0:01:38 > 0:01:41SIREN WAILS
0:01:41 > 0:01:44BOAT HORN BLARES
0:01:57 > 0:02:01SIREN WAILS
0:03:07 > 0:03:09Dr Han.
0:03:10 > 0:03:12Dr Keith would like you
0:03:12 > 0:03:15to come to the emergency ward
0:03:15 > 0:03:17as soon as you can.
0:03:35 > 0:03:37GIRL GROANS
0:03:38 > 0:03:40What's the trouble, John?
0:03:40 > 0:03:41This child was hit by a motorcar
0:03:41 > 0:03:43and is in shock.
0:03:43 > 0:03:44Who is she?
0:03:44 > 0:03:46A refugee from China,
0:03:46 > 0:03:48one of 3,000 new ones.
0:03:48 > 0:03:49Has she a family?
0:03:49 > 0:03:52She was alone at the time of the accident.
0:03:52 > 0:03:54Will you take her now, Dr Han?
0:03:54 > 0:03:55I've given her one six of a grain of pantopon.
0:03:55 > 0:03:57She may be injured internally.
0:03:57 > 0:03:59Boy, move her to X-ray immediately.
0:03:59 > 0:04:01You had better come along with me, officer,
0:04:01 > 0:04:02for the report.
0:04:06 > 0:04:09Dr Han. I am Mei Lu. You remember?
0:04:09 > 0:04:11Oh, Mei Lu, I hardly knew you.
0:04:13 > 0:04:16Is this the little boy who was so ill?
0:04:16 > 0:04:17But now it is my husband.
0:04:17 > 0:04:19Make him well, Dr Han.
0:04:19 > 0:04:21We have no money,
0:04:21 > 0:04:24but we will sell the boy.
0:04:24 > 0:04:27Our little one is intelligent and well-made.
0:04:27 > 0:04:30We will do what we can, Mei Lu,
0:04:30 > 0:04:33but don't you ever try to sell your little boy.
0:04:33 > 0:04:34You couldn't anyhow.
0:04:34 > 0:04:35I'll take care of him, Suyin.
0:04:35 > 0:04:39Anyway, Dr Sen's on his way down.
0:04:39 > 0:04:41I wish I were ten people.
0:04:41 > 0:04:42You need diversion. I'm ducking out
0:04:42 > 0:04:45to the Palmer-Jones' cocktail party this afternoon.
0:04:45 > 0:04:46Why don't you trot along with me?
0:04:46 > 0:04:48Dr Sen will take over here.
0:04:48 > 0:04:50Why don't I? A sense of balance
0:04:50 > 0:04:53might restore my sense of humour.
0:05:00 > 0:05:03MUSIC PLAYS
0:05:03 > 0:05:05Why anyone would want to live anywhere but Hong Kong
0:05:05 > 0:05:06I can't understand.
0:05:06 > 0:05:08Where else in the world could you
0:05:08 > 0:05:10get ten servants for the price of one?
0:05:10 > 0:05:12By next month, the ratio will be 12-1.
0:05:12 > 0:05:13Shanghai's fallen, you know.
0:05:13 > 0:05:15The Reds will have all of China pretty soon.
0:05:15 > 0:05:17Well, we must all keep our heads here.
0:05:17 > 0:05:19I hope you're going to write something dreadful
0:05:19 > 0:05:22for your paper about those ungrateful...
0:05:22 > 0:05:25Oh, John Keith.
0:05:27 > 0:05:30Now my party is a success.
0:05:30 > 0:05:34Adeline, this is Han Suyin, my friend and colleague.
0:05:34 > 0:05:37Han Suyin, I feel I've known you a long, long time.
0:05:37 > 0:05:40You're a great artist, I understand.
0:05:40 > 0:05:42I'm a doctor.
0:05:42 > 0:05:44Oh, well, doctors are artists in their way.
0:05:44 > 0:05:47I knew I'd heard something wonderful about you.
0:05:47 > 0:05:49Oh, John, you know everybody, don't you?
0:05:49 > 0:05:52Suyin, I hardly expected to find you here.
0:05:52 > 0:05:53Doctor's orders.
0:05:53 > 0:05:56Adeline's husband is one of the directors at the hospital.
0:05:56 > 0:05:58Oh, you must let me speak to him, Dr Han.
0:05:58 > 0:06:00There might be a place for you on the staff.
0:06:00 > 0:06:02Thank you, but I am already on the staff.
0:06:02 > 0:06:04Oh, how nice.
0:06:04 > 0:06:06Well, then we won't have to tell him, will we?
0:06:06 > 0:06:09I want you to meet Father Low.
0:06:09 > 0:06:11He just escaped from China, too.
0:06:11 > 0:06:13But I haven't just escaped from China.
0:06:13 > 0:06:16I've been studying medicine in England.
0:06:16 > 0:06:18I haven't been back to China for ten years.
0:06:18 > 0:06:20But you are Chinese.
0:06:20 > 0:06:21Eurasian.
0:06:21 > 0:06:24My father was Chinese. My mother was English.
0:06:24 > 0:06:27I think of myself as Chinese, however.
0:06:27 > 0:06:29I know exactly how you feel.
0:06:29 > 0:06:31The minute I put on a Chinese frock, I feel Chinese.
0:06:31 > 0:06:34I tell you, if you have capital invested here,
0:06:34 > 0:06:36you can double your money in Hong Kong in three months.
0:06:36 > 0:06:38Oh, money, money, money. It's so sordid, dear.
0:06:38 > 0:06:40I want you to meet Dr Han.
0:06:40 > 0:06:42This mercenary man is my husband.
0:06:42 > 0:06:43Delighted, Doctor.
0:06:43 > 0:06:46And this is Father Low. Mr Rieger, Mr Wong...
0:06:46 > 0:06:47Bohannan, dear.
0:06:47 > 0:06:49Oh, yes, and Mrs Wong,
0:06:49 > 0:06:50Madame Marnier, Mr Denny,
0:06:50 > 0:06:51and Fiona Manton.
0:06:51 > 0:06:54Father Low is fresh out of north China.
0:06:54 > 0:06:57All the really nice people are getting out.
0:06:57 > 0:06:58I was thrown out.
0:06:58 > 0:07:01Rice converts, that's what they were - rice converts.
0:07:01 > 0:07:03I loved them.
0:07:03 > 0:07:05I knew them as I know the back of my hand,
0:07:05 > 0:07:07but they turned me out.
0:07:07 > 0:07:10I'm sure I'll find China much changed when I return.
0:07:10 > 0:07:11You going back, Doctor?
0:07:11 > 0:07:13Don't tell us that you're a communist, please.
0:07:13 > 0:07:17No, but I became a doctor to help my people.
0:07:17 > 0:07:18Like all Chinese,
0:07:18 > 0:07:20I'm spellbound by my own country.
0:07:20 > 0:07:22You'll be shot.
0:07:22 > 0:07:23I hope not.
0:07:23 > 0:07:25I'm neither a politician nor a missionary.
0:07:25 > 0:07:26Well, really, I must say...
0:07:26 > 0:07:28You must say something to your other guests.
0:07:28 > 0:07:30Meanwhile, I'll pilot Suyin around.
0:07:30 > 0:07:33Oh, thank you, John. Thank you.
0:07:39 > 0:07:41Oh, dear, I'm saying all the wrong things.
0:07:41 > 0:07:43Not at all.
0:07:43 > 0:07:46Getting your sense of balance back?
0:07:46 > 0:07:48And my sense of humour.
0:07:48 > 0:07:50I'd heard that these parties were...
0:07:50 > 0:07:53Oh, I left my fan.
0:07:53 > 0:07:54Where?
0:07:54 > 0:07:56Well, I... I think I put it down
0:07:56 > 0:07:57when I was handed a cocktail.
0:07:57 > 0:07:59I'll get it for you.
0:07:59 > 0:08:00Wait here.
0:08:04 > 0:08:08Dr Han, is this yours?
0:08:08 > 0:08:09- Thank you.- And these.
0:08:09 > 0:08:10Thank you.
0:08:10 > 0:08:12I'm Mark Elliott.
0:08:12 > 0:08:14Kind of a dull party, isn't it?
0:08:14 > 0:08:15No, thank you.
0:08:15 > 0:08:17Well, I'm a guest, Mr Elliott.
0:08:17 > 0:08:18Well, I'm a guest, too.
0:08:18 > 0:08:20That gives me the right to call it dull.
0:08:20 > 0:08:22You know, I was supposed to meet you
0:08:22 > 0:08:24two weeks ago.
0:08:24 > 0:08:25Were you?
0:08:25 > 0:08:28Fred Dixon wrote me, asked me to look you up.
0:08:28 > 0:08:31I didn't because I thought you might be
0:08:31 > 0:08:33the intellectual type with glasses.
0:08:33 > 0:08:36And where is Mr Dixon now?
0:08:36 > 0:08:38Oh, he's still in Malaya.
0:08:39 > 0:08:41Would you have dinner with me tonight?
0:08:41 > 0:08:43I'm a very pleasant man.
0:08:43 > 0:08:46Oh, I'm sure of that, but I'm on duty.
0:08:46 > 0:08:48When are you not on duty?
0:08:48 > 0:08:50If we were in Chungking, Mr Elliott,
0:08:50 > 0:08:53third uncle would consider it unpardonable to accept.
0:08:53 > 0:08:55No Chinese girl would dare dine alone
0:08:55 > 0:08:57with an American she had just met.
0:08:57 > 0:08:59- Yes, but we're not in Chungking. - I am still Chinese.
0:08:59 > 0:09:02And half European. I just heard you say so.
0:09:02 > 0:09:04Now, will your European side reconsider?
0:09:04 > 0:09:07Why don't you call me at the hospital, Mr Elliott?
0:09:07 > 0:09:09I'll do that.
0:09:09 > 0:09:10Oh, I see you found it.
0:09:10 > 0:09:14Oh, this is Mr Elliott. Dr John Keith.
0:09:14 > 0:09:16We've met before. Nice to see you again.
0:09:16 > 0:09:17Nice to see you.
0:09:18 > 0:09:21I really can't believe that you're a doctor, Doctor.
0:09:21 > 0:09:23What a shame we haven't a scalpel with us.
0:09:23 > 0:09:26I could make a slight incision to convince you.
0:09:30 > 0:09:31Tell me about Mark Elliott.
0:09:31 > 0:09:34Don't know much. He's a newspaperman.
0:09:34 > 0:09:37Been around a couple of months, a reporter. Why?
0:09:37 > 0:09:39He's invited me to dinner.
0:09:40 > 0:09:42Accepting?
0:09:42 > 0:09:44I haven't decided.
0:09:44 > 0:09:46He's married, Suyin.
0:09:46 > 0:09:48So are you, John, and I go out with you.
0:09:48 > 0:09:51I happen to be in love with my wife.
0:09:51 > 0:09:52He isn't.
0:09:52 > 0:09:54And how do you know so much?
0:09:54 > 0:09:56Hong Kong is a small place.
0:09:56 > 0:09:59Well, I dislike being a small person.
0:09:59 > 0:10:01I'm not remotely interested in Mr Elliott.
0:10:01 > 0:10:04I doubt if he'll call anyhow.
0:10:06 > 0:10:08TELEPHONE RINGS
0:10:13 > 0:10:16Dr Han here.
0:10:16 > 0:10:17Are you on duty Wednesday?
0:10:17 > 0:10:21Well, I have Wednesday afternoons off.
0:10:21 > 0:10:23Good. It's the night of the moon festival.
0:10:23 > 0:10:24Will you have dinner with me?
0:10:24 > 0:10:26'Where can I pick you up?'
0:10:26 > 0:10:28Well, I'll meet you
0:10:28 > 0:10:32at the staff entrance of the hospital at 6.00.
0:10:45 > 0:10:46BOAT HORN BLARES
0:10:54 > 0:10:56You're wearing European clothes.
0:10:56 > 0:10:58It is the European side of me
0:10:58 > 0:10:59that is having dinner with you.
0:10:59 > 0:11:01I don't suppose you'd go back in and change?
0:11:01 > 0:11:02I certainly would not.
0:11:02 > 0:11:05I loved that dress you had on the other day.
0:11:05 > 0:11:07I'll make you a present of it.
0:11:37 > 0:11:38So, you're a reporter?
0:11:38 > 0:11:41Please. A correspondent.
0:11:41 > 0:11:43What's the difference?
0:11:43 > 0:11:45About 100 a week.
0:12:05 > 0:12:07THEY CLAMOUR
0:12:20 > 0:12:22THEY CLAMOUR
0:12:58 > 0:13:00The sky is clear.
0:13:00 > 0:13:03It is a good omen for the moon festival.
0:13:03 > 0:13:05I arranged a full moon for you.
0:13:07 > 0:13:09Have you ever been in Peking?
0:13:09 > 0:13:11Many times.
0:13:11 > 0:13:13Do you know that in Peking the moon is larger
0:13:13 > 0:13:15than anyplace else in the world?
0:13:15 > 0:13:17Now, that's very unscientific.
0:13:17 > 0:13:19It's the same size everywhere.
0:13:19 > 0:13:21Oh, no, the moon is larger in Peking,
0:13:21 > 0:13:24much larger than in Hong Kong and London.
0:13:24 > 0:13:26All right, if you insist.
0:13:26 > 0:13:29When were you in Peking last?
0:13:29 > 0:13:31I was studying at the University of Peking
0:13:31 > 0:13:33in 1939.
0:13:33 > 0:13:35I'd left by then.
0:13:35 > 0:13:37I was in England in 1939.
0:13:37 > 0:13:39Where were you in 1940?
0:13:39 > 0:13:41Italy.
0:13:41 > 0:13:43I was in Malaya.
0:13:43 > 0:13:45It seems that destiny never put us
0:13:45 > 0:13:47anywhere together at the same time.
0:13:47 > 0:13:50Well, perhaps destiny intends something for us at last.
0:13:50 > 0:13:52I don't think so.
0:13:52 > 0:13:56I don't think destiny intends anything for us.
0:13:56 > 0:13:58Of that I am quite sure.
0:14:22 > 0:14:23FIRECRACKERS EXPLODE
0:14:30 > 0:14:32What's all the noise about?
0:14:32 > 0:14:35A cloud has threatened the moon.
0:14:35 > 0:14:37We must make a great noise
0:14:37 > 0:14:38to frighten it away
0:14:38 > 0:14:40or the year will be unfavourable.
0:14:40 > 0:14:42You don't really believe that, do you?
0:14:42 > 0:14:44Of course.
0:14:44 > 0:14:46If we didn't believe the unbelievable,
0:14:46 > 0:14:48what would happen to faith?
0:14:52 > 0:14:53CLANGING
0:14:53 > 0:14:55CLANGING
0:15:01 > 0:15:04You see? The cloud was frightened away.
0:15:04 > 0:15:06It is a good omen.
0:15:06 > 0:15:08I wonder if there are men on the moon
0:15:08 > 0:15:10who celebrate an Earth festival
0:15:10 > 0:15:13and shout to keep the clouds away from us.
0:15:13 > 0:15:15I should like to think so.
0:15:20 > 0:15:22That's Maxwell Letterman over there,
0:15:22 > 0:15:23the industrialist.
0:15:28 > 0:15:30He's just back from Beiping.
0:15:30 > 0:15:32I've been trying to get to him for a statement.
0:15:35 > 0:15:38Is he really the third richest man in the world?
0:15:38 > 0:15:40First.
0:15:40 > 0:15:43If you want an interview, why not ask him now?
0:15:43 > 0:15:45Oh, I don't think he likes correspondents.
0:15:45 > 0:15:47Anyway, I'd like to finish up
0:15:47 > 0:15:49our own little interview.
0:15:49 > 0:15:51Am I being interviewed?
0:15:51 > 0:15:53I want to know why you're so sure that destiny
0:15:53 > 0:15:55has nothing in store for us.
0:15:55 > 0:15:59Well, I'm interested only in one thing - medicine -
0:15:59 > 0:16:01and because I know myself.
0:16:01 > 0:16:03You sound secure.
0:16:03 > 0:16:06I doubt whether anyone is that secure.
0:16:06 > 0:16:09I have known but one man in my life -
0:16:09 > 0:16:11my husband.
0:16:11 > 0:16:14He was a nationalist general,
0:16:14 > 0:16:16captured and shot by the communists.
0:16:16 > 0:16:19I believe in the human heart now
0:16:19 > 0:16:21only as a doctor.
0:16:21 > 0:16:24I bet you're a good doctor,
0:16:24 > 0:16:27but I still think that destiny just might have something
0:16:27 > 0:16:29in store for us after all.
0:16:29 > 0:16:30Why?
0:16:30 > 0:16:32Because you've retreated to a tower,
0:16:32 > 0:16:34and the only trouble with an ivory tower
0:16:34 > 0:16:38is it's a temptation to lightning.
0:16:38 > 0:16:42Lightning will not strike me, Mr Elliott.
0:16:42 > 0:16:45Your honourable fish, sir.
0:16:51 > 0:16:53Thank you for the moon
0:16:53 > 0:16:55and the honourable fish
0:16:55 > 0:16:57and the lovely evening.
0:16:57 > 0:16:58You're entirely welcome.
0:16:58 > 0:17:01I don't know when I've enjoyed an evening as much.
0:17:18 > 0:17:19Good night.
0:17:19 > 0:17:21I want to tell you something.
0:17:21 > 0:17:23I'm married.
0:17:23 > 0:17:25I knew you were married.
0:17:25 > 0:17:26And you still went out with me?
0:17:26 > 0:17:28I thought if you were happily married,
0:17:28 > 0:17:30there could be no danger,
0:17:30 > 0:17:32and if you weren't, it could make no difference.
0:17:32 > 0:17:35Will I see you again?
0:17:35 > 0:17:37I...I think not.
0:17:37 > 0:17:38I think so.
0:17:38 > 0:17:40I'll call you about next Wednesday.
0:17:40 > 0:17:42Good night, Suyin.
0:17:42 > 0:17:43Good night.
0:18:09 > 0:18:11Good morning, Dr Sen.
0:18:11 > 0:18:13Good morning, Dr Han.
0:18:17 > 0:18:18HAN SPEAKS SOFTLY TO THE GIRL
0:18:20 > 0:18:23You combine artistry with medicine, Dr Han.
0:18:23 > 0:18:26Just with love and sympathy.
0:18:29 > 0:18:32It's a great privilege to watch you.
0:18:45 > 0:18:46SHE KISSES DR HAN
0:18:47 > 0:18:50Ten days ago, we didn't think she would live.
0:18:50 > 0:18:51Look at her now.
0:18:51 > 0:18:53She will be walking soon.
0:18:53 > 0:18:56Have her parents or family been located?
0:18:56 > 0:18:58No, but the police are still searching.
0:18:58 > 0:19:00However, with a million refugees
0:19:00 > 0:19:01from China in Hong Kong now
0:19:01 > 0:19:04and more arriving each day,
0:19:04 > 0:19:06it is like looking for a needle in a haystack.
0:19:06 > 0:19:07Why do they leave China?
0:19:07 > 0:19:10What can they expect to find here?
0:19:10 > 0:19:11A home.
0:19:11 > 0:19:13Their home is China.
0:19:13 > 0:19:15Now we'll mend her bones,
0:19:15 > 0:19:18make her well enough to send back into the streets to starve.
0:19:18 > 0:19:19Oh, no, not her.
0:19:19 > 0:19:22Someone will give her a home.
0:19:22 > 0:19:25Dr Han, Mr Palmer-Jones would like to speak with you.
0:19:26 > 0:19:27Thank you.
0:19:27 > 0:19:30Who will, in Hong Kong, give her a home
0:19:30 > 0:19:32or any of the others like her?
0:19:32 > 0:19:34Oh, you can't tell.
0:19:34 > 0:19:36I might adopt her myself.
0:19:36 > 0:19:38Good morning, Mr Palmer-Jones.
0:19:38 > 0:19:40Dr Han, my wife tells me
0:19:40 > 0:19:42that nobody has been near her this morning.
0:19:42 > 0:19:43Oh, I'm sorry.
0:19:43 > 0:19:45I suppose we are late.
0:19:45 > 0:19:47The wards are so crowded. We simply haven't caught up yet.
0:19:47 > 0:19:49Do you visit the wards first?
0:19:49 > 0:19:51- As a rule.- I see.
0:19:51 > 0:19:52Would you, as a rule, be so kind
0:19:52 > 0:19:53as to look in on my wife first?
0:19:53 > 0:19:56Patience is not one of her virtues.
0:19:56 > 0:19:58I'll go in and see her now.
0:19:58 > 0:20:00Thank you.
0:20:02 > 0:20:03SHE SIGHS
0:20:13 > 0:20:15Good morning, Mrs Palmer-Jones.
0:20:15 > 0:20:18Oh, I certainly am glad to see you, Dr Han.
0:20:18 > 0:20:20The person who brought my breakfast
0:20:20 > 0:20:22didn't speak one word of English.
0:20:22 > 0:20:24Was it a nice breakfast?
0:20:24 > 0:20:28The only thing that was hot was the orange juice.
0:20:28 > 0:20:30Well, I'll have your tray removed.
0:20:38 > 0:20:40Oh, the arm looks better.
0:20:40 > 0:20:41It doesn't feel better.
0:20:41 > 0:20:43There's hardly any swelling left.
0:20:43 > 0:20:46Imagine being bitten by a centipede in this day and age.
0:20:46 > 0:20:48It's so undignified.
0:20:48 > 0:20:50And painful.
0:20:50 > 0:20:52Well, I can give you one cheerful bit of news.
0:20:52 > 0:20:53Oh?
0:20:53 > 0:20:55You may go home tomorrow.
0:20:55 > 0:20:57Oh, no, no, I can't. I can't possibly.
0:20:57 > 0:20:59My living room is being painted,
0:20:59 > 0:21:01and it won't be dry for a week.
0:21:01 > 0:21:04- Well, we'll make arrangements. - Oh, thank you, Dr Han.
0:21:04 > 0:21:08You're a dear. I must do something for you. What would you like?
0:21:08 > 0:21:09A bigger hospital.
0:21:13 > 0:21:15You mustn't bite people, Rosie Wu.
0:21:15 > 0:21:16I had to give the man an injection.
0:21:16 > 0:21:18It was quite painful.
0:21:18 > 0:21:19Come on. Come on.
0:21:19 > 0:21:22Suyin, are you going to town this afternoon?
0:21:22 > 0:21:24No. It's my Wednesday off.
0:21:24 > 0:21:26I think I'm going to dinner. Why?
0:21:26 > 0:21:28I was going to ask you if you went near the pet shop
0:21:28 > 0:21:30to buy me a couple of snails for my new goldfish.
0:21:30 > 0:21:31Dr Han, telephone.
0:21:31 > 0:21:33Won't the pet shop send them?
0:21:33 > 0:21:36Hardly seems worth it for two snails.
0:21:36 > 0:21:38Dr Han here.
0:21:38 > 0:21:40Suyin, Mark. I said I'd call about Wednesday.
0:21:40 > 0:21:43Uh, I was hoping we could have dinner together tonight,
0:21:43 > 0:21:45but I have to fly to Singapore on an assignment.
0:21:45 > 0:21:48'I tried to postpone it, but the airline schedule doesn't work out.'
0:21:48 > 0:21:50Oh, yes, I understand.
0:21:50 > 0:21:53'So if I'm back next week, we can have dinner then?'
0:21:53 > 0:21:54Well, we'll see.
0:21:54 > 0:21:56Say, when I called you earlier,
0:21:56 > 0:21:58they said you were doing a hysterectomy.
0:21:58 > 0:22:00What's a hysterectomy?
0:22:00 > 0:22:03Nothing that would interest you.
0:22:03 > 0:22:06You don't mind if I call you when I get back?
0:22:06 > 0:22:07No, no, I don't mind at all.
0:22:07 > 0:22:10Do call when you get back.
0:22:16 > 0:22:18Will two snails be enough, John?
0:22:18 > 0:22:21Hmm? Oh, yes, yes. Ample.
0:22:43 > 0:22:45Suyin.
0:22:47 > 0:22:48Suyin.
0:22:48 > 0:22:50Are you not Suyin?
0:22:50 > 0:22:52Oh, I know you. You're Suzanne.
0:22:52 > 0:22:54We went to convent together.
0:22:54 > 0:22:55Yes.
0:22:55 > 0:22:57Oh, how nice.
0:22:57 > 0:22:59I was sure it was you.
0:22:59 > 0:23:00Come, sit with me.
0:23:06 > 0:23:08Another cup, please.
0:23:10 > 0:23:12You recognise me after all this time?
0:23:12 > 0:23:15Well, you dyed your hair, but I know you.
0:23:15 > 0:23:17Well, that proves you remember me.
0:23:20 > 0:23:22Now tell me about yourself.
0:23:22 > 0:23:24It's been so long,
0:23:24 > 0:23:26yet it all comes swiftly back.
0:23:26 > 0:23:28I remember the morning you kicked
0:23:28 > 0:23:30the Mother Superior in the shins.
0:23:30 > 0:23:33I did not kick Mother Superior.
0:23:33 > 0:23:34It was Sister Angela.
0:23:34 > 0:23:36And she limped into chapel
0:23:36 > 0:23:38to pray for your soul.
0:23:38 > 0:23:41Well, I'm afraid she did not pray hard enough.
0:23:41 > 0:23:43What has happened to you since convent days?
0:23:43 > 0:23:47Well, I went to a Chinese university for a while.
0:23:47 > 0:23:50I toured Europe. I married.
0:23:50 > 0:23:51My husband was killed.
0:23:51 > 0:23:54I finished medicine in England.
0:23:54 > 0:23:57I am now a resident doctor here at the Victoria Hospital.
0:23:57 > 0:23:59And you never married again?
0:23:59 > 0:24:00No. As a Chinese widow,
0:24:00 > 0:24:02I have become completely unfeeling.
0:24:02 > 0:24:05I'm afraid my heart is safely dead.
0:24:07 > 0:24:09Well, I have to be in love to go on living.
0:24:09 > 0:24:11At the moment, it's an important Englishman.
0:24:11 > 0:24:13I pass for English now.
0:24:13 > 0:24:15I hope you won't give me away.
0:24:15 > 0:24:17Oh, Suzanne, you should be proud to be Eurasian
0:24:17 > 0:24:19and proud of your Chinese heritage.
0:24:19 > 0:24:23Nonsense. You can't be two things at once.
0:24:23 > 0:24:26And I advise you, pass for English if you decide to go away.
0:24:26 > 0:24:28I'm considering going back to China.
0:24:28 > 0:24:30It would be rather foolish to pass for English,
0:24:30 > 0:24:31don't you think?
0:24:31 > 0:24:33Well, yes...
0:24:33 > 0:24:35Oh, I must fly away home.
0:24:35 > 0:24:36Oh, must you?
0:24:36 > 0:24:40My new love wants me to be in my flat when he drops by for tea.
0:24:40 > 0:24:42We only have half an hour together
0:24:42 > 0:24:44before he has to have tea with his wife.
0:24:44 > 0:24:46It's ruining his digestion.
0:24:46 > 0:24:49We must see each other very soon, now.
0:24:49 > 0:24:51- Call me at the hospital.- I shall.
0:24:54 > 0:24:57Give the waiter, please, the change.
0:24:58 > 0:25:00I always see people as fish.
0:25:00 > 0:25:02Separated from the rest of the world,
0:25:02 > 0:25:05they're unfit themselves to dwell with each other.
0:25:05 > 0:25:08These - the fighting fish.
0:25:09 > 0:25:12These - the peaceful.
0:25:13 > 0:25:16These have sought safety in darkness.
0:25:16 > 0:25:19They've lost their vision, and the light terrifies them.
0:25:19 > 0:25:22What species am I, John?
0:25:22 > 0:25:23You're the peaceful.
0:25:23 > 0:25:25And I shouldn't like to see you become like these,
0:25:25 > 0:25:28swimming into deep water, losing your vision.
0:25:28 > 0:25:31Now, what do you mean by that?
0:25:33 > 0:25:36I hear Mark Elliott's gone to Singapore.
0:25:36 > 0:25:39Yes, his paper sent him on an assignment.
0:25:39 > 0:25:41Very convenient for him.
0:25:46 > 0:25:49Did you know that his wife lives in Singapore?
0:25:50 > 0:25:52There seems to be a conspiracy
0:25:52 > 0:25:54to arouse my interest in Mark Elliott.
0:25:54 > 0:25:57Be careful, lest you succeed.
0:26:11 > 0:26:13They told me if I'd wait here
0:26:13 > 0:26:15that you'd be out sooner or later.
0:26:15 > 0:26:16Well, when did you get back?
0:26:16 > 0:26:18This morning.
0:26:18 > 0:26:20I thought you'd like to go swimming this afternoon.
0:26:20 > 0:26:23Now, I know it's your afternoon off, so work is no excuse.
0:26:23 > 0:26:25I'd sort of made plans
0:26:25 > 0:26:27to visit friends of mine across the bay.
0:26:27 > 0:26:30Well, it's a lovely day. Couldn't you do both?
0:26:30 > 0:26:31Mark Elliott.
0:26:31 > 0:26:34What in the world are you doing here?
0:26:34 > 0:26:36Oh, I show up in strange places.
0:26:36 > 0:26:39Ha, ha. You promised to keep me another week, Dr Han.
0:26:39 > 0:26:41I kept you as long as I could.
0:26:41 > 0:26:42I forgive you.
0:26:42 > 0:26:44I hear you were in Singapore.
0:26:44 > 0:26:46Your wife must have been delighted to see you.
0:26:46 > 0:26:48Why don't you come up for tea this afternoon?
0:26:48 > 0:26:50Did you know that I was bitten by a centipede?
0:26:50 > 0:26:53Yes, to the first question,
0:26:53 > 0:26:55no, to the second, can't, to the third,
0:26:55 > 0:26:57and no, to the last.
0:26:57 > 0:26:58Well, I was.
0:26:58 > 0:27:00If a handsome man like you bit me,
0:27:00 > 0:27:01I wouldn't have minded a bit,
0:27:01 > 0:27:03but a centipede.
0:27:03 > 0:27:05Do I expect you?
0:27:05 > 0:27:07Uh, sorry, I'm working this afternoon.
0:27:07 > 0:27:11Oh, well, you'll hear from me.
0:27:11 > 0:27:13Goodbye, Dr Han.
0:27:18 > 0:27:20Are we going swimming?
0:27:20 > 0:27:23Mark, going out with you once was harmless enough.
0:27:23 > 0:27:26I don't want my seeing you to be awkward.
0:27:26 > 0:27:28Hong Kong has a peculiar code,
0:27:28 > 0:27:30and malice is a pleasant pastime
0:27:30 > 0:27:32for women with nothing to do.
0:27:32 > 0:27:34Oh.
0:27:34 > 0:27:36Would it make any difference if I told you
0:27:36 > 0:27:39that I didn't see my wife when I was in Singapore?
0:27:39 > 0:27:42Six years ago, she said she never wanted to see me again.
0:27:42 > 0:27:44She hasn't changed her mind.
0:27:44 > 0:27:46Neither have I.
0:27:46 > 0:27:49Now, will you go swimming with me?
0:27:49 > 0:27:52Well, I... I don't know.
0:27:52 > 0:27:53Take your time.
0:27:53 > 0:27:54You're obviously a woman
0:27:54 > 0:27:58who's extremely careful about making up her mind.
0:28:41 > 0:28:42How's this?
0:28:42 > 0:28:44Oh, beautiful.
0:28:49 > 0:28:51I'll change.
0:29:41 > 0:29:44I, er...
0:29:44 > 0:29:46I'd like to explain about my wife.
0:29:46 > 0:29:49- You did.- No.
0:29:49 > 0:29:51I want you to know that I tried to make a go of it.
0:29:51 > 0:29:55I'd like you to believe that.
0:29:55 > 0:29:57A great many mistakes are made
0:29:57 > 0:30:00in the name of loneliness.
0:30:00 > 0:30:03There's no need to discuss it, Mark.
0:30:03 > 0:30:06All right, I won't bring it up again.
0:30:06 > 0:30:08You're brown. You've been in the sun.
0:30:08 > 0:30:11Yes, I've been playing a lot of tennis.
0:30:11 > 0:30:14What am I going to do if you go back to China?
0:30:14 > 0:30:16Play more tennis.
0:30:16 > 0:30:19You're not really going back to Chungking, are you?
0:30:19 > 0:30:22It wouldn't be good for you to see too much of me anyhow.
0:30:22 > 0:30:24Might even be harmful.
0:30:24 > 0:30:26Oh, why?
0:30:26 > 0:30:29I'm Eurasian. The word itself seems to suggest
0:30:29 > 0:30:32a certain moral laxity in the minds of some people.
0:30:32 > 0:30:36People never think of the meaning of words, they only feel them.
0:30:36 > 0:30:38You're talking about stupid people.
0:30:38 > 0:30:40Make no mistake, I'm proud to be Eurasian.
0:30:40 > 0:30:44I like to think we combine the best qualities of both races,
0:30:44 > 0:30:47that we're the answer to race snobbery.
0:30:49 > 0:30:51Well, you're...
0:30:51 > 0:30:54Certainly the answer to a lot of things for me.
0:30:54 > 0:30:58Mark, like everyone else in Hong Kong, you're at loose ends.
0:30:58 > 0:31:01I think you probably need a love affair,
0:31:01 > 0:31:04but I'm not the answer.
0:31:04 > 0:31:07I will make no mistakes in the name of loneliness.
0:31:07 > 0:31:10I have my work and an uncomplicated life.
0:31:10 > 0:31:13I don't want to feel anything again, ever.
0:31:13 > 0:31:15A moment ago, you said that words had no meaning,
0:31:15 > 0:31:19that people have to feel.
0:31:19 > 0:31:21Let's not tax the day with self-analysis.
0:31:21 > 0:31:23The friends I was going to see
0:31:23 > 0:31:25have a house over there, right across the bay.
0:31:25 > 0:31:27Would you like to swim over and drop in on them?
0:31:27 > 0:31:29Why not?
0:32:05 > 0:32:07Are you tired?
0:32:07 > 0:32:12No, I just want to drift and feel the sun on my face.
0:32:12 > 0:32:14You know, in the last few weeks, I've come alive.
0:32:14 > 0:32:16I like it.
0:32:16 > 0:32:18You've been good for me, Mark.
0:32:18 > 0:32:21I don't feel that the whole world is sick any longer.
0:32:21 > 0:32:24I'm glad.
0:32:52 > 0:32:54Well, look!
0:32:54 > 0:32:55Oh, ha, ha!
0:32:55 > 0:32:57Why do you look so surprised?
0:32:57 > 0:32:58You expected me, didn't you?
0:32:58 > 0:33:01I expected you, but I didn't expect you to come out of the ocean.
0:33:01 > 0:33:03Nora, this is Mark Elliott.
0:33:03 > 0:33:04How do you do?
0:33:04 > 0:33:05Robert?
0:33:05 > 0:33:07We've met before.
0:33:07 > 0:33:08- Hi, Anne.- Hi, Mark.
0:33:08 > 0:33:11Well, Suyin, I never thought of you as Venus rising from the sea.
0:33:11 > 0:33:14Well, Suyin didn't have anything to wear, so I suggested we swim over.
0:33:14 > 0:33:16Come inside. I'll get you some dry things.
0:33:16 > 0:33:18And something wet in a glass for you.
0:33:18 > 0:33:21- Come along, use my room.- Thanks.
0:33:24 > 0:33:27Well, you're a sly one.
0:33:27 > 0:33:29Just when did Mark Elliott discover medicine?
0:33:29 > 0:33:30I don't know what you mean.
0:33:30 > 0:33:32"I don't know what you mean."
0:33:32 > 0:33:34Oh, really?
0:33:34 > 0:33:37Isn't it possible for two intelligent human beings
0:33:37 > 0:33:39to enjoy each other's company and let it rest there?
0:33:39 > 0:33:42Not if you're Mark Elliott and Han Suyin.
0:33:42 > 0:33:44Do you like him?
0:33:44 > 0:33:47- Well, I didn't swim across the bay to escape him.- I knew it.
0:33:47 > 0:33:51If ever I saw anyone looking moonstruck in the sunshine,
0:33:51 > 0:33:52it's you.
0:33:52 > 0:33:53Oh, nonsense.
0:33:53 > 0:33:56Truth is, I have no intention of falling in love.
0:33:56 > 0:33:57Listen to her.
0:33:57 > 0:34:00He is a nice human being. We are friends.
0:34:00 > 0:34:02I'm going to keep it that way.
0:34:02 > 0:34:05With everything that's going on...
0:34:05 > 0:34:06..do you think Hong Kong's safe?
0:34:06 > 0:34:09Well, is anyplace safe?
0:34:09 > 0:34:11Have you men been talking about us?
0:34:11 > 0:34:13No, China.
0:34:13 > 0:34:15Oh, let's forget China.
0:34:15 > 0:34:17Have some music.
0:34:17 > 0:34:20MUSIC PLAYS
0:34:20 > 0:34:22You see, you can't escape.
0:34:22 > 0:34:25We forget that China lies just across a hill.
0:34:25 > 0:34:27MUSIC: LOVE IS A MANY-SPLENDOURED THING
0:34:27 > 0:34:29I think that the relationship
0:34:29 > 0:34:31between the East and the West should be closer.
0:34:31 > 0:34:33Don't you, Doctor?
0:35:27 > 0:35:29You taste of salt.
0:35:30 > 0:35:33Mark...
0:35:33 > 0:35:35there's an old Chinese proverb -
0:35:35 > 0:35:37"do not wake a sleeping tiger".
0:35:37 > 0:35:40Well, certainly not in a small boat.
0:35:40 > 0:35:42I'm not being facetious.
0:35:42 > 0:35:44Nor am I.
0:35:44 > 0:35:47I think I'm in love with you.
0:35:47 > 0:35:50Mark, you don't know about me.
0:35:50 > 0:35:52You kiss a girl, and it doesn't mean anything to you.
0:35:52 > 0:35:54Just a kiss.
0:35:54 > 0:35:57But it isn't so with me.
0:35:57 > 0:35:59I feel...
0:35:59 > 0:36:02..not that I don't like you, for I do.
0:36:02 > 0:36:05I wouldn't do anything to upset you.
0:36:05 > 0:36:08I have never known any man but my husband.
0:36:08 > 0:36:10Ha.
0:36:10 > 0:36:12I feel on the brink of something.
0:36:12 > 0:36:15I don't want to feel this way.
0:36:15 > 0:36:16It frightens me.
0:36:18 > 0:36:19You don't want to catch a cold.
0:37:02 > 0:37:04Suyin?
0:37:05 > 0:37:07Suyin?
0:37:07 > 0:37:11Sorry, I was in the midst of an argument.
0:37:11 > 0:37:12An argument?
0:37:12 > 0:37:16My Chinese side was debating with my European side.
0:37:16 > 0:37:19What about?
0:37:19 > 0:37:22Sleeping tigers.
0:37:23 > 0:37:27Mark, could I have a cigarette?
0:37:42 > 0:37:45I've never seen you smoke.
0:37:46 > 0:37:48I rarely do.
0:37:51 > 0:37:54You still think we have no destiny together?
0:37:54 > 0:37:57I have decided one thing -
0:37:57 > 0:37:59that you must decide,
0:37:59 > 0:38:02for you are stronger than I am.
0:38:02 > 0:38:05No, I think you're the strong one.
0:38:05 > 0:38:06Then you are wrong,
0:38:06 > 0:38:08for you are gentle,
0:38:08 > 0:38:12and there is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness.
0:38:30 > 0:38:32You know what is going to happen
0:38:32 > 0:38:34if we go on seeing each other.
0:38:34 > 0:38:37I know we're going to go on seeing each other.
0:38:37 > 0:38:41You'd better not take me on, you know.
0:38:41 > 0:38:44You better get away from me while you can.
0:38:44 > 0:38:47There's still time.
0:38:51 > 0:38:53One starts these things pretending that it doesn't matter.
0:38:53 > 0:38:56Stop worrying, darling.
0:38:56 > 0:38:58Where can we meet tomorrow?
0:39:00 > 0:39:03There's a tree at the top of the hill behind the hospital
0:39:03 > 0:39:06and a path leading up from the road.
0:39:06 > 0:39:09I will meet you there at 5.00.
0:39:09 > 0:39:11I'll be waiting.
0:39:38 > 0:39:41TELEPHONE RINGS
0:39:41 > 0:39:43Dr Han here.
0:39:44 > 0:39:46Good night.
0:39:48 > 0:39:50Good night.
0:41:09 > 0:41:11I'm late.
0:41:11 > 0:41:14When I didn't see you, I was afraid you had gone.
0:41:14 > 0:41:15You're early.
0:41:15 > 0:41:18We're both early.
0:41:18 > 0:41:20Give me your hand.
0:41:27 > 0:41:29Time passes so quickly.
0:41:29 > 0:41:31I didn't want to be late.
0:41:31 > 0:41:33I wasn't thinking about time.
0:41:34 > 0:41:37Oh, how good it is to know a man
0:41:37 > 0:41:39who doesn't live his life measuring time in bits and pieces.
0:41:39 > 0:41:40I like it so much.
0:41:45 > 0:41:48Hong Kong, the hoard of a jewel thief.
0:41:58 > 0:42:00What incredible hands you have.
0:42:00 > 0:42:02They curve like a Balinese dancer's.
0:42:02 > 0:42:05I have always been afraid of hands.
0:42:05 > 0:42:07Men's hands.
0:42:07 > 0:42:10I am not afraid of yours.
0:42:17 > 0:42:19Please do not move.
0:42:19 > 0:42:21Stay very still.
0:42:21 > 0:42:22Why?
0:42:22 > 0:42:25A butterfly has perched on your shoulder.
0:42:25 > 0:42:28It's a sign of good luck.
0:42:31 > 0:42:33Oh, you shouldn't have turned!
0:42:33 > 0:42:35It was a good omen.
0:42:35 > 0:42:37Why, you're superstitious.
0:42:37 > 0:42:39And you, a doctor.
0:42:39 > 0:42:41But I was born to superstition.
0:42:41 > 0:42:44In China, when a peasant has a son,
0:42:44 > 0:42:46he dresses him in girls' clothes
0:42:46 > 0:42:48and gives him a girl's name
0:42:48 > 0:42:51because he's afraid that the jealous gods may take him away.
0:42:51 > 0:42:54Or if the crop in the field is bountiful,
0:42:54 > 0:42:55he stands in the ditch
0:42:55 > 0:42:57and shakes his head and cries aloud,
0:42:57 > 0:42:59"Bad rice, bad rice!"
0:42:59 > 0:43:03He does this to propitiate the gods, to deceive them.
0:43:03 > 0:43:06And so it is with me.
0:43:06 > 0:43:08I should like to deceive the gods,
0:43:08 > 0:43:11for if they notice me, they may be jealous.
0:43:15 > 0:43:19We mustn't let the angry gods notice us. Bad rice! Bad rice!
0:43:19 > 0:43:22Be quiet.
0:43:22 > 0:43:23I am very serious.
0:43:24 > 0:43:26So am I.
0:43:37 > 0:43:39Dr Sen.
0:43:39 > 0:43:41This gentleman is looking for Dr Han.
0:43:41 > 0:43:43Dr Han is on duty.
0:43:43 > 0:43:46Yes, I know, but she left word at the office for me to call her.
0:43:46 > 0:43:48- Said it was urgent.- Urgent?
0:43:48 > 0:43:50Yes, so I came on over. I'm Mark Elliott.
0:43:50 > 0:43:52I'm Dr Sen. Will you come with me, please?
0:43:52 > 0:43:54Thank you.
0:44:00 > 0:44:03Dr Han, Mr Elliott to see you.
0:44:03 > 0:44:05Thank you, Doctor.
0:44:05 > 0:44:06Mark, what are you doing here?
0:44:06 > 0:44:08I got your message at the office,
0:44:08 > 0:44:10and when I called back, they said you were in surgery,
0:44:10 > 0:44:12so rather than wait, I came on over.
0:44:12 > 0:44:13It didn't mean that urgent.
0:44:13 > 0:44:15It's all right. Thank you.
0:44:15 > 0:44:17What's happened?
0:44:17 > 0:44:19Well, we can't talk here.
0:44:19 > 0:44:21I'm just going off duty.
0:44:21 > 0:44:22Would you like to see how I live?
0:44:22 > 0:44:24Sure.
0:44:31 > 0:44:33Magnificent, isn't it?
0:44:33 > 0:44:36The warm water pipes run under my floor.
0:44:36 > 0:44:38The cockroaches grow enormous
0:44:38 > 0:44:40and fight great duels.
0:44:40 > 0:44:43They thrive on DDT, so I leave them alone.
0:44:43 > 0:44:46Now I can visualise your surroundings when I'm not with you.
0:44:46 > 0:44:47You look sleepy.
0:44:47 > 0:44:50There are little finger marks of weariness under your eyes.
0:44:50 > 0:44:52I do a lot of writing at night
0:44:52 > 0:44:56so I can spend more time with you.
0:44:56 > 0:44:58Shall I make you some coffee?
0:45:04 > 0:45:06Now, what upset you?
0:45:06 > 0:45:07Why did you call me?
0:45:07 > 0:45:09I'm going to Chungking in the morning.
0:45:09 > 0:45:10Why?
0:45:10 > 0:45:14I received an urgent cable from my uncle.
0:45:14 > 0:45:17He is the head of my family since my mother and father died.
0:45:17 > 0:45:19Something has happened at home.
0:45:19 > 0:45:22Something about Suchen.
0:45:22 > 0:45:23Who is Suchen?
0:45:23 > 0:45:25A younger sister.
0:45:25 > 0:45:27I haven't seen her since...
0:45:27 > 0:45:29..for several years.
0:45:29 > 0:45:31Can't you handle this without going to Chungking?
0:45:31 > 0:45:35Mark, it isn't only Suchen.
0:45:35 > 0:45:37I...
0:45:37 > 0:45:40I want to see China again, to see if it is
0:45:40 > 0:45:42what I really want to go back to.
0:45:42 > 0:45:44And also I...
0:45:44 > 0:45:47I think I must get away from you for a while.
0:45:47 > 0:45:49Get away from me? Now, why?
0:45:49 > 0:45:51To adjust to certain truths
0:45:51 > 0:45:53and not let them bother me.
0:45:53 > 0:45:55That's foolish nonsense...
0:45:55 > 0:45:57..unless you've changed your mind about me.
0:45:57 > 0:45:58No, Mark.
0:45:58 > 0:46:00But I can't help asking myself
0:46:00 > 0:46:02what I will get out of this,
0:46:02 > 0:46:05except to become a cheap Hong Kong Eurasian.
0:46:05 > 0:46:08That could never be true, and I don't want you to say it.
0:46:08 > 0:46:10Well, I will say it.
0:46:10 > 0:46:12Then I've been wrong about you.
0:46:12 > 0:46:14I don't understand your thinking.
0:46:14 > 0:46:16How could you?
0:46:16 > 0:46:18You're not Eurasian.
0:46:18 > 0:46:21Your pride and sense of dignity are not involved.
0:46:21 > 0:46:22Of course they're involved!
0:46:22 > 0:46:24You're not something I picked up off the street,
0:46:24 > 0:46:27and you're oversensitive about being Eurasian.
0:46:27 > 0:46:29I am trying to be sensible.
0:46:29 > 0:46:30You are an American.
0:46:30 > 0:46:33In my heart, I am Chinese.
0:46:33 > 0:46:34You are married, I am a widow.
0:46:34 > 0:46:36You are a journalist,
0:46:36 > 0:46:39a front-row spectator not directly involved.
0:46:39 > 0:46:43I am a doctor deeply involved with a duty toward my people.
0:46:43 > 0:46:45I don't want anything sordid...
0:46:45 > 0:46:46Sordid?
0:46:46 > 0:46:48I'm in love with you.
0:46:48 > 0:46:50Don't you understand that, Suyin? I love you.
0:46:50 > 0:46:52Oh, Mark.
0:46:52 > 0:46:54We both know that even the fat, ugly people of this world
0:46:54 > 0:46:56believe that being in love makes them beautiful
0:46:56 > 0:46:58and justifies everything.
0:46:58 > 0:47:01I want something a little better than that for us.
0:47:01 > 0:47:03While I stand around biting my fingers
0:47:03 > 0:47:04until you've decided I'm worth the risk!
0:47:04 > 0:47:06Oh, Mark.
0:47:06 > 0:47:08Don't let your male vanity enter this.
0:47:08 > 0:47:12You don't have to go to Chungking to rid your conscience of me...
0:47:12 > 0:47:14I'll get out now.
0:47:14 > 0:47:16Don't threaten me, Mark.
0:47:16 > 0:47:19That's not a threat.
0:47:59 > 0:48:01Is this seat occupied?
0:48:01 > 0:48:03Suyin, sit down.
0:48:03 > 0:48:05Suzanne, are you going to Chungking?
0:48:05 > 0:48:07No, we're going to Guilin.
0:48:07 > 0:48:08We?
0:48:08 > 0:48:11I'm not alone.
0:48:11 > 0:48:15We thought it would be better if we sat separately.
0:48:22 > 0:48:25He's one of the directors of the hospital.
0:48:25 > 0:48:28I'll get your salary raised.
0:48:28 > 0:48:30Should we seem so friendly?
0:48:30 > 0:48:32He might suspect you're not English.
0:48:32 > 0:48:33Oh, he found out.
0:48:33 > 0:48:37He thought I was doing it for his sake, so he bought me this.
0:48:37 > 0:48:39Isn't that lovely?
0:48:39 > 0:48:40It's beautiful.
0:48:40 > 0:48:43These are real diamonds.
0:49:35 > 0:49:36Lao Liu.
0:49:40 > 0:49:41Third uncle.
0:49:41 > 0:49:42Suyin.
0:49:42 > 0:49:43Third aunt.
0:49:44 > 0:49:47Cousin Lee Fu.
0:49:47 > 0:49:48Meiyin, cousin Suyin.
0:49:50 > 0:49:51Cousin Lee Chin.
0:49:51 > 0:49:53Shafong, cousin Suyin.
0:49:54 > 0:49:56Cousin Lee Won.
0:49:56 > 0:49:57Yen Fing, cousin Suyin.
0:50:01 > 0:50:03We have waited for this moment.
0:50:03 > 0:50:05We hope that
0:50:05 > 0:50:07you have not changed within you.
0:50:07 > 0:50:08I am the same,
0:50:08 > 0:50:10and you are as I remembered you.
0:50:10 > 0:50:12Your face is fuller.
0:50:12 > 0:50:13It was not yesterday.
0:50:13 > 0:50:15Some of the family
0:50:15 > 0:50:17thought that you would be foreign to us.
0:50:17 > 0:50:19You do not seem strange.
0:50:19 > 0:50:21I feel like the locust that has suddenly cast its shell.
0:50:21 > 0:50:23You are at home.
0:50:23 > 0:50:25We shall now have tea
0:50:25 > 0:50:26and speak of absurdities.
0:50:44 > 0:50:46May we now speak of Suchen, third uncle?
0:50:46 > 0:50:49Suchen has brought disgrace on us.
0:50:49 > 0:50:52She has gone to live in the house of a foreigner.
0:50:52 > 0:50:53Not 50 yards from our home,
0:50:53 > 0:50:57she is living under the protection of this alien.
0:50:57 > 0:50:58Why?
0:50:58 > 0:51:01She fears that when the communists take over Chungking
0:51:01 > 0:51:02that she will be shot.
0:51:02 > 0:51:06She thinks they will not harm her in the house of a foreigner.
0:51:06 > 0:51:09Our clan has never begged of foreigners.
0:51:09 > 0:51:12May I see her, third uncle?
0:51:13 > 0:51:15It has grown dark.
0:51:15 > 0:51:17I will send a boy to light the way for you.
0:51:27 > 0:51:28KNOCKING
0:51:28 > 0:51:31It is I, Suyin, elder sister.
0:51:41 > 0:51:44I didn't think you'd come.
0:51:44 > 0:51:46Of course I'd come.
0:52:02 > 0:52:05Now tell me.
0:52:05 > 0:52:08What is this disgrace you've brought on our family?
0:52:08 > 0:52:09You accuse me?
0:52:09 > 0:52:12You have become a foreigner yourself.
0:52:12 > 0:52:13You're free.
0:52:13 > 0:52:15You can return to Hong Kong,
0:52:15 > 0:52:19but third uncle will not secure a passport for me,
0:52:19 > 0:52:23so I must stay and be shot when the communists come.
0:52:23 > 0:52:26And would you stand under the protection of the foreigner
0:52:26 > 0:52:29and watch if your family were shot?
0:52:29 > 0:52:31They could flee, but they will not.
0:52:31 > 0:52:33I am sick of Chungking.
0:52:33 > 0:52:39I want to be as free as you to live my life and forget China.
0:52:40 > 0:52:43If I get you a passport,
0:52:43 > 0:52:46will you return to the family
0:52:46 > 0:52:49and wipe out this obligation to the foreigner?
0:52:49 > 0:52:51I want only to get away.
0:52:53 > 0:52:55You will have your passport.
0:52:58 > 0:52:59Oh!
0:53:06 > 0:53:08Yes?
0:53:08 > 0:53:12HE SPEAKS CANTONESE
0:53:14 > 0:53:17SHE ANSWERS IN CANTONESE
0:53:47 > 0:53:50I couldn't risk letting you get away from me,
0:53:50 > 0:53:52so I came after you.
0:53:52 > 0:53:54Is there someplace
0:53:54 > 0:53:57where we could go and talk for a moment?
0:54:00 > 0:54:04Third uncle, we would like to go into the courtyard
0:54:04 > 0:54:05and talk privately.
0:54:05 > 0:54:07Will you graciously grant permission?
0:54:07 > 0:54:09The night is cool.
0:54:09 > 0:54:12I shall have tea waiting to warm you.
0:54:27 > 0:54:30Suyin, will you marry me?
0:54:30 > 0:54:33But you...you are not free, Mark.
0:54:33 > 0:54:36I'll get my freedom as soon as we return.
0:54:36 > 0:54:41I don't want to make you do anything that will hurt others.
0:54:41 > 0:54:45You...you won't like that, and you won't like me.
0:54:50 > 0:54:53I want to know if you'll marry me.
0:54:53 > 0:54:57I will always do what you want me to do.
0:54:57 > 0:54:59Then it's settled.
0:54:59 > 0:55:00It is settled,
0:55:00 > 0:55:03yet I should like permission of my uncle.
0:55:03 > 0:55:06It...it would hurt him not to make this gesture.
0:55:16 > 0:55:18Sit here, Suyin.
0:55:18 > 0:55:19There, Mr Elliott.
0:55:33 > 0:55:35Third uncle,
0:55:35 > 0:55:40I respectfully ask your permission to become the wife of Mark Elliott.
0:55:40 > 0:55:42Where would you live?
0:55:42 > 0:55:44In Hong Kong with Mark.
0:55:44 > 0:55:48And will you now give up your vow to medicine
0:55:48 > 0:55:50for devotion to Mr Elliott?
0:55:50 > 0:55:56I won't ask Suyin to give up being a doctor to be my wife, sir.
0:55:56 > 0:55:59Suyin, you are a Chinese citizen.
0:55:59 > 0:56:03When your passport expires, you may not be granted the right
0:56:03 > 0:56:05to practice in Hong Kong.
0:56:05 > 0:56:07Where would you go if this happened?
0:56:07 > 0:56:10If Suyin wanted to practice medicine in China, I would live here.
0:56:10 > 0:56:13The new tapestry will be tightly woven, Mr Elliott.
0:56:13 > 0:56:16You would not fit into its hard pattern.
0:56:16 > 0:56:18We can always go to America.
0:56:18 > 0:56:20Ah, yes.
0:56:20 > 0:56:23We can begin in flight, pull up roots,
0:56:23 > 0:56:25and wither and die.
0:56:25 > 0:56:30Third aunt, do you believe that this is wrong?
0:56:30 > 0:56:33You have asked, and I must answer.
0:56:33 > 0:56:36He is a foreigner.
0:56:36 > 0:56:37Well, that I can't change.
0:56:37 > 0:56:41We are not strange to this problem, Mr Elliott.
0:56:41 > 0:56:45Suyin's father left the land of his ancestors for a European.
0:56:45 > 0:56:47He left part of his heart.
0:56:47 > 0:56:50I would rather face the future without hope
0:56:50 > 0:56:53than the present without Mark.
0:56:53 > 0:56:57Then you must do what you have to do.
0:56:57 > 0:57:00We cannot stem the tide of change.
0:57:00 > 0:57:02Leave nothing behind with us, Suyin.
0:57:05 > 0:57:07Enter this marriage wholeheartedly.
0:57:40 > 0:57:44We believe that jade, if worn long enough,
0:57:44 > 0:57:46becomes the person who wears it.
0:57:46 > 0:57:51They have given me something of themselves to take away.
0:58:11 > 0:58:12Back to Earth again.
0:58:12 > 0:58:14The sun is out.
0:58:14 > 0:58:16It is a good omen.
0:58:16 > 0:58:19We don't have to worry about omens.
0:58:19 > 0:58:21Fate isn't jealous of us.
0:58:24 > 0:58:26While we're in the airport,
0:58:26 > 0:58:29I'm going to make arrangements to fly on to Singapore.
0:58:29 > 0:58:33- At once?- This is something I can't handle in a letter.
0:58:33 > 0:58:36- I'll have to see her.- Of course.
0:58:36 > 0:58:38I will test myself at missing you.
0:58:38 > 0:58:40You bite your nails.
0:58:41 > 0:58:43Yes. I know.
0:58:43 > 0:58:45If you ever stop,
0:58:45 > 0:58:48it will be because you are completely peaceful,
0:58:48 > 0:58:49and completely mine.
0:58:49 > 0:58:51- ANNOUNCER:- Will passengers make sure, please,
0:58:51 > 0:58:54to take possessions as they leave the plane.
0:58:56 > 0:58:58That means you.
0:59:04 > 0:59:07You've changed since I last saw you.
0:59:07 > 0:59:08You're radiant, beautiful!
0:59:08 > 0:59:10It's Mark.
0:59:10 > 0:59:14And you used to be so shy and inhibited.
0:59:14 > 0:59:15It's Mark.
0:59:15 > 0:59:18Don't keep saying, "It's Mark. It's Mark."
0:59:18 > 0:59:21I suppose it's never happened to anyone before.
0:59:21 > 0:59:22Not to me.
0:59:22 > 0:59:24When does Mark get back?
0:59:24 > 0:59:26As soon as he's settled about his divorce.
0:59:26 > 0:59:27Fat chance he has of getting it.
0:59:27 > 0:59:29Why do you say that?
0:59:29 > 0:59:30I'm a realist. I've met his wife.
0:59:30 > 0:59:33She's the kind who doesn't want him, but will hold on to him
0:59:33 > 0:59:35until she finds someone she wants.
0:59:35 > 0:59:38Well, I think Mark will come back free to marry Suyin.
0:59:38 > 0:59:42Anne, being Mark, would you give up so much to marry me?
0:59:42 > 0:59:43No, I wouldn't.
0:59:43 > 0:59:47I consider it quite idiotic of him, and idiotic of you, too.
0:59:47 > 0:59:49After all, you're quite happy as you are.
0:59:49 > 0:59:51Oh, well, why spoil everything, anyhow?
0:59:51 > 0:59:54All the fun goes out when you get serious.
0:59:54 > 0:59:56You must admit, Suyin, it's difficult for Mark,
0:59:56 > 0:59:59and your being Chinese doesn't make it any easier for him.
0:59:59 > 1:00:01- WHISPERING - You talk too much.
1:00:01 > 1:00:02You all talk too much.
1:00:02 > 1:00:06Suyin, it's the hospital. There's a cablegram for you.
1:00:11 > 1:00:13Dr Han here.
1:00:14 > 1:00:16Read the cablegram to me, please.
1:00:22 > 1:00:23Thank you!
1:00:27 > 1:00:30SHE LAUGHS AND SOBS
1:00:30 > 1:00:34Well, what is it, darling?
1:00:34 > 1:00:36It was from Mark.
1:00:36 > 1:00:38What did he say?
1:00:38 > 1:00:40He said, "I am...
1:00:41 > 1:00:45"I have stopped biting my fingernails!"
1:00:45 > 1:00:47SHE SOBS
1:01:49 > 1:01:52BOAT HORN BLARES
1:02:01 > 1:02:02Mark...
1:02:02 > 1:02:04She won't release me.
1:02:04 > 1:02:08I guessed as much when I saw your face.
1:02:08 > 1:02:10What are we going to do, Suyin?
1:02:10 > 1:02:14I had prepared myself for the possibility of failure.
1:02:14 > 1:02:15Nothing is different.
1:02:15 > 1:02:19I am as much to you as the pleasure I bring you.
1:02:19 > 1:02:24When I sent you the cable, she had agreed to the divorce.
1:02:24 > 1:02:27Then later, she changed her mind.
1:02:34 > 1:02:35You're quite right.
1:02:35 > 1:02:37Nothing is different.
1:02:37 > 1:02:41We can still hope that she will change her mind again.
1:02:53 > 1:02:55Mark, go home and rest.
1:02:55 > 1:02:57I will see you tomorrow.
1:03:27 > 1:03:29You didn't get enough sleep, did you?
1:03:29 > 1:03:31How can you tell?
1:03:31 > 1:03:34Oh, I can tell each time I see you whether you've had enough sleep,
1:03:34 > 1:03:38or worked too hard, or had enough to eat.
1:03:38 > 1:03:40I found a cable waiting.
1:03:40 > 1:03:43I have to go to Macau on a story.
1:03:43 > 1:03:45Ah, of course.
1:03:49 > 1:03:52Then you must go.
1:03:52 > 1:03:55But I don't want to be away from you for a week.
1:03:55 > 1:03:58You won't be far.
1:03:58 > 1:04:00But a whole week, Suyin.
1:04:06 > 1:04:11Do you think you could join me in a few days?
1:04:11 > 1:04:15Yes. I'll arrange it.
1:04:15 > 1:04:18Now, darling, if you think it's unwise, I'll understand.
1:04:18 > 1:04:22To go on living, one must be occasionally unwise.
1:04:23 > 1:04:25Why are you smiling?
1:04:25 > 1:04:27Oh, I don't know.
1:04:27 > 1:04:30The way you walk, the way you talk,
1:04:30 > 1:04:32everything about you.
1:04:32 > 1:04:33SHE LAUGHS
1:04:33 > 1:04:35I love you, Suyin.
1:04:44 > 1:04:45PHONE RINGS
1:04:47 > 1:04:48Dr Han here.
1:04:48 > 1:04:50Oh, Dr Han?
1:04:50 > 1:04:52This is Adeline Palmer-Jones here.
1:04:52 > 1:04:54Could you come over this morning?
1:04:54 > 1:04:58Oh, would you mind if Dr Sen came instead?
1:04:58 > 1:05:01I'm going on holiday. I was just leaving.
1:05:01 > 1:05:03Well, it is important.
1:05:03 > 1:05:05I sprained my ankle.
1:05:05 > 1:05:07Very well.
1:05:07 > 1:05:09I'll stop by on my way to the boat.
1:05:20 > 1:05:22HE SPEAKS CANTONESE
1:05:22 > 1:05:23SHE REPLIES IN CANTONESE
1:05:29 > 1:05:33Oh, it was nice of you to come, Dr Han.
1:05:33 > 1:05:36I don't understand. I...I thought you...
1:05:36 > 1:05:39I didn't sprain my ankle. I wanted to talk to you.
1:05:39 > 1:05:40Won't you sit down?
1:05:42 > 1:05:45I have a taxi waiting, Mrs Palmer-Jones.
1:05:45 > 1:05:46I'm catching the boat for Macau.
1:05:46 > 1:05:50That's what I want to talk to you about. Sit down.
1:05:51 > 1:05:54Now, no-one hates gossip more than I do,
1:05:54 > 1:05:56and nobody is more tolerant than I am.
1:05:56 > 1:06:00But there are certain conventions here that must be observed,
1:06:00 > 1:06:03especially with this ticklish situation in China,
1:06:03 > 1:06:07and there's been some ugly talk about you and Mr Elliott.
1:06:07 > 1:06:10May I ask, what sort of talk?
1:06:10 > 1:06:11Oh, the usual kind.
1:06:11 > 1:06:14Mr Elliott is married, you know.
1:06:14 > 1:06:16I've known that from the beginning.
1:06:17 > 1:06:19Oh.
1:06:19 > 1:06:22Well, Mr Palmer-Jones feels that the personnel at the hospital
1:06:22 > 1:06:24should not be indiscreet.
1:06:24 > 1:06:27I thought I should warn you, my dear.
1:06:27 > 1:06:29Thank you.
1:06:29 > 1:06:35Please feel free to call me if you DO sprain your ankle.
1:07:10 > 1:07:11I'm Dr Han.
1:07:11 > 1:07:13Yes, Dr Han.
1:07:13 > 1:07:14Mr Elliott telephoned.
1:07:14 > 1:07:16He will be delayed.
1:07:16 > 1:07:18Put the lady's things in their place.
1:07:18 > 1:07:20I hope you will be comfortable.
1:08:30 > 1:08:32I'm sorry to have kept you waiting.
1:08:32 > 1:08:34It isn't often that I do.
1:08:35 > 1:08:38You locked yourself in. Why?
1:08:38 > 1:08:40I locked the world out.
1:08:43 > 1:08:46Mark, I... I don't know what has happened to me.
1:08:46 > 1:08:49I...I'm like a seed, sprouting up,
1:08:49 > 1:08:52clutching at life.
1:08:52 > 1:08:55I can hear and...and smell the sun.
1:08:55 > 1:08:56I'm...
1:09:00 > 1:09:03I am conscious of surfaces and their textures.
1:09:03 > 1:09:07I-I have such an awareness...
1:09:07 > 1:09:08such an awareness.
1:09:10 > 1:09:14Oh, pity the poor people with their sad faces
1:09:14 > 1:09:16who have missed what we have.
1:09:16 > 1:09:21You know, I was thinking last night of that line in Thompson's poem -
1:09:21 > 1:09:25"'Tis ye, 'tis your estranged faces
1:09:25 > 1:09:28"that miss the many-splendoured thing."
1:09:28 > 1:09:31I'm so happy, it frightens me.
1:09:32 > 1:09:35I have a feeling that heaven is unfair,
1:09:35 > 1:09:39and is preparing for you and for me a great sadness,
1:09:39 > 1:09:42because we have been given so much.
1:09:44 > 1:09:47Darling, whatever happens, always remember,
1:09:47 > 1:09:50nothing is fair nor unfair under heaven.
1:09:52 > 1:09:55MUSIC PLAYS OUTSIDE
1:10:10 > 1:10:13It's a funeral procession.
1:10:13 > 1:10:16They make it seem so festive.
1:10:16 > 1:10:18"There was a good man,
1:10:18 > 1:10:20"who had a good life."
1:10:20 > 1:10:22Are you making that up?
1:10:22 > 1:10:25No. The sign they carry says so.
1:10:29 > 1:10:34I've always wondered why the relatives walk in the enclosure.
1:10:34 > 1:10:36They hide their grief.
1:10:43 > 1:10:46Oh! How good it is to be alive!
1:10:53 > 1:10:56Two men in the lift are former generals,
1:10:56 > 1:10:58old friends of my family.
1:10:58 > 1:11:00But they didn't speak to you.
1:11:00 > 1:11:03They realised I was here to see you.
1:11:03 > 1:11:06It would have been not polite to speak.
1:11:06 > 1:11:07Good evening, senor.
1:11:07 > 1:11:09Table for two, please.
1:11:09 > 1:11:11Did you book a reservation?
1:11:11 > 1:11:12No.
1:11:13 > 1:11:15This way, please.
1:11:43 > 1:11:44Mr Elliott.
1:11:44 > 1:11:48If you do not want this table, I can get you a nicer one.
1:11:48 > 1:11:50No, it's quite all right, Mr Vicenti.
1:11:50 > 1:11:52Uh, this is Dr Han. Mr Vicenti is the proprietor.
1:11:52 > 1:11:54A doctor? Business good?
1:11:54 > 1:11:56Well, I'm not in private practice.
1:11:56 > 1:11:59Too bad. You ought to make money now.
1:11:59 > 1:12:01Woman doctor make her fortune in no time.
1:12:01 > 1:12:04Men do not like their wives to be seen by men doctors.
1:12:04 > 1:12:05You stay in Macau.
1:12:05 > 1:12:08I'll consider it. Thank you.
1:12:08 > 1:12:11How long will we be in Macau?
1:12:11 > 1:12:13Can you stay a week?
1:12:13 > 1:12:16I can't, but I will.
1:12:16 > 1:12:19Do you think we should be seen together?
1:12:19 > 1:12:22I want all of my friends to say,
1:12:22 > 1:12:27"Who is that beautiful Chinese girl Mark Elliott's out with?"
1:12:27 > 1:12:28Eurasian.
1:12:28 > 1:12:30The gentleman would like champagne?
1:12:30 > 1:12:34No. Two very dry Martinis - VERY dry.
1:12:34 > 1:12:36Trust me. The driest.
1:12:36 > 1:12:39You know what I should like to do after dinner?
1:12:39 > 1:12:40What?
1:12:40 > 1:12:42I should like to go to a Chinese fortune-teller,
1:12:42 > 1:12:45and listen to his gorgeous lies.
1:12:45 > 1:12:48MUSIC: LOVE IS A MANY-SPLENDOURED THING
1:13:16 > 1:13:18The lady would like her fortune told.
1:13:18 > 1:13:21Fortune written in sand.
1:13:23 > 1:13:26I would like a lovely fortune, please.
1:13:35 > 1:13:37Oh, you very lucky.
1:13:37 > 1:13:40Going to own big house.
1:13:40 > 1:13:42Well, not TOO big.
1:13:54 > 1:13:57Ah, many children.
1:13:57 > 1:13:59How many?
1:13:59 > 1:14:01Oh, ten children, maybe 15.
1:14:01 > 1:14:03SHE LAUGHS
1:14:03 > 1:14:04HOW many?
1:14:04 > 1:14:07Oh, too many. Look again.
1:14:07 > 1:14:09Four children.
1:14:10 > 1:14:14Will we have a long and lovely life together?
1:14:14 > 1:14:18Oh, years very hard to tell.
1:14:18 > 1:14:22Cost more.
1:14:22 > 1:14:24I have a feeling that HE'S the one
1:14:24 > 1:14:27that's going to wind up with the big house.
1:14:31 > 1:14:34Inside box, blue beetle and white beetle.
1:14:34 > 1:14:37White beetle, woman. Blue beetle, man.
1:14:37 > 1:14:42If both beetles go to far box, mean long life together. You watch.
1:15:00 > 1:15:04You have long life together. 87 year.
1:15:05 > 1:15:07Thank you.
1:15:07 > 1:15:12Thank you for our happy future, and thank your blessed beetles, too.
1:15:17 > 1:15:19Think there's food in that box they go into?
1:15:33 > 1:15:36- There is a cable for you, Mr Elliott.- Thank you.
1:15:36 > 1:15:37You're welcome.
1:15:43 > 1:15:46Wait for me here, will you?
1:15:48 > 1:15:51What time is the next boat to Hong Kong?
1:15:51 > 1:15:53In about one hour and 50 minutes.
1:15:53 > 1:15:55Make reservations for me, will you, please?
1:15:55 > 1:15:56Yes, sir.
1:16:00 > 1:16:03But...but why Korea?
1:16:03 > 1:16:05North Koreans hated the south.
1:16:05 > 1:16:07They crossed the 38th parallel last night.
1:16:07 > 1:16:10There isn't much time. We have to pack.
1:16:10 > 1:16:13It's only a little war, isn't it?
1:16:13 > 1:16:15That's hard to tell.
1:16:16 > 1:16:19Will it... will it last long?
1:16:19 > 1:16:21Oh, I don't think very long.
1:16:21 > 1:16:23A couple of weeks, maybe three.
1:16:25 > 1:16:28Could you possibly not go?
1:16:29 > 1:16:32No, I could not possibly not go.
1:16:32 > 1:16:35I thought not.
1:16:37 > 1:16:41Our gorgeous lie did not even last the night.
1:16:53 > 1:16:55I'm going to the news office.
1:16:55 > 1:16:59I'll call you the moment I get any information.
1:17:16 > 1:17:19Oh! Oh, good morning, Dr Han.
1:17:19 > 1:17:21Oh, good morning, Mrs Palmer-Jones.
1:17:21 > 1:17:23Did you enjoy your trip to Macau?
1:17:23 > 1:17:25Yes, thank you.
1:17:25 > 1:17:29We had an explosion in the harbour while you were away.
1:17:29 > 1:17:31You were badly needed here.
1:17:31 > 1:17:34My husband was most disturbed at your absence.
1:17:34 > 1:17:36Well... well, it's nice that you're back.
1:17:39 > 1:17:41Good morning, Dr Han.
1:17:41 > 1:17:44Good morning, Dr Sen.
1:17:44 > 1:17:46Did she tell you?
1:17:46 > 1:17:48Yes. I'm sorry I wasn't here in the emergency.
1:17:48 > 1:17:53Did she tell you that your residency here is not being renewed?
1:17:53 > 1:17:54No.
1:17:56 > 1:18:00Well, that isn't too important, but I should have been here.
1:18:00 > 1:18:04Do you think that is the real reason you are being dismissed?
1:18:04 > 1:18:05No.
1:18:05 > 1:18:08It is because you are Eurasian.
1:18:08 > 1:18:10Oh, no. I doubt that, Sen.
1:18:10 > 1:18:13Anyway, this isn't the only hospital in Hong Kong.
1:18:13 > 1:18:16You will not be offered another residency.
1:18:16 > 1:18:19Then I'll go into private practice.
1:18:19 > 1:18:20Do you think the English will seek you out?
1:18:20 > 1:18:22They turn to their own kind.
1:18:22 > 1:18:24That should not be your concern, Sen.
1:18:24 > 1:18:26Go back to China, Suyin.
1:18:26 > 1:18:29There you will be given a hospital of your own.
1:18:29 > 1:18:32Go back to China.
1:18:41 > 1:18:44I think she's put on a bit of weight.
1:18:44 > 1:18:47Soap and affection make a world of difference.
1:18:47 > 1:18:49She's being discharged in my care.
1:18:49 > 1:18:52Haven't you enough problems already?
1:18:52 > 1:18:55This is Dr Han. I'm expecting a call.
1:18:55 > 1:18:59When it comes, will you ring me here, please?
1:18:59 > 1:19:03Thank you. Extension 31.
1:19:03 > 1:19:05How do you say, "Take a deep breath"?
1:19:05 > 1:19:09Wouldn't it be better if she sang for you?
1:19:09 > 1:19:10Yes, it would.
1:19:10 > 1:19:12SUYIN SPEAKS CANTONESE
1:19:12 > 1:19:14GIRL SINGS "FRERE JACQUES" IN CANTONESE
1:19:25 > 1:19:26PHONE RINGS
1:19:27 > 1:19:28Dr Han here.
1:19:28 > 1:19:31Suyin, I've just been notified about transportation.
1:19:31 > 1:19:33Can you meet me in a half an hour?
1:19:33 > 1:19:35Yes.
1:19:35 > 1:19:38I'll meet you at the airport.
1:19:38 > 1:19:40No. I don't want to say goodbye at the airport.
1:19:40 > 1:19:43On the hill in a half an hour, darling.
1:19:47 > 1:19:48Mm-hmm.
1:19:51 > 1:19:53How do you turn her off?
1:19:55 > 1:19:58SUYIN SPEAKS CANTONESE
1:20:11 > 1:20:13Give me your hand.
1:20:25 > 1:20:29Every woman in love should have a secret garden.
1:20:29 > 1:20:32And every man in love should have a mountain.
1:20:32 > 1:20:36Mark, do you remember the man you wanted to interview?
1:20:36 > 1:20:40The one you said was the first richest person in the world?
1:20:40 > 1:20:42Well, he isn't.
1:20:42 > 1:20:43You are.
1:20:43 > 1:20:45How did you know?
1:20:45 > 1:20:47I've learned to read your mind, too.
1:20:55 > 1:20:58In the next life, let us be birds.
1:20:58 > 1:21:02According to the laws of reincarnation, in the next life,
1:21:02 > 1:21:05I will be a woman, and you will be a man.
1:21:05 > 1:21:08Oh, no. I refuse to be a man.
1:21:08 > 1:21:10You have reconciled me to being a woman.
1:21:10 > 1:21:12All right. I'll take you as you are.
1:21:13 > 1:21:16Well, I'm sure I shall go as limp at the sight of you
1:21:16 > 1:21:19in the next life as I do in this one.
1:21:21 > 1:21:25What sort of things will you write about in Korea?
1:21:25 > 1:21:30Oh, the same sort of things I wrote about in Africa, Indonesia -
1:21:30 > 1:21:32cold facts of war.
1:21:32 > 1:21:35The other things that tell of men afraid,
1:21:35 > 1:21:37men suffering,
1:21:37 > 1:21:40people caught up in events they can't understand.
1:21:40 > 1:21:45Mark... do correspondents ever get killed?
1:21:45 > 1:21:46Mm-hmm.
1:21:46 > 1:21:50A friend of mine got killed by a bus in Tokyo.
1:21:50 > 1:21:55If anything happens to you, I shall give up medicine.
1:21:55 > 1:22:00I would hate my fellow man too much for having hurt you.
1:22:00 > 1:22:03Then I would be the worst thing that ever happened to you,
1:22:03 > 1:22:05and I would know it.
1:22:08 > 1:22:10What time should you leave?
1:22:10 > 1:22:11Ten minutes ago.
1:22:15 > 1:22:18War has strapped you to a watch.
1:22:18 > 1:22:21Unfortunately, my plane leaves on schedule.
1:22:23 > 1:22:27I wanted to bring you a present, but there wasn't time.
1:22:27 > 1:22:30You know, I've never given you anything.
1:22:30 > 1:22:34Oh, Mark, what a wrong and dreadful thing to say.
1:22:34 > 1:22:38And what a nice thing to reply.
1:22:38 > 1:22:42I have to go now, and I don't want you to be sad.
1:22:42 > 1:22:44I won't be sad.
1:22:44 > 1:22:46Sadness is so ungrateful.
1:22:46 > 1:22:51And I don't want you to come down the path with me.
1:22:51 > 1:22:54I want to look back and see you here.
1:22:54 > 1:22:56I will be here when you come back to me.
1:22:56 > 1:22:57I promise.
1:23:14 > 1:23:16Remember the blue beetle?
1:23:16 > 1:23:19It promised us a long and happy life.
1:23:52 > 1:23:53Nora?
1:23:53 > 1:23:54This is Suyin.
1:23:54 > 1:23:59Mark has gone, and I've lost my position here at the hospital.
1:23:59 > 1:24:03Could I come over and stay with you for a while?
1:24:03 > 1:24:05Oh, for goodness' sakes, Suyin!
1:24:05 > 1:24:07Come and stay as long as you like.
1:24:07 > 1:24:10And could I bring my little oh-no with me?
1:24:10 > 1:24:13We both have a need for friends at the moment.
1:24:13 > 1:24:15You bring oh-no, third uncle, nine aunt.
1:24:15 > 1:24:17Anyone you want.
1:24:17 > 1:24:20Thank you, Nora. It won't be for long.
1:24:20 > 1:24:21KNOCK AT DOOR
1:24:21 > 1:24:26Come in. Yes. Thank you, dear. Goodbye.
1:24:26 > 1:24:28Can I talk to you for a moment?
1:24:28 > 1:24:30Of course, Dr Sen.
1:24:30 > 1:24:32SUYIN SPEAKS CANTONESE
1:24:37 > 1:24:40When do you leave the hospital, Suyin?
1:24:40 > 1:24:41Tomorrow.
1:24:41 > 1:24:44In a week, I'm returning to China.
1:24:44 > 1:24:46Have you thought about going back?
1:24:46 > 1:24:48I must stay in Hong Kong.
1:24:48 > 1:24:49Because of Mr Elliott?
1:24:49 > 1:24:51Yes, as a matter of fact.
1:24:51 > 1:24:55So you're willing to sacrifice your country and many men
1:24:55 > 1:24:57for a romantic attachment to one man,
1:24:57 > 1:24:59a man who will not even marry you.
1:24:59 > 1:25:00Where's your pride, Suyin?
1:25:00 > 1:25:04I will not allow you to make me feel small, selfish, or ashamed.
1:25:04 > 1:25:05Forget this man, Suyin.
1:25:05 > 1:25:07It is a weakness unworthy of you.
1:25:07 > 1:25:11There is no longer any place in the world for weakness.
1:25:11 > 1:25:12Then there is no place for doctors,
1:25:12 > 1:25:15since our whole approach to weakness is sympathetic.
1:25:15 > 1:25:16But you feel as we do.
1:25:16 > 1:25:18I have watched you.
1:25:18 > 1:25:20You hate the poverty and the pain you see here.
1:25:20 > 1:25:21I hate it everywhere,
1:25:21 > 1:25:24but that doesn't make me a communist like you, Sen.
1:25:24 > 1:25:27It just makes me try to be a better doctor.
1:25:27 > 1:25:29China has been reborn, Suyin.
1:25:29 > 1:25:31Our people are free at last.
1:25:31 > 1:25:36Sen, refugees pour into Hong Kong at the rate of 3,000 a day.
1:25:36 > 1:25:39As a man who believes in this new order,
1:25:39 > 1:25:42doesn't it disturb you that so many flee from freedom?
1:25:42 > 1:25:46You're no longer Chinese. You're not facing the truth.
1:25:46 > 1:25:49Look into the mirror, and see yourself.
1:25:51 > 1:25:54Maybe that is the difference in our viewpoints, Sen.
1:25:54 > 1:25:57You look into the mirror and see truth reflected,
1:25:57 > 1:26:00but I think it is an illusion,
1:26:00 > 1:26:04for in the mirror, what is right is left,
1:26:04 > 1:26:06and what is left is right.
1:26:09 > 1:26:10DOOR SLAMS
1:26:23 > 1:26:24Ha-ha-ha!
1:26:24 > 1:26:26THEY SPEAK CANTONESE
1:26:28 > 1:26:31We drove out to see you, and you weren't home.
1:26:31 > 1:26:33Where have you been?
1:26:33 > 1:26:35- Job hunting.- Any luck?
1:26:35 > 1:26:40Yes. I was offered a job typing medical reports.
1:26:40 > 1:26:44Suyin, would you go and see Mr Palmer-Jones if I arrange it?
1:26:44 > 1:26:49Well, I wouldn't have a month ago, but time has nibbled at my pride.
1:26:49 > 1:26:50I'll call him tomorrow.
1:26:50 > 1:26:52- Oh-no! - THEY SPEAK CANTONESE
1:26:52 > 1:26:54Oh-no!
1:27:00 > 1:27:03You read your letter, and we'll go in and fix tea.
1:27:03 > 1:27:05Oh!
1:27:09 > 1:27:12Is she taking care of herself?
1:27:12 > 1:27:14She looks worried and tired.
1:27:14 > 1:27:15I think she looks wonderful...
1:27:15 > 1:27:18for someone with half a heart.
1:27:27 > 1:27:30MARK: I have received your letters number eight and 11,
1:27:30 > 1:27:32but nine and ten are missing.
1:27:32 > 1:27:36Wonderful moon at night, each night a little bigger,
1:27:36 > 1:27:39rising a little farther to the left,
1:27:39 > 1:27:42taking a little longer to reach the trees on the right.
1:27:42 > 1:27:47Twice, like a ritual, I read your letter by its light.
1:27:47 > 1:27:51Last night, wonder of wonders, I not only had a clean camp bed,
1:27:51 > 1:27:55but I was able to place it so it faced the open window
1:27:55 > 1:27:57and our friend the moon.
1:28:44 > 1:28:46NORA SPEAKS CANTONESE
1:28:50 > 1:28:54I'm driving in to pick up Robert. Would you like to come along?
1:28:54 > 1:28:56No. I'll stay.
1:28:56 > 1:28:58We could stop at a cake shop and have tea first.
1:28:58 > 1:29:00Stop worrying about me!
1:29:00 > 1:29:03It is difficult enough now when I think of your kindness to me.
1:29:03 > 1:29:05I'm not kind. I'm just practical.
1:29:05 > 1:29:09With a household full of children, I just wanted a doctor in the house.
1:29:09 > 1:29:12What on earth are you doing?
1:29:12 > 1:29:14Making a good-luck prayer for Mark.
1:29:14 > 1:29:15Oh, Suyin.
1:29:15 > 1:29:17I know it is foolish,
1:29:17 > 1:29:21but I must feel I'm doing something to protect him.
1:29:21 > 1:29:23NORA SPEAKS CANTONESE
1:29:32 > 1:29:34MUSIC: LOVE IS A MANY-SPLENDOURED THING
1:30:09 > 1:30:10MARK: Glory be!
1:30:10 > 1:30:12Numbers nine and ten finally arrived,
1:30:12 > 1:30:14old and worn, but mighty welcome.
1:30:14 > 1:30:17I expect to be in Seoul tomorrow.
1:30:17 > 1:30:20My bottom is worn to the bone
1:30:20 > 1:30:24with bouncing about in jeeps on bumpy roads.
1:30:24 > 1:30:28I used to think I'd run out of things to write you.
1:30:28 > 1:30:30More fool... AIR-RAID SIREN WAILS
1:30:41 > 1:30:42SOBBING
1:30:45 > 1:30:47Oh-no!
1:30:52 > 1:30:54SUYIN SPEAKS CANTONESE
1:31:02 > 1:31:06It's no-one's fault. These things happen.
1:31:12 > 1:31:14SHE SPEAKS CANTONESE
1:31:18 > 1:31:21- RADIO:- The latest report is that UN troops have withdrawn
1:31:21 > 1:31:24to previously prepared positions at Pusan.
1:31:24 > 1:31:25The North Koreans...
1:31:25 > 1:31:27Stop listening to that.
1:31:27 > 1:31:29A letter from Mark.
1:31:29 > 1:31:30Oh, thank you.
1:31:30 > 1:31:33You must have enough letters from him to start a bonfire.
1:31:33 > 1:31:37I wouldn't burn them, but they would make a lovely glow.
1:31:37 > 1:31:38Nora, you know, it...
1:31:38 > 1:31:42it often seems that Mark is with me more while he is away
1:31:42 > 1:31:44than when he is here.
1:31:44 > 1:31:46Do you think that's strange?
1:31:46 > 1:31:47Oh, no, I don't.
1:31:49 > 1:31:50Nora.
1:31:50 > 1:31:52Oh, here's Anne. DOOR CLOSES
1:31:52 > 1:31:54Nora, come here a minute.
1:31:58 > 1:31:59What is it, Anne?
1:31:59 > 1:32:00Hello, Anne.
1:32:03 > 1:32:05What in the world is the matter?
1:32:05 > 1:32:07There's something in the paper.
1:32:07 > 1:32:08What?
1:32:08 > 1:32:11- Suyin, it's about Mark. - What about Mark?
1:32:11 > 1:32:13No, don't. Don't, Suyin.
1:32:13 > 1:32:15Dead...or a prisoner?
1:32:15 > 1:32:17He's dead.
1:32:17 > 1:32:18Oh, Suyin!
1:32:18 > 1:32:20Oh, it's not true!
1:32:22 > 1:32:24It's not true.
1:32:26 > 1:32:29Nora...it's a lie.
1:32:34 > 1:32:35I won't believe it!
1:32:39 > 1:32:43MARK: I do not know what is to happen, darling,
1:32:43 > 1:32:46but this I do know.
1:32:46 > 1:32:50Life's greatest tragedy is not to be loved.
1:32:50 > 1:32:53God has been good to us, Suyin.
1:33:13 > 1:33:19He is dead, but his letters will come one by one.
1:33:23 > 1:33:25They will continue to come...
1:33:25 > 1:33:28one by one.
1:33:43 > 1:33:48MARK: Suyin, there is nothing fair nor unfair under heaven.
1:33:51 > 1:33:55God has been good to us, Suyin.
1:33:56 > 1:33:58It makes me very proud of you
1:33:58 > 1:34:00to know that any unhappiness of your own
1:34:00 > 1:34:04could never blind you to the pain of others.
1:34:50 > 1:34:52MARK: Give me your hand.
1:35:53 > 1:35:56MARK: I often think that healing is man's salvation,
1:35:56 > 1:35:59and I envy your ability to help.
1:35:59 > 1:36:04You deal with suffering, but you can do something about it.
1:36:04 > 1:36:07I can only stand and watch.
1:36:27 > 1:36:30MARK: We have not missed, you and I.
1:36:30 > 1:36:35We have not missed that many-splendoured thing.
1:36:35 > 1:36:41# Love is a many-splendoured thing
1:36:41 > 1:36:48# It's the April rose that only grows in the early spring
1:36:48 > 1:36:56# Love is nature's way of giving a reason to be living
1:36:56 > 1:37:05# The golden crown that makes a man a king
1:37:05 > 1:37:12# Once, on a high and windy hill
1:37:12 > 1:37:16# In the morning mist, two lovers kissed
1:37:16 > 1:37:20# And the world stood still
1:37:20 > 1:37:26# Then your fingers touched my silent heart
1:37:26 > 1:37:31# And taught it how to sing
1:37:31 > 1:37:35# Yes, true love's
1:37:35 > 1:37:42# A many-splendoured thing. #