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00:00Let's go!
00:45How are those helicopter lessons coming along, Stephen?
00:49I might set up a few for myself.
00:53Mrs. Hart, I need two minutes of your time.
00:56One will be more than ample, Mr. Fairley.
00:59I've come with a warning.
01:02Theatrical.
01:03Mrs. Hart, I'm assuming you haven't seen the news about the crash in Hart's share prices
01:08and about the leak.
01:10A source from inside your company has intimated to the press that you're fragile, losing control.
01:20They've provided them with your confidential medical records.
01:25One of a whole line of casseroles.
01:28And with Hart stocks already 12% down on the LSE, things are looking bleak for the world's
01:33richest woman, Emma Hart, whose retail empire is reeling today from revelations about her
01:37health status.
01:40Stephen?
01:41Yes, Mrs. Hart?
01:41I'm going to walk.
01:43Ma'am?
01:43Mrs. Hart, this isn't an easy thing to broach, but I believe...
01:49Thanks.
02:06Mrs. Hart!
02:07Mrs. Hart!
02:07I hope my warning you proves I can be trusted.
02:11Hello?
02:12Mrs. Hart.
02:12Mrs. Hart.
02:14Mrs. Hart.
02:15Is this the shelf, he can start me?
02:16Mrs. Hart.
02:16Mrs. Hart.
02:20Hello?
02:20Mrs. Hart.
02:25Is this the shelf to stop me?
02:27Mrs. Hart.
02:34Happy anniversary, Bernie.
02:36Mrs. Hart.
02:36It sure rolls around.
02:38Mrs. Hart.
02:38Now perfumes, ground floor.
02:40jewellery floor three otherwise dog houses floor six my regards to cheryl thank you please
02:47i know this must be a shop uh friend of yours mrs hart hardly mrs hart please let me help
02:53i
02:53know how hard you've worked for all this now the papers are saying you're finished mrs hart
03:09god grandy we tried to get a message what do we know are you all right those hospital records
03:13they have are they a complete fabrication where's it come from this week we've no idea but it's rather
03:18detailed i'm afraid it appears one of the board we need to control the narrative with press releases
03:23a full-page spread in every outlet you own oh and a double in those i don't
03:30accountants henry's an aspen mrs hart at his daughter's wedding and shares are down 14
03:34now but jerry
03:50i took the stairs
03:55one unwelcome appearance of a morning might be considered an intrusion two verges on trespass
04:02jerry send in security there's a wasp at the picnic mrs hart i'm trying to earn your trust and i
04:09hope
04:09perhaps this endless feud oh i wouldn't call it a feud what would you call it then well i don't
04:14get
04:14involved in semantics um a war it's vital to me you realize i am better than the rest of my
04:21family
04:22well that's an exceptionally unambitious claim
04:26now if you'll excuse me i have a mole to unearth but it's not just some anonymous board member mrs
04:32hart i know who it is
04:36it's your children
04:40if you think for one moment that i'd trust you
04:44mr fairlie
04:45i know you have dedicated your entire life to the hatred of my family
04:50oh now you're quite wrong mr fairlie
04:53hatred happens in secret
04:56with neither purpose nor aspiration
04:58no what i've dedicated my life to
05:03is revenge
05:06is
05:06is
05:07is
05:07is
05:34is
05:34is
05:34is
05:34is
05:34I'm looking for a fairly hard sorry to start you I'm repairing their chimneys
05:46Shane O'Neill is the name but the whole world calls me Mac
05:57You can keep up you can follow
06:12My mum calls at the top of the world
06:18Keep up
06:35Well I think that'd do me
06:38What do you reckon?
06:40Ever smelt a rose that had a wasp in it
06:57Edwin
06:57Emma
07:01I thought you didn't graduate till summer
07:04Any excuse to come home?
07:09Well you'll have missed your family
07:12Have you met my family?
07:15Father's hosting a weekend for some dignitary or other
07:19Supposed to impress them
07:21Well good luck
07:22Being impressive
07:26Emma
07:36Faster than you look
07:39For the chimneys
07:40Shane O'Neill that the whole world calls a Mac
07:44This is Edwin
07:46Master Edwin
07:51Emma Hart
07:59Sir
08:07Right pay attention you lot
08:09Mary beds baths bedpans
08:12Holly in with a mistress as usual
08:14Finally
08:17Emma
08:18Silverware
08:19Silverware
08:20Grates
08:20Glassware
08:21All stairs and floors
08:22And on time in future
08:24Yeah.
09:12Perhaps you'd like to treat yourself to some toast with that jam.
09:16Moderation, in all things.
09:19Except preserves.
09:23Did your father tell you how cleverly he ironed out his issue with that foreman?
09:27Yes. All ships shape at the mill, largely, thanks to you.
09:32Well, if Sir Vikram's impressed with you, it would all have been worthwhile.
09:37Edwin, did I tell you?
09:38Dichandra, Sir Vikram, and his daughter Priya are coming to us straight from his trading meetings at Downing Street.
09:45You did say yes.
09:47Gosh.
09:48We must do our very best to get Dichandra's on side.
09:52Let's see if we can't do our bit for Anglo-Indian relations.
09:56Hmm?
09:56Well, Edwin never lets anyone down.
09:59Here we go again.
09:59Alright.
10:01Come on.
10:26Come on.
10:38Emma.
10:40What are you doing?
10:41That kiss.
10:42The morning I left.
10:43In the stable.
10:44We mustn't.
10:45We never should have.
10:46I know.
10:46We've resisted for so long.
10:48But your lips, the taste of your mouth, it's all I can think about.
10:52We can't.
10:53If they catch us.
10:54I don't care.
10:56Do you?
10:56Yes.
10:57You don't have a job to lose.
10:58Emma, this isn't some whim.
11:01This is you and me.
11:02Running, laughing.
11:04Telling each other everything.
11:07But it's different now, isn't it?
11:09Since that kiss, it's changed.
11:11And how can it not be better?
11:13I know you, Emma.
11:15I know you feel it too.
11:18I can't.
11:20I don't.
11:22I do.
11:23I do, of course I do.
11:25But I mustn't.
11:26I mustn't.
11:44Something on your mind?
11:48Someone.
11:49Ma'am.
11:52I know those mill boys finish early on a Saturday,
11:55but you stay focused, do you hear?
11:59Did you get your extra dining money?
12:01I have.
12:06Keep climbing, Emma.
12:10You're talented.
12:12Whether you're dress-making or you've an eye.
12:15I've got two.
12:17And if you're smart, which I know you are,
12:19you can get out to Fairley.
12:22Don't be like me, you hear?
12:25Remember your plan with a capital P.
12:28Get out and get on.
12:32Or the rest of us, if we're born in Fairley,
12:35we'll die here.
12:38But you won't get trapped.
12:40Remember, without money, you're vulnerable.
12:43So stay focused.
12:45And if a chance comes, you grab it.
12:50You hear me?
12:59McQueen!
13:00So don't get distracted.
13:02Don't take your eye off the board.
13:04Keep thinking ahead.
13:06Three moves, at least.
13:21We'll finish tomorrow, shall we?
13:24All right, love.
13:26She's tired again.
13:28I was thinking, might we find money to at least talk to a doctor?
13:31We won't afford medicine.
13:34You and Mum all right?
13:38She's fine.
13:40Shh.
13:42You sleep.
14:01All right.
14:01Well, that's football for you, son.
14:02Tell you now, I don't know how Bradford think they've got a cat in hell's chance against Newcastle after that
14:07show at Blackburn.
14:08Oh, Blackburn.
14:09Yeah, look, dreadful results.
14:11Dreadful.
14:12Lamb's not burning up as much as last night.
14:14No?
14:16Well, she's a fighter.
14:17Your mam, she fights.
14:18Like me.
14:19I can fight, can't I, Dad?
14:21Aye.
14:22Look at him here.
14:23Heavyweight, aren't you, son?
14:24Go on, get him in the belly.
14:25Come on, big man.
14:26Let's see what you've got, son.
14:30You know, your dad's getting old, right?
14:32Small but powerful.
14:33Look at that.
14:36Hey!
14:38He's had a slice already!
14:40Have a good day, Dad.
14:42It's all right.
14:43What the hell?
14:45Small, but greedy, more like.
14:53Come on.
15:05Just talk, son.
15:07Get nice.
15:08If they catch her...
15:09I can look after myself.
15:39Polly.
15:43Well, look at that.
15:44My husband finally come to see me.
15:47I had time to kill.
15:51Flatterer.
15:55I like your shirt.
15:57It's ancient.
15:58Well, a bit like me, then.
16:01Perhaps that's why I like it.
16:06How do I seem to you, Adam?
16:07I hate not to live up to your expectations.
16:11Every man has the right to expect his mad wife in the attic to behave appropriately.
16:28I shouldn't have come.
16:33I shouldn't have come.
16:34But you wanted to come.
16:42I'm always here.
16:44Squire, fair.
16:46I watch you from the window, wondering if you'll come.
16:49When you're riding your horses, holding on tight.
16:52No.
16:57Throw me.
17:00No.
17:24Where is Polly?
17:25Running an errand for Master Gerald.
17:28I feel for her.
17:30Never ends well when worlds collide.
17:39Mrs Fairley's waiting.
17:42Polly's on an errand.
17:45She does realise she's the lady's maid.
17:47She's got responsibilities.
17:51I'll take it.
18:13You're not Polly.
18:14I'm Emma, Mrs Fairley.
18:15Emma Hart.
18:17Well, Emma Hart.
18:19My husband is leaving, but don't worry.
18:21He always comes back again.
18:24We're busy downstairs.
18:26There's a party this weekend.
18:27I like parties.
18:29Yes, but my mad wife never dares leave her room.
18:33How many years, Adele, since you set foot downstairs?
18:38It's not a big event.
18:40It's only family and a few locals.
18:42Are you trying to remove me from this family?
18:44Oh, you removed yourself from this family a long time ago.
18:47Olivia will be there.
18:49A wife's sister isn't a substitute for a wife, Adam.
18:52I only mean that she knows the business, and I think it would be safer.
18:55I can be safe.
18:58I can be charming.
19:00Don't you think, Adam?
19:03Fine.
19:05Is today the day, Adele?
19:08Can you find the courage?
19:18Come down, sirs.
19:22What you need to understand is we work damn hard on this Chandra deal.
19:26We!
19:27A lot of clever people, Adele.
19:28Every one of whom is sober and fully dressed.
19:42Why don't you sit down, Mrs Fairley? Sit down.
19:46And just breathe.
19:47Slowly, breathe.
20:19I was just watering.
20:25The plants, obviously.
20:33Have you seen Adele?
20:38How is she?
20:40Much the same.
20:42Lost.
20:52Do you ever get frightened?
20:55Yes, of course. You're a woman.
21:00Men get frightened too.
21:02Oh.
21:03Men are only frightened of boredom and dying.
21:07Neither of those worry me.
21:10What is it then, Mrs Fairley?
21:12What scares you?
21:15I'm frightened of disappearing.
21:18Of being forgotten.
21:19Most people just assume you're nobody and then dismiss you.
21:24Do you know that?
21:27Yes, I do.
21:31Every morning, I get dressed.
21:35And I do my hair.
21:37And I have every intention of going down to breakfast.
21:41Or to some fabulous party.
21:44Night when I was a girl.
21:46And some days, I try so hard to leave the room.
21:51But it all feels too much.
21:54So, I have to find other ways to get Adam's attention.
22:03Meanwhile, my sister swans around downstairs, doing everything I should do.
22:10She seems to find the world easy.
22:14But you're the lady of the house, Mrs Fairley.
22:16You have such lovely things.
22:18Oh.
22:19Your clothes.
22:20Well, I have marvellous clothes.
22:21And you've got your husband.
22:23And your sons.
22:25My babies.
22:26Well, your sister's got none of those.
22:28So I expect she might be frightened of you.
22:35Oh, is it?
22:50Are you a bush?
22:52Well spotted.
22:54Lonely business, being a master of disguise.
23:01How's your plan, Emma?
23:02Still coming on?
23:04Of course.
23:05I'm doing my mending.
23:06If I can make my wages up before shillings a week, I might be able to get to leave.
23:10Emma!
23:12Emma Hart!
23:13Give her a visitor.
23:25Dad says you ought to come.
23:26Hi, Emma.
23:35Emma.
23:38Emma.
23:39Emma.
23:39Emma.
23:40Emma.
23:40Don't wait for me.
23:41I'll just slow you down.
23:42Don't be daft.
23:43We have to both go.
23:44Honest.
23:44I'll say goodbye.
23:45You go.
23:47Please.
23:48Please.
23:48Go.
23:50I'm sorry.
23:51I love you.
23:53Go!
23:54Go!
24:09Go!
24:19Go!
24:20I'm coming, Mum!
24:21I'm coming!
24:22I'm coming!
24:37I've got it, Emma.
24:38I've got it.
24:39You go.
24:52Look at me.
24:55She's not left, love.
25:00Mum.
25:01It's me.
25:02It's Emma.
25:06I waited for you.
25:11I'm scared.
25:13Get out.
25:15Get out.
25:17Get down, Emma.
25:18Hear me?
25:19Promise me?
25:20Promise?
25:22Emma, baby.
25:24Is he here?
25:25I'm here.
25:27Oh.
25:28Oh.
25:29Oh.
25:31Now where's your dad?
25:34I'm here, love.
25:39I'm here.
25:41It's time.
25:45Dad.
25:47Dad.
25:48What are you doing?
25:49I don't know.
25:51I've got you now, love.
25:52Dad.
25:53Oh, no.
25:54What are you doing?
25:56Dad!
25:59Dad!
26:01Mum!
26:02Mummy!
26:04Where are you taking her?
26:05The top of the world.
26:18No, no, no, no, no, no.
26:24No.
26:24Dad!
26:27Not yet.
26:28No.
26:28No.
26:30No.
26:30Dad!
26:31We're going to the top of the world.
26:33It's where we've got to be.
26:43It's where we've got to be.
26:50No.
26:52No.
26:53No.
26:56No.
26:56I'm so sorry.
26:59Oh, boy.
27:03I'm so sorry. I've been trying for you.
27:13You rest now.
27:33What's going on?
27:50Are you here, are you? About time.
27:55No time for moping in my heart.
27:58I missed half a day yesterday. We'll have a party tomorrow.
28:06It's a lovely morning out there.
28:09So no need for these, I don't think.
28:18Have you made any progress with your book?
28:27Would you like me to read to you again?
28:29I wouldn't like. No, not at all.
28:33Right.
28:35I heard there was to be a party.
28:38Oh, Sir Vikram.
28:41He's terribly important, so I suspect desperately boring.
28:46Well, thank you for stepping in.
28:51Well, no, it's not a question of stepping in.
28:54You know, just while I'm here, for your sake,
28:59I may as well every now and again run my eyes over Adam's business papers.
29:04What else do you run your eye over?
29:09Adele.
29:15Olivia, why would any man ever be beguiled by beige when he has every colour of the rainbow upstairs?
29:22Yes.
29:26You'll need a rest, I expect.
29:29Then perhaps tomorrow I could...
29:30Will you read to me? How wonderful!
29:34You know, you would have made a charming mother, Olivia.
29:37Yeah.
29:51Emma.
29:58I was...
30:02I heard about your mother.
30:10I've been thinking, sir.
30:12Might I be considered to look after Mrs...
30:19Might she be considered to what?
30:25I believe, Squire Fairley,
30:27that it's important to take your chances in life.
30:29And I reckon I understand the mistress.
30:32So I was wondering if I might look after her from now on.
30:35As a personal maid.
30:38I think if you ask the mistress, she'd like that too.
30:43I was thinking for Shaleen's more a week.
30:49Hmm.
30:57Hmm.
31:08Hmm.
31:11Hmm.
31:16When you know loss, Emma, it can suddenly feel like it's all you know.
31:23But you know a whole loss.
31:25So that's what you hold on to, do you hear?
31:28Yeah.
31:29Because you're hungry.
31:31Isn't that right?
31:34And when you've known hunger, well, sure, you stay hungry.
31:40Emma Hart!
31:43What have you been saying to the master?
31:48As from now on, he says it's your job to take the mistress's tray.
31:54Well, I don't know why you're standing still when the mistress is upstairs waiting!
32:03Emma?
32:09I finally feel like I'm being taken care of.
32:14So much for friends.
32:16I'm sorry, I have a family to look after.
32:19I know what Mrs Fairley likes.
32:21But it's about what she needs.
32:23And when she needed you, you were with the master.
32:25Oh, well, isn't she lucky?
32:27Having you to show her just how life's done.
32:30Blame me if you like, Paul.
32:31Either if you do, I'm sure.
32:32But I know you're really disappointed in yourself.
32:41Stay there.
32:42Come back here, you little brat.
32:44You'll never be a lady Emma Hart.
32:46Your dad's a layabout.
32:47And your mam.
32:49Your mam spent her all life trying to be better than us, too.
32:52Then prove she weren't after all by dying of being poor.
33:04Hey!
33:05Hey!
33:06Hey!
33:09Enough!
33:09Enough!
33:10Enough!
33:11Absolute disgrace!
33:13The pair of you!
33:14Right, come here.
33:15What have you got to say?
33:16Hey!
33:17She attacked me!
33:18She died here!
33:20Right, fix your things!
33:22Go on.
33:24No!
33:27Gerald!
33:28Gerald!
33:28I was running errands for you, wasn't I?
33:31Tell him!
33:34I don't know what you're talking about.
33:36Good decision, Murgershroyd.
33:37We have dogs to do our attacking.
33:49Mothers, come and go.
33:51That is how life works, Emma Hart.
33:54And jobs are the same if you're not careful.
34:01We always used to look out for each other.
34:04Now we're fighting like animals.
34:07This place is wicked.
34:09All the mountains of food going to waste.
34:12And your mother talking about dreams.
34:14Do you know what my dad dreams of?
34:16Survival!
34:18That my mam might have...
34:23He should have lived.
34:26I'm sorry.
34:28I'm sorry.
34:29I'm so sorry about your mother.
34:31When I grow up, I won't ever be part.
34:34I won't ever want for anything like my mam did every last second of her life.
34:38None of my family will.
34:39I promise you that.
34:40I promise you.
34:41Emma, you've got me.
34:41My world's not yours.
34:43My father breaks his back holding bricks while your father sits ordering lunch while his workers half starved.
34:49Your family will want you to marry some rich girls so that when you're a fancy lawyer she'll get right
34:53in.
34:55Emma.
34:57Listen to me.
34:58You're talking about other people.
35:01Not the two of us.
35:03You and I are just the same.
35:08Only one of us is covered in egg.
35:17What's all this, Frank?
35:19Eh?
35:23I bumped me head.
35:28My mam always used to kiss it better.
35:32But also...
35:35Where do I keep bloody bumping it?
35:40Cos you're a hooligan.
35:42And foul mouth, too.
35:45Come on.
35:47I'll cry until the bloody washing up's done.
35:59This party today.
36:00I should go.
36:02Shouldn't I?
36:04I must, but...
36:05Will I survive?
36:08When I'm drinking, I might do anything.
36:11Which is, of course, the curse and the bliss of it.
36:13There's your answer.
36:14No drinking.
36:15Let's get your dress for now, Mrs Fairley.
36:17Then see what comes next.
36:18Is it beautiful enough, do you think?
36:21If I just take these roses off.
36:23Oh, no.
36:24You'll ruin it.
36:26It'll be dry, won't it?
36:27It won't, Mrs Fairley.
36:28It'll be elegant.
36:29I can change the neckline.
36:31These sleeves.
36:32Maybe even a slit in the skirt.
36:34Trust me.
36:41I remember having your skin.
36:46Just keep breathing, Mrs Fairley.
36:49When you're nervous, put your hand on your heart
36:53and check it's still there.
37:09You'll go downstairs and look kindly at your sister.
37:12You'll tell your stories and let the whole room admire you.
37:15You can do it, Mrs Fairley.
37:18Of course you can.
37:50I'm sorry.
37:51May I?
37:57You've been very quiet.
37:59Are you nervous about the party?
38:01Oh, no, I'm fine.
38:07It's stupid.
38:09Tell me.
38:13I know I'm only here to fill in for my sister.
38:16You know, I'm only playing the part of...
38:20But some days it feels real.
38:22It does.
38:23It feels real to me, too.
38:24Sometimes.
38:29I barely used to eat in the morning.
38:31You know.
38:33There was no one to share things with.
38:36I had no conversation, no partner.
38:39And now it's...
38:44...you.
39:01I'm sorry.
39:03I should, uh...
39:06I'm sorry.
39:17You know I'm not.
39:20I'm sorry.
39:27I don't even know.
39:32I've been there.
39:34accident it's the only hand she's got what about you edwin any thoughts on keeping workers in check
39:43truthfully sir i'm not sure it's up to us to actually i'm afraid we have an idealist
39:47on our hands sir vigra but he's a bright lad well edwin if you are a free thinker you sound
39:57the same
39:58as priya isn't that right depends on how free he is and what he thinks about
40:09it goes without saying doesn't it adam that anyone who invests in our meal will benefit
40:14from the unprecedented profit margins that we mentioned earlier
40:18you must be a busy man squire phil a sister-in-law never of duty and i hear a wife
40:25upstairs
40:25yes my wife sends her apologies she's unwell
40:36a party for little old me
41:05oh
41:06olivia you look charming adele how wonderful to see you up and about
41:14oh
41:15goodness darling what a dress you're a picture
41:22it's not very grim
41:25this is my wife
41:26oh
41:29oh
41:38we are the same emma
41:42we're just the same
41:51though admittedly right now i feel a bit sillier than you
41:54it's much sharper in the fact that i shell and so on
41:57you're supposed to be impressing them inside
42:00they'll be around i don't care about any of them it is wicked here you're quite right
42:06it's unbearable
42:10it's just neither of us barrett
42:12it's just neither of us barrett
42:42it's true
42:44you're beautiful
42:46you're beautiful
42:47i've covered in egg
43:11You're getting it everywhere.
43:16There'll be such a row if I'm not back.
43:19Do you want to go back?
43:36You're all wet.
43:38You're not cold.
44:01What is it?
44:04Rings.
44:08Who's there?
44:14I'd never hurt you, Emma.
44:16But we mustn't.
44:36And the other day maybe?
44:36Do you want to go back into the store?
44:36Do you want to go back?
44:38Do you want to go back?
44:39Yeah, I'll go back into the store.
44:41I've never been able to go back.
44:41I don't know.
44:41Do you want to go back into the store?
44:42Do you want to go back?
45:03I love you, Emma.
45:07I love you, my whole life.
45:35I love you, my whole life.
45:55Oh, yes, Mr. Fairley.
45:58After everything your family did to me,
46:02I've dedicated my entire life to revenge.
46:13There must be some boy that you want to make positively feral, is there?
46:17Don't you go making that mistake of thinking we're all the same.
46:21Betrayal is in his blood.
46:23A betrayal can creep up on you.
46:25You want to take advantage of me, do you?
46:27I'm going to get fired.
46:29Who do you think you're wrong?
46:37And you can get support for any of the issues raised in the program
46:40by heading to channel4.com slash support.
46:42And that next episode's here on the telly tomorrow night at 9,
46:45or you can have the drama whenever you want,
46:47as all episodes of A Woman of Substance are available to stream right now.
47:17and that next episode's here on the show.
47:18everybody! I'm
47:18you... You can
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