1 00:00:30,769 --> 00:00:33,147 MATURE JENNIFER: There are nights so dark 2 00:00:33,660 --> 00:00:38,687 that the dawn is not merely distant but beyond imagination. 3 00:00:38,712 --> 00:00:40,695 Oh... 4 00:00:40,720 --> 00:00:44,247 These are the hours where grief lives, 5 00:00:44,630 --> 00:00:47,051 where fear rules, 6 00:00:47,240 --> 00:00:50,181 where truth lies exposed... 7 00:00:50,510 --> 00:00:52,118 ..like a wound. 8 00:00:53,708 --> 00:00:58,347 Hope hides, peace is for others. 9 00:00:59,152 --> 00:01:01,177 The minutes extend, 10 00:01:01,357 --> 00:01:05,349 repeating the distress of the hours that went before... 11 00:01:06,290 --> 00:01:11,270 ..and every thought begins and ends in silence. 12 00:01:13,420 --> 00:01:18,448 ♪ And so will I go to thine altar... ♪ 13 00:01:32,618 --> 00:01:33,909 Valerie? 14 00:01:34,051 --> 00:01:35,384 You didn't come to bed. 15 00:01:35,728 --> 00:01:37,410 What was I going to do there? Sleep? 16 00:01:38,150 --> 00:01:40,352 I wasn't exactly in the Land of Nod myself. 17 00:01:48,034 --> 00:01:50,452 We're going to have to report what happened. 18 00:01:52,301 --> 00:01:53,634 To Sister Julienne? 19 00:01:54,671 --> 00:01:56,280 Absolutely to Sister Julienne. 20 00:01:58,661 --> 00:02:00,105 And then to the police. 21 00:02:04,909 --> 00:02:06,550 Have a good day at school. 22 00:02:08,930 --> 00:02:10,751 Go to work on an egg, 23 00:02:10,795 --> 00:02:13,000 as they say in the magazine advertisements! 24 00:02:13,133 --> 00:02:15,079 You don't have to do all this! 25 00:02:15,319 --> 00:02:17,009 You were up in the night with May. 26 00:02:17,034 --> 00:02:20,393 May was as right as rain after a spell on the sofa and a hot drink. 27 00:02:20,671 --> 00:02:21,706 HE SIGHS 28 00:02:21,731 --> 00:02:24,538 I think it's the trauma of her impending move. 29 00:02:24,563 --> 00:02:27,156 It's upsetting me, and I'm a grown man. 30 00:02:27,606 --> 00:02:29,707 Here's the sauce, I've already shaken it. 31 00:02:29,732 --> 00:02:33,907 Patrick we have no choice but to wave May off with smiles on our faces, 32 00:02:33,932 --> 00:02:35,497 because that is the best thing for her. 33 00:02:35,897 --> 00:02:37,005 Of course it is. 34 00:02:38,447 --> 00:02:41,961 And I've decided that we need to look to the future. 35 00:02:42,282 --> 00:02:45,245 The maternity home needs its own incubator. 36 00:02:45,539 --> 00:02:48,779 I'm launching a fundraising drive, and the first event is going to be 37 00:02:48,780 --> 00:02:51,715 a dance called the Ballroom of Hope. 38 00:02:51,839 --> 00:02:53,808 Are you booking the Hammersmith Palais? 39 00:02:53,833 --> 00:02:55,213 No, the Institute. 40 00:02:55,238 --> 00:02:56,710 Eat your eggs. 41 00:03:02,146 --> 00:03:05,398 Sister Hilda, there's a new patient for the district round. 42 00:03:05,423 --> 00:03:08,810 Julie Shroeder, 43 Menton Road, aged 17. 43 00:03:09,049 --> 00:03:10,919 She's just been discharged from St Cuthbert's 44 00:03:10,944 --> 00:03:12,707 after treatment for Hodgkin's disease. 45 00:03:13,062 --> 00:03:15,804 Hodgkin's? Poor lamb. 46 00:03:17,289 --> 00:03:20,135 17 is awfully young to be fighting cancer. 47 00:03:20,160 --> 00:03:22,271 Sadly, there's now nothing more can be done for her, 48 00:03:22,296 --> 00:03:23,339 in terms of treatment, 49 00:03:23,704 --> 00:03:26,911 but she has some burns following her radiotherapy, 50 00:03:27,125 --> 00:03:28,702 and we can help with dressings. 51 00:03:29,562 --> 00:03:30,708 Sister Julienne... 52 00:03:33,128 --> 00:03:35,579 ..there's something Nurse Dyer and I need to discuss with you. 53 00:03:36,700 --> 00:03:37,756 SHE MOUTHS 54 00:03:43,709 --> 00:03:44,739 Fred! 55 00:03:45,852 --> 00:03:47,470 They're sending Reggie home! 56 00:03:47,728 --> 00:03:49,417 There's been an outbreak of whooping cough, 57 00:03:49,441 --> 00:03:50,915 and they don't want him to catch it. 58 00:03:50,940 --> 00:03:52,782 You know he never does well with his chest. 59 00:03:52,807 --> 00:03:54,794 I wasn't expecting to see him till Christmas! 60 00:03:54,838 --> 00:03:56,734 Yes, but they've already put him on the coach! 61 00:03:57,070 --> 00:04:00,322 What if he gets to the station before we can be there to meet him? 62 00:04:09,764 --> 00:04:10,954 Come on, we're late. 63 00:04:12,704 --> 00:04:14,152 I don't know how you like it, Sister, 64 00:04:14,294 --> 00:04:16,776 so you can help yourself to the jug. 65 00:04:17,720 --> 00:04:20,623 I've been dying for you to tip up just so as I can have a sit-down. 66 00:04:20,936 --> 00:04:23,351 You should seize all the rest you can get with both hands, 67 00:04:23,376 --> 00:04:24,376 Mrs Shroeder. 68 00:04:24,585 --> 00:04:26,755 How many little brothers have you got? 69 00:04:27,437 --> 00:04:30,429 They don't stand still long enough for me to count. 70 00:04:33,429 --> 00:04:35,223 Eh, you poor darling. 71 00:04:35,248 --> 00:04:38,189 These radiation burns look so sore! DOOR OPENS AND CLOSES 72 00:04:38,214 --> 00:04:39,225 They are sore. 73 00:04:39,250 --> 00:04:40,252 ENA: Hello, love. 74 00:04:40,805 --> 00:04:43,735 Ah, we have company. 75 00:04:44,121 --> 00:04:45,678 I forgot my sandwiches. 76 00:04:46,044 --> 00:04:47,482 Oh, they're on the twin-tub. 77 00:04:47,507 --> 00:04:48,547 Spam and pickle. 78 00:04:51,140 --> 00:04:53,542 He was a prisoner of war, in case you're wondering. 79 00:04:53,791 --> 00:04:55,473 Julie was five when we met... 80 00:04:55,911 --> 00:04:57,039 ..and petrified! 81 00:04:57,113 --> 00:04:59,351 She'd only ever heard Germans being called the enemy. 82 00:05:00,380 --> 00:05:02,759 I imagine you soon became the best of chums! 83 00:05:03,111 --> 00:05:04,387 Something like that. 84 00:05:05,253 --> 00:05:09,833 Although... going to school with a surname like Shroeder 85 00:05:09,858 --> 00:05:11,335 wasn't much fun. 86 00:05:13,044 --> 00:05:16,052 You Sisters, you are midwives, too? 87 00:05:17,063 --> 00:05:18,884 You have a word with my Ena, huh? 88 00:05:21,328 --> 00:05:24,367 She hasn't seen a nurse in six months. 89 00:05:24,475 --> 00:05:28,191 Six months?! We shall have to take you in hand. 90 00:05:28,654 --> 00:05:31,357 You must show me your co-op card, before I go. 91 00:05:34,016 --> 00:05:37,927 And it was in the ambulance that the foetus was aborted? 92 00:05:38,309 --> 00:05:39,332 Yes. 93 00:05:39,357 --> 00:05:42,273 I injected the girl with the ergometrine immediately afterwards. 94 00:05:42,369 --> 00:05:44,401 While she was still pregnant, I wasn't able to. 95 00:05:46,784 --> 00:05:49,247 All my life, she's had an oven full of readies. 96 00:05:49,721 --> 00:05:51,273 Pound notes. Ten bob notes. 97 00:05:52,128 --> 00:05:54,019 Never occurred to me to ask where it came from, 98 00:05:54,996 --> 00:05:58,043 or why it didn't run out after she gave up her stall on the market. 99 00:05:59,160 --> 00:06:03,491 And do you know how much Miss Banley paid for the procedure? 100 00:06:05,865 --> 00:06:07,065 Seven pounds. 101 00:06:07,783 --> 00:06:09,352 Precisely seven pounds? 102 00:06:09,632 --> 00:06:13,111 She said all the other abortionists charge ten. 103 00:06:14,017 --> 00:06:15,625 Some even charge guineas. 104 00:06:16,878 --> 00:06:17,886 But not her. 105 00:06:19,979 --> 00:06:22,933 It's all coming together in the most splendid way! 106 00:06:23,154 --> 00:06:26,276 There's a mirror ball in storage somewhere, and with plenty of 107 00:06:26,301 --> 00:06:29,329 crepe paper streamers, it should look most effective. 108 00:06:29,593 --> 00:06:32,175 There'll be a number of speciality dances, 109 00:06:32,200 --> 00:06:36,212 including a spot waltz with prizes and a pensioners' valeta. 110 00:06:36,799 --> 00:06:37,802 What do you think? 111 00:06:37,827 --> 00:06:40,209 I think it's the most marvellous opportunity 112 00:06:40,234 --> 00:06:44,004 to dispense with the trapeze-line shift and run up some fabulous frocks! 113 00:06:44,029 --> 00:06:46,343 I've rather missed the cinched-in waist. 114 00:06:46,712 --> 00:06:47,787 Me too! 115 00:06:48,588 --> 00:06:51,028 On other people, obviously. 116 00:06:51,473 --> 00:06:54,179 PHONE RINGS Excellent! But we still need a judge 117 00:06:54,204 --> 00:06:57,402 for Most Appealing Family Pairing On The Dance Floor, 118 00:06:57,427 --> 00:06:59,563 and someone to organise the tombola. 119 00:06:59,588 --> 00:07:02,292 I should be delighted to oblige with the latter. 120 00:07:02,930 --> 00:07:04,521 Organise the tombola? 121 00:07:05,039 --> 00:07:07,033 For as Plato once observed, 122 00:07:07,209 --> 00:07:11,602 "Arithmetic has a very great and elevating effect, 123 00:07:11,953 --> 00:07:16,088 "compelling the soul to reason with regard to abstract number." 124 00:07:16,713 --> 00:07:19,145 There's a call for you, Nurse Dyer. 125 00:07:19,957 --> 00:07:21,260 It's Sergeant Woolf. 126 00:07:33,781 --> 00:07:36,632 A photograph! A photograph, Trixie! 127 00:07:38,036 --> 00:07:40,334 And I quote, "Something from the family album, 128 00:07:40,359 --> 00:07:41,801 "no more than two years old." 129 00:07:43,751 --> 00:07:45,653 Can't the police take a picture themselves? 130 00:07:45,852 --> 00:07:47,057 A mugshot, that's what I said. 131 00:07:47,513 --> 00:07:49,915 But they can't do that until the person's been charged, so... 132 00:08:03,133 --> 00:08:04,334 I need some scissors. 133 00:08:38,582 --> 00:08:40,838 Your blood pressure is spot-on, Mrs Shroeder. 134 00:08:42,132 --> 00:08:44,593 But I'm not very impressed with your ankles. 135 00:08:44,971 --> 00:08:46,255 They're swollen. CLATTERING 136 00:08:46,615 --> 00:08:49,258 Will you give over with that cricket ball in the house? 137 00:08:50,495 --> 00:08:51,752 Just cos their dad's a glazier, 138 00:08:51,777 --> 00:08:53,861 they think it don't matter if they smash the windows! 139 00:08:54,560 --> 00:08:55,715 Four kids. 140 00:08:55,809 --> 00:08:57,288 And a fifth on the way! 141 00:08:57,313 --> 00:08:59,400 JULIE: You wouldn't think it, the way she carries on. 142 00:08:59,600 --> 00:09:01,473 She won't rest, Nurse! 143 00:09:01,927 --> 00:09:03,314 She won't eat liver. 144 00:09:03,724 --> 00:09:05,018 She won't even knit. 145 00:09:05,965 --> 00:09:08,895 Everyone in the family way knits! 146 00:09:08,920 --> 00:09:11,470 The layette is none of my business, Mrs Shroeder. 147 00:09:12,262 --> 00:09:14,278 But if you do not make allowances for your health, 148 00:09:14,303 --> 00:09:15,684 then neither will Mother Nature. 149 00:09:16,255 --> 00:09:18,552 And you will end up on the books at St Cuthbert's. 150 00:09:19,805 --> 00:09:20,931 Not going back there. 151 00:09:21,268 --> 00:09:23,284 Even the smell of that place makes me gag. 152 00:09:24,138 --> 00:09:26,214 Makes her gag, too. Don't it? 153 00:09:26,421 --> 00:09:28,793 I dunno how I'm going to get her through the door next time. 154 00:09:28,818 --> 00:09:29,819 Mum! 155 00:09:30,150 --> 00:09:31,800 What if there isn't a next time? 156 00:09:32,095 --> 00:09:34,460 Those doctors will stop at nothing, Julie! 157 00:09:34,573 --> 00:09:37,399 You say that, and Dad says that, but what if...? 158 00:09:37,424 --> 00:09:39,298 The only way there won't be a next time 159 00:09:39,323 --> 00:09:41,152 is if you're cured once and for all. 160 00:09:41,861 --> 00:09:44,021 Now eat that toast, I don't want it wasted. 161 00:09:55,242 --> 00:09:57,198 Yeah. That's her. 162 00:10:09,225 --> 00:10:12,370 You've never seen Come Dancing because it's past your bedtime, 163 00:10:12,768 --> 00:10:16,695 but you're going to look just like one of the pretty ladies 164 00:10:16,880 --> 00:10:19,055 in a lovely sticky-out dress! 165 00:10:19,080 --> 00:10:20,717 - Isn't that exciting? - Yes. 166 00:10:22,679 --> 00:10:24,406 Can I have a dress? 167 00:10:24,675 --> 00:10:25,751 Oh, May! 168 00:10:26,462 --> 00:10:29,569 You'll have gone to live with your new mummy and daddy by then. 169 00:10:29,730 --> 00:10:31,885 You'll be having a lovely time with them! 170 00:10:33,629 --> 00:10:36,924 How about I make Dolly Molly a frock, 171 00:10:36,949 --> 00:10:38,180 the same as Angela's, 172 00:10:38,257 --> 00:10:40,655 and then you can take her with you, all dressed up? 173 00:10:54,147 --> 00:10:56,162 Hope you're not going to put me in handcuffs. 174 00:10:56,897 --> 00:10:59,719 This has all been very misjudged. 175 00:11:00,221 --> 00:11:01,743 And I've got neighbours. 176 00:11:02,305 --> 00:11:03,329 OFFICER: Sergeant Woolf. 177 00:11:15,289 --> 00:11:16,841 WOOLF: Escort her to the car. 178 00:11:19,704 --> 00:11:21,262 LIVELY MUSIC 179 00:11:31,853 --> 00:11:33,091 You took ages. 180 00:11:33,392 --> 00:11:35,579 That's a bit personal, Reggie. 181 00:11:37,380 --> 00:11:40,863 Come on, let's go and have a gander at that dripping tap. 182 00:11:43,443 --> 00:11:45,876 Do you want me to come with you to say hello to some of them? 183 00:11:46,017 --> 00:11:47,502 See if you can make friends? 184 00:11:47,555 --> 00:11:48,723 I've got friends. 185 00:11:48,924 --> 00:11:50,566 But it's just not here. 186 00:11:52,571 --> 00:11:54,948 It's the sort of thing that makes your blood run cold. 187 00:11:56,155 --> 00:11:58,683 Young girl bent double... 188 00:11:59,896 --> 00:12:01,607 ..blood running down her legs. 189 00:12:02,251 --> 00:12:06,286 She'd been found down the side street, collapsed. 190 00:12:08,017 --> 00:12:09,667 And what did the girl say to you? 191 00:12:10,746 --> 00:12:13,456 All the way up the stairs, she kept saying sorry, 192 00:12:13,827 --> 00:12:16,377 that she'd tried to bring on the miscarriage herself. 193 00:12:17,276 --> 00:12:18,948 And why didn't you call for an ambulance? 194 00:12:19,065 --> 00:12:20,727 Because she was ashamed. 195 00:12:20,937 --> 00:12:22,160 She was scared. 196 00:12:22,185 --> 00:12:24,521 And she didn't want the police involved! 197 00:12:25,199 --> 00:12:29,727 Did the young lady describe the implement she'd used? 198 00:12:30,306 --> 00:12:31,307 Something sharp. 199 00:12:32,875 --> 00:12:35,551 Something sharp like one of these? 200 00:12:39,717 --> 00:12:41,959 Those instruments are top quality. 201 00:12:42,385 --> 00:12:45,424 I buy them in the chemist, for lancing my carbuncle, 202 00:12:45,704 --> 00:12:47,159 on medical advice. 203 00:12:47,648 --> 00:12:50,096 I'm a great respecter of medical advice, 204 00:12:50,724 --> 00:12:52,554 that's why I sent for my granddaughter. 205 00:12:52,579 --> 00:12:54,289 Your granddaughter, the midwife? 206 00:12:55,948 --> 00:12:57,728 Who attended along with her colleague, 207 00:12:57,900 --> 00:12:59,201 also a midwife. 208 00:13:00,160 --> 00:13:01,935 We have statements from them both. 209 00:13:03,579 --> 00:13:05,988 I thought a plant might suit today, 210 00:13:06,789 --> 00:13:10,627 for ease of transportation once you're discharged. 211 00:13:11,355 --> 00:13:14,752 Um I also called in at Nonnatus House 212 00:13:14,777 --> 00:13:17,649 and collected some slacks and blouses for you. 213 00:13:17,934 --> 00:13:20,916 Simple, easy garments suitable for light exercise 214 00:13:20,941 --> 00:13:22,698 within a convalescent context. 215 00:13:22,723 --> 00:13:26,394 I haven't been ill, Miss Higgins, merely immobilised. 216 00:13:27,069 --> 00:13:28,397 When they let me out of here, 217 00:13:28,422 --> 00:13:31,418 I shall be sprinting down the Commercial Road like Ann Packer! 218 00:13:36,260 --> 00:13:40,365 "When pastures fresh beckon And new dawns the light 219 00:13:40,390 --> 00:13:43,488 "Don't rush to be active And pick up the fight 220 00:13:43,576 --> 00:13:45,495 "Instead rest and be thankful 221 00:13:45,520 --> 00:13:47,925 "You're now almost hale 222 00:13:48,287 --> 00:13:50,398 "But let friends support you 223 00:13:50,700 --> 00:13:53,329 "Remember - you're frail!" 224 00:13:55,712 --> 00:13:57,700 I take it this is Patience Strong. 225 00:13:58,065 --> 00:13:59,073 No! 226 00:14:00,072 --> 00:14:01,128 I wrote it myself. 227 00:14:02,724 --> 00:14:03,752 Ah. 228 00:14:06,035 --> 00:14:07,055 Gran! 229 00:14:09,241 --> 00:14:11,477 Gran, open the door. I know you're at home. 230 00:14:14,117 --> 00:14:15,893 I know you pleaded not guilty, Gran. 231 00:14:15,918 --> 00:14:16,926 I read it in the papers. 232 00:14:21,714 --> 00:14:23,912 You're going to have to go to court now, and... 233 00:14:27,247 --> 00:14:29,018 ..and I'm going to have to go to court. 234 00:14:30,367 --> 00:14:34,333 I can't change what I did, any more than you can. 235 00:14:36,539 --> 00:14:38,148 But promise me you'll stop! 236 00:14:42,515 --> 00:14:44,098 Promise me! 237 00:14:48,476 --> 00:14:51,423 I can't wait to see all the frocks people are making! 238 00:14:51,833 --> 00:14:54,662 I already need an extra supply of zip fasteners 239 00:14:54,687 --> 00:14:57,148 in sugared-almond shades. 240 00:14:57,173 --> 00:14:58,703 SHE CHUCKLES 241 00:14:58,876 --> 00:15:01,358 Right, off you pop. 242 00:15:02,037 --> 00:15:04,209 Get these orders in the post for me. 243 00:15:04,340 --> 00:15:06,107 Oh, would you like half a crown, 244 00:15:06,132 --> 00:15:09,626 to get some iced buns for our elevenses? 245 00:15:09,651 --> 00:15:11,661 No. Not really. 246 00:15:11,779 --> 00:15:12,958 Oh, well... 247 00:15:14,140 --> 00:15:15,759 ..come straight back, hmm? 248 00:15:22,483 --> 00:15:24,298 Where've you been, Fred Buckle? 249 00:15:24,689 --> 00:15:25,787 Using the facilities. 250 00:15:25,812 --> 00:15:28,531 Oh, you're always using the facilities! 251 00:15:29,517 --> 00:15:31,000 Reggie's not himself, Fred. 252 00:15:31,163 --> 00:15:32,671 He needs jollying along. 253 00:15:32,819 --> 00:15:34,277 Bringing out of himself. 254 00:15:34,754 --> 00:15:36,297 I'm trying my best, Vi. 255 00:15:36,322 --> 00:15:38,248 But there's nothing coming back the other way. 256 00:15:38,950 --> 00:15:41,476 It's normally so lovely when he's at home. 257 00:15:49,074 --> 00:15:50,322 Goodbye, little May. 258 00:16:18,524 --> 00:16:19,588 Bye-bye. 259 00:16:29,669 --> 00:16:31,648 Excellent, thank you. Put that up straight away. 260 00:16:31,797 --> 00:16:35,352 I've only just got the glitter ball out of storage, Mrs Turner! 261 00:16:35,377 --> 00:16:37,958 It doesn't want hanging straight away, it needs cleaning. 262 00:16:38,036 --> 00:16:39,814 If we don't put it in position now, 263 00:16:39,839 --> 00:16:41,613 we won't know if these decorative streamers 264 00:16:41,638 --> 00:16:43,771 are going to prove effective, or even practical. 265 00:16:45,649 --> 00:16:48,902 Mrs Turner, you can't climb a ladder in court shoes! 266 00:16:48,936 --> 00:16:51,653 I actually appear to be doing so perfectly efficiently. 267 00:16:52,358 --> 00:16:54,332 I take it your daughter was instrumental 268 00:16:54,357 --> 00:16:56,473 in you keeping your appointment this afternoon? 269 00:16:56,498 --> 00:16:58,176 She's been cracking the whip no end. 270 00:16:58,312 --> 00:17:00,651 We're going past the wool shop on the way home, apparently. 271 00:17:01,212 --> 00:17:03,958 GLASS SHATTERS Oh, no, Fred! 272 00:17:08,370 --> 00:17:09,395 Any casualties? 273 00:17:09,923 --> 00:17:11,070 Just the mirror ball. 274 00:17:11,555 --> 00:17:13,160 WHISPERS: And Fred's pride! 275 00:17:14,087 --> 00:17:16,707 Present from Mrs Ena Shroeder. 276 00:17:16,859 --> 00:17:18,382 Everything now present and correct. 277 00:17:20,017 --> 00:17:21,976 Are you getting in some practice 278 00:17:22,001 --> 00:17:24,321 for when your new baby brother or sister arrives? 279 00:17:24,346 --> 00:17:26,560 I don't need to get practice in for anything else, do I? 280 00:17:28,344 --> 00:17:30,131 I'm never going to have a baby of my own. 281 00:17:30,439 --> 00:17:32,168 You mustn't talk like that, Julie! 282 00:17:32,193 --> 00:17:34,013 I want to talk like that! 283 00:17:34,643 --> 00:17:36,217 They told us at the hospital. 284 00:17:37,708 --> 00:17:39,711 They said that the treatment hadn't worked. 285 00:17:40,161 --> 00:17:42,370 No doctor and no nurse should ever tell a patient 286 00:17:42,395 --> 00:17:43,566 there is nothing they can do. 287 00:17:43,591 --> 00:17:45,260 Well, why shouldn't they, if it's true? 288 00:17:48,409 --> 00:17:50,107 Mum doesn't want to believe 'em. 289 00:17:51,524 --> 00:17:53,126 Dad just goes along with it. 290 00:17:53,544 --> 00:17:55,244 But I haven't got the choice. 291 00:17:57,391 --> 00:17:58,435 I know. 292 00:18:02,986 --> 00:18:04,041 VALERIE: Hello, Maureen. 293 00:18:04,325 --> 00:18:06,640 What are you doing here? You expecting another addition? 294 00:18:06,732 --> 00:18:09,512 No, I'm not expecting another bloody addition. 295 00:18:09,951 --> 00:18:11,983 And I don't want to buy ballroom tickets either. 296 00:18:13,006 --> 00:18:15,876 Elsie Dyer might be your grandmother, 297 00:18:16,242 --> 00:18:18,520 but she's got family all over this borough. 298 00:18:19,149 --> 00:18:20,421 She's my mother's aunt. 299 00:18:20,643 --> 00:18:24,399 - I know... - Oh, you know all sorts of things! 300 00:18:24,424 --> 00:18:27,487 Valerie "Nose In The Air, Up My Own Backside" Dyer. 301 00:18:27,965 --> 00:18:32,148 Valerie "Look At Me Swanning Round With All The Nuns"! 302 00:18:32,202 --> 00:18:34,588 You might know a lot of things about the human body, 303 00:18:34,725 --> 00:18:36,730 but I don't s'pose anyone's ever told you - 304 00:18:37,076 --> 00:18:39,632 blood is thicker than water! 305 00:18:39,657 --> 00:18:41,247 You stop this right now! 306 00:18:41,711 --> 00:18:43,772 This is a clinic, not a fish market, 307 00:18:43,887 --> 00:18:46,288 and you are talking to a uniformed professional 308 00:18:46,313 --> 00:18:47,989 who is entitled to respect. 309 00:18:48,574 --> 00:18:49,691 I am, am I? 310 00:18:49,907 --> 00:18:52,595 Cos I thought I was just talking to a stuck-up turncoat 311 00:18:52,620 --> 00:18:54,624 who's forgotten whose side she's supposed to be on! 312 00:18:55,043 --> 00:18:57,724 You heard me. I want you out of that door. 313 00:19:15,908 --> 00:19:19,580 Oh, welcome, gentle sir. And enter! 314 00:19:19,605 --> 00:19:22,168 I wouldn't leave this left standing unattended, Sister. 315 00:19:22,193 --> 00:19:24,549 You got two bottles of sherry and a tin of pilchards 316 00:19:24,574 --> 00:19:26,469 - left here for the tombola. - Come. 317 00:19:28,685 --> 00:19:32,188 Are you absolutely certain the hospital told both Julie and her family? 318 00:19:32,286 --> 00:19:35,013 That's what Julie said to me. And I listened. 319 00:19:35,433 --> 00:19:38,617 Because it seems to me nobody else wants to hear a word she's saying. 320 00:19:39,839 --> 00:19:41,913 CYRIL: Good evening, ladies! WOMEN GASP 321 00:19:42,050 --> 00:19:43,751 TRIXIE: Oh! 322 00:19:44,002 --> 00:19:45,005 Ah! 323 00:19:45,030 --> 00:19:49,742 None of them were deshabille when I was summoned by the bell. 324 00:19:49,767 --> 00:19:51,422 What in the good Lord's name are you doing 325 00:19:51,447 --> 00:19:52,755 coming round here without notice? 326 00:19:52,891 --> 00:19:56,003 Erm, Mrs Theodore called a prayer meeting at her house. 327 00:19:56,214 --> 00:19:57,663 I thought you might like to come. 328 00:19:58,454 --> 00:19:59,745 Sister Frances! 329 00:19:59,770 --> 00:20:01,276 Get that shopping list off the table, 330 00:20:01,301 --> 00:20:02,900 and send him to Violet Buckle's with it. 331 00:20:02,925 --> 00:20:04,513 Tell him to make himself useful! 332 00:20:12,999 --> 00:20:15,353 Er, thread - machine twist 40, 333 00:20:15,884 --> 00:20:18,879 one each of orchid, mid orchid, 334 00:20:18,953 --> 00:20:21,612 blue green and light gladioli. 335 00:20:22,500 --> 00:20:23,703 Netting starch. 336 00:20:23,885 --> 00:20:25,459 How much netting starch? 337 00:20:25,484 --> 00:20:26,981 Oh, Lucille didn't say. 338 00:20:27,138 --> 00:20:28,771 But there is a lot of netting. HE LAUGHS 339 00:20:28,831 --> 00:20:32,707 SHE SOBS SOFTLY 340 00:20:32,899 --> 00:20:35,417 Oh, no. Oh, Mrs Buckle, no. 341 00:20:35,770 --> 00:20:36,787 Erm... 342 00:20:41,433 --> 00:20:43,075 Where do you keep the handkerchiefs? 343 00:20:43,100 --> 00:20:44,117 Erm... 344 00:20:44,600 --> 00:20:47,481 ..initialled, lace and fancy, third drawer down. 345 00:21:01,664 --> 00:21:03,147 I know it's silly, 346 00:21:03,574 --> 00:21:06,507 but, erm, Fred's always been so... 347 00:21:07,303 --> 00:21:09,702 ..cheerful up till now, and 348 00:21:10,502 --> 00:21:11,711 Reggie, well... 349 00:21:12,305 --> 00:21:15,752 ..usually, he's very uncomplicated. 350 00:21:17,547 --> 00:21:20,953 Mrs Buckle, I haven't seen my mother for a year or two, 351 00:21:21,929 --> 00:21:24,052 but she would always talk about a woman's intuition. 352 00:21:24,970 --> 00:21:26,258 And what I say is this, 353 00:21:27,041 --> 00:21:28,433 where men are concerned, 354 00:21:28,775 --> 00:21:32,034 sometimes a woman's intuition doesn't get her anywhere. 355 00:21:32,434 --> 00:21:34,495 You need to let the men talk to the men. 356 00:21:35,350 --> 00:21:37,263 Let them sort it out between themselves. 357 00:21:40,193 --> 00:21:41,199 Hm? 358 00:21:42,954 --> 00:21:45,420 Knock, knock. Special delivery! 359 00:21:45,445 --> 00:21:49,295 - Oh, is that my gas and air? - This is oxygen, Mrs Shroeder. 360 00:21:49,532 --> 00:21:50,562 And it's for Julie. 361 00:21:50,587 --> 00:21:51,607 Oh. 362 00:21:54,605 --> 00:21:57,533 It will help her with her breathing, if she starts to feel unwell. 363 00:21:58,299 --> 00:22:00,458 We'll have a practice with the mask later on, poppet. 364 00:22:01,401 --> 00:22:03,727 Oops! Sequin on the carpet. 365 00:22:04,562 --> 00:22:06,011 No. Two. 366 00:22:06,387 --> 00:22:08,001 Apologies, Mrs Shroeder. 367 00:22:08,187 --> 00:22:10,467 Sister and I must've brought them in on our shoes. 368 00:22:10,531 --> 00:22:11,561 Can I see? 369 00:22:12,093 --> 00:22:13,103 Oh. 370 00:22:16,358 --> 00:22:18,466 Are these, to do with that dance? 371 00:22:18,555 --> 00:22:20,951 Nonnatus House is becoming quite the frock factory! 372 00:22:22,716 --> 00:22:24,728 I've always wanted to go to a dance. 373 00:22:25,996 --> 00:22:28,732 Twirl around under the mirror ball, like you see in the films. 374 00:22:30,855 --> 00:22:33,647 Before I was ill, I was too young. 375 00:22:35,383 --> 00:22:36,447 And now... 376 00:22:38,288 --> 00:22:39,866 Well, it's just now. 377 00:22:44,891 --> 00:22:46,327 I can see another sequin! 378 00:22:47,239 --> 00:22:49,911 It's lying over there, like a tiny little star. 379 00:22:52,294 --> 00:22:53,298 Do you know, Julie? 380 00:22:53,524 --> 00:22:56,648 There really are plenty more spangles and furbelows where that came from. 381 00:22:57,076 --> 00:22:59,382 We'll have you turning every head in the Ballroom of Hope. 382 00:22:59,406 --> 00:23:00,429 Oh, no. 383 00:23:00,454 --> 00:23:01,743 I can't dance. 384 00:23:02,271 --> 00:23:03,286 I'll teach you. 385 00:23:03,485 --> 00:23:06,108 I was a dab hand at the foxtrot, before I took the veil. 386 00:23:07,158 --> 00:23:09,092 Do you think the doctor will let me? 387 00:23:10,699 --> 00:23:12,947 I think you might find it's just what the doctor ordered. 388 00:23:18,704 --> 00:23:22,636 Corned beef hash, beetroot or pickled cabbage. 389 00:23:22,929 --> 00:23:24,357 The choice is yours! 390 00:23:25,990 --> 00:23:27,094 Are you going out? 391 00:23:27,771 --> 00:23:30,513 I've got a meeting with Mrs Turner about the decorations 392 00:23:30,538 --> 00:23:34,655 for the Ballroom of Hope, now that we seem to be minus a mirror ball. 393 00:23:34,859 --> 00:23:39,299 Here's ten shillings, take each other to the pub. 394 00:23:40,682 --> 00:23:44,379 You've never given me money to go to the pub in four years of marriage. 395 00:23:44,487 --> 00:23:46,435 Reggie's only to have shandy. 396 00:23:46,460 --> 00:23:47,888 And I want the change. 397 00:23:53,089 --> 00:23:56,260 As you'll doubtless be performing only partial duties 398 00:23:56,285 --> 00:23:58,453 on your return to Nonnatus House, 399 00:23:59,122 --> 00:24:02,378 I thought you might like to join me 400 00:24:02,514 --> 00:24:05,633 at the Townswomen's Guild on Thursday afternoons. 401 00:24:05,658 --> 00:24:08,952 I think you'll find I shall be in harness every afternoon, 402 00:24:08,977 --> 00:24:10,481 including Thursdays. 403 00:24:12,080 --> 00:24:13,119 Sergeant Woolf! 404 00:24:13,148 --> 00:24:15,004 What an unexpected pleasure. 405 00:24:15,148 --> 00:24:17,860 Oh, please. Aubrey - when I'm in my sports jacket. 406 00:24:18,138 --> 00:24:20,905 Miss Higgins, have you met Sergeant Woolf? 407 00:24:20,930 --> 00:24:22,478 We are acquainted, of course. 408 00:24:22,503 --> 00:24:25,001 Especially picked from my own greenhouse. 409 00:24:25,197 --> 00:24:26,393 How nice. 410 00:24:26,705 --> 00:24:29,176 My father used to grow chrysanthemums. 411 00:24:29,942 --> 00:24:31,086 From the Cubs. 412 00:24:32,254 --> 00:24:34,279 We had a potato stamping session. 413 00:24:34,582 --> 00:24:36,719 Some of the lads got quite creative. SHE CHUCKLES 414 00:24:36,970 --> 00:24:39,367 Well, Miss Higgins makes greetings cards, 415 00:24:39,392 --> 00:24:41,792 perhaps we should ask her to give them some lessons. 416 00:24:50,361 --> 00:24:52,834 That's absolutely charming. 417 00:24:53,929 --> 00:24:57,633 And such a well-chosen verse! I'm a great admirer of Patience Strong. 418 00:24:58,583 --> 00:25:01,111 No, Miss Higgins wrote that herself. 419 00:25:02,707 --> 00:25:04,711 - A poetess! - Oh! 420 00:25:06,462 --> 00:25:08,638 One dabbles, Sergeant Woolf. 421 00:25:10,608 --> 00:25:12,194 HE LAUGHS 422 00:25:24,420 --> 00:25:25,746 Well, what's up with you, Reggie? 423 00:25:25,771 --> 00:25:27,057 What's up with you? 424 00:25:28,771 --> 00:25:31,294 Honest to God, man to man? 425 00:25:31,436 --> 00:25:34,066 I've been having a bit of trouble with me old waterworks. 426 00:25:34,300 --> 00:25:35,621 You fixed that tap. 427 00:25:35,753 --> 00:25:38,915 No, no, I mean, er, down below. 428 00:25:39,496 --> 00:25:41,735 When I go to the gents, my bladder. 429 00:25:42,017 --> 00:25:44,121 Oh! Got to go to the doctor. 430 00:25:44,809 --> 00:25:47,253 Nah. It'll go away. 431 00:25:48,759 --> 00:25:50,042 So what about you? 432 00:25:52,783 --> 00:25:54,246 I miss my girlfriend. 433 00:25:55,183 --> 00:25:56,489 You've got a girlfriend? 434 00:25:56,854 --> 00:25:58,325 She's called Jane. 435 00:25:59,258 --> 00:26:00,297 Is she pretty? 436 00:26:00,610 --> 00:26:02,630 No. Beautiful. 437 00:26:02,655 --> 00:26:05,755 Oh, Reggie! Can I tell Violet? 438 00:26:06,698 --> 00:26:09,048 Ay, but not a word about my waterworks, ay? 439 00:26:09,511 --> 00:26:10,654 That was men's talk. 440 00:26:11,533 --> 00:26:12,922 HE CHUCKLES 441 00:26:15,283 --> 00:26:18,735 She'll be needing a pair of dance shoes, too, Mr Shroeder. 442 00:26:19,074 --> 00:26:22,924 I can't imagine the get-up we're planning going very well 443 00:26:22,949 --> 00:26:24,357 with a pair of brown lace-ups! 444 00:26:24,880 --> 00:26:28,459 I'd rather she preserved her strength than went out dancing. 445 00:26:30,424 --> 00:26:34,700 Well, I shall delve into our storeroom and see what I can find. 446 00:26:41,002 --> 00:26:44,116 What a positively, doleful-looking Madeira cake! 447 00:26:44,199 --> 00:26:46,575 I'm not saying I don't like Madeira cake, 448 00:26:46,600 --> 00:26:48,556 I'm just always glad when I've had enough. 449 00:26:49,755 --> 00:26:51,693 Before we say grace and commence our meal, 450 00:26:51,718 --> 00:26:53,180 I have two pieces of news. 451 00:26:53,708 --> 00:26:55,360 Firstly, and most happily, 452 00:26:55,531 --> 00:26:57,792 Nurse Crane returns to us the day after tomorrow. 453 00:26:58,992 --> 00:27:01,712 At last! I'll make sure her bed is aired. 454 00:27:03,075 --> 00:27:04,095 And secondly... 455 00:27:05,239 --> 00:27:07,294 ..I had a telephone call from the police. 456 00:27:07,833 --> 00:27:09,767 Teresa Banley will not be giving evidence. 457 00:27:10,361 --> 00:27:12,586 But her evidence is absolutely vital. 458 00:27:12,908 --> 00:27:15,406 She's not just the victim, she's the complainant! 459 00:27:16,027 --> 00:27:17,949 And with no complainant, there's no case. 460 00:27:18,127 --> 00:27:20,527 The charge still stands against Mrs Dyer. 461 00:27:21,621 --> 00:27:24,927 Miss Banley has been granted a medical exemption certificate, 462 00:27:24,952 --> 00:27:28,461 and her statement will merely be read out to the court. 463 00:27:28,963 --> 00:27:32,888 But can't anyone talk to her, tell her just how important 464 00:27:32,913 --> 00:27:34,796 it is that she tells her story in person? 465 00:27:35,170 --> 00:27:37,224 I've been given this information as a fait accompli. 466 00:27:37,712 --> 00:27:42,427 The law will take its course and we will not discuss this further. 467 00:27:43,555 --> 00:27:45,844 What good is just reading something out going to do? 468 00:27:45,888 --> 00:27:48,492 A few words, typed by a secretary and read by a man! 469 00:27:48,795 --> 00:27:51,932 You're women, and you're midwives, 470 00:27:52,411 --> 00:27:54,776 and you can describe exactly what you saw. 471 00:27:55,293 --> 00:27:58,715 If we do it well enough, I'll be putting my own grandma behind bars. 472 00:27:59,612 --> 00:28:02,567 And if Mrs Dyer had pleaded guilty, you wouldn't have to do that. 473 00:28:03,251 --> 00:28:04,739 And if the laws were different, 474 00:28:05,264 --> 00:28:08,053 she wouldn't have needed to run a sideline in abortion. 475 00:28:08,078 --> 00:28:10,397 Why does it have to be us who try to stop her? 476 00:28:11,434 --> 00:28:13,267 Why should I have to go to court? 477 00:28:18,203 --> 00:28:19,390 Jane? 478 00:28:20,306 --> 00:28:21,373 Jane?! 479 00:28:21,776 --> 00:28:23,772 How could Reggie have told you such a thing, 480 00:28:23,797 --> 00:28:26,521 and all you bothered to find out is that she's called Jane? 481 00:28:26,926 --> 00:28:28,958 We don't even know her surname! 482 00:28:32,120 --> 00:28:35,667 He told me she's got cheeks the colour of pink ice cream 483 00:28:35,970 --> 00:28:37,448 and she likes pansies. 484 00:28:37,625 --> 00:28:39,855 But no, no surname. 485 00:28:41,320 --> 00:28:43,473 What if it's all one-sided? 486 00:28:43,829 --> 00:28:46,434 What if she's just someone that he's seen somewhere? 487 00:28:46,532 --> 00:28:50,156 She could be a member of staff, and either he's got it all wrong, 488 00:28:50,181 --> 00:28:52,382 or she could be taking advantage! 489 00:28:52,919 --> 00:28:54,904 I'm not happy about this at all. 490 00:28:56,183 --> 00:28:58,737 PHONE RINGS 491 00:29:01,487 --> 00:29:03,469 Nonnatus House, midwife speaking. 492 00:29:04,012 --> 00:29:07,744 This is Mr Alfred Shroeder of 43 Menton Road. 493 00:29:07,769 --> 00:29:11,038 They don't care who you are, Dad! Just tell 'em Mum's in labour. 494 00:29:13,838 --> 00:29:14,873 Right. 495 00:29:15,216 --> 00:29:17,723 I've spoken to Reggie's gardening supervisor. 496 00:29:17,909 --> 00:29:19,443 He seems to know him quite well. 497 00:29:19,745 --> 00:29:21,538 Jane is one of the residents. 498 00:29:21,563 --> 00:29:24,917 And she's as sweet on Reggie as Reggie is on her. 499 00:29:24,942 --> 00:29:27,707 And, erm, she's like him, Fred. 500 00:29:27,708 --> 00:29:30,461 Oh, good on him, that's what I say! 501 00:29:30,486 --> 00:29:32,930 I mean, we sent him there so he could meet folk like himself. 502 00:29:32,955 --> 00:29:34,536 I just hope it lasts. 503 00:29:35,229 --> 00:29:36,749 I mean, if it's real. 504 00:29:37,913 --> 00:29:39,499 I don't want him to be hurt! 505 00:29:44,355 --> 00:29:48,508 No-one can go through life without experiencing any pain at all. 506 00:29:50,583 --> 00:29:52,383 I'd miss you if I had to go away. 507 00:30:00,938 --> 00:30:02,055 That's right, Mum. 508 00:30:02,964 --> 00:30:05,607 You show those contractions who's boss. 509 00:30:11,223 --> 00:30:12,440 Back with you now, love. 510 00:30:12,729 --> 00:30:14,667 I thought it would hurt you more. 511 00:30:14,794 --> 00:30:16,753 No. DOOR CLOSES 512 00:30:16,778 --> 00:30:18,699 Things only really hurt when you're scared, 513 00:30:18,992 --> 00:30:20,127 and I'm not scared. 514 00:30:22,590 --> 00:30:25,559 I thought I'd pop in and have a look at my star patient. 515 00:30:25,920 --> 00:30:28,582 Your star patient's got a patient of her own this morning. 516 00:30:30,458 --> 00:30:33,653 LUCILLE: Come and get this gown on. We've got work to do. 517 00:30:44,193 --> 00:30:45,633 Hey, Reg. 518 00:30:45,960 --> 00:30:47,802 Basildon Bond! 519 00:30:47,827 --> 00:30:49,659 No expense spared, ay? 520 00:30:50,338 --> 00:30:52,288 And I've written our address in the corner, 521 00:30:52,313 --> 00:30:53,565 just to get you started off. 522 00:30:53,599 --> 00:30:55,767 But then the rest of the letter is for you to say 523 00:30:55,926 --> 00:30:57,452 whatever it is you want to say. 524 00:30:57,934 --> 00:31:00,228 Fred and I are just here to help you with the spelling. 525 00:31:01,962 --> 00:31:03,955 I'll start, "Dear Jane." 526 00:31:05,292 --> 00:31:06,426 Very nice. 527 00:31:06,451 --> 00:31:07,776 Then, "I love you." 528 00:31:08,113 --> 00:31:09,670 No, no, no. 529 00:31:10,397 --> 00:31:12,470 You gotta keep 'em keen, Reg. 530 00:31:12,924 --> 00:31:14,422 How about... CLEARS THROAT 531 00:31:14,596 --> 00:31:15,881 .. "I hope you're well"? 532 00:31:19,680 --> 00:31:22,531 Nurse Anderson says your wife is doing splendidly. 533 00:31:23,302 --> 00:31:25,670 Tea, and a plate of bread and butter. 534 00:31:25,790 --> 00:31:27,121 There's absolutely nothing like it 535 00:31:27,146 --> 00:31:29,115 when one's been up since the small hours. 536 00:31:30,459 --> 00:31:32,476 When I was a child in Germany, 537 00:31:32,974 --> 00:31:34,631 the smell of bread 538 00:31:34,656 --> 00:31:37,680 could, make my stomach clench... 539 00:31:38,878 --> 00:31:40,023 ..like a fist. 540 00:31:40,825 --> 00:31:43,617 It was other people's bread, you see, not mine. 541 00:31:45,176 --> 00:31:46,207 Hard times? 542 00:31:46,878 --> 00:31:49,022 The economy had collapsed... 543 00:31:50,401 --> 00:31:52,082 ..and the inflation came. 544 00:31:53,317 --> 00:31:59,005 A loaf of bread cost 200,000 million marks. 545 00:32:03,507 --> 00:32:05,510 My little sister, Berta, 546 00:32:05,535 --> 00:32:06,724 she was so sick. 547 00:32:08,910 --> 00:32:11,432 She was white as paper. 548 00:32:13,285 --> 00:32:17,424 Her hands were thin, like leaves. 549 00:32:20,434 --> 00:32:23,310 She died with her head on my shoulder. 550 00:32:25,360 --> 00:32:26,432 So light... 551 00:32:28,728 --> 00:32:31,016 ..I could scarcely feel it resting there. 552 00:32:35,502 --> 00:32:36,534 How old was she? 553 00:32:38,078 --> 00:32:39,343 Five. 554 00:32:39,997 --> 00:32:42,777 The same age as Julie was, when I met her mother. 555 00:32:43,069 --> 00:32:45,283 I would look at Julie and I would think, 556 00:32:45,572 --> 00:32:47,541 "You are so well fed. 557 00:32:48,358 --> 00:32:49,992 "You are so warm." 558 00:32:51,698 --> 00:32:56,122 I thought then that she did not need my love. 559 00:32:58,319 --> 00:33:00,275 But I think it more true that... 560 00:33:01,241 --> 00:33:03,488 ..I could not give Julie my love then, 561 00:33:03,513 --> 00:33:04,787 and I cannot now. 562 00:33:05,990 --> 00:33:07,822 But you could give it to her now. 563 00:33:07,962 --> 00:33:09,199 She needs it now. 564 00:33:10,015 --> 00:33:12,329 Just as much as she needs to feel normal and... 565 00:33:14,155 --> 00:33:16,281 ..and dance underneath a mirror ball! 566 00:33:17,970 --> 00:33:19,772 AGONISED GROANING 567 00:33:23,564 --> 00:33:26,064 Not that the latter will actually be happening, 568 00:33:26,089 --> 00:33:28,652 thanks to an episode of clumsiness by the janitor. 569 00:34:03,017 --> 00:34:07,132 I cannot discern whether you are dusting or at prayer. 570 00:34:07,943 --> 00:34:13,082 Whichever should be the case, I deduce you are not succeeding. 571 00:34:14,416 --> 00:34:15,658 Will I get better at it? 572 00:34:16,449 --> 00:34:19,913 From experience, I would advise that you will not. 573 00:34:21,329 --> 00:34:23,551 But you will become more patient, 574 00:34:23,932 --> 00:34:26,205 and therein know true grace. 575 00:34:29,473 --> 00:34:30,889 Sister Monica Joan... 576 00:34:32,542 --> 00:34:33,957 ..may I talk to you? 577 00:34:35,319 --> 00:34:36,347 Always. 578 00:34:38,252 --> 00:34:39,256 Not here. 579 00:34:42,278 --> 00:34:43,363 I've had enough. 580 00:34:43,900 --> 00:34:46,229 I will have none of that defeatist talk! 581 00:34:46,385 --> 00:34:48,901 With your next push, we're going to have baby's head, 582 00:34:48,926 --> 00:34:51,141 and this whole room is going to be rejoicing. 583 00:34:57,420 --> 00:34:58,937 You keep it coming now. 584 00:34:58,962 --> 00:35:01,505 Short, short, short pushes, 585 00:35:01,530 --> 00:35:02,543 short breaths. 586 00:35:04,529 --> 00:35:05,564 Yes! 587 00:35:06,941 --> 00:35:07,956 Yes! 588 00:35:08,901 --> 00:35:09,933 We have a head! 589 00:35:09,958 --> 00:35:11,233 Magnificent work! 590 00:35:11,553 --> 00:35:12,884 HILDA: Are you all right, poppet? 591 00:35:14,090 --> 00:35:16,223 That's it! That's it! 592 00:35:16,248 --> 00:35:18,454 Come on, Mum! Come on Mum! 593 00:35:19,176 --> 00:35:20,782 Well done, Ena! 594 00:35:21,267 --> 00:35:22,879 BABY CRIES 595 00:35:36,542 --> 00:35:38,002 LUCILLE: You have a daughter, Ena! 596 00:35:38,733 --> 00:35:39,899 Well done. 597 00:35:42,729 --> 00:35:44,285 Do you want to hold her first? 598 00:35:57,510 --> 00:35:58,555 ENA: Look at that! 599 00:35:59,473 --> 00:36:01,420 My eldest and my youngest. 600 00:36:01,947 --> 00:36:04,727 You two girls'll be giving your brothers the runaround for years! 601 00:36:05,504 --> 00:36:06,556 We should let Dad in. 602 00:36:07,968 --> 00:36:09,139 He's going to love her. 603 00:36:17,599 --> 00:36:18,786 Good morning, Reggie. 604 00:36:19,293 --> 00:36:20,516 Nice flowers. 605 00:36:20,541 --> 00:36:21,544 Thank you. 606 00:36:22,041 --> 00:36:23,751 They were a gift from a... 607 00:36:24,484 --> 00:36:25,500 ..a friend. 608 00:36:27,149 --> 00:36:28,176 Mmm. 609 00:36:28,775 --> 00:36:30,322 This for Dr Turner. 610 00:36:30,671 --> 00:36:31,689 Ah. 611 00:36:33,329 --> 00:36:36,146 Oh, and it's very, very personal. 612 00:36:37,443 --> 00:36:40,249 "Fred bladder sore. Fred sad." 613 00:36:40,937 --> 00:36:41,951 Thank you. 614 00:36:42,197 --> 00:36:44,209 I shall pass this on to Doctor. 615 00:36:48,149 --> 00:36:49,199 You may... 616 00:36:50,064 --> 00:36:54,021 ..return to the night of the criminal incident in the bathroom. 617 00:36:55,880 --> 00:36:59,055 I remember everything that happened to that girl, 618 00:36:59,631 --> 00:37:02,756 from the moment she knocked on our door with her sister. 619 00:37:04,882 --> 00:37:09,172 I remember us whispering, because Sergeant Woolf was in the house. 620 00:37:09,197 --> 00:37:10,228 SHE GIGGLES 621 00:37:10,807 --> 00:37:12,055 I remember... 622 00:37:13,718 --> 00:37:15,180 ..the blood on her legs... 623 00:37:17,057 --> 00:37:19,061 ..the tears on her face... 624 00:37:20,712 --> 00:37:23,911 ..and the smell of the foetus as it came away. 625 00:37:26,645 --> 00:37:29,325 It had festered within her. 626 00:37:30,541 --> 00:37:32,623 She was ill with an infection. 627 00:37:33,600 --> 00:37:35,620 I'd put money on it being streptococcus... 628 00:37:37,162 --> 00:37:38,877 ..if we were allowed to gamble. 629 00:37:39,971 --> 00:37:43,390 But there's so much we aren't allowed to do! 630 00:37:44,225 --> 00:37:48,719 I couldn't shout, "Why? How can this happen?" 631 00:37:49,159 --> 00:37:50,187 I couldn't... 632 00:37:51,265 --> 00:37:54,057 I couldn't ask what had happened to the baby. 633 00:37:54,082 --> 00:37:55,094 I couldn't... 634 00:37:56,574 --> 00:37:58,496 ..demand that anyone be punished. 635 00:37:59,053 --> 00:38:01,975 Punishment is not ours to administer. 636 00:38:02,410 --> 00:38:04,891 Can't the anger be ours to feel? 637 00:38:07,127 --> 00:38:11,088 I was sent to clean the floor, and nothing more was said. 638 00:38:14,700 --> 00:38:16,345 What do you want to say? 639 00:38:19,488 --> 00:38:20,491 That... 640 00:38:22,333 --> 00:38:24,107 ..I know her name was Cath. 641 00:38:26,403 --> 00:38:27,918 That she was beautiful. 642 00:38:28,602 --> 00:38:33,482 That... she looked like a model, in a dress the colour of lipstick. 643 00:38:34,214 --> 00:38:35,381 And that... 644 00:38:36,518 --> 00:38:40,240 ..there are women and girls that have to do what she did all the time! 645 00:38:47,504 --> 00:38:48,829 Afternoon, Fred! 646 00:38:52,092 --> 00:38:53,150 What's brought you here? 647 00:38:53,175 --> 00:38:54,956 Something a little bird said to me. 648 00:38:55,704 --> 00:38:58,513 Now, shall we eat these pies while they're still warm? 649 00:39:08,317 --> 00:39:10,183 I looked up what's been happening 650 00:39:10,661 --> 00:39:12,852 in one of Sister Julienne's medical books. 651 00:39:13,271 --> 00:39:15,049 Huh! She's a midwife, Fred. 652 00:39:15,332 --> 00:39:17,943 Well, it wasn't a particularly well-thumbed page. 653 00:39:18,866 --> 00:39:20,389 But it frightened the life out of me. 654 00:39:20,414 --> 00:39:22,298 I mean, prostrate cancer. 655 00:39:22,323 --> 00:39:23,595 People die of that. 656 00:39:24,098 --> 00:39:28,197 Well, firstly, Fred, it's prostate, not prostrate. 657 00:39:28,710 --> 00:39:32,567 And secondly, if you're in pain and struggling to pass urine, 658 00:39:32,940 --> 00:39:35,419 there are plenty of other things that could be causing it. 659 00:39:39,061 --> 00:39:44,505 Will I have to have, er, you know... examination? 660 00:39:44,691 --> 00:39:48,408 Yes. But you survived your Army medicals. 661 00:39:48,579 --> 00:39:50,856 And at least you don't get shot at if you pass. 662 00:39:53,302 --> 00:39:54,317 Careful! 663 00:39:55,049 --> 00:39:56,049 Sorry, Sister. 664 00:39:56,280 --> 00:39:58,770 Sister Monica Joan, Sister Julienne 665 00:39:58,795 --> 00:40:01,352 said the matter was not to be discussed further. 666 00:40:01,850 --> 00:40:04,102 You may obey Sister Julienne, 667 00:40:04,221 --> 00:40:05,743 or you may obey me. 668 00:40:06,946 --> 00:40:09,255 I am the elder of we twain, 669 00:40:10,421 --> 00:40:13,437 and the orders I have given are precise... 670 00:40:14,797 --> 00:40:15,833 ..and urgent. 671 00:40:20,962 --> 00:40:22,917 Cath went to live up West. 672 00:40:24,969 --> 00:40:26,719 She was made for up West. 673 00:40:26,880 --> 00:40:29,669 She had the legs, which I never had. 674 00:40:30,861 --> 00:40:33,700 And the yearning, which I never had either. 675 00:40:35,599 --> 00:40:36,731 I thought that, 676 00:40:37,537 --> 00:40:39,491 after she got rid of the baby, 677 00:40:40,409 --> 00:40:42,556 after she had to have the operation, 678 00:40:43,335 --> 00:40:44,694 I thought she'd come home. 679 00:40:47,345 --> 00:40:48,523 But she has not. 680 00:40:51,149 --> 00:40:53,385 She said she had to make what had happened worth it. 681 00:40:55,581 --> 00:40:57,212 She rings me sometimes. 682 00:40:58,203 --> 00:40:59,207 But... 683 00:41:00,536 --> 00:41:05,057 She says every time she sees my face, she sees that bathroom. 684 00:41:12,106 --> 00:41:13,117 DR TURNER: That's right. 685 00:41:13,550 --> 00:41:15,896 Just keep your knees drawn up as much as possible. 686 00:41:16,231 --> 00:41:17,274 Good man. 687 00:41:17,568 --> 00:41:21,381 The prostate is a gland that surrounds the neck of the bladder. 688 00:41:22,631 --> 00:41:26,683 It's shaped like a doughnut and about the same size as a walnut. 689 00:41:26,885 --> 00:41:28,225 If it becomes inflamed, 690 00:41:28,250 --> 00:41:30,703 it can cause all sorts of bother with your waterworks. 691 00:41:31,275 --> 00:41:32,282 And that's it! 692 00:41:35,035 --> 00:41:36,741 What, that's it, you're finished? 693 00:41:36,766 --> 00:41:37,773 Yes. 694 00:41:37,971 --> 00:41:39,043 Sit up when you're ready. 695 00:41:42,603 --> 00:41:46,367 If there was any sort of growth or tumour, I'd be able to feel it. 696 00:41:47,128 --> 00:41:48,152 And I can't. 697 00:41:50,232 --> 00:41:51,715 So I haven't got cancer, then? 698 00:41:52,101 --> 00:41:53,181 No. 699 00:41:54,720 --> 00:41:57,474 There is a bit of generalised enlargement, 700 00:41:57,499 --> 00:41:59,062 probably caused by an infection. 701 00:41:59,799 --> 00:42:01,749 But your urine test will confirm that, 702 00:42:01,837 --> 00:42:04,378 and I'll prescribe some penicillin in the meantime. 703 00:42:05,140 --> 00:42:06,208 Thank you, Doctor. 704 00:42:14,779 --> 00:42:18,485 Patrick, May's adoption has broken down! 705 00:42:18,661 --> 00:42:19,715 What's happened? 706 00:42:19,948 --> 00:42:22,159 The father of the family has had a relapse, 707 00:42:22,184 --> 00:42:23,486 and they don't feel they're in a 708 00:42:23,511 --> 00:42:25,242 position to give her the care she needs. 709 00:42:25,844 --> 00:42:28,539 A Hong Kong Project worker picked her up this morning, 710 00:42:28,573 --> 00:42:30,329 and took her back to the Mother House. 711 00:42:31,034 --> 00:42:33,633 I don't know what Mother Mildred's going to say about that! 712 00:42:33,658 --> 00:42:36,339 Mother Mildred's already called me and said plenty! 713 00:42:36,496 --> 00:42:39,492 Well, have you sufficient petrol in your car? 714 00:42:53,984 --> 00:42:55,132 Service! 715 00:43:01,478 --> 00:43:02,732 Good evening, ladies. 716 00:43:03,587 --> 00:43:04,960 May I be of assistance? 717 00:43:07,498 --> 00:43:09,514 Our response is in the affirmative. 718 00:43:17,208 --> 00:43:18,972 Wakey-wakey, little one. 719 00:43:19,437 --> 00:43:20,751 Do you know where you are? 720 00:43:21,215 --> 00:43:22,239 Home. 721 00:43:22,670 --> 00:43:23,739 Hah. 722 00:43:23,906 --> 00:43:27,902 ♪ Let me tell you, baby, all I know 723 00:43:28,724 --> 00:43:31,728 ♪ Let me tell you, baby, all I know 724 00:43:32,756 --> 00:43:35,715 ♪ I know I'll never ever let you go... ♪ 725 00:43:36,301 --> 00:43:37,352 How's that? 726 00:43:38,966 --> 00:43:42,018 ♪ I know that's just because I love you so 727 00:43:43,860 --> 00:43:45,899 ♪ Let me walk with you 728 00:43:46,419 --> 00:43:48,243 ♪ Let me talk with you 729 00:43:48,818 --> 00:43:53,203 ♪ Let me tell you, baby, all I know 730 00:43:53,228 --> 00:43:56,780 ♪ I know I need you every day and night 731 00:43:58,724 --> 00:44:01,704 ♪ I know these arms of mine would hold you tight 732 00:44:03,645 --> 00:44:05,723 ♪ Let me stay with you 733 00:44:06,159 --> 00:44:07,723 ♪ Night and day with you 734 00:44:08,612 --> 00:44:11,719 ♪ Let me tell you, baby, all I know... ♪ 735 00:44:12,022 --> 00:44:13,046 Good morning. 736 00:44:15,274 --> 00:44:16,294 Good morning. 737 00:44:23,413 --> 00:44:25,587 I have been kept apprised of events. 738 00:44:25,978 --> 00:44:28,606 I take it Trixie's still touching up her lipstick. 739 00:44:28,850 --> 00:44:30,700 She found a ladder in her stocking. 740 00:44:32,010 --> 00:44:33,199 Badges on straight? 741 00:44:33,725 --> 00:44:34,839 Yes, Nurse Crane. 742 00:44:36,202 --> 00:44:37,218 You'll do. 743 00:44:39,870 --> 00:44:41,320 Welcome back, Nurse Crane. 744 00:44:41,749 --> 00:44:44,128 You'll find your Rolodex is in satisfactory order. 745 00:44:44,583 --> 00:44:45,747 I'll be at court today, 746 00:44:46,259 --> 00:44:48,822 if you might hand out the morning orders? 747 00:44:48,847 --> 00:44:49,859 Of course. 748 00:44:52,172 --> 00:44:54,147 You're coming with us? 749 00:44:54,381 --> 00:44:56,628 Where would I be, if not alongside you? 750 00:44:56,653 --> 00:44:58,189 You were born into our hands. 751 00:44:58,654 --> 00:45:00,982 Your trials are ours. 752 00:45:17,902 --> 00:45:21,583 I fear you express perplexity at our presence. 753 00:45:22,852 --> 00:45:25,293 All will be made plain. 754 00:45:44,355 --> 00:45:45,375 Trixie... 755 00:45:47,052 --> 00:45:48,245 ..how's it come to this? 756 00:46:02,907 --> 00:46:04,661 Sister Hilda reckons she's overdone it. 757 00:46:05,129 --> 00:46:07,271 Maybe she just needs to stay in and rest. 758 00:46:08,609 --> 00:46:10,116 This looks like anaemia. 759 00:46:10,497 --> 00:46:12,552 Oh, well, then, she can have a blood transfusion. 760 00:46:12,577 --> 00:46:15,500 She's had loads of them! I'm not having one today. 761 00:46:16,644 --> 00:46:20,121 If you put me in hospital, I'll miss the dance. 762 00:46:22,602 --> 00:46:25,425 Miss Franklin, when you arrived at the Black Sail 763 00:46:25,450 --> 00:46:28,203 with your colleague, Miss Dyer, what did you see? 764 00:46:29,741 --> 00:46:32,886 I saw a girl I now know to be Teresa Banley 765 00:46:32,911 --> 00:46:35,125 lying on a table and bleeding heavily 766 00:46:36,020 --> 00:46:40,010 and a woman I recognised as an acquaintance standing next to her. 767 00:46:40,084 --> 00:46:42,759 Can you point out that acquaintance within the courtroom? 768 00:46:43,814 --> 00:46:45,218 I most certainly can. 769 00:46:45,652 --> 00:46:46,744 She's sitting there. 770 00:46:48,690 --> 00:46:49,698 Thank you. 771 00:46:50,099 --> 00:46:53,980 Mr Clementson says he can arrange for a transfusion today. 772 00:46:54,367 --> 00:46:55,821 I'm ringing for an ambulance. 773 00:46:57,928 --> 00:47:02,302 And I'm not having one if it means I'll miss the ball! 774 00:47:02,795 --> 00:47:05,719 Poppet, if we can't boost those red blood cells of yours, 775 00:47:05,744 --> 00:47:07,320 you won't be able to go at all. 776 00:47:07,393 --> 00:47:11,034 They never said that to Cinderella! 777 00:47:16,671 --> 00:47:19,658 There were rodent droppings on the floor, as well as blood. 778 00:47:20,464 --> 00:47:23,533 And I remembered that Mrs Dyer suffers 779 00:47:23,558 --> 00:47:25,380 from an infectious skin condition. 780 00:47:26,699 --> 00:47:28,234 Just a few months ago, 781 00:47:28,570 --> 00:47:31,417 a young Poplar woman had an abortion, 782 00:47:31,442 --> 00:47:34,667 contracted streptococcus and then died. 783 00:47:35,322 --> 00:47:36,479 She was called Jeannie. 784 00:47:36,880 --> 00:47:38,397 And I'm not saying her whole name, 785 00:47:38,422 --> 00:47:40,724 to protect her widower and their children. 786 00:47:51,658 --> 00:47:55,039 May I enquire as to how you became aware of the case 787 00:47:55,064 --> 00:47:56,210 where the young woman died? 788 00:47:57,222 --> 00:47:59,408 Did you perhaps read about it in the press? 789 00:47:59,926 --> 00:48:01,148 I didn't have to. 790 00:48:01,444 --> 00:48:05,990 I was her Keep Fit instructor and she became my friend. 791 00:48:06,427 --> 00:48:09,101 You weren't brought here as Keep Fit instructor today. 792 00:48:09,126 --> 00:48:10,636 You were summoned as a midwife, 793 00:48:11,070 --> 00:48:13,591 to give your impartial, professional account of events. 794 00:48:13,616 --> 00:48:16,138 And I suggest to you, Miss Franklin, that by raising the matter 795 00:48:16,163 --> 00:48:18,948 of your late friend as part of your evidence here in court, 796 00:48:18,973 --> 00:48:20,478 you are not being impartial. 797 00:48:20,947 --> 00:48:22,751 And you're not being very professional either. 798 00:48:23,565 --> 00:48:24,568 BABY CRIES 799 00:48:24,593 --> 00:48:26,764 I don't know how they're supposed to make people better 800 00:48:26,789 --> 00:48:28,329 when they can't even send an ambulance! 801 00:48:30,442 --> 00:48:32,150 I'm going to drive her there myself. 802 00:48:42,435 --> 00:48:43,446 Cath? 803 00:48:47,009 --> 00:48:49,314 Too much has gone on behind closed doors. 804 00:48:50,188 --> 00:48:51,699 I thought I wanted it left there. 805 00:48:52,158 --> 00:48:53,845 But when the Sisters came to see me, 806 00:48:54,106 --> 00:48:56,201 I realised other people want more. 807 00:49:04,600 --> 00:49:06,040 Now you do everything they tell you. 808 00:49:06,065 --> 00:49:08,282 The paint on those shoes will be dry when you get home. 809 00:49:12,432 --> 00:49:13,945 SHE WAILS 810 00:49:13,970 --> 00:49:15,791 No, no, no, Ena! 811 00:49:16,775 --> 00:49:19,804 She'll be back. She will be back. 812 00:49:21,234 --> 00:49:22,987 She won't be back for ever. 813 00:49:23,309 --> 00:49:25,822 She won't be back to live any kind of normal life. 814 00:49:26,124 --> 00:49:28,022 She won't be back to live any life at all! 815 00:49:28,047 --> 00:49:29,055 I know. 816 00:49:30,557 --> 00:49:32,363 Sh-sh-sh. 817 00:49:32,905 --> 00:49:36,074 Can you point out the person you engaged to carry out 818 00:49:36,099 --> 00:49:37,652 the procedure in question? 819 00:49:44,487 --> 00:49:46,086 Now tell us, in your own words, 820 00:49:46,111 --> 00:49:48,724 the outcome of your experience at her hands. 821 00:49:49,656 --> 00:49:51,066 I got an infection. 822 00:49:52,472 --> 00:49:53,476 A fever. 823 00:49:54,604 --> 00:49:56,225 I had to have a hysterectomy. 824 00:49:56,250 --> 00:49:59,597 She'd damaged my womb with whatever it was she used. 825 00:50:00,303 --> 00:50:01,369 I never saw it. 826 00:50:01,672 --> 00:50:03,147 I only know that it was sharp. 827 00:50:10,948 --> 00:50:14,161 I've got a scar on my stomach that's ten inches long. 828 00:50:15,302 --> 00:50:17,016 Goes all the way up to my ribs. 829 00:50:17,382 --> 00:50:18,710 The surgeon did that. 830 00:50:18,735 --> 00:50:19,821 He had to. 831 00:50:19,846 --> 00:50:24,092 But every time I look at it in the mirror, I think of her. 832 00:50:26,179 --> 00:50:27,968 Every time I look in a pram, 833 00:50:29,062 --> 00:50:31,925 every time I think about the way I nearly ran up those stairs 834 00:50:31,950 --> 00:50:33,404 into that backroom, thinking, 835 00:50:33,859 --> 00:50:36,727 "This is my way out of the shame and the disgrace of it," 836 00:50:37,317 --> 00:50:38,537 I think of her. 837 00:50:39,290 --> 00:50:41,326 And how I thought that she was saving me. 838 00:50:41,906 --> 00:50:45,192 Didn't seem such a lot of money, seven pounds. 839 00:50:47,551 --> 00:50:49,230 But it's a price I'll never stop paying. 840 00:50:52,313 --> 00:50:54,703 And that concludes the case for the prosecution. 841 00:50:54,704 --> 00:50:56,764 No further witnesses will be called. 842 00:51:10,443 --> 00:51:11,454 Valerie... 843 00:51:12,132 --> 00:51:13,479 ..you don't have to testify. 844 00:51:13,963 --> 00:51:15,783 w.., why? What's happened? 845 00:51:16,816 --> 00:51:20,836 Your Honour, I have now received fresh instructions from Mrs Dyer 846 00:51:20,861 --> 00:51:22,286 in relation to her original plea. 847 00:51:22,311 --> 00:51:25,714 May I ask that the indictment be put to her again? 848 00:51:27,220 --> 00:51:28,222 Very well. 849 00:51:28,603 --> 00:51:29,737 Mrs Dyer. 850 00:51:31,215 --> 00:51:32,358 What do you plead? 851 00:51:34,097 --> 00:51:35,180 Guilty. 852 00:51:36,052 --> 00:51:39,974 - That's bloody criminal! - Order! Order! 853 00:52:10,960 --> 00:52:12,268 ELSIE: Six years, Val... 854 00:52:13,792 --> 00:52:15,728 KEYS TURN IN LOCK 855 00:52:17,511 --> 00:52:18,555 Six years. 856 00:52:22,519 --> 00:52:23,869 It's almost the maximum. 857 00:52:25,305 --> 00:52:27,743 I reckon he took a bit off for my age. 858 00:52:28,398 --> 00:52:30,709 The light in there was very unbecoming. 859 00:52:38,145 --> 00:52:39,429 SHE SOBS 860 00:52:40,137 --> 00:52:41,735 I'm sorry. 861 00:52:42,136 --> 00:52:43,661 It's not your fault. 862 00:52:44,473 --> 00:52:45,996 It isn't anybody's fault. 863 00:52:47,040 --> 00:52:48,719 This is the way the world works - 864 00:52:49,360 --> 00:52:50,523 a toss of a coin 865 00:52:51,377 --> 00:52:53,476 deciding whether you get what you want, 866 00:52:54,301 --> 00:52:55,759 or what you deserve. 867 00:52:56,592 --> 00:52:58,491 You don't deserve six years, Gran. 868 00:52:59,398 --> 00:53:00,535 Good of you to say. 869 00:53:02,932 --> 00:53:04,560 According to my solicitor, 870 00:53:05,147 --> 00:53:08,799 there are 44 prisoners in my line in Holloway alone. 871 00:53:10,220 --> 00:53:13,035 I don't reckon I'll be getting stuff chucked at me. 872 00:53:14,017 --> 00:53:15,624 Women came looking for you. 873 00:53:16,244 --> 00:53:17,997 Women paid you. I know that. 874 00:53:19,505 --> 00:53:21,035 And you know what else? 875 00:53:24,717 --> 00:53:28,868 Until you girls, with all your training and all your learning, 876 00:53:29,044 --> 00:53:31,739 sort something out with the men who make the law, 877 00:53:32,272 --> 00:53:34,206 there'll be names being whispered 878 00:53:34,879 --> 00:53:36,713 and money changing hands 879 00:53:36,738 --> 00:53:39,129 in every backstreet in England! 880 00:53:39,471 --> 00:53:42,779 Because when lives go wrong, we can put them right. 881 00:53:44,002 --> 00:53:46,036 I can't put mine right, not now. 882 00:53:46,495 --> 00:53:48,270 Maybe it doesn't matter. 883 00:53:48,295 --> 00:53:50,129 Maybe it's for the best. 884 00:53:51,321 --> 00:53:52,369 One way or another... 885 00:53:53,874 --> 00:53:55,874 ..we're all just crying for the moon. 886 00:54:17,121 --> 00:54:19,703 Ladies, if you'll allow me to say so, 887 00:54:20,207 --> 00:54:22,708 you all look absolutely spectacular. 888 00:54:34,416 --> 00:54:37,095 Although I think I preferred you in your petticoat. 889 00:54:48,838 --> 00:54:50,723 Ladies and gentlemen, 890 00:54:50,724 --> 00:54:55,602 I'm delighted to welcome you all to the Ballroom of Hope tonight. 891 00:54:56,183 --> 00:54:59,269 As the money you're so very kindly helping us to raise 892 00:54:59,294 --> 00:55:02,457 will be going towards a brand-new incubator 893 00:55:02,482 --> 00:55:04,084 for our maternity home, 894 00:55:04,294 --> 00:55:06,330 Dr Turner will be announcing 895 00:55:06,355 --> 00:55:08,495 most of the speciality numbers this evening. 896 00:55:08,700 --> 00:55:10,873 However, the very first dance 897 00:55:10,898 --> 00:55:14,143 is one in which he will be taking part himself. 898 00:55:14,817 --> 00:55:19,257 So I am inviting you to take your partners 899 00:55:19,282 --> 00:55:21,566 for the Fathers and Daughters Waltz! 900 00:55:27,727 --> 00:55:31,703 May I have the pleasure of this dance? 901 00:55:31,704 --> 00:55:33,736 Yes, you may, Dad. 902 00:56:03,132 --> 00:56:05,792 SHE LAUGHS 903 00:56:17,737 --> 00:56:21,180 MATURE JENNIFER: Gathered together, we find our light. 904 00:56:22,140 --> 00:56:26,058 And each spark shifts and multiplies, 905 00:56:26,083 --> 00:56:29,486 scattering its radiance on our ordinary lives. 906 00:56:29,770 --> 00:56:33,907 Like everything precious, more valuable when shared. 907 00:56:34,793 --> 00:56:38,719 Like every common miracle, made of the stuff of stars. 908 00:56:39,989 --> 00:56:41,038 Hello, Jane. 909 00:56:41,063 --> 00:56:42,140 Hello, Reggie. 910 00:56:42,843 --> 00:56:43,846 Your favourite. 911 00:56:44,441 --> 00:56:45,471 Yes. 912 00:56:47,890 --> 00:56:49,587 Let the light shine. 913 00:56:49,708 --> 00:56:52,618 Watch for it falling on each other's faces. 914 00:56:53,708 --> 00:56:56,188 Count the beams, catch them, 915 00:56:56,660 --> 00:56:58,561 let them be reflected back. 916 00:56:59,674 --> 00:57:02,791 See the hope, see the promise. 917 00:57:03,674 --> 00:57:07,078 Never hide your fears in silence. 918 00:57:08,470 --> 00:57:10,577 Listen to those you cherish. 919 00:57:11,172 --> 00:57:12,715 Hold them in your arms. 920 00:57:13,649 --> 00:57:15,673 Let them hear your heart. 921 00:57:18,388 --> 00:57:21,703 Tell your truth. Tell your story. 922 00:57:22,845 --> 00:57:24,751 Tell your love. 923 00:57:26,990 --> 00:57:29,522 Synced and corrected by Pindiu - www.addic7ed.com -