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A Woman Of Substance S01E06 (2026)
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00:05And of course, I shall be in Rome next month, so I look forward to discussing your thoughts
00:11on my proposals in person.
00:14Meanwhile, my assistant will be booking my next week's appointments, as I shall only
00:18be on my business trip for another three days at most.
00:24The doctors say a week, at least.
00:28Nobody must know, Jerry.
00:30Any weakness just plays into their hands.
00:33I shall only be on my business trip for another three days at most.
00:38And also, have there been any calls, Jerry?
00:44Hundreds.
00:44I've had side texts on the phone day and night.
00:46No, no, not work calls.
00:48Calls from the family.
00:51I've not let anyone know you're ill, Mrs. Hart.
00:54Your instruction.
00:55Of course.
00:57We both know there's someone who would want to be informed.
01:01If Paula knew you were ill, she'd be frantic.
01:13You're my honeybee.
01:16Come on and see me.
01:19Better.
01:20I miss her, of course.
01:23But better than before.
01:26Better than?
01:26How fucking dare she?
01:29But actually, how dare she?
01:31Telling me who to love, then just swanning off on some mystery trip.
01:35She makes me so fucking angry.
01:36People that we love do that.
01:41People that we love do that.
02:06I shall be wanting front row seats.
02:08Mrs. Hart, might this be a sign?
02:12To join an exercise class?
02:14To slow down.
02:16Take a holiday or two.
02:18Have a rest.
02:19Have we met?
02:22I'm Emma Hart.
02:25I'm Emma Hart.
02:43Will you marry me?
02:54You're welcome.
03:16Oh, Merry Christmas.
03:26Nice to see you again.
03:29Mr. Kalinsky, do we have any Turkish delight left?
03:31Oh, I don't imagine so.
03:33There's been such a run on it from all the big houses on the hill.
03:35You wouldn't believe how popular it's been.
03:38The fancy housekeepers have taken two boxes.
03:40But might we find one for Mrs. Easton, do you suppose?
03:50Success.
03:51Well then, I'd better take both.
03:55Oh, and you'd be wise to add a tin of pork and one more jar of applesauce.
04:00You're welcome.
04:03Good evening.
04:06Emma, it's Christmas Eve.
04:08Imagine there are stockings that need hanging.
04:10Trees that need decking.
04:12Oh, tell Edwina, I've put one extra sugar mouse in your basket just for her.
04:17So she is not to share.
04:19I can close up.
04:20You get going.
04:24Oh, I have an ulterior motive.
04:25I'm planning to steal cheese.
04:27Take whatever you can carry.
04:29And I mean it.
04:30I know your family's probably finished celebrating now that Hanukkah's over.
04:33But we'd love you and Flora to join us tomorrow.
04:36Joe's complaining he can't see kitchen surfaces for food.
04:39Our Frank can't come.
04:40Too busy working for his exams.
04:42And Mac's been goodness knows where for months.
04:45Mac always has a mystery girl at a party in every town.
04:47Both mainly.
04:49So no, no one's coming.
04:51Which means there'll be plenty of room for you both if...
04:53Emma, I don't...
04:55I've been happy to help out here over the last couple of years, but...
05:00I can't just pretend to be a regular friend of your family.
05:04I can't.
05:06Merry Christmas, David.
05:09Merry Christmas, David.
05:45I think they're here, sir.
05:46I just, um...
05:47I didn't...
05:48I'm sorry.
05:50I'm sorry.
05:51I'll leave...
05:51No, don't.
06:01I don't come in here often.
06:05I quite understand how occasionally it could be helpful to...
06:11She's everywhere.
06:17It's a wretched potion, suppose.
06:22Always mysterious.
06:26It's difficult this week, particularly.
06:29She loved Christmas.
06:31Yes.
06:36Oh, no.
06:38Sit down.
06:40It's all right.
06:41Sit.
06:49There's so many different versions of her on every wall.
06:53She loved it.
06:57I can't bear one mirror most days.
07:01Yet you are more beautiful every minute.
07:25You should, um...
07:28They'll be wandering where...
07:29We should...
07:32We should...
07:33We should...
07:33We should...
07:33We should...
07:33We should...
07:35We should...
07:36We should...
07:41We should...
07:42We should...
07:44We should...
07:48We should...
07:51We should...
08:00Welcome. You made it. It's been an oed since you visited.
08:04Aunt Olivia.
08:05Oh, I love your earrings, Olivia. Thank you. Happy Christmas.
08:09You're here. Good.
08:12It's just me and the happy couples.
08:16Standards thriving, I hear. I've had nothing but good reports.
08:20Hard week, was it? At the forefront of world news.
08:24Festive joy at armly Christmas fates.
08:27This word sells.
08:29Well, I'm glad someone finally worked at what does.
08:32The newspaper's been a liability for us for years, but you've made it pay.
08:36I thought the plan was, when you took over the paper, that it would be nothing but hard-hitting journalism.
08:41This will be my stirring editor as about German defence spending for January.
08:48Dinner time. And drinks, perhaps? Yes, please. Drinks, plural.
08:53Oh, and then some kind of parlor game.
08:55Father wants to play a jolly game, Aunt Olivia. What do you think?
08:58Happy families. Weak murder.
09:00Jowls.
09:03Leave him.
09:06I'm going out.
09:14It's Christmas Eve.
09:15Does the casino never close?
09:17Listen, have you got any cash?
09:20None for you to lose.
09:22I thought the mill was back on an even keel.
09:26Since Marlboro, hasn't it felt like being underwater?
09:37Yes.
09:41Are you getting yourself into trouble?
09:44Christ.
09:45The interest these lone people charge open.
09:47They're villains.
09:49Hamilton Equitable, they call themselves.
09:51Now they're threatening me with demands for repayment.
09:55My father mustn't know whether.
09:58I've all but promised them my firstborn.
10:02My boxing day.
10:05But tonight I have a sure thing.
10:07I can make it all back.
10:08And more.
10:10Please.
10:11Hmm?
10:12That paper.
10:14Such a financial triumph.
10:15Hmm?
10:18Please.
10:19Please.
10:30Please.
10:52I'm Barry, I'm Barry!
11:12Look at this pretty one, Daddy!
11:14Wow, that is lovely.
11:16Right, where can we put this one?
11:18There?
11:18Or higher?
11:20Higher, higher!
11:21Higher, you say?
11:22Well, look at this!
11:23Goodness!
11:24Oh, here you are, at last.
11:26You must be exhausted.
11:28Now, where's my favourite girl?
11:29No, down, down, no!
11:33Let's get another one.
11:35Oh, you've already hung the stockings.
11:38Edwina wanted to do them before her baby brother went to bed.
11:41Of course.
11:42And, she's been working so hard.
11:47Just like her mum.
11:49Well, the tree looks beautiful.
11:52You've an eye for it, love.
11:54But, there's a gap here, look.
11:57Can we just move this bobble?
11:59No, I want it there! No!
12:01We had found just the right spot for it, haven't we, sweetheart?
12:05Clever girl.
12:06It's perfect just where you put it.
12:07What about this one, Daddy?
12:10Right, where shall we put that?
12:12Up there?
12:12Okay, let's try.
12:15Okay, let's try.
12:16Not much for good.
12:23Come on.
12:50Safeway tucked up?
12:51On her back, mouth open.
12:53The kit's got his blanket.
12:56We were packed today, sold all of the fresh stuff.
12:59Just a load of beef and potato pies left in the stockroom I need to shift.
13:07Joe, have you thought any more about the shops?
13:09Hmm?
13:11Hardly allowed to these days, am I?
13:13You're welcome to be as involved as you like in the shops.
13:16Am I?
13:17And what about your other businesses, the ones that I'm not allowed to know about?
13:20What other businesses?
13:23Anyway, you've got your garden.
13:25And your books.
13:27Big reader.
13:28That's right, I'm sure that's what the neighbours think of me.
13:33No.
13:35What I meant was...
13:38Have you thought about me buying the shops?
13:40Having all three in my name?
13:42Have the money put away?
13:43And I want to pay.
13:46But...
13:48Or a Christmas present.
13:50It'd be a shorter one.
13:52I like my name on all of the deeds.
13:54I'm sorry to break it to you.
13:56But for almost two years, we've had the same name.
14:01You know what I mean.
14:02I know that it's time for bed.
14:04I'll kiss the children for you, shall I?
14:06I always kiss the children.
14:08I kiss them all the time.
14:09You do?
14:09Yes.
14:12Outside of trading hours.
14:42I'll see you next time.
14:59How was your short thing?
15:01I'm sure things like marriages.
15:02Only fools expect they'll work out.
15:04I need more time.
15:05I'd throw myself at the mercy of these.
15:07Come on to an equitable people.
15:09Make me see sense.
15:10Man to man.
15:12I'll be late for lunch.
15:13Don't tell father.
15:25Oh, so good.
15:43Could have had the maids come in to at least do dinner.
15:45They don't have families of their own to be with.
15:47And you don't?
15:50Run up to Christmas.
15:51Obviously, the shop comes first.
15:54But I must say, I did hold back to the...
15:56They have a million things to do.
15:58But you sit.
15:59Please.
16:00Sit.
16:03What time did you get up?
16:05I was hoping we might get to, er...
16:07lie-in.
16:08I fall short in that department.
16:10Daddy!
16:10No, I just meant...
16:12Cake, cake, cake!
16:13She's wanting the Yule log.
16:15No, love.
16:16We don't have chocolate for breakfast.
16:18And the Yule log's for later, so...
16:19It's Christmas.
16:20No, Jo, she mustn't.
16:23Not the whole thing.
16:25Where's the...
16:25Don't give it to her!
16:28Now, look!
16:29The waste!
16:35It looks like you've got this under control.
16:38Anyone want to play a game?
16:45Copy just over there.
16:47No, I'm not sure.
16:55Just trying to fill the gaps a bit.
16:59When we were children, Adele and I used to decorate place settings with people's names.
17:05Which cost nothing, of course.
17:07I didn't know if Edwin and Gerald would think it a bit silly.
17:10Too much, probably.
17:12You were doing a wonderful job.
17:17I just wanted to make it, well, if not perfect, then at least bearable.
17:26Where would we have been without you these last few years?
17:30And before that, I realized, for years, decades, we're always there.
17:45Well, Olivia...
17:51Is that a...
17:52Adele's ring, yes.
17:54She'd be so glad for you to have it.
17:58Darling, will you be my wife?
18:17Oh, yes.
18:25Now...
18:26They're the boys.
18:28Why is...
19:15Oh, not today, Charlotte. What's to do there if it's shut?
19:19I'm fetching another Yule log. Also, I've had an idea about those beef and potato pies.
19:24They need shifted.
19:24Emma, it's Christmas Day.
19:25Be back soon, love.
19:26No, I'm gone.
19:45You look lovely.
19:49I suppose we should go downstairs.
19:52Yes, I don't want you to look like we're hiding.
20:00But first...
20:18It's beautiful.
20:22Thank goodness.
20:25It was a risk, but I know with my mother, remembering's good.
20:34And last year, our first Christmas, we hardly knew each other.
20:38So I can't even remember what I got you.
20:41Something unimaginative, I expect, like chocolates.
20:56I love them.
21:00Oh, never mind the Balkans.
21:04Ask with.
21:05Ask with his real threat.
21:06No telling me that if the French went to war, he wouldn't follow them without a second force.
21:10Like a shot, but it won't come to that.
21:12Well, that'll ask his wife.
21:14Ask with tells everything to his wife.
21:16And Lloyd George tells everything to other people's wives.
21:23Speaking of wives...
21:31...share them.
21:42Oh.
21:44Congratulations.
21:50Edwin, I know that this must be...
21:52I'm making an honest woman out of her, Edwin.
21:55And she is making me...
21:56The happiest man in the world?
21:59Oh.
22:00Oh.
22:02Oh.
22:04Oh.
22:06Oh.
22:10Oh.
22:11Oh.
22:17Oh.
22:25You really must release yourself of it, Olivia.
22:28It's a shame of yours, this guilt.
22:34It's exhausting.
22:43Excuse me, I have a bit of a headache.
22:50Your brother didn't say many things to join us.
23:14I have a bit of a headache.
23:3557 High Street, is that right?
23:37What are you doing here?
23:39I can ask you the same.
23:40But the gold letters outside give you away.
23:44Why have you come, Joel Fairley?
23:45Mr Fairley, to you.
23:48I have a letter.
23:50For Hamilton Equitable.
23:51Then I'd better take it.
23:56I've got places to be, even if you don't.
23:58Muld wine, mince pies and the like.
24:00So hand over the letter, you've gone to all the trouble of bringing me, and take your leave.
24:04You're Hamilton Equitable?
24:06You're in the money-lending business?
24:08Only to you.
24:09Heard you got yourself into trouble, as the weak often do, and saw an opportunity.
24:12Now get out of my shop, leave any correspondence you have on the mat, and I'll reply after Christmas.
24:17This is the best Christmas present I could ever have.
24:19Well, this hears me thinking that I had to pay that money back.
24:22To Hamilton Equitable, some kind of real firm.
24:25No, it's real, all right.
24:26Some little jumped-up housemaid bearing a grudge because she got rejected is no real business.
24:30Take that up with the team of lawyers who have verified my interest rates and the contract you signed.
24:35Now get out of my shop.
24:37I don't want that money back tomorrow, I've agreed.
24:41You're clever, don't you?
24:44Where's the child, Emma Hart?
24:47I haven't got a child.
24:48Oh, come on.
24:49Where's the child you had that belongs to my brother?
24:51I did not have your brother's baby.
24:54Did you?
24:56You're nothing but a whore.
24:58A good one.
24:59I have no doubt.
25:01But nonetheless, a whore.
25:03Edwin told me the whole story tale.
25:05Late one night, tears in his eyes.
25:07I don't know what story he's told you or himself, but I didn't have Edwin's child.
25:11Does your father know how much debt you're in?
25:13I have your game, Emma Hart.
25:16I know it's common practice with tramps from the working class that you'll turn up with your child at some
25:20stage to blackmail our family.
25:22Well, you've had enough money out of me.
25:28You know Edwin's married now, don't you?
25:32Not that his wife gives him what he wants.
25:37Not like you did, I'm sure.
25:40I saw how stuck on you Edwin was.
25:43So I imagine you know how to move those lips of yours, don't you?
25:46Oh, come on.
25:47They were not willingly enough for Edwin, didn't you?
25:49And I'm not about ticking his seconds.
25:53What's the matter?
25:54I was like you already any time of day or night.
25:57It's your Christmas spirit, Emma Hart.
25:59I can see you.
26:00Put on your little dress for me.
26:01Get off!
26:02I used to see you in my hands.
26:05Watch it!
26:07Come on.
26:08I used to know what you wanted.
26:10And so did I.
26:11So did I.
26:13Yes, you do.
26:14I know you.
26:15I can tell.
26:38That is the final deposit in the settlement of my account.
26:49Get out, because I mean that I will kill you.
26:52I will.
26:53I like a tiger.
26:55I like you wild.
26:56Emma Hart.
26:58You are nothing, Gerald Feli.
27:00You are an insignificant man who's had every advantage his whole life.
27:04Yet the only way you feel like a winner is to use physical strength for approximately 15 seconds.
27:10Well, your body might be stronger than mine, but your resolve never will be.
27:13Your filthy animal needs will never match the lust, the fire that burns inside of me, because my desire is
27:20destruction.
27:21And I'll never stop, not ever, not till I've ruined you and every other member of your self-absorbed, privileged
27:27and spineless family.
27:28You boring little tramp.
27:30And ask for the money you owe.
27:31Check your contract.
27:32I'm calling in your collateral.
27:37You, you, you couldn't.
27:38One signature from me, and it's done.
27:40When I sign that paper, every brick of Fairleigh Mill will belong to me.
27:44And I'll leave it up to you to explain to your dad why you put it up as security, because
27:47this is just the start.
27:49I won't stop making your family pay, till every Fairleigh living mourns the day they ever heard the name Emma
27:54Hart.
28:00So happy Christmas, Cheryl Fairleigh, from all Hamilton Equitable and Houghton Enterprises.
28:21Oh, my God.
28:45Oh, my God.
29:09I got the Yule log.
29:10Well, that's good, because we're going to need all the supplies that we can get.
29:14Sure, if there'd been no Yule log, I'd have had my coat on and be striding out that door.
29:19What's a Yule log?
29:23You came.
29:26You're here.
29:30You're happy Christmas.
29:34Morning, you all right?
29:37I am now.
29:39Mark's got a surprise if it's on.
29:46Oh, I'm sorry.
29:49Hello.
29:51Emma, this is Laura, my friend.
29:56A special friend.
29:58Is it that great news?
30:00It is.
30:01Of course it is.
30:03I kept telling Mac it wasn't a day of French Productions, but you know what he's like.
30:09He did tell you I was coming.
30:18And for goodness sake, let's have a drink, shall we?
30:28Oh.
30:32Oh!
30:35Oh!
30:38Oh!
30:45Oh!
30:48Oh!
30:49Oh!
30:50Oh!
30:51Oh!
30:53Oh, my God.
31:25Oh, my God.
32:02Am I an ill-mannered brute?
32:04No warning.
32:06And an uninvited guest in tow.
32:09Oh, a dreadful brute.
32:10Always.
32:14You're always, always welcome.
32:19That's the one you've introduced, so I'm guessing Laura's not like the others.
32:23The many others.
32:24That's nice.
32:25A lot of it.
32:27I barely know any girls at all.
32:36Not in danger of settling down, are you?
32:40Jane O'Neill.
32:43Sure.
32:44It takes a special learn to get a proposal from me.
32:49And my heart.
32:52Do I still have a wife?
32:55Presents?
32:55We've waited long enough.
32:56Yes.
32:57Yes.
32:58No.
32:59No.
33:03No.
33:04No.
33:13No.
33:16No.
33:17No.
33:32Later on, Pat.
33:33You can't give a man a present and not let him open it.
33:37What is it, Daddy?
33:39My love, your gift is outside the front of the house.
33:43Is it a treasure hunt?
33:45Treasure hunt! Treasure hunt!
33:48I'll pause. I mean, what needs to be kept cold?
33:51A beer?
33:52Not a beef and potato pie.
33:59Daddy, look! Is it for you?
34:02Not for me.
34:05No, Emma!
34:06I know you want to be.
34:08Yeah, but I never dreamed it...
34:12Have you seen this?
34:14The car from my beautiful, hard-working wife.
34:19No more hardship for Emma Hart, eh?
34:20Oh, that's all right!
34:22Well done, my morning.
34:24Let's go for an adventure!
34:35I have an unimaginative gift I need help with.
34:39Thanks.
34:40My husband hasn't shown his devotion to me with cheap chocolates.
34:44These are definitely mid-range.
34:54I don't agree with everything Mr. Fairley says, but I'm sure he's right that your sister would want you to
35:02be happy.
35:04Who knows what a doll would have wanted?
35:08She didn't know herself, I suspect.
35:12All I know is how strange it feels with her gone.
35:18It's as if everything's gone dark.
35:24People leave us, but the love doesn't.
35:28You think you can't stand it, the grief.
35:32Then one day it starts to become bearable.
35:36The sun comes out.
35:40Olivia!
35:43Where have you gone to?
35:45Olivia!
35:51We can look for it ourselves all we like, but what we're all hoping for is that love finds us.
35:57Don't you think?
36:00Real love.
36:02The kind you don't have to question.
36:26No, thank you.
36:29You saw Edwin's reaction.
36:31He was horrified.
36:32And if we think that anyone at all will feel any differently, then we're lying to ourselves.
36:37I mean, for God's sake, I don't feel any differently.
36:39It is horrifying.
36:42So, I can't do it.
36:43I'm sorry.
36:44I can't.
36:55So it was all for nothing then?
37:00No.
37:02Videl's death.
37:04You broke your sister's heart.
37:07She drank herself to death.
37:09We all lost her.
37:10We all suffered this unimaginable, utter misery.
37:14But for no reason.
37:23Olivia, if we don't legitimize this, if we don't show the world that you and I weren't just fooling around,
37:33then how do you explain what the hell you're still doing here?
37:37What's been going on in this house?
37:41How do we explain it to the boys?
37:54How do we explain it to the boys?
38:08Merry Christmas.
38:09What are we playing, so I'll show you?
38:23How do we explain it to the boys?
38:24What are we playing, so I'll show you?
38:24What are we playing?
38:25What are we playing?
38:25What are we playing?
38:26What are we playing?
38:47That car was some present.
38:50Joe deserves some consolation for his absentee wife.
38:54And he deserves not to feel stuck.
38:59Also, you deserve a husband who can speed you up and down in a fancy sports car.
39:06He did want a car.
39:08It's just that maybe he wanted other things more.
39:18It can be lonely.
39:22Am I right?
39:25Having purpose.
39:27Being so certain every day.
39:31Not everyone understands.
39:33So, it can be lonely.
39:42Laura's wonderful.
39:44She's a good woman.
39:46Seems stuck on you.
39:49Can you blame the girl?
39:50No.
39:53She's not Michael's, though.
39:55Well, what relief.
39:56Well, she wants her a quiet life.
39:58Although, did you see her in the passenger seat?
40:01Screaming, she was.
40:04She's a dark horse.
40:05Yes.
40:06Tell you that.
40:12I'm glad you like her, though.
40:13Well, that's important.
40:21I'm buying the shops from Joe.
40:23All of them.
40:25And I've got myself a present, too.
40:34You're looking at the new owner of Fairley Mill.
40:41Because when you're busy making sacrifices every day, you deserve the odd reward.
40:50You're doing it, Emma.
40:52Oh, you're doing this.
40:53I am.
40:55I am.
40:56And I'm only just beginning.
41:06Check the shops.
41:09Emma.
41:09I want to.
41:10Please.
41:11Feel safe.
41:16How was it?
41:18Oh.
41:19She's a dream.
41:20The car ran the wife.
41:24I wanted you to have something you loved.
41:28So did I.
41:30Hey.
41:34Hello.
41:39Oh, you're squishing me.
41:41Watch out.
41:44How much of a boy, you know.
41:47We wanted to surprise you.
41:49Hey, didn't we?
41:50Yeah.
41:51Are you surprised?
41:53I am, our friend.
41:54I am.
41:55I am.
41:57That's more important, eh?
41:58Than family.
42:01Come here.
42:11Where the hell have you been?
42:14You've missed quite a day.
42:16Did you at least manage to buy yourself more time?
42:19Joe.
42:22Mother was the only one who thought anything of me, wasn't she?
42:26It's just about the debt.
42:28Joe.
42:29It's just money.
42:30It doesn't matter.
42:31It's gone.
42:32The mill's gone.
42:33She's taken it.
42:34Who has?
42:35Who's taken it?
42:36Your little whore.
42:38Emma Hart.
42:42Strutting around like she's anything more than just a tramp maid.
42:45And she's dangerous.
42:47She won't stop there.
42:49But we can make sure she gets what's coming to her.
42:51Can't we, Edwin?
42:55We'll remind them of heart who she really is.
42:57We'll make her sorry.
42:58Won't we?
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