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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.
02:42I'm Emma Hart.
02:44I'm Emma Hart.
02:53Oh, my God.
02:54Oh, my God.
02:57Oh, my God.
03:02Oh, my God.
03:03Oh, my God.
03:07Oh, my God.
03:29Mr. Kalinske, do we have any Turkish Delight left?
03:31Oh, I don't imagine so. There'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.
03:37The 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.
04:05Emma, it's Christmas Eve.
04:08Imagine there are stockings that need hanging, trees that need decking.
04:12Oh, tell Edwina I've put one extra sugar mouse in your basket just for her so she is not to
04:18share.
04:19I can close up. You get going.
04:23Oh, I have an ulterior motive. I'm planning to steal sheets.
04:27Take whatever you can carry.
04:29And I mean it. I 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.
04:39Oh, Frank can't come. Too busy working for his exams.
04:42And Mac's been goodness knows where for months.
04:45Mac always has a mystery girl or a party in every town. Both 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. I can't.
05:06Merry Christmas, David.
05:45I think they're here. I just... I didn't... I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'll leave...
05:51No, don't. Please. Stay.
06:01I don't come in here often.
06:05I quite understand how occasionally it could be helpful to...
06:08Hmm.
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. There's...
06:38Sit down. It'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.
07:01Yes.
07:02You are more beautiful every minute.
07:25We should, um, they'll be wandering where we should.
08:00Welcome!
08:01Welcome!
08:01You made it.
08:02It's been an age since you visited.
08:04Aunt Olivia.
08:05Oh, I love your earrings, Olivia.
08:08Happy Christmas.
08:09You're here.
08:11Good.
08:12It's just me and the happy couples.
08:16Standards thriving, I hear.
08:18I've had nothing but good reports.
08:20Hard week, was it?
08:21At the forefront of world news.
08:24Festive joy at armly Christmas fates.
08:27It's what sells.
08:29Well, I'm glad someone finally worked at what does.
08:32The newspaper's been a liability for us for years, Bart.
08:35You made it pay.
08:36I thought the plan was when you took over the paper that it would be nothing but hard-hitting
08:40journalism.
08:40I'm saving my story in editorials about germ defense spending for January.
08:48Dinner time.
08:49And drinks, perhaps?
08:50Yes, please.
08:51Drinks, plural.
08:52Gerald.
08:52Oh!
08:53And then some kind of parlor game.
08:55Father wants to play a jolly game, Aunt Olivia.
08:57What do you think?
08:58Happy families?
08:59Weak murder?
09:00Gerald.
09:03Leave him.
09:07I'm going out.
09:14It's Christmas Eve.
09:15Does the casino never close?
09:17Listen.
09:18Have you got any cash?
09:20None for you to lose.
09:22I thought the mill was back on an even keel.
09:27Since Mother, uh...
09:31Hasn'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 must have known, but I'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.
10:09Okay.
10:10Please.
10:11Hm?
10:12That paper.
10:14Such a financial triumph.
10:15Hm?
10:17Please.
10:29That paper.
10:30And and then again.
10:37Oh, look.
10:41This is all about sleeping.
10:42Oh, look.
10:42Oh, look.
10:45The new eyes are coming out.
10:45Oh, look.
10:46Oh, look.
10:46Oh, look.
10:47Oh, look.
10:49Oh, look.
10:49Like the Jesusiken.
10:50Oh, my God.
10:51Matthew, you're in the house.
10:51Oh, look.
10:52Oh, look.
10:52You're in the house.
10:53It's a Grand F lo.
10:53Can I hit you?
10:53Yes, man?
10:55Oh, look.
10:57Woo!
10:57Are you sure?
11:12look at this pretty one daddy that is lovely right where can we put this one there or higher
11:21well look at this goodness oh here you are at last must be exhausted now where's my favorite girl
11:29no down down no let's let's get another one oh you've we've already hung the stockings well
11:38adwina wanted to do before her baby brother went to bed of course and she's been working so hard
11:47just like a man no well the tree looks beautiful you've an eye for it love but there's a gap
11:56here
11:56look we just move this bobble no i want it there no we had found just the right spot for
12:03it haven't
12:04you sweetheart clever girl it's perfect just where you put it what about this one daddy right where
12:10shall we put that all that okay let's try
12:23come on
12:50safely tucked up on her back mouth open
12:53okay it's got his blanket we were packed today sold all of the fresh stuff just a load of beef
13:00and
13:00potato pies left in the stockroom i need to shift
13:07joe have you thought any more about the shops
13:11hardly allowed to these days am i you're welcome to be as involved as you like in the shops
13:16am i and what about your other businesses the ones that i'm not allowed to know about
13:19what other businesses anyway you've got your garden and your books
13:27big reader that's right i'm sure that's what the neighbors think of me
13:34no what 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 and i want to pay
13:46but
13:48for a christmas present
13:50be a shorter one
13:52i like my name and all of the deeds
13:54i'm sorry to break it here
13:56but for almost two years
13:58we'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 each other
14:06i always kiss the children i kiss them all the time
14:08you do yes
14:12outside of trading hours
14:13Let's go.
14:59How was your short thing?
15:01Sure things like marriages.
15:02Only fools expect they'll work out.
15:04I need more time to throw myself at the mercy of these Hamilton inequitable people.
15:09Make them see sense.
15:10Man to man.
15:12I'll be late for lunch.
15:13Don't tell father.
15:25Oh, so good.
15:28I'll be late for lunch.
15:42I'll be late for lunch.
15:51Christmas, obviously the shop comes first, but I must say I did hope that today...
15:56I have a million things to do, but you sit, please.
16:00Sit.
16:03What time did you get up?
16:05I was hoping we might get to, er, lie-in.
16:08I'm going to 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, we don't have chocolate for breakfast.
16:18And the Yule log's for later, so...
16:19It's Christmas.
16:20No, Joe, 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?
16:45Captain, just in there.
16:48Just...
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.
17:04You know, which cost nothing, of course.
17:07I didn't know if Edward 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 realised...
17:33For years...
17:36Decades...
17:36We're always there.
17:42Oh.
17:44Olivia.
17:51Is that...
17:52Adele's ring, yes.
17:54She'd be so glad for you to have it.
17:58Darling.
18:00Will you be my wife?
18:07Oh.
18:12Oh.
18:13Oh.
18:13Oh.
18:13Oh.
18:14Oh.
18:15Oh.
18:18Yes.
18:23Now.
18:26We're the boys.
18:30Yes.
18:31Yes.
18:34Yes.
18:37Yes.
18:37Yes.
18:56Let's go.
19:15Oh, not today, Charlotte.
19:17What's to do there if it's shut?
19:19I'm fetching another Yule log.
19:21Also, I've had an idea about those beef and potato pies.
19:24They need shifted.
19:24Emma, it's Christmas Day.
19:25Do you back soon, love.
19:26No, I'm gone.
19:46You look lovely.
19:49I suppose we should go downstairs.
19:52Yes.
19:53Don't want you to look like we're hiding.
19:56But first...
20:16It'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.
20:42Like chocolates.
20:56I love them.
21:02Oh, 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 thought.
21:10Like a shot, but it won't come to that.
21:12Well, better 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, share them.
21:42Oh.
21:44Congratulations.
21:50Edwin, I know 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.
22:04Congratulations.
22:07Aunt Olivia.
22:25You really must release yourself of it, Olivia.
22:28It's...
22:29What a shame of you is this.
22:31Guilt.
22:33It's...
22:34It's...
22:34It's exhausting.
22:43Excuse me, I have a bit of a headache.
22:50Your brother didn't save any time to join us.
22:55What a shame of you.
22:56I love you.
23:56My place is to be even if you don't. Muld 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? You're in the money lending business.
24:08Only to you. Heard 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.
24:19This hears me thinking that I had to pay that money back.
24:22Hamilton Equitable is 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?
24:52I did not have your brother's baby.
24:54Did you?
24:56You're nothing but a whore.
24:58A good one, I have no doubt.
25:01But nonetheless, a whore.
25:03Edwin told me the whole story tale late one night.
25:06Tears 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 know.
25:14Your 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.
25:42So 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 taking his seconds.
25:53What's the matter?
25:54I was like you already any time of day or night.
25:57As your Christmas spirit, Emma Hart, I can see you.
26:00Not in your little dress for me.
26:01Get off!
26:02I used to see you in my hands.
26:04I watched it.
26:08I knew what you wanted.
26:09And 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 Fairley.
26:59You 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.
27:19Because my desire is destruction.
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.
27:29You boring little tramp.
27:30And as for the money you owe, check your contract and call in your collateral.
27:37You couldn't?
27:38One signature from me, and it's done.
27:40When I sign that paper, every brick of Fairley 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 Fairley living mourns the day they ever heard the name Emma
27:54Hart.
28:00So happy Christmas, Gerald Fairley.
28:03From all Hamilton Equitable, and our tender prices.
28:21Ah!
28:24Ah!
28:26Oh, 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.
29:20What's a Yule log?
29:23You came!
29:25Are you here?
29:30Happy Christmas!
29:34Good morning. You all right?
29:36I am now.
29:39Mark's got a surprise if he's on.
29:46Oh, I'm sorry. Hello.
29:50Emma, this is Laura. My friend.
29:56A special friend? Is it that great news?
30:00It is. Of course it is.
30:03I kept telling Mac it wasn't a day of French Productions, but you know what he's like.
30:08He did tell you I was coming.
30:14Of course.
30:16Welcome. Welcome indeed.
30:19And for goodness sake, let's have a drink, shall we?
30:22I'm sorry.
30:28Oh!
30:39Oh, my God.
31:00Oh, my God.
31:34Oh, my God.
32:02Oh, 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.
32:14But always, always welcome.
32:19The best 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.
32:36I'm not in danger of settling down, are you?
32:40Jane O'Neill.
32:43Sure.
32:44It takes a special garden 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.
33:25No.
33:32later on perhaps
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
33:50a beer, not 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?
34:22well done, Lordy
34:23let's go for an adventure
34:35I have an unimaginative gift I need help with
34:38thanks
34:40my husband hasn't shown his devotion to me with cheap chocolates
34:43these are definitely mid-range
34:54I don't agree with everything Mr. Fairley says, but
34:59I'm sure he's right
35:01that your sister would want you to be 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 got her?
35:45Olivia!
35:51we can look for it ourselves all we like
35:53but
35:54what we're all hoping for is that love finds us
35:57don't you think?
35:59real love
36:02the kind you don't have to question
36:08no
36:27thank you
36:29you saw Edwin's reaction
36:31he was horrified
36:32and if we think that anyone at all will feel any differently
36:35then we're lying to ourselves
36:37I mean, for God's sake, I don't feel any differently
36:38it is horrifying
36:41so
36:42I can't do it, I'm sorry
36:43I can't
36:55so it was all for nothing then?
37:01I can't do it, I can't do it
37:02Adele's death
37:04you broke your sister's heart
37:06she drank herself to death
37:09we all lost her
37:10we all suffered this
37:12unimaginable, utter misery
37:14but
37:15for no reason
37:21Olivia
37:23if we don't
37:24legitimize this
37:25if we don't
37:26show the world
37:27that you and I
37:28weren't just
37:28fooling around
37:31then
37:33how do you explain
37:35what the hell you're still doing here?
37:37what's been going on in this house?
37:40how
37:42do we explain it to the boys?
37:45how do we explain it to the boys?
38:13come on
38:24for my beautiful wife
38:25the deeds the shop
38:28all three
38:29all in your name
38:30Merry Christmas
38:31I want to pay for them
38:35I mean it
38:36I've all the money saved
38:47that car was some present
38:51Joe deserves some consolation
38:52for his absentee wife
38:55and he deserves not to feel
38:58stuck
38:59also
39:00you deserve a husband
39:01who can speed you up and down
39:03in a fancy sports car
39:06he did want a car
39:08it's just
39:09it may be he wanted
39:11other things more
39:18it can be lonely
39:21am I right?
39:25having purpose
39:26being so
39:28certain
39:29every day
39:30not everyone understands
39:32so
39:33it can be lonely
39:43Laura's wonderful
39:45she's a good woman
39:46seems stuck on you
39:48can you blame the girl?
39:53she's not
39:53Michael's
39:54well
39:55what relief
39:56well she wants her
39:57a quiet life
39:58although
39:59did you see her
39:59in the passenger seat
40:00screaming
40:01she was
40:04she's a dark horse
40:05yes
40:05tell you that
40:12I'm glad you like her
40:13though
40:15that's important
40:21I'm buying the shops
40:22from Joe
40:23all of them
40:25and I've got myself
40:26a present too
40:34you're looking at the new owner
40:35of Fairley Mill
40:41because when you're busy
40:42making sacrifices
40:43every day
40:44you deserve the odd reward
40:49you're doing it Emma
40:52oh
40:52you're doing it
40:53I am
40:55I am
40:56and I'm only just beginning
41:06check the shops
41:08Emma
41:09I want to
41:10please
41:11feel safe
41:16how was it
41:17oh
41:19she's a dream
41:20the car ran the wife
41:23thank you
41:24I wanted you to have
41:25something you loved
41:28so did I
41:30hey
41:34hello
41:36oh
41:36oh
41:37oh
41:37oh
41:38oh
41:39oh
41:39oh
41:39oh
41:39oh
41:40oh
41:40oh
41:41oh
41:44oh
41:45oh
41:46oh
41:47oh
41:47we wanted to surprise you
41:49hey
41:49didn't we
41:49yeah
41:51are you surprised
41:52I am our friend
41:54I am
41:54I am
41:56that's more important
41:58eh
41:58than family
42:01come here
42:11where the hell
42:12where the hell have you been
42:14you've missed quite a day
42:16did you at least manage to buy yourself more time
42:19Gerald
42:22mother was the only one who thought anything of me wasn't she
42:26it's just about the debt
42:28Gerald
42:29it's gone
42:29it's just money
42:30it doesn't matter
42:30it's gone
42:32the mill's gone
42:33she's taken it
42:34who has
42:35who's taken it
42:36your little whore
42:37Emma Hart
42:42strutting around like she's anything more than just a tramp maid
42:45and she's dangerous
42:46she won't stop there
42:49but we can make sure she gets what's coming to her
42:51can't we Edwin
42:54we'll remind them of her
42:56if she really is
42:57we'll make her sorry
42:58won't we
43:22but we'll make her story
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