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00:00R.I.P.S.
00:31Daddy?
00:36Daddy? Hello.
00:38Early birth. I thought I was insomniac. Looking for worms?
00:42Thallus impuricus.
00:43Daddy! You better remember that when you next go to confession.
00:46Come here.
00:53What are they?
00:54They're a can of mushroom. Don't you smell them?
00:58Urgh! Smells like dead rats.
01:00The smell comes from the green slime on the caps.
01:03Well, she told me that after breakfast.
01:05They're commonly called stinkhorns.
01:07And very apt.
01:08Germans used to call the eggs they come from devil's eggs.
01:11They used to use them to make aphrodisiacs.
01:13Must have gone to bed with pegs on their noses.
01:21Mummy's written. She gets back from Germany today.
01:24Deserting a displaced person.
01:27Odd to think of her out there playing Lady Bountable.
01:30You know, you should have done something like that.
01:33Maybe I believe charity begins at home.
01:35Getting you sorted out.
01:37You should be making home of your own.
01:40I don't think we'll go into that if you don't mind.
01:43I wish I could help.
01:44You'll have another item of confession if you're not careful.
01:47You're wishing to do better than God.
01:49A man's gone back to his wife.
01:51There's never any doubt that he would.
01:52We're both good Catholics.
01:55Poor love.
01:56That was the war, that was.
01:58I'll go and see Mrs Laird about breakfast.
02:06Cole?
02:11Cole, don't be all day.
02:12I've talked to the library at nine.
02:17You didn't pull the chain again.
02:18I didn't do anything.
02:19What were you doing in there then?
02:21I was trying but you popped me off.
02:40Another for serving.
02:41Has anybody called Blake?
02:43I'll let him lie in.
02:44He was working down in his yard till God knows what time last night.
02:46Well, it's Saturday anyway.
02:49What's that got to do with it?
02:51Well, he works for himself now.
02:52I don't see why he shouldn't anticipate the five-day week we'll all want
02:55when the country gets back on its feet.
02:57Whenever that might be.
02:58When Nelson gets his eye back.
03:00I want never get you, mother used to say.
03:02The only union that she ever belonged to was mother's union.
03:06Six days shalt thou labour.
03:08And you know where that's written.
03:10Yeah.
03:10Conditions of employment, Whitstanton Ironworks.
03:14No reading at table.
03:17And I want a nice clean plate today, young fellow, my lad.
03:20It's your last day.
03:21Make it sound like the day of judgment.
03:23And that's not so far off neither.
03:25Oh, Dad, the sun's shining on creation this morning.
03:27We know you're in touch with the maker.
03:29Don't let it go in just yet, eh?
03:31He's going to a better place than this is, Col.
03:3542 Betsy Street, my old house.
03:37You're going to like it there, Col.
03:39I can vouch for it.
03:40I lived at peace when I lived in Betsy Street.
03:44I'm in.
04:02Ready to help me get us all moved today, then, eh?
04:04If you want me to.
04:08I'll take this up for Jean.
04:13Well, that wasn't very gracious, was it?
04:15If you want me to.
04:16I don't want to go.
04:18Don't you have a house of your own?
04:19Everyone wants a house of their own.
04:21This is my house.
04:22Can't eat anymore.
04:24That's not enough to keep a sparrow alive,
04:26let alone move house on.
04:28Oh, very well.
04:29What do you say?
04:31Please go leave the table.
04:32Here you go.
04:37Wants to leave the table but doesn't want to leave the house.
04:41Maybe it rubs off from Owen.
04:44Well, Owen's only going because he knows he must.
04:47They've got to lead their own lives.
04:49A man with a child's fear of the dark, is Owen?
04:54I've seen no fear in him, in his job.
04:56When he goes out in the dark after poachers.
04:59Another kind of dark, I meant.
05:03See you.
05:04Tom.
05:08They say the last of the Ukrainians left the camp yesterday.
05:13Ernest left last week.
05:15I went round to try and see him.
05:16But they'd already taken him off.
05:20Letter for you.
05:22Bill for you.
05:23One for Blake with a German stamp.
05:26I'll just get my shoes and then I'm off.
05:28Well, wait Blake for me, will you?
05:29I forgot. Mark's calling for him.
05:31Mm-hmm.
05:33That'll be from his braw line.
05:35They want me to sing.
05:38Blake's coming to mend the engine of my father's steam launch up at the lake.
05:41Why didn't you come with us?
05:43I have homework to do.
05:44What? All weekend?
05:46We still get homework.
05:48You went to boarding school, didn't you?
05:51In public school?
05:53The same one my father went to.
05:55Grandfather too, as a matter of fact.
05:57What was it like?
05:58Awful.
05:59For me.
06:00Some of the chaps liked it well enough, I dare say.
06:03Depends on your temperament, I suppose.
06:06Peg says that's why I like your house.
06:08Why?
06:10It's a home.
06:12I don't feel I ever had one.
06:17Breakfast ready.
06:18Good.
06:29How's Mark making out at the estate office?
06:31Does he like it, you think?
06:32Why don't you ask him?
06:34Well, I've been more or less tired of the iron work since I got back from the States.
06:37Getting to grips with things.
06:40I was hoping he'd say something.
06:41Imagine if he hated the job he would have.
06:43He loves it.
06:44It was the iron works he hated.
06:47I'm glad you didn't try to pressurize him into carrying on the family name there.
06:50Yes, well I understood you see.
06:52I inherited the double responsibility, the works and the estate.
06:55I know where my own real interest lies.
06:59Perhaps I envy him in a way.
07:04They're still keen on Peg, is he?
07:06They're inseparable.
07:08Except that there's the same old problem, of course.
07:11She won't become a Catholic?
07:13Mark thinks she shouldn't have to.
07:15She waits in patience while he agonizes.
07:18I think we shall lose him.
07:20Mayor Culper?
07:21Oh, for heaven's sake, get rid of that hair shirt, Daddy.
07:24He hated school.
07:26He barely got to university when we had a war.
07:28Should have been some of the best years of his life he spent in the army.
07:31He's institutionalized.
07:33It's almost worse than if he'd been an orphan.
07:35That's a terrible thought.
07:37Terrible for me, I mean.
07:39It's not all your fault.
07:41Any more than it was that you and Mummy separated.
07:44I don't want to open up old wounds, but she was unfaithful to you.
07:48The fact that the man was killed, that you're both alone now, doesn't alter that.
07:53Did she take it very badly when he was killed?
07:57Yes.
07:59Well, I say that we hardly saw each other for four years.
08:04Did you meet him at all?
08:05No.
08:07She wanted me to.
08:08I couldn't.
08:10I don't think Mark would have either.
08:13Still, your charm seems to have worked on Peg.
08:15Maybe she'll convert him.
08:16Peg's brother's coming today, by the way, to mend the engine of the steam launch for you.
08:21It is almost impossible now to move between zones which are occupied by Americans or British or Russians.
08:28Now I'm in the British zone, where my father still is, but for some few weeks only.
08:34Soon I must return to the East.
08:37This is the last letter I'm writing to you.
08:42Where is Owen?
08:43He'll be in the attic, looking for some of his old things we put away there.
08:47I can't think why he wants to take everything.
08:50With most of Grandad's furniture still in the place.
08:55I just wish that van would come.
08:59You know we're taking the bed.
09:01Stop worrying.
09:02We're moving Lovett's bed in there.
09:04But I think he wants to stay with Blake.
09:07Something's making him miserable.
09:09Moodiness seems to be contagious in this house.
09:11I'm sorry.
09:12But honestly, I think Owen would take the wallpaper.
09:15It's better like this.
09:17It'll help you.
09:18Both of you.
09:21And glad Ernst came here that time.
09:24He loved you all.
09:26I think you reminded him of his family.
09:30You know the prisoners have gone from the camp.
09:32Yes, I know.
09:35Perhaps he's with them now.
09:37His family.
09:39The dead.
09:41I wanted it too, you know.
09:44To die.
09:46He wouldn't let me.
09:47He was right.
09:55I'm glad about your news.
09:58I shall miss it hearing you sing.
09:59Not that I know anything about music.
10:01Neither do I.
10:03Does George know?
10:04No.
10:05He's always been a bit odd about my singing.
10:07As if it came between us.
10:09Silly man.
10:10What about your politics?
10:12I say to him.
10:13Oh, I'll tell him in due course.
10:15Mark's gone for Blake.
10:17There's no great rush.
10:18Peg gone.
10:19Didn't she bash you?
10:19I've been on the beach with Lovett.
10:21We're picking her up at the library if they let her off.
10:23I'll tell Blake you're here.
10:24Excuse me.
10:28Hey, Lovett.
10:29Fish in there?
10:30In port?
10:31Can't, Grandad.
10:31Dad won't let me.
10:33Won't let you?
10:33Since when?
10:34Since we sank last week.
10:35We didn't sink.
10:36We proved it would float full of water.
10:39Of homework in any case.
10:42Taking my mate off me now, is he?
10:51Mommy!
10:52Hello, darling.
10:56We didn't expect you so soon.
10:58I got back last night.
10:59I assumed you'd be here.
11:00I haven't come to drag you back to my place, by the way.
11:02Just to see you.
11:03Is your father here?
11:04Yes.
11:05Mark's here with Peg's brother.
11:06They're doing something to the steam launch.
11:08Let's go and see what they're up to.
11:17Do you think your father might have some spare petrol coupons?
11:19I thought you got extra rations for your work.
11:21I've come rather a long way.
11:23Should have taken the train, really.
11:25But I've got to go back from a different airfield at the end of next week.
11:30He's no idea what I've actually been doing in Germany, has he?
11:33He's assumed you've been playing Lady Bountiful to the troops.
11:37I haven't even had to tell a little white lie.
11:39Yes, I thought he might assume I'd been doing something like that.
11:42It's a natural assumption to pre-war you, isn't it?
11:45It would be, for him.
11:47Oh, Mummy, be kind.
11:49We haven't spoken to each other for more than five or six hours in as many years.
11:52How do you know there isn't a new post-war hymn, too?
12:30Oh, oh, an hour.
12:34I don't know.
12:37I don't know, I don't know what the world is.
12:49she hides it she says it makes me fat you can have my sugar ration oh I'm not really annoyed
12:55it's her way of getting back at me for what I always like to think of as my warrior fraternizing
13:01with the Yankees she called it it sounds worse than fraternizing with Jerry excuse me I think
13:06Blake's having some trouble I think you ought to have a word with yourself oh then I will of course
13:14why'd you call him sir glass habit respect for one's parents should be demonstrated even when
13:20it doesn't exist like a lot of other things it dies home oh it's sourpuss are you laughing with
13:26him just now I didn't mean him I meant you
13:46problems in your port injector it's in pretty bad condition you're gonna need a new one they could
13:53make you one at the works I'm not allowed on the premises only your managers fired me I gather
13:58you weren't too dismayed Pegg tells me you started in business on your own what is what the country
14:03needs to get off our pre-war backsides and work you mean as opposed to just collecting the rents
14:09well I suppose that's part of it I think I can understand the reason for that particular socialist
14:14point of view I'm not a socialist as a matter of fact I don't believe in nationalization I just want
14:20a
14:21world in which what people have has been fairly in and looking me straight in the eye as you say
14:26it
14:26nothing personal but if the cap fits wear it yes John how was Germany chaos good to see you
14:42Pegg wants you to be in this photograph with him you stay to lunch I could be persuaded good good
14:55he's assumed we've been introduced I'm Beth Warrington Mark's mother Blake Hayward you've been in Germany
15:03I've just come back from there I've been trying to get there for the last 12 months they say it's
15:08impossible it is for most people why do you want to get to Germany I have a friend there English
15:15German
15:18it's interesting
15:21it's interesting
15:22yes
15:22hey watch you on this one
15:24coming
15:43pass me the half inch will you
15:53that's a one inch you public school
15:58suppose even a woman should know the difference between half and one inch
16:02I'm Mark's sister Ros
16:03Blake Hayward
16:05been binding to you about his public school education has he
16:08yeah since we met just before the end
16:10the end
16:12doesn't feel like the end does it
16:14doesn't to me and over a year's gone by
16:17same grey old wartime world
16:19if we're not careful we should get too fond of it
16:23yeah
16:25that's something new of course
16:28Pegg Mark
16:30can't imagine that happening before the war
16:32you approve
16:34hope I'm not a snob
16:35ah
16:36boot on the other foot now eh
16:39come on you two
16:40lunch
16:42you're staying
16:43well I uh
16:44hope so
16:45I've always wanted to see how the other half eats
16:47away from the officers met
16:58I'll be along in a minute
17:04interesting family
17:05hmm
17:05like us
17:06no two the same
17:11they tell me you're a wizard with an engine
17:14oh anything that makes the wheels go round
17:15I might be able to get you to Germany
17:18how
17:20I don't want to talk about it here
17:21get Mark to bring you over to the cottage
17:50I don't want to talk about it
18:07my English gentleman
18:09it's good to see you
18:10have you got any more news from Blake
18:12yes
18:12I received this this morning
18:17he should be here in a couple of days
18:21you know how unpredictable traveling is these days
18:23yes
18:25without your help
18:26I couldn't even have come here to my father's funeral
18:32if I had only come to the west when Blake wished me to
18:35how different life would have been
18:37you thought your father was in the east
18:39and life's no better here than in the Russian sector
18:41you have been
18:43no
18:44no I haven't
18:46and how could you know what kind of life I speak of
18:49when does your permit expire I've forgotten
18:52in a week
18:55I could run away
18:57disappear in the city of course
19:00don't be alarmed I shall not embarrass you
19:03you know I have to go back
19:05and why
19:09and since I have to go back
19:10it is better not to see him
19:13it's the reason he's coming
19:14yes I know
19:16but when my father is buried
19:18I shall go
19:22you understand
19:24yes
19:25yes
19:26yes I understand
19:27yes
20:04Is there going to be any room on this thing for us?
20:06No, it's always like this.
20:09Hello, Fred.
20:09Hello, Troy.
20:10This is Blake Hayworth.
20:12What are our charges?
20:13Well.
20:20We simply wait, hopefully.
20:24What's your experience?
20:26At worst during the war.
20:28You flew during the war?
20:29To France.
20:30Well, it's no longer secret.
20:33Except from your husband.
20:38We're separated.
20:40Well, I suppose you've gathered that from Mark.
20:43Must be obvious anyway.
20:45It isn't, actually.
20:46Well, not when you're together.
20:50How much can you know of any two people by simply seeing them together?
20:54Not much, I think.
20:56Sorry.
21:16I know it's none of my business, but why do you not want him to know all this?
21:21There was a man who was responsible for my becoming involved.
21:25I met him through my catering work.
21:27I speak German, French.
21:30And this refugee thing you're involved in?
21:32Through him also.
21:34Though he was dead when they asked me to do it.
21:36Through his memory, you could say.
21:38You run the whole thing?
21:41You sound as disbelieving as my husband.
21:44It's my turn to be curious about your German friend.
21:57I don't know what you're talking about, but I don't know what you're talking about.
22:18Not for Buchenwald, Auschwitz, Dachau.
22:21It's going to be a problem for them too, learning to live with it.
22:25And there were people in the German labor movement before the war.
22:28Some got out and stayed, died in the camps.
22:32Mrs. Warrington!
22:37Thank you for helping us.
22:38Well, I'm hoping that when you see what it's like out there, you'll want to stay and help us.
22:43We need your skills to keep our supply trucks moving.
23:03I want to go down to the safe.
23:05Shall we go down with him?
23:07No, you go with him.
23:09I'll go in and let them know we're here.
23:10What have I done?
23:12Done?
23:13I don't understand you.
23:15I've done something.
23:17Said something, haven't I?
23:19I've upset you.
23:21It's not you.
23:23It's me.
23:26Always moody on Sundays.
23:30You go with him.
23:31I'll go in.
23:43How long have you had this?
23:46They told me at school two weeks ago.
23:48Two weeks?
23:49I was runner-up.
23:51But the boy who won the place can't take it.
23:54Have you told anybody else?
23:55No.
23:59Anybody who think you're ashamed?
24:02You've won a scholarship to a good school.
24:04You should be proud, not ashamed.
24:07I just don't understand you, Lovett.
24:09I don't want to go.
24:12Why?
24:13Just don't.
24:16Just don't.
24:18I've not done a thing to your old room yet.
24:20Not even cleaned it.
24:21And I must get it done before Blake gets back.
24:26Did I ever tell you what Owen said about the wallpaper in that room?
24:29What?
24:30When he was in that Japanese camp.
24:32He used to close his eyes and think of it, he said.
24:35Think of wallpaper?
24:37Knew every inch of the pattern.
24:39Fixed in his mind.
24:41Made him feel closer to home, I suppose.
24:45It's been a wrench for him leaving here.
24:47Even just down the road to his granddad's old house.
24:51He didn't say much.
24:53Well, he never does.
24:56There's a lot goes on in his head that he never tells.
24:59And I still fear to push him to tell me what happened to him.
25:03What they did to him out there.
25:11How long's he had this?
25:13Couple of weeks.
25:14Two weeks?
25:16Left it here on purpose, I reckon.
25:19Hoping I'd break the bad news.
25:21The bad news?
25:22Ah, scholarship to a public school.
25:25Your own lad, after what you said about him.
25:28A breeding ground for privilege.
25:30You called him once, as I remember.
25:33Yeah, but it's an achievement for him, even so.
25:35There's no reason to keep it from us.
25:37Unless he wants to go, and there's a fear to tell you.
25:42You'd say nay to him, wouldn't you?
25:45We couldn't afford it.
25:47It's a scholarship.
25:49Ah, yes, but there'd be things we couldn't provide if he was going to stand his ground.
25:54Now, look, there's no more money coming into this house than there was during the war.
25:58Keir keeps himself in London with now to spare.
26:01Blake's gone off and, for all I know, might not come back again.
26:03Even the bit we had coming in from Owen and Jean staying with us has gone now.
26:08Ah, well, it's a better excuse than principles, I suppose.
26:11It's not an excuse.
26:12It's a reality.
26:14You know what respect you've got for principles.
26:17I have principles of my own.
26:19And I don't expect others to pay the price for them, though.
26:23But it's not the reason, Dad.
26:26Though it'd be reason good enough, even so.
26:28Look, I'm local secretary to a party that seeks to reform education.
26:31To carry on where Butler's reforms left off.
26:34Butler?
26:35I'm sick of hearing about Butler.
26:37They're all the same, you're lot.
26:42He's a bloody Tory!
26:45Oh, well, shame on him, then.
26:48You think I am ignorant, don't you?
26:51Why do you say that?
26:53Well, I am ignorant.
26:54I know I am.
26:56I did better for you than was done for me.
26:58So it's up to you to do better for him.
27:01That's how life goes forward.
27:03Not with ideals.
27:05Ideals can blind you to facts.
27:07What you believe today can be rubbish tomorrow.
27:10But there's them that go on believing it regardless of...
27:14And clinging on.
27:17It's his future we're talking about.
27:19Not yours.
27:20I'm sorry.
27:40Hey! Hey!
27:42Hurry up! Hurry up!
27:45Hurry up!
27:46Everyone, listen to me.
27:47If you want to run away from here,
27:50you will kill me.
27:52If you don't work here,
27:55you will give me aç½°.
27:58Are you good?
28:01You are crazy!
28:02Come on! Come on!
28:05Owen!
28:06Come on!
28:09Dinner is ready.
28:12Owen!
28:21Never leave home, love it.
28:25Never leave home.
28:45What do we do now?
28:47Wait. Again.
28:48Patiently.
28:51The track will come if it hasn't broken down.
28:54They're always breaking down. That's why we need your services.
28:56Will it come to this actual spot?
28:58Those bags too heavy for you?
29:00What's in them for God's sake?
29:01Or, er, shouldn't I ask?
29:03Something that's probably, literally,
29:05worth its weight in gold.
29:07Cotton.
29:09Strips of cotton.
29:10We use it to make shoes out of old tires.
29:13You can't beg, borrow, or steal it in Europe now.
29:23Come on. Relax.
29:30I'm more patient than I am.
29:33I've seen five years of war and faces of some of the people you'll meet out here.
29:37And realize that it won't be wiped away in...
29:42a lifetime for some.
29:44What have we done?
29:46When you've accepted that, you've learned to wait.
29:48You've been doing this since the end of the war?
29:51I was in Prague a few weeks ago.
29:54I visited an internment camp for German civilians.
29:58They showed me a room with the Germans hung prisoners with wire.
30:02After a trial in which all that was said was,
30:04you have not been granted mercy.
30:09A very clean room.
30:11white towels.
30:15A hose to wash down afterwards.
30:20You learned to forgive the hard way, didn't you?
30:24What other way is there?
30:26But now, in the room next to this one, there are dying babies.
30:31Some of them born to Czech women or married to Germans.
30:35Alone.
30:36Dying alone.
30:37Nobody even to sit with them.
30:39in this world in which we all have to live.
30:43The sins of the fathers.
30:46You wonder that I'm still a Catholic?
30:49After all that?
30:50Yes, I do.
30:50Because of all that.
30:52What's your fate?
30:54I don't have any.
30:57You'll find life more comfortable that way.
31:00Isn't it supposed to be the other way around?
31:11Who is this friend you wanted me to get the message to?
31:15We were in the army together.
31:16The beginning of the second front.
31:19I was the first to be demobbed.
31:21Then he wrote to me and said he decided to stay on.
31:24Odd really.
31:24I wouldn't have thought he was a type.
31:26How can he help?
31:27Some time ago, I asked him to try and find her for me.
31:31Every time she wrote to me, it was from a different address.
31:33I got all her letters, but all mine will return.
31:36Mark gone away.
31:38A month ago, he wrote to me and said he thought he'd found her father.
31:42So you hope?
31:44Yes, I hope.
31:47Don't hope too much.
31:51That looks like our truck.
32:00You'll be at the airfield in a couple of hours.
32:04I thought you'd made up your mind.
32:06I have. My mind is made up.
32:08I think not.
32:10You know my mind better than I know it, hmm?
32:13Then you want me to tell him that you won't see him?
32:15No.
32:17Only that you do not know where I am.
32:20If I told him I'd found your father,
32:23he'll ask to see him.
32:25What shall I tell him then?
32:28Very well.
32:31Tell him that I cannot see him, not won't.
32:34That I cannot.
32:36Then he'll want to know why.
32:43I ask you to lie for me.
32:46And you don't wish to lie.
32:50I'm wrong to ask.
32:56I will see him then.
32:59I'm such a bad liar, Eta. I'm sorry.
33:01No, no, of course I understand.
33:07Remember the day we met for the first time?
33:10Wie day?
33:12War was over.
33:14All that terrible thing was over, we thought.
33:17You cooked for us.
33:19We sat at the table.
33:20You, he and I.
33:22Like a family.
33:25The beginning of our peace.
33:28We thought.
33:31A good time.
33:33Yes.
33:35Yes.
33:35Yes, a good time.
33:44Roz?
33:48Party in the constituency are signing me out to stand for the seat.
33:51Oh, Daddy, that's marvellous.
33:54The next election's four years away.
33:56Labor members, not a well man.
33:58These all-night sittings they've been having in the house have taken their toll already.
34:02He'll hang on as long as he can, of course.
34:04They all will.
34:04Oh.
34:08It's a very intense conversation going on over there.
34:11I've permission to tell you.
34:13He's proposing.
34:14He showed me the ring.
34:16We've lost him then.
34:18In respect to his faith, I mean.
34:19Well, there's a gain.
34:20You lose and you win.
34:23I like her enormously.
34:25You know I do.
34:26She tries so hard to bridge the gap between Mark and myself.
34:29Little success, alas, but she tries.
34:32There's another gap to be faced to, isn't there?
34:35We've made no effort at all to meet her people.
34:37Well, I've tried.
34:39It's Mark who stands in the way.
34:41It's almost as if he were ashamed of us.
34:45Roz, could you take me home, please?
34:48What's all this about?
35:11What did he die of?
35:13Malnutrition, old age, defeat.
35:16The usual erosions speed it up.
35:19People are dying too quickly.
35:21They're not the facilities even to give them a decent burial.
35:26Why did you stay old?
35:28To learn.
35:29Learn what?
35:31About survival.
35:32It's a fascinating subject.
35:36Almost every instinct of life is subordinated to it.
35:56So why didn't you tell me?
35:58I don't know.
35:59Well, don't know? I'm not saying.
36:02I don't know, honest.
36:04Has it got anything to do with me and me politics?
36:07A bit.
36:08And the rest?
36:09I don't want to leave here.
36:11I don't like it here.
36:14Well, don't be on the defensive.
36:15There's nothing wrong with wanting to stay with your roots.
36:18Unless I got like Owen.
36:19Owen?
36:21He's frightened to go anywhere.
36:22He won't even go to Sillport.
36:24Well, who says he won't?
36:25I heard Jean tell Mum.
36:28Yeah, well, that's some of the war did to him.
36:32Will he always be like that?
36:35I don't know, son.
36:38Now, as for this other thing.
36:42Look, I named you after a well-known labour man like I did the other labs.
36:46But what you are, what you become is up to you.
36:51Now, I've got nothing against this scholarship.
36:53It's a good school, they tell me.
36:55Well, it should be.
36:56It's paid for out of the profits that come from the sweat of honest folk.
36:59It's public in that sense, at least.
37:02I think I should go.
37:08If that's what you want.
37:11I think I should.
37:15Well, that's it, then.
37:15Can I be making that bed?
37:17I've made it.
37:18Oh!
37:19I got the coal in?
37:20No, but I will.
37:22That's a lad.
37:24Well?
37:26He wants to go.
37:28I'm glad.
37:32Five years of war with all but one of your lads away and you...
37:37You're a funny woman.
37:38It's cost you more than me.
37:40What principle?
37:42We shall afford the money somehow or other.
37:44I suppose you think like him down there.
37:47That God will provide.
37:49God might think what I think.
37:51That you've done enough.
37:56No.
37:58They're all droppings of these.
38:01Wherever that fox is, he's not here now.
38:04He'll be around again though.
38:07And I'll be after him.
38:18That farm where Gene worked, the Galways, I didn't realize it was part of the estate.
38:24Belongs to your dad, aye.
38:26Only tenants we have that don't seem beset with problems of one kind or another.
38:31We'll have to take a run over one of these days.
38:33Find out how they managed to cope so well.
38:37I was round home yesterday.
38:40Peg come back in her mood.
38:43What's up?
38:45I gave her a ring.
38:48She gave it back to me.
38:50What did she do that for?
38:53I told her I'd stop being a Catholic.
38:55She said if I could give up caring as easily as that, I could do the same with her.
38:59But I damn well did it for her.
39:02Contrary women are.
39:03She knows I've been fighting it out with myself for over a year now.
39:07And she never said anything before.
39:09When I finally make the break, this is what happens.
39:12It doesn't make sense.
39:20Hello.
39:21Oh, Peg Airwood, isn't it?
39:23Can I see your dad?
39:25Jack Bassett, Labour Party agent.
39:27Oh, sorry. I didn't recognize you for a minute.
39:29I'll tell him you're here.
39:30Thanks.
39:34Anti-monarchist, anti-Christ.
39:41Hello, Jack. Come into the living room, lad.
39:43I can't stop. Look.
39:44Is it safe for me to bring somebody to see you one night later this week?
39:48Safe?
39:49I don't want too many to know about it.
39:56We'd better use that back room at the working men's club.
39:59We can slip in the back way.
40:02I can't let you know just which night it'll be till I've heard from her.
40:05Her?
40:06Yeah.
40:07When she's ready to talk to us, I'll let you know.
40:10Eh?
40:13I'll go around.
40:31I got you a letter a week ago.
40:33Why did you say it would be the last one?
40:37It's because I have no letter from you.
40:38They all came back after a time.
40:42If I had known.
40:45You thought I'd stop writing?
40:46Yes.
40:47I thought you'd given up hope.
40:51I'm here to prove I didn't.
40:59I thought you had possibly married some nice English girl.
41:07To live as other people live.
41:13How is it in England?
41:15Oh, everyone complains.
41:17As if peace wasn't enough of a prize.
41:20Everyone except those that suffered.
41:23It's heaven compared to all this.
41:27You'll see.
41:29I will see.
41:31I'm gonna get you back there.
41:33It won't be possible my permit will end.
41:35I have to go back to the east.
41:36Over my dead body you will.
41:39You're just like my father was.
41:41When my mother was alive she used to say yes my love to all he said.
41:45Yes my love.
41:48Early in their life she knew.
41:50He would never accept what she knew was impossible.
41:53He was right.
41:59You know he lived for a year in this room with nothing.
42:03Twice I was allowed to visit him.
42:08All on that table is what he had.
42:11A cup.
42:12A pan.
42:13And a knife.
42:14And his last candy.
42:16Burnt out.
42:21I have to go to the hospital now for his things.
42:25What he wore.
42:31In the old days we would have burnt them.
42:34If not his worn out shoes are things of value.
42:39I'll come here.
42:39No.
42:42I have to do this on my own.
42:48I will see you here in the evening.
42:50We shall sit and talk as we did in the house where we met.
42:55As I will always remember.
43:09Yes?
43:11Ross said you wanted to see me sir.
43:12Yes I do.
43:21Have you seen Father Ross?
43:24No.
43:25Are you going to see him?
43:27No.
43:28You're just going to leave the flock and take to the hills are you?
43:32I already have.
43:34I realise you're going to find it difficult to accept.
43:37It seems I'm not alone in that respect.
43:39After that incident with Peg last night.
43:40Well that's between us.
43:41Yes yes yes.
43:42Of course it is.
43:44No doubt you fully understand how she feels.
43:47No.
43:47Well that's an honest admission.
43:50I suppose you think you do understand.
43:52I understand completely.
43:54But then I'm in a better position to understand.
43:57She's been seeing Father Ross for the best part of a year now.
44:01She didn't want to become a Catholic simply because of the marriage problem.
44:05She wanted to find out if there were better reasons.
44:09It seems she was well on her way to finding them when you lost yours.
44:12And Father Ross told you this?
44:14No she told me herself.
44:15Less than an hour ago.
44:22I was faced with a choice.
44:27I'm a poor Catholic father.
44:30No poorer than many of us perhaps.
44:33You're not alone in your doubts and uncertainties.
44:37Lord I believe help thou mine unbelief.
44:41I think perhaps I'd better go and have a word with her.
44:46She's upstairs waiting for you.
45:13Purtis is not back yet.
45:15She's not coming.
45:17What?
45:19She's on her way back to the east.
45:23why i mean we're ready to meet here she thought it better not
45:32oh i see if what you think you see is that she had a real choice you'd better think again
45:36she asked you to come here i said i'd do this for her providing she'd let me tell you the
45:40fact
45:40she could have told me herself maybe she thought you might persuade her to do what she'd like to
45:47be able to do more than anything i think stay with you go home with you marry
45:55i'm afraid one of the facts is she's married already
46:02married yeah german in the russian sector some sort of communist party official quite
46:06high up i think that's what she's gone back to more than that a child yours
46:18she didn't know she was pregnant until we'd pulled back until the russians moved in
46:24by the time she discovered her father was in the british zone it was too late
46:28she married the german to protect the child you weren't there you were at home
46:38they were living in the dark ages again here in europe well you might think you know what it was
46:43like but does imagination really qualify you to know what it was like to shuffle into the gas
46:47chambers of dachau
46:52he kept it with him to be sure she returned would you have had her do otherwise
47:05keep in again grandad
47:08sunday best on friday i've no time to waste talking didn't leave you much time to get changed with
47:14having to wait till he'd gone out yes well don't you make it worse or i'll be all right clever
47:20clogs
47:20you caught me out and i know who's waiting for you in that car out there and all oh put
47:24two and
47:25two together and made it five did you i made it four so will our george aye i'm on his
47:31side for
47:31once if i'd known what your offer was when you told me you had one last week i'd have told
47:36on you
47:36after a fait accompli are you like that woman in that play on wireless last week yes i am
47:42you'll be suffering for the good cause i'll give you that
47:49she'll not be so long now i can't see why we've got to make such a damn great mystery out
47:54of it
47:54but soon as she told you herself well why me what about the rest of the selection committee i've told
48:00you there's personal interest involved i can't think what anyway what's the worry maybe no need for a
48:11by election he could make the end of this parliament i doubt it a year i give him at most
48:20he'd expire tomorrow if he knew that party had lined up a woman to take his place but george
48:26look how edith summerskill's made a mark she's made herself damned unpopular too it's a difficult
48:32job we're rationing worse than it was in the war she's respected for it you need a name these days
48:39to
48:40make a mark you need somebody that'll get talked about i'm not against women in politics within
48:48reason not like i'm against the way they've started using pubs you're old-fashioned george maybe
48:56that's one of the reasons i very rarely use this club i some of the turns they get in women
49:03with
49:03screeching voices trying to make themselves heard when no one wants to listen all they want is someone
49:08to look at while they sup someone flaunting a bit of sex i despair of me on class sometimes when
49:14i see
49:14what the rage is culture i think that might be it i'll go and see you
49:43he'll be back in a minute
50:14By the wayside growing
50:24Ruthlessly he plucked the rose
50:27By the wayside growing
50:31Now too late he understands
50:34By his pierced and bleeding hands
50:39And his tears are flowing
50:44Rose but, rose but, rose but red
50:50By the wayside growing
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