1 00:00:01,047 --> 00:00:02,567 The prodigal returns! 2 00:00:02,600 --> 00:00:07,164 Margaret Jane, may I introduce you to my wicked stepfather? 3 00:00:07,312 --> 00:00:10,152 - What's going on? - Life insurance. 4 00:00:10,520 --> 00:00:12,280 You're no use to us at all. 5 00:00:12,320 --> 00:00:14,757 Arsenic. It's the only thing that works that I know of. 6 00:00:14,789 --> 00:00:15,789 [VOMITING] 7 00:00:15,814 --> 00:00:17,928 Want to know my secret? Get yourself a husband. 8 00:00:17,953 --> 00:00:20,840 Then get him insured. 35 quid. 9 00:00:20,880 --> 00:00:23,415 MRS STOTT: Married twice, widowed twice. 10 00:00:23,440 --> 00:00:24,463 Thank you. 11 00:00:24,488 --> 00:00:25,613 Do I know you? 12 00:00:25,675 --> 00:00:27,480 I scrub up nice, me like. 13 00:00:27,878 --> 00:00:30,678 There's a darkness in you, Mary Ann. 14 00:00:31,320 --> 00:00:34,080 - She's too charming. - The children need you. 15 00:00:34,120 --> 00:00:35,720 I need you. 16 00:00:35,760 --> 00:00:39,360 All I have to do is whistle, Mrs Robinson-to-be if you're lucky. 17 00:00:39,400 --> 00:00:41,320 And you'll always come running. 18 00:00:41,360 --> 00:00:43,360 I shall be Mrs Robinson. 19 00:00:43,400 --> 00:00:47,673 I shall! And I shall be that lady all my earthly days. 20 00:00:51,664 --> 00:00:52,974 _ 21 00:00:53,000 --> 00:00:55,000 [RAIN PATTERING] 22 00:00:57,800 --> 00:00:59,800 [HORSES TROTTING ON STREET] 23 00:01:11,400 --> 00:01:13,400 [DOOR OPENS] 24 00:01:21,760 --> 00:01:23,760 Good morning, Miss Robinson. 25 00:01:23,800 --> 00:01:25,800 [FOOTSTEPS] 26 00:01:36,482 --> 00:01:37,647 [DOOR OPENS] 27 00:01:37,672 --> 00:01:38,912 Stay here. 28 00:01:45,960 --> 00:01:49,560 My brother is a man lost in grief and weakness of body. 29 00:01:50,880 --> 00:01:54,632 Do not commit the error of imagining you have a deeper hold on him than that. 30 00:01:54,874 --> 00:01:56,920 I'll not bother inviting you to the wedding, then. 31 00:01:56,960 --> 00:01:57,971 [SCOFFS] 32 00:01:57,996 --> 00:01:59,011 [GASPS] 33 00:01:59,041 --> 00:02:01,304 Here's the hold I have on your brother. 34 00:02:01,329 --> 00:02:02,761 [GASPS SHARPLY] 35 00:02:02,786 --> 00:02:04,424 And here. 36 00:02:06,845 --> 00:02:07,845 You... 37 00:02:09,102 --> 00:02:11,200 you're a low and desperate woman. 38 00:02:11,240 --> 00:02:14,648 And you are a dried-up old virgin. 39 00:02:14,673 --> 00:02:16,838 And I know which I'd rather be. 40 00:02:17,095 --> 00:02:19,095 [STIFLED SOBBING] 41 00:02:37,615 --> 00:02:40,535 So nice for my little girl to have a family again. 42 00:02:43,149 --> 00:02:45,589 Have real live brothers and sisters at last. 43 00:02:47,120 --> 00:02:51,040 But if you could just have a little word with them about making her more welcome. 44 00:02:51,876 --> 00:02:53,548 This is all wrong. 45 00:02:53,800 --> 00:02:56,915 I've sinned against a woman who did nothing to deserve it. 46 00:02:58,280 --> 00:02:59,970 I was willing. 47 00:03:01,932 --> 00:03:03,392 I am willing. 48 00:03:04,120 --> 00:03:05,314 James... 49 00:03:09,283 --> 00:03:11,595 She's only four months in her grave. 50 00:03:19,442 --> 00:03:21,203 You still love her. 51 00:03:21,607 --> 00:03:22,750 The children.. 52 00:03:22,775 --> 00:03:25,167 She's dead. Their mother's dead. 53 00:03:25,200 --> 00:03:27,160 Death has no power over love. 54 00:03:27,200 --> 00:03:29,800 Love me. I'm here. 55 00:03:30,172 --> 00:03:33,760 I'm alive. Love me. Love my baby. 56 00:03:34,307 --> 00:03:36,117 Our baby. 57 00:03:37,960 --> 00:03:39,960 We can start again. 58 00:03:41,920 --> 00:03:43,920 God has blessed us, see? 59 00:03:46,221 --> 00:03:48,341 I can't marry again so soon. 60 00:03:48,366 --> 00:03:49,687 I won't show until the summer. 61 00:03:49,712 --> 00:03:52,226 - We can wait until then. - When will you understand? 62 00:03:52,251 --> 00:03:54,480 I can't do this to my children. 63 00:03:54,520 --> 00:03:58,253 You're letting your children stand in the way of our happiness? 64 00:04:26,440 --> 00:04:28,440 [CROCKERY RATTLES] 65 00:04:34,120 --> 00:04:36,779 - Mam? - Hush now. 66 00:04:38,209 --> 00:04:40,076 Can we go home? 67 00:04:40,818 --> 00:04:42,451 This is home. 68 00:04:43,108 --> 00:04:44,912 I'll make sure of it. 69 00:04:47,800 --> 00:04:49,800 Now listen to me, Isabella, 70 00:04:50,693 --> 00:04:53,537 there's a sickness coming to this house, my love. 71 00:04:53,975 --> 00:04:55,725 But it'll not come for you. 72 00:04:55,842 --> 00:05:00,451 Even if you start to feel a little bit poorly, don't you worry. 73 00:05:00,864 --> 00:05:02,864 You will get better. 74 00:05:04,044 --> 00:05:08,436 And afterwards nobody will look down their nose at us again. 75 00:05:12,345 --> 00:05:14,770 Cos your mam knows just what she's doing. 76 00:05:16,440 --> 00:05:19,777 There's nothing happens unless it's God's will on this Earth. 77 00:05:21,200 --> 00:05:23,200 But it's been hard, Maggie. 78 00:05:23,872 --> 00:05:25,872 Hard and lonely. 79 00:05:28,360 --> 00:05:30,360 - Mary Ann... - [GROANS] 80 00:05:30,849 --> 00:05:34,480 Made it very clear nursing her own dying mother was beneath her. 81 00:05:34,520 --> 00:05:36,646 Not heard a word from her since. 82 00:05:36,671 --> 00:05:39,004 She means no harm, you know that. 83 00:05:39,361 --> 00:05:41,105 She's just... 84 00:05:42,080 --> 00:05:44,863 - ... never resting. - Hm. 85 00:05:45,028 --> 00:05:47,261 Always looking for the next thing. 86 00:05:50,160 --> 00:05:52,277 Will you come in for a brew? 87 00:05:52,722 --> 00:05:56,442 Aw, thank you, but there's sickness at my brother's, so... 88 00:05:57,920 --> 00:06:00,160 I'm frightened on account of the bairn, Maggie. 89 00:06:01,520 --> 00:06:03,520 I don't know why, but... 90 00:06:03,814 --> 00:06:06,860 I keep thinking I should have kept Isabella by me. 91 00:06:06,885 --> 00:06:09,512 A child needs her mother, Mr Stott. 92 00:06:09,537 --> 00:06:11,537 You know that. 93 00:06:27,280 --> 00:06:29,280 Helen, thank God you're here. 94 00:06:29,320 --> 00:06:31,520 These two will keep safer away from home. 95 00:06:35,378 --> 00:06:38,435 God willing, we may yet nurse the sick ones through. 96 00:06:48,560 --> 00:06:50,487 I wanted to nurse them all myself. 97 00:06:50,512 --> 00:06:52,200 I told him I'm perfectly capable. 98 00:06:52,225 --> 00:06:55,120 You've enough worries, Mrs Mowbray, with your own daughter sick, too. 99 00:06:55,151 --> 00:06:56,151 [DOOR CLOSES] 100 00:06:56,190 --> 00:06:58,760 Thank heavens she's not taken it so badly as the rest. 101 00:06:59,097 --> 00:07:01,097 I'll look in again tonight. 102 00:07:01,720 --> 00:07:05,213 Isabella? Say thank you to the nice doctor. 103 00:07:05,333 --> 00:07:07,333 Thank you, Doctor. 104 00:07:12,760 --> 00:07:14,111 Hey. 105 00:07:14,800 --> 00:07:17,280 Will I get sick like Elizabeth? 106 00:07:17,320 --> 00:07:18,486 No. 107 00:07:19,360 --> 00:07:21,705 Not if you do exactly as I say. 108 00:07:22,640 --> 00:07:26,039 Just a tiny drop now. Tiny. 109 00:07:27,240 --> 00:07:29,062 Just to show willing. 110 00:07:32,040 --> 00:07:33,468 That's enough. 111 00:07:35,520 --> 00:07:36,960 Good girl. 112 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:39,760 Putrid fever, possibly typhus. 113 00:07:39,785 --> 00:07:42,040 It's always hard to say with certainty. 114 00:07:43,080 --> 00:07:45,080 I've lost so much already. 115 00:07:46,080 --> 00:07:48,550 As to that, we're all in God's hands. 116 00:07:48,994 --> 00:07:51,754 You're fortunate in having a fine nurse to look after them. 117 00:07:55,960 --> 00:07:57,793 [RETCHES] 118 00:07:57,818 --> 00:07:59,941 Isabella, no! What are you doing? 119 00:07:59,974 --> 00:08:01,675 This is for the others, not you. 120 00:08:01,722 --> 00:08:03,355 I'm so thirsty. 121 00:08:03,659 --> 00:08:05,564 It's all right, your mam's here. 122 00:08:05,589 --> 00:08:07,640 Nothing can harm you, nothing. 123 00:08:07,680 --> 00:08:09,680 But you have to do exactly as I say. 124 00:08:09,705 --> 00:08:10,809 Here, here. 125 00:08:10,833 --> 00:08:11,950 [VOMITS] 126 00:08:12,840 --> 00:08:15,269 Oh, sweet Jesus, what have I done? 127 00:08:16,360 --> 00:08:19,000 Hey, you're all right. 128 00:08:19,339 --> 00:08:21,640 Isabella, it's all right. 129 00:08:22,136 --> 00:08:23,401 Shush... 130 00:08:25,039 --> 00:08:27,039 [SOBS] 131 00:08:28,114 --> 00:08:30,683 Come on. Good girl. 132 00:08:36,932 --> 00:08:39,362 [SOBBING] 133 00:08:46,240 --> 00:08:48,620 Elizabeth, James... 134 00:08:49,792 --> 00:08:51,395 and Isabella. 135 00:08:51,420 --> 00:08:53,420 [SOBBING] 136 00:08:54,560 --> 00:08:57,992 Blessed are they that mourn, for they shall be comforted. 137 00:08:58,195 --> 00:09:01,040 Blessed are they that mourn, for they shall be comforted. 138 00:09:01,133 --> 00:09:02,428 [SOBS] 139 00:09:02,453 --> 00:09:05,360 Blessed are they that mourn, for they shall be comforted. 140 00:09:06,560 --> 00:09:08,538 They're in Heaven now. 141 00:09:09,220 --> 00:09:11,561 We'll see them there one day. 142 00:09:15,560 --> 00:09:16,983 You might. 143 00:09:17,600 --> 00:09:20,014 Everyone goes to Heaven who's good. 144 00:09:23,810 --> 00:09:26,105 You may start out ever so good... 145 00:09:27,344 --> 00:09:29,207 you can't keep it up. 146 00:09:30,760 --> 00:09:32,222 Things happen. 147 00:09:33,091 --> 00:09:34,847 Mistakes get made. 148 00:09:35,920 --> 00:09:37,920 And you're too far in to come out. 149 00:09:37,960 --> 00:09:39,960 [SHUDDERING BREATH] 150 00:09:40,597 --> 00:09:42,000 [SNIFFS] 151 00:09:43,400 --> 00:09:45,285 Are you good, William? 152 00:09:45,876 --> 00:09:47,230 Not very. 153 00:09:50,200 --> 00:09:52,089 Shall we try? 154 00:09:52,917 --> 00:09:54,917 From this day forward... 155 00:09:55,504 --> 00:09:57,596 shall we be different? 156 00:09:59,720 --> 00:10:02,058 Shall we be good every day? 157 00:10:07,520 --> 00:10:09,520 [CHURCH BELL TOLLS] 158 00:10:33,760 --> 00:10:37,071 Isabella Mowbray, aged nine. 159 00:10:40,260 --> 00:10:41,751 Wasn't supposed to happen. 160 00:10:41,776 --> 00:10:44,016 Five pounds ten and six. 161 00:11:13,320 --> 00:11:14,794 Boo. 162 00:11:15,606 --> 00:11:17,360 Why aren't you working? 163 00:11:17,400 --> 00:11:19,005 Buried my wife. 164 00:11:20,202 --> 00:11:21,661 Moved on. 165 00:11:27,640 --> 00:11:29,988 I visit the boneyard when I can. 166 00:11:30,449 --> 00:11:33,925 Put flowers for her, you know? Keep her tidy. 167 00:11:34,800 --> 00:11:37,200 I used to think you were making her up to get shot of me. 168 00:11:37,240 --> 00:11:38,269 No. 169 00:11:39,560 --> 00:11:41,323 I was never that good a liar. 170 00:11:44,920 --> 00:11:46,920 What do you remember of her? 171 00:11:49,080 --> 00:11:50,524 Her voice. 172 00:11:51,135 --> 00:11:52,703 Her smile. 173 00:11:54,520 --> 00:11:56,520 I remember nothing. 174 00:11:59,040 --> 00:12:01,459 When you've lost as many as I have, 175 00:12:02,040 --> 00:12:05,107 they all get mashed up into one big empty whole, 176 00:12:05,548 --> 00:12:08,326 where there's no voices and no smiles. 177 00:12:09,280 --> 00:12:11,280 And nothing to mark their passing. 178 00:12:13,480 --> 00:12:16,014 Just now I can still see Isabella. 179 00:12:17,178 --> 00:12:19,000 But even she's fading. 180 00:12:19,492 --> 00:12:21,492 Fading away. 181 00:12:22,880 --> 00:12:25,973 I used to know how to put a smile on that sad face. 182 00:12:27,270 --> 00:12:29,160 I'm a different person now. 183 00:12:29,496 --> 00:12:30,731 Oh, right. 184 00:12:31,215 --> 00:12:32,637 Lady Muck? 185 00:12:33,094 --> 00:12:35,174 Married to your shipwright? 186 00:12:37,472 --> 00:12:39,168 [CHUCKLES] 187 00:12:40,215 --> 00:12:42,074 By heck, Mary Ann... 188 00:12:42,702 --> 00:12:46,788 Here. I'm working at West Auckland colliery these days. 189 00:12:46,978 --> 00:12:49,058 Stopping at Johnson Terrace. 190 00:12:49,199 --> 00:12:51,839 Landlady by the name of Mrs Shaw. 191 00:12:54,023 --> 00:12:56,835 I'll not be a coalminer's lass for as long as I live. 192 00:12:57,600 --> 00:13:00,448 There's not a woman alive, but she wants better than that. 193 00:13:05,610 --> 00:13:07,610 [BIRD CAWING] 194 00:13:22,180 --> 00:13:24,655 I will love her children as my own. 195 00:13:26,653 --> 00:13:28,656 I will be a mother to them all. 196 00:13:32,533 --> 00:13:35,709 VICAR: Wilt thou love her, comfort her, 197 00:13:35,734 --> 00:13:37,586 honour and keep her, 198 00:13:37,611 --> 00:13:40,055 in sickness and in health, 199 00:13:40,365 --> 00:13:42,565 and forsaking all other, 200 00:13:42,622 --> 00:13:45,094 keep thee only unto her, 201 00:13:45,423 --> 00:13:47,890 so long as ye both shall live? 202 00:13:49,573 --> 00:13:50,859 I will. 203 00:13:55,133 --> 00:13:57,133 Did the old man put you up to this? 204 00:13:57,173 --> 00:13:59,853 - He's your dad. - Stepdad. 205 00:14:00,314 --> 00:14:04,103 And now he's as good as blaming me for not nursing my mam right? 206 00:14:04,376 --> 00:14:06,906 Wish I'd not named the baby after the old fool now. 207 00:14:06,939 --> 00:14:10,017 The cheek of it. He lost a wife he loved. 208 00:14:10,291 --> 00:14:13,773 And a granddaughter. He loved that child, Mary Ann. 209 00:14:13,813 --> 00:14:15,119 And I didn't? 210 00:14:15,339 --> 00:14:16,773 I'm her mother. 211 00:14:16,798 --> 00:14:18,413 It's not a competition. 212 00:14:18,877 --> 00:14:21,677 I'm just saying maybe you need each other, 213 00:14:21,701 --> 00:14:23,095 you and your dad. 214 00:14:23,741 --> 00:14:25,752 Oh, put that face away. 215 00:14:25,777 --> 00:14:27,408 I'll go and see him. 216 00:14:27,433 --> 00:14:30,802 - Show him I've turned over a new leaf. - Oh, you and your new leaves. 217 00:14:30,827 --> 00:14:32,825 Have you got enough for a new tree yet? 218 00:14:33,479 --> 00:14:35,200 Spit it out. 219 00:14:36,225 --> 00:14:38,272 My sister-in-law died, 220 00:14:39,116 --> 00:14:41,351 which accounts for this mourning dress you've not even noticed. 221 00:14:41,376 --> 00:14:43,241 But then, you never ask me, do you? 222 00:14:43,266 --> 00:14:45,281 You've no interest in my life. 223 00:14:46,270 --> 00:14:48,840 I'm looking after my poor brother and his motherless little lad 224 00:14:48,865 --> 00:14:51,801 which means I've had to give up my job and lodgings and work for nothing. 225 00:14:52,074 --> 00:14:54,470 But don't put yourself out to see your dad. 226 00:14:54,510 --> 00:14:56,630 You're right, he'll not welcome you. 227 00:15:00,350 --> 00:15:02,679 No, I must have a much finer batiste, 228 00:15:03,070 --> 00:15:05,599 one that will take a light starch. 229 00:15:05,624 --> 00:15:07,310 It's for my son's christening robe. 230 00:15:07,350 --> 00:15:09,350 Certainly, Madam. 231 00:15:12,133 --> 00:15:16,150 You'll do to settle your earlier bill first if you don't mind, Mrs Robinson. 232 00:15:16,860 --> 00:15:19,673 I don't mind saying I don't like your tone. 233 00:15:19,891 --> 00:15:22,907 Seven pounds, six shillings and fourpence. 234 00:15:22,938 --> 00:15:26,424 Or if you'd rather, I could call on your husband. 235 00:15:35,630 --> 00:15:38,465 Ten and six? That was good lace. 236 00:15:39,510 --> 00:15:42,430 Now, my mother's first wedding ring. 237 00:15:42,832 --> 00:15:44,830 Go on. Same rule, mind. 238 00:15:44,870 --> 00:15:46,870 Not a word to Father. 239 00:15:46,910 --> 00:15:49,277 Here's a ha'penny for yourself. 240 00:15:54,190 --> 00:15:56,761 You sent my son to the pawnbroker? 241 00:15:57,441 --> 00:15:58,442 No. 242 00:15:58,467 --> 00:15:59,574 [SIGHS] 243 00:16:00,790 --> 00:16:02,665 Only once or twice. 244 00:16:02,852 --> 00:16:04,829 And only to pawn things of mine. 245 00:16:05,134 --> 00:16:07,430 And he wasn't supposed to tell anyone. 246 00:16:07,719 --> 00:16:11,126 You made an innocent child pawn his dead mother's lace. 247 00:16:11,621 --> 00:16:14,555 That was meant for the sister that he's lost. 248 00:16:16,750 --> 00:16:19,680 I'll make it up to you. I will. 249 00:16:22,385 --> 00:16:24,385 It's here in black and white. 250 00:16:26,390 --> 00:16:28,579 £50 missing from my account. 251 00:16:33,203 --> 00:16:35,000 I only borrowed it. 252 00:16:35,119 --> 00:16:36,545 I'll pay you back. 253 00:16:36,570 --> 00:16:38,570 It's not even about the money. 254 00:16:45,510 --> 00:16:47,510 Do you feel nothing? 255 00:16:49,150 --> 00:16:51,363 Oh, don't cast me out. 256 00:16:51,607 --> 00:16:54,133 I must have done something very wicked in my life. 257 00:16:54,910 --> 00:16:57,222 After everything that I have lost already 258 00:16:57,247 --> 00:17:00,707 to deserve now to be tied in wedlock to a liar. 259 00:17:02,150 --> 00:17:03,262 And a thief. 260 00:17:08,070 --> 00:17:10,070 [DOOR OPENS AND CLOSES] 261 00:17:12,543 --> 00:17:14,432 - [DOOR OPENS] - [MUFFLED CRYING] 262 00:17:14,457 --> 00:17:18,152 Your sainted mother doesn't need lace, does she, where she's gone? 263 00:17:18,177 --> 00:17:20,886 - I don't know. - You little sneak. 264 00:17:20,911 --> 00:17:23,830 Hanging round me, sucking up, getting under my feet. 265 00:17:23,930 --> 00:17:26,163 Sneaky, sneaky, sneaky! 266 00:17:26,188 --> 00:17:28,737 You couldn't wait to tell him, could you? 267 00:17:29,640 --> 00:17:33,773 It doesn't matter what I do, how hard I try, 268 00:17:34,007 --> 00:17:35,929 it's never good enough for your sort. 269 00:17:35,968 --> 00:17:37,630 [BABY CRYING] 270 00:17:37,670 --> 00:17:39,670 [MEN SHOUTING] 271 00:17:39,702 --> 00:17:41,710 Wait, won't you? Why won't you wait? 272 00:17:41,750 --> 00:17:43,750 [BABY CONTINUES CRYING] 273 00:17:52,950 --> 00:17:54,950 [BABY QUIETENS] 274 00:17:56,390 --> 00:17:58,390 [PANTING] 275 00:18:00,250 --> 00:18:01,708 Oh, God... 276 00:18:01,945 --> 00:18:04,110 [BABY MURMURS CONTENTEDLY] 277 00:18:09,383 --> 00:18:11,383 Please can we go to the police? 278 00:18:12,597 --> 00:18:15,597 A woman leaves the house with her own babe-in-arms. 279 00:18:15,630 --> 00:18:17,270 What crime has been committed? 280 00:18:17,310 --> 00:18:18,710 She said her name was Mowbray, 281 00:18:18,750 --> 00:18:21,150 but I distinctly heard the doctor call her Mrs Ward. 282 00:18:22,830 --> 00:18:24,959 How many husbands before you, James? 283 00:18:25,609 --> 00:18:27,438 And how many children? 284 00:18:29,947 --> 00:18:32,279 I can't stop thinking about what happened to them. 285 00:18:35,110 --> 00:18:37,114 She'll bring the baby home. 286 00:18:37,640 --> 00:18:39,340 She's nowhere else to go. 287 00:18:41,990 --> 00:18:43,177 [NOISY CHATTERING] 288 00:18:43,210 --> 00:18:44,558 I'd have said the same an' all. 289 00:18:44,590 --> 00:18:46,590 [LAUGHTER] 290 00:18:50,670 --> 00:18:52,320 Merry Christmas, Dad. 291 00:18:52,985 --> 00:18:54,453 Have you missed me? 292 00:18:55,070 --> 00:18:57,070 Can't say I have, Mary Ann. 293 00:19:01,197 --> 00:19:03,797 I named him George, after you. 294 00:19:07,590 --> 00:19:09,590 [BABY GURGLES] 295 00:19:12,470 --> 00:19:14,159 It's good to be home. 296 00:19:18,554 --> 00:19:20,750 I can't find anything in this place any more. 297 00:19:20,875 --> 00:19:23,595 Aye, I'm not much of a housekeeper, pet. 298 00:19:23,917 --> 00:19:26,117 You should get yourself married again, Dad. 299 00:19:27,150 --> 00:19:29,150 I can't be stuck here looking after you. 300 00:19:29,190 --> 00:19:31,190 I'm a married woman myself. 301 00:19:33,830 --> 00:19:35,679 Your mother's dress? 302 00:19:36,368 --> 00:19:38,368 It'll do for clearing up in. 303 00:19:40,310 --> 00:19:42,412 You're the image of her. 304 00:19:45,313 --> 00:19:48,178 I can't go back to my husband with my fine dress in rags, Dad. 305 00:19:50,550 --> 00:19:53,295 Get a bit of sleep, do a bit of mending. 306 00:19:53,451 --> 00:19:57,092 Turn up on the doorstep good as new and show him what he's been missing. 307 00:19:57,294 --> 00:19:59,934 And he'll forgive me. 'Course he will. 308 00:20:03,310 --> 00:20:06,456 If you could just see your way to lending me a bit of money... 309 00:20:07,270 --> 00:20:09,270 so I can pay him back what I owe. 310 00:20:11,110 --> 00:20:12,472 [KNOCK ON DOOR] 311 00:20:14,110 --> 00:20:16,110 James? James! 312 00:20:16,368 --> 00:20:18,808 Are you there? Come to the door. 313 00:20:20,510 --> 00:20:22,231 There's nobody here. 314 00:20:22,390 --> 00:20:24,670 She's won. His sister's won. 315 00:20:24,710 --> 00:20:26,710 You know her address? 316 00:20:28,550 --> 00:20:31,362 How can I live? Where will I go? 317 00:20:31,534 --> 00:20:33,350 Oh, God in Heaven, don't do this to me... 318 00:20:33,390 --> 00:20:36,877 Hey, calm yourself. You're a grown woman. 319 00:20:37,990 --> 00:20:39,990 Where does Helen live? 320 00:20:40,479 --> 00:20:43,459 Darlington Avenue. No.38. 321 00:20:43,484 --> 00:20:45,484 [BABY CRYING] 322 00:20:46,750 --> 00:20:48,534 He wants feeding. 323 00:20:49,096 --> 00:20:51,070 I'm leaving. I've had enough. 324 00:20:51,110 --> 00:20:53,909 Mary Ann! The baby! 325 00:20:55,630 --> 00:20:57,245 Where are you going? 326 00:20:58,002 --> 00:20:59,409 Mary Ann! 327 00:21:00,373 --> 00:21:02,453 You get back here now! 328 00:21:06,909 --> 00:21:08,746 [KNOCK ON DOOR] 329 00:21:09,892 --> 00:21:11,581 James? 330 00:21:27,172 --> 00:21:28,710 Who's there? 331 00:21:28,985 --> 00:21:30,054 Helen? 332 00:21:30,079 --> 00:21:31,305 [BABY CRYING] 333 00:21:31,346 --> 00:21:34,463 Dear God! Oh... 334 00:21:34,924 --> 00:21:37,786 Oh, God be praised. Take him inside, keep him warm. 335 00:21:42,447 --> 00:21:43,757 Mary Ann? 336 00:21:47,122 --> 00:21:48,716 Mary Ann, are you there? 337 00:22:02,426 --> 00:22:03,735 [KNOCK ON DOOR] 338 00:22:08,763 --> 00:22:10,396 Hello, Fred. 339 00:22:11,060 --> 00:22:12,756 Don't you remember me? 340 00:22:12,809 --> 00:22:16,026 Mary Ann? God, you look frozen! 341 00:22:16,066 --> 00:22:18,066 Bring her in, Fred, do. 342 00:22:18,709 --> 00:22:20,866 You're just in time for your tea, isn't she, Fred? 343 00:22:20,906 --> 00:22:22,655 You remember Mary Ann? 344 00:22:22,803 --> 00:22:24,530 Shove up, Charlie, and make some room. 345 00:22:24,555 --> 00:22:27,681 And Fred, put some coal on the fire, for God's sake. 346 00:22:29,866 --> 00:22:32,181 We had cross words last time we met, Maggie. 347 00:22:33,186 --> 00:22:34,501 And I'm sorry. 348 00:22:35,475 --> 00:22:37,306 I've forgotten it already. 349 00:22:39,949 --> 00:22:43,105 - All I wanted was to make him happy. - And he shut the door in your face? 350 00:22:45,300 --> 00:22:47,626 Turns out you're the one got the happy family. 351 00:22:48,003 --> 00:22:49,941 Without even trying. 352 00:22:50,066 --> 00:22:52,066 Mm, I did. 353 00:22:53,466 --> 00:22:55,277 My brother needed the help, 354 00:22:55,980 --> 00:22:57,667 and the lad needed a woman in the house 355 00:22:57,692 --> 00:23:00,226 and for all my grumbling it turns out I like it, too. 356 00:23:00,726 --> 00:23:01,988 A lot. 357 00:23:03,785 --> 00:23:05,152 [SNORING] 358 00:23:05,177 --> 00:23:07,152 Until Fred marries again. 359 00:23:09,229 --> 00:23:11,229 I worry for you, Maggie. 360 00:23:12,347 --> 00:23:13,894 I worry he'll wake up one day 361 00:23:13,919 --> 00:23:17,066 and remember he needs more from a woman than a sister can give him. 362 00:23:17,091 --> 00:23:18,925 He's not like that. 363 00:23:19,433 --> 00:23:21,113 They're all the same, love. 364 00:23:21,467 --> 00:23:23,467 You don't know them like I do. 365 00:23:23,956 --> 00:23:25,793 Only interested in one thing. 366 00:23:26,370 --> 00:23:27,699 Watch... 367 00:23:34,805 --> 00:23:37,219 - [SNORTS] - Oh, sorry, Fred. 368 00:23:38,091 --> 00:23:40,477 You'll soon be fed up with me getting in your road. 369 00:23:44,626 --> 00:23:47,571 Oh, don't let me drop it in your lap. 370 00:23:56,651 --> 00:23:57,827 See? 371 00:23:58,055 --> 00:24:00,429 First sniff of a skirt and he'll be off. 372 00:24:03,411 --> 00:24:04,765 Oh, now. 373 00:24:05,547 --> 00:24:08,319 Don't go catching my gloomy mood. 374 00:24:10,386 --> 00:24:12,545 Why don't you let me make you a nice cup of tea? 375 00:24:15,066 --> 00:24:17,279 "If I take the wings of the morning... 376 00:24:18,666 --> 00:24:21,186 "and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea... 377 00:24:22,826 --> 00:24:25,386 "even there shall thy hand lead me. 378 00:24:27,746 --> 00:24:29,266 [GROANS SOFTLY] 379 00:24:29,306 --> 00:24:31,386 "And thy right hand shall hold me. 380 00:24:33,426 --> 00:24:35,080 "If I say... 381 00:24:35,970 --> 00:24:38,490 "surely the darkness shall cover me." 382 00:24:39,946 --> 00:24:41,946 The darkness... 383 00:24:43,826 --> 00:24:45,704 Quiet now. 384 00:24:46,243 --> 00:24:47,798 [LABOURED BREATHING] 385 00:24:47,823 --> 00:24:49,772 It's you... 386 00:24:50,746 --> 00:24:52,746 [WHEEZING] 387 00:24:58,506 --> 00:25:00,506 [HORN BLASTS] 388 00:25:02,026 --> 00:25:04,026 - [MEN CHATTING] - _ 389 00:25:05,146 --> 00:25:07,146 [HORN CONTINUES BLASTING] 390 00:25:12,055 --> 00:25:13,813 I believe that's mine. 391 00:25:16,866 --> 00:25:19,266 Ha'way! Let's get cracking. 392 00:25:22,346 --> 00:25:24,452 Right, prepare to be beaten. 393 00:25:25,182 --> 00:25:26,488 Here we go... 394 00:25:40,793 --> 00:25:42,192 Are you lost, love? 395 00:25:42,481 --> 00:25:44,466 We're looking for Johnson Terrace. 396 00:25:44,506 --> 00:25:45,825 [CHEERING AND YELLING] 397 00:25:45,857 --> 00:25:46,877 There we go! 398 00:25:46,902 --> 00:25:48,902 [LAUGHTER] 399 00:25:51,386 --> 00:25:53,098 It's this one here. 400 00:25:54,349 --> 00:25:56,869 Well, I've lived in worse. 401 00:25:57,661 --> 00:25:58,739 And better. 402 00:25:58,764 --> 00:26:00,003 [BOTH LAUGH] 403 00:26:08,995 --> 00:26:10,995 Moved around a lot, then? 404 00:26:11,285 --> 00:26:13,231 Lived seven lives. 405 00:26:13,519 --> 00:26:15,106 I was a nurse when I was single. 406 00:26:15,146 --> 00:26:16,778 Earning my own money. 407 00:26:17,097 --> 00:26:20,586 - Sometimes I think I was better off... - You could go mad, thinking. 408 00:26:20,626 --> 00:26:22,426 And you'd not be without them, really, 409 00:26:22,466 --> 00:26:24,626 your husband and that lovely boy. 410 00:26:24,847 --> 00:26:27,106 Stepson. It's not the same. 411 00:26:27,768 --> 00:26:29,277 [LAUGHS] 412 00:26:29,302 --> 00:26:31,167 You're honest, at least. 413 00:26:32,826 --> 00:26:35,792 - I'm next door when you need me. - Thank you, Sarah. 414 00:26:48,645 --> 00:26:50,245 [DOOR OPENS] 415 00:26:52,534 --> 00:26:54,300 That you, Fred? 416 00:26:55,229 --> 00:26:58,389 He's busy making friends with the bottom of a pint pot. 417 00:27:03,346 --> 00:27:04,956 [CHATTING AND LAUGHTER] 418 00:27:04,981 --> 00:27:06,003 It's you. 419 00:27:06,306 --> 00:27:08,306 Here we go, here we go... 420 00:27:09,106 --> 00:27:11,346 - [CHEERING AND LAUGHTER] - It's not bad. 421 00:27:12,283 --> 00:27:14,986 - I always knew you'd follow me. - Mm. 422 00:27:15,011 --> 00:27:16,563 [CHUCKLES] 423 00:27:17,150 --> 00:27:20,533 - I just thought it'd be sooner. - It was nowt to do with me. 424 00:27:20,837 --> 00:27:23,866 Fred came home one day and said West Auckland were hiring. 425 00:27:23,906 --> 00:27:26,211 Right. And you said, 426 00:27:26,236 --> 00:27:30,026 "No, no. I don't fancy the sound of that at all." 427 00:27:30,066 --> 00:27:31,466 [CHUCKLES] 428 00:27:31,506 --> 00:27:34,066 I never knew a lass for taking risks like you do. 429 00:27:34,106 --> 00:27:35,851 I never take risks. 430 00:27:36,624 --> 00:27:38,976 I always know exactly what I'm doing. 431 00:27:39,038 --> 00:27:41,841 Four husbands now, Mrs Cotton. 432 00:27:41,866 --> 00:27:46,609 Before the law and in my heart, I'm still Mrs James Robinson. 433 00:27:48,506 --> 00:27:52,186 They can send you to prison for bigamy, Mary Ann. 434 00:27:52,429 --> 00:27:54,546 They can send you to prison for a lot of things, 435 00:27:54,586 --> 00:27:56,586 but they have to catch you first. 436 00:27:58,186 --> 00:27:59,523 Come here. 437 00:28:07,426 --> 00:28:09,367 Don't shame me here, Joe. 438 00:28:11,226 --> 00:28:12,835 Let me start over. 439 00:28:16,786 --> 00:28:18,605 You'll be my dark secret. 440 00:28:21,302 --> 00:28:22,988 My dark angel. 441 00:28:26,306 --> 00:28:28,306 [HORN BLASTS] 442 00:28:28,346 --> 00:28:30,346 [CHATTERING] 443 00:28:47,066 --> 00:28:50,146 Don't you move an inch. I've enough to do. 444 00:28:57,072 --> 00:28:59,826 For every requisite you could possibly need, Mrs Cotton, 445 00:28:59,866 --> 00:29:01,866 Tommy Riley's at your service. 446 00:29:01,906 --> 00:29:04,066 I'll just take a pint of soft soap for now. 447 00:29:04,106 --> 00:29:06,106 And half a pound of washing soda. 448 00:29:07,158 --> 00:29:09,226 I'll open you an account. 449 00:29:11,260 --> 00:29:12,930 Washing day, is it? 450 00:29:12,955 --> 00:29:15,424 - As to that, it's never-ending. - Hm. 451 00:29:16,334 --> 00:29:18,041 Let's see... 452 00:29:25,986 --> 00:29:27,986 - [CHATTERING] - [BANGING ON ANVIL] 453 00:29:39,911 --> 00:29:41,114 [DOOR OPENS] 454 00:29:42,935 --> 00:29:44,935 Oh, come in. 455 00:29:45,856 --> 00:29:48,981 - When you think back... - Oh, I don't. I'd go mad. 456 00:29:49,006 --> 00:29:50,013 [LAUGHS] 457 00:29:50,038 --> 00:29:52,313 ... to when we were girls, though, 458 00:29:52,346 --> 00:29:55,266 - and all we thought about was... - When will we be married. 459 00:29:55,306 --> 00:29:56,395 [LAUGHS] 460 00:29:56,420 --> 00:29:58,778 - Didn't understand a thing, did we? - No. 461 00:29:59,528 --> 00:30:03,226 Ee, come on. Don't be shy. 462 00:30:03,473 --> 00:30:06,192 He'll be hungry. He's always hungry. 463 00:30:06,217 --> 00:30:08,217 I've nothing for him. 464 00:30:09,386 --> 00:30:13,546 Go on next door. There's some scones in a tin with the Queen on. 465 00:30:18,746 --> 00:30:20,449 His mother died? 466 00:30:21,999 --> 00:30:23,999 Fred's sister went to look after them. 467 00:30:25,639 --> 00:30:28,147 My whole life, Maggie was my best friend. 468 00:30:29,611 --> 00:30:31,648 She took me in when I was desperate. 469 00:30:32,842 --> 00:30:34,654 Then she died, too. 470 00:30:35,845 --> 00:30:37,500 I was there. 471 00:30:38,165 --> 00:30:39,891 I watched her die. 472 00:30:41,195 --> 00:30:44,101 It's the Lord's way who lives, who dies. 473 00:30:44,521 --> 00:30:47,241 Mustn't blame yourself, love. 474 00:30:47,845 --> 00:30:49,320 The thing is, I loved her. 475 00:30:50,594 --> 00:30:52,320 I loved Maggie. 476 00:30:52,773 --> 00:30:54,546 And I don't love him. 477 00:30:55,234 --> 00:30:59,641 Comfort yourself. You did a good deed in a hard world. 478 00:31:04,842 --> 00:31:07,803 Would you mind, Sarah, keeping an eye? 479 00:31:08,233 --> 00:31:09,906 I don't like to ask, but... 480 00:31:09,946 --> 00:31:12,092 'Course I'll mind the lad. 481 00:31:12,774 --> 00:31:14,452 It'll be a pleasure. 482 00:31:18,786 --> 00:31:20,206 To think... 483 00:31:21,862 --> 00:31:24,471 you said you'd never be a miner's lass. 484 00:31:26,835 --> 00:31:28,835 I'll be your lass, Joe. 485 00:31:29,503 --> 00:31:34,596 Here in the woods, where nothing's real and anything's possible. 486 00:31:36,546 --> 00:31:39,506 - But in the real world... - You don't like the real world. 487 00:31:40,706 --> 00:31:43,655 ... it's nothing but husbands and children and slavery. 488 00:31:45,160 --> 00:31:47,346 You should try my job, love. 489 00:31:47,723 --> 00:31:49,986 You men work long hours, I know that. 490 00:31:50,689 --> 00:31:53,129 But then you go home and it's over. 491 00:31:54,066 --> 00:31:56,066 It's never over for your wives. 492 00:31:56,293 --> 00:31:58,841 The cooking and the washing and the cleaning. 493 00:31:58,866 --> 00:32:02,146 The demands that never stop, day in, day out. 494 00:32:02,186 --> 00:32:04,186 And the moaning and the nagging... 495 00:32:04,226 --> 00:32:06,226 [LAUGHS] 496 00:32:11,026 --> 00:32:13,026 If we'd met sooner... 497 00:32:14,429 --> 00:32:15,750 me and you... 498 00:32:21,271 --> 00:32:23,271 Don't pretend you'd have married me, Joe. 499 00:32:28,631 --> 00:32:30,231 I might yet. 500 00:32:30,256 --> 00:32:32,256 I've two husbands living already. 501 00:32:33,866 --> 00:32:35,568 And if you were free... 502 00:32:36,187 --> 00:32:37,639 you'd bite my hand off. 503 00:32:38,998 --> 00:32:40,626 [CHUCKLES] 504 00:32:52,590 --> 00:32:54,590 Oh, thank God you're here. 505 00:32:55,869 --> 00:32:58,066 - What's going on? - It's Fred. 506 00:33:00,127 --> 00:33:01,167 Fred, what's going on? 507 00:33:01,192 --> 00:33:02,909 They brought him back from the pit like this. 508 00:33:02,934 --> 00:33:05,674 - Fred, stop this nonsense now! - I've sent for the doctor. 509 00:33:20,106 --> 00:33:22,106 We've had a collection for you. 510 00:33:22,538 --> 00:33:24,202 Everyone gave something. 511 00:33:24,351 --> 00:33:25,912 You're among friends here. 512 00:33:27,983 --> 00:33:30,226 Thank you, Mrs Hedley. 513 00:33:30,266 --> 00:33:32,466 You be a good lad for your mam now. 514 00:33:32,506 --> 00:33:34,506 [SOIL THUMPING ONTO COFFIN] 515 00:33:36,866 --> 00:33:39,428 So Tommy Riley will sell me to the workhouse 516 00:33:39,530 --> 00:33:41,170 for the sin of losing my husband. 517 00:33:41,195 --> 00:33:44,928 Don't be daft. You're not going to the workhouse. 518 00:33:45,149 --> 00:33:48,381 You're just asking him for help you're entitled to. 519 00:33:50,022 --> 00:33:53,975 Taking poor relief off the Board of Guardians is nothing to be ashamed of. 520 00:33:54,746 --> 00:33:56,827 You don't believe that, and neither do I. 521 00:33:56,852 --> 00:33:59,249 Oh, I don't know why you have to be so proud. 522 00:33:59,274 --> 00:34:01,280 You didn't wish the poor man dead. 523 00:34:01,305 --> 00:34:02,772 No, I didn't. 524 00:34:02,842 --> 00:34:05,105 That's it exactly, I didn't wish for it. 525 00:34:05,130 --> 00:34:07,050 I did nothing wrong. 526 00:34:07,075 --> 00:34:11,269 I hadn't finished with him, but Fred still died and I did nothing wrong. 527 00:34:11,294 --> 00:34:14,332 None of us has power over life and death, love. 528 00:34:15,089 --> 00:34:17,644 There speaks a woman who never gave birth. 529 00:34:40,672 --> 00:34:42,906 You could always come in with me. 530 00:34:45,546 --> 00:34:48,781 That water's filthy. And all you've done is look at it. 531 00:34:50,546 --> 00:34:53,133 I'll smell sweet as roses come bedtime. 532 00:34:57,546 --> 00:34:58,577 Come here. 533 00:35:11,306 --> 00:35:12,434 Hey... 534 00:35:12,927 --> 00:35:14,107 what? 535 00:35:16,809 --> 00:35:19,026 If she's not shouting, she's crying. 536 00:35:21,925 --> 00:35:23,520 You, here. 537 00:35:24,450 --> 00:35:26,418 It's everything I ever wanted. 538 00:35:27,733 --> 00:35:29,613 Sometimes, love... 539 00:35:31,006 --> 00:35:32,863 you mystify me. 540 00:35:37,946 --> 00:35:39,946 [BANGING ON METAL] 541 00:35:46,716 --> 00:35:48,349 Mrs Cotton. 542 00:35:51,626 --> 00:35:53,946 One and six pence from the parish for the child. 543 00:35:54,746 --> 00:35:57,266 - Sign here, please. - Thank you, sir. 544 00:35:59,866 --> 00:36:01,953 I know it doesn't go very far these days. 545 00:36:01,978 --> 00:36:05,266 My account at the shop, I know, Mr Riley. I will pay it. 546 00:36:05,438 --> 00:36:07,938 So if you're looking to earn some money... 547 00:36:08,666 --> 00:36:11,426 Mr Quick-Manning is the excise officer for the brewery. 548 00:36:11,466 --> 00:36:14,146 Does the sums for them. The clever stuff. 549 00:36:15,946 --> 00:36:18,869 He's asking for an hour's nursing, twice daily. 550 00:36:19,117 --> 00:36:21,197 Offering two shillings a week. 551 00:36:21,941 --> 00:36:23,072 Hello? 552 00:36:24,759 --> 00:36:27,033 Mr Quick-Manning? Are you there? 553 00:36:54,150 --> 00:36:56,150 Have you read all these books? 554 00:36:57,516 --> 00:36:59,264 Maybe half of them. 555 00:37:00,524 --> 00:37:03,244 You want the job, it's yours. 556 00:37:06,555 --> 00:37:10,875 I'll have no arguments, however much stronger you claim you're feeling. 557 00:37:11,351 --> 00:37:14,514 Beef tea, and there's a bap with calves foot jelly. 558 00:37:14,554 --> 00:37:17,114 How she loves to tell a man what to eat. 559 00:37:17,154 --> 00:37:19,274 What to drink, what to do. 560 00:37:19,315 --> 00:37:22,195 It's the natural order of things with nurses and patients. 561 00:37:23,274 --> 00:37:25,274 With men and women, too. 562 00:37:26,001 --> 00:37:27,411 Just the same. 563 00:37:29,914 --> 00:37:31,914 I await orders. 564 00:37:43,714 --> 00:37:45,850 Found this one, Mrs Edwards. 565 00:37:46,433 --> 00:37:48,756 Running away so he says. 566 00:37:49,178 --> 00:37:51,378 Ee, you little tinker. 567 00:37:52,514 --> 00:37:55,461 Hey... you're all right. 568 00:38:00,674 --> 00:38:04,111 Hey. Come away now, this minute. Come on. 569 00:38:09,034 --> 00:38:11,034 You've no idea what it's like in there. 570 00:38:11,439 --> 00:38:14,266 The way some people live. He's got books on every wall. 571 00:38:14,292 --> 00:38:17,715 Sergeant Hutchinson found your Charlie running away from home. 572 00:38:18,260 --> 00:38:21,260 - You little devil! - Don't! Mary Ann, stop it! 573 00:38:21,674 --> 00:38:25,092 All you had to do was knock and you know I'd have minded him. 574 00:38:26,018 --> 00:38:29,252 I know how hard this life is for you, love, I do know. 575 00:38:30,272 --> 00:38:33,732 How could you know? You were born to it. 576 00:38:33,944 --> 00:38:35,984 It's all wrong for me. 577 00:38:49,092 --> 00:38:51,092 [HORN BLARES] 578 00:39:01,572 --> 00:39:03,572 [DOOR OPENS] 579 00:39:05,244 --> 00:39:09,412 Well, now there's a sight to welcome a good man home. 580 00:39:10,603 --> 00:39:13,003 Don't come near me, black as you are. 581 00:39:14,930 --> 00:39:17,683 Right. Well, erm... 582 00:39:18,160 --> 00:39:20,206 I'll be happy to have my bath, but... 583 00:39:20,550 --> 00:39:22,252 you've nay hot water on. 584 00:39:23,527 --> 00:39:25,807 And nowt cooking either, so... 585 00:39:26,963 --> 00:39:28,963 what you been doing all day, woman? 586 00:39:29,354 --> 00:39:32,854 Run your own bath, cook your own tea. I'm going to work. 587 00:39:32,987 --> 00:39:34,723 You know, you were kinder once. 588 00:39:34,763 --> 00:39:37,763 - Let me past. - Or what, eh? What? 589 00:39:37,803 --> 00:39:40,627 - What will you do to me? - Don't you dare hurt me. 590 00:39:40,652 --> 00:39:43,111 But that's what you want, isn't it? Eh? 591 00:39:43,392 --> 00:39:45,363 To rile me so much, I'll hurt you. 592 00:39:45,403 --> 00:39:47,447 And then you'll have several more reasons to tell all the world 593 00:39:47,472 --> 00:39:49,290 how bloody miserable your life is. 594 00:39:49,923 --> 00:39:52,017 Did you ever read a book, Joe? 595 00:39:53,283 --> 00:39:54,548 [SCOFFS] 596 00:39:56,298 --> 00:39:57,814 Did you hear that, lad? 597 00:39:58,040 --> 00:40:00,323 A man should have book learning. 598 00:40:00,363 --> 00:40:02,993 Or he's no more than a beast in a cage. 599 00:40:07,470 --> 00:40:10,283 [DOOR OPENS AND CLOSES] 600 00:40:28,923 --> 00:40:30,585 [MOANING] 601 00:40:31,858 --> 00:40:34,323 Slowly. I said slowly. 602 00:40:35,225 --> 00:40:36,778 Do as you're told. 603 00:40:36,803 --> 00:40:39,123 Do exactly as you're told. 604 00:40:54,923 --> 00:40:56,556 [RETCHES] 605 00:41:12,763 --> 00:41:15,217 I always thought I'd die down the pit. 606 00:41:17,923 --> 00:41:19,681 Like my dad. 607 00:41:21,862 --> 00:41:23,862 I thought he was a publican. 608 00:41:24,589 --> 00:41:26,180 My real dad. 609 00:41:30,483 --> 00:41:32,483 Put him in a wheelbarrow. 610 00:41:33,483 --> 00:41:35,963 They brought him home to my mam in a sack labelled 611 00:41:36,003 --> 00:41:38,083 "Property of South Hetton Coal Company." 612 00:41:41,283 --> 00:41:43,162 I was eight years old. 613 00:41:46,559 --> 00:41:49,719 I said then I'll never be a miner's lass as long as I live. 614 00:41:57,963 --> 00:41:59,759 Once you had me... 615 00:42:04,563 --> 00:42:06,306 you didn't want me... 616 00:42:08,014 --> 00:42:09,460 did you, love? 617 00:42:13,443 --> 00:42:14,554 Here. 618 00:42:16,803 --> 00:42:18,803 Have a drop more of this tea. 619 00:42:27,283 --> 00:42:29,283 [SLURPING] 620 00:42:32,723 --> 00:42:35,323 - Aunty Sarah? - Yes? 621 00:42:35,925 --> 00:42:38,165 Can I come to live with you? 622 00:42:38,314 --> 00:42:41,474 Sarah! Sarah, come and help me! 623 00:42:43,363 --> 00:42:45,096 - [GRUNTING] - Oh, come on. 624 00:42:45,121 --> 00:42:47,065 Help me calm him, help me calm him. 625 00:42:48,843 --> 00:42:50,307 Get off me! [YELLS] 626 00:42:50,332 --> 00:42:52,838 All right, it's all right... 627 00:42:53,392 --> 00:42:55,643 [GRUNTING] 628 00:42:56,314 --> 00:42:57,432 You're all right. 629 00:42:57,457 --> 00:42:59,135 [GRUNTING, GASPING] 630 00:42:59,723 --> 00:43:01,313 Ssh... 631 00:43:01,883 --> 00:43:03,415 [RAGGED BREATHING] 632 00:43:06,432 --> 00:43:08,141 Ssh... 633 00:43:43,643 --> 00:43:45,643 [CHATTERING] 634 00:43:49,883 --> 00:43:52,036 It's only two penny's worth, sir. 635 00:43:52,575 --> 00:43:55,372 It's against the law, lad. You know what that means? 636 00:43:56,443 --> 00:43:58,200 We'd all go to prison. 637 00:43:58,483 --> 00:44:00,963 Me, you, and your mam. 638 00:44:01,197 --> 00:44:03,197 Me mam's dead, sir. 639 00:44:04,285 --> 00:44:05,694 [KNOCK ON DOOR] 640 00:44:07,723 --> 00:44:09,603 Pharmacy Act, 1868. 641 00:44:09,643 --> 00:44:12,883 Only persons of mature years personally known to the shopkeeper... 642 00:44:12,923 --> 00:44:15,763 See how much use he is? He can't even run a simple errand. 643 00:44:15,803 --> 00:44:18,113 You can't send a child for arsenic. 644 00:44:20,643 --> 00:44:24,254 He's got an uncle in Ipswich, but the man won't take him. 645 00:44:24,855 --> 00:44:27,827 Mr Riley, please, I'm at the end of my tether. 646 00:44:28,968 --> 00:44:30,976 Write me an order to put the boy in the workhouse. 647 00:44:31,001 --> 00:44:33,905 Only if you go to the workhouse with him. That's how it works. 648 00:44:33,930 --> 00:44:36,360 I've an opportunity in life, Mr Riley. 649 00:44:36,385 --> 00:44:38,873 A good one. Respectable. 650 00:44:39,843 --> 00:44:42,046 Seems I did you a favour there. 651 00:44:42,250 --> 00:44:44,806 I hope I did Mr Quick-Manning one. 652 00:44:46,643 --> 00:44:48,061 No matter. 653 00:44:48,500 --> 00:44:50,707 The Cottons are not a long-lived family. 654 00:44:58,443 --> 00:45:00,443 The child will be gone soon 655 00:45:00,944 --> 00:45:04,083 and when I'm free to be with you all the time, we can read together. 656 00:45:04,123 --> 00:45:05,959 [CHUCKLES] 657 00:45:06,405 --> 00:45:08,163 I can read. 658 00:45:08,491 --> 00:45:10,203 I can. 659 00:45:10,522 --> 00:45:12,563 Where's the harm in wanting to improve myself? 660 00:45:12,603 --> 00:45:15,013 I don't need a nurse now I'm back to work. 661 00:45:15,302 --> 00:45:16,381 If I need a housekeeper, 662 00:45:16,406 --> 00:45:18,982 I will obviously look for a woman without family. 663 00:45:19,537 --> 00:45:21,709 Leave the key on your way out. 664 00:45:22,963 --> 00:45:24,810 You don't mean that. 665 00:45:26,963 --> 00:45:29,158 Not now we're gonna have a little baby. 666 00:45:31,563 --> 00:45:34,763 It's well-known you had a domestic arrangement with a pitman. 667 00:45:35,545 --> 00:45:37,545 He was just a lodger. 668 00:45:37,584 --> 00:45:41,111 He's dead. And my husband, he's dead. 669 00:45:44,121 --> 00:45:46,521 - What do you mean it's well-known? - Give me the key. 670 00:45:49,403 --> 00:45:50,426 What do you mean? 671 00:45:50,451 --> 00:45:53,550 Blame the child on your pitman, Mrs Cotton, if you can. 672 00:45:53,878 --> 00:45:56,498 Unless you want the whole village to know you had two men in your bed 673 00:45:56,523 --> 00:45:59,003 before your husband was cold in his grave. 674 00:46:10,403 --> 00:46:11,818 [KEY CLATTERS ON TABLE] 675 00:46:16,323 --> 00:46:18,323 [DOG BARKING] 676 00:46:46,483 --> 00:46:48,483 [VOICES ECHOING IN HER HEAD] 677 00:46:58,243 --> 00:47:00,243 [VOICES GETTING LOUDER] 678 00:47:04,563 --> 00:47:06,563 [SCREAMS] 679 00:47:08,767 --> 00:47:10,141 [SOBBING] 680 00:47:31,727 --> 00:47:33,727 I'll make cakes for you. 681 00:47:37,705 --> 00:47:39,705 And there'll be apples. 682 00:47:40,926 --> 00:47:42,926 Trips to the seaside. 683 00:47:46,963 --> 00:47:49,403 We'll show them how happy two people can be. 684 00:48:10,455 --> 00:48:12,455 [FOOTSTEPS APPROACH] 685 00:48:20,241 --> 00:48:21,966 Mrs Cotton. 686 00:48:25,074 --> 00:48:26,681 My boy's dead. 687 00:48:38,503 --> 00:48:39,549 [DOOR CLOSES] 688 00:48:39,574 --> 00:48:40,646 Tom. 689 00:48:45,740 --> 00:48:47,361 I should have seen it. 690 00:48:47,724 --> 00:48:49,401 I didn't believe it. 691 00:48:49,693 --> 00:48:51,361 - Oh, God, Tom. - What? 692 00:48:51,846 --> 00:48:54,406 Something you've never dreamt of in this world. 693 00:48:57,475 --> 00:49:00,595 I won't be able to issue a death certificate, Mrs Cotton, 694 00:49:00,635 --> 00:49:03,155 not till I've done a post mortem examination. 695 00:49:04,795 --> 00:49:08,554 And then there'll be an inquest, you see, before the coroner. 696 00:49:09,115 --> 00:49:11,115 To establish the cause of death. 697 00:49:12,955 --> 00:49:14,561 Mrs Cotton, 698 00:49:15,755 --> 00:49:18,435 do you understand what I'm saying to you? 699 00:49:28,075 --> 00:49:30,075 [CHATTERING] 700 00:49:40,995 --> 00:49:43,848 The coroner says it was death by natural causes. 701 00:49:43,888 --> 00:49:44,888 Hm. 702 00:49:45,278 --> 00:49:46,583 Didn't I say so? 703 00:49:46,608 --> 00:49:50,137 Dr Kilburn told him Charlie died of gastroenteritis. 704 00:49:51,995 --> 00:49:53,275 Come here. 705 00:49:56,395 --> 00:49:57,853 It's over. 706 00:50:00,306 --> 00:50:01,510 If I'd had been given more time 707 00:50:01,535 --> 00:50:03,170 - ... to examine the body... - You should've got up earlier. 708 00:50:03,195 --> 00:50:06,267 If the inquest was this afternoon instead of this morning... 709 00:50:07,515 --> 00:50:10,776 Well, I'd like to think you'll apologise 710 00:50:10,801 --> 00:50:12,275 but I'll not hold my breath. 711 00:50:12,315 --> 00:50:16,012 Mrs Cotton, you'll be glad to be able to bury the poor mite. 712 00:50:16,275 --> 00:50:18,595 I'll be glad when the parish does it for me. 713 00:50:18,635 --> 00:50:20,515 For I've no money to do it myself. 714 00:50:20,555 --> 00:50:23,094 Not since the doctor refused me a death certificate. 715 00:50:23,119 --> 00:50:25,087 When he knows I can't get the life insurance without it. 716 00:50:25,112 --> 00:50:27,102 That's four pound ten I'm missing. 717 00:50:28,155 --> 00:50:30,155 I've a sore throat with the worry. 718 00:50:30,195 --> 00:50:32,915 The least you could do is attend to me, Dr Kilburn. 719 00:50:34,555 --> 00:50:36,555 Find another doctor, madam. 720 00:50:37,835 --> 00:50:39,249 And another grocer. 721 00:50:39,274 --> 00:50:41,157 And another lot of neighbours. 722 00:50:41,182 --> 00:50:43,249 Look at them. They know what you are. 723 00:50:43,835 --> 00:50:45,296 We all know. 724 00:50:45,321 --> 00:50:46,937 Dr Kilburn. 725 00:50:52,155 --> 00:50:54,011 Gastroenteritis? 726 00:50:54,036 --> 00:50:56,706 Bloody rubbish. I sold her the arsenic myself. 727 00:50:56,731 --> 00:51:00,042 - I found no conclusive evidence. - Look again, Dr Kilburn. 728 00:51:00,475 --> 00:51:03,367 I... I've never begged for anything in my life 729 00:51:03,534 --> 00:51:05,934 but, so help me, I'm begging you now. 730 00:51:06,315 --> 00:51:10,735 She killed that child. Now, I can't prove it... but you can. 731 00:51:11,835 --> 00:51:13,835 There is one more test I can try. 732 00:51:23,406 --> 00:51:25,406 So many children. 733 00:51:27,475 --> 00:51:29,475 And they die whatever I do. 734 00:51:30,675 --> 00:51:33,367 Whether I am bad or I am good. 735 00:51:35,288 --> 00:51:37,288 They die all the same. 736 00:51:39,555 --> 00:51:41,555 I should leave West Auckland. 737 00:51:41,970 --> 00:51:43,970 And let the busybodies win? 738 00:51:44,755 --> 00:51:46,462 But where would I go? 739 00:51:47,995 --> 00:51:49,549 And besides... 740 00:51:51,075 --> 00:51:52,514 Another baby? 741 00:51:53,680 --> 00:51:55,620 Oh, Mary Ann. 742 00:51:55,995 --> 00:51:57,616 It's good news. 743 00:51:58,394 --> 00:52:00,394 My life's starting over. 744 00:52:01,542 --> 00:52:03,542 I really believe that. 745 00:52:19,875 --> 00:52:21,475 Arsenic. 746 00:52:33,915 --> 00:52:35,211 [KNOCK AT DOOR] 747 00:52:46,075 --> 00:52:49,955 Mary Ann Cotton, I'm arresting you on suspicion of murder. 748 00:52:49,995 --> 00:52:51,995 No, leave her alone. 749 00:52:52,370 --> 00:52:54,370 Hasn't she had enough trouble? 750 00:52:54,395 --> 00:52:55,861 Come quietly now. 751 00:52:56,435 --> 00:52:58,435 Come on. 752 00:53:13,197 --> 00:53:14,921 _ 753 00:53:26,616 --> 00:53:28,588 [MOANS] 754 00:53:32,267 --> 00:53:34,212 _ 755 00:53:34,772 --> 00:53:36,399 It's the wrong name. 756 00:53:37,915 --> 00:53:40,595 I told you, it's the wrong name. Mary Ann Cotton. 757 00:53:40,635 --> 00:53:42,675 Not Robinson. Cotton. 758 00:53:43,838 --> 00:53:45,838 Oh, God. She's had another baby. 759 00:53:47,795 --> 00:53:50,063 - It's the wrong name. - In prison. 760 00:53:51,146 --> 00:53:54,287 She'll stand trial with a new babe in arms. 761 00:53:58,037 --> 00:54:00,037 She looked after Joe. 762 00:54:00,062 --> 00:54:02,195 She nursed him. She loved him. 763 00:54:02,235 --> 00:54:04,235 She'd never have hurt him. 764 00:54:04,275 --> 00:54:07,214 She gave him drinks of tea and held him. Held him down. 765 00:54:07,239 --> 00:54:10,195 The fits, you see. He had these terrible fits. 766 00:54:10,235 --> 00:54:12,287 Did you see anyone other than Mrs Cotton 767 00:54:12,312 --> 00:54:14,248 give him anything to eat or drink? 768 00:54:15,115 --> 00:54:17,115 I was there when he died. 769 00:54:17,675 --> 00:54:19,675 Did you ever see? 770 00:54:21,804 --> 00:54:22,988 Never. 771 00:54:23,915 --> 00:54:25,551 She nursed him alone. 772 00:54:26,170 --> 00:54:28,770 Oh, you're so clever. Tell me this. 773 00:54:28,795 --> 00:54:30,196 Why? 774 00:54:30,221 --> 00:54:32,915 Why would she want to hurt any of them? 775 00:54:32,955 --> 00:54:35,955 We don't have to worry too much about why, Mrs Edwards. 776 00:54:35,995 --> 00:54:38,715 Some days I hardly know why I get up in the morning. 777 00:54:39,517 --> 00:54:41,517 All the law wants to know is... 778 00:54:42,035 --> 00:54:44,035 did she do it on purpose? 779 00:54:51,242 --> 00:54:53,322 We're going to have to dig them all up. 780 00:55:17,881 --> 00:55:19,284 [BABY GURGLES SOFTLY] 781 00:55:26,811 --> 00:55:27,921 [DOOR CLOSES] 782 00:55:31,593 --> 00:55:33,257 Found guilty. 783 00:55:34,617 --> 00:55:36,882 May God have mercy on her black soul. 784 00:55:40,179 --> 00:55:42,179 I saw the newspaper. 785 00:55:43,139 --> 00:55:45,139 You'll not answer it? 786 00:55:45,164 --> 00:55:47,845 James, don't. She's to hang in a fortnight. 787 00:56:10,569 --> 00:56:14,689 "I wish to know if you will let me see the three children as soon as possible. 788 00:56:15,409 --> 00:56:17,409 "Bring them if you can." 789 00:56:17,449 --> 00:56:21,511 MARY ANN: "I must tell you, you were the cause of all my trouble. 790 00:56:21,729 --> 00:56:24,768 "That when you closed the door, I had no-one. 791 00:56:25,712 --> 00:56:28,807 "And I think if you have one spark of kindness in you, 792 00:56:29,249 --> 00:56:31,776 "you will try to get my life spared." 793 00:56:33,289 --> 00:56:34,769 [BABY GURGLES SOFTLY] 794 00:56:34,801 --> 00:56:36,449 He knows full well... 795 00:56:36,956 --> 00:56:40,222 I'm still legally Mrs Robinson until the day I die. 796 00:56:40,929 --> 00:56:42,929 Did you get a reply? 797 00:56:42,969 --> 00:56:44,969 He's turned his back on me too. 798 00:56:45,689 --> 00:56:48,086 The other one, Quick-Manning, 799 00:56:48,891 --> 00:56:50,454 I wrote to him. 800 00:56:51,609 --> 00:56:53,609 I told him his daughter was come. 801 00:56:56,969 --> 00:56:58,389 It's their loss. 802 00:57:00,929 --> 00:57:03,609 Do you know how many people applied to adopt her? 803 00:57:04,569 --> 00:57:06,053 A hundred. 804 00:57:06,780 --> 00:57:10,381 Every one of them knows I'm innocent as the day is long. 805 00:57:10,769 --> 00:57:12,163 A hundred? 806 00:57:13,569 --> 00:57:16,803 Mary Ann, please God you've no changed your mind. 807 00:57:20,529 --> 00:57:22,529 You're the one stuck by me, Sarah. 808 00:57:25,529 --> 00:57:28,413 I'll bring her up in the fear of God, so help me. 809 00:57:28,969 --> 00:57:30,467 You promise me... 810 00:57:31,489 --> 00:57:34,009 you'll never let Riley come near where she is. 811 00:57:34,531 --> 00:57:35,835 Never, never. 812 00:57:37,289 --> 00:57:39,289 And if she needs the doctor... 813 00:57:39,329 --> 00:57:41,952 some other man, not Kilburn. 814 00:57:41,977 --> 00:57:43,168 I promise. 815 00:57:48,049 --> 00:57:50,049 [BABY GURGLES] 816 00:57:54,298 --> 00:57:57,311 Her name is Margaret Edith Quick-Manning. 817 00:58:07,849 --> 00:58:09,849 You will see her again... 818 00:58:10,290 --> 00:58:12,290 at God's right hand, 819 00:58:13,329 --> 00:58:15,329 where there is no more pain. 820 00:58:19,529 --> 00:58:21,529 [BELL TOLLS] 821 00:58:46,489 --> 00:58:49,832 Have I not always tret you like you were me own child? 822 00:58:50,569 --> 00:58:52,310 I'll not deny it. 823 00:58:53,049 --> 00:58:55,826 Then for the sake of the love I've borne you, 824 00:58:56,049 --> 00:58:58,049 tell us the truth now. 825 00:59:01,427 --> 00:59:03,427 They'll not hang me anyway. 826 00:59:04,289 --> 00:59:05,858 They'll not hang a mother. 827 00:59:05,883 --> 00:59:08,162 What about your poor mother? 828 00:59:12,689 --> 00:59:15,105 Thank God, I hope she is in heaven. 829 00:59:18,809 --> 00:59:21,464 If it was all because you'd never had a dad... 830 00:59:21,489 --> 00:59:22,879 He was a fool. 831 00:59:23,014 --> 00:59:25,409 Getting himself killed and leaving us all alone. 832 00:59:25,613 --> 00:59:30,053 Because of all the poor babies you buried in Cornwall and after. 833 00:59:30,529 --> 00:59:32,529 All women bury babies. 834 00:59:32,690 --> 00:59:34,433 Why then? 835 00:59:35,851 --> 00:59:39,183 You're trying to find reasons for something that didn't happen. 836 00:59:41,689 --> 00:59:43,808 Answer me this instead. 837 00:59:46,329 --> 00:59:49,191 What did you want of us all, Mary Ann? 838 00:59:55,169 --> 00:59:57,316 Just what every woman wants. 839 00:59:59,849 --> 01:00:01,183 More. 840 01:00:01,498 --> 01:00:03,378 More than what? 841 01:00:04,369 --> 01:00:07,847 More than coal dust and childbirth... 842 01:00:08,609 --> 01:00:11,433 and men who think saying I love you is enough. 843 01:00:14,222 --> 01:00:16,529 More than this world can give me. 844 01:00:23,289 --> 01:00:24,766 "My dear friend..." 845 01:00:24,791 --> 01:00:26,071 Who's that? 846 01:00:26,096 --> 01:00:29,009 "I think it is my duty to write you a few lines 847 01:00:29,049 --> 01:00:32,203 "and let you know how your little baby is getting on. 848 01:00:32,906 --> 01:00:34,788 "Poor little thing. 849 01:00:34,876 --> 01:00:38,609 "It had a pretty bad night but a better day. 850 01:00:39,329 --> 01:00:41,734 "But you must not let it trouble your mind, 851 01:00:41,849 --> 01:00:45,219 "for it will be all right by God's help. 852 01:00:45,929 --> 01:00:47,805 "I may just say... 853 01:00:47,830 --> 01:00:52,094 "my husband hopes we will all meet in a better world. 854 01:00:53,809 --> 01:00:55,809 "I did one good thing in my life." 855 01:01:00,075 --> 01:01:01,636 Stand her up. 856 01:01:02,861 --> 01:01:04,340 Arms straight. 857 01:01:06,282 --> 01:01:08,090 I said arms straight. 858 01:01:55,692 --> 01:01:57,422 Heaven is my home. 859 01:02:00,813 --> 01:02:05,109 _ 860 01:02:07,170 --> 01:02:10,000 _ 861 01:02:10,235 --> 01:02:13,492 _ 862 01:02:13,727 --> 01:02:17,531 _ 863 01:02:20,218 --> 01:02:21,554 _ 864 01:02:21,579 --> 01:02:25,735 Synced and corrected by Aaronnmb www.addic7ed.com