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A Woman of Substance (2026) Season 1 Episode 6


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00:04And of course I shall be in Rome next month, so I look forward to discussing your thoughts on my
00:11proposals in person.
00:13Meanwhile, my assistant will be booking my next week's appointments, as I shall only be on my business trip for
00:20another three days at most.
00:24The doctors say a week, at least.
00:28Nobody must know, Gerry. Any weakness just plays into their hands. I shall only be on my business trip for
00:35another three days, at most.
00:38And also, have there been any calls, Gerry?
00:45Hundreds. I've had Psytex on the phone day and night, and also...
00:48No, no. Not work calls. Calls from the family.
00:52I've not let anyone know you're ill, Mrs. Hart, at your instruction.
00:57Of course.
00:59We both know there's someone who would want to be informed.
01:03If Paula knew you were ill, she'd be frantic.
01:20Are you feeling...
01:22Better.
01:23I miss her, of course.
01:26But better than before.
01:28Better than...
01:30How fucking dare she?
01:32Yeah, but actually, how dare she?
01:34Telling me who to love, then just swanning off on some mystery trip.
01:38She makes me so fucking angry.
01:41People that we love do that.
01:48I love you.
01:52Jim.
01:53I tried to stop.
01:59But I don't think it works like that.
02:06Go home, Gerry, and tell that boyfriend of yours, when his show opens, I shall be wanting front row seats.
02:13Mrs. Hart, might this be a sign?
02:17To join an exercise class?
02:20To slow down.
02:21Take a holiday, or two.
02:23Have a rest.
02:26Have we met?
02:28I'm Emma Hart.
02:49Have a hard day.
02:51I'm back.
02:57You just need a night.
03:02Are you guys over here?
03:03I'mdzie?
03:03I'm a stranger.
03:04Oh, my God.
03:30Oh, Merry Christmas.
03:39Hello.
03:41Nice to see you again.
03:43Mr Kalinski, do we have any Turkish delight left?
03:46Oh, I don't imagine so.
03:48There's been such a run on it from all the big houses on the hill.
03:51You wouldn't believe how popular it's been.
03:53The fancy housekeepers have taken two boxes.
03:56But might we find one for Mrs Easton, do you suppose?
04:06Success!
04:07Well then, I'd better take both.
04:11Oh, and you'd be wise to add a tin of pork and one more jar of applesauce, I think.
04:16You're welcome.
04:19Good evening.
04:22Emma, it's Christmas Eve.
04:24Imagine there are stockings that need hanging, trees that need decking.
04:29Oh, tell Edwina I've put one extra sugar mouse in your basket just for her, so she is not to
04:35share.
04:36I can close up.
04:37You get going.
04:41Oh, I have an ulterior motive.
04:43I'm planning to steal cheese.
04:45Take whatever you can carry.
04:46And I mean it.
04:48I know your family's probably finished celebrating now that Hanukkah's over, but we'd love you and Flora to join us
04:52tomorrow.
04:54Joe's complaining he can't see kitchen surfaces for food.
04:57Oh, Frank can't come.
04:58Too busy working for his exams.
05:00And Mac's been goodness knows where for months.
05:03Mac always has a mystery girl or a party in every town.
05:06Both mainly.
05:08So no, no one's coming.
05:10Which means there'll be plenty of room for you both if...
05:12Emma, I don't...
05:14I've been happy to help out here over the last couple of years, but...
05:19I can't just pretend to be a regular friend of your family.
05:23I can't.
05:25Merry Christmas, David.
06:06I think they're here.
06:08I just...
06:09I didn't...
06:10I'm sorry.
06:12I'm sorry.
06:13I'll leave.
06:13No, don't.
06:14I love you.
06:15Please.
06:17Stay.
06:24I don't come in here often.
06:27But I quite understand how occasionally it could be helpful to...
06:31Hmm.
06:34She's everywhere.
06:40There's wretched potions of hers.
06:46Always mysterious.
06:49It's difficult this week, particularly.
06:53She loved Christmas.
06:55Yes.
07:01Oh, no.
07:02I'm sorry.
07:03Sit down.
07:04It's all right.
07:06Sit.
07:14There's so many different versions of her on every wall.
07:18She loved it.
07:22I can't bear one mirror most days.
07:27Yet you are more beautiful every minute.
07:36She is his spirit...
07:39She feels good, I've never thought.
07:43But she was good, one day when she fires me...
07:50She feels good.
07:53You don't teach her?
07:56I can't.
07:57I can't.
08:29Welcome. You made it. It's been an age since you visited.
08:33Aunt Olivia.
08:34Oh, I love your earrings, Olivia.
08:36Thank you. Happy Christmas.
08:38You're here. Good.
08:41It's just me and the happy couples.
08:46Standards thriving, I hear. I've had nothing but good reports.
08:49Hard week, was it? At the forefront of world news.
08:53Festive joy at armly Christmas fate.
08:57This is what sells.
08:58Well, I'm glad someone finally worked out what does.
09:02A lot of newspapers have been a liability for us for years, but you've made it pay.
09:06I thought the plan was, when you took over the paper, that it would be nothing but hard-hitting journalism.
09:11I'm saving my stirring editorials about German defence spending for January.
09:19Dinner time.
09:20And drinks, perhaps?
09:21Yes, please.
09:22Drinks, plural.
09:23Oh, and then some kind of parlour game.
09:26Father wants to play a jolly game, Aunt Olivia.
09:28What do you think? Happy families? Weak murder?
09:32Gerald.
09:35Leave him.
09:38I'm going out.
09:45It's Christmas Eve.
09:47Does the casino never close?
09:49Listen, have you got any cash?
09:52None for you to lose.
09:55I thought the mill was back on an even keel.
10:00Since Mother, uh...
10:04Hasn't it felt like being underwater?
10:11Yes.
10:14Are you getting yourself into trouble?
10:17Christ.
10:18The interest these lone people charge, Edmund.
10:21They're villains.
10:22Hamilton Equitable, they call themselves.
10:25Now they're threatening me with demands for repayment.
10:29And Father mustn't know.
10:30But, uh...
10:33But I've all but promised them my firstborn.
10:37It's my boxing day.
10:40But tonight I have a sure thing.
10:42I can make it all back.
10:43And more.
10:45Please.
10:46Hmm?
10:47That paper.
10:49Such a financial triumph.
10:50Hmm?
10:53Please.
11:22Come on, let's go.
11:36I'm Perry, I'm Perry!
11:37Can you do this one?
11:41Are you sure?
11:56Look at this pretty one, Daddy.
11:59Wow, that is lovely.
12:00Right, where can we put this one? There?
12:04Or higher? Higher, higher!
12:06Higher, you say?
12:07Well, look at this! Goodness!
12:09Oh, here you are, at last.
12:11You must be exhausted.
12:13Now, where's my favourite girl?
12:15No, down, down, no!
12:19Let's get another one.
12:20Oh, you've already hung the stockings.
12:24Well, Edwina wanted to do them
12:25before her baby brother went to bed.
12:27Of course.
12:28And she's been working so hard.
12:33Just like her mum.
12:36Well, the tree looks beautiful.
12:39You've an eye for it, love.
12:41But there's a gap here, look.
12:44We just moved this bobble over here.
12:45No, I want it there! No!
12:48We had found just the right spot for it, haven't we, sweetheart?
12:52Clever girl.
12:53It's perfect just where you put it.
12:55What about this one, Daddy?
12:57Right, where shall we put that?
12:59Up there?
13:00Okay, let's try.
13:11Come on.
13:14Come on.
13:15Come on.
13:34Come on.
13:39Come on.
13:40Come on.
13:42It's not open.
13:43Kit's got his blanket.
13:45Mm-hmm.
13:46Could we have a pack today?
13:47Sold all of the fresh stuff.
13:48Just a load of beef and potato pies left in the stockroom.
13:51I need to shift.
13:57Joe, have you thought any more about the shops?
14:00Hmm?
14:01Hardly allowed to these days, am I?
14:04You're welcome to be as involved as you like in the shops.
14:06Am I?
14:07And what about your other businesses?
14:09The ones that I'm not allowed to know about?
14:11What other businesses?
14:14Anyway, you've got your garden.
14:16And your books.
14:19Big reader.
14:20That's right.
14:20I'm sure that's what the neighbours think of me.
14:24No.
14:26What I meant was...
14:29Have you thought about me buying the shops?
14:32Having all three in my name?
14:34Have the money put away?
14:35And I want to pay.
14:39But...
14:40For a Christmas present,
14:42if you're short of one,
14:44I like my name and all of the deeds.
14:47I'm sorry to break it to you.
14:49But for almost two years,
14:51we've had the same name.
14:54You know what I mean.
14:55I know that it's time for bed.
14:58I'll kiss the children for you, shall I?
14:59I always kiss the children.
15:01I kiss them all the time.
15:02You do, yes.
15:05Outside of trading hours.
15:08I run after him,
15:08There, there, there.
15:36I'll get aeters for that.
15:36And then we will go.
15:55How was your sure thing?
15:57Sure things like marriages.
15:58Only fools expect they'll work out.
16:00I need more time.
16:02I'd throw myself at the mercy of these Hamilton-equitable people.
16:05Make them see sense.
16:06Man to man.
16:08I'll be late for lunch.
16:10Don't tell father.
16:23Oh, so good.
16:26Oh, my God.
16:41I could have had the maids come in to at least do dinner.
16:43They have families of their own to be with.
16:45And you don't run up to Christmas.
16:50Obviously, the shop comes first.
16:53But I must say, I did hope that today...
16:55Today I have a million things to do.
16:56But you sit, please.
16:59Sit.
17:02What time did you get up?
17:04I was hoping we might get to, er, lay-in.
17:08I'm going to fall short in that department.
17:09No, I just meant...
17:11Kate, Kate, Kate!
17:13She's wanting the Yule log.
17:15No, love, we don't have chocolate for breakfast.
17:17And the Yule log's for later, so...
17:19It's Christmas.
17:21No, Jo, she mustn't.
17:23Not the whole thing.
17:24Oh, where's the house?
17:26Don't give it to her!
17:28Now, look!
17:29The waste!
17:36It looks like you've got this under control.
17:39Anyone want to play a game?
17:47Love, you're just over there.
17:48You've got that with this one.
17:49Yeah.
17:51Don't check this out.
17:57Just trying to fill the gaps a bit.
18:01When we were children,
18:02Adele and I used to decorate place settings
18:05with people's names.
18:07Which cost nothing, of course.
18:09I didn't know if Edward and Gerald
18:11would think it a bit silly.
18:12Too much, probably.
18:14You're doing a wonderful job.
18:20I just wanted to make it, well,
18:21if not perfect, then at least bearable.
18:29Where would we have been without you
18:31these last few years?
18:33And before that,
18:35I realise,
18:36for years,
18:38decades,
18:40you're always there.
18:46Olivia.
18:48Olivia.
18:56Is that a...
18:57Adele's ring, yes.
18:58She'd be so glad for you to have it.
19:03Darling,
19:05will you be my wife?
19:08I...
19:09Yeah.
19:12Oh, ho, ho, ho.
19:29Now,
19:32where are the boys?
19:34I...
20:09Oh, wow.
20:12Oh, not today, surely.
20:26What's to do there if it's shut?
20:28I'm fetching another Yule log.
20:30Also, I've had an idea about those beef and potato pies.
20:33They need shifting.
20:33Emma, it's Christmas Day.
20:34Be back soon, love.
20:36No, no, I'm gone.
21:02You look lovely.
21:06I suppose we should go downstairs.
21:09Yes.
21:10Don't want it to look like we're hiding.
21:14But first...
21:35It's beautiful.
21:37Oh, thank you.
21:41Thank goodness.
21:44It was a risk, but I know with my mother, remembering's good.
21:54And last year, our first Christmas, we hardly knew each other, so I can't even remember what
21:59I got you.
22:01Something unimaginative, I expect, like chocolates.
22:17I love them.
22:22Oh, never mind the Balkans.
22:25Oh, never mind the Balkans.
22:25Asquith.
22:26Asquith is the real threat.
22:27You're telling me that if the French went to war, he wouldn't follow them without a second
22:30thought.
22:31Like a shot, but it won't come to that.
22:33Like a shot.
22:33Well, better ask his wife.
22:35Asquith tells everything to his wife.
22:37And Lloyd George tells everything to other people's wives.
22:45Speaking of wives...
22:54Share them.
23:05Oh.
23:07Congratulations.
23:13Edwin, I know this must be...
23:15I'm making an honest woman out of her.
23:18and she is making me the happiest man in the world.
23:30Congratulations, Aunt Olivia.
23:50You really must release yourself of it, Olivia.
23:53This shame of yours, this guilt.
23:59It's exhausting.
24:08So, excuse me, I have a bit of a headache.
24:16Your brother didn't save any day to join us.
24:45I'm sorry.
25:0357 High Street, is that right?
25:06What are you doing here?
25:07I could ask you the same.
25:09But the gold letters outside give you away.
25:12Why have you come, Joel Fairley?
25:14Mr Fairley, to you.
25:17And I have a letter for Hamilton Equitable.
25:21Then I'd better take it.
25:25My place has to be, even if you don't.
25:27Muld wine, mince pies and the like.
25:29To hand over the letter,
25:30you've gone to all the trouble of bringing me,
25:32and take your leave.
25:34You're Hamilton Equitable?
25:36You're in the money-lending business.
25:38Only to you.
25:39Heard you got yourself into trouble, as the weak often do,
25:41and saw an opportunity.
25:42Now get out of my shop,
25:44leave any correspondence you have on the mat,
25:45and I'll reply after Christmas.
25:47This is the best Christmas present I could ever have.
25:50Well, this hears me thinking that I had to pay that money back.
25:52But Hamilton Equitable is some kind of real firm.
25:56I know it's real, all right.
25:57Some little jumped-up housemaid bearing a grudge because she got rejected is no real business.
26:01Take that up with the team of lawyers who have verified my interest rates and the contract you signed.
26:06Now get out of my shop.
26:09And I want that money by tomorrow as agreed.
26:13Think you're clever, don't you?
26:16Where's the child, Emma Hart?
26:19I haven't got a child.
26:20Oh, come on.
26:21Where's the child you had that belongs to my brother?
26:24I did not have your brother's baby.
26:26Thank you for that.
26:29You're nothing but a whore.
26:30A good one.
26:31I have no doubt.
26:33But nonetheless, a whore.
26:36Edwin told me the whole sorry tale.
26:38Late one night.
26:39Tears in his eyes.
26:40I don't know what story he's told you or himself,
26:42but I didn't have Edwin's child.
26:44Does your father know how much debt you're in?
26:47I know.
26:47Your game, Emma Hart.
26:49I know.
26:50It's common practice with tramps from the working class
26:52that you'll turn up with your child at some stage to blackmail our family.
26:56Well, you've had enough money out of me.
27:02You know Edwin's married now, don't you?
27:07Not that his wife gives him what he wants.
27:11Not like you did.
27:13I'm sure.
27:15I saw how stuck on you Edwin was.
27:17So I imagine you know how to move those hips of yours, don't you?
27:21Oh, come on.
27:22You gave it up willingly enough for Edwin, didn't you?
27:24And I'm not about taking his seconds.
27:28What's the matter?
27:29I was like you already any time of day or night.
27:32It's your Christmas spirit, Emma Hart.
27:34I see you.
27:35Put on your little dress for me.
27:37Get off!
27:37I used to see you.
27:39I used to see you in my house.
27:40I'm watching.
27:43And you always knew what you wanted.
27:45And so did I.
27:47So did I.
27:49Yes, you do.
27:50I know you do.
27:52I can tell.
27:54Noice.
27:57Noice.
28:11Noice.
28:14That...
28:16Noice...
28:18Noice...
28:19Noice...
28:20That...
28:27Get out, because I mean it. I will kill you. I will.
28:31I like a tiger. I like you wild. Emma Hart.
28:36You are nothing, Cheryl Fairley.
28:39You are an insignificant man who's had every advantage his whole life.
28:43Yet the only way you feel like a winner is to use physical strength for approximately 15 seconds.
28:49Well, your body might be stronger than mine, but your resolve never will be.
28:53Your filthy animal needs will never match the lust, the fire that burns inside of me, because my desire is
29:00destruction.
29:01And I'll never stop, not ever, not till I've ruined you and every other member of your self-absorbed, privileged
29:07and spineless family.
29:08You boring little tramp.
29:10And as for the money you owe, check your contract. I'm calling in your collateral.
29:17You couldn't?
29:18One signature for me, and it's done.
29:21When I sign that paper, every brick of Fairley Mill will belong to me.
29:25And I'll leave it up to you to explain to your dad why you put it up as security, because
29:28this is just the start.
29:30I won't stop making your family pay till every Fairley living mourns the day they ever heard the name Emma
29:35Hart.
29:41It's a happy Christmas, Gerald Fairley, from all Hamilton Equitable and Hart Enterprises.
29:56Go!
29:57Go!
29:59Go!
30:04No!
30:05No!
30:35Yeah.
30:51Finally! Shop all ships here.
30:54All well? Feeling better?
31:02I got the Yule log.
31:04Well, that's good, because we're going to need all the supplies that we can get.
31:07Sure, if there'd been no Yule log, I'd have had my coat on and striden out that door.
31:13What's a Yule log?
31:17You came.
31:25Happy Christmas.
31:28No warning. You all right?
31:31I am now.
31:33Max got a surprise of his own.
31:42Oh. I'm sorry. Hello.
31:46Emma, this is Laura. My friend.
31:51A special friend?
31:54Isn't that great news?
31:56It is. Of course it is.
31:59I kept telling Mac it wasn't a day for introductions, but you know what he's like.
32:05He did tell you I was coming.
32:10It is.
32:11Of course.
32:12Welcome.
32:13Welcome indeed.
32:15And for goodness sake, let's have a drink, shall we?
32:18I'll but it will wait a night.
32:21I am tea, anders.
32:24And again.
32:31I am for Amy.
32:38Thank you attribué.
32:52Come on.
33:21Come on.
34:04Am I an ill-mannered brute?
34:06No warning.
34:08And an uninvited guest at all.
34:10Oh, a dreadful brute.
34:13Always.
34:17But always, always welcome.
34:22That's one you've introduced.
34:23So I'm guessing Laura's not like the others.
34:26The many others.
34:27That's nice.
34:28The lot of it.
34:30I barely know any girls at all.
34:40Not in danger of settling down, are you?
34:44Jane O'Neill.
34:47Sure.
34:49It takes a special girl to get a proposal from me.
34:53Okay, my heart.
34:57Do I still have a wife?
34:59Presents.
35:00We've waited long enough.
35:03I'll be there for you.誰o?
35:14No? No?
35:14No?
35:14No?
35:20No?
35:22No?
35:27No?
35:28No?
35:31No?
35:39Later on, Pat.
35:40You can't give a man a present and not let him open it.
35:44What is it, Daddy?
35:46My love, your gift is outside the front of the house.
35:50Is it a treasure hunt?
35:52Treasure hunt! Treasure hunt!
35:55Outdoors? I mean, what needs to be kept cold?
35:58A beer?
35:59Yeah.
35:59Not a beef and potato pie.
36:01Yeah.
36:07Daddy, look. Is it for you?
36:10Not for me.
36:13No, Emma.
36:14I know you want to be.
36:17Yeah, but I never dreamed it.
36:20Have you seen this?
36:23The car from my beautiful, hard-working wife.
36:27No more hardship for Emma Hart, eh?
36:31Well done, my morning.
36:44I have an unimaginative gift I need help with.
36:48Nice.
36:50Well, my husband hasn't shown his devotion to me with cheap chocolates.
36:54No, these are definitely mid-range.
36:56Mm-hmm.
37:05I don't agree with everything Mr. Fairley says, but I'm sure he's right that your sister would want you to
37:13be happy.
37:15Who knows what a tell would have wanted.
37:19She didn't know herself, I suspect.
37:23All I know is how strange it feels with her gone.
37:30It's as if everything's gone dark.
37:36People leave us, but the love doesn't.
37:40You think you can't stand it, the grief.
37:44Then one day it starts to become bearable.
37:48The sun comes out.
37:53Olivia!
37:56Where have you got to?
37:58Olivia!
38:05We can look for it ourselves all we like, but what we're all hoping for is that love finds us.
38:11Don't you think?
38:13Real love.
38:16The kind you don't have to question.
38:19I don't know.
38:20I don't know.
38:42No, thank you.
38:44You saw Edwin's reaction.
38:46He was horrified.
38:48And if we think that anyone at all will feel any differently, then we're lying to ourselves.
38:53I mean, for God's sake, I don't feel any differently.
38:54It is horrifying.
38:57So, I can't do it.
38:59I'm sorry.
39:00I can't.
39:11So it was all for nothing then?
39:19Adele's death.
39:21You broke your sister's heart.
39:23She drank herself to death.
39:26We all lost her.
39:28We all suffered this unimaginable, utter misery.
39:32But for no reason.
39:38Olivia.
39:41If we don't legitimize this, if we don't show the world that you and I weren't just fooling
39:47around, then how do you explain what the hell you're still doing here?
39:55What's been going on in this house?
40:00How do we explain it to the boys?
40:02How do we explain it to the boys?
40:45for my beautiful wife the deeds the shop all three all in your name Merry Christmas
40:54I want to pay for them I mean it have all the money saved
41:09that car was some present Joe deserves some consolation for his absentee wife and he
41:18deserves not to feel stuck also you deserve a husband who can speed you up and down in a fancy
41:26sports car he did want a car it's just it may be he wanted other things more
41:41it can be lonely am I right having purpose being so certain every day not everyone understands
41:57so it can't be lonely
42:08Laura's wonderful she's a good woman seems stuck on you can you blame the girl
42:18she's not like us though well what a relief well she wants her a quiet life although did
42:25you see her in the passenger seat screaming she was she's a dark horse yes say that
42:38I'm glad you like her oh that's important
42:48I'm buying the shops from Joe all of them and I've got myself a present too
43:01you're looking at the new owner of fairly mill
43:09because when you're busy making sacrifices every day you deserve the odd reward
43:18you're doing it Emma you're doing it I am I am and I'm only just beginning
43:36check the shops Emma I want to please to feel safe
43:46how was it oh she's a dream the car and the wife
43:53thank you I wanted you to have something you loved so
44:26so did I
44:28That's more important, eh?
44:30Than family.
44:33Come here!
44:43Where the hell have you been?
44:46You've missed quite a day.
44:48Did you at least manage to buy yourself more time?
44:52Gerald!
44:55Mother was the only one who thought anything of me, wasn't she?
44:59This is about the debt.
45:02Gerald, it's just money. It doesn't matter.
45:04It's gone. The mill's gone. She's taken it.
45:07Who has? Who's taken it?
45:09Your little whore, Emma Hart.
45:15Strutting around like she's anything more than just a tramp maid.
45:20And she's dangerous. She won't stop there.
45:23But we can make sure she gets what's coming to her.
45:26Can't we, Edwin?
45:29We'll remind Emma Hart who she really is.
45:32We'll make her sorry, won't we?
45:59This is madness.
46:00Pretending everything's fine.
46:02Well, we all know war could be declared any second.
46:03If we don't go over there and stop the Germans, they'll bring the fight to us.
46:07What has that damn girl done now?
46:09She's punishing me and she won't give up.
46:11Time is not a luxury we have, gentlemen. The war has begun.
46:43The war has begun.
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