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Falling Season 1 Episode 2
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00:23I was wondering if perhaps you wanted to get some clothes?
00:28Er, yes, I probably should.
00:31Good.
00:34This is £200.
00:38No, I can't take your money as well as your hospitality.
00:41Well, the hospitality's a gift. This is a loan.
00:45No, you've done so much already. I don't want to be any trouble.
00:48Well, have you got a bank account?
00:50Er, no.
00:51Have you got any cash money? Er, no.
00:55Well, I don't know what your Bible says,
00:58but mine is quite explicit about helping people in need.
01:04My sons have moved out.
01:07My husband left me.
01:09I like having you here.
01:11And if you find anything nice for the Harvest Festival...
01:14I'll drop something at the church.
01:15No, no, I didn't. I didn't mean for you to go.
01:17Oh, I have no intention of being afraid of him.
01:21You're going to be okay, are you?
01:24Hmm.
01:25Let's start with a question.
01:28What do you think a priest is?
01:31People who talk to God.
01:33Yeah, that's good.
01:35Erm...
01:36But I actually think anyone can talk to God.
01:38That's what prayer is.
01:39A priest is a boss in church.
01:42I like that.
01:44I like that. Yes, we are.
01:46Do you have a class representative?
01:48Someone who sits on a committee representing the class?
01:52Angus.
01:55Are you Angus?
01:57On Wednesday we have a race dinner.
02:00But Angus decided we should have sausages instead.
02:02So he talked to you about that decision?
02:04No.
02:04Yeah.
02:05I did.
02:07Er, would you consider you elected him your representative leader?
02:12Er, when it comes to lunch menus, at least?
02:15Definitely.
02:16Definitely?
02:17Yeah?
02:18Right, well, I would say what I do is spiritual leadership.
02:24I don't decide what we have for lunch, but I do lead people, or try to, in their prayer and
02:32their worship.
02:34And that's why I'm here today, to talk to you about a festival we're going to be running at my
02:39church.
02:39Who here has heard of Harvest Festival?
02:43Good.
02:44And who can tell me what it's all about?
02:46Thank you for doing that.
02:48Er, talking business, were you able to give any more consideration to my needle exchange idea?
02:53Yes, um, Harvest Festivals, needle banks.
02:57They did warn me that you were radical when you came our way.
03:00It's just a small capital investment.
03:02Now this diocese is already running three full-time food banks.
03:07I think there are six part-time banks.
03:09And the deanery is going to take an opening in its doors twice a week as a wall bank.
03:13And there's countless outreach educational groups.
03:16Okay, but those are all necessary.
03:19The diocese has 53 million pounds in funds, 21 of which is cash in the bank.
03:23Surely we can find something.
03:24How long have you been with us? Is it two years?
03:28Three.
03:28Well, don't you think you're settling properly before you try taking on my job?
03:33Look, I know what happened with this nun and clearly, clearly there is no, no blame attached to you.
03:39But it's not as if your copy book wasn't already blotted and now you're digging into our account.
03:44Have you heard about it?
03:44I never knew that she was so flighty.
03:49Silly.
03:51Silly.
03:52Silly.
03:52Um, I think there was, um, it was confusion.
03:58Oh, there's no confusion.
03:59She took a vow.
04:00She didn't even wait to ask for permission to leave.
04:07I did, uh, if you want to find her, I do know where she is.
04:09Well, we know where she is.
04:11But the abbess, she wants, she wants her to stew a little.
04:15Poor Anna, she has absolutely no idea of the real world.
04:21good luck david
04:24and thanks once again very kind of you
04:49uh
04:53yeah
04:55yeah
04:55yeah
04:55yeah
05:06yeah
05:09yeah
05:11Thank you, thank you.
05:44Oh, sorry. I need to count your... I'm sorry. I need to count your clothes. I need to count.
06:16I need to count.
06:49Let me take this.
06:50Thanks.
06:55It's a recruitment drive.
06:58You've discovered a way to recruit people.
07:02You love it. Admit it, you do.
07:05They get to feel charitable about donating a can of beans.
07:08They remind themselves they're Catholic, see the inside of a church.
07:12They might even, God forbid, come to the actual service.
07:15How many cans of beans do we have?
07:17I'd have a rough estimate, 467. I could fill the front three pews.
07:21Well, we could keep them and do that thing where we push you down a hill and bath for the
07:25beans.
07:26Well, I don't think that would do your reputation any good at all, especially now.
07:31It was all over the diocese, the pretty priest who steals sisters.
07:39It's not my fault she's flighty.
07:42Oh, flighty, is it?
08:08I brought home some food. Chinese, because I like it.
08:14Well, I hope you like it.
08:19Pretty much like all food.
08:21How was your day?
08:23Er, not the best.
08:25We're overrun.
08:26Well, I'm sorry.
08:30Been overrun for years.
08:33So what did you get?
08:37Shopping, I mean.
08:41Er, it felt a bit much.
08:44To be honest.
08:46Oh?
08:49We need a drink.
08:51But first, I'm going to get you some clothes.
08:54See, we didn't have mirrors.
08:56Of course you didn't.
08:59And I...
09:00Well, I seem to have lost the ability to look at myself.
09:03And yet everybody else seemed to want to look at me.
09:05It's almost as if I've forgotten what I look like.
09:10Not that I think I'm still 16.
09:12You've got a beautiful face.
09:14No, no, no.
09:15It's not a question of pride.
09:18Do you know, to be honest, I've got to admit, I don't like changing rooms either.
09:21Everything had short sleeves.
09:24And the tops and the dresses.
09:27And I just wanted something to cover myself.
09:31What is it you want covered?
09:34Well, my arms and my legs.
09:38I mean, there were some long sleeves, but...
09:42It's not that I don't like my arms.
09:44I mean, I don't really think about my arms.
09:46But...
09:52I...
09:54I...
09:55I have never shaved my armpits.
09:59Oh.
10:01And everything felt very...
10:04Well, very exposing of that.
10:06And, uh...
10:07I've also never shaved my legs.
10:15I am profoundly hairy.
10:46I'm sorry.
10:49Oh, hi. I was called to go to a place.
10:52Yes, of course. Take a seat.
11:38Thanks for coming.
11:40You're Lucy?
11:42Yeah.
11:44Um, thank you for bringing me.
11:48I care deeply about your mum.
11:51Missed her at best.
11:54Went in every day, right?
11:56That's right.
11:58Bet confession was a blast.
12:07Did she talk about me?
12:13I know you can't say.
12:21Wink for yes, Mamie.
12:27Gertrude is very kind around the parish.
12:32She wasn't...
12:36I wasn't Catholic.
12:39She wasn't Catholic when I was a child.
12:43She was when she was a kid, but found being an adult more...
12:49...difficult.
12:52I'm guessing...
12:54...you two didn't always get on.
12:56No.
12:59She...
13:00...liked to hurt.
13:06I'm sorry about that.
13:08I'm just...
13:12Pleased.
13:14Someone's forgiven her.
13:20It's time.
13:34Lucy, would you come in with me?
13:39The last rites...
13:42...are something...
13:45...really quite beautiful.
13:48It's a celebration of the sacraments of penance and viaticum.
13:54Viaticum is...
13:56...a Latin word meaning...
13:58...provision and love...
14:00...for the next part of the journey.
14:04We are takeal...
14:06...with you...
14:08...on the way.
14:14It's about faith.
14:16Of course.
14:17But I think...
14:19...it's mostly...
14:20...about love.
14:25It...
14:26...it doesn't have to be about your forgiveness.
14:29Not challenging your anger.
14:32All that's asked for...
14:33...is your support for her penance.
14:36And her journey.
14:44I definitely support her penance.
15:03Do you have anything to say to me...
15:05...Gertrude?
15:07If you're unable to talk...
15:08...just squeeze my hand.
15:10If you're sorry for anything you've done wrong.
15:23I just...
15:25...wanna say...
15:29...thanks, Gertrude.
15:30Thank you...
15:31...for being a really good friend...
15:35...to me...
15:36...and...
15:36...to the community.
15:38I think we saw the very best of you.
15:43I love you...
15:46...very much.
16:05God the Father of mercies...
16:07...through the death and resurrection of his son...
16:10...has reconciled the world...
16:11...to himself and...
16:12...sent the Holy Spirit among us...
16:14...for the forgiveness of sins...
16:16...through the ministry of his church.
16:18May God...
16:20...give you peace...
16:21...and pardon.
16:25I absolve you...
16:27...from your sins...
16:28...in the name of the Father...
16:31...and of the Son...
16:33...and of the Holy Spirit.
17:09...and of the Holy Spirit.
17:13I don't know.
17:16I'll take that.
17:21I'll take that.
17:35I'm sure that would pop up here.
17:39I'll take that.
17:50You know that.
17:54I'm sure.
18:08I haven't walked.
18:10I'm not, I'm not, I'm not.
18:17If you like the drama, people are in drama.
18:22I love you.
18:25I don't know if I've ever done this.
18:30I don't know if you've ever done this.
18:34Listen to the girls.
18:36I remember exactly the woman with my girl.
18:42Spudgy.
18:44I know.
18:49I felt.
18:52She was you.
18:54Is she OK?
18:59I haven't been to see her.
19:01She died.
19:03Sorry.
19:08She died.
19:11She died.
19:14She died.
19:15She died.
19:17She died.
19:22Maybe, but...
19:30You should feel something.
19:37Shhh.
19:43Hello.
19:47Hello.
19:49Maybe shhh.
19:54Who frightened of her, Debbie?
20:04I don't like this.
20:05No, no.
20:07I'm just banging.
20:08I know.
20:10No.
20:11No, no.
20:17No, no.
20:19No, no.
20:27No, no.
20:29No, no.
20:56No, no.
21:16No, no.
21:16No, no.
21:16No, no.
21:16No, no.
21:27No.
21:48No, no.
21:53No.
22:07No, no.
22:08No, no.
22:08No, no.
22:14No, no, no.
22:18He killed himself.
22:25It was very...
22:30...sad.
22:33No-one blames me, but...
22:36People kept telling me to pray,
22:38and kept wanting to pray themselves.
22:41I led them, that's my job, I led them in praying, and...
22:47...that's when I lost it.
22:51The ability to pray.
22:55I found I could only talk to God,
22:57I could only find God within myself when I drank.
23:01I found truth, solace.
23:08I don't know.
23:13And I took to starting the day with a drink.
23:20You know, I'm not blaming it on losing the kid, it was my own weakness.
23:27I'm not saying that was the reason, but it was the trigger.
23:30Trigger.
23:33Anyway.
23:37I was no longer talked of as a future bishop.
23:45Someone saw what was happening and I was taken away and treated and...
23:50...helped.
23:55I moved in with my sister and found a new life.
24:02Here.
24:05It's rare for priests to move.
24:09But Bristol was good enough to welcome me and...
24:14...felt I was doing good.
24:17Perhaps not good enough, but...
24:20...could work.
24:26But...
24:30...lately...
24:32...things have become disturbed.
24:34Disturbed.
24:38And I...
24:40I guess I'm...
24:44...scared.
24:45I'm gonna...
24:54Right now I need a drink so badly.
25:23I...
25:28In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.
25:32Amen.
25:34The Lord be with you.
25:36And with your spirit.
25:39Lord, we have sinned against you.
25:42Lord, have mercy.
25:44Lord, have mercy.
25:48Show us your mercy and your love.
25:50I promise your salvation.
25:53May Almighty God have mercy on us, forgive our sins, and bring us to everlasting life.
26:01Amen.
26:02Amen.
26:16Uh, welcome.
26:20Welcome to something a bit different.
26:27Now, the Catholic Church is not known for its thieving, apart from all the things we've stolen.
26:35But this today is an audacious act of larceny, taking back from the Church of England what is in fact
26:42a Catholic event.
26:43In fact, I'll go further.
26:45A Catholic embrace.
26:47A celebration not of plenty, but of eliminating want.
26:52Of giving and the understanding of need.
26:56Saint Isidore, often called the farmer and our saint of harvest, said this.
27:03When God's grace touches our innermost minds to bring understanding, his word, which is received by the ear, can sink
27:12deep into our heart.
27:17Today is an act of love.
27:21And let's start by singing hymn number 432,
27:25Come ye thankful people, come.
27:51Well that was a beautiful service.
27:53Oh yeah.
27:55Still fancy him though, right?
27:57Yeah.
28:02I hope you didn't think I got my hair done for him.
28:05You had a haircut.
28:07Didn't get your hair done.
28:11I felt so ashamed sitting there.
28:14Well you shouldn't have.
28:18I feel...
28:20I feel like I'm ten years old.
28:23Why you're not!
28:25And I say that as someone who's shaved your armpits.
28:57Why you're not...
28:58Why you're not...
29:01Why you're not.
29:03Why you're not.
29:04Why you're not...
29:06Why me?
29:20I'm sorry.
29:22I'm sorry.
29:23It's alright, I was teasing.
29:25It's alright, darling.
29:25It's my fault.
29:32Go.
29:34It's not a mess.
30:08I'm sorry.
30:09Dad!
30:12Your mother wanted to work.
30:17Who is he?
30:18It doesn't matter.
30:21I'm not discussing him with you.
30:23Why not?
30:24Because I don't want your judgement.
30:2726 years just torn up like that.
30:29That's not how I see it.
30:33I...
30:34I don't have to justify my choices to you.
30:37You just walk out on a job for a man who won't look at you.
30:41How do you see it?
30:43Did you come here just to shout at me, Mum?
30:45You were 16.
30:46I told you it was a mistake.
30:49You were so sure.
30:50Until suddenly you throw it all away.
30:53All that work.
30:53All that work?
30:54You made a commitment.
30:57A commitment which ripped my heart out.
31:02Your dad's heart out now means nothing.
31:04I made a commitment which I...
31:06I do not regret.
31:08Of course you regret it.
31:09But now I realise...
31:10Now you realise you've thrown away the best part of your life.
31:14And he doesn't want you back.
31:16Right?
31:18You made this choice and he doesn't want you back.
31:24That's the thing you could never understand.
31:26There's a point where you are.
31:29As a woman where we all are so beautiful.
31:32But now...
31:33I'm not.
31:37Go home.
31:40I needed to see you.
31:42You are making your problems mine.
31:45Mum, like you always do.
31:48Go home.
31:51Don't remember the wrong things from this.
31:53You've made your point.
31:56Go home.
32:19Hello, Father.
32:20Hello, Miriam.
32:22I was, um...
32:24I was wondering if I could talk to...
32:31I wondered if you fancied a walk.
32:43I enjoyed your harvest service.
32:46I was pleased to see you there.
32:50Surprised, if I'm honest.
32:52There's something basic, isn't there, about...
32:56The harvest is a time for sharing.
32:58It was originally Catholic.
33:00Till Henry VIII, there was a Catholic service and the Irish...
33:04Yes, I think you mentioned that a few times.
33:09How long did it take you to write it?
33:11For, uh, the salmon?
33:14Depends on why you're asking.
33:16I liked it.
33:18All the stuff about the true nature of giving.
33:20I...
33:21I thought you gave a really...
33:22A true analysis of generosity as an exchange.
33:29Um, I...
33:30I write them very quickly.
33:32Often in the bath.
33:34And then I revise them quite a bit.
33:38So you...
33:38You write in the bath?
33:41Well, I actually dictate them into my phone.
33:43I can...
33:43I can hear the water moving when...
33:45I'm listening back.
33:46Oh.
33:47That's an odd image.
33:49I suppose there isn't a great deal to do but think.
33:53When you wept.
33:56What?
33:57No.
34:01My parents came to see me.
34:03Furious.
34:04About leaving, girl?
34:06Yeah.
34:06I thought you said they weren't especially Catholic.
34:08Well, my mum didn't want me to become a nun, but...
34:11Here I am.
34:12Doing it anyway.
34:13Oh.
34:13Leaving.
34:15Having ruined the best part of my life serving something fruitless.
34:19You haven't ruined the best parts of your life.
34:22If only you were my mother.
34:25My parents were troubled by my choice.
34:28My sister thought it was great.
34:30Not like the good old days when that third child will be stuffed off to the clergy.
34:34I think that's more of an Anglican tradition.
34:36Do they come to your services?
34:39Both dead.
34:41My sister's still around there.
34:43She's a natural daughter.
34:44I was adopted.
34:46Oh.
34:48So, your parents were...
34:51Not white.
34:54Yeah.
34:55Isn't it strange how that question's always the first one people ask?
34:59Sorry for the boring question.
35:01It's not boring at all.
35:02Just marginally...
35:02Racist.
35:04Socially turning.
35:10I don't want to have sex with you.
35:14Sorry?
35:16I...
35:19I don't know what this is.
35:22But I've kept thinking about it.
35:23And I just wanted to say that I don't think I want to have sex with you.
35:32Okay.
35:32Or...
35:33Or...
35:34Well, maybe I do.
35:34Maybe I'm just saying that to...
35:36But sex.
35:37The...
35:38The idea of...
35:39Of sex.
35:40Even when you were talking about yourself in the bath.
35:43Actually that...
35:44Didn't do it...
35:45For me.
35:47Because...
35:47The idea of sex is...
35:49Truly terrifying.
35:50To me.
35:51As I'm sure it is to you.
35:53I'm not even sure how I feel about kissing.
35:57I just don't know...
35:59What this is.
36:02The way you make me feel.
36:04The way you've...
36:06Made me feel.
36:08In an instant.
36:09Is...
36:11It remains.
36:12Something I...
36:13I can't explain.
36:15Or...
36:15Or even understand.
36:17Even now.
36:22Something else.
36:24It's...
36:25Something more.
36:29So...
36:30That's it.
36:36Now...
36:36Now...
36:37Now you have to talk.
36:45I just wanted to see you.
36:48Why?
36:51Because I like you.
36:56What a safe word to use.
37:01I suppose I was...
37:03Worried about you.
37:05Of course you are.
37:09What a safe word.
37:12Thank you for...
37:14The clarity.
37:17About sex.
37:38I don't want to have sex with you.
37:43But I do want to hold your hand.
37:45I don't want to hold it.
38:07Okay.
38:11Okay.
38:14My position hasn't changed.
38:18No.
38:18You're...
38:20You're worried for me.
38:21You...
38:22Don't want to have sex...
38:23With me.
38:24And you don't have feelings for me.
38:25You're gonna keep saying the word sex.
38:27I know now.
38:27I still just can't stop.
38:32The promises are...
38:35Everything...
38:36To me.
38:38My service...
38:39To God...
38:41Matters...
38:42To me.
38:45My feelings for you...
38:48Are ones of...
38:50Care...
38:52And...
38:53Friendship.
38:56Okay.
38:56All I want to do...
39:01I want to help you.
39:05You know, I threw my life up.
39:08For you.
39:09And you can deny responsibility, but I...
39:11Hang on. I'm responsible.
39:13Yes.
39:14Yes, you are.
39:14And now you are...
39:15You're sat here like a...
39:17Like a wet pudding.
39:18And I feel like I'm the one who has to make you feel okay.
39:25And I...
39:26I should go.
39:27But you came to my service.
39:28Yes. I came to your church.
39:30Why?
39:31To take part in a festival.
39:32Well, it felt like you were...
39:33What?
39:36What?
39:42I hoped it was an act of...
39:45Friendship.
39:48Well...
39:48It must be lovely to have hopes like you've got.
39:51I...
39:54I want to be your friend.
39:56And...
39:56Help isn't a bad word.
39:58I want to support you in what you're doing.
40:00I... I... I want...
40:01To...
40:04I can't...
40:04Be that.
40:08But...
40:08I can be...
40:11I'd like to be your friend.
40:12Okay.
40:13Well, I...
40:15Accept your friendship.
40:17You do?
40:17Yes.
40:18Yes, I do.
40:19But...
40:21I am...
40:22I'm tired now.
40:23And I want to go home.
40:27Do you...
40:28Do you even know the way?
40:30Fair.
40:31Always been good at retracing my steps.
40:36You know, I was sure when I became a nun.
40:38And I am equally sure now.
40:40I...
40:41I just know that God's path for me has changed.
40:45And I...
40:48I believe...
40:50That God's path for you has changed too.
40:53I am not some...
40:56Caged bird who saw a means of escape.
40:59I saw...
41:00What you felt.
41:04And I felt it too.
41:08I...
41:09I didn't imagine it.
41:36You...
42:03I don't see the memes...
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