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