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Miss Gray, Mrs Chapman, have fun.

When did you know that you liked the fellas?

I think I've always known. And your parents? My father, he always made it

I was a disappointment.

He's been a bit tipsy recently.

When? All the time.

I'd like that to be a next time. I'd like that to be a next time.

That'll be Monday evening.

Then on Tuesday afternoons at the Halfway House, I thought I might

something I'm calling Culture Window.

The idea is that residents and guest speakers talk about specific and unique

elements of their cultural backgrounds.

I'd probably be very boring speaking on Russian poetry and spotty dick, but you,

you would no doubt prove far more fascinating.

Will you introduce me? Of course.

Liquid.

Pops.

A long time.

I see.

I'm so sorry.

I'll be there as soon as I can.

Are you sure you're up for this?

Without question.

It'll only be for a few days. I wouldn't ask if it wasn't an emergency.

Take as long as you need.

Family first.

Thank you.

We'll have a marvellous time, won't we?

Just maybe not quite so lovely.

Leonard. Are you okay?

Why wouldn't I be?

Well, it's just today and, well, in fact, the last few times I've seen you,

seem a bit hungover.

No.

No.

And last night was a special occasion.

It was my late grandmother's birthday and I was raising a glass to her.

I'm looking for Reverend Stuart Potts.

I'm Alfie.

Alfie Kotzer.

Oi!

Hello. Hi. How are you?

Alfie!

Potts. Oh, what a tonic it is to see you.

I see you've met Rita and Joshua.

Hang on.

Joshua, is your room ready?

Ready for what?

Alfie. He's staying in it, remember?

I've hired it for him.

Can't catch me.

Let's get you settled in.

This way.

Oh, it's so good that you were able to come.

It's really happening, then.

They're closing you down.

I'm so glad you're here to talk to the children.

Come in, come in.

I can let you get settled.

You could have everything you need.

How can the council do this to the cats?

Well, the research suggests that placing them within a family setting is key to

their emotional development.

Places like these aren't as beneficial.

And you?

What do you think about that?

I want what's best for the children.

And your words will be a great comfort to them. As I mentioned on the phone,

they're... doodling.

Of course they are.

What if I say the wrong thing?

How could you possibly?

What did that coat do to you? Don't start.

Did I do something to you? Not this time. Another man has infuriated me.

Who? Draper.

He told me, in front of a customer, that I have ideas above my station.

You don't say that.

And let Draper win.

There may be many things, but a quitter isn't one of them.

I don't know what to say.

You tell me what to say and I'll say that.

You all right, son?

Come on, fancy a kick around.

I've actually hurt my leg.

Up your heck.

Leave him alone.

He was up half the night crying for the anodyne, weren't you?

Even though you may feel it if you are walking into the unknown, I'll be here

over the next few days to show you there is nothing to be scared of.

This is the start of your great adventure.

Bobby Charlton picked me.

Did he?

Not quite, Oz. We've talked about this.

Mr and Mrs Charlton, two schoolteachers, are adopting you. That's incredible,

Oz. I'm so happy for you.

Yes.

I made this for you.

Oh.

The bulb's on the blink in Joshua's room.

Thank you.

Joyce.

I think we said we'd give that to Reverend Alfie at the end.

As I was saying, regardless of where or with whom you land, you will always,

always have... Football.

Yes. Yes. And?

Buddy Holly.

Yeah. And?

Jesus! All

right,

everybody to your rooms, Nurse Butcher.

Immediately. Now.

I'm so sorry.

It's okay.

No, really, I am.

There have been some strange goings -on since the closure was announced.

They're just scared kids.

Acting up, rebelling, grabbing an ounce of control in a situation where they

have none.

It'll take some time to properly get through to them.

But we'll do it together, won't we?

I knew I could count on you to help me.

And that's why you, you are my kind of guy.

Suave, but never sultry.

Devoted, but never doting.

Soothing, but never sentimental.

And of course, such, such an exquisite

listener.

Children!

Stop this!

Stop now!

Go back to your rooms!

Enough!

Enough! Sisk! Sisk!

Sisk!

Unbutcher food!

Food! Food!

Sisk! Sisk! Joshua!

Sisk! Put it in! Unbutcher food! Food! Put it in, you menace! Sisk! Sisk!

Sisk!

Unbutcher food!

Food! Children, please.

I beg of you.

It's okay, Paul. It's done now.

Go downstairs.

Get him to the morgue.

Yes, sir.

Is that it?

Is that it?

Well, did he fall or was he pushed?

He fell.

Oh, Joshua.

Joshua. Yeah.

Get her off him.

Leave her.

Hurry up, lads.

We've got Burglary and Billy Ricky to go to tonight, no?

Sir. A boy has died.

You need to investigate this properly.

Do I?

Yes. Yes, you do.

And, um... What's a jumped -up little godfather like you going to do about it?

Say it, Piscope.

You welcome turnips.

What are you thinking?

I'm thinking not my jurisdiction.

You said that on the phone. You said that when you walked in. And I'm saying

again now.

You still came?

You don't think you just took a tumble? I don't know.

But he deserves a fairer investigation than that useless inspector was prepared

to give him.

Well, let's get talking to a few people then, shall we?

You're in. I'm in.

But there better be a pint in it for me.

Make it two.

Your generosity never ceases to amaze.

Geordie.

Thank you for coming.

Are you okay?

Well, apart from the obvious.

Obviously.

So your friend Potts runs this place?

That's right.

For how long?

For around 40 years, I'd say.

So you know him from school?

Vicar school?

Strip club?

Geordie, there is something else you should know.

What's that?

These kids, they're upset about having to leave.

They're playing games.

What kind of games?

Trying to spook everybody with dolls, stabbed with pins, covered in blood. So

they're weirdy -woo.

They're struggling.

Ah, welcome.

Come in.

It really is incredibly kind of you to come so far out of your way to help us,

Inspector Keating.

I'll be the mate.

Well, we are grateful to both of you. But as the inspector before you

I think that Joshua's sad passing

can be chalked up to a tragic accident.

What makes you say that?

Well... Joshua was known for sleepwalking. He was always dumbly on

think he just got a little confused and the inevitable accident ensued.

Inevitable?

He was ill yesterday evening, vomiting, running a fever. He was saying very

strange things.

I wasn't aware of that.

Well, it wasn't something that Nurse Butcher and I thought you need be

with.

When was the last time you saw Joshua?

With Nurse Butcher. He was wandering on the landing.

And we took him back to his bedroom together.

Alfie was telling me you've been having trouble with the kids, messing around

with... things they shouldn't be messing around with.

Oh, don't worry. That was all a lot of silliness. So you don't think anything

got out of hand?

Meddling with the other realm is a sin, Inspector.

These children may have been foolish, but they are not sinful.

They've been well raised, haven't they, Alpheus?

Of course.

Alpheus? It's very posh.

Always thought you were an Alfred.

No.

Pots.

What's this play down what's been going on here these kids know something he

doesn't Or he's perfectly hiding something.

Well, let's talk to them Who do you want to start with?

Christ on bike

You start with a kid that gave me one of these.

How are you, Joyce?

We found something.

At the bottom of the stairs where Joshua died.

A Ouija board.

Never heard of that.

Next to it, we found a very similar candle.

To the one you made for me.

Can you tell me why that is?

No.

Were you playing with a Ouija board, Joyce?

No, it's sinful.

What were you doing, love?

I was... I was trying to speak to Joshua.

As in...

His ghost. I was trying to find out what happened to him.

I needed to check that he's in heaven.

You know this is dangerous stuff to be meddling in, don't you?

Where did it come from?

Joyce, we're the ones who can help you find out what happened to your friend.

But you have to help us by telling the truth.

Yes,

yes, they are.

What can you tell us about your relationship with Joshua, Rita?

I loved him.

I loved him the most.

We heard from another child that you taught them how to play the Ouija board.

Joyce.

A little rat maggot.

So you did.

Yes, but only so that she could learn the truth and how to protect herself.

What truth?

Protect herself from who?

Pots and butcher.

They say they love us, but they don't.

They want this home to close because they hate it and they hate us.

But we love it and we'll do anything to save it.

So we have to fight back in our own way.

With? With spells.

I should have shielded Joshua better.

Potts is the person that you should be talking to.

That's quite the accusation. You don't believe me?

It's all written down in his children's notebooks.

Children's notebooks?

The notes he has on every single child that ever stepped through that door.

No matter what they tell you, they are the real devil in this place.

So, what are you thinking?

She's a misguided teenager who's whipped herself up into a frenzy.

My area of expertise.

New department at the station?

Only.

You know I don't come in for all this heebie -jeebie claptrap. But there is

something about this place that does not give me the creeps. Don't say that,

Geordie.

Look, these kids have had it rough.

This place is all they've ever known. It's all they've got. All right.

I reckon this notebook still needs looking into, though.

I don't think so.

How come?

Well, I just think she's confused.

She's getting herself on the stage. She's grieving, Geordie.

And?

I'll speak to Potts.

Alone.

That's not how this works.

Alfie!

Potts? No.

Where's Inspector Keating? I need to talk to you about Rita.

I'll fear you. Though I care deeply for Joshua, I worry equally so about what

his life will be like in the wider world.

Forgive me, God, but I pray a kindness will happen to him, taking him from this

home and instead straight to you, O Lord.

I ask for your guidance, for your sovereign will to be done.

Did you hurt Joshua?

Did you cause the kindness?

No. He would never.

He loves these kids, every one of them.

Says who?

Me.

What is this?

This... This is my home.

This is where I grew up.

The man who raised me.

And the monkey.

And the witch.

What? And the nurse.

And Bobby Totem.

Hello, Bobby.

Oh, Judy!

How is he?

He's better than he was.

What do you think happened?

I think he's suffering from some kind of poisoning.

Poisoning?

With what?

Couldn't tell you.

He's had some activated charcoal, which has induced some vomiting.

Poor lad.

Where were you when Joshua died?

With Pops.

Doing?

He was comforting me.

I just couldn't stop crying.

About?

Losing your home.

The only home you've ever known.

I didn't think you recognised me.

Of course I recognise you, Gwen.

I've done it.

I've only gone and bloody done it.

Done what?

I've left Swinnetons.

I've quick evacuated, escaped.

Forget the tea.

Get the sherry.

It was the dresses.

It was the same dresses that he'd ordered before that I told him a

times not to.

I saw this... brown, dreary material peeping through the box.

And I couldn't do it.

I couldn't open it.

So I put the scissors down and I just walked out and I didn't look back.

These men, they think they know everything when in fact they know

What on earth is George going to say?

He's the one who told me to quit.

I can't have him be right. Go straight to his head.

You're not wrong there.

What am I going to do now?

Housework. Look at your skirtie.

No, I mean now I've got no job.

I want to work, but I don't want to be dismissed.

I want to be listened to and valued.

People, men especially, will... always underestimate you. Haven't you learnt

that by now?

I know a lot more than people think I do. Of course you do. Women like me and

you always do. I certainly know the rag trade better than Draper.

Prove it.

How do you mean?

Beat Draper at his own game.

Well, I can't, can I? Your question isn't can I.

It's how soon.

is still sleeping.

What age were you here from?

From... From forever.

as cliched as cliched can be.

Cold winter night, dumped on a door, left in a cardboard box.

You've no idea where your mum and dad are. I don't even know who they are,

Geordie.

My dad, my... My dad was Potts.

The family in Romford? No, they were real.

They were a white family.

They... thought they were rescuing me.

But I didn't want to be rescued.

So they brought me back.

the way I tell it because it's just easier that way.

You understand that, right?

Of course I do.

No, no, no. Don't do that.

Don't feel sorry for me. I'm fine. I am.

I had a good life here.

Reverend Delphi. That's right.

And Trent Coat.

How are you doing, turnips?

You gave us all a fright there.

Sorry, I'm feeling better now.

Yeah, you'll soon be back gliding around that pitch, swerving and shooting and

scoring.

He swerves, he shoots, he scores!

They're driving us off to Alton's.

They aren't coming for me anymore.

What's that?

Don't want a kid from a place like this.

They heard about Joshua.

I was.

I'm so sorry.

Me too.

Oz, we wanted to ask you something, actually.

Before you took a funny turn, do you remember eating or drinking something

shouldn't? Maybe tasted a bit funny?

Joshua gave me something.

Right before he died.

And what was that?

A person.

Told me Bobby Tarleton would appear.

Bobby never appeared.

But a different kind of Bobby did.

You.

Leonard.

Mrs. Faye.

Care to join me?

This is the posh stuff.

I will be replacing it.

Don't mind if I do.

the rooms.

Every kid will have a secret space here, I guarantee you.

How did you know that that was mine?

This isn't one of the kids' rooms.

Oh, she was a kid here once.

Potts was always green -fingered.

He taught us to grow our own fruit and veg.

You had a good life here, didn't you?

Should be something here.

Wolfsbane. If ingested, wolfsbane symptoms include vomiting,

skin peeling.

Now, what does Old Nursey want with that?

You, you are lovely.

Do you know that?

I do, actually.

I do know that, Leonard.

No matter what anybody says.

What do they say?

Doesn't matter.

How much

have you had?

I've had as much as you.

That's double the size of my glass.

No, it isn't.

Yes, it is, Leonard.

Oh, so it is. I'll pour you some more. Here.

What?

Leonard, I want to talk to you about your drinking.

Oh, here she goes again. The old bag.

I thought for one evening we might have escaped her.

Excuse me? Not excused. Who are you to push me like that?

You want to know what people really say about you?

A bitter, cold -hearted, ancient old bag.

And you, Leonard, are nothing but a nasty, vicious drunk.

What is it?

I've realised something.

What? Sick to death of being undervalued and treated with utter contempt around

here. Oh, don't ask me to elaborate.

OK. Leonard Finch is a despicable man.

And if a man such as he can run a halfway house, then I, sure as anything,

run your business, Cathy Keating.

Is that what we're doing?

Going into business together?

We are.

With my brains and your passion for fashion, Cambridge isn't going to know

hit it.

Do you know something?

I was really hoping you were going to say that.

What is it?

It's wolf's bale.

Poison.

We found a stash of it in your room.

You couldn't have.

Gwen, why was he in your secret drawer?

I don't know.

Why did you shower Joshua the way you did the night of the chanting?

Because he was whipping everyone up into a frenzy. You know it was him for sure.

I know these kids.

Were you trying to make him a medicine?

We're not.

Seven years old anymore, Alfie, out in the field making potions. I know, but...

I have been to nursing college. Everything I give these children is

by a doctor, dispensed by a chemist.

I call you.

I call you in the grounds by the maple tree.

Is there wolfbane out there?

I don't know.

So you were... Collecting helicopter seeds.

You still do that?

For the children to play with, Alfie.

Curious.

Some of us want to stay forever.

And some of us go far, far away.

Like you did.

That doesn't mean I haven't thought about it. Don't say that.

Don't say something that isn't true.

That is true.

I know what Potts told you the day you left.

Go.

Don't look back.

How long have you been a nurse here?

I spent a few years away to study, but the minute I could, I ran straight back

because I love these children.

I love this place so very much.

Rita, she said you hate her, that you want this place to close, that you mean

the children home.

Well, she would, wouldn't she?

Why?

Because she needs someone to blame.

She's been doing anything.

She's been saying anything to stop things from changing.

Anything.

Rita says she loved Joshua the most.

She did?

Well, what if Rita's the one who really thought Joshua couldn't survive out

there in the water?

Maybe, maybe.

What's with all the witchcraft, though? Well, I think it's a fail.

For?

Murder.

Rita!

Rita? Rita?

Rita?

Rita, this isn't real.

You don't have to pretend anymore.

You poisoned Joshua, didn't you?

Because you were the one who thought he couldn't be who he was in here, out

there. No.

And you got to us, too.

And you hid the wolf's plane in Earth Butcher's room.

I don't understand.

Oz... Oz was set to be adopted. He was going to be okay.

Was he?

Really?

What do you mean?

I'm not trying to hurt them. I'm trying to love them.

What about Joshua?

Was that love?

Dying the way he did?

He wasn't meant to fall down the stairs.

He was meant to die warm and safe in my arms.

Why would you want him dead at all?

So we could all be together.

I would come to join him once I've seen everyone else on their way.

We can't all be together in this world, in this home.

And we can be together in the next. And then when everyone's made their safe

passage, I will join them.

This isn't love.

The amount of poison we found means they're going to die desperately

painful deaths. But only in heaven soon after.

That is not your decision to make.

What do you mean?

In heaven soon after.

We all just need to...

What will happen to me?

You're going to prison, Rita.

It will be okay. Tell me it will be okay.

I promise I'll put you in touch with the local chaplain, wherever you end up.

Will it be like this, please?

Yes.

Yes, I suppose it will.

I know she's committed a terrible wrong, but you'll see she's treated with

decency, won't you?

We understand you have concerns.

But we can assure you that the death which occurred here, it was nothing more

than a terrible tragedy.

These are good kids.

That Oz, he's a smasher.

A smasher any parent would be proud to call their own.

Oz told us you were raised here.

You've clearly done very well for yourself.

Thank you. I appreciate that.

So, have we managed to change your minds?

Yes.

In that case, I shall give you this.

This was left by Oz's mother.

Now, it's up to you whether you give it to him or not. But we like to give new

parents the choice.

Thank you.

Can I

tell

you something?

Of course. You'll think it's awful.

I would have given the world to take that boy home with me.

Why is that awful?

Because of a boy of my own.

Come in.

Ah, Albie.

Inspector Keating.

Thank you for all that you've done for us.

You will be sure to pray for Rita every night, won't you? And for Joshua.

I will.

Is everything all right?

I wanted to ask you something, actually.

Did my mother leave me anything?

She did.

She did leave you something.

Why have you never given it to me?

It was never out of malice, Alfie.

It was out... out of love.

Don't look back.

Maybe this is one time when you do.

You just take care. You just take great care of yourself.

There's no rush, Alfie.

It's waited all this time for you.

It can wait a little longer.

Open it when you're ready.

Whenever that may be.

Is it time to make a move then?

Where will you go? I've got a job in TT, London,

St George's Hospital.

Well, perhaps if you ever need a little hold of you.

Come and visit Granchester?

I'd like that.

This was yours.

Rita must have got hold of it somehow.

Used it as part of one of her spells.

I found it in the toy donation box and gave it to you.

Do you remember?

Tresco, I'm going home with a child soon.

Of course you are.

You take care, do you hear?

Popped to the shops earlier.

We got you something.

You have the best, best life.

to treat you so well. I'm so excited.

I'm not belligerent. If you don't leave quietly, I'm going to have to arrest

you.

What's the grand total?

I might have done a silly thing.

Back off. You back off!

Now! Please!

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