0:00:00 > 0:00:04- It's not gonna work.- Do you know what prospective Conservative candidate White-Bowne is on about?
0:00:04 > 0:00:07Not a clue, prospective Conservative candidate Rothman!
0:00:07 > 0:00:10Major Cunnicliffe is putting me forward for a post in Germany.
0:00:10 > 0:00:14- Major!- 'Am I right in thinking you feel I'm the man for the job?'
0:00:14 > 0:00:16My driver's waiting. I really must go.
0:00:16 > 0:00:20- Tell me about your sister.- Lance Corporal Hobbs killed my sister.
0:00:20 > 0:00:23- Are you a fake, Lomax?- I've no idea!
0:00:23 > 0:00:27- I'm not sure who is responsible any longer.- Should we show him to Captain Bulgakov?
0:00:27 > 0:00:30See if he's trying to get a loony ticket out?
0:00:30 > 0:00:34# We gotta get outta this place
0:00:34 > 0:00:37# If it's the last thing we ever do
0:00:38 > 0:00:41# We gotta get outta this place
0:00:41 > 0:00:46# Girl, there's a better life for me and you
0:00:46 > 0:00:49# We gotta get outta this place
0:00:50 > 0:00:53# If it's the last thing we ever do
0:00:54 > 0:00:57# We gotta get outta this place. #
0:01:02 > 0:01:04LABOURED BREATHING
0:01:04 > 0:01:06METALLIC CLATTERING
0:01:09 > 0:01:14Two Section, in a gas attack, if you don't get your mask on in seconds,
0:01:14 > 0:01:16you'll be dead.
0:01:16 > 0:01:19We're going to find out how you react in those seconds.
0:01:19 > 0:01:21Everybody inside!
0:01:23 > 0:01:26Come on, move! Come on! Hurry up.
0:01:30 > 0:01:35When I call you, step up and take off the mask.
0:01:35 > 0:01:40Give your name, rank and number. Do you understand?
0:01:40 > 0:01:41- ALL:- Yes, Corporal.
0:01:41 > 0:01:43Private Hoy!
0:01:46 > 0:01:48- Five... - COUGHS AND SPLUTTERS
0:01:48 > 0:01:51- Rank!- Five-two-nine... - Loud and clear!
0:01:51 > 0:01:54Stand up straight, man! Stand up straight!
0:01:54 > 0:01:58- Five-two-nine...- Pathetic, Hoy!
0:01:58 > 0:01:59Go on, get out!
0:02:04 > 0:02:06Private Keenan!
0:02:09 > 0:02:11Five-two-nine-four...
0:02:11 > 0:02:14five-six-six, Private Keenan, Corporal.
0:02:14 > 0:02:17Yes! Now get out.
0:02:30 > 0:02:32MUFFLED SOUNDS
0:02:34 > 0:02:36Five-four-three-two-one, Corporal, please!
0:02:36 > 0:02:38Come on, man, out you go.
0:02:40 > 0:02:41Wratten!
0:02:44 > 0:02:49Five-two-nine-four-five-five-one. Private Wratten.
0:02:49 > 0:02:52Corporal! I'm Corporal Barrowman! Again!
0:02:52 > 0:02:54Come on! What's your number?
0:02:54 > 0:02:57Five-two-nine-four-four...
0:02:57 > 0:02:58Go to that wall!
0:02:58 > 0:03:01Not that wall, that wall! Come on, touch the wall!
0:03:03 > 0:03:06Get back here! Get back here!
0:03:06 > 0:03:07What's your number?
0:03:07 > 0:03:09Five-two-nine...
0:03:09 > 0:03:12Stand up straight, man! Stand up straight!
0:03:12 > 0:03:15- Help! Help...- Come on!
0:03:16 > 0:03:17No!
0:03:17 > 0:03:20Corporal! Corporal, stop it!
0:03:20 > 0:03:23- He's not breathing, Corporal! Help him!- Get him out!
0:03:23 > 0:03:25Help him!
0:03:31 > 0:03:34- Is he breathing?- Eddie?
0:03:34 > 0:03:36Eddie!
0:03:36 > 0:03:38Eddie! Eddie!
0:03:38 > 0:03:40Eddie!
0:03:40 > 0:03:42- COUGHS AND SPLUTTERS - Easy, easy.
0:04:15 > 0:04:17Colin?
0:04:21 > 0:04:24CLASSICAL MUSIC PLAYS QUIETLY
0:04:33 > 0:04:34Colin?
0:04:37 > 0:04:43Stop thinking about it. You said yourself you can never predict what the army will decide.
0:04:43 > 0:04:46I was actually thinking we should be grateful to Major Cunnicliffe.
0:04:46 > 0:04:49For the chance he's given us. The chance to make a fresh start.
0:04:49 > 0:04:51Mm.
0:04:51 > 0:04:55- That's good.- We should get away from the camp.
0:04:55 > 0:04:58Meet somewhere for lunch today. Maybe that place you like on the coast.
0:04:58 > 0:05:00Well... I think...
0:05:00 > 0:05:02PHONE RINGS
0:05:04 > 0:05:05Captain Gulliver.
0:05:07 > 0:05:08Hello?
0:05:09 > 0:05:11Hello?
0:05:23 > 0:05:25- DAVIES:- At least we get some leave so we can recover!
0:05:25 > 0:05:27Even if it is only for a few hours!
0:05:27 > 0:05:30A few hours is enough for what I've got in mind, lads!
0:05:30 > 0:05:33I imagine a few minutes is probably enough for you, Hoy!
0:05:33 > 0:05:35COUGHS
0:05:35 > 0:05:39You remind me of Judy in her last days. My labrador!
0:05:39 > 0:05:40Died of distemper.
0:05:40 > 0:05:45I'm gonna be under Barrowman's thumb until I get out of this place.
0:05:45 > 0:05:48- Unless you do something about it. - What am I supposed to do?
0:05:48 > 0:05:50He's paid to make our lives hell.
0:05:50 > 0:05:52But not to almost kill you.
0:06:46 > 0:06:49And here we see Madame Curie...
0:06:49 > 0:06:52Nobel prize-winning physicist.
0:06:55 > 0:06:58- I thought you'd be pleased to see me.- Course I am.
0:06:58 > 0:07:02- And that there were no regrets about last night.- Absolutely not.
0:07:02 > 0:07:06I can assure you, Private Keenan, you're a very good kisser!
0:07:06 > 0:07:08Well, in that case,
0:07:08 > 0:07:13as I'm the recipient of a well-earned half-day leave,
0:07:13 > 0:07:18would you like to introduce me to the delights of Ravensea?
0:07:18 > 0:07:21Trust me, the delights of Ravensea will not fill an afternoon!
0:07:21 > 0:07:24But there's a hotel at the top of the hill - The Imperial.
0:07:24 > 0:07:26We can meet there.
0:07:26 > 0:07:28A hotel? Why, Nurse Charles...
0:07:28 > 0:07:31Which does a very passable afternoon tea.
0:07:31 > 0:07:34Now, if you'll excuse me.
0:07:35 > 0:07:37Madame Curie has work to do.
0:07:38 > 0:07:40DOOR OPENS
0:07:40 > 0:07:43I'll see you at four, then.
0:07:44 > 0:07:48Change is a fascinating, compelling process.
0:07:49 > 0:07:51A new start - any new start -
0:07:51 > 0:07:54means opportunities to wipe the slate clean.
0:07:54 > 0:07:58If we could finish the assessments for Two Section, sir,
0:07:58 > 0:08:00there's something in town I have to take care of.
0:08:00 > 0:08:04Forgive me, er, the sermon. I have to hurry too.
0:08:04 > 0:08:06Lunch with my wife today.
0:08:09 > 0:08:13- It's the War Office, sir. - Then you'd better put them through.
0:08:13 > 0:08:14Sir.
0:08:16 > 0:08:19PHONE BUZZES
0:08:20 > 0:08:22Hello. Captain Gulliver. Bleakly Marsh.
0:08:25 > 0:08:26Yes?
0:08:28 > 0:08:29Absolutely, sir.
0:08:30 > 0:08:33Yes. Yes, I understand.
0:08:38 > 0:08:40Four minutes.
0:08:43 > 0:08:47One minute. Then we're free to walk through those gates.
0:08:47 > 0:08:50If any of you were real friends, you'd stay behind and keep me company.
0:08:50 > 0:08:52If we were mad enough, we might.
0:08:52 > 0:08:56- Are you interested, Lomax? - We'll tell the girls you'll see them next time!
0:08:56 > 0:08:59Tell them they're missing the best part of Two Section.
0:08:59 > 0:09:01CRIES OF ANTICIPATION
0:09:05 > 0:09:08Two Section! By your beds!
0:09:08 > 0:09:12SIREN SOUNDS
0:09:15 > 0:09:21From your briefings, you will recognise that as a warning
0:09:21 > 0:09:24of nuclear attack.
0:09:25 > 0:09:28These are Two Section's orders.
0:09:30 > 0:09:34You will not leave this hut until you are instructed.
0:09:34 > 0:09:37Any man who does so...
0:09:38 > 0:09:40..will be shot!
0:09:54 > 0:09:56'This is Captain Gulliver, your commanding officer.
0:09:57 > 0:10:01'The company has been attacked with nuclear weapons.
0:10:01 > 0:10:04'Communications have been severely disrupted.
0:10:04 > 0:10:07'The camp has commenced lock-down.
0:10:07 > 0:10:10'It is imperative all ranks follow emergency orders.
0:10:10 > 0:10:14'Further orders will be issued as the situation develops.
0:10:14 > 0:10:15'God save the Queen.'
0:10:15 > 0:10:18Right. "Three days ago,
0:10:18 > 0:10:23"Soviet Premier Khrushchev gave orders for troops to enter West Germany.
0:10:23 > 0:10:27- "An ultimatum to withdraw was ignored..."- Is this really happening?
0:10:27 > 0:10:31"Today, a pre-emptive nuclear strike of 15 missiles
0:10:31 > 0:10:38- "was launched against NATO countries and their US allies."- It's just an exercise, though, isn't it?
0:10:38 > 0:10:40If it happened, this is how it would happen.
0:10:40 > 0:10:44- But they're not actually saying it is happening, though.- Pardon?
0:10:44 > 0:10:51Right, boys. It says we have to "assess our situation and pool our resources.
0:10:52 > 0:10:58"Radios, drinking water and fuel."
0:10:58 > 0:11:00MEN SHOUT OUTSIDE
0:11:00 > 0:11:04What would you do if you was the one Barrowman had it in for?
0:11:04 > 0:11:07Stand up for myself. Fight back.
0:11:07 > 0:11:09How? He's the one holding all the cards.
0:11:09 > 0:11:12Boys, can you pay attention, please?
0:11:12 > 0:11:15Find his weak points. Aim your fire at that.
0:11:15 > 0:11:18The sooner we get this done, the sooner we can get off camp.
0:11:18 > 0:11:21I have a better idea. How about I go to the NAAFI and get Wratten some grub?
0:11:21 > 0:11:24You lot can stay here and do the pretend war.
0:11:24 > 0:11:26Are you sure it's pretend?
0:11:26 > 0:11:29- It's an exercise. If it was real, we'd know about it.- How?
0:11:29 > 0:11:32If they hit London with a missile, you'd hear the bang up here?
0:11:32 > 0:11:34I can't believe you're all taking this so seriously.
0:11:34 > 0:11:38If I open that door, all I'll see is NCOs with clip-boards!
0:11:38 > 0:11:40Why don't you try it?
0:11:43 > 0:11:46Get back in your barracks, private!
0:11:55 > 0:11:58Captain Bulgakov, the four-minute warning's been sounded.
0:11:58 > 0:12:00Very good. Understood.
0:12:00 > 0:12:03Very good, sir. Gate secure.
0:12:03 > 0:12:05'Zero hour plus one.
0:12:05 > 0:12:09'Do not in any circumstances go outside.
0:12:09 > 0:12:12'Radioactive fallout can kill.
0:12:12 > 0:12:15'The number of casualties the country has suffered
0:12:15 > 0:12:17'is not yet known.'
0:12:17 > 0:12:20Chewing gums - three packs of.
0:12:20 > 0:12:21Cigarettes...
0:12:23 > 0:12:24..eight packs of.
0:12:24 > 0:12:27One transistor radio.
0:12:27 > 0:12:28No battery.
0:12:28 > 0:12:30Thanks, Lomax(!)
0:12:31 > 0:12:34And, uh, a pack of rubbers.
0:12:34 > 0:12:36Thank you, Hoy.
0:12:37 > 0:12:41If it's not an exercise, and we have to survive a nuclear winter on this...
0:12:41 > 0:12:43We're as good as dead.
0:12:50 > 0:12:53'Zero hour plus 30 minutes.'
0:12:53 > 0:12:55SIREN CONTINUES
0:12:59 > 0:13:04'A retaliatory strike against the Soviet Union has been launched.
0:13:04 > 0:13:08'All designated NCOs move to Code Red.
0:13:10 > 0:13:12'Repeat - Code Red.'
0:13:19 > 0:13:21The thing to bear in mind, Audrey,
0:13:21 > 0:13:25is that with any pregnancy test, there is always a margin of error.
0:13:25 > 0:13:27Connie, am I pregnant?
0:13:28 > 0:13:29Yes.
0:13:33 > 0:13:35I bring news from the front line.
0:13:35 > 0:13:39Put a thousand head doctors into one big room,
0:13:39 > 0:13:42you would not believe the amount of nonsense generated.
0:13:42 > 0:13:47Mrs Gulliver. I'm so sorry, I didn't realise. I intrude.
0:13:47 > 0:13:49No, no. Not at all.
0:13:49 > 0:13:51We were just gossiping!
0:13:51 > 0:13:53Captain Bulgakov.
0:13:53 > 0:13:57There was one interesting fellow amongst the dross, Connie.
0:13:57 > 0:13:59Ronnie Lang.
0:13:59 > 0:14:04Talks about insanity being a perfectly rational response to an insane world.
0:14:04 > 0:14:09Well, he was an army psychiatrist for a while.
0:14:11 > 0:14:15Jimmy, what's going on?
0:14:15 > 0:14:17Come on, it's time to save the world.
0:14:19 > 0:14:23Personally, I'm not so sure it's worth saving, Corporal.
0:14:23 > 0:14:25Are you going to join me?
0:14:41 > 0:14:43To Armageddon.
0:14:43 > 0:14:45'Zero hours plus 90 minutes.
0:14:45 > 0:14:48'Reports of one warhead detonated over Birmingham,'
0:14:48 > 0:14:51another over Newcastle, a ground-burst detonation at Manchester Airport.
0:14:51 > 0:14:54I have One Section armed and touring the perimeter, sir.
0:14:54 > 0:14:57Extensive fires and severe blast damage in all metropolitan areas.
0:14:57 > 0:15:00Two Section will be detailed to patrol the camp.
0:15:02 > 0:15:04- Audrey?- Colin.
0:15:04 > 0:15:10- Sergeant.- Mrs Gulliver. - What are you doing? Can't you see there's a live exercise going on?
0:15:10 > 0:15:12I appreciate that. I did hear the sirens.
0:15:12 > 0:15:15But am I supposed to hide under a desk until it's over?
0:15:15 > 0:15:18- Audrey!- Or would you like food on the table when you come home?
0:15:18 > 0:15:21Sergeant Butcher, would you escort my wife home, please?
0:15:21 > 0:15:24I don't want you to get caught up in any unpleasantness.
0:15:26 > 0:15:27Sergeant.
0:15:30 > 0:15:33That appears to be an order, Sergeant.
0:15:35 > 0:15:38Women. What can you do?
0:15:38 > 0:15:40'Commanding officers briefing in...'
0:15:40 > 0:15:42- Norah?- Yeah.
0:15:42 > 0:15:45You know, I love her and everything...
0:15:45 > 0:15:46Course you do.
0:15:46 > 0:15:52This nuclear war thing really brings it home to you, doesn't it?
0:15:54 > 0:15:55What does that mean?
0:15:57 > 0:16:04Well, if this was your last day, then you wouldn't want things to go unsaid
0:16:04 > 0:16:06and not be sorted out, would you?
0:16:08 > 0:16:10I suppose.
0:16:25 > 0:16:27Norah.
0:16:28 > 0:16:32Norah, no. Please, I need to explain. I need to make you understand.
0:16:33 > 0:16:35I do understand.
0:16:35 > 0:16:39You need the army much more than you knew.
0:16:39 > 0:16:45Yeah, but that doesn't mean that I don't love you, cos I really do.
0:16:46 > 0:16:48I believe that.
0:16:48 > 0:16:51Even though you've been drinking, I do.
0:16:51 > 0:16:53That's great, then, cos we can sort it out.
0:16:53 > 0:16:57- Cos if this was the last day on earth...- Not till I hear the truth from you.
0:16:57 > 0:16:58That is the truth.
0:16:58 > 0:17:01I love you and I want to marry you.
0:17:01 > 0:17:03You lied to me.
0:17:03 > 0:17:07It's all around camp how you tried to steal this Private Keenan's girlfriend from him.
0:17:07 > 0:17:10No, that's not what happened.
0:17:10 > 0:17:13And it that's what you get up to, messing girls around,
0:17:13 > 0:17:16why should I stand in line to be next?
0:17:20 > 0:17:21Norah...
0:17:22 > 0:17:25MUSIC: Lonely Blue Boy by Conrad Twitty
0:17:34 > 0:17:37One night only, with me, Owen Davies,
0:17:37 > 0:17:39singing the songs of Elvis Presley
0:17:39 > 0:17:42at Cwmdomkin Bowls Club.
0:17:43 > 0:17:47Um... Go to Paris with Estelle.
0:17:48 > 0:17:51Visit Oscar Wilde's grave.
0:17:51 > 0:17:53Spend some time with my little boy.
0:17:53 > 0:17:55Repent.
0:17:59 > 0:18:04'If I just did have one day, she's the one I'd spend it with, Alice.
0:18:04 > 0:18:07'I wish you could have met her.'
0:18:09 > 0:18:11So is it a quick death or like a lingering thing?
0:18:11 > 0:18:17You're missing the point, Hoy. The question is, you have one day to live. What would you do?
0:18:17 > 0:18:19Oh.
0:18:19 > 0:18:21OK, I'd probably, um...
0:18:22 > 0:18:24- I'd go fishing.- Hmmm...
0:18:24 > 0:18:27- What? I like fishing. - Oh, I don't deny it.
0:18:28 > 0:18:30Oh, this is so tedious.
0:18:30 > 0:18:34Almost as tedious as reading your diary, Keenan.
0:18:34 > 0:18:36Which, I have to say, had very poor syntax.
0:18:38 > 0:18:41MEN SHOUT ENCOURAGEMENT
0:18:44 > 0:18:47NCO present! By your beds, Two Section!
0:18:58 > 0:19:01(SLURRING) As invigilators, you will patrol the camp,
0:19:01 > 0:19:05looking for anyone risking death from radiation
0:19:05 > 0:19:08by leaving their place of security.
0:19:08 > 0:19:11If such a person is spotted, they must be challenged
0:19:11 > 0:19:13and their details taken.
0:19:18 > 0:19:21I think Corporal Barrowman's been at the cat-nip!
0:19:21 > 0:19:23That's one for the journal, eh, Keenan?
0:19:26 > 0:19:27# Ain't got no home
0:19:28 > 0:19:30# Or no place to roam
0:19:31 > 0:19:33# Ain't got no home
0:19:34 > 0:19:36# Or no place to roam
0:19:37 > 0:19:39# I'm a lonely boy
0:19:40 > 0:19:42# I ain't got a home
0:19:42 > 0:19:44# I've got a voice
0:19:45 > 0:19:47# Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh
0:19:48 > 0:19:50# Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh... #
0:19:56 > 0:19:58Look, I don't understand
0:19:58 > 0:20:03how you're going to convince anyone you're a better Tory candidate than posh-boy White-Bowne.
0:20:03 > 0:20:05OK. I'll give you an instance. Let me show you.
0:20:05 > 0:20:09- You be a voter, and I'll come to your door.- Right.
0:20:09 > 0:20:12- OK.- Hello, I'm Leonard... - Take your hat off.
0:20:14 > 0:20:18Hello. I'm Leonard Rothman, your local Conservative candidate.
0:20:18 > 0:20:21We're Labour. Always have been. You're wasting your time round here, mate.
0:20:21 > 0:20:25Well? Come on! You have to be quicker than that.
0:20:25 > 0:20:28I've closed the door and I'm back inside watching Hancock's Half Hour.
0:20:28 > 0:20:31OK. Sorry. I'll try again. I wasn't ready.
0:20:31 > 0:20:32OK. OK.
0:20:32 > 0:20:36- Knock-knock!- What are you going to do about the National Health?
0:20:36 > 0:20:39- What do you mean?- The other lot brought it in and everything was free.
0:20:39 > 0:20:42You lot were against it and put a shilling on my gran's prescription.
0:20:42 > 0:20:44- But the Conservative Party...- You make me pay £1 to go to the dentist.
0:20:44 > 0:20:46If I vote for you, will you scrap that?
0:20:50 > 0:20:52I'm going this way. Come on, you.
0:20:52 > 0:20:55'Zero hour plus two.
0:20:55 > 0:20:58'High levels of civilian casualties suffered.
0:20:58 > 0:21:04'All medical staff report to triage zones at gates two and three.'
0:21:04 > 0:21:07That's two hours of leave already gone.
0:21:07 > 0:21:08Unbelievable.
0:21:08 > 0:21:13Makes you wonder how we ever ran an empire, doesn't it?
0:21:14 > 0:21:16Lomax.
0:21:16 > 0:21:18That wasn't from a movie, was it?
0:21:27 > 0:21:29Just between you and me,
0:21:29 > 0:21:33the whole act does get a bit tedious after a while.
0:21:33 > 0:21:36So it is an act?
0:21:37 > 0:21:41Of course. I'm as sane as the next man.
0:21:41 > 0:21:43You must really hate the army!
0:21:43 > 0:21:47- To go through this whole performance just to get out?- Hey.
0:21:48 > 0:21:50It's not about getting out.
0:21:51 > 0:21:54Any idiot can shoot off his toe and get out.
0:21:57 > 0:21:59It's about taking a stand.
0:22:03 > 0:22:05Putting things right.
0:22:16 > 0:22:19I just heard from Lomax, without all the voices.
0:22:19 > 0:22:22What's your view on the National Health Service?
0:22:22 > 0:22:23I think I preferred the voices.
0:22:23 > 0:22:25What do I say at the selection panel if they ask?
0:22:25 > 0:22:29You shake your head, sigh, and say, "Yes, the Welfare State."
0:22:29 > 0:22:31"Ah, yes. The Welfare State."
0:22:31 > 0:22:35No, you need to sound as if you know all the arguments in support of it.
0:22:35 > 0:22:38And know that they know that you know that none of them are very good.
0:22:38 > 0:22:42- "Ah, yes. The Welfare State." - That's it. Perfect.
0:22:42 > 0:22:46MUSIC: "Jet Black" by the Drifters
0:23:12 > 0:23:13# Jet black
0:23:13 > 0:23:15- #- Jet Black - Jet Black- #
0:23:16 > 0:23:20- Can I join you, Captain Bulgakov? - Please do.
0:23:23 > 0:23:25How's the apocalypse progressing?
0:23:25 > 0:23:26Rather pleased with it, actually.
0:23:26 > 0:23:28We're at zero hour plus two.
0:23:28 > 0:23:3150% of the country's burning.
0:23:31 > 0:23:33A radioactive cloud has drifted overhead
0:23:33 > 0:23:36bringing black rain toxic enough to burn skin on contact, sir.
0:23:36 > 0:23:39Excellent. Excellent.
0:23:40 > 0:23:45Viktor, I thought I might update you on things regarding my wife.
0:23:45 > 0:23:48The situation is in many ways far healthier.
0:23:48 > 0:23:53- A lot more things now in the open. Communication less strained.- Good.
0:23:53 > 0:23:56- That's a healthy, er...- I do want a new beginning between us.
0:23:59 > 0:24:01Thank you.
0:24:01 > 0:24:05But what can I do to convince her that things will change?
0:24:07 > 0:24:10Viktor, I feel I still may lose her.
0:24:11 > 0:24:16Ask yourself what is it your wife most wants.
0:24:16 > 0:24:19Are you prepared to offer her that,
0:24:19 > 0:24:22even if it means that you yourself must change?
0:24:26 > 0:24:30- TANNOY:- 'Condition red. Lock-down now imminent.'
0:24:32 > 0:24:34The test is reliable.
0:24:35 > 0:24:37There's no doubt about it.
0:24:37 > 0:24:40Michael, I'm pregnant.
0:24:44 > 0:24:46So...
0:24:47 > 0:24:49What do you want to do?
0:24:50 > 0:24:53Well, there seem to me to be three options.
0:24:55 > 0:24:59I could tell Colin that I'm pregnant and the child is his.
0:25:01 > 0:25:03Or I could tell him I'm leaving him.
0:25:05 > 0:25:10But unless you're with me, I don't know where I'd go
0:25:10 > 0:25:12or how I'd live.
0:25:16 > 0:25:18And the third option?
0:25:38 > 0:25:40'Zero hour plus three.
0:25:40 > 0:25:43'Radiation remains at fatal levels.
0:25:43 > 0:25:49- 'Perimeter patrol to stand down and assemble at Point A.'- Connie.
0:25:49 > 0:25:53- You know Sergeant Butcher. - Sorry, I should have called ahead.
0:25:53 > 0:25:56- No, not at all.- I was just leaving.
0:25:56 > 0:25:59Captain Gulliver asked me to escort Mrs Gulliver home.
0:25:59 > 0:26:01He was concerned for her safety.
0:26:01 > 0:26:06I seem to have escaped nuclear annihilation. Thank you for that, Sergeant.
0:26:17 > 0:26:20I just wanted to check you're all right.
0:26:20 > 0:26:22I'm fine.
0:26:26 > 0:26:28Come in.
0:26:28 > 0:26:32I remember my mother telling me, "Always follow your heart."
0:26:32 > 0:26:34But if I decided to leave him,
0:26:34 > 0:26:36to go...
0:26:38 > 0:26:39Go where?
0:26:39 > 0:26:41And live how?
0:26:41 > 0:26:44I mean, we have to be realistic.
0:26:44 > 0:26:48Michael's no young Romeo, and I'm no heedless Juliet.
0:26:50 > 0:26:51Audrey,
0:26:51 > 0:26:54a year from now, which would you most regret?
0:26:54 > 0:26:57Going or staying?
0:27:08 > 0:27:11There is no zero hour plus four.
0:27:11 > 0:27:1330% of the population is dead.
0:27:13 > 0:27:18Collection and disposal of casualties is now a priority.
0:27:20 > 0:27:22Body bags.
0:27:28 > 0:27:31What now, White-Bowne? Found another fly to pull the wings off?
0:27:31 > 0:27:34I think that might be exactly what I've found.
0:27:36 > 0:27:39It says here that that is Sergeant Barrowman.
0:27:39 > 0:27:42Which means the army broke him down to corporal for something.
0:27:43 > 0:27:45And I see somebody who would know that story.
0:27:45 > 0:27:48Somebody who, if I played it right,
0:27:48 > 0:27:50would tell it to me.
0:27:51 > 0:27:54White-Bowne, you're a very unpleasant creature, do you know that?
0:28:00 > 0:28:05# I awakened this morning
0:28:05 > 0:28:10# I was filled with despair
0:28:10 > 0:28:15# All my dreams turned to ashes
0:28:15 > 0:28:18# And gone
0:28:20 > 0:28:25# As I looked at my life
0:28:25 > 0:28:29# It was barren and bare
0:28:30 > 0:28:32# Without love
0:28:32 > 0:28:38# I've had nothing at all
0:28:40 > 0:28:45# Without love
0:28:45 > 0:28:49# I've had no-o-o-thing
0:28:50 > 0:28:53# Without love
0:28:53 > 0:28:56# I've had nothing
0:28:56 > 0:29:00# At all. #
0:29:07 > 0:29:09Two Section, get a move on.
0:29:09 > 0:29:12Come on. Move it. I haven't got all day.
0:29:12 > 0:29:15Private McIllvenny, move those legs. Run, run, run!
0:29:15 > 0:29:17Line up down here.
0:29:17 > 0:29:19Two Section at ease.
0:29:21 > 0:29:23It is now zero hour plus 12.
0:29:23 > 0:29:29Disposal of potentially hazardous cadavers is necessary.
0:29:32 > 0:29:35In warfare, as an interim measure,
0:29:35 > 0:29:38a mass grave will be dug for your fallen comrades
0:29:38 > 0:29:42until a later time when a proper burial can be conducted.
0:29:42 > 0:29:45You will dig a pit four feet deep
0:29:45 > 0:29:47to take 100 bodies.
0:30:04 > 0:30:06- Corporal Barrowman.- You said...
0:30:07 > 0:30:12..to come and see you if I...ever needed to talk.
0:30:15 > 0:30:19Sometimes, Lance Corporal, you've got to grit your teeth and take what's coming to you.
0:30:19 > 0:30:22Then there are times you've got to stand up and say, "Enough is enough."
0:30:22 > 0:30:26- Yeah. Enough is enough. - Wratten was in tears.
0:30:26 > 0:30:28He's trying to get on the right side of Barrowman,
0:30:28 > 0:30:30but no matter what he does, he can't.
0:30:30 > 0:30:34- Tell him not to blame himself. There's always one he picks out. - I don't follow you.
0:30:34 > 0:30:39I think it was '58, I don't know, but there was this lad.
0:30:39 > 0:30:42He was nice enough, but he was always messing about
0:30:42 > 0:30:44and Barrowman took a dislike to him in a big way.
0:30:44 > 0:30:47Started pushing him in training and on parade.
0:30:47 > 0:30:49Go on.
0:30:50 > 0:30:53Well, one day, he just pushed a little bit too far.
0:30:53 > 0:30:55Private Brookes didn't fall in for parade.
0:30:55 > 0:30:59Barrowman went looking for him and found him in here.
0:30:59 > 0:31:03Poor boy. He hanged himself from that roof beam.
0:31:09 > 0:31:12Do you have any...regrets?
0:31:16 > 0:31:19I don't blame myself for what happened.
0:31:21 > 0:31:24But do you have regrets?
0:31:31 > 0:31:33This is the army.
0:31:34 > 0:31:39We're here to make weak boys into tough men.
0:31:46 > 0:31:48Do you still have the nightmares?
0:31:52 > 0:31:55SIREN SOUNDS
0:32:09 > 0:32:11Sounds like the all-clear.
0:32:13 > 0:32:15Captain, sir...
0:32:17 > 0:32:20I think I might be doing it again.
0:32:21 > 0:32:24He actually went ahead and did it in the gym?
0:32:27 > 0:32:30- What the bloody hell you lot been doing?- Where were you, White-Bowne?
0:32:30 > 0:32:33- I've been busy doing some digging of my own.- Great(!)
0:32:33 > 0:32:38We're officially still on leave for the next...
0:32:39 > 0:32:41..35 minutes.
0:32:41 > 0:32:43MEN GROAN
0:32:43 > 0:32:45Oh, gosh. I don't believe it.
0:32:45 > 0:32:48I say let's make use of it.
0:32:48 > 0:32:52- What?- Or do you want the army to have it?- And do what?
0:32:52 > 0:32:54There's only time to walk to the end of the road and back.
0:32:54 > 0:32:56Sounds good to me.
0:32:56 > 0:32:59But you stay here. Wait for Butcher.
0:32:59 > 0:33:01He'll find something for you.
0:33:04 > 0:33:06Sod it.
0:33:08 > 0:33:10Do you know what's ironic?
0:33:10 > 0:33:12He's officer material and he doesn't even know it.
0:33:12 > 0:33:16So - what do we do about Barrowman?
0:33:16 > 0:33:21I think Corporal Barrowman would have no-one to blame but himself if he was bitten by his own poison.
0:33:25 > 0:33:30- SHOUTING:- I hate the bloody army! - I hate the bloody food!
0:33:30 > 0:33:32I hate the bloody marching!
0:33:32 > 0:33:35I hate the bloody uniform!
0:33:37 > 0:33:39How long does this crazy act of yours go on?
0:33:39 > 0:33:41Not much longer.
0:33:41 > 0:33:46Now Captain Bulgakov's back, the real show begins.
0:33:50 > 0:33:54Long days and nights we strained at the oars
0:33:54 > 0:33:58while the white whale swam freely on.
0:33:58 > 0:34:02Eh? What's mad boy on about now?
0:34:02 > 0:34:05Don't you ever go to the movies, Davies?
0:34:05 > 0:34:08That was Gregory Peck in Moby Dick.
0:34:08 > 0:34:10Lomax, all those voices!
0:34:11 > 0:34:14I smell salt in the air.
0:34:14 > 0:34:16He was only bloody acting, wasn't he?
0:34:20 > 0:34:22LAUGHING AND SHOUTING
0:34:32 > 0:34:35# Old Man River is in my shoes
0:34:35 > 0:34:38# No use a-sittin' and singin' the blues
0:34:38 > 0:34:41# So be my guest, you got nothing to lose
0:34:41 > 0:34:44# Why won't you let me take you on a sea cruise
0:34:44 > 0:34:47# Oo-ee, oo-ee, baby,
0:34:47 > 0:34:51# Oo-ee, oo-ee, baby
0:34:51 > 0:34:54# Oo-ee, oo-ee baby,
0:34:54 > 0:34:57# Won't you let me take you on a sea cruise
0:34:57 > 0:35:01# Feel like jumpin', baby, won't you join me please
0:35:03 > 0:35:07# I don't like beggin' but now I'm on bended knees
0:35:09 > 0:35:12# I got to get to rockin', get my hat off the rack
0:35:12 > 0:35:16# I got to boogie-woogie like a knife in the back
0:35:16 > 0:35:19# So be my guest, you got nothing to lose
0:35:19 > 0:35:22# Won't you let me take you on a sea cruise?
0:35:22 > 0:35:25# Oo-ee, oo-ee, baby
0:35:25 > 0:35:28# Won't you let me take you on a sea cruise? #
0:35:30 > 0:35:32Oh, excuse me, lads.
0:35:32 > 0:35:33Wa-hey!
0:35:36 > 0:35:40It seems we both survived a nuclear emergency!
0:35:40 > 0:35:43Shame we had to scrap afternoon tea.
0:35:43 > 0:35:45Private Keenan!
0:35:45 > 0:35:48- Keenan, come with me.- Is that an order, Lance Corporal?
0:35:48 > 0:35:50If it has to be, yeah.
0:35:57 > 0:35:59You need to sit down and listen.
0:35:59 > 0:36:01What are you doing?
0:36:01 > 0:36:02Jimmy?
0:36:02 > 0:36:04Both of you, sit down and listen.
0:36:04 > 0:36:07- Whatever you have to say, I'm not interested.- Yes, you are.
0:36:08 > 0:36:11Cos you haven't thought about much else since you saw me on your first day here.
0:36:11 > 0:36:14Anything between you two is nothing to do with me.
0:36:14 > 0:36:18Norah, you need to hear this. You owe me this at least.
0:36:20 > 0:36:21Sit down.
0:36:31 > 0:36:34I met a girl called Alice at a fun fair.
0:36:34 > 0:36:37It was about a year ago, before we ever met.
0:36:37 > 0:36:40I was on leave with three of the lads and she was with her friends.
0:36:40 > 0:36:42She was Keenan's sister.
0:36:44 > 0:36:47We did all those usual seaside things that everybody does
0:36:47 > 0:36:49but then she cut her leg on one of the rides.
0:36:50 > 0:36:56I ended up sitting in a hospital waiting room with her for about three hours.
0:36:56 > 0:36:59Precious moments of my leave were ticking away.
0:36:59 > 0:37:03And there I was, just sat there talking to her.
0:37:05 > 0:37:07And we just talked.
0:37:09 > 0:37:11She told me about how much she loved her dad,
0:37:11 > 0:37:16how much she cried when her mum died. We talked about her favourite records, her favourite book,
0:37:16 > 0:37:18about how much her brother meant to her.
0:37:19 > 0:37:21About her plans for the future.
0:37:21 > 0:37:23THUNDER RUMBLES
0:37:23 > 0:37:27Anyway, after the hospital had fixed her up,
0:37:27 > 0:37:30it was just the two of us, so we walked down the beach as the sun went down.
0:37:32 > 0:37:34We sat under the pier and then...
0:37:42 > 0:37:46I was leaving for a posting in Cyprus the next day
0:37:46 > 0:37:49so we swapped addresses and I said I'd write, and I did.
0:37:53 > 0:37:58But the first letter that I got back, it took six weeks to find me.
0:37:58 > 0:38:01And she told me that she was pregnant.
0:38:03 > 0:38:05Norah, you need to hear this, you really do.
0:38:05 > 0:38:09Or do you think your daddy was the only soldier to get a girl pregnant?
0:38:20 > 0:38:21Go on.
0:38:22 > 0:38:25She said in the letter that she was too young to be a mum.
0:38:28 > 0:38:33She was only 19 and that she'd have it taken care of.
0:38:37 > 0:38:38I tried to get leave...
0:38:39 > 0:38:42..but my C.O. was a right bad 'un.
0:38:46 > 0:38:51I managed a phone call to the work number she gave me and they told me...
0:38:52 > 0:38:55They told me that she'd been taken ill...
0:38:56 > 0:38:58..and that she'd died.
0:39:04 > 0:39:06I love you, Norah, really, I do.
0:39:11 > 0:39:14But there isn't a day that goes by that I don't think of her.
0:40:00 > 0:40:03Sometimes, we have to acknowledge
0:40:03 > 0:40:06that certain things have to change.
0:40:06 > 0:40:07Absolutely.
0:40:07 > 0:40:12Audrey, I really want things between us to change.
0:40:13 > 0:40:17No, but sometimes, circumstances conspire to...
0:40:19 > 0:40:21..to force a difficult decision.
0:40:21 > 0:40:24I want to give you what you want.
0:40:27 > 0:40:30This is a letter to Major Cunnicliffe.
0:40:30 > 0:40:32But Colin, I thought we agreed.
0:40:32 > 0:40:36- The posting to Germany has gone. You have to move on.- I have.
0:40:36 > 0:40:39This is my resignation from the army.
0:40:42 > 0:40:45SOLDIERS PARADE OUTSIDE
0:40:45 > 0:40:47KNOCK AT DOOR
0:40:48 > 0:40:52Corporal. The lads sent me. We're worried about Wratten.
0:40:52 > 0:40:55- What about him?- He hasn't been himself since this morning.
0:40:55 > 0:40:57He's really depressed.
0:40:57 > 0:41:00Of course he is - he's in the army.
0:41:00 > 0:41:03He told McIllvenny he just couldn't carry on.
0:41:03 > 0:41:05What do you think he meant, Corporal?
0:41:05 > 0:41:08Somebody said they saw him heading to the gym.
0:41:24 > 0:41:26No!
0:41:27 > 0:41:29Oh, please, no!
0:42:05 > 0:42:08Ready to lose Keenan's bet for him, Mr Rothman?
0:42:08 > 0:42:10I look forward to seeing you grovel, Mr White-Bowne.
0:42:10 > 0:42:12- Oh, my Lord!- The Victoria Cross.
0:42:12 > 0:42:15It's like the FA Cup and Olympic gold all rolled into one!
0:42:15 > 0:42:17I'm leaving it behind. I want you to come with me.
0:42:17 > 0:42:20A signal, so they can recognise each other.
0:42:20 > 0:42:24Just shut up! I don't want a stupid white poppy!
0:42:25 > 0:42:28# We gotta get outta this place
0:42:28 > 0:42:32# If it's the last thing we ever do
0:42:33 > 0:42:36# We gotta get outta this place
0:42:36 > 0:42:41# Girl there's a better life for me and you
0:42:41 > 0:42:44# We gotta get outta this place
0:42:44 > 0:42:48# If it's the last thing we ever do
0:42:48 > 0:42:51# We gotta get outta this place. #
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