0:00:02 > 0:00:08This programme contains some strong language
0:00:08 > 0:00:15and some scenes which some viewers may find upsetting.
0:00:36 > 0:00:38The night before Joe went back to the front...
0:00:40 > 0:00:43MARBLE ROLLS AWAY
0:01:09 > 0:01:10Gotcha!
0:01:13 > 0:01:14Close the shutters, Bert.
0:01:19 > 0:01:22SHUTTERS SLAM SHUT
0:01:23 > 0:01:24Bed now.
0:01:34 > 0:01:36- I've lost one.- Bert, bed.
0:01:46 > 0:01:49John, the cow shed door needs looking at.
0:01:49 > 0:01:50It can wait till tomorrow.
0:01:50 > 0:01:52And by that time, we'll have our livelihood
0:01:52 > 0:01:54wandering about the High Peak mooing at the moon.
0:01:54 > 0:01:57I can't do it, John. I can't do everything.
0:02:10 > 0:02:12You've not been sleeping.
0:02:15 > 0:02:18My grandfather used to have two sleeps.
0:02:18 > 0:02:20Him and his brother, both.
0:02:20 > 0:02:23A first sleep and then, a second sleep.
0:02:23 > 0:02:25To bed when it got dark,
0:02:25 > 0:02:28then, up in the middle of the night for a cup of tea and a natter.
0:02:28 > 0:02:31He used to call it a "natter" when he told me about it
0:02:31 > 0:02:32because it was a woman's word.
0:02:32 > 0:02:35Then, back to bed for the second sleep.
0:02:35 > 0:02:37Then, up at first light
0:02:37 > 0:02:39and out on the hill.
0:02:39 > 0:02:42- What did they talk about? - Their dogs.
0:02:44 > 0:02:49Like all shepherds, they pretended not to care about them,
0:02:49 > 0:02:51but it's all they really talked about.
0:02:51 > 0:02:53Fed on porridge once a day
0:02:53 > 0:02:56and shot when their working days were over.
0:02:59 > 0:03:01They always had a dog inside on its last night.
0:03:01 > 0:03:04And there was a big crack of thunder...
0:03:06 > 0:03:07Go on.
0:03:08 > 0:03:11And the dog did nothing more than sit up a little.
0:03:12 > 0:03:16And my grandfather put his hand on her head and just rested it there.
0:03:17 > 0:03:19Just for a moment.
0:03:20 > 0:03:23Guidance really, no more.
0:03:26 > 0:03:28The gentlest thing I ever saw.
0:03:35 > 0:03:37I'm glad he's not drinking.
0:03:37 > 0:03:39Tell him that before you go.
0:03:39 > 0:03:40He'd like that.
0:03:46 > 0:03:47What are these for?
0:03:50 > 0:03:51Cutters.
0:03:51 > 0:03:53What for?
0:03:54 > 0:03:55Barbed wire...
0:04:00 > 0:04:02Before an attack,
0:04:02 > 0:04:04the bombardment is supposed to...
0:04:06 > 0:04:10"The, the wire will be cleared," they say.
0:04:10 > 0:04:12You can count on plum puddings. But it isn't.
0:04:14 > 0:04:17There's normally one hole in the wire and all the men funnel into it.
0:04:17 > 0:04:20"Don't bunch!" we're told, "Don't! Whatever you do!"
0:04:20 > 0:04:23But you've got to, Mother, there's no choice,
0:04:23 > 0:04:27you can't run at barbed wire.
0:04:27 > 0:04:31The German machine gunners direct all their fire into the funnel.
0:04:31 > 0:04:33And everybody dies.
0:04:35 > 0:04:36Joe...
0:04:59 > 0:05:01Take this with you.
0:05:10 > 0:05:11Night, son.
0:05:22 > 0:05:23I'll sit for a while.
0:05:54 > 0:05:56HE PANTS
0:06:06 > 0:06:07I was thinking...
0:06:10 > 0:06:12..we should have another.
0:06:15 > 0:06:16Another what?
0:06:19 > 0:06:20Child.
0:06:23 > 0:06:25Why do you say that now?
0:06:29 > 0:06:30I don't know.
0:06:32 > 0:06:34He's going to live.
0:06:35 > 0:06:37Our son is going to survive this war.
0:06:53 > 0:06:55HE PANTS
0:06:55 > 0:06:57HE CRIES
0:07:13 > 0:07:14I found it.
0:07:35 > 0:07:36Mama.
0:07:36 > 0:07:37Do what you can.
0:07:39 > 0:07:40What do you mean?
0:07:42 > 0:07:43Joe?
0:07:43 > 0:07:44When it's over...
0:07:49 > 0:07:51..it has to be a better world.
0:08:20 > 0:08:22Don't watch me go, Bert.
0:08:35 > 0:08:36Son?
0:09:34 > 0:09:37HE PANTS
0:10:27 > 0:10:29HE CRIES
0:10:44 > 0:10:45She's under control.
0:10:45 > 0:10:48Unlikely to embarrass you in public.
0:10:48 > 0:10:50Bitterness doesn't suit you.
0:10:51 > 0:10:53You mean you don't want a dangerous mother.
0:10:53 > 0:10:56Doesn't it exhaust you, Edmund?
0:10:56 > 0:10:59"How am I looking in the eyes of the world?"
0:10:59 > 0:11:02Is there a more vain pursuit than politics?
0:11:02 > 0:11:05Hide one's own mother, if one has to.
0:11:05 > 0:11:08Your feelings have got the better of you.
0:11:08 > 0:11:11The thing about being humiliated, as I have been,
0:11:11 > 0:11:14is that it can't get worse - which is a kind of freedom.
0:11:17 > 0:11:19I'm with Rousseau, Edmund.
0:11:19 > 0:11:20As much truth as possible.
0:11:23 > 0:11:24Here we are.
0:11:33 > 0:11:35Meet me in the Lamb. One o'clock.
0:11:35 > 0:11:38- Who are you?- NUBSO.
0:11:38 > 0:11:39And what do you want with me?
0:11:39 > 0:11:41I'm here to change your life.
0:11:47 > 0:11:48DOOR CLOSES
0:11:58 > 0:12:00Here she is. The man of the family.
0:12:04 > 0:12:06There's hardly any light at the end of the day,
0:12:06 > 0:12:08so you can't see what you're doing
0:12:08 > 0:12:10and the eyes are tired anyway after a 12-hour shift.
0:12:10 > 0:12:13We've asked for candles and lamps but they've told us
0:12:13 > 0:12:16to bring our own and we just can't afford to do that.
0:12:16 > 0:12:20There's been accidents - a thumb broken and half a finger cut off.
0:12:20 > 0:12:23Someday soon something terrible is going to happen.
0:12:23 > 0:12:25It doesn't make sense,
0:12:25 > 0:12:28more light would mean we'd make more boots, wouldn't it?
0:12:28 > 0:12:30Oh, I'm sorry, am I talking too much?
0:12:31 > 0:12:33You've got fire in your belly.
0:12:33 > 0:12:35I'm just after a better world, Mr Nubso.
0:12:38 > 0:12:39Why are you laughing?
0:12:39 > 0:12:42National Union of Boot and Shoe Operatives -
0:12:42 > 0:12:44NUBSO.
0:12:44 > 0:12:45My name is Chalcraft.
0:12:48 > 0:12:49I'd best be getting back.
0:13:01 > 0:13:03Your move.
0:13:03 > 0:13:04Who you playing?
0:13:04 > 0:13:07Anyone who's passing.
0:13:07 > 0:13:08Make a move, union man.
0:13:20 > 0:13:22How do you know who I am?
0:13:22 > 0:13:27I was a detective and you like the sound of your own voice.
0:13:29 > 0:13:30Where were you wounded?
0:13:30 > 0:13:31Mons.
0:13:31 > 0:13:34- No, I meant where...- Knee.
0:13:34 > 0:13:38My job is to make sure the work is there when the war's over.
0:13:38 > 0:13:39I've seen too many men like you...
0:13:39 > 0:13:40What about the women?
0:13:40 > 0:13:44The day the war ends, I want every man in work.
0:13:44 > 0:13:46Which means the women back in the home.
0:13:50 > 0:13:52I might be in a position to help.
0:14:10 > 0:14:13- I need to get up!- Get up! - I need to go...
0:14:13 > 0:14:15Get up. You're all right.
0:14:15 > 0:14:16That's it, there we go.
0:14:19 > 0:14:20HE SOBS
0:14:22 > 0:14:26Right up! Joe, up, up.
0:14:27 > 0:14:29No!
0:14:29 > 0:14:31Ready?
0:14:31 > 0:14:32I can't go out there.
0:14:32 > 0:14:34You can...
0:14:53 > 0:14:54DOOR OPENS
0:14:58 > 0:14:59What's happened?
0:14:59 > 0:15:00Joe?
0:15:05 > 0:15:06Sit down.
0:15:09 > 0:15:10I can't.
0:15:10 > 0:15:13You can, your mother's here, you can.
0:15:13 > 0:15:15That's it.
0:15:15 > 0:15:16Come here...
0:15:28 > 0:15:29What do we do?
0:15:35 > 0:15:36He's a deserter.
0:15:36 > 0:15:37Yes.
0:15:39 > 0:15:41Is he?
0:15:41 > 0:15:43Yes, of course.
0:15:43 > 0:15:46Oh, God. Erm...has anyone, did, did...?
0:15:46 > 0:15:47FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING
0:15:52 > 0:15:54They'll know.
0:15:54 > 0:15:57As soon as he doesn't report back from leave.
0:15:57 > 0:15:59So...
0:15:59 > 0:16:00They'll come for him.
0:16:00 > 0:16:03But we've, er, we've got time until then...
0:16:03 > 0:16:06I mean, you, you, you won't tell anyone until we've...
0:16:08 > 0:16:09Thank you.
0:16:18 > 0:16:20They shouldn't be disturbed.
0:16:20 > 0:16:21What?
0:16:21 > 0:16:23The Middletons.
0:16:23 > 0:16:24I have to go there.
0:16:24 > 0:16:26He's found God, hasn't he? You've handed him on.
0:16:26 > 0:16:27The journey's just begun.
0:16:27 > 0:16:29It's a long way from sin to salvation.
0:16:29 > 0:16:32Do you know what I hate?
0:16:32 > 0:16:35How neat and tidy and all dressed-up you are.
0:16:35 > 0:16:37Not your dress.
0:16:37 > 0:16:39Your speech.
0:16:39 > 0:16:42Martyred Martha - in love with giving and saving...
0:16:44 > 0:16:45In love with herself.
0:16:49 > 0:16:53Him not going back is the same as him running away.
0:16:53 > 0:16:55That's what they'll say, isn't it?
0:16:55 > 0:16:57- Shh. He'll hear you. - Isn't it, Grace?
0:17:03 > 0:17:05- We'll get Doctor. - Let me talk to him.
0:17:05 > 0:17:08We can't wait! You heard Bairstow.
0:17:08 > 0:17:10They're coming for him.
0:17:10 > 0:17:11And when they come for him,
0:17:11 > 0:17:14I want to be able to say that my son is not well.
0:17:14 > 0:17:16Where's me cap, Mother?
0:17:29 > 0:17:30You were a big baby.
0:17:33 > 0:17:34Warm and fat.
0:17:37 > 0:17:40There's a place between the cheek and the shoulder.
0:17:42 > 0:17:44When you haven't had a baby, it doesn't exist...
0:17:46 > 0:17:48..and it does when you have.
0:17:48 > 0:17:49Something here.
0:17:51 > 0:17:53That's where a baby's head sits.
0:17:57 > 0:17:58And it's the smell...
0:18:00 > 0:18:02..and it's the warmth.
0:18:02 > 0:18:03And when you're away...
0:18:05 > 0:18:08..I can lean my head into it with a tilt...
0:18:11 > 0:18:12..and there you are.
0:18:14 > 0:18:15And if I were dead?
0:18:18 > 0:18:19Would it be there?
0:18:27 > 0:18:28My Henry told me
0:18:28 > 0:18:31he loved me when we first met because of my baking.
0:18:32 > 0:18:34He were sat on the edge of my sofa,
0:18:34 > 0:18:37with his little legs touching the floor.
0:18:37 > 0:18:39And his hands in his lap all polite
0:18:39 > 0:18:42and he looked at me with his little doggy eyes and he said,
0:18:42 > 0:18:43I knew he was going to say it,
0:18:43 > 0:18:47"More cake, more cake."
0:18:48 > 0:18:50We were married a month later.
0:18:58 > 0:19:00HE PANTS
0:19:31 > 0:19:34Before we were married,
0:19:34 > 0:19:35Mr Hankin...
0:19:37 > 0:19:42..he, er, showed himself very keen.
0:19:44 > 0:19:47I mean, without actually doing anything improper.
0:19:49 > 0:19:51Now we're married...
0:19:52 > 0:19:53Not so keen?
0:19:55 > 0:19:56No. It's erm...
0:19:58 > 0:20:00..it's more he doesn't...
0:20:02 > 0:20:04Keen, yes.
0:20:04 > 0:20:06But erm...
0:20:08 > 0:20:09Does his...?
0:20:11 > 0:20:12Does it...?
0:20:12 > 0:20:14Yes.
0:20:15 > 0:20:16Usually.
0:20:19 > 0:20:20Then no.
0:20:20 > 0:20:22Does it ever go in?
0:20:26 > 0:20:27No.
0:20:29 > 0:20:30I don't think so.
0:20:30 > 0:20:32You'd know, Norma.
0:20:34 > 0:20:35Has it ever?
0:20:39 > 0:20:40No.
0:20:43 > 0:20:44Is it me?
0:20:47 > 0:20:48Norma?
0:20:48 > 0:20:49Yes?
0:20:51 > 0:20:52Does he love you?
0:20:53 > 0:20:54Of course.
0:20:56 > 0:20:57Do you love him?
0:20:59 > 0:21:00He's me husband.
0:21:05 > 0:21:06Love him.
0:21:07 > 0:21:10Tell him how much you love him.
0:21:17 > 0:21:19SHE SOBS
0:21:27 > 0:21:29Good bath?
0:21:29 > 0:21:30Yes.
0:21:33 > 0:21:34Lots of chat?
0:21:36 > 0:21:37Uh-huh.
0:21:39 > 0:21:40What's the story this week?
0:21:45 > 0:21:47Something you don't want to tell me.
0:21:48 > 0:21:50Now, I am excited.
0:21:55 > 0:21:57I love a good story before bed.
0:21:58 > 0:21:59Headaches?
0:22:01 > 0:22:02Stomach pain?
0:22:04 > 0:22:05Tremors.
0:22:06 > 0:22:08Fatigue?
0:22:11 > 0:22:14Shell shock. Shell. Shock.
0:22:14 > 0:22:19Physical cause, physical symptoms, physical cure.
0:22:19 > 0:22:25Probably some toxins have got into the blood from a shell blast.
0:22:25 > 0:22:26So...
0:22:27 > 0:22:30..rest, good food and motherly love.
0:22:31 > 0:22:33When does his leave end?
0:22:53 > 0:22:55Was there something that...?
0:22:59 > 0:23:01A shell landing nearby?
0:23:06 > 0:23:09Norma told us about a man who was buried under earth.
0:23:09 > 0:23:10Punishment.
0:23:12 > 0:23:13What was that?
0:23:21 > 0:23:23There was no shell.
0:23:23 > 0:23:25How can that be? You heard Doctor.
0:23:27 > 0:23:30Why is it called shell shock?
0:23:30 > 0:23:33He just said, he said it was punishment.
0:23:38 > 0:23:39Punishment?
0:23:49 > 0:23:52I want you to go and stay with Margaret.
0:23:52 > 0:23:54Go now. Do you understand?
0:23:54 > 0:23:57- I want to stay here... - Go and do as you're told!
0:24:01 > 0:24:02Go on.
0:24:06 > 0:24:08Punished for what?
0:24:08 > 0:24:09You're a good soldier.
0:24:10 > 0:24:13You've been in France near on two years.
0:24:13 > 0:24:15- Leave him.- No.
0:24:15 > 0:24:16John.
0:24:16 > 0:24:17What did you do?
0:24:21 > 0:24:22It was the postcard.
0:24:24 > 0:24:25What?
0:24:27 > 0:24:29They found out.
0:24:29 > 0:24:30Found out what?
0:24:30 > 0:24:32- John...- No!
0:24:32 > 0:24:34What postcard?
0:24:34 > 0:24:36It was for Bert.
0:24:39 > 0:24:41We didn't get it. Did we, Mother?
0:24:43 > 0:24:47It was coded. So he'd know what were happening at the front.
0:24:49 > 0:24:52They, they must have found out what I were doing.
0:24:52 > 0:24:54They confronted me with it.
0:24:55 > 0:24:58I didn't feel like taking it from some pimply officer,
0:24:58 > 0:25:00so I pushed him!
0:25:00 > 0:25:02He fell backwards,
0:25:02 > 0:25:04he lost his balance.
0:25:06 > 0:25:07You can't do that to an officer.
0:25:08 > 0:25:11What did they do?
0:25:11 > 0:25:12I might have been shot.
0:25:13 > 0:25:14For insub...
0:25:16 > 0:25:19..in...insub...insub...
0:25:19 > 0:25:21What's...what's the word?
0:25:21 > 0:25:22What's the bloody word?!
0:25:24 > 0:25:26What's the matter with me?!
0:25:26 > 0:25:29HE CRIES
0:25:37 > 0:25:38What did they do to you?
0:25:40 > 0:25:42They tied me wrists...
0:25:44 > 0:25:48..and me feet to the wheel of a cart.
0:25:50 > 0:25:51And left me out all night.
0:25:54 > 0:25:55In the open.
0:25:57 > 0:26:00Behind the lines, so there's no...
0:26:02 > 0:26:06..but you, you hear everything...
0:26:06 > 0:26:07and you feel...
0:26:09 > 0:26:11I just, just, I felt so...
0:26:14 > 0:26:16..so...exposed.
0:26:22 > 0:26:24Because of a...postcard?
0:26:41 > 0:26:43HE SCREAMS
0:26:43 > 0:26:45HE MOANS
0:26:52 > 0:26:53Let the union in.
0:26:54 > 0:26:56Why?
0:26:56 > 0:26:58You don't want to deal with an angry woman
0:26:58 > 0:27:00when you can deal with patient men.
0:27:00 > 0:27:03Let the union in, keep wages low, the union won't fight you.
0:27:03 > 0:27:05Until the war is over.
0:27:05 > 0:27:07And when will that be? Ten years?
0:27:07 > 0:27:0820?
0:27:13 > 0:27:14What?
0:27:14 > 0:27:16You've been taking my advice so far,
0:27:16 > 0:27:20which means my value to you is higher than it was.
0:27:20 > 0:27:22I'll see to it.
0:27:22 > 0:27:24I've got something for you on Hankin.
0:27:26 > 0:27:28Now...
0:27:28 > 0:27:30What's your news about Mr Hankin?
0:27:32 > 0:27:35Impotentia coeundi.
0:27:35 > 0:27:39Mr Bairstow is gambling on my not knowing Latin, Edmund.
0:27:41 > 0:27:42Well, then, he's safe.
0:27:42 > 0:27:45As long as I don't ask you for a translation.
0:27:47 > 0:27:48Er...
0:27:48 > 0:27:49He can't fuck his wife.
0:27:52 > 0:27:54Oh, look, here they come.
0:27:54 > 0:27:57Hard times, Mrs Hankin.
0:27:57 > 0:28:00I'm afraid the luncheon may disappoint.
0:28:00 > 0:28:02One just can't get what one wants.
0:28:02 > 0:28:04- My husband's stock is...- Low, hmm.
0:28:05 > 0:28:08All one asks for is a lick of butter.
0:28:08 > 0:28:12Imagine what one could do with a lick of butter, Mrs Hankin.
0:28:13 > 0:28:15Good day, Mr Bairstow.
0:28:20 > 0:28:23HE MOANS
0:28:40 > 0:28:42Mr Bairstow knows Latin.
0:28:44 > 0:28:45He speaks Latin.
0:28:45 > 0:28:47Where do you think he learned to do that?
0:28:47 > 0:28:49Not public school.
0:28:49 > 0:28:50More wine, Mother?
0:28:50 > 0:28:52How's your Latin, Mr Hankin?
0:28:52 > 0:28:55Quite good, isn't it, Arnold?
0:28:55 > 0:28:56Oh, shall we test him?
0:28:56 > 0:28:58What do you think?
0:28:58 > 0:29:01What was it that Mr Bairstow said this afternoon?
0:29:01 > 0:29:03I can't remember.
0:29:03 > 0:29:04Oh, I'm sure you do, Edmund.
0:29:04 > 0:29:07He was speaking about your business partner.
0:29:08 > 0:29:12Impotentia coeundi. Yes?
0:29:12 > 0:29:13Yes, that's it. Anyone?
0:29:15 > 0:29:16HE CLEARS HIS THROAT
0:29:18 > 0:29:20Joe Middleton.
0:29:20 > 0:29:22Still here. Hasn't gone back.
0:29:23 > 0:29:24Why not?
0:29:24 > 0:29:26He can't, it seems.
0:29:28 > 0:29:31My question is whether I should tell the authorities?
0:29:31 > 0:29:32He's not a malingerer.
0:29:34 > 0:29:36- Have you met him?- No.
0:29:36 > 0:29:37No need to.
0:29:37 > 0:29:39The rural poor are tough,
0:29:39 > 0:29:43they know what it is to endure cold and wet
0:29:43 > 0:29:46and they know how to slit a pig's throat, hear it squeal,
0:29:46 > 0:29:49watch it die and do it all over again.
0:29:49 > 0:29:52Well, the pig doesn't fight back.
0:29:52 > 0:29:56And the big pigs don't send howitzer shells into the farmyard
0:29:56 > 0:29:58in support of their fellow creatures.
0:29:58 > 0:30:01In confronting danger, a man requires one of two things -
0:30:01 > 0:30:04courage or stupidity.
0:30:04 > 0:30:07Why is it that everything you say, I feel you've rehearsed before?
0:30:07 > 0:30:10Or even heard before.
0:30:10 > 0:30:11Why are you attacking me?
0:30:11 > 0:30:14To see what sort of a man is seducing my daughter
0:30:14 > 0:30:16so soon after the death of her father.
0:30:16 > 0:30:17Mother!
0:30:17 > 0:30:18Edmund?
0:30:20 > 0:30:24You must understand, it's been such a short time since...
0:30:24 > 0:30:26My husband blew his brains out.
0:30:26 > 0:30:29SHE LAUGHS
0:30:29 > 0:30:30You were saying...
0:30:30 > 0:30:32Perhaps we should, er...
0:30:32 > 0:30:35No, no, er...courage or stupidity?
0:30:35 > 0:30:39Stupidity is preferable, because it requires no effort
0:30:39 > 0:30:45and it has nothing...fear, doubt, imagination to overcome.
0:30:45 > 0:30:47We won at Waterloo
0:30:47 > 0:30:50because Wellington's red squares were made up of the idiot poor.
0:30:50 > 0:30:54Like the idiot poor from this village who died on the Somme?
0:30:57 > 0:31:00I used to hunt, Doctor Wylie,
0:31:00 > 0:31:03and the last time I went out,
0:31:03 > 0:31:06my horse refused to jump a hedge,
0:31:06 > 0:31:08only he made this decision at the very last moment
0:31:08 > 0:31:12and he chose not to tell me about it in advance.
0:31:12 > 0:31:16I came off. But, you know, I wasn't in the least hurt.
0:31:16 > 0:31:21And something told me to stand up straightaway.
0:31:21 > 0:31:24I don't know, perhaps I was trying to prove to myself
0:31:24 > 0:31:26that I wasn't really injured.
0:31:26 > 0:31:28Anyway, it was a mistake,
0:31:28 > 0:31:32because the rest of the hunt was on me.
0:31:32 > 0:31:3520 horses at full gallop,
0:31:35 > 0:31:38all committed to jumping that hedge, all coming at me.
0:31:40 > 0:31:45I stood stock-still and waited to die.
0:31:45 > 0:31:47And they all went round me.
0:31:49 > 0:31:53If, at Waterloo, one had stood firm in one's square
0:31:53 > 0:31:57against repeated charges of the French cavalry,
0:31:57 > 0:32:01I would like to think that, in generations to come,
0:32:01 > 0:32:04they might call it something finer than stupidity.
0:32:17 > 0:32:20HE PANTS
0:32:36 > 0:32:37Finish your food.
0:33:05 > 0:33:07Perhaps you could see him.
0:33:07 > 0:33:09Joe Middleton.
0:33:10 > 0:33:13Why does it matter to you?
0:33:13 > 0:33:16Well, we owe the Middleton family something.
0:33:16 > 0:33:19John Middleton was incarcerated because of what Father did.
0:33:19 > 0:33:20I only ask.
0:33:22 > 0:33:23I'll consider it.
0:33:25 > 0:33:27You'd cure him, wouldn't you?
0:33:27 > 0:33:30Of course. If I felt I...
0:33:30 > 0:33:32You cured me. You could cure him.
0:33:33 > 0:33:35You don't fail, do you?
0:34:05 > 0:34:06Arnold?
0:34:10 > 0:34:12HE MOANS
0:34:16 > 0:34:18HE SCREAMS
0:34:36 > 0:34:39In the name of Jesus Christ.
0:34:39 > 0:34:40BOTH: Amen.
0:34:49 > 0:34:50Does God see everything?
0:34:54 > 0:34:55Yes.
0:34:55 > 0:34:57Does he decide everything?
0:34:59 > 0:35:02- Yes.- And the Bible says we are not to question him.
0:35:02 > 0:35:04So did God make Joe like this?
0:35:09 > 0:35:11We're asking God to heal him.
0:35:11 > 0:35:15So a prayer is to persuade God, who we must never question,
0:35:15 > 0:35:18to admit he's made a mistake and correct it.
0:35:20 > 0:35:22You haven't been coming to chapel, Grace.
0:35:22 > 0:35:23I've been looking after the farm,
0:35:23 > 0:35:25I've been working at the factory
0:35:25 > 0:35:29and a thousand other things and now I'm looking after my son who...
0:35:30 > 0:35:32I've no time for chapel.
0:35:34 > 0:35:35Don't look at me like that.
0:35:35 > 0:35:37You must make time for God.
0:35:37 > 0:35:40Tell me what my son's done to deserve this?
0:35:42 > 0:35:46You're right. He hasn't done anything. And it's not John.
0:35:46 > 0:35:48- He's turned around thanks to God... - Me!
0:35:48 > 0:35:50Thanks to me.
0:35:50 > 0:35:54But you have turned too, Grace,
0:35:54 > 0:35:55away from God.
0:35:55 > 0:35:57My son is broken and lost
0:35:57 > 0:36:00because I haven't been down on my knees at the end of every day?
0:36:00 > 0:36:02What does he want from me?
0:36:02 > 0:36:06He takes every hour my husband is awake for himself.
0:36:06 > 0:36:07Isn't that enough?
0:36:07 > 0:36:10You do not support your husband in his religious observance,
0:36:10 > 0:36:12you have more time for Mr Bairstow than you have for prayer.
0:36:12 > 0:36:14What are you saying?
0:36:14 > 0:36:16I have seen you consorting with him.
0:36:16 > 0:36:19- Consorting?- You leave me no choice but to be indelicate in my speech -
0:36:19 > 0:36:22furtive and secret meetings with a man who is vindictive...
0:36:22 > 0:36:23How dare you?!
0:36:23 > 0:36:27I saved my husband from the poison that was killing him.
0:36:27 > 0:36:30Not you! Not God!
0:36:30 > 0:36:32You deny God's work in the world?
0:36:33 > 0:36:35I am tired of God.
0:36:35 > 0:36:38This is not you.
0:36:38 > 0:36:40This is his poison working in you!
0:36:40 > 0:36:41Get out of my house.
0:36:41 > 0:36:44You must let God back in your life.
0:36:44 > 0:36:45For your son's sake.
0:36:45 > 0:36:46You leave my son alone.
0:36:46 > 0:36:48Grace.
0:36:48 > 0:36:50Her or me, John.
0:36:50 > 0:36:52That's not the right question.
0:36:55 > 0:36:57Him...
0:36:59 > 0:37:01..or her, John.
0:37:08 > 0:37:10He's not here yet.
0:37:20 > 0:37:22It's in his head.
0:37:23 > 0:37:24What do you mean?
0:37:26 > 0:37:28That he can't walk across a room?
0:37:31 > 0:37:32In his head.
0:37:32 > 0:37:33But his hands shake.
0:37:33 > 0:37:35In his head.
0:37:35 > 0:37:36How?
0:37:36 > 0:37:37The things he's seen.
0:37:37 > 0:37:38The doctors.
0:37:38 > 0:37:41Haven't been there.
0:37:41 > 0:37:45They don't know, they can't know,
0:37:45 > 0:37:46they will never know.
0:37:46 > 0:37:48DOOR CLOSES
0:37:50 > 0:37:51Here's your man.
0:37:55 > 0:37:56I can't stay long.
0:37:56 > 0:37:58Then I'll be quick. Good news.
0:37:58 > 0:38:00Your employer will recognise the union.
0:38:00 > 0:38:02It's a great day for the factory.
0:38:02 > 0:38:05And for the women that work in it.
0:38:05 > 0:38:06Thank you.
0:38:24 > 0:38:25I'll sit with you, son.
0:39:05 > 0:39:09TAPPING CONTINUES
0:39:12 > 0:39:13Her name's Agnes.
0:39:13 > 0:39:15She works at the factory.
0:39:16 > 0:39:19Working where she works has made her unwell.
0:39:19 > 0:39:22She really is very ill, Mr Chalcraft.
0:39:22 > 0:39:25It's a terrible thing to see in someone so young.
0:39:26 > 0:39:27I'll have another one, please.
0:39:41 > 0:39:44Er...Chalcraft.
0:39:44 > 0:39:45The man from the NUBSO.
0:39:47 > 0:39:49I'm in with him. He trusts me.
0:39:49 > 0:39:50Good.
0:39:52 > 0:39:54Is that what you came to say?
0:39:54 > 0:39:55No.
0:39:57 > 0:40:00You want more money?
0:40:00 > 0:40:01Well, we all need to eat.
0:40:03 > 0:40:05I think I might be giving you too much.
0:40:07 > 0:40:09That depends what value you place
0:40:09 > 0:40:11on other people not knowing that I work for you.
0:40:13 > 0:40:15Are you blackmailing me?
0:40:17 > 0:40:20The doctor's bills for poor Agnes.
0:40:20 > 0:40:22She's too important to lose.
0:40:22 > 0:40:24Edmund!
0:40:24 > 0:40:25Come quickly.
0:40:30 > 0:40:32George!
0:40:38 > 0:40:40Welcome back, old chap.
0:40:40 > 0:40:41Thank you.
0:40:46 > 0:40:47Wylie's here?
0:40:47 > 0:40:48Yes. He...
0:40:50 > 0:40:52- Caro?- He saved me.
0:40:52 > 0:40:56And now he's going to stay with me.
0:40:56 > 0:40:58I mean, he'll, he'll always look after me.
0:41:01 > 0:41:06I didn't come home when father died.
0:41:06 > 0:41:08You couldn't get leave.
0:41:08 > 0:41:09You'd only just...
0:41:09 > 0:41:12They would have given it to me on compassionate grounds.
0:41:12 > 0:41:13I didn't ask.
0:41:13 > 0:41:15Your father would have understood.
0:41:15 > 0:41:18I didn't ask
0:41:18 > 0:41:21because I didn't want to leave my men.
0:41:23 > 0:41:24Do you see?
0:41:27 > 0:41:31I cannot tell you how much pride I have
0:41:31 > 0:41:33in a son who makes that kind of a sacrifice.
0:41:37 > 0:41:38My brave boy.
0:41:40 > 0:41:42Pride?
0:41:42 > 0:41:44Sacrifice? It's...
0:41:46 > 0:41:47Is that wrong?
0:41:48 > 0:41:52You are brave, aren't you?
0:41:58 > 0:42:01My wife's done everything the doctor told us to do.
0:42:15 > 0:42:17Do you want to go back?
0:42:19 > 0:42:20Yes.
0:42:38 > 0:42:40Why isn't the shaking stopping?
0:42:40 > 0:42:42Doctor Ramsey said it would.
0:42:42 > 0:42:44Hereditary weakness.
0:42:48 > 0:42:49I don't understand.
0:42:49 > 0:42:51Weakness of character.
0:42:52 > 0:42:54Passed down to him,
0:42:54 > 0:42:56probably through the male line.
0:42:58 > 0:42:59Your grandfather?
0:43:01 > 0:43:02Your father?
0:43:05 > 0:43:09Is there feeble-mindedness in your family, Mr Middleton?
0:43:29 > 0:43:30Will you help me?
0:43:31 > 0:43:32Go and talk to them?
0:43:35 > 0:43:36Stay there.
0:43:40 > 0:43:41Doctor Wylie.
0:43:43 > 0:43:45You'll be here for Joe Middleton.
0:43:45 > 0:43:46We've a warrant.
0:43:48 > 0:43:49Are you an army doctor?
0:43:49 > 0:43:51No.
0:43:51 > 0:43:52He can't be moved.
0:43:52 > 0:43:56I don't think we care too much about whether he can or can't be moved.
0:43:57 > 0:44:00Listen, there's a pub in the village with rooms.
0:44:00 > 0:44:02Go and rest up there for a couple of nights
0:44:02 > 0:44:05and I'll give you an easy prisoner to take back to France.
0:44:05 > 0:44:07We'll take him now.
0:44:07 > 0:44:11Now, look here, there's something you need to know.
0:44:11 > 0:44:15His regiment is a Pals regiment. They're all from round here.
0:44:15 > 0:44:16If you send him back to France,
0:44:16 > 0:44:20they'll be getting a pathetic, moral invalid in amongst them.
0:44:20 > 0:44:21Morale matters.
0:44:21 > 0:44:24Pathetic moral invalids do nothing for it.
0:44:24 > 0:44:27We won't be taking him to put him back in the front line.
0:44:27 > 0:44:30That isn't what we do with deserters.
0:44:30 > 0:44:32Now, if you'll excuse me, Doctor.
0:44:32 > 0:44:34Listen, I'm not an army doctor...
0:44:36 > 0:44:39..but I am close friends with the Provost Marshall.
0:44:39 > 0:44:41I don't think you mentioned your names...
0:44:46 > 0:44:47We'll be back tomorrow.
0:44:52 > 0:44:53Why are you doing this?
0:44:55 > 0:44:56Professional pride.
0:45:02 > 0:45:0424 hours.
0:45:04 > 0:45:05To make him better.
0:45:06 > 0:45:09Aye, and then they'll see he's not a coward.
0:45:30 > 0:45:32It'd do you good. A hot bath.
0:46:22 > 0:46:23What are you doing?
0:46:23 > 0:46:25They've gone.
0:46:25 > 0:46:26What have?
0:46:26 > 0:46:27Me cows!
0:46:27 > 0:46:28What?
0:46:28 > 0:46:29Where are they?
0:46:29 > 0:46:31You've lost your cows?
0:46:31 > 0:46:33HE LAUGHS
0:46:33 > 0:46:35What kind of a man loses an herd of cows?
0:46:44 > 0:46:46You're pathetic. Look at you.
0:46:46 > 0:46:49Your father and your grandfather before you, they farmed your farm.
0:46:49 > 0:46:52You're after my land. That's all you've ever wanted.
0:46:52 > 0:46:55Yeah, of course I do, cos I despise you for letting it go.
0:46:55 > 0:46:59I've seen you spend whole days in the Lamb and nothing gets done
0:46:59 > 0:47:01and now you've stopped drinking, you don't work any harder,
0:47:01 > 0:47:04cos you're too busy going about with that minister's daughter,
0:47:04 > 0:47:07whilst your wife works every hour she's got.
0:47:07 > 0:47:11This land is bigger than any one man's weakness.
0:47:11 > 0:47:13It deserves better than you!
0:47:31 > 0:47:33It's me, not him.
0:47:33 > 0:47:34He can't help it.
0:47:34 > 0:47:37It's only in him because I've passed it down to him.
0:47:37 > 0:47:39Do you see? Joe can't help it.
0:47:39 > 0:47:42You, you can't punish him for something that's not his fault.
0:47:42 > 0:47:43It's me you should be taking.
0:47:45 > 0:47:46- What?- No.
0:47:46 > 0:47:47You have to understand!
0:47:47 > 0:47:50It's me you should be taking, not Joe!
0:47:50 > 0:47:52- You've got to listen to me! - Wait, wait, wait, wait.
0:47:52 > 0:47:54No, Peter, they don't understand!
0:47:54 > 0:47:56- Out, out!- They don't understand! - Out!
0:47:58 > 0:48:00KNOCKING ON DOOR
0:48:09 > 0:48:10Joe?
0:48:13 > 0:48:15Joe?
0:48:31 > 0:48:33IT MOOS
0:48:43 > 0:48:45Hold on to the book, Joe.
0:48:45 > 0:48:46God will rescue you
0:48:46 > 0:48:49from what's taken hold of you.
0:48:49 > 0:48:50Close your eyes.
0:48:53 > 0:48:55Dear Lord, in all your mercy,
0:48:55 > 0:48:57bring to this man peace and comfort.
0:49:01 > 0:49:03Drive out all the pain and the anger
0:49:03 > 0:49:05and the hate that's taken hold of his soul.
0:49:05 > 0:49:08In the name of Jesus Christ, in the name of the son,
0:49:08 > 0:49:10in the name of the holy father and the holy ghost...
0:49:10 > 0:49:13Hold tight, hold the book.
0:49:13 > 0:49:15Make this evil go,
0:49:15 > 0:49:18make this soul clean again.
0:49:18 > 0:49:19Pray with me.
0:49:19 > 0:49:22Our father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.
0:49:22 > 0:49:26Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.
0:49:26 > 0:49:28Give us this...
0:50:03 > 0:50:05SHE PANTS
0:50:29 > 0:50:31I don't understand.
0:50:32 > 0:50:34Do you want to?
0:50:34 > 0:50:35Yes!
0:50:37 > 0:50:38Go and see Joe Middleton.
0:51:14 > 0:51:17SHE COUGHS
0:51:21 > 0:51:23That cough?
0:51:23 > 0:51:25Happen that'll be the death of you.
0:51:28 > 0:51:29I trusted you.
0:51:34 > 0:51:37Oh, that's better. I could chop between me legs.
0:51:37 > 0:51:40Well, imagine if you didn't have to go outside to do your business?
0:51:40 > 0:51:41Sometimes I don't.
0:51:41 > 0:51:43THEY CHUCKLE
0:51:43 > 0:51:44How's Bert?
0:51:44 > 0:51:46- That's a funny question.- Is it?
0:51:46 > 0:51:48I haven't seen him.
0:51:48 > 0:51:49What?
0:51:49 > 0:51:52I kept on half-expecting you to send him over to me.
0:52:09 > 0:52:11Has he been back?
0:52:11 > 0:52:12Has he been to see you?
0:52:12 > 0:52:15Joe, listen to me.
0:52:15 > 0:52:17Has Bert been back here?
0:52:24 > 0:52:25Bert?
0:52:27 > 0:52:28Bert?
0:52:31 > 0:52:32Bert!
0:52:49 > 0:52:52- Bert!- Bert!
0:52:52 > 0:52:53Bert!
0:54:10 > 0:54:13HE PANTS
0:54:52 > 0:54:53Bert!
0:55:01 > 0:55:03Bert!
0:56:05 > 0:56:06Where is he?
0:56:06 > 0:56:08He can't have gone.
0:56:08 > 0:56:10He can't even walk across this room.
0:56:10 > 0:56:12Why don't you believe me?
0:56:12 > 0:56:15John. Make them believe me.
0:56:18 > 0:56:19Help us!
0:56:19 > 0:56:21Please!
0:56:21 > 0:56:24You...help me find my children.
0:56:28 > 0:56:30Nothing much wrong with him.
0:56:31 > 0:56:32Joe! Bert!
0:56:32 > 0:56:34Joe!
0:56:34 > 0:56:37Hey, hey, you stay there!
0:56:39 > 0:56:41Bert!
0:56:41 > 0:56:42Bert!
0:56:45 > 0:56:47SHE CRIES
0:56:47 > 0:56:48- Put the boy down!- No!
0:56:48 > 0:56:50I said, put the boy down.
0:56:50 > 0:56:52Leave him alone!
0:56:52 > 0:56:54- Give me the boy!- No!
0:56:54 > 0:56:56- Get off him.- Give me the boy! - No!- Get off him!
0:56:56 > 0:56:59- Get off him!- Give me the boy! - Get off him!
0:56:59 > 0:57:01Get off my boy!
0:57:01 > 0:57:03THEY SCREAM
0:57:03 > 0:57:05Keep him warm! Keep him warm!
0:57:05 > 0:57:07Keep him warm!
0:57:10 > 0:57:12Mother!
0:57:12 > 0:57:13Mother!
0:57:13 > 0:57:15Get off him! Get off him!
0:57:15 > 0:57:16Get off him!
0:57:16 > 0:57:18Get off him!
0:57:18 > 0:57:20Get off him!
0:57:23 > 0:57:25Mother!
0:57:25 > 0:57:26Mother!
0:57:26 > 0:57:29Stop! Stay there!
0:57:29 > 0:57:30No!
0:57:33 > 0:57:35Stop! Stay there!
0:57:35 > 0:57:36- Stay!- No!
0:57:44 > 0:57:46No! No!
0:57:54 > 0:57:55Mother!
0:57:57 > 0:57:58Mother!
0:58:20 > 0:58:21Where's Joe?
0:58:26 > 0:58:28GUNSHOT
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