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00:00♪
00:26Nugget, Morgan, Davis, get them all back on the train, now.
00:37Whistle
00:41Come on, boys.
00:56Names? Lange, Carter.
01:12Give your names and get inside.
01:13Stafford, Ashton.
01:16Give him a hand with this kit, will you?
01:17Thanks.
01:23Sorry, sir, reserved.
01:24Reserved?
01:25Reserved.
01:30Is that all?
01:34Nugget, there's two missing.
01:36I've checked everywhere, sister.
01:38Well, where are they?
01:43Come on, Toddy.
01:47Come on, come on.
01:55They're not anywhere, sister.
01:56I've looked.
01:58Well, find them.
01:59I'll hold you responsible.
02:02Davis, go with him.
02:24Thanks for waiting for us, sister.
02:36Who are you?
02:37Parker.
02:38He's Todd.
02:40Parker and Todd.
02:41Chartered accountants.
02:43Where have you been?
02:44Now, that'd be telling, wouldn't it?
02:47Have you been drinking?
02:49Come a bit closer, you'll get some more breath.
02:52In.
02:55In.
03:18I've a first class ticket and it's standing room only on the rest of the train.
03:22I can't stand all the way to London all night.
03:26You're half empty in there.
03:28I'm sorry, sir, reserved.
03:30Reserved for who?
03:34The licentious soldiery.
03:45I reckon I'll be all right there, Toddy.
03:47I've got everything.
03:49I've got everything I ask in a woman.
03:52Beauty, brawn, plenty of lip.
03:57We're all on City Street.
04:18Oh, I'm coming.
04:39Where have you been?
04:41To the fish shop for supper.
04:43I told you.
04:44Have you brought me any?
04:45Well, fish and chips in your condition.
04:48I was going to say I didn't want any.
04:51Well, you might have saved your breath. I had more sense than to offer.
04:54Now, what do you want, Mr. Sefton?
04:56The telephone rang while you were out.
04:58Oh.
04:59Well, I'm sure whoever it was would ring again.
05:01It could have been Toddy.
05:03Well, it could have been. Yes, I do say.
05:05It's a pity you were out.
05:07Well, I can't be in two places at once, can I?
05:09No, I suppose not.
05:12It was his commanding officer you spoke to this morning. Are you sure about that?
05:15Yes, and his ship was due to dock at dinner time, and he'd see what could be done.
05:19That's what he said.
05:20Very umpteenth time.
05:22I beg your pardon, Mr. Sefton.
05:24You're sick of me asking, aren't you?
05:27Want me to do your pillows?
05:28No, no, thank you.
05:30Well, is that all, then?
05:32You're getting tired of me, aren't you, Mrs. Foster?
05:35You're thinking it's time you look for a new position?
05:37Oh, don't start that all over again, Mr. Sefton.
05:39I'm not leaving this condition, and well you know it.
05:43There are times when I've wondered why you stayed with me.
05:46Yes. That's all, you know.
05:48Well, that goes for both of us.
05:50Yes, the doctor said he'd come again in the morning, didn't he?
05:54Before surgery, he said.
05:56Yes.
06:00Mr. Sefton.
06:20We'll wait till the sister's been round.
06:29What's wrong with you?
06:31Oh, it's gangrene from a wound.
06:35These rusty Jerry bayonets.
06:37You reckon they ought to be made illegal, don't you?
06:39No.
06:41How about you?
06:42Parker's too plain.
06:43God, what's that?
06:44Oh, I'd rather not tell you in front of him he's an abstainer.
06:47Hey, Toddy.
06:49You going home, then?
06:51No, I reckon.
06:53War all over for you, is it?
06:55I bloody well hope so, mate.
06:57All over for Toddy, too.
06:59Stone deaf, aren't you, Toddy?
07:02At least that's what he tells everybody.
07:04I reckon he's swinging it.
07:05You're swinging it, aren't you, Toddy?
07:06You can hear every word I say, can't you?
07:12What do you talk to him like that for?
07:14I don't know. He's friendly, isn't he?
07:16I've seen worse cases than Toddy, mate.
07:18Haven't you?
07:19I suppose.
07:22It's a son of a war, all right.
07:25I mean, where would we be if we weren't with the Ruskies, eh?
07:30The Ruskies?
07:31The Ruskies.
07:34Don't talk to me about the Ruskies, mate.
07:38The right eye, I can't see shapes, but I can see, well, I think I can see the edges of shapes.
07:44And the left eyes, light and dark when the light's bright enough.
07:48They say it could take months just to be patient.
07:51You married?
07:52No, you?
07:53No.
07:54I rang home from back there.
07:56First words in two years.
07:58Spoken, that is.
08:00Not feeling.
08:02Bloody daft.
08:04I lived there and they sent me out to bloody London.
08:06Yes, I know.
08:08Yes, I rang home, too.
08:11What does it look like?
08:13What?
08:14England.
08:15Scotland.
08:16Home.
08:17Oh, I'm sorry.
08:19A bit murky.
08:20I bet it looks murky.
08:22Aye, that's about it.
08:23Murky.
08:25But green, too.
08:27When we sealed up the lock, it was beautiful.
08:30Beautiful.
08:32Todd, we've got a red here.
08:36You couldn't hear what I'd been listening to.
08:38Oh, you can see by his nose, he's a red.
08:41It might seem funny to you, mate.
08:43It doesn't, mate.
08:45I was a comrade once upon a time.
08:47Worst bloody mistake of me life, that was.
08:50Comrade.
08:53Is it time we set the dine in here?
08:54Oh, yes, sister. Of course, sister.
08:56Mally, how's the temperature? I want her to rest.
09:05Your tablet, Mally.
09:08Don't drink the train water.
09:10You can get some from the orderly in the end compartment.
09:12Aye, it's all right.
09:14Now, it's a long night.
09:16Try and get some sleep.
09:17What time do we get in?
09:19About five if we're on time, but we never are.
09:21More like eight, I should think.
09:23Parker, just behave yourself.
09:26Yes, sister.
09:33Might make a few sales, eh?
09:38Mally?
09:40Where'd you get that lot?
09:42Ask no questions, get no lies.
09:44You've got to crawl under the counter for these back here, you know.
09:47If you're a smoker, you're a crawler as well.
09:48You smoke yourself.
09:51I can crawl, too, when it suits me.
09:54You know what I've learned, Mally, after 35 years on this mookie?
09:57I've learned to look after number one.
10:04And as for your Uncle Joe Stalin,
10:07what about Spain, eh?
10:09What did Uncle Joe do for us then?
10:11He destroyed us.
10:13He destroyed us.
10:15He destroyed us.
10:16What did Uncle Joe do for us then?
10:18He destroyed us.
10:22Am I right, Toddy?
10:24What do you know about it?
10:28Mally, I was there.
10:32I don't believe you.
10:34Hear what?
10:36I don't believe you.
10:38Oh, yeah?
10:44Take a deco at this, then.
10:47International Brigade, 1938.
10:52You believe me now, eh?
11:10Acceptance
11:12is the only way I should go.
11:13Krishnamurti says we have to find our own way.
11:16But it must be the way of acceptance.
11:18No desire.
11:20No need for anything worldly.
11:22Nor any one.
11:23That's Buddhism, isn't it?
11:25Buddha said we keep being reborn.
11:27And reborn into a world of misery because of our desires.
11:31It's true, isn't it?
11:33Every misery in the world is due to somebody's earthly desire.
11:38I'm boring you.
11:40I'm boring you.
11:42I'm boring you, aren't I?
11:44No.
11:45I just have this earthly desire to see you again, that's all.
11:55I'll leave these here.
12:03No sign of Mrs. Foster.
12:06What time is it?
12:08Just after ten.
12:09She's probably still upstairs with him.
12:11Oh, yes.
12:13Let's check the kitchen first, eh?
12:24Do you think we should wake her?
12:26No, she's probably been up all night.
12:28Yeah.
12:40Oh.
13:05You came then.
13:07Father.
13:09How are you?
13:11Was it you that rang earlier?
13:13Yes, we changed at Leeds and we rang from there.
13:15Mrs. Foster was out.
13:17Well, how are you?
13:20Not very good, lad.
13:22Not very good.
13:24What's the trouble?
13:26It started at the shop yesterday.
13:28A fluttery thing.
13:30Heart.
13:32Like a clock when you take the pendulum off.
13:34Is it painful?
13:36Oh, it's damn frightening more.
13:37Put the fear of God into me, I can tell you.
13:39What's the doctor got to say for himself?
13:41Old Willie.
13:43Well, you know old Willie.
13:45He's all right for a cold,
13:47but when it comes to this sort of thing,
13:49I'd rather have the plumber.
13:55There's a specialist coming tomorrow, you know.
13:57Father, are you sure you ought to be talking so much?
13:59I can talk.
14:01I can talk and get bullied too.
14:04Who's been bullying you?
14:05Mrs. Foster.
14:07If I show the slightest sign of chirping up,
14:09she treats me as if I was in short trousers.
14:11No, she's looking after you very well, I find,
14:13and Mrs. Foster.
14:15Well, I suppose she is.
14:17I've got a visitor for you, by the way.
14:19A visitor? Who?
14:21Jenny.
14:23She'll be back in a minute.
14:25She's gone to get some fish and chips.
14:27I thought you two had packed it in.
14:29Father, hadn't you better get some sleep?
14:31I suppose you're going to start bullying me
14:33too.
14:36Well, Parker not back yet?
14:38No, sister.
14:40Where's he gone to, for heaven's sake?
14:42Search me, sister.
14:44Oh, I took Toddy next door but one.
14:46He didn't seem to know what was going on,
14:48so I wrote it down for him.
14:50Oh, thank you.
14:52Now, I've got you all two to a compartment now
14:54so you can stretch out and have a sleep.
14:56Aye, if he'll let me.
14:58Who?
15:00Oh, Parker.
15:01He keeps going on at me.
15:03Politics.
15:05Oh, I see.
15:07Very well, then.
15:09I'll put Stafford in here from next door.
15:11I'll put Parker in with Sergeant Ashton.
15:14He's asleep anyway.
15:16Thanks, sister.
15:32I want to move you.
15:34You can leave your kit where it is.
15:36OK, sister.
16:01Come on.
16:32Excuse me, sister.
16:35It's a bit of a squeeze, isn't it?
16:38Where have you been?
16:40The doors at each end are supposed to be locked.
16:42Well, I slipped out with the girl
16:44then slipped back in with him.
16:46Did you miss me?
16:48You're not to leave the carriage again, all right?
16:50I'll never leave you again, sister.
16:52I promise.
16:54You're in this compartment now, by the way.
16:56Oh, I see.
16:58Mally had me moved, did he?
16:59You're all due to a compartment now
17:01so that you can sleep.
17:03I'll put you in with the sergeant.
17:05You can leave your kit where it is.
17:07Why couldn't I have stayed with Toddy?
17:09You could if you'd been here.
17:11He's asleep by now.
17:13Good night, Parker.
17:16What about my injection?
17:19I'll wake you at the right time.
17:26I'll dream of you.
17:27I'll dream of you.
17:29Sister.
17:55Stafford?
17:57Stafford.
18:04It had to be done, lad.
18:06Had to be.
18:08No!
18:10The angel suffice the means, you know that!
18:12No!
18:14You can't do it, lad.
18:16You can't do that!
18:18You can't do that!
18:27You can't do that!
18:58What time is it?
19:03Another eight hours on the proc special.
19:05I'm not a wench in sight.
19:07Apart from old starchy pants.
19:12Boom.
19:13Yeah.
19:21There's a bloke in there, Toddy.
19:23I haven't seen him since 38.
19:24I haven't seen him since 38.
19:27August 38.
19:30In the Pyrenees.
19:34Do you know where the Pyrenees are?
19:36Spain.
19:38Espana.
19:43Do you know what he was doing the last time I saw him?
19:47Tearing up a hill with a bullet in his leg
19:49where I'd shot him because he was deserting.
19:54I'd put a bullet in another bloke as well.
19:56I see you all.
19:59On Eden Ghetto.
20:04Ashton.
20:09He didn't recognise me in there.
20:11But when he does, I reckon I'm in trouble.
20:13Big trouble.
20:16Shit.
20:25Oh, black peas and fish and chips for a guest.
20:28No.
20:30Why haven't you waken me, Mr Tony?
20:32They were lovely, honestly, Mrs Foster.
20:34Look, Tony and I are going to take it in turns to sit up tonight.
20:36Now, you need some rest.
20:38I certainly could do with it.
20:40It's no trouble.
20:42No, we slept most of the way here.
20:44At least that one did.
20:46Well, I'll clear this lot away, then I'll see about you.
20:48Oh, Mrs Foster.
20:50I'll be out in a minute to talk to you about that,
20:52if you don't mind.
20:54I'm keeping one on each side of father this time.
20:56What, all in the same bed?
20:58Aha.
21:00Well, if we're both going to take turns in sitting up with him,
21:02I don't see how we can...
21:04It's the principle of the thing, isn't it?
21:06The principle.
21:08You mean he doesn't trust us?
21:10It's not a question of trust.
21:12It's a question of his minding his own damn business.
21:14You'd better go up and let him have a look at you, by the way.
21:16You're not going to sleep till you do.
21:18You think he's forgiven me for declining to marry his son?
21:20Oh, he'd forgive you anything.
21:22And you wouldn't?
21:24How do you know?
21:26In practice, no.
21:29But you can understand his point of view, then?
21:31Oh, yes.
21:33Anywhere else you can do that there,
21:35but you can't do that there, here.
21:37There goes the bell for the second round.
21:39Look, tell Mrs Foster I'll go.
21:41Right-o.
21:43Damn nuisance.
21:45Depending on people.
21:46Oh, Jenny's gone up to her, Mrs Foster.
21:48About the sleeping arrangements...
21:50All right, he's spoken to me about it.
21:52Oh, he has?
21:54The rooms, each side of him.
21:56He said yours and the spare room,
21:58and I've put bottles in each.
22:00Yes, well, Jenny said that she'd prefer the corner room.
22:02Well, he says it's damp.
22:04Oh, is it?
22:06Well, if he says it is, Mr Tony,
22:08it's damp.
22:10Oh, is it?
22:12Well, if he says it is, Mr Tony,
22:14it's damp.
22:16There's no power on earth
22:18that will convince him otherwise.
22:20Yes, sir?
22:22Uh, no, Mrs Foster.
22:25Good night, Mr Tony.
22:27Good night.
22:38Sleep.
22:40There you are, Tod Wilson.
22:47Can't you sleep?
22:52Keep thinking about you, sister.
23:00Seems a waste of sleep.
23:03Life when you're awake,
23:05that's what counts.
23:07What's wrong with you, Parker?
23:09You're the sister, sister.
23:11You tell me.
23:13I don't mean the diabetes.
23:14Well, I've got this gun, you see,
23:16and I'm pointing it like this,
23:18and I squeeze the trigger like this,
23:20and down goes this fellow, shot in the back.
23:22Only it's not one of them,
23:24it's one of us.
23:27I get nightmares.
23:30You don't believe me, do you?
23:32I can see it
23:34in those deep brown eyes.
23:36Aren't you sorry for me?
23:39I feel sorry for all of you.
23:41No.
23:42Never mind about the rest.
23:44Just be sorry for me.
23:46Come on.
23:48I'll give you your injection.
23:50Am I invited in, then?
23:52Don't be silly.
23:58Sister.
24:00What is it, Stafford?
24:02You'll have a great sister.
24:04Yes, of course.
24:06Go back in.
24:08I'll send the orderly.
24:10Are you all right, Sergeant Ashton?
24:13Yes, thank you, Sister.
24:23He's blind.
24:25Yes, I thought you knew.
24:28Take a drink after, Stafford,
24:30in the end compartment, will you, Leggett?
24:40Roll up your sleeve.
24:43Can I have it in the right thigh?
24:46I said roll up your sleeve.
24:49Anyone ever tell you
24:51what a lovely bedside man you've got?
24:58What's wrong with him, then?
25:00Leggett?
25:02The Sergeant.
25:04He won't be able to see for quite some time.
25:08Not permanently?
25:10No, but it won't happen overnight.
25:13Thanks, Sister.
25:17Come and do the same for you sometime.
25:29He thinks it's time one of us went to bed.
25:34What are you reading?
25:36It's a medical dictionary.
25:37Well, I want to see he gets the best care and attention available.
25:41You're proposing to treat him yourself, of course.
25:44I'm looking for something.
25:46Fluttery heart, he said.
25:48Like a clock without a pendulum.
25:50Do you think you ought to leave it to the doctor?
25:52Oh, will he?
25:54He's on his last legs.
25:56He wouldn't recognize a fluttering pendulum at 25 yards.
25:58Tachycardia.
26:00Say that again?
26:02Tachycardia.
26:04You'll find it under teeth.
26:05Oh, good heavens, yes, I forgot.
26:07You're in the business, aren't you?
26:09Well, yes, in a modest sort of way, but don't quote me.
26:11I mean, it's not professional.
26:13Well, there's a specialist coming tomorrow.
26:15T.
26:17T-A-T.
26:19There we are. Tachycardia.
26:21Abnormally rapid action of the heart
26:23and consequent increase in pulse rate.
26:25It's sometimes a sign of deteriorating heart muscle,
26:28maybe of nervous origin.
26:30He hasn't got a nerve in his body.
26:32I wish you wouldn't talk about that.
26:33You know, it's not true.
26:35Anyway, he is ill.
26:37Well, Mrs. Foster thinks he's laying it on a bit.
26:39She says that old Willie isn't seriously worried.
26:41Neither should we be.
26:43The doctor?
26:45I thought he said he was on his last legs.
26:47Yes, maybe so.
26:49But he knows, Father.
27:03Not in bed yet, Mrs. Foster?
27:05I was.
27:07I remembered your fire just as I was dropping off.
27:09Oh, you could have left it to those two downstairs.
27:11Yes, well,
27:13it could have been out by the time they'd come up.
27:15You told them about the rooms?
27:17I did.
27:19Mr. Tony didn't seem too pleased.
27:21He seemed to think Miss Jenny ought to have the corner room.
27:24Oh, he did, did he?
27:26Anyway, it's dump.
27:28Is it?
27:30Well, it's always seemed very dump to me.
27:31Well, they're going to sit up with you.
27:33In turns.
27:35Whose idea was that?
27:37Well, it wasn't mine.
27:39They'll do better to get the rest.
27:41I don't need anybody to sit up with me.
27:43That wasn't what you said last night.
27:45Anyway, it's Doctor's orders.
27:47I should have retired years ago, the old fool.
27:49Yes, well, you could say that about quite a few.
27:51Miss Wall's put a stop to a good many retirements.
27:53Is there anything you want before I go?
27:55Are you saying it's time that I retire, Mrs. Foster?
27:57No.
27:58Are you saying it's time that I retire, Mrs. Foster?
28:02You've got a very capable lad.
28:04Now, if I was you, the day this war ends,
28:06I'd hand him the lot, lock, stock and barrel.
28:09Yes, well, you've knocked me in a good job, too.
28:11He needs a few years under his belt yet, Mr. Tony.
28:14He needs a bit of encouragement, too, if you ask me.
28:16I didn't ask you, Mrs. Foster.
28:18And when the time comes I'm not able to do a good day's work,
28:20I'll ask you then.
28:22Aye, well, think on.
28:29Oh!
28:31I thought you'd gone to bed.
28:33I was saved to his fire.
28:35How is he?
28:38I don't know.
28:40I mean, I don't know quite how to take him as he is.
28:43I've never seen him like this before.
28:46Well, all we can do is just keep our eye on him, I suppose.
28:49Mm.
28:51Hello.
28:53It's me, First Watch.
28:55Oh.
28:57Oh.
28:59Oh, he put you on First Watch, did he?
29:01Yes, Captain's orders.
29:03No arguing with him now he's been promoted.
29:05He's been promoted?
29:07Yes.
29:09Got an extra ring, didn't you notice?
29:11No, I didn't.
29:13Oh.
29:15Oh.
29:17Oh.
29:18Oh, I didn't.
29:20I should have done, shouldn't I?
29:22Well, never mind, there's plenty of time.
29:24Well, thank you for telling me.
29:27No sign of a ring on you, I see.
29:30You think I'm an immoral woman, don't you?
29:32I'm not used to talking about these things with women.
29:35You're only embarrassed because you want to like me?
29:37Who said I didn't like you?
29:40Well, it's just that I happen to think there are more immoral things
29:44than being, well, like turning me, not being married.
29:46Things like bringing children into the world at a time like this.
29:49There was a war on when Tony was born.
29:51There'd be some mighty big gaps in the population
29:54if people only had children in peacetime.
29:56You can get married without having children, you know.
29:59Yes, well, I can't say I see the point in it.
30:02I'd still be glad I married Tony's mother,
30:05even if we'd never had the children.
30:07It was a great loss to me when she died.
30:10Yes.
30:12Yes, I'm sure it was.
30:13Well, don't you think you'd better be getting some sleep?
30:16What are you going to do?
30:18I'm going to curl up on this chair over here and doze.
30:24A lot of fuss about nothing.
30:27No, it isn't.
30:29You wouldn't have sent for Tony
30:31if you thought it was nothing, now would you?
30:44Stafford?
30:46Stafford's in the next compartment.
30:48Sister did a swap.
30:56Jag's the name.
30:58Hello, Philip Ashton.
31:00I can't see you, by the way.
31:02Yeah, I know. Sister told me.
31:05Where's journey's ending?
31:07Moorfields, London.
31:09Then a good spot to leave, eh?
31:11Probably.
31:13Diabetes.
31:15If I was a yank, I'd probably get a Purple Heart.
31:18As it is, I'll be lucky to end up with a pension.
31:21Back to Civvy Street, eh?
31:23I reckon.
31:25Except now I don't know what Civvy Street is any more.
31:27The wife took me out two years ago.
31:30How about you?
31:32Well, I haven't heard about discharge yet.
31:34All the doctors I've seen seem a bit cagey,
31:36but the last one reckoned it could clear up completely.
31:39I reckon you ought to swing it then,
31:41like the old soldier.
31:43Discharge? Wrong road off.
31:45I would, and what have I got to go back to?
31:47A lot like you, university education.
31:50You'd be set up for life.
31:52How do you know I've been to university?
31:55Well, haven't you?
31:57Yes, but I don't wear a badge.
32:00Well, it's the voice. You know, the accent.
32:02You can tell it's a mile off.
32:04Good Lord, I didn't know I had one.
32:06But it's funny about voices.
32:08Haven't we met before?
32:10Not to my knowledge we haven't.
32:11It's not your accent, it's something you say.
32:14Well, we must be soon two blocks off to say a midden, eh?
32:18I reckon we ought to get some sleep, don't you?
32:22Is the light on?
32:24What there is of it, yeah.
32:26But you can see me, I mean reasonably well.
32:28Enough to know you, if that's what you mean.
32:32Well, pleasant dreams, eh?
32:35Yes.
32:37Yes, good night then.
32:41Good night.
33:11Good night.
33:30You going somewhere then?
33:32Yes, yes, the long, long trail again.
33:34Must be these cold nights.
33:36Do you want me to come with you then?
33:38No, I'll be OK in it.
33:39Come on, the door on the right leads to Kingdom Come.
33:42Yes, I'll try and remember that.
34:02You are having a restless night, aren't you?
34:04I'll tell you why.
34:06What do you do when you're not on the crock special?
34:10Live at home with my parents.
34:13Your husband doing his bit, is he?
34:16He's been a prisoner of war since Singapore.
34:18Oh.
34:20Makes it seem a long while then, eh?
34:23Yes, makes it seem a very long while.
34:27I'd better take this back, couldn't I?
34:31Allow me.
34:51Court-martial for you tomorrow.
34:53Sleeping?
34:55Watch.
34:57What time is it?
34:59Time little girls are in bed.
35:06Night-night, love.
35:09Good night.
35:10Oh, Tony.
35:12Oh, hello, Father.
35:14I'll remain here and wait for you.
35:16OK.
35:24I'll come and see you when you're in bed.
35:26I'll be waiting for you, Father.
35:28I'll be waiting for you.
35:30I'll be waiting for you.
35:32I'll be waiting for you.
35:34I'm not going to be late for bed.
35:36I'll be waiting for you, Father.
35:38I'll be waiting for you.
35:40How long have you been awake?
35:41Off and on.
35:42What time is it?
35:44It's just off two.
35:46Do you want anything?
35:48I forgot to congratulate you.
35:50You've been promoted, haven't you?
35:51Oh, yes.
35:53Yes, I have.
35:54Yes, I won't pretend I noticed.
35:56Jenny told me.
35:58Oh.
36:00Perhaps you thought you were seeing double, then.
36:03Tony.
36:05I want to talk to you.
36:07It's important.
36:08Father, you'd better get some sleep.
36:10Don't turn your back on me when I say I want to...
36:15For God's sake.
36:27Who's there?
36:29Who is it?
36:31It's me, Sarge.
36:34Just checking he's all right, sister.
36:36OK, thanks.
36:40Thank you, Parker.
36:55He's got the idea he's met me before.
36:58Who?
36:59The Sarge.
37:01And all from The Voice.
37:02It's me public school accent, you know.
37:05Has he met you somewhere before?
37:08Well, it's hard to tell with fellas.
37:10They all look the same, don't they?
37:13Not like women.
37:15Every woman I've ever met,
37:17there's always been something.
37:20Mostly, it's in the eyes.
37:24Sometimes it says,
37:26keep off.
37:28Sometimes it says, don't believe me,
37:30even though I'm saying keep off.
37:36What I am,
37:38or what I'm supposed to be,
37:40says,
37:42keep off.
37:59Story,
38:01I want you to get George Askew here in the morning.
38:04There's something I've neglected to do.
38:06It's been on my mind for some time.
38:08I just haven't got round to it.
38:10I'll give him a ring.
38:12What do you want me to tell him?
38:13I want to make a new will.
38:15Oh, Father.
38:16Now, you don't have to say anything.
38:18I'm a sick man and I know it.
38:20The fact is, the one that's in force at the moment is this.
38:24Well, it's not as much in your favour as I want it to be,
38:27let's put it like that.
38:28I don't care, Father.
38:30Perhaps you don't,
38:32but I do care.
38:34You'll do it for me, won't you?
38:36Yes, if that's what you want, I'll do it.
38:40Even if I knew I was going to be running round like a spring lamb this time next week,
38:45I'd still want it.
38:47At least I can put that straight between us.
38:51Other things aren't so easily put right, are they?
38:55What other things?
38:58I'm the sort of man your grandfather wanted me to be.
39:02He wanted me to be the same sort of man as himself,
39:06and that's what I am.
39:08I couldn't say the same for you, could I?
39:10Father, you're talking too much.
39:12I have things to say.
39:15Things that I've been carrying around with me for years.
39:18If you shut me up now, Tony, they'll never get said.
39:23Oh, I'm not being critical, lad.
39:26Not of you, that is.
39:28There were times when I should have said no to my father.
39:33Times when I knew I should say no,
39:36but I didn't.
39:38That's the family failing, it seems.
39:40Oh, not with you.
39:41Oh, you didn't say no.
39:43You just left the room.
39:45It comes to the same thing.
39:47The only trouble was it made for a lot of unfinished conversations.
39:52My conversations with my father always went on till the end.
39:59It might have been better if they hadn't.
40:02Pass me a glass of water, would you?
40:04Yes, of course.
40:09It was the best day of my life when you were born.
40:13Does that surprise you?
40:15Yes.
40:17It's true.
40:18Your first five years on this earth were as good as I could make them.
40:22I spoilt you to death.
40:24Until father pointed out to me what I was doing.
40:27What were you doing?
40:29He told me I was ruining you.
40:31That's how he put it.
40:33He was right in a way, of course.
40:36Was he?
40:37I was overdoing it.
40:39I've always had a tendency to overdo things.
40:43When he told me and I saw his point,
40:46I overdid it the other way.
40:50You've never forgiven me for that, have you?
40:58I'm not quite sure I understand.
41:00Spoiling you was my way of showing you that I cared about you.
41:06When I stopped, I suppose you must have thought I'd stopped caring.
41:12Yes, I see that now.
41:14I didn't entirely see it then.
41:16And of course you started coming back at me.
41:20And I had to lay it on a bit harder.
41:24You've been coming back at me ever since, haven't you?
41:28Father...
41:32Why didn't you tell me all this before?
41:34I dare say a lot of things aren't said in this life that should be said.
41:41Because people leave the room.
41:44Perhaps.
41:47Anyway...
41:49I've said it now.
42:06Are they all asleep?
42:08Yes, sister.
42:10You'd better come and see me again before we get in.
42:13Yes, sister. I'll do that.
42:28Parker.
42:30All present and correct, Sarge.
42:32I ought to have recognised that voice.
42:34Why were you put in here with me?
42:36Oh, nothing personal.
42:38I was next door with a bloke called Malley when I got on his wick.
42:42Politics.
42:44I bet that doesn't surprise you, eh?
42:46Not particularly.
42:48He's a commie.
42:50I told him he wanted his head looking into.
42:52Not as idealistic as you once were.
42:54Chugged him a party card.
42:56I couldn't care less.
42:59You used to be interested.
43:01All you're saying is that you deserted as well.
43:04Saw through the party bullshit, that's all.
43:06And nobody shot you in the back.
43:10That was war.
43:12I believed I was right.
43:17Wasn't I right?
43:20What are you looking for, Parker?
43:22Absolution?
43:24It wasn't me, teacher. My Uncle Joe said I had to.
43:26Well, it wasn't Stalin that shot Norton. It was you.
43:28Then you tried to kill me.
43:30Are you going to tell people that?
43:32It's your word against mine. You know that, don't you?
43:35All the others are dead. You know that, don't you?
43:37Rust isn't. I had a letter from him six months ago.
43:39Who's going to believe a little run like Rust without you to back him up?
43:43Are you threatening me, Parker?
43:49When you shot Norton,
43:51he wasn't deserting.
43:53He just turned his back on something that didn't make sense anymore.
43:56You're the real deserter, Parker.
43:58You follow the nearest flag, don't you?
44:00You're at it again, aren't you, lad?
44:02Words.
44:03Well, in the end, that's all there is, Parker. Words.
44:07Rust was a mate of mine till you got at him.
44:09We're all mates. Look at us now.
44:12You're going to say nothing.
44:17I'm going to get some sleep.
44:20I was a sitting target last time, Parker.
44:22This time, even more so.
44:24You watch it, Ashton.
44:25You wouldn't have the guts, Parker. Not twice.
44:27You haven't got the party to back you up this time.
44:29Don't bet on it, Ashton.
44:33What are you going to do?
44:36You murdered a man, Parker.
44:38So what are you going to do?
44:39I'm going to get some sleep.
44:44I won't speak to you, Ashton.
44:45I'm turning my back on you, Parker.
44:48I want to speak to you, Ashton!
44:53Hmm.
44:57Hmm.
44:58What do you mean, hmm?
45:01Do up the buttons.
45:20What are you doing up?
45:21Well, it is morning, isn't it?
45:23It's what some people might call morning.
45:25You should have stayed in bed.
45:26Yeah, well, there seemed to be an awful lot of opening and closing of doors.
45:29Oh, the doctor's come.
45:31He's up with him now.
45:32Oh, isn't he a better?
45:34It looks like a remarkable recovery to me.
45:37Oh?
45:38Heart flutter.
45:39Can be alarming, man of your dad's age.
45:42Aye.
45:44We'll see what the specialist has to say.
45:46I think he'll say the same as me.
45:49Originates in the stomach.
45:52Mine's in this...
45:53The stomach?
45:54Aye.
45:55Aye.
45:58Well, it got you a spot of leave, didn't it?
46:01Well, yes, I suppose it did.
46:03Aye.
46:05There you are.
46:06Give that to Mrs. Wattet.
46:08She'll see to it for you.
46:09Thank you very much.
46:10Now, I'll let myself out.
46:13Yes.
46:16Morning.
46:17Good morning.
46:19Morning.
46:24Well, what did the doctor say?
46:27Wind.
46:28Wind?
46:29Originates in the stomach, he says.
46:31Subject to confirmation, which he seemed to suppose would be forthcoming.
46:34Oh, well, that's nice, isn't it?
46:36A relief, I mean.
46:39Well, it means we can go back together anyway.
46:41You're coming back today?
46:42Well, it put Rupert in a spot letting me come in the first place.
46:45Least I can do is go back now I'm not needed here.
46:48Well, I think I'll go back to bed for a bit.
46:54Are you tired?
47:00Yes.
47:03Well, could be.
47:33Tony?
47:34Is that you?
47:41Father?
47:42Did he leave a prescription?
47:44Yes, I've given it to Mrs. Foster.
47:46How are you feeling?
47:47Oh, I'll feel even better when I've seen that specialist chap.
47:51You're going to be all right, Father?
47:53Yes, I think so.
47:54Mind you, he wasn't at all sure in the first place, was he?
47:59Well, I'm going to go and get some sleep and then we'll be off before lunchtime.
48:02Off?
48:03Well, Jenny has to get back anyway today and I've promised the skipper I'd get back as soon as I could.
48:08Ah, I see. Another short visit, eh?
48:11I'll ring George Askew before I go.
48:14Askew?
48:15Yes, what you said last night, remember? About the will.
48:18Oh, that! Oh, you needn't be worrying yourself about that.
48:21I'll get around to that in God's good time.
48:25Life's too short to be worrying about wills, isn't it?
48:35Parker?
48:36It's me, sister.
48:38Is he here?
48:39No, he's not.
48:40Are we there then? London?
48:42That and another 15 minutes?
48:46Cigarette?
48:47Oh, please.
48:54Light coming?
48:58Hold still.
49:03Thanks.
49:08He says you think you've met him somewhere once before.
49:12I've met him somewhere once before.
49:15Does he?
49:17Have you?
49:19Yes, we met in Spain. Another war.
49:23I wonder where he got his politics from.
49:26You'll swear we didn't, of course.
49:29Why should he?
49:30Oh, he has his reasons.
49:34And you're not telling?
49:36No.
49:38Something you could have got him into trouble about, you mean?
49:42Possibly.
49:43That must be why, then.
49:45Why what?
49:49Look, the MPs will probably want to talk to you when we get in.
49:53MPs?
49:55Parker jumped off the train when we stopped about half an hour ago.
49:58He's a fool.
50:00He needs his insulin.
50:03Don't worry about Parker.
50:05He'll get his insulin.
50:07He's what is known as a born survivor.
50:11Yes.
50:13I know what you mean.
50:18We went through a bad time together in Spain.
50:21But it was private.
50:23Wouldn't have made sense to anybody else.
50:27I wasn't going to say anything.
50:36Lennon, Morgan and Davis, get them up.
50:39Make sure they're over the kit.
50:41I'll be in in ten minutes.
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