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01:01Good to be home
01:04Always
01:25Happy birthday, Mrs. Hart
01:27Martha, hello
01:29Oh, my, you always do your hair so beautifully
01:46Cherry, God, the drama
01:48So, so what is this, just a friendly lunch, or?
01:51Or are we basically birthday hostages?
01:54I love you, I love you
01:54Is she going to have us all shot?
01:56In my experience, my lady, your mother always does what needs to be done
02:00It's not particularly weird, aren't you?
02:03I mean, I...
02:06Happy birthday to you
02:09Happy birthday to you
02:13Happy birthday, dear mother
02:18Happy birthday to you
02:25That's touching
02:29Now, are all the traitors present?
02:37Good
02:39So, let's get started, shall we?
02:56At ease
03:00May I?
03:10Mac, isn't it?
03:13You used to work at Fairley Hall
03:16That's right
03:17I met when Fairley...
03:18I know
03:20Who you are
03:24Who you are
03:27But I've seen you at the front
03:29At Festerberg
03:32Eight months of senseless fighting
03:34But that one was...
03:38A green light
03:43So, off home then
03:45Officially, it's medical discharge
03:49But not all wounds can be bandaged
03:54You?
03:56Leave
03:59To see my pregnant wife
04:03Congratulations
04:04And also
04:06Emma Hart
04:08No, I expect you to remember
04:10You're going to see Emma
04:11That's right
04:12She's plenty of space for visitors
04:15And her big house
04:20And you will
04:23See Emma's family
04:24Oh, you're there
04:30For your information
04:32Emma's husband
04:34Joe Lowther
04:39He didn't make it
04:46I'm sorry to head
04:47Emma doesn't need your sympathies
04:50She's managed just fine
04:51Without anything from you
05:08Well
05:11Good luck to you
05:17It was
05:19A grim night
05:20A festiver
05:25A grim night
05:27A grim night
05:44R
05:44A ave
05:44A grim k
05:44A grim night
06:26it's all well to have everything
06:34they just thought i needed to come home
06:38well here you are
06:51oh my god edway
06:56my father looks dreadful at least he's out of bed today
07:02is there a problem it's money money's the problem he owes left right and center
07:10the house is up for sale what why he won a huge uniform contract from some old school friend
07:17but he over promised emma hart has our mill and he's run out of vapors
07:22so there's absolutely no way he can fulfill the order
07:27but it'll be better now you're back
07:30why
07:33because now all this will be down to you
07:37anyway you didn't come here to see me
07:41priya please don't
07:44aunt olivia i've been thinking that
07:47for both our sakes mine and priya's
07:52i ought to just set her free
08:10i'll be closing up for good if i don't go heavier and people not paying bills
08:14i have to start sending telegrams to those that owe us
08:16and if they can't i'll have to start charging interest no choice and need to
08:19i'll be closing up for you
08:31it's here
08:32oh
08:33oh
08:34oh
08:35oh
08:36oh
08:36oh
08:37oh
08:37oh
08:37oh
08:37oh
08:37oh
08:37oh
08:38oh
08:38oh
08:39oh
08:39oh
08:49oh
08:50a baby
08:53never had one of those before have you
08:58oh
09:02mil isn't the only thing emma hart has that belongs to you
09:07who does she think she is
09:08eh
09:09oh
09:10so
09:13how was it
09:15how was it
09:15France
09:18France
09:19much camaraderie is there
09:21eh
09:22you and the labs
09:25hmm
09:30some other day
09:31oh
09:35so why did they send you home
09:42Because it's not all singing.
09:49It's made me think about what we leave behind.
09:54I'd like the people that come after us.
09:58Our children, grandchildren.
10:03To at least know we were here.
10:06I suppose.
10:09The main thing we'll leave, all of us, is our name.
10:19And this house?
10:20Oh, yes.
10:24Not if Father can't hang on to it, we won't.
10:29Emma Hart has a lot to answer for.
10:31Oh, yes.
10:35Oh, yes.
11:33What if Eberhard isn't just the cause of our problems?
11:37What if she's the solution?
11:39I think I've got the answer.
11:50You know, I saw him once, Joe.
11:58In France?
12:01I came round a corner one night and there he was.
12:05Helmet pushed back, rifle on his knee, with a photo of you in his hand.
12:15Are you just saying that?
12:17No, it was Joe.
12:22And he'd hold himself up on a box of corned beef.
12:26No time to eat it, he said.
12:29But he could at least keep his arse dry on it.
12:38And then, everything started off again.
12:49The shoot and...
12:54I lost track of him.
13:02Can I tell you something?
13:05Anything.
13:11When I got the telegram, we were in the hall and I saw Laura's face.
13:19And I knew.
13:21I just knew that it was bad news.
13:27And I thought...
13:33It's okay.
13:34I know.
13:36You miss him.
13:37I know.
13:38No, you don't.
13:39You don't know.
13:42Let me say it.
13:45I knew that it was bad news.
13:49And I thought...
13:53That it was you.
13:56I did.
13:59And I couldn't breathe, Mike.
14:03But then she showed it to me.
14:06And I saw that it was addressed to me and not her.
14:11And that inside it said his name.
14:14Joe Lowther.
14:21And I was relieved.
14:25Is that the worst thing you ever heard?
14:29Oh, Joe.
14:31I was desperate, of course.
14:33I couldn't bear that it was him.
14:36But my first thought when I saw his name was...
14:40Oh, thank God.
14:42Thank God it's not back.
14:47So...
14:48I understand.
14:54I understand.
14:55I do.
15:01Because we're the same.
15:05Aren't we?
15:11So...
15:12I always understand.
15:32I want to be...
15:33I want to be...
15:34I want to be...
15:44I want to be...
15:49I have an assistant today, Mrs. Grisham. Aren't I lucky?
15:53And look, we're packed here for fruitcake, which she can make with barely any fat.
15:57And not one egg.
15:59I'm calling it wild cake.
16:03Oh, my girls will eat cake all day long.
16:05If you'd let them.
16:08What makes you say?
16:10Can't look proper.
16:11Can't tell how it's bound.
16:17Mrs. Hart.
16:23Mrs. Hart?
16:25I have to close up for a while, Mrs. Grisham.
16:28Take one of the packs of cake ingredients and let me know what Gina and Barbara think.
16:32Well, thank you.
16:33Bye-bye, Adwina.
16:34Have fun helping your aunt.
16:36Bye-bye.
16:49Hello.
16:50Hello.
16:56Edwina.
16:59Edwina, why don't you go upstairs, love?
17:01Sort through that box of water and see which you like best.
17:04I'm allowed?
17:05Of course.
17:06Go on up.
17:07Go on.
17:07Go on.
17:19Well, I've broken an oath then.
17:22Sorry I'd never see you again for as long as I lived.
17:27We all make promises we can't keep.
17:33Drops usually busier than this.
17:35But there's a war on.
17:37I don't know if you've heard.
17:38I did.
17:40I'm so sorry, Anna.
17:42I heard about your husband.
17:44Did you hear about all the husbands?
17:45It's not just mine.
17:50I don't know.
17:51I don't know.
17:52I don't know if you've heard of it yourself.
18:00Emma.
18:04All this, it's...
18:07a miracle.
18:10Everything you wanted.
18:12Your plan with a capital B.
18:15That's right.
18:16I'm a success.
18:18And what are you, Edwin Fairley?
18:21A fool.
18:22An idiot coward does not cover it.
18:26Hardly.
18:30Emma.
18:32Every bit of hatred you feel for me.
18:35All the resentment.
18:36The bitterness, the anger.
18:39I felt it for myself.
18:41I promise you.
18:43Every day.
18:45And not the moments pass where I haven't wished I could go back.
18:50To that rose garden.
18:54And say something different.
18:59Like?
19:00Like, I'll take care of you and make sure nobody hurts you.
19:03Like, I love you, Emma.
19:06And I'll spend the rest of my life making sure I'm by your side.
19:10Well, I'd have probably had the baby by the time you got all of that out.
19:14Please, I'm...
19:16I'm not here to fight.
19:18I've spent enough of that.
19:20When I let you down that day, I started a feud which should never have gone as far as it
19:25has.
19:28So I'll come here today to end it.
19:39I hear you have a warehouse full of cloth and no use for it.
19:43That's right.
19:44It was meant to fulfill the contract that your father stole from me.
19:48Well, what we have, what the Fairleys have, is that contract.
19:54But...
19:55No cloth.
19:57Or mill.
20:00And Emma.
20:02You're a businesswoman now.
20:07A partnership.
20:10Our contract.
20:12Your mills.
20:14Fairleys and hearts.
20:16Together, we can make that contract work.
20:19For every uniform we produce, you'll get a pound.
20:22And so will we.
20:26Emma, I don't know how your business is faring through all of this, but...
20:30Ours is barely afloat.
20:35But if we join forces, both of us can take care of our families.
20:46Doesn't a pact make sense?
20:53Come to lunch.
20:56You please.
20:58On Saturday, as our honoured guest.
21:02With no pressure, but we can talk it all through.
21:10War.
21:11It's miserable.
21:15Imagine how it'd feel if we...
21:18could lay down our weapons.
21:23Just...
21:24Ended.
21:27A ceasefire.
21:32Truth.
21:36What do you say?
21:48Well, how did it go?
21:51She bought it.
22:13This deal could be the answer, Mac.
22:15If I can get a pound of uniform, I won't have to close anything.
22:18I can pay the wages, not lay anyone off.
22:21There'll be no profit, but it might just get us through to the end of the war.
22:24Sure.
22:25I'd bet on you above old Asquith.
22:27Any day of the week.
22:30But a partnership with the Fairleys.
22:32I would have spat if someone suggested it before now.
22:37Can you trust them?
22:39No, before.
22:41Never.
22:44But for the children, I'd be fighting on a different front map.
22:49Mommy, mommy!
22:52Is that us at the shop?
22:54Yeah.
22:55Here.
22:59Isn't it beautiful?
23:01I love it so much.
23:25I love it so much.
23:32I was wondering if I could come in.
23:41Standards slipped.
23:43Oh, no. I'm sure they haven't.
23:46They came because I'm coming here on Saturday for lunch.
23:51I heard.
23:53And when I do, I'll be coming in through the front door.
23:57Well, I'll be sure to be careful with your coat.
24:00But I was imagining I was going to feel sitting up there.
24:05And I know I'll just be desperate to see it all down here.
24:10To remember.
24:14So I came here today, in any case, to talk to Ed...
24:18Master Edwin, work out possible terms and so on.
24:23And I wanted to come round this way,
24:25so nobody thinks of any airs or graces.
24:34And why not, Emma Hart?
24:36Hmm?
24:38I'd say you've earned a few airs from what I hear.
24:41You could justify the odd grace or two and all.
24:43The rise you've had.
24:47Made something of yourself, haven't you?
24:52Well done, lass.
24:55Well done.
24:59And I didn't know your dad well.
25:03I keep myself to myself.
25:07But I reckon Jack Hart would have been pleased as punch.
25:22Well, I had to go and...
25:25They think we're wallpaper, of course.
25:29Walking those rooms up there in silence,
25:32they forget that staff are people.
25:35And people have ears.
25:44This partnership is...
25:46It's not what you think.
25:49Master Edwin has got you right where he wants you.
26:11Do you know I'm leaving you?
26:18You lied to me about Adele.
26:22It was not my fault.
26:24I am not responsible for my sister's death.
26:27And I have to be able to grieve.
26:29I have to get away from here, away from you.
26:31Don't be ridiculous, Olivia.
26:33Where will you go?
26:33I'll stay until the alliance is signed,
26:35for the boys' sake.
26:36But when your contract and your house
26:39are no longer at risk,
26:40when the war is over,
26:43I will be looking for peace.
27:05Do you think you're going somewhere
27:07for a bit of peace and quiet?
27:10Frank!
27:12What are you doing here?
27:14I'm up here every week.
27:17You're not the only one that misses you.
27:20Oh, school!
27:21You got your final exams?
27:23Yeah, well,
27:24I expect they're going to make me into a professor
27:25or something.
27:26Or a ward, probably.
27:28That's what happens when you get top marks.
27:31King, I think.
27:32Isn't it?
27:33Yeah.
27:35Something like that.
27:38See what you're doing off here, then?
27:40Panicking?
27:41No.
27:45I'm just wondering what to do, is all.
27:47Oh, no.
27:50What?
27:50I knew this had happened.
27:52You've got money now.
27:53You can spend time thinking.
27:55Rich folk, they love to just kiss it around,
27:58watching the sky, wondering.
28:00That's not who we are.
28:02Get on with it.
28:03Don't waste time thinking,
28:05oh, what if I do this?
28:06What if I spend this on a golden fountain or whatever?
28:10All you've done
28:11is lost precious minutes
28:13or you could have been trusting your gut.
28:16Isn't that what my mother said?
28:21A golden fountain?
28:23No, that's what
28:24rich people have, ain't it?
28:27What have you got instead?
28:29Massive warehouse full of cloth.
28:31I saw a golden fountain.
28:38Frank,
28:39will you be all right?
28:40What?
28:41Always.
28:41I've just planned up a hill on my own.
28:44Are you trusting your gut?
28:45Full of your gut, yeah?
28:50Go whatever!
28:54Woo!
31:25Absolutely.
31:26For every uniform, a pound for you.
31:28And a pound for you.
31:30Yes.
31:31That's what you said.
31:34Only, Edwin, that's not what you're planning, is it?
31:39Well...
31:39I believe your actual plan is a pound for me and five pounds for you.
31:43For every uniform.
31:45Isn't that right?
31:47Sell them off or over the odds, give me the bare minimum and cream off the majority of the profit
31:50for yourself.
31:52That's what you're planning, Edwin, isn't it?
31:57Tell me the truth!
32:00I...
32:01had to do something.
32:03You're planning to suffocate my business.
32:05Oh, and you forgot to mention you have a baby on the way.
32:07So I expect that explains all the plotting, does it, Edwin?
32:11Because I know you're not the type to ever leave a child of yours out in the cold.
32:15What does she mean?
32:18Edwin?
32:19Emma, I...
32:20I'm still talking.
32:21I went to see Lord Acton today, Mr. Fairley, your chum.
32:25And I told him that you Fairleys were playing him for a fool.
32:28What the hell is happening? What are you saying?
32:29But it's not just me and your old schoolmate you're shot-changing, is it?
32:32You won't be paying your workers a living wage.
32:33And you'll be doing our soldiers dirty, too, because the uniforms you make will be low quality.
32:38Are we really allowing her to speak to us in this way?
32:40I will be coming to you, Gerald Fairley.
32:42I told Lord Acton that you Fairleys aren't getting a scrap of cloth from me.
32:46And if he thinks there's the slightest chance that this war will go on into 1916,
32:51then there's only one person who's got the mills, the factory, the materials,
32:56and the gang of skilled working women to fulfill his contract for years to come.
33:00So he gave me the money up front.
33:08How dare you.
33:13What makes you think one little, worthless maid can come after generations of...
33:20What? Rich, entitled men?
33:21She's doing this to get back at Edwin.
33:23Because he didn't want her.
33:24You think I've gone through all of this for someone as unimportant to me as Edwin Fairley?
33:28It's not just him I'm coming for.
33:30It's all of you.
33:32Squire Fairley, the way you treat your staff is a disgrace.
33:35But it's nothing to the way you treated my mother.
33:38My mother died when she needn't have, and you stood by and did nothing.
33:42Despite everything that went on between the two of you,
33:44she thought of you till her dying breath, and you thought of her never.
33:49And you let my father down too.
33:50My father died in your mill through your mismanagement.
33:54And what's worse, he died saving your coward of a son.
33:57Would you have done the same for him, Edwin, hmm?
34:00Mrs Fairley, I understand that's your name now.
34:03You stole my dress designs and you sold them without giving me a moment's credit.
34:07Emma, I have always tried to be reasonable.
34:09Oh, you might have spared me a kind word now and then,
34:10but kind words do not put food on the table.
34:13And finally, Squire Fairley, we come to your other son.
34:18Who's not just a coward.
34:20He's a dangerous monster.
34:23A weasel of a man who preys on women in a vain attempt to feel strong
34:28in the face of his own overwhelming weaknesses.
34:31Why?
34:33Why are you doing this?
34:35For my mother.
34:36For my father.
34:38For everyone who's ever worked in your house or your mill.
34:41I would not be so grand as to claim I'm representing all working folk,
34:44but by God I will speak up for them.
34:46While every one of you stands by idle and watches as the world around you
34:49slides into being more and more broken.
34:53Oh, and I haven't told you the best bit.
34:55I haven't told you what I spent the money on that Lord Acton gave me up front.
35:09Hello, Fairleys.
35:10Fancy seeing you here.
35:22I've bought this house.
35:26What do you mean?
35:27I mean I'm the new owner of Fairley Hall, so take this as your eviction notice.
35:32Edwin Fairley.
35:33I was all set to lower myself to be your partner today.
35:37It's the second time that's nearly happened.
35:38But five years ago, you let me down.
35:41And today, you plan to take me down and leave me there.
35:44I will never forgive you.
35:48Please, all of you loyal staff, take this lunch home to your families.
35:54And all of you Fairleys,
35:57get out of my house.
36:13There's a fatal flaw in your scheme, of course.
36:17You underestimated me.
36:21I've had times of great adversity in my life.
36:25And I believe many of you think I mention them rather too much.
36:29I didn't say that.
36:30I only...
36:30But nothing I have ever experienced prepared me for the ungrateful betrayal of my own children.
36:39Mother, I've been just desperate to talk to you to explain...
36:41Yet my phone hasn't run, Elizabeth.
36:45Now, Edwina, Kit, Robin, Elizabeth.
36:51The four of you schemed together to discredit me.
36:55I might have had a grudging respect for you had you been more subtle or creative.
37:01But today, I'd like to thank you.
37:05Because your treachery has made me see that something does need to change.
37:10You don't trust me, and that has hit home.
37:17So, I've changed my will,
37:20so that when I die, none of you will receive a penny.
37:24Oh, what does not a penny even mean?
37:27Now, today, I'd like to offer you all a choice.
37:30Either you fight on and continue to feed those hateful lies about me to the press...
37:35Or what?
37:35Or you take these.
37:38It's a cheque each for a million pounds.
37:42A drop in the bucket, what you would have received, of course.
37:45And for God's sake, don't mistake them for gifts.
37:50I am buying you, all of you.
37:54If you accept these cheques,
37:56you are agreeing to drop the whole ghastly plot
38:00and to never contest any of my wishes.
38:10Mother, what are you doing?
38:12Wendy, what's going on?
38:14Now, there's been much discussion over the years
38:16as to which of my children might take over my businesses.
38:20My signature on this piece of paper here means that debate can stop.
38:26Because now, all of it, every inch, belongs to Paula.
38:37No, no.
38:38Grandy, I...
38:39Oh, we've had our disagreements, of course, darling.
38:42The odd distraction.
38:45But you've moved on.
38:46You've always put the business first.
38:49Paula, you're the one I've trained.
38:53You're the one I trust.
38:54And you've proven time and time again
38:57to be the worthy successor.
39:02And now it's done.
39:05Now, here are your contracts.
39:07So the four of you come and sign them and take your cheques.
39:10Or leave with nothing.
39:22Oh.
39:23Paula, you've chosen Paula.
39:25She shall get the lot.
39:26And I shall get nothing.
39:28Nothing but the allowances from my ex-husbands.
39:30Oh, how fortunate you have six of them.
39:45I barely even spoke to any journalists.
39:48I was hardly at the lunch.
39:49I don't even eat lunch.
39:53It's a trick, isn't it?
39:55You're asking us whether we'd like to give up or fight on.
39:58Well, I believe the Emma Hart way is to fight on.
40:01Isn't that right?
40:04What's happening here, Edwina?
40:08Are you attempting to begin a feud like mine?
40:12Or would you just like a million pounds
40:15and for this all to be over?
40:35Paula will now take my place on the board at Cytex Oil.
40:39She'll also take over every one of my shares at Hart Stores and Hart Enterprises.
40:44Paula owns this house.
40:45She owns the lot.
40:46It was always going to be her.
40:50Nobody else reminds me so much of myself.
40:54And what better compliment could there be?
40:59Could you step outside for a moment, Edwina?
41:03I have something for you.
41:09What is it?
41:12Some information for you, Edwina.
41:16Regardless of what it says on your birth certificate,
41:20your father isn't that lowly Irishman, as you put it.
41:24It says Mac's name on it quite clearly.
41:27Because Mac was and always has been the best man there is.
41:35But your father is Edwin Fairley.
41:41What?
41:46I'm a Fairley.
41:50Why didn't you tell me?
41:52Because I knew you'd receive it like a gift.
41:56And because I knew that would break my heart.
41:59So, the famous Fairley feud.
42:04This is why.
42:07Every member of the Fairley family has let down every one of mine.
42:14You've turned out to be living proof
42:16that no Fairley can ever be trusted.
42:21Even Fairley's you gave birth to
42:23turn on you in the end.
42:39All signed.
42:41Mrs. Hart.
42:44What's your secret?
42:46Oh, the same as it's always been, my dear.
42:50To end your...
42:58Mars Lyons...
43:04What?
43:10I love you.
43:11I love you.
43:11I love you.
43:12I love you.
43:16I love you.
43:20I love you.
43:36Hey! Hey there, Emma Hart.
43:40How dare you? This is my house. It's my home.
43:43Not anymore.
43:45This will always be my home.
43:47It's got my name on it. So you might have won for now.
43:50Fairleigh Hall might be yours for a short time.
43:52But don't ever make the mistake of stopping looking over your shoulder.
43:55Because if you think this feud has been brutal up to now, you haven't seen anything yet.
43:59I'm involved now.
44:01And soon I'll have a family of my own.
44:03So I promise you, whether it's next year or in 50 years, when you're least expecting it.
44:18Who will I?
44:21Who will I?
44:23Who will I?
44:23Who will I?
44:23Who will I?
44:24Why did you tell me the reason for your fairly feud?
44:27Why did you tell me you were... you were giving it all to me?
44:31Because I knew you'd object, but now it's all yours.
44:38Paula, I trust you unreservedly, despite that ill-judged dalliance of yours with Jim Fairley.
44:46Hey! Hey there. Emma Hart.
44:55Did I startle you?
44:58Rude of me, of course. I apologize.
45:01And on your birthday, too.
45:03But I gather this is a family event, and I've been upstairs waiting to join my wife.
45:14It was a whim. A counter-strike.
45:17After you and I fell out, I was so determined you wouldn't...
45:21You wouldn't underestimate me.
45:24You married Jim Fairley.
45:27I was going to tell you today. I had no idea you were planning on signing it all over to
45:32me.
45:34I'm so sorry. I know, I know I should have...
45:37But...
45:38I-I love him.
45:45And?
45:51We're having a baby.
45:55Strictly speaking, it will be Paula having the baby, I believe.
45:59But...
45:59It'll belong to both of us, of course.
46:04What's hers is mine, and all that.
46:26From Jack Thorne, a Forbid Story with Keeley Balls and Papa Esiadu, here for the taboo of falling, coming soon.
46:34And they haven't hacked his laptop, they've hacked him.
46:37Brand new sci-fi espionage blockbuster.
46:40Marvel star Simu Liu heads the Copenhagen test, starting Wednesday at 9, here on Channel 4.
47:05The market is...
47:05Coming soon...
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