1 00:00:36,980 --> 00:00:40,010 MATURE JENNY: 'There was a rhythm to the days in Poplar. 2 00:00:40,060 --> 00:00:43,850 'Church on Sunday, clinic on a Tuesday afternoon, 3 00:00:43,900 --> 00:00:46,210 'wages paid each Friday 4 00:00:46,260 --> 00:00:50,130 'and babies born early or late and hardly ever when expected. 5 00:00:50,180 --> 00:00:52,810 'But that they would arrive was never doubted, or 6 00:00:52,860 --> 00:00:56,900 that for some there would be pain as well as joy.' 7 00:00:58,980 --> 00:01:01,970 I don't know what's happened to acting Sister Franklin! 8 00:01:02,020 --> 00:01:04,010 Clinic isn't going to get any less busy 9 00:01:04,060 --> 00:01:07,330 just because she's decided to make her grand entrance 10 00:01:07,380 --> 00:01:09,180 15 minutes late! 11 00:01:10,100 --> 00:01:11,690 Chop, chop! 12 00:01:11,740 --> 00:01:15,290 It would help if we didn't have to clear up after the youth club every time. 13 00:01:15,340 --> 00:01:17,410 We have 32 expectant 14 00:01:17,460 --> 00:01:19,490 and post natal mothers on the list today 15 00:01:19,540 --> 00:01:21,810 and 15 babies for vaccinations. 16 00:01:21,860 --> 00:01:26,170 In which case, you need to do your best work, so we nurses can do ours. 17 00:01:26,220 --> 00:01:29,290 I'll make sure all of our patients get ample time with a midwife 18 00:01:29,340 --> 00:01:31,250 and with Doctor, if they need it. 19 00:01:31,300 --> 00:01:32,850 Ample time?! 20 00:01:32,900 --> 00:01:35,730 Just keep moving them along and lining them up. 21 00:01:35,780 --> 00:01:39,180 The medical staff will decide what they need. 22 00:01:41,700 --> 00:01:45,010 If you're looking for your ashtray, it was put in the wrong box. 23 00:01:45,060 --> 00:01:48,690 Nurse Crane. Once seen, never forgotten. 24 00:01:48,740 --> 00:01:50,250 I was a midwife for ten years! 25 00:01:50,300 --> 00:01:52,770 BANGING ON DOOR All right, all right! 26 00:01:52,820 --> 00:01:55,570 Do you want me to call in the bobbies on horseback? 27 00:01:55,620 --> 00:01:58,530 Nurse Mount, take Nurse Franklin's list. 28 00:01:58,580 --> 00:02:02,410 And step to it, we can't afford any slackers today. 29 00:02:02,460 --> 00:02:05,200 CHILD: Come on, let's get in first. 30 00:02:05,260 --> 00:02:06,850 Good morning, ladies! 31 00:02:06,900 --> 00:02:08,170 BABY WAILS 32 00:02:08,220 --> 00:02:09,890 Good morning! 33 00:02:12,340 --> 00:02:16,770 I've been on the telephone with the Bishop's secretary for the last half an hour. 34 00:02:16,820 --> 00:02:18,570 Well, go on. Don't be a tease. 35 00:02:18,620 --> 00:02:21,370 What did the Bishop want with a lowly curate? 36 00:02:21,420 --> 00:02:23,650 Apparently, he likes the work I've been doing, 37 00:02:23,700 --> 00:02:25,970 wants to meet me in person to tell me so. 38 00:02:26,020 --> 00:02:27,290 How marvellous. 39 00:02:27,340 --> 00:02:30,050 Are we supposed to go to him or is he coming here? 40 00:02:30,100 --> 00:02:33,090 Well, he'll want to meet me too, won't he? 41 00:02:33,140 --> 00:02:34,890 I didn't actually ask him. 42 00:02:34,940 --> 00:02:37,370 Well, of course he will. I'm going to be your wife. 43 00:02:37,420 --> 00:02:39,930 Well, I think the bishop would be very foolish not to want to 44 00:02:39,980 --> 00:02:42,290 meet the best asset this lowly curate has. 45 00:02:42,340 --> 00:02:45,420 Make sure you get straight back on the telephone and tell him so. 46 00:02:48,140 --> 00:02:50,450 NURSE CRANE: Come along now. 47 00:02:50,500 --> 00:02:52,970 Oh, rotten pains in my back, yeah. 48 00:02:53,020 --> 00:02:57,020 Oh, and the midwife telling me I'm not even in labour. 49 00:02:58,460 --> 00:03:01,650 Mrs Colter, please. Didn't we discuss this? 50 00:03:01,700 --> 00:03:04,490 Not upsetting these mothers with your anecdotes, 51 00:03:04,540 --> 00:03:06,770 not least of all your daughter-in-law. 52 00:03:06,820 --> 00:03:09,050 I won't have her believing any fairy stories, 53 00:03:09,100 --> 00:03:12,050 nurse, about the "miracle of childbirth". 54 00:03:12,100 --> 00:03:15,100 But you'd happily fill her head with Grimms' tales? 55 00:03:18,100 --> 00:03:21,060 ~ Mrs Cole? Mrs Bridget Cole? ~ Me. 56 00:03:31,220 --> 00:03:33,930 There's a very reliable clock on the church tower - 57 00:03:33,980 --> 00:03:36,490 I suggest you set your watch by it. 58 00:03:36,540 --> 00:03:38,770 I'm sorry, Nurse Crane. 59 00:03:38,820 --> 00:03:40,570 It's not good enough. 60 00:03:40,620 --> 00:03:44,290 As acting sister, you should be an example to the others. 61 00:03:44,340 --> 00:03:46,280 Pull your socks up! 62 00:03:47,620 --> 00:03:49,930 I sometimes think you've got as many frills inside that 63 00:03:49,980 --> 00:03:52,520 head as you've got on that cap. 64 00:03:54,980 --> 00:03:59,450 King Henry VIII, six wives he wedded - 65 00:03:59,500 --> 00:04:01,650 one died, one survived, 66 00:04:01,700 --> 00:04:05,570 two divorced, two beheaded. 67 00:04:05,620 --> 00:04:09,330 Poor Anne Boleyn was the first to have her head chopped off with 68 00:04:09,380 --> 00:04:11,650 a very sharp sword. 69 00:04:11,700 --> 00:04:15,090 ~ Ugh! ~ One good swing and off it rolled. 70 00:04:15,140 --> 00:04:18,860 What do you think you're doing?! They're five year olds! 71 00:04:19,860 --> 00:04:21,770 Mrs Bowe, what's the matter? 72 00:04:21,820 --> 00:04:24,290 She was telling him such stories. 73 00:04:24,340 --> 00:04:27,290 I'll not get him off to sleep tonight. 74 00:04:27,340 --> 00:04:30,580 I was merely nurturing our fledging historians. 75 00:04:31,660 --> 00:04:33,330 I know you were, Sister. 76 00:04:33,380 --> 00:04:37,260 But perhaps, just for now, you might help me roll some bandages? 77 00:04:42,540 --> 00:04:46,530 Your pregnancy is quite advanced for this to be your fist clinic visit, Mrs Cole. 78 00:04:46,580 --> 00:04:49,170 I haven't really had time before now - been busy working - 79 00:04:49,220 --> 00:04:51,020 and it's 'Miss'. 80 00:04:53,180 --> 00:04:56,880 Do you think that makes me a wicked woman, Sister? 81 00:04:57,220 --> 00:05:00,210 You're here as a mother-to-be and I'm here as a midwife. 82 00:05:00,260 --> 00:05:04,330 Let's leave questions of wickedness at the door, shall we? 83 00:05:04,380 --> 00:05:07,290 The first thing we'll do is take your medical history, 84 00:05:07,340 --> 00:05:10,450 then check your weight and blood pressure and baby's heartbeat. 85 00:05:10,500 --> 00:05:14,970 After that, Dr Turner will need to take a blood sample from you. 86 00:05:15,020 --> 00:05:16,820 Pass it through. 87 00:05:25,660 --> 00:05:28,850 We've got orders from Billingham's for more cable-laid rope 88 00:05:28,900 --> 00:05:32,210 and Reeks want lengths of 18 thread yarn. 89 00:05:32,260 --> 00:05:35,010 ~ That's what we like to hear! ~ Isn't it just? 90 00:05:35,060 --> 00:05:38,650 We're heading for the best summer we've had for a fair while. 91 00:05:38,700 --> 00:05:40,610 It'd mean the world to my old dad, 92 00:05:40,660 --> 00:05:43,900 seeing the business thriving, seeing it all kept alive. 93 00:05:44,900 --> 00:05:47,770 This would mean the world and all. 94 00:05:47,820 --> 00:05:49,970 Someone to follow in his footsteps 95 00:05:50,020 --> 00:05:51,490 and mine. 96 00:05:53,420 --> 00:05:56,250 Mrs Robbins, I thought I'd missed you! 97 00:05:56,300 --> 00:05:59,370 Sorry, I didn't see the time. 98 00:05:59,420 --> 00:06:02,090 This is my husband Frank. 99 00:06:02,140 --> 00:06:04,140 Pleased to meet you. 100 00:06:04,580 --> 00:06:06,210 Is everything all right? 101 00:06:06,260 --> 00:06:07,810 Oh, it's just a routine call. 102 00:06:07,860 --> 00:06:10,610 ~ Need to check everything's ready for the baby. ~ Ready? 103 00:06:10,660 --> 00:06:14,330 She's bought enough and knitted enough to kit out a full ship's crew. 104 00:06:14,380 --> 00:06:16,650 There's nothing like being prepared. 105 00:06:16,700 --> 00:06:18,500 ~ See ya. ~ See ya. 106 00:06:20,140 --> 00:06:23,410 I sometimes reckon he's the hardest working man in Poplar. 107 00:06:23,460 --> 00:06:27,450 When it comes out, Nurse, just you make sure it's a boy. 108 00:06:27,500 --> 00:06:29,040 SHE LAUGHS 109 00:06:32,100 --> 00:06:33,610 On an invitation 110 00:06:33,660 --> 00:06:36,530 you'd put "The Right Reverend the Lord Billy Smith, 111 00:06:36,580 --> 00:06:38,130 "Bishop of wherever". 112 00:06:38,180 --> 00:06:41,050 But in person, you should call him either just "Bishop" 113 00:06:41,100 --> 00:06:42,970 or "My Lord Bishop". 114 00:06:43,020 --> 00:06:47,530 Oh. I was going to call him "Your Grace". Have I got that wrong? 115 00:06:47,580 --> 00:06:49,050 Your call, Babs! 116 00:06:49,100 --> 00:06:52,930 "Your Grace" is just for Archbishops, not that I've ever met one. 117 00:06:52,980 --> 00:06:56,130 My father's parish was in the roughest bit of Liverpool. 118 00:06:56,180 --> 00:06:59,450 When I turned 21, my godmother said I could choose 119 00:06:59,500 --> 00:07:03,690 between a holiday in Portofino or a course at Lucie Clayton. 120 00:07:03,740 --> 00:07:05,770 I'm starting to wish I'd picked the latter. 121 00:07:05,820 --> 00:07:09,650 I've never been abroad. I'd plump for Portofino every time. 122 00:07:09,700 --> 00:07:12,330 Oh, you'd hate it. They don't sell Tizer. 123 00:07:12,380 --> 00:07:13,530 THEY LAUGH 124 00:07:13,580 --> 00:07:17,170 To be frank, Trixie, I don't know why you're rolling out all these whistles and bells. 125 00:07:17,220 --> 00:07:19,250 Surely all the usual etiquettes apply. 126 00:07:19,300 --> 00:07:21,970 Don't talk with your mouth full and never discuss politics, 127 00:07:22,020 --> 00:07:23,370 money or religion. 128 00:07:23,420 --> 00:07:26,570 How can I not discuss religion? He's a bishop. 129 00:07:26,620 --> 00:07:29,610 Perhaps you should make a list of interesting things to say 130 00:07:29,660 --> 00:07:32,850 about the weather and what's going on in Somaliland. 131 00:07:32,900 --> 00:07:34,850 Why Somaliland? 132 00:07:34,900 --> 00:07:39,450 It's been in the news and clergymen love news from Africa. 133 00:07:39,500 --> 00:07:40,970 SHE SIGHS 134 00:07:41,860 --> 00:07:43,930 I need another drink. 135 00:07:59,220 --> 00:08:02,450 ~ WOMAN: Hello, sweetheart. ~ You all right, Brenda? 136 00:08:02,500 --> 00:08:04,640 Going inside, are you? 137 00:08:10,620 --> 00:08:14,180 JAZZ MUSIC PLAYS 138 00:08:17,100 --> 00:08:19,450 SHE COUGHS 139 00:08:19,500 --> 00:08:21,540 PEOPLE CHATTER 140 00:08:23,140 --> 00:08:25,130 Hello, I'm Sister Winifred. 141 00:08:25,180 --> 00:08:29,730 I think nobody here wants saving. Thanks all the same. 142 00:08:29,780 --> 00:08:31,690 No, actually, I'm the midwife. 143 00:08:31,740 --> 00:08:33,810 I'm here to see Miss Cole. 144 00:08:33,860 --> 00:08:37,170 Ah!! Bridget! Come after me, please. 145 00:08:37,220 --> 00:08:38,660 Yes, up. 146 00:08:41,300 --> 00:08:43,690 Everything here seems to be in good order. 147 00:08:43,740 --> 00:08:45,890 I'm sure I must have forgotten something. 148 00:08:45,940 --> 00:08:48,250 MAN: 'Where you going?!' 149 00:08:48,300 --> 00:08:50,980 It's not always so bad as this. 150 00:08:53,860 --> 00:08:57,980 Hope you remember what you said, about leaving talk of wickedness outside the door. 151 00:09:02,620 --> 00:09:05,370 Do you intend to go back to your business after baby's born? 152 00:09:05,420 --> 00:09:07,490 I never really stopped. 153 00:09:07,540 --> 00:09:11,210 I don't do the full works. 154 00:09:11,260 --> 00:09:14,010 Can't lose my regulars. 155 00:09:14,060 --> 00:09:16,730 I'm just wondering... 156 00:09:16,780 --> 00:09:20,620 Do you think this is the right kind of place to bring up a child? 157 00:09:22,380 --> 00:09:26,050 It's my home, my family. 158 00:09:26,100 --> 00:09:27,730 This baby won't ever want for love, 159 00:09:27,780 --> 00:09:29,450 isn't that what's important? 160 00:09:29,500 --> 00:09:31,490 GLASS SMASHES 161 00:09:31,540 --> 00:09:32,860 Dora! 162 00:09:36,220 --> 00:09:39,450 Dora, come away from there in your bare feet. 163 00:09:39,500 --> 00:09:42,530 Did I do that? Break that? 164 00:09:42,580 --> 00:09:44,250 It's OK. 165 00:09:44,300 --> 00:09:45,810 Who's this?! 166 00:09:45,860 --> 00:09:49,130 Dora. This is Sister Winifred, the midwife. 167 00:09:49,180 --> 00:09:52,090 She's come to check everything's ready for my little bun. 168 00:09:52,140 --> 00:09:54,050 I should have a look at that for you. 169 00:09:54,100 --> 00:09:56,370 Let the sister have a look. She's from the clinic. 170 00:09:56,420 --> 00:09:59,730 No! I'll have no doctor lock me up! 171 00:09:59,780 --> 00:10:01,210 Dora, don't be silly. 172 00:10:01,260 --> 00:10:03,010 I'll go to no hospital! 173 00:10:03,060 --> 00:10:04,890 I just want to clean the wound, Dora. 174 00:10:04,940 --> 00:10:08,380 Once they get their hands on me, they won't let me out. 175 00:10:09,860 --> 00:10:12,600 Let me. She'll be fine if I do it. 176 00:10:15,940 --> 00:10:19,210 It's probably best if you go, Sister. I'm sorry. 177 00:10:19,260 --> 00:10:22,200 She won't calm down while you're here. 178 00:10:26,140 --> 00:10:28,330 I'm sorry. 179 00:10:28,380 --> 00:10:32,330 When she gets in a state, only really me can calm her down. 180 00:10:32,380 --> 00:10:35,210 She doesn't really trust any of the other girls. 181 00:10:35,260 --> 00:10:37,850 Is she always disorientated like that? 182 00:10:37,900 --> 00:10:39,170 Comes and goes. 183 00:10:39,220 --> 00:10:42,250 But she has been getting worse, the last few months. 184 00:10:42,300 --> 00:10:44,850 Those lesions, they're known as gummas. 185 00:10:44,900 --> 00:10:48,210 ~ I'd like to bring Dr Turner to examine her and... ~ No. 186 00:10:48,260 --> 00:10:51,530 You heard how she is about doctors. It's a terror she has. 187 00:10:51,580 --> 00:10:53,290 She needs treatment. 188 00:10:53,340 --> 00:10:56,700 I think what Dora is suffering from is quite advanced syphilis. 189 00:10:58,980 --> 00:11:00,890 You knew? 190 00:11:00,940 --> 00:11:04,210 She'd had it for years, ever since I've known her. 191 00:11:04,260 --> 00:11:07,810 ~ You can't go on looking after her in your condition. ~ We're fine. 192 00:11:07,860 --> 00:11:10,130 We look after each other. 193 00:11:13,580 --> 00:11:16,930 I think we're ready. I hope we are. 194 00:11:16,980 --> 00:11:19,370 ~ Goodness! ~ Please. 195 00:11:19,420 --> 00:11:21,960 I see what your husband meant! 196 00:11:27,260 --> 00:11:31,970 And what about this beautiful little thing? Did you knit this? 197 00:11:32,020 --> 00:11:34,170 No, my mother, 198 00:11:34,220 --> 00:11:37,490 God rest her soul. Was mine when I was a baby. 199 00:11:37,540 --> 00:11:39,730 She saved it for me... 200 00:11:39,780 --> 00:11:41,730 in case I have a daughter of my own. 201 00:11:41,780 --> 00:11:44,170 Mrs Robbins, whatever your husband says, 202 00:11:44,220 --> 00:11:46,730 it's perfectly all right for you to want a little girl. 203 00:11:46,780 --> 00:11:50,810 As long as it's healthy, I don't mind what it is. 204 00:11:50,860 --> 00:11:52,770 I don't want to let Frank down. 205 00:11:52,820 --> 00:11:56,930 I really can't believe when the day comes he'll see it like that. 206 00:11:56,980 --> 00:12:00,480 We've been wanting a baby for such a long time. 207 00:12:02,140 --> 00:12:04,770 We got to thinking it was never going to happen. 208 00:12:04,820 --> 00:12:08,010 And now it has and that's just wonderful - 209 00:12:08,060 --> 00:12:10,330 boy or girl. 210 00:12:10,380 --> 00:12:11,850 Isn't it? 211 00:12:13,580 --> 00:12:15,890 I wanted to go straight round to that ropery 212 00:12:15,940 --> 00:12:18,810 and tell Mrs Robbins' husband he was being most unfair. 213 00:12:18,860 --> 00:12:22,250 It's one thing to quietly hope and quite another to go on and on 214 00:12:22,300 --> 00:12:24,210 until his wife is terrified. 215 00:12:24,260 --> 00:12:25,970 Male or female, for good or ill, 216 00:12:26,020 --> 00:12:29,050 that baby's gender was decided months ago. 217 00:12:29,100 --> 00:12:32,130 All the same, I'm baffled that anyone thinks that girls 218 00:12:32,180 --> 00:12:33,570 aren't the equal of boys. 219 00:12:33,620 --> 00:12:37,210 I don't think they are the equal of boys - I think they're better. 220 00:12:37,260 --> 00:12:40,570 But what if the girls themselves don't think they're better? 221 00:12:40,620 --> 00:12:44,970 The women I visited today are selling themselves so cheaply. 222 00:12:45,020 --> 00:12:47,370 What other wares have they to offer, 223 00:12:47,420 --> 00:12:51,850 but to live in the rank sweat of an enseamed bed, stew'd in corruption, 224 00:12:51,900 --> 00:12:54,530 honeying and making love? 225 00:12:54,580 --> 00:12:58,210 I sometimes wonder what the last two wars were for, in that respect. 226 00:12:58,260 --> 00:13:00,930 Every time the world goes up in flames, 227 00:13:00,980 --> 00:13:04,530 they draft women in to pick up the slack and then once it's over, 228 00:13:04,580 --> 00:13:08,010 it's back in your box and don't say boo! 229 00:13:08,060 --> 00:13:12,010 And now, keeping one hand under baby's bottom, 230 00:13:12,060 --> 00:13:15,460 we lower our little boy or girl into the bath. 231 00:13:17,700 --> 00:13:20,770 If you've tested the water correctly, with your elbow, 232 00:13:20,820 --> 00:13:24,450 baby shouldn't be too startled by the change in temperature. 233 00:13:24,500 --> 00:13:28,250 ~ QUIET SOBBING Mrs Robbins? ~ Sorry. 234 00:13:28,300 --> 00:13:31,740 I know it's a doll, not a real baby... 235 00:13:33,060 --> 00:13:35,810 I think everything's getting just a bit too much, isn't it? 236 00:13:35,860 --> 00:13:38,370 Hormones can be beastly things. 237 00:13:38,420 --> 00:13:40,160 Nurse Gilbert! 238 00:13:41,420 --> 00:13:44,580 I think Mrs Robbins needs a little sit down. 239 00:13:46,740 --> 00:13:51,450 ~ Sister, are you free to come with me on a house call? ~ Of course, Doctor. 240 00:13:51,500 --> 00:13:55,660 ~ Which patient is it? ~ Bridget Cole. Her blood tests came back. 241 00:13:57,060 --> 00:14:00,970 I'll have a word with Dr Turner and tell him you haven't been sleeping. 242 00:14:01,020 --> 00:14:04,690 If you're lucky, he might give you a sedative to help you sleep. 243 00:14:04,740 --> 00:14:09,130 The most important thing is that you rest and try not to worry. 244 00:14:09,180 --> 00:14:11,570 I wouldn't be surprised if he's not already thinking 245 00:14:11,620 --> 00:14:14,290 he can find some young slip of a thing instead. 246 00:14:14,340 --> 00:14:15,970 What on Earth do you mean? 247 00:14:16,020 --> 00:14:19,330 Some girl still young enough to give him... two, 248 00:14:19,380 --> 00:14:22,850 three... half a dozen sons. 249 00:14:22,900 --> 00:14:25,980 I'm sure it hasn't even crossed his mind. 250 00:14:35,140 --> 00:14:38,930 Didn't I say? Dora doesn't want to see a doctor, she just won't! 251 00:14:38,980 --> 00:14:42,050 Miss Cole, he's not here about Dora. 252 00:14:42,100 --> 00:14:44,940 Go on, Dora. Go on. 253 00:14:46,620 --> 00:14:49,850 It's about the blood sample we took at the clinic. 254 00:14:49,900 --> 00:14:54,180 Miss Cole, the result shows that you're infected with syphilis. 255 00:14:55,260 --> 00:14:57,930 I can't be. How can I? 256 00:14:57,980 --> 00:15:00,930 If it goes untreated, there are very serious consequences for you. 257 00:15:00,980 --> 00:15:02,410 I always took precautions, 258 00:15:02,460 --> 00:15:05,690 always used a proper peroxide douche after all my customers. 259 00:15:05,740 --> 00:15:08,970 The use of a douche is not enough to fight an infection like this. 260 00:15:09,020 --> 00:15:12,370 This syphilis could also endanger the life of your baby. 261 00:15:12,420 --> 00:15:15,290 We need to transfer you to the maternity home to begin 262 00:15:15,340 --> 00:15:16,970 a course of penicillin injections. 263 00:15:17,020 --> 00:15:20,370 There is a chance, if the disease is at an early stage, 264 00:15:20,420 --> 00:15:23,360 the infection may still be contagious. 265 00:15:24,780 --> 00:15:26,320 Oh, my God! 266 00:15:34,380 --> 00:15:40,450 ~ Good afternoon, Mr Robbins. Are you here about your wife? ~ No, I'm not. 267 00:15:40,500 --> 00:15:42,730 It's my father's birthday today. 268 00:15:42,780 --> 00:15:45,410 Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to intrude. 269 00:15:45,460 --> 00:15:48,260 No, it's all out in the open, Nurse. 270 00:15:49,900 --> 00:15:52,890 Frank was my father. 271 00:15:52,940 --> 00:15:56,380 His sons are me and my brothers, Bill and John. 272 00:15:59,060 --> 00:16:03,610 17th of September 1939, my dad's ship was torpedoed - 273 00:16:03,660 --> 00:16:05,730 he went down with it. 274 00:16:06,900 --> 00:16:10,730 In the spring of '45, my brothers got blown up. 275 00:16:10,780 --> 00:16:14,530 They were on a minesweeper in the Bay of Biscay. 276 00:16:14,580 --> 00:16:18,170 I ended up with three sets of medals and the family business. 277 00:16:18,220 --> 00:16:21,320 This is their memorial, most of the time. 278 00:16:22,460 --> 00:16:25,400 But on special occasions, I come here. 279 00:16:45,140 --> 00:16:48,640 I'm going to bring my son when he's old enough. 280 00:16:54,140 --> 00:16:57,970 Mr Robbins, the baby may be a boy, but may also be a girl. 281 00:16:58,020 --> 00:17:00,930 Your wife can't choose and neither can you. 282 00:17:00,980 --> 00:17:04,570 I promised my dad to carry on the business with a son. 283 00:17:04,620 --> 00:17:06,290 I need a son. 284 00:17:17,940 --> 00:17:19,770 Hello there. 285 00:17:19,820 --> 00:17:23,330 Tom, what do you think about offering the Bishop something more 286 00:17:23,380 --> 00:17:27,050 continental for afternoon tea? Or is traditional best? 287 00:17:27,100 --> 00:17:30,650 Dainty sandwiches, jam, cream scones, lots of Darjeeling? 288 00:17:30,700 --> 00:17:32,330 I could ask Barbara. 289 00:17:32,380 --> 00:17:35,570 She seems to know everything about bishops and all the etiquette. 290 00:17:35,620 --> 00:17:39,210 ~ Trixie... ~ You see, her father is a canon, he's a residentiary one, 291 00:17:39,260 --> 00:17:40,690 not an honorary one. 292 00:17:40,740 --> 00:17:42,930 Did you know there are different kinds? 293 00:17:42,980 --> 00:17:47,130 Trixie, when the Bishop comes, you just need to relax. 294 00:17:47,180 --> 00:17:49,690 Remember, he's coming primarily to speak to me. 295 00:17:49,740 --> 00:17:52,170 Now, I'm expected by the summer fete committee 296 00:17:52,220 --> 00:17:54,890 and I'm at least 20 minutes late. 297 00:18:01,820 --> 00:18:06,220 Welcome to the Poplar Ritz. Full room service and tea in constant supply. 298 00:18:07,700 --> 00:18:09,970 I'll leave you to unpack. 299 00:18:13,420 --> 00:18:17,490 I'll be back shortly to give you your first injection. 300 00:18:17,540 --> 00:18:20,280 I tried to get rid of it, you know? 301 00:18:21,020 --> 00:18:22,690 Gin and a hot bath. 302 00:18:22,740 --> 00:18:24,880 Never fails, Dora said. 303 00:18:25,740 --> 00:18:30,330 By the time I knew it hadn't worked, must have been four months gone. 304 00:18:30,380 --> 00:18:33,570 Went to a woman to have it dealt with. 305 00:18:33,620 --> 00:18:37,010 Got as far as her door, but I couldn't do it. 306 00:18:37,060 --> 00:18:38,970 Why not? 307 00:18:39,020 --> 00:18:44,130 I thought, if it's so keen to get itself born, might as well go 308 00:18:44,180 --> 00:18:46,570 and have it... 309 00:18:46,620 --> 00:18:48,260 and love it. 310 00:18:49,300 --> 00:18:51,770 Give it the love I never had. 311 00:18:54,340 --> 00:18:56,130 And now, 312 00:18:56,180 --> 00:18:59,690 I could be bringing it into the world diseased, 313 00:18:59,740 --> 00:19:03,410 ~ like I'm diseased. ~ Bridget, you're here to have treatment. 314 00:19:03,460 --> 00:19:06,930 There's a decent chance your baby will be healthy when it's born 315 00:19:06,980 --> 00:19:10,210 and that you'll be well enough to take good care of it. 316 00:19:10,260 --> 00:19:12,400 I am grateful, Sister. 317 00:19:14,900 --> 00:19:17,570 SHE SIGHS 318 00:19:17,620 --> 00:19:22,050 I just don't understand why after such great strides in modern 319 00:19:22,100 --> 00:19:25,690 medicine, we're still treating women like Bridget Cole for syphilis. 320 00:19:25,740 --> 00:19:27,050 Well, it's largely 321 00:19:27,100 --> 00:19:30,770 because these girls refuse to ask their clients to use sheaths. 322 00:19:30,820 --> 00:19:33,250 But that doesn't make sense. 323 00:19:33,300 --> 00:19:38,010 ~ Has nobody explained to them? ~ Yes. I tried myself some years ago. 324 00:19:38,060 --> 00:19:41,130 They told me their customers don't like them 325 00:19:41,180 --> 00:19:43,210 and that was the end of the matter. 326 00:19:43,260 --> 00:19:48,130 ~ But surely their customers are at risk too. ~ Of course they are. 327 00:19:48,180 --> 00:19:52,010 Here's last year's report from the Board of Health - 328 00:19:52,060 --> 00:19:55,340 every instance of venereal disease meticulously noted. 329 00:19:56,700 --> 00:20:01,890 If I could, I'd force every man who sidles down Cable Street to read it 330 00:20:01,940 --> 00:20:05,570 and they'd still say using a sheath is like going for a paddle 331 00:20:05,620 --> 00:20:07,560 with your socks on. 332 00:20:10,060 --> 00:20:12,770 ♪ Para bailar La Bamba 333 00:20:12,820 --> 00:20:15,290 ♪ Para bailar La Bamba 334 00:20:15,340 --> 00:20:18,730 ♪ Se necessita una poca de gracia 335 00:20:18,780 --> 00:20:21,570 ♪ Una poca de gracia 336 00:20:21,620 --> 00:20:25,020 ♪ Para mi, para it, ay arriba, ay arriba... ♪ 337 00:20:25,660 --> 00:20:28,130 I must have cycled 20 miles today. 338 00:20:28,180 --> 00:20:31,130 I walked in from those bike sheds like John Wayne. 339 00:20:31,180 --> 00:20:34,250 I was beginning to think you'd forgotten! 340 00:20:34,300 --> 00:20:39,010 We said we'd go to the Hand and Shears to have a little brightener. 341 00:20:39,060 --> 00:20:41,530 Out of your uniform, spit-spot. 342 00:20:41,580 --> 00:20:45,220 If you're good, I'll treat you to a bitter lemon. 343 00:20:48,740 --> 00:20:51,410 ~ Sergeant Noakes? ~ Oh, evening, Sister. 344 00:20:51,460 --> 00:20:54,770 I was testing out what they say about a watched pot. 345 00:20:54,820 --> 00:20:59,810 ~ Oh, what's that then? ~ That it never boils. ~ Oh. 346 00:20:59,860 --> 00:21:03,050 Sergeant Noakes, how many prostitutes are there in Poplar? 347 00:21:03,100 --> 00:21:04,810 Um... 348 00:21:04,860 --> 00:21:07,530 Well, I don't know exactly. Um... 349 00:21:08,540 --> 00:21:11,970 As an educated guess, perhaps... 350 00:21:12,020 --> 00:21:14,250 Six or 700? 351 00:21:14,300 --> 00:21:16,770 Can you introduce me to some? 352 00:21:18,940 --> 00:21:21,850 And what exactly is it you plan to do, Sister? 353 00:21:21,900 --> 00:21:25,450 I'm hoping that by educating the women in these places and 354 00:21:25,500 --> 00:21:29,970 encouraging them to use sheaths, I'd be helping them protect themselves, 355 00:21:30,020 --> 00:21:33,050 meaning we won't have any more Bridget Coles. 356 00:21:33,100 --> 00:21:35,770 Might I be excused Compline? 357 00:21:35,820 --> 00:21:39,290 ~ You want to start tonight? ~ Yes. And not too late. 358 00:21:39,340 --> 00:21:42,900 Sergeant Noakes thinks we ought to try to miss their rush hour. 359 00:21:46,980 --> 00:21:50,730 I'm in your hands, Sergeant Noakes. Where shall we start? 360 00:21:50,780 --> 00:21:53,410 This way, Sister. 361 00:21:53,460 --> 00:21:55,050 You'll be all right. 362 00:21:55,100 --> 00:21:56,930 ♪ Come on to my house, my house 363 00:21:56,980 --> 00:21:59,330 ♪ I'm gonna give you candy 364 00:21:59,380 --> 00:22:01,610 ♪ Come on to my house, my house 365 00:22:01,660 --> 00:22:06,730 ♪ I'm gonna give you apple, a plum and an apricot... ♪ 366 00:22:06,780 --> 00:22:09,930 Could I give you some information about using sheaths? 367 00:22:09,980 --> 00:22:11,370 Oh, ta. 368 00:22:11,420 --> 00:22:13,370 ♪ Come on to my house, my house 369 00:22:13,420 --> 00:22:15,330 ♪ I'm gonna give you... ♪ 370 00:22:15,380 --> 00:22:18,250 Excuse me, could I give you some useful information about using 371 00:22:18,300 --> 00:22:22,170 ~ sheaths to prevent yourself from infection... ~ Get lost! 372 00:22:22,220 --> 00:22:25,770 Excuse me, could I give you some useful information about using 373 00:22:25,820 --> 00:22:29,170 ~ sheaths to prevent yourself from...? ~ Are you trying to lose me business? 374 00:22:29,220 --> 00:22:31,610 There's plenty of other girls he could go to 375 00:22:31,660 --> 00:22:34,600 if I start waving rubbers in his face. 376 00:22:40,940 --> 00:22:42,930 Binky?! Really? 377 00:22:42,980 --> 00:22:45,850 His wife calls him Binky? 378 00:22:45,900 --> 00:22:48,410 The more I hear about my Bishop, the more I like him. 379 00:22:48,460 --> 00:22:52,330 Well, this is all according to Pop, who only knows him by reputation. 380 00:22:52,380 --> 00:22:55,570 But he tells me the Bishop is teetotal and rather 381 00:22:55,620 --> 00:22:58,570 passionate about it, so don't let him know how much you like a drink! 382 00:22:58,620 --> 00:23:01,850 ~ How much I like a drink? ~ Oh, you know what I mean. 383 00:23:01,900 --> 00:23:03,290 At the end of a day, 384 00:23:03,340 --> 00:23:07,210 Patsy and I always like to guess how soon Trixie's Bar will open! 385 00:23:07,260 --> 00:23:10,290 And that's what you call it? Trixie's Bar? 386 00:23:10,340 --> 00:23:12,810 It's all said in fun, Trixie. 387 00:23:21,380 --> 00:23:24,380 Aren't you coming down for tea, Sister? 388 00:23:26,420 --> 00:23:29,820 I understand we have Battenburg cake. 389 00:23:30,980 --> 00:23:34,010 I saw them marching, like Amazons, 390 00:23:34,060 --> 00:23:38,050 banners billowing, votes for women! 391 00:23:38,100 --> 00:23:41,780 I would have joined them, had I not labours of my own. 392 00:23:48,060 --> 00:23:50,130 See how young she is. 393 00:23:51,060 --> 00:23:52,860 My 40th year. 394 00:23:58,060 --> 00:24:00,460 Such a summer it was. 395 00:24:01,620 --> 00:24:03,970 I remember women, decent women, 396 00:24:04,020 --> 00:24:08,730 wading into the Serpentine on the day of the coronation... 397 00:24:08,780 --> 00:24:10,980 for King George. 398 00:24:13,780 --> 00:24:18,050 I carried my purpose wherever it was needed, 399 00:24:18,100 --> 00:24:22,140 putting the putrid beasts of squalor and disease to the sword. 400 00:24:25,420 --> 00:24:27,860 I was so capable then... 401 00:24:29,100 --> 00:24:31,690 .. agile... 402 00:24:31,740 --> 00:24:33,880 like a swift in slight. 403 00:24:35,700 --> 00:24:38,300 At the very height of my powers. 404 00:24:42,780 --> 00:24:43,890 And now... 405 00:24:43,940 --> 00:24:45,620 SHE SCOFFS 406 00:24:47,820 --> 00:24:52,770 ~ Sister, you're still a valued part of Nonnatus House. ~ No. 407 00:24:52,820 --> 00:24:54,490 I'm a relic, 408 00:24:54,540 --> 00:24:58,460 a curiosity and a nuisance. 409 00:25:00,820 --> 00:25:03,730 They say in the newspaper we're degenerate. 410 00:25:03,780 --> 00:25:06,980 They call us common prostitutes. SHE WINCES 411 00:25:10,060 --> 00:25:13,490 And all of that makes us stick together. 412 00:25:13,540 --> 00:25:16,890 Do you want your child growing up in an environment like that? 413 00:25:16,940 --> 00:25:18,730 Not really. 414 00:25:18,780 --> 00:25:22,050 But can you see me working in an office, day after day? 415 00:25:22,100 --> 00:25:23,810 Or as a housewife? 416 00:25:23,860 --> 00:25:26,810 ~ I went to visit a very nice mother and baby home last week. ~ Oh. 417 00:25:26,860 --> 00:25:29,610 I know about those places. 418 00:25:29,660 --> 00:25:33,130 Dormitories, daily chores, lots of prayers... 419 00:25:33,180 --> 00:25:35,650 This place isn't at all like that. 420 00:25:35,700 --> 00:25:37,930 One of the midwives from Nonnatus works there 421 00:25:37,980 --> 00:25:41,410 and she's very good at setting up fresh chances for new mums. 422 00:25:41,460 --> 00:25:43,170 KNOCK AT DOOR 423 00:25:43,220 --> 00:25:45,560 The desk woman say it's OK. 424 00:25:46,380 --> 00:25:49,250 Well, all right. But you must put on this gown 425 00:25:49,300 --> 00:25:53,300 and take it off and wash your hands before you leave. 426 00:25:54,140 --> 00:25:56,130 Everybody miss you, Bridget, 427 00:25:56,180 --> 00:25:58,180 especially Dora. 428 00:26:05,060 --> 00:26:09,690 ~ So, Dora's going crazy since you not there. ~ What are you talking about? 429 00:26:09,740 --> 00:26:13,420 So, put the clothes on. I will check if the nurse is coming back. 430 00:26:16,740 --> 00:26:20,370 Tom, I'm not sure if my secretary told you why 431 00:26:20,420 --> 00:26:22,410 I wanted to meet you today. 432 00:26:22,460 --> 00:26:26,490 No. Just that you were reasonably happy with the work I've been doing. 433 00:26:26,540 --> 00:26:29,370 Very happy. Very happy indeed. 434 00:26:29,420 --> 00:26:31,050 You've shown the kind of freshness 435 00:26:31,100 --> 00:26:34,970 and vigour that the modern Church needs. 436 00:26:35,020 --> 00:26:36,330 No. 437 00:26:36,380 --> 00:26:40,890 So much so that when I heard about a parish that was coming vacant, 438 00:26:40,940 --> 00:26:45,650 not immediately, the man in the chair, an old and dear friend is 439 00:26:45,700 --> 00:26:50,540 due to retire in a year, I thought you might be just right for it. 440 00:26:52,220 --> 00:26:54,490 I see. 441 00:26:54,540 --> 00:26:56,730 Goodness! 442 00:26:56,780 --> 00:26:59,250 I... I'm very gratified, Bishop. 443 00:26:59,300 --> 00:27:01,330 It's in St Anne's, 444 00:27:01,380 --> 00:27:04,980 a pretty challenging area of poverty in Newcastle. 445 00:27:06,380 --> 00:27:08,570 Newcastle? 446 00:27:08,620 --> 00:27:12,170 I'm sorry, it's just that we had in mind a more rural home to 447 00:27:12,220 --> 00:27:14,360 bring up our children. 448 00:27:22,420 --> 00:27:25,450 I'll make another pot of tea, shall I? 449 00:27:25,500 --> 00:27:29,930 The parish has its fair share of delinquents and unfortunates, 450 00:27:29,980 --> 00:27:33,700 but I'm sure there are rough diamonds to be found. 451 00:27:38,700 --> 00:27:42,610 You'll be glad to hear Mrs Alice Ambrose has had a healthy baby girl. 452 00:27:42,660 --> 00:27:46,010 Oh, splendid! I'm afraid you won't have time for a rest. 453 00:27:46,060 --> 00:27:48,690 We've just had a call. It sounds like Mrs Colter's in labour. 454 00:27:48,740 --> 00:27:50,940 Right, off I go! 455 00:27:52,140 --> 00:27:54,090 Oh, you can sterilise when you get there. 456 00:27:54,140 --> 00:27:56,970 Was the call from June Colter or is her mother-in-law still 457 00:27:57,020 --> 00:28:00,620 ~ staying over? ~ I'm afraid it was her mother-in-law. 458 00:28:05,220 --> 00:28:08,650 Trixie, all I'm saying is it wasn't your place or mine 459 00:28:08,700 --> 00:28:10,170 to take the Bishop to task. 460 00:28:10,220 --> 00:28:14,010 He was talking about sending us to a slum district in Newcastle! 461 00:28:14,060 --> 00:28:16,730 I just said I was hoping for something less... challenging. 462 00:28:16,780 --> 00:28:19,050 And then sat there with a face like thunder for the rest 463 00:28:19,100 --> 00:28:20,450 of the afternoon. 464 00:28:20,500 --> 00:28:23,650 It was made very clear that I shouldn't talk while the men 465 00:28:23,700 --> 00:28:27,420 were discussing important matters that clearly I have no say in! 466 00:28:36,140 --> 00:28:38,140 Trixie... 467 00:28:40,940 --> 00:28:43,890 This morning, I sat with a man whose wife had died. 468 00:28:43,940 --> 00:28:47,610 She was 21 and had Hodgkins Disease. 469 00:28:47,660 --> 00:28:49,970 He wanted me to explain God's plan. 470 00:28:50,020 --> 00:28:53,220 He wanted to know why it was worth him living any more. 471 00:28:54,460 --> 00:28:58,690 That, for me, is what life in the Church is about 472 00:28:58,740 --> 00:29:03,210 and that is why I will go where the Bishop feels I can do most good. 473 00:29:03,260 --> 00:29:06,490 I understand that. Really, I do. 474 00:29:06,540 --> 00:29:10,610 But after four years in Poplar, all I want is for our children to 475 00:29:10,660 --> 00:29:14,360 grow in a place with trees and maybe no tenements. 476 00:29:15,380 --> 00:29:19,850 Trixie, when you marry me, you'll be marrying the Church. 477 00:29:19,900 --> 00:29:22,250 Be honest, have you ever wondered 478 00:29:22,300 --> 00:29:25,650 whether that's really going to suit you? 479 00:29:25,700 --> 00:29:27,440 No, I haven't. 480 00:29:28,340 --> 00:29:29,860 Have you? 481 00:29:41,940 --> 00:29:44,180 LAUGHTER AND MUSIC 482 00:29:46,900 --> 00:29:48,970 Everybody's laughing. 483 00:29:55,620 --> 00:29:57,930 Move! Move! Out my way! 484 00:29:57,980 --> 00:30:01,210 Shift it! Will you move? 485 00:30:01,260 --> 00:30:03,090 Move! Dora? 486 00:30:03,140 --> 00:30:05,850 Dora? 487 00:30:05,900 --> 00:30:07,450 It's me. Hello. 488 00:30:07,500 --> 00:30:09,040 All right? 489 00:30:09,860 --> 00:30:11,890 You all right? 490 00:30:11,940 --> 00:30:14,170 Let's get you upstairs. 491 00:30:14,220 --> 00:30:16,210 Come on, let's get you out of here. 492 00:30:16,260 --> 00:30:19,460 You should be ashamed of yourselves! Move! 493 00:30:22,660 --> 00:30:27,060 ♪ Sometimes, we'll sigh 494 00:30:28,380 --> 00:30:32,380 ♪ Sometimes, we'll cry 495 00:30:35,060 --> 00:30:42,460 ♪ And we'll know why just you and I know true love ways. ♪ 496 00:31:24,820 --> 00:31:28,340 WATER SPLASHES 497 00:31:29,820 --> 00:31:32,250 Oh! 498 00:31:32,300 --> 00:31:37,570 You're doing really well, June, but do try to relax. 499 00:31:37,620 --> 00:31:40,530 We've plenty of time before baby's ready to pop out. 500 00:31:40,580 --> 00:31:43,570 Plenty of time. You think this is proper labour, 501 00:31:43,620 --> 00:31:46,010 you've got another think coming, hasn't she, Nurse? 502 00:31:46,060 --> 00:31:48,940 Mrs Colter, could I have a word? 503 00:31:52,100 --> 00:31:54,930 I have delivered babies in many different circumstances - 504 00:31:54,980 --> 00:31:57,130 routine or complicated. 505 00:31:57,180 --> 00:32:00,050 Now, compare your own largely third-hand experiences 506 00:32:00,100 --> 00:32:02,850 and decide which of us you trust more to 507 00:32:02,900 --> 00:32:07,020 help your daughter-in-law bring your first grandchild into the world. 508 00:32:12,460 --> 00:32:14,370 Has she reached full term? 509 00:32:14,420 --> 00:32:16,820 No, she's only eight months. 510 00:32:17,700 --> 00:32:20,170 MUSIC AND CHATTER 511 00:32:20,220 --> 00:32:22,690 This way. 512 00:32:22,740 --> 00:32:24,660 She's upstairs. 513 00:32:30,300 --> 00:32:32,250 SHE MOANS IN PAIN 514 00:32:32,300 --> 00:32:34,540 Bridget. 515 00:32:35,660 --> 00:32:38,370 Sister, I'm sorry. I only came back to check on Dora. 516 00:32:38,420 --> 00:32:39,930 Let's take a look at you. 517 00:32:39,980 --> 00:32:42,890 Bridget, this is Nurse Crane, here to give us a bit of help. 518 00:32:42,940 --> 00:32:46,010 And how often are the contractions, Miss Cole? 519 00:32:46,060 --> 00:32:48,860 They feel about every bloody minute! 520 00:32:54,780 --> 00:32:55,980 Oh! 521 00:33:07,740 --> 00:33:10,500 Good, strong heartbeat. Legs up. 522 00:33:19,020 --> 00:33:21,730 She's too advanced to move her back to the maternity home. 523 00:33:21,780 --> 00:33:25,880 Bridget, we're going to have to deliver your baby here. 524 00:33:26,620 --> 00:33:29,170 ~ Knees down. ~ If she hasn't finished her treatment, 525 00:33:29,220 --> 00:33:31,850 we have to assume the syphilis is still contagious. 526 00:33:31,900 --> 00:33:33,490 I'll call for Dr Turner? 527 00:33:33,540 --> 00:33:38,090 ~ My back is killing me. ~ Well, let's get you onto your hands and knees - 528 00:33:38,140 --> 00:33:41,300 ~ that'll ease the pressure. ~ Ooh! ~ Here we go. There you go. ~ Oh! 529 00:33:52,980 --> 00:33:55,090 ~ BANGS DOOR ~ Help! Is anyone there? 530 00:33:55,140 --> 00:33:57,010 I need a midwife! 531 00:33:59,060 --> 00:34:02,500 ~ BANGING ON DOOR ~ I need some help! 532 00:34:04,980 --> 00:34:07,140 BANGING CONTINUES 533 00:34:08,220 --> 00:34:11,890 ~ I need help! ~ Here's a knocking indeed! 534 00:34:11,940 --> 00:34:15,930 ~ Is anyone there? ~ If a man were porter of hell-gate... 535 00:34:15,980 --> 00:34:19,090 ~ Oh! ~ What are you about? ~ It's you! 536 00:34:19,140 --> 00:34:22,090 This is no night to be abroad! 537 00:34:22,140 --> 00:34:24,330 Can I see a midwife? 538 00:34:24,380 --> 00:34:26,210 Please! 539 00:34:26,260 --> 00:34:29,370 This is highly untoward. 540 00:34:29,420 --> 00:34:32,010 Why did you not utilise the telephone? 541 00:34:32,060 --> 00:34:36,170 My husband took the kids to Canvey Island 542 00:34:36,220 --> 00:34:40,290 and the phone on the bottom of our street is... bust. 543 00:34:40,340 --> 00:34:43,370 SHE WHIMPERS IN PAIN 544 00:34:43,420 --> 00:34:46,610 All will be well, my dear. 545 00:34:46,660 --> 00:34:48,530 All will be well. 546 00:34:51,020 --> 00:34:53,770 I'm scared it won't be. 547 00:34:53,820 --> 00:34:56,330 I came cos my waters broke... 548 00:34:56,380 --> 00:34:58,250 and it don't look right! 549 00:34:58,300 --> 00:35:01,060 It was sort of...green coloured. 550 00:35:04,580 --> 00:35:07,210 You did well to seek assistance 551 00:35:07,260 --> 00:35:09,930 and it shall be obtained for you. 552 00:35:13,340 --> 00:35:15,540 I need a proper midwife! 553 00:35:16,420 --> 00:35:17,900 All abed? 554 00:35:21,980 --> 00:35:24,250 Will nobody attend to us? 555 00:35:25,380 --> 00:35:27,850 We are in need of assistance! 556 00:35:38,180 --> 00:35:41,330 Come with me. 557 00:35:41,380 --> 00:35:44,290 ~ Come where? ~ To a place of safety, 558 00:35:44,340 --> 00:35:46,740 where you will be cared for. 559 00:35:53,820 --> 00:35:55,900 Argh! 560 00:35:57,220 --> 00:36:00,970 ~ Breathe. Breathe. ~ It's never coming out! 561 00:36:01,020 --> 00:36:02,810 I can see the head now, Bridget. 562 00:36:02,860 --> 00:36:07,330 Slow and controlled pushes now, Bridget. Slow and controlled. 563 00:36:07,380 --> 00:36:09,780 You're in the home straight. 564 00:36:11,940 --> 00:36:16,810 No more pushing now. Let me see you blowing out those candles for me. 565 00:36:16,860 --> 00:36:18,600 The head's out. 566 00:36:20,740 --> 00:36:24,450 ~ Shoulders are out. You're nearly there. ~ Argh! 567 00:36:24,500 --> 00:36:26,290 Urgh! 568 00:36:26,340 --> 00:36:29,890 BABY CRIES 569 00:36:29,940 --> 00:36:32,130 Well done! 570 00:36:32,180 --> 00:36:34,170 My baby. 571 00:36:34,220 --> 00:36:36,570 There she is. 572 00:36:36,620 --> 00:36:39,770 You have a little girl, Bridget. 573 00:36:39,820 --> 00:36:42,690 We need to examine her and clean her. 574 00:36:45,180 --> 00:36:47,380 Dr Turner's on his way. 575 00:36:55,620 --> 00:36:58,770 Are you sure this is the right way? 576 00:36:58,820 --> 00:37:02,530 You must take your lead from Lao-Tzu, 577 00:37:02,580 --> 00:37:05,570 the Chinese philosopher. 578 00:37:05,620 --> 00:37:10,450 He has it that a journey of a thousand miles begins with 579 00:37:10,500 --> 00:37:12,370 a single step. 580 00:37:12,420 --> 00:37:15,810 This is Poplar, not bloody China! 581 00:37:15,860 --> 00:37:17,780 Indeed. 582 00:37:21,260 --> 00:37:25,690 I'm pleased to say June Colter had a large, very sweet, baby girl 583 00:37:25,740 --> 00:37:28,010 without a single complication. 584 00:37:28,060 --> 00:37:33,490 Excellent. That's two in one day. And how is her mother-in-law? 585 00:37:33,540 --> 00:37:38,090 I tried being firm with her - it seemed to work. 586 00:37:38,140 --> 00:37:41,690 Mr Robbins just called - he thinks his wife is in labour - 587 00:37:41,740 --> 00:37:45,210 but you've been on your feet since breakfast. 588 00:37:45,260 --> 00:37:49,060 Go and alert Nurse Franklin - she should be ready to take over. 589 00:37:53,380 --> 00:37:56,140 KNOCK AT DOOR 590 00:38:00,900 --> 00:38:04,010 Wakey-wakey! 591 00:38:04,060 --> 00:38:05,980 Trixie? 592 00:38:07,420 --> 00:38:09,180 Oh, Trixie! 593 00:38:24,860 --> 00:38:27,600 I'll take care of this one for you. 594 00:38:33,340 --> 00:38:35,050 Careful. 595 00:38:35,100 --> 00:38:38,170 We're in need of assistance! 596 00:38:38,220 --> 00:38:42,130 Sister Monica Joan! What's happened? 597 00:38:42,180 --> 00:38:46,570 Mrs Bowe presented herself at Nonnatus House. 598 00:38:46,620 --> 00:38:48,450 Her waters broke. 599 00:38:48,500 --> 00:38:52,050 There was... She knew there was a problem. 600 00:38:52,100 --> 00:38:55,370 You've both done exactly the right thing. 601 00:38:55,420 --> 00:38:58,850 The doctor isn't here just now, 602 00:38:58,900 --> 00:39:03,700 but we'll get Mrs Bowe out of these wet things and come up with a plan. 603 00:39:25,620 --> 00:39:28,690 Baby's heart rate is a little slow. 604 00:39:28,740 --> 00:39:31,170 I'm going to check how dilated you are, 605 00:39:31,220 --> 00:39:35,540 ~ but I think you're going to have to have baby here and quickly. ~ No! 606 00:39:38,340 --> 00:39:41,220 Fortune has favoured us, Mrs Bowe. 607 00:39:42,900 --> 00:39:45,730 Mrs Turner has delivered more babies than 608 00:39:45,780 --> 00:39:50,850 there are stars in the Great Andromeda Nebula. 609 00:39:50,900 --> 00:39:55,660 We'll need a delivery pack and clean towels from the storeroom, Sister. 610 00:39:58,580 --> 00:40:02,210 ~ And the breathing was normal just after the birth. ~ Yes. 611 00:40:02,260 --> 00:40:06,620 But now the respiration rate is over 60 and the heart rate is over 150. 612 00:40:08,860 --> 00:40:12,860 Baby's not pinking up well. It's cyanosed. 613 00:40:15,620 --> 00:40:19,530 ~ She looks so beautiful, doesn't she? ~ She does. 614 00:40:19,580 --> 00:40:22,330 Very beautiful. 615 00:40:22,380 --> 00:40:27,130 But so fragile. Oh, there can't be anything wrong with her. 616 00:40:27,180 --> 00:40:29,890 Please, don't let there be! 617 00:40:29,940 --> 00:40:33,130 Argh! 618 00:40:33,180 --> 00:40:36,330 Argh! Ah! 619 00:40:36,380 --> 00:40:41,010 Baby's head is almost here, Eileen. I know it stings, but just pant for me. 620 00:40:41,060 --> 00:40:44,090 Pant. Pant. Pant. 621 00:40:44,140 --> 00:40:46,730 All is well, my dear. 622 00:40:46,780 --> 00:40:48,730 Do as Mrs Turner says. 623 00:40:48,780 --> 00:40:50,450 Pant, Eileen. 624 00:40:50,500 --> 00:40:53,010 SHE PANTS 625 00:40:53,060 --> 00:40:55,970 ~ Your baby's head is born, Eileen! ~ Argh! 626 00:40:56,020 --> 00:40:59,610 How blessed we were to meet with Mrs Turner. 627 00:40:59,660 --> 00:41:02,760 How blessed I was to meet with y... Argh! 628 00:41:05,820 --> 00:41:10,370 Now, I think if you can give me one enormous brave push, 629 00:41:10,420 --> 00:41:15,290 we're going to be able to meet this beautiful, beautiful baby. 630 00:41:15,340 --> 00:41:17,170 I can't! 631 00:41:17,220 --> 00:41:20,170 ~ I can't! ~ Now, now. 632 00:41:20,220 --> 00:41:22,380 Be of good courage! 633 00:41:24,060 --> 00:41:27,760 ~ Nurse, she's through here. ~ Thank you, Mr Robbins. 634 00:41:28,860 --> 00:41:32,410 You're doing really well, Susan. Another big push for me. 635 00:41:32,460 --> 00:41:34,010 I can't push any more. 636 00:41:34,060 --> 00:41:36,200 You can. Just one more. 637 00:41:38,500 --> 00:41:41,290 Goodness, I can see the head, Susan! 638 00:41:41,340 --> 00:41:44,730 This little one's in quite a hurry to come and say hello to you. 639 00:41:44,780 --> 00:41:46,650 Here come the shoulders. 640 00:41:46,700 --> 00:41:49,810 Oh! BABY CRIES 641 00:41:49,860 --> 00:41:53,220 ~ There you are, little one. ~ Is it a boy? 642 00:41:57,620 --> 00:42:00,020 You have a very lovely baby. 643 00:42:00,980 --> 00:42:03,050 A beautiful daughter. 644 00:42:07,460 --> 00:42:10,000 Say hello to your little girl. 645 00:42:13,900 --> 00:42:16,010 Isn't she beautiful? 646 00:42:16,060 --> 00:42:17,970 Hello. 647 00:42:18,020 --> 00:42:20,090 That's all the hard work over. 648 00:42:20,140 --> 00:42:23,170 Now, we just have to wait for the placenta. 649 00:42:23,220 --> 00:42:26,620 ~ KNOCK ON DOOR ~ Nurse? Is everything all right? 650 00:42:30,820 --> 00:42:33,420 BABY CRIES 651 00:42:36,460 --> 00:42:40,180 Look at her. Now, wasn't she worth all that hard work? 652 00:42:41,660 --> 00:42:43,650 Aren't you...? 653 00:42:43,700 --> 00:42:45,500 Aren't you just? 654 00:42:50,140 --> 00:42:53,050 ~ I thought I was going to lose her. ~ No. 655 00:42:53,100 --> 00:42:55,810 Let us give thanks to the Lord, our God. 656 00:42:55,860 --> 00:42:59,450 I'm going to have a thank you list as long as my arm. 657 00:42:59,500 --> 00:43:03,530 I looked straight past you when you opened the door - 658 00:43:03,580 --> 00:43:06,980 ~ I shouldn't have. ~ Oh, it's no matter. 659 00:43:08,140 --> 00:43:11,770 I've been struggling for a name for this little madam. 660 00:43:11,820 --> 00:43:13,690 Everything I liked, 661 00:43:13,740 --> 00:43:17,420 I heard being yelled out in the street by somebody else's mother. 662 00:43:18,980 --> 00:43:22,020 I want something... special. 663 00:43:24,140 --> 00:43:26,020 Like er... 664 00:43:27,540 --> 00:43:30,050 Yours might do the trick... 665 00:43:30,100 --> 00:43:32,250 as long as we drop the Joan. 666 00:43:32,300 --> 00:43:36,130 I had an aunt called Joan - I couldn't stand her. 667 00:43:36,180 --> 00:43:39,050 You're going to call the baby Monica? 668 00:43:43,820 --> 00:43:45,760 It is an honour... 669 00:43:48,900 --> 00:43:50,610 .. unearned. 670 00:43:50,660 --> 00:43:52,650 No, it ain't. 671 00:43:52,700 --> 00:43:55,300 It goes lovely with her surname. 672 00:43:56,500 --> 00:43:58,420 Don't it? 673 00:43:59,740 --> 00:44:02,660 Miss Monica Anne Bowe. 674 00:44:10,980 --> 00:44:14,330 I was hoping the injection of Ergometrine would do the job, 675 00:44:14,380 --> 00:44:17,690 but the placenta doesn't seem to want to come. 676 00:44:17,740 --> 00:44:20,290 What's happening in there? Is everything all right? 677 00:44:20,340 --> 00:44:22,890 Don't tell him it's a girl, not yet, 678 00:44:22,940 --> 00:44:24,610 please! 679 00:44:24,660 --> 00:44:26,050 I won't, 680 00:44:26,100 --> 00:44:27,890 I promise. 681 00:44:27,940 --> 00:44:30,810 But I do need to speak to him, Susan. 682 00:44:37,340 --> 00:44:41,490 ~ You need to make a telephone call, Mr Robbins. ~ What's going on? 683 00:44:41,540 --> 00:44:45,660 Call Dr Turner and tell him that your wife has a retained placenta. 684 00:44:51,460 --> 00:44:54,370 The ambulance will take you to the hospital, Mrs Robbins. 685 00:44:54,420 --> 00:44:56,450 They'll take good care of you there. 686 00:44:56,500 --> 00:44:58,810 She'll be all right, won't she? 687 00:44:58,860 --> 00:45:00,690 They'll give her a general anaesthetic. 688 00:45:00,740 --> 00:45:04,290 Everything will be easier once she's there. 689 00:45:04,340 --> 00:45:06,370 And the baby? 690 00:45:06,420 --> 00:45:08,020 Is it a boy? 691 00:45:09,460 --> 00:45:11,370 Tell me, what is it? 692 00:45:11,420 --> 00:45:14,660 You have a very beautiful baby daughter, Mr Robbins. 693 00:45:21,140 --> 00:45:24,410 Frank, please... 694 00:45:24,460 --> 00:45:27,730 Just look at her, at least. 695 00:45:27,780 --> 00:45:29,780 Frank... 696 00:45:34,740 --> 00:45:38,290 How could you turn your back on your own newborn daughter? 697 00:45:38,340 --> 00:45:39,610 Are you listening to me? 698 00:45:39,660 --> 00:45:42,050 Nurse Gilbert, I'm going to drive you home. 699 00:45:42,100 --> 00:45:43,930 He can't treat his wife like that! 700 00:45:43,980 --> 00:45:46,970 You have had a long and exhausting day. 701 00:45:47,020 --> 00:45:49,650 We can collect your bicycle in the morning. 702 00:45:49,700 --> 00:45:52,800 There is nothing more for you to do here. 703 00:46:14,340 --> 00:46:18,610 The London called, about booking in Mrs Robbins. 704 00:46:18,660 --> 00:46:22,450 They told me that you and not Nurse Franklin were the nurse attending. 705 00:46:22,500 --> 00:46:26,890 ~ Sorry, Sister. ~ You didn't help the problem by hiding it. 706 00:46:26,940 --> 00:46:29,530 APPROACHING VOICES 707 00:46:29,580 --> 00:46:33,130 There's no need for anyone else to know about this. 708 00:46:33,180 --> 00:46:35,890 You look exhausted. 709 00:46:35,940 --> 00:46:38,210 Go and get some rest. 710 00:46:38,260 --> 00:46:41,130 I'll get Nurse Franklin into her bed. 711 00:46:42,940 --> 00:46:46,130 From a grand total of ten deliveries, 712 00:46:46,180 --> 00:46:50,770 which I'm reliably informed is the most in one day since 1957... 713 00:46:50,820 --> 00:46:52,330 GASPS 714 00:46:52,380 --> 00:46:56,490 .. Sister Winifred delivered two. I also delivered two - twins. 715 00:46:56,540 --> 00:47:00,170 Sister Julienne and Nurse Mount only managed one each. 716 00:47:00,220 --> 00:47:04,450 ~ GIGGLES ~ But an exhausting three babies, all girls, 717 00:47:04,500 --> 00:47:07,050 were brought into the world by Nurse Gilbert. 718 00:47:07,100 --> 00:47:09,050 ~ THEY APPLAUD ~ Oh, bravo! 719 00:47:09,100 --> 00:47:11,970 Not forgetting our very own Sister Monica Joan, 720 00:47:12,020 --> 00:47:15,130 who so ably assisted Mrs Turner. 721 00:47:15,180 --> 00:47:17,170 ~ Hurray! ~ Hurray! THEY APPLAUD 722 00:47:17,220 --> 00:47:20,330 Although, I do seem to have forgotten Nurse Franklin. 723 00:47:20,380 --> 00:47:24,210 ~ Where's she disappeared to now? ~ She's upstairs, resting. 724 00:47:24,260 --> 00:47:27,010 A little under the weather. 725 00:47:27,060 --> 00:47:32,380 The way Mrs Turner tells the tale, all credit goes to you, Sister. 726 00:47:33,420 --> 00:47:37,970 But now, it's time everyone went up to their beds. 727 00:47:38,020 --> 00:47:40,220 Tomorrow is another day. 728 00:47:48,340 --> 00:47:50,500 Thank you. 729 00:48:01,900 --> 00:48:05,810 The perineum was intact and there was minimal blood loss. 730 00:48:05,860 --> 00:48:10,210 But Patrick, I was so nervous. I still can't believe I did it. 731 00:48:10,260 --> 00:48:13,130 I can! You were always the most accomplished 732 00:48:13,180 --> 00:48:15,210 midwife at Nonnatus House. 733 00:48:15,260 --> 00:48:19,450 ~ Skills like that don't just vanish when you retire. ~ I suppose not. 734 00:48:19,500 --> 00:48:22,770 It was as though everything I'd ever learned or known was 735 00:48:22,820 --> 00:48:25,370 there at the flick of a switch. 736 00:48:25,420 --> 00:48:28,250 I sometimes think you're wasted as my receptionist. 737 00:48:28,300 --> 00:48:29,730 No, I'm not. 738 00:48:29,780 --> 00:48:33,370 When I let somebody else take over your office you were in utter 739 00:48:33,420 --> 00:48:35,370 chaos within weeks. 740 00:48:35,420 --> 00:48:39,690 There are plenty of other midwives in the world. 741 00:48:39,740 --> 00:48:42,940 But I only have... one wife. 742 00:48:51,900 --> 00:48:54,850 This, Angela, is them doing their mushy stuff. 743 00:48:54,900 --> 00:48:57,640 You really need to get used to it. 744 00:49:04,540 --> 00:49:08,780 I feel foolish and so selfish for what I did last night. 745 00:49:10,420 --> 00:49:14,290 A few days ago, it felt like everything was in place. 746 00:49:14,340 --> 00:49:18,250 I'm sure things are not as terrible as you might feel they are. 747 00:49:18,300 --> 00:49:20,690 The wedding was all planned. 748 00:49:20,740 --> 00:49:23,900 The Bishop was delighted with what Tom was doing. 749 00:49:25,180 --> 00:49:27,520 Tom's a good committed man. 750 00:49:28,500 --> 00:49:30,650 And what am I? 751 00:49:30,700 --> 00:49:34,050 Nurse Franklin, you make a great contribution to our work - 752 00:49:34,100 --> 00:49:36,890 one slip cannot alter that. 753 00:49:36,940 --> 00:49:38,610 Perhaps he's right. 754 00:49:38,660 --> 00:49:41,960 Perhaps I'd never make a good curate's wife. 755 00:49:43,100 --> 00:49:47,370 I'd never had a row with him before about anything... 756 00:49:47,420 --> 00:49:48,960 not really. 757 00:49:50,540 --> 00:49:55,810 Felt like it was all starting to fall apart. 758 00:49:55,860 --> 00:49:57,600 I had a drink. 759 00:49:58,540 --> 00:50:00,620 Then I couldn't stop. 760 00:50:03,620 --> 00:50:06,290 I used to hear my father telling the whole world 761 00:50:06,340 --> 00:50:08,690 he didn't have a problem with drink. 762 00:50:08,740 --> 00:50:12,370 ~ Have you spoken to Mr Hereward about this? ~ No. 763 00:50:12,420 --> 00:50:14,890 Please. He mustn't find out. 764 00:50:14,940 --> 00:50:18,010 Are you sure that's how you want your marriage to begin - 765 00:50:18,060 --> 00:50:21,170 with a deception, a secret? 766 00:50:21,220 --> 00:50:24,860 He won't want to marry me if he found out. What man would? 767 00:50:26,460 --> 00:50:28,770 Think very carefully. 768 00:50:28,820 --> 00:50:32,620 A secret can be a very corrosive thing between a man and wife. 769 00:50:37,020 --> 00:50:39,490 She's such a beautiful thing. 770 00:50:40,740 --> 00:50:43,770 I can see she has Frank's eyes. 771 00:50:43,820 --> 00:50:47,420 When she smiles, she's a Robbins, she really is. 772 00:50:51,060 --> 00:50:55,010 Oh, he's driving me mad, him and his stupid promise. 773 00:50:55,060 --> 00:50:57,890 Mr Robbins lost his father and two brothers in the war. 774 00:50:57,940 --> 00:51:01,250 He made a promise to their memory that a son of his would 775 00:51:01,300 --> 00:51:03,090 carry on the family name. 776 00:51:03,140 --> 00:51:05,370 He'll come round, Susan. 777 00:51:05,420 --> 00:51:08,250 He's not even held her. 778 00:51:08,300 --> 00:51:12,530 He's hardly even looked at her, his own daughter. 779 00:51:12,580 --> 00:51:16,570 Mrs Robbins, it won't do your health any good to allow yourself to 780 00:51:16,620 --> 00:51:18,530 get so anxious about this. 781 00:51:18,580 --> 00:51:21,450 I keep looking at the suitcase on the top of that wardrobe 782 00:51:21,500 --> 00:51:25,170 and I keep thinking, "Will I come home one day to find my 783 00:51:25,220 --> 00:51:28,770 "things are packed and him telling me he doesn't want to see her?" 784 00:51:28,820 --> 00:51:30,760 Of course he won't. 785 00:51:34,820 --> 00:51:37,560 I can't apologise for the Bishop... 786 00:51:38,420 --> 00:51:42,130 .. or his plans for a parish for me in Newcastle. 787 00:51:42,180 --> 00:51:45,650 I know that, now. 788 00:51:45,700 --> 00:51:47,850 Then, what? 789 00:51:47,900 --> 00:51:53,010 ~ You were right to say that I wouldn't make a good wife. ~ I didn't say that. 790 00:51:53,060 --> 00:51:56,690 To be a curate's wife is a challenging thing. I... 791 00:51:56,740 --> 00:51:58,940 I wanted you to be sure. 792 00:52:00,700 --> 00:52:02,420 And I'm not. 793 00:52:05,180 --> 00:52:06,780 Tom... 794 00:52:08,100 --> 00:52:10,410 .. the truth is, 795 00:52:10,460 --> 00:52:13,540 I can't live up to what you and the Church expect of me. 796 00:52:17,500 --> 00:52:20,780 And so I can't keep the promise that this ring represents. 797 00:52:25,500 --> 00:52:27,840 Trixie, what are you doing? 798 00:52:57,460 --> 00:52:59,780 Trixie... 799 00:53:03,540 --> 00:53:05,260 Trixie! 800 00:53:10,100 --> 00:53:11,970 Bridget? 801 00:53:12,020 --> 00:53:14,130 ~ Is everything all right? ~ Oh. 802 00:53:14,180 --> 00:53:15,890 Look at me. 803 00:53:15,940 --> 00:53:18,740 I'm crying every time I look at her. 804 00:53:19,380 --> 00:53:21,920 She's a beautiful little girl. 805 00:53:22,380 --> 00:53:25,010 I'm glad to hear, so far, she seems healthy. 806 00:53:25,060 --> 00:53:28,340 I am the luckiest mummy in the world, aren't I? 807 00:53:34,060 --> 00:53:36,370 And when this little girl grows up? 808 00:53:36,420 --> 00:53:38,090 Will she follow in the family business? 809 00:53:38,140 --> 00:53:41,570 Are you here to tell me off, or to check on my baby? 810 00:53:41,620 --> 00:53:43,160 I'm sorry. 811 00:53:44,060 --> 00:53:47,610 I'm glad to hear your treatment's working, too. 812 00:53:47,660 --> 00:53:50,290 I owe you a lot, Sister. 813 00:53:50,340 --> 00:53:51,770 Thank you. 814 00:53:51,820 --> 00:53:54,360 You could do something for me. 815 00:53:55,100 --> 00:53:59,060 You could help stop what happened to you happening to the other girls. 816 00:54:08,660 --> 00:54:12,260 I'm not so fond of paperwork either, Mr Robbins. 817 00:54:13,020 --> 00:54:15,050 Doctor. 818 00:54:15,100 --> 00:54:17,090 My wife send you? 819 00:54:17,140 --> 00:54:21,210 ~ Did she tell you I was being a terrible father? ~ No. 820 00:54:21,260 --> 00:54:24,000 I came because I'm a father myself. 821 00:54:24,460 --> 00:54:26,650 Good for you. 822 00:54:26,700 --> 00:54:28,170 Any sons? 823 00:54:29,140 --> 00:54:31,090 One. 824 00:54:31,140 --> 00:54:34,330 And I promised his mother, before she died, 825 00:54:34,380 --> 00:54:36,850 I would always keep him safe. 826 00:54:39,180 --> 00:54:42,100 I'm sorry... for your loss... 827 00:54:43,740 --> 00:54:46,170 .. but this isn't your business. 828 00:54:46,220 --> 00:54:49,250 Last year, he was almost taken from me... 829 00:54:49,300 --> 00:54:50,770 by polio. 830 00:54:51,860 --> 00:54:55,540 So, you see, I know a bit about family promises. 831 00:54:56,540 --> 00:54:58,770 I've let my father down. 832 00:54:58,820 --> 00:55:01,330 By your own measure, yes. 833 00:55:01,380 --> 00:55:03,610 But do you really think your father would care 834 00:55:03,660 --> 00:55:05,490 more for the sign above this door 835 00:55:05,540 --> 00:55:08,280 than the happiness of your family? 836 00:55:08,700 --> 00:55:10,770 About his grandchild? 837 00:55:11,620 --> 00:55:14,650 I needed a son... 838 00:55:14,700 --> 00:55:16,010 not a girl. 839 00:55:16,060 --> 00:55:18,600 Times are changing, Mr Robbins. 840 00:55:19,260 --> 00:55:22,260 There are women in Parliament, already. 841 00:55:22,740 --> 00:55:25,210 By the time the two of us are in the ground, 842 00:55:25,260 --> 00:55:28,000 this world will be unrecognisable. 843 00:55:31,740 --> 00:55:35,170 We have to be proud of our children... 844 00:55:35,220 --> 00:55:37,960 and give them all the love we have. 845 00:55:40,340 --> 00:55:43,370 Your daughter needs you. 846 00:55:43,420 --> 00:55:44,960 Go to her. 847 00:55:45,780 --> 00:55:48,050 Be a proud father to her. 848 00:56:11,900 --> 00:56:14,060 BABY STIRS 849 00:56:52,340 --> 00:56:54,540 That's your grandfather. 850 00:56:55,180 --> 00:56:57,970 He taught me everything I know about cables, 851 00:56:58,020 --> 00:56:59,960 yarns and hawsers. 852 00:57:00,860 --> 00:57:03,820 No rope, no Navy. 853 00:57:05,340 --> 00:57:07,280 No Navy, no Empire. 854 00:57:09,660 --> 00:57:13,060 My grandfather used to say that to me when... 855 00:57:21,860 --> 00:57:25,300 I thought it was time to tell my daughter how important this place is... 856 00:57:30,580 --> 00:57:32,520 .. for our family. 857 00:57:33,500 --> 00:57:36,610 Big smile, and... 858 00:57:36,660 --> 00:57:41,010 'The longest nights are seldom seen approaching. 859 00:57:41,060 --> 00:57:44,650 'The storms may not be heard until they break, 860 00:57:44,700 --> 00:57:46,610 'like life itself. 861 00:57:46,660 --> 00:57:50,100 'Challenges and change are there to be confronted... 862 00:57:51,100 --> 00:57:55,090 '.. and we must weather them - alone or together, 863 00:57:55,140 --> 00:57:57,970 'watching for the sunlight 864 00:57:58,020 --> 00:58:00,380 'and waiting for the dawn.' 865 00:58:08,940 --> 00:58:10,730 Hello. 866 00:58:10,780 --> 00:58:12,330 Can I help? 867 00:58:12,380 --> 00:58:14,290 She doesn't speak English. 868 00:58:14,340 --> 00:58:17,490 This is a happy day, Sister Mary Cynthia. 869 00:58:17,540 --> 00:58:18,730 Welcome home. 870 00:58:18,780 --> 00:58:21,130 I'm not sure it's a good idea, Patrick. 871 00:58:21,180 --> 00:58:23,210 You're looking terribly tired as it is. 872 00:58:23,260 --> 00:58:26,090 We can help with the birth and after - all free. 873 00:58:26,140 --> 00:58:28,890 Oh, sorry, can you translate all that? 874 00:58:28,940 --> 00:58:30,210 Of course! 875 00:58:30,260 --> 00:58:33,210 It's like something you could see after a car accident, 876 00:58:33,260 --> 00:58:36,460 or some other great force, such as an assault.