Episode 1

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0:00:04 > 0:00:06I didn't know you owned a cottage.

0:00:09 > 0:00:11Why did you two never live there?

0:00:13 > 0:00:16I visited once, but I never cared for it.

0:00:17 > 0:00:19Anyway, it was your grandfather's.

0:00:22 > 0:00:25It was really all very basic.

0:00:32 > 0:00:35Goodnight.

0:00:35 > 0:00:36Goodnight, dear.

0:01:01 > 0:01:05My dear Flora, your photograph is getting pretty battered

0:01:05 > 0:01:08with all the travelling around in my breast pocket.

0:01:09 > 0:01:14I can't tell you where we are or much of what we're doing, of course.

0:01:14 > 0:01:16Much of the countryside is so beautiful that

0:01:16 > 0:01:20I have to remind the men that we're not here on holiday,

0:01:20 > 0:01:21but then merry hell breaks out again.

0:01:23 > 0:01:25I'll spare you the details...

0:01:29 > 0:01:32GUNFIRE AND EXPLOSIONS

0:01:32 > 0:01:35Aim at the olive groves, until the others get through to relieve us.

0:01:35 > 0:01:36Yes, sir!

0:01:36 > 0:01:38GUNFIRE

0:01:38 > 0:01:41Bastards got the supply lorry before it could get through the gates, sir!

0:01:41 > 0:01:43It's the driver, sir. Another dead with him.

0:01:43 > 0:01:44They shot out the tyres,

0:01:44 > 0:01:46- and it's tipped over in the ditch. - Put him with the others, quickly!

0:01:46 > 0:01:49GUNFIRE

0:01:51 > 0:01:53EXPLOSION

0:01:54 > 0:01:57We need the MO! I think this one's still with us, sir.

0:01:57 > 0:01:59The MO's dead.

0:01:59 > 0:02:01Put him with the rest. Quickly!

0:02:01 > 0:02:03EXPLOSION

0:02:03 > 0:02:05GUNFIRE

0:02:05 > 0:02:08- Not another?- He was in the back with the supplies.

0:02:08 > 0:02:09Oh, Christ.

0:02:09 > 0:02:12GUNFIRE Set him down gently.

0:02:12 > 0:02:13I need you back at the gatehouse.

0:02:13 > 0:02:16- We can't have the others ambushed. Do you understand?- Sir...

0:02:16 > 0:02:18SHELL WHOOSHES AND EXPLODES

0:02:19 > 0:02:21Well, don't just sit there! Help him!

0:02:21 > 0:02:23RUMBLING

0:02:24 > 0:02:25With me!

0:02:25 > 0:02:27With me, come on!

0:02:29 > 0:02:31HE GROANS

0:02:31 > 0:02:33GUNFIRE AND EXPLOSIONS

0:02:34 > 0:02:36Sugar...

0:02:36 > 0:02:38The lorry's full of bloody sugar.

0:02:38 > 0:02:41GUNFIRE

0:02:41 > 0:02:43March.

0:02:43 > 0:02:45Thomas March!

0:02:45 > 0:02:48EXPLOSION March, stay with me.

0:02:48 > 0:02:49Stay with me! March!

0:02:49 > 0:02:51GUNFIRE

0:02:51 > 0:02:52SHELL WHOOSHES

0:02:52 > 0:02:54SCREAMING

0:03:37 > 0:03:39COUGHING

0:03:42 > 0:03:43Captain.

0:03:49 > 0:03:51You were lucky.

0:03:51 > 0:03:53No, your lot saved my life.

0:03:55 > 0:03:57This...

0:03:57 > 0:03:59This was your real life-saver.

0:04:00 > 0:04:04I need to get your sketchpads back from our CO.

0:04:04 > 0:04:07He... He's not exactly artistic.

0:04:07 > 0:04:08HE LAUGHS FAINTLY

0:04:08 > 0:04:10Berryman?

0:04:12 > 0:04:15Was I a beast to you at school?

0:04:15 > 0:04:16Berryman!

0:04:16 > 0:04:18Er, well, actually, you were always very kind.

0:04:18 > 0:04:20Has anyone seen Captain Berryman?

0:04:20 > 0:04:22What a relief.

0:04:22 > 0:04:24FOOTSTEPS APPROACH

0:04:24 > 0:04:26Berryman, a word.

0:04:29 > 0:04:30Yes, sir.

0:04:30 > 0:04:32ENGINES RUMBLE

0:04:36 > 0:04:37- Yes.- All right, then.- Pass it.

0:04:37 > 0:04:39- Almost.- Stay on it.

0:04:39 > 0:04:40- Left! Left!- Push it, push it!- Hey!

0:04:40 > 0:04:42Come on! Come on, get stuck in!

0:04:42 > 0:04:45# Down in my heart I've got the joy, joy, joy, joy... #

0:04:46 > 0:04:47Who are you writing to?

0:04:49 > 0:04:54Oh, um, a girl back home, Flora.

0:04:54 > 0:04:55She's a teacher.

0:04:55 > 0:04:56Here, James!

0:04:56 > 0:04:58Oh.

0:04:58 > 0:05:01I've known her all my life. She's almost like a sister.

0:05:01 > 0:05:02Come over here! Over here!

0:05:02 > 0:05:04But not entirely.

0:05:04 > 0:05:06Two left feet, you.

0:05:08 > 0:05:12She, um... She lost her parents in an air raid, just like me.

0:05:12 > 0:05:13Almost there, almost there...

0:05:13 > 0:05:16- Goal! - CHEERING

0:05:16 > 0:05:17Goal!

0:05:19 > 0:05:21Listen up, men.

0:05:21 > 0:05:23This is Captain March.

0:05:23 > 0:05:24He's an official war artist.

0:05:24 > 0:05:26Now, you're not to mind him drawing you.

0:05:26 > 0:05:28His work is good for morale.

0:05:28 > 0:05:29Sir?

0:05:29 > 0:05:32Sir, is it true that the Hun lay on tarts for their soldiers?

0:05:32 > 0:05:35Yeah, how come they get tarts and we get artists?

0:05:35 > 0:05:37It's the morale back home that art can raise.

0:05:37 > 0:05:40It's for your wives and girlfriends, your children...

0:05:40 > 0:05:43LAUGHTER

0:05:43 > 0:05:44Don't let them cheek you.

0:05:44 > 0:05:46Sir?

0:05:46 > 0:05:48Go on, sir...

0:05:48 > 0:05:49- CHEERING - Paint me!

0:05:49 > 0:05:51Put it away, Bates.

0:05:51 > 0:05:53But he's raising my morale, sir!

0:05:53 > 0:05:55LAUGHTER

0:05:58 > 0:05:59- Ready to move?- Yes, sir.

0:05:59 > 0:06:02Yeah? Everybody here...

0:06:02 > 0:06:04Bates will drive you to a rendezvous point,

0:06:04 > 0:06:06and then you'll be driven back down to the boat from there.

0:06:06 > 0:06:07So, how far to the handover?

0:06:07 > 0:06:12An hour at least, depending on the state of the road.

0:06:12 > 0:06:14- Well, in that case, nature calls. - ENGINE PURRS

0:06:14 > 0:06:16Are we likely to come under fire?

0:06:18 > 0:06:19Hopefully not.

0:06:19 > 0:06:21Save fuel, man. As you were.

0:06:21 > 0:06:23ENGINE STOPS

0:06:23 > 0:06:25Yeah, come on.

0:06:26 > 0:06:29The area should have been cleared, so it's...

0:06:29 > 0:06:31LIQUID TRICKLES

0:06:33 > 0:06:35MICHAEL SIGHS

0:06:35 > 0:06:38- THOMAS LAUGHS - I could...

0:06:38 > 0:06:43It's bloody embarrassing but I can't button my fly single-handed.

0:06:43 > 0:06:45Oh.

0:06:45 > 0:06:47MICHAEL LAUGHS

0:06:47 > 0:06:49THOMAS CLEARS HIS THROAT

0:07:23 > 0:07:27ENGINE STARTS

0:07:27 > 0:07:29- WHISPERING:- Promise me that you'll come and find me?

0:07:32 > 0:07:33I mean it.

0:07:34 > 0:07:36Captain.

0:07:36 > 0:07:37Captain Berryman!

0:07:37 > 0:07:40We ought to be off, sir. Rendezvous time's not that long away.

0:07:40 > 0:07:42Of course, Bates. Good man.

0:07:42 > 0:07:43Thank you, Bates!

0:07:46 > 0:07:48Good luck.

0:08:01 > 0:08:03THEY MAKE AEROPLANE NOISES

0:08:13 > 0:08:15- KIDS LAUGH - What's so amusing, Travis?

0:08:15 > 0:08:20Patroclus, miss. Patroclus and Achilles.

0:08:20 > 0:08:22I don't understand.

0:08:22 > 0:08:24Your closest friend is butchered in a battle

0:08:24 > 0:08:27in which he wore your armour because you disdained to fight.

0:08:27 > 0:08:30You lament - perfectly understandable.

0:08:30 > 0:08:32But they're not just friends, are they?

0:08:32 > 0:08:34BOYS LAUGH

0:08:34 > 0:08:37Greek for friendship, Wykeham.

0:08:37 > 0:08:39Erm... Agape, miss.

0:08:39 > 0:08:43Love between heroes was regarded as surpassing the love within marriage,

0:08:43 > 0:08:44but in Sparta's...

0:08:44 > 0:08:46KNOCK AT DOOR

0:08:46 > 0:08:47DOOR OPENS

0:08:47 > 0:08:48Class rise.

0:08:50 > 0:08:52Miss Talbot,

0:08:52 > 0:08:53boys,

0:08:53 > 0:08:58we have just heard that Mr Churchill has accepted Germany's surrender.

0:08:58 > 0:08:59The war in Europe is at an end!

0:09:01 > 0:09:03You may cheer, boys.

0:09:03 > 0:09:05CHEERING

0:09:05 > 0:09:07No more bloody war!

0:09:22 > 0:09:24Eddie!

0:09:25 > 0:09:26Oh!

0:09:35 > 0:09:37ENGINE RUMBLES

0:09:54 > 0:09:57DOOR OPENS

0:09:57 > 0:09:58Hello.

0:10:00 > 0:10:02Are you lost?

0:10:02 > 0:10:05I... I was... I was looking for Captain March,

0:10:05 > 0:10:07but perhaps I have his address wrong.

0:10:07 > 0:10:09No, no, no. He has the studio upstairs.

0:10:09 > 0:10:10We share an entrance.

0:10:12 > 0:10:13Oh.

0:10:14 > 0:10:16I don't bite, unless you pay extra.

0:10:19 > 0:10:21I'm Lucien -

0:10:21 > 0:10:24landlord, watchdog, purveyor of shade to the gentry.

0:10:27 > 0:10:28Who are you?

0:10:28 > 0:10:30I'm, um... My name's Berryman.

0:10:30 > 0:10:31Michael Berryman.

0:10:31 > 0:10:33DOG BARKS

0:10:37 > 0:10:40Enter, Michael Berryman.

0:10:41 > 0:10:43DISTANT DOG BARKS

0:10:44 > 0:10:46STAIRS CREAK

0:11:11 > 0:11:12You came.

0:11:15 > 0:11:17We were only demobbed from Colchester this morning.

0:11:21 > 0:11:23Erm... If it's... If it's not convenient.

0:11:23 > 0:11:26No, don't... Don't be silly. It's...

0:11:36 > 0:11:37Erm...

0:11:41 > 0:11:42Ah...

0:11:47 > 0:11:49THEY BREATHE HEAVILY

0:11:59 > 0:12:01DISHES CLATTER

0:12:01 > 0:12:03PANTING

0:12:09 > 0:12:12So, what are your plans?

0:12:12 > 0:12:14For the rest of the evening?

0:12:14 > 0:12:16Bugger all.

0:12:16 > 0:12:17Oh, good.

0:12:19 > 0:12:21And what about...?

0:12:21 > 0:12:23Sorry, I've forgotten her name.

0:12:25 > 0:12:27Flora.

0:12:27 > 0:12:29Flora Talbot. She...

0:12:32 > 0:12:33She doesn't know I'm back yet.

0:12:40 > 0:12:42ENGINE RUMBLES

0:12:52 > 0:12:54Left here!

0:12:54 > 0:12:56THEY LAUGH Left!

0:13:11 > 0:13:13ENGINE RUMBLES

0:13:27 > 0:13:30I haven't been here since my parents died.

0:14:05 > 0:14:07DOOR CLOSES

0:14:07 > 0:14:09FIRE CRACKLES

0:14:12 > 0:14:14I should have written.

0:14:18 > 0:14:20I'm a coward.

0:14:20 > 0:14:23I wrote to you in my head every bloody day, but I...

0:14:23 > 0:14:24I wrote to you.

0:14:26 > 0:14:27Really?

0:14:30 > 0:14:32Nothing ever got through.

0:14:39 > 0:14:41I never said I'd posted them.

0:14:55 > 0:14:57WATCHES TICK

0:15:00 > 0:15:04MICHAEL WHISTLES Ode To Joy by Ludwig Van Beethoven

0:15:09 > 0:15:11Tea!

0:15:11 > 0:15:12Very old tea.

0:15:12 > 0:15:15Fuck, it feels cold.

0:15:16 > 0:15:20I also found...

0:15:20 > 0:15:23an unopened tin of shortbread.

0:15:23 > 0:15:24- It must be pre-war.- Mmm.

0:15:29 > 0:15:31Morning, March.

0:15:31 > 0:15:32Captain.

0:15:34 > 0:15:37- Erm, how much is that going to be? - Shall we go for six?

0:15:40 > 0:15:41Thank you so much.

0:16:03 > 0:16:05THEY PANT

0:16:52 > 0:16:54You've not mentioned her all week.

0:16:54 > 0:16:56It was scarcely appropriate.

0:16:56 > 0:16:58Do you love her?

0:16:58 > 0:16:59I...

0:17:00 > 0:17:02You'll love her too.

0:17:06 > 0:17:07How cosy(!)

0:17:07 > 0:17:08Please, Thomas.

0:17:08 > 0:17:12Yeah, I don't understand how you can be so matter-of-fact.

0:17:12 > 0:17:15Does she love you?

0:17:15 > 0:17:18I imagine so, or she wouldn't have agreed to marry me.

0:17:21 > 0:17:23Please say yes, Tom.

0:17:23 > 0:17:25Say you'll be there, at least, please.

0:17:25 > 0:17:27I... I've no family. CAR DOOR SLAMS

0:17:27 > 0:17:30I don't want to be your bloody family.

0:17:33 > 0:17:34I...

0:17:42 > 0:17:43Hmm?

0:17:46 > 0:17:48Please...

0:17:56 > 0:17:59You have no idea, have you?

0:18:02 > 0:18:05What about, Thomas?

0:18:05 > 0:18:07You surely didn't think that we could set up house together

0:18:07 > 0:18:09- like man and wife?- Please.

0:18:10 > 0:18:14Just... Just be quiet.

0:18:14 > 0:18:18Just... Let's just get back to London.

0:18:18 > 0:18:20CAR DOOR CLOSES

0:18:28 > 0:18:31Nearly there.

0:18:31 > 0:18:33I'm so glad you wore Mummy's brooch.

0:18:33 > 0:18:35Oh, bloody hell.

0:18:35 > 0:18:36You are not to cry.

0:18:40 > 0:18:42ENGINES RUMBLE

0:18:47 > 0:18:48Oh, there he is. Thomas!

0:18:55 > 0:18:57Hello. Erm, you must be...

0:18:57 > 0:19:00Daphne - older sister, matron of honour and all that.

0:19:00 > 0:19:02Thomas March. How do you do?

0:19:02 > 0:19:05Michael says you're an artist. How very romantic.

0:19:05 > 0:19:06Oh, hardly.

0:19:06 > 0:19:08Flora, how do you do?

0:19:08 > 0:19:09Hello, Thomas.

0:19:09 > 0:19:11You look wonderful. Worth the wait.

0:19:11 > 0:19:13Thank you.

0:19:13 > 0:19:15Oh, sorry that I couldn't come to your supper party.

0:19:15 > 0:19:18I am horribly unsociable when I'm working.

0:19:18 > 0:19:22Talking of which, I brought you something -

0:19:22 > 0:19:23a wedding present.

0:19:23 > 0:19:25- Oh.- That's so sweet.

0:19:25 > 0:19:26We should probably...

0:19:26 > 0:19:27Yes. Michael?

0:19:27 > 0:19:28Yes.

0:19:32 > 0:19:34You came.

0:19:34 > 0:19:35Of course I came.

0:19:37 > 0:19:39The fucking best man has to.

0:19:44 > 0:19:49If any man or woman knows just cause or impediment why these two

0:19:49 > 0:19:53should not be joined together, let him now speak,

0:19:53 > 0:19:57or else hereafter forever hold his peace.

0:19:59 > 0:20:04Do you, Michael Sadler Berryman, take Flora Agnes Talbot

0:20:04 > 0:20:05to be your wedded wife?

0:20:05 > 0:20:06I do.

0:20:10 > 0:20:11Do you, Flora Agnes...

0:20:11 > 0:20:15- DAPHNE WHISPERS:- It seems wrong, having no-one in tears.

0:20:24 > 0:20:27Well, I'd hope so.

0:20:27 > 0:20:28Oh, I don't think we...

0:20:28 > 0:20:31Compliments of Mr March, sir.

0:20:31 > 0:20:32Thomas, you shouldn't have.

0:20:33 > 0:20:36You can't get married and not have bubbles.

0:20:36 > 0:20:37Thank you.

0:20:40 > 0:20:41Thank you.

0:20:41 > 0:20:45So, to the bride and groom.

0:20:47 > 0:20:48Bless you, Thomas.

0:20:48 > 0:20:51Oh, please, no speeches, anyone, or I shall cry.

0:20:51 > 0:20:53THEY CHUCKLE

0:20:53 > 0:20:54So, are you...

0:20:54 > 0:20:56Are you really not having a honeymoon?

0:20:56 > 0:20:59We haven't a bean until Michael's salary from the bank comes through.

0:20:59 > 0:21:03We used pretty much all of our savings on the deposit for the flat.

0:21:03 > 0:21:06So not even a weekend in your cottage?

0:21:06 > 0:21:07Erm...

0:21:07 > 0:21:09Oh, dear.

0:21:09 > 0:21:14Not until it has a boiler, a new bathroom and no mice.

0:21:14 > 0:21:17The flat is darling, though - right on the park.

0:21:18 > 0:21:19You must come for supper.

0:21:19 > 0:21:21Yes, you must.

0:21:21 > 0:21:25Apparently, Thomas's pad in Soho was unreconstructed Hogarth.

0:21:25 > 0:21:27How marvellous.

0:21:27 > 0:21:28Not really.

0:21:28 > 0:21:30So, won't you miss your teaching?

0:21:30 > 0:21:33Hardly. All those dirty-minded little boys.

0:21:33 > 0:21:35SHE CHUCKLES

0:21:35 > 0:21:37Ah, food!

0:21:37 > 0:21:39Daphne could eat a horse.

0:21:39 > 0:21:40Naughty!

0:21:41 > 0:21:43LIQUID TRICKLES

0:21:43 > 0:21:44FOOTSTEPS APPROACH

0:21:48 > 0:21:50MICHAEL EXHALES

0:21:52 > 0:21:56Thanks so much, Thomas, for everything.

0:21:56 > 0:21:58You, um...

0:21:58 > 0:22:00You've... You've been brilliant.

0:22:01 > 0:22:02Haven't I?

0:22:05 > 0:22:06DOOR OPENS AND CLOSES

0:22:06 > 0:22:08Thomas, I, um... THOMAS INHALES

0:22:13 > 0:22:15TAP RUNS

0:22:18 > 0:22:19Thomas I, um...

0:22:22 > 0:22:23I really...

0:22:23 > 0:22:25What?

0:22:25 > 0:22:27What? What do you really?

0:22:28 > 0:22:30I just...

0:22:33 > 0:22:36GRUNTING

0:22:42 > 0:22:44CLATTER

0:22:48 > 0:22:50HE PANTS

0:22:50 > 0:22:52HE TURNS ON TAP

0:22:52 > 0:22:54Just give us a bloody minute, will you?

0:22:54 > 0:22:55Of course.

0:23:04 > 0:23:06HE TURNS OFF TAP

0:23:06 > 0:23:08HE HYPERVENTILATES

0:23:12 > 0:23:14You don't have to go through with this.

0:23:17 > 0:23:19Of course I do.

0:23:19 > 0:23:23If you have either sense or decency,

0:23:23 > 0:23:26you'll do the same.

0:23:30 > 0:23:32Well, I'll go and settle up.

0:23:35 > 0:23:37HE BREATHES HEAVILY

0:23:45 > 0:23:47You're perfection.

0:23:50 > 0:23:52I feel a bit of a fraud.

0:23:52 > 0:23:56Oh, darling, you'll be fine.

0:23:56 > 0:23:58You'll see.

0:24:00 > 0:24:04I bet he's a real goer, but sensitive with it.

0:24:04 > 0:24:05It's...

0:24:09 > 0:24:11What?

0:24:11 > 0:24:12Tell me.

0:24:15 > 0:24:17It's a lot nicer if he lets you ride up top.

0:24:17 > 0:24:20Oh, Daphne!

0:24:23 > 0:24:25THUMPING

0:24:27 > 0:24:29MATTRESS SQUEAKS

0:24:30 > 0:24:32SHE BREATHES SHARPLY

0:24:34 > 0:24:36HE GROANS

0:24:53 > 0:24:55I'm... I'm told it gets better.

0:24:56 > 0:24:59Yes. I heard that too.

0:25:01 > 0:25:03Mrs Berryman.

0:25:13 > 0:25:14Actually, do you mind just...?

0:25:14 > 0:25:16Oh, of course. Sorry, darling.

0:25:26 > 0:25:30Now, if I snore, you're to throw a book at me.

0:25:33 > 0:25:34Goodnight.

0:25:34 > 0:25:37- LIGHT SWITCH CLICKS - Goodnight.

0:25:46 > 0:25:48JOLLY MUSIC PLAYS ON RADIO

0:25:54 > 0:25:57Back to work, Berryman.

0:25:58 > 0:26:00So, who else shall we invite?

0:26:00 > 0:26:02If we simply have Daphne and this new chap of hers,

0:26:02 > 0:26:05the poor man will feel he's being auditioned.

0:26:05 > 0:26:06Well, isn't he?

0:26:06 > 0:26:08She rather implied she'd already auditioned him,

0:26:08 > 0:26:10and he'd passed with flying colours.

0:26:14 > 0:26:16Sorry, what was that? I was miles away.

0:26:16 > 0:26:18I said, who else shall we invite?

0:26:18 > 0:26:21Er, well, I ran into Richard Tremaine

0:26:21 > 0:26:22at Blackfriars the other day.

0:26:22 > 0:26:25You know, from the regiment. We could have him and his wife.

0:26:25 > 0:26:28What about poor Thomas? We haven't seen him since the wedding.

0:26:28 > 0:26:29Daphne thought he was a bit of all right,

0:26:29 > 0:26:33and has all sorts of eager spinsters lined up for him.

0:26:33 > 0:26:35No, I don't think so.

0:26:35 > 0:26:37Why ever not?

0:26:37 > 0:26:39Well, he's not terribly sociable, really.

0:26:39 > 0:26:40He'd only be a dead weight.

0:26:40 > 0:26:42And you can tell Daphne he's a confirmed bachelor.

0:26:43 > 0:26:47She'd only take that as a personal challenge.

0:26:49 > 0:26:51MUSIC: Nuages by Django Reinhardt

0:28:19 > 0:28:20Ah...

0:28:23 > 0:28:25LIGHTER CLICKS

0:28:27 > 0:28:29SHE BREATHES HEAVILY

0:28:37 > 0:28:39SHE SOBS

0:28:49 > 0:28:50Daphne.

0:28:50 > 0:28:51Thank God. I'm starving.

0:28:53 > 0:28:54Me too.

0:28:54 > 0:28:57Oh, of course you are. Poor darling.

0:28:57 > 0:28:59How many weeks to go?

0:28:59 > 0:29:00Two or three.

0:29:00 > 0:29:04Ooh. Let's find you a nice bench.

0:29:04 > 0:29:06Such a drama this morning.

0:29:06 > 0:29:07Hmm?

0:29:07 > 0:29:08Bill Gladstone.

0:29:08 > 0:29:09Which is he?

0:29:09 > 0:29:13Victorian watercolours and china. Lives with his mother.

0:29:13 > 0:29:16He was arrested, first thing this morning.

0:29:16 > 0:29:18No! Why?

0:29:18 > 0:29:22It turns out he was also living with the man upstairs.

0:29:22 > 0:29:24One of their neighbours had sneaked,

0:29:24 > 0:29:29and the police showed up at dawn and caught them together in bed.

0:29:29 > 0:29:31Will he go to prison?

0:29:31 > 0:29:33Almost certainly,

0:29:33 > 0:29:36and Bill has a prior history of gross indecency,

0:29:36 > 0:29:40which isn't as bad as buggery, but it's almost as bad.

0:29:40 > 0:29:43No more handling Lady Downing's bristols for him!

0:29:56 > 0:30:00Gross indecency? You mean...exposing himself?

0:30:00 > 0:30:04No. You know, public lavatories.

0:30:04 > 0:30:05Oh.

0:30:06 > 0:30:08Now, darling, tell.

0:30:08 > 0:30:11You sounded all shaky when you rang,

0:30:11 > 0:30:12and I was quite worried.

0:30:16 > 0:30:17It's nothing.

0:30:17 > 0:30:19Hormones running riot, probably -

0:30:19 > 0:30:21making me feel like a caged beast.

0:30:22 > 0:30:23It is good to see you.

0:30:25 > 0:30:28You know you can tell me.

0:30:28 > 0:30:29You can tell me anything.

0:30:29 > 0:30:33I know, but it's nothing.

0:30:33 > 0:30:35Everything's fine.

0:30:45 > 0:30:47CLOCK TICKS

0:30:51 > 0:30:54Well, this is nice.

0:30:55 > 0:31:00I'm sorry, darling, I was miles away...

0:31:00 > 0:31:03and you've gone to so much trouble, and in your condition.

0:31:03 > 0:31:04Time on my hands.

0:31:06 > 0:31:08I tidied your desk this morning.

0:31:10 > 0:31:11Why?

0:31:11 > 0:31:16I needed some ink and it was full of junk in there.

0:31:16 > 0:31:18I hope I didn't throw out anything precious.

0:31:22 > 0:31:25Well, I'm a hoarder. You'll reform me yet.

0:31:28 > 0:31:30Where's Thomas's painting?

0:31:31 > 0:31:33I took it down. I rather hate it.

0:31:38 > 0:31:40Well, perhaps I could take it to the cottage, so you...

0:31:40 > 0:31:43Back to your precious cottage, you'd love that, wouldn't you?

0:31:45 > 0:31:47Pudding's only pears, I'm afraid.

0:31:54 > 0:31:56DRAWER CREAKS

0:31:57 > 0:31:59Oh, God.

0:32:00 > 0:32:01CLATTERING

0:32:06 > 0:32:09- Take this fucking thing! - SHE BREATHES HEAVILY

0:32:09 > 0:32:10What should I...?

0:32:10 > 0:32:12I don't want it under our roof another night. It's repellent.

0:32:12 > 0:32:14- Yes.- I mean, what are you?

0:32:14 > 0:32:16Are you safe around children?

0:32:16 > 0:32:19What were you thinking, marrying me? Do you even love me?!

0:32:19 > 0:32:24If I'm expected to lie around bringing forth like some brood mare,

0:32:24 > 0:32:26while the two of you...!

0:32:26 > 0:32:28SHE GROANS Darling. Darling, sit down...

0:32:28 > 0:32:30Don't touch me!

0:32:30 > 0:32:33Never touch me. You're disgusting!

0:32:33 > 0:32:35Criminal!

0:32:35 > 0:32:36SHE GROANS

0:32:36 > 0:32:38BREATHING HEAVILY

0:32:39 > 0:32:41FLORA CRIES OUT IN PAIN

0:32:45 > 0:32:47KNOCK AT DOOR

0:32:47 > 0:32:49- DOOR OPENS - Mr Berryman?

0:32:49 > 0:32:52Oh, thank God.

0:32:52 > 0:32:53It's this way.

0:32:53 > 0:32:54You came just in time.

0:32:54 > 0:32:56FLORA SCREAMS

0:32:59 > 0:33:01Go and have a drink, Mr Berryman.

0:33:02 > 0:33:07It'll be hours yet, and it's all woman's work from here on in.

0:33:09 > 0:33:11FLORA WHIMPERS

0:33:55 > 0:33:57LIQUID TRICKLES

0:34:05 > 0:34:07HE BREATHES HEAVILY

0:34:10 > 0:34:12DOOR OPENS

0:34:19 > 0:34:21Ooh! Sorry. So sorry.

0:34:25 > 0:34:27BABY GURGLES SOFTLY

0:34:44 > 0:34:47- Let me put those in water. - Thank you.

0:34:53 > 0:34:56There's not much on offer at this time of year, even at Covent Garden.

0:34:57 > 0:34:59You went all that way?

0:35:01 > 0:35:03They're lovely. I like white roses.

0:35:09 > 0:35:11He's... He...

0:35:11 > 0:35:13He's sweet.

0:35:13 > 0:35:15Bit soon to tell.

0:35:15 > 0:35:18Eager feeder, though, but it hurts like hell.

0:35:18 > 0:35:20SHE TAKES A DEEP BREATH

0:35:23 > 0:35:26I thought maybe Robert, after your father,

0:35:26 > 0:35:28and James for mine.

0:35:30 > 0:35:32Look, darling, I'm so...

0:35:32 > 0:35:36I am far, far too tired to talk about it.

0:35:40 > 0:35:41Would you like to hold him?

0:35:44 > 0:35:48He's... He's asleep. Perhaps we should just leave him.

0:35:48 > 0:35:49No, pick him up, please.

0:35:49 > 0:35:52- I really...- I want the father of my child to hold his son.

0:36:03 > 0:36:05Hold his head.

0:36:08 > 0:36:10BABY GURGLES

0:36:17 > 0:36:19GURGLING

0:36:27 > 0:36:28So, you like it?

0:36:30 > 0:36:32What?

0:36:32 > 0:36:35The name - Robert James.

0:36:37 > 0:36:40Yes. Yes. Yes, it's perfect.

0:36:40 > 0:36:41It's perfect.

0:36:41 > 0:36:42Did you light a cigar?

0:36:42 > 0:36:43Certainly not.

0:36:43 > 0:36:45SHE LAUGHS

0:36:48 > 0:36:49Papers!

0:36:49 > 0:36:51There you go, sir. Thank you.

0:36:51 > 0:36:53Papers! Get your papers...

0:37:02 > 0:37:04THUNDER RUMBLES

0:37:11 > 0:37:13RAIN SPLASHES

0:37:27 > 0:37:28Come on.

0:37:39 > 0:37:42It took me several weeks to track you down.

0:37:42 > 0:37:43How?

0:37:43 > 0:37:46Your boss and I go back a long, long way.

0:37:48 > 0:37:49But he's...

0:37:49 > 0:37:53He's married with children. There's a lot of it about.

0:37:57 > 0:37:58Thomas is in prison.

0:38:00 > 0:38:02Why?

0:38:02 > 0:38:04The usual - cottaging.

0:38:06 > 0:38:09Oh, Christ, he really can pick them.

0:38:09 > 0:38:12Gross indecency, dear.

0:38:12 > 0:38:14One year.

0:38:14 > 0:38:15You must visit him.

0:38:15 > 0:38:16But, look, it...

0:38:16 > 0:38:19No buts. He needs you.

0:38:21 > 0:38:23What lies you tell are up to you.

0:38:23 > 0:38:26Well, I'm told dentistry usually works.

0:38:33 > 0:38:35Why me?

0:38:35 > 0:38:40Because you could fuck, understand him and meet the mother.

0:38:41 > 0:38:43You got under his skin.

0:38:46 > 0:38:49He loves you, truly.

0:39:03 > 0:39:05MUSIC DROWNS SPEECH

0:39:12 > 0:39:14Right, let's be having you!

0:39:22 > 0:39:24ENGINE RUMBLES

0:39:28 > 0:39:29BELL RINGS

0:39:29 > 0:39:30DOOR OPENS

0:39:35 > 0:39:36Sit yourself down.

0:39:46 > 0:39:47Yeah, well, move along.

0:39:47 > 0:39:48I, um...

0:39:48 > 0:39:51I brought you a pad and some charcoal.

0:39:57 > 0:39:58You look terrible, Thomas.

0:40:00 > 0:40:03It's prison food -

0:40:03 > 0:40:04permanent trots.

0:40:06 > 0:40:08You look like a bank manager.

0:40:15 > 0:40:16How is...

0:40:18 > 0:40:19..Flora?

0:40:21 > 0:40:25Yes, fine. Fine.

0:40:25 > 0:40:29Though, um, motherhood seems to make her a little impatient.

0:40:29 > 0:40:31She, um...

0:40:34 > 0:40:37Baby boy arrived in November - Robert.

0:40:38 > 0:40:40Well...

0:40:42 > 0:40:44Just make sure that she doesn't...

0:40:46 > 0:40:49..that she doesn't turn him into a banker too.

0:40:52 > 0:40:53I, um...

0:40:56 > 0:40:57We'd, um...

0:40:59 > 0:41:03We'd like to ask you to be his godfather.

0:41:03 > 0:41:04Well, once...once you get out.

0:41:06 > 0:41:07What on earth for?

0:41:08 > 0:41:10Well...

0:41:10 > 0:41:14Well, whatever you think of church or children,

0:41:14 > 0:41:16it's rather a good way to stay in touch

0:41:16 > 0:41:18with the people who...who matter.

0:41:25 > 0:41:27Don't visit again.

0:41:31 > 0:41:32- But...- It's upsetting.

0:41:39 > 0:41:40Oh.

0:41:44 > 0:41:45Do something for me.

0:41:54 > 0:41:57I was at school with Thomas, Mrs March.

0:41:58 > 0:42:00I know who you are, Mr Berryman.

0:42:02 > 0:42:04How is he?

0:42:05 > 0:42:07He, er...

0:42:07 > 0:42:10He's, um... He's grown a beard.

0:42:10 > 0:42:12SHE CHUCKLES

0:42:12 > 0:42:15His father did that once, for Ibsen.

0:42:17 > 0:42:18Does it suit him?

0:42:20 > 0:42:22Yes.

0:42:22 > 0:42:24Yes, he...

0:42:24 > 0:42:26He looks like a submariner.

0:42:28 > 0:42:32It's oddly like having him back in boarding school.

0:42:32 > 0:42:37I was forbidden to visit there too, in case I embarrassed him.

0:42:38 > 0:42:41Oh, you needn't look at me with such sensitivity.

0:42:42 > 0:42:45I'm well aware of what he did and why he's there.

0:43:02 > 0:43:06I have been storing them in his absence,

0:43:06 > 0:43:09rather than leave them with that creature in Soho.

0:43:14 > 0:43:18I write him letters in soft pencil on one side of cartridge paper,

0:43:18 > 0:43:21so he can draw on the other.

0:43:24 > 0:43:26Well, you should take this one.

0:43:31 > 0:43:33It's only a study.

0:43:33 > 0:43:37He must have sold the finished portrait.

0:43:37 > 0:43:42I call it Man In An Orange Shirt,

0:43:42 > 0:43:44but it's you, isn't it?

0:43:47 > 0:43:48Yes.

0:43:50 > 0:43:52So you must take it.

0:43:52 > 0:43:56Oh, no, I... I couldn't possibly.

0:43:56 > 0:44:00Uh, I think it's...it's wonderful, the colours...

0:44:00 > 0:44:03but our...our flat's so tiny.

0:44:05 > 0:44:06Perhaps, um...

0:44:09 > 0:44:11Perhaps just one of the notebooks?

0:44:11 > 0:44:13Oh, well, that one's damaged.

0:44:15 > 0:44:16Yes, but, um...

0:44:19 > 0:44:21I was there, you see.

0:44:31 > 0:44:36I have a very small house in France, Mr Berryman...

0:44:38 > 0:44:42..in a very small village, in Cassis.

0:44:42 > 0:44:45You can go there when Thomas comes out.

0:44:46 > 0:44:50He...he can paint and...and you can...

0:44:50 > 0:44:52you can write something.

0:44:55 > 0:45:00That's very kind of you, Mrs March, but, um, he wants...

0:45:00 > 0:45:02he wants nothing more to do with me.

0:45:02 > 0:45:05Oh, that's just pride.

0:45:05 > 0:45:07And I have a wife and child.

0:45:14 > 0:45:16Is she happy?

0:45:16 > 0:45:18She's...

0:45:22 > 0:45:25I, um...

0:45:25 > 0:45:27I should... I should be getting home.

0:46:00 > 0:46:02My darling Thomas,

0:46:02 > 0:46:07you refuse my visits so you're probably tearing up my letters too,

0:46:07 > 0:46:11but there's nothing else I can do but keep trying.

0:46:11 > 0:46:13It's beyond my control, do you see?

0:46:17 > 0:46:21All those months ago, when I had nothing to lose really,

0:46:21 > 0:46:22I wrote to you in my head,

0:46:22 > 0:46:26but was too cowardly to set more than lies on paper,

0:46:26 > 0:46:29and now I find I no longer care.

0:46:31 > 0:46:37The love I feel for you runs through me like grain through wood.

0:46:37 > 0:46:40I love you, Thomas. I love you.

0:46:40 > 0:46:45Your face, your voice, your touch, enter my mind at the least

0:46:45 > 0:46:49opportune moments and I find I have no power to withstand them.

0:46:49 > 0:46:51No desire to.

0:46:52 > 0:46:56I want us to be together as we were in the cottage,

0:46:56 > 0:46:59only forever, not just a weekend.

0:47:00 > 0:47:04I want it to go on so long that it feels normal.

0:47:05 > 0:47:08I want to do all the ordinary, un-bedroomy things

0:47:08 > 0:47:11we never got around to doing -

0:47:11 > 0:47:14making toast, raking leaves,

0:47:14 > 0:47:16sitting in silence.

0:47:18 > 0:47:21I love you, Thomas.

0:47:21 > 0:47:23I've always loved you -

0:47:23 > 0:47:24I see that now.

0:47:27 > 0:47:29Tell me I'm not too late.

0:47:40 > 0:47:42There she is.

0:47:42 > 0:47:44- Going to say hello?- Oh, look.

0:47:44 > 0:47:46BABY GURGLES

0:47:47 > 0:47:51So solemn. So like his pa!

0:47:51 > 0:47:53I can't believe he's nearly one already.

0:47:55 > 0:47:59I say, not to worry about bridge tonight if Michael's away.

0:47:59 > 0:48:01Percy can always take me out somewhere instead.

0:48:01 > 0:48:02Oh, tonight? But he's...

0:48:02 > 0:48:05I was coming out of South Ken on my way to Christie's this morning,

0:48:05 > 0:48:08and I saw him striding towards the train with his suitcase,

0:48:08 > 0:48:11as well as the usual briefcase.

0:48:11 > 0:48:13Oh, yes. I'm such a dolt, darling.

0:48:13 > 0:48:15I'd completely forgot to tell you,

0:48:15 > 0:48:17he's got some dreary conference to go to.

0:48:17 > 0:48:20Banking - whither?

0:48:20 > 0:48:21You know the sort of thing.

0:48:21 > 0:48:23Well, we can play when he's back.

0:48:23 > 0:48:25BABY BABBLES

0:48:25 > 0:48:26Are you all right?

0:48:29 > 0:48:30Fine.

0:48:30 > 0:48:32BABY SOBS

0:48:32 > 0:48:33Oh, do hush, Robert.

0:48:33 > 0:48:34Oh, hush!

0:48:34 > 0:48:37BABY CRIES

0:48:37 > 0:48:38For pity's sake!

0:48:40 > 0:48:42BABY SCREAMS

0:48:47 > 0:48:49PHONE DIAL CLICKS

0:48:52 > 0:48:54Hello. British Savings Bank.

0:48:54 > 0:48:56Hello. Can you put me through to Michael Berryman, please?

0:48:56 > 0:48:58- Who's calling, please? - It's his wife.

0:48:58 > 0:49:00- BABY CRIES - Oh.

0:49:00 > 0:49:04Oh, of course, those wretched teeth! How stupid of me to have forgotten.

0:49:04 > 0:49:05PHONE BELL CHIMES

0:49:05 > 0:49:08BABY SCREAMS

0:49:08 > 0:49:10Oh, stop it!

0:49:10 > 0:49:13- SCREAMING CONTINUES - I can't bear it! Stop it, stop it!

0:49:13 > 0:49:15STOP IT!

0:49:15 > 0:49:17BABY CRIES LOUDER

0:49:17 > 0:49:19FLORA SOBS

0:49:19 > 0:49:22Come to me...

0:49:22 > 0:49:23Sorry.

0:49:23 > 0:49:26I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry...

0:49:28 > 0:49:30THEY BOTH CRY

0:49:30 > 0:49:32ENGINE RUMBLES

0:49:53 > 0:49:55CAR DOOR CLOSES

0:50:00 > 0:50:01It's Thomas...

0:50:01 > 0:50:05- Thomas, dear boy! - Thomas! Thomas! How are you?

0:50:05 > 0:50:07Thomas. Oh, Thomas...

0:50:07 > 0:50:09Well...

0:50:09 > 0:50:11So, are you all right?

0:50:11 > 0:50:13Let's get in the cab. Come on. We'll see you at the flat?

0:50:13 > 0:50:16Yes. Get in.

0:50:16 > 0:50:18Hello, darling. Get in.

0:50:23 > 0:50:25ENGINE PURRS

0:50:41 > 0:50:43LIGHT SWITCH CLICKS

0:50:52 > 0:50:54HE BREATHES HEAVILY

0:50:58 > 0:51:00HE EXHALES

0:51:05 > 0:51:07MUFFLED SOBBING

0:51:33 > 0:51:34Hello.

0:51:36 > 0:51:37Hello.

0:51:39 > 0:51:40Oh...

0:51:47 > 0:51:49BABY GURGLES

0:52:25 > 0:52:26I'll tell you anything you...

0:52:26 > 0:52:28I'd rather you didn't.

0:52:30 > 0:52:32I don't want a divorce.

0:52:32 > 0:52:33Please, Michael!

0:52:33 > 0:52:35It wouldn't be fair to Robert.

0:52:36 > 0:52:37But I...I...

0:52:37 > 0:52:39I don't want to make you wretched.

0:52:41 > 0:52:43SHE SIGHS

0:52:48 > 0:52:49I never want details.

0:52:51 > 0:52:54You must never get caught.

0:52:54 > 0:52:55We will never speak of it.

0:52:55 > 0:52:56But, darling, I...

0:52:56 > 0:52:59Please, don't you love me at all?

0:53:01 > 0:53:02Of course I do.

0:53:07 > 0:53:13I'm just a sister who happened to bear your child.

0:53:15 > 0:53:17SHE SNIFFLES

0:53:27 > 0:53:29I...

0:53:29 > 0:53:31I can live with that.

0:53:57 > 0:53:58I do, I...

0:54:03 > 0:54:05LIFT CHIMES

0:54:09 > 0:54:11Lovely morning, sir.

0:54:28 > 0:54:29All well?

0:54:29 > 0:54:31He wants to make an entrance.

0:54:33 > 0:54:34Ready?

0:54:34 > 0:54:36We can't wait.

0:54:38 > 0:54:40- Oh!- Oh! - FLORA LAUGHS

0:54:40 > 0:54:42Stop laughing at me!

0:54:42 > 0:54:44Oh, dear.

0:54:44 > 0:54:46Fortnum's will cheer him up.

0:54:48 > 0:54:50I just need to find the gents.

0:54:50 > 0:54:51We'll meet you down by the lifts.

0:54:54 > 0:54:55Robert, can I help?

0:55:13 > 0:55:15LIFT CHIMES

0:55:17 > 0:55:18Sorry...

0:55:18 > 0:55:19Sorry.

0:55:19 > 0:55:21- Who's joining me on the bus to Fortnum's?- Me!

0:55:21 > 0:55:23May I come too?

0:55:23 > 0:55:24Don't be silly.

0:55:24 > 0:55:26Michael, Flora!

0:55:30 > 0:55:32Oh, Thomas!

0:55:33 > 0:55:36How... H-h-how... How are you?

0:55:36 > 0:55:38Fine. I'm fine.

0:55:38 > 0:55:39Stunning day.

0:55:39 > 0:55:42We've just been kitting someone out for boarding school,

0:55:42 > 0:55:45so I'm bracing myself for a long afternoon sewing in name-tapes.

0:55:45 > 0:55:46Oh, he can't be that age already?

0:55:46 > 0:55:49We haven't met, Robert. I'm Thomas March.

0:55:49 > 0:55:52I knew your father when he wasn't much older than you are.

0:55:52 > 0:55:53Yes.

0:55:53 > 0:55:55Yes, before I became respectable.

0:55:59 > 0:56:02Thomas, you've been too long a stranger. We must have you over.

0:56:02 > 0:56:03Yes, we must.

0:56:03 > 0:56:06I've not long moved, to Cassis.

0:56:09 > 0:56:10Oh, to...to your mother's place.

0:56:10 > 0:56:11Yes. That's right.

0:56:14 > 0:56:18I'm just over for my...my new exhibition.

0:56:18 > 0:56:20It opens tonight.

0:56:20 > 0:56:22Oh, bother.

0:56:22 > 0:56:25Well, you could go along, darling.

0:56:27 > 0:56:29Well, no, it's... It's Robert's last night of freedom.

0:56:29 > 0:56:33Can't let you start school without a present, hmm? Here.

0:56:33 > 0:56:36- Thomas, you...you shouldn't... - What do you say, Robert?

0:56:36 > 0:56:37Thank you, sir.

0:56:39 > 0:56:40Oh, that's our bus.

0:56:40 > 0:56:41Come along, Robert.

0:56:41 > 0:56:42Bye-bye, Thomas.

0:56:54 > 0:56:55Goodbye, old man.

0:57:11 > 0:57:13- I'll find seats! - We're not going that far.

0:57:13 > 0:57:16Oh, let him, this once. School's not that much fun.

0:57:16 > 0:57:19Two and a child to Piccadilly, please.

0:57:19 > 0:57:20- CONDUCTOR: - Two and a child to Piccadilly.

0:57:22 > 0:57:23- There you go, sir.- Thank you.

0:57:23 > 0:57:25Any more fares?

0:57:25 > 0:57:28He'll drink himself to death in the sunshine.

0:57:31 > 0:57:32Probably.

0:57:32 > 0:57:34Was that where you were going?

0:57:36 > 0:57:37Yes.

0:57:50 > 0:57:52Look! They're really good ones.

0:57:52 > 0:57:53Goodness!

0:57:53 > 0:57:57Well, I'd put them safely away until we get home or you'll get all mucky.

0:58:01 > 0:58:02Don't fidget, Bob.

0:58:06 > 0:58:08BELL CHIMES

0:58:32 > 0:58:34"To Flora and Michael,

0:58:34 > 0:58:37"in the hope the enclosed might one day hang in your drawing room.

0:58:37 > 0:58:39"Thomas."

0:58:40 > 0:58:41Who did you go with?

0:58:42 > 0:58:44A friend.

0:58:47 > 0:58:49He loved me...

0:58:49 > 0:58:53but he married me to be like everybody else.

0:58:55 > 0:58:56This is so not OK.

0:58:56 > 0:59:00You are leaving a table of friends just to fuck a complete stranger.

0:59:02 > 0:59:04You're not even out, are you?

0:59:04 > 0:59:06I bet you've still not told your granny.