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02:00Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday dear mother, happy birthday to you.
02:20That's touching.
02:22Now, are all the traitors present?
02:30Good.
02:33So, let's get started, shall we?
02:49At ease.
02:53May I?
03:02Mac, isn't it?
03:05You used to work at Fairley Hall?
03:07That's right.
03:09I'm Edwin Fairley.
03:10I know who you are.
03:19But I've seen you at the front.
03:21If that's the bear.
03:23Eight months of senseless fighting, but that one was...
03:29Grimlight.
03:33So, off home then?
03:36Officially, it's medical discharge.
03:39But not all wounds can be bandaged.
03:44You?
03:46Leave.
03:49To see my pregnant wife.
03:53Congratulations.
03:54And also, Emma Hart.
03:57Oh, I expect you to remember.
03:59You're going to see Emma?
04:00That's right.
04:02She's plenty of space for visitors.
04:04In her big house.
04:08And you will see Emma's family.
04:13Are you there?
04:17For your information, Emma's husband, Joe Lowther.
04:26He didn't make it.
04:33I'm sorry to help.
04:35Emma doesn't need your sympathies.
04:37She's managed just fine without anything from you.
04:55Well.
04:57Good luck to you.
05:03It was.
05:05A grim night.
05:07A festival.
05:11A grim night.
05:14A grim night.
05:15A grim night.
06:16They just thought I needed to come home.
06:20Well, here you are.
06:32Oh, my God.
06:34Edwin!
06:38My father looks dreadful.
06:40At least he's out of bed today.
06:43Is there a problem?
06:45It's money.
06:47Money's the problem.
06:48He owes left, right and centre.
06:50The house is up for sale.
06:52What?
06:53Why?
06:55He won a huge uniform contract from some old school friend.
06:58But he overpromised.
07:00Emma Hart has our mill and he's run out of favours.
07:03So there's absolutely no way he can fulfil the order.
07:07But it'll be better now you're back.
07:10Why?
07:12Because now all this will be down to you.
07:17Anyway, look, you didn't come here to see me.
07:20Priya?
07:20No, please, don't.
07:23Olivia, I've been thinking that we're both our sex, mine and Priya's.
07:30I ought to just set her free.
07:48I'll be closing up for good if I don't go heavier and people not paying bills.
07:51I have to start sending telegrams to those that owe us.
07:54And if they can't, I'll have to start judging interests.
07:56No choice, I need to.
08:25So, a baby.
08:29Never had one of those before, have you?
08:37Our mill isn't the only thing Emma Hart has that belongs to you.
08:42How do you think she is, eh?
08:48So, how was it, France?
08:54Such camaraderie, is there, eh?
08:58You and the left, eh?
09:04I've sung a song I'll do.
09:05Oh.
09:06Hmm.
09:09So, why do they send you home?
09:16Because it's not all singing.
09:22It's made me think about what we leave behind.
09:27I'd like the people that come after us.
09:31Our children.
09:33Grandchildren.
09:35To at least know we were here.
09:38I suppose.
09:41The main thing we will leave.
09:43All of us.
09:45Our name.
09:50And this house?
09:52Oh, yes.
09:55Not if I can't hang on to it.
09:57We won't.
10:00Emma Hart has a lot to answer for.
10:07Yeah.
10:25Bye-bye.
10:25Lillian.
10:26Bye-bye.
10:26Bye-bye.
10:27Bye-bye.
10:28Bye-bye.
10:29Bye-bye.
10:39Oh, my God.
11:01What if Eberhard isn't just the cause of our problems?
11:04What if she's the solution?
11:07I think I've got the answer.
11:18You know, I saw him once, Joel.
11:25In France?
11:27Well, I came round the corner one night and there he was.
11:31Helmet pushed back.
11:33Rifle on his knee.
11:35With a photo of you.
11:38In his hand.
11:41Are you just saying that?
11:43No.
11:44It was Joel.
11:47And he'd hold himself up on a box of corned beef.
11:52No time to eat it, he said.
11:54But he could at least keep his arse dry on it.
12:04And then, everything started off again.
12:14The shoot.
12:18And I lost track of him.
12:25Can I tell you something?
12:29Anything.
12:35When I got the telegram, we were in the hall and I saw Laura's face.
12:42And I knew.
12:44I just knew that it was bad news.
12:49And I thought.
12:55It's okay.
12:56I know.
12:58You miss him.
12:59I know.
13:00No, you don't.
13:01You don't know.
13:03Let me say it.
13:06I knew that it was bad news.
13:11And I thought.
13:14It was you.
13:17I did.
13:20And I couldn't breathe, Mike.
13:24But then she showed it to me.
13:27And I saw that it was addressed to me and not her.
13:32And that inside it said his name.
13:35Joe Louver.
13:41And I was relieved.
13:45Is that the worst thing you ever heard?
13:48Oh, Joe.
13:51I was desperate, of course.
13:52I couldn't bear that it was him.
13:55But my first thought when I saw his name was.
13:59Oh, thank God.
14:01Thank God it's not back.
14:10I understand.
14:13I do.
14:20Because we're the same.
14:22Aren't we?
14:28So, I always understand.
14:33I don't understand.
14:49Go on, B.
15:05I have an assistant today, Mrs. Christian.
15:07Aren't I lucky?
15:09And look.
15:10It packs here for fruitcake, which she can make with barely any fat.
15:13And not one egg.
15:14I'm calling it wild cake.
15:18Oh, my girls will eat cake all day long.
15:20It's a lesson.
15:23What do you make, she say?
15:25I'll look for it.
15:26Can't be how it burns.
15:32Mrs. Hart.
15:39I have to close her up for a while, Mrs. Christian.
15:42Take one of the packs of cake ingredients and let me know what you know about, I think.
15:46Well, thank you.
15:47Bye-bye, Dreena.
15:48Have fun helping your mum.
15:49Bye-bye.
15:50Bye-bye.
16:02Hello.
16:03Hello.
16:09Edwina.
16:12Edwina, why don't you go upstairs, love, sort through that box of button and see what you like best?
16:16I'm allowed.
16:17Of course.
16:18Go on up.
16:19Go on.
16:19Go on.
16:31I've broken an oath, then.
16:34Swear I'd never see you again for as long as I lived.
16:39We all make promises we can't keep.
16:43Drops usually busier than this.
16:46But there's a war on, I don't know if you've heard.
16:48I did.
16:51I'm so sorry, Emma.
16:53I heard about your husband.
16:54Did you hear about all the husbands?
16:55It's not just mine.
17:01That you'll have seen for yourself.
17:10Emma.
17:13All this, it's a miracle.
17:17All this, it's a miracle.
17:19Everything you wanted.
17:21Your plan with the capital B.
17:24That's right.
17:25That's right.
17:26That's right.
17:27And what are you, Edwin Fairley?
17:30Fool.
17:31An idiot coward does I cover it?
17:34Hardly.
17:38Emma.
17:40Every bit of hatred you feel for me.
17:43All the resentment.
17:44The bitterness.
17:45The anger.
17:47I felt it for myself.
17:48I promise you.
17:50Every day.
17:52And not the moments pass where I haven't wished I could go back.
17:57To that rose garden.
18:00And say something different.
18:06Like what?
18:09Like marry me.
18:11Like it'll be alright.
18:13Like I'll take care of you and make sure nobody hurts you.
18:15Like I love you, Emma.
18:18And I'll spend the rest of my life making sure I'm by your side.
18:22Well, I'd have probably had the baby by the time you got all of that out.
18:26Emma, please, I'm...
18:27I'm not here to fight.
18:29I've spent enough of that.
18:32When I let you down that day,
18:34I started a feud which should never have gone as far as it has.
18:39So I've come here today to end it.
18:49I hear you've a warehouse full of cloth and no use for it.
18:53That's right.
18:54It was meant to fulfill the contract that your father stole from me.
18:57Well,
18:59what we have, what the Fairleys have,
19:02is that contract that...
19:05No cloth.
19:07All milk.
19:10And Emma,
19:11you're a businesswoman now.
19:17A partnership.
19:19Our contract,
19:21your mills.
19:23Fairleys
19:23and ours.
19:25Together,
19:26we can make that contract work.
19:28For every uniform we produce,
19:30you'll get a pound.
19:31And so will we.
19:34Emma,
19:34I don't know how your business is
19:36faring through all of this,
19:38but...
19:38Ours is barely a flood.
19:42But,
19:43if we join forces,
19:45both of us can
19:48take care of our families.
19:53Doesn't a pact make sense?
20:00Come to lunch.
20:03Will you please?
20:05On Saturday,
20:06as our honoured guest.
20:09No pressure,
20:10but we can talk it all through.
20:13It's true.
20:16War,
20:17it's miserable.
20:21Imagine how it'd feel if we
20:23could lay down our weapons.
20:28Just
20:30end it.
20:33A ceasefire.
20:37truth.
20:40What do you say?
20:52Well,
20:53how did it go?
20:55She bought it.
21:16This deal could be the answer,
21:17Mac.
21:18If I can get a pound of uniform,
21:20I won't have to close anything.
21:21I can pay the wages,
21:23not lay anyone off.
21:24There'll be no profit,
21:25but it might just get us through
21:26to the end of the war.
21:27Sure.
21:28I'd bet on you above all,
21:29Dasketh.
21:30Any day of the week.
21:33But a partnership with the Fairleys.
21:35I would have spat
21:36if someone suggested it before now.
21:39Can you trust them?
21:41No, before.
21:43Never.
21:46But for the children,
21:48shouldn't I be fighting
21:49on a different front now?
21:53Is that us at the shop?
21:55Yeah.
21:57Here.
22:00Isn't it beautiful?
22:01I love it so much.
22:29I was wondering,
22:32if I could come in.
22:40Standards slipped.
22:42Oh, no.
22:43I'm sure they haven't.
22:45They came because I'm coming here
22:47on Saturday
22:47for lunch.
22:49I heard.
22:52And when I do,
22:53I'll be coming in
22:53through the front door.
22:55Well, I'll be sure
22:56to be careful with your coat.
22:58But I was imagining
23:00I was going to feel
23:01sitting up there.
23:03And I know I'll just be desperate
23:04to see it all down here.
23:08To remember.
23:12So I came here today,
23:13in any case,
23:14to talk to Ed,
23:15Master Edwin,
23:16work out possible terms
23:17and so on.
23:20And I wanted to
23:21come round this way
23:22so nobody thinks
23:23of any airs or graces.
23:30And why not?
23:32In my heart.
23:33Hmm?
23:34I'd say you've earned
23:35a few airs from what I hear.
23:37Maybe justified
23:38the odd grace or two and all.
23:39The rise you've had.
23:43Made something of yourself,
23:44haven't you?
23:48Well done, lass.
23:50Well done.
23:55And I didn't know
23:56your dad well.
23:58I keep myself to myself.
24:02But I reckon
24:02Jack Hart would have been
24:03pleased as punch.
24:16Well, I had to go.
24:19They think we're wallpaper,
24:22of course.
24:23Walking those rooms
24:24up there in silence,
24:26they forget
24:27that staff are people.
24:30And people
24:31have ears.
24:33Yes.
24:34Yes.
24:34Yes.
24:35Yes.
24:36Yes.
24:36Yes.
24:37Yes.
24:37This partnership
24:38is not what you think.
24:42Master Edwin
24:43has got you
24:43right where he wants you.
25:03Do you know I'm leaving you?
25:07What?
25:08Why?
25:10You lied to me
25:11about Adele.
25:14It was not my fault.
25:15I am not responsible
25:16for my sister's death.
25:18And I have to be able
25:19to grieve.
25:20I have to get away
25:21from here,
25:21away from you.
25:22Don't be ridiculous,
25:23some of you.
25:23Where will you go?
25:24I'll stay until the alliance
25:25is signed,
25:26for the boy's sake.
25:27But when your contract
25:28and your house
25:29are no longer at risk,
25:30when the war is over,
25:33I will be looking
25:34for peace.
25:55Do you think you're going
25:56somewhere
25:56for a bit of peace
25:57and quiet?
25:59Frank!
26:01What are you doing here?
26:03I'm up here every week.
26:05You're not the only one
26:06that misses you.
26:08How's school?
26:10You got your final exams?
26:11Yeah, well,
26:12I bet they're going to make me
26:13into a professor
26:13or something.
26:14Or a lord, probably.
26:17That's what happens
26:17when you get top marks.
26:19King, I think.
26:20Isn't it?
26:21Yeah.
26:22Something like that.
26:26See what you're doing
26:26up here, then?
26:27Panicking?
26:29No.
26:32I'm just wondering
26:33what to do,
26:34is all.
26:35Oh, no.
26:37What?
26:37I knew this would happen.
26:39You've got money now.
26:40You can spend time thinking.
26:42Rooks thought
26:43they'd love to just
26:43sit around,
26:44watching the sky,
26:46wandering.
26:47That's not who we are.
26:48Get on with it.
26:50Don't waste time
26:50thinking,
26:51oh, what if I do this?
26:53What if I spend this
26:54on a golden fountain
26:55or whatever.
26:56All you've done
26:57is lost precious minutes
26:59and you could have been
27:00trusting your gut.
27:01Isn't that what
27:02my mother said?
27:07A golden fountain?
27:09That's what
27:10rich people have,
27:11isn't it?
27:12What have you got instead?
27:15Massive warehouse
27:15full of cloth.
27:17That's your golden fountain.
27:23Frank,
27:24will you be alright?
27:25Oh, always.
27:26I've just climbed up
27:27a hill on my own.
27:28Are you trusting your gut?
27:29Full of your gut,
27:30yeah?
27:35Go on, Emma!
27:38Woo!
27:39Woo!
27:39Woo!
27:39Woo!
27:41Woo!
27:44Woo!
27:47Woo!
27:52Woo!
29:53Will you fulfil the uniform contracts together?
29:56Well, that all sounds very sensible.
29:59As a team, is that right? Proceeds split down the middle?
30:02Absolutely. For every uniform pound for you...
30:04And a pound for you.
30:06Yes.
30:08That's what you said.
30:10Only, Edwin, that's not what you're planning, is it?
30:15Well...
30:15I believe your actual plan is a pound for me and five pounds for you.
30:19For every uniform.
30:21Isn't that right?
30:22Sell them off for over the odds, give me the bare minimum, and cream off the majority of the profit
30:26for yourself.
30:28That's what you're planning, Edwin, isn't it?
30:32Tell me the truth!
30:35I...
30:37had to do something.
30:38You're planning to suffocate my business.
30:40Oh, and you forgot to mention you've a baby on the way.
30:42So I expect that explains all the plotting, doesn't it, Edwin?
30:45Because I know you're not the type to ever leave a child of yours out in the cold.
30:50What does she mean?
30:53Edwin?
30:54Emma, I...
30:54I'm still talking.
30:56I went to see Lord Acton today, Mr Fairley, your chum, and I told him that you Fairleys were playing
31:00him for a fool.
31:02What the hell is happening? What are you saying?
31:03But it's not just me and your old schoolmate you're shot-changing, is it?
31:05You won't be paying your workers a living wage, and you'll be doing our soldiers dirty too, because the uniforms
31:09you make will be low quality.
31:11Are we really allowing her to speak to us in this way?
31:13I will be coming to you, Gerald Fairley.
31:15I told Lord Acton that you Fairleys aren't getting a scrap of cloth from me.
31:19And if he thinks there's the slightest chance that this war will go on into 1916,
31:24then there's only one person who's got the mills, the factory, the materials, and the gang of skilled working women
31:30to fulfill his contract for years to come.
31:33So he gave me the money up front.
31:40How dare you.
31:44What makes you think one little, worthless maid can come after generations of...
31:51What? Rich, entitled men?
31:52She's doing this to get back at Edwin.
31:54Because he didn't want her.
31:55You think I've gone through all of this for someone as unimportant to me as Edwin Fairley?
31:59It's not just him I'm coming for. It's all of you.
32:03Squire Fairley, the way you treat your staff is a disgrace, but it's nothing to the way you treated my
32:08mother.
32:08My mother died when she needn't have, and you stood by and did nothing.
32:12Despite everything that went on between the two of you, she thought of you till her dying breath, and you
32:16thought of her never.
32:19And you let my father down too.
32:20My father died in your mill through your mismanagement.
32:24And what's worse, he died saving your coward of a son.
32:26Would you have done the same for him, Edwin, hmm?
32:30Mrs Fairley, I understand that's your name now.
32:32You stole my dress designs and you sold them without giving me a moment's credit.
32:36Emma, I have always tried to be reasonable.
32:38Oh, you might have spared me a kind word now and then, but kind words do not put food on
32:41the table.
32:42And finally, Squire Fairley, we come to your other son.
32:46Who's not just a coward.
32:49He's a dangerous monster.
32:52A weasel of a man who preys on women in a vain attempt to feel strong in the face of
32:57his own overwhelming weaknesses.
32:59Why?
33:01Why are you doing this?
33:03For my mother.
33:04For my father.
33:05For everyone who's ever worked in your house or your mill.
33:09I would not be so grand as to claim I'm representing all working folk, but by God I will speak
33:13up for them.
33:13While every one of you stands by idle and watches as the world around you slides into being more and
33:18more broken.
33:20Oh, and I haven't told you the best bit.
33:22I haven't told you what I spent the money on that Lord Acton gave me up front.
33:35Hello Fairleys.
33:36Fancy seeing you here.
33:47I bought this house.
33:51What do you mean?
33:52I mean, I'm the new owner of Fairley Hall, so take this as your eviction notice.
33:57Edwin Fairley, I was all set to lower myself to be your partner today.
34:02It's the second time that's nearly happened.
34:04But five years ago, you let me down.
34:06And today, you plan to take me down and leave me there.
34:09I will never forgive you.
34:12Please, all of you loyal staff, take this lunch home to your families.
34:18And all of you Fairleys, get out of my house.
34:36There's a fatal flaw in your scheme, of course.
34:40You underestimated me.
34:44I've had times of great adversity in my life, and I believe many of you think I mention them rather
34:50too much.
34:51I didn't say that.
34:52I only have nothing I have ever experienced prepared me for the ungrateful betrayal of my own children.
35:01Mother, I've been just desperate to talk to you to explain.
35:03Yet my phone hasn't run, Elizabeth.
35:06Now, Edwina, Kit, Robin, Elizabeth, the four of you schemed together to discredit me.
35:16I might have had a grudging respect for you had you been more subtle or creative.
35:22But today, I'd like to thank you, because your treachery has made me see that something does need to change.
35:30You don't trust me, and that has hit home.
35:38So, I've changed my will, so that when I die, none of you will receive a penny.
35:44Oh, that's not a penny for me.
35:46Now, today, I'd like to offer you all a choice.
35:49Either you fight on and continue to feed those hateful lies about me to the press.
35:54Or what?
35:54Or you take these.
35:58It's a check each for a million pounds.
36:01A drop in the bucket, what you would have received, of course.
36:04And for God's sake, don't mistake them for gifts.
36:09I am buying you, all of you.
36:12If you accept these checks, you are agreeing to drop the whole ghastly plot and never contest any of my
36:22wishes.
36:27Mother, what are you doing?
36:30Wendy, what's going on?
36:32Now, there's been much discussion over the years as to which of my children might take over my businesses.
36:37My signature on this piece of paper here means that debate can stop.
36:42Because now, all of it, every inch, belongs to Paula.
36:53No, no.
36:54Wendy, I...
36:55Oh, we've had our disagreements, of course, darling.
36:58The odd distraction.
37:01But you've moved on.
37:02You've always put the business first.
37:05Paula, you're the one I've trained.
37:08You're the one I trust.
37:10And you've proven, time and time again, to be the worthy successor.
37:17And now it's done.
37:20Now, here are your contracts.
37:22So, the four of you, come and sign them and take your checks.
37:25Or leave with nothing.
37:37Paula, you've chosen Paula.
37:39She shall get the lot.
37:40And I shall get nothing.
37:42Nothing but the allowances from my ex-husbands.
37:44How fortunate you have six of them.
37:59I barely even spoke to any journalists.
38:01I was hardly up to lunch.
38:02I don't even eat lunch.
38:05It's a trick, isn't it?
38:08You're asking us whether we'd like to give up or fight on.
38:11Well, I believe the Emma Hart way is to fight on.
38:13Isn't that right?
38:16What's happening here, Edwina?
38:20Are you attempting to begin a feud like mine?
38:24Or would you just like a million pounds and for this all to be over?
38:45Paula will now take my place on the board at Cytex Oil.
38:49She'll also take over every one of my shares at Hart Stores and Hart Enterprises.
38:54Paula owns this house.
38:55She owns the lot.
38:56It was always going to be her.
39:00Nobody else reminds me so much of myself.
39:04And what better compliment could there be?
39:09Could you step outside for a moment, Edwina?
39:12I have something for you.
39:19What is it?
39:21Some information for you, Edwina.
39:25Regardless of what it says on your birth certificate,
39:28your father isn't that lowly Irishman, as you put it.
39:33It says Mac's name on it quite clearly.
39:35Because Mac was, and always has been, the best man there is.
39:43But your father is Edwin Fairley.
39:49What?
39:54I'm a Fairley.
39:57Why didn't you tell me?
39:59Because I knew you'd receive it like a gift.
40:03And because I knew that would break my heart.
40:06So, the famous Fairley feud.
40:11This is why every member of the Fairley family has let down every one of mine.
40:20You've turned out to be living proof that no Fairley can ever be trusted.
40:26Even Fairleys you gave birth to turn on you in the end.
40:44I'll sign.
40:46This is hard.
40:48What's your secret?
40:50Oh, the same as it's always been, my dear.
40:54To end your...
41:28Oh, the same as it's always been, my dear.
41:38Hey!
41:39Hey there, Emma Hart!
41:42How dare you!
41:43This is my house, it's my home!
41:45Not anymore!
41:46This will always be my home.
41:48It's got my name on it.
41:50So you might have won for now.
41:51Fairley Hall might be yours for a short time.
41:53But don't ever make the mistake of stopping looking over your shoulder.
41:56Because if you think this feud has been brutal up to now, you haven't seen anything yet.
42:00I'm involved now.
42:02And soon I'll have a family of my own.
42:04So I promise you, whether it's next year or in 50 years, when you're least expecting it,
42:09somehow the Fairleys will take back this house.
42:20Paula?
42:23Paula?
42:25Paula?
42:27Paula?
42:27You didn't tell me the reason for your Fairley feud?
42:29And why it didn't you tell me you were...
42:31You were giving it all to me?
42:34Because I knew you'd object.
42:37But now it's all yours.
42:40Paula, I trust you unreservedly.
42:43Despite that, ill-judged dalliance of yours with Jim Fairley.
42:48Hey!
42:50Hey!
42:51Hey there!
42:52Emma Hart!
42:57Did I startle you?
42:59Rude of me?
43:00Of course, I apologize.
43:02And on your birthday too.
43:03But I gather this is a family event and I've been upstairs waiting to join my wife.
43:14It was a whim, a counter-strike.
43:17After you and I fell out, I was so determined you wouldn't underestimate me.
43:23You married Jim Fairley?
43:27I was going to tell you today, I had no idea you were planning on signing it all over to
43:32me.
43:33I'm so sorry.
43:34I know I should have...
43:36But I love him.
43:44And?
43:50We're having a baby.
43:54Strictly speaking, it will be Paula having a baby, I believe.
43:57But it will belong to both of us, of course.
44:02What's hers is mine, and all that.
44:07What's hers?
44:10What's hers?
44:11What's hers?
44:12Oh, thanks!
44:13No-oh!
44:14Oh, my God!
44:16Oh, my God!
44:18Oh, my God!
44:18Oh, my God!
44:18Oh, my God!
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