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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.
00:31Any 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, and also...
00:47No, no, not work calls.
00:49Calls 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, you're my honeybee.
01:17Come on and see me.
01:18You're feeling better.
01:21I miss her, of course.
01:23But better than before.
01:26Better than?
01:27How fucking dare she?
01:29Yeah, but 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.
01:37People that we love do that.
01:40Let me try to kiss me, boy.
01:42Free me, baby.
01:44Free me, or you're on fire.
01:45I love you.
01:48Jim, baby.
01:51I tried to stop.
01:54I don't think it works like that.
02:01Go home, Jerry, and tell that boyfriend of yours when his show opens.
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.
02:20Have we met?
02:22I'm Emma Hart.
02:33I'll be right back.
03:02I'll be right back.
03:31I'll be right back.
03:34Mr. Klinski, do we have any Turkish Delight left?
03:37Oh, I don't imagine so.
03:38There's been such a run on it from all the big houses on the hill.
03:41You wouldn't believe how popular it's been.
03:43The fancy housekeepers have taken two boxes.
03:46But might we find one for Mrs. Easton, do you suppose?
03:55Oh, and you'd be wise to add a tin of pork and one more jar of applesauce, I think.
04:05You're welcome.
04:08Good evening.
04:10Emma, it's Christmas Eve.
04:13Imagine there are stockings that need hanging, trees that need decking.
04:16Oh, tell Edwina I've put one extra sugar mouse in your basket just for her so she is not to
04:23share.
04:23Yeah, I can close up.
04:25You get going.
04:29Oh, I have an ulterior motive.
04:31I'm planning to steal cheese.
04:32Take whatever you can carry.
04:34And I mean it.
04:35I know your family's probably finished celebrating now that Panicca's over,
04:38but we'd love you and Flora to join us tomorrow.
04:41Joe's complaining he can't see kitchen surfaces for food.
04:44Oh, Frank can't come.
04:45Too busy working for his exams.
04:47And Mac's been goodness knows where for months.
04:50Mac always has a mystery girl at a party in every town.
04:53Both mainly.
04:54So no, no one's coming.
04:56Which means there'll be plenty of room for you both if...
04:58Emma, I don't...
05:00I've been happy to help out here over the last couple of years, but...
05:05I can't just pretend to be a regular friend of your family.
05:10I can't.
05:11Merry Christmas, David.
05:40Merry Christmas, David.
05:50Merry Christmas, David.
05:51I think they're here.
05:52I just, um, I didn't...
05:54I'm sorry, I'm...
05:55I'm sorry, I'll leave...
05:57No, don't.
05:58I love you.
05:59Please.
06:01Stay.
06:07I don't come in here often.
06:10I quite understand how occasionally it could be helpful to...
06:16She's everywhere.
06:22It's wretched potions of hers.
06:27Always mysterious.
06:31It's difficult this week, particularly.
06:33She loved Christmas.
06:36Yes.
06:39Yes.
06:41Oh, no.
06:43There's...
06:43Yeah.
06:44Sit down.
06:45It's all right.
06:47Yeah.
06:47Sit.
06:54There's so many different versions of her on every wall.
06:59She loved it.
07:02I can't bear one mirror most days.
07:07It's all right.
07:08It's all right.
07:10It's all right.
07:31I don't know.
07:31Sit down.
07:33They'll be wondering where...
07:34They'll be wondering where...
07:34They will be wondering where...
07:36...but...
07:37We should c-
07:39As we leave,
07:52Please.
08:05Welcome. You made it. It's been an age since you visited.
08:10Aunt Olivia.
08:10Oh, I love your earrings, Olivia.
08:12Thank you. Happy Christmas.
08:14You're here. Good.
08:17It's just me and the happy couples.
08:22Standard's thriving, I hear.
08:23I've had nothing but good reports.
08:25Hard week, was it?
08:27At the forefront of world news.
08:29Festive joy at armly Christmas fate.
08:33This word sells.
08:34Well, I'm glad someone finally worked there with us.
08:37The newspaper's been a liability for us for years, but you've made it pay.
08:41I thought the plan was, when you took over the paper, that it would be nothing but hard-hitting journalism.
08:46I'm saving my stirring editorials about German defence spending for January.
08:53It's been a time.
08:54And drinks, perhaps?
08:55Yes, please.
08:56Drinks, plural.
08:58Oh, and then some kind of parlour game.
09:00Father wants to play a jolly game, Aunt Olivia.
09:02What do you think?
09:03Happy families?
09:05Wink murder?
09:06Gerald.
09:08Leave him.
09:12I'm going out.
09:19It's Christmas Eve.
09:20Does the casino never close?
09:22Listen, have you got any cash?
09:25None for you to lose.
09:28I thought the mill was back on an even keel.
09:33Since Mother, uh...
09:36Hasn't it felt like being underwater?
09:43Yes.
09:46Are you getting yourself into trouble?
09:49Christ.
09:50Interest these lone people charge up and they're villains.
09:54Hamilton Air Quitable, they call themselves.
09:56Now they're threatening me with demands for repayment.
10:00My father mustn't know.
10:02But, uh...
10:04I've all but promised them my firstborn.
10:07By Boxing Day.
10:11But tonight I have a sure thing.
10:12I can make it all back.
10:13And more.
10:15Please.
10:16Hmm?
10:18That paper.
10:19Such a financial triumph.
10:21Hmm?
10:23Please.
10:26Please.
10:28What?
11:04I'm Barry, I'm Barry.
11:24Look at this pretty one, Daddy.
11:26Wow, that is lovely.
11:28Right, where can we put this one?
11:29There?
11:30Or higher?
11:31Higher, higher.
11:32Higher, you say?
11:33Well, look at this.
11:35Goodness.
11:36Oh, here you are, at last.
11:38You must be exhausted.
11:39Now, where's my favourite girl?
11:41No, no, no, no!
11:45Let's get another one.
11:46Oh, you've already hung the stockings.
11:49Well, Edwina wanted to do them before her baby brother went to bed.
11:53Of course.
11:54And she's been working so hard.
11:59Just like her mum.
12:01Well, the tree looks beautiful.
12:03You've an eye for it, love.
12:06But there's a gap here, look.
12:08Can we just move this bobble?
12:10No, I want it there, no!
12:12Oh!
12:13We had found just the right spot for it, haven't we, sweetheart?
12:16Clever girl.
12:17It's perfect just where you put it.
12:19What about this one, Daddy?
12:21Right, where shall we put that?
12:23Up there?
12:25Okay, let's try.
12:26Bye.
12:27Love, bye.
12:28Don't forget it.
12:30Bye.
12:34Jane, come up.
12:38Woah!
13:02Safely tucked up?
13:03On her back, mouth open.
13:05Kit's got his blanket.
13:07We have a pack today, sold all of the fresh stuff.
13:10Just a load of beef and potato pies left in the stock room I need to shift.
13:18Joe, have you thought any more about the shops?
13:22Hardly allowed to these days, am I?
13:24You're welcome to be as involved as you like in the shops.
13:27Am I?
13:28And what about your other businesses, the ones that I'm not allowed to know about?
13:31What other businesses?
13:34Anyway, you've got your garden.
13:37And your books.
13:39Big reader.
13:40That's right, I'm sure that's what the neighbours think of me.
13:44No.
13:46What I meant was...
13:49Have you thought about me buying the shops?
13:51Having all three in my name.
13:54I've the money put away.
13:55And I want to pay.
13:58But...
13:59For a Christmas present.
14:01If you're short of one.
14:03I like my name on all of the deeds.
14:06I'm sorry to break it to you.
14:08But for almost two years, we've had the same name.
14:12You know what I mean.
14:14I know that it's time for bed.
14:16I'll kiss the children for you, shall I?
14:18I always kiss the children.
14:19I kiss them all the time.
14:20You do?
14:21Yes.
14:23Outside of dreading hours.
15:25Don't tell father.
15:55I could have had the maids come in to at least do dinner.
15:57They have families of their own to be with.
15:58And you don't?
16:02Run up to Christmas.
16:03Obviously the shop comes first.
16:06But I must say I did hope that today...
16:08They have a million things to do.
16:09But you sit, please.
16:11Sit.
16:15What time did you get up?
16:16I was hoping we might get to, er...
16:19lie-in.
16:20I'm going to fall short in that department.
16:22No, I just meant...
16:25She's wanting me all long.
16:27No, love, we don't have chocolate for breakfast.
16:29On the Yule Logs for later, so...
16:31It's Christmas.
16:32No, Jo, she mustn't.
16:35Not the whole thing.
16:36Where's the house?
16:37Don't give it to her!
16:39Now look!
16:40The waste!
16:47It looks like you've got this under control.
16:50Anyone want to play a game?
16:57Love, we're just over there.
16:58You've got that in there, so...
17:01Good chance.
17:07Just trying to fill the gaps a bit...
17:10When we were children, Adele and I used to decorate place settings with people's names.
17:16Which cost nothing, of course.
17:19I didn't know if Edwin and Gerald would think a bit silly.
17:21Too much, probably.
17:23You were doing a wonderful job.
17:28I just wanted to make it, well, if not perfect, then at least bearable.
17:37Where would we have been without you these last few years?
17:42And before that, I realise, for years, decades, we're always there.
17:54Oh, Olivia.
18:03Is that...
18:03Adele's ring, yes.
18:05She'd be so glad for you to have it.
18:09Darling.
18:11Will you be my wife?
18:14I...
18:16Yeah.
18:36Now, they're the boys.
19:12Now, they're the boys.
19:27Oh, not today, surely.
19:29What's to do there if it's shut?
19:30I'm fetching another Yule log.
19:33Also, I've had an idea about those beef and potato pies.
19:35They need shifted.
19:36Emma, it's Christmas Day.
19:37Be back soon, love.
19:38Okay, I'm gone.
20:03You look lovely.
20:07I suppose we should go downstairs.
20:10Yes, I don't want you to look like we're hiding.
20:17But first...
20:35It's beautiful.
20:40Thank goodness.
20:43It was a risk, but I know with my mother, remembering's good.
20:52And last year, our first Christmas, we hardly knew each other.
20:56So I can't even remember what I got you.
20:59Something unimaginative, I expect.
21:00Like chocolates.
21:13I love them.
21:17Mmm.
21:20Oh, never mind the Balkans.
21:22Ask with.
21:23Ask with is the real threat.
21:24No telling me that if the French went to war, he wouldn't follow them without a second thought.
21:28Like a shot, but it won't come to that.
21:30Well, better ask his wife.
21:32Ask with tells everything to his wife.
21:34And Lloyd George tells everything to other people's wives.
21:41Speaking of wives, show them.
22:00Oh, congratulations.
22:08Edwin, I know that this must be...
22:10I'm making an honest woman out of her, Edwin.
22:12And she is making me...
22:14The happiest man in the world.
22:22Congratulations.
22:25Aunt Olivia.
22:43You really must release yourself of it, Olivia.
22:46This shame of yours, this guilt.
22:52It's exhausting.
23:00Excuse me, I have a bit of a headache.
23:08Your brother didn't save any day to join us.
23:18I just pray for you.
23:21And you know that this sucks.
23:28You know how the SC Fighter got me because it went on.
23:5357 High Street, is that right?
23:55What are you doing here?
23:56I could ask you the same.
23:58But the gold letters outside give you away.
24:01Why have you come, Joel Fairley?
24:03Mr Fairley, to you.
24:06And I have a letter for Hamilton Equitable.
24:09Then I'd better take it.
24:14I've faced this to be, even if you don't.
24:16Muld wine, mints, pies and the like.
24:18To hand over the letter, you've gone to all the trouble of bringing me, and take your leave.
24:22You're Hamilton Equitable?
24:24You're in the money-lending business?
24:26Only to you.
24:27Heard you got yourself into trouble, as the weak often do, and saw an opportunity.
24:30Now get out of my shop, leave any correspondence you have on the mat, and I'll reply after Christmas.
24:35This is the best Christmas present I could ever have.
24:37Well, this hears me thinking that I had to pay that money back.
24:40It's Hamilton Equitable, some kind of real firm.
24:43No, it's real, all right.
24:44Some little jumped-up housemaid bearing a grudge because she got rejected is no real business.
24:48Take that up with a team of lawyers who have verified my interest rates and the contract you signed.
24:53Now get out of my shop.
24:55I don't want that money back tomorrow, as agreed.
24:59Think you're clever, don't you?
25:02Where's the child, Emma Hart?
25:05I haven't got a child.
25:06Oh, come on.
25:07Where's the child you had that belongs to my brother?
25:09I did not have your brother's baby.
25:12Think of that.
25:14You're nothing but a whore.
25:16A good one, I have no doubt.
25:18But nonetheless, a whore.
25:21Edwin told me the whole sorry tale late one night, tears in his eyes.
25:25I don't know what story he's told you or himself, but I didn't have Edwin's child.
25:29Does your father know how much debt you're in?
25:31I know.
25:32Your game, Emma Hart.
25:34I know.
25:34It's common practice with tramps from the working class that you'll turn up with your child at some stage to
25:39blackmail our family.
25:40Well, you've had enough money out of me.
25:46You know Edwin's married now, don't you?
25:50Not that his wife gives him what he wants.
25:55Not like you did, I'm sure.
25:57Oh, I saw how stuck on you Edwin was.
26:00So I imagine you know how to move those hooks of yours, don't you?
26:04Oh, come on.
26:05You gave it up willingly enough for Edwin, didn't you?
26:07And I'm not above taking his seconds.
26:10What's the matter?
26:12I was like you already any time of day or night.
26:15It's your Christmas spirit, Emma Hart.
26:17I can see you.
26:18Put on your little dress for me.
26:19Get off!
26:20I used to see you in my house.
26:23Watching.
26:25And you always knew what you wanted.
26:27So did I.
26:29So did I.
26:31Yes, you did.
26:32I know you did.
26:33I can tell.
26:34I can tell.
26:36I can tell.
26:55That is the final deposit in settlement of my account.
27:07Get out because I mean it.
27:09I will kill you.
27:09I will.
27:11I like a tiger.
27:12I like you wild.
27:14Emma Hart.
27:15You are nothing, Gerald Fairley.
27:18You are an insignificant man who's had every advantage his whole life.
27:22Yet the only way you feel like a winner is to use physical strength for approximately 15 seconds.
27:28Well, your body might be stronger than mine, but your resolve never will be.
27:31Your filthy animal needs will never match the lust, the fire that burns inside of me.
27:37Because my desire is destruction.
27:39And I'll never stop.
27:40Not ever.
27:41Not till I've ruined you and every other member of your self-absorbed, privileged and spineless family.
27:46You boring little tramp.
27:48And as for the money you owe, check your contract.
27:50I'm calling in your collateral.
27:54You, you, you couldn't.
27:56One signature from me and it's done.
27:58When I sign that paper, every brick of Fairley Mill will belong to me.
28:02And I'll leave it up to you to explain to your dad why you put it up as security.
28:05Because this is just the start.
28:07I won't stop making your family pay until every Fairley living mourns the day they ever heard the name Emma
28:12Hart.
28:17It's a happy Christmas, Gerald Fairley.
28:20More Hamilton equitable than Hart Enterprises.
28:38It's a happy Christmas, Gerald Fairley.
28:49Good morning.
28:58Good morning.
29:24Finally, the football ship's here.
29:26Oh well, getting infected.
29:34I got the Yule log.
29:36Well, that's good, because we're going to need all the supplies that we can get.
29:39Sure, if there'd been no Yule log, I'd have had my coat on and been striking out that
29:43door.
29:45What's a Yule log?
29:49You're Cain.
29:51You're here.
29:56You're happy Christmas.
30:00Good morning.
30:01You all right?
30:02I am now.
30:04Max's got a surprise of his own.
30:12Oh, I'm sorry.
30:15Hello.
30:16Emma, this is Laura.
30:19My friend.
30:22A special friend?
30:24Is it that great news?
30:26It is.
30:27Of course it is.
30:29I kept telling Mac it wasn't a day for Interproductions, but you know what he's like.
30:34He did tell you I was coming.
30:39Of course.
30:41Welcome.
30:42Welcome indeed.
30:44For goodness sake, let's have a drink, shall we?
30:53Come on.
31:06Come on.
31:07Come on.
31:11I don't know.
31:46I don't know.
32:13I don't know.
32:16I don't know.
32:27Am I an ill-mannered brute?
32:30No warning.
32:32And an uninvited guest at all.
32:35Oh, a dreadful brute.
32:36Always.
32:40You're always, always welcome.
32:45That's one you've introduced.
32:46So I'm guessing Laura's not like the others.
32:49The many others.
32:50That's nice.
32:51A lot of it.
32:53I barely know any girls at all.
33:02Not in danger of settling down.
33:04Are you?
33:06Jane O'Neill.
33:09Sure.
33:10It takes a special girl to get a proposal from me.
33:14Okay, my heart.
33:18Do I still have a wife?
33:20Presents.
33:21We've waited long enough.
33:22I don't know any girl.
33:24I don't know any girl.
33:34You're right.
33:34And now, you're waiting.
33:58later on perhaps
33:59you can't give a man a present and not let him open it
34:03what is it daddy
34:04my love your gift is outside the front of the house
34:09is it a treasure hunt
34:10treasure hunt
34:14what needs to be kept cold
34:16a beer
34:17not a beef and potato pie
34:25daddy look
34:26is it for you
34:28not for me
34:31no emma
34:32I know you want to be
34:34yeah but I never dreamed
34:35have you seen this
34:40the car from my beautiful hard working wife
34:44no more hardship for emma harsh
34:48well done my morning
35:00I have an unimaginative gift
35:03I need help with
35:04nice
35:06my husband hasn't shown his devotion to me with cheap chocolates
35:09these are definitely mid-range
35:20I don't agree with everything Mr Fairley says but
35:25I'm sure he's right
35:26that your sister would want you to be happy
35:30who knows what Adele would have wanted
35:34she didn't know herself I suspect
35:38all I know is how strange it feels with her gone
35:44it's as if everything's gone dark
35:49people leave us but the love doesn't
35:53you think you can't stand it
35:55the grief
35:57then one day it starts to become bearable
36:02the sun comes out
36:06Olivia
36:09where have you got to
36:11Olivia
36:17we can look for it ourselves all we like
36:19but what we're all hoping for is that love finds us
36:23don't you think
36:25real love
36:28the kind you don't have to question
36:51no
36:52thank you
36:54you saw Edwin's reaction
36:56he was horrified
36:58and if we think that anyone at all
37:00will feel any differently
37:01then we're lying to ourselves
37:03I mean for God's sake
37:03I don't feel any differently
37:04it is horrifying
37:06so
37:08I can't do it
37:09I'm sorry
37:09I can't
37:20so it was all for nothing then
37:27Adele's death
37:30you broke your sister's heart
37:32she drank herself to death
37:34we all lost her
37:36we all suffered this
37:38unimaginable utter misery
37:40but
37:40for no reason
37:46Olivia
37:49if we don't legitimize this
37:51if we don't show the world
37:53that you and I
37:53weren't just fooling around
37:56then
37:59how do you explain
38:00what the hell you're still doing here
38:02what's been going on in this house
38:06how
38:08do we explain it to the boys
38:30now
38:31come on
38:33it's Christmas
38:34what are we playing
38:36Schuance
38:49for my beautiful wife
38:51that leads to the shop
38:53all three
38:55all in your name
38:56Merry Christmas
38:57I want to pay for them
39:00I mean it
39:02I've all the money saved
39:04very very fast
39:12that car was some present
39:16Joe deserves some consolation
39:18for his absentee wife
39:20he deserves not to feel
39:23stuck
39:25also
39:26you deserve a husband
39:27who can speed you up and down
39:29in a fancy sports car
39:32he did want a car
39:34it's just
39:35it may be
39:36he wanted
39:37other things more
39:44it can be lonely
39:47am I right
39:50having purpose
39:52being so
39:54certain
39:55every day
39:56not everyone understands
39:58so
39:59it can be lonely
40:08Laura's wonderful
40:10she's a good woman
40:11seems stuck on you
40:14can you blame the girl
40:18she's not like us though
40:21well what relief
40:22well she wants her
40:22a quiet life
40:24although did you see her
40:25in the passenger seat
40:26screaming
40:27she was
40:29she's a dark horse
40:30yes
40:31say that
40:37I'm glad you like her
40:39so
40:41that's important
40:47I'm buying the shops from Joe
40:49all of them
40:51and I've got myself
40:52a present too
40:59you're looking at the new owner
41:01of Fairley Mill
41:06because when you're busy
41:08making sacrifices
41:09every day
41:10you deserve the odd reward
41:15you're doing it Emma
41:18you're doing it
41:19I am
41:21I am
41:22and I'm only just beginning
41:32check the shops
41:34Emma
41:35I want to
41:36please
41:36to feel safe
41:42how was it
41:43oh
41:44she's a dream
41:45the car ran
41:46the wife
41:48thank you
41:50I wanted you to have
41:51something you loved
41:53so did I
41:55hey
42:00hello
42:01oh
42:02oh
42:03oh
42:03oh
42:04oh
42:04oh
42:06watch out
42:10I'm flushing wood you know
42:12oh
42:13we don't want to get your pleasure
42:14hey don't we
42:15yeah
42:17are you surprised
42:18I am our friend
42:19I am
42:20I am
42:22that's more important eh
42:24than family
42:26I can't read it
42:37where the hell have you been
42:40you've missed quite a day
42:41did you at least manage to buy yourself more time
42:45Gerald
42:48mother was the only one who thought anything of me wasn't she
42:52it's just about the debt
42:53Gerald
42:54it's just money it doesn't matter
42:56it's gone
42:57the mill's gone she's taken it
43:00who has who's taken it
43:01your little whore
43:03Emma Hart
43:07strutting around like she's anything more than just a tramp maid
43:11and she's dangerous
43:12she won't stop there
43:14but we can make sure she gets what's coming to her
43:17can't we Edwin
43:20we'll remind Emma Hart who she really is
43:23we'll make her sorry
43:24won't we
43:25we'll be right back
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