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A Woman Of Substance S01E08 (2026)
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01:59Happy 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?
02:41That is.
02:45May I?
02:55Mac, isn't it?
02:57You used to work at Fairley Hall?
03:00That's right.
03:02I'm Edwin Fairley.
03:03I know...
03:04Who you are.
03:11But I've seen you at the front.
03:14With Festerbred.
03:16Eight months of senseless fighting, but that one was...
03:22You're growing high.
03:26So, off home then.
03:28Officially, it's medical discharge.
03:32But not all wounds can be managed.
03:37Yeah.
03:38Leave.
03:42To see my pregnant wife.
03:46Congratulations.
03:46And also...
03:49Emma Hart.
03:50Now, I expect you to remember.
03:52You're going to see Emma?
03:53That's right.
03:54She's plenty of space for visitors.
03:57In her big house.
04:01And you will...
04:04See Emma's family.
04:06Are you there?
04:10For your information...
04:13Emma's husband...
04:15Joel Lowther.
04:19He didn't make it.
04:26I'm...
04:26Sorry to have...
04:28Emma doesn't need your sympathies.
04:30She's managed just fine without anything from you.
04:48Well.
04:50Good luck to you.
04:56It was.
04:58A grim night.
05:00A Festerbred.
05:04A grim night.
05:07A grim night.
05:24Good morning.
05:44I'm sorry.
05:46I'm sorry.
05:47I'm sorry.
05:47I'm sorry.
06:01It's all well to have everything.
06:09They just thought I needed to come home.
06:13Well, here you are.
06:26My God, Edwin!
06:31Your father looks dreadful.
06:33At least he's out of bed today.
06:36Is there a problem?
06:38It's money.
06:40Money's the problem.
06:41Yeo's left, right and centre.
06:43The house is up for sale.
06:45What?
06:46Why?
06:47He won a huge uniform contract from some old school friend, but he over-promised.
06:53Emma Hart has our mill and he's run out of vapours, so there's absolutely no way he can fulfil the
06:58order.
07:00But it'll be better now you're back.
07:03Why?
07:05Because now all this will be down to you.
07:10Anyway, you didn't come here to see me.
07:12Priya?
07:13No, please, don't.
07:15I don't know.
07:16Olivia, I have been thinking that we're both our sex, mine and Priya's.
07:23I ought to just set her free.
07:41I'll be closing up for good if I don't go heavier and people not paying bills.
07:44I have to start sending telegrams to those that owe us.
07:47And if they can't, I'll have to start charging interest.
07:49No choice, I'm either.
07:50No choice.
07:51No choice.
08:18So, a baby?
08:22I've never had one of those before, have you?
08:30Our mill isn't the only thing Emma Hart has that belongs to you.
08:34How does she think she is, eh?
08:41So, how was it?
08:45France?
08:47Which camaraderie is there, eh?
08:50You and the lads?
08:53Hmm?
08:56I've...
08:57That's all I want to do.
08:58Oh?
08:59Hmm.
09:02So, where do they send you home?
09:09Because it's not all singing.
09:15It's made me think about what we leave behind.
09:20I'd like the people that come after us.
09:24Our children.
09:26Grandchildren.
09:28To at least know we were here.
09:31I suppose.
09:34The main thing we'll leave.
09:36All of us.
09:38Our name.
09:43And this house?
09:45Oh, yes.
09:48Not if I would kind of hang on to it.
09:50We weren't.
09:53Emma Hart has a lot to answer for.
10:24I'll see you next time.
10:54What if Eberhard
10:55isn't just the cause of our problems
10:57what if she's the solution
11:00I think I've got the answer
11:03You know
11:05I saw him once
11:07Joe
11:10In France
11:12I came round
11:13a corner one night and there he was
11:16Helmet pushed back
11:18Rifle on his knee
11:20With a photo of you
11:23In his hand
11:26Were you just saying that?
11:28No
11:29It was Joe
11:32And he'd hold himself up
11:33on a box of corned beef
11:37No time
11:38to eat it he said
11:39Or he could at least keep his arse dry on it
11:49And then
11:52Everything
11:54Started off again
11:59The shoot
12:00I lost track of him
12:10Can I tell you something?
12:13Anything
12:20When I got the telegram
12:22We were in the hall
12:23And I saw Laura's face
12:27And I knew
12:29I just knew that it was black news
12:35And I thought
12:40It's okay
12:41I know
12:43You miss him
12:44I know
12:45No you don't
12:46You don't know
12:48Let me say it
12:51I knew that
12:52I knew that it was bad news
12:56And I thought
12:59That it was you
13:02I did
13:05And I couldn't breathe
13:06Like
13:09But then she showed it to me
13:12And I saw that it was addressed to me
13:14And not her
13:17And that inside it said his name
13:20Joe Lauver
13:26And I was relieved
13:30Is that the worst thing you ever heard?
13:33Oh Joe
13:36I was desperate
13:37Of course
13:37I couldn't bear that it was him
13:40But my first thought
13:41When I saw his name
13:42Was
13:44Oh thank God
13:46Thank God
13:47It's not back
13:55I understand
13:58I do
14:05Of course
14:05Because we're the same
14:08Aren't we?
14:14So
14:15I always understand
14:34Gone beef
14:35Gone beef
14:50I have an assistant today
14:52Mrs. Grisham
14:52Aren't I lucky
14:54And look
14:55We're packed here for fruitcake
14:56Which she can make with barely any fat
14:57And not one egg
14:59I'm calling it wildcake
15:03Oh my girls
15:04I'll eat cake all day long
15:05With his letter
15:08Why do you say
15:10I'll look proper
15:11Apart from how it's done
15:16Mrs. Hart
15:18Mrs. Hart
15:24I'll have to close it up for a while
15:25Mrs. Grisham
15:26Take one of the packs of cake ingredient
15:28Let me know what you know about
15:29I think
15:30Well thank you
15:32Bye bye Dweena
15:33Have fun helping your mum
15:34Bye bye
15:46Hello
15:48Hello
15:54Dweena
15:54Dweena
15:57Dweena why don't you go upstairs
15:58Deslof sort through that box of wood
15:59Didn't see what she liked best
16:01I'm allowed
16:02Of course
16:03Go on up
16:04Go on
16:04Go on
16:16Well I've broken an oath then
16:18Sorry I'd never see you again for as long as I lived
16:24We all make promises
16:25We can't keep
16:28Drops usually busier than this
16:31But there's a war on
16:32I don't know if you've heard
16:33I did
16:35I'm so sorry
16:36I heard about your husband
16:39Did you hear about all the husbands
16:40It's not just mine
16:46Well you'll have seen for yourself
16:55Emma
16:58All those things
17:02Miracle
17:04Everything you wanted
17:06Your plan with the capital P
17:09That's right
17:10I'm a success
17:12And what are you
17:13Edmund Fairley
17:14Fool
17:16An idiot coward
17:17Does I cover it
17:19Hardly
17:23Emma
17:25Every bit of hatred
17:26You feel for me
17:28All the resentment
17:29The bitterness
17:30The anger
17:32I felt it for myself
17:33I promise you
17:35Every day
17:37And not a moment's past
17:38Where I haven't wished I could go back
17:42To that rose garden
17:45And say something different
17:51Like what?
17:53Like marry me
17:56Like it'll be alright
17:58Like I'll take care of you
17:59I'll make sure nobody hurts you
18:00Like I love you
18:00Emma
18:03And I'll spend the rest of my life
18:04Making sure I'm by your side
18:07Well I'd have probably had the baby
18:08By the time you got all of that out
18:10Emma please
18:11I'm
18:12I'm not here to fight
18:14I've spent enough of that
18:17When I let you down that day
18:19I started a feud
18:20Which should never have gone
18:21As far as it has
18:24So I've come here today
18:25To end it
18:34I hear you have a warehouse full of cloth
18:36And no use for it
18:38That's right
18:39It was meant to fulfill the contract
18:40That your father stole from me
18:42Well
18:44What we have
18:45What the Fairleys have
18:47Is that contract
18:48But
18:50The cloth
18:52Or mill
18:54And Emma
18:56You're a businesswoman now
19:02A partnership
19:04Our contract
19:05Your mills
19:08Fairleys and ours
19:10Together we can make that contract work
19:12For every uniform we produce
19:14You'll get a pound
19:15And so will we
19:19Emma I don't know how your business is
19:20Faring through all of this
19:22But
19:23Ours is barely afloat
19:27But
19:28If we join forces
19:30Both of us can
19:33Take care of our families
19:38Doesn't a pact make sense?
19:45Come to lunch
19:48You please
19:50On Saturday
19:50As our honoured guest
19:54No pressure
19:54We can talk it all through
19:59Emma
20:01More
20:02It's miserable
20:06Imagine how it feels
20:07If we
20:09Could lay down our weapons
20:13Just
20:15End it
20:18A ceasefire
20:21Truth
20:25What do you say?
20:36Well
20:37How did it go?
20:40She bought it
20:55This deal could be the answer
20:56Mac
20:57If I can get a pound of uniform
20:58I won't have to close anything
21:00I can pay the wages
21:01Not lay anyone off
21:03There'll be no profit
21:04But it might just get us through
21:05To the end of the war
21:06Sure
21:06I'd bet on you above all
21:08Dasquiff
21:08Any day of the week
21:11But a partnership
21:12With the Fairleys
21:13I would have spat
21:15If someone suggested it
21:16Before now
21:17Can you trust them?
21:20Never before
21:21Never
21:24But for the children
21:26Shouldn't I be fighting
21:27On a different front now?
21:29Open, open
21:32Is that us at the shop?
21:34Yeah
21:35Come here
21:38Isn't it beautiful?
21:40I love it so much
21:42I love it so much
21:43I love it so much
21:48I love it so much
21:49I love it so much
21:51I love it so much
21:53I love it so much
21:57I love it so much
21:57I love it so much
21:59I love it so much
22:01I love it so much
22:01I love it so much
22:01I love it so much
22:01I love it so much
22:02I love it so much
22:02I love it so much
22:02I love it so much
22:02I love it so much
22:03I love it so much
22:04I love it so much
22:04I love it so much
22:05I love it so much
22:06I love it so much
22:09I love it so much
22:10I love it so much
22:12If I could come in.
22:19Standard slipped?
22:21Oh, no. I'm sure they haven't.
22:24They came because I'm coming here on Saturday for lunch.
22:28I heard.
22:30And when I do, I'll be coming in through the front door.
22:34Well, I'll be sure to be careful with your coat.
22:37I was imagining I was going to feel sitting up there.
22:42And I know I'll just be desperate to see it all down here.
22:47To remember.
22:50So I came here today, in any case, to talk to Master Edwin.
22:55Work out possible terms and so on.
22:58And I wanted to come round this way,
23:01so nobody thinks I've any airs or graces.
23:09And why not, in my heart?
23:12Hmm?
23:13I'd say you've earned a few airs from what I hear.
23:16You've justified the odd grace or two and all.
23:18Marise you, bud.
23:21Made something of yourself, haven't you?
23:27Well done, lass.
23:29Well done.
23:33And I didn't know your dad well.
23:37I keep myself to myself.
23:40But I reckon Jack Hart would have been pleased as punch.
23:55Well, I had to go and...
23:58They think we're wallpaper, of course.
24:02Walking those rooms up there in silence,
24:05they forget that staff are people.
24:09And people have ears.
24:15This partnership is...
24:17It's not what you think.
24:20Master Edwin has got you...
24:23right where he wants you.
24:42Do you know I'm leaving you?
24:46What?
24:47Why?
24:49You lied to me.
24:50About Adele.
24:52It was not my fault.
24:54I am not responsible for my sister's death.
24:57And I have to be able to grieve.
24:59I have to get away from here, away from you.
25:01Don't be ridiculous, one of you.
25:02Where will you go?
25:03I'll stay until the alliance is signed, for the boy's sake.
25:06But when your contract and your house are no longer at risk,
25:09when the war is over,
25:12I will be looking for peace.
25:34Do you think you're going somewhere for a bit of peace and quiet?
25:38Frank!
25:40What are you doing here?
25:42I'm up here every week.
25:44You're not the only one that misses you.
25:47How's school?
25:49You got your final exams?
25:50Yeah, well, I bet they're going to make me into a professor or something.
25:53Or awards, probably.
25:55That's what happens when you get top marks.
25:58King, I think, isn't it?
26:00Yeah.
26:01Something like that.
26:05So what are you doing up here, then?
26:06Panicking?
26:08No.
26:11I'm just wondering what to do, is all.
26:13Oh, no.
26:16What?
26:16I knew this would happen.
26:17You've got money now.
26:19You can spend time thinking.
26:21But look, they love to just sit around,
26:23watching the sky,
26:25wondering.
26:26That's not who we are.
26:27Get on with it.
26:29Don't waste time thinking,
26:30or what if I do this.
26:31What if I spend this on a golden fountain,
26:34or whatever.
26:35All you've done,
26:36is lost precious minutes,
26:38and you could have been trusting your gut.
26:40Isn't that what my mother said?
26:45A golden fountain?
26:48That's what rich people have, isn't it?
26:51What have you got instead?
26:53Massive warehouse full of cloth.
26:55That's your golden fountain.
26:57That's what you're doing.
26:59That's what you're doing.
27:02Frank,
27:03will you be all right?
27:04Oh, always.
27:05I've just planned up a hill on my own.
27:07Are you trusting your gut?
27:08Full of your gut, yeah?
27:09Yeah.
27:14Go on, Emma!
27:17Woo!
27:30Go on, Emma!
27:31Go on, Emma!
27:46Oh, my God.
28:43Oh, my God.
29:08Oh, my God.
29:11And I'm quite sure it's delicious.
29:15But I have something I'd like to say.
29:21Edwin, you made me a proposition.
29:24That's right. A partnership.
29:26Will you fulfill the uniform contracts together?
29:29Well, that all sounds very sensible.
29:31As a team, is that right? Proceeds split down the middle?
29:34Absolutely.
29:35For every uniform, a pound for you.
29:37And a pound for you.
29:38Yes.
29:40That's what you said.
29:43Only, Edwin, that's not what you're planning, is it?
29:47Well...
29:48I believe your actual plan is a pound for me and five pounds for you.
29:52For every uniform.
29:53Isn't that right?
29:55Sell the offer over the odds, give me the bare minimum, and cream off the majority of the profit for
29:59yourself.
30:00That's what you're planning, Edwin, isn't it?
30:05Tell me the truth.
30:09I had to do something.
30:10You're planning to suffocate my business.
30:13But when you forgot to mention you have a baby on the way, so I expect that explains all the
30:16plotting, doesn't it, Edwin?
30:18Because I know you're not the type to ever leave a child of yours out in the cold.
30:22What does she mean?
30:25Edwin?
30:26Emma, I...
30:26I'm still talking.
30:28I went to see Lord Acton today, Mr Fairley, your chum, and I told him that you Fairleys were playing
30:33him for a fool.
30:34What the hell is happening? What are you saying?
30:35But it's not just me and your old schoolmate you're shot-changing, is it?
30:38You won't be paying your workers a living wage, and you'll be doing our soldiers dirty, too, because the uniforms
30:42you make will be low quality.
30:44Are we really allowing her to speak to us in this way?
30:46I will be coming to you, Gerald Fairley.
30:48I told Lord Acton that you Fairleys aren't getting a scrap of cloth from me.
30:52And if he thinks there's the slightest chance that this war will go on into 1916,
30:56then there's only one person who's got the mills, the factory, the materials, and the gang of skilled working women
31:02to fulfill his contract for years to come.
31:05So he gave me the money up front.
31:12How dare you.
31:17What makes you think one little, worthless maid can come after generations of...
31:23What? Rich, entitled men?
31:25She's doing this to get back at Edwin.
31:26Because he didn't want her.
31:28You think I've gone through all of this for someone as unimportant to me as Edwin Fairley?
31:32It's not just him I'm coming for.
31:33It's all of you.
31:35Squire Fairley, the way you treat yourself is a disgrace.
31:38But it's nothing to the way you treated my mother.
31:41My mother died when she needn't have, and you stood by and did nothing.
31:44Despite everything that went on between the two of you, she thought of you till her dying breath, and you
31:49thought of her never.
31:51And you let my father down too.
31:53My father died in your mill through your mismanagement.
31:56And what's worse, he died saving your coward of a son.
31:59Would you have done the same for him, Edwin, hmm?
32:02Mrs Fairley, I understand that's your name now.
32:05You stole my dress designs and you stole them without giving me a moment's credit.
32:08Emma, I have always tried to be reasonable.
32:10Oh, you might have spared me a kind word now and then, but kind words do not put food on
32:13the table.
32:15And finally, Squire Fairley, we come to your other son.
32:19Who's not just a coward.
32:21He's a dangerous monster.
32:24A weasel of a man who preys on women in a vain attempt to feel strong in the face of
32:29his own overwhelming weaknesses.
32:31Why?
32:33Why are you doing this?
32:35For my mother.
32:37For my father.
32:38For everyone who's ever worked in your house or your mill.
32:41I would not be so grand as to claim I'm representing all working folk, but by God I will speak
32:45up for them.
32:45While every one of you stands by idle and watches as the world around you slides into being more and
32:51more broken.
32:52Oh, and I haven't told you the best bit.
32:55I haven't told you what I spent the money on that Lord Acton gave me up front.
33:07Hello Fairleys.
33:09Fancy seeing you here.
33:20I bought this house.
33:24What do you mean?
33:25I mean, I'm the new owner of Fairley Hall, so take this as your eviction notice.
33:29Edwin Fairley, I was all set to lower myself to be your partner today.
33:34It's the second time that's nearly happened.
33:36But five years ago, you let me down.
33:38And today, you plan to take me down and leave me there.
33:41I will never forgive you.
33:45Please, all of you loyal staff, take this lunch home to your families.
33:50And all of you Fairleys, get out of my house.
34:08There is a fatal flaw in your scheme, of course.
34:13You underestimated me.
34:16I've had times of great adversity in my life, and I believe many of you think I mention them rather
34:23too much.
34:23I didn't say that.
34:25I only...
34:25Nothing I have ever experienced prepared me for the ungrateful betrayal of my own children.
34:33Mother, I've been just desperate to talk to you to explain...
34:36Yet my phone hasn't run, Elizabeth.
34:39Now, Edwina, Kit, Robin, Elizabeth, the four of you schemed together to discredit me.
34:49I might have had a grudging respect for you had you been more subtle or creative.
34:54But today, I'd like to thank you.
34:58Because your treachery has made me see that something does need to change.
35:03You don't trust me, and that has hit home.
35:10So, I've changed my will, so that when I die, none of you will receive a penny.
35:16Oh, what does not a penny even mean?
35:19Now, today, I'd like to offer you all a choice.
35:22Either you fight on and continue to feed those hateful lies about me to the press...
35:26Or what?
35:27Or you take these.
35:30It's a cheque each for a million pounds.
35:33A drop in the bucket, what you would have received, of course.
35:37And for God's sake, don't mistake them for gifts.
35:41I am buying you, all of you.
35:44If you accept these cheques, you are agreeing to drop the whole ghastly plot...
35:51...and never contest any of my wishes.
36:00Mother, what are you doing?
36:02Wendy, what's going on?
36:04Now, there's been much discussion over the years as to which my children might take over my businesses.
36:10My signature on this piece of paper here means that debate can stop.
36:14Because now, all of it, every inch, belongs to Paula.
36:25No, no.
36:27Wendy, I...
36:27Oh, we've had our disagreements, of course, darling.
36:31The odd distraction.
36:33But you've moved on.
36:35You've always put the business first.
36:37Paula, you're the one I've trained.
36:41You're the one I trust, and you've proven time and time again to be the worthy successor.
36:49And now it's done.
36:52Now, here are your contracts.
36:54So, the four of you, come and sign them and take your cheques.
36:58Or leave with nothing.
37:09Paula, you've chosen Paula.
37:12She shall get the lot.
37:13And I shall get nothing.
37:14Nothing but the allowances from my ex-husbands.
37:17How fortunate you have six of them.
37:31I barely even spoke to any journalists.
37:33I was hardly up to lunch.
37:35I don't even eat lunch.
37:38It's a trick, isn't it?
37:40You're asking us whether we'd like to give up or fight on.
37:43Well, I believe the Emma Hart way is to fight on.
37:45Isn't that right?
37:49What's happening here, Edwina?
37:52Are you attempting to begin a feud like mine?
37:56Or would you just like a million pounds and for this all to be over?
38:18Paula will now take my place on the board at Cytex Oil.
38:22She'll also take over every one of my shares at Hart Stalls and Hart Enterprises.
38:26Paula owns this how she owns the lot.
38:29It was always going to be her.
38:32Nobody else reminds me so much of myself.
38:36And what better compliment could there be?
38:41Could you step outside for a moment, Edwina?
38:45I have something for you.
38:51What is it?
38:53Some information for you, Edwina.
38:57Regardless of what it says on your birth certificate.
39:01Your father isn't that lowly Irishman, as you put it.
39:05It says Mac's name on it, quite clearly.
39:08Because Mac was, and always has been, the best man there is.
39:16But your father is Edwin Fairley.
39:29Why didn't you tell me?
39:31Because I knew you'd receive it like a gift.
39:35And because I knew that would break my heart.
39:38So, the famous Fairley feud.
39:43This is why.
39:46Every member of the Fairley family has let down every one of mine.
39:52You've turned out to be living proof that no Fairley can ever be trusted.
39:59Even Fairleys you gave birth to turn on you in the end.
40:16All signed.
40:18This is hard.
40:21What's your secret?
40:23Oh, the same as it's always been, my dear.
40:27To end your...
40:28Oh, the same as it's always been, my dear.
40:34Oh, the same as it's always been.
40:36Oh, the same as it's always been.
40:51Oh, the same as it's always been.
41:11Hey! Hey there, Emma Hart! How dare you? This is my house, it's my home!
41:17Not anymore!
41:19This will always be my hunt. It's got my name on it. So you might have won for now.
41:24Ferry Hall might be yours for a short time.
41:25But don't ever make the mistake of stopping looking over your shoulder.
41:29Because if you think this feud has been brutal up to now, you haven't seen anything yet.
41:32I'm involved now!
41:34And soon I'll have a family of my own.
41:36So I promise you, whether it's next year or in 50 years, when you're least expecting it,
41:42somehow the bellies will take back this house.
41:53Paula!
41:56Paula!
41:58Brandy!
41:59Why didn't you tell me the reason for your Fairly feud?
42:02And why didn't you tell me you were...
42:04You were giving it all to me?
42:06Because I knew you'd object.
42:09But now it's all yours.
42:12Paula, I trust you unreservedly.
42:16Despite that, ill-judged dalliance of yours with Jim Fairly.
42:20Hey!
42:22Hey there!
42:24Emma Hart!
42:29Did I startle you?
42:31Rude of me, of course, I apologize.
42:34And on your birthday, too.
42:36But I gather this is a family event, and I've been upstairs waiting to join my wife.
42:47It was a whim.
42:48A counter-strike.
42:50After you and I fell out, I was so determined you wouldn't...
42:54You wouldn't underestimate me.
42:55Hey, you married Jim Fairly.
42:59I was going to tell you today, I had no idea you were planning on signing it all over to
43:04me.
43:05I'm so sorry.
43:06I know, I know I should have...
43:09But...
43:12I love him.
43:16And?
43:23We're having a baby.
43:26Strictly speaking, it will be Paula having a baby, I believe.
43:30But...
43:30You belong to both of us, of course.
43:34What's hers is mine, and all that.
43:38You belong to both of us.
43:40We belong to both of you.
43:45You belong to both of us.
43:48So, do you all want to give each other time you're back?
43:49Thanks.
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