0:00:02 > 0:00:04- If you've got a mum, why are you here?- She didn't care about me.
0:00:04 > 0:00:06And I don't care about her.
0:00:06 > 0:00:08So read it.
0:00:08 > 0:00:10Maybe you'll get a reason why.
0:00:11 > 0:00:13What's your mum doing under your bed?
0:00:13 > 0:00:14She died.
0:00:14 > 0:00:16I'm Amy.
0:00:16 > 0:00:17Your sister.
0:01:32 > 0:01:33We've done it!
0:01:33 > 0:01:36We've conquered the north face of the mighty Glambrin,
0:01:36 > 0:01:38the island's only mountain.
0:01:38 > 0:01:42It's not a mountain. It's a hill. Anyone can see that.
0:01:42 > 0:01:44OK, yeah, it is.
0:01:44 > 0:01:47But it's only 165 centimetres short of official mountain status,
0:01:47 > 0:01:50so, if we stand on our tiptoes...
0:01:54 > 0:01:56We are now at mountain height.
0:01:56 > 0:02:00Well, me, you and Brandon are, but these three aren't.
0:02:00 > 0:02:04They're not big enough. Strictly speaking, they're still hill level.
0:02:04 > 0:02:06That doesn't matter.
0:02:06 > 0:02:08The only important thing is this -
0:02:08 > 0:02:10today, the six of us were
0:02:10 > 0:02:13the first people in history to reach this point.
0:02:13 > 0:02:15So breathe in the air, guys.
0:02:15 > 0:02:18For no-one hath ever breathed it before.
0:02:18 > 0:02:20"Hath"?
0:02:20 > 0:02:22How can we be the first people in history
0:02:22 > 0:02:24when a postman comes up here every single day?
0:02:28 > 0:02:31- Ugh, Rocket!- Fine.
0:02:31 > 0:02:32Maybe we're not 100%,
0:02:32 > 0:02:36definitely the first people to have reached this point then.
0:02:36 > 0:02:37But there's no way anyone would come
0:02:37 > 0:02:39all the way up here to post something.
0:02:39 > 0:02:42And if they did, no postman would be collecting it.
0:02:42 > 0:02:44Well, it must be here for a reason.
0:02:44 > 0:02:46Yeah. And we need to find out what.
0:02:51 > 0:02:52Ah!
0:02:52 > 0:02:54That postbox isn't just any postbox,
0:02:54 > 0:02:59it's a postbox that allows you to correspond with anyone from history.
0:02:59 > 0:03:02The people of the island used to call it Mountain Post.
0:03:02 > 0:03:05If you wrote a letter to any historical figure
0:03:05 > 0:03:09and posted it there, you always got a reply.
0:03:09 > 0:03:12But, Grandad, we ARE going to need proof.
0:03:12 > 0:03:14Fine, I've plenty!
0:03:14 > 0:03:19I used to get regular advice from a certain Mr Julius Caesar for years.
0:03:20 > 0:03:24Yeah, right. And I'm getting texts off Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.
0:03:24 > 0:03:29Exhibit One. You need a working knowledge of Latin to appreciate
0:03:29 > 0:03:34JC's jottings, but trust me, they're chock full of words of wisdom.
0:03:34 > 0:03:38Why don't you let yourself believe, hmm? Just for a day.
0:03:41 > 0:03:42Anyone?
0:03:42 > 0:03:43Anyone.
0:03:44 > 0:03:46Dead or alive?
0:03:47 > 0:03:48I'm going to try it.
0:03:51 > 0:03:54You lot are soft in the head, you're not going to get a reply.
0:03:54 > 0:03:57You know why? Because it's one of his made-up stories.
0:03:59 > 0:04:02I'm going to write to Winston Churchill.
0:04:02 > 0:04:04Winston Churchill? Why?
0:04:05 > 0:04:09Well, they say he's basically the greatest Briton who ever lived.
0:04:09 > 0:04:11And that's what I want to be one day.
0:04:11 > 0:04:13So I really need to pick his brains.
0:04:20 > 0:04:22I need your help.
0:04:22 > 0:04:24I'm writing a letter.
0:04:24 > 0:04:25Who to?
0:04:28 > 0:04:29My mum.
0:04:34 > 0:04:35What's that?
0:04:35 > 0:04:38It's my new favourite TV channel, W2TV.
0:04:38 > 0:04:40W2?
0:04:40 > 0:04:43Wayne II. I attached a camera to his collar
0:04:43 > 0:04:47so I can see the world from his point of view, 24/7.
0:04:47 > 0:04:50"Dear...Mr...Churchill..."
0:04:52 > 0:04:53Ugh.
0:04:53 > 0:04:55"Yo, Winnie!"
0:04:56 > 0:04:57I won't ask.
0:04:58 > 0:05:01Hey, I thought of a great way to show your dad
0:05:01 > 0:05:05that your days of getting into trouble are long gone.
0:05:05 > 0:05:09- I've doubled all your chores. - This is an outrage!
0:05:09 > 0:05:14And when you can do all of this without any fuss or complaints,
0:05:14 > 0:05:17then your dad'll know that the next time somebody comes to stay
0:05:17 > 0:05:20he won't need to worry about the effect it has on you lot.
0:05:22 > 0:05:24- DIBBER:- Ahhh!
0:05:24 > 0:05:29When I kick back tonight with a hot bath and some essential oils,
0:05:29 > 0:05:31I'll really feel terrible for you guys.
0:05:32 > 0:05:34Izzy, you're up first.
0:05:34 > 0:05:36You're not to leave the house today.
0:05:36 > 0:05:39You have to clean and dust...
0:05:39 > 0:05:41FRONT DOOR CLOSES
0:05:41 > 0:05:42Izzy!
0:05:42 > 0:05:44This is NOT going to end well.
0:05:47 > 0:05:49Made out like I weren't interested.
0:05:51 > 0:05:54But just imagine if it really worked.
0:05:54 > 0:05:57I've got so many questions about stuff.
0:05:57 > 0:05:59I might actually get the answers to them.
0:06:01 > 0:06:03- Brandon...- What?
0:06:03 > 0:06:04She's...
0:06:04 > 0:06:06Dead or alive. That's what he said.
0:06:06 > 0:06:08He also said he's 997.
0:06:08 > 0:06:11Well, maybe he is. Weird stuff does happen, doesn't it?
0:06:12 > 0:06:14Amazing stuff.
0:06:19 > 0:06:22Look, I couldn't write a whole letter myself.
0:06:22 > 0:06:24It'd take me forever.
0:06:25 > 0:06:28And I don't want any of the others doing it.
0:06:30 > 0:06:31So will you?
0:06:37 > 0:06:39No.
0:06:40 > 0:06:43People from the past can't help you.
0:06:43 > 0:06:45Only those in the here and now can.
0:06:51 > 0:06:52Brandon!
0:06:52 > 0:06:54Brandon, your phone!
0:06:56 > 0:06:58SMALL BELL CHIMES
0:07:01 > 0:07:04What are you doing? You heard what my mum just said.
0:07:04 > 0:07:06What? What did she say?
0:07:07 > 0:07:10If we get in trouble again, any of us,
0:07:10 > 0:07:14then there won't be any more kids coming to The Knot after we're gone.
0:07:15 > 0:07:18- So?- Imagine if the kids who'd been here a few years ago
0:07:18 > 0:07:20had thought that? Eh?
0:07:20 > 0:07:23There wouldn't be a you, and there wouldn't be a me.
0:07:23 > 0:07:26And I don't know how happy you were before you came here,
0:07:26 > 0:07:30but there's nowhere else I'd rather be.
0:07:30 > 0:07:34You need to make sure everything on that rota gets done.
0:07:34 > 0:07:35We all do.
0:07:35 > 0:07:39This is our chance to show Dad that everything's fine again.
0:07:39 > 0:07:41OK?
0:08:02 > 0:08:04Are you lot idiots?
0:08:04 > 0:08:07- Telling Brandon to write to his mum? - We didn't.
0:08:07 > 0:08:09He can't do that.
0:08:09 > 0:08:12Grandad didn't actually mean people that he'd met,
0:08:12 > 0:08:15or been around really recently.
0:08:15 > 0:08:17What if he gets a reply?
0:08:17 > 0:08:20- We need to do something. - I'll ring him.
0:08:20 > 0:08:21I wouldn't bother.
0:08:24 > 0:08:25Brandon!
0:08:25 > 0:08:30Just missed him. Went out a few minutes ago.
0:08:30 > 0:08:31- Where?- Erm...
0:08:31 > 0:08:34Said something about going back up a mountain?
0:08:39 > 0:08:40Maybe we've beaten him to it.
0:08:42 > 0:08:45No, you haven't.
0:08:45 > 0:08:46It's posted now.
0:08:46 > 0:08:49All I've got to do is wait and see if I get anything back.
0:08:52 > 0:08:53Well...
0:08:53 > 0:08:55if he's in...
0:08:55 > 0:08:56then so am I.
0:08:58 > 0:09:00Don't let me down, Winston.
0:09:19 > 0:09:21(Izzy!)
0:09:25 > 0:09:26ROOSTER CROWS
0:09:26 > 0:09:30He's been there for 17 minutes, and I don't think he's blinked once.
0:09:30 > 0:09:32LETTERBOX OPENS
0:09:38 > 0:09:40P Boulsworth.
0:09:40 > 0:09:43S Boulsworth...
0:09:43 > 0:09:44P Boulsworth.
0:09:46 > 0:09:48I'm sorry, mate.
0:09:48 > 0:09:50No, you're not.
0:09:50 > 0:09:52Because for the first time,
0:09:52 > 0:09:54I believed in something more than you did.
0:09:54 > 0:09:57I didn't treat it as a joke.
0:09:57 > 0:09:58Now I'm one.
0:10:00 > 0:10:02So, yeah, go on.
0:10:02 > 0:10:03Have a good laugh.
0:10:13 > 0:10:15It'll be OK.
0:10:15 > 0:10:16Oh, will it?
0:10:16 > 0:10:21Me mum's gone, and I can't ever speak to her again.
0:10:21 > 0:10:22What are you doing?
0:10:24 > 0:10:27- Brandon, where are you going? - I'm off to Wish-cave.
0:10:39 > 0:10:41Where's Brandon?
0:10:42 > 0:10:45What's wrong?
0:10:45 > 0:10:48If you can't say it, draw it.
0:10:48 > 0:10:49Sorry, one more.
0:10:51 > 0:10:52B Kelleher.
0:10:52 > 0:10:55OK, thanks.
0:11:04 > 0:11:05Hey, Izzy!
0:11:07 > 0:11:08Don't worry, we'll sort it.
0:11:19 > 0:11:20Brandon, don't!
0:11:20 > 0:11:21What?
0:11:22 > 0:11:25We thought you were going to set fire to the cave.
0:11:25 > 0:11:26As if.
0:11:28 > 0:11:31Just wanted to light a candle for me mum, that's all.
0:11:31 > 0:11:32I'm always going to wish
0:11:32 > 0:11:35I'd got in touch with her when I could've done.
0:11:36 > 0:11:38It's too late now, isn't it?
0:11:38 > 0:11:40Is it?
0:11:42 > 0:11:43This came for you.
0:11:52 > 0:11:53"Love always, Mum."
0:12:00 > 0:12:01I didn't want you to do it
0:12:01 > 0:12:04in case it said something you didn't want to hear.
0:12:04 > 0:12:08Now you know how proud she is of you, how you turned your life around.
0:12:08 > 0:12:10Have...
0:12:10 > 0:12:14Have any of you done this? Because if you have, it's not funny.
0:12:15 > 0:12:17Why don't you write to her again?
0:12:17 > 0:12:20Ask her something only she could know?
0:12:20 > 0:12:22That'd sort it out.
0:12:22 > 0:12:24SCHOOL BELL
0:12:31 > 0:12:32Dibber!
0:12:32 > 0:12:35That's the worst advice ever.
0:12:35 > 0:12:37- Now he's going to realise it's all a con.- Eh?
0:12:37 > 0:12:40You don't think it's someone we know, do you?
0:12:40 > 0:12:43Yeah, I do.
0:12:43 > 0:12:45And I know who.
0:12:58 > 0:13:00Do you have any idea what you're doing?
0:13:00 > 0:13:03When Brandon finds out it's not really his mum,
0:13:03 > 0:13:04it could undo everything.
0:13:04 > 0:13:07And Peter and Sarah are going to go absolutely mad.
0:13:07 > 0:13:11- There are some things you just don't mess with.- Wait.
0:13:11 > 0:13:12Just let her speak.
0:13:15 > 0:13:18I've asked what my favourite toy was when I were little.
0:13:18 > 0:13:20No-one else on the island knows that.
0:13:20 > 0:13:23Brilliant! Post it, quick!
0:13:36 > 0:13:38ROOSTER CROWS
0:13:56 > 0:13:57KNOCK ON DOOR
0:14:01 > 0:14:02It wouldn't fit.
0:14:23 > 0:14:25Why would you do it again?
0:14:25 > 0:14:28It's only going to make everything a trillion times worse.
0:14:28 > 0:14:31I mean, you don't even know the answer to Brandon's question,
0:14:31 > 0:14:32so why would you keep it going?
0:14:32 > 0:14:35You thought it were her?
0:14:36 > 0:14:38It's not. Look!
0:14:39 > 0:14:43She hasn't just answered my question, she sent it.
0:14:44 > 0:14:48My kaleidoscope, with my initial still on the side.
0:14:48 > 0:14:51I haven't even seen it myself since I went into care.
0:14:51 > 0:14:53Mountain Post works.
0:14:56 > 0:14:57It works.
0:15:02 > 0:15:04We're sorry.
0:15:04 > 0:15:05Where were you going though?
0:15:05 > 0:15:08When I saw you sneaking out of the house?
0:15:10 > 0:15:14You said we had to make sure everything on the rota got done.
0:15:14 > 0:15:18- Yeah?- Well, ever since Brandon heard about Mountain Post,
0:15:18 > 0:15:22he hadn't done a thing. So I've been doing all his chores for him.
0:15:22 > 0:15:27See? Brandon's right - his mum is really writing to him.
0:15:29 > 0:15:31What did you just say?
0:15:39 > 0:15:42You...have gone too far this time.
0:15:42 > 0:15:45Your Mountain Post story's had some interesting results -
0:15:45 > 0:15:47Brandon's started writing to his mum,
0:15:47 > 0:15:49and he reckons he's getting replies.
0:15:49 > 0:15:50What?
0:15:50 > 0:15:52I thought I made it quite clear
0:15:52 > 0:15:55it must only be used on people of historical achievements.
0:15:55 > 0:15:58- This isn't funny. - Who says he's joking?
0:16:02 > 0:16:04This is a letter that I got from the Mountain Post.
0:16:04 > 0:16:08And this is the one that I got from me mum when she was still alive.
0:16:08 > 0:16:11Look, the handwriting is exactly the same.
0:16:15 > 0:16:17It's my mum, I know it is.
0:16:17 > 0:16:20This is so unfair, I still haven't had a peep out of Winston.
0:16:20 > 0:16:24- That handwriting is the same! - So what are you waiting for?
0:16:25 > 0:16:27Why aren't you writing to her right now?
0:16:33 > 0:16:36- What are you doing? - Look, it's simple.
0:16:37 > 0:16:42Either Mountain Post is collected by a bird or a cloud of something,
0:16:42 > 0:16:43or it's someone we know.
0:16:44 > 0:16:48All we need to do is tune in to W2TV.
0:17:16 > 0:17:19That's it, lad! Well done.
0:17:22 > 0:17:24This is never going to work.
0:17:24 > 0:17:25Course it is.
0:17:27 > 0:17:30Hey, someone's there!
0:17:30 > 0:17:31Who is it?
0:17:32 > 0:17:33Look up, boy.
0:17:33 > 0:17:35Look up!
0:17:53 > 0:17:55DOG BARKS
0:17:55 > 0:17:57Wayne II? What are you doing here?
0:18:02 > 0:18:03Get in.
0:18:03 > 0:18:05Why?
0:18:06 > 0:18:09It was Alli behind the letters.
0:18:09 > 0:18:10No, it wasn't.
0:18:11 > 0:18:14It's my mum's handwriting.
0:18:14 > 0:18:15And it's my kaleidoscope.
0:18:17 > 0:18:20- How could Alli have done that? - We don't know.
0:18:20 > 0:18:22But she does.
0:18:22 > 0:18:25And according to W2TV, she's heading for the village.
0:18:32 > 0:18:34Hey, you do NOT get on that bus!
0:18:35 > 0:18:39- JADE:- We know it was you, Alli, writing the letters.- It wasn't.
0:18:39 > 0:18:41ROCKET: Why are you running away then?
0:18:41 > 0:18:43Just come to meet someone, that's all.
0:18:43 > 0:18:44Who?
0:18:47 > 0:18:48I thought that...
0:18:48 > 0:18:52If you had a ton of questions about when you were little and stuff,
0:18:52 > 0:18:55there was someone in the here and now who could answer them.
0:18:55 > 0:18:57And sometimes only a big sister will do.
0:19:03 > 0:19:06All I did was get Amy's number from your phone
0:19:06 > 0:19:09and see if she'd talk to you.
0:19:09 > 0:19:10It's not Alli's fault.
0:19:10 > 0:19:13I asked her to get the letters and read them to me.
0:19:13 > 0:19:16It was my choice to reply in the way that I did.
0:19:16 > 0:19:19As soon as I realised how far it had gone,
0:19:19 > 0:19:21I told her that she had to come over.
0:19:21 > 0:19:23And tell you the truth.
0:19:24 > 0:19:28I actually believed that me mum could still write to me.
0:19:28 > 0:19:29Be proud of me.
0:19:30 > 0:19:34- How dumb am I?- But she did!
0:19:34 > 0:19:35She is and she did.
0:19:37 > 0:19:39So that's just it -
0:19:39 > 0:19:41your mum's not you think, Bran.
0:19:41 > 0:19:43Your mum's...
0:19:45 > 0:19:46..me.
0:20:02 > 0:20:03When I had you...
0:20:06 > 0:20:07..I wasn't ready to be a mum.
0:20:10 > 0:20:12I didn't know what to do, so...
0:20:15 > 0:20:17..I left you with your nan and ran.
0:20:19 > 0:20:23You know, I've been to college and uni.
0:20:23 > 0:20:25And I've done things I never thought I could do.
0:20:27 > 0:20:29But I can't undo leaving you.
0:20:30 > 0:20:32I wish I could.
0:20:32 > 0:20:36Why didn't you just tell me at my birthday when you came?
0:20:37 > 0:20:40I saw how amazingly you were doing.
0:20:41 > 0:20:42I didn't want to mess that up.
0:20:45 > 0:20:49It was only when Alli read those letters to me that I thought, maybe,
0:20:49 > 0:20:51you might want a mum after all.
0:20:53 > 0:20:55And if you do, you've got one.
0:20:57 > 0:21:01And if you want to come and live with me on the mainland...
0:21:01 > 0:21:04I mean, we've got a lot of catching up to do.
0:21:16 > 0:21:18This were mine, you know.
0:21:23 > 0:21:25I scratched the B on it.
0:21:25 > 0:21:28And I gave it to you the day I left.
0:21:31 > 0:21:32And Mum always kept it.
0:21:35 > 0:21:36Even when you'd gone.
0:21:55 > 0:21:59She's asked me if I want to go and live with her.
0:22:00 > 0:22:02But how can I?
0:22:02 > 0:22:04After everything that everyone's done for me?
0:22:06 > 0:22:09I couldn't leave you lot, even if I wanted to.
0:22:12 > 0:22:13But...you could.
0:22:15 > 0:22:19No-one's meant to spend their whole lives here.
0:22:19 > 0:22:20That's not how it works.
0:22:20 > 0:22:25The Knot looks after us when we haven't got no-one else, doesn't it?
0:22:27 > 0:22:28You have now.
0:22:28 > 0:22:30If that's what you want.
0:22:31 > 0:22:34It's not like we couldn't stay in touch.
0:22:34 > 0:22:37It doesn't matter where you go,
0:22:37 > 0:22:40Knot kids are Knot kids forever.
0:23:01 > 0:23:02What is it?
0:23:02 > 0:23:04I know I can't leave here yet,
0:23:04 > 0:23:07but next time you leave, I want to leave with you.
0:23:08 > 0:23:09How come?
0:23:11 > 0:23:13Because you're my mum.
0:23:13 > 0:23:15ENGINE STARTS
0:23:34 > 0:23:36SMALL BELL CHIMES
0:23:36 > 0:23:38There's something I don't get.
0:23:41 > 0:23:45Why didn't you say it wasn't you writing the letters when I asked you?
0:23:47 > 0:23:52Sometimes it feels like you're in a completely different world,
0:23:52 > 0:23:54and that we don't exist any more.
0:23:55 > 0:23:56- It's as if...- What?
0:24:00 > 0:24:02You've been enchanted or something!
0:24:04 > 0:24:07Well, maybe that's because I have.
0:24:07 > 0:24:10This island's full of fairies, isn't it?
0:24:10 > 0:24:13And goblins and dragons and sprites.
0:24:13 > 0:24:18So maybe that's it, maybe I have been enchanted.
0:24:18 > 0:24:20Maybe I see things you don't see.
0:24:25 > 0:24:27(Maybe I'm one of them too.)
0:24:40 > 0:24:44You know, one of the best things about Amy being my mum...
0:24:46 > 0:24:49..is that I only have one sister again.
0:24:49 > 0:24:50And that's all I want.
0:24:50 > 0:24:52You.
0:25:52 > 0:25:54SHE SOBS
0:25:54 > 0:25:56Jade!
0:26:03 > 0:26:04Just the one.
0:26:04 > 0:26:06J Hollis.
0:26:20 > 0:26:22SHE SOBS
0:26:23 > 0:26:24Wait!
0:26:27 > 0:26:29A letter came for you.
0:26:44 > 0:26:46I don't believe this.
0:26:48 > 0:26:50It's only from Winston Churchill!
0:26:52 > 0:26:57Do you know, it's amazing that he ever got to be the greatest Briton.
0:26:57 > 0:26:58Why?
0:27:00 > 0:27:03Cos his handwriting and his spelling were well bad.
0:27:19 > 0:27:20Nice one, Brand.
0:27:36 > 0:27:39HE SHOUTS HAPPILY
0:27:49 > 0:27:52This is where we put the newborn calves.
0:27:52 > 0:27:55Why are you taking them away from their mums?
0:27:55 > 0:27:56Why would you come here
0:27:56 > 0:27:58if you thought this really was the same castle?
0:27:58 > 0:28:00It sounded nice, the knights found a home
0:28:00 > 0:28:03and they got to stay, and everyone was happy for ever.
0:28:03 > 0:28:05This story doesn't have a happy ending, Jade -
0:28:05 > 0:28:07the knights were cursed.