Episode 6

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0:00:34 > 0:00:37It was snowing, the day the memorial came down.

0:00:38 > 0:00:42They'd sent in a builder from Chesterfield to do the job

0:00:42 > 0:00:44because they said it wasn't safe for untrained men.

0:00:46 > 0:00:48I said what we all felt.

0:00:48 > 0:00:52It's our memorial and our dead and we'll be taking it down.

0:00:57 > 0:00:59Remember.

0:01:46 > 0:01:51BABY CRIES IN DISTANCE

0:01:55 > 0:01:59BABY CRIES

0:02:04 > 0:02:10Mr Hankin, Mr Allingham!

0:02:10 > 0:02:13What, are we women now, huh?

0:02:13 > 0:02:15Are we to stay at home

0:02:15 > 0:02:17and do t'washing up now we've seen t'Kaiser off?

0:02:17 > 0:02:19Ey, Mr Hankin? Mr Allingham?

0:02:19 > 0:02:20Bang!

0:02:31 > 0:02:34METAL CLANKS

0:02:40 > 0:02:43What good is a man with one arm in a boot factory?

0:02:43 > 0:02:45Is this boot well made?

0:02:45 > 0:02:48We've worked hard for five years

0:02:48 > 0:02:51and we've made sacrifices for this factory.

0:02:51 > 0:02:53You've made good money on the back of that.

0:02:53 > 0:02:57All I ask in return, is that we keep our jobs,

0:02:57 > 0:02:59Mr Hankin, Mr Allingham.

0:03:06 > 0:03:09A man with one arm, or a woman with a very big mouth?

0:03:11 > 0:03:13Hmm.

0:03:13 > 0:03:15HAMMERING

0:03:15 > 0:03:18FROM CLASSROOM: Of course, it is people like me,

0:03:18 > 0:03:20who have fought for your freedom,

0:03:20 > 0:03:25yours and yours and yours and yours and yours and yours, everybody.

0:03:25 > 0:03:30And one day you may be called upon to fight for future generations

0:03:30 > 0:03:32and their freedom.

0:03:32 > 0:03:33Like the bible says...

0:03:33 > 0:03:35Who are you?

0:03:40 > 0:03:41I used to teach here.

0:03:42 > 0:03:44What's your name?

0:03:44 > 0:03:47Mary Middleton. What's your name?

0:03:49 > 0:03:53I haven't spoken to anyone in a long time.

0:03:53 > 0:03:55FOOTSTEPS APPROACH

0:03:58 > 0:03:59He doesn't know his name.

0:03:59 > 0:04:02Well, I can't help him with that.

0:04:08 > 0:04:13BABIES CRY

0:04:16 > 0:04:19This hasn't been easy for me.

0:04:20 > 0:04:23Should they all be on the same side?

0:04:23 > 0:04:26Or front and back, with 56 on each.

0:04:26 > 0:04:27Or four 28s?

0:04:28 > 0:04:30Whiskey.

0:04:30 > 0:04:32I wanted you to be the first to see these

0:04:32 > 0:04:36ahead of tomorrow's meeting at the Institute.

0:04:36 > 0:04:37Have you got a room?

0:04:38 > 0:04:46137 men went to fight from this village, 25 come back.

0:04:47 > 0:04:49And you?

0:04:49 > 0:04:50CLEARS HER THROAT

0:04:50 > 0:04:51As I was saying..

0:04:51 > 0:04:54RUSTLES PAPERS

0:04:57 > 0:04:58No.

0:05:01 > 0:05:03I've three brothers dead.

0:05:04 > 0:05:08They were all in Pals wi' me. I won't have them separated now.

0:05:08 > 0:05:10If I move your brother,

0:05:10 > 0:05:13we'll have an even number on one side of the memorial

0:05:13 > 0:05:15and an odd number on the other.

0:05:17 > 0:05:21When men come, 100 years from now, to our village

0:05:21 > 0:05:26and look upon our remembrance, what will they say?

0:05:26 > 0:05:29That we didn't understand the rules of symmetry?

0:05:29 > 0:05:32That we couldn't add up our dead?

0:05:32 > 0:05:35Why don't you put them all on the front?

0:05:35 > 0:05:36They don't fit!

0:05:36 > 0:05:40Not without making the names far too small to read properly.

0:05:40 > 0:05:44I said immediately I was given this task, uniformity would be better.

0:05:44 > 0:05:47Every memorial to have the same design

0:05:47 > 0:05:49then we wouldn't have this discord.

0:05:52 > 0:05:55Lady Allingham will have the final say.

0:05:58 > 0:06:01Is Joe Middleton on your list?

0:06:06 > 0:06:08DOOR OPENS AND CLOSES

0:06:08 > 0:06:14# Land of hope and glory

0:06:14 > 0:06:17# Mother of the free

0:06:19 > 0:06:24ALL: # How shall we extol thee

0:06:24 > 0:06:28# Who are born of thee

0:06:29 > 0:06:35# Wider still and wider

0:06:35 > 0:06:39# Shall thy bounds be set

0:06:40 > 0:06:46# God who made thee mighty

0:06:46 > 0:06:50# Make thee mightier yet

0:06:51 > 0:06:57# God, who made thee mighty

0:06:57 > 0:07:00# Make thee mightier yet...#

0:07:00 > 0:07:02Mr Eyre?

0:07:03 > 0:07:04Yes.

0:07:06 > 0:07:08You don't remember me?

0:07:08 > 0:07:10Mr Ingham won.

0:07:10 > 0:07:12What?

0:07:12 > 0:07:14You're right-handed.

0:07:17 > 0:07:19Are you, erm...?

0:07:19 > 0:07:22No, no, I was just...

0:07:22 > 0:07:24Why don't you come up to the farm and see my mother and father?

0:07:28 > 0:07:30Er, conchies now, is it?

0:07:32 > 0:07:33What you looking at, son?

0:07:33 > 0:07:35Give me that.

0:07:35 > 0:07:36Just leave him alone.

0:07:36 > 0:07:38GASPS IN PAIN

0:07:38 > 0:07:39Give me the camera.

0:07:42 > 0:07:44- Why? - So I can smash it up.

0:07:47 > 0:07:52I can't. It's got you in it and your baby.

0:07:52 > 0:07:55BABY CRIES

0:07:56 > 0:08:01BABIES CONTINUE TO CRY

0:08:26 > 0:08:30Women under 30 can't vote, men over 21 can.

0:08:30 > 0:08:32You don't need me to work out the mathematics.

0:08:32 > 0:08:35Put the men back in work, they'll put you back in Parliament.

0:08:35 > 0:08:38You need to tell the electorate you're a friend to demobbed man.

0:08:38 > 0:08:40This was my father's study.

0:08:41 > 0:08:43Is it a museum?

0:08:43 > 0:08:45No.

0:08:45 > 0:08:46Does Lady Allingham object?

0:08:46 > 0:08:48Lady Allingham is in the room.

0:08:52 > 0:08:53I'm going to change.

0:09:10 > 0:09:12Hankin's looking at a cotton mill.

0:09:12 > 0:09:14To buy? He's overstretching.

0:09:14 > 0:09:17He's trying to prove his manhood outside the bedroom.

0:09:18 > 0:09:20COCKS GUN

0:09:26 > 0:09:27This needs putting away.

0:09:35 > 0:09:38You were in The Lamb?

0:09:38 > 0:09:40Outside, taking a photograph.

0:09:42 > 0:09:44- Of what? - Babies in prams.

0:09:44 > 0:09:47There was a line of them outside The Lamb

0:09:47 > 0:09:50and their fathers were inside with Norma Hankin.

0:09:50 > 0:09:54They were, erm, talking about the names for the war memorial.

0:09:56 > 0:09:57Or Norma was.

0:09:57 > 0:10:01So I was able to ask about Joe.

0:10:03 > 0:10:05What's he up to?

0:10:14 > 0:10:16Joe's dead.

0:10:22 > 0:10:24- But, I... I thought... - He died.

0:10:33 > 0:10:37November 11th, 1916.

0:10:39 > 0:10:41- In the morning. - How did they treat you in prison?

0:10:41 > 0:10:42Um...

0:10:48 > 0:10:51There was a rule of silence.

0:10:51 > 0:10:53In case what you said infected others.

0:10:55 > 0:10:57Must have been terrible.

0:10:57 > 0:11:01Having to keep all those opinions of yours to yourself.

0:11:07 > 0:11:09Where are you staying?

0:11:09 > 0:11:11He doesn't know.

0:11:33 > 0:11:34What are you doing?

0:11:35 > 0:11:37In Joe's bed?

0:11:42 > 0:11:43Grace?

0:11:53 > 0:11:54You been using it?

0:11:54 > 0:11:55Every day.

0:11:57 > 0:11:59You'll be wanting a bath.

0:12:01 > 0:12:04- Do I, er...? - Oh, yes.

0:12:07 > 0:12:11WATER SPLASHES AND TRICKLES

0:12:18 > 0:12:21HE SNIFFS

0:12:21 > 0:12:23HE SNEEZES

0:12:23 > 0:12:24Bless you.

0:12:54 > 0:12:59DOOR OPENS AND CLOSES

0:12:59 > 0:13:01People don't like it.

0:13:01 > 0:13:03So I've tried to make myself invisible.

0:13:03 > 0:13:08They don't want to give themselves away, they think that a photograph

0:13:08 > 0:13:11might steal whatever they want to keep hidden.

0:13:11 > 0:13:16No, it's not that. It's me. The photographer, not the photograph.

0:13:17 > 0:13:19That's what they don't like.

0:13:23 > 0:13:25Look.

0:13:33 > 0:13:34How many died?

0:13:35 > 0:13:37Too many.

0:13:37 > 0:13:39There are no photographs of the dead.

0:13:41 > 0:13:42Where are they?

0:13:47 > 0:13:50FOOTSTEPS

0:13:54 > 0:13:55I don't want him here.

0:14:02 > 0:14:04He's not going to be on the memorial.

0:14:07 > 0:14:08No.

0:14:08 > 0:14:10They're ashamed of him.

0:14:14 > 0:14:15You want to forget.

0:14:18 > 0:14:20You don't want to remember.

0:14:20 > 0:14:25What are you going to do? Are you going to fight everyone? Hmm?

0:14:27 > 0:14:29"Shirkers, deserters, come live with me

0:14:29 > 0:14:32"and I'll fight anyone who says no!"

0:14:32 > 0:14:36Joe said to me, "Make it a better world."

0:14:38 > 0:14:39I won't let him down.

0:14:42 > 0:14:44And Bert wants him here.

0:14:48 > 0:14:49But why?

0:14:51 > 0:14:53Because he's halfway between an older brother and a...

0:14:56 > 0:14:58And a what?

0:14:58 > 0:15:00And a father, John.

0:15:16 > 0:15:19RUBS HANDS BRISKLY

0:15:22 > 0:15:23I'll go with you.

0:15:35 > 0:15:37What do you want, Father?

0:15:40 > 0:15:42Are you cold?

0:15:46 > 0:15:49They get it wrong, the painters.

0:15:51 > 0:15:52They've not got it right.

0:15:54 > 0:15:58Now, if there were a photograph, then we'd know.

0:15:58 > 0:15:59We needed you there, son.

0:15:59 > 0:16:01A photograph of what?

0:16:01 > 0:16:03The nails.

0:16:04 > 0:16:06They didn't go through his palms...

0:16:08 > 0:16:11..because the flesh of the hand can't support a body on the cross.

0:16:14 > 0:16:18No, they nailed him through the wrists...and the feet.

0:16:21 > 0:16:25And the rib cage is stretched, which makes it impossible to breathe

0:16:25 > 0:16:30unless you pull your arm or push down on the nail with your feet.

0:16:32 > 0:16:34The pain he took.

0:16:35 > 0:16:36Our suffering is nothing.

0:16:41 > 0:16:42Cold?

0:16:44 > 0:16:46This is not cold.

0:16:50 > 0:16:51I'm not cold.

0:16:52 > 0:16:56Come on cold! Do your worst!

0:16:56 > 0:16:59We have nothing!

0:17:00 > 0:17:02Nothing!

0:17:11 > 0:17:12We have our name.

0:17:20 > 0:17:22CHRUCH BELL CHIMES

0:17:22 > 0:17:24To the left, quick, march!

0:17:26 > 0:17:28Halt!

0:17:28 > 0:17:29Every morning?

0:17:29 > 0:17:31FROM OUTSIDE: Left! Left!

0:17:31 > 0:17:33I'm not sure it will ever be over.

0:17:33 > 0:17:36FROM OUTSIDE: Attention! And to the right.

0:17:45 > 0:17:46I don't know...

0:17:49 > 0:17:52..if the village would want me teaching its children.

0:18:01 > 0:18:03Martha.

0:18:03 > 0:18:07Our Mary says that you're a good teacher. Why are you stopping?

0:18:07 > 0:18:08You know why.

0:18:08 > 0:18:13I watched you living a life and filling it up with conviction

0:18:13 > 0:18:15and action and then you stopped.

0:18:17 > 0:18:20Joe died and you stopped living.

0:18:20 > 0:18:22This is none of your business.

0:18:22 > 0:18:24He was my brother.

0:18:26 > 0:18:28The village is in pain.

0:18:29 > 0:18:31It's been in pain for years.

0:18:33 > 0:18:35In the middle of it all...

0:18:37 > 0:18:38..I lost my faith.

0:18:41 > 0:18:44So, I'm not the right man

0:18:44 > 0:18:51for a man of exacting principle as yourself to come to for help.

0:18:51 > 0:18:56Well, I'll take the man I know, rather than the man of God.

0:18:56 > 0:18:58For what?

0:18:58 > 0:19:01My confession.

0:19:01 > 0:19:08Everything that I say about the war and killing, I believe to be true.

0:19:10 > 0:19:15But I know that the stand that I took was also motivated by fear.

0:19:17 > 0:19:23I didn't want to kill anyone and I didn't want to be killed.

0:19:23 > 0:19:25I saw the men of this village go off to fight.

0:19:27 > 0:19:32I saw the courage it took for them to offer themselves up to suffering.

0:19:33 > 0:19:37None had the courage to reject suffering apart from you.

0:19:40 > 0:19:42What happened to Joe Middleton?

0:19:45 > 0:19:46Shot.

0:19:49 > 0:19:50At dawn.

0:20:02 > 0:20:06She doesn't love you. She loved my brother.

0:20:06 > 0:20:08- She still does. - You mean you love her.

0:20:10 > 0:20:13Cowardly thing to do, hiding behind your dead brother.

0:20:20 > 0:20:22Sorry I'm late.

0:20:23 > 0:20:28Now, the law says when Martha Lane becomes Mrs Allingham,

0:20:28 > 0:20:31she's no longer permitted to teach.

0:20:31 > 0:20:37So, there's a wedding coming and a job available.

0:20:39 > 0:20:41You're invited to both.

0:20:43 > 0:20:47SHEEP BLEAT

0:20:47 > 0:20:51HE PANTS WITH EXERTION

0:21:04 > 0:21:06I'd be your tenant?

0:21:07 > 0:21:09Not much would change.

0:21:09 > 0:21:12Only you wouldn't have to worry about losing your farm.

0:21:12 > 0:21:14I'm offering you a secure job and lot of money.

0:21:14 > 0:21:16But it'll be yours.

0:21:16 > 0:21:17Yes.

0:21:17 > 0:21:19And after that, it'll be his?

0:21:19 > 0:21:21- Aye. - Not Bert's?

0:21:21 > 0:21:23No.

0:21:23 > 0:21:25I'll need to know soon.

0:21:31 > 0:21:32Know what?

0:21:36 > 0:21:38Oh, he just wants a right of access.

0:21:43 > 0:21:44Son?

0:21:47 > 0:21:49Would you show me your photographs?

0:21:51 > 0:21:53I'm going to be married.

0:21:54 > 0:21:58And that means you're to have a new teacher. Here he is.

0:21:58 > 0:22:00Your husband?

0:22:01 > 0:22:03Your teacher.

0:22:18 > 0:22:21DOORS CREAK

0:22:27 > 0:22:31SCRAPING AND TAPPING

0:22:42 > 0:22:45SCRAPING ON BOARD

0:22:45 > 0:22:48HE BREATHES JAGGEDLY

0:22:53 > 0:22:55DOOR SHUTS LOUDLY

0:23:02 > 0:23:04What have we here?

0:23:05 > 0:23:08A teacher

0:23:08 > 0:23:10who can't write his own name.

0:23:12 > 0:23:14Why not?

0:23:15 > 0:23:16Shall we ask him?

0:23:23 > 0:23:25Why can't you do it?

0:23:28 > 0:23:29Is it shame?

0:23:31 > 0:23:33Or is it guilt?

0:23:34 > 0:23:40I'll tell you his name. His name is Coward.

0:23:43 > 0:23:44His name...

0:23:44 > 0:23:46..is Shirker!

0:24:26 > 0:24:28They're all of the village.

0:24:30 > 0:24:32And none of me.

0:24:32 > 0:24:34LOUD KNOCKING

0:24:34 > 0:24:37DOOR OPENS

0:24:44 > 0:24:47A beard. That's a beard.

0:24:47 > 0:24:50Moustache is when it's there, not there.

0:24:50 > 0:24:54I want to make it special, Grace, when he comes home.

0:24:54 > 0:24:59I want a funeral that my little ones will remember.

0:24:59 > 0:25:00I'm not sure, Margaret.

0:25:00 > 0:25:02What about?

0:25:02 > 0:25:04A funeral, like that.

0:25:06 > 0:25:09MARGARET SIGHS

0:25:12 > 0:25:18He's slipping away, my Paul. I can't hear him any more.

0:25:20 > 0:25:24What was it like, Grace? What were their lives like, over there?

0:25:24 > 0:25:25They won't tell us.

0:25:26 > 0:25:29They don't want us to know anything.

0:25:29 > 0:25:32I don't want to fight any more.

0:25:32 > 0:25:34I want to grieve for my boy.

0:25:37 > 0:25:39I know how Paul died.

0:25:46 > 0:25:48There's room for some words.

0:25:48 > 0:25:51- Hmm? - Here. Around the top.

0:25:53 > 0:25:55What would they be, George?

0:25:55 > 0:26:01- Sacrifice, honour, patriotism... Covers it.- Hmm.

0:26:01 > 0:26:05And what do the four helmets represent?

0:26:05 > 0:26:06Pathos?

0:26:08 > 0:26:10And what would you have instead?

0:26:12 > 0:26:14Erm...

0:26:15 > 0:26:18Intestines, maybe?

0:26:19 > 0:26:23Or bluebottles. There were great swarms of them everywhere,

0:26:23 > 0:26:25living off human flesh.

0:26:25 > 0:26:27They used to get in your nose and in your uniform.

0:26:27 > 0:26:29Used to wonder where they'd been.

0:26:29 > 0:26:32You knew, of course you knew where they'd been.

0:26:32 > 0:26:36A buzzing cloud of happy, busy bluebottles above every shithole.

0:26:38 > 0:26:43In the summer, I'd put my best sniper on lav duty, we called it.

0:26:43 > 0:26:45Sights on his rifle set just below

0:26:45 > 0:26:49the most intensely buzzing cloud on the German trenches.

0:26:51 > 0:26:55And when the cloud lifted for a moment...

0:26:55 > 0:26:57IMITATES GUNSHOT

0:26:57 > 0:26:59..you squeeze the trigger.

0:27:01 > 0:27:05One in five times you'd bag a Hun having a careless evacuation.

0:27:05 > 0:27:09You have to remember, this is about remembering.

0:27:09 > 0:27:11That yes, we went to France to die for our country,

0:27:11 > 0:27:14we also went to France to kill for our country.

0:27:20 > 0:27:26CHILDREN CHATTER FAINTLY IN THE BACKGROUND

0:27:48 > 0:27:50DOORBELL TINKLES SOFTLY

0:27:51 > 0:27:53DOOR CLICKS SHUT

0:27:59 > 0:28:02LEGS THUD HEAVILY

0:28:02 > 0:28:04HE MOANS

0:28:05 > 0:28:09KNIFE BEING SHARPENED

0:28:11 > 0:28:17LOUDER SHARPENING

0:28:20 > 0:28:22What? What is it you want?

0:28:22 > 0:28:24Do you believe that Joe was a coward?

0:28:29 > 0:28:33You say that again and I'll kill you.

0:28:33 > 0:28:35You wouldn't be frightened of me

0:28:35 > 0:28:38if you didn't believe that Joe was a coward.

0:28:38 > 0:28:39Frightened?

0:28:41 > 0:28:43Frightened of a shirker?

0:28:49 > 0:28:50KNIFE CLINKS LOUDLY

0:28:54 > 0:28:56You be gone when I get back.

0:29:04 > 0:29:08RASPING BREATHING

0:29:11 > 0:29:15RASPING INCREASES

0:29:19 > 0:29:22HE STRUGGLES TO BREATHE

0:29:29 > 0:29:31- What are we doing? - We're embracing grief.

0:29:31 > 0:29:33- Whose grief is it? - It belongs to us all.

0:29:33 > 0:29:36- Who were the dead? - They're ours.

0:29:38 > 0:29:41PEOPLE TALK QUIETLY

0:29:52 > 0:29:55- Ladies and gentlemen... - Sit down.

0:29:55 > 0:29:58..friends. Our great project,

0:29:58 > 0:30:02this testament in stone, our memorial to those we have lost,

0:30:02 > 0:30:06has just taken on even greater significance.

0:30:06 > 0:30:09The government, in consultation with the king

0:30:09 > 0:30:12and with the most senior figures in our armed forces,

0:30:12 > 0:30:16has decided that there will be no repatriation of the fallen.

0:30:16 > 0:30:19Our glorious dead will remain together in France,

0:30:19 > 0:30:22united as one in our memory.

0:30:22 > 0:30:23No!

0:30:23 > 0:30:26I want him home!

0:30:33 > 0:30:38November the 11th will serve as a day of remembrance for us all.

0:30:40 > 0:30:44That's wrong. Everyone's grief is different.

0:30:44 > 0:30:47It's more meaningful if we join together.

0:30:47 > 0:30:49It costs less.

0:30:49 > 0:30:52And they can tell us what the history is going to be.

0:30:52 > 0:30:55Do you want the politicians and the generals who took us

0:30:55 > 0:30:58into this war to tell us how to mourn our dead after it?

0:30:58 > 0:31:00We know why you're saying this, Grace.

0:31:00 > 0:31:04Then come on, Norma. Say it!

0:31:04 > 0:31:05Out with it!

0:31:07 > 0:31:13It, it might help if we talked about the day itself, the plans.

0:31:15 > 0:31:20The 11th hour, of the 11th day, of the 11th month.

0:31:23 > 0:31:26Men died at 10.30.

0:31:26 > 0:31:29Men died at 10.50 so that the war's end would have

0:31:29 > 0:31:31more of a ring to it in the history books.

0:31:33 > 0:31:36My brother...

0:31:36 > 0:31:39was shot dead on another 11th of November...

0:31:40 > 0:31:44..two years before, at 4.00 in the morning.

0:31:44 > 0:31:47Will you be awake at dawn?

0:31:47 > 0:31:50Will you wake up and remember him?

0:31:52 > 0:31:54This is not about individual loss.

0:31:54 > 0:31:57This is common grief, shared bereavement.

0:31:57 > 0:32:00They're bringing home the Unknown Warrior and giving him

0:32:00 > 0:32:01a funeral fit for a king.

0:32:01 > 0:32:05One of the pall bearers is Field Marshall Haig himself?

0:32:05 > 0:32:07Yes, I believe so.

0:32:07 > 0:32:10The man who signed my brother's death warrant!

0:32:10 > 0:32:13We're all making big adjustments.

0:32:13 > 0:32:17We all remember before the war as being another time.

0:32:17 > 0:32:20A kind of...golden age.

0:32:20 > 0:32:23You had more servants. That's what was golden about it.

0:32:23 > 0:32:27It wasn't, it wasn't a golden age for me or for Margaret Boden

0:32:27 > 0:32:32or for Agnes or for anyone else I've ever spoke to outside of your class.

0:32:32 > 0:32:35Right, why don't we limit our argument to the memorial?

0:32:35 > 0:32:36That's why we're here,

0:32:36 > 0:32:40to establish the most fitting way to remember those...

0:32:40 > 0:32:43Remember those who paid the ultimate sacrifice.

0:32:43 > 0:32:45I think we can at least agree all men are equal

0:32:45 > 0:32:47when they confront their maker.

0:32:47 > 0:32:49Then you can tell me.

0:32:50 > 0:32:52Is my son in heaven...

0:32:55 > 0:32:57..or is he in hell?

0:32:59 > 0:33:01Where is he?

0:33:02 > 0:33:04Where's he gone?

0:33:29 > 0:33:33Whatever Rutter's offering you, I'll match it.

0:33:33 > 0:33:35What?

0:33:35 > 0:33:37But I don't want your farm.

0:33:39 > 0:33:41I want to talk about Grace.

0:33:42 > 0:33:44Now?

0:33:44 > 0:33:49No, no. From time to time, you and me.

0:33:49 > 0:33:52We have to work quietly, us men,

0:33:52 > 0:33:54to return her to the home,

0:33:54 > 0:33:57to soothe her rage.

0:33:57 > 0:34:02You keep the farm and nobody need know about our arrangement.

0:34:03 > 0:34:07You know, true acts of charity,

0:34:07 > 0:34:09when men are pure with motive,

0:34:09 > 0:34:13are always privately made and privately achieved, Mr Middleton.

0:34:13 > 0:34:15FOOTSTEPS APPROACH

0:34:23 > 0:34:26She's your wife. What kind of a man are you?

0:34:36 > 0:34:39Hello, love. I just left me cap.

0:34:42 > 0:34:46Hell. Of course. Someone should have just said it.

0:34:46 > 0:34:48You didn't.

0:34:48 > 0:34:53Why not? Were you wrong about Joe Middleton, Dr Wylie?

0:34:53 > 0:34:56Is his death on your conscience?

0:34:56 > 0:34:57He was a coward.

0:34:57 > 0:35:03Oh, yes, of course - bad, not mad. Yes, beyond help. Not your field.

0:35:05 > 0:35:08What do you think, Miss Lane?

0:35:08 > 0:35:12Is there such a thing as a collective conscience?

0:35:13 > 0:35:16Beyond rules and law and doctors?

0:35:16 > 0:35:18We've killed a man.

0:35:18 > 0:35:22We think about his death - we can't stop thinking about it -

0:35:22 > 0:35:26but...but we have to resolve it or it'll destroy us.

0:35:27 > 0:35:32Joe Middleton is our problem. His name is our conscience.

0:35:43 > 0:35:45Well, where's the damn car?

0:35:45 > 0:35:49Why don't we walk, hmm? Let's walk.

0:35:55 > 0:35:57Do you love Caro?

0:35:58 > 0:36:00Of course.

0:36:00 > 0:36:02Stupid question.

0:36:02 > 0:36:07Yes, you invented her, you made her into...whatever she is now.

0:36:07 > 0:36:10So it would be surprising if you didn't love what you've made.

0:36:10 > 0:36:13I understand your daughter better than you could possibly hope to.

0:36:13 > 0:36:16You understand her? I asked you about love.

0:36:16 > 0:36:18All you've got is feeling.

0:36:18 > 0:36:22I have insight and that gives me the whole picture.

0:36:22 > 0:36:26Then imagine how much of a fool you'd feel if you were wrong.

0:36:33 > 0:36:35What have you said to him?

0:36:37 > 0:36:38Nothing.

0:36:51 > 0:36:53CAMERA CLICKS

0:37:14 > 0:37:16Thank you.

0:37:31 > 0:37:32Hello?

0:37:34 > 0:37:35He's gone.

0:37:43 > 0:37:45Mr Eyre?

0:37:50 > 0:37:52HE PANTS, SHIVERS

0:37:52 > 0:37:54What about the children?

0:37:54 > 0:37:56What about...the children?

0:37:56 > 0:37:58Sssh. Sssh.

0:37:58 > 0:38:00You know what this is, don't you?

0:38:03 > 0:38:07And he brings it here, to this village,

0:38:07 > 0:38:09to this house, to his bed.

0:38:09 > 0:38:12What have you done?!

0:38:15 > 0:38:16Not at work?

0:38:16 > 0:38:18No.

0:38:18 > 0:38:20Strange pudding.

0:38:20 > 0:38:22Can I have it on the tab, please?

0:38:22 > 0:38:25Is this what I think it is?

0:38:27 > 0:38:29Who is it?

0:38:30 > 0:38:32Grace?

0:38:46 > 0:38:49No. I'm not having you catching it.

0:38:49 > 0:38:51- That's for me... - No, it is not.

0:38:51 > 0:38:56You'd risk catching it and passing it on to Mary? To Bert?

0:38:56 > 0:38:58No, enough. He's on his own.

0:39:02 > 0:39:04KNOCK ON DOOR

0:39:13 > 0:39:14Sorry.

0:39:14 > 0:39:16Margaret?

0:39:16 > 0:39:19Some rhubarb and some treacle.

0:39:22 > 0:39:23It's my girls.

0:39:23 > 0:39:26All my girls.

0:39:33 > 0:39:35THEY ALL COUGH

0:39:47 > 0:39:49HE BREATHES ROUGHLY

0:39:57 > 0:39:58Mr Hankin.

0:39:58 > 0:40:00Doctor.

0:40:01 > 0:40:05Ah, the stonemason's here, if you'll excuse me.

0:40:09 > 0:40:11Er, how, how many are there?

0:40:11 > 0:40:14I saw 40 cases this morning.

0:40:14 > 0:40:1857 names down to Mellor T on the front

0:40:18 > 0:40:21and the remaining 55 names on the back.

0:40:21 > 0:40:23What can I get for you, Doctor?

0:40:23 > 0:40:25Half a bottle of rum.

0:40:25 > 0:40:28Is rum something that might, erm...?

0:40:28 > 0:40:30Decent corpse reviver.

0:40:31 > 0:40:34Best friend to influenza, Mrs Hankin.

0:40:34 > 0:40:37- Is?- Fear.

0:40:37 > 0:40:41If you want to reduce your chances of catching it, don't be frightened.

0:40:41 > 0:40:44And the poem on the side, same lettering.

0:40:44 > 0:40:46Is that right, Norma?

0:40:48 > 0:40:50Norma?

0:41:12 > 0:41:13I think he's going to die.

0:41:17 > 0:41:20I'm very sorry. Why are you here?

0:41:22 > 0:41:25- It's all worked out. - Keep away from her.

0:41:25 > 0:41:27I had a little bird.

0:41:27 > 0:41:29Its name was Enza.

0:41:30 > 0:41:34I opened the window and... in flew Enza.

0:41:34 > 0:41:35Is this a joke?

0:41:35 > 0:41:38All over England, people are singing songs about it

0:41:38 > 0:41:40because they think it's over.

0:41:40 > 0:41:43And our village had escaped it, hadn't we?

0:41:43 > 0:41:45Not many villages in England can say that.

0:41:45 > 0:41:49Why don't you stop clearing your throat and say what you think?

0:41:49 > 0:41:51We can't let it start again.

0:41:51 > 0:41:53- It's here. - And that's where it has to stay.

0:41:58 > 0:41:59No. Quarantine the village? No.

0:41:59 > 0:42:01Apart from anything else, I need to be at Westminster.

0:42:01 > 0:42:03My bill is being debated on Tuesday.

0:42:03 > 0:42:06You could return, live out the life of this parliament.

0:42:06 > 0:42:09You might retain your seat at the next election, you might not.

0:42:09 > 0:42:13Do this, you will be guaranteed a long life in politics.

0:42:13 > 0:42:17High office is virtually assured and you'll have a place in history.

0:42:17 > 0:42:18Bairstow, I just...

0:42:18 > 0:42:23You're 36 years old. You've been promising quite a few years now.

0:42:23 > 0:42:27This is your moment, brought to you on a plate by a farm boy.

0:42:27 > 0:42:28It was his idea.

0:42:28 > 0:42:33If you lead the village in this, people, newspapers, history,

0:42:33 > 0:42:35will all say that it was yours.

0:42:35 > 0:42:37The losses this village took in the war

0:42:37 > 0:42:39will make it an even bigger story.

0:42:39 > 0:42:42We'll go from plucky to heroic, overnight.

0:42:42 > 0:42:44And you'll be the man taking us there.

0:42:46 > 0:42:48This is our time.

0:42:48 > 0:42:51And those are the first four words of your speech.

0:43:21 > 0:43:23This is the last of it.

0:43:26 > 0:43:27That's it.

0:43:36 > 0:43:37There's nobody here.

0:43:42 > 0:43:44We're alone. What is it?

0:43:46 > 0:43:48I don't love you.

0:44:03 > 0:44:05I can never win, can I?

0:44:05 > 0:44:08Because he's dead.

0:44:09 > 0:44:10You will always love him.

0:44:15 > 0:44:17I should have died.

0:44:20 > 0:44:22It's my fault.

0:44:23 > 0:44:25What is?

0:44:25 > 0:44:29If Joe had remained perfect to you, you might have found space for me.

0:44:32 > 0:44:35I think when I told you about Joe and Caro...

0:44:38 > 0:44:39..I tarnished him.

0:44:41 > 0:44:42And I lost you.

0:44:59 > 0:45:0323 years you were alive before we met.

0:45:03 > 0:45:06It's hard to imagine.

0:45:06 > 0:45:08You were waiting for me.

0:45:08 > 0:45:10Yes!

0:45:15 > 0:45:18Go ahead. Eat your soup.

0:45:19 > 0:45:20You don't have to.

0:45:22 > 0:45:24You can choose.

0:45:26 > 0:45:32Just as you can choose whether to tell Dr Wylie about your baby.

0:46:18 > 0:46:20KNOCKING ON DOOR

0:46:35 > 0:46:37HE BREATHES SHAKILY

0:47:46 > 0:47:50You know what you've done? Nothing goes out of t'village.

0:47:50 > 0:47:51So I pour it all away.

0:47:51 > 0:47:54A few days without our milk, dairy'll drop us,

0:47:54 > 0:47:56they'll not take us back.

0:47:58 > 0:48:03They're calling it t'plague. They want to stop the memorial ceremony.

0:48:05 > 0:48:07They?

0:48:07 > 0:48:09The village.

0:48:11 > 0:48:14What did you say?

0:48:14 > 0:48:15The village.

0:48:15 > 0:48:19No. Before, in the field.

0:48:20 > 0:48:23We have nothing?

0:48:23 > 0:48:25But we have our name.

0:48:56 > 0:48:59No milk, no income.

0:49:00 > 0:49:02What will you do?

0:49:02 > 0:49:06Slaughter them now for the meat?

0:49:06 > 0:49:08Now be a man and shake hands with me.

0:49:08 > 0:49:10You've nothing left, Middleton.

0:49:38 > 0:49:40Hey, what do you want?

0:49:45 > 0:49:49Is there a man here who has not lost a son, or a brother, or a father?

0:49:49 > 0:49:51Hey, what do you want?!

0:49:51 > 0:49:54I want us all to stand together tomorrow.

0:49:54 > 0:49:57Every single one of us.

0:49:57 > 0:50:00I want ALL the living to remember ALL the dead.

0:50:10 > 0:50:12What can I do for you?

0:51:26 > 0:51:27What day is it?

0:51:31 > 0:51:32Thursday morning.

0:51:35 > 0:51:36Date?

0:51:37 > 0:51:39The 11th of November.

0:51:39 > 0:51:41- But it...- I'm not going.

0:52:42 > 0:52:46There's a few more people to come. Well, it's a good turnout, really.

0:52:46 > 0:52:49Yes, the whole village is here.

0:52:49 > 0:52:50Yes, nearly.

0:52:56 > 0:52:59Well, you could do, that...that's not a bad idea.

0:52:59 > 0:53:02May some silence or something before, you know?

0:53:03 > 0:53:06- You freezing cold, are you? - I'll manage, thank you.

0:53:10 > 0:53:12Yeah, I saw him.

0:53:12 > 0:53:15CLOCK CHIMES

0:54:34 > 0:54:36You have to come.

0:54:36 > 0:54:38They don't want him.

0:54:39 > 0:54:44Mellor, Mellor, Mellor, Mitchell, Mumford.

0:54:44 > 0:54:45Where is he?

0:54:45 > 0:54:49I can't be part of something that chooses to ignore my son's life

0:54:49 > 0:54:52and his death whilst remembering everyone else's.

0:54:52 > 0:54:54I understand.

0:54:54 > 0:54:55How can you?

0:55:00 > 0:55:02Joe had a child.

0:55:05 > 0:55:07My daughter...

0:55:07 > 0:55:09had a child.

0:55:09 > 0:55:10A boy.

0:55:13 > 0:55:17He's yours and he's mine.

0:55:50 > 0:55:53Excuse me. Thank you.

0:55:59 > 0:56:01PEOPLE MURMUR

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