Rainy Day Women. (1984)

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First broadcast 10th April 1984.  In 1940, during World War II, an officer is sent to investigate rumors of German spies in a sleepy village where various people are the victims of war hysteria.  Charles Dance - Captain John Truman Cyril Cusack - Mr. Reed Suzanne Bertish - Alice Durkow Lindsay Duncan - Karen Miller Joanna Foster - Joan Gwyneth Strong - Linda Sally Baxter - Susan Ian Hogg - Dennis Ibbetson Anthony Langdon - Joe Hutton Anna Mottram - Gayle Hutton Bert Parnaby - Fleming Gorden Kaye - Vicar John Joyce - Charlie Muir Tony Pitts - Roy Bates David Hatton - Ian Street Paul Luty - Ben Leslie Anthony Rowson - Tom Durkow Godfrey Jackman - A.R.P. Warden Patrick Godfrey - Commanding Officer Graham Padden - Captain David Beckett - Corporal Roger Walker - Home Guard June Page - Women Evacuee Ian Liston - N.C.O. Driver Katherine Schofield - Jennifer (as Katharine Schofield) Tony Mathews - Simon Hayden Parsey - Timothy Lauren Beales - Christopher

Transcript

00:00:09Colonel John Truman, whose memory we honour here today, suffered as much at Dunkirk as any man,

00:00:17yet recovered to play an outstanding part in the Allied invasion of Europe.

00:00:22It is hard now, for even the oldest of us, to unlock the feeling of the last war.

00:00:28It's it.

00:01:12For me, then, 1940 was fast becoming a summer without purpose, of doctors and tests and

00:01:19forms, until at last they gave me a mission.

00:01:43That summer, the countryside had suddenly become an unknown world, a ghost story without

00:01:50the ghosts, but they weren't expected any minute.

00:01:56Can we see your identification, sir?

00:01:57Yes, of course.

00:02:03I think it's darkened.

00:02:04This is the right road, is it?

00:02:05Oh, you've a way to go yet.

00:02:07What takes you up that way?

00:02:08Just some business.

00:02:10They haven't caught parachutists, have they?

00:02:12No, nothing like that.

00:02:14Well, just use your map, though, but make sure you don't give it to any strangers.

00:02:17Very good.

00:02:37Good afternoon.

00:02:39Good afternoon.

00:02:40Am I anywhere near Darton?

00:02:42Couldn't say, love.

00:02:44My God, you're a long way from home.

00:02:46Any war news?

00:02:47Oh, we don't pay no attention to news now.

00:02:49We just do as we like.

00:02:51The kids love it, Eve.

00:03:06Hello there.

00:03:08Am I anywhere near Darton?

00:03:13Is this the way to Darton?

00:03:17Oh, no, no, no?

00:04:39Who's a bugger of you?

00:04:48I was, sir.

00:04:50I was looking for Darton.

00:04:54Captain John Truman.

00:05:00Darton's only a mile or so if you keep going.

00:05:02Uh-huh.

00:05:03Have you come for her?

00:05:04I'm sorry?

00:05:08I was taking cover from a plane.

00:05:11There was glass in the ditch.

00:05:14Lucky there's been a drought.

00:05:16What do you want in Darton?

00:05:18I'm on my way to join my regiment.

00:05:21Well, you'll find Dr Miller's surgery by the pub.

00:05:35Stop!

00:05:38But turn off the engine.

00:05:46You know, this car should have been immobilized last night.

00:05:49Yes, I know, but I was sleeping in the vehicle...

00:05:51I'll see you next time, Captain.

00:06:22I'll see you next time.

00:06:44I'll see you next time.

00:06:46I'll see you next time.

00:06:50I'll see you next time.

00:06:52It's very convenient for me to see the doctor.

00:06:54Yes, of course.

00:06:55Please come in.

00:06:59Do sit down.

00:07:13That's a storage cupboard, Captain Truman.

00:07:16I'm Dr Miller.

00:07:18Would you like to show me your arm?

00:07:21Yes, I'm sorry.

00:07:22I wasn't thinking.

00:07:24My husband is overseas.

00:07:25I took over his practice.

00:07:27Uh-huh.

00:07:30What did you do?

00:07:31Fall over?

00:07:33Sort of.

00:07:34In a ditched last night.

00:07:36Down stupid.

00:07:37Do you feel anything?

00:07:39No.

00:07:41It won't take long.

00:07:44Are you on leave?

00:07:57I'm sorry.

00:08:12It won't be it.

00:08:14Come on in, come on.

00:08:16What?

00:08:16Come on.

00:08:16How about that?

00:08:16I'll see you next time.

00:08:18I can't wait.

00:08:38Good morning.

00:08:49hello

00:08:53did they send for you

00:08:56I wanted a room for the weekend

00:08:58oh yes

00:08:59yes of course

00:09:03who did you think I was

00:09:04nobody

00:09:06it's just there's been some silly talk

00:09:09you know how it is these days

00:09:58this came over from posting censorship

00:10:02spies at night

00:10:03are mastering men from the village

00:10:06with brute blood

00:10:09well it's written

00:10:10by a child or an idiot

00:10:12yes the Germans

00:10:14could be landing any hour and

00:10:16MI5 is flooded with this sort of rubbish

00:10:18they blame us of course

00:10:21flashing lights parachuting

00:10:22nuns poison suits

00:10:26the rumours have got completely out of hand

00:10:29sometimes I think all we've done in the Ministry of Information is just to make everyone go mad

00:10:35no wonder they're seeing spies under every haystack

00:10:38I wish I could find a spy

00:10:41you sound just like your father

00:10:45yes the civilians are coping

00:10:47of course but they're under so much pressure already

00:10:50things do get worse

00:10:52we could see ourselves facing up to a serious threat to morale

00:10:56rainy day

00:10:59how are the children

00:11:01fine but what's rainy day

00:11:05rainy day

00:11:05oh it's just ministerial slang

00:11:07that's all

00:11:09John you can use this letter as a starting off point

00:11:11and it's of no importance in itself

00:11:14but the village it comes from is the sort of

00:11:17obscure place one of my morale committees could do with a sensible report on

00:11:22you know isolated fen north of the wash

00:11:25what's the atmosphere like

00:11:26how are they facing up things

00:11:30and you can wear your uniform

00:11:32just say that you're rejoining your regiment

00:11:35because I know it's not much of a job to offer a frustrated warrior like yourself

00:11:40but I am employed

00:11:45yes I assume you have tried everybody else

00:11:48I'm perfectly all right

00:11:49bar the occasional nightmare

00:11:52but the doctors won't let me back near the regiment for at least two months

00:11:55I'm going mad

00:11:56it could be all over by then

00:11:58yes it could be for all of us

00:12:00oh sorry

00:12:02this place breeds pessimism

00:12:05come on Gail you're not milking it

00:12:13this is captain truman

00:12:14my husband joe

00:12:16Dennis Ibbotson who farms round here

00:12:18we met

00:12:22you ought to wish yours was something like that

00:12:24joe weren't able to get in the army

00:12:26find a best for captain truman

00:12:28a half please

00:12:30mrs hatton thank you

00:12:32will you be staying long

00:12:34a few days

00:12:34till I join up with my regiment

00:12:37where are you heading

00:12:38you should know better than to ask

00:12:42cheers

00:12:43cheers

00:12:46well so long as you're here

00:12:47you should see a bit of the countryside

00:12:50we're going out to some birds later on

00:12:52we'll arrange a gun for you

00:12:54it looks a nice part of the world

00:12:56it was

00:12:58most of the men have gone away in service

00:13:00some real rubbish moved in

00:13:03lamb girls

00:13:04worse

00:13:06can the girls handle the work

00:13:07don't know cow slips from cow shit

00:13:10made a house hell of a business

00:13:12last night was typical wasn't it joe

00:13:16new girl just arrived

00:13:16after we sent her in the milk one of the cows

00:13:19joe looks in a little later

00:13:20and finally looking up its backside

00:13:22wanted to know how to turn the tap on

00:13:25morning

00:13:25hello Ian

00:13:26morning

00:13:28glass of lemonade please look

00:13:31ah it's not easy

00:13:33men from the ministry come tramping over our land

00:13:36ordering us to plough everything inside

00:13:38we've had it hard enough to get these women to do overtime

00:13:42still

00:13:43we're ready for the germans in this village

00:13:45aren't we joe

00:13:45aye

00:13:46glad to hear it

00:13:47fair shares eh

00:13:52yes well um

00:13:53I suppose I should go and see your local constable

00:13:55or he'll be wondering about my car

00:13:57no need captain

00:13:59Ian's our special constable

00:14:01how do you do

00:14:03captain Trillman's here for the weekend

00:14:05oh Ian

00:14:06he'll have a proper drink with all of us eh

00:14:08no thanks Tony sir

00:14:09stomach's playing up a bit

00:14:12in any case I'd like to take a look around the village

00:14:19blackbird's captain

00:14:21rich eating

00:14:23but we'll have a better bag this afternoon

00:14:26we start out from here in about an hour

00:14:56oh cslia

00:14:57I know this may sound but it does not have a family

00:14:58seem a bit of an imposition in your lunch hour, but Mr. Ibertson has very kindly agreed

00:15:03that you don't have to be back at the farm until four o'clock. Now, the church wardens

00:15:10thought it would be a very good idea if the four of us had a little talk. As you know,

00:15:14I'm here all too infrequently. These days, I'm afraid the clergy is rather like good

00:15:20jam that spread very thinly. Now, Joan, you've been here the longest since leaving college

00:15:28and, of course, as the oldest, you have a special responsibility. Susan, well, I know being

00:15:35the youngest often seems hardest. You were working in a shop in Cambridge up until last

00:15:41winter. Yes, well, this probably all seems very dull here. And, Linda, you've just got

00:15:47here from Wales. Well, now, let me say, one of the hardest things about this war is the

00:15:52way that it has taken so many people away from their homes and their loved ones and just plopped

00:15:58them down, bang, in the middle of strange places where it's very hard not to bump into people,

00:16:05so to speak, and to upset them. Now, you three have come to this village to work on the land.

00:16:12I'm sure you would be happier back in the town going to dance halls and cinema.

00:16:18But you have to be prepared to respect your employers here, Linda, especially if they

00:16:24think that you might be going astray. Now, this is a time when we must all be a little

00:16:30vigilant and take care to whom we give our loyalties. It's very easy to be misled.

00:16:40Try to think of this village as a fleet of ships sailing in formation. The voyage will be a

00:16:46success so long as the ships do not collide or get in one another's way. But, you see,

00:16:50each and every one of you has to obey your captain's sailing instructions.

00:17:03As I was saying.

00:17:10good shooting, Dennis.

00:17:19So you have no idea? Never mind.

00:17:27It almost makes you feel sorry for Hitler. He would destroy all this.

00:17:32It is beautiful, isn't it? Pity I have to go north tomorrow. I could have given you dinner.

00:17:37Not often one gets the chance of running into you chaps. What are they calling you?

00:17:41Cooper's Snoopers?

00:17:42The press have been a little hard. Anyway, you certainly seem well protected.

00:17:47Yes, Dennis Hibbertson's a marvellous old bloodhound.

00:17:53There's a lot of wasps about. Oh.

00:17:59It's there again.

00:18:04Take the safety catch-off while you're at it, Dennis.

00:18:07The witch's castle.

00:18:09Look at that bloody blackout.

00:18:12Who's the witch?

00:18:14The source of all our troubles.

00:18:17She's an internee's widow called Alice Durko.

00:18:20And it wouldn't surprise me at all if her little boy wasn't the author of your letter.

00:18:25She stuffed his head so full of nonsense.

00:18:28She makes her money billeting those land girls you saw with the vicar.

00:18:32She's an atheist.

00:18:33And if you ask me, she's a Nazi.

00:18:35Her husband was German.

00:18:37An unsuitable influence, to put it mildly.

00:18:41But why wasn't she interned with him?

00:18:44We tried, but she was English and slippery.

00:18:47Particularly with women.

00:18:49Dennis Hibbertson puts it rather more crudely.

00:18:52It's like having a rat's nest on top of us.

00:18:54The village is divided right down the middle.

00:18:58And who lives there?

00:19:00It belongs to our GP, Colin Miller.

00:19:02First-rate chap, but he's overseas.

00:19:04His wife's taken over at the village.

00:19:06She's a fair enough position in her way.

00:19:13Now, Joe.

00:19:15How are you getting on with the medicine?

00:19:17Are you sleeping all right?

00:19:19Oh, I'm not so good.

00:19:21I'm still a bit down.

00:19:23I don't sleep like I used to.

00:19:25I think you're overworking.

00:19:26The pub and Dennis's farm is too much.

00:19:29Now, I can give you something to make you sleep.

00:19:32Well, if that'll do the trick, then.

00:19:33Are you sure there's nothing else worrying you?

00:19:35Oh, I'm all right if I get my sleep.

00:19:39Is Gail all right?

00:19:40Yeah.

00:19:40Yeah, it's just me not being myself.

00:19:45With her?

00:19:49I need something to get me back there.

00:19:53Yes, of course.

00:19:54These things easily happen.

00:19:56We can get you right.

00:19:58Get me back with her.

00:20:00Well, the most likely thing is you're a bit run down.

00:20:02It's a difficult time.

00:20:04Yeah.

00:20:05Yeah, I just need something.

00:20:06I can give you something to make you sleep.

00:20:09And if it gets worse, I could send you to someone in Lincoln who might be out.

00:20:13I don't want to see anyone.

00:20:14There's a very good doctor there who could help.

00:20:16No.

00:20:21I can't do it, Doctor.

00:20:24If I had some pills, they'll let me do it.

00:20:27It's not as easy as that, Joe.

00:20:29I don't have pills for that.

00:20:31I'd have to send you to a specialist.

00:20:35You...

00:20:36You can't do it.

00:20:38I can't give you pills for that.

00:20:45Go on, ma'am. It's as if you're going.

00:20:47What's up with wife Ian?

00:20:49She's taking a bloody long time to pop its head out.

00:20:52Well, there's nothing I can do to help it.

00:20:54Don't think you did much in the first place.

00:20:58Thank you, Mr Dibbertson.

00:21:00Not having tea?

00:21:01No, no.

00:21:02I promised Hutton I'd give this back to you.

00:21:04It's an official weapon.

00:21:05Well, if they come this weekend, you're in safe hands.

00:21:07It's good for you, isn't it?

00:21:09Mm.

00:21:09Come on, let's have a round.

00:21:12It can't be all right.

00:21:34You're listening for horses?

00:21:35For tunneling.

00:21:36They're tunneling underneath us from the Channel Islands.

00:21:39It's how they'll win.

00:21:40Who's tunneling?

00:21:41Waltz, the German engineer.

00:21:43He reads nothing but comics.

00:21:46I'm sorry, I interrupted your sermon.

00:21:51Even if you want to go to church, most Sundays it's a ten-mile bike ride.

00:21:55A bit much an hour lunch hour.

00:21:57I've only just got here.

00:21:59The girl's been showing me around the village.

00:22:01Do you like it?

00:22:02It's all right, I suppose.

00:22:04I prefer my last posting.

00:22:06There are lots of girls there.

00:22:08This is so isolated.

00:22:12Are you being well looked after?

00:22:14Oh, yes.

00:22:17Can they stop Waltz?

00:22:20Yes, yes.

00:22:21How?

00:22:23Sappers flood the tunnel from Cornwall.

00:22:44Alice.

00:22:49What are you doing?

00:22:51Oh, I couldn't face those idiots playing with their guns out there.

00:22:56So I stole this from Linda.

00:22:58Listen.

00:23:00I saw that the door leading to the west wing was open wide and that someone was standing there.

00:23:05I shall never forget the expression on her face.

00:23:08Loathsome.

00:23:09Triumphant.

00:23:10The face of an exalting devil.

00:23:13Haven't been so absorbed in anything since...

00:23:18Our sermon was awful.

00:23:22The poor man was so embarrassed.

00:23:25He kept making veiled references to you.

00:23:27Well, there are worse things, Joan, than veiled references.

00:23:31Joan, are you up there?

00:23:33We must get back to the farm by four or he'll kill us.

00:23:37Oh, I'll never smell anything again.

00:23:40It's even worse than last time.

00:23:42Come on.

00:23:43Joan, he'll hang us from the Bees.

00:23:45Well, Alice is right.

00:23:47We should stand up to him.

00:23:49We can talk to the representative.

00:23:51Mrs Leslie.

00:23:52You know which side she's on.

00:23:54Don't you get bored yet?

00:23:56No.

00:23:58Alice knows so much.

00:23:59Get her talking about Vienna.

00:24:01Or Spain.

00:24:02Crush, crush.

00:24:03But you should have seen my last hostel.

00:24:06There were dances and films.

00:24:08Who could have boys visiting?

00:24:10As long as they didn't go upstairs.

00:24:13And the Aqualers are late on one law.

00:24:16If they sent us kids, it'd be a pretty sight more yokes.

00:24:21You're frightened of getting dirty?

00:24:37Come on.

00:24:38Come on.

00:24:40Damn plucks.

00:24:42I'll try it.

00:24:47All right.

00:24:49You try it.

00:25:11All right.

00:27:05What's the matter, Rowan?

00:27:06He's just called for the doctor.

00:27:08His wife's auntie.

00:27:09That girl a stork, it's bloody everywhere.

00:27:14Hey, good dad.

00:27:22Halt!

00:27:26I'm just going for a drink.

00:27:29How's Alice Dirk out the night, then?

00:27:32I don't know.

00:27:33She's all right.

00:27:36I need to see your papers.

00:27:44You have to test.

00:27:45Test?

00:27:46But why?

00:27:46You're new.

00:27:47You might not be who you say you are.

00:27:49Isn't that right, Charlie?

00:27:50Government orders.

00:27:52Read this.

00:27:52Why should I read it?

00:27:54Because we're fighting a bloody war, aren't we?

00:27:58Clothes, wretch, soothe, wrong, buckle, tr...

00:28:04Show.

00:28:05What?

00:28:06Show.

00:28:08It's trough.

00:28:09It's like a horse trough.

00:28:11Trough, rats, through.

00:28:14Again.

00:28:14Faster.

00:28:16Clothes, wretch, soothe, wrong, buckle, trough, rats, through.

00:28:24What do you think, Charlie?

00:28:26Oh.

00:28:30All right.

00:28:33Get going, then.

00:28:38Back to the land.

00:28:45I'll give you a uniform or a good brush down, Captain.

00:28:47It's behind the door of your room.

00:28:49Thank you, Mr. Hartman.

00:28:51I'll have your breakfast on the table at eight o'clock sharp.

00:29:06Good night, Mr. Hartman.

00:29:13Good night.

00:29:17Good night.

00:29:30I'll be a notice.

00:29:35I'll be a notice.

00:29:37They're out in the way, kicking ground. They have to leave the cage.

00:29:45She's a notice, Joe. Just to be kind. I went in for a minute.

00:29:49You're fearing the bitch's house!

00:29:51They turn up there, is it?

00:29:53They turn!

00:29:54No!

00:29:56There's two bitches.

00:29:57There's two bitches.

00:30:00You know what Roy Bates heard?

00:30:02She takes one of the land girls into her room at night.

00:30:05Takes her in there with her.

00:30:07No. I don't believe it, Joe.

00:30:11Three bloody girls.

00:30:13The farm, the pub and the volunteers.

00:30:15Seven days of the bloody week, all the weeks of the year.

00:30:29Eight weeks of the year, Mark Schspeaker.

00:30:32Take a look at the houses.

00:30:33You saw, K geminis.

00:30:33Eight weeks of the year, Mark Schuster実k can be destroyed to the coil,

00:30:43I blow my Jasmineoni.

00:30:43What's

00:30:43that, moaning? I can't

00:30:47take a look at you, John Kü dicton.

00:30:59Mrs. Harkon?

00:31:46Mrs. Harkon, who are you?

00:31:51Mrs. Harkon, who are you?

00:31:52Mr. Harkon Truman?

00:31:53He's staying, Alice Durkow.

00:31:56He's not here, Gail, so go up and get what you want.

00:32:05I found Gail outside my house in a state of collapse.

00:32:09Didn't you hear her screaming?

00:32:12He might have killed her.

00:32:13I heard some noise, but I didn't think I had any business to interfere.

00:32:16Even though he nearly fractured her skull?

00:32:18I think you're being overdramatic, Mrs. Durkow.

00:32:20Am I? He smashed her head against a wall.

00:32:23Look, I'm sorry, but as you know, this isn't a particularly fruitful time to get involved in domestic disputes.

00:32:28Why?

00:32:30Because there's a war on.

00:32:32It's obviously escaped your attention, but up above us, in little boxes, people are fighting for their country.

00:32:38Rumour has it that some of them are even dying for it.

00:32:40Oh, yes, I'm sure Joe Hutton regarded what he did to his wife as deeply patriotic.

00:32:44After all, she was the friend of a dangerous Nazi spy who rapes and eats her young.

00:32:50Or is it the other way around?

00:32:52Now, I'm still worried about concussions, so can you go to the surgery, wait for the doctor,

00:32:58and tell her to come out to my house as quickly as possible? Come on, girl.

00:33:12This is very kind of you.

00:33:14I haven't even been home to change.

00:33:16It was one of those nights that makes me despair of my practice.

00:33:20The street very nearly lost her baby.

00:33:22We were very lucky.

00:33:27So, was Durkow a Nazi?

00:33:29No, that's just hysterical gossip.

00:33:33Durkow was a very shy man, but he certainly wasn't a Nazi.

00:33:36His internment was quite ridiculous.

00:33:39But he had been a communist in Vienna, and most of the village think communists and Nazis

00:33:43are the same thing, including the magistrates.

00:33:49How did he die?

00:33:51He drowned on that deportation ship going to Canada.

00:33:54And even then, the press didn't give up.

00:33:56There were headlines about Nazis fighting like cowards to get on the boats.

00:34:14The Durkows had lived such a private existence out here

00:34:17that there was all sorts of rubbish put about.

00:34:20There still is.

00:34:21Alice never seemed to care, but she must have suffered.

00:34:28That's where I live.

00:34:32An aunt left her this.

00:34:35There's always been something about it I don't like.

00:34:51Yes, I'm sure my son wrote it.

00:34:55What are you going to do?

00:34:56Shoot him?

00:34:57Mrs Durkow, it's not the policy.

00:34:59It's Yates.

00:35:01The poet.

00:35:03Only, it's the wrong way round.

00:35:06Tom must have remembered it from one of my books.

00:35:09Well, how should it read?

00:35:16Being so caught up,

00:35:19so mastered by the brute blood of the air.

00:35:23I don't...

00:35:24A woman is entered,

00:35:27brutally,

00:35:28by a god.

00:35:33She suffers.

00:35:35What happens to her?

00:35:37Power.

00:35:39Power

00:35:40and knowledge.

00:35:44Very potent myth.

00:35:47Where from?

00:35:48Greece.

00:35:54It's very hot, isn't it?

00:35:56Alice?

00:35:59I don't think there's any concussion.

00:36:01She just needs a day's rest.

00:36:03But do you think she should stay here?

00:36:08I'm afraid we need to go back via Meldrith.

00:36:10Some supplies have come through at last, thank to God.

00:36:12Right.

00:36:16Is she always so sure of herself?

00:36:19Yes, I think so.

00:36:21But the odd thing is,

00:36:22she seems even surer since he died.

00:36:25I'll worry about right here.

00:36:46I wish we had more time.

00:36:49I'd love to bathe in it.

00:36:50Wouldn't you wear a tent?

00:36:52It's...

00:36:56Samantha.

00:36:57What's the matter?

00:36:58Oh, dear.

00:37:00I think it's my time.

00:37:01You should have stayed in like Susan.

00:37:04It'll be all right.

00:37:07Funny how we get them together.

00:37:12Where the hell's the other girl got to?

00:37:14We've still some stacking to do.

00:37:17The weather could break any time.

00:37:18Not well.

00:37:19What the fuck is the matter with her then?

00:37:22It's, uh,

00:37:23time of the month, Mr. Epson.

00:37:27Joan's started too.

00:37:34Better go and see to the chickens then, hey?

00:37:41There's no good stacking to do.

00:37:47Hey!

00:37:48There's still some bales to go.

00:37:50Joan, I'll give you a hand.

00:38:03No sign of it breaking.

00:38:05I'll be glad to be shot of this luck just the same.

00:38:12I'll be glad to be shot of this.

00:38:12I'll be glad to be here.

00:38:12...

00:38:38I'll be glad to be here.

00:38:40That's it! Up you go!

00:38:53Now what the hell's the money I got?

00:39:19Look, she's not wearing a skirt.

00:39:39It's not your day, girl.

00:39:42You'd better go home and rest up with Susan, hey?

00:39:45Do you want to see it?

00:39:46What?

00:39:47I said, do you want to see my blood?

00:39:49That's what all this is about, isn't it? Because I'm bleeding.

00:39:55And you want to watch your mouth, you disgusting little...

00:39:59Alice said it scares men.

00:40:04You foul little bitch!

00:40:07We've got to have to sort you people out once and for all.

00:40:11You need a lesson.

00:40:12Have a good mind to...

00:40:13Like your wife.

00:40:15What about, Gail?

00:40:16We saw what you did to her last night.

00:40:19Where is she?

00:40:23Where is she?!

00:40:35Clothes are gone.

00:40:38Up who?

00:40:40We're looking for Gail.

00:40:41She's at Alistair Cowes.

00:40:43We'll get her.

00:40:44No!

00:40:46She doesn't want to see you.

00:40:49I'm her husband!

00:40:50It's her decision, Joe.

00:40:52I'm sorry.

00:40:53Wait until tomorrow at least.

00:40:55Then see.

00:40:57Come into my surgery later and we'll have a chat.

00:41:00She's right, Joe.

00:41:01Give it a night.

00:41:03I have an idea we can all do ourselves a bit of good.

00:41:06Well, I suppose we can help ourselves with a drink.

00:41:09Do you really think it's right for his wife to stay out of there?

00:41:12She wants to.

00:41:18Man's obviously in quite a state.

00:41:21It's very strange.

00:41:23When the war started, I took over this practice for Colin.

00:41:26You know, I thought there'd be all sorts of trouble with the women.

00:41:30Facing the war, many of them without husbands.

00:41:32But it isn't like that at all.

00:41:35It's the men.

00:41:35There's few of them that are left.

00:41:39Almost as if the whole place had lost its sexual center of gravity.

00:41:45I thought you would be wanting a drink.

00:41:56Having trouble, girl?

00:41:59Ah, today's been nothing but trouble.

00:42:01Let me give you a hand.

00:42:11How are you?

00:42:13I'm all right on the others.

00:42:15It's just this one.

00:42:17Ah, there.

00:42:18See, just watch my hand.

00:42:20Just squeeze him down.

00:42:29That's good.

00:42:30That's very good.

00:42:35How are you liking it at Alice's?

00:42:37You settling in?

00:42:38Yeah.

00:42:39Well, no.

00:42:41Not much to do.

00:42:43No, I don't suppose it's easy there.

00:42:45You're right.

00:42:48Well, something's but strange.

00:42:52Don't you?

00:42:57I think you deserve a cup of tea after this.

00:43:03You can't be too careful, Pat.

00:43:05Are you there?

00:43:06Glad you could make it, Ian.

00:43:07It's business to discuss.

00:43:08You'll have a drink?

00:43:09Yeah.

00:43:10I'll have a party with you.

00:43:11Thank you, Dennis.

00:43:12We're all over the bloody place.

00:43:14Africa down south is being locked up for prison.

00:43:16They're collecting his sermon.

00:43:18Pint, please, Joe.

00:43:19I don't know if Joe has to pull the pints tonight.

00:43:22Yeah.

00:43:22That's not the only thing he'll have to pull.

00:43:24Hey.

00:43:25Listen to Adolph.

00:43:27When people in Britain are very curious and say,

00:43:30Why doesn't he come?

00:43:32We reply,

00:43:33Calm yourselves.

00:43:34Calm yourselves.

00:43:35He is coming.

00:43:37He is coming.

00:43:40Think he means it, Captain?

00:43:42Yes, I do.

00:43:46So...

00:43:48How would you feel if you strongly suspected someone in this village of being a spy?

00:43:53Someone who could send out signals to guide them?

00:43:57Damn excited.

00:43:58Well, I'd still have to try and find some concrete evidence to back up my suspicions.

00:44:02And once you had that?

00:44:04Once I had that, then of course I would have to act.

00:44:09Yes.

00:44:12Why don't you come over and have a drink with us, eh?

00:44:14A narrow talk from the Marshal Sir Philip Jules.

00:44:16Good evening.

00:44:18What a time we must expect an intensification of the German attack.

00:44:22Heavy bombing both by day and night

00:44:24and a corresponding amount of suffering to all our people.

00:44:28We must try to stick it.

00:44:30It is and will be a most unpleasant proceeding.

00:44:45It is and will be cancelled.

00:44:53We must not see what the French are going by.

00:44:53It is a marvel, the French will come across.

00:44:53Not one moment or a struggle.

00:44:55It is and will be never true.

00:44:55And if you will see a tragedy of the French and French will be one of the West.

00:44:55Fucking and French will be one of the French are the French.

00:45:01It's actually there.

00:45:12Good morning, Mrs. Durkheim.

00:45:14Where's Cale?

00:45:17She left on the bus this morning.

00:45:19She's gone to her sister's in Cambridge.

00:45:21She's lying.

00:45:22Mrs. Durkheim, Dennis Ibbotson here claims to have some very serious evidence against you.

00:45:26I'm sure he does, which makes you all the more stupid for believing in her.

00:45:29Where's Linda?

00:45:31Why?

00:45:31Would you go and get her, please?

00:45:35Linda?

00:45:41Come in.

00:45:43I've seen her with the transmitter at night.

00:45:46It's in a big wooden box with wires.

00:45:49Right.

00:45:49Get in.

00:45:51Trust me.

00:45:52You have no right to do this.

00:45:56Start in here.

00:46:01Soon find it.

00:46:02Take the whole bloody load.

00:46:20Hey, women can see there's no room for privilege and class interests.

00:46:25Communist stuff.

00:46:27It's a government pamphlet.

00:46:43There's nothing in there, let's see.

00:46:45Behind it.

00:46:47That really is not necessary.

00:46:49Got to find the booker.

00:46:50Oh, see.

00:46:58Here we are.

00:47:02Here we are.

00:47:03What?

00:47:10Again?

00:47:15Here we are.

00:47:16Oh, that's enough.

00:47:17Here we are.

00:47:19Good morning.

00:47:20Egypt's decor.

00:47:20Sorry.

00:47:20You're not coming in my room.

00:47:27Who the hell do you think you are?

00:47:29The bloody Gestapo!

00:47:31She's probably got it in there!

00:47:32I've got it!

00:47:38Good old Charlie.

00:47:45Where's the key?

00:47:48Where's the key?

00:47:49You have no right to do this.

00:48:03Look at that. I knew it.

00:48:08That's it. That's the transmitter.

00:48:10Dennis were right. She's a bloody Nazi spy.

00:48:15This couldn't transmit anything.

00:48:19It's an electrical hair remover.

00:48:29Will you all get out of here now?

00:48:32Get out!

00:48:56Get out of here.

00:49:02I'm going to get out of here.

00:49:03Not yet, Captain. We'll get the evidence we need.

00:49:07Oh, no, you won't. Because after I leave here tomorrow,

00:49:11I'm going to Regimental HQ to recommend that you and your squad are discharged from duty.

00:49:15I wouldn't dare. The village has to be protected.

00:49:18Yes, from you!

00:49:30Jumped up like a bully. There's always one.

00:49:33No, there are quite a few. It's just they don't often have guns.

00:49:37That was awful. I'll go back and see you later.

00:49:44I think we both need a drink.

00:49:58Colin and I wanted, above all, to make a difference somewhere.

00:50:02We chose this village because it needed medical care.

00:50:05There were things here that shocked me.

00:50:08I still remember a little boy walking into my surgery with little bubbles under his skin.

00:50:14They crackled.

00:50:15What was it?

00:50:16Gas gangrene from untreated wounds.

00:50:19That sort of thing hasn't been seen for years.

00:50:21But there he was in the surgery.

00:50:24We had enough money to keep our fees low.

00:50:26And we even thought that if we encourage changes in diet and sanitation, one day we might actually transform the

00:50:33place.

00:50:34But you didn't.

00:50:35No.

00:50:36Since the war, it's all I can do to stop things getting even worse.

00:50:40I prayed for war.

00:50:45When I worked in the city, I used to hang around the docks looking for spies.

00:50:52I don't know why I thought there'd be spies in the docks.

00:50:55Do you know what this means?

00:50:57See no evil.

00:50:58Hmm.

00:50:59Your prayers were answered then.

00:51:01No, not really.

00:51:03Certainly haven't caught any spies.

00:51:07No, for me this war has been like standing outside watching something through a window and not being able to

00:51:14get in.

00:51:15I want to see heroes and villains.

00:51:18And all I see is...

00:51:23What they say about Alice and the land girl, is it true?

00:51:27Possibly.

00:51:28Do you care?

00:51:29Yes.

00:51:30It's not what I want to fight for.

00:51:32But you have to fight for everyone.

00:51:35I can't choose just to help some people.

00:51:37I have to help everyone.

00:51:38I have to care for everyone.

00:51:41Even captains who fall in duties.

00:51:44Yes.

00:51:45Even you.

00:51:49You're not free.

00:51:52What do you mean?

00:51:56I don't know.

00:51:59Yes, I do.

00:52:01Tell me.

00:52:03No.

00:52:05I just mean what you had to charge.

00:52:08The other night, for example.

00:52:10Oh, the other night.

00:52:13Two guineas from commencement of labor.

00:52:15That's the basic charge.

00:52:18And the others?

00:52:19For a second practitioner, one guinea.

00:52:22That's not counting emergencies.

00:52:24No.

00:52:26Or anaesthetic.

00:52:37I think I should go.

00:52:39I think I should go.

00:52:50I can hear him now.

00:52:52Walt.

00:52:53What?

00:52:54Walt.

00:52:54I can hear him in the ground.

00:52:55He must be coming.

00:52:57Oh, yeah.

00:52:58Go.

00:52:59I can hear it.

00:53:02Go.

00:53:10Go.

00:53:13Go.

00:53:15Go.

00:53:17Go.

00:53:18Go.

00:53:19Go.

00:53:35It's happening tonight. We've just had word. We've got a crack at him. It's gone through.

00:54:18It's happening tonight.

00:54:37It's happening tonight.

00:54:46Linda?

00:54:51You all right?

00:54:54He made me tell him.

00:55:11You all right?

00:55:19It's selfish, but I really like you and Joan and Susan living here.

00:55:25Well, they'll still let us be landgirls after the war.

00:55:28They've said so.

00:55:29You're only here because they need you to be here.

00:55:32Afterwards, when they need you to breed babies, you'll be gone.

00:55:37They won't want landgirls.

00:55:39They won't even remember you.

00:55:42But I will.

00:55:46It has to cover the hole.

00:55:50No.

00:55:52It has to cover the hole.

00:55:54No.

00:56:00Did you hear something?

00:56:18You're to come now.

00:56:20At this Dirk house.

00:56:21It's as long as it happens.

00:56:27I'll be there.

00:56:29It was.

00:56:30It was.

00:56:31It was.

00:56:32It was.

00:56:34It was.

00:56:35It was.

00:56:47It was.

00:57:42Sorry about your jacket, Captain.

00:57:46Where are they?

00:57:47Yeah.

00:57:48The bitches have gone.

00:57:50They've already searched the area.

00:57:53We're going after them.

00:57:54It could have been an accident.

00:57:56Even though they butchered him.

00:57:59You still don't understand.

00:58:01Understand what?

00:58:07What?

00:58:08The cord word came through by telephone two hours ago.

00:58:10The invasion's begun.

00:58:14What?

00:58:15As soon as I heard, I came out of here and found this.

00:58:18Nazi spies, a lot of them.

00:58:19The whole area's on the alert.

00:58:21We'll get them, whatever they are.

00:58:23Ian's straight and Ben, on the roadblocks.

00:58:25G.I.

00:58:26and me mount the search at once.

00:58:28Let's get over it.

00:58:29Let's get over it.

00:58:29I'll check you out, Mr. Lord.

00:58:47I'll check you out.

00:58:47Just a minute.

00:58:49Look, I understand how you feel, but all we can really do is report this and stand by our OPs.

00:58:54Please.

00:58:55I'll personally see that you...

00:58:56Why are you here, Captain Chairman?

00:58:59I...

00:58:59I'll tell you why you're here.

00:59:01You're not from your regiment.

00:59:02You're not even on active service.

00:59:06Sick!

00:59:08We've lost one man already.

00:59:09I'm not having some spineless little civilian from Ministry of Information giving my squad orders.

00:59:17Charlie, has that car been properly immobilised?

00:59:20No.

00:59:22It's Broadworthy.

00:59:24I warned you, when we first met.

00:59:31Don't worry.

00:59:33We'll check back here before dawn.

00:59:44There's still my car.

00:59:49No, I'm near the roadblock.

00:59:56Look, I'll walk to the phone box and I'll see you back at your house.

01:00:10Have you reported the casualty?

01:00:11Of course.

01:00:12And?

01:00:13Someone should be here in the morning.

01:00:14There's a big flap on tonight.

01:00:15What do you mean, in the morning?

01:00:16A man's been killed.

01:00:18I'm afraid they won't accept an unofficial call, sir.

01:00:21Me?

01:00:23That's right.

01:00:24It'll be a door.

01:00:35I'm not going to let you...

01:00:36Who knows, sir?

01:00:40I know.

01:00:40I know it.

01:00:44That's what you do for the while.

01:00:50I know.

01:01:21He made us take our clothes off with it, and then he took Susan first, and I grabbed hold of

01:01:27it, and it went off against his thigh. He was twisting around.

01:01:30He was almost dead. The second shot was to finish it.

01:01:34Why didn't you come here at once?

01:01:35We tried to, but they began searching the area, and we knew nobody would believe us, so we hid and

01:01:42waited.

01:01:43Come in out of sight. We can sort it all out in the morning.

01:01:50You believe their story?

01:01:52Yes, don't you?

01:01:55We can't let them stay here. Ibbotson will be back.

01:01:58He'll have to break the door down.

01:01:59My God, you think the door will keep him out?

01:02:02Look, don't you see we can't afford any of this?

01:02:06Not tonight!

01:02:07I mean, this is like, like, wallowing in a cesspit while someone is tearing apart our home.

01:02:13What's important is what's happening out there.

01:02:17The Germans are invading, and we're getting caught up in our foul little village vendetta.

01:02:22Do you know what Ibbotson said to me before you came? I wasn't going to tell you.

01:02:27He told me what he'd do when he found them.

01:02:31Who exactly do you think was supposed to be fighting out there?

01:02:35Ghosts with swastikas, or men like him, who want nothing more than to stick their bayonets up women?

01:02:41Look, Ibbotson is English. He is subject to the law.

01:02:45Does that mean it doesn't hurt?

01:02:46No, it means we have a common enemy.

01:02:51There's trouble with the blackout upstairs.

01:03:03This reminds me of Vienna.

01:03:06We did an awful lot of hiding there from the Nazis.

01:03:10Stephen used to call it communist hide-and-seek.

01:03:14But you were never caught.

01:03:15Yes, we were.

01:03:17In the end.

01:03:20They came at dawn.

01:03:23Later I managed to discover that he was in a camp that had been built as an animal enclosure.

01:03:29Whereabout?

01:03:31In Hertfordshire.

01:03:37What if they come back?

01:03:39We can talk to them.

01:03:41You know they won't listen.

01:03:44There is a military base across the Fenn at Thrushton.

01:03:47You could get help there.

01:03:49I can't leave.

01:03:52What good will it do if you stay?

01:03:53You're no use to us on your own.

01:03:55Our only chance is if you get help.

01:03:59Look, I'm not going to ask you to be brave, Mrs. Docker, but you should understand that I might just

01:04:04be able to add some sanity to what's happening here.

01:04:07I'm not Iberton.

01:04:08Yes, you are.

01:04:10What the hell does that mean?

01:04:11Well, that you're afraid.

01:04:13I felt that about you when we first met and it puzzled me.

01:04:16But then I realised in the garden that day it's not the war that frightens you.

01:04:19It's yourself.

01:04:20And women.

01:04:23This is a bloody strange time to be playing doctor.

01:04:27Have you no idea what Karen is risking letting you stay here?

01:04:31Yes, you can categorise us.

01:04:34Revere us, despise us, Karen, Alice, but I'm beginning to think it's all you can do.

01:04:38Now, I think you almost deserve Ibbotson.

01:05:38Now, I think it's all you can do.

01:05:46Like waiting for the Indians to attack.

01:05:49Hmm.

01:05:52I used to have a corridor dream when I was a child.

01:05:56It was a dark corridor.

01:05:58Darkness like glue.

01:06:01And of course there was a witch in the corridor.

01:06:05And I would feel her coming after me.

01:06:09That awful fluttering from her black skirts as she comes so near.

01:06:15You still dream that, don't you?

01:06:20Alice says there's a military base at Thrushdale.

01:06:24If I can reach it, we can have them ferried out of here.

01:06:26It's 11 miles across the fen.

01:06:30We can have a military vehicle here before dawn.

01:06:33Look.

01:06:35What Ibbotson said to me,

01:06:38maybe he was just drunk.

01:06:40He wouldn't do that. He couldn't.

01:06:43Oh, yes, he could.

01:06:47I'll come back.

01:06:51Why?

01:06:54Because

01:06:57I do have to fight for everyone.

01:07:01Even witches?

01:07:03Witches?

01:07:04Even witches.

01:07:05Cheers.

01:07:39Cheers.

01:08:25What the hell?

01:08:26I'm a captain.

01:08:27I need to see your CO urgently.

01:08:31Well, how's the album?

01:08:32It's ongoing right there.

01:08:33It's one big flat tonight.

01:08:35What happened to you?

01:08:36Did you fall in the sea?

01:08:40Go on, Christopher.

01:08:42Yeah.

01:08:47Go on, Christopher.

01:08:48Get my ring.

01:08:50Please, would you...

01:08:53Please, somebody disappeared with my papers nearly an hour ago.

01:08:56I have to see your CO.

01:09:01All right, Captain Truman.

01:09:02He's giving you ten minutes.

01:09:03He'd better be important.

01:09:10I'm sorry, but I'm finding it difficult to understand.

01:09:12I have a full-scale invasion alert, bridges blown up, several officers killed by exploding mines,

01:09:17reports of massed air attacks on London, yet you want me to spare men because of a civilian shooting accident.

01:09:22There is a real danger of an incident, sir.

01:09:26The local home guard is led by a man who's unbalanced.

01:09:30The women are being blamed.

01:09:32There could be sexual violence.

01:09:34I know we're seeing everything else tonight, Captain, but land girls, home guard.

01:09:39Do the police know?

01:09:40Yes, but he's simply a...

01:09:42Yes.

01:09:43We've finally got the...

01:09:46Evidently, he's been on temporary medical discharge since Dunkirk.

01:09:50Shell shock.

01:09:56Yes, well, I think you're being overdramatic, Captain.

01:10:01God knows we've had enough drama tonight already.

01:10:04As I've already made it clear, I'll get someone over there later this morning, but I suggest you rest here

01:10:09until then.

01:10:14Please, could you help me?

01:10:15There's trouble I've done.

01:10:16No, tonight, mate.

01:11:13Bye, shit.

01:11:14What are you doing?

01:11:16What are you doing?

01:11:17Oh, my God.

01:11:29Come on, let me.

01:11:32Come on, let me.

01:11:34Oh, my God.

01:11:45you realize i could have you court-martialed for what you did look you've got to listen to me if

01:11:49we don't go there captain truman i've already explained my decision fortunately for you i don't

01:11:53intend to take a behavior any further but i'm going to keep you locked up here until morning

01:11:56please just let me leave i'll go at once man's sick turn his light off and let him sleep i'll

01:12:02arrange transport in the morning sir i suppose we better cover ourselves try and get hold of

01:12:09regional security very good sir

01:12:43so

01:12:48so

01:12:52so

01:13:03so

01:13:26john they summoned me to take back to london

01:13:31before they knew

01:13:33knew what

01:13:38what's happened

01:13:41i think it's best if you see for yourself

01:13:45so

01:13:55so

01:14:03THE END

01:14:29No one in there had any hope. I'm very sorry.

01:14:50What happened?

01:14:52A German boy must have been making a run for the coast.

01:14:55Apparently the blackout wasn't good here.

01:14:57They saw the light and just unloaded.

01:15:00The whole place was flattened.

01:15:01Same kind of thing happened over at Melgriff two weeks ago.

01:15:34Careful, sir.

01:15:36Two home guard are already missing. Must have been trying to get them out of there.

01:15:41What's this?

01:15:43Looks like cable. Why?

01:15:46Were there any other raids, Brown, here last night?

01:15:49No, no. This was a freak.

01:15:51Can't even work out the type, because every damn one exploded.

01:15:55Sappos could hardly have done a better job.

01:16:20They said bridges were blown up tonight.

01:16:24Yes. Are you all right?

01:16:25Hmm. Anything else?

01:16:30You don't really work for the Ministry of Information at all, do you?

01:16:36I do have other employers, yes.

01:16:38Yes.

01:16:40Once you've very nearly told me about it.

01:16:43But like everything else, I never understood.

01:16:48What are you talking about?

01:16:51Rainy day.

01:16:54Something so threatening to internal morale during invasion that it is simply obliterated.

01:17:04The evidence destroyed.

01:17:07What's that?

01:17:08It burnt cable.

01:17:10Or detonating cubes.

01:17:13John, I don't think you're very well.

01:17:14What was so terrible here that your people had to blow it up?

01:17:18John.

01:17:19How did the women really die?

01:17:24You have a wife and children.

01:17:25How do you want them to remember 1940?

01:17:28I have to know.

01:17:32It was a slaughterhouse.

01:17:34The women were tortured and killed.

01:17:36The two men responsible were drunk enough to open fire on our men.

01:17:40Fortunately, we lost no one before they died.

01:17:43Oh!

01:17:46I'm afraid, John, some of the deadliest weapons of this war are proving to be lies.

01:17:53You can just thank God that most of them are directed against the enemy.

01:17:56And the others can be easily revealed in the future.

01:18:01But this...

01:18:03This comes into neither category.

01:18:06It can appear in no histories, no memoirs.

01:18:10Because on a night like this, our only course was to...

01:18:15To alter it.

01:18:21But you can't bring them back to life.

01:18:25No, but we can give them a decent death...

01:18:30At the hands of the enemy.

01:18:33What about their families?

01:18:37Families?

01:18:38Hmm.

01:18:40And can you honestly say that they'd be any happier knowing?

01:18:44Perhaps I would like them to know.

01:18:48Yes, perhaps you would.

01:18:53John, if you want to repel the enemy,

01:18:56if you want to get back to your father's regiment,

01:18:58and protect your country,

01:19:00it's your choice.

01:19:14It's no choice.

01:19:20I'd better get you home.

01:19:36I'd better get you home.

01:19:58Tim, you must come through now.

01:20:01And turn that off.

01:20:02It's high time for his grandchildren to put in an appearance.

01:20:05Where's Christopher?

01:20:06He was outside.

01:20:12The Cromwell invasion alert proved to be a notorious false alarm.

01:20:17And this journal was obviously coloured by the illness

01:20:20which so badly affected my judgment at the time.

01:20:23I thank God that later I was able to serve my country in earnest.

01:20:27I thank you for her, Mr. Christ.

01:20:28What?

01:20:28Mr. Christ, I don't know.

01:20:46Jesus.

01:20:47Lord bell

01:21:06Christopher, come in and have a Coca-Cola.

01:21:11Your father was wondering where on earth you were.

01:21:14Well, he'd been retired for several years, of course.

01:21:16And then there were committees and all those charities that...

01:21:19Ah, Christopher.

01:21:22Oh, you know, Mrs. Beacock, this is Major Smith.

01:21:25Hello, Chris.

01:21:27You're going.

01:21:28We always think Chris might take after his grandfather.

01:21:31So long as he's not blinded by those awful video games.

01:21:35Well, Chris, are you going to follow the flag?

01:21:38So it was a very good turnout from the regiment in church, as a matter of fact.

01:21:42He'd have been proud.

01:21:47Oh, the summer house.

01:21:49Yes.

01:21:50My father used to like sitting in there.

01:21:53The old chap who looks in bar two times a week, and he's particularly good on deadheading.

01:21:58Of course, he's desperately unsafe.

01:21:59I'm riddled with woodworm.

01:22:01In fact, my father was so worried that one of the children were going to hurt me.

01:22:05I would have said 100,000 apiece.

01:22:10Of course, John moved into the dressing room in years.

01:22:14It's a bloody good end, sir.

01:22:16And at least he lived to see the forwards.

01:22:19Shame about the weather.

01:22:21It was a lovely service.

01:22:23I think it's so important to die with dignity.

01:22:26Thank you, sir.

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