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00:27The Ordinary Silver
00:29The Ordinary Silver
01:00Ah, tea. Best drink of the day. Fetch a packet of Eccles Clicks.
01:12Cyril's back from his conference today, so I've ordered in his guardian.
01:17Fred, there's water coming out of the ceiling.
01:21Oh, flippin' heck.
01:29It's one minute past.
01:31Sorry, no screen. It's my fault.
01:33I went to see if there was any post, and we've had a card from Sister Veronica in Hong Kong.
01:39Only post on a sterile surface.
01:45Christopher doing nicely. New hibiscus clinic thriving. Sister Hilda in her element. Element underlined.
01:53We may now turn our attention to the particularly trying day we have ahead.
01:58Do we really have to move clinic to the annex at St Cuthbert's? The Board of Health have given us
02:04no notice.
02:04Dr Turner's tried his utmost, but there's been no reprieve.
02:08I know that annex. The screens and equipment are totally inadequate.
02:12We'll be taking our own accoutrements, don't you worry.
02:15Meanwhile, we do have both Nurse Sailwood and Nurse Clifford coming back today.
02:21Will you get a chance to go to bed this morning and catch up on some sleep?
02:24No. I'm going to meet Miss Higgins and try and lick these new arrangements into shape.
02:30You do have to wonder what it all bodes.
02:38I keep thinking about how we counted every step all the way to the top of York Minster.
02:44And now I'm counting every step all the way back to your front door in Lenata's house.
02:48Because there were hardly any left before it's over.
02:52It was a beautiful view from the top of York Minster.
02:55And nothing is over.
02:58It felt like another beginning, didn't it?
03:01Yes, it did.
03:04Let's go and make another cup of coffee before we go back to the ordinary world.
03:08You think it rats, Mr Buckley?
03:11Nasty, greedy things. Niner things with their incisors.
03:15This lead pipe. If they know that, they'd get poisoned.
03:18I want them poisoned. I use this flat for prayer meeting.
03:21It's not rats. It's just the soldiers perished. It's like tissue paper, this friend.
03:28Oh!
03:31Hang on.
03:33Look.
03:34I reckon you need to pull all these out.
03:37Re-fill it with proper plastic.
03:39I just put something on the house.
03:41Did you hear?
03:41We're moving back to Poplar.
03:43Moss Street.
03:44Oh, all from so didn't rain long then.
03:47Never mind the joke of little teacher.
03:50This young man is wheezing like a creaking gate.
03:53Hey, use your inhaler.
03:54Son, it's all right.
03:55He just gets like this every time we pull up floorboards.
03:57He's all right.
04:03Hello, Mrs Waddis.
04:05Fred.
04:06What's all this?
04:08Greetings, Pastor Robinson.
04:10And greetings, Rosalie.
04:13You didn't see the plumber's van outside?
04:16Perhaps your mind was on other matters.
04:24Good afternoon, Miss Figgins.
04:26I consent to hold the fort while you're at clinic.
04:28Master Timothy Turner.
04:31Or should that be doctor?
04:34A little bird informed me that a certain set of examinations have not only been passed,
04:40but passed with flying colours.
04:42Yes.
04:43That pen you gave me stood me in very good stead.
04:47Of course, I won't be writing any prescriptions out with it until I'm formally qualified.
04:51All good things will happen in time.
05:03Mrs. Hennessey, we discussed the merits and demerits of peanut butter chars last week.
05:09Leave your sample with me.
05:10And if you cannot find a seat, you make you against the wall.
05:16I'd be extra alert for signs of protein in that one.
05:19Well, and diabetes in the rosehip syrup bottle.
05:25Honestly, Aisha, I'm still a bit full from our lunch.
05:29Feed mother, feed baby.
05:32Maybe I'll just nibble on one while I'm waiting.
05:35Ruth can?
05:36Oh, hello, Ruth, dear.
05:38I'm sorry we're still finding our feet in our new location.
05:41Sister Julianne will see you behind the screens in the far corner.
05:46I come.
05:47I have to go in on my own.
05:49You know the drill.
05:58Is there somewhere I can put this?
06:00Um, a paper towel, perhaps?
06:03I was thinking more like the bin.
06:08I love this sort of food, but my mum-in-law keeps trying to feed me and I'm not that
06:11hungry.
06:12We do advise small, frequent meals at this stage of the pregnancy.
06:19Nurse Crane said that in mother craft class.
06:22I had to translate it for my mother-in-law and I think she only heard frequent.
06:27I don't think it will be too long before baby puts in an appearance.
06:30Have we delivered the home birth pack to you yet?
06:33No.
06:34I'm so glad I'm having it in my own bed.
06:36Babies are born at home in my husband's tradition and I was born at home with Nunata's nuns,
06:41so it's something that sort of makes us the same.
06:44I'll put by tomorrow with the pack and then we'll be all prepared.
07:00Kindly desist forthwith.
07:02Those cards contain confidential medical information.
07:05I work for the National Health Service.
07:09In which case I should not need to point out the proprieties.
07:13I'm starting to think we were moved here for a reason.
07:16Now we're on National Health premises.
07:18Can't they just breeze in at will?
07:20It's the thin end of the wedge.
07:22If they want information about our district cases, then they should put in a formal request.
07:26The administrator claims they can demand access without notice.
07:30But as we have previously discussed, we are under no obligation to do everything they ask.
07:41I'm not sure she's any nearer to deciding.
07:44Whether to accept the new rules or close the Nunata's house.
07:47Sheila, if she delays any longer, it won't be up to her.
07:51And what happens after that will happen to us all.
07:55Are you not partaking in pudding, sister?
08:00Can it be preserved?
08:02I find my appetite does not keep the hours that once it did.
08:07I will put some foil on it.
08:11Standard of cakes has gone right down while Sister Veronica's been away.
08:16This is the second time this week I've made a sponge so bad we've had to pour custard on it.
08:21You pour away?
08:22Custard's one of the things I miss most when I'm in America.
08:25Is there anything else you yearn for whilst you are overseas?
08:28I could be flippant and say lemon curd and electric kettles.
08:32But above all else, I miss the respect for midwifery we're so used to over here.
08:38May I suggest we turn our attention to the matter of St. Raymond's Feast Day.
08:44There will be the usual Eucharist in the chapel in the morning.
08:47And then I thought, as the holiday falls on a bank holiday Monday, a strawberry tea might be appropriate.
08:59Good evening, Mrs. Barrelman.
09:02Now you look like a woman on a mission.
09:04I'm a woman in search of comestibles.
09:08My Ivan and his family, they're moving house tomorrow, so I'm going to christen the kitchen by making their tea.
09:15Ivan did me a favour and a half this morning, sorting the burst pipe inside an hour.
09:20Good.
09:21Have you got any luncheon meat?
09:23At the bottom left, dear, next to the soap powder.
09:27Oh.
09:30I'm going to take three tins.
09:32Oh, I hope you're planning fritters.
09:35There's nothing like the smell of frying to make a house a home.
09:38Yeah, well, all I can smell at the moment is wet paint and plaster dust.
09:42Still, it's on a better bus route.
09:44Now Suzanne's got into the grammar school.
09:47Gran, they've got rulers and protractors.
09:50Grammar school.
09:51Well, let's hope this is the beginning of great things for you.
09:54Pick yourself out a rubber.
09:56I'll let you have it half-prouse.
09:57Oh.
10:05Last orders for Ovaltine.
10:14I can't drink anything.
10:16My face is lathered in complexion food.
10:19Why didn't you come down and join us in the parlour?
10:22I can't seem to settle, Phyllis.
10:24I knew this constant to-ing and fro-ing would have you all frayed around the edges.
10:30I wish I was the only thing that was frayed.
10:34My marriage isn't exactly thriving under the current conditions.
10:40Are you spending too much time apart?
10:42We're certainly not doing enough together.
10:46He has his business interests and I have...
10:49...this.
10:51You say that as though this weren't enough.
10:54Won't be enough for anybody if it all comes to an end.
10:58If you know more than you're cracking on, Trixie, then that's your business and I'm not going to press you.
11:05But there's been a sword of Damocles hanging over Ninata's house for almost as long as I've been here.
11:11And we've always lived to fight another day and deliver another baby.
11:20Things have been changing all the time, haven't they?
11:23Yes.
11:24And we're still here.
11:29Though I can't answer for your epidermis if you leave that face back on much longer.
11:40Midwife calling?
11:44You're welcome.
11:52You've certainly got everything and everyone organised, Ruth.
11:57Dill was well on his way up the ladder at the factory.
11:59But he had to start out as a government presser.
12:01A good manager must have experience of every department.
12:05This not management.
12:06This woman's work.
12:09It is alright, isn't it?
12:11The flat?
12:12The flat is spotlessly clean.
12:14And this is clearly a home full of love.
12:17I inspect for that too.
12:20It's much more important.
12:22You wouldn't have found that in the house I grew up in.
12:25My mum ran off and left us when I was eight.
12:29And my dad hardly knew what to do with us.
12:36Please?
12:41We wanted to ask you something, sister.
12:46Can Dill was stay with me when the baby's born?
12:49But of course.
12:53I want it because I do not want Ruth to be afraid.
12:57And I won't be if Dill was with me.
13:02Madge, I found the tomato sauce.
13:04No, what?
13:05It was in the tea chest for the bedding.
13:09Susie, you'll have to go on the camp bed until that new mattress is delivered.
13:14You know what I mean, Fritz?
13:14Oh, she'd be like lunch and meat, apparently.
13:18It means you don't like your cooking.
13:21Hey!
13:25Give her some more sauce.
13:30Thank you for wanting to be with me.
13:33I don't want to be outside the door,
13:36waiting for my mother to come out and tell me how you're doing.
13:38At least that's not going to happen now.
13:40The mother is always in the room with the mother.
13:43I do everything I can to respect your customs, Dillwa.
13:48But if we don't do some things our way,
13:51we aren't going to know who we are.
13:55Please, don't let her in the room.
14:07Oh, Suzanne, love.
14:09I need you to go to the phone box and ring the doctor.
14:13It's dark.
14:14The phone hasn't been connected and nobody else is well enough to go.
14:18Paul's still in the outside lab and his asthma's bad.
14:20The operator will help you find the number.
14:23Put your coat and shoes on.
14:27Ivan!
14:29Can you let me in?
14:31Fine.
14:32Why me?
14:41Just keep puffing on it as often as you feel you need to.
14:45The stress of the vomiting has aggravated your asthma.
14:48I'm hoping that's fair enough.
14:50You know, I haven't worn the old porcelain turban like that in years.
14:53I know it's tough, but if it is something you've all eaten,
14:57then the best thing is to let your body clear itself of the poison.
15:01I know me mum's cooking a day, isn't it?
15:03You're shivering, Ivan.
15:05I can see your goosebumps from here.
15:07You can take paracetamol for fever.
15:12Lovely.
15:13Then go to bed and keep yourselves warm.
15:17Tees up and Suzanne's busy putting water beside your beds.
15:21You're a bit overqualified to be a waiter, aren't you?
15:24Chip off the old bloke, eh?
15:26Nothing like a lad following in his father's footsteps.
15:29Paul's working with Ivan now.
15:31They did half the renovations to this house.
15:34All mod cons.
15:35Send to Eaton, if you please.
15:37Put it on, if need be.
15:39This is going to seem like a bad dream by tomorrow tea time.
15:45Do warm!
15:48Shh!
15:49They must sleep in.
15:54You sit, you sit.
15:59I need him to go to the telephone box
16:01and ring the Nartis house, Aisha.
16:05I telephone, you sit, you rest.
16:11Are you heading out already?
16:12Angela and I are practising our bus route for the grammar school.
16:16She's a bit worried about the change at the top of the commercial road.
16:19It'll soon become second nature.
16:22Aren't you wearing your blazer to get you in the mood?
16:24It's a rehearsal, not a dress rehearsal.
16:32It should put you two on the television.
16:34It's like watching a dance routine.
16:35London Palladium, here we come.
16:38Let's get you into the bed, honey.
16:48Hello, um...
16:49Are you the lady who's about to become a grandma?
16:51Yes.
16:52Tell...
16:53Tell...
16:55Her...
16:56Go!
16:57Mother, go!
16:59Mm-mm...
17:02Mm-mm...
17:03Have no benefit to horroka?
17:05Mm-mm...
17:13Mm-mm...
17:14Mm-mm...
17:17Mm-mm...
17:17Mm-mm...
17:17Mm-mm...
17:17Mm-mm...
17:20Is it because of Paul's asthma that you're making a return visit?
17:24He was the one that worried me.
17:27But everyone in the house is affected, apart from Suzanne, which makes them vulnerable.
17:39The bedroom curtains are still drawn.
17:42The bedroom curtains are still drawn.
17:55Mm-mm...
17:58Mm-mm...
17:59Mm-mm...
18:08Mm-mm...
18:27Mm-mm...
18:28Mm-mm...
18:28I...
18:29I'm stuck!
18:29I'm stuck!
18:30I'm stuck!
18:30I can't get out!
18:31Ruth, you're really there.
18:34It's just all happened so fast, you've hardly had a chance to catch your breath.
18:38Listen to the nursery, Ruth.
18:39You know what you'll be doing.
18:42Oh!
18:43Well, you obviously do.
18:46That's it, Ruth.
18:47Keep pushing.
18:48Just like that.
18:50Your wife's a quick learner.
18:56Mr. Barrowman?
19:00Mrs. Barrowman?
19:02Dr. Turner's going to come up and see you in a minute.
19:04But...
19:04...
19:09...
19:17...
19:18...
19:20...
19:20...
19:45Dad?
19:47Dad!
19:49Dad!
19:55Dad!
19:58Dad?
19:59Dad!
20:00You didn't do it!
20:01It was a boy!
20:03Dad!
20:06Dad!
20:08Dad!
20:12Dad!
20:14Dad!
20:14Dad!
20:16Dad!
20:18Dad!
20:19Dad!
20:20Dad!
20:29You've given me a son.
20:44No pulse.
20:46No pupil reflexes.
20:49No.
20:52You poor little love.
20:59I think Mr. Barrowman has gone too.
21:06First, we need an ambulance for Paul.
21:09He's in respiratory distress.
21:11And then we need to call the police.
21:17I've gone a bit faint.
21:26Good breaths.
21:29Then we need to get you outside.
21:32I think I know what this is.
21:36Why can't I go back inside?
21:38You're to sit on the pavement and wait for the ambulance to arrive.
21:41I'll wait with you.
21:42Where's my mum and my dad?
21:44I can't go to hospital without them knowing.
21:47Dr. Turner's in charge of everything that's happening inside.
21:52It's not an ambulance.
21:54It's a police car.
22:02Is this bad?
22:04Not necessarily.
22:05But the placenta should have come away by now.
22:07We don't want you to go to hospital, honey.
22:09I don't either.
22:11I think you may have a full bladder and sometimes that gets in the way.
22:15If you can pass water, that may help.
22:17I'll get you a bedpan.
22:19Can we have it ladies only for that bit?
22:23I think you've seen enough for one day.
22:33I hear your wife cry and I cry.
22:37I hear the baby cry and I cry.
22:40Why are you speaking in English?
22:43Think like an Englishman.
22:45You understand like an Englishman.
22:48Ruth has just given birth.
22:50It's not easy.
22:52It's not easy now.
22:54Not easy.
22:56Because she'd need a mother.
23:00A mother has known her pain.
23:03A mother gives ease.
23:05A mother gives peace.
23:07A husband can't give that.
23:10She wanted me there.
23:13All's well, it ends well.
23:15Road past water and then the afterbirth.
23:21It's not for you to even hear such things.
23:26We have a young man.
23:28Asthmatic.
23:30Dehydrated from food poisoning.
23:32And suspected exposure to carbon monoxide.
23:34Where's my mum and dad and my sister?
23:37Stay with him.
23:38Keep him on an even keel.
23:45I tell you, there is nothing like a cream horn after a successful delivery.
23:50I'm more of a custard tart girl, really.
23:54Honey, what are you fretting about?
23:58Mrs. Wallace phoned Cyril last night and she wants to speak to him about his conduct and also his conscience.
24:04Are you surprised?
24:07He's a pastor who walks into his flat, which is also his church, with a woman who is not his
24:14wife, carrying bags from a weekend away.
24:16And bumps into the principal elder.
24:18I had hoped you'd tell me not to worry.
24:21That's not what friends are for.
24:28Where's my grandson?
24:30It's through there.
24:31He's resting and receiving oxygen.
24:34I could come in with you if you'd like that.
24:37What I'd like is to have my son and my daughter-in-law and my granddaughter still alive.
24:43I'd like them to have seen a competent doctor who hadn't tucked them into their deathbeds with kind words and
24:50no action.
25:09Three deaths in one family.
25:11Miss Higgins says if the statements are signed, she'll deal with them immediately.
25:17I don't think I've ever had to do harder paperwork than this.
25:23Age 11.
25:26She might have been in Angela's class.
25:30I told them to go to bed and keep warm.
25:36And when we found them, her little hand was hardly cold at all.
25:52You're a good man, Pastor Robinson.
25:55And you're doing a good job navigating this church through some very choppy waters.
26:00But you haven't come here to tell me what I'm doing well, have you, Mrs. Wallace?
26:06No, I have not.
26:09I have come here to tell you that you're compromising your position and you're compromising that young girl.
26:16Nobody at church knows you went away together.
26:18Nobody at church?
26:20You don't think the Almighty go to church?
26:23The Almighty see everything.
26:26And what's more, he knows his way to York Minster.
26:30I'm sorry, Mrs. Wallace.
26:35We are modern people, living in a modern world, wrestling with some very modern problems.
26:42But sometimes, Pastor Robinson, the best way of protecting ourselves and those we love is by being a little bit
26:53old-fashioned.
26:55You understand?
26:57Because I require you to understand.
27:11Paul, everything is going to have to be reviewed by the coroner.
27:16Ultimately, they will pronounce a verdict.
27:17I don't need a verdict.
27:18I just need to know.
27:21Because if I don't know, I can't believe they're dead.
27:27Paul, from what the lab tests tell us, the food your Nan cooked probably made you all ill.
27:36But that's a simple case of bacteria with the tinned meat.
27:41Not her fault at all.
27:44Suzanne never had any, anyway.
27:48Yesterday, I suspected that the problem
27:53was carbon monoxide poisoning.
27:58And now the postmortem have said exactly the same thing.
28:04The signs are clear and unmistakable.
28:07It's in the air, isn't it? Carbon monoxide.
28:09Only in very small amounts.
28:12When there's too much, it becomes very dangerous.
28:16Why would there be too much?
28:19If a heating system develops problems.
28:22It was a brand new boiler.
28:25My dad fitted it himself.
28:35Oh.
28:38I helped him, Dr. Turner.
28:42Oh.
28:44I helped him.
28:50Timothy said everything Daddy did when he went out to that family was appropriate.
28:54Why is he so upset?
28:59Angela.
29:00Every so often when you work in medicine,
29:03we say a case gets under our skin.
29:07This case has got under Daddy's skin.
29:12PHONE RINGS
29:14Hello?
29:15Oh, Mrs. Turner.
29:16I rang the surgery, but Dr. Turner wasn't there.
29:20We've just had the public health inspectors at the shop.
29:24Public health inspectors?
29:26We're under investigation for selling contaminated meats.
29:30They've taken I don't know how many tins off the shelf.
29:33Well, I only picked them up from the cash and carry two days ago.
29:38I knew Match Barrowman.
29:40She was on the Play Street subcommittee and now they've gone.
29:46Possibly because of something that we sold.
29:53I think we all have to remain calm.
29:56Nobody really knows who or what is to blame for this.
30:04How did you get on with Mrs. Wallace?
30:07We're going to have to go for a walk.
30:09The gas inspectors nearly finished.
30:12Once the boiler's stripped out, I'd have no objection to Paul moving back in.
30:16I don't know where you get your flaming nerve.
30:19You should be locked up for what you said to my grandson.
30:22Telling him he killed his family by fitting a dodgy boiler.
30:25Mrs. Barrowman, only the coroner can say what happened.
30:29I hope he finds you guilty of criminal negligence and strikes you off.
30:35If you'd sent them all to hospital, they'd still be alive.
30:48We can't turn the clock back, Cyril.
30:50Not in terms of morals.
30:52And not in terms of what having sex has done to me and my body and for us and our
30:58relationship.
30:58Masaline.
31:00Stopping sleeping together isn't going to turn me into a virgin again.
31:03And I wouldn't want it to.
31:04I wouldn't want it to either.
31:06Because I feel just the same as you.
31:10But I am not yet divorced and I am still a pastor and I don't like putting you in harm's
31:15way.
31:16I'm not in harm's way.
31:18I'm on the pill.
31:19There is more than one type of harm, Masaline.
31:22Maybe we should wait now.
31:26Until I'm in a position to put a ring on your finger and do things decently.
31:31I have two things to say in response to that.
31:34A. I'm sure Mrs. Wallace would be delighted.
31:37B. If that's a proposal of marriage, it's very poorly thought through and you can keep it.
31:43A. Thank goodness you went in so early.
32:02Under no circumstances must any patients be allowed to see it.
32:06I'll route out some turps.
32:11A. Thank goodness you went in so early.
32:13B. Oh, Phyllis.
32:17Whatever is this?
32:20No one is to contact the police.
32:23Patrick, this is a clear case of criminal damage.
32:26And probably slander.
32:28That family have suffered.
32:31And are suffering enough.
32:34There's no proof at all that that vandalism is anything to do with them.
32:40I, meanwhile, have had to give short shrift to a reporter from the Gazette.
32:45He asked questions about potential malpractice.
32:49In front of patients?
32:51What did you see?
32:52Well, I mean, it reminded him that it is against the law to print, publish or speculate on any details
32:58of a medical case whilst an inquest is pending.
33:01Miss Higgins, that isn't true.
33:04Miss Higgins, that isn't true.
33:04The mam's very junior and you know better.
33:07No further rebuff was required.
33:09I don't think anyone knows anything right now.
33:13Until we hear from the coroner, I'm not seeing any more patients.
33:29This feeling inside me could never deny me the right to be wrong if I choose.
33:49Nothing good, nothing bad, nothing ventured, nothing gained, nothing still born or lost.
33:57Nothing further than proof, nothing wilder than you, nothing older than time, nothing sweeter than wine, nothing physically recklessly, hopelessly
34:09blind.
34:10Nothing I couldn't say, nothing why cost a day, nothing right.
34:16You know, Cyril called again this morning, don't you?
34:20Before you came down to breakfast.
34:22Perhaps he had a sleepless night too.
34:26I don't know what we're supposed to say to each other.
34:35The matter of my ablutions generally falls to Sister Catherine.
34:40Sister Catherine is standing in for Sister Veronica at the headlice conference this morning and set off looking as though
34:49nothing could make her happier.
34:54Do you recollect what it was like to be at the beginning of all this?
35:00Yes, I do, if only barely sometimes.
35:04I've watched so much water flow underneath the bridge.
35:11The question is, Sister, do we watch the water or are we the water?
35:18Because if it is the latter, you speak not of change, but of we ourselves being changed or changing.
35:32It is a rhythm, is it not?
35:37It is indeed.
35:47Sister, how long have your feet been as swollen as this?
35:52It is a recent development.
35:56Let us not speak of it.
36:07Dad, what good is shutting yourself away going to do?
36:11It'll do less harm than trying to treat patients when I'm not trusted.
36:16And I can use the time to study the latest statistics on the rise in epidurals.
36:22Trust is essential, isn't it?
36:24It's like clean hands.
36:27Oh, a steady hand with a lancet.
36:30Like antibiotics.
36:32Black coffee on the night shift.
36:35Can't be a GP without it, son.
36:40You're going back to factory and maybe not named?
36:43We can't decide on the name yet, Aisha.
36:45When we decide, we'll do it then.
36:50She wait, please.
36:52She's sick?
36:55Are you sick?
36:56Sick of being cooped up.
37:01I just need some fresh air.
37:08Miss Higgins?
37:09Um, can I ask Dr. Turner to make a house call on Sister Monica Joan?
37:17She seems to have developed some new symptoms.
37:22I'm afraid that until the Barrowman family situation resolves,
37:26he doesn't feel able to see any patients.
37:30I understand.
37:33In the scheme of things, I suspect this is not urgent.
37:48You stay home.
37:51The baby needs fresh air, Aisha.
37:53And I need to get into a routine.
37:59Please don't go out.
38:04I'm only popping out for an hour.
38:35Shall we go out?
38:35I've cleaned everything, but he will not let me do anything with that pillowcase.
38:42Oh, lad.
38:44Do you really think this is the best place for you to be lying
38:47while you come to terms with everything that's happened?
38:49Oh, how can I come to terms with it?
38:51I helped my dad put that boiler in.
38:54It's my fault, and I'm the one that's still here.
38:56It's not your fault.
38:59There are plenty of others you can blame.
39:00What about you?
39:02Eh, and you're cooking.
39:03Come on.
39:05You're both going through something that no-one should ever have to endure,
39:09alone or separately.
39:12You'll face it better together.
39:19I can smell my dad's hair on this pillowcase.
39:23Oh.
39:26Oh.
39:28Oh.
39:32Rod?
40:01I think I need the doctor.
40:02I could walk there.
40:05I go for doctor.
40:10You walk.
40:12I walk with you.
40:16No!
40:18No!
40:20No!
40:22Every single person touched by this case is in torment.
40:27Can we not do something to at least get a preview of the details?
40:32Dr. Turner's on the police surgeon roster.
40:35He feels he can't ask for early access to the documents
40:39because he's perceived to have a vested interest.
40:43The baby's mother lying in street by five stairs.
40:46I think she'd die.
40:48Oh, no, no.
40:51Dr. Turner!
40:59It's Ruth Kahn.
41:01She delivered a few days ago.
41:02She just opened her eyes, said something about seeing lights.
41:07Her ankles are swollen.
41:08It looks like postnatal preeclampsia.
41:11Ambulance?
41:11She's on the brink of fitting.
41:16We need Bromathol now.
41:18Can you fetch some?
41:19It's too late for 999.
41:20I'll drive her there myself.
41:22Now run.
41:26It's all right, Ruth.
41:28I'm not going to leave you.
41:32You need a hand with those?
41:35Yes.
41:36Yes.
41:36And we wouldn't mind a bit of fridge space
41:39if you've got any to spare in your flat.
41:42I'm sorry I lost my temper.
41:46It was certainly a spectacle.
41:48If you hadn't been shouting at me,
41:49I would have quite enjoyed it.
41:52And you're right.
41:53It was a terrible marriage proposal.
41:57Was it a marriage proposal?
42:01Yes.
42:04Will you give me the chance to do a better one?
42:08This is better already.
42:12But why don't you take me away for the weekend?
42:16Discreetly.
42:18And ask me then.
42:20You know your own mind, don't you?
42:23I'm a grown woman.
42:24I'm a feminist.
42:26And they're a cathedral town for length and breadth of England.
42:37Mr. Parry is still with Ruth.
42:39He says you stopped her from tipping over into full-blown aclampsia.
42:44She hasn't had any seizures?
42:46None.
42:48That would have been a very different story.
42:53We don't always get to write the endings we choose in this profession.
42:57But sometimes we do.
43:00And sometimes there isn't an ending.
43:03And those stories are the best.
43:08I'm sorry for pushing you away, Aisha.
43:10A mother cannot be pushed away, ever.
43:14A mother always at your shoulder.
43:18And it is good.
43:21I never knew that before.
43:25I didn't know what to do with that kind of love.
43:30But I do now.
43:38Thank you for showing me.
43:45It's all written down there in good plain English.
43:49It's as thorough as it comes, Mrs. Barrowman.
43:52And it states very clearly that it was the boiler that was faulty.
43:57Not the way it was fitted.
43:59It had a defective valve.
44:03What happened was nothing to do with anyone who was there that night.
44:07Or anyone here today.
44:12Meanwhile, all the tins of meat have been recalled.
44:16And the cash and carry will be prosecuted.
44:20I'm sorry if I acted out of turn.
44:24That's all right.
44:27But I think if you did want to sue the boiler manufacturer,
44:31there would be a case to answer.
44:33Yeah.
44:34We've got a family to say goodbye to.
44:37And a life to build.
44:40Haven't we, Lady?
44:48It's Mrs. Russell, isn't it?
44:50What can I do for you?
44:51It's not for me, sister.
44:53It's for one of me neighbours.
44:55Well, a sort of neighbour.
44:58But I reckon there's a baby on the way.
45:04I can remember you sisters coming out at all glowers and in all weathers.
45:12We still do.
45:15Midwife calling.
45:17I don't need a midwife.
45:19My dear.
45:20I'm afraid it seems very likely that you do.
45:22I don't need a ruddy midwife.
45:34What we'll do is take a gentle look at you and then we'll decide what to do.
45:39Oh, I don't know why you're saying we this or we that like we're friends or something.
45:43Because we ain't friends.
45:45Don't you talk to the sister like that.
45:47And we ain't friends neither.
45:51Mrs. Russell, I don't see any means of heating water in here.
45:57Would you return to your flat and boil a kettle for me?
46:06It's such a shame Sister Veronica missed the Eucharist.
46:09But her point from Hong Kong must have still been in the air.
46:11And it's also a shame that your brother can't join us, Trixie.
46:16He's become quite a fixture on high days and holidays.
46:19Oh, I know.
46:20But he's gone to Lido de Jeslo with a friend from his national service days.
46:23At least I get to rearrange some flowers in his absence.
46:31This is the salt, this is.
46:32Lana, the sense of pressure that you're feeling is because your baby's head is descending through your pelvis.
46:38It's almost ready to be born.
46:40Send for a bloody ambulance.
46:42Lana, it's too late.
46:51How's things?
46:54Salt in front with dad's toes.
46:56Seems the first step towards what he would have wanted.
47:00Following in his footsteps and all that.
47:06Me too.
47:09Delivering insulin to a self-injecting diabetic.
47:15This is a lead dressing tool.
47:18He had it so many years, it's been worn to his grip.
47:23It's old-fashioned, but...
47:25I'm gonna keep it.
47:27I sort of think that is, doesn't it?
47:39Could you organise a urine, Sam?
47:42Next time she feels like getting up.
47:45She has been needing a lot of rest lately.
47:48I do not require repose.
47:51It is almost invariably forced upon me.
47:57If you feel like it, I can bring you a strawberry scone to nibble on later.
48:15I'm paying particular attention to her eyes as I bathe her, in case there's any infection.
48:23Are you saying I'm dirty?
48:24We take the same approach with every newborn.
48:27We take the same approach with every newborn.
48:29I want to hold her.
48:32Well, you've, um, finished your cigarette, perhaps.
48:35I want to hold her.
48:51Get your hands off my baby.
48:53I didn't ask you to come here.
48:56And get your hands off me.
48:59Who asked you to come here in the first place?
49:22The mother was angry, and she was distressed.
49:26She wasn't unusual in that.
49:31And she needed every ounce of love I could show her.
49:36She spat at you, and she assaulted you.
49:40And the only thing that stopped me turning my back on her and running out of that squalid room
49:48was the fact that I was there as an act of Christian witness.
49:57Did that give you courage?
50:00It gave me purpose.
50:02And it gave me strength.
50:04And it reminded me that we are missionaries here in the East End.
50:10And I'd rather go and be a missionary elsewhere
50:14than be forced to pretend to be something we are not.
50:24Sister.
50:27Have you made your decision?
50:30Sister Julianne, Sister Veronica has arrived back from Hong Kong.
50:34She's waiting in your office.
50:35And insists she'll see no one but you.
50:39I came back to Poplar via the mother house.
50:43I needed to confer with Mother Mildred
50:45because I have been feeling increasingly unhappy.
50:52I wasn't unaware of it.
50:56But our work is not about our happiness.
51:01It is about seeking no reward other than knowing that we do his will.
51:08If you are quoting St Ignatius of Loyola, then you are omitting the bit about giving and not counting the
51:17cost.
51:17And I can't keep on giving and not counting the cost any longer.
51:23But you must.
51:25We must, Sister.
51:27It is what we do.
51:29It is what I have done.
51:31And done for too long.
51:33I have loved and served.
51:39And I have saved other women's children for decades.
51:44If anyone were mine or felt like mine for a day or even an hour,
51:55I had to hand it back and stand there trying not to scream because my arms were empty.
52:07Why didn't you tell me this before?
52:09Because I hoped I could bear it and I can't.
52:36I've been given permission to go away for six weeks while I decide if I want to give up my
52:48vows and leave the order.
53:20Come in.
53:34I couldn't let you go without coming to see you.
53:38I've stood exactly where you're standing now.
53:43Well, I hope you were standing in better shoes than these.
53:47There are no lace-ups in the charity cupboard, and I can only walk in lace-ups.
53:53There is a knack to court shoes.
53:59Please, don't put your arms around me.
54:03I'm scared I might break apart.
54:10Beryl, do you have somewhere to go?
54:15I've been offered a room in a Christian retreat house near Gravesend.
54:20There are no other religious there, and I'm assured no questions will be asked.
54:28Let me find you a pair of tights. You'll feel more pulled together in a proper outfit.
54:45You were right about Sister Monica Jones' oedema.
54:49It points to kidney failure.
54:52But tests will tell us more.
54:58This was always going to come, wasn't it?
55:02In one form or other.
55:04And when it does,
55:06it's going to feel like the ravens leaving the Tower of London.
55:13The end of the known world.
55:17One could say that about so many things.
55:24I'm telling the board that if the Order are not permitted to work in a missionary capacity,
55:32we are leaving Poplar.
55:34At the end of the year.
55:37And that is final.
55:53Do you know what you want, Sister?
55:56Apart from a baby?
55:57To call my own?
56:00No.
56:01Sometimes I don't think anyone knows anything, really.
56:12I'll walk with you as far as the post office.
56:16This must go with the first post in the morning.
56:35Some things bring joy, year after year, summer after summer.
56:42They have delighted us before, and they will again.
56:47We trust the tides and the rhythm of the seasons,
56:52the tilt of the sunflower's face towards the sky.
56:58When the wind blows a little colder, do we even notice it?
57:04Or if we do, do we think it will not be for long?
57:09Because one day, it may blow cold forever.
57:13But not yet.
57:16Not now.
57:18While miracles are ordinary and still within our reach.
57:26She's about to have the baby.
57:27We think. I just keep getting with...
57:29Oh, here it comes again.
57:31Hello, Harmony.
57:32I'm a nurse.
57:33I'm sorry you've been hurt.
57:34There is no reason to treat me as an invalid.
57:38I saw a streaming Poplar, guarantee.
57:39And if I win, you'll get that bike.
57:41One would hope they were above such pettiness
57:44when there is so much at stake.
57:46If I win, you'll suffer by interconnecting.
58:16so we'll be across through the this month.
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