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Call the Midwife - Season 15 - Episode 05
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00:26The Ordinary Seldon
00:29The Ordinary Seldon
01:00Ah, tea, best drink of the day
01:06Fetch a packet of Eccles Cakes
01:12Cyril's back from his conference today
01:15So I've ordered in his guardian
01:17Fred, there's water coming out of the ceiling
01:20Oh, flippity bit
01:28It's one minute past
01:30Sorry, no screen
01:31It's my fault
01:32I went to see if there was any post
01:34And we've had a card from Sister Veronica in Hong Kong
01:38The post on a sterile surface
01:44Christopher doing nicely
01:46New hibiscus clinic thriving
01:48Sister Hilda in her element
01:51Element 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?
02:02The Board of Health have given us no notice
02:04Dr Turner has tried his utmost
02:06But there's been no reprieve
02:08I know that annex
02:09The screens and equipment are totally inadequate
02:11We'll be taking our own accoutrements
02:13Don't you worry
02:15Meanwhile, we do have both
02:17Nurse Sailwood and Nurse Clifford coming back today
02:20Will you get a chance to go to bed this morning
02:22And catch up on some sleep?
02:24No
02:25I'm going to meet Miss Higgins
02:27And 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
02:40Every step all the way to the top of York Minster
02:43And now I'm counting every step all the way back to your front door
02:46In Lenata's house
02:48Because there are 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
03:06Before we go back to the ordinary world
03:08You think it wraps Mr Buckley?
03:11Nasty, greedy things
03:12Niner things with their incisors
03:14This leg pipe
03:16If they know that, they'd get poisoned
03:18I want them poisoned
03:19I use this flat for prayer meeting
03:21It's not rats
03:22It's just
03:23The soldiers perished
03:25It's not tissue paper
03:26This, Fred
03:31Hang on
03:33Look
03:34I reckon you need to pull all these out
03:37Refit it
03:38We're proper plastic
03:39I just put something on our new house
03:41Did you hear?
03:42We're moving back to Poplar
03:43Moss Street
03:44Oh, Waltham still didn't rain long then
03:46No
03:47Never mind your geographical teacher
03:49This young man is wheezing like a creaking gate
03:53Hey, use your inhaler
03:54Son, it's alright
03:55He just gets like this every time we pull up floorboards
03:57He's alright
04:03Hello, Mrs Waddis
04:05Fred
04:06What's all this?
04:08Greetings, Pastor Robinson
04:10And greetings, Rosalie
04:12You didn't see the plumber's van outside?
04:16Perhaps your mind was on other matters
04:24Good afternoon, Miss Figgins
04:26I've been sent to hold the fort while you're at the clinic
04:28Master Timothy Turner
04:31Or
04:32Should that be Doctor?
04:34A little bird informed me
04:36That a certain set of examinations
04:38Have not only been passed
04:40But passed with flying colours
04:41Yes
04:42That pen you gave me
04:44Stood me in very good stead
04:47Of course, I won't be writing any prescriptions out with it
04:50Until I'm formally qualified
04:51All good things will happen in time
05:03Mrs Hennessy
05:04We discussed the merits and demerits of peanut butter jars last week
05:08Leave your sample with me
05:10And if you cannot find a seat, you make you against the wall
05:15I'll be extra alert for signs of protein in that one
05:19And diabetes in the rosehip syrup bottle
05:25Honestly, Aisha
05:25I'm still a bit full from our lunch
05:29Feed mother, feed baby
05:32Maybe I'll just nibble on one
05:33While I'm waiting
05:34Ruth 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
05:46I have to go in on my own
05:48You know the drill
05:58Is there somewhere I can put this?
05:59Um, a paper towel, perhaps
06:02I was thinking more like the bin
06:08I love this sort of food
06:09But my mum-in-law keeps trying to feed me
06:10And I'm not that hungry
06:11We do advise small, frequent meals
06:15At this stage of the pregnancy
06:19Nurse Crane said that in mothercraft class
06:21I had to translate it for my mother-in-law
06:23And I think she only heard frequent
06:27I don't think it'll be too long before baby puts in an appearance
06:30Have we delivered the whole 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
06:38And 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
06:46And 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
07:08In which case I should not need to point out the proprietors
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
07:21If they want information about our district cases
07:24Then they should put in a formal request
07:26The administrator claims they can demand access without notice
07:30But as we have previously discussed
07:33We are under no obligation to do everything they ask
07:41I'm not sure she's any nearer to deciding
07:43Whether to accept the new rules or close Nunata's house
07:46Sheila, if she delays any longer it won't be up to her
07:50And what happens after that will happen to us all
07:54Are you not partaking in pudding, sister?
08:00Can it be preserved?
08:01I 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
08:13While sister Veronica's been away
08:16This is the second time this week I've made a sponge so bad
08:19We'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
08:24Is 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
08:52A strawberry tea might be appropriate
08:58Thank you
08:59Good evening Mrs. Barrelman
09:01Now 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
09:10So I'm going to christen the kitchen by making their tea
09:14Ivan did me a favour and a half this morning
09:17Sorting the burst pipe inside an hour
09:21Have you got any luncheon meat?
09:24At 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
09:34There'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
09:41Still, it's on a better bus route
09:44Now Suzanne's got into the grammar school
09:47Gran, they've got rulers and protractors
09:49Grammar school
09:50Well let's hope this is the beginning of great things for you
09:54Pick yourself out a rubber, I'll let you have it half-pruffs
09:57Oh
10:05Last orders for Ovaltine
10:14I can't drink anything
10:15My 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
10:29I 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 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
11:14And deliver another baby
11:20Things have been changing all the time haven't they?
11:22Yes
11:24And we're still here
11:28Though 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
11:56Deal 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
12:04This not management, this woman's work
12:09It is alright isn't it? The flat?
12:11The 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
12:21You 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...
12:41Wanted to ask you something, sister
12:46Can Dilwa stay with me when the baby's born?
12:50That of course
12:53I want it because I do not want Ruth to be afraid
12:56And I won't be if Dilwa's with me
13:01Mag!
13:02I found the tomato sauce
13:04What was it?
13:05Within the tea chest for the bedding!
13:07No!
13:09Susie, you'll have to go on the camp bed until that new mattress is delivered
13:13You know what I mean for us?
13:15Oh, she'd be like lunch and meat apparently
13:18It means you don't like your cooking
13:21Hey!
13:23Stop!
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
13:35Waiting 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, Dilwa
13:48We are
13:48But if we don't do some things our way
13:51We aren't going to know who we are
13:54Please
13:55Don't let her in the room
14:08Oh, 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
14:17Paul's still in the outside lab and his asthma's bad
14:20The operator will help you find the number
14:22Put your coat and shoes on
14:27Ivan?
14:29Can you let me in?
14:31Why? Why 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
14:49You 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
15:00I know my mum's cooking a glitters in here
15:03You're shivering Ivan
15:05I can see your goosebumps from here
15:08You can take paracetamol for fever
15:12Lovely
15:13Then go to bed
15:14And keep yourselves warm
15:17T's up
15:18And Suzanne's busy putting water beside your beds
15:20You're a bit overqualified to be a waiter, aren't you?
15:24Chip off the old bloke, eh?
15:25Nothing 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
15:33All mod cons
15:34Send to Eaton if you please
15:36Put it on if need be
15:39This is going to seem like a bad dream by tomorrow tea time
15:45Bill Wong!
15:48Shh!
15:49They must beeping
15:53You, you sit, you sit
15:59I need him to go to the telephone box and 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
16:21Aren't you wearing your blazer to get you in the mood?
16:24It's a rehearsal, not a dress rehearsal
16:32They 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, I'm...
16:49Are you the lady who's about to become a grandma?
16:51Yes!
16:53Tell her
16:56Go!
16:57Mother, go!
17:02Mother!
17:03Mother!
17:03Do you have a baby?
17:05Mother!
17:07Mother!
17:09Mother!
17:09Mother!
17:10Mother!
17:11Mother!
17:15Mother!
17:16Mother!
17:17Mother!
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
17:31Which makes them vulnerable
17:40The bedroom curtains are still drawn
17:57Doctor calling?
17:59Doctor calling?
18:02Mother!
18:06Mother!
18:08Mother!
18:08Mother!
18:11Mother!
18:12Mother!
18:12I've stopped being sick
18:14I've used up nearly all my inhaler
18:16My head's splitting
18:18You're dehydrated, which won't help
18:19Are your parents upstairs?
18:22I haven't come down yet
18:26No!
18:28I'm stuck!
18:29I'm stuck!
18:30I can't get out!
18:31Ruth
18:32You're nearly there
18:34It's just all happened so fast
18:36You've hardly had a chance to catch your breath
18:38Listen to the message, Ruth
18:40You know what I should be doing
18:43Well, you obviously do
18:46That's it, Ruth
18:47Keep pushing
18:48Just like that
18:49Your wife's a quick learner
18:51Help!
18:57Mr. Barrowman?
19:00Mrs. Barrowman?
19:02Dr. Turner's going to come up and see you in a minute
19:45Dad?
19:47Dad?
19:49Oh!
19:54No!
19:58No!
19:59It's it, Tonya!
20:00You've been a...
20:01It's a boy
20:02No!
20:03No!
20:04No!
20:06No!
20:08No!
20:08No!
20:09No!
20:10No!
20:11No!
20:13No!
20:14No!
20:14No!
20:15No!
20:16No!
20:17No!
20:19No!
20:19No!
20:19No!
20:24No!
20:25No!
20:29You've given me a son
20:32No...
20:44No pulse
20:46No pupil reflexes
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
21:18I've gone a bit faint
21:26Deep breaths
21:29Then we need to get you outside
21:33I think I know what this is
21:36Why can't I go back inside?
21:38Look, you'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
22:04But 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
22:13And sometimes that gets in the way
22:14If 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
22:36I hear the baby cry and I cry
22:40Why are you speaking in English?
22:42Think like an English man
22:45You understand like an English man
22:47Ruth has just given birth
22:49It was not easy
22:52It's not easy now
22:54Not easy
22:55Because she'd need mother
22:59A mother has known her pain
23:03Mother gives ease
23:05Mother gives peace
23:08Husband can't give that
23:10She wanted me there
23:13All's well that ends well
23:15Ruth passed water
23:16And 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
23:31And 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
23:46There is nothing like a cream horn
23:48After a successful delivery
23:49I'm more of a cuss to talk
23:53I'm more of a cuss to talk
23:54Honey, what are you fretting about?
23:58Mrs. Wallace phoned Cyril last night
24:00And she wants to speak to him
24:01About his conduct
24:02And also his conscience
24:04Are you surprised?
24:07He's a pastor
24:08Who walks into his flat
24:10Which is also his church
24:12With a woman who is not his wife
24:14Carrying bags from a weekend away
24:16And bumps into the principal elder
24:18I had hoped
24:19You tell me not to worry
24:20That's not what friends are for
24:22Hmm
24:28Where's my grandson?
24:30It's through there
24:31He's resting and receiving oxygen
24:33I could come in with you if you'd like that
24:37What I'd like
24:38Is to have my son
24:39And my daughter in law
24:40And my granddaughter still alive
24:43I'd like them to have seen
24:45A competent doctor
24:46Who hadn't tucked them into their deathbeds
24:49With kind words and no action
25:09Three deaths in one family
25:11Miss Higgins says if the statements are signed
25:13She'll deal with them immediately
25:17I don't think I've ever had to do harder paperwork than this
25:22Oh, age 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
25:39Her 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
25:58Through some very choppy waters
26:00But you haven't come here to tell me what I'm doing well
26:03Have you, Mrs. Wallis?
26:06No
26:06I have not
26:08I have come here to tell you that you're compromising your position
26:12And you're compromising that young girl
26:15Nobody 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
26:27He knows his way to York Minster
26:31I'm sorry, Mrs. Wallis
26:35We are modern people
26:37Living in a modern world
26:39Wrestling with some very modern problems
26:43But sometimes, Pastor Robinson
26:47The best way of protecting ourselves
26:50And those we love
26:51Is by being a little bit old-fashioned
26:54You understand?
26:56You understand?
26:57Because
26:58I require you
27:00To understand
27:05How?
27:06I mean, how?
27:08Was it the food my Nan cooked?
27:10Paul
27:11Everything is going to have to be reviewed by the Coroner
27:15Ultimately, 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
27:22I can't believe they're dead
27:27Paul
27:29From what the lab tests tell us
27:31The food your Nan cooked
27:33Probably made you all ill
27:35But
27:37That's a simple case of bacteria
27:39With the tinned meat
27:41Not her fault at all
27:43Suzanne never had any anyway
27:47Yesterday
27:49I suspected
27:50That the problem
27:53Was
27:54Carbon monoxide poisoning
27:58And now the post-mortem
28:00Have said exactly the same thing
28:04The signs are clear and unmistakable
28:07It's in the air, isn't it?
28:08Carbon monoxide
28:09Only in very small amounts
28:12When there's too much
28:14It becomes very dangerous
28:16Why would there be too much?
28:19If a heating system develops problems
28:22It was a brand new boiler
28:24My dad fitted it himself
28:34Oh
28:38I helped him, Dr. Turner
28:42Oh
28:43I helped him
28:50Timothy said everything Daddy did
28:52When he went out to that family
28:53Was appropriate
28:54Why is he so upset?
28:59Angela
29:00Every so often
29:02When you work in medicine
29:03We say a case gets under her skin
29:06This case has got under Daddy's skin
29:13Hello?
29:15Oh, Mrs. Turner
29:16I rang the surgery
29:18But Dr. Turner wasn't there
29:19We've just had the public health inspectors
29:23At the shop
29:23Public health inspectors?
29:26We're under investigation
29:28For selling contaminated meat
29:30And they've taken I don't know how many tints 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
29:43And now they've gone
29:46Possibly because of something
29:48That we sold
29:52I 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
30:11Well, once the boilers stripped out
30:13I'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
30:23By fitting a dodgy boiler
30:25Mrs. Barrowman
30:26Only the coroner can say what happened
30:29I hope he finds you guilty of criminal negligence
30:33And strikes you off
30:35If you'd sent them all to hospital
30:38They'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
30:56And for us and our relationship
30:58Excellent
31:00Stopping sleeping together isn't going to turn me into a virgin again
31:02And 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
31:12And I am still a pastor
31:13And I don't like putting you in harm's way
31:16I'm not in harm's way
31:18I'm on the pill
31:19There is more than one type of harm, Hazelette
31:22Maybe we should wait now
31:26Until I'm in a position to put a ring on your finger
31:28And 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
31:40It's very poorly thought through
31:42And you can keep it
31:55Thank God
31:59Thank goodness you went in so early
32:02Under no circumstances must any patients be allowed to see it
32:05I'll root out some turps
32:15Phyllis!
32:17Whatever is this?
32:20No one is to contact the police
32:22Patrick, this is a clear case of criminal damage
32:26And probably slander
32:28That family have suffered
32:30And are suffering enough
32:34There's no proof at all that that
32:37Vandalism 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
32:50What did you say?
32:52Well I mainly reminded him that it is against the law
32:55To print, publish or speculate on any details of a medical case
32:59Whilst an inquest is pending
33:01Miss 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
33:14I'm not seeing any more patients
33:29This feeling inside me could never deny me
33:34The right to be wrong if I choose
33:37And this pleasure I get from saying
33:41And this pleasure I get from saying
33:41Winning a bet is to lose
33:49Nothing good, nothing bad, nothing ventured
33:53Nothing gained, nothing stillborn or lost
33:57Nothing further than proof
33:59Nothing wilder than you
34:01Nothing older than time
34:03Nothing sweeter than wine
34:05Nothing physically recklessly
34:08Hope isn't blind
34:09Nothing I couldn't say
34:11Nothing why cost a day
34:13Nothing right
34:16You know, Cyril called again this morning, don't you?
34:20Before you came down to breakfast
34:21Perhaps 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
34:38Generally falls to Sister Catherine
34:40Sister Catherine is standing in for Sister Veronica
34:43At the Head Lice Conference this morning
34:47And set off looking as though
34:49Nothing could make her happier
34:54Do you recollect what it was like to be
34:57At the beginning of all this?
35:00Yes, I do
35:01If only barely sometimes
35:04I've watched so much water flow underneath the bridge
35:11The question is, Sister
35:14Do we watch the water?
35:16Or are we the water?
35:18Because if it is the latter
35:20You speak not of change
35:23But of we ourselves being changed
35:28Or changing
35:29It is a rhythm
35:33Is it not?
35:37It is indeed
35:46Sister
35:48How long have your feet been as swollen as this?
35:52It is a recent development
35:56Let us not speak of it
36:06Dad
36:08What good is shutting yourself away going to do?
36:11It will do less harm than trying to treat patients when I'm not trusted
36:15And 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
36:27Or 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?
36:42We can't decide on the name yet, Aisha
36:45When we decide, we'll do it then
36:50She wait for us
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
37:10Can 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
37:26Because she 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
37:52And I need to get into a routine
37:59Please don't go out
38:04I'm only popping out for an hour
38:25I'm only popping out for an hour
38:33I changed the sheets
38:35I've cleaned everything
38:36But you 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?
38:49How can I come to terms with it?
38:51I helped my dad put that boiler in
38:53It's my fault and I'm the one that's still here
38:56It's not your fault
38:58There are plenty of others you could blame
39:00But what about you?
39:01Eh? 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
39:22Oh
39:26Oh
39:27Oh
39:28Oh
39:29Oh
39:32Ruth
39:35Ruth
39:36Ruth
39:36Ruth
40:01I think I need the doctor
40:03I could walk there
40:05I go for doctor
40:10You walk
40:11I walk with you
40:13No
40:16No
40:19No
40:19No
40:20No
40:20No
40:21No
40:22No
40:23Every 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
40:42The baby's mother lying in street by five stairs
40:46I think she'd die
40:48Oh no
40:49No
40:51Dr. Turner
40:59It's Ruth
41:00It's Ruth
41:00She delivered a few days ago
41:02She just opened her eyes
41:04Said something about seeing lights
41:07Her ankles are swollen
41:08Looks like postnatal preeclampsia
41:10Ambulance?
41:11Says she's on the brink of fitting
41:16We need bromothol now
41:17Can you fetch some?
41:19It's too late for 999
41:20I'll drive her there myself
41:21Now run
41:26It's alright Ruth
41:28I'm not going to leave you
41:31You need a hand with those?
41:35Yes
41:36And we wouldn't mind a bit of fridge space if you've got any to spare in your flat
41:42I'm sorry I lost my temper
41:46It was certainly a spectacle
41:47If you hadn't been shouting at me I would have quite enjoyed it
41:52And you're right
41:53It was a terrible marriage proposal
41:57Was it a marriage proposal?
42:00Yes
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
42:24And a feminist
42:25In their cathedral town
42:28The length and breadth of England
42:37Mr. Parry is still with Ruth
42:39He says she 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
43:12Ever
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
43:40For 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
43:54That 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
44:13Meanwhile, all the tins of meat have been recalled
44:15And the cash and carry will be prosecuted
44:20I'm sorry if I acted out of turn
44:24That's all right
44:26But I think if you did want to sue the boiler manufacturer
44:30There 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, lad?
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
44:56Well, a sort of neighbour
44:58I reckon there's a baby on the way
45:04I can remember you sisters coming out all glowers
45:07And in all weathers
45:12We still do
45:15Midwife calling
45:17I don't need a midwife
45:19My dear
45:19I'm afraid it seems very likely that you did
45:22I don't need a ruddy midwife
45:34What we'll do
45:35Is take a gentle look at you
45:37And then we'll decide what to do
45:39I don't know why you're saying we this
45:41Or we that
45:42Like we're friends or something
45:43Because we ain't friends
45:44Don't you talk to the sister like that
45:47And we ain't friends neither
45:51Mrs. Russell
45:53I don't see any means of heating water in here
45:57Would you return to your flat
46:00And boil a kettle for me?
46:05It's such a shame
46:07Sister Veronica missed the Eucharist
46:08But her plane from Hong Kong
46:10Must have still been in the air
46:11And it's also a shame
46:13That your brother can't join us, Trixie
46:15He's become quite a fixture
46:17On high days and holidays
46:19I know
46:20But he's gone to Lido de Jeslo
46:21With a friend from his national service days
46:23At least I get to rearrange some flowers
46:25In his absence
46:31This is the salt this is
46:32Lana
46:33The sense of pressure
46:34That you're feeling
46:35Is because your baby's head
46:36Is descending through your pelvis
46:38It's almost ready to be born
46:40Send for a bloody ambulance
46:41Lana
46:42It's too late
46:50How's things?
46:54Sorting through my dad's tools
46:56Seems the first step towards what he would have wanted
47:00Following in his footsteps
47:02And all that
47:06Me too
47:09Delivering insulin to a self-injecting diabetic
47:15This is a lead dressing tool
47:18Yeah, there's so many years
47:19It's been worn to his grip
47:23It's old-fashioned
47:23But
47:25I'm gonna keep it
47:27That sort of thing that is, doesn't it?
47:39Could you walk and ask a urine some
47:42Next time she feels like getting up
47:45She has been needing a lot of rest lately
47:47I do not require repose
47:50It is almost invariably forced upon me
47:57If you feel like it
47:59I can bring you a strawberry scone to nibble on later
48:10She's a pretty little thing
48:15I'm paying particular attention
48:17To her eyes
48:20As I bathe her
48:21In case there's any infection
48:23Are you saying I'm dirty?
48:24We take the same approach
48:26With every newborn
48:29I want to hold her
48:32When you've, um, finished your cigarette, perhaps
48:35I want
48:37To hold her
48:51Get your hands off my baby
48:53I didn't ask you to come here
48:56Get your hands off me
48:58Who asked you to come here in the first place?
49:22The mother was angry
49:25And she was distressed
49:26She wasn't unusual in that
49:31And she needed
49:33Every ounce of love I could show her
49:35She spat at you
49:37And she assaulted you
49:40And the only thing
49:41That stopped me
49:44Turning my back on her
49:45And running out of that squalid room
49:48Was the fact that I was there
49:50As an act of
49:54Christian witness
49:57Did that give you courage?
50:00It gave me purpose
50:02And it gave me strength
50:04And it reminded me
50:05That we are missionaries
50:07Here in the East End
50:10And I'd rather go
50:11And be a missionary elsewhere
50:14Than be forced to pretend
50:16To be something we are not
50:24Sister
50:26Have you made your decision?
50:30Sister Julianne
50:31Sister Veronica has arrived back from Hong Kong
50:33She'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
50:58Our happiness
51:01It is about seeking no reward
51:04Other than knowing
51:07That we do his will
51:08If you are quoting
51:10Saint Ignatius of Loyola
51:12Then you are omitting the bit about
51:14Giving
51:15And not counting the cost
51:17And I can't keep on giving
51:20And 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
51:35Loved
51:37And
51:38Served
51:39And I have saved
51:41Other women's children for decades
51:44If anyone were mine
51:46Or
51:48Felt like mine
51:50For a day
51:51Or even an hour
51:55I had to hand it back
51:58And stand there
51:59Trying not to scream
52:01Because
52:02My arms were empty
52:07Why didn't you tell me this before?
52:09Because I hoped
52:10I could bear it
52:12And I can't
52:36I've been given permission to go away
52:40For six weeks
52:42While I
52:45Decide
52:45If I want to
52:47Give up my vows
52:48And leave the order
52:53Go then
52:54All right
52:54I'm pulling
52:55I'm pulling
52:55I'm pulling
52:56I'm pulling
52:56I'm pulling
52:57I'm pulling
52:57Of course
52:58Come on
52:59Yeah, that one
53:21Come in
53:21Come in
53:34I couldn't let you go
53:35Without coming to see you
53:38I've stood exactly
53:40Where 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
53:49And I can only walk in lace-ups
53:52There is a knack to court shoes
53:59Please
54:00Don't put your arms around me
54:03I'm scared
54:04I might break apart
54:09Beryl
54:10Do you have somewhere to go?
54:14I've
54:15Been offered a room in a Christian retreat house
54:18Near Gravesend
54:20There are no other religious there
54:22And I'm assured
54:23No questions will be asked
54:28Let me find you a pair of tights
54:30You'll feel more pulled together
54:31In a proper outfit
54:45You were right about
54:46Sister Monica Jones' edema
54:49It points to kidney failure
54:52But tests will tell us more
54:57This was always going to come
54:59Wasn't it?
55:02In one form or other
55:04And when it does
55:06It's going to feel like the ravens
55:09Leaving 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
55:26That if the order
55:28Are not permitted to work
55:29In a missionary capacity
55:32We are leaving Poplar
55:35At the end of the year
55:37And that is final
55:53Do you know what you want, sister?
55:56Apart from her baby
55:57To call my own
56:00No
56:01Sometimes I don't think anyone
56:03Knows anything, really
56:12I'll walk with you
56:14As far as the post office
56:16This must go with the first post
56:19In the morning
56:34Some things bring joy
56:37Year after year
56:40Year after year
56:40Summer after summer
56:42They have delighted us before
56:44And they will again
56:46We trust the tides
56:49And the rhythm of the seasons
56:52The tilt of the sunflower's face
56:55Towards the sky
56:58When the wind blows a little colder
57:01Do we even notice it?
57:04Or if we do
57:06Do we think
57:06It will not be for long?
57:09Because one day
57:10It may blow cold forever
57:13But not yet
57:16Not now
57:17While miracles are ordinary
57:20And still within our reach
57:26She's about to have the baby
57:27We think
57:28I just keep getting
57:29Oh, here it comes again
57:30Hello, Harmony
57:31I'm a nurse
57:32I'm sorry you've been hurt
57:34There is no reason
57:35To treat me
57:36As an invalid
57:37I saw a streaming Poplar
57:38Guarantee
57:39And if I win
57:40You'll get that bike
57:41One would hope
57:42They were above such pettiness
57:44When there is so much at stake
58:07And when there is so much again
58:08The land is still
58:08Come all the time
58:08To depart
58:08I know
58:08That's not
58:09I know
58:14You
58:15You
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