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09:02Our mill isn't the only thing Emma Hart has that belongs to you.

09:06Who does she think she is, eh?

09:12So...

09:14How was it?

09:17France.

09:19Much camaraderie is there, eh?

09:23You and the lads.

09:29I've...

09:30sung a song I do.

09:31Oh!

09:35So why did they send you home?

09:42Because it's not all singing.

09:49It's made me think about what we leave behind.

09:54I'd like the people that come after us.

09:58Our children.

10:00Grandchildren.

10:03To at least know we were here.

10:06I suppose.

10:09The main thing we'll leave.

10:11All of us.

10:13Our name.

10:18And this house.

10:20Oh.

10:21Yes.

10:24Not if Father can't hang on to it.

10:26We won't.

10:29Emma Hart has a lot to answer for.

10:51Oh, my.

10:56We'll be right back to it.

11:03Just so I...

11:05I wish I had to go to the end of the night this morning.

11:06I'm going to back it to the night.

11:10The night I know.

11:15I'm sorry.

11:19I haven't seen him, but...

11:33What if Eberhard isn't just the cause of our problems?

11:37What if she's the solution?

11:39I think I've got the answer.

11:51You know, I saw him once, Joe.

11:58In France?

12:01I came round a corner one night and there he was.

12:05Helmet pushed back, rifle on his knee, with a photo of you in his hand.

12:15Are you just saying that?

12:18No. It was Joe.

12:21And he'd hold himself up on a box of corned beef.

12:26No time to eat it, he said.

12:28But he could at least keep his arse dry on it.

12:39And then, everything started off again.

12:49And then, the shoot and I lost track of him.

13:02Can I tell you something?

13:05Anything.

13:11When I got the telegram, we were in the hall and I saw Laura's face.

13:18And I knew.

13:21I just knew that it was bad news.

13:27And I thought...

13:39that it was you.

13:55I did.

13:58And I couldn't breathe, Mike.

14:03But then she showed it to me.

14:06And I saw that it was addressed to me and not her.

14:11And that inside it said his name.

14:14Joe Lowther.

14:21And I was relieved.

14:25Is that the worst thing you ever heard?

14:29Oh, Joe.

14:31I was desperate, of course.

14:33I couldn't bear that it was him.

14:36But my first thought when I saw his name was...

14:40Oh, thank God.

14:42Thank God it's not Mark.

14:47So...

14:48No.

14:51I understand.

14:55I do.

15:01Because we're the same.

15:04Aren't we?

15:12So...

15:12I always understand.

15:32Gone beef.

15:49I have an assistant today, Mrs. Grisham.

15:52Aren't I lucky?

15:53And look.

15:54We're packed here for fruitcake, which you can make with barely any fat.

15:57And not one egg.

15:59I'm calling it wildcake.

16:03Oh, my girls will eat cake all day long if you'd let them.

16:08What makes you say?

16:10It can't look proper.

16:11It can't be how it sounds.

16:17What's your part?

16:23Mrs. Hart?

16:25I have to close up for a while, Mrs. Grisham.

16:28Take one of the packs of cake ingredients and let me know what Gina and Barbara think.

16:32Well, thank you.

16:32Bye-bye, Edwina.

16:34Have fun helping your mam.

16:36Bye-bye.

16:48Hello.

16:50Hello.

16:56Edwina.

16:59Edwina, why don't you go upstairs, love, sort through that box of water and see which you like best?

17:04I'm allowed.

17:05Of course.

17:06Go on up. Go on.

17:19Well, I've broken an oath then.

17:22Sorry I'd never see you again for as long as I lived.

17:27We all make promises we can't keep.

17:32Drops usually busier than this.

17:35But there's a war on, I don't know if you've heard.

17:38I did.

17:40I'm so sorry, Anne.

17:42I heard about your husband.

17:44Did you hear about all the husbands? It's not just mine.

17:51Well, you'll have seen for yourself.

18:01Emma.

18:04All this, it's...

18:07A miracle.

18:10Everything you wanted.

18:12Your plan with the capital B.

18:15That's right.

18:16I'm a success.

18:18And what are you, Edwin Fairley?

18:21A fool.

18:23An idiot, coward, does I cover it?

18:26Hardly.

18:30Emma.

18:32Every bit of hatred you feel for me.

18:35All the resentment.

18:36The bitterness, the anger.

18:39I felt it for myself.

18:40I promise you.

18:42Every day.

18:44And not the moments pass where I haven't wished I could go back.

18:49To that rose garden.

18:54And say something different.

18:59Like what?

19:02Like, marry me.

19:04Like, it'll be all right.

19:06Like, I'll take care of you and make sure nobody hurts you.

19:08Like, I love you, Emma.

19:11And I'll spend the rest of my life making sure I'm by your side.

19:16Well, I'd have probably had the baby by the time you got all of that out.

19:20Emma, please, I'm...

19:21I'm not here to fight.

19:24I've spent enough of that.

19:26When I let you down that day,

19:28I started a feud which should never have gone as far as it has.

19:34So I've come here today to end it.

19:45I hear you have a warehouse full of cloth and no use for it.

19:49That's right.

19:50It was meant to fulfill the contract that your father stole from me.

19:54Well, what we have, what the Fairleys have, is that contract, but...

20:01No cloth?

20:03Or mill.

20:06And, Emma, you're a businesswoman now?

20:13A partnership.

20:16Our contract, your mills.

20:20Fairleys and the Arts.

20:22Together, we can make that contract work.

20:25For every uniform we produce, you'll get a pound.

20:28And so will we.

20:31Emma, I don't know how your business is faring through all of this, but...

20:36Ours is barely afloat.

20:40But if we join forces,

20:43then both of us can...

20:46take care of our families.

20:52Doesn't a pact make sense?

20:59Come to lunch.

21:01Will you please?

21:04On Saturday, as our honoured guest.

21:08With no pressure, but we can talk it all through.

21:15Emma...

21:16War...

21:17It's miserable.

21:21Imagine how it'd feel if we...

21:24could lay down our weapons.

21:29Just...

21:31Ended.

21:34A ceasefire.

21:38Truth.

21:42What do you say?

21:53Well?

21:54How did it go?

21:57She bought it.

22:09She bought it.

22:18This deal could be the answer, Mac.

22:21If I can get a pound of uniform, I won't have to close anything.

22:24I can pay the wages, not lay anyone off.

22:27There'll be no profit, but it might just get us through to the end of the war.

22:30Sure. I'd bet on you above old Asquith.

22:33Any day of the week.

22:36But a partnership with the Fairleys.

22:38I would have spat if someone suggested it before now.

22:42Can you trust them?

22:45Never before.

22:47Never.

22:49But for the children.

22:52I'd be fighting on a different front now.

22:55Mummy! Mummy!

22:58Is that us at the shop?

23:00Yeah.

23:01There you are.

23:05Isn't it beautiful?

23:06I love it so much.

23:38I was wondering if I could come in.

23:47The standards slipped?

23:49Oh, no. I'm sure they haven't.

23:52They came because I'm coming here on Saturday for lunch.

23:57I heard.

23:59And when I do, I'll be coming in through the front door.

24:03Well, I'll be sure to be careful with your coat.

24:06But I was imagining I was going to feel sitting up there.

24:11And I know I'll just be desperate to see it all down here.

24:16To remember.

24:20So I came here today, in any case, to talk to Ed...

24:24Master Edwin.

24:25Work out possible terms and so on.

24:28And I wanted to come round this way,

24:31so nobody thinks of any airs or graces.

24:40And why not, Emma Hart?

24:42Hmm?

24:44I'd say you've earned a few airs from what I hear.

24:47You could justify the odd grace or two and all.

24:49The rise you've had.

24:53Made something of yourself, haven't you?

24:58Well done, lass.

25:01Well done.

25:05And...

25:05I didn't know your dad well.

25:09Er...

25:09I keep myself to myself.

25:12But I reckon Jack Hart would have been pleased as punch.

25:28Well, I had to go and...

25:31They think we're wallpaper, of course.

25:35Walking those rooms up there in silence,

25:38they forget that staff are people.

25:42And people...

25:43have ears.

25:49This partnership is...

25:52is not what you think.

25:54Master Edwin has got you...

25:57right where he wants you.

26:17You know I'm leaving you.

26:22What?

26:23Why?

26:24You lied to me.

26:26About Adele.

26:28It was not my fault.

26:30I am not responsible for my sister's death.

26:33And I have to be able to grieve.

26:35I have to get away from here, away from you.

26:37Don't be ridiculous, Olivia.

26:38Where will you go?

26:39I will stay until the Alliance is signed, for the boy's sake.

26:42But when your contract and your house are no longer at risk,

26:46when the war is over,

26:48I will be looking for peace.

27:12You think you're going somewhere for a bit of peace and quiet?

27:16Frank!

27:18What are you doing here?

27:20I'm up here every week.

27:22You're not the only one that misses you.

27:25Out of school!

27:27You got your final exams?

27:29Yeah, well...

27:29I suspect they're going to make me into a professor, or something.

27:32Or a Lord, probably.

27:34That's what happens when you get top marks.

27:37King, I think, isn't it?

27:39Yeah.

27:40Something like that.

27:44See what you're doing up here, then?

27:46Panicking?

27:47No.

27:51I'm just wondering what to do, is all.

27:53Oh, no.

27:55What?

27:56I knew this had happened.

27:57You've got money now.

27:59You can spend time thinking.

28:01Rich folk, they love to just sit around, watching the sky, wondering.

28:06That's not who we are.

28:07Get on with it!

28:09Don't waste time thinking, oh, what if I do this?

28:12What if I spend this on a golden fountain or whatever.

28:16All you've done is lost precious minutes, or you could have been trusting your gut.

28:21Isn't that what my mother said?

28:27A golden fountain?

28:29That's what rich people have, isn't it?

28:33What have you got instead?

28:35A massive warehouse full of cloth.

28:37That's your golden fountain.

28:45Frank, will you be all right?

28:46What?

28:47Always.

28:47I've just planned up a hill on my own.

28:49Are you trusting your gut?

28:51Follow your gut.

28:51Yeah?

28:52Yeah.

28:56Go on, Emma!

29:00Woo!

29:22Go in, mam.

29:33You'll be starving.

29:34Go away.

29:41You'll be starving.

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31:11But I have something I'd like to say.

31:17Edwin, you made me a proposition.

31:20That's right. A partnership.

31:22We fulfil the uniform contracts together.

31:25Well, that all sounds very sensible.

31:28As a team, is that right? Proceeds split down the middle?

31:31Absolutely. For every uniform, a pound for you...

31:33And a pound for you.

31:35Yes.

31:37That's what you said.

31:40Only, Edwin, that's not what you're planning, is it?

31:44Well, I...

31:45I believe your actual plan is a pound for me and five pounds for you.

31:49For every uniform.

31:51Isn't that right?

31:52Sell them off for over the odds, give me the bare minimum

31:55and cream off the majority of the profit for yourself.

31:58That's what you're planning, Edwin, isn't it?

32:03Tell me the truth!

32:06I...

32:07I had to do something.

32:09You're planning to suffocate my business.

32:11Oh, and you forgot to mention you have a baby on the way.

32:13So I expect that explains all the plotting, doesn't it, Edwin?

32:17Because I know you're not the type to ever leave a child of yours out in the cold.

32:21What does she mean?

32:24Edwin?

32:25Emma, I...

32:26I'm still talking!

32:27I went to see Lord Acton today, Mr Fairley, your chum, and I told him that you Fairleys were playing

32:32him for a fool.

32:33What the hell is happening? What are you saying?

32:35But it's not just me and your old schoolmate you're shot-changing, is it?

32:37You won't be paying your workers a living wage, and you'll be doing our soldiers dirty too, because the uniforms

32:42you make will be low quality.

32:44Are we really allowing her to speak to us in this way?

32:46I will be coming to you, Gerald Fairley.

32:48I told Lord Acton that you Fairleys aren't getting a scrap of cloth from me.

32:52And if he thinks there's the slightest chance that this war will go on into 1916, then there's only one

32:58person who's got the mills, the factory, the materials, and the gang of skilled working women to fulfil his contract

33:04for years to come.

33:06So he gave me the money up front.

33:14How dare you?

33:18What makes you think one little, worthless maid can come after generations of...

33:25What? Rich, entitled men?

33:27She's doing this to get back at Edwin, because he didn't want her.

33:30You think I've gone through all of this for someone as unimportant to me as Edwin Fairley?

33:34It's not just him I'm coming for, it's all of you.

33:38Squire Fairley, the way you treat your staff is a disgrace, but it's nothing to the way you treated my

33:43mother.

33:44My mother died when she needn't have, and you stood by and did nothing.

33:47Despite everything that went on between the two of you, she thought of you till her dying breath, and you

33:52thought of her never.

33:55And you let my father down too. My father died in your mill through your mismanagement.

33:59And what's worse, he died saving you a coward of a son.

34:03Would you have done the same for him, Edwin, hmm?

34:06Mrs Fairley, I understand that's your name now.

34:09You stole my dress designs and you sold them without giving me a moment's credit.

34:12Emma, I have always tried to be reasonable.

34:14Oh, you might have spared me a kind word now and then, but kind words do not put food on

34:18the table.

34:19And finally, Squire Fairley, we come to your other son, who's not just a coward.

34:26He's a dangerous monster.

34:29A weasel of a man who preys on women in a vain attempt to feel strong in the face of

34:35his own overwhelming weaknesses.

34:36Why?

34:39Why are you doing this?

34:40For my mother, for my father, for everyone who's ever worked in your house or your mill.

34:47I would not be so grand as to claim I'm representing all working folk, but by God I will speak

34:51up for them.

34:52While every one of you stands by idle and watches as the world around you slides into being more and

34:57more broken.

34:59Oh, and I haven't told you the best bit.

35:01I haven't told you what I spent the money on that Lord Acton gave me up front.

35:14Hello Fairleys.

35:16Fancy seeing you here.

35:27I bought this house.

35:32What do you mean?

35:33I mean, I'm the new owner of Fairley Hall, so take this as your eviction notice.

35:38Edwin Fairley, I was all set to lower myself to be your partner today.

35:43It's the second time that's nearly happened.

35:45But five years ago, you let me down.

35:47And today, you plan to take me down and leave me there.

35:50I will never forgive you.

35:54Please, all of you loyal staff, take this lunch home to your families.

35:59And all of you Fairleys, get out of my house.

36:19There's a fatal flaw in your scheme, of course.

36:23You underestimated me.

36:27I've had times of great adversity in my life, and I believe many of you think I mention them rather

36:34too much.

36:35I didn't say that.

36:36I only...

36:36Yet nothing I have ever experienced prepared me for the ungrateful betrayal of my own children.

36:44Mother, I've been just desperate to talk to you to explain...

36:47Yet my phone hasn't run, Elizabeth.

36:50Now, Edwina, Kit, Robin, Elizabeth, the four of you scheme together to discredit me.

37:01I might have had a grudging respect for you had you been more subtle or creative.

37:07But today, I'd like to thank you, because your treachery has made me see that something does need to change.

37:16You don't trust me, and that has hit home.

37:23So, I've changed my will, so that when I die, none of you will receive a penny.

37:30What does not a penny even mean?

37:32Now, today, I'd like to offer you all a choice.

37:35Either you fight on and continue to feed those hateful lies about me to the press...

37:40Or what?

37:41Or you take these.

37:44It's a cheque each for a million pounds.

37:48A drop in the bucket, what you would have received, of course.

37:51And for God's sake, don't mistake them for gifts.

37:56I am buying you, all of you.

37:59If you accept these cheques, you are agreeing to drop the whole ghastly plot and never contest any of my

38:10wishes.

38:15Mother, what are you doing?

38:17Grandy, what's going on?

38:20Now, there's been much discussion over the years as to which of my children might take over my businesses.

38:26My signature on this piece of paper here means that debate can stop.

38:31Because now, all of it, every inch, belongs to Paula.

38:42Paula.

38:43No, no.

38:44Grandy, I...

38:45We've had our disagreements, of course, darling.

38:48The odd distraction.

38:51But you've moved on.

38:52You've always put the business first.

38:55Paula, you're the one I've trained.

38:59You're the one I trust.

39:00And you've proven time and time again to be the worthy successor.

39:08And now it's done.

39:10Now, here are your contracts.

39:13So, the four of you, come and sign them and take your cheques.

39:16Or leave with nothing.

39:28Paula.

39:30You've chosen Paula.

39:31She shall get the lot.

39:32And I shall get nothing.

39:34Nothing but the allowances from my ex-husbands.

39:36How fortunate.

39:37You have six of them.

39:51I barely even spoke to any journalists.

39:54I was hardly at the lunch.

39:55I don't even eat lunch.

39:58It's a trick, isn't it?

40:01You're asking us whether we'd like to give up or fight on.

40:04Well, I believe the Emma Hart way is to fight on.

40:07Isn't that right?

40:10What's happening here, Edwina?

40:14Are you attempting to begin a feud like mine?

40:18Or would you just like a million pounds and for this all to be over?

40:41Paula will now take my place on the board at Cytex Oil.

40:45She'll also take over every one of my shares at Hart Stores and Hart Enterprises.

40:50Paula owns this house.

40:51She owns the lot.

40:52It was always going to be her.

40:56Nobody else reminds me so much of myself.

41:00And what better compliment could there be?

41:05Could you step outside for a moment, Edwina?

41:09Edwina, I have something for you.

41:16What is it?

41:18Some information for you, Edwina.

41:22Edwina, regardless of what it says on your birth certificate.

41:26Your father isn't that lowly Irishman, as you put it.

41:31It says Mac's name on it quite clearly.

41:33Because Mac was, and always has been, the best man there is.

41:41But your father is Edwin Fairley.

41:47What?

41:52I'm a Fairley.

41:56Why didn't you tell me?

41:58Because I knew you'd receive it like a gift.

42:02And because I knew that would break my heart.

42:05So, the famous Fairley feud.

42:10This is why...

42:13Every member of the Fairley family has let down every one of mine.

42:19You've turned out to be living proof that no Fairley can ever be trusted.

42:27Even Fairleys you gave birth to turn on you in the end.

42:45All signed.

42:48Mrs. Hart, what's your secret?

42:52Oh, the same as it's always been, my dear.

42:56To end your...

43:19And I can hear you.

43:21If you're still being serves-

43:22To end your birthday, someone else already loves me.

43:26I can hear you walk along though.

43:26To end my Ferre Spoiler.

43:28Who was a critic in your place all the time?

43:29Then I'd import you before.

43:31So I could get on eBay.

43:32And we'd shopping.

43:43Hey! Hey there, Emma Hart.

43:45How dare you?

43:47This is my house. It's my home.

43:49Not anymore.

43:50This will always be my home.

43:53It's got my name on it, so you might have won for now.

43:56Fairley Hall might be yours for a short time.

43:58But don't ever make the mistake of stopping looking over your shoulder.

44:01Because if you think this feud has been brutal up to now, you haven't seen anything yet.

44:05I'm involved now.

44:07And soon I'll have a family of my own.

44:09So I promise you, whether it's next year or in 50 years, when you're least expecting it,

44:15somehow the Fairleys will take back this house.

44:27Hula!

44:30Hula!

44:32Grandi, why didn't you tell me the reason for your Fairley feud?

44:36And why didn't you tell me you were...

44:38You were giving it all to me?

44:40Because I knew you'd object.

44:43But now it's all yours.

44:47Hula!

44:48Hula, I trust you unreservedly.

44:50Despite that ill-judged dalliance of yours with Jim Fairley.

44:55Hey!

44:57Hey!

44:58Hey there.

44:59Emma Hart.

45:04Did I startle you?

45:07Rude of me, of course, I apologise.

45:10And on your birthday too.

45:11But I gather this is a family event and I've been upstairs waiting to join my wife.

45:23It was a whim.

45:25A counter-strike.

45:26After you and I fell out, I was so determined you wouldn't...

45:30You wouldn't underestimate me.

45:33You married Jim Fairley?

45:36I was gonna tell you today, I had no idea you were planning on signing it all over to me.

45:41I...

45:43I'm so sorry.

45:43I know, I know I should've...

45:47But...

45:49I love him.

45:54And?

46:01We're having a baby.

46:04Strictly speaking, it will be Paula having the baby, I believe.

46:08But...

46:08It'll belong to both of us, of course.

46:12What's hers is mine, and all that.

46:42What's hers?

46:47What's hers?

46:48Yeah.

46:50One hundred.

46:56What's hers?

46:56Oh, what's hers?

46:59TALORAUWHO'S BIRTHO?

47:00Truth oroun nice.

47:00Cause I don't see much else.

47:00Three hundred.

47:02Oh, what are they?

47:05Whether she's a girl's, a boy's, a woman's...

47:05Where, where, where, where, where are you...?

47:05T didn't.

47:06Oh, what are they?

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