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<i>♪ Here comes the sun, little darling ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Here comes the sun ♪</i>

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<i>♪ And I say it's all right ♪</i>

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<i>♪ It's all right ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Here comes the sun, little darling ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Here comes the sun ♪</i>

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<i>♪ And I say it's all right ♪</i>

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<i>♪ It's all right ♪</i>

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<i>Dear Mr. Killion...</i>

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<i>...I feel strongly
about the inclusion on the plaque</i>

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<i>of those who helped with the conception
of Louise Brown, the first IVF baby.</i>

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<i>- I feel this especially about Jean Purdy...</i>
- Watch out!

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<i>...who travelled to Oldham with me
for the full ten years</i>

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<i>and contributed as much as we did
to the project.</i>

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<i>I was the biologist,</i>

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<i>Patrick, the obstetrician,</i>

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<i>and Jean...</i>

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<i>well, without her,</i>

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<i>none of this would have been possible.</i>

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Mind your back!

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Oh... bugger it.

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I'm here for an interview
with Dr. Edwards.

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He's midway through an experiment.
If you like, you can park in there.

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- That's kind. I like parking.
- Just, uh...

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Shall I move stuff?

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Do you mind if I use your radiator
to dry my shoe?

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Oh. I see you've been
researching Dr. Edwards.

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His work on
mammalian development is quite...

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Extraordinary. I know.

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If you're offended by unshod feet,
I suggest you look away.

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Oh damn. I have a hole in my tights.
You can see my toe.

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Oh. Two toes.

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Um...

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I'll let him know you're here.

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Yes, I see. Yes.

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See if we can
separate that from the plasma.

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Next candidate's here, Bob.

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Holy shit.

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Holy shit! Everyone, stop!

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Sylvia's escaped,
and I'd only just got her pregnant.

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Jesus, Bob.

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Please be careful where you stand.
She's worth more than your shoes.

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Sylvia.

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- Sylvia.
- She's there!

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- Whoop.
- Where? I can't see her.

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- There. Under the table.
- Oh, Sylvia.

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I know you're upset
about Patty giving birth.

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- Come on. Come on.
- It will happen for you too, Sylvia.

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I just need to make a few adjustments.

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If I hear a commotion,
I'm not very good at staying out of it.

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- Who are you?
- Jean Purdy.

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I'm here about the lab manager's post.

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You've only got one shoe on.

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The other shoe's
currently steaming in your office.

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Hmm. What's your secret for catching mice?

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Clean hands and patience. What's yours?

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I think
I've just offered you a job.

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But you don't know my skills.
My work in nursing and research.

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My PhDs are very thorough in weeding out
the best applicants. Can you drive?

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I trained to become a nurse
at Addenbrooke's Hospital.

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I've worked at Southampton Hospital.

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More recently, I've been at Papworth,
studying tissue rejection.

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Excellent. 8:00 a.m., don't be late.
We have an obstetrician to catch.

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Arun, please.
Sylvia back in the cage. Thank you.

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<i>One... two... One, two, three...</i>

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<i>♪ Oogum, oogum, boogum, boogum ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Boogum now, baby
You're castin' your spell on me ♪</i>

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<i>♪ I say, "Oogum, oogum, boogum" ♪</i>

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<i>♪ "Boogum, boogum now, baby
You're castin' your spell on me" ♪</i>

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<i>♪ You got me doin' funny things
Like a clown ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Just a-look at me ♪</i>

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<i>♪ I say now, "Who got the blues?"
Say, "Who got the blues?" ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Say, "Who got the blues now?"
Castin' your spell... ♪</i>

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Patrick Steptoe just published
the definitive guide to laparoscopy.

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The Medical Research Council
mostly hate him,

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but... I think,
with those keyhole-surgery skills,

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he will be
an excellent member of our team.

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Yes, this team,
which you've not yet explained to me.

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Oh, we're going to cure childlessness.

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We're going to help make babies.

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I've shocked you.

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I knew you were interested
in reproduction. I didn't...

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Terrific. It's going to be terrific!

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Now, if the ovaries
could be inspected beforehand...

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Thank you.

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...we would have
advance warning of endometriosis.

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We'd be able to see
how many eggs were growing.

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Now, the trouble is,
we have no clear method of doing so.

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Laparoscopy.

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So what I'd, um, like to advance today

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is the development of a new laparotomy,
one with the ability...

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Laparoscopy would be superior.

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The only way to visualize the ovaries
and get to the source of the endometriosis

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is with a laparotomy.

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Opening the abdomen
with a large cut... here...

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- ...or here.
- Nonsense. You're quite wrong.

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This is a lecture. Not a meeting.

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He's wasting time on inept science.

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This is the Royal Society, sir.

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A little respect for my "inept science"
might be due.

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A laparoscopy allows me
to see the ovaries, the fallopian tubes,

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and other parts of the reproductive tract

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without having to make anything more
than very small incisions in the skin.

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Laparoscopy is
an extremely dangerous technique.

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Your so-called surgery
involves poking around in the unknown

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without regard for the patient
or the disease.

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And this is not your lecture.

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Hear, hear!

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I know. I'm sorry. Please forgive me.

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But may I be allowed
just to prove my point

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with some slides...

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...that I happen to have with me?

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- Oh, Mr. Steptoe. Bob Edwards.
- Yes?

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We spoke on the phone a few months ago.

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I can't be expected
to remember every phone call, Mr. Edwards.

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Yes. If I could just have a minute.

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I'd be very interested
to hear about keyhole surgery.

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Sadly, I'm busy.

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Talking to <i>these</i> people
who banished you to Oldham?

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They hate you.

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This is Jean Purdy.
She'll be running our lab.

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Will she now? Good luck to you both.

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With your equipment,

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we'd be able to access a woman's ovaries
in the least invasive way.

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Oldham is an extremely good hospital,

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and there wasn't an appointment
in London available.

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Amazing how there were appointments
for your contemporaries,

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who they <i>did</i> like.

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Have you studied me?

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No, I have. She's repeating it to you
in an effort to get you to listen to me.

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A curious strategy, Jean.

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How did you
get around the heating problem?

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What heating problem?

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Look, I've gotta get back to Oldham.
I'm late for the 3:25. Write to me.

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3:25? That gives us a good half hour.
We'll walk with you.

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During the laparoscopy,
you need a light source for your camera.

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Otherwise, you are literally
poking around in the dark.

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But bulbs heat things up, so how are you
not cooking the insides of these women?

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West Germans have a laparoscope

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in which light is conducted
from a mirror projection lamp.

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No bulbs. No cooking.

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- Didn't I tell you he was brilliant?
- The West Germans are brilliant.

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We share the same aim. We want to address
the problem of infertility.

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Trouble is, your science has its limits,
and so does ours.

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Go ahead. Tell me my limits.

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I believe, you have just developed
a procedure to place sperm

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inside the fallopian tube.

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- Where'd you read that?
- It won't get results.

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Not substantial ones.
Why? Because sperm can't behave itself.

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But imagine if we could place
a fertilized egg inside that same tube.

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You remove an egg,

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using your marvelous equipment
and know-how.

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You give it to us,
we fertilize that egg outside the body,

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using our marvelous equipment
and know-how,

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and then you place it back inside.

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The chances of a successful pregnancy
will just go through the roof.

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Fertilizing an egg outside the b...
You truly believe you can do that?

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I don't have slides, but I'm close.

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Thank you.

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<i>...for the 5:35 service...</i>

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You teach at Cambridge, Dr. Edwards,
is that right?

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- I do.
- All my clinical material is in Oldham.

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Cambridge is... 200 miles away.

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Well, in the short term, we'll set up
at yours. It's only a four-hour drive.

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And in the long term, we'll get money
from the Medical Research Council

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and move you south.

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Uh, that is, if you're...
willing to be moved south.

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I could be... persuaded.

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We'll need women.

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Women willing
to contribute ovarian tissue.

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I have some hysterectomy patients

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who, if I explained what we're doing,
might help us.

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Ah. He's not just got the skills,
he's also got the contacts.

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You're aware they'll throw the book at us?

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The Church, the state, the world.

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We will unite them all against us.

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But we'll have the mothers.
The mothers <i>will</i> back us.

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Right, if I don't go now,
I'll miss the 5:25,

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and I'll never be home.

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Bob. Jean.

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Y-You're in?

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You're in, aren't you?

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We'll speak soon, I hope.

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Very good, Jean. Ooh! Very good!

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The snipes about Oldham, very useful.

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Hoo!

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You truly are impossible, aren't you?

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We're making
the impossible possible, Jean.

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We are. You'll see.

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Come on, Mum.

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You know Reverend Paulson doesn't like it
unless we're 30 minutes early.

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Come on, then.

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Slow coach.

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Let's make a bet.

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<i>♪ All things bright and beautiful ♪</i>

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<i>♪ All creatures great and small ♪</i>

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<i>♪ All things wise and wonderful ♪</i>

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<i>♪ The Lord God made them all ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Each little flower that opens ♪</i>

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- Keep your back straight.
- I'm not slouching.

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You <i>are</i> slouching.
You're not making the best of yourself.

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Here. Would you like an iced fancy?
Or perhaps a scone?

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What about me? Would he like me?
I taste nice, particularly when buttered.

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The way you talk.

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The way I talk is the way <i>you</i> talk
when you've had a few rum and blacks.

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- And you know that's right.
- Ooh. Hold on. I have your china.

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Oh.

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How you ladies take care of me.

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Oh, we have to take care of you.
You look thin.

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My fruit cake.

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Extra glacés, just for you.

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It was a fine service. I loved the sermon.

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- Thank you, Jean.
- Reverend.

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- Rum and blacks.
- I'm doing well, Mum. I am.

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All this, church,
it matters, it does, but...

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I think I can finally
feel my life changing, and I like it.

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Doesn't mean you should slouch.

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First we tried mice. Then rabbits.

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I even tested a wild hare.

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Libidinous as any creature on a hill,
but put 'em in a cage

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and you can't get 'em sexually aroused
for love nor toffee.

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And I'm sure you tried both.

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The mice have borne fruit.
The rabbits too.

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And then more recently,
with Barry Bavister...

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- Oh, we've had...
- "Barry Bavister"? That sounds made-up.

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He's a PhD who works in my lab.

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A whole year
he spent harvesting hamster eggs.

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Anyway, after he got 'em out, he put 'em
in a Petri dish with this new fluid,

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very alkaline, loaded with bicarbonate.

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With it, he's had some tremendous success.

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He harvests and bathes eggs
in alkaline and hamster sperm?

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And then places them
back inside the mother.

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And suddenly, we have
a whole host of hamster juniors.

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It's quite the thing.

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So all this rests on the hope

236
00:12:36,208 --> 00:12:40,000
that human women are like hamsters,
and Barry's serum can work for them too?

237
00:12:40,083 --> 00:12:42,416
Mm-hmm. The noble rodent leads the way.

238
00:12:54,250 --> 00:12:56,791
Just another 52 miles to Manchester,

239
00:12:56,875 --> 00:12:58,666
followed by another eight on top
to Oldham.

240
00:12:58,750 --> 00:13:00,041
We are almost there.

241
00:13:00,125 --> 00:13:02,958
And you are like a schoolboy
on his first day at school.

242
00:13:03,041 --> 00:13:05,416
That is because
it <i>is</i> my first day at school.

243
00:13:06,416 --> 00:13:13,041
<i>♪ I need your sweet inspiration ♪</i>

244
00:13:15,875 --> 00:13:18,125
<i>♪ I need you here on my mind ♪</i>

245
00:13:19,458 --> 00:13:22,666
<i>♪ Every hour of the day ♪</i>

246
00:13:23,791 --> 00:13:30,791
<i>♪ Without your sweet inspiration... ♪</i>

247
00:13:31,541 --> 00:13:33,291
Says Kershaw's is around the back.

248
00:13:33,791 --> 00:13:39,416
<i>♪ To go on livin'
To keep on givin' this way ♪</i>

249
00:13:40,791 --> 00:13:42,500
<i>♪ I need your ♪</i>

250
00:13:42,583 --> 00:13:44,833
<i>- ♪ Sweet inspiration ♪
- ♪ I said ♪</i>

251
00:13:44,916 --> 00:13:46,791
<i>- ♪ Sweet inspiration ♪
- ♪ Come on, baby ♪</i>

252
00:13:46,875 --> 00:13:49,083
<i>- ♪ Sweet inspiration ♪
- ♪ Gimme your... ♪</i>

253
00:13:49,875 --> 00:13:53,541
<i>Porter to the main entrance,
please. Porter to the main entrance.</i>

254
00:13:53,625 --> 00:13:56,083
Is that damp?

255
00:13:56,166 --> 00:14:00,625
It's not damp. It just rained recently.
And who might you be?

256
00:14:00,708 --> 00:14:02,791
This is Dr. Edwards. I'm Jean Purdy.

257
00:14:02,875 --> 00:14:05,416
Oh yes. Mr. Steptoe told me about you.

258
00:14:06,000 --> 00:14:09,166
I'm Matron.
You need a laboratory, apparently.

259
00:14:09,750 --> 00:14:10,750
Come on.

260
00:14:32,541 --> 00:14:34,541
I thought this might do the trick.

261
00:14:50,958 --> 00:14:52,000
Looks perfect.

262
00:14:52,708 --> 00:14:53,708
Wonderful.

263
00:14:54,291 --> 00:14:55,500
If you'll excuse me.

264
00:15:22,875 --> 00:15:25,833
Needle now going into the ovary.

265
00:15:26,791 --> 00:15:28,375
Gentle aspiration, please.

266
00:15:32,208 --> 00:15:36,666
A good follicle
with hopefully one good... egg.

267
00:15:38,750 --> 00:15:40,458
Are they standing by?

268
00:15:40,541 --> 00:15:43,208
He's standing just outside the door,
Mr. Steptoe.

269
00:15:46,791 --> 00:15:48,791
Hmm.

270
00:16:04,166 --> 00:16:06,291
- We've got one follicle.
- Good.

271
00:16:09,833 --> 00:16:13,291
Let's find that egg,
dip it in Barry's magic medium,

272
00:16:13,375 --> 00:16:14,958
then add it to the sperm.

273
00:16:15,458 --> 00:16:16,458
Wait.

274
00:16:18,208 --> 00:16:19,208
What? Why?

275
00:16:22,375 --> 00:16:23,958
It's a first, that's all.

276
00:16:26,458 --> 00:16:27,583
First of many.

277
00:16:59,750 --> 00:17:01,333
We got the egg.

278
00:17:04,833 --> 00:17:05,833
Good.

279
00:17:12,833 --> 00:17:15,875
I still don't understand
why you have anything to brag about.

280
00:17:15,958 --> 00:17:18,083
We have absolutely nothing
to brag about.

281
00:17:18,166 --> 00:17:21,500
Then why place a piece
in a scientific journal like <i>Nature?</i>

282
00:17:21,583 --> 00:17:24,041
Because we are <i>close</i>
to having something to brag about.

283
00:17:24,125 --> 00:17:27,541
We're confident that, soon enough,
we'll be ready to work with women.

284
00:17:27,625 --> 00:17:30,785
- The way he says "women," d'you see?
- What's wrong with the way I say "women"?

285
00:17:30,833 --> 00:17:32,291
I entirely agree.

286
00:17:32,375 --> 00:17:34,583
You would say "mice"
in exactly the same way.

287
00:17:34,666 --> 00:17:37,791
- I... happen to like mice.
- Much more than you like women.

288
00:17:37,875 --> 00:17:39,208
Almost as much as I like women.

289
00:17:39,291 --> 00:17:41,166
May I remind you
how many daughters you have?

290
00:17:41,250 --> 00:17:44,375
I am absolutely certain
I have more mice than I have daughters.

291
00:17:46,250 --> 00:17:47,250
I'll get it.

292
00:17:48,541 --> 00:17:50,500
- Wait. I'm gonna answer.
- Thank you, darling.

293
00:17:50,583 --> 00:17:54,166
Only two show pronuclei. Two of 56.

294
00:17:54,250 --> 00:17:56,833
That's less than 4%.
This is from your own paper.

295
00:17:56,916 --> 00:17:59,000
Eighteen showed signs of fertilization.

296
00:17:59,083 --> 00:18:03,000
And that's when solely working with
donated eggs from hysterectomy patients.

297
00:18:03,083 --> 00:18:05,500
When we actually start working
with the women, the results...

298
00:18:05,583 --> 00:18:07,333
Ah! She says "women" the same way he does.

299
00:18:08,333 --> 00:18:10,625
The results, we hope, could be incredible.

300
00:18:10,708 --> 00:18:12,458
Please don't take offence, Jean.

301
00:18:12,541 --> 00:18:14,875
Maggie regards ripping me to pieces
as her Sunday sport.

302
00:18:14,958 --> 00:18:18,333
Look, I am just pointing out
that you seem to prefer writing journalism

303
00:18:18,416 --> 00:18:20,208
to making good science, so...

304
00:18:20,291 --> 00:18:22,833
It's a man about the windows.

305
00:18:22,916 --> 00:18:24,458
He wants to speak to you, Dad.

306
00:18:24,541 --> 00:18:26,791
- Windows?
- Mm.

307
00:18:27,958 --> 00:18:29,291
Wait. I...

308
00:18:29,375 --> 00:18:31,875
Come on, Maggie. You know the drill.

309
00:18:31,958 --> 00:18:35,375
You write, you promise more,
and then when they're tantalized enough,

310
00:18:35,458 --> 00:18:37,178
you take it
to the Medical Research Council.

311
00:18:37,208 --> 00:18:40,458
This is how they get the support
to leave bloody Oldham behind.

312
00:18:40,541 --> 00:18:42,166
Oh, if Kershaw's is so awful,

313
00:18:42,250 --> 00:18:44,291
then they should just
take the hint and give up.

314
00:18:45,500 --> 00:18:47,833
- Bloody idiots!
- What's up, Bob?

315
00:18:47,916 --> 00:18:50,500
- Who was it? Hmm?
- It was the... the <i>Mirror.</i>

316
00:18:51,500 --> 00:18:55,291
Th... they want a quote
as to whether I'm Dr. Frankenstein or not.

317
00:18:55,875 --> 00:18:57,833
He said it was about the windows.

318
00:18:59,166 --> 00:19:02,166
Bob, I will give you extra custard
if you sit down again.

319
00:19:02,250 --> 00:19:03,750
You're scaring the children.

320
00:19:05,458 --> 00:19:08,666
<i>He's used to a few bricks,
to the establishment hating him.</i>

321
00:19:09,250 --> 00:19:12,708
- I daresay he enjoys it a bit.
- He wants to be slandered?

322
00:19:12,791 --> 00:19:15,291
I honestly think
he considers it part of his role.

323
00:19:15,791 --> 00:19:18,083
Fighting the fights
for reproductive medicine.

324
00:19:18,750 --> 00:19:21,291
For mothers and women... etc.

325
00:19:23,250 --> 00:19:24,250
This is me.

326
00:19:27,041 --> 00:19:28,541
Would you like me to come up?

327
00:19:29,208 --> 00:19:30,208
Come up?

328
00:19:30,833 --> 00:19:33,750
I mean to say, I'm attracted to you,
if you are to me.

329
00:19:34,458 --> 00:19:36,625
I hope you're attracted to me.
I can't tell.

330
00:19:37,583 --> 00:19:38,666
Sorry.

331
00:19:39,833 --> 00:19:40,833
Not at all.

332
00:19:41,708 --> 00:19:44,041
Worth asking, I hope?
I mean, no harm done?

333
00:19:44,125 --> 00:19:45,750
None at all. I'm flattered.

334
00:19:46,708 --> 00:19:48,666
Jolly good. Goodbye, then.

335
00:19:54,125 --> 00:19:56,791
If you promise not to become attached,
we can have sex.

336
00:19:56,875 --> 00:19:57,875
Oh!

337
00:19:58,666 --> 00:20:00,625
Yes. Definitely.

338
00:20:02,416 --> 00:20:03,833
- I promise.
- Good.

339
00:20:15,416 --> 00:20:17,541
I don't believe
this will cause any damage,

340
00:20:17,625 --> 00:20:20,458
but it's also worth saying
that I don't think this will result

341
00:20:20,541 --> 00:20:21,833
in a baby for you.

342
00:20:22,708 --> 00:20:23,708
I'm... I'm sorry?

343
00:20:23,791 --> 00:20:26,541
I don't think
there's much chance of success.

344
00:20:26,625 --> 00:20:28,305
<i>I think it's important that you know that.</i>

345
00:20:28,375 --> 00:20:31,666
So... I don't understand.
Why should we do it?

346
00:20:31,750 --> 00:20:35,041
Because it might mean
that others do... have babies.

347
00:20:42,375 --> 00:20:46,416
I can live in hope though, right?
I can believe that I might get a chance?

348
00:20:46,500 --> 00:20:48,291
I think it's unlikely, but...

349
00:20:49,041 --> 00:20:50,541
I just want a baby.

350
00:20:50,625 --> 00:20:53,541
<i>You're supposed to be a nurse.</i>

351
00:20:53,625 --> 00:20:56,833
I'm in research, Mum.
I have been for quite some time.

352
00:20:56,916 --> 00:20:59,083
People are sick.
You make them better.

353
00:20:59,166 --> 00:21:01,666
Bob says infertility is a medical problem.

354
00:21:01,750 --> 00:21:03,583
Making babies in test tubes?

355
00:21:03,666 --> 00:21:06,291
Making babies for mothers that need them.

356
00:21:06,958 --> 00:21:11,583
"Isaac prayed to the Lord on behalf
of his wife because she was barren."

357
00:21:12,291 --> 00:21:15,625
"The Lord answered him,
and his wife Rebekah conceived."

358
00:21:15,708 --> 00:21:17,916
Genesis, chapter 25, verse 21.

359
00:21:19,958 --> 00:21:21,916
- Prayer's the answer, is it?
- Sh-sh!

360
00:21:22,583 --> 00:21:23,750
Let it steep.

361
00:21:28,458 --> 00:21:33,541
Jean, you're young. You don't understand.
But you can't play God with this.

362
00:21:34,750 --> 00:21:38,250
How do you feel
about spectacles and false teeth?

363
00:21:39,625 --> 00:21:43,125
You'd rather people be blind
or unable to eat anything but soup?

364
00:21:43,208 --> 00:21:44,708
That's what God wants, is it?

365
00:21:44,791 --> 00:21:46,416
- Bob says...
- Oh, "Bob says."

366
00:21:46,916 --> 00:21:48,291
<i>Bob</i> says!

367
00:21:48,375 --> 00:21:51,375
- He has a way of putting things.
- Then there's the other one.

368
00:21:52,750 --> 00:21:54,291
He's an abortionist.

369
00:21:54,375 --> 00:21:57,541
Your surgeon. Steptoe.
It says so in the paper.

370
00:22:00,291 --> 00:22:02,666
You didn't know that, did you?

371
00:22:02,750 --> 00:22:05,625
Playing God at one end,
the devil at the other.

372
00:22:08,416 --> 00:22:11,000
- That's legal now.
- Doesn't make it right.

373
00:22:12,250 --> 00:22:17,000
I'm not... performing abortions, Mum.
And I'm proud of what I'm doing.

374
00:22:17,083 --> 00:22:18,416
Well, thank the Lord.

375
00:22:19,291 --> 00:22:22,541
Let's hope that you have
enough pride for the both of us,

376
00:22:22,625 --> 00:22:25,333
because I've got nothing
but despair right now.

377
00:22:27,750 --> 00:22:30,500
If you could hear how I boasted about you.

378
00:22:30,583 --> 00:22:34,458
All your qualifications.
And this is what you do with it?

379
00:22:35,208 --> 00:22:36,208
This sin?

380
00:22:39,958 --> 00:22:41,166
I'm helping people.

381
00:22:43,125 --> 00:22:45,250
Reverend Paulson has advised

382
00:22:46,166 --> 00:22:47,666
that you don't come to church.

383
00:22:47,750 --> 00:22:49,250
That's not his decision.

384
00:22:50,958 --> 00:22:53,625
He's speaking... our vicar,

385
00:22:54,583 --> 00:22:56,166
on behalf of many people.

386
00:22:57,708 --> 00:22:59,458
And, Jean...

387
00:23:01,500 --> 00:23:02,958
I can't have you come here.

388
00:23:05,208 --> 00:23:06,500
Mum, you can't mean that.

389
00:23:08,208 --> 00:23:10,416
If you choose this over me...

390
00:23:12,750 --> 00:23:15,875
then absolutely... I do.

391
00:23:18,166 --> 00:23:22,333
Thing is though, Mum,
<i>this</i> isn't asking me to choose.

392
00:23:22,416 --> 00:23:23,416
<i>You</i> are.

393
00:23:27,250 --> 00:23:28,930
<i>From research on rats and mice,</i>

394
00:23:28,958 --> 00:23:32,541
<i>some scientists insist there could be
a greater risk of abnormality</i>

395
00:23:32,625 --> 00:23:35,416
<i>when fertilization takes place
outside the body.</i>

396
00:23:35,916 --> 00:23:37,416
<i>Edwards and Steptoe, however,</i>

397
00:23:37,500 --> 00:23:41,541
<i>say even the latest research has produced
no credible evidence of abnormality.</i>

398
00:23:43,041 --> 00:23:43,916
Thank you.

399
00:23:59,250 --> 00:24:00,250
The sausage,

400
00:24:01,500 --> 00:24:03,333
over 5,000 years old.

401
00:24:04,041 --> 00:24:06,750
You know, there were remnants found
in Egyptian tombs.

402
00:24:07,291 --> 00:24:09,708
They used to stuff
their leftover meat scraps

403
00:24:09,791 --> 00:24:11,125
into cow intestines.

404
00:24:19,041 --> 00:24:21,416
You are aware
I'm really not good with silence?

405
00:24:22,416 --> 00:24:23,916
So get good with it.

406
00:24:30,250 --> 00:24:31,833
<i>Right. I think that's everyone.</i>

407
00:24:31,916 --> 00:24:36,583
We'll need you to report daily
to Kershaw's for your hormone injection.

408
00:24:36,666 --> 00:24:38,541
This is to stimulate your egg production.

409
00:24:38,625 --> 00:24:40,291
Once we have stimulated it,

410
00:24:40,375 --> 00:24:43,166
we'll harvest your eggs
and add your husband's sperm.

411
00:24:43,250 --> 00:24:46,750
If fertilization occurs,
we'll implant the embryo into you.

412
00:24:47,958 --> 00:24:49,750
If you have any concerns, do raise them.

413
00:24:53,333 --> 00:24:54,333
"Kathy Gibson."

414
00:24:57,541 --> 00:24:58,541
We'll start with you.

415
00:25:04,541 --> 00:25:07,458
We will be injecting
into your bottom today,

416
00:25:07,541 --> 00:25:10,791
so if you could lower your skirt
and tights and lean over the bed.

417
00:25:10,875 --> 00:25:11,875
Okay.

418
00:25:15,833 --> 00:25:18,125
You are either with us
or you're not.

419
00:25:18,208 --> 00:25:19,541
Not today, Muriel, please.

420
00:25:19,625 --> 00:25:23,541
If it's a boy, leave him at the door.
If it's money trouble, maybe we can help.

421
00:25:23,625 --> 00:25:25,665
If it's something more serious,
we're in a hospital.

422
00:25:25,708 --> 00:25:28,000
I really don't want
a lecture right now, Muriel.

423
00:25:28,083 --> 00:25:29,083
Matron.

424
00:25:30,291 --> 00:25:32,250
I am Matron.

425
00:25:33,333 --> 00:25:37,083
You may dismiss it as a title,
but it means the world to me.

426
00:25:40,958 --> 00:25:43,750
I didn't know you did abortions, Matron.

427
00:25:43,833 --> 00:25:45,750
I'm a Christian. My mother would...

428
00:25:45,833 --> 00:25:47,750
The other consultants say no.

429
00:25:48,666 --> 00:25:50,375
So Mr. Steptoe has to do them all.

430
00:25:50,458 --> 00:25:51,833
But he doesn't... have to.

431
00:25:53,625 --> 00:25:56,208
Do you know how many girls
come in here with their insides torn

432
00:25:56,291 --> 00:25:58,500
because they've gone
to a man on a street corner?

433
00:26:01,708 --> 00:26:02,791
I didn't think so.

434
00:26:04,041 --> 00:26:06,083
I thought we were here to <i>make</i> babies.

435
00:26:06,958 --> 00:26:08,083
Well, you're wrong.

436
00:26:09,250 --> 00:26:12,083
We are here to give women choice.

437
00:26:12,166 --> 00:26:13,791
Every choice.

438
00:26:14,583 --> 00:26:19,291
That's all that matters to me,
and it should be all that matters to you.

439
00:26:21,916 --> 00:26:24,083
So buck up.

440
00:26:27,458 --> 00:26:30,083
<i>Please welcome
controversial biologist</i>

441
00:26:30,166 --> 00:26:31,333
<i>Dr. Robert Edwards.</i>

442
00:26:31,416 --> 00:26:34,583
<i>So, Dr. Edwards, what do you think
of Professor Watson's claim</i>

443
00:26:34,666 --> 00:26:38,166
<i>that what you're doing here
is extremely dangerous?</i>

444
00:26:38,250 --> 00:26:41,500
<i>That it may lead to a future
in which humans could be manufactured?</i>

445
00:26:41,583 --> 00:26:44,166
<i>You make us sound
like we're making... sausages.</i>

446
00:26:44,250 --> 00:26:46,958
<i>This is one of
our leading scientists, who, with DNA,</i>

447
00:26:47,041 --> 00:26:49,708
<i>made one of the key discoveries
of our age, whereas you,</i>

448
00:26:49,791 --> 00:26:54,291
<i>with all due respect, seem to have
promised a lot and delivered... very little.</i>

449
00:26:54,375 --> 00:26:56,958
<i>I'm not dismissing
James Watson or his achievements.</i>

450
00:26:57,041 --> 00:26:59,333
<i>So is this all
just about stirring the pot?</i>

451
00:26:59,416 --> 00:27:01,791
<i>- Are you... just seeking attention?
- No.</i>

452
00:27:01,875 --> 00:27:03,000
<i>No. No.</i>

453
00:27:03,083 --> 00:27:06,791
<i>Consider spectacles
or... or false teeth.</i>

454
00:27:06,875 --> 00:27:09,458
<i>- That's what we're...</i>
- Bloody spectacles.

455
00:27:11,375 --> 00:27:12,500
Mum, it's me.

456
00:27:15,625 --> 00:27:17,583
I brought some of that pickle you like.

457
00:27:21,125 --> 00:27:22,708
I'll just leave it by the door.

458
00:27:34,541 --> 00:27:37,708
<i>I'm just saying, there's a limit
to what you should put yourself through.</i>

459
00:27:37,791 --> 00:27:41,791
- Bob puts himself through it too.
- Bob is made of a particularly hard metal.

460
00:27:42,291 --> 00:27:45,458
Impervious to... well, lots of things.

461
00:27:45,541 --> 00:27:48,041
And he has support. It's not just you.

462
00:27:49,541 --> 00:27:52,500
Ruth herself is a fine scientist,
and then there's...

463
00:27:54,666 --> 00:27:56,041
I'm working in bloods.

464
00:27:56,916 --> 00:28:00,500
I'm actually working in bloods with Bob.
That could be his breakthrough.

465
00:28:00,583 --> 00:28:01,875
IVF could fail.

466
00:28:02,583 --> 00:28:05,333
Then how would you feel... about...

467
00:28:06,750 --> 00:28:08,208
about what this has cost you?

468
00:28:09,500 --> 00:28:12,041
- I'm committed.
- And that's wonderful.

469
00:28:12,708 --> 00:28:16,125
But... you're also a daughter, and, uh...

470
00:28:17,416 --> 00:28:18,416
Then there's me.

471
00:28:19,041 --> 00:28:22,125
Can we just play
and talk about this another day?

472
00:28:24,958 --> 00:28:26,638
Hope I score points for trying.

473
00:28:27,625 --> 00:28:29,708
You always score points for trying, Arun.

474
00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:35,000
- Think I win.
- Yes, I see that.

475
00:28:42,708 --> 00:28:45,125
Whoa. A-ha. You caught me.

476
00:28:45,625 --> 00:28:47,833
Can I get you anything?

477
00:28:48,583 --> 00:28:49,958
No.

478
00:28:50,541 --> 00:28:54,166
It was just a temporary...
closing of the eyes.

479
00:29:01,125 --> 00:29:02,125
Patrick.

480
00:29:03,500 --> 00:29:04,500
You aren't

481
00:29:05,791 --> 00:29:08,083
exhausting yourself with all this? It is...

482
00:29:08,583 --> 00:29:10,791
I am not......exhausted.

483
00:29:10,875 --> 00:29:13,750
How dare you!

484
00:29:17,500 --> 00:29:20,375
You promised me a fine retirement.

485
00:29:21,333 --> 00:29:24,083
Full of... good wine and holidays.

486
00:29:25,166 --> 00:29:28,291
Don't drain yourself dry
before we get to that point, will you?

487
00:29:28,375 --> 00:29:30,375
Please, sit with me.

488
00:29:32,416 --> 00:29:33,416
Come.

489
00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:46,666
I look forward to that too.

490
00:29:48,333 --> 00:29:49,333
But this,

491
00:29:50,791 --> 00:29:52,791
what we're... what we're doing...

492
00:29:56,166 --> 00:29:57,208
it matters.

493
00:29:57,958 --> 00:29:59,041
Mm.

494
00:30:04,250 --> 00:30:07,041
Stupid.

495
00:30:12,750 --> 00:30:15,416
You've considered
upping the CO2 levels?

496
00:30:15,500 --> 00:30:17,125
As we culture the oocytes?

497
00:30:17,791 --> 00:30:21,750
Is it worth... You're at 5%.
Is it worth trying 8%, perhaps?

498
00:30:21,833 --> 00:30:23,958
Oh, I like that. We could.

499
00:30:25,041 --> 00:30:28,083
And you're still confident
in Barry Bavister's miracle solution?

500
00:30:28,166 --> 00:30:30,083
I'm currently confident
in everyone but myself.

501
00:30:30,166 --> 00:30:31,666
You did fine.

502
00:30:31,750 --> 00:30:32,750
"Sausages."

503
00:30:33,666 --> 00:30:36,541
I could have done better
than bloody sausages.

504
00:30:36,625 --> 00:30:39,833
- You did fine.
- I just... This...

505
00:30:41,000 --> 00:30:42,000
This is...

506
00:30:44,208 --> 00:30:46,750
They're looking to me to lead. I just n...

507
00:30:47,333 --> 00:30:48,333
just need to lead.

508
00:31:05,708 --> 00:31:10,166
<i>♪ Now is the time for all good men
To get together with one another... ♪</i>

509
00:31:10,250 --> 00:31:11,500
Uh, Neil Robinson.

510
00:31:11,583 --> 00:31:14,000
<i>♪ Iron out their problems
And iron out their quarrels ♪</i>

511
00:31:14,083 --> 00:31:16,416
<i>- ♪ And try to live as brothers... ♪</i>
- Hi. John Graham.

512
00:31:16,500 --> 00:31:19,833
<i>♪ And try hard to find peace within
Without stepping on... ♪</i>

513
00:31:19,916 --> 00:31:21,125
Peter Walker.

514
00:31:21,750 --> 00:31:22,583
Thank you.

515
00:31:22,666 --> 00:31:27,333
<i>♪ And do respect the women of the world
Just remember we all had mothers ♪</i>

516
00:31:28,333 --> 00:31:30,000
<i>♪ I know we can make it ♪</i>

517
00:31:31,125 --> 00:31:33,708
<i>♪ I know darn well we can work it out ♪</i>

518
00:31:33,791 --> 00:31:35,666
<i>♪ Oh yes, we can, I know we can, can ♪</i>

519
00:31:35,750 --> 00:31:39,500
<i>♪ Yes, we can, can, why can't we?
If we wanna, yes, we can, can ♪</i>

520
00:31:39,583 --> 00:31:44,916
<i>♪ I know we can make it work
I know we can make it if we try ♪</i>

521
00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:46,750
<i>♪ Oh yes, we can, I know we can, can ♪</i>

522
00:31:46,833 --> 00:31:50,375
<i>♪ Yes, we can, great gosh almighty
Yes, we can, I know we can, can... ♪</i>

523
00:31:50,458 --> 00:31:51,791
Ooh. Bastard.

524
00:31:55,750 --> 00:31:57,583
Can't help feeling like cattle.

525
00:31:58,750 --> 00:31:59,750
Sorry?

526
00:32:01,458 --> 00:32:03,166
It's not Mr. Steptoe's fault.

527
00:32:04,166 --> 00:32:07,000
He's a busy man.
He's kind when you've got his attention.

528
00:32:07,083 --> 00:32:09,416
But when we come in here, no offense,

529
00:32:09,500 --> 00:32:12,083
but... you don't look
exactly happy to see us.

530
00:32:12,791 --> 00:32:13,708
Don't I?

531
00:32:13,791 --> 00:32:15,625
And you are looking at my bum

532
00:32:15,708 --> 00:32:18,250
a lot of the time
when you do... look unhappy.

533
00:32:28,250 --> 00:32:29,458
Jean, are you in here?

534
00:32:31,541 --> 00:32:32,541
Jean?

535
00:32:33,583 --> 00:32:35,750
Bob, this is the ladies' toilets.

536
00:32:35,833 --> 00:32:37,500
I know, I know. I'm sorry.

537
00:32:37,583 --> 00:32:38,583
It's just,

538
00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:41,000
uh, there's something you need to see.

539
00:32:55,291 --> 00:32:56,375
It's beautiful.

540
00:33:01,250 --> 00:33:04,500
- Whatever's happening to you...
- Nothing's happening to me.

541
00:33:13,416 --> 00:33:14,916
How many cells are there?

542
00:33:16,458 --> 00:33:20,708
Seventy human cells
growing outside the uterus in one embryo.

543
00:33:20,791 --> 00:33:23,416
Stage one complete.

544
00:33:24,750 --> 00:33:26,875
This is it.
We can get our funding now.

545
00:33:26,958 --> 00:33:30,833
No more endless trips to Oldham.
No more separation from Ruth and the kids.

546
00:33:30,916 --> 00:33:33,583
No more just... getting by.

547
00:33:33,666 --> 00:33:34,750
Everything...

548
00:33:35,833 --> 00:33:38,041
everything... changes from here.

549
00:33:41,750 --> 00:33:46,583
The Medical Research Council has to judge
both whether the work is possible

550
00:33:46,666 --> 00:33:49,708
and whether the work
is in the interest of science.

551
00:33:49,791 --> 00:33:53,125
For instance, have you considered
the concerns about the normality

552
00:33:53,208 --> 00:33:56,541
of the children which may be born
if successes were ever achieved?

553
00:33:56,625 --> 00:33:58,750
Uh, name me one scientific advancement

554
00:33:58,833 --> 00:34:01,458
that has not raised concerns
when it comes to...

555
00:34:01,541 --> 00:34:03,875
And then
there's the societal question.

556
00:34:04,500 --> 00:34:08,458
We at the Medical Research Council
have expended considerable resources

557
00:34:08,541 --> 00:34:10,833
looking into the problem
of overpopulation.

558
00:34:10,916 --> 00:34:15,208
No doubt. If I may...
that is an entirely different argument.

559
00:34:15,291 --> 00:34:18,125
You deny overpopulation is a problem?

560
00:34:18,208 --> 00:34:21,541
No, what I take issue with
is the infertile being penalized

561
00:34:21,625 --> 00:34:23,291
by the profligacy of the fertile.

562
00:34:23,375 --> 00:34:25,500
Infertility is a scientific problem.

563
00:34:25,583 --> 00:34:29,208
So is overpopulation.
But neither is the answer to the other.

564
00:34:29,291 --> 00:34:31,916
You always speak so well, Dr. Edwards.

565
00:34:32,583 --> 00:34:35,291
I do enjoy your appearances on Radio 4.

566
00:34:35,375 --> 00:34:40,000
Which brings us to the issue
of how many this will truly benefit.

567
00:34:40,083 --> 00:34:44,000
This is a very specific problem,
which, let's face it,

568
00:34:44,083 --> 00:34:46,416
only affects a very small number of women.

569
00:34:46,500 --> 00:34:47,833
A small number?

570
00:34:48,666 --> 00:34:51,333
What you may not appreciate, Ms. Purdy,

571
00:34:51,416 --> 00:34:54,125
is that we serve
the entire scientific community.

572
00:34:54,208 --> 00:34:56,166
Tell me, doctor,
would this excite you more

573
00:34:56,250 --> 00:34:58,125
if it had a more masculine profile?

574
00:34:58,208 --> 00:35:00,583
Oh, come now,
let's not be reductive.

575
00:35:00,666 --> 00:35:04,833
What you are offering...
may seem exciting to you,

576
00:35:06,083 --> 00:35:08,125
may be exciting to the media,

577
00:35:08,208 --> 00:35:10,875
but is it exciting for science as a whole?

578
00:35:10,958 --> 00:35:11,958
Yes.

579
00:35:14,083 --> 00:35:17,166
At the MRC,
the question we're constantly asking is,

580
00:35:17,250 --> 00:35:21,750
"Will this contribute to our understanding
of how we live in this world?"

581
00:35:21,833 --> 00:35:24,291
Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes! It will.

582
00:35:24,375 --> 00:35:25,916
Dr. Edwards, please.

583
00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:30,166
There are women out there, lots of women,
who believe if they can't have kids,

584
00:35:30,250 --> 00:35:33,333
they have failed their marriage
and themselves.

585
00:35:34,125 --> 00:35:36,875
They don't understand
what life is without children.

586
00:35:36,958 --> 00:35:40,041
Infertility is a disease,
and it is a brutal disease

587
00:35:40,125 --> 00:35:41,875
that wrecks marriages and lives.

588
00:35:41,958 --> 00:35:45,416
If you can't see that,
well, then, shame on you!

589
00:35:55,083 --> 00:35:56,500
<i>"Shame on you."</i>

590
00:35:57,208 --> 00:35:59,448
Could've handled that much better.

591
00:35:59,500 --> 00:36:03,000
What you said was right,
and we'd lost already by then.

592
00:36:03,083 --> 00:36:05,666
If I could've only found a way
to have persuaded them.

593
00:36:05,750 --> 00:36:06,833
We needed that money.

594
00:36:06,916 --> 00:36:10,208
- No, we wanted it.
- We work in a hospital outbuilding.

595
00:36:10,291 --> 00:36:13,916
It's a miracle it's heated,
let alone that we conduct science there.

596
00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:16,041
I spend more time in my car
than I do in a lab.

597
00:36:16,125 --> 00:36:18,250
- I... I don't see my wife or my children.
- Bob.

598
00:36:18,333 --> 00:36:21,166
Don't you "Bob" me.
You don't like it any more than I do.

599
00:36:21,250 --> 00:36:24,125
You're exhausted.
And you're a misery most of the time.

600
00:36:24,208 --> 00:36:27,166
You think that's why I'm a misery?
'Cause I don't like the travel?

601
00:36:27,250 --> 00:36:28,458
Well, then why are you?

602
00:36:28,541 --> 00:36:31,125
Because I didn't see
how this could be worth it.

603
00:36:31,208 --> 00:36:33,791
I understood the science,
yet the graft of it felt...

604
00:36:33,875 --> 00:36:35,583
it felt very hard to me.

605
00:36:35,666 --> 00:36:39,583
You don't see your wife or kids.
I've lost my church and my mum.

606
00:36:40,666 --> 00:36:44,375
Then I saw those so-called scientists
sitting there, passing judgment on us,

607
00:36:44,458 --> 00:36:47,000
and I realized,
no one else is going to do this.

608
00:36:47,083 --> 00:36:49,625
This fight is <i>ours.</i>
We don't have a choice.

609
00:36:51,166 --> 00:36:53,958
- What happened in there just proved it.
- Come on, Bob.

610
00:36:54,708 --> 00:36:56,833
Kershaw's isn't as bad as all that, is it?

611
00:36:59,750 --> 00:37:01,166
The decor's terrible.

612
00:37:02,125 --> 00:37:04,125
But the company's occasionally okay.

613
00:37:08,125 --> 00:37:11,375
Don't you two start getting on.
She's <i>my</i> friend.

614
00:37:18,125 --> 00:37:19,250
Trisha Johnson?

615
00:37:25,833 --> 00:37:27,333
<i>You never bring your husband here.</i>

616
00:37:28,416 --> 00:37:31,083
- Sorry?
- Your husband, he's never here.

617
00:37:33,333 --> 00:37:35,416
He says he's done with chasing rainbows.

618
00:37:36,625 --> 00:37:37,875
Is he a good man?

619
00:37:39,916 --> 00:37:41,166
Mm. He wanted a boy.

620
00:37:42,166 --> 00:37:43,446
He whispered on our wedding day,

621
00:37:43,500 --> 00:37:46,083
"I can't wait to tell Stu
how beautiful you looked today."

622
00:37:46,666 --> 00:37:47,666
Stuart?

623
00:37:48,083 --> 00:37:49,958
- D'you mind if we...
- Sorry.

624
00:38:00,416 --> 00:38:02,291
He's nice Monday through Thursday.

625
00:38:03,791 --> 00:38:05,291
Likes a drink on Friday.

626
00:38:07,208 --> 00:38:09,728
Don't tell me you haven't seen
the bruises. I won't believe you.

627
00:38:09,791 --> 00:38:13,500
{\an8}I noticed. I, uh... I just wasn't sure
you'd want to be asked about them.

628
00:38:16,125 --> 00:38:17,125
I'm not...

629
00:38:19,333 --> 00:38:20,333
This isn't for him.

630
00:38:21,250 --> 00:38:22,875
I just want someone for me.

631
00:38:25,583 --> 00:38:27,208
Sorry. Sorry.

632
00:38:28,041 --> 00:38:31,333
Asking you not to treat us like cattle,
and I'm treating you like a handkerchief.

633
00:38:31,416 --> 00:38:33,875
I should have listened better. I'm sorry.

634
00:38:34,791 --> 00:38:37,041
I know what you're all going through, and...

635
00:38:41,791 --> 00:38:44,208
We've taken to calling ourselves
"the Ovum Club."

636
00:38:44,833 --> 00:38:45,833
The girls.

637
00:38:46,750 --> 00:38:48,333
- The Ovum Club?
- Hmm.

638
00:38:48,875 --> 00:38:49,875
I like that.

639
00:38:51,958 --> 00:38:53,000
I'll send Rachel in.

640
00:39:01,875 --> 00:39:04,291
- Hi.
- How are you, Rachel?

641
00:39:04,375 --> 00:39:05,958
- Grand. How are you?
- I'm good.

642
00:39:11,875 --> 00:39:12,875
Results through?

643
00:39:14,791 --> 00:39:17,041
Failure on case number 136.

644
00:39:17,625 --> 00:39:18,625
Kathy.

645
00:39:19,250 --> 00:39:20,166
It's not working.

646
00:39:20,250 --> 00:39:23,375
The HCG is setting
the other natural ovarian hormones awry.

647
00:39:23,458 --> 00:39:25,708
The estrogen and progesterone
are all over the place.

648
00:39:25,791 --> 00:39:27,791
There's no chance of implantation.

649
00:39:28,375 --> 00:39:30,750
We could try artificially boosting

650
00:39:30,833 --> 00:39:33,541
the estrogen and the progesterone
for the next one.

651
00:39:33,625 --> 00:39:34,625
We could.

652
00:39:35,541 --> 00:39:38,208
Hold on.
We should start preparing the solutions.

653
00:39:38,291 --> 00:39:40,416
I need to speak to Kathy. She'll be upset.

654
00:39:47,208 --> 00:39:48,708
- Kathy.
- Hi, Jean.

655
00:39:48,791 --> 00:39:51,375
- Hi. How are you?
- I'm okay.

656
00:39:56,000 --> 00:39:57,875
We've just had a look at the results.

657
00:39:58,916 --> 00:39:59,916
I'm really sorry.

658
00:40:01,625 --> 00:40:02,791
We weren't successful.

659
00:40:10,666 --> 00:40:12,791
Anything to report?

660
00:40:12,875 --> 00:40:15,416
If you're looking for success,
you'll find nothing here.

661
00:40:26,750 --> 00:40:28,958
Do you... want my help?

662
00:40:29,750 --> 00:40:34,375
- Why would I need your help?
- I don't want to assume or... interfere.

663
00:40:34,458 --> 00:40:36,875
I know privacy is important to you, but I...

664
00:40:37,750 --> 00:40:41,333
I also know we've never talked
about <i>your</i> situation and children.

665
00:40:42,541 --> 00:40:44,708
I suppose I may have made an assumption

666
00:40:44,791 --> 00:40:49,291
that there are, or you think there are,
difficulties that you too might face.

667
00:40:56,875 --> 00:40:58,125
Endometriosis.

668
00:40:58,208 --> 00:40:59,333
And it's severe.

669
00:41:01,125 --> 00:41:04,875
- Have you talked to someone?
- Once. He wasn't much use.

670
00:41:06,958 --> 00:41:10,083
- Will you allow me to examine you?
- No.

671
00:41:11,958 --> 00:41:13,916
I'm not bad at this.
I may be able to help.

672
00:41:14,000 --> 00:41:16,625
You're the best surgeon, Patrick.
I don't doubt <i>that.</i>

673
00:41:19,291 --> 00:41:21,541
It's amazing what science can do.

674
00:41:21,625 --> 00:41:24,166
Yes, well... let's keep working
on that science.

675
00:41:31,500 --> 00:41:34,541
<i>♪ No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no ♪</i>

676
00:41:34,625 --> 00:41:36,250
<i>♪ No, no, no, no, no ♪</i>

677
00:41:36,333 --> 00:41:37,583
<i>♪ Nobody can do the... ♪</i>

678
00:41:37,666 --> 00:41:39,666
<i>- ♪ Shing-a-ling! ♪
- ♪ Like I do ♪</i>

679
00:41:39,750 --> 00:41:40,875
<i>♪ Nobody can do the... ♪</i>

680
00:41:40,958 --> 00:41:42,875
<i>- ♪ Skate! ♪
- ♪ Like I do ♪</i>

681
00:41:42,958 --> 00:41:44,166
<i>♪ Nobody can do the... ♪</i>

682
00:41:44,250 --> 00:41:46,000
<i>- ♪ Boogaloo! ♪
- ♪ Like I do ♪</i>

683
00:41:46,083 --> 00:41:47,958
<i>- ♪ Nobody can do the... ♪
- ♪ Philly! ♪</i>

684
00:41:48,041 --> 00:41:49,476
<i>- ♪ Like I do ♪</i>
- I'm so sorry.

685
00:41:49,500 --> 00:41:51,708
<i>♪ Don't you know
I'm gonna skate right through? ♪</i>

686
00:41:51,791 --> 00:41:53,875
<i>♪ Ain't nobody do it but me ♪</i>

687
00:41:53,958 --> 00:41:55,625
<i>♪ Nobody but me ♪</i>

688
00:41:55,708 --> 00:42:00,375
<i>♪ Yeah, I'm gonna spin, I do
Ain't nobody do it but me, babe ♪</i>

689
00:42:00,458 --> 00:42:01,583
<i>♪ Nobody but me ♪</i>

690
00:42:01,666 --> 00:42:03,333
<i>♪ Well, let me tell you, nobody ♪</i>

691
00:42:04,666 --> 00:42:06,791
<i>♪ Well, nobody but me... ♪</i>

692
00:42:07,666 --> 00:42:08,976
- Watch out.
- Whoop!

693
00:42:11,583 --> 00:42:14,041
I do so like it
when you're back here.

694
00:42:14,125 --> 00:42:16,625
I think the breaks do us good.

695
00:42:17,166 --> 00:42:19,250
Yes. Whatever's necessary.

696
00:42:19,875 --> 00:42:22,208
- I do have a question for you though.
- Mm?

697
00:42:23,083 --> 00:42:25,833
The streets are wet,
so I'm not gonna get down on one knee.

698
00:42:26,500 --> 00:42:27,500
For what?

699
00:42:28,708 --> 00:42:30,458
It's been burning a hole in my pocket.

700
00:42:34,416 --> 00:42:35,875
I don't want to spoil the surprise,

701
00:42:35,958 --> 00:42:38,166
but just to check,
you do know what's inside?

702
00:42:40,083 --> 00:42:41,083
Yes.

703
00:42:44,750 --> 00:42:45,833
You'd rather not see?

704
00:42:49,625 --> 00:42:51,125
Would it be so bad?

705
00:42:51,208 --> 00:42:53,791
Two kids, a home to make together,

706
00:42:53,875 --> 00:42:55,875
interesting conversation
most nights of the week.

707
00:42:55,958 --> 00:42:58,583
I'll only be dull on Thursdays... I promise.

708
00:43:04,375 --> 00:43:06,041
My mother would be so happy.

709
00:43:07,708 --> 00:43:10,958
A family man... with a good career.

710
00:43:13,625 --> 00:43:16,875
But I'm not built
to be a family woman, Arun.

711
00:43:16,958 --> 00:43:18,708
I'm, uh...

712
00:43:19,791 --> 00:43:20,791
I can't...

713
00:43:22,875 --> 00:43:23,875
I can't.

714
00:43:25,541 --> 00:43:26,791
Then we continue as we are.

715
00:43:28,458 --> 00:43:29,708
You'll change your mind.

716
00:43:34,041 --> 00:43:35,166
I'm sorry.

717
00:44:47,041 --> 00:44:50,333
Telegram arrived last night
from Landrum Shettles.

718
00:44:50,958 --> 00:44:53,708
Is America ahead? Is he crowing again?

719
00:44:53,791 --> 00:44:56,708
Director of his very well-to-do
Manhattan hospital

720
00:44:56,791 --> 00:45:00,083
found out what he was doing
and exposed the embryo to the air.

721
00:45:00,625 --> 00:45:02,791
- He killed it?
- Shettles has been fired.

722
00:45:02,875 --> 00:45:05,833
- Oh, for God's sake.
- The disrespect.

723
00:45:07,000 --> 00:45:10,208
To expose it.
To... kill the possibility of it.

724
00:45:15,833 --> 00:45:18,416
I've been asked to go on TV again,
to defend our work.

725
00:45:18,500 --> 00:45:21,458
- We haven't got the time.
- They've asked James Watson on too.

726
00:45:21,541 --> 00:45:23,875
Journalism won't give us
an answer here. Science will.

727
00:45:24,458 --> 00:45:27,000
We won't shift the Research Council
without public support.

728
00:45:27,083 --> 00:45:29,708
We won't get public support
till we've some success to show.

729
00:45:29,791 --> 00:45:32,375
I know that I made
a mess of it... before, but I...

730
00:45:32,458 --> 00:45:33,818
Bob, you're a brilliant scientist.

731
00:45:33,875 --> 00:45:37,041
But I'm not the most polished on TV,
and I have a... foolish tendency

732
00:45:37,125 --> 00:45:41,291
to not suffer fools, I know, but...
I will be better this time, I promise.

733
00:45:41,375 --> 00:45:44,041
When we make these sort of decisions,
we should have a veto system.

734
00:45:44,125 --> 00:45:46,525
- I really don't think you should.
- Jean, what do you think?

735
00:45:46,583 --> 00:45:47,458
- Should I go?
- No.

736
00:45:51,125 --> 00:45:54,750
<i>There are few debates more fervid
than the one we discuss tonight.</i>

737
00:45:55,416 --> 00:45:58,541
We live in an era
where science may make possible...

738
00:45:58,625 --> 00:46:00,541
- Bob.
- James.

739
00:46:01,375 --> 00:46:02,416
Nasty business.

740
00:46:03,291 --> 00:46:04,541
Oh, I wouldn't say that.

741
00:46:04,625 --> 00:46:07,500
Oh, television, I mean. Television.

742
00:46:08,500 --> 00:46:11,083
Actually, I wouldn't say that
about television either.

743
00:46:11,166 --> 00:46:15,041
Nobel Prize winner
Professor James Watson and...

744
00:46:15,125 --> 00:46:17,291
...Dr. Robert Edwards!

745
00:46:33,333 --> 00:46:36,166
So, uh, Professor Watson,
if I may start with you.

746
00:46:36,250 --> 00:46:39,625
You're opposed to these developments,
am I right?

747
00:46:39,708 --> 00:46:42,791
Oh, I am... never opposed
to developments in science,

748
00:46:42,875 --> 00:46:44,583
but I am concerned.

749
00:46:45,208 --> 00:46:48,166
The question is one of abnormality.

750
00:46:48,250 --> 00:46:52,541
<i>Imagine the life of an abnormal child,
born as a result of this,</i>

751
00:46:53,250 --> 00:46:56,833
<i>kept alive by,
indeed made possible, by medicine.</i>

752
00:46:57,416 --> 00:47:00,500
The question will arise
what to do with that child.

753
00:47:01,250 --> 00:47:04,333
Allow it to live a disabled life, in pain,

754
00:47:05,041 --> 00:47:07,875
or consider
the possibility of infanticide?

755
00:47:07,958 --> 00:47:11,791
This is not about... this is not about
killing children. It is about making them.

756
00:47:11,875 --> 00:47:15,250
Uh, Dr... Dr. Edwards,
please allow Professor Watson to finish.

757
00:47:16,083 --> 00:47:20,000
I come from a generation of scientists
born under the shadow of Mengele.

758
00:47:20,500 --> 00:47:23,500
I'm concerned that
we are stumbling into a situation

759
00:47:23,583 --> 00:47:26,791
where the work we do
might lead to similar abhorrence.

760
00:47:26,875 --> 00:47:30,041
- I'm a Nazi doctor now, am I?
- No.

761
00:47:30,125 --> 00:47:34,666
You're a scientist seemingly unengaged
in the consequences of your work.

762
00:47:34,750 --> 00:47:36,416
He's right!

763
00:47:37,208 --> 00:47:39,083
Dr. Edwards, respond.

764
00:47:39,750 --> 00:47:41,916
Science is a risk. All of it.

765
00:47:42,583 --> 00:47:45,583
<i>His discovery of DNA presents great risks.</i>

766
00:47:45,666 --> 00:47:48,666
<i>- Genetic engineering...</i>
- This is not a debate on DNA.

767
00:47:48,750 --> 00:47:52,916
Genetic engineering is a possibility
born of the discovery of DNA.

768
00:47:53,000 --> 00:47:55,750
A discovery he deservedly won
the Nobel Prize for.

769
00:47:56,250 --> 00:47:58,791
There are risks. Of course there are.

770
00:48:00,000 --> 00:48:04,208
But calculated risk is vital
in our discipline, as you <i>well</i> know.

771
00:48:05,208 --> 00:48:07,583
<i>Our care for our patients
is absolute, and we...</i>

772
00:48:07,666 --> 00:48:09,625
Shame, sir! Shame!

773
00:48:09,708 --> 00:48:11,458
- It's wrong!
- It's disgustin'!

774
00:48:11,541 --> 00:48:13,250
Please let Dr. Edwards speak.

775
00:48:14,458 --> 00:48:17,083
Having children is not everything.
I know that.

776
00:48:17,166 --> 00:48:20,125
<i>Some people lead
very happy lives childless.</i>

777
00:48:20,875 --> 00:48:23,083
<i>But that should be a choice.</i>

778
00:48:23,166 --> 00:48:24,625
It's nature's choice!

779
00:48:24,708 --> 00:48:27,416
Statistically, most people
in this room must know someone

780
00:48:27,500 --> 00:48:29,500
desperate to have a child but unable to.

781
00:48:29,583 --> 00:48:31,708
Uh, a sister, a cousin, an... an aunt.

782
00:48:31,791 --> 00:48:33,750
- Uh, a... a friend.
- No! No!

783
00:48:33,833 --> 00:48:37,000
If you knew the pain of infertility
for these women,

784
00:48:37,083 --> 00:48:41,250
then you would understand that
the risk-reward ratio in the study of IVF

785
00:48:41,333 --> 00:48:43,083
is overwhelmingly stacked...

786
00:48:43,166 --> 00:48:44,806
Perhaps we'll leave matters there.

787
00:48:44,875 --> 00:48:47,309
- I believe Philip Hayton is live in...
- I... I believe... I...

788
00:48:47,333 --> 00:48:50,375
I believe that everyone who wants one

789
00:48:50,458 --> 00:48:53,208
deserves the right to have a child.

790
00:48:53,291 --> 00:48:56,083
Ah. Over to you, Philip.

791
00:49:23,416 --> 00:49:25,041
- Here.
- Oh, cheers.

792
00:49:32,166 --> 00:49:35,333
I was evacuated here, you know.
Me and my younger brother.

793
00:49:37,583 --> 00:49:38,958
We were both so scared.

794
00:49:39,666 --> 00:49:41,458
But then, when we got here, it...

795
00:49:44,833 --> 00:49:47,000
I didn't know
how beautiful things could be.

796
00:49:47,791 --> 00:49:48,791
Peace.

797
00:49:49,833 --> 00:49:50,833
Sheep.

798
00:49:52,083 --> 00:49:53,541
Lots of sheep.

799
00:49:53,625 --> 00:49:55,583
Sheep were the beauty, were they?

800
00:49:56,291 --> 00:49:59,000
I knew... I <i>knew</i> what Watson was gonna say,

801
00:49:59,083 --> 00:50:01,500
but I didn't think
they'd all take his side.

802
00:50:04,500 --> 00:50:06,583
Why am I doing this?

803
00:50:07,916 --> 00:50:10,000
Because you know there's a medical need.

804
00:50:13,666 --> 00:50:17,541
Watson, Crick, all those Cambridge toffs,
they changed everything with DNA,

805
00:50:17,625 --> 00:50:19,833
because they convinced people
of the need for it.

806
00:50:20,625 --> 00:50:21,625
We're just...

807
00:50:24,000 --> 00:50:25,000
I can't...

808
00:50:26,958 --> 00:50:28,916
I can't make people see.

809
00:50:30,541 --> 00:50:31,625
They won't...

810
00:50:32,375 --> 00:50:33,708
They won't see.

811
00:50:39,666 --> 00:50:42,166
Oh, Dr. Edwards.
Got a message for you, sir.

812
00:50:44,958 --> 00:50:47,666
"Pregnancy test positive. Patrick."

813
00:50:49,750 --> 00:50:51,350
- Uh, can I use your phone?
- Yeah, yeah.

814
00:50:54,958 --> 00:50:56,833
Thank you, sister.

815
00:50:56,916 --> 00:50:58,375
Confirm pressures now.

816
00:50:58,875 --> 00:51:00,750
- Yes?
<i>- Can I speak to Patrick?</i>

817
00:51:00,833 --> 00:51:02,750
Yes. It's Dr. Edwards.

818
00:51:06,791 --> 00:51:09,631
- I saw you on television.
<i>- Patrick, it's not the time for...</i>

819
00:51:09,666 --> 00:51:12,250
That tie with that suit,
that didn't help the cause.

820
00:51:12,333 --> 00:51:14,791
<i>The pregnancy,
presumably it's the extra hormones.</i>

821
00:51:14,875 --> 00:51:17,041
It's still holding,
if that's your question.

822
00:51:17,625 --> 00:51:19,708
<i>We'll be there tomorrow,
first thing.</i>

823
00:51:21,708 --> 00:51:24,375
I just want to say
congratulations to you both.

824
00:51:25,250 --> 00:51:28,083
Oh, she's not pregnant.
We've made someone else pregnant.

825
00:51:28,166 --> 00:51:29,566
- I believe her name is...
- Rachel!

826
00:51:29,625 --> 00:51:32,375
Rachel, that's right.
And it's bloody brilliant!

827
00:51:38,500 --> 00:51:41,375
Oh, if we could avoid running
in the corridor. Accidents do happen.

828
00:51:41,458 --> 00:51:42,833
How's Rachel doing?

829
00:51:42,916 --> 00:51:46,375
Our mother is blooming so far.
It's Sally that I'm worried about.

830
00:51:48,500 --> 00:51:49,666
Jean, come on.

831
00:52:03,500 --> 00:52:05,791
- Sally...
- I don't wanna stop the drugs.

832
00:52:06,291 --> 00:52:09,083
I understand,
but your abdomen is clearly swollen.

833
00:52:09,166 --> 00:52:12,041
- Don't tell Mr. Steptoe.
- I have to tell Mr. Steptoe.

834
00:52:14,583 --> 00:52:16,333
You may have to wait a few months,

835
00:52:16,416 --> 00:52:18,583
but I'll make sure
you get back on the program.

836
00:52:20,500 --> 00:52:21,500
Oh, sorry.

837
00:52:22,708 --> 00:52:24,291
Sorry, um...

838
00:52:25,166 --> 00:52:27,958
What do they say?

839
00:52:29,375 --> 00:52:31,000
"It's the hope that kills you."

840
00:52:35,791 --> 00:52:36,791
Question.

841
00:52:37,916 --> 00:52:40,250
D'you think the Ovum Club
might like an outing?

842
00:52:43,458 --> 00:52:44,458
An outing?

843
00:52:45,916 --> 00:52:47,541
Clubs take outings, don't they?

844
00:52:50,833 --> 00:52:54,000
<i>- ♪ Everywhere we go ♪
- ♪ Everywhere we go ♪</i>

845
00:52:54,083 --> 00:52:57,000
<i>- ♪ People always ask us ♪
- ♪ People always ask us ♪</i>

846
00:52:57,083 --> 00:52:59,916
<i>- ♪ Who we are ♪
- ♪ Who we are ♪</i>

847
00:53:00,000 --> 00:53:03,041
<i>- ♪ And where we come from ♪
- ♪ And where we come from ♪</i>

848
00:53:03,125 --> 00:53:05,791
<i>- ♪ We're from Oldham ♪
- ♪ We're from Oldham ♪</i>

849
00:53:05,875 --> 00:53:08,916
<i>- ♪ And we're barren ♪
- ♪ Totally, totally barren ♪</i>

850
00:53:09,000 --> 00:53:11,666
<i>- ♪ But do we care? ♪</i>
- Yes, we care!

851
00:53:15,000 --> 00:53:16,166
Aw, look.

852
00:53:19,750 --> 00:53:21,791
I better not... I s'pose.

853
00:53:22,291 --> 00:53:24,625
I'd <i>rather</i> not, to be honest.

854
00:53:24,708 --> 00:53:26,958
Weather like this.

855
00:53:29,250 --> 00:53:30,583
If I am the first...

856
00:53:30,666 --> 00:53:32,208
I mean, if it does...

857
00:53:32,750 --> 00:53:34,958
Ugh. I've seen the things
you people have to face.

858
00:53:35,041 --> 00:53:37,750
I... I wouldn't want my baby to have to...

859
00:53:37,833 --> 00:53:40,375
It won't. Bob will face down the press.

860
00:53:40,458 --> 00:53:42,416
You'll just have to get on
with being a mother.

861
00:53:43,666 --> 00:53:44,750
If it happens.

862
00:53:50,250 --> 00:53:51,541
I won't reassure you.

863
00:53:52,541 --> 00:53:53,958
Who knows what happens next?

864
00:53:54,791 --> 00:53:58,750
But I will say, the care you'll receive
in the next few weeks

865
00:53:58,833 --> 00:54:00,833
will be nothing short of extraordinary.

866
00:54:02,333 --> 00:54:03,333
Okay?

867
00:54:04,083 --> 00:54:05,083
Okay.

868
00:54:13,833 --> 00:54:14,666
Right.

869
00:54:14,750 --> 00:54:16,541
- Wish me luck.
- Oh, you're goin'.

870
00:54:18,583 --> 00:54:19,958
- Charging in.
- Go!

871
00:54:20,041 --> 00:54:22,375
<i>♪ This summer, I went swimming ♪</i>

872
00:54:22,458 --> 00:54:25,041
<i>♪ This summer, I might've drowned ♪</i>

873
00:54:25,125 --> 00:54:27,583
<i>♪ But I held my breath
And I kicked my feet ♪</i>

874
00:54:27,666 --> 00:54:30,208
<i>- ♪ And I moved my arms around... ♪</i>
- Go!

875
00:54:30,291 --> 00:54:33,166
- Whoo!
<i>- ♪ I moved my arms around ♪</i>

876
00:54:33,250 --> 00:54:35,500
<i>♪ This summer, I swam in the ocean... ♪</i>

877
00:54:35,583 --> 00:54:38,125
- Come on, Jean!
<i>- ♪ And I swam in a swimming pool ♪</i>

878
00:54:38,625 --> 00:54:43,333
<i>♪ Salt my wounds, chlorine my eyes
I'm a self-destructive fool ♪</i>

879
00:54:43,416 --> 00:54:44,791
<i>♪ I'm a self-destructive... ♪</i>

880
00:54:44,875 --> 00:54:46,291
All of you. All of you.

881
00:54:49,083 --> 00:54:50,083
<i>Come on!</i>

882
00:54:52,416 --> 00:54:53,958
<i>Aah!</i>

883
00:54:54,791 --> 00:54:56,208
Everyone, come forward!

884
00:54:57,666 --> 00:54:59,666
<i>♪ Yeah-hee ♪</i>

885
00:54:59,750 --> 00:55:02,458
- One, two, three...
- Oldham!

886
00:55:03,291 --> 00:55:05,125
- Love it.
- So windy!

887
00:55:12,666 --> 00:55:14,666
Honestly.

888
00:55:15,541 --> 00:55:17,125
This was a good thing to do.

889
00:55:17,208 --> 00:55:18,708
- Mm.
- What a beach.

890
00:55:24,416 --> 00:55:26,083
He's told me this is my last one.

891
00:55:27,416 --> 00:55:28,833
Who? Harry?

892
00:55:29,791 --> 00:55:31,041
No. Mr. Steptoe.

893
00:55:32,166 --> 00:55:33,166
Turning 36, you see.

894
00:55:34,083 --> 00:55:36,750
I'll be outside the age
where it's useful for your study.

895
00:55:38,416 --> 00:55:40,041
- Oh.
- It's okay.

896
00:55:40,833 --> 00:55:41,916
Honestly, it is.

897
00:55:47,125 --> 00:55:50,291
- I mean, he's never known.
- That's brilliant.

898
00:55:50,791 --> 00:55:54,166
It's probably for the best.

899
00:55:54,791 --> 00:55:56,125
I'm jealous of her too.

900
00:56:17,708 --> 00:56:18,708
Jean.

901
00:56:32,041 --> 00:56:33,041
Patrick.

902
00:56:33,416 --> 00:56:35,833
We've another positive.
Lauren is pregnant.

903
00:56:36,833 --> 00:56:39,541
- Whatever this is, it's working.
- Patrick.

904
00:56:39,625 --> 00:56:40,625
George.

905
00:56:40,958 --> 00:56:42,333
A Kershaw's girl.

906
00:56:42,416 --> 00:56:43,791
Jean Purdy, actually.

907
00:56:44,458 --> 00:56:46,500
How any of you put up with that hole...

908
00:56:46,583 --> 00:56:49,166
The advancement of medicine, George.
It has its costs.

909
00:56:49,250 --> 00:56:51,458
Oh, is that what you're doing...
advancing medicine?

910
00:56:51,541 --> 00:56:53,916
As you destroy
this hospital's good reputation.

911
00:56:54,000 --> 00:56:55,041
Fuck off, George.

912
00:56:57,791 --> 00:56:59,750
No wonder you're playing off a 15.

913
00:56:59,833 --> 00:57:01,500
Orthopedics consultant.

914
00:57:01,583 --> 00:57:03,833
Never trust a doctor
that specializes in orthopedics.

915
00:57:03,916 --> 00:57:05,583
They're not up for the good fight.

916
00:57:06,083 --> 00:57:08,934
I was just packing up to go
back to Cambridge when I got the call.

917
00:57:08,958 --> 00:57:10,458
Patrick, we're onto something.

918
00:57:10,541 --> 00:57:13,666
- Both Lauren and Rachel...
- There's a problem with Rachel.

919
00:57:14,833 --> 00:57:17,000
- What do you mean?
- The scan came back.

920
00:57:17,500 --> 00:57:19,875
I don't like the position of the embryo.

921
00:57:20,416 --> 00:57:22,708
- It's not sitting right?
- It's high.

922
00:57:22,791 --> 00:57:26,250
And there's a vague swelling
to the side of the uterus.

923
00:57:26,875 --> 00:57:28,791
You think it might be ectopic.

924
00:57:28,875 --> 00:57:32,375
I've booked her in to confirm it
by laparoscope, but I fear so.

925
00:57:39,750 --> 00:57:41,958
I'm very sorry.

926
00:57:46,958 --> 00:57:48,000
What was it?

927
00:57:48,833 --> 00:57:52,541
The baby was growing
in the wrong place in the fallopian tube.

928
00:57:55,083 --> 00:57:57,166
I know what ectopic is.

929
00:57:58,208 --> 00:58:00,375
I've read
all the books I could find.

930
00:58:03,083 --> 00:58:07,000
<i>♪ Though you are far away ♪</i>

931
00:58:08,791 --> 00:58:11,708
<i>♪ I'm with you in every way ♪</i>

932
00:58:14,125 --> 00:58:18,875
<i>♪ Close your eyes ♪</i>

933
00:58:19,916 --> 00:58:23,250
<i>♪ And you will see ♪</i>

934
00:58:52,916 --> 00:58:55,208
I thought it had been made clear to you.

935
00:58:55,291 --> 00:58:58,458
- Lily.
- It's dirty, what you're doing.

936
00:58:58,541 --> 00:59:01,875
It's disgusting, it's shameful,
and it doesn't belong here.

937
00:59:01,958 --> 00:59:03,875
It's not here. I am.

938
00:59:03,958 --> 00:59:06,000
Is that what you tell yourself?

939
00:59:06,083 --> 00:59:08,708
- That the sin isn't even yours?
- Jean.

940
00:59:09,208 --> 00:59:13,208
Morning, Vicar.
Just setting the flowers for the service.

941
00:59:15,291 --> 00:59:18,125
{\an8}Sorry. I shouldn't have come.
Mum made it clear.

942
00:59:18,208 --> 00:59:21,000
{\an8}You haven't been
excommunicated, Jean.

943
00:59:22,250 --> 00:59:24,500
{\an8}- The Church is for everyone.
- Is it?

944
00:59:25,291 --> 00:59:26,291
{\an8}Yes.

945
00:59:40,625 --> 00:59:41,833
I've missed it.

946
00:59:43,666 --> 00:59:44,666
Jean,

947
00:59:45,291 --> 00:59:49,416
if you answer for your mistakes,
God will come back into your heart.

948
00:59:50,041 --> 00:59:51,708
N... no. That's not what I...

949
00:59:57,625 --> 00:59:59,708
That's not why I'm here. Sorry.

950
01:00:02,416 --> 01:00:03,958
How is your mother?

951
01:00:08,458 --> 01:00:09,541
She hasn't told you.

952
01:00:14,250 --> 01:00:16,708
Mum, I know you're there.
I can see your slippers.

953
01:00:16,791 --> 01:00:18,208
No, you can't.

954
01:00:23,625 --> 01:00:25,875
The vicar said you're sick. Is that true?

955
01:00:26,750 --> 01:00:28,333
How have you seen the vicar?

956
01:00:28,958 --> 01:00:30,041
Am I coming in?

957
01:00:34,125 --> 01:00:36,583
Am I coming in
or are you doing this on your own?

958
01:00:37,250 --> 01:00:39,208
Are you still working with <i>them?</i>

959
01:00:40,041 --> 01:00:41,708
You obstinate old bag.

960
01:00:48,916 --> 01:00:51,666
Mum, I love you. I hope you get well.

961
01:01:02,125 --> 01:01:04,250
<i>Well, thanks
for letting us know, Muriel.</i>

962
01:01:08,333 --> 01:01:10,541
Lauren just started bleeding.

963
01:01:27,041 --> 01:01:29,208
- What are you doing?
- Sperm survival test.

964
01:01:29,833 --> 01:01:34,416
We'll go through all our culture fluids...
all the drugs, all the containers.

965
01:01:34,500 --> 01:01:37,916
If anything is causing problems our side,
this'll track it down.

966
01:01:38,000 --> 01:01:39,875
Everything we use, we test.

967
01:02:27,958 --> 01:02:29,708
This liquid paraffin's safe.

968
01:02:37,416 --> 01:02:40,500
Uh... 95%.

969
01:02:43,375 --> 01:02:44,416
This one's safe.

970
01:02:46,833 --> 01:02:49,083
I'm gonna take five.

971
01:03:11,666 --> 01:03:14,541
Bob, you're going to want to see this.

972
01:03:14,625 --> 01:03:15,625
Bob. Bob.

973
01:03:16,916 --> 01:03:18,416
I need you to check something.

974
01:03:37,833 --> 01:03:38,833
Which?

975
01:03:45,291 --> 01:03:46,916
This liquid paraffin is toxic.

976
01:03:48,500 --> 01:03:50,041
How did we...

977
01:03:51,041 --> 01:03:52,833
How did we miss that?!

978
01:03:52,916 --> 01:03:55,458
- I don't know.
- That pregnancy could've worked.

979
01:03:55,541 --> 01:03:58,833
Maybe others, even if we'd just...
If we hadn't been poisoning these women.

980
01:03:58,916 --> 01:04:00,666
- Oh, Jean.
- Are you blaming me?

981
01:04:00,750 --> 01:04:02,291
No! I'm blaming me!

982
01:04:05,083 --> 01:04:07,416
Please don't. It was a mistake.

983
01:04:07,500 --> 01:04:09,875
There... there <i>will</i> be others.

984
01:04:09,958 --> 01:04:12,666
There wouldn't have been a pregnancy.
We weren't ready.

985
01:04:13,333 --> 01:04:16,416
What are you doing? Stop. Stop. Stop!

986
01:04:16,500 --> 01:04:17,916
This is too important to...

987
01:04:23,041 --> 01:04:27,333
- Hey, now you're the one being crazy.
- Maybe... we... both are.

988
01:04:27,416 --> 01:04:28,625
Eh, Bob?

989
01:04:28,708 --> 01:04:30,541
My mother is dying.

990
01:04:30,625 --> 01:04:35,250
And here I am, staying awake all night,
with a madman and his shitty liquids!

991
01:04:41,500 --> 01:04:44,291
This was a beautiful dream.

992
01:04:44,375 --> 01:04:47,166
And I...
I really did believe in it.

993
01:04:48,375 --> 01:04:51,333
But all this,
it's cost me everything, and I can't.

994
01:05:10,791 --> 01:05:11,791
Mum!

995
01:05:14,875 --> 01:05:19,000
Mum! I've left work!
I'm giving up my flat!

996
01:05:19,083 --> 01:05:22,541
If you don't let me in,
I'll have to sleep on your doorstep!

997
01:05:22,625 --> 01:05:23,625
Hush!

998
01:05:28,958 --> 01:05:30,208
I'm making eggy bread.

999
01:05:31,416 --> 01:05:34,458
- And what have you done to your hair?
- Absolutely nothing.

1000
01:05:36,083 --> 01:05:38,583
I have some Vitapointe
that can help with that.

1001
01:05:44,375 --> 01:05:46,791
No, no, no. Not like that.

1002
01:05:47,458 --> 01:05:50,125
You're letting that nasty carp get it.

1003
01:05:50,791 --> 01:05:52,833
There's some delicate goldfish in here.

1004
01:05:52,916 --> 01:05:53,916
Watch.

1005
01:05:56,166 --> 01:05:57,375
Oh.

1006
01:05:57,458 --> 01:05:59,916
- Damn.
- Jeanie.

1007
01:06:01,083 --> 01:06:02,208
Jeanie?

1008
01:06:03,416 --> 01:06:04,416
Jean!

1009
01:06:05,041 --> 01:06:06,333
- Oh no you don't.
- Jean.

1010
01:06:06,416 --> 01:06:07,416
Who's this?

1011
01:06:08,708 --> 01:06:10,291
Arun. I...

1012
01:06:11,125 --> 01:06:12,375
We were just leaving.

1013
01:06:12,916 --> 01:06:16,166
This is my mother, Gladys May.
And, uh, Mum, this is Arun.

1014
01:06:16,250 --> 01:06:18,250
- We used to work in labs together.
- Hmm.

1015
01:06:18,916 --> 01:06:20,250
Which labs?

1016
01:06:20,333 --> 01:06:22,833
- He didn't work with me on that, Mum.
- Pleasure to meet you.

1017
01:06:22,916 --> 01:06:24,791
- I've heard lots about you.
- Hmm.

1018
01:06:24,875 --> 01:06:26,625
- Who's this?
- Tabitha.

1019
01:06:29,041 --> 01:06:30,041
Tabitha.

1020
01:06:32,583 --> 01:06:33,833
That's a lovely name.

1021
01:06:35,000 --> 01:06:37,291
We call her Tabby Cat.

1022
01:06:37,375 --> 01:06:39,083
Uh, don't judge us.

1023
01:06:41,666 --> 01:06:44,000
Let's hope she's not furry.

1024
01:06:49,500 --> 01:06:50,625
How's Bob?

1025
01:06:51,208 --> 01:06:53,208
On good form. Distracted.

1026
01:06:54,000 --> 01:06:58,083
Full of the latest. It's... nice though,
to have him back full-time in Cambridge.

1027
01:06:59,666 --> 01:07:01,500
He's not going to Oldham anymore?

1028
01:07:02,083 --> 01:07:03,125
You didn't know?

1029
01:07:03,208 --> 01:07:06,083
They folded it,
what, three months after you left.

1030
01:07:06,166 --> 01:07:07,916
Patrick agreed it was for the best.

1031
01:07:08,833 --> 01:07:12,208
Would've thought he'd have written to you,
but... that's Bob, I suppose.

1032
01:07:34,333 --> 01:07:36,375
Thank you, God,
for this food and this family.

1033
01:07:36,458 --> 01:07:38,625
We remember those who have no food today,

1034
01:07:38,708 --> 01:07:41,541
and those who do have food
but no one to share it with. Amen.

1035
01:08:10,666 --> 01:08:12,875
Hello. I'm after Bob.

1036
01:08:12,958 --> 01:08:14,208
Oh, kitchen.

1037
01:08:17,291 --> 01:08:19,458
Jean! Hello.

1038
01:08:19,541 --> 01:08:20,541
Ruth.

1039
01:08:21,291 --> 01:08:23,083
- Where's Bob?
- He's in there.

1040
01:08:23,833 --> 01:08:26,633
I want to fold it like a diamond,
so it comes out like a flower.

1041
01:08:26,708 --> 01:08:29,125
- No, Meg, that's not how we...
- I know how to.

1042
01:08:29,208 --> 01:08:30,208
Oh.

1043
01:08:30,750 --> 01:08:31,833
Can I talk to you?

1044
01:08:33,333 --> 01:08:36,208
Yes. Girls, keep folding like I said.

1045
01:08:36,291 --> 01:08:38,625
Match the sides,
push it down, in the envelope.

1046
01:08:38,708 --> 01:08:40,625
Neat leaflets make all the difference.

1047
01:08:40,708 --> 01:08:42,083
Yes, Dad.

1048
01:08:42,166 --> 01:08:45,375
- Are you running for Parliament?
- Ah, you see, this is the thing.

1049
01:08:45,458 --> 01:08:48,166
I'd have expected it
to stretch to your side of town by now.

1050
01:08:48,250 --> 01:08:50,916
You should've at least
got a bloody leaflet through your door.

1051
01:08:51,000 --> 01:08:52,625
My mind's been elsewhere.

1052
01:08:53,833 --> 01:08:55,500
Yes. Of course.

1053
01:08:56,500 --> 01:08:58,666
I stand... no chance at all.

1054
01:09:00,250 --> 01:09:01,750
Well, some chance.

1055
01:09:02,833 --> 01:09:05,958
Cambridge does need a Labour MP,
and... winds do change.

1056
01:09:06,041 --> 01:09:07,833
Don't make it my responsibility.

1057
01:09:09,250 --> 01:09:11,208
- What?
- Kershaw's.

1058
01:09:12,166 --> 01:09:13,500
You stopped because of me.

1059
01:09:16,416 --> 01:09:18,500
It... it wasn't working.

1060
01:09:19,125 --> 01:09:20,125
And so we...

1061
01:09:21,291 --> 01:09:23,083
I decided to move on.

1062
01:09:23,958 --> 01:09:25,333
I decided to step away.

1063
01:09:26,416 --> 01:09:29,000
I've always been passionate
about politics, you know that.

1064
01:09:29,083 --> 01:09:31,750
- The chance to represent at Parliament.
- You gave up.

1065
01:09:32,458 --> 01:09:37,125
No. We left it for others to solve.
That's how science works, Jean.

1066
01:09:37,208 --> 01:09:39,833
My mother is sick, and I love her.

1067
01:09:40,791 --> 01:09:42,541
I had no choice.

1068
01:09:43,875 --> 01:09:45,083
Don't be ridiculous.

1069
01:09:46,041 --> 01:09:47,708
Of course you had a choice.

1070
01:09:56,416 --> 01:09:58,000
We were so close.

1071
01:10:02,958 --> 01:10:04,541
I didn't expect you to give up.

1072
01:10:06,625 --> 01:10:07,625
Yes, well,

1073
01:10:08,916 --> 01:10:10,708
you gave up first, Jeanie.

1074
01:10:13,666 --> 01:10:14,666
You.

1075
01:10:29,166 --> 01:10:31,666
What's that? Hmm?

1076
01:10:36,791 --> 01:10:39,916
Are you thinking of going back to it
when we're done here?

1077
01:10:42,041 --> 01:10:43,625
There's nothing to go back to.

1078
01:10:45,375 --> 01:10:48,958
I'm just going through some old notes,
trying to understand some things.

1079
01:10:49,875 --> 01:10:52,166
Promise me you won't go back to it, Jean.

1080
01:10:53,583 --> 01:10:54,583
Settle down.

1081
01:10:55,916 --> 01:10:57,333
Have children of your own.

1082
01:11:03,583 --> 01:11:05,000
I can't do it, Mum.

1083
01:11:08,333 --> 01:11:10,375
I can't get pregnant.

1084
01:11:10,875 --> 01:11:11,875
Nonsense.

1085
01:11:12,625 --> 01:11:13,625
You haven't tried.

1086
01:11:13,666 --> 01:11:18,125
I've been having
unprotected sex since 1964.

1087
01:11:20,041 --> 01:11:21,958
You have a sinner under your roof.

1088
01:11:24,291 --> 01:11:26,333
And you've been sleeping with these men...

1089
01:11:28,125 --> 01:11:29,375
because you want a baby?

1090
01:11:32,375 --> 01:11:33,708
And because I enjoy it.

1091
01:11:34,666 --> 01:11:36,083
Is that right?

1092
01:11:39,041 --> 01:11:41,041
There are others like me, Mum.

1093
01:11:41,125 --> 01:11:42,125
Everywhere.

1094
01:11:44,375 --> 01:11:45,708
I wanted to help them.

1095
01:11:47,458 --> 01:11:49,125
You always had so much love.

1096
01:12:05,333 --> 01:12:06,333
Breathe.

1097
01:12:09,208 --> 01:12:10,208
Sh...

1098
01:12:11,083 --> 01:12:14,666
- God will find a way.
- Stop. Get a breath in first, Mum.

1099
01:12:20,166 --> 01:12:23,708
- You have blood around your mouth.
- Have I? Oh.

1100
01:12:25,625 --> 01:12:26,875
Shall I take you to bed?

1101
01:12:28,916 --> 01:12:30,625
- Mm.
- Come on.

1102
01:12:30,708 --> 01:12:31,875
<i>You know, it's strange,</i>

1103
01:12:33,291 --> 01:12:35,125
when you're looking back on a life.

1104
01:12:36,958 --> 01:12:39,250
Mostly all you can see is failure.

1105
01:12:39,333 --> 01:12:41,375
You weren't a failure.

1106
01:12:43,666 --> 01:12:45,375
All the things you should've done

1107
01:12:46,666 --> 01:12:47,750
and didn't.

1108
01:12:50,125 --> 01:12:51,666
Mum.

1109
01:12:52,541 --> 01:12:55,041
But... the one thing

1110
01:12:55,833 --> 01:12:58,000
that you can't see failure in...

1111
01:13:01,333 --> 01:13:02,541
is your children.

1112
01:13:04,541 --> 01:13:05,541
Because

1113
01:13:06,375 --> 01:13:08,125
they're always beautiful.

1114
01:13:16,041 --> 01:13:17,458
I love you, Jeanie.

1115
01:13:22,041 --> 01:13:23,875
I love you too, Mum. I do.

1116
01:14:02,916 --> 01:14:03,916
Morning.

1117
01:14:23,875 --> 01:14:25,083
Miss Jean.

1118
01:14:25,166 --> 01:14:28,416
Thank you so much for coming.
She would have <i>loved</i> that you were here.

1119
01:14:30,458 --> 01:14:32,083
I'm sorry for your loss.

1120
01:14:32,166 --> 01:14:33,708
- Patrick.
- I hope you don't mind.

1121
01:14:33,791 --> 01:14:36,666
- Bob told me, and I did want to...
- Is... Bob here too?

1122
01:14:36,750 --> 01:14:40,250
No. He said you wouldn't want him here,
but you might want me.

1123
01:14:40,333 --> 01:14:43,041
I wasn't sure,
but Matron Muriel talked me into it.

1124
01:14:44,166 --> 01:14:45,708
Thank you both for coming.

1125
01:14:47,000 --> 01:14:48,708
- Thank you.
- Good morning.

1126
01:14:53,000 --> 01:14:56,166
- Lovely to meet you.
- Good afternoon, Reverend.

1127
01:15:01,458 --> 01:15:02,458
There you go.

1128
01:15:04,458 --> 01:15:06,041
It's a strange funeral really.

1129
01:15:06,125 --> 01:15:08,250
Most of them look at me
like I'm the devil.

1130
01:15:12,458 --> 01:15:15,166
They still hate me. They all do. Hmm.

1131
01:15:15,750 --> 01:15:17,583
They're so boring with it.

1132
01:15:19,958 --> 01:15:21,458
My mother was many things.

1133
01:15:21,541 --> 01:15:25,166
One thing she wasn't was boring,
yet she had so many boring friends.

1134
01:15:26,666 --> 01:15:29,541
Then she was lucky
to have an interesting daughter.

1135
01:15:32,750 --> 01:15:33,958
I can't talk about her.

1136
01:15:34,791 --> 01:15:37,333
Then we can talk about other... things.

1137
01:15:37,416 --> 01:15:39,625
Or you could talk to someone else.
We won't be offend...

1138
01:15:39,708 --> 01:15:41,767
- We made a mistake.
- We should get back soon.

1139
01:15:41,791 --> 01:15:42,791
The stimulation.

1140
01:15:42,833 --> 01:15:45,500
We've been creating
false cycles for the women,

1141
01:15:45,583 --> 01:15:47,708
working against their natural rhythms.

1142
01:15:47,791 --> 01:15:50,708
If we eliminate that,
be sure of our chemicals, we might just...

1143
01:15:50,791 --> 01:15:53,083
Perhaps this is best left for another day.

1144
01:15:53,166 --> 01:15:54,833
That's an interesting idea.

1145
01:15:56,333 --> 01:15:58,666
- It's perhaps worth a try.
- Patrick.

1146
01:15:58,750 --> 01:16:01,375
I have one last effort in me,
Jean seems to have,

1147
01:16:01,458 --> 01:16:03,208
and you're indefatigable, Muriel.

1148
01:16:06,833 --> 01:16:08,250
The only question is...

1149
01:16:09,333 --> 01:16:12,375
If we can use their cycle,
we'll keep it constant.

1150
01:16:13,708 --> 01:16:17,083
What else are you doing?
The election didn't work out.

1151
01:16:17,166 --> 01:16:18,625
Did <i>you</i> vote for me?

1152
01:16:18,708 --> 01:16:20,875
The solutions you've devised
are incredible.

1153
01:16:20,958 --> 01:16:22,583
Your processes are world-beating.

1154
01:16:22,666 --> 01:16:24,958
The surgery Patrick's able to do
is mind-blowing.

1155
01:16:25,041 --> 01:16:28,833
- Maybe not so much hyperbole?
- But... we're meddling too much.

1156
01:16:28,916 --> 01:16:32,166
We leave the women as much as we can
to grow the eggs on their own.

1157
01:16:32,250 --> 01:16:34,583
If we remove the hormones
that subvert their fertility

1158
01:16:34,666 --> 01:16:37,458
and bring back the menstrual cycle
to some sort of normality,

1159
01:16:37,541 --> 01:16:39,791
we'll eliminate so much
of the risk of failure.

1160
01:16:39,875 --> 01:16:41,125
And of course I voted for you.

1161
01:16:41,833 --> 01:16:43,625
I would need to be able to harvest

1162
01:16:43,708 --> 01:16:47,333
between 24 and 26 hours
after the start of the LH surge.

1163
01:16:47,416 --> 01:16:49,083
That degree of precision without drugs...

1164
01:16:49,166 --> 01:16:53,041
It would require...
urine assays every three hours.

1165
01:16:53,125 --> 01:16:55,291
- Every three hours?
- To detect the LH surge.

1166
01:16:55,375 --> 01:16:59,583
Even then, if we get it right, we'll only
produce one single embryo per woman.

1167
01:16:59,666 --> 01:17:01,333
It would lower our chances.

1168
01:17:03,000 --> 01:17:07,916
But... one good embryo
would be better than 15 bad ones.

1169
01:17:10,250 --> 01:17:13,791
We'd watch the egg until it was fertilized
and implant it then.

1170
01:17:14,541 --> 01:17:17,916
Split-second precision,
every step of the way.

1171
01:17:18,666 --> 01:17:20,083
None of us will ever sleep.

1172
01:17:22,083 --> 01:17:24,958
Patrick, how long
until they finally force you to retire?

1173
01:17:25,541 --> 01:17:27,625
July 1978.

1174
01:17:27,708 --> 01:17:31,958
A mere three years of sleep deprivation.
Think you can handle that, Muriel?

1175
01:17:35,875 --> 01:17:37,333
It is a good idea.

1176
01:17:51,291 --> 01:17:55,166
<i>♪ Don't you feel it growing, day by day? ♪</i>

1177
01:17:55,750 --> 01:17:58,833
<i>♪ People... getting ready for the news ♪</i>

1178
01:17:59,625 --> 01:18:03,875
<i>♪ Some are happy, some are sad ♪</i>

1179
01:18:04,458 --> 01:18:07,583
<i>♪ Oh, we gotta let the music play ♪</i>

1180
01:18:08,500 --> 01:18:12,541
<i>♪ Whoa, listen to the music ♪</i>

1181
01:18:13,375 --> 01:18:17,250
<i>♪ Whoa, listen to the music ♪</i>

1182
01:18:17,875 --> 01:18:21,583
<i>♪ Whoa, listen to the music ♪</i>

1183
01:18:22,416 --> 01:18:27,333
<i>♪ All the time... ♪</i>

1184
01:18:28,333 --> 01:18:29,791
Everything changes.

1185
01:18:40,750 --> 01:18:42,958
Right. I think that's everyone.

1186
01:18:43,041 --> 01:18:46,958
So... you'll have to be monitored every day.

1187
01:18:47,500 --> 01:18:49,833
You'll have to move to Oldham to do so.

1188
01:18:50,458 --> 01:18:53,458
You'll have to watch
what you eat and what you drink.

1189
01:18:53,958 --> 01:18:57,041
And when you're at
the right stage in your cycle,

1190
01:18:57,125 --> 01:18:59,708
we'll remove your eggs
and see what we can do.

1191
01:18:59,791 --> 01:19:03,833
How will you tell which stage?
I... I mean, I'm not always regular.

1192
01:19:03,916 --> 01:19:08,625
- We'll have to keep your urine monitored.
- On this table is everything you need.

1193
01:19:09,416 --> 01:19:11,916
Please be sure to use the pots
each time you pass,

1194
01:19:12,000 --> 01:19:14,208
and then we'll collect them
and analyze them.

1195
01:19:14,291 --> 01:19:16,416
- Thanks, Sandra.
- Thanks.

1196
01:19:16,500 --> 01:19:17,958
<i>It's not easy, I know.</i>

1197
01:19:18,625 --> 01:19:22,541
<i>You're risking journalists
finding out who you are</i>

1198
01:19:22,625 --> 01:19:24,416
<i>and splashing your faces
all over the papers.</i>

1199
01:19:24,500 --> 01:19:25,416
Thanks, Martha.

1200
01:19:25,500 --> 01:19:28,708
We know it.
We see it. And we are grateful.

1201
01:19:29,375 --> 01:19:35,333
Some of the others who came through here...
described themselves as the Ovum Club.

1202
01:19:37,208 --> 01:19:39,333
I rather liked that as a name.

1203
01:19:39,416 --> 01:19:41,708
<i>- There have been women here before you.</i>
- Thank you.

1204
01:19:41,791 --> 01:19:44,708
<i>- And there will be women here after you.</i>
- Linda Nutshall.

1205
01:19:44,791 --> 01:19:46,708
<i>- All sustained by hope.</i>
- Thank you.

1206
01:19:46,791 --> 01:19:50,833
But knowing, as they do,
while it might not be better for them,

1207
01:19:51,375 --> 01:19:52,833
for those that follow,

1208
01:19:52,916 --> 01:19:54,041
without you,

1209
01:19:55,625 --> 01:19:56,708
none of this works.

1210
01:20:02,958 --> 01:20:05,791
I think I got nervous
and drank more tea than normal.

1211
01:20:07,333 --> 01:20:10,333
You almost got all the way to the top.

1212
01:20:17,625 --> 01:20:20,541
Dr. Ruth Hinton
arranged this appointment?

1213
01:20:21,291 --> 01:20:22,291
Yes.

1214
01:20:23,500 --> 01:20:26,000
And your fallopian tubes are blocked?

1215
01:20:26,708 --> 01:20:27,708
Yes, sir.

1216
01:20:28,458 --> 01:20:31,500
And they operated,
but they... couldn't... sort them.

1217
01:20:33,333 --> 01:20:35,166
You're 29, Mrs. Brown?

1218
01:20:35,708 --> 01:20:39,041
Yes, sir.
Been trying for children for ten years.

1219
01:20:39,958 --> 01:20:42,142
Well, I think you're both
excellent candidates for this,

1220
01:20:42,166 --> 01:20:44,166
but I will need to examine you,
Mrs. Brown,

1221
01:20:44,250 --> 01:20:46,166
laparoscopically, under anesthetic,

1222
01:20:46,250 --> 01:20:48,458
look inside you,
and scrutinize your ovaries and pelvis,

1223
01:20:48,541 --> 01:20:50,333
and see what damage has been done.

1224
01:20:50,416 --> 01:20:53,166
Mr. Brown, I will require
a sample of your seminal fluid,

1225
01:20:53,250 --> 01:20:55,666
produced carefully
and cleanly by masturbation

1226
01:20:55,750 --> 01:20:57,833
after a few days of sexual abstinence.

1227
01:20:59,625 --> 01:21:01,458
My job sounds easier than hers.

1228
01:21:04,666 --> 01:21:06,416
What are our chances?

1229
01:21:06,500 --> 01:21:08,708
There are several bridges to cross

1230
01:21:08,791 --> 01:21:11,125
before I can answer that question,
I'm afraid.

1231
01:21:12,583 --> 01:21:13,625
And what about

1232
01:21:14,791 --> 01:21:15,875
abnormalities?

1233
01:21:16,750 --> 01:21:19,310
Sorry to ask, sir, it's just that you...
you read in the paper...

1234
01:21:19,375 --> 01:21:22,416
I understand. We read the same newspapers.

1235
01:21:22,500 --> 01:21:25,708
The chances of abnormality
are no greater than a natural pregnancy.

1236
01:21:25,791 --> 01:21:27,375
You'll be monitored throughout,

1237
01:21:27,458 --> 01:21:30,541
and if there are any problems,
you'll be kept well-informed.

1238
01:21:32,916 --> 01:21:35,250
- Thank you, sir.
- Thank you.

1239
01:21:44,500 --> 01:21:46,541
That's where we want her,
Mr. Steptoe.

1240
01:22:13,125 --> 01:22:16,458
Some recurrence of adhesions
around the ovaries.

1241
01:22:17,708 --> 01:22:19,125
Yes, Mr. Webster.

1242
01:22:20,583 --> 01:22:21,583
Damn.

1243
01:22:21,958 --> 01:22:24,333
Three small follicles only.

1244
01:22:25,416 --> 01:22:28,125
No pre-ovulatory follicle.

1245
01:22:29,125 --> 01:22:30,625
Left ovary...

1246
01:22:31,625 --> 01:22:33,416
A good one. Intercom.

1247
01:22:34,125 --> 01:22:35,833
On.

1248
01:22:35,916 --> 01:22:41,000
Bob, one good follicle
in the left ovary. Ripe.

1249
01:22:41,083 --> 01:22:45,958
Two centimeters in diameter, I'd say.
Not... easy to approach.

1250
01:22:46,041 --> 01:22:47,833
<i>- I'm ready.</i>
- Good.

1251
01:23:01,083 --> 01:23:02,541
Right, suction.

1252
01:23:05,041 --> 01:23:06,041
And on.

1253
01:23:23,333 --> 01:23:24,916
Gently. Gently.

1254
01:23:28,083 --> 01:23:29,083
Stop.

1255
01:23:41,041 --> 01:23:42,458
Thank you, Matron.

1256
01:23:43,041 --> 01:23:44,041
Go.

1257
01:24:37,625 --> 01:24:38,625
Intercom.

1258
01:24:40,250 --> 01:24:42,333
Got it. Got it!

1259
01:24:42,416 --> 01:24:44,541
Patrick, an excellent egg.

1260
01:25:00,708 --> 01:25:02,541
"6748/1."

1261
01:25:02,625 --> 01:25:04,333
"6748/1."

1262
01:25:21,583 --> 01:25:22,583
Come in.

1263
01:25:23,541 --> 01:25:24,541
Are you alone?

1264
01:25:25,208 --> 01:25:27,625
Yeah. Just prepping.

1265
01:25:27,708 --> 01:25:28,958
Good.

1266
01:25:29,041 --> 01:25:30,833
I've got my knickers off, ready.

1267
01:25:30,916 --> 01:25:35,083
Don't ask me to put on a gown,
and don't you dare get Muriel in here.

1268
01:25:35,916 --> 01:25:38,166
I like her now, but... still.

1269
01:26:40,916 --> 01:26:41,916
Could I have...

1270
01:26:43,125 --> 01:26:45,375
Is it... possible for me to have...

1271
01:26:45,458 --> 01:26:46,458
No.

1272
01:26:47,250 --> 01:26:48,833
What about if... What...

1273
01:26:51,250 --> 01:26:52,666
What about if this works?

1274
01:26:54,666 --> 01:26:59,583
In my opinion,
the endometriosis is very severe indeed.

1275
01:27:01,083 --> 01:27:03,750
I can try and remove some of it, but...

1276
01:27:06,583 --> 01:27:09,583
I'm afraid science
isn't entirely ready for you yet.

1277
01:27:13,166 --> 01:27:16,250
I <i>can</i> try and ease the pain.
It must be painful.

1278
01:27:19,250 --> 01:27:21,083
No. Thank you.

1279
01:27:28,083 --> 01:27:29,166
How about a drink?

1280
01:27:32,458 --> 01:27:33,958
It's barely breakfast time.

1281
01:27:34,041 --> 01:27:38,041
Well, I'll have an orange juice,
but you should have... something stronger.

1282
01:27:52,458 --> 01:27:54,166
I'd like a drink.

1283
01:27:55,875 --> 01:27:57,875
<i>- Did Bob talk to you about me?
- No.</i>

1284
01:27:57,958 --> 01:27:59,625
He knew though.

1285
01:28:00,541 --> 01:28:02,958
You knew. Probably Muriel knew.

1286
01:28:03,541 --> 01:28:07,333
We've worked together
for... eight years, Jean.

1287
01:28:08,500 --> 01:28:10,180
Very little we don't know
about each other.

1288
01:28:10,250 --> 01:28:13,791
I'm sure there are things you know
about me that I assume are private.

1289
01:28:18,791 --> 01:28:22,041
I served with the Navy in the war.

1290
01:28:22,833 --> 01:28:23,916
Ship's doctor.

1291
01:28:25,041 --> 01:28:28,250
I was... young, obviously, but capable.

1292
01:28:28,750 --> 01:28:31,875
And, as it turned out, unlucky.
Our ship was torpedoed.

1293
01:28:32,666 --> 01:28:34,625
I managed to swim to the lifeboat,

1294
01:28:34,708 --> 01:28:37,708
and we pulled everyone we could
out of the water.

1295
01:28:39,625 --> 01:28:41,666
Ship's doctor is one thing.

1296
01:28:42,208 --> 01:28:46,375
Chief medical officer on a lifeboat
full of dying men...

1297
01:28:49,625 --> 01:28:52,833
I had to decide
who to treat and who not to treat.

1298
01:28:54,583 --> 01:28:56,041
Limited supplies of morphine.

1299
01:28:56,125 --> 01:28:58,416
Limited supplies of everything,
to be honest.

1300
01:29:00,833 --> 01:29:03,125
I looked men in the eye...

1301
01:29:06,041 --> 01:29:08,958
and made a decision,
based on very little evidence,

1302
01:29:09,041 --> 01:29:11,291
whether they were capable
of survival or not.

1303
01:29:12,833 --> 01:29:15,958
I'm more than certain some I condemned

1304
01:29:16,958 --> 01:29:18,500
<i>were</i> capable.

1305
01:29:19,916 --> 01:29:21,000
I can't imagine.

1306
01:29:23,791 --> 01:29:25,625
Forgive me. There's no need for you to...

1307
01:29:27,625 --> 01:29:30,250
know all of that, but my point being

1308
01:29:30,333 --> 01:29:33,250
that the bit I most dislike about this job

1309
01:29:33,333 --> 01:29:37,041
is having to decide
who <i>will</i> get help and who will not.

1310
01:29:40,166 --> 01:29:43,000
Hundreds of letters,
I know you get them too,

1311
01:29:44,083 --> 01:29:47,416
where women beg for the opportunity
to be on our program.

1312
01:29:48,500 --> 01:29:52,333
And you read through their notes,
and... y-you can feel it.

1313
01:29:52,416 --> 01:29:55,041
You can feel their eyes
on the back of your head.

1314
01:29:57,583 --> 01:29:59,833
And we see ourselves
as the great possibility.

1315
01:29:59,916 --> 01:30:02,916
We can make the infertile fertile.

1316
01:30:03,500 --> 01:30:06,708
But there are still
so many women we won't...

1317
01:30:08,000 --> 01:30:09,500
we won't be able to help.

1318
01:30:11,500 --> 01:30:13,625
And I can't help thinking that, for them,

1319
01:30:14,458 --> 01:30:18,625
our existence...
is just another source of pain.

1320
01:30:27,916 --> 01:30:29,875
Women presume we can have children.

1321
01:30:31,208 --> 01:30:32,208
We're told so.

1322
01:30:35,833 --> 01:30:38,833
There is a biological
and social expectation.

1323
01:30:42,625 --> 01:30:45,416
Nothing can make
the pain of that absence worse.

1324
01:30:50,791 --> 01:30:53,583
But we have
the possibility of making it better.

1325
01:30:56,375 --> 01:30:57,375
And, yes,

1326
01:30:57,916 --> 01:31:01,791
I say that as someone
for whom the lifeboat can't help.

1327
01:31:16,291 --> 01:31:20,541
{\an8}Patrick. Will you please be available
to replace the embryo this evening?

1328
01:31:21,708 --> 01:31:22,708
Four-cell.

1329
01:31:24,958 --> 01:31:26,458
What kind of birthday dinner?

1330
01:31:29,291 --> 01:31:31,333
That's the name of your wife, am I right?

1331
01:31:33,791 --> 01:31:35,791
Well,
do you know <i>my</i> wife's name?

1332
01:31:37,541 --> 01:31:40,375
Well, then I should've clearly
paid more attention.

1333
01:31:41,750 --> 01:31:43,875
<i>I hope you'll tell him
we missed dessert.</i>

1334
01:31:43,958 --> 01:31:47,625
I'm gonna tell him we missed dessert
and a notorious cheese plate.

1335
01:31:50,000 --> 01:31:52,000
How you can work in a place like this.

1336
01:31:52,083 --> 01:31:55,541
This is after we've spruced it up.
You should've seen it before.

1337
01:31:55,625 --> 01:31:59,125
It was... appalling.
At least now we have glass in the windows.

1338
01:32:13,000 --> 01:32:15,583
- I managed to scare up some biscuits.
- Ah.

1339
01:32:16,458 --> 01:32:19,500
Good evening, Matron.
Hope we haven't disturbed your evening.

1340
01:32:19,583 --> 01:32:21,083
Delighted to be here.

1341
01:32:21,166 --> 01:32:22,916
Mmm.

1342
01:32:23,000 --> 01:32:26,458
- Are they chocolate biscuits?
- What a treat.

1343
01:32:28,958 --> 01:32:30,333
Eight beautiful cells.

1344
01:32:32,458 --> 01:32:35,517
- Matron and I will prep Mrs. Brown.
- I'll prepare the theater.

1345
01:32:46,958 --> 01:32:49,875
- Cannula, 2.2 mm.
- Mm-hmm.

1346
01:32:52,208 --> 01:32:54,750
If you could just
pop yourself up on the table for us

1347
01:32:54,833 --> 01:32:57,916
and place your legs in the stirrups,
that'd be great.

1348
01:33:26,500 --> 01:33:28,291
"6748/1."

1349
01:33:28,875 --> 01:33:32,208
"6748/1. Lesley Brown."

1350
01:34:08,958 --> 01:34:11,375
{\an8}Yes. Now will do.

1351
01:35:02,000 --> 01:35:03,125
All gone.

1352
01:35:06,541 --> 01:35:07,833
<i>All gone.</i>

1353
01:35:20,291 --> 01:35:21,291
Are you okay?

1354
01:35:22,000 --> 01:35:23,708
I think I feel pregnant.

1355
01:35:25,000 --> 01:35:27,166
Does that make me quite mad?

1356
01:35:29,125 --> 01:35:30,625
Not mad, exactly.

1357
01:35:33,333 --> 01:35:34,333
Well done.

1358
01:35:43,458 --> 01:35:46,916
It's getting worse, the press.
They know we're close.

1359
01:35:48,250 --> 01:35:49,791
We have to protect Lesley.

1360
01:35:51,583 --> 01:35:52,958
We've protected them all.

1361
01:35:54,875 --> 01:35:57,000
Do you know
what those women have been through?

1362
01:35:58,791 --> 01:36:03,541
Newspapers will pay £5,000 for the names
and addresses of our patients.

1363
01:36:03,625 --> 01:36:06,416
A further 5,000
should any of them become a story.

1364
01:36:07,833 --> 01:36:11,083
We could be rich.
I've all their names and addresses.

1365
01:36:11,166 --> 01:36:15,000
I know they're just specimens in a jar
for you, but these are people's lives.

1366
01:36:19,083 --> 01:36:22,083
Rachel, Kathy, Gail, Trisha.

1367
01:36:23,083 --> 01:36:26,958
Harriet, Jan, Gracie, Nicola, Julie, Viv.

1368
01:36:28,208 --> 01:36:32,125
Polly, Marie, Violet, Sally, Lauren, Liz.

1369
01:36:32,833 --> 01:36:34,125
Jo, Christina.

1370
01:36:35,041 --> 01:36:36,750
- Mel.
- You know their names.

1371
01:36:37,875 --> 01:36:39,166
Of the Ovum Club?

1372
01:36:40,291 --> 01:36:41,125
Yes.

1373
01:36:41,208 --> 01:36:44,000
I'm a scientist, Jean.

1374
01:36:44,500 --> 01:36:48,375
I fail every day in the hope
that I'll succeed once in 20 years.

1375
01:36:54,083 --> 01:36:57,500
They stay a number because,
otherwise, they'd take me down with them.

1376
01:37:03,333 --> 01:37:04,750
You're a strange man.

1377
01:37:07,666 --> 01:37:09,875
Strangest I've ever met.

1378
01:37:14,041 --> 01:37:17,666
<i>A porter to radiology
for patient transfer assistance.</i>

1379
01:37:19,083 --> 01:37:20,083
Good morning.

1380
01:37:20,166 --> 01:37:21,291
Good mornin'.

1381
01:37:24,250 --> 01:37:25,250
Good news.

1382
01:37:25,333 --> 01:37:28,500
The fetal head is a diameter
of 9.6 centimeters.

1383
01:37:28,583 --> 01:37:31,833
The lecithin-sphingomyelin ratio is 3.9:1.

1384
01:37:31,916 --> 01:37:32,791
This is a scale

1385
01:37:32,875 --> 01:37:35,541
by which we measure the baby's capacity
to breathe well at birth.

1386
01:37:35,625 --> 01:37:39,625
Normally 2:1, so 3.9:1...
is a very good figure.

1387
01:37:39,708 --> 01:37:42,041
So you think that she's ready to come out?

1388
01:37:42,125 --> 01:37:42,958
Yes.

1389
01:37:43,041 --> 01:37:46,916
The toxemia you've been suffering
leaves a question mark for me,

1390
01:37:47,000 --> 01:37:49,958
and I think we need to get your baby out
sooner rather than later,

1391
01:37:50,041 --> 01:37:52,250
which means... a decision

1392
01:37:53,125 --> 01:37:56,666
between inducing the birth
and performing a Caesarean section.

1393
01:37:57,541 --> 01:38:00,583
Mr. Steptoe, we only understand
half of what you're sayin',

1394
01:38:00,666 --> 01:38:04,958
but, well, we... trust
whatever decision that you think right.

1395
01:38:06,458 --> 01:38:08,291
I think you feel, like me,

1396
01:38:08,375 --> 01:38:11,458
that if we can do this without
a press audience, it might be easier.

1397
01:38:11,541 --> 01:38:13,333
- Mm.
- Of course we do.

1398
01:38:14,833 --> 01:38:17,041
Have your normal visitors today.

1399
01:38:17,125 --> 01:38:18,250
Tell them nothing.

1400
01:38:18,333 --> 01:38:20,333
At 9:00 p.m., you should go home, John.

1401
01:38:20,416 --> 01:38:22,750
We'll find a way
of bringing you back secretly.

1402
01:38:25,458 --> 01:38:27,541
<i>At 11:00 p.m., we'll operate.</i>

1403
01:38:27,625 --> 01:38:31,166
And by... midnight, you'll have your child.

1404
01:38:32,208 --> 01:38:33,416
How does that sound?

1405
01:38:36,041 --> 01:38:38,708
That sounds rather marvelous, sir.

1406
01:38:39,583 --> 01:38:42,166
<i>Can you confirm
that it's Lesley Brown?</i>

1407
01:38:42,791 --> 01:38:45,000
Picture,
Mr. and Mrs. Frankenstein?

1408
01:38:45,083 --> 01:38:47,500
- It's Dr. Frankenstein!
- This way, Miss Purdy.

1409
01:38:47,583 --> 01:38:49,500
This way, Dr. Edwards!
This way!

1410
01:38:49,583 --> 01:38:52,541
Doctor! Dr. Edwards!

1411
01:38:59,041 --> 01:39:01,833
- I'm ready, Mr. Steptoe.
- Thank you, Muriel.

1412
01:39:06,083 --> 01:39:08,541
<i>I'll be making
a vertical incision.</i>

1413
01:39:22,958 --> 01:39:25,291
Let go of me!

1414
01:39:25,375 --> 01:39:27,015
- Journalist!
- Not done anythin'.

1415
01:39:27,041 --> 01:39:30,291
- Pretending to be a plumber.
- Let go! Get off me!

1416
01:39:35,250 --> 01:39:36,333
Not long now.

1417
01:39:39,583 --> 01:39:40,666
Not long now.

1418
01:39:46,958 --> 01:39:52,458
{\an8}I'm now going to incise
the lower segment of the uterus.

1419
01:40:06,000 --> 01:40:07,208
<i>Right, suction.</i>

1420
01:40:57,208 --> 01:40:59,541
There you go. There.

1421
01:41:03,250 --> 01:41:04,416
How you doin'?

1422
01:41:27,541 --> 01:41:29,625
Can you hear that?

1423
01:41:30,333 --> 01:41:32,333
Hey. Can you hear that?

1424
01:42:16,125 --> 01:42:17,333
Jean, come.

1425
01:42:35,000 --> 01:42:36,416
<i>Is that my baby?</i>

1426
01:42:37,375 --> 01:42:38,375
<i>It is.</i>

1427
01:42:42,375 --> 01:42:43,375
Oh.

1428
01:42:51,541 --> 01:42:52,541
Thank you.

1429
01:42:53,791 --> 01:42:54,875
Sure.

1430
01:42:58,250 --> 01:42:59,458
Look.

1431
01:43:00,750 --> 01:43:03,250
She's here.

1432
01:43:05,000 --> 01:43:06,083
She's here.

1433
01:43:14,791 --> 01:43:15,791
Yeah.

1434
01:44:18,458 --> 01:44:20,041
<i>♪ Love is in the air... ♪</i>

1435
01:44:20,125 --> 01:44:22,333
That's easy!

1436
01:44:25,791 --> 01:44:28,750
<i>♪ And I don't know if I'm being foolish... ♪</i>

1437
01:44:29,833 --> 01:44:32,708
Right, uh, now that Jean is here,
I think we should have a speech.

1438
01:44:32,791 --> 01:44:34,041
- A speech?
- Oh yes!

1439
01:44:34,125 --> 01:44:35,184
- Patrick, speech.
- Patrick.

1440
01:44:35,208 --> 01:44:36,625
- No. No.
- A few words.

1441
01:44:37,125 --> 01:44:39,041
- No.
- Come on. Jean, a speech.

1442
01:44:39,125 --> 01:44:41,583
- No way.
- Oh, okay! I will make a speech.

1443
01:44:41,666 --> 01:44:45,291
Oh! Well, of course!

1444
01:44:45,375 --> 01:44:48,958
- Right. First, I would like to thank...
- No, you wouldn't. No, you won't.

1445
01:44:49,041 --> 01:44:51,333
Stop, Patrick. Without all of you...

1446
01:44:51,416 --> 01:44:53,208
- You'd be a member of Parliament.
- Yes!

1447
01:44:53,291 --> 01:44:55,583
Ha-ha. Very good, very good.

1448
01:44:55,666 --> 01:44:56,666
Matron!

1449
01:44:57,291 --> 01:44:58,958
For three days,

1450
01:44:59,791 --> 01:45:02,708
that little girl grew in our culture.

1451
01:45:03,541 --> 01:45:06,875
She was replaced inside her mother
with incredible skill.

1452
01:45:07,500 --> 01:45:11,166
She wriggled out of her membrane
and expanded beautifully.

1453
01:45:12,666 --> 01:45:15,791
<i>We</i> have done something
truly extraordinary.

1454
01:45:16,625 --> 01:45:19,291
We have done it because it was necessary.

1455
01:45:22,041 --> 01:45:25,875
It has been a privilege... to work with you,

1456
01:45:27,625 --> 01:45:30,000
to sacrifice with you,

1457
01:45:31,375 --> 01:45:32,625
to make with you.

1458
01:45:35,875 --> 01:45:37,125
Remember this moment.

1459
01:45:38,583 --> 01:45:42,166
I know that I will never be part
of something so extraordinary again.

1460
01:45:42,916 --> 01:45:44,750
Remember it, and...

1461
01:45:46,458 --> 01:45:47,666
and treasure it.

1462
01:45:52,375 --> 01:45:53,375
To you all.

1463
01:45:54,333 --> 01:45:56,291
- To us all.
- To us all.

1464
01:45:56,375 --> 01:45:57,458
So what now?

1465
01:45:58,208 --> 01:45:59,541
We do it all again.

1466
01:46:01,000 --> 01:46:04,458
Oh, the Browns have asked if we'd like
to give the baby a middle name. I...

1467
01:46:04,541 --> 01:46:07,625
- I was thinking "Joy."
- Oh, that's lovely!

1468
01:46:13,583 --> 01:46:14,666
A good choice?

1469
01:46:16,416 --> 01:46:17,500
A great choice.

1470
01:46:26,125 --> 01:46:27,250
<i>Dear Mr. Killion,</i>

1471
01:46:27,875 --> 01:46:30,541
<i>I feel strongly
about the inclusion on the plaque</i>

1472
01:46:30,625 --> 01:46:33,416
<i>of those who helped
with the conception of Louise Brown.</i>

1473
01:46:33,916 --> 01:46:36,833
<i>I feel this especially about Jean Purdy,</i>

1474
01:46:36,916 --> 01:46:39,750
<i>who travelled to Oldham with me
for the full ten years</i>

1475
01:46:39,833 --> 01:46:42,625
<i>and contributed as much as we did
to the project.</i>

1476
01:46:43,125 --> 01:46:46,416
<i>I was the biologist,
Patrick, the obstetrician,</i>

1477
01:46:46,500 --> 01:46:47,625
<i>and Jean...</i>

1478
01:46:48,250 --> 01:46:50,666
<i>well, you could describe Jean as...</i>

1479
01:46:51,291 --> 01:46:55,000
<i>Well, without her,
none of this would've been possible.</i>

1480
01:46:55,625 --> 01:46:58,333
<i>She made the unbearable bearable.</i>

1481
01:46:59,416 --> 01:47:01,458
<i>So, you see, it is quite simple.</i>

1482
01:47:02,083 --> 01:47:04,666
<i>Her name</i> must <i>be on that plaque.</i>

1483
01:47:04,750 --> 01:47:10,041
<i>♪ If you miss the train I'm on ♪</i>

1484
01:47:10,541 --> 01:47:14,625
<i>♪ You will know that I am gone ♪</i>

1485
01:47:15,125 --> 01:47:19,416
<i>♪ You can hear the whistle blow ♪</i>

1486
01:47:19,916 --> 01:47:24,125
<i>♪ A hundred miles ♪</i>

1487
01:47:25,000 --> 01:47:30,125
<i>♪ A hundred miles, a hundred miles ♪</i>

1488
01:47:30,208 --> 01:47:35,333
<i>♪ A hundred miles, a hundred miles ♪</i>

1489
01:47:35,416 --> 01:47:40,208
<i>♪ You can hear the whistle blow ♪</i>

1490
01:47:40,291 --> 01:47:44,541
<i>♪ A hundred miles ♪</i>

1491
01:47:45,416 --> 01:47:50,625
<i>♪ Lord, I'm one, Lord, I'm two ♪</i>

1492
01:47:50,708 --> 01:47:55,750
<i>♪ Lord, I'm three, Lord, I'm four ♪</i>

1493
01:47:55,833 --> 01:48:00,791
<i>♪ Lord, I'm 500 miles ♪</i>

1494
01:48:00,875 --> 01:48:05,416
<i>♪ From my home ♪</i>

1495
01:48:05,500 --> 01:48:10,541
<i>♪ 500 miles, 500 miles ♪</i>

1496
01:48:10,625 --> 01:48:15,833
<i>♪ 500 miles, 500 miles ♪</i>

1497
01:48:15,916 --> 01:48:21,041
<i>♪ Lord, I'm 500 miles ♪</i>

1498
01:48:21,125 --> 01:48:25,583
<i>♪ From my home ♪</i>

1499
01:48:26,083 --> 01:48:31,083
<i>♪ Not a shirt on my back ♪</i>

1500
01:48:31,166 --> 01:48:36,250
<i>♪ Not a penny to my name ♪</i>

1501
01:48:36,333 --> 01:48:41,166
<i>♪ Lord, I can't go a-home ♪</i>

1502
01:48:41,250 --> 01:48:46,125
<i>♪ This a-way ♪</i>

1503
01:48:46,208 --> 01:48:51,458
<i>♪ This a-way, this a-way ♪</i>

1504
01:48:51,541 --> 01:48:56,666
<i>♪ This a-way, this a-way ♪</i>

1505
01:48:56,750 --> 01:49:01,666
<i>♪ Lord, I can't go a-home ♪</i>

1506
01:49:01,750 --> 01:49:06,958
<i>♪ This a-way ♪</i>

1507
01:49:07,041 --> 01:49:12,000
<i>♪ If you miss the train I'm on ♪</i>

1508
01:49:12,541 --> 01:49:16,916
<i>♪ You will know that I am gone ♪</i>

1509
01:49:17,000 --> 01:49:21,750
<i>♪ You can hear the whistle blow ♪</i>

1510
01:49:21,833 --> 01:49:27,750
<i>♪ A hundred miles ♪</i>