1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:06,080 THIS PROGRAMME CONTAINS SOME STRONG LANGUAGE. 2 00:00:06,080 --> 00:00:11,120 THIS PROGRAMME CONTAINS SCENES WHICH SOME VIEWERS MAY FIND DISTURBING. 3 00:00:11,120 --> 00:00:15,240 THIS PROGRAMME CONTAINS SCENES OF A SEXUAL NATURE. 4 00:00:18,920 --> 00:00:21,240 HORSE WHINNIES 5 00:00:33,640 --> 00:00:35,640 BIRDSONG 6 00:00:37,640 --> 00:00:39,960 SOFT STEPS APPROACHING 7 00:00:39,960 --> 00:00:41,320 HORSE SNORTS 8 00:00:52,920 --> 00:00:55,200 SHE MOANS 9 00:01:06,800 --> 00:01:09,480 BUZZING 10 00:01:18,120 --> 00:01:20,160 BIRDS FLAPPING WINGS 11 00:01:22,280 --> 00:01:24,520 OWL HOOTS 12 00:01:31,200 --> 00:01:35,120 Yes, we are swept up 13 00:01:35,120 --> 00:01:38,240 in a sea of scientific and technical innovation. 14 00:01:38,240 --> 00:01:44,040 The automobile, the electric light, the aeroplane, the x-ray. 15 00:01:44,040 --> 00:01:47,080 On all sides, our genius cries out 16 00:01:47,080 --> 00:01:49,480 and seems to underline Mr Darwin's assertion 17 00:01:49,480 --> 00:01:54,080 that we are, indeed, the cleverest of an evolutionary bunch. 18 00:01:55,160 --> 00:02:00,240 Yet I would say to him, as I say to all those in this house, 19 00:02:00,240 --> 00:02:03,280 look to the workings of a timepiece. 20 00:02:04,200 --> 00:02:08,280 Each ratchet and spring and cog and lever, 21 00:02:08,280 --> 00:02:11,920 all coming together in one sublime whole. 22 00:02:13,440 --> 00:02:16,680 And tell me if you think that could happen by accident? 23 00:02:18,360 --> 00:02:20,000 Of course not. 24 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:24,880 There is always design in brilliance. And purpose, too. 25 00:02:24,880 --> 00:02:29,840 And in knowing that, we know that in each new discovery we daily make, 26 00:02:29,840 --> 00:02:33,720 we witness no more or less than the work of the greatest creator of all, 27 00:02:33,720 --> 00:02:35,040 God Himself! 28 00:02:35,920 --> 00:02:38,800 The Bible was given to us for a reason, 29 00:02:38,800 --> 00:02:43,680 as the instruction manual for our own intricate mechanism. 30 00:02:43,680 --> 00:02:46,040 For, when all is said and done, 31 00:02:46,040 --> 00:02:49,080 and we lie inert on the mortician's slab, 32 00:02:49,080 --> 00:02:53,520 no matter the x-rays that will reveal our hidden bones, 33 00:02:53,520 --> 00:02:57,520 it is our souls that will then require attention! 34 00:02:57,520 --> 00:02:58,640 MAN: Hear, hear! 35 00:02:58,640 --> 00:03:02,960 APPLAUSE 36 00:03:28,400 --> 00:03:32,240 That...was magnificent. 37 00:03:32,240 --> 00:03:36,960 You were like a god! Hermione, you romanticise everything. 38 00:03:36,960 --> 00:03:39,160 You were! I merely describe what I saw - 39 00:03:39,160 --> 00:03:41,280 a god. 40 00:03:41,280 --> 00:03:43,800 And as your priestess, 41 00:03:43,800 --> 00:03:46,800 I knew I must hurry across to serve you. 42 00:03:49,400 --> 00:03:50,960 Let me get you a drink. 43 00:03:50,960 --> 00:03:52,480 Thank you. 44 00:03:58,080 --> 00:04:00,160 CHILDREN CHATTER NEARBY 45 00:04:08,160 --> 00:04:10,440 BABY CRIES 46 00:04:13,680 --> 00:04:15,160 MAN: Mum? 47 00:04:15,160 --> 00:04:16,640 BABY WAILS 48 00:04:16,640 --> 00:04:17,720 Mum. 49 00:04:19,640 --> 00:04:20,680 BABY WAILS 50 00:04:20,680 --> 00:04:23,080 She keeps grizzling. 51 00:04:23,080 --> 00:04:27,520 I've give her some water but... I told Conk I'd see him at three. 52 00:04:27,520 --> 00:04:30,000 Go on, then, go on. 53 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:32,400 Shush, shush, shush. Shush, shush, shush. 54 00:04:32,400 --> 00:04:33,840 OTHER CHILDREN SHOUT 55 00:04:33,840 --> 00:04:35,720 Quiet, you two! 56 00:04:35,720 --> 00:04:37,760 Your sister. 57 00:04:50,240 --> 00:04:51,640 NEEDLE SCRATCHES 58 00:04:51,640 --> 00:04:55,400 MUSIC: "Sprach Zarathustra" by Richard Strauss 59 00:04:57,880 --> 00:04:59,440 Are you serious? 60 00:04:59,440 --> 00:05:02,040 I thought it would cheer you up. That? 61 00:05:02,040 --> 00:05:03,440 MUSIC STOPS 62 00:05:03,680 --> 00:05:07,520 Well, inspire you, then. Father only put this thing in here... 63 00:05:07,520 --> 00:05:11,440 Gudrun! I don't need any musical palliatives. Really. 64 00:05:11,440 --> 00:05:12,840 I'm quite well. 65 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:18,760 Good. I'm glad you are. 66 00:05:21,640 --> 00:05:24,400 I'm going back to London. 67 00:05:24,400 --> 00:05:26,240 What? I have to. 68 00:05:26,240 --> 00:05:28,640 I've fallen behind on my course. 69 00:05:28,640 --> 00:05:32,280 And there's a gallery that wants to see some of my work. Gudrun! 70 00:05:32,280 --> 00:05:34,360 Do me the courtesy. 71 00:05:35,880 --> 00:05:39,680 You're going back for your trip, after all. Aren't you? 72 00:05:39,680 --> 00:05:42,320 It's none of your business. And... 73 00:05:42,320 --> 00:05:43,880 I don't want to talk about it. 74 00:05:43,880 --> 00:05:46,920 Then why did you mention it when you first came home? 75 00:05:46,920 --> 00:05:49,520 I beg your pardon? It was the first thing you said, 76 00:05:49,520 --> 00:05:52,200 your great adventure with your artist friend. 77 00:05:52,200 --> 00:05:55,400 I thought you were going to tell Father over the dinner table. 78 00:05:55,400 --> 00:05:57,800 Don't be ridiculous. He's a married man. 79 00:05:57,800 --> 00:06:00,080 His marriage is over. In everything... 80 00:06:00,080 --> 00:06:02,520 Except actuality. 81 00:06:04,040 --> 00:06:05,840 I'm sorry. I don't... 82 00:06:07,760 --> 00:06:11,440 It's concern for you, you know that. 83 00:06:11,440 --> 00:06:14,880 If other people found out... I don't care what other people think. 84 00:06:14,880 --> 00:06:17,600 You should. We live in a world full of other people. 85 00:06:17,600 --> 00:06:21,320 Oh, God! Even ill, you manage to sound so superior. 86 00:06:21,320 --> 00:06:23,640 I don't want you to be hurt. I won't be hurt! 87 00:06:23,640 --> 00:06:25,480 The world's changed, Ursula. 88 00:06:25,480 --> 00:06:29,680 It's grown up. And I'm a modern woman in it. 89 00:06:29,680 --> 00:06:32,800 More than you are, in fact, who's chosen to stay here. 90 00:06:32,800 --> 00:06:37,000 Prune. No. I refuse to dip only in the stagnant, fetid pool 91 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:38,760 that gathers in my own back yard. 92 00:06:38,760 --> 00:06:41,720 That's the path to disaster. Not my way. 93 00:06:41,720 --> 00:06:43,800 Enough! 94 00:06:43,800 --> 00:06:46,000 You've said enough. 95 00:06:50,160 --> 00:06:52,440 I've got my just desserts. 96 00:06:54,160 --> 00:06:57,160 That's not what I meant. Yes, it is. 97 00:06:59,040 --> 00:07:01,240 I'm glad I lost the baby. 98 00:07:03,000 --> 00:07:06,360 I should have loved it, I'm sure, when it was born. 99 00:07:07,920 --> 00:07:10,880 But really, I'm glad. 100 00:07:10,880 --> 00:07:15,320 That mother will no longer be able to look over at me, 101 00:07:15,320 --> 00:07:18,640 sitting in the parlour while I dangle the infant on me knee 102 00:07:18,640 --> 00:07:22,560 and think, "At last, she's made something of herself." 103 00:07:22,560 --> 00:07:24,040 THEY CHUCKLE 104 00:07:26,400 --> 00:07:30,600 Live your life, Prune, as you see fit. 105 00:07:30,600 --> 00:07:33,400 But it's yours. Remember that. 106 00:07:33,400 --> 00:07:35,440 Men cannot define you. 107 00:07:35,440 --> 00:07:37,440 I don't... Yes, you do. 108 00:07:41,520 --> 00:07:43,040 Because... 109 00:07:44,520 --> 00:07:46,680 ..no matter how modern you are, 110 00:07:46,680 --> 00:07:50,200 how much...variety you enjoy... 111 00:07:51,240 --> 00:07:53,600 ..you still orbit them, 112 00:07:53,600 --> 00:07:57,080 make them the light by which you are illuminated. 113 00:07:58,880 --> 00:08:02,040 And if you continue on that track, Prune, then I fear that... 114 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:05,560 ..for all your freedoms... 115 00:08:08,040 --> 00:08:11,280 ..you might as well climb into this bed with me now. 116 00:08:32,160 --> 00:08:34,920 CHILDREN'S VOICES OUTSIDE 117 00:08:45,840 --> 00:08:47,840 SOBS 118 00:08:59,080 --> 00:09:00,440 Hey! 119 00:09:02,600 --> 00:09:03,720 Bye. 120 00:09:03,720 --> 00:09:05,840 Bye, love. Oh. Hang on! Hang on! 121 00:09:06,640 --> 00:09:07,760 There you go. 122 00:09:08,840 --> 00:09:11,920 You ready, then? Yes. 123 00:09:15,000 --> 00:09:17,200 Gudrun. 124 00:09:17,200 --> 00:09:21,040 What? Your sister. Is she all right? 125 00:09:22,560 --> 00:09:24,360 She says she's much better. 126 00:09:26,160 --> 00:09:28,560 Oh. Right. 127 00:09:28,560 --> 00:09:31,240 Good. 128 00:09:31,240 --> 00:09:34,120 I'll just fetch my valise. 129 00:09:34,120 --> 00:09:35,440 It's a "bag". 130 00:09:39,480 --> 00:09:41,120 Bad do, Anna. 131 00:09:41,120 --> 00:09:42,840 Bad bloody do all round. 132 00:09:51,160 --> 00:09:53,160 ENGINE HUMS 133 00:09:57,480 --> 00:09:59,000 Set? 134 00:10:35,720 --> 00:10:37,240 Oh! 135 00:10:52,280 --> 00:10:54,480 'It's thick. The snow.' 136 00:10:58,560 --> 00:11:02,840 'Me dad said the mummers might come by later. 137 00:11:02,840 --> 00:11:06,720 'Carol us, under the window.' 138 00:11:06,720 --> 00:11:08,240 'That would be nice.' 139 00:11:11,080 --> 00:11:12,880 'They probably won't. 140 00:11:14,400 --> 00:11:15,920 'Because of the snow.' 141 00:11:24,280 --> 00:11:28,360 I locked it. Well, you wouldn't want anyone to steal it, would you? 142 00:11:32,240 --> 00:11:35,360 Sherbet lemons. They've opened a kiosk. 143 00:11:36,640 --> 00:11:38,520 Do you want one? 144 00:11:47,320 --> 00:11:49,120 Here, have the bag. 145 00:11:49,120 --> 00:11:51,680 Go on. 146 00:11:57,080 --> 00:12:00,160 I needed to speak to you, actually. 147 00:12:01,400 --> 00:12:03,440 Yes? 148 00:12:03,440 --> 00:12:05,600 You know well enough. 149 00:12:08,000 --> 00:12:10,040 This crowd in London you hang about with. 150 00:12:10,040 --> 00:12:13,800 I most certainly do not "hang about" with anyone. Don't split hairs. 151 00:12:13,800 --> 00:12:16,240 You know what I mean. I am a fine artist, Father! 152 00:12:16,240 --> 00:12:19,440 I'm living and studying in one of the world's great capitals. 153 00:12:19,440 --> 00:12:22,160 I mix with people that you cannot understand. 154 00:12:22,160 --> 00:12:25,320 Then help me! Help me understand 'em. I want to. 155 00:12:25,320 --> 00:12:27,200 I just... 156 00:12:27,200 --> 00:12:28,560 Otherwise... 157 00:12:33,600 --> 00:12:36,160 ..I think things. Well, don't. 158 00:12:36,160 --> 00:12:38,760 TRAIN WHISTLE IN DISTANCE 159 00:12:38,760 --> 00:12:41,080 I'm getting on splendidly. Really. 160 00:12:43,520 --> 00:12:45,440 GUARD BLOWS WHISTLE 161 00:12:45,440 --> 00:12:47,240 Why are you doing this? 162 00:12:48,280 --> 00:12:51,240 You're a good girl, Gudrun. 163 00:12:51,240 --> 00:12:53,840 TRAIN WHISTLE TOOTS 164 00:13:06,000 --> 00:13:08,040 MAN: Oh, bugger. 165 00:13:09,560 --> 00:13:12,040 Ooh, sorry. 166 00:13:12,040 --> 00:13:13,800 Ah, Miss Brangwen. 167 00:13:13,800 --> 00:13:16,000 Mr Birkin. 168 00:13:16,000 --> 00:13:17,600 What a nice surprise. 169 00:13:19,120 --> 00:13:21,840 I didn't know you were back. No. No, no, no, indeed. 170 00:13:21,840 --> 00:13:23,320 It's a flying visit. 171 00:13:23,320 --> 00:13:25,880 A birthday party. Gerald Crich. Do you know him? 172 00:13:25,880 --> 00:13:29,480 No, no. I know of him, obviously. All the Crichs. We've never met. 173 00:13:29,480 --> 00:13:31,160 Oh, he's a splendid fellow. 174 00:13:31,160 --> 00:13:33,680 I ran into him in Switzerland over Easter. 175 00:13:33,680 --> 00:13:37,040 I was visiting a friend, a mutual friend as it turned out. 176 00:13:37,040 --> 00:13:39,800 Since then, we've rather become an item. 177 00:13:39,800 --> 00:13:41,680 I should introduce you. 178 00:13:41,680 --> 00:13:43,480 That would be nice. 179 00:13:43,480 --> 00:13:46,320 And how are you? I heard you'd been unwell. 180 00:13:46,320 --> 00:13:49,680 Influenza. But... 181 00:13:51,200 --> 00:13:54,800 You still look a little pale. You don't think that... No, I'm fine! 182 00:13:54,800 --> 00:13:57,000 Really, I'm over the worst. 183 00:13:57,000 --> 00:13:58,840 Sorry. 184 00:13:58,840 --> 00:14:00,800 I'm a dreadful hypochondriac. 185 00:14:00,800 --> 00:14:05,000 Part of a general predisposition to naval gaze rather too much, I think! 186 00:14:05,000 --> 00:14:07,480 Gerald says I should be a character in a novel. 187 00:14:07,480 --> 00:14:10,120 Interesting, as he's never actually read one. 188 00:14:10,120 --> 00:14:13,680 Essentially, he's right. I should. One of those gloomy Russian affairs. 189 00:14:13,680 --> 00:14:15,880 Tolstoy or Dostoyevsky. 190 00:14:15,880 --> 00:14:19,720 400 pages being ill and bemoaning my inability to fit in with the world. 191 00:14:21,240 --> 00:14:23,600 Have you come to practise? 192 00:14:26,040 --> 00:14:31,000 I assume you'll be giving us one of your thunderous readings this Sunday? Oh. No. No, no. 193 00:14:31,000 --> 00:14:32,560 I'm not sure I'll be around. 194 00:14:32,560 --> 00:14:35,360 I'm just erm... returning these, actually. 195 00:14:35,360 --> 00:14:39,040 I really have had them a lifetime. It suddenly occurred to me that I... 196 00:14:44,040 --> 00:14:45,880 Would you like a lift? 197 00:14:45,880 --> 00:14:48,720 Back to Beldover? I've borrowed a gig. 198 00:14:48,720 --> 00:14:51,240 I could quite easily run you. 199 00:14:51,240 --> 00:14:53,160 Oh, or were you having, er... 200 00:14:53,160 --> 00:14:55,080 having a moment? 201 00:14:55,080 --> 00:14:57,440 THEY BOTH LAUGH 202 00:15:00,240 --> 00:15:03,040 It's good to see you. Of all people. 203 00:15:03,040 --> 00:15:04,840 It's been a little while. 204 00:15:04,840 --> 00:15:07,240 Yes. Yes, I did mean to write. 205 00:15:07,240 --> 00:15:09,240 You've been busy. I understand. 206 00:15:09,240 --> 00:15:12,720 I thought perhaps you might have visited the school. 207 00:15:12,720 --> 00:15:15,200 How is Miss Roddice, by the way? 208 00:15:15,200 --> 00:15:18,280 Oh, she's, um... She's very well. Thank you. 209 00:15:18,400 --> 00:15:20,640 I'll tell her we bumped into each other. 210 00:15:20,640 --> 00:15:22,760 You are still in regular contact, then? 211 00:15:23,600 --> 00:15:26,280 Er... Yes, you know. On and off. 212 00:15:27,840 --> 00:15:31,400 And what of Mr Skrebensky? I imagine, he's... I wouldn't know. 213 00:15:31,400 --> 00:15:33,200 He's been posted abroad. 214 00:15:33,200 --> 00:15:34,960 We are definitely off. 215 00:15:37,440 --> 00:15:40,640 I beg your pardon. I'm being rather forceful. 216 00:15:40,640 --> 00:15:43,520 No, not at all. No. You're being... 217 00:15:43,520 --> 00:15:46,680 refreshingly honest. As you always are. 218 00:15:49,600 --> 00:15:51,760 Ursula, where you been? 219 00:15:51,760 --> 00:15:54,480 Mr Brangwen. Mr Birkin. 220 00:15:54,480 --> 00:15:57,840 Your mother's been having kittens, fretting where you'd gone. I... 221 00:15:57,840 --> 00:16:02,680 You shouldn't even be out. You should be in bed still, not striding hither and yon. 222 00:16:02,680 --> 00:16:05,000 Is that yours? Sorry. 223 00:16:05,000 --> 00:16:07,280 Well, I just see you have the gauntlets. 224 00:16:08,800 --> 00:16:12,120 The motorcycle is mine, Mr Birkin. 225 00:16:13,920 --> 00:16:16,240 I apologise. 226 00:16:16,240 --> 00:16:18,960 Would you like to touch it? May I? 227 00:16:18,960 --> 00:16:20,480 Yeah. 228 00:16:22,280 --> 00:16:24,000 Good Lord! 229 00:16:24,000 --> 00:16:26,440 Aye. It's the way forward. 230 00:16:26,440 --> 00:16:31,280 Them have the smell of glue in their nostrils, every one of them, if they've any sense. 231 00:16:32,800 --> 00:16:36,440 Anyway. I thank you for bringing my daughter back. 232 00:16:37,400 --> 00:16:40,560 I was going to ask Mr Birkin if he'd like to come in, Father. 233 00:16:40,560 --> 00:16:42,440 Would that be all right? 234 00:16:42,440 --> 00:16:45,760 Er, no. I don't think so, not today. 235 00:16:45,760 --> 00:16:48,040 I mean... 236 00:16:48,040 --> 00:16:51,040 Billy's not very well and... 237 00:16:51,040 --> 00:16:53,360 Cassie, she's sick n'all. 238 00:16:53,360 --> 00:16:55,480 It's like a plague house, really. 239 00:16:55,480 --> 00:16:58,240 I quite understand. 240 00:16:58,240 --> 00:17:00,880 Honestly. Gerald's promised me a special supper, 241 00:17:00,880 --> 00:17:03,520 so I shouldn't be too late back, anyway. 242 00:17:03,520 --> 00:17:05,360 But please, do keep in contact. 243 00:17:06,960 --> 00:17:08,480 I will. Good day. 244 00:17:16,400 --> 00:17:17,520 Walk on. 245 00:17:21,080 --> 00:17:23,000 Father? 246 00:17:23,000 --> 00:17:25,360 You've got a visitor. 247 00:17:25,360 --> 00:17:27,680 I've no doubt you'd rather keep it private. 248 00:17:31,520 --> 00:17:33,120 Anton. 249 00:17:34,120 --> 00:17:35,720 Ursula. 250 00:17:40,440 --> 00:17:42,120 I tried wiring. 251 00:17:42,120 --> 00:17:45,000 But it's all still in its infancy over there. 252 00:17:45,000 --> 00:17:48,120 Then I drafted a letter but couldn't express my thoughts exactly. 253 00:17:48,120 --> 00:17:49,640 Why have you come? 254 00:17:49,640 --> 00:17:51,960 Because I received your letter. 255 00:17:53,240 --> 00:17:57,240 And it affected me greatly. I knew I must see you. 256 00:17:57,240 --> 00:18:00,040 The child is gone. 257 00:18:00,040 --> 00:18:02,080 Yes, I know. 258 00:18:03,600 --> 00:18:04,760 Mother. 259 00:18:11,080 --> 00:18:13,560 She told me only the barest of details. 260 00:18:13,560 --> 00:18:15,400 Horses in a field... 261 00:18:15,400 --> 00:18:18,040 bolted. It is gone! 262 00:18:18,040 --> 00:18:19,720 And I am sorry for you. 263 00:18:23,840 --> 00:18:27,600 For us, it would have been wonderful. 264 00:18:27,600 --> 00:18:29,160 But we will try again. 265 00:18:29,160 --> 00:18:31,280 I can't believe I can say that! 266 00:18:32,800 --> 00:18:35,880 Because...after you left me, 267 00:18:35,880 --> 00:18:41,320 I couldn't imagine ever even speaking to you again. I felt most slighted. 268 00:18:41,320 --> 00:18:44,000 Yes. And I am sorry. I was when I read what you wrote, 269 00:18:44,000 --> 00:18:47,200 I knew you felt remorse and... I cannot remember what I said. 270 00:18:47,200 --> 00:18:51,120 You said there were things you had imagined you could not have with me. 271 00:18:51,120 --> 00:18:53,400 A different kind of love. 272 00:18:53,400 --> 00:18:56,760 But you saw that was all illusory at last. 273 00:18:58,920 --> 00:19:01,880 And you wanted me. 274 00:19:01,880 --> 00:19:03,840 You wanted what you could have. 275 00:19:05,440 --> 00:19:07,520 Well, you can, Ursula. 276 00:19:09,400 --> 00:19:11,760 And you must have this back. 277 00:19:38,560 --> 00:19:40,440 I should go now. 278 00:19:40,440 --> 00:19:42,920 It's shock enough, my turning up unannounced. 279 00:19:44,280 --> 00:19:46,440 I'll call tomorrow. 280 00:19:46,440 --> 00:19:49,400 In the afternoon. 281 00:19:49,400 --> 00:19:50,920 Yes. 282 00:20:14,560 --> 00:20:17,280 Lots of the men at the barracks have lovers. 283 00:20:17,280 --> 00:20:19,880 Most, in fact. Do they? 284 00:20:19,880 --> 00:20:23,920 They're always mentioning some amazing fine woman or other. 285 00:20:23,920 --> 00:20:27,680 And most dash off to London the moment they finish their work. 286 00:20:27,680 --> 00:20:31,000 What for? To see them! 287 00:20:33,920 --> 00:20:36,320 One fellow has a suitcase always at the ready 288 00:20:36,320 --> 00:20:40,440 and the moment he is at liberty, he whips off his spurs and runs to the train. 289 00:20:40,440 --> 00:20:43,760 It must be quite a welcome which awaits him. 290 00:20:43,760 --> 00:20:45,640 I think it is. 291 00:20:47,160 --> 00:20:48,920 Don't you like me tonight? 292 00:20:48,920 --> 00:20:51,400 We kissed. Like children! 293 00:20:51,400 --> 00:20:53,920 I want to kiss properly. 294 00:21:15,200 --> 00:21:17,760 See? Not so bad? 295 00:21:30,880 --> 00:21:33,240 SHE MOANS 296 00:21:49,840 --> 00:21:51,440 SHE LAUGHS 297 00:22:04,000 --> 00:22:07,600 There you are. Anton Skrebensky. 298 00:22:07,600 --> 00:22:10,640 I thought we should not see him again. Mother, please. 299 00:22:10,640 --> 00:22:13,120 It was an observation. I wasn't... 300 00:22:14,640 --> 00:22:17,080 He told me 301 00:22:17,080 --> 00:22:18,800 that you wrote of me. 302 00:22:18,800 --> 00:22:22,200 In asking for his forgiveness... 303 00:22:22,200 --> 00:22:25,800 you wrote that since you'd become pregnant, 304 00:22:25,800 --> 00:22:30,120 you saw me suddenly in a new and true light. 305 00:22:33,160 --> 00:22:35,560 That I was radically true, 306 00:22:35,560 --> 00:22:39,440 having your father and my children and my place here under the sun. 307 00:22:39,440 --> 00:22:42,400 And what was enough for me, must surely be enough for you? 308 00:22:44,640 --> 00:22:46,080 Is that what you said? 309 00:22:48,480 --> 00:22:52,080 I must have, if that is what he remembers. What of it? 310 00:22:52,080 --> 00:22:55,040 Be careful what you wish for. 311 00:23:23,080 --> 00:23:28,080 Anna. I'm tired. And I'm awake. 312 00:23:29,480 --> 00:23:33,160 Why must you? Because I must! 313 00:23:46,640 --> 00:23:48,960 You're sheathed over. What? 314 00:23:48,960 --> 00:23:50,920 You don't need me. 315 00:23:50,920 --> 00:23:52,920 You're self-sufficient, you are. 316 00:23:52,920 --> 00:23:55,360 You belong elsewhere. You don't belong with me. 317 00:23:55,360 --> 00:24:01,120 But I am your wife. In name you are, but not in the dark. 318 00:24:08,720 --> 00:24:12,280 Ooh, bugger, bugger, bugger! 319 00:24:12,280 --> 00:24:14,200 Everything all right? 320 00:24:14,200 --> 00:24:17,360 What do you think? No. 321 00:24:17,360 --> 00:24:19,280 Clearly. 322 00:24:19,280 --> 00:24:21,720 You need to be careful with those hammers. 323 00:24:21,720 --> 00:24:26,360 Do you practise? You're like something from the Varieties. I'm merely trying to help. 324 00:24:26,360 --> 00:24:27,880 Then grab a rope. 325 00:24:31,560 --> 00:24:33,720 Gosh. 326 00:24:33,720 --> 00:24:35,280 Gosh? 327 00:24:35,280 --> 00:24:40,560 You did give me the impression you wanted the party to happen modestly. If at all. I do! It's Father. 328 00:24:40,560 --> 00:24:45,120 When he sets his mind to something, he doesn't bother with half measures. Your father? 329 00:24:45,120 --> 00:24:49,520 Oh, I mentioned some improvements to the collieries. He wants me to get on with it. 330 00:24:49,520 --> 00:24:51,040 Quid pro quo. 331 00:24:51,040 --> 00:24:55,080 His side of the bargain. 332 00:24:55,080 --> 00:24:59,360 You know, what would be really helpful, would be if you pulled on that rope, 333 00:24:59,360 --> 00:25:02,080 thus lifting your edge of the tent. 334 00:25:10,880 --> 00:25:12,760 Oh. Would you like gloves? 335 00:25:12,760 --> 00:25:15,600 If it's not too much trouble. 336 00:25:15,600 --> 00:25:18,720 Couldn't you get the men to do it? Of course I could. 337 00:25:18,720 --> 00:25:25,160 Except this is the only bit of the whole event I'll actually enjoy. 338 00:25:25,160 --> 00:25:29,520 You really are the thing itself. 339 00:25:29,520 --> 00:25:31,160 I tell all of my friends that. 340 00:25:31,160 --> 00:25:32,880 In education. Generally! 341 00:25:32,880 --> 00:25:35,600 I know a man who is the spirit of the age. 342 00:25:35,600 --> 00:25:37,400 I'm putting up a tent, Rupert! 343 00:25:37,400 --> 00:25:40,600 It's an ethos, you clod! 344 00:25:40,600 --> 00:25:43,360 Energy. Speed. 345 00:25:43,360 --> 00:25:47,000 What about all the modernising at the pits? The electricity! 346 00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:48,840 Anyone would have done that. 347 00:25:48,840 --> 00:25:51,240 No. It's you. 348 00:25:51,240 --> 00:25:58,480 "Like an exploding shell shot from a gun which fragments into a million different pieces, 349 00:25:58,480 --> 00:26:01,640 "he evolves new systems, new beliefs, even." 350 00:26:01,640 --> 00:26:04,040 Ah! You can stop there. 351 00:26:04,040 --> 00:26:05,960 I know where you're going now. 352 00:26:05,960 --> 00:26:08,080 All that... Futurist gumph. 353 00:26:08,080 --> 00:26:10,440 The pointy pictures. 354 00:26:10,440 --> 00:26:14,400 Do you know, I said to one of the buttys the other day, 355 00:26:14,400 --> 00:26:19,480 I've never been led round an art gallery to the point of actual sickness, until you took me. 356 00:26:19,480 --> 00:26:23,640 And not a single breast. I mean, normally, there is at least that to fall back on. 357 00:26:23,640 --> 00:26:25,920 Not with your friends! 358 00:26:25,920 --> 00:26:28,680 I am an industrialist! 359 00:26:28,680 --> 00:26:33,080 I like to get things done. There's an end to it. 360 00:26:34,880 --> 00:26:37,960 Anyway, should you even be saying that sort of stuff? 361 00:26:37,960 --> 00:26:41,920 New beliefs and... Get you into terrible trouble upstairs, won't it? 362 00:26:41,920 --> 00:26:46,680 I was merely observing the way you are, Gerald. I keep my own beliefs quite separate. 363 00:26:46,680 --> 00:26:47,960 Abby. 364 00:26:50,280 --> 00:26:53,120 Don't you just like to get things done! 365 00:26:53,120 --> 00:26:56,880 Oh, for goodness sake! I was smiling. That's all. Of course. 366 00:26:59,240 --> 00:27:01,360 Just here on the left, please. 367 00:27:03,640 --> 00:27:06,320 How much is that? 368 00:27:06,320 --> 00:27:08,960 One and six, please, love. 369 00:27:10,760 --> 00:27:11,920 Thank you. 370 00:27:25,560 --> 00:27:27,080 Thank you. 371 00:27:37,880 --> 00:27:42,520 Gudrun! She's back. All hail the Queen! 372 00:27:42,520 --> 00:27:46,440 with my old Aunt Brown... 373 00:27:46,440 --> 00:27:48,560 You're too kind. 374 00:27:48,560 --> 00:27:51,040 See you, Percy. 375 00:27:51,040 --> 00:27:56,280 Who's that? Percy Lewis. Prefers Wyndham these days. He knows of your paintings. 376 00:27:56,280 --> 00:27:59,200 I know of his. I would have liked to have talked to him. 377 00:27:59,200 --> 00:28:04,480 He's best friends with Edith Sitwell. You'll bump into her, she's from up north. 378 00:28:04,480 --> 00:28:06,640 I'm from the Midlands, Halliday. 379 00:28:06,640 --> 00:28:08,400 Hello! 380 00:28:08,400 --> 00:28:10,000 Freddy! 381 00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:13,640 Freddy From Such and Such. 382 00:28:13,640 --> 00:28:16,000 Doesn't she have stacks of money? 383 00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:18,760 Edith Sitwell. I think she does. 384 00:28:18,760 --> 00:28:22,240 Money is nothing, Pussum. Class... 385 00:28:22,240 --> 00:28:23,960 Is everything! 386 00:28:23,960 --> 00:28:25,800 THEY LAUGH 387 00:28:25,800 --> 00:28:29,000 what a silly girl I am... 388 00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:32,920 More champagne! So. 389 00:28:34,440 --> 00:28:36,560 How was it? At home. 390 00:28:36,560 --> 00:28:41,360 It was terribly earnest, as always. 391 00:28:41,360 --> 00:28:43,960 I spoke to Tommy Craig earlier. 392 00:28:43,960 --> 00:28:49,000 He knows of your little adventure this weekend. 393 00:28:49,000 --> 00:28:51,240 Does anyone else? 394 00:28:51,240 --> 00:28:53,240 Anyone who cares to ask me. 395 00:28:53,240 --> 00:28:55,040 Ha! You are splendid! 396 00:28:55,040 --> 00:28:59,000 I refuse to be bound by the weary sickness of pedantry and tradition! 397 00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:01,520 That, I can drink to. 398 00:29:05,920 --> 00:29:08,120 But... 399 00:29:08,120 --> 00:29:10,800 But will you really do it? 400 00:29:14,160 --> 00:29:16,560 It's just a fuck. 401 00:29:27,400 --> 00:29:29,360 You are magnificent. 402 00:29:30,680 --> 00:29:32,760 Am I? 403 00:30:11,480 --> 00:30:13,760 I'm old, Anna. 404 00:30:13,760 --> 00:30:16,720 What you on about? You're not yet 50. 405 00:30:18,240 --> 00:30:21,160 That's old. 406 00:30:21,160 --> 00:30:24,000 I'm died out from the hot life, that's for sure. 407 00:30:30,080 --> 00:30:32,160 They'll be all right, won't they? 408 00:30:33,720 --> 00:30:39,880 The girls, they'll be all right? 409 00:30:44,080 --> 00:30:46,800 SHOUTING AND CHEERING 410 00:30:52,200 --> 00:30:55,000 INDISTINCT CONVERSATION 411 00:30:58,360 --> 00:31:00,840 Oh, I thought you'd gone. 412 00:31:00,840 --> 00:31:02,360 I forgot something. 413 00:31:04,960 --> 00:31:07,480 You wouldn't have me beg, surely? 414 00:31:07,480 --> 00:31:10,200 I will, of course, if I must. 415 00:31:18,880 --> 00:31:25,840 Darling, nothing excites me more than a man in extremis, but on this occasion, I must decline. 416 00:31:25,840 --> 00:31:29,360 I must reserve all my strength for tomorrow, after all. 417 00:31:29,360 --> 00:31:32,120 You have the strength of ten. 418 00:31:32,120 --> 00:31:35,560 Let me be the hors d'oeuvre. 419 00:31:39,040 --> 00:31:40,240 Really, I can't. 420 00:31:43,200 --> 00:31:47,440 But Halliday said you were a good sport. What? 421 00:31:47,440 --> 00:31:50,920 He said you were a good sport. I heard what you said. Um... 422 00:31:57,800 --> 00:32:01,600 Talk to me next week, Freddy. I might be a little freer then. 423 00:32:01,600 --> 00:32:04,560 Or we'll see each other at your mother's party, won't we? 424 00:32:06,080 --> 00:32:08,040 We can talk then. 425 00:32:09,640 --> 00:32:11,480 What? 426 00:32:11,480 --> 00:32:14,080 I meant to mention. 427 00:32:14,080 --> 00:32:16,840 It's nothing personal, 428 00:32:16,840 --> 00:32:21,760 but she says the numbers will be wrong, apparently, if... 429 00:32:21,760 --> 00:32:23,880 I'm not even sure I'll go myself. 430 00:32:25,720 --> 00:32:31,800 Fine. Well, I'll see you in class, then. 431 00:32:34,200 --> 00:32:36,680 RAUCOUS CHEERING AND LAUGHTER 432 00:32:46,920 --> 00:32:49,200 KNOCK AT DOOR 433 00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:55,280 Oh! I was coming down. 434 00:32:55,280 --> 00:32:56,880 Oh. 435 00:32:56,880 --> 00:32:59,680 I thought you might prefer it up here. 436 00:32:59,680 --> 00:33:04,400 I will. Now you've brought it. Thank you. 437 00:33:09,760 --> 00:33:12,160 Your father's motorcycle won't start. 438 00:33:12,160 --> 00:33:15,040 He's late for work. 439 00:33:15,040 --> 00:33:18,920 I said to him, you don't get that with a horse. 440 00:33:18,920 --> 00:33:21,960 Less it's dead, of course. 441 00:33:21,960 --> 00:33:26,400 When he sold the farm, I remember, I told him, there's much to recommend 442 00:33:26,400 --> 00:33:31,240 this life, Will, over a town, and you'll come to see it one day. 443 00:33:33,360 --> 00:33:35,000 Are you all right? 444 00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:39,440 He loves you very much, you know. 445 00:33:39,440 --> 00:33:42,240 Your father. 446 00:33:42,240 --> 00:33:43,760 Oh, Mother. 447 00:33:43,760 --> 00:33:46,640 Oh, Mother. Stop fussing. 448 00:33:46,640 --> 00:33:50,160 I'm not fussing. You're upset. 449 00:33:50,160 --> 00:33:55,840 You were upset yesterday after Anton's visit. What's going on, Mother? 450 00:33:55,840 --> 00:33:58,840 Please! 451 00:33:58,840 --> 00:34:00,920 He held you so close to the flame. 452 00:34:00,920 --> 00:34:02,720 So young. 453 00:34:02,720 --> 00:34:06,120 What? Who did? 454 00:34:06,120 --> 00:34:10,520 You think I don't approve of how you live. And... 455 00:34:10,520 --> 00:34:14,080 Well, it's true. What's happened now with you and Anton Skrebensky, 456 00:34:14,080 --> 00:34:18,280 I doubt I should've allowed myself to get in the same position. 457 00:34:18,280 --> 00:34:24,480 All this need for independence, too. Wanting to work and... 458 00:34:24,480 --> 00:34:27,080 That's not something I can understand either. 459 00:34:27,080 --> 00:34:31,440 But... I'm not sour. 460 00:34:35,440 --> 00:34:40,640 We are not so different, Ursula, you and I. That's what I mean. 461 00:34:42,440 --> 00:34:44,600 And I realise, 462 00:34:46,760 --> 00:34:49,760 it maybe isn't all your fault. How things have turned out. 463 00:34:49,760 --> 00:34:52,080 And perhaps if I had been less... 464 00:34:53,600 --> 00:34:57,320 certain after we were married... 465 00:34:58,840 --> 00:35:00,360 With Father? 466 00:35:03,160 --> 00:35:04,960 I knew where his love would go. 467 00:35:04,960 --> 00:35:09,400 And I knew, too, the dangers of making so young a heart swell, 468 00:35:09,400 --> 00:35:14,400 of how a person receiving such devotion might grow, 469 00:35:14,400 --> 00:35:20,080 live their whole lives yearning for that same fierce passion 470 00:35:20,080 --> 00:35:22,720 and how that might, one day, 471 00:35:22,720 --> 00:35:29,160 cause that person to suffer somehow. 472 00:35:31,960 --> 00:35:34,400 I knew all that 473 00:35:34,400 --> 00:35:35,920 and I did nothing. 474 00:35:44,920 --> 00:35:46,560 But I'm not sour. 475 00:35:48,960 --> 00:35:50,480 I'm sorry. 476 00:35:55,000 --> 00:35:57,240 MOTORCYCLE STARTS OUTSIDE 477 00:36:01,360 --> 00:36:05,080 What about Mother? She's got little Billy and your sister to look after. 478 00:36:05,080 --> 00:36:08,160 She'll not mind. So why are we whispering? 479 00:36:08,160 --> 00:36:12,560 Cos we don't want to wake her, do we? Ursula, it's gala day. 480 00:36:12,560 --> 00:36:14,960 Do you know how many gala days you get in a year? 481 00:36:14,960 --> 00:36:18,240 Few, my duck. Very few. Now come on! 482 00:36:18,240 --> 00:36:20,200 Geronimo! 483 00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:27,720 Go on, have a swing. You know you want to. No! 484 00:36:27,720 --> 00:36:33,280 But there's the thrill of the drop. Run out, let go and drop. I'm scared. 485 00:36:33,280 --> 00:36:35,360 Go-o-o-o! 486 00:36:35,360 --> 00:36:37,400 SHE SCREAMS EXCITEDLY 487 00:36:38,560 --> 00:36:40,680 Ursula! 488 00:36:43,880 --> 00:36:46,640 Ursula! 489 00:36:46,640 --> 00:36:48,680 SHE GASPS FOR BREATH 490 00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:53,200 It's all right. It's all right. It's all right. I've got you. 491 00:36:53,200 --> 00:36:55,600 Well done. You did it, didn't you? 492 00:36:55,600 --> 00:37:00,040 You swung in from that great, high rope. There's a good girl! 493 00:37:00,040 --> 00:37:06,040 Fair now. I'll win you a goldfish and we can go on the swing boats. 494 00:37:06,040 --> 00:37:07,880 Good girl. 495 00:37:25,800 --> 00:37:29,320 Hello, Robert. Gudrun. 496 00:37:31,440 --> 00:37:33,880 Are you ready? 497 00:37:33,880 --> 00:37:36,480 Yes. 498 00:37:36,480 --> 00:37:39,520 I was just... looking at your work. 499 00:37:39,520 --> 00:37:41,520 It's Eadweard Muybridge. 500 00:37:43,560 --> 00:37:46,360 I merely photographed the photographs. 501 00:37:48,080 --> 00:37:51,880 All photography is theft, Robert! That's the point. 502 00:37:51,880 --> 00:37:56,240 And the more we writhe for the camera, the more the soul remains obscured. 503 00:37:58,720 --> 00:38:04,360 Another one of your paintings sold yesterday, at the Serpentine. Another! 504 00:38:04,360 --> 00:38:06,760 The painting of the street light. 505 00:38:06,760 --> 00:38:08,600 Ah-ha! 506 00:38:08,600 --> 00:38:10,280 Were any of yours? 507 00:38:12,000 --> 00:38:15,720 I'm not a real artist, Gudrun. 508 00:38:15,720 --> 00:38:18,720 That is why I teach. 509 00:38:18,720 --> 00:38:22,680 But I have my moments of optimism. Like anyone else. 510 00:38:22,680 --> 00:38:24,240 And now is one such moment. 511 00:38:24,240 --> 00:38:26,160 Our very own adventure! 512 00:38:26,160 --> 00:38:27,680 The Isle of Wight! 513 00:38:29,040 --> 00:38:31,080 GUARD WHISTLES 514 00:38:33,640 --> 00:38:37,520 Et voila! The connection is at midday, the boat at two. 515 00:38:37,520 --> 00:38:42,000 I can't. What? I can't do it. I'm sorry. 516 00:38:46,280 --> 00:38:47,960 But... 517 00:38:47,960 --> 00:38:49,800 I thought I could. 518 00:38:49,800 --> 00:38:51,960 I want to. 519 00:38:51,960 --> 00:38:54,000 But I'm not like you. 520 00:38:55,880 --> 00:39:00,920 I'm a married man. But we have to go, Robert. We've announced it. 521 00:39:00,920 --> 00:39:03,120 In our hearts... 522 00:39:03,120 --> 00:39:07,360 There, we have already made the commitment. 523 00:39:07,360 --> 00:39:09,840 We have to have our time away together, Robert. 524 00:39:09,840 --> 00:39:15,000 We're artists. It is our duty to rise above the crowd. 525 00:39:15,000 --> 00:39:18,400 I know my limitations, Gudrun. 526 00:39:18,400 --> 00:39:23,360 I am a middle-aged man who plays at painting, but what am I? Actually? 527 00:39:23,360 --> 00:39:29,560 Someone who stands at the front of a classroom, in order to support a wife and two small children. 528 00:39:31,440 --> 00:39:35,760 Oh, very well, Robert. If you insist. 529 00:39:36,720 --> 00:39:39,520 But you can't leave it like this, here. 530 00:39:41,280 --> 00:39:44,480 At least come away with me for an afternoon. 531 00:39:44,480 --> 00:39:48,840 We can go to Brighton, we can see the sea, and then we can return home this evening. 532 00:39:53,720 --> 00:39:55,760 SHE LAUGHS 533 00:39:55,760 --> 00:39:57,320 Come on. 534 00:40:15,320 --> 00:40:17,960 WATER BIRDS CALLING 535 00:40:33,480 --> 00:40:36,600 'Look at Nottingham. Look at the lights. 536 00:40:36,600 --> 00:40:38,240 'Aren't they an abomination?' 537 00:40:38,240 --> 00:40:42,840 Polluting the dark. At the same time, they do help you to see. 538 00:40:42,840 --> 00:40:47,960 'They do, though. It would be hell without them. I must go back tomorrow. 539 00:40:47,960 --> 00:40:50,840 'My leave has expired. 540 00:40:50,840 --> 00:40:53,960 'Oh, Anton. You should have said.' 541 00:40:53,960 --> 00:40:58,040 I would have arranged something special. Perhaps I have. 542 00:41:18,560 --> 00:41:20,160 Aah! 543 00:41:21,320 --> 00:41:26,320 I'm sorry. No. No. It's fine. It's fine. 544 00:41:26,320 --> 00:41:33,080 Aah! Aah! Aah! Aah! Aah! 545 00:41:33,080 --> 00:41:34,920 What's the matter? 546 00:41:37,280 --> 00:41:42,040 Nothing. Nothing. It's fine. 547 00:42:01,640 --> 00:42:04,120 SHALLOW BREATHING 548 00:42:10,120 --> 00:42:12,240 BREATHING GETTING FASTER 549 00:42:19,720 --> 00:42:22,760 BREATHING SLOWING DOWN 550 00:42:32,560 --> 00:42:34,120 You are wrong, Mother! 551 00:42:34,120 --> 00:42:36,200 What's the matter? What is it, child? 552 00:42:36,200 --> 00:42:39,280 You think you have damaged me. You... 553 00:42:39,280 --> 00:42:42,520 What has happened with Anton is because of Father and... 554 00:42:42,520 --> 00:42:44,800 And you are right. 555 00:42:44,800 --> 00:42:46,800 When I recall, we did have some times. 556 00:42:46,800 --> 00:42:49,520 And I have said... No! Wait. 557 00:42:53,600 --> 00:42:55,680 I've always known. 558 00:42:57,440 --> 00:43:01,000 I felt, rather than thought. 559 00:43:01,000 --> 00:43:05,640 And you are right, probably. About father. His role. 560 00:43:05,640 --> 00:43:09,120 But that is not why Anton and I... 561 00:43:10,720 --> 00:43:14,080 The problem is sex, Mother. 562 00:43:14,080 --> 00:43:16,440 Sex, love. 563 00:43:16,440 --> 00:43:19,520 I broke with Anton because... 564 00:43:19,520 --> 00:43:22,600 he did not feed that animal side of me. 565 00:43:22,600 --> 00:43:25,160 The felt life. 566 00:43:25,160 --> 00:43:29,440 And I wrote to get back together because I was pregnant and I was scared. 567 00:43:29,440 --> 00:43:33,920 But now, with the baby gone, 568 00:43:33,920 --> 00:43:37,240 I was certain once more I am meant to be free. 569 00:43:37,240 --> 00:43:41,200 To indulge my passion in this life. 570 00:43:41,200 --> 00:43:42,920 But it is not passion, Mother, 571 00:43:42,920 --> 00:43:47,680 which drives me on. It is lust. 572 00:43:47,680 --> 00:43:51,960 And insatiable desire. 573 00:43:51,960 --> 00:43:54,240 And that is what stood between me and Anton. 574 00:43:54,240 --> 00:43:56,320 It's the same thing. 575 00:43:56,320 --> 00:43:58,000 What? 576 00:43:58,000 --> 00:44:00,520 The passion that you talk of. 577 00:44:02,040 --> 00:44:04,120 For life and... 578 00:44:04,120 --> 00:44:06,840 all that's out there and the other thing. 579 00:44:06,840 --> 00:44:09,320 They're the same. 580 00:44:09,320 --> 00:44:11,720 We must keep ourselves warm, Ursula. 581 00:44:11,720 --> 00:44:15,600 We must. There is no shame in it, what happens between people, 582 00:44:15,600 --> 00:44:18,360 between them as love each other. 583 00:44:18,360 --> 00:44:22,120 And so we must keep the flame burning, crackling in the grate. 584 00:44:22,120 --> 00:44:26,960 Otherwise, we're cold on the earth, when soon enough we're going to be cold beneath it. 585 00:44:26,960 --> 00:44:28,920 Do you see? 586 00:44:28,920 --> 00:44:32,040 You are lucky. You have felt the truth of it. 587 00:44:32,040 --> 00:44:34,680 That some do not, or cannot, for whatever reason. 588 00:44:34,680 --> 00:44:38,000 Some choose to be cold. They choose the gone-out world. 589 00:44:38,000 --> 00:44:42,920 Because it offers less danger, less shame, perhaps. 590 00:44:44,480 --> 00:44:47,600 But no-one should choose it. 591 00:44:47,600 --> 00:44:52,400 Find love that burns your very soul. 592 00:44:52,400 --> 00:44:55,560 And know this, that it will burn your body, too. 593 00:44:55,560 --> 00:44:58,200 And if it does not, 594 00:44:59,720 --> 00:45:01,440 then you're not in love. 595 00:45:13,480 --> 00:45:15,360 It's Mr Skrebensky. 596 00:45:24,720 --> 00:45:26,200 Good afternoon. 597 00:45:26,200 --> 00:45:29,480 It's my uncle's. I thought it would cheer Ursula up. 598 00:45:37,680 --> 00:45:40,400 So...where to? 599 00:45:40,400 --> 00:45:43,680 Southwell, I thought. Or, um... Could we go to the sea? 600 00:45:43,680 --> 00:45:46,880 What? Would it get us to the coast? Of course. 601 00:45:48,720 --> 00:45:50,400 < Ursula! 602 00:45:56,000 --> 00:45:58,080 LAUGHING 603 00:45:58,080 --> 00:45:59,680 Gudrun! 604 00:45:59,680 --> 00:46:01,480 Oh, it really is a frightful drop! 605 00:46:01,480 --> 00:46:04,280 Please... Come. Come and see. Be careful. 606 00:46:04,280 --> 00:46:06,680 Come here! 607 00:46:08,320 --> 00:46:10,320 Oh, my Lord! Look! 608 00:46:10,320 --> 00:46:12,880 No... I don't like this at all. 609 00:46:14,040 --> 00:46:18,440 You laugh, but one slip and you'll be over, all snuffed out. Good! 610 00:46:18,440 --> 00:46:20,360 We must pass beyond life, Robert. 611 00:46:20,360 --> 00:46:23,880 And a little way into death if we are ever to feel truly alive. 612 00:46:30,120 --> 00:46:32,320 You are so beautiful. 613 00:46:32,320 --> 00:46:33,920 Why are you with me? 614 00:46:40,720 --> 00:46:42,240 Because I can be. 615 00:46:45,320 --> 00:46:47,800 Feel that. 616 00:46:47,800 --> 00:46:50,560 What can you feel? 617 00:46:50,560 --> 00:46:51,960 Tell me. 618 00:46:55,400 --> 00:46:58,240 I feel...happiness. 619 00:46:59,800 --> 00:47:01,760 First time in my life. 620 00:47:03,280 --> 00:47:04,800 Real happiness. 621 00:47:04,800 --> 00:47:08,840 See? You're a poet as well as a painter. 622 00:47:13,040 --> 00:47:15,760 I am flesh and blood. 623 00:47:15,760 --> 00:47:18,240 That's why cliffs scare me. 624 00:47:18,240 --> 00:47:20,000 I would break if I fell. 625 00:47:20,000 --> 00:47:22,080 But you... 626 00:47:23,360 --> 00:47:25,320 ..you're eternal. 627 00:47:25,320 --> 00:47:26,840 So you can look. 628 00:47:41,480 --> 00:47:44,440 Lunch in ten minutes. 629 00:47:44,440 --> 00:47:45,480 Lovely. Thank you. 630 00:47:47,200 --> 00:47:49,640 And have you seen the book? 631 00:47:50,880 --> 00:47:55,160 On Mont Blanc. I'm sure it'll remind you of the holiday. No, um... 632 00:47:55,160 --> 00:47:57,880 You weren't terribly precise. 633 00:47:57,880 --> 00:47:59,600 Right at the top. 634 00:48:00,720 --> 00:48:03,960 Why do you keep it up there? Don't you look at it very often? 635 00:48:03,960 --> 00:48:06,720 It's a book on mountaineering, Rupert. 636 00:48:08,600 --> 00:48:11,280 Gerald, Christ! 637 00:48:12,800 --> 00:48:15,040 It gets hard around the Thesauruses. 638 00:48:15,040 --> 00:48:18,040 They and I have a natural aversion to one another. 639 00:48:18,040 --> 00:48:21,320 Be careful. I'm... 640 00:48:21,320 --> 00:48:23,280 I'm fine. 641 00:48:23,280 --> 00:48:24,800 Never in doubt. 642 00:48:26,280 --> 00:48:27,400 Ta-ra! 643 00:48:28,480 --> 00:48:30,640 Rupert. Miss Roddice. 644 00:48:30,640 --> 00:48:33,600 Good afternoon. Gerald. Hermione. 645 00:48:36,560 --> 00:48:38,840 You're five hours early. 646 00:48:38,840 --> 00:48:42,640 I thought I might be able to assist in the preparations. 647 00:48:42,640 --> 00:48:44,200 And failing that, 648 00:48:44,200 --> 00:48:48,600 a chance to catch up with Mr Birkin on one of his ever rarer trips 649 00:48:48,600 --> 00:48:51,080 outside of Nottingham. Ooh, that reminds me - 650 00:48:51,080 --> 00:48:53,640 are we going to try and take in the county game? 651 00:48:53,640 --> 00:48:57,120 We could still get back in time. I'm sure you've loads to tell me. 652 00:48:57,120 --> 00:48:59,560 Actually, it's rather unfortunate. 653 00:48:59,560 --> 00:49:03,760 But if I'd known you were coming earlier, I'd have been able to... 654 00:49:03,760 --> 00:49:07,200 But as it is, I have some business to attend to. 655 00:49:07,200 --> 00:49:10,160 I meant to mention. It won't take too long. 656 00:49:15,520 --> 00:49:18,600 There is a tent I've got to finish putting up, actually. 657 00:49:20,520 --> 00:49:22,160 You don't fancy...? 658 00:49:37,000 --> 00:49:39,440 You will not even fuck me. 659 00:49:39,440 --> 00:49:42,280 Your cock. Would that excite you? Hermione! 660 00:49:42,280 --> 00:49:43,360 SHE LAUGHS 661 00:49:43,360 --> 00:49:46,080 You cannot fuck me! 662 00:49:47,080 --> 00:49:50,520 I know you can get aroused. You're not a real man. You're a boy. 663 00:49:50,520 --> 00:49:53,440 You want... Stop it. 664 00:49:54,600 --> 00:49:57,120 It's happening. Hermione! You needed words. 665 00:49:57,120 --> 00:49:58,800 I knew you needed words. 666 00:49:58,800 --> 00:50:00,880 I warn you! 667 00:50:00,880 --> 00:50:05,000 So, will this man stand up in church on Sunday and read the Gospel? 668 00:50:05,000 --> 00:50:09,440 You hypocrite! Is not marriage and union with a woman 669 00:50:09,440 --> 00:50:12,000 at the very heart of the Christian community? 670 00:50:12,000 --> 00:50:13,960 Rupert? Rupert? 671 00:50:13,960 --> 00:50:17,120 So, even if you cannot do your duty by me as a man, 672 00:50:17,120 --> 00:50:21,000 you should come to me hard and ready as a disciple of Jesus. 673 00:50:21,000 --> 00:50:23,880 And if you cannot do that, 674 00:50:23,880 --> 00:50:27,360 what are you doing in the Church? 675 00:50:34,720 --> 00:50:36,720 Mmm. 676 00:50:38,000 --> 00:50:39,800 Mmm! 677 00:50:39,800 --> 00:50:41,800 Oh, lovely, ta. 678 00:50:41,800 --> 00:50:42,960 Good. 679 00:50:45,440 --> 00:50:47,040 Where are the children? 680 00:50:48,120 --> 00:50:50,680 Billy took them out. He was desperate. 681 00:50:50,680 --> 00:50:52,200 Gone over to Cossell. 682 00:50:54,720 --> 00:50:56,560 Will you go out later? 683 00:50:57,520 --> 00:51:00,040 Yeah, I might. 684 00:51:00,040 --> 00:51:02,000 Up the church. Practise a bit. 685 00:51:03,560 --> 00:51:07,320 Why? I wondered. It is a Saturday afternoon. 686 00:51:07,320 --> 00:51:08,840 It's your time. 687 00:51:22,440 --> 00:51:24,600 You do not want to be with me any more. 688 00:51:30,080 --> 00:51:32,400 You what? I understand. Hang on. 689 00:51:32,400 --> 00:51:37,280 You think you have not enough of me and maybe you don't, except... 690 00:51:37,280 --> 00:51:40,880 maybe, too, you don't make it good between us any more. 691 00:51:40,880 --> 00:51:42,480 You're not interested. 692 00:51:42,480 --> 00:51:45,440 What in God's name are you talking about, Anna? 693 00:51:45,440 --> 00:51:47,160 Would you like to have another woman? 694 00:51:48,560 --> 00:51:50,800 What? Would you? 695 00:51:52,280 --> 00:51:54,120 I can't believe... 696 00:51:55,880 --> 00:51:58,880 Why would you say such a thing? I think you would. 697 00:51:58,880 --> 00:52:02,680 Now, you listen to me, Anna. I don't know where... You must do what you have to. 698 00:52:02,680 --> 00:52:04,760 I want you to. 699 00:52:04,760 --> 00:52:09,040 But you're mine, Will Brangwen. You're my man, and I'll never let you go. 700 00:52:09,040 --> 00:52:13,320 And if I have ever wronged you, it was fear. You must understand that. 701 00:52:13,320 --> 00:52:15,080 I understand you've gone mad! 702 00:52:15,080 --> 00:52:16,560 No, now I have my sanity. 703 00:52:16,560 --> 00:52:20,640 And you must do whatever it takes, but then you must come back to me. 704 00:52:20,640 --> 00:52:24,400 Cos we cannot just whiten into ash. We have to find a way. 705 00:52:24,400 --> 00:52:28,680 That's enough! Just... stop with all your... 706 00:52:28,680 --> 00:52:30,480 your "make it good again". 707 00:52:30,480 --> 00:52:32,680 What's come over you? 708 00:52:33,880 --> 00:52:35,440 What are you doing? 709 00:52:35,440 --> 00:52:37,560 I'm going out. You want me out, don't you? 710 00:52:37,560 --> 00:52:40,440 I'm not interested in you any more. Not like this! 711 00:52:40,440 --> 00:52:45,400 I must mend me ways. Well, bugger you! If I'm that bad, you'll not miss me, will you? 712 00:52:48,240 --> 00:52:49,600 DOOR SLAMS 713 00:52:51,120 --> 00:52:53,440 You don't understand me. 714 00:52:57,440 --> 00:52:59,160 I'll have a bitter. 715 00:53:00,320 --> 00:53:02,400 And a port. 716 00:53:18,200 --> 00:53:20,280 Oh, God! 717 00:53:20,280 --> 00:53:24,560 That's the spirit. I thought you'd cleared off. 718 00:53:24,560 --> 00:53:27,480 I'm back. Apparently. 719 00:53:28,520 --> 00:53:30,560 It's the small talk I can't bear. 720 00:53:30,560 --> 00:53:33,360 It's a black art, don't you agree? 721 00:53:33,360 --> 00:53:37,000 DOOR OPENS Has anyone seen my purse? 722 00:53:37,000 --> 00:53:40,800 Good Lord, Diana! What have you come as? A Christmas tree? 723 00:53:42,720 --> 00:53:49,080 If the world were ending, my sister would merely ask, "Does the molten sun go with my sash, do you think?" 724 00:53:50,600 --> 00:53:52,240 Ah, present. 725 00:53:52,240 --> 00:53:55,520 What? It is today, isn't it? The actual birthday. 726 00:53:55,520 --> 00:53:57,360 I haven't given you a present yet. 727 00:53:59,320 --> 00:54:01,360 Did you wrap it yourself? 728 00:54:01,360 --> 00:54:04,720 Yes. You should have left the light on. 729 00:54:08,720 --> 00:54:12,480 It's a cigarette lighter. It's called a Wonderlite. 730 00:54:12,480 --> 00:54:14,400 It stays on until you shut the lid. 731 00:54:17,200 --> 00:54:18,680 Ha! 732 00:54:18,680 --> 00:54:20,960 That is...marvellous. 733 00:54:22,240 --> 00:54:23,600 Thank you. 734 00:54:24,280 --> 00:54:26,400 Oh, bugger! Ha-ha! 735 00:54:26,400 --> 00:54:28,400 It's fine. Sorry. 736 00:54:35,920 --> 00:54:38,760 All set? I hope you are. 737 00:54:38,760 --> 00:54:40,080 Plenty here already. 738 00:54:40,080 --> 00:54:44,000 And I shall attend to them, every one. Good. 739 00:54:44,000 --> 00:54:46,760 You're a Crich, Gerald. Never forget that. 740 00:54:46,760 --> 00:54:48,560 We can be relied upon. 741 00:54:48,560 --> 00:54:50,520 Yes, we can. 742 00:54:53,200 --> 00:54:54,720 Good boy. 743 00:54:56,720 --> 00:54:58,240 Yes. 744 00:55:09,200 --> 00:55:11,120 < Rupert. 745 00:55:12,880 --> 00:55:14,320 At last. 746 00:55:15,520 --> 00:55:17,040 Hm. 747 00:55:18,560 --> 00:55:20,480 I, um... 748 00:55:20,480 --> 00:55:23,160 I have some Wagner. 749 00:55:23,160 --> 00:55:25,840 I wanted to tell you. I know you like to listen. 750 00:55:25,840 --> 00:55:28,480 Yes, yes. I should, um... I should like that. 751 00:55:28,480 --> 00:55:32,040 You could come back after church tomorrow. 752 00:55:33,160 --> 00:55:35,080 Er...I don't think I'll be going. 753 00:55:35,080 --> 00:55:36,320 Why not? 754 00:55:36,320 --> 00:55:39,760 Oh, I, um... I just, I have... 755 00:55:39,760 --> 00:55:42,120 I have some things to do. 756 00:55:42,120 --> 00:55:44,320 I'll ring you to arrange a time. 757 00:55:45,840 --> 00:55:48,200 If Gerald can spare you, of course. 758 00:55:50,160 --> 00:55:52,200 I just... 759 00:55:52,200 --> 00:55:56,640 ..don't want your brain to atrophy, Rupert. That's all. 760 00:55:57,640 --> 00:56:01,400 You are one of our great minds, 761 00:56:01,400 --> 00:56:04,800 and spending time with Gerald Crich... 762 00:56:04,800 --> 00:56:11,280 Unless of course you want to know all the new ways of getting coal from the ground? 763 00:56:11,280 --> 00:56:14,840 You cannot speak to me like that any more. 764 00:56:14,840 --> 00:56:16,920 We are just friends now. 765 00:56:18,800 --> 00:56:20,800 Rupert... 766 00:56:20,800 --> 00:56:25,320 no matter what you tell yourself, you know the truth as well as I. 767 00:56:25,320 --> 00:56:29,960 We will never just be friends because you need me too much. 768 00:56:29,960 --> 00:56:33,600 I am your spiritual bride 769 00:56:33,600 --> 00:56:37,960 and that...is why I find it so objectionable... 770 00:56:39,080 --> 00:56:41,840 ..to discover that I am overlooked 771 00:56:41,840 --> 00:56:45,800 for the attentions of a dull, boorish oaf. 772 00:56:45,800 --> 00:56:47,360 You are such a snob. 773 00:56:48,520 --> 00:56:49,960 No. 774 00:56:51,400 --> 00:56:54,160 I am honest about who I am. 775 00:56:55,720 --> 00:56:59,880 I do not go slumming for entertainment. 776 00:57:05,400 --> 00:57:06,960 Excuse me. One moment. 777 00:57:30,680 --> 00:57:33,680 We should probably set off quite soon. 778 00:57:33,680 --> 00:57:35,320 You've had quite a look now. 779 00:57:41,920 --> 00:57:44,240 I think Skegness might have been better. 780 00:57:45,560 --> 00:57:48,240 More to do. Here is perfect. 781 00:57:48,240 --> 00:57:51,360 Oh, no. Absolutely. I've loved it. All those... 782 00:57:52,840 --> 00:57:54,800 All the sand, water. 783 00:58:04,080 --> 00:58:06,080 I have to give you this. 784 00:58:10,840 --> 00:58:13,400 What have I done wrong? Nothing. 785 00:58:13,400 --> 00:58:14,480 So... 786 00:58:19,600 --> 00:58:24,600 You do not accompany me... into the unknown. 787 00:58:25,760 --> 00:58:29,600 You do not...set off with me... 788 00:58:30,640 --> 00:58:34,360 through life, into...wonder. 789 00:58:34,360 --> 00:58:36,520 It's just words. Oh! 790 00:58:38,200 --> 00:58:39,720 Words. 791 00:58:41,920 --> 00:58:46,200 Now tell me why you cannot be with me so I can understand. 792 00:58:48,280 --> 00:58:51,520 You don't satisfy me. What? 793 00:58:51,520 --> 00:58:53,920 Physically, you... 794 00:58:55,360 --> 00:58:58,200 The other things, they are... 795 00:58:59,360 --> 00:59:01,320 ..a journey which lovers must take. 796 00:59:01,320 --> 00:59:05,680 So they may feel the earth between their toes. 797 00:59:06,800 --> 00:59:10,520 But the journey must first be ignited... 798 00:59:10,520 --> 00:59:11,840 and you don't. 799 00:59:13,640 --> 00:59:15,480 I don't satisfy you? 800 00:59:16,520 --> 00:59:18,200 You've never satisfied me. 801 00:59:26,840 --> 00:59:28,360 I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. 802 01:00:24,960 --> 01:00:27,320 SEAGULLS CAW 803 01:00:51,160 --> 01:00:53,080 LAUGHTER AND CLAPPING 804 01:00:55,800 --> 01:00:57,960 Thank you. Thank you. 805 01:00:57,960 --> 01:01:02,720 Madam, could you wake the man up next to you? We need the seat for the eight o'clock house. 806 01:01:02,720 --> 01:01:05,120 LAUGHTER 807 01:01:05,120 --> 01:01:06,520 Cheers! Cheers! 808 01:01:14,720 --> 01:01:16,480 That was the best turn we've had. 809 01:01:22,120 --> 01:01:27,840 I've a good mind to go up Rollins... for a cup of their best coffee 810 01:01:27,840 --> 01:01:31,080 and some of their pastry fancies. 811 01:01:31,080 --> 01:01:33,880 If anyone would care to be treated. 812 01:01:37,040 --> 01:01:39,520 BABY CRIES Oh, come here. 813 01:01:52,360 --> 01:01:54,400 No, he's not coming. 814 01:01:54,400 --> 01:01:56,320 PANTING AND GROANING 815 01:02:03,400 --> 01:02:05,840 I can still taste that cake on you. 816 01:02:05,840 --> 01:02:08,360 Weren't it lovely? 817 01:02:08,360 --> 01:02:10,800 Not as lovely as you. All right, then. 818 01:02:10,800 --> 01:02:13,080 Give us your jacket. 819 01:02:15,360 --> 01:02:18,200 This is me best frock. 820 01:02:18,200 --> 01:02:20,720 I'm not getting grass up it. 821 01:02:26,960 --> 01:02:28,800 Right. 822 01:02:28,800 --> 01:02:30,320 Yeah. 823 01:02:43,000 --> 01:02:46,320 HE MOANS 824 01:02:47,960 --> 01:02:49,560 No. 825 01:02:53,640 --> 01:02:55,040 What? 826 01:02:55,040 --> 01:02:56,680 Ah... 827 01:02:56,680 --> 01:02:58,520 No. 828 01:02:58,520 --> 01:03:01,680 What you on about? I said you could. 829 01:03:01,680 --> 01:03:04,600 Yeah, I know. I know and I... 830 01:03:05,760 --> 01:03:06,880 I can't. 831 01:03:06,880 --> 01:03:09,440 What do you mean, you can't? 832 01:03:09,440 --> 01:03:14,680 What's wrong with me? Oh, there's nowt wrong with you! 833 01:03:14,680 --> 01:03:17,400 You're beautiful. You're... 834 01:03:24,200 --> 01:03:25,760 I had a girl like you. 835 01:03:28,040 --> 01:03:30,120 And her skin were like yours. 836 01:03:32,640 --> 01:03:34,200 Only now it in't. 837 01:03:36,000 --> 01:03:38,080 But that's all right, cos... 838 01:03:40,520 --> 01:03:42,400 ..it got like that with me. 839 01:03:43,920 --> 01:03:45,440 Do you see? 840 01:03:47,640 --> 01:03:51,720 A young lad needs to look on you. 841 01:03:53,960 --> 01:03:56,160 Not some old bugger like me. 842 01:03:57,640 --> 01:03:59,720 A young lad... 843 01:04:01,560 --> 01:04:03,520 ..who knows nowt else but you. 844 01:04:23,440 --> 01:04:25,320 Isn't that better? 845 01:04:27,480 --> 01:04:29,960 You must have me, Robert, 846 01:04:29,960 --> 01:04:31,800 or else you are incomplete. 847 01:04:33,960 --> 01:04:37,080 I know you better than you know yourself. 848 01:04:41,200 --> 01:04:43,400 People make such a fuss about sex. 849 01:04:43,400 --> 01:04:46,320 But it really is the most natural thing in the world. 850 01:04:48,240 --> 01:04:51,040 Why mightn't we do it when we please? 851 01:04:53,600 --> 01:04:55,080 Robert? 852 01:04:56,200 --> 01:04:57,800 Yes. 853 01:04:59,360 --> 01:05:01,160 What are you doing? 854 01:05:04,360 --> 01:05:05,880 I'm going to get dressed. 855 01:05:09,320 --> 01:05:12,600 There's a train in about 25 minutes. 856 01:05:12,600 --> 01:05:14,120 We could still... 857 01:05:14,120 --> 01:05:16,400 I can still... Go back? 858 01:05:16,400 --> 01:05:19,400 Please, don't say anything. 859 01:05:19,400 --> 01:05:21,000 Robert. 860 01:05:21,000 --> 01:05:24,920 You don't have to come. You can stay here, enjoy the place. 861 01:05:24,920 --> 01:05:29,360 I already paid the bill, er...any extras. 862 01:05:29,360 --> 01:05:34,200 Breakfast. There's a carriage ride along the front. I think that's included. 863 01:05:34,200 --> 01:05:35,600 Are you insane? 864 01:05:38,760 --> 01:05:40,760 Was this your plan all along? 865 01:05:40,760 --> 01:05:44,880 Once the ship was breached, to desert it like a bloated rat? 866 01:05:44,880 --> 01:05:47,360 How can you say that? How can I? 867 01:05:47,360 --> 01:05:54,720 It's not I, who seconds after emptying myself of my precious seed, runs for the station! 868 01:05:58,240 --> 01:05:59,800 It's my own fault. 869 01:06:01,640 --> 01:06:03,200 You warned me. 870 01:06:04,360 --> 01:06:07,800 You warned me at the station that you hadn't the stomach for it. 871 01:06:12,920 --> 01:06:15,440 This is not that! I swear. 872 01:06:15,440 --> 01:06:18,160 What is it then? It's... 873 01:06:23,560 --> 01:06:26,120 I cannot ever feel... 874 01:06:26,120 --> 01:06:29,200 better than this. 875 01:06:30,240 --> 01:06:32,120 I know that for a certainty. 876 01:06:34,480 --> 01:06:36,000 This is my summit... 877 01:06:37,880 --> 01:06:43,680 ..and all that remains from here on in is an approximation of life with Beatrice. 878 01:06:43,680 --> 01:06:46,720 Don't say her name. Ah, sorry. 879 01:06:46,720 --> 01:06:50,480 I just want you to know why I have to leave. 880 01:06:52,840 --> 01:06:55,240 Because now that we have had... 881 01:06:59,080 --> 01:07:01,920 You will tire of me. 882 01:07:03,800 --> 01:07:05,640 I am your experiment... 883 01:07:07,000 --> 01:07:09,880 ..and I know it. It's fine. 884 01:07:12,480 --> 01:07:14,520 But you will move on 885 01:07:14,520 --> 01:07:18,600 and I cannot allow that... 886 01:07:18,600 --> 01:07:20,040 decay... 887 01:07:21,480 --> 01:07:23,240 ..not between us. 888 01:07:34,920 --> 01:07:36,920 I am complete, 889 01:07:36,920 --> 01:07:38,480 forever, 890 01:07:38,480 --> 01:07:40,120 like this. 891 01:07:43,800 --> 01:07:45,200 DOOR SHUTS 892 01:07:49,400 --> 01:07:52,000 FAIRGROUND MUSIC 893 01:07:52,000 --> 01:07:56,360 JOLLITY AND LAUGHTER 894 01:08:07,640 --> 01:08:08,920 Ah! 895 01:08:09,800 --> 01:08:12,280 I've been looking all over for you. 896 01:08:12,280 --> 01:08:14,760 Sorry, I'm not much company. 897 01:08:16,240 --> 01:08:18,000 It's worse than before. 898 01:08:18,000 --> 01:08:21,600 I thought I'd better enjoy things in absentia. What is wrong? 899 01:08:23,240 --> 01:08:25,400 I told you, I hate parties, 900 01:08:25,400 --> 01:08:28,520 especially birthdays. Somebody always drags me down. 901 01:08:28,520 --> 01:08:31,160 I try to get to the bottom of it, but... Don't do that. 902 01:08:31,160 --> 01:08:34,560 That is called introspection. It's terribly destructive, 903 01:08:34,560 --> 01:08:36,520 especially if you're not the sort. 904 01:08:39,040 --> 01:08:41,480 Get in. Have a plank. 905 01:08:46,960 --> 01:08:48,480 Whoops. 906 01:08:51,600 --> 01:08:54,440 You have been enjoying yourself. 907 01:09:00,920 --> 01:09:02,600 We're fine. 908 01:09:02,600 --> 01:09:04,120 We can drift a bit. 909 01:09:19,040 --> 01:09:20,560 Get down. 910 01:09:23,680 --> 01:09:25,200 What? 911 01:09:27,320 --> 01:09:28,840 Get out of the car. 912 01:09:31,520 --> 01:09:34,120 It is another 18 miles. Walk it. 913 01:09:47,440 --> 01:09:48,960 Give me your shoes. 914 01:09:49,960 --> 01:09:52,400 Give them to me. 915 01:09:57,640 --> 01:10:00,760 Now you may feel the earth between your toes. 916 01:10:00,760 --> 01:10:02,400 Feel it until they bleed! 917 01:10:39,080 --> 01:10:40,840 Do you know of Blutbruderschaft? 918 01:10:41,800 --> 01:10:43,400 Blood brothers? Yes. 919 01:10:43,400 --> 01:10:47,000 I mean, originally, it was German knights. 920 01:10:47,000 --> 01:10:51,800 They made a cut in their arms and then they rubbed each other's blood into the cut. 921 01:10:51,800 --> 01:10:53,800 Doesn't sound awfully hygienic. 922 01:10:56,200 --> 01:10:58,320 I think the idea was... 923 01:10:59,960 --> 01:11:04,320 ..when a man found another man that he admired 924 01:11:04,320 --> 01:11:08,160 and that feeling was reciprocated, it was a, kind of, way of showing 925 01:11:08,160 --> 01:11:09,200 a sort of... 926 01:11:10,840 --> 01:11:12,600 ..loyalty or commitment or... 927 01:11:14,640 --> 01:11:15,880 ..almost a love. 928 01:11:15,880 --> 01:11:20,200 You'd need to love someone to carve yourself open. 929 01:11:21,160 --> 01:11:22,200 All the same... 930 01:11:24,120 --> 01:11:26,800 ..I think where we are now in history... 931 01:11:29,880 --> 01:11:31,920 ..perhaps Nietzsche is right. 932 01:11:33,440 --> 01:11:35,640 The world does spin of its own accord. 933 01:11:35,640 --> 01:11:41,120 Not divinely, but just... because it does. 934 01:11:42,400 --> 01:11:44,960 As we do here, 935 01:11:44,960 --> 01:11:46,280 drifting on the water... 936 01:11:47,240 --> 01:11:49,360 ..randomly... 937 01:11:49,360 --> 01:11:51,480 straying through an infinite nothing. 938 01:11:54,600 --> 01:11:55,640 Rupert... 939 01:11:55,640 --> 01:11:58,400 I haven't got a solitary clue what you're on about. 940 01:12:02,880 --> 01:12:04,240 Good old Gerald. 941 01:12:07,400 --> 01:12:09,480 Perhaps God is dead. 942 01:12:10,440 --> 01:12:14,360 What?! I think He is. 943 01:12:14,360 --> 01:12:18,880 Or surely He'd look after those who looked after Him a little bit better, don't you think? 944 01:12:19,840 --> 01:12:23,840 Give them the odd sign, leg up. Keep fighting the good fight. 945 01:12:25,680 --> 01:12:29,640 And if there is no 946 01:12:29,640 --> 01:12:32,400 Deus ex machina forming our future and... 947 01:12:33,760 --> 01:12:37,240 Well, where does the answer to tomorrow lie? 948 01:12:37,240 --> 01:12:40,640 It's with us, Gerald, with manity. 949 01:12:40,640 --> 01:12:45,720 So we must declare ourselves, if there is but this one life... 950 01:12:47,680 --> 01:12:50,480 ..we must not waste it in hesitation! 951 01:12:58,680 --> 01:13:00,320 HEAVY SPLASH 952 01:13:00,320 --> 01:13:01,360 What's that? Di! 953 01:13:01,360 --> 01:13:03,000 There's somebody in the water. 954 01:13:04,480 --> 01:13:07,120 Di! Christ, row up, quickly! Diana! 955 01:13:07,120 --> 01:13:11,080 Stay out of the water. Nobody else go in! 956 01:13:11,080 --> 01:13:14,760 It's your sister, Gerald. It's Diana. 957 01:13:14,760 --> 01:13:18,000 It's Di, Gerald! Diana fell in. I know. Who's gone in after her? 958 01:13:18,000 --> 01:13:22,200 Young Dr Brindell. I am responsible. Gerald, you can't go in there. 959 01:13:22,200 --> 01:13:27,040 Gerald! Di! Diana! 960 01:13:44,320 --> 01:13:45,560 Gerald! 961 01:14:02,680 --> 01:14:06,040 Will? Aye. 962 01:14:20,240 --> 01:14:21,280 Anna? 963 01:14:25,160 --> 01:14:26,480 Is it done? 964 01:14:26,480 --> 01:14:28,080 Turn the lamp on. What? 965 01:14:30,520 --> 01:14:31,560 Let me see you. 966 01:14:33,200 --> 01:14:34,600 See you as you are. 967 01:14:54,000 --> 01:14:56,320 I could never be unfaithful to you. 968 01:14:59,280 --> 01:15:02,720 You have my soul, Anna Brangwen. 969 01:15:05,000 --> 01:15:08,760 I tried... Sshh. 970 01:15:08,760 --> 01:15:11,680 Undress, come to bed. Be with me. 971 01:15:28,880 --> 01:15:31,240 I don't understand, Anna. What happened? 972 01:15:31,240 --> 01:15:35,600 I mistrusted you and that is an end to it. 973 01:15:35,600 --> 01:15:36,960 But I never... 974 01:15:43,040 --> 01:15:45,360 You're unfettered, Will, 975 01:15:45,360 --> 01:15:48,320 and I am not. 976 01:15:48,320 --> 01:15:50,200 You scare me sometimes. 977 01:15:54,960 --> 01:15:58,080 I will risk everything, I promise. 978 01:15:58,080 --> 01:16:00,360 So must you, again, with me. 979 01:16:20,800 --> 01:16:22,000 Come. Where? 980 01:16:22,000 --> 01:16:23,040 To your bed. 981 01:16:23,040 --> 01:16:25,680 I can't go to sleep when they're still in the water. 982 01:16:27,040 --> 01:16:28,080 Gerald. 983 01:16:29,480 --> 01:16:31,520 Father. Do you have them, yet? 984 01:16:31,520 --> 01:16:32,960 Are they safe? 985 01:16:35,400 --> 01:16:38,440 No, I...fear it's too late. 986 01:16:41,840 --> 01:16:44,440 Get back to it. You are in charge! 987 01:16:45,400 --> 01:16:46,440 They're gone! 988 01:16:47,800 --> 01:16:50,200 The currents are too strong, I'm sorry. 989 01:16:51,760 --> 01:16:54,240 Father, there's nothing we can do. 990 01:16:56,040 --> 01:16:58,040 They're dead, Gerald. Gerald! 991 01:16:59,720 --> 01:17:01,240 They're dead. 992 01:18:42,760 --> 01:18:46,200 She killed him, as he tried to save her. 993 01:18:50,120 --> 01:18:51,560 Thank you for staying. 994 01:18:52,600 --> 01:18:55,680 You have to go to London today, don't you? 995 01:18:55,680 --> 01:18:58,480 I'm there myself later in the week. 996 01:18:58,480 --> 01:19:00,120 We should perhaps meet up. 997 01:19:00,120 --> 01:19:03,120 Gerald. 998 01:19:03,120 --> 01:19:04,320 What? 999 01:19:05,320 --> 01:19:07,200 Your sister. 1000 01:19:07,200 --> 01:19:08,720 What? 1001 01:19:11,760 --> 01:19:13,320 Nothing. Just... 1002 01:19:13,320 --> 01:19:15,560 You think we should discuss it, don't you? 1003 01:19:18,480 --> 01:19:20,360 No, not discuss. Just... 1004 01:19:22,120 --> 01:19:24,800 I'm getting on, Rupert. 1005 01:19:24,800 --> 01:19:27,520 Spirit of the age. Isn't that what you said? 1006 01:19:29,800 --> 01:19:31,160 Like an exploding shell? 1007 01:19:31,160 --> 01:19:32,960 A machine. 1008 01:19:37,120 --> 01:19:40,800 'It was strange, you know... 1009 01:19:40,800 --> 01:19:43,520 'under the water. 1010 01:19:43,520 --> 01:19:45,960 'It's so black and vast down there. 1011 01:19:49,320 --> 01:19:51,120 'A man...could be consumed. 1012 01:19:52,640 --> 01:19:54,280 'But on the surface? In the air? 1013 01:19:54,280 --> 01:19:56,160 'I am a machine, Rupert. 1014 01:19:58,000 --> 01:20:00,560 'I need fuelling, 1015 01:20:00,560 --> 01:20:02,680 'certain things to keep me oiled but... 1016 01:20:04,320 --> 01:20:05,840 '..that's it.' 1017 01:20:07,680 --> 01:20:09,400 After that... 1018 01:20:09,400 --> 01:20:11,120 I just carry on... 1019 01:20:14,360 --> 01:20:16,160 ..through everything. 1020 01:20:20,040 --> 01:20:21,720 Did you see? 1021 01:20:21,720 --> 01:20:23,440 He died trying to save her. 1022 01:20:26,640 --> 01:20:28,480 Yes, you said. 1023 01:20:32,200 --> 01:20:34,000 She would not have overpowered me. 1024 01:21:13,760 --> 01:21:18,120 Lass, come here. Oh, come here. 1025 01:21:18,120 --> 01:21:21,160 SHE CRIES 1026 01:21:22,120 --> 01:21:23,760 I never liked him. 1027 01:21:24,760 --> 01:21:26,320 Thick as pig shit. 1028 01:21:26,320 --> 01:21:27,720 SHE LAUGHS 1029 01:21:27,720 --> 01:21:30,320 And not half your wit. No! 1030 01:21:41,200 --> 01:21:43,440 Take care. You, too. 1031 01:21:59,520 --> 01:22:00,760 Mr Gerald. 1032 01:22:01,720 --> 01:22:05,280 Abby... I didn't expect to see you here. 1033 01:22:05,280 --> 01:22:07,760 My mother lives here. Arkwright Street. 1034 01:22:07,760 --> 01:22:09,160 Ah. 1035 01:22:10,160 --> 01:22:13,360 I'm so sorry...about Miss Diana. 1036 01:22:13,360 --> 01:22:15,520 Yes. Thank you. 1037 01:22:15,520 --> 01:22:17,320 Dreadful business. 1038 01:22:18,320 --> 01:22:19,960 Would you care for a drink? 1039 01:22:21,480 --> 01:22:23,480 Yates's is, er... 1040 01:22:23,480 --> 01:22:25,680 I think I could do with a... 1041 01:22:25,680 --> 01:22:27,560 a little something. 1042 01:22:27,560 --> 01:22:28,800 Only if you have time. 1043 01:22:28,800 --> 01:22:31,080 No, I should like that. 1044 01:22:38,000 --> 01:22:39,040 Thank you. 1045 01:23:01,240 --> 01:23:03,280 GUARD'S WHISTLE 1046 01:23:03,280 --> 01:23:07,280 APPROACHING TRAIN 1047 01:23:26,640 --> 01:23:28,360 Like a panther, she comes! 1048 01:23:29,880 --> 01:23:33,480 Champagne, Charlie. Put it on Maxim's account. 1049 01:23:33,480 --> 01:23:35,960 I thought you weren't back until tomorrow. 1050 01:23:37,280 --> 01:23:42,240 She's worn the poor bugger out. There were some difficulties. 1051 01:23:42,240 --> 01:23:43,920 You didn't go! 1052 01:23:43,920 --> 01:23:49,200 Oh, no, we went. We stayed in a wonderful hotel, in Brighton. 1053 01:23:49,200 --> 01:23:51,000 Huzzah! 1054 01:23:51,000 --> 01:23:52,800 Then we came back this morning. 1055 01:23:55,240 --> 01:23:56,280 You lying bitch. 1056 01:23:59,800 --> 01:24:03,240 He was back in my bed last night, after having had his fill with you. 1057 01:24:05,680 --> 01:24:09,760 Excuse me! No, I won't. 1058 01:24:09,760 --> 01:24:12,080 But he's gone now, dear Robert. 1059 01:24:12,080 --> 01:24:15,760 He left me a note to say how happy you made him. 1060 01:24:17,280 --> 01:24:21,920 He realised he could no longer continue his dull, sterile life, 1061 01:24:21,920 --> 01:24:25,160 so he was leaving for a new start. 1062 01:24:27,880 --> 01:24:32,080 This, dear children, is the whore who stole your father. 1063 01:24:32,080 --> 01:24:35,000 Madam, if you were a lady... Oh, I am a lady. 1064 01:24:35,000 --> 01:24:39,000 I was brought up properly, with manners and decency and loyalty. 1065 01:24:39,000 --> 01:24:41,680 Not to fuck my way into society. How dare you! 1066 01:24:41,680 --> 01:24:45,600 Oh, yes, I am a lady, which you, despite your fine clothes 1067 01:24:45,600 --> 01:24:48,920 and bottles of champagne, clearly, are not. 1068 01:24:48,920 --> 01:24:50,680 You're a common slut! 1069 01:24:52,600 --> 01:24:57,960 And judging by these faces staring at you, they know it, too. 1070 01:25:08,040 --> 01:25:09,360 SHE WHISPERS 1071 01:25:14,600 --> 01:25:20,760 1072 01:25:20,760 --> 01:25:27,280 they do things big 1073 01:25:27,280 --> 01:25:33,080 I've got a lover... 1074 01:28:09,120 --> 01:28:10,760 Dirty fucking queer! 1075 01:28:30,080 --> 01:28:33,960 Break, you bastard. Fucking break! 1076 01:28:41,000 --> 01:28:46,600 Break, you bastard. Fucking break! 1077 01:29:02,400 --> 01:29:04,000 Is that the best you can do? 1078 01:29:07,800 --> 01:29:09,440 Show me something else. 1079 01:29:10,840 --> 01:29:11,880 Something better! 1080 01:29:50,280 --> 01:29:53,320 Subtitles by Red Bee Media Ltd 1081 01:29:53,320 --> 01:29:56,360 Email subtitling@bbc.co.uk