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AMANDA: Sidney Chambers.

She was admiring you

Just like we used to when

Lilian even held her breath once

You carried her to Matron.

(GIGGLES) You don't remember?

I'm sorry, I...

Of course!

Of course, Amanda!

It's been a long time.

Before the War, has to be.

But you look...

Wiser, hopefully!

No pigtails.

GUARD: Morning, Miss Kendall.

Do you work here?

And you... Look at you!

Who'd have thought?

She's down in the dumps.

So would you be

I think he forgot to put his teeth in

I think she knows where they are and

I'm never getting married.

I don't believe that for a second.

I'm going to be come wild

I'm sure you have an endless supply

Dad's always got someone lined up.

I like my life.

You're a man of God. How about,

you have the power of veto?

What if I disapprove of all of them?

Well, you won't be the only one.

We should do this again.

We shall.

Oh! Toffee apples. We'll have

Mm.

You may kiss me, if you like.

Next week, then?

Amanda Kendall!

Sidney?

Archdeacon.

A hungry chicken waits for no man.

You're having a crisis of faith?

God isn't the problem.

Sometimes I worry about

Good Lord, don't we all?

But I've behaved in ways

Leaving your highly inexperienced

Criminal investigations?

Women, one of them distinctly

A friend of mine's getting married,

and I can't seem to be happy

It just goes to show you're as human

No, it's... It's not just that.

Sidney, the race is not always

(TOGETHER) ..the battle to

I've said that before?

My job is to make sure those in

That's what I'm trying to do.

My advice would be to hold

And if I don't feel I can?

Well, there's always academia.

(DOG BARKS)

I've only been gone an hour.

It's nearly three. Mrs M kept count.

I have a theory, if you'd

All these investigations.

They force you to think about life

in a manner that's contrary

your faith, your character.

It's unsettled you.

I'm fine.

Look...

I know people think I'm ridiculous.

No one thinks you're ridiculous.

I know how it feels when

and I'm not talking about Dickens.

What I'm trying to say,

I'm always here if you need someone

You're going to make an

From the Archdeacon.

With his compliments.

He summonsed you?

Someone's been telling tales.

LEONARD: It's always Mr Brant!

They're trying to edge you out.

Tea at the orchard.

I completely forgot!

I am so sorry.

No, you should. You should mind. I...

You worry too much.

What is it?

The rich one's impending nuptials?

It's Hildegard.

It's a mess, that's what it is.

They fall at your feet!

I should tell her.

Hildegard.

I'm going to tell her. Good!

What's stopping you from doing it

Now, shut up for five minutes!

Cathy thinks I'm a catch, does she?

I'm not here, I'm in the pub.

Jones has been shot.

Jesus!

May God Our Father have mercy

forgive all your sins and give you

May the blessing of God, the Father,

be with you now and in eternity.

No, get off! Get off me!

ATKINS: She was touting for business

I didn't see nothing.

That's a double negative, Annie. Just

Bugger yourself sideways, Geordie!

No, you're hurting me! Get off me!

Geordie!

I remember you!

Well, how's about that?

I'll only talk to him.

Give me a minute?

He will make sure you're protected.

I isn't no fool. That's

No one's going to protect me.

They were talking,

the copper and the man who shot him.

He was asking him some questions

then he pulls out a gun.

Well, did you hear anything else?

Merlin.

Merlin?

Jonsie just got married last year.

Betty, her name is.

She's a nice girl.

Maybe Merlin's a nickname, or...

You'll get who did this, Geordie.

Put in a word with the fella

Merlin!

(HONKS HORN)

That wasn't the name of his mate.

What are we looking for?

Well, Jonsie, the shooter,

If we find the connection,

I want the name of every fella

How do we find that?

Ah, you love me really!

I wouldn't be so sure!

(GUNSHOTS)

Geordie?

Geordie, did you hear that?

Oh, God!

Geordie? Geordie?

Geordie? Geordie?

Heart.

Heart.

Stay down...

Stay down.

I've got you.

I don't want to die.

You are not going to die.

Sorry, you can't come any further.

CATHY: Sidney? Oh, Sidney!

(SOBS)

Will you pray for him?

I'm not really the praying sort.

When David was poorly,

when he was so small...

I won't let him leave us, Sidney.

He is not leaving us.

Mrs Keating? Chief Inspector Benson.

Is there anything I can tell

We'll get the bastard,

What was he doing on his own?

He wasn't.

I was with him.

Playing at cops and robbers,

All just a silly jape, eh?

So you're the vicar I hear tell of,

What does he do, rub your head

ATKINS: Mr Chambers provides

Well, let me provide you

There is a nutcase murdering my men.

Get out from under our feet.

It wasn't Geordie he was after,

the caretaker, the dead man.

Keating just got in the way,

There is some connection

Some other reason.

Piss off back to church,

LEONARD: What's the matter?

I know you're troubled, Sidney.

I know you have nightmares.

But you must know that God is

I won't hear any nonsense

If we'd have never gone there...

If you'd never met him in the

You can't live your life like that.

You once said the wisest thing

The good, the bad.

The police are wrong. They'll be

Sidney...

My boy...

Tell us how we can help you.

This is not acceptable.

Take a seat please, madam.

I've been robbed! This woman is

I heard her. Have a seat.

Snatched my handbag right off

Two bob in my mother's handbag.

She was knitting a scarf.

Sit down please, madam.

Oh, dear!

Oh, no!

Mother? Mother! Mum?

Mother?

Mother? Mother?

Mum?

(DOOR SQUEAKS OPEN)

OFFICER: Old dear having some sort

Oh, for pity's sake!

My mother has a very delicate

Thank you.

My mother feels so much better now,

You should've been on the stage,

I should've done

Did you find what you were

ATKINS: Mr Chambers?

Do whatever it is you have to do.

Thank you.

Great Eastern Street.

All council housing.

Had complaints, of course.

Too full of the working classes?

So you're taking Jonsie's funeral?

Yes, and I understand

Well, it's the least I could do.

Poor bastard spends five years

ends up getting shot

Barely makes sense, does it?

Band of brothers.

People bandy that phrase around,

Closer than brothers.

So you served together?

I was his commanding officer. We

We were some of the first

Thomas Langshaw...

Did he serve under you, too?

Yes, he did. Why?

He was killed last night.

WOMAN: Darling, what do you think?

I know you like the blue, but this

Oh, sorry!

Er, wear the blue. I just want

Wear the blue, Grace!

They were shot, both of them.

Who's been shot? I'm sure

Who's been shot, James?

Two men from your squad.

Why would anyone want to kill them?

Funny, Jones never struck me

Well, everyone has a vicar.

It's whether they choose

Please pass on my condolences

If the police had a list,

..perhaps they could do something.

Perhaps they could warn them.

See Mr Chambers out.

Are you family?

Is he alive? Tell me that much,

'He hasn't woken yet.'

'Until he does, we won't know

(DEAD TONE)

GEORDIE: 'I don't want to die.'

I want to go home.

(CHATTER AND LAUGHTER)

(PIANO PLAYS)

Sidney?

I had to see you.

How are the wedding plans?

Fine? Good.

This Saturday? Yes, this Saturday.

Amanda, your guests are here.

You haven't even spoken

What are people going to think?

Let's go on the river,

Another time. I'll come down

One of your little jaunts?

What happened to that

and eccentric and full of opinion?

I exert my power of veto.

Love is a minimum requirement,

There has to be some in a marriage,

what hope do you stand?

What is it that you want, Sidney?

Tell me, what is it?

Now is not the time.

It was never the time.

It was!

Let's get you outside, Sidney.

Bit of fresh air, how about that?

I can manage.

For God's sake, Guy, get rid of him!

Sidney?

I can manage!

MR BRANT: Mr Chambers?

What, Mr Brant? What could possibly

HILDEGARD: Mr Brant, is this about

It's a menace.

I don't suppose you could help us

Well, I'll see what I can do.

You're a wonder, Mr Brant.

We could go and visit Cathy,

Take something for the children.

(POURS DRINK)

You drink more and more, these days.

My friend may die.

But before then.

I'm fine.

I'm fine.

Why do I feel like one man

and another one came home?

(THUD ON FLOOR)

Mrs Heath?

They're all there, all the men

He doesn't know you're here?

A few of them still live in the

Thank you.

You'd never think it to look at him,

That he'd been through all that.

He saw the camps. He saw evil.

After that, how did any of us expect

Robert Miller?

Whoever's doing this are picking us

I don't know for sure. That's what

I believe you're all in danger.

I don't think I've ever felt

When was that?

It was 46.

Me too.

Seven years.

My wife, she never asked

I never told her.

My sister, she asked.

..how can you explain?

But you saw some things.

I did some things.

We fought the Nazis.

Felt like heroes.

They moved us to Berlin,

But really it felt like there was

Yeah. I spoke to James Heath.

Oh, that man? He's a bully.

What is it he's so afraid of me

Spreenhagen. It's in the countryside

What happened there?

My friend was shot too.

And if he wakes, I want him to

Ask him. Ask Heath what he did.

Did you notice? Phoenix.

Some people rise from the ashes,

HEATH: ..no more than ten houses

central heating,

Basic, but a far cry from the

Will you excuse me?

This is a private event.

It won't take any time at all.

What happened, Mr Heath?

Poor Jones is dead,

There's a reason

Darling, let's get you a drink.

Do it!

I have nothing to hide.

You are trespassing, Mr Chambers.

BENSON: Is it naivety?

Or is it sheer bloody-mindedness?

Please, tell me.

Because I'm failing to understand

I was trying to get to the truth.

Mr Heath is withholding information.

He's a respected businessman

His wife?

She's petrified of him,

I'm pretty sure he beats her.

She didn't have to.

You want the truth?

You are not a police officer.

I never claim to be.

Get yourself a hobby,

take up stamp collecting.

You want me to put you in a cell,

Mr Heath has chosen

against my advice, I hasten to add.

You're free to go.

What is Mr Heath hiding?

He wasn't exactly forthcoming.

He didn't bring any of it back

How can it touch some people...

and not others?

I often wonder that myself.

And my wife, she moved to

Said that I wasn't the man

Couldn't even hold down a job.

I don't sleep, you see.

I have nightmares, too.

I know how painful it can be

But if what happened in Berlin,

if it has any bearing

Heath said they were trying

Who?

Hands on your heads!

POWs, three of them.

Heath, the others...

they never liked me.

Said that I lacked moral fibre,

and this was my chance

They're running away, see?

Bitte nicht! Bitte nicht!

Bastards are getting away!

Do it, you poof!

Come on, Miller!

Do it!

Nein!

(THREE GUNSHOTS)

They were young boys, really.

The others, they just laughed at me.

Tell the police.

Stand up to him. He's killing us

We can't ruin his perfect life.

You are not a coward. It took

Don't let him get away with it.

Will you come with me?

GEORDIE: 'Heart.'

Heart.

(FOOTSTEPS)

What do I tell them?

Tell them the truth.

What?

It wasn't Heath, it was you!

(GROANS)

WOMAN: 'Operator?'

Put it down!

Put it down!

Heath, Jones,

It meant nothing to them!

They came home and they forgot.

You think you're the only one?

They didn't care.

Nobody cared. That's why I did it.

I am not a coward!

I am not a coward.

I understand.

I do. We live in the shadow of it,

But we have a choice, don't we?

You have a choice.

You can...

stay in the shadow or you can live.

Let me talk to them.

I know you didn't.

Your friend, he wasn't supposed

I-I know.

I don't hate you.

I don't hate you!

You have a choice, Robert.

We all do.

No, no!

Sidney?

Let me get some...

Did you pray for me?

Of course I did.

Praying for an old heathen?

It worked, didn't it?

Don't you ever do that to me again.

Thank you.

So we found him,

Coward's way out.

It was the War.

He couldn't forget.

That's no excuse.

(SIGHS) We all have that cross

I killed one of my own men.

I said, "All clear."

We're clear!

I told them it was all clear.

But we'd missed a German, and...

(GUNSHOT)

We told him to stay down, but...

Sandy, get down! Get down!

'But he was on his feet,

(GUNSHOT)

I put my hand on his stomach,

It's all right. No, Sandy! Sandy...

It... It was...

(SANDY GROANS)

I want to go home.

(MOANS)

I know.

I want to go home.

(GUNSHOT)

I... I had no choice.

He'd written a letter...

But I never sent it...

..because it was covered

And... And I thought that...

I thought that no one should

You did what you had to do, Sidney.

It's all any of us did.

(SCALES PLAYED ON PIANO)

Very good. Excellent.

When I was in London,

What was her name?

Gloria. I'm so sorry.

Please believe me when I say

..you've kept me going.

I let me husband do this to me.

I won't let you do it, too.

Everyone always needs me, but erm...

(FOOTSTEPS)

Your poor face! What happened?

They took it down.

I am so sorry.

It was -

I know, Sidney.

Nearly D-Day.

Are you ready?

I won't be there, I'm afraid.

Something's come up at the church -

Look at us both!

Me getting married and you...

It was never meant to be, was it?

We could never be so.

Thank you for showing me a way

You do speak in riddles sometimes.

Well, for the good times, then.

We have had fun, haven't we?

And we will again.

We will.

What will they replace it with,

Something less dreary, I hope.

I hope so.

'I had to say goodbye.'

'I just needed to say it, I think.'

'We have a choice, don't we?'

'We can live in the past...'

'We can look forward.'

'Or we can live now.'

'Because we can't change

You ready, darling?

'We can't predict the future.'

'None of us knows what's around

'All we can do

..hold a steady course.'

You're just going to get on with it?

That's all you need to say.

What are you doing to poor Leonard?

More of a prince, wouldn't you say?

No, definitely a princess.

Don't go too far.

What?

CATHY: We know you can hear us!

They're a worry, aren't they?

That's enough now.

Come and sit down.

So...she'll be married by now?

She was out of my league.

Maybe because you're in a league

Perhaps I should just accept

Yeah, bollocks! (LAUGHS) How did

Don't worry, we'll find you a wife.

Why not? Cos if you have

she'll be a fan of light opera.

There is everything wrong with that!

# And it is, it is a glorious thing

(LAUGHS) Truly awful!

We'll find you a girl who likes

"Bechet", Geordie.

It's "Bechet".

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