:49Charles look up there
37:50good morning
37:55my name's Charles Vaughan
37:58careful of him Charles
37:59you go to the station?
38:01where's your gun?
38:02I haven't got one
38:08well at least we've got one customer
38:11more than one
38:23where are we supposed to put all this?
38:25well down there
38:30good morning
38:31good morning
38:47come on
38:50here's Charles and Alice
38:55nice
38:57hey you
38:58you without a gun
39:00where have you come from?
39:04I'm uh
39:05staying with Mrs. Walter about five miles down the river
39:08you came from upstream
39:11Mrs. Walter has a farm
39:13a dairy herd
39:13sheep too
39:15and a mill in good working order
39:19what Bill gets here soon
39:21if that man's from the Dales he might recognize me
39:24well at least that how many
39:32come on
39:33who are we
39:42good morning
39:43hey
39:43yeah
39:45yeah
39:45hey
39:46yeah
39:47yeah
39:47there.
39:57where's Agnes?
39:58oh she's got it. she's got what? she's all right.
40:03she's just not feeling up to it.
40:05Dr. Wright come instead.
40:11good morning
40:17oh
40:38waiting for Bill Sheridan?
40:40maybe
40:42going away, he said.
40:45where?
40:47asked him that, hadn't you?
40:52i was going to have the old Southwood town last week
40:55but Bill gave her something
40:57and she was right as rain after that
40:59my little girl nearly poisoned herself on some berries
41:03she would have done if Bill had known what to do
41:06where'd he live?
41:11why do you want to know that?
41:12just friendly
41:13care about it, haven't you? best keep where you live to yourself these days
41:18what are you afraid of? he's got a gun
41:20oh i think he hasn't
41:23and there's a fella going about with rabies i'm told
41:26rabies?
41:26aye, they were looking for him up in Dovedale
41:29but he got away
41:31are you from Dovedale?
41:33no, are you?
41:35how do you know about rabies then?
41:37a man called Sanders told me
41:38he and his friends have a lot of grain
41:40he came south
41:42looking for a millet out about
41:43well that'll be Edith Walters here
41:45we must tell him about it
41:47he could send his grain down by boat and i could mill it
41:50he could store the flour here on the station
41:52enough for the whole region
41:53you mean we might make our own flour?
41:55what do you do at the moment?
41:56do you grow it yourself or do you pick it wild?
41:58i do
41:59yes, so do we at present
42:01well Sanders could save everyone the trouble
42:03why would he want to?
42:06for what you could give him in return
42:08such as?
42:10all Sanders wants are plowshares
42:12and who can make those?
42:14my son's could
42:16from what?
42:17where will you get the iron to work from?
42:19place is full of scrap iron
42:22what we need is grain
42:23if we can get the trains running
42:24listen to them
42:25but they've got one up in Dovedale
42:27so you have been up there
42:29if Charles had rabies he'd have been dead by now
42:32Bill will tell you
42:34Bill's not here
42:36and i'm beginning to wonder if he's coming
42:44maybe something's happened to him
42:46no
42:47you can't know
42:48he said he'd give us his medicines
42:50or at least show us how to make them
42:52he said we could do it ourselves if we learnt about it
42:55i was gonna give him this honey
42:57it's all i've got that he might not have himself
42:59i've left the child locked up in the caravan
43:01and if he's not going to come after all
43:03you make honey?
43:04i came across the ives
43:05my father was a beekeeper
43:07so i've got plenty of honey if nothing else
43:09but honey's as good as sugar
43:11you can sweeten anything with honey
43:13how much have you got?
43:15have you been prepared to offer a piglet in exchange?
43:17that was for Bill
43:18but if he ain't going to turn up
43:20who else keeps pigs? do you keep pigs?
43:21good for the ground if nothing else
43:23not bad for eating either
43:25they take a lot of getting through
43:26when there's only two of you
43:28for it more salt we could turn into bacon
43:30but we'll never get enough of that round here
43:32why not? we used to get it in bulk
43:35from brine pits up near Chester
43:36in the meantime
43:37if we all took any turns
43:38to bring a pig to market once a week
43:40market?
43:41slaughter it here on the platform
43:42divide it up amongst those who want some
43:43and if i supply the cheese?
43:45we'll all get cheese
43:48mrs walter
43:49i've only got a goat
43:50and the cheese i get from that
43:52i'm very partial to a bit of goat cheese
43:54here
43:55how's that?
43:58well edith
44:00you may have to concentrate on the sheep
44:03you might have to anyway
44:04but let our friend with the gun here
44:05look after the cattle
44:06i'm not keeping cows for the whole neighbourhood
44:08no not even for fresh pork when you want it
44:11or flour or wool or honey
44:13what's going on around here?
44:16some kind of trick's been played in us i reckon
44:19and you're the one behind it
44:23it's bill and jenny!
44:35a trick has been played of sorts
44:39you're the man sanders told us to look out for
44:42the one with rabies
44:44reckoned that as soon as i set eyes on you
44:46take care charles
44:47what trick?
44:49look it was the only thing i could think of that would get you all here
44:53i must say i would prefer it if there had been more of you
44:55but to be tricked
44:57look you'd be pleased to know that bill isn't gonna leave you after all
45:00do you mean we've come all this way for nothing?
45:02just so you could tell us how to run our lives eh?
45:04if you don't start trading with each other you won't meet
45:07and if you don't meet you won't have any kind of society at all
45:10society?
45:12have none of you ever thought of having a school for your children?
45:17you could have that once a week on market day here in the station
45:19you could use the station waiting room
45:21but where would we get books?
45:23in pen and ink
45:24pipefish to write on
45:25reading and writing isn't your first priority
45:28although when we come to it edith here used to be a teacher
45:31we all of us have invaluable skills to pass on
45:34what did you do before the plague?
45:36a bricklayer
45:36but who'll need bricks again?
45:39build houses
45:41where we can be safe
45:42and together
45:43and you will need bricks
45:44how do we get mortar?
45:46but they've got lime at winterton to make cement
45:49and a brickyard
45:50and a man who hopes you can supply them with enough wood pulp from here to make paper
45:55did you find Greg?
45:56and there's coal at Dovedale
45:57we have timber enough to bum here
45:58to drive a train that will bring you lime
46:01and methane gas
46:02and salt
46:03and anything else you want as long as you've plenty to send back
46:07the railway at Dovedale runs out of track this end
46:10but at the other it joins up with the main line
46:13it does that way too
46:15where Broad's carriages are
46:17it's a long round trip of course
46:18and all the points had to be set right before they left
46:21it took Greg weeks to check it out
46:26is that what he was doing?
46:28he got back to Dovedale the day after you left
46:30the two girls he found at winterton
46:33it was the girls
46:34not Greg in that car
46:36Greg sent them to check out this end
46:38but the car broke down
46:40Steve and Owen rode up and helped them fix it
46:41and then they drove back again
46:47Steve and Owen
46:51Steve and Owen
46:51Steve and Owen
46:52what happened?
46:52don't ask me mother
46:53ask the driver
46:55Tom! Tom!
46:59but where's Greg?
47:01ask Tom
47:02Greg left him in charge
47:05before we got there
47:07oh
47:08Jimmy
47:11so he'll be on his way back then
47:12no he's not
47:13some children will
47:14he's gone up north somewhere
47:15looking for a doctor
47:17why don't we give up the cottage
47:19and come and live down here Bill?
47:21the children would love it
47:22always coming and going
47:24live in a railway yard
47:25hmm
47:27just like the Portobello road one day
47:29I wouldn't wonder
47:29neither would I
47:31we're on our way
47:33nothing much to keep us here now
47:36no
47:36no you're right
47:41Jenny
47:42which way?
47:44don't know
47:48north I think
47:50well if this is going to be the start of an important market town
47:54you better catch Greg before he sets up the capital
47:58come on
48:05for me
48:07and
48:07what is he called?
48:34he
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