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0:00:35 > 0:00:38DISTANT EXPLOSIONS
0:00:39 > 0:00:40SUDDEN EXPLOSION
0:00:40 > 0:00:41SHE SCREAMS
0:02:01 > 0:02:05Up again? This is becoming something of a habit.
0:02:05 > 0:02:06I'm a light sleeper.
0:02:08 > 0:02:09Make yourself useful.
0:02:11 > 0:02:12Matron.
0:02:58 > 0:03:04Convoy tonight. 200 men but could be more.
0:03:04 > 0:03:07We need more tents, more beds, more of everything.
0:03:08 > 0:03:11New directive from HQ.
0:03:11 > 0:03:14Only ten items per requisition order which has to be
0:03:14 > 0:03:17counter-signed in triplicate by Colonel Purbright before being
0:03:17 > 0:03:19sent to the General for approval.
0:03:19 > 0:03:21So I'll order today and with any luck,
0:03:21 > 0:03:22it'll all be here by next Easter.
0:03:42 > 0:03:44Nurse! He's waking up.
0:03:49 > 0:03:52How delightful. Please say you're looking for me.
0:03:52 > 0:03:54No. HE SIGHS
0:03:54 > 0:03:56You do know how to crush a chap's hopes, don't you?
0:04:01 > 0:04:03- Excuse me. - You're not allowed in here.
0:04:03 > 0:04:06- I know...- How long have you been standing there?
0:04:06 > 0:04:09- Only a moment.- Out.
0:04:09 > 0:04:10Now!
0:04:17 > 0:04:19Your patient's come round.
0:04:19 > 0:04:20Name? Or shall I just guess?
0:04:20 > 0:04:23Major Crecy. I was sent to find you.
0:04:25 > 0:04:29If you're going to the ward, you might want to take your apron off.
0:04:40 > 0:04:42How's the pain?
0:04:43 > 0:04:45It's not too bad.
0:04:47 > 0:04:49I'll get you another half grain of morphine.
0:04:51 > 0:04:53Byeford...
0:04:54 > 0:04:58- ..are you in one piece? - Right as ninepence.
0:04:58 > 0:04:59And the others?
0:05:01 > 0:05:03I'll talk to you about that in a minute, Sir.
0:05:03 > 0:05:07We have to keep you as still as possible. Risk of haemorrhage.
0:05:07 > 0:05:09I understand.
0:05:09 > 0:05:11We sent a letter to your wife.
0:05:11 > 0:05:14Did you think I would die?
0:05:14 > 0:05:15To be honest, yes.
0:05:15 > 0:05:17You must make sure that she knows that I'm alive,
0:05:17 > 0:05:19I don't want her to be upset.
0:05:19 > 0:05:22She'll be able to see for herself. She's coming.
0:05:22 > 0:05:23Here?
0:05:23 > 0:05:26We'll speak to her first so she knows what to expect.
0:05:27 > 0:05:30I've been asked to check you wouldn't prefer to be moved
0:05:30 > 0:05:32to an officers' ward.
0:05:32 > 0:05:33Absolutely not.
0:05:37 > 0:05:39I'll get your shot.
0:05:43 > 0:05:44So, the others?
0:05:47 > 0:05:49Just you and me left.
0:05:51 > 0:05:53Nothing we can do for them now, Sir.
0:05:53 > 0:05:57Your wife's coming, keep thinking of that.
0:06:04 > 0:06:06You are turning the engine over every day, aren't you?
0:06:06 > 0:06:08She'll seize up otherwise.
0:06:08 > 0:06:11I'm taking the very best care of your motorcycle, Sister Livesey.
0:06:11 > 0:06:14- You can be assured of that. - I didn't know she'd be confiscated.
0:06:14 > 0:06:17Have you any idea when I'll get her back?
0:06:17 > 0:06:19As I said, I'm doing all I can.
0:06:19 > 0:06:21I appreciate it, Sergeant.
0:06:21 > 0:06:22Ready?
0:06:28 > 0:06:30Um...
0:06:31 > 0:06:32..am I snoring?
0:06:36 > 0:06:37Why d'you ask that?
0:06:37 > 0:06:41There hasn't been one morning when you've been in your bed.
0:06:41 > 0:06:44- Am I snoring and waking you up? Is Rosalie snoring?- No.
0:06:46 > 0:06:50My brother Barty told me I sound like a donkey when I'm asleep.
0:06:50 > 0:06:52Are you sure you're not just being nice?
0:06:52 > 0:06:55I'm many things, Flora. Nice isn't one of them.
0:06:55 > 0:06:57Then why are you always up so early?
0:06:57 > 0:07:01I like to get an early start. Make a good impression.
0:07:01 > 0:07:04Well, can you wake me up too? Then I can make a good impression
0:07:04 > 0:07:07and I might even be allowed within ten feet of an actual patient.
0:07:07 > 0:07:08VEHICLE HONKS
0:07:08 > 0:07:14Oh, here comes the mail. We're bound to get letters today.
0:07:14 > 0:07:17Barty's at the front and I haven't heard from him in ages.
0:07:48 > 0:07:50Good morning, Matron Carter.
0:07:50 > 0:07:53Where's my husband, Major Edward Crecy?
0:07:53 > 0:07:55Am I too late?
0:07:55 > 0:07:58- Mrs Crecy, your husband is alive... - Where is he? Take me to him.
0:07:59 > 0:08:03Mrs Crecy, there are relatives here to whom I have to give bad news.
0:08:03 > 0:08:06Please do them the courtesy of waiting.
0:08:07 > 0:08:09If you'd like to follow me.
0:08:20 > 0:08:21I don't think so.
0:08:21 > 0:08:24- No, it's all right.- Good.
0:08:29 > 0:08:32His notes say one of the volunteers is feeding him.
0:08:32 > 0:08:34Yes, Sister.
0:08:35 > 0:08:37That's your job.
0:08:39 > 0:08:43Sister, I have over 80 patients on night shift
0:08:43 > 0:08:47- and I did check with Sister Livesey...- You will do his feeding.
0:08:47 > 0:08:51This boy deserves only the best, make sure you give it to him.
0:08:56 > 0:09:00Manage your time better, Nurse Jesmond.
0:09:00 > 0:09:01Yes, Sister.
0:09:06 > 0:09:08Did you always know you were going to do this?
0:09:08 > 0:09:12Nursing? I knew from when I was this high.
0:09:12 > 0:09:15I was always putting my toys in beds and taking their temperatures.
0:09:15 > 0:09:17What about you? What did you want to be?
0:09:19 > 0:09:22I wasn't really asked.
0:09:22 > 0:09:25My father doesn't approve of women earning their own money.
0:09:25 > 0:09:27He says it's vulgar.
0:09:27 > 0:09:29He likes the sound of his own voice, your pa, doesn't he?
0:09:29 > 0:09:31He does rather, yes.
0:09:31 > 0:09:34Well, he's going to have to get used to vulgar women.
0:09:34 > 0:09:39The world's changing, Rosalie. Everything is possible.
0:09:39 > 0:09:43You know, when I volunteered, everyone at home was rather sniffy.
0:09:43 > 0:09:45Why's that, then?
0:09:45 > 0:09:47Oh, I don't think they thought I'd stick at it.
0:09:47 > 0:09:50But I really believe I was meant for this.
0:09:50 > 0:09:53- Seems such a waste.- What does?
0:09:53 > 0:09:55The time before this.
0:09:55 > 0:09:59You know, when one was feeling useless and really rather low...
0:10:00 > 0:10:03I could have been like you -
0:10:03 > 0:10:08riding your motorcycle and speaking your mind, so much wasted time.
0:10:08 > 0:10:10I wish I'd been braver sooner.
0:10:13 > 0:10:16Well, you're here. Proving them all wrong.
0:10:16 > 0:10:18And I'll show you how to ride that motorbike.
0:10:18 > 0:10:21- Oh, I'd only look silly. - No, you wouldn't.
0:10:23 > 0:10:28Well, maybe. That would make them all sit up at home.
0:10:28 > 0:10:30That would make them really sit up!
0:10:31 > 0:10:35What are you doing in here, Berwick? You have duties.
0:10:35 > 0:10:37I finished my morning's work, Sister.
0:10:37 > 0:10:40I said she could observe my dressings round. Be good experience.
0:10:40 > 0:10:42I thought they could take it in turns.
0:10:42 > 0:10:45Berwick, we need an inventory of the linen cupboard.
0:10:56 > 0:11:00Don't forget, Matron needs your probation report on Trevelyan.
0:11:00 > 0:11:01Already done.
0:11:01 > 0:11:03I'll let you get on, then.
0:11:03 > 0:11:05Can we find some time to put together
0:11:05 > 0:11:08a plan for how the volunteers are going to progress?
0:11:22 > 0:11:26Kind of them, isn't it, to bring us over?
0:11:32 > 0:11:34We're supposed to wait!
0:11:34 > 0:11:35- You know what to ask for?- Yes.
0:11:35 > 0:11:38Don't let 'em fob you off, cos I know what they're like in there.
0:11:38 > 0:11:39Oh, I won't be fobbed off.
0:11:39 > 0:11:42You get this right, they'll see you've got a head on your shoulders,
0:11:42 > 0:11:45worth more than just pushing trolleys around and delousing.
0:11:45 > 0:11:47You're a real pal, Corporal.
0:11:48 > 0:11:49Three tins of...
0:11:53 > 0:11:55What can I do for you?
0:11:55 > 0:11:58Corporal Foley sent me for a long weight, please.
0:11:58 > 0:11:59I can do you two short ones.
0:11:59 > 0:12:03No, I'm sorry, Sergeant Soper, but I'm not going to be fobbed off.
0:12:03 > 0:12:06- I need a long one. - Two short ones'll do the same job.
0:12:06 > 0:12:08Goddamn it, Soper! You heard her!
0:12:08 > 0:12:10Fetch the young lady what she asked for
0:12:10 > 0:12:13- and quick about it or I'll put you on a charge!- Oh, Sir!
0:12:13 > 0:12:16They're right at the back, I'll have to get the stepladder out...
0:12:16 > 0:12:19Yes, Sir. Right away, Sir.
0:12:19 > 0:12:22The longest you've got, please, Sergeant.
0:12:22 > 0:12:23Thank you, Captain.
0:12:23 > 0:12:26Don't mention it. You might want to take a seat.
0:12:38 > 0:12:39Do I look less trenchy?
0:12:41 > 0:12:43Dapper, if I say so myself.
0:12:43 > 0:12:46I might take up barbering when I'm back in civvies.
0:12:46 > 0:12:48I think I found my talent.
0:12:48 > 0:12:49You look very presentable.
0:12:53 > 0:12:55Well, we just have to wait and see.
0:12:59 > 0:13:01I'm not sure what to say to her.
0:13:02 > 0:13:04What about...
0:13:04 > 0:13:10"My dear, the good news is my dancing days are over.
0:13:10 > 0:13:12"Never again will I crush your toes"?
0:13:12 > 0:13:14THEY LAUGH
0:13:16 > 0:13:18Just say that you're happy she's here.
0:13:18 > 0:13:22That's all a wife wants to know. And trust me, I know wives.
0:13:22 > 0:13:25I've got three.
0:13:25 > 0:13:28True as I'm stood here. It's because I'm irresistible.
0:13:28 > 0:13:32It's my curse. And Nurse here's going to be my fourth.
0:13:32 > 0:13:34Promised to run away with me.
0:13:34 > 0:13:37Oh, I'll be running, I can promise you that.
0:13:37 > 0:13:38Adelinde?
0:13:41 > 0:13:42Eddie?
0:13:45 > 0:13:46SHE GASPS
0:13:49 > 0:13:51SHE PANTS
0:13:54 > 0:13:57What have you done to him?! Where's he gone?!
0:13:59 > 0:14:03- It's a lot to take in. - Really? Do you think so(?)
0:14:05 > 0:14:08I received a letter saying my husband was wounded and dangerously
0:14:08 > 0:14:12ill, near death, that I should come at once, it said nothing about...
0:14:14 > 0:14:18- Could you not have prepared me? - I believe you were asked to wait.
0:14:22 > 0:14:23The surgery was successful.
0:14:25 > 0:14:28All necrosis, all infection, was removed and barring any
0:14:28 > 0:14:31haemorrhage, your husband shouldn't need any further operations.
0:14:31 > 0:14:34I wouldn't have thought there was much more you could take off.
0:14:34 > 0:14:38You appear to have been very thorough, Captain...with your knife.
0:14:42 > 0:14:46It's not wilful butchery, Mrs Crecy. It had to be done.
0:14:46 > 0:14:50Why's he in a men's ward? He should be with those of his own rank.
0:14:50 > 0:14:52Mrs Crecy, when your husband was brought in,
0:14:52 > 0:14:55he was insistent that he stayed with the soldier who'd fetched him in.
0:14:55 > 0:14:58But it isn't good for the men to see an officer so...
0:15:01 > 0:15:06..diminished. He must be with his own kind.
0:15:08 > 0:15:09Mrs Crecy...
0:15:09 > 0:15:13It is not appropriate. It is quite scandalous.
0:15:13 > 0:15:14- KNOCK ON DOOR - Enter.
0:15:15 > 0:15:17Mrs Crecy's gloves, Matron.
0:15:21 > 0:15:25Could you show Mrs Crecy to the visitors' accommodation, please?
0:15:25 > 0:15:28My husband must be moved.
0:15:29 > 0:15:31If you could expedite that immediately,
0:15:31 > 0:15:32I would be most grateful.
0:15:55 > 0:15:57I'll be along to visit.
0:16:02 > 0:16:03Nothing for Trevelyan?
0:16:16 > 0:16:18Mrs Crecy, I wonder if your husband
0:16:18 > 0:16:21and Private Byeford should be separated so suddenly?
0:16:21 > 0:16:24They spent months together under fire the whole time.
0:16:24 > 0:16:27He saved your husband's life. There's a bond.
0:16:27 > 0:16:28He's a hunting man, you know.
0:16:30 > 0:16:32Every day in the winter...
0:16:33 > 0:16:34..all weathers.
0:16:36 > 0:16:39The outdoors belonged to him.
0:16:39 > 0:16:41The house was mine.
0:16:44 > 0:16:46That will be different, now.
0:16:50 > 0:16:53As regards this soldier, of course, we are
0:16:53 > 0:16:56grateful but we must take care it does not become an obligation.
0:16:56 > 0:17:01That there is no...incursion.
0:17:01 > 0:17:04- Incursion?- This young man is not my husband's future...
0:17:05 > 0:17:06..I am.
0:17:10 > 0:17:12Who is to help me with my hair, my clothes?
0:17:12 > 0:17:14I'm afraid you'll have to manage by yourself.
0:17:19 > 0:17:20Thanks, Sarge.
0:17:25 > 0:17:28I'm really sorry, they still haven't brought it and I've been here ages.
0:17:28 > 0:17:32- Did you ask for the right thing? - Yes, a long weight.
0:17:32 > 0:17:33HE LAUGHS
0:17:39 > 0:17:43You don't take me seriously but you'll see, I've got grit!
0:17:43 > 0:17:45Where, in your shoe?!
0:17:47 > 0:17:50Oh, God...
0:17:52 > 0:17:53Is that Sister Livesey's motorcycle?
0:17:56 > 0:17:57What's it doing here?
0:18:00 > 0:18:03- Confiscated, Sir, by me.- Why?
0:18:03 > 0:18:05Civilian vehicle drinking army petrol,
0:18:05 > 0:18:07every drop of which has to be accounted for, Sir,
0:18:07 > 0:18:09through my books.
0:18:09 > 0:18:10I am waiting to hear from HQ
0:18:10 > 0:18:13if aforementioned vehicle is to be allowed.
0:18:13 > 0:18:16I see, some docket that will be conveniently
0:18:16 > 0:18:20lost among a pile of other dockets in the docket graveyard that is HQ.
0:18:20 > 0:18:22Do you have a buyer lined up ready?
0:18:22 > 0:18:24You'd get a good price for that.
0:18:24 > 0:18:27I'm not sure I take your meaning, Sir.
0:18:27 > 0:18:31I think you do, Soper. I want that motorcycle returned today.
0:18:33 > 0:18:36I shall need some official clearance...for my books.
0:18:36 > 0:18:38I'll make sure you have it.
0:18:38 > 0:18:40Don't treat me like a fool.
0:18:40 > 0:18:42I might not have caught you red-handed
0:18:42 > 0:18:45but I have a pretty fair idea of your lucrative sidelines.
0:18:45 > 0:18:48Desist with immediate effect. Do I make myself clear?
0:18:48 > 0:18:49Sir.
0:19:06 > 0:19:09Eddie, I'm so embarrassed.
0:19:09 > 0:19:11I made a complete fool of myself.
0:19:12 > 0:19:14No-one minds.
0:19:14 > 0:19:16I do.
0:19:17 > 0:19:21Meant to introduce you to Byeford.
0:19:21 > 0:19:24- You must meet Byeford.- Oh, I'm sure there'll be time enough.
0:19:27 > 0:19:31It's quite pleasant here, isn't it? Very clean.
0:19:31 > 0:19:34I didn't think you'd be so close to the sea.
0:19:49 > 0:19:53Well, my dear, the good news is that my dancing days are over.
0:19:56 > 0:19:57Eddie, how can you joke about such a thing?
0:20:00 > 0:20:03Please don't joke, I don't like it.
0:20:05 > 0:20:10All that matters is that you're alive. You'll be coming home.
0:20:12 > 0:20:17The children will be very proud of their brave papa.
0:20:17 > 0:20:22And everyone, absolutely everyone, will be...
0:20:22 > 0:20:25so terribly, terribly kind.
0:20:36 > 0:20:39Everybody reports that you're competent, polite,
0:20:39 > 0:20:43that you work very hard. Everyone comments on your reserve.
0:20:43 > 0:20:47Being unreserved is what put me on probation in the first place.
0:20:47 > 0:20:48So you're biting your tongue?
0:20:50 > 0:20:52I'm grateful for the second chance.
0:20:52 > 0:20:55Well, apart from constantly finding you prowling around at night,
0:20:55 > 0:20:59your conduct is satisfactory. I'm signing off your probation.
0:20:59 > 0:21:00Thank you.
0:21:03 > 0:21:05Was there something else?
0:21:08 > 0:21:09Miss Trevelyan, you are aware
0:21:09 > 0:21:12that I have to read all outgoing women's post?
0:21:16 > 0:21:19- I thought it was random.- No.
0:21:19 > 0:21:23All letters. And I have to read each one thoroughly.
0:21:25 > 0:21:26I see...
0:21:28 > 0:21:32In training we were taught it was exclusively for censorship purposes
0:21:32 > 0:21:36and there would be utmost discretion and no need to discuss...
0:21:36 > 0:21:38But I do think there's a need.
0:21:38 > 0:21:40All confidences are kept, but...
0:21:42 > 0:21:45..am I to understand there's a child?
0:22:02 > 0:22:05Such a forcible separation must be very difficult.
0:22:05 > 0:22:07It certainly explains why you don't sleep.
0:22:07 > 0:22:10I would really rather not talk...
0:22:10 > 0:22:12No woman is a blank sheet of paper.
0:22:12 > 0:22:16We all have histories, and I am not about to start clawing yours apart.
0:22:16 > 0:22:19It's the here and now that concerns me.
0:22:22 > 0:22:25In your letters, you ask for forgiveness.
0:22:25 > 0:22:27Call a spade a spade - I don't ask, I beg.
0:22:32 > 0:22:35What are you going to do if forgiveness doesn't come?
0:22:35 > 0:22:36It has to!
0:22:54 > 0:22:55WHISPERS: I don't know.
0:22:55 > 0:22:57I don't know.
0:23:00 > 0:23:05Take some time to compose yourself. That's an order.
0:23:05 > 0:23:07We have a busy night ahead.
0:23:14 > 0:23:16SHE SOBS
0:23:19 > 0:23:21Miss Trevelyan.
0:23:21 > 0:23:24This morning when you came to get me, I was sharp with you.
0:23:24 > 0:23:27- It doesn't matter.- My patient died.
0:23:27 > 0:23:29Well, you could see that.
0:23:29 > 0:23:33He started bleeding and there was nothing I could do to stop it.
0:23:33 > 0:23:37- So I snapped. I was rude. - As I said, it doesn't matter.
0:23:37 > 0:23:39I'm really sorry about your patient.
0:23:39 > 0:23:41Can I get past now, please?
0:23:44 > 0:23:47You know, most people have the good grace to accept an apology
0:23:47 > 0:23:49when they're owed one.
0:23:49 > 0:23:53You don't owe me anything, Captain. And you haven't actually apologised.
0:24:07 > 0:24:10There's a face like thunder. Cheer up, look on your desk.
0:24:15 > 0:24:17Listen to this...
0:24:17 > 0:24:20"Mary Pickford has a sunken bathtub with gold taps
0:24:20 > 0:24:23"shaped like dolphins in her Hollywood mansion."
0:24:26 > 0:24:28I'm going to be thinking about that all day now.
0:24:28 > 0:24:31Lovely Mary Pickford and her lovely blonde hair
0:24:31 > 0:24:34lying in her sunken bathtub like a glorious mermaid.
0:24:36 > 0:24:37It's not in here.
0:24:38 > 0:24:41They didn't print it.
0:24:41 > 0:24:43The Royal College of Surgeons are probably still
0:24:43 > 0:24:45reading your magnum opus on femoral trauma
0:24:45 > 0:24:48and talking about how completely wonderful you are.
0:24:48 > 0:24:50You'll be on the board before you know it.
0:24:50 > 0:24:53I, however, will be in Hollywood.
0:24:53 > 0:24:57Bottle of champagne in one hand, bar of scented soap in the other.
0:24:58 > 0:25:01It was a good article, Tom.
0:25:01 > 0:25:03You know, I never read anything apart from this and Tarzan,
0:25:03 > 0:25:05and I read the whole thing without dozing off once.
0:25:08 > 0:25:09I wish I was Tarzan.
0:25:09 > 0:25:11In the jungle with Jane.
0:25:13 > 0:25:16I bet Jane's kinder to a fellow than Miss Trevelyan.
0:25:17 > 0:25:20She's a tough nut to crack.
0:25:20 > 0:25:22I only want the blasted woman to give me a smile.
0:25:25 > 0:25:27Does she smile at you?
0:25:27 > 0:25:29I've never talked to her.
0:25:33 > 0:25:35Mrs Crecy...
0:25:38 > 0:25:41Private Byeford. I was with your husband.
0:25:41 > 0:25:42How is he?
0:25:43 > 0:25:45He's being attended to.
0:25:48 > 0:25:52Bit much for a lady. All of this.
0:25:52 > 0:25:55- Bit too much. - I'm told you've been rather brave.
0:25:55 > 0:26:00Fetching a man in's nothing. Wish I could've fetched 'em all in.
0:26:05 > 0:26:07A token of appreciation.
0:26:08 > 0:26:10I don't want money.
0:26:10 > 0:26:13You can't come any further. You are intruding.
0:26:13 > 0:26:15- I'm only saying goodbye.- No.
0:26:15 > 0:26:17You're not.
0:26:40 > 0:26:43All turned out well in the end. Full clearance.
0:26:43 > 0:26:46Thank you very much, Sergeant Soper, I appreciate it.
0:26:46 > 0:26:48Not at all, Sister. So long as you're happy.
0:26:48 > 0:26:49Oh, I am.
0:26:54 > 0:26:57Signed out by the Colonel.
0:26:57 > 0:27:00Army rules bent for a civilian.
0:27:00 > 0:27:03Makes me wonder what he's thinking sometimes.
0:27:03 > 0:27:05Take yourself, Sister.
0:27:05 > 0:27:09Should've been you he recommended for Matron.
0:27:09 > 0:27:11Should have been you.
0:27:11 > 0:27:18But they do say that him and Grace Carter is close, so...
0:27:18 > 0:27:20It's a topsy-turvy world, Sister.
0:27:20 > 0:27:24And nothing more topsy-turvy than that cocky sort.
0:27:24 > 0:27:27Turning up in men's clothes.
0:27:27 > 0:27:29Neither fish nor flesh, if you ask me.
0:27:29 > 0:27:31But I didn't.
0:27:39 > 0:27:41You've probably got about ten minutes
0:27:41 > 0:27:43before they start thinking you're AWOL.
0:27:52 > 0:27:53Back in khaki?
0:27:53 > 0:27:56They need the bed, so I'm off to training camp.
0:27:57 > 0:28:00Keep an eye on this, few weeks of thrust-twist-withdraw
0:28:00 > 0:28:02and then up the road.
0:28:02 > 0:28:03You won't know anyone.
0:28:04 > 0:28:06Make friends soon enough, Sir.
0:28:08 > 0:28:09I envy you.
0:28:11 > 0:28:13No, you don't.
0:28:14 > 0:28:15You really don't.
0:28:15 > 0:28:16DOOR OPENS
0:28:21 > 0:28:24Why wouldn't you let them say goodbye? Why be so cruel?
0:28:25 > 0:28:29- I am not being cruel. - Is it because he was kind to you?
0:28:30 > 0:28:32Was that too much of an incursion?
0:28:34 > 0:28:37You are a disrespectful and impertinent young woman.
0:28:41 > 0:28:42Well.
0:28:45 > 0:28:47It's been an honour, Byeford.
0:28:48 > 0:28:52Sir. You were a good gaffer.
0:28:52 > 0:28:53The best.
0:28:53 > 0:28:55We would have followed you anywhere.
0:28:58 > 0:29:01Whoever I get next won't be a patch on you.
0:29:02 > 0:29:03So you take care of yourself.
0:29:05 > 0:29:06And you.
0:29:18 > 0:29:20Now, are you sure you don't want to run away with me?
0:29:20 > 0:29:22It's your last chance.
0:29:24 > 0:29:25Good luck, Jackie.
0:29:58 > 0:30:00Can he talk?
0:30:00 > 0:30:01Who?
0:30:01 > 0:30:05Your husband. Can he talk to you?
0:30:05 > 0:30:06Of course he can talk.
0:30:06 > 0:30:08That's good.
0:30:08 > 0:30:12George, my boy, he can't talk.
0:30:12 > 0:30:14He was hit in the head.
0:30:22 > 0:30:26I don't think he sees me. Doesn't know I'm there.
0:30:30 > 0:30:32Of course he does.
0:30:36 > 0:30:38I don't think he's going to make it.
0:30:38 > 0:30:40I'm sure you're quite wrong.
0:30:43 > 0:30:45I'm sure everything will be perfectly fine.
0:30:48 > 0:30:50It will all be as it was before.
0:30:51 > 0:30:52I'm quite certain of it.
0:30:55 > 0:30:57Do excuse me.
0:31:02 > 0:31:06Sister, I don't want you to think I was treading on your toes
0:31:06 > 0:31:09or undermining you this morning.
0:31:09 > 0:31:10Of course not.
0:31:10 > 0:31:13I think it's really important that we prepare the volunteers to
0:31:13 > 0:31:15take on more responsibility.
0:31:17 > 0:31:21200 men we're getting tonight. Or more.
0:31:21 > 0:31:26- There's going to be more. - We will cope - we always do.
0:31:26 > 0:31:29The volunteers that we had at Liverpool,
0:31:29 > 0:31:33yes, they were green to begin with, but they became valuable.
0:31:33 > 0:31:36- You're not in Liverpool now.- All hospitals are essentially the same.
0:31:36 > 0:31:40No...they are not.
0:31:41 > 0:31:43The reason this hospital
0:31:43 > 0:31:47is different from the Liverpool Infirmary...
0:31:48 > 0:31:52..is because the men here have come from hell.
0:31:54 > 0:32:00This is their sanctuary, and they need to feel safe,
0:32:00 > 0:32:05because...they have not been safe.
0:32:05 > 0:32:12And what makes them feel safe is calm, professional expertise,
0:32:12 > 0:32:17not the clumsy enthusiasms of the well-meaning amateur.
0:32:20 > 0:32:23These three are the first, but they won't be the last.
0:32:23 > 0:32:26More will come. What are you going to do?
0:32:26 > 0:32:30Put them all in the laundry, out of sight, out of mind?
0:32:30 > 0:32:32Get them doing endless inventories of linen?
0:32:32 > 0:32:35It's just bloody-minded, and meantime,
0:32:35 > 0:32:40your nurses are fit to drop, and men lie there waiting.
0:32:41 > 0:32:44Perhaps, Sister, it's you who doesn't feel safe.
0:32:45 > 0:32:47The passion of youth.
0:32:51 > 0:32:54It's only natural that you should want to make your mark here.
0:32:56 > 0:32:58But you are still very new.
0:32:59 > 0:33:03Don't try to run before you can walk.
0:33:09 > 0:33:11Thank you for your time.
0:33:36 > 0:33:38DISTANT EXPLOSION
0:33:42 > 0:33:46Our first convoy. Any moment now.
0:33:46 > 0:33:49- Are you nervous, Rosalie? - Not at all.
0:33:53 > 0:33:56I can't believe you're only just opening that.
0:33:56 > 0:33:58I wanted to save it.
0:33:58 > 0:34:03I would have ripped mine open straight away. If I'd had any.
0:34:03 > 0:34:04Who's it from?
0:34:04 > 0:34:06A friend of mine. Miss Tillotson.
0:34:06 > 0:34:08How do you know her?
0:34:08 > 0:34:10My friend, Miss Tillotson,
0:34:10 > 0:34:14is the patroness of a home for fallen girls.
0:34:14 > 0:34:16I used to do some work with her.
0:34:17 > 0:34:19I'd love to be a fallen girl.
0:34:19 > 0:34:25Everything you were always told not to do, swept away by love.
0:34:25 > 0:34:27- So romantic.- No, it's not.
0:34:27 > 0:34:29The girls are to be pitied, not admired.
0:34:29 > 0:34:31There's always a baby no-one wants.
0:34:33 > 0:34:37Men are beasts, but women, well,
0:34:37 > 0:34:39morality resides in us.
0:34:40 > 0:34:44- And are they raised? - I beg your pardon?
0:34:44 > 0:34:46The fallen girls. Are they raised?
0:34:46 > 0:34:48With some very hard work,
0:34:48 > 0:34:51a great many are placed in service in suitable houses.
0:34:53 > 0:34:55Some, of course, are beyond help.
0:34:56 > 0:34:58What point are you trying to make, Kitty?
0:34:58 > 0:35:01I'm not making any point. Just asking a question.
0:35:08 > 0:35:09Miss Trevelyan.
0:35:11 > 0:35:15What are you doing here, sitting in the dark?
0:35:15 > 0:35:19Ah! I was hoping you were waiting to pounce on me.
0:35:19 > 0:35:21- No.- Crushed again.
0:35:21 > 0:35:25Do you, um, do you play?
0:35:25 > 0:35:29No, I don't. I can't think of anything more futile than golf.
0:35:29 > 0:35:31That is the beauty of it.
0:35:31 > 0:35:34And it becomes even more futile played at night.
0:35:34 > 0:35:36A sport for our times.
0:35:38 > 0:35:41Excuse me, I have to go.
0:35:41 > 0:35:45You know, I can't help thinking we've got off on the wrong foot.
0:35:45 > 0:35:46I'm not going to give up, you know.
0:35:46 > 0:35:49Captain Hesketh-Thorne, what do you want from me?
0:35:49 > 0:35:52I want you...to smile.
0:35:52 > 0:35:55- Why? - Because life is a glorious thing.
0:35:55 > 0:35:58Because I can get a smile out of Matron.
0:35:58 > 0:36:01I can get a smile out of Captain Gillan. So this is a red rag
0:36:01 > 0:36:05to a bull, and I will not give up until I see a smile.
0:36:05 > 0:36:08And don't call me Captain Hesketh-Thorne. It's so Army.
0:36:08 > 0:36:10Miles. Call me Miles.
0:36:10 > 0:36:13- BUGLE SOUNDS - There we go.
0:36:15 > 0:36:18Miss Trevelyan? That was almost a conversation.
0:36:19 > 0:36:20We're making progress.
0:36:30 > 0:36:32- INSIDE:- Matron, what would you like me to do?
0:36:39 > 0:36:42- Over here.- All clean? Very good.
0:36:42 > 0:36:44Sorry, nurse.
0:36:47 > 0:36:48Thank you.
0:36:54 > 0:36:56Well done, nurse. Stand by.
0:37:09 > 0:37:11I can hear them coming!
0:37:24 > 0:37:26HORSES NEIGH
0:37:31 > 0:37:34Got him? Take the wounded in straight away.
0:37:34 > 0:37:36Thank you, Sister.
0:37:41 > 0:37:43Make up more beds on the floor.
0:37:43 > 0:37:46Marshall, there's a gentleman there.
0:37:46 > 0:37:48- Sister!- Stretcher!
0:37:48 > 0:37:52Keep the pressure on. Come with me now. Surgery, now.
0:37:55 > 0:37:58- You've done this before, haven't you?- Of course.
0:37:58 > 0:38:01Take over, then. Wash, change, pulse and temperature.
0:38:01 > 0:38:05I'll be back as soon as I can. Berwick, you're in charge.
0:38:06 > 0:38:07Finally.
0:38:11 > 0:38:13I can't manage on my own. >
0:38:16 > 0:38:19SHOUTING
0:38:19 > 0:38:20< Water!
0:38:22 > 0:38:23Hold this, that's it. >
0:38:26 > 0:38:29Hello, I'm Volunteer Berwick.
0:38:29 > 0:38:31I'm going to help you wash.
0:39:09 > 0:39:12It was the enfilade.
0:39:12 > 0:39:13I don't know what that is.
0:39:13 > 0:39:15Machine gun.
0:39:19 > 0:39:22Men go down like corn before the scythe.
0:39:22 > 0:39:24Row upon row upon row...
0:39:26 > 0:39:29- I don't want to hear about it. - I thought I would die out there.
0:39:32 > 0:39:33DISTANT EXPLOSIONS
0:39:33 > 0:39:35Food for the rats.
0:39:35 > 0:39:39The size of the rats, from feeding on corpses...
0:39:39 > 0:39:43And when it rains and you can't see where you're treading,
0:39:43 > 0:39:46and you think you've found some shallow water so you're not up to
0:39:46 > 0:39:49your waist and you realise you're standing on a dead man's face.
0:39:49 > 0:39:51I don't want to hear about it!
0:39:51 > 0:39:54You think, well, chummy here's not going to mind, I'll just carry on.
0:39:54 > 0:39:56I said, I don't want to hear about it!
0:39:56 > 0:39:59You have to forget about it because I don't want that.
0:40:04 > 0:40:06All that filth and ugliness at home.
0:40:06 > 0:40:08But I am it. I am it.
0:40:08 > 0:40:11I don't think I will ever be anything else.
0:40:14 > 0:40:16You are not a soldier any more, Eddie.
0:40:19 > 0:40:21Then I'm nothing.
0:40:27 > 0:40:29But what would you know?
0:40:31 > 0:40:35I mean, what could you possibly know?
0:40:45 > 0:40:47You shouldn't have come, Adelinde.
0:40:52 > 0:40:54You really shouldn't have come.
0:41:19 > 0:41:21INDISTINCT ORDERS
0:41:34 > 0:41:36SCREAMING
0:41:39 > 0:41:43Help me, please! Help me!
0:42:04 > 0:42:05Back to the trucks.
0:42:08 > 0:42:10I'm coming, I'm coming.
0:42:28 > 0:42:31GROANING
0:42:34 > 0:42:35SHE SOBS
0:42:52 > 0:42:55SHE CRIES
0:43:00 > 0:43:01HE GROANS
0:43:05 > 0:43:08I ain't being washed by no slip of a girl! I can do meself.
0:43:08 > 0:43:10If you were strong enough to go into the bath tent,
0:43:10 > 0:43:12you'd be in the bath tent but you're not.
0:43:12 > 0:43:15And I am not a slip of a girl.
0:43:15 > 0:43:18I am trained and I have done this hundreds of times.
0:43:27 > 0:43:30- Everything all right over there? - Yes, thank you, Corporal.
0:43:44 > 0:43:45Sorry.
0:43:48 > 0:43:51SHE BREATHES HEAVILY
0:44:20 > 0:44:22SHE BREATHES HEAVILY
0:44:34 > 0:44:36SHE CRIES
0:44:36 > 0:44:38Rosalie?
0:44:45 > 0:44:46Major Crecy!
0:44:56 > 0:44:58Mrs Crecy.
0:45:01 > 0:45:04- Mrs Crecy.- What is it?
0:45:16 > 0:45:17Nearly all cleared.
0:45:40 > 0:45:42Are you comfy and warm enough?
0:45:43 > 0:45:44I'll help you, but
0:45:44 > 0:45:46rest now, you'll feel much better after.
0:45:46 > 0:45:48Where's Miss Berwick?
0:45:49 > 0:45:51She's ran off.
0:45:51 > 0:45:53But she's done a fair job.
0:45:55 > 0:45:56Good work.
0:45:58 > 0:45:59Told you I had grit.
0:45:59 > 0:46:01I only said it was a fair job.
0:46:01 > 0:46:04You get the tea trolley, maybe it'll be a good job.
0:46:11 > 0:46:12Why did you run away?
0:46:16 > 0:46:20You did your training, how did you avoid giving blanket baths?
0:46:23 > 0:46:24I tidied the linen cupboard.
0:46:27 > 0:46:29Nobody seemed to notice I wasn't there.
0:46:31 > 0:46:33Why did you say you'd done it before?
0:46:37 > 0:46:40I didn't want to disappoint you.
0:46:42 > 0:46:47It's not the end of the world. We'll get this sorted out. I promise.
0:46:47 > 0:46:48Yes?
0:46:59 > 0:47:01Yes, you are still alive.
0:47:03 > 0:47:04Bastard.
0:47:04 > 0:47:07My pleasure. You can thank me later.
0:47:14 > 0:47:16You can't make them want to live.
0:47:17 > 0:47:19Where is his wife?
0:47:25 > 0:47:27Letter for you, Miss.
0:47:27 > 0:47:29Oh, thank you. Thank you so much.
0:48:26 > 0:48:27How is he?
0:48:31 > 0:48:33You know what he did?
0:48:36 > 0:48:39I know he was bleeding.
0:48:39 > 0:48:40He did it deliberately.
0:48:40 > 0:48:43BIRDSONG
0:48:44 > 0:48:46But he is alive?
0:48:46 > 0:48:49I sent away a giant of a man.
0:48:49 > 0:48:51The children used to climb on his shoulders
0:48:51 > 0:48:53with their hands in his hair.
0:48:53 > 0:48:54SHE SOBS
0:48:54 > 0:48:56And this is what I get back.
0:49:03 > 0:49:06What did you think it was going to be?
0:49:06 > 0:49:08Not this!
0:49:09 > 0:49:11Not a ghost with a head full of horrors.
0:49:13 > 0:49:17He would rather be dead in the mud with his men than at home with me.
0:49:19 > 0:49:20But he is coming home with you,
0:49:20 > 0:49:23you should be in there with him not out here.
0:49:25 > 0:49:27I can't!
0:49:27 > 0:49:30- SOBBING:- I can't do this.
0:49:30 > 0:49:34I'm not prepared for this.
0:49:34 > 0:49:36I'm not prepared!
0:49:40 > 0:49:42Everything is over.
0:49:47 > 0:49:49Read it. This is from my mother.
0:49:51 > 0:49:54Can you see what she says?
0:49:54 > 0:49:55I'm dead to her.
0:49:57 > 0:49:59She says, "I'll never see my daughter again."
0:50:05 > 0:50:10There are people who won't get back any part of their sons
0:50:10 > 0:50:13and their brothers and their husbands.
0:50:13 > 0:50:16They won't get back anything from the life before.
0:50:18 > 0:50:20But you have children.
0:50:22 > 0:50:25You have a home,
0:50:25 > 0:50:27you have so much more than most.
0:50:29 > 0:50:30You're wanted, you're needed.
0:50:34 > 0:50:36Everything is not over.
0:51:36 > 0:51:38Eddie, you are not nothing.
0:51:42 > 0:51:43You're my husband...
0:51:45 > 0:51:47..and our children's father.
0:51:52 > 0:51:54I can't remember their faces.
0:51:56 > 0:51:58You will.
0:51:59 > 0:52:05And you must promise me never to do anything like that again, ever.
0:52:08 > 0:52:15Just get better and come home and we will be waiting
0:52:15 > 0:52:17because you are not nothing.
0:52:21 > 0:52:23You are everything to us.
0:52:45 > 0:52:47See you in England, darling.
0:53:14 > 0:53:15I have to go now.
0:53:18 > 0:53:20So you be a good boy for your dad, Georgie.
0:53:23 > 0:53:25You be a good boy.
0:53:43 > 0:53:44Where are we going?
0:53:46 > 0:53:47Rosalie, do you trust me?
0:53:50 > 0:53:54- You need to trust me.- Of course I do. More than anyone else here.
0:54:03 > 0:54:06This poor boy didn't make the journey,
0:54:06 > 0:54:08nothing can hurt him now, but I'm sure
0:54:08 > 0:54:11if he knew this was going to help his fellows, he wouldn't mind.
0:54:11 > 0:54:13What do you mean?
0:54:20 > 0:54:22SHE WHIMPERS
0:54:24 > 0:54:25Rosalie, this is a man.
0:54:27 > 0:54:30I need you to look at him, all of him...
0:54:31 > 0:54:33..and understand there is no mystery.
0:54:34 > 0:54:36It's just his body.
0:54:38 > 0:54:40You talked about being brave, before.
0:54:44 > 0:54:46You need to be brave now.
0:54:48 > 0:54:51- Just look at him, please. - Are you completely depraved?!
0:54:54 > 0:54:55Stupid.
0:54:56 > 0:54:58Stupid.
0:54:58 > 0:55:01- Stupid! - What on earth's the matter?
0:55:04 > 0:55:07- SHE CRIES - Oh, my poor dear.
0:55:10 > 0:55:12Come with me.
0:55:13 > 0:55:17For the shock, you poor girl.
0:55:19 > 0:55:21I'm not surprised you're so upset,
0:55:22 > 0:55:26I mean, I know Sister Livesey is a friend of yours...
0:55:26 > 0:55:27No friend of mine.
0:55:30 > 0:55:35Never mind. You've got a friend here, Miss Berwick.
0:55:39 > 0:55:41There's always a shoulder here for you.
0:55:42 > 0:55:44OK.
0:55:52 > 0:55:55A lock of his hair.
0:55:55 > 0:56:00The nurse gave it to me, to remember him by.
0:56:00 > 0:56:01I am so very sorry.
0:56:06 > 0:56:08Did you get the news you were waiting for?
0:56:10 > 0:56:12Far from it. Very far.
0:56:14 > 0:56:18Then do your job. The work saves us, Trevelyan.
0:56:20 > 0:56:21It saves us.
0:56:50 > 0:56:51CAR DOOR SHUTS
0:57:53 > 0:57:55SHE SHOUTS
0:58:03 > 0:58:06WAVES CRASH
0:58:26 > 0:58:28You are here to fight for King and country.
0:58:28 > 0:58:29Ireland spat you out.
0:58:29 > 0:58:33Get a man sufficiently healed to stand trial for cowardice.
0:58:33 > 0:58:37I am actually a woman of the world, even if I've never been kissed.
0:58:37 > 0:58:38I appreciate your discretion.
0:58:38 > 0:58:40What you do is of no concern to me.
0:58:40 > 0:58:41You have someone fighting?
0:58:41 > 0:58:44They tell you not to think about it but I can't stop thinking.
0:58:44 > 0:58:46I don't know if he's alive.