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What finally happened to hand embroidered panel of Adam and Eve? Starring: Julia Sawalha, Olivia Hallinan, Claudie Blakley, Brendan Coyle.
What finally happened to hand embroidered panel of Adam and Eve? Starring: Julia Sawalha, Olivia Hallinan, Claudie Blakley, Brendan Coyle.
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00:06Within all small community, rivalries ran deep.
00:13What's going on here?
00:15A few sparrows in a hedge was an underkeeper's business, I might tell you.
00:19I'm a folk by the estate.
00:22I've a right finger poaching.
00:25If I wanted to go poaching, I know where the game is and how to get them.
00:28So why are you eating a few skinny sparrows?
00:31Well, so I'll enjoy the plump birds all the more when I fancy one.
00:34Well, maybe you'd like to try your hand.
00:39I might.
00:40Alfie, leave it be. Spadering's good enough for poor folk.
00:44I'll be waiting for you.
00:46The row that those boys had that autumn day may have been about poaching.
00:51But the true rivalry was about what was in their hearts.
00:56And the discovery in a graveyard of a mysterious parcel wrapped in an old newspaper
01:01was about to open up Miss Lane's own troubled heart.
01:05PIANO PLAYS
01:22PIANO PLAYS
01:44The day finally came when Caroline arrived home from prison,
01:49and she must have wondered what kind of welcome the hamlet and her family would give her.
02:06It's good to have you back, Ma.
02:07I think you can do better than that, son. Come on, give your Ma a kiss.
02:14Come on, let's get you a general list, though.
02:17Oh, all done, I see.
02:21Well, that's just as well.
02:23Look at you, more washed and cleaner than I've ever seen.
02:28Wait, who's taken all the laughter out of this house?
02:34Who's that gone?
02:36Who's that gone?
02:36Who's that gone?
02:38Who's that gone?
02:38Who's that gone?
02:38And you!
02:43Ah, Miss Ellison.
02:45The rectory baby box has been left here for you to collect.
02:48Do come through.
02:49Thank you, Miss Leigh.
02:54I'm taking the box over to Lark Rice for Mrs. Arliss's confinement.
02:59I thought that it should not go out until the baby arrives.
03:03It occurred to me that Mrs. Arliss might appreciate something to cheer her up on her return home.
03:08Something to concentrate her mind on and all.
03:11Thank you, Zilla.
03:13The Ellison family christening robes.
03:18These go back four generations.
03:20And still so beautiful.
03:23Now, this is quite heavy.
03:25Would you like Thomas to give you a hand with it into the carriage?
03:29Oh, well, that would be most appreciated.
03:35Thomas!
03:39He must have taken out the second delivery already.
03:43Oh, well.
03:45Miss Margaret.
03:47Would you care to join us here for tea on Thursday?
04:10Yes.
04:36I'm not saying anything.
04:38Yes, we don't think we should not have any time at the beginning of the day.
04:38graveyard that was lying on the grave but hidden under some bushes like a secret
04:46what is it
04:54that's Adam and Eve
04:57there's a strangeness to it makes my skin shiver
05:00I don't think we ought to have that thing in the house
05:04the tree of knowledge
05:08well if anything has a message that does
05:13and that's got me curious
05:14look
05:18wrapped in an old Candleford newspaper
05:22I shall take it to Miss Lane
05:24see if she can make sense of where it's come from
05:27she can have it
05:28now do we want these birds roasted
05:31or cooked in one of your best puddings right here
05:35and you're coming to Candleford with me
05:38you can sell a few nuts
05:41and we'll call it a day out
05:59you walk right past me
06:01inches away
06:03it took me all my strength not to laugh out loud
06:08that's better than a few sparrows
06:09stop me
06:37thank you
06:39I have invited Miss Ellison to tea on Thursday.
06:45Tea?
06:47Here.
06:49Miss Ellison and myself at the table in front of other people.
06:55Only your friends, Thomas.
06:58Miss Lane, you have placed me in an intolerable position.
07:04It's just I felt so sorry for her.
07:06I could sense that she was so eager to see you.
07:11Miss Lane, I find myself in such a state of ill-temper.
07:14I feel I must remove myself before I say something unchristian.
07:23Mr and Mrs Torrow.
07:28There's something antique-looking about the human figures.
07:32Naked-looking and all.
07:34It has the air of a holy relic.
07:38Do you know, I think this is human hair stitched onto the heads of Adam and Eve.
07:43I can't take my eyes off it.
07:46I keep asking myself, what is it?
07:48What does it mean?
07:49And where did it come from?
07:53This newspaper's more than 40 years old.
07:57Do you suppose it's been lying in the graveyard for all this time?
08:00It's been lying there for another 40 years.
08:03I don't like it.
08:04Do you remember the name on the grave where you found it, Mrs Torrow?
08:08Harold Wigmore.
08:10Same name as my brother, you see.
08:13Harold, not Wigmore.
08:15I read in the Gazette a few weeks ago about a man in Kidlington who found some wood carvings, a
08:21curiosity, and it fetched quite a sum at auction.
08:25Five pounds, I seem to recall.
08:27That's ours.
08:28We found it.
08:29That's ours, no.
08:30Sir Timothy can tell us all about the legalities of that, I'm sure.
08:33He'll be calling in on us in a short while.
08:36Caroline!
08:36Caroline!
08:38It's good to see you.
08:40Oh, thank you, Emma.
08:42Is there anything you need?
08:44Ah, two shillings under my pillow, my Walter in my bed, and a wholesome carriage to lift the weight off
08:49my feet.
08:50If you can manage it, I'll see what I can do.
08:52Has everything been, I mean, with Alf and the little ones?
08:56If you can be proud of Alf.
08:58You think I ain't?
09:00Emma, I can truly tell you.
09:02I've come out of that place with something I didn't go in with.
09:04I am decided to be entirely different.
09:09Caroline, perhaps it's not best to give yourself too tall a mountain to come in.
09:13No, I avowed it to myself.
09:15I will not speak unless I can be civil and gracious.
09:18Well, perhaps gracious will come later.
09:21I will not cuss nor slander.
09:23Ale shall not pass my lips.
09:25Throwing up my skirts is a thing of the past.
09:28I've seen where gallivanting gets me, and I'm cured of it.
09:31No more borrowing.
09:32No spending beyond my means.
09:35Attitude is my problem, Emma.
09:37So, I will greet life with humility and gratitude from now on.
09:44Wow.
09:45Sounds like quite a challenge for even the best of souls.
09:48You see, if I don't.
09:50I've always wanted to be like you, Emma.
09:52And now, I shall be.
10:04One egg from each nest now, Edmund.
10:06You know the rule.
10:06He wants to make a whole string of them for his ma.
10:09So he shall.
10:11It'll take a while longer, that's all.
10:12Why, Pa?
10:14It ain't so much what it does to the chaffinch when you take them all as what it does to
10:17you.
10:19One egg from each nest.
10:21Every father laid down the same law.
10:25But maybe something in my father's voice made Edmund want to defy him.
10:30Legally, you must register it as found with Constable Patterson.
10:34Then he must check that it hasn't been reported lost or stolen.
10:39And then an appropriate amount of time must be allocated to enable its owner to come forward and claim it.
10:45Sir, how long, sir?
10:47Sometimes a year.
10:49A year?
10:51Sometimes you could deal less than that, depending on the circumstances.
10:55Well, sir, the circumstances obviously indicate that it was long abandoned.
11:00It might have been the proceeds of some burglary.
11:02Perhaps thrown away in haste in the graveyard by the villains as they made their escape.
11:06And what do you pay such supposition on, Laura?
11:09Other than an overexcitable imagination fired up by reading too many novels.
11:14It's a rather intriguing piece.
11:17Can we keep hold of it, Your Lordship?
11:20While Constable Patterson does the necessary.
11:22Well, I don't see why not, provided everything is done by the book.
11:26When everything's done by the book, sir, will it be ours to do with as we wish?
11:32That is the law, yes.
11:35I could send off a description of it to the auction house and obtain an initial valuation if you would
11:41like that, Mrs. Turrell.
11:43You tell them that that's worth more than any wood carving.
11:47That's Hadam and Heath with human hair.
11:56Timothy, I'm afraid I won't be able to join you riding tomorrow.
12:00Oh, Friday then.
12:01Friday is not possible either.
12:05And I think perhaps it might be best if you weren't to spend so much time in the post office.
12:12Yes, I understand.
12:13I don't think you do understand.
12:17Well, I assumed it was, um...
12:21No, I'm sorry, it's...
12:22Stop apologising.
12:25You are going to be a father.
12:26You have every right to be happy and to show it.
12:31I've said too much.
12:34I always say too much.
12:37I assumed it was because of Mr. Dallafield.
12:43Well, yes, I suppose it is.
12:47Now, I think we have both said too much.
12:52Either way, it is decided.
12:54We should keep our distance.
13:05I found this in the lane this morning, while you were at school.
13:11It's the cruelty of it that's unnecessary.
13:15I didn't do it.
13:17Edmund, I'm asking you.
13:19I'll find out.
13:20I'll get it out of the other boys.
13:21Now, did you destroy this nest?
13:23Leave the lad alone.
13:24A chaffinch don't have no feelings.
13:26It's not just about the bird anymore.
13:28It's about my son telling his pa the truth.
13:31It's only a nest.
13:34Is that what you see?
13:36Only a nest?
13:37But you have the truth out of the child.
13:39Let's not make too much of it.
13:41Edmund, if you lie to your pa, you will lie to the world.
13:43And that ain't no way to live.
13:46I've seen what lies get, people.
13:47And it's not a life you want, I promise you.
13:50Well, but don't make such heavy weather of it.
13:53Children will tell tales.
13:54It's just their nature.
13:55And so they must learn by it.
14:04Your pa's at his most handsome when he's righteous.
14:09I wish he wasn't, but he is.
14:16Five pounds.
14:19What do you suppose five pounds will buy?
14:23And who could set a price on such a marvelous thing as this is?
14:28You're right.
14:30It could be worth more.
14:33Such a devious thing is bound to bring the best price.
14:38We ought to have it checked over by some of those clever London experts.
14:43We don't want to get robbed out of what's ours.
14:45I'll just sit here and gaze at it a bit.
14:49Till it speaks to me.
14:51Look at this old place of ours.
14:53Didn't I always say we could do better?
14:56Didn't I always say that?
14:57No, you didn't.
14:58Well, I thought it.
15:00Queenie, my dear, I can picture us in a pretty little home.
15:04Roasted bird for supper every night of the week.
15:06Ham on Sundays.
15:07But not here in Larkroy's mind.
15:09No.
15:10On the skirts of Candleford.
15:13That's where we're destined.
15:15This thing here is going to change our lives.
15:33What are you doing here?
15:35Watching my girl grow before my very eyes.
15:39Can you stop, please?
15:40You grow another inch.
15:41I'll lose you altogether.
15:43Ah, don't listen to me, Laura.
15:45Listen to your old pa.
15:46He would still be stuck in that little hamlet of ours.
15:50I suppose we all have to swallow a speck of dust during our time here on this earth.
15:54Matthew.
15:59My knife.
16:00It's gone.
16:03It was here.
16:04I know it was.
16:06I remember our Laura sitting on my lap wearing this same dress.
16:10And our Ralph.
16:12And the frills was time worn then.
16:15Oh, this bonnet is so old-fashioned.
16:18I'm sure I must have had it on my head.
16:21Oh, and every arse that's ever walked up the lane has been wrapped in these napkins.
16:28I don't want my baby to be jigged out in...
16:33in anything other than the rectory box clothes.
16:37Can you forgive my cussing, Miss Ellison?
16:40There's no call for me to be saying arse in front of the Reverend's daughter.
16:45Arse is not a civil word.
16:48Even though we all has one, and some of us has two.
16:52My own arse is quite...
16:53Yeah, sorry.
16:55As I was going to say, there's what you might call a whole Hamlet history in this box,
17:02for which I'm most grateful, Miss Ellison.
17:05Every family in the Hamlet has enjoyed the loan of the box,
17:08and I'm glad to say made good use of it.
17:11And what about you, Smagret?
17:14That fine old christening gown must make you feel broody, don't it?
17:20Goodness.
17:22Well, you're still young and attractive.
17:24Mm, and available.
17:28You told me a while ago that Thomas Brown had sent you a poem.
17:32More than likely charged you three and six for it, did he?
17:37Has Thomas made any more advances?
17:44But Miss Lane has invited me to tea at the post office.
17:47Why, that's splendid.
17:49I shan't go.
17:50Why ever not?
17:52If I were to miss tea at the rectory,
17:54my father would want to know why he had not been invited.
17:58Well, can't you just this once,
18:01asked to be excused without saying why?
18:07He would interrogate me,
18:09and I'm afraid I can't lie to him.
18:14Robert says your father will outlive us all.
18:18Now, that's far too long for any woman to keep her own bed warm.
18:23Sorry.
18:24Sorry.
18:29Someone's been poaching, answer to Timothy's estate.
18:32I thought you said you were ready and waiting if anyone dared.
18:34But you made it sound like it was impossible.
18:39Any fool can get lucky once.
18:43Well, maybe they're just quicker than you, whoever they are.
18:47Well, maybe that's what they think.
18:50Which is why they'll get caught if they're foolish enough to do it again.
18:55Well, maybe they've got what they wanted now.
18:57Could be so.
18:59If they know they meant they're a match.
19:01Or they're too afraid to put themselves to the test.
19:05Could be.
19:15Oh, I'm sorry to disturb you.
19:17No!
19:18Come in!
19:19That's only our morning parley.
19:21What brings you to luck, Christ Dorcas?
19:24Um, well, I wondered if I might borrow the embroidery.
19:27I have an idea how we might learn a little more about it.
19:30I've been looking at it.
19:31See, that's not just any picture.
19:32That's a sin.
19:34Like it's a warning.
19:35But I can't fathom what that warning might be.
19:38Well, perhaps it's best not to concern yourself too much with what it means.
19:41It could be worth five pounds or more.
19:43And that's why you're here, is it, Miss Lane?
19:45Because you're not concerned with what it means?
19:48Five pounds?
19:49That thing?
19:50And you found it in a graveyard?
19:53Why does the good luck never fall on them that needs it most?
20:00Probably because it's busy falling on them that deserve it most.
20:06It's good to see you back with us, Mrs Arliss.
20:08And I'm very grateful to be sitting here, Miss Lane.
20:11Caroline was just about to have her tea leaves read.
20:14I'm not in the mood for it anymore.
20:15The only luck I have is bad luck.
20:18What about you, Dorcas?
20:20Me?
20:20Oh, no.
20:21Reading leaves isn't my cup of tea.
20:24Well, a queenie has quite a gift for it.
20:27Yeah.
20:28Come on.
20:29Come on, sit down, Dorcas.
20:31Ah.
20:32Well, could do no harm, can it?
20:42Right.
20:43There.
20:46Drink the tea and leave a little drop in the bottom of the cup.
21:02Lordy, an ostrich.
21:06What does an ostrich mean?
21:09Oh, no, you can see a zebra.
21:12A zebra?
21:13A zebra.
21:14I don't understand.
21:15Why are you all reacting like this?
21:17Well, an ostrich means travel.
21:20I've never been one for travel.
21:21I like it so much where I am.
21:23Ah, and a zebra means there's to be an adventure overseas.
21:31See here?
21:33The shape of an hourglass.
21:36You need to make a decision.
21:40I can't think of any pressing decisions I have on my mind.
22:01Dorcas?
22:02Timothy?
22:04What are you doing here?
22:05Well, same as you, I expect.
22:07I've just been to look at the grave where the panel was discovered.
22:11Harold Wigmore died January the 1st, 1843.
22:15I might have known you'd be ahead of me.
22:17The newspaper in which the panel was wrapped is dated January the 7th.
22:22It's just six days after he died.
22:25Why are you doing this?
22:29The mystery of it has got the better of me, I'm afraid.
22:32Well, I have an idea how I might discover more about the panel.
22:35Oh, I doubt the panel will give up its secrets.
22:37No, the only way to unravel this is to investigate Wigmore.
22:40You are a little too sure of yourself.
22:43One only has to look at the embroidery to see it holds the key to this mystery.
22:47So I shall have the Mrs. Pratt examine it.
22:50Why don't I find out about Wigmore and you pursue the meaning of the panel?
22:56Then we will see.
23:02We will.
23:05Philip, you can't be sure it was Alf.
23:08I don't think he would.
23:10Well, I'll catch him and then we'll see.
23:13Why do you boys have to turn everything into a fight?
23:18I'm only doing my job.
23:21Anyways, Mars is only just out of prison.
23:23And he'll be heading the other way.
23:25Yeah, and if you catch Alf and he's in trouble, it'll be all my fault.
23:30It was him.
23:31He didn't think that.
23:31No.
23:35Edmund.
23:39Did you take my knife?
23:41What a thing to say.
23:42Why do you suppose he's taken your knife?
23:44Boy, that is a valuable tool.
23:46It has an ivory handle and I want to know if you'd taken it.
23:50Don't look to her.
23:51You face me and give me an answer.
23:53No, leave the lad alone.
23:55You probably dropped your precious ivory handle in the privy.
23:59You're telling me how to raise my own children, Caroline.
24:00Your trouble, Robert Timmons, is nothing compared to the trouble I have with my interfering mouth.
24:09Edmund, you respect what your pa tells you.
24:14I didn't take the knife.
24:15He lied to me about the nest.
24:17And what about the knife?
24:18Are you lying to me about that too?
24:20Robert, don't say that.
24:22Why are you behaving like this?
24:23It's too much.
24:24I will not have my son heading for a life of trouble.
24:26Now you listen to me, lad.
24:27I will get the truth out of you.
24:30And I will teach you to be an honest man if I have to take my belt to you.
24:35And there's no supper for you.
24:36Go on to bed.
24:43It's a fine piece of needlework.
24:45The finest.
24:47So you would say it was a professional hand that made this?
24:52A seamstress of the highest quality.
24:54And am I right in thinking that Adam and Eve have human hair?
25:01They do.
25:06Why?
25:09Perhaps a twisted sense of authenticity.
25:12Where to stop.
25:15Genuine eyelashes.
25:18Real ears.
25:19I sense something more of a purpose of devotion here.
25:23Oh, don't be so ridiculous, Ruby.
25:25Why would a gifted needlewoman put her arts to such a displeasing article?
25:31Well, that's what I'm trying to discover.
25:33What do you mean by devotion, Ruby?
25:37Well, I sew every day, and you have to put a certain amount of dedication, some might say love, into
25:44every stitch.
25:45There's a calling in what we do.
25:47It's quite different from selling a stamp or two.
25:52This seamstress had something particular she wished to express.
25:56See, where the stitching has faded in places.
26:02You can still see evidence of the work being done over a period of time.
26:07As though she'd put it down.
26:09Yes.
26:12And this devotion, do you think it might be religious, given the subject matter?
26:19Adam and Eve.
26:23Man and a woman.
26:24No, it feels personal.
26:32Because for a needlewoman, embroidery, it's like the poet taking up the pen.
26:40It expresses her deepest longing.
27:06You know, Philip's determined to catch you.
27:10Please tell me he won't go back poaching on the manor grounds.
27:13He tells you I've been thieving, and you believe him.
27:17Why is that?
27:19Well, have you?
27:22I've never lied to you before, and I won't start now.
27:25Not because of him.
27:27Just think of the consequences if you're caught, Alf.
27:30And what is it to you?
27:33Is this why you're doing it?
27:35To show that you're better than him?
27:37To try and come between Philip and me?
27:39Well, you've got it all upside down, Laura.
27:42Before he came along, you and me were as close as close can be.
27:47Now look at us.
27:50You have a think about why that might be.
27:56Just promise me you won't go back poaching.
28:23Perhaps Edmund went out into the woods poaching
28:26simply because he wanted to be like Alf.
28:28But I felt as if he did it to defy my father.
28:33What do you want me to do it?
28:33Hmm, man?
28:45I feel like I'm behind you.
28:46I feel like Don't let me go back.
28:5050 Yeah, Tim, but he said,
28:52Oh, yeah, I'll be right.
28:52I felt like I'm behind you.
28:53Oh, yeah, so I'll grab you.
29:00I felt like I was like, I'm behind me,
29:00Oh, yeah.
29:02Ah!
29:38Ruby, what are you doing?
29:42I had a disturbing dream.
29:44Hot milk and straight back to bed with you.
29:48It was about the panel of embroidery.
29:52I knew setting one's eyes upon something so sordid would have its consequences.
29:58No, it wasn't sordid.
30:03It was sad.
30:07Oh, well, now.
30:10We'll have some hot milk and go back to bed.
30:14And you can tell me about the dream, if that helps.
30:25She was in the shop, the seamstress.
30:29But in my dream, she was old.
30:34She wanted me to have the embroidery.
30:36I felt compelled to take it because it was a warning.
30:43Her sadness made my skin shiver.
30:47Ruby, you need pacifying.
30:49I will take you to see Dr Ingram's first thing in the morning.
30:52You must tell Miss Lane.
30:54It might be significant.
30:57Do you want us to look fools before the whole town?
31:00Ruby Pratt, possessed by a piece of needlework.
31:03We will not tell Miss Lane.
31:06We will go back to sleep and forget this grisly business.
31:11Well, come along.
31:20Found it behind the woodpile.
31:23Must have fallen down there.
31:28You're saying that, the cover for Edmund.
31:30Don't say such a thing.
31:32Did he give it to you?
31:32Is that it?
31:34Are you calling your own wife a liar now?
31:37Robert, I don't understand why it has hold of you this way.
31:42I see how it's churning you up.
31:44The anger in your eyes.
31:47That's not a father's obligation, I see.
31:52Robert.
31:53My younger brother started this way.
31:55A small lie, a stolen thing or two,
31:57and bit by bit I watched him slide into a life of ruin.
32:00I've always been haunted by the thought
32:02I could have done something more to stop him.
32:03But Edmund is not your brother.
32:06He made that way.
32:07Robert, I've seen it in his eyes the last few days.
32:12He's afraid of you.
32:17And if you lose him,
32:19you will regret it for the rest of your life.
32:27You just have to be the power you are.
32:30And Edmund will learn all he needs
32:32just from watching you.
32:37And thus sendeth today's sermon.
32:44A seamstress.
32:45According to Ruby and Pearl.
32:47Well, if Wigmore was a furrier,
32:48that does seem to be a connection.
32:51It's possible she worked for him.
32:53Yes, but it's not his wife.
32:57Wigmore married well,
32:58and his widow survived him.
33:02Perhaps we're making too much of it.
33:04I chastised Laura for concocting fantasies
33:07out of nothing.
33:08We're no better.
33:09If we can get hold of the names
33:10of the seamstresses who worked for Wigmore,
33:12that might tell us something.
33:14He had three sons, you know,
33:15but they all moved away.
33:16Which only leaves us with the parish records,
33:19what the local elders remember
33:20in the newspapers of the time.
33:26What are we doing here?
33:28We agreed not to see one another.
33:32But we have a legitimate reason.
33:38The panel.
33:42Edmund.
33:45I was too hard on you last night.
33:48Perhaps it was the fear
33:49I put the whip in my tongue.
33:52I watched my own brother
33:53come to grief
33:54through lying and thieving.
33:57Edmund, your ma found my knife.
34:01As for the eggs,
34:03we'll go out together,
34:04you and me, this coming Sunday.
34:06See if we can't reach a swallow's nest.
34:08Not to destroy mine,
34:09but to admire.
34:14What do you say, boy?
34:40Miss Ellison.
34:43Mr. Brown.
34:45I am walking.
34:48And I.
34:50I had a fancy foursome hair.
34:53I was seeking a few moments
34:55of contemplation.
34:57Edmund, please don't let me disturb you.
35:02Miss Ellison.
35:03Yes?
35:07I wonder.
35:09Yes?
35:10Perhaps we could walk together.
35:14That would be most pleasant.
35:18Perhaps tomorrow evening, then.
35:21Oh.
35:22Well, that would be...
35:27I shall be here.
35:29After tea.
35:31Till then.
35:51What is it?
35:54Nothing.
35:55I...
35:55I have a...
35:58I...
35:59I had the same dream.
36:03And more.
36:05In my dream,
36:07she...
36:08She's...
36:12It's only a dream.
36:14And dreams are no more than mere frippery.
36:17No, Pearl.
36:18This thing is talking to us,
36:20and we must listen.
36:21We must tell Miss Lane.
36:22We most certainly will not indulge
36:25in such emotional weakness.
36:27We have a shop to run.
36:37I ain't going to be stinting with them
36:40that used to be my friends and neighbours.
36:43I'll stand a beer for any man.
36:46You might want to get your hands on the money first, Twister.
36:49Sir Timothy himself says we have the law on our side.
36:53What are you going to do with so much money, Twister?
36:56Me and Queenie are going to have ourselves a new life
36:59on the skirts of Candleford.
37:02I'm going to exchange this old hat
37:03for a shiny new one.
37:06New hat don't make you belong, Twister.
37:09Ten pound don't make you belong.
37:11You're always expounding, Robert Timmons,
37:13how poor folk are as good as any counterjumpers.
37:16We might know it.
37:17I'm not so sure they do.
37:20You ought to take a care, Twister Turrell.
37:23You won't be one of us,
37:24and you won't be one of them.
37:25You might find yourself nowhere.
37:27You're all jealous, that's all.
37:30A man's got a bit of wealth,
37:31and you don't like it.
37:33That's the problem with poor folk.
37:34They've got no charity, then.
37:43New.
37:45I have you now.
37:47Bold words.
37:50He's been poaching on the manor grounds.
37:54You see him?
37:56You catch him, Alec?
37:57No, I didn't.
38:00He was cut.
38:02He fell.
38:03It's a fair bit of blood.
38:05It's his blood.
38:06He'll be cut, and that'll prove I'm right.
38:08If you're right, you fetch a constable,
38:10and you lay charges.
38:11I want to see now.
38:14Let him show me.
38:15Let him show all of you.
38:18Alf?
38:22I have no cut.
38:26Let him show me.
38:29If it's true, then let him take his shirt off.
38:35Son, you've said enough.
38:37Know your place.
38:39Know my place?
38:42I'm the squire's underkeeper.
38:43He's just a...
38:45an archerist field boy.
38:47I am no more a archerist stonemason.
38:50Don't you come in here looking down your nose at us.
38:53If you want to lay charges, you fetch a constable.
39:00Would you like me to take my trousers down now?
39:16He's wrong for you.
39:17Par, you don't know Philip.
39:18I've seen enough of him.
39:20There must be a reason.
39:23Something happened.
39:25It's Alf, isn't it?
39:27The underkeeper marches into Lark Ryes
39:29and talks to us like he owns the place.
39:33What?
39:34What is it?
39:37I must be getting back.
39:39Miss Lena want me to take over.
39:41Laura, what is that look on your face?
39:42I'm your pa, you tell me.
39:45People say that same thing about you.
39:47Robert Timmons.
39:49He walks down the road like he owns one side
39:51and he's about to buy the other side.
40:02They're envious of your pride, Par, that's all.
40:07The underkeeper is a vindictive sort.
40:10There is something selfish about him.
40:11I am telling you to stay away from him.
40:13Par, please don't tell me what I must and mustn't feel.
40:15You're to tell him you can't see him anymore.
40:17What more do you understand?
40:18I understand.
40:51A letter from Mrs Arliss, from overseas.
40:54Oh, I will take it over to her.
40:57I need some air and a ride out will do me good.
41:00And I'm sure she would appreciate any little piece of encouragement at this time.
41:39My darling dear.
41:41Darling dear don't mean much from across an ocean or two.
41:45Our ship is heading homeward.
41:49And, God willing, I'll be with you before the baby is born.
41:53Oh, perhaps you'd better read that last bit again, Miss Lane.
41:57I will be with you before...
41:59Lane!
42:01I must apologise to you.
42:04I have misguided you with the tea leaves.
42:07Oh, thank heavens. It wasn't a zebra.
42:10I won't be joining the Navy after all.
42:11It was a zebra, but it weren't no ostrich I saw.
42:16I weren't quite certain at the time.
42:18And it's been on my mind to tell you what was in the leaves.
42:23I've looked a dozen times a day at it, and now I am certain.
42:28It was a raven.
42:37Mrs Turrell.
42:39The look on your face, you're...
42:42You're making me feel afraid.
42:43Oh, I am sorry, Miss Lane.
42:47But I must tell what I saw.
42:50It's bad news.
42:53A death.
42:55That leads to new beginnings.
43:03You're hurt.
43:05Edmund, you have to tell your pa about this.
43:08The underkeeper knows there was someone hurt out there.
43:11I'm scared.
43:12He'll be so angry.
43:13I'll say it was my doing.
43:15I'll take the blame.
43:17Edmund, if you don't tell him, I will.
43:23Leave me alone.
43:47Make a wish.
43:48Go on.
43:50Anything you want.
43:51Go on.
43:52Wish for it, and you shall have it.
43:55I will make it happen for you.
43:58What is it you would wish for more than anything else on this earth?
44:02Go on.
44:03The one thing.
44:05The one person you'd like to see walk back through that door.
44:09What's the matter with you?
44:11Don't you want to see your pa home?
44:13Oh!
44:14I've said it!
44:16Your pa's coming out from sea!
44:18Isn't that the best news?
44:21Yes!
44:25Pearl, don't you find it disconcerting that I had the dream and then you had the very same dream?
44:32Dreams are not contagious, Ruby.
44:34It was merely your mention of this grotesque business that has disturbed my mental equipoise.
44:41Quick, boys.
44:42Pearl.
44:43I understand your point of view.
44:45I only ask that you hear mine.
44:51Go on.
44:54What I'm wondering is if the dreams have a purpose, a message for us to do something.
45:01Hmm.
45:02And if we don't act, they may continue to haunt us.
45:09If it would put your mind at rest, we will speak with Miss Lane.
45:15Sir.
45:18It was me that's poaching on the manor grounds.
45:22I know it.
45:26You can smell the bird cooking all the way across the hamlet.
45:31You take care, Alf.
45:33Month in quarters, a hell of a price to pay for one meal.
45:35But that's not the worst of it, sir.
45:39There's something more I have to tell you.
45:43Emma!
45:47Where is Edmund?
45:48I ain't seen him all afternoon.
45:51What's the matter?
45:52What have I done?
45:54Edmund is hurt. We have to find them.
46:00Her name was Constance Jeffers.
46:04She was a seamstress.
46:06One of the best, clearly.
46:08Yes, she worked for Harold Wigmore.
46:11Now, the reason she appears in these newspapers is that
46:14just days after Wigmore was buried,
46:17Miss Jeffers left her cottage, leaving the door wide open,
46:21and was never seen nor heard of again.
46:24Oh!
46:27In our dreams,
46:29she was trying to give the panel to Pearl and me.
46:33She left her a message on his grave.
46:37An act of simple devotion.
46:40Indeed.
46:41A spinster devoted to Harold Wigmore.
46:45There was no impropriety, though.
46:48No, all the locals I spoke to all said that Wigmore was a devoted father and husband.
46:53A Constance had sooters, but none would tempt her to marriage.
46:58Seems her heart was spoken for.
47:00The panel seems to have been made over a period of years.
47:04A life's work.
47:05She must have been something of an obsessive, wouldn't you say?
47:10Giving her her life over to waiting for a married man.
47:16She wasn't waiting.
47:21She left it by his grave and vanished.
47:28Vanished?
47:38That's it.
47:39The warning.
47:42The vanishing.
47:48So, Mrs. Turrell, the panel is now yours.
47:52Sir,
47:54as much as I like the sound of five pounds,
47:58I don't want to be at the mercy of that thing.
48:02We might vanish.
48:11Perhaps it ought to go back where it came from.
48:15Where it belongs.
48:20I shall lay it down where Constance left him.
48:48Philip.
48:50What's happened between you and my pa?
48:53He's taken against you so.
48:55I know I'm right about that, Arliss, but there weren't a scratch on him.
49:00You're not making any sense. I don't understand.
49:04I heard a cry in the woods. Someone was hurt.
49:11There must have been someone else out there with him.
49:19Edmund!
49:22Edmund!
49:25Edmund!
49:26Edmund!
49:37Edmund!
49:40Edmund!
49:41Edmund!
49:42Edmund!
49:44Edmund!
49:52Edmund!
49:54Is that you, young Boatjet?
49:57Don't worry.
49:58Old Christ is here.
50:00I can't go home.
50:01I can't go home.
50:03You can't stay here. You'll catch a death.
50:35I'm sorry, Pa.
50:38I'm sorry, Ma.
50:39Hey, shush.
50:41You save your breath for better things.
50:45Your Pa's promised not to mention poaching.
50:53Let's see if we can get you to drink something.
50:57Edmund was safe,
50:59and my father could do as my mother had asked him.
51:02Just be the Pa you are,
51:04and Edmund will learn from watching you.
51:08If we thought that life could settle down again,
51:12we were mistaken.
51:14The business of the poaching was far from over.
51:47Oh, my God.
51:49I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
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