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[Basil] New Trefelin,

a bigger and better new town to be built

right here, right where we're standing, in the place of the old.

[Sian] A supermarket, fancy that?

Well, I'll buy you one when I win the pools, girl.

We've got to do something bigger.

Something that will really hurt his stupid new town.

I'm pregnant... but I don't want to be.

Does Emlyn know?

No.

I'm on sick leave. Thanks to you.

Make the most of what you've got,

cos pretty soon

we're not going to have money for the roof over our heads.

Trust me, Mr. Graham.

One way or another, you will close that mine.

Or your life won't be worth living.

[grunts]

Can I offer you a lift, Mr. Griffiths?

Why? Do I look like a man on his last legs to you too, do I?

Not at all!

I've years of work left in me...

but try telling that to Doctor Sharma.

He wants to put me out to grass like

one of Ceri's old mares!

Do you know what I think?

That he needs his head examined?

I think you need a second opinion.

From Dr. Thomas.

My brother. Here.

Jump in.

[door opens]

Kamini, I... I know, I know, I'm sorry...

The lab are on the phone.

They said you'd called them

about Owen's test results?

Robert...

Roooooobert!

Wakey, wakey!

Basil...

Come on - get up.

I wasn't asleep.

I was getting in touch with my inner self.

Yes, well I need you to get in touch with Owen Griffiths.

Griffiths?

I've just come across him sounding off about

our Indian Doctor.

Seems he's got a bee in his bonnet

about Griffiths's health,

wants him to give up work.

I said you'd take a look at him, give him a second opinion.

I don't think I should be telling a sick man that he's well.

He's the mine foreman, Robert. You get him on our side

the whole of that pit could follow.

I can't abuse the trust of my patients.

Yes... But you haven't actually got any patients yet, have you?

He's a soul in need, Robert.

A simple villager trying to do the best for his family,

a man in need of a good doctor.

And just because he isn't in the first flush of youth,

Doctor Sharma's trying to pensioning him off.

But he's not the Doctor you are.

He hasn't got your imagination,

your way with patients, your touch.

Or your pills.

A couple of those and Griffiths will be a new man,

you know he will.

Even if your last practice

didn't quite see it that way.

But here's your chance to prove them wrong.

And begin your new practice,

yours, Robert, yours, and no-one else's,

with a real success story.

Now, get dressed.

I'll bring him in.

Oh, there was a call for you.

Someone called Graham.

Graham?

Did he leave a message?

Just said he could fix it.

He's going to find you in the hall later.

Good.

Is there a problem?

No. No problem at all.

Chop, chop.

How soon will the final results be ready?

Please, just get them to me as quickly as you can.

Thank you - good bye.

Still no news?

The sooner I get the results,

the sooner I can actually start treating him.

But, erm, it's not looking good.

[panting] Doctor Sharma, he doesn't understand.

Tell a man he's fit for nothing but the knackers yard

and that's where he'll be

before you can write a sick note for him.

[coughs]

You've some pills, your brother's been telling me.

Some sort of miracle pills.

- Miracle pills? - From what he was saying...

They're not exactly a cure for everything.

Let me try them at least.

For a trial period, say?

[gasping]

[whistles]

[sniffs]

[sniffs]

Whip and lick...

our Gina's favourite...

[phone rings]

...won't be a moment, telephone!

Hello - Trefelin Stores...

No, Ceri Joseph does not live here,

who is this?

Sorry, what pools?

Oh...

Can you hang on a minute?

I'll take this in the back.

Won't keep you long...

Doc...

[Prem] Daf?

Have...

Are you wearing make-up?

It's for the fancy dress.

Fancy dress?

The Revolutionary Party

of the South Wales Valleys.

- May Day Ball. - But it's July.

Not once the Revolution comes.

Then every day will be May Day...

...c'mon butt!

Right.

Oh, yes, you can tell me.

I'm Ceri's next of kin.

Sorry, can you say that again?

Could have been an accident I suppose.

[Basil] A what?

An electrical short maybe.

Sergeant, this is arson

and you don't need to be called Sherlock Holmes

to figure out who's behind it either:

Those two rebels without a clue, Daf and Aled.

If you don't believe me, just take a look at that fat one.

He's out there, right now,

prancing around like Danny La Rue!

Thank Goodness it didn't take hold.

You know,

this really is something, isn't it?

That's the new school.

Is it?

Cut above our old one, eh?

You know, I used to stand in our old playground

looking out over the village

dreaming that one day...

one day, I'd do it.

- Do what? - What I wanted to do

more than anything else in the whole wide world, Emlyn.

Make my father proud.

He cast a long shadow, Emlyn.

Gave Robert and myself a lot to live up to.

Well, like all fathers I suppose.

Mine was the village bobby before me.

A fine man.

Big shoes to fill.

But if our fathers were here now,

I believe they'd want more for us.

To live bigger,

better somehow.

Do you know what I see, Emlyn?

When I look at this?

A toy car and a toy house.

The future.

Our future.

Maybe yours too.

Has my special order come in?

Sian? From Cardiff?

Oh, I don't know, Mrs. Sharma.

D'you want to have a look?

You haven't unpacked yet?

I haven't had time.

- Special occasion is it? - Hmm?

The make-up?

This isn't make-up, Mrs. Sharma.

This is war paint.

[groans in frustration]

Is this a good time?

[laughs] Don't mind me...

Don't worry.

Kamini was all fingers and thumbs too.

For the first few months.

I had to go around clearing everything out of the way.

If there was a chair she'd bump into it,

if there was a vase, she'd knock it over.

It's normal.

It's normal to have doubts too.

I don't have doubts, not like that, Prem.

Not about the baby.

That's good, that's good.

[hums]

Ceri...

Sian!

I've been thinking about you, Ceri.

- Have you? - Now, I don't approve

of gambling, as you know.

But I was so moved by all you said

about treating me if ever,

by any slim chance,

you actually won anything.

I meant it. Every word.

And, so, I want to show you

just how grateful I am.

Oh.

Tomorrow evening?

My place?

Best bib and tucker.

It's just...

grey, Prem.

Every time I look forward,

everywhere I look I see grey skies,

grey town.

And when I think of the future, I see the baby, of course I do.

But I don't see me and Emlyn.

Tell me what to do.

Oh yes, much better.

Are you thinking of trading up, Sian?

Well, and strictly between me and you,

I'm considering a new business proposition.

To be honest with you, I never thought your original choice totally befitting.

Not for the lady who's about to run the most successful supermarket

this side of Cardiff.

Shw mai? Ti'n iawn, achan?

- Mr. Griffiths. - Basil.

- And how are you feeling now? - How do I look?

- Well. - Well? Top of the world.

Someone's started early today.

Haven't touched a drop.

Just been to see my new doctor, that's all.

Doctor Robert. Complete miracle worker.

Feel twenty years younger.

All that time going to see Dr. Sharma getting nowhere

feeling worse every day... Five minutes

with Doctor Robert

and I'm like a spring lamb again.

Just think, Sian.

If he could do all of that for me,

what he could do for you?

Now - let this new man

see this New Jerusalem of yours.

[Owen sighs]

String.

Check.

A gobstopper.

what's that doing in there?

Lighter fuel.

Check.

Aled, what is all this?

Last night was...

Painful?

Last night.

But tonight...

[Aled] Tonight's the big one.

Doctor Sharma!

Doctor!

Owen. I've been chasing up your blood test results.

There's no need for that, doctor, not any more.

But I do want to say, no hard feelings,

you've been a good friend to the family

and I'll always be grateful.

And Mrs. Sharma has been like

a second mother to my Dan.

So I hope you won't hold it against me.

Hold what against you?

That I'm with a different Doctor now.

Doctor Robert. Up at the Manor House.

Owen, we're in the middle of your tests.

You can't just do something like this.

But I'm within my rights, aren't I?

Yes, of course, but -

So if you could make sure that my records

are passed on to my new doctor.

Thank you. Thank you...

[Daf] Shouldn't something have happened by now?

Don't say it's gone out.

BANG!

[rooster crows]

[Basil] Well this was definitely not an accident.

So I think it's probably fair to say that

what happened to your display was probably no accident either.

Terrorists in Trefelin, Sergeant Dorkins,

and we both know who's to blame.

Those malcontents, Daf and Aled.

I think it's probably time I had a word.

We can't have saboteurs destroying our plans, Emlyn.

The people of Trefelin will have justice.

Excuse me.

So why haven't you?

Why haven't I what?

Married?

Come on, it's all been about me, since you got back,

but what about Robert?

Never met the right woman I suppose.

Or too many of the wrong ones?

[laughs] No surprises there, I guess.

Not like you.

Me?

Megan's still here, that's a surprise.

I thought she'd have left years ago.

Megan's married the local bobby.

That's a surprise too. I didn't expect that.

Still, at least Megan's happy.

Oh, hang on a minute,

I'm not so sure about that.

So? What's the truth about Megan?

And what's really wrong right now?

I think I'll probably get back.

Five minutes.

What?

Just give me five minutes.

What for?

I'll show you.

So what time does the last shift finish?

Seven o'clock.

I'll go down there an hour or so before.

The whole place is closing for maintenance anyway.

If anyone asks I'm just

doing a couple of safety checks.

They'll be too busy dreaming of a whole weekend off

to worry about you.

I'll do my best to make it look like an accident, of course,

but I still can't guarantee it won't look like sabotage.

I don't care if it does.

It might teach a couple of people a lesson.

Our two "freedom fighters", Daf and Aled.

You just do what I pay you to do.

Let me worry about... everything else.

[Megan] Robert!

Robert!

That's one thing that hasn't changed.

- What? - You'd always say it,

even when we were kids.

"Robert! Stop!"

"Don't push me any higher!"

[both laugh]

So I'd stop and you'd say:

Don't.

[she screams and laughs]

Oh...

Robert.

I know all I said,

but I am happy with Emlyn really, I am.

If you say so.

I do.

It makes it all more strange, that's all.

What does?

That you've a husband you're happy with,

waiting for you at home,

and you're here...

with your old boyfriend.

[Sian] Doctor Sharma,

can I have a word?

Of course, I'll be in the surgery later

- if there's a problem. - That's sort of the point.

I've decided it would be best

if I have a Welsh Doctor in the future.

Oh.

Doctor Robert in fact.

Oh...

Well, we are going to be living

and working together

in this New Town of theirs before long,

fellow-founding residents in fact,

so, eh, I think it would be best.

Ah, there you are.

I've got some news, Dan.

News that's going to change our lives.

Go on. Open it.

I've bought that house,

in the New Town.

- For us. - What about our house?

We're going to have a new one now.

I don't want a new one, I like this one.

But you'll like the new one a lot more.

- This was Mum's house. - If your mother was here,

she'd feel just the same.

What happens when you can't work anymore?

But I can work.

Doctor Robert says I can work.

In fact, I'm going in for the afternoon shift, right now.

Doctor Sharma said you shouldn't

Wff, I told Doctor Sharma I'm as fit as a flea.

- But that's not true... - Dan!

I'm not listening to another word,

understand?

[Emlyn] Megan...

Emlyn, we need to talk.

Not now...

I've got something to show you.

[Kamini] A penny for them?

It's what Sian always says when someone looks far away.

Penny for your thoughts.

Although I'd pay rather more for Sian's right now,

she's acting very strangely.

I know, she's decided to leave the Surgery

and join Robert Thomas.

- Sian? Why? - I don't know.

Ah, you know Sian, she'll be back.

Owen's left the surgery too.

- Oh! - And they're not the only ones.

It seems like New Trefelin wants a new doctor, a Welsh doctor.

This is our home, Kamini.

These are our friends.

All of a sudden, it feels like I'm living on a different planet,

I'm still with you.

Well?

Say something.

How dare you?

What?

How dare you, Emlyn?

This is one of the biggest houses,

I haven't stinted here, you know.

How could you go behind my back like this?

It's got central heating and everything.

Why would you even think

of making a decision like this without talking to me first?

- I thought you'd be pleased. - PLEASED?!

That you presume to know what I want?

Where and how I want to live?

But this is the future, Megan!

Yours and mine!

Megan?

We're man and wife, Megan.

[door slams]

[sighs]

My demob suit.

1946.

[farmyard noises]

Matching handkerchief.

Agh, well, well...

And hat. Right.

[chuckles]

Let's see.

Ugh...

[sighs with frustration]

Kamini, that's...

- Samosas? - And...

- Lassi! - And...

[laughs]

Where on earth did you find fresh Mango?

It's what we used to have when we were courting, remember?

We used to go to that little shop just off Connaught Place...

- Maharaja... - Maharaja's Coffee Emporium.

...Coffee Emporium.

And the last time we went there

we had...

Ha, ha, ha...

Balushahi!

Balushahi!

That night that we had the Balushahi,

that was the first time...

The first time, what?

You know, the first time I'd ever had Balushahi.

First time for me too.

That was some night...

Yes it was...

[knock on the door]

Oh, Ceri, come through.

Now, I've a rather special starter

and cawl for the main. I hope that's alright for you.

[Ceri] I've brought you a Babycham.

Babycham?

Unless you'd prefer beer.

I bought in some wine.

Wine?

Mateus Rose.

It's all the rage in London according to Basil,

they're all drinking it up there.

Decant it for us, will you, Ceri?

I'll just check on the dessert.

[Owen] You can tell there's a holiday coming.

One of the gaffers makes an appearance.

[laughter]

Mmmmmm.

What do you think?

It's a bit fruity. isn't it?

Tastes like pig swill to me.

Oh, Ceri.

Am I fighting a losing

- battle here? - What?

Trying to give you a taste for the finer things in life?

Oh, I wouldn't say that, Siani fach...

I remember something else about that night.

What, Balushahi night?

Me too. Oh... the moonlight.

Not the moonlight.

The crickets singing in the trees?

[laughs] Not the crickets.

- Was I on a diet? - No.

It was the first time we actually talked

that we could get married, have a family.

Do as we pleased, and no-one could stop us...

Come on.

Where to?

If we're going to talk,

we'll be much more comfortable lying down.

What is it?

Its a fondue!

You dip things into it.

Go on. Pick something.

Anything you fancy.

[she screams]

No, Ceri. No, I'm not saying no.

- Oh good. - And I'm not saying yes.

- What are you saying? - I'm saying...

a girl likes to be wooed.

Wooed?

Wooed.

So how do you... woo?

That, Ceri,

is for you

to find out.

[chuckles]

[phone rings]

[phone rings]

It's all set.

I've given the last of the miners a good hour to get out,

then up it goes.

So that would make it?

Eight o'clock.

Good.

No mistakes.

[knock at the door]

Might be a patient?

They can call back

during surgery hours.

[knocking continues]

- Might be an emergency. - No...

[knocking continues]

Look, I promise if it isn't not a patient -

and not an emergency I'll get rid of them, I promise.

It might be some desperate soul in real need.

I know how they feel.

[knocking at the door]

Emlyn?

Oh... Am I please to see you.

And... I'm here.

Something terrible's happened.

Something medical?

What? Oh, no no no.

An emergency?

Well, no, not exactly.

In that case...

Megan's thrown me out.

What?

We had a row.

About something?

Well, to be honest, I'm not sure

and I'm sure it'll blow over, but...

in the meantime,

can I stay here tonight?

Oh, Emlyn.

Oh, thank you Prem. Thank you!

[Emlyn] You've been such a great friend to me...

I...

- Shall we? - Yeah.

[miners joking]

[device ticks]

Kamini. it's Emlyn.

Yes... I heard...

I'm not interrupting your tea, am I?

No, no, no.

We were just moving on to dessert.

Well that's good,

because I had a big dinner.

That looks interesting...

That's Balushahi...

Try some...

[chat amongst miners]

[Owen] Ah... Oh.

Just a sec, boys.

[gasps]

[Owen coughs]

[miner] Have a drink, have a drink.

My pills.

[miner] Dan, go for the phone. call the medical room,

tell them Owen's collapsed.

Mmmm.

This is lovely.

Really lovely.

Hey, this wasn't some kind of special occasion, was it?

No, not at all.

Just like every other night in the Sharma household.

[Prem] What... what is the problem, Emlyn?

If I'm not intruding.

It's the New Town.

Well, at least the idea of us swapping our deeds

for a place in the New Town.

What's wrong with your old place?

Well I thought it was a good idea.

Those houses look lovely to me.

Megan doesn't agree.

Actually, neither does Prem.

[Kamini] And what Prem says goes.

Kamini...

Where we live, what we do...

Prem decides everything.

[Prem] I'm sure that Emlyn

knows that you have opinions of your own, Kamini.

Oh yes, yes, of course.

What Emlyn may not know is that they're not always listened to.

Ah...

Kamini does like her little jokes.

[laughs] Well I've nothing else to do, have I?

- That's hardly true. - Oh, I forgot.

There's the housework, cooking and cleaning.

[Emlyn] Well, you'll have a fair bit to do before long

from what Basil's been telling me.

Oh?

Congratulations, I'm very pleased for you.

[Emlyn] The new job.

Running Dr. Robert's medical practice.

Basil's told me all about it.

[phone rings]

Well,

it seems that you are perfectly capable

of making some decisions without asking me.

[phone continues ringing]

Erm... should I answer that?

Now all the pieces fall into place.

What this has all been about.

The dressing up, the fancy food,

the adolescent seduction techniques.

All just to soften me up.

How dare you say that?

You go around being Perfect Prem

with your "please love me charm"

when you never actually listen to anything I say.

I've tried to talk to you

but nothing as trivial as family could ever interest you,

not when your precious patients are there to be considered.

Mummy said 'be loving and sweet, maybe he'll listen'.

But I knew that was never going to work.

[Prem] Of course, your mother had to be involved.

This has her meddling fingerprints all over it.

- Prem? - Go on, Prem, run!

Someone else's whose needs are far more important

than your wife's.

[Emlyn] It's the colliery, Prem.

Owen's collapsed, he's in a bad way.

Owen's not my patient anymore.

They know that. But they can't find

Doctor Robert anywhere.

I'll get my things...

[Emlyn] I'll come with you. It's the least I can do.

- And I'll make up Dan's bed. - Thank you, Kamini.

For Prem.

[clock ticks]

[device ticks]

[breathes noisily]

[Emlyn] Thank you boys. You can go home now.

Doctor's here. He'll see to Owen.

He'll be fine once we've got him to the surface.

[gasps] Prem. I don't understand it.

One minute I felt fine, the next...

Don't worry, you don't have to, that's why I'm here.

[pants]

How is he?

He'll be better once we get him to the surface,

abetter still once we get him to a hospital.

You take one arm, I'll take the other.

[grunting]

[Emlyn] Easy, easy.

Take your time. Take your time.

[device ticks]

Hurry up, boys. Closing time.

[shouting]

[clock dings]

[rattling noises]

I just want to ask you to know how to,

woo a lady.

Woo?

Woo!

It's not too late you know...

For what?

For you and me to be together.

I've got something to tell you.

What?

You've won the pools.

We're trying to locate my husband.

Heent to see Dan's father at the mine last night.

Dr. Sharma went to the mine? Last night?

Yes, with Sergeant Dawkins.

You haven't seen them,

- have you? - No.

Megan. Have you seen Emlyn today?

I was going to ask you that.

Graham, you idiot! Didn't you check?

You'd better bloody well get over there and FIND OUT!