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01:00Come on, you.
01:12Oh, uh...
01:14The other way, I think.
01:16What?
01:18We're caught in couple.
01:19Just follow me.
01:20I'm going to have a peek.
01:21Barbara!
01:22Oh, hello.
01:27It's a lovely day, isn't it?
01:31I think it might well rain.
01:33I see.
01:39Oh, what embarrassed you?
01:41The fact that he outranks you.
01:44Oh, come on.
01:44Or that they're such an odd couple.
01:47It isn't just lovely young things like you and I that do it, you know?
01:51The whole world does it.
01:52Bill, it was one of your nice things.
02:00What was?
02:01Well, when you were embarrassed just now, I felt...
02:05You felt what?
02:07Well, quite warm towards you, shall we say.
02:11Your old pop's terribly rich, isn't he?
02:16Excessively well-off might be more accurate.
02:17I suppose you had a smashing time before the war.
02:27Not really.
02:28And I've had a very quiet war.
02:31Yeah, well, any day now, you and the Russians will get your second front.
02:35And then you'll have nothing to grouse about, will you?
02:46Careful.
02:47Will you miss me when I've gone?
02:57I know it's a conventional question.
03:01But I'm a conventional sort of person.
03:05Well, I'd better give you a conventional answer, then.
03:08Yes, of course I'll miss you.
03:10The whole village will miss you.
03:13They'll miss all of you.
03:15Yeah, they've had a very quiet war, too, you know.
03:17The odd hit-and-miss raid, a few dogfights away in the distance, and then along come you lot.
03:25Training for the big event.
03:26Excitement all round, and new friends.
03:31And then off you go again, and all that's left is silence.
03:37The old routine.
03:39Two months of excitement in a long, grey war.
03:43I feel as if I've known you a lot longer than two months.
03:47Do you?
03:49Well, come on, it's going to rain.
03:51I'll race you to the hut.
03:52Who says it's going to rain?
03:58I do.
03:59Sorry to trouble you on a Saturday, Edwin.
04:01I was hoping to get you at the works last night, where I got held up at the shop.
04:05Taking your coat off, or aren't you stopping?
04:07Yes, well, I could do, I suppose.
04:09I could do.
04:11Here, Helen's gone to see Mother's grave.
04:13They've got the stone finished at last.
04:14Oh, good.
04:22Have you heard from Tony at all?
04:26No.
04:28Should I have?
04:30Oh, well, the end's in sight.
04:33The end?
04:34Any day now, they'll be landing in France.
04:36We're all waiting for it, and we know it's going to happen.
04:38Oh, the end of the war.
04:40Wasn't quite sure which end you had in mind for the moment.
04:42I thought you were going to see Tony, to get his vote on selling the works.
04:47His opinion, Edwin.
04:48His opinion.
04:49Oh.
04:50And you and I together.
04:52I wouldn't do anything behind your back.
04:53Thank you, Sefton.
04:55If he hadn't been moved, it'd be done undusted by now.
04:58I can't seem to get to grips with him.
05:00His letters never mention the subject.
05:02He hasn't even given me a telephone number I can ring.
05:04Well, if he's involved in the second front, he's probably not allowed to.
05:07His address gives nothing away.
05:08Care of the GPO.
05:09Sefton, the Germans aren't going to put out the welcome mat,
05:11when we try to land in Europe.
05:13The lad might be going to action any time now.
05:17He might just have other things on his mind.
05:22I'm not given to anticipating that sort of trouble, Edwin.
05:24I'm not a very imaginative man, perhaps.
05:28It's in the lad's own interest, you know,
05:29and yours too, as I keep trying to point out.
05:31I'm afraid we're never likely to agree on that one.
05:35But anyway,
05:36how is this going to eat?
05:38Would you like to join me?
05:40He'll be at the mercy of my cooking.
05:41I think I might risk it.
05:44It gets very lonely in that damned house when Helen's away.
05:49Yeah, I think that'll be enough, sir.
05:53It's time we were off, anyway.
05:55It's the rush.
05:57Oh, exactly.
05:59We've got years ahead of us.
06:02Have we?
06:03It'd be nice to think so, wouldn't it?
06:08Nice, but not very practical.
06:13Yeah, there have always been a long series of short-term relationships for me.
06:19Yeah, for you too, I suppose.
06:20Yes, in a way.
06:28Some longer than others.
06:31Yes, some longer than others.
06:33You meet people.
06:37You get to know them.
06:39And then the war drags them away.
06:42There's nothing you can do about it.
06:44Sometimes you write,
06:46and then eventually the letters stop coming,
06:48and you wonder why.
06:50And then there's someone else.
06:53Like me.
06:55Like you.
06:56Like me.
07:04But it's different for women.
07:07I mean,
07:08you look at the barbed wire out there,
07:11and what does it say to you?
07:14I know what it says to me.
07:17Being a woman,
07:18I see a time when it won't be there.
07:21When people won't care,
07:23or even remember what happened here.
07:27Yeah, and we'll be older.
07:29And not very much wiser.
07:40Look, I'm all messed up again.
07:47Kilroy was here.
07:50Yeah, where is he now?
07:51I wonder.
07:51All my stockings are all falling down.
07:57I don't have to look.
08:00God, you're right.
08:02Sometimes you behave like a prude,
08:05and other times...
08:07And at other times,
08:08like an abandoned woman.
08:11Is that what you were going to say?
08:13No.
08:16Well, perhaps I am an abandoned woman.
08:18Supposing I told you I was an abandoned woman.
08:23Wouldn't believe you.
08:26And if I gave you the proof?
08:29Wouldn't care.
08:32What are you doing?
08:33T.B.
08:38Loves B.D.
08:47Come on, I want to show you something.
08:48I want to show you something.
09:06Paper's arrived.
09:07Good Lord.
09:08I thought we were cut off from all such luxuries
09:11until after the great event.
09:12When they're ready to save for France,
09:15you won't be able to ring up your mother.
09:18Well, we know, won't we?
09:20It's all the jellies that they keep their tabs on these.
09:23Do you think there are any spies around?
09:27It's good as you should say that.
09:29I've been a very suspicious-looking bloke in the bar
09:31the last couple of nights.
09:32He's a non-conformist minister from town.
09:36He has to come this far out
09:37before he dares to have a drink.
09:39I talked to him last night.
09:42I've opened up, although I...
09:43Who's being my handmaiden tonight?
09:45You or Barbara?
09:46Oh, uh...
09:47She's out with that naval fellow of hers.
09:50She did say something about bringing him back.
09:54Huh?
09:56Usual ritual?
09:58I suppose so.
09:59I hope it's the bloody last.
10:04I'm not sure I can stand much more of this.
10:06She's a fine girl.
10:08It demeans her.
10:09It's the way she copes with it.
10:13She...
10:13It demeans her.
10:17Well, here we are, then.
10:19I want you to meet Teddy and Dora.
10:23I've met them already in the bar.
10:25No, I mean meet them properly.
10:26You make them sound like parents.
10:30Well, they are, in a way.
10:37They lost their son over Germany six months ago.
10:41It was his second trip.
10:43It wasn't a boring war for him.
10:46It was too short to be boring.
10:48So don't talk about boring wars, eh?
10:51Yes, all right, all right.
10:52Well, they're sitting there and have five inches of tepid water.
10:57So he says, excuse me, sir.
11:01A first bath for a week.
11:07They can't do any wrong with him, you know.
11:10They're all his allied in different uniforms.
11:12It's all about the, you know, the animal in the ball.
11:17You know, that one...
11:18Oh, yes!
11:19That's amazing.
11:19Ah, look on that.
11:27Hello.
11:28I didn't expect you back quite so soon.
11:30Oh, it's just a flying ticket.
11:32We're going to eat down the road.
11:33Oh, not down to the hard tack yet.
11:35You know, you don't have to eat down the road.
11:36Yes, we do.
11:38Saves your coupons, anyway.
11:40This is Tony.
11:41Dora Martin, my landlady and friend.
11:44Oh, we have already met him.
11:46Yes, it seems we're expected to do it officially.
11:49I'm very pleased to meet you.
11:50The same here.
11:51Is Stevie asleep yet?
11:53Yes, I put him down half an hour ago.
11:56I haven't had a peep out of him since.
11:58Well, I just go and peek at him.
12:00Talk to my friend.
12:01We're supposed to talk to each other.
12:09Yes.
12:10Yes, I gather.
12:11Won't you sit down?
12:11No, no, no.
12:15You're supposed to ask me who Stevie is.
12:20She'll be back in a moment.
12:22If you haven't done a bolt, she'll assume that you're still interested.
12:27So if you're going to bolt, I suggest you do it now.
12:31A cigarette.
12:34No, thank you.
12:35I've given it up.
12:37You're taking this very calmly.
12:39I suppose she hasn't already told you that she has a son.
12:48She hasn't even told me that she's married.
12:52A typical assumption of people of our class, isn't it?
12:55What is?
12:56That you have to be married to have a son.
13:01I see.
13:13Just the end product of what they call a wartime romance.
13:16Why didn't she tell me herself?
13:25Well, it's never very easy to understand how other people's minds work.
13:29And her parents are very strict, very religious people.
13:32I think that could be at the root of it.
13:34They don't know.
13:36They're in Guernsey.
13:38She was evacuated just before the Nazis moved in.
13:40I think she has visions of going back with a child and a father.
13:47I'll put it to you bluntly.
13:49She has had disappointments.
13:52So as I said before, if you're going, go now.
13:57And the father?
13:58Well, I think that's between you and her, don't you?
14:15Oh.
14:17Do you know what I envy most?
14:19Your grandchildren.
14:20If there's any immortality for you and me, that's where it is.
14:25Not your religion.
14:27I could never make much sense of religion.
14:29But the seed passing on.
14:31That's where your immortality lies.
14:33Flesh and blood, Edwin.
14:34Oh, you'll be a grandfather yourself one of these days.
14:37I can't see any signs of it.
14:38It's not all roses, you know.
14:39Well, Joe's going to be too old for it by the time this lot's over.
14:42Well, she's only 25.
14:44Yes, well, that gives her five years at the most.
14:47Once they pass 30.
14:49Fatal sticks.
14:50Nonsense.
14:51There's still chickens at 30 these days.
14:53Only to old cops like you and me.
14:55Not to the young books that want to get married.
14:58Now, if Tony would get stuck into it and make me a grandfather,
15:01there might be some sense in putting money into the works.
15:03Insurance for immortality, Sefton.
15:06It'll be my money, Edwin.
15:07My money.
15:08Nobody else's.
15:09It'll be somebody else's hard work.
15:19Why didn't you tell me?
15:40Oh, you know.
15:44Because you thought I'd do a bunk?
15:46No.
15:49Well, now I've been told, here I am.
15:54Still hanging around, making a nuisance of myself.
16:00Well, you don't have to.
16:04You are perverse, aren't you?
16:05Well, you don't have to.
16:08That's all.
16:09Well, does it signify anything that I am?
16:12Well, that you're broad-minded.
16:16Or on the make.
16:17I mean, I could always back out later, couldn't I?
16:26Was that running through your mind?
16:29Well, no.
16:31I don't believe you.
16:34You don't have to.
16:41Why don't you trust me?
16:43Trust?
16:45What's trust?
16:46I don't know anything about trust.
17:01Who was he?
17:03Do we have to?
17:07Sometime or other.
17:10May as well get it over.
17:16He came from quite near where I live.
17:25He was in Paris, before the war.
17:29At a bank.
17:32We had the bank in common.
17:34And we both spoke French.
17:38There's something we didn't have in common.
17:41He was Jewish.
17:41Well, that's not a complete barrier, is it?
17:46Isn't it?
17:48He ought to try it sometime.
17:51But even if it wasn't,
17:53the other thing was.
17:56He was married already.
17:59His family were in Paris.
18:02He got out,
18:03but they didn't.
18:05They're still there.
18:06Has he heard from them?
18:13Well, he didn't for a long time.
18:17Not until after the baby, in fact.
18:21He thought they were dead.
18:22And then he...
18:26He heard through someone else
18:28that they were still alive.
18:30And he...
18:31He stopped being him anymore.
18:34The man I knew, I mean, he...
18:37He became someone else.
18:40Belonging to someone else.
18:44I expect we'd have broken up anyway,
18:47but we were saved by the army.
18:50They sent him to Italy.
18:55He writes.
18:57He sends money.
19:01It's the baby he thinks of.
19:05The baby and the others in France.
19:14Anything else you want to know?
19:17No.
19:20Nothing else.
19:28I think you'll find out to do you good.
19:31Yeah.
19:40Artem?
19:41Teddy?
19:43Dora?
19:44Well, when do you think it'll be?
20:02Well, Eisenhower hasn't confided in me personally.
20:07But the grapevine says next week.
20:09Come on.
20:12It's time to go.
20:14Is it?
20:16Yes, it is.
20:17It is.
20:17Sorry to have to leave you, Tim.
20:38The bar gets a bit crowded at this time.
20:40What?
20:40Did you see Stevie?
20:42Yes, I saw him.
20:43Well, it seems a long time.
20:47Yeah.
20:49They brought me back from Italy for the Second Front.
20:52Interpreter.
20:53My fluent French, you know.
20:56I'm attached to the signals unit on the South Cliff.
20:58Yes, I thought it might be something like that.
21:01How is she?
21:03Oh, she's fine.
21:04The boy looks well.
21:06He is.
21:07He gets a lot of attention from all of us.
21:10I'm glad she stayed with you.
21:13Where else would she stay?
21:17Excuse me.
21:21So you're going to France?
21:24Yes, I'm going to France.
21:26Have you heard any more from your family over there?
21:30Not since the message I had when I was here to say they were alive.
21:34I have great hopes that I shall find them, Dora.
21:38My family.
21:40One of your families.
21:50Dora was down near the beach this afternoon.
21:52Oh, yeah.
21:53Yes, she saw us.
21:55She saw the commander, too.
21:57The woman he was with is the wife of the local squire.
22:02And he's away at the front, I suppose.
22:04You disapprove?
22:06No, I don't disapprove.
22:08I don't know.
22:10Anyway, when this lot's over, they'll probably go their separate ways.
22:15Look, do you mind if I don't ask you to come in?
22:17No.
22:18No.
22:20No.
22:21Not if I can see you tomorrow.
22:24You want to?
22:25Really?
22:27I want to.
22:29Really.
22:30Well, you may call for me, sir.
22:37Toughly much.
22:38Well, good night, young lover.
22:41Now you're laughing at me.
22:43No.
22:43No, I'm not really.
22:45I never had a young lover before.
22:47Come on, then.
22:55Hey, Teddy.
23:00I can see no beer in here.
23:01I'm sorry, Jackson.
23:02Let me down again.
23:03Yeah, come on.
23:05Well, Tim.
23:0713 times.
23:08Oh, we've run out of beer.
23:10This is a damn transport situation.
23:12I can't get everything around here except to stop me and buy one, Logan.
23:15He hasn't gotten it.
23:17It's roll out the bullets these days.
23:19The hell with roll out the barrel?
23:20Well, they've obviously had enough anyway.
23:22Enough.
23:23They can't have enough.
23:25Some of them aren't going to have any more of anything, sir.
23:28Mr. God, I was going with them.
23:33Do you?
23:34I know.
23:35I know.
23:36It's easy to say for a middle-aged bloke who doesn't have to.
23:40I mean it.
23:42Since they've been here, I've felt one of them.
23:48It's like drinking in a club without being a member.
23:52You want to join, but you're over the age limit.
23:55But you've seen you've had it.
23:56And you're one of the chaps, Teddy, who's got to shape the post-war world.
24:01You mean it?
24:02Fat chance I'll have a shaping anything.
24:05Complaining about the gravity of the beers about my barrel.
24:08It's a function?
24:09Oh, yes.
24:09It's a function like having a pee.
24:13I hope they knock the car out of the jellies.
24:17And not just what they did to the boy, but it's what they did to me and Dora.
24:24The sun won't be, Tim.
24:26The sun went in, but it's never come out again.
24:31Yes.
24:33I know.
24:34I came to see the boy.
24:56Anyway, I found out where he is.
25:02I thought you said you didn't know.
25:04How'd you manage that, anyway?
25:06Well, he said he'd met young Ogden in his last letter.
25:08His father's in the Chamber of Commerce.
25:10I rang him up last night.
25:11He knew where his son was.
25:13Mine couldn't bring himself to tell me.
25:14Well, only because he'd be keeping to the security regulations.
25:18Well, I'm not a fifth columnist, am I?
25:20He could be, for all I know.
25:22Oh, you will have your little joke, won't you, Edwin?
25:29Anyway, what are you going to do?
25:31Now you do know, in the first place, he'd have a job getting there.
25:34In the second place, if he got there, they wouldn't let you see him.
25:39Where is it, anyway?
25:40Have you got a map?
25:41Uh, yes, I've got an old school atlas of Phillips that I've followed the news with.
25:47Through here.
25:53Ah, here it is.
25:57Here we are.
25:58Ah, if you must.
26:01Personally, I'd leave well alone if I was you.
26:04Which I'm not, of course.
26:05Oh, what are these arrows in ink off, off the coast of France?
26:13Eh?
26:14Oh, yes, they're my pincer movement.
26:18Huh?
26:19You see, a landing there, and a landing there,
26:21joined up near the side of the Rhine, about there.
26:24That's designed to wipe out the enemy in about two weeks flat.
26:28Any guys now might be interested.
26:30A landing there?
26:31Mm-hmm.
26:32Well, now, what's the point of a landing there?
26:34Well, it's the right sort of conditions for a landing.
26:36I've got a book out of the library that proves it.
26:38What?
26:39I've got my landing there.
26:42What, you've got a landing?
26:43Well, there.
26:45But the cliffs would be against you,
26:47it'd be like climbing beachy head.
26:49And the last place they'd expect you to land.
26:51Have you ever heard of the heights of Quebec?
26:54Now, on my map, you come in here,
26:57and you land there.
26:59Early morning, with the sun in their eyes.
27:04Oh, no bloody papers again.
27:12Must you wander round like that?
27:15Supposing Barbara came in.
27:17Oh, she knows what it's all about, then, won't she?
27:19What?
27:20Marriage love, in the long term.
27:22You might at least put your teeth in.
27:24Mm, they're in.
27:26Oh.
27:26Well, what happened last night?
27:31You talked to Barbara, didn't you?
27:33I went to bed, didn't I?
27:34Didn't you talk to Tim?
27:36Yeah, I talked to him.
27:38So, what did he say?
27:40Nothing of any significance.
27:43So, who's she going out with today?
27:45What do you mean?
27:47Well, Tim, with the other chap.
27:48Or isn't that on anymore?
27:50I think so.
27:52He told you?
27:53I could tell.
27:55Woman's intuition, huh?
27:56Maybe.
27:59Well, what's going to happen?
28:00Say they do get married.
28:01In a few years, when the infighting starts,
28:03who's going to have the biggest brick to throw?
28:05What's the kitty going to get out of it?
28:07Father?
28:08Security?
28:10Well, it's the kids that hold a marriage together
28:11in the long run.
28:13And that means your own flesh and blood,
28:15not somebody else's.
28:16So, what's holding our marriage together?
28:20Oh, we're...
28:21We're long in the tooth, Dora.
28:23Besides, we get on.
28:27You mean I make the effort?
28:29Something along those lines.
28:32I shall come and see the boy, you know.
28:36And I shall continue the money.
28:38When you say that, I want to say,
28:41please don't trouble.
28:43Very coldly and politely.
28:46But I need it, at the moment.
28:49It's your right.
28:52Tim.
28:53Is that how you think of me?
28:56As someone to be done right by?
28:59No, that's not how I think of you.
29:03It's funny, isn't it?
29:06You and I were such...
29:08such moral people, really.
29:10And here we are, as we are.
29:14I shall write to you, you know, when I get there.
29:18It's the time you've been waiting for, isn't it?
29:21Yes, it is.
29:23It's in my own way.
29:25I do understand.
29:26Yes, I know you do.
29:31Someone, a...
29:32a friend, says maybe it'll be next week.
29:36Maybe.
29:37He's glad he's going.
29:40He hasn't seen much action.
29:42He was afraid they were going to finish the war without him.
29:45Is he a regular friend?
29:48I may decide to marry him.
29:53It probably depends on whether he asks me.
29:56What's George grossing about?
29:59He'll be glad when they've all gone.
30:00He's been here fortunate with his lads.
30:02I know what I'd do.
30:04I'd strap him to the prior of the first ship in.
30:06No, no, no, no.
30:06I don't shake or go back.
30:07Oh, I'm sorry, but it gets you up there.
30:11Is Barbara in?
30:13Oh, no, Tony.
30:14She's gone for a walk.
30:15What's she expecting you?
30:16No, no, not until later.
30:18It's all right.
30:18I know where she usually goes.
30:23Well, the kitty hasn't put him off.
30:26We'll see how he reacts to the father.
30:33We're on exercises this afternoon.
30:35I might see you again before I go.
30:36You'd like to see Stephen, I expect.
30:39I'd like to see you both.
30:41How formal we are with each other.
30:44You know why.
30:47I ever think of those days when we weren't so formal?
30:51Yes.
30:53Yes, I do.
31:06Tony was right.
31:11How unlikely they are.
31:15We'll be unlikely one day.
31:17If it ever happened even.
31:18You will write to me?
31:25Yes.
31:27If I don't see you again,
31:30then I hope you find them.
31:32That's my present to you.
31:34My sincere hope.
31:36When I took you away from them,
31:38I'd give you back to them.
31:40No.
31:40I took myself away.
31:45I have to give myself back.
32:00Morning.
32:01Morning.
32:01Morning.
32:01Friend?
32:11Stephen's father.
32:17Oh.
32:17And they brought him back from Italy
32:19for the second front.
32:23So he came to see you?
32:24Oh, he came to see Stephen,
32:25not me.
32:28Well, I...
32:29I didn't know.
32:31I wasn't spying.
32:32I pinched a couple of bars
32:35about a multi-time.
32:35I wanted to talk.
32:39It's our friends.
32:41Hmm?
32:42The unlikely people.
32:44They passed us earlier on.
32:46They seemed happy.
32:49It is a happy war
32:50for some people, isn't it?
32:57What on earth are they doing?
32:58What is it?
33:02They're on the other side
33:03of the wire.
33:04They're in the minefield.
33:05Tony.
33:07Tony, they know!
33:10Stop!
33:13Stop!
33:20Come back!
33:23Please, come back!
33:32Please, come back!
33:41Let's go.
34:11Let's go.
34:41The correspondent at Schaaf says that the landings are being made in Normandy.
34:45The Germans who have been broadcasting news of the attack on all their services except their own home service
34:50say that the points of sale extend from...
34:53I know you've got some fags under the counter.
34:57I'll tell you, Teddy, since we'll never meet again, I can spot them in the mirror up there.
35:05Hey, wake up.
35:07Aren't you listening to the news?
35:09Half and half.
35:11The important airfield at Caen has been one of the main targets for Eastern Allied airs.
35:15There have been no reports of enemy air activity on...
35:23Quiet, isn't it?
35:25Hmm.
35:27Now we've got to get used to it, haven't we?
35:30In a couple of years, you won't know that we're here.
35:33A few lumps of concrete and the sand.
35:37Won't be long before we got the trippers back.
35:40Everything back to normal.
35:42Everything back to normal.
35:47Yes, sir?
35:47Oh, good evening.
35:48My name's Briggs.
35:49I rang you from Liverpool.
35:50Oh, yes, Briggs.
35:51We've got your room ready.
35:52We've come to see your son.
35:54Oh, you know him?
35:55Yes, we do.
35:56Yes, they sent me a telegram.
35:58I'd been hoping to see him anyway, but I never expected anything like this.
36:02It's taken us nearly two days to get here, eh, Edwin?
36:04Yes, it has.
36:06Have you heard how he is?
36:08It's only a flesh wound, sir.
36:09He was fortunate.
36:10That's what they said when I rang.
36:12Yeah, lucky to get through, I suppose.
36:14The things we put up with in wartime.
36:23Yes, sir.
36:25Well, they're keeping the place as empty as possible for casualties.
36:29That's why they're clearing me out the day after tomorrow.
36:31Should be able to stooge around with my little stick like a wounded bloody hero.
36:35Now, don't get a chip about it.
36:37It wasn't exactly cowardly what you did.
36:39Yeah, they had the funeral yesterday.
36:43Yes, I know.
36:44And I went.
36:47I felt I knew them, in a way.
36:50Her husband was there and a woman I took to be his wife.
36:54Yes, I wonder if they thought about the pain they'd be leaving behind them.
37:02Oh, well, that's love, I suppose.
37:04Is it?
37:05Barbara.
37:06Look, if you fall off that bed, you'll be here this time next week.
37:08You've come to see me before.
37:10Well, perhaps I thought you wouldn't want to see me.
37:13If there's any doubt around here, it's not in my mind.
37:15You know that.
37:16Now, don't make yourself vulnerable.
37:18I am vulnerable.
37:19Well, then don't be.
37:21And don't be quixotic.
37:22It's not going to do anybody any favours.
37:26Quixotic?
37:26Yes, about me and my baby.
37:29Don't get stuck on the idea that I'm a poor, friendless little thing in a cold, hard world.
37:35Because you are a bit, aren't you?
37:39I want to look after you, yes.
37:42I want to be looked after.
37:45When I'm tired.
37:48And when I feel there's no future.
37:51When I worry about what's going to happen to Stevie.
37:56Is that how you see yourself?
37:59As a provider?
38:02Not totally.
38:04You know, when I was a girl in Guernsey, I couldn't wait to throw off the chains.
38:13Do you?
38:14Ever?
38:18And all I can think of now is the pain I'll cause them when I go there with my baby.
38:23You could go there with me.
38:25What would your father say to that?
38:27What the devil's it got to do with him?
38:28But he's coming to see you.
38:30I answered the phone when he rang the pub.
38:32Well, he can mind his own damn business.
38:34What do we do, Sefton?
38:37Toss for sides.
38:38Well, I know there's a war on, but this is nonsense.
38:41Well, it's either that or the floor.
38:42And I don't fancy the floor, frankly.
38:44You kick.
38:46I'm a very quiet sleeper.
38:48How do you know?
38:49Edith always said I was.
38:51Oh, I'm afraid Jean couldn't say the same about me.
38:54Like a wild elephant, she used to say.
38:57It's a pity they couldn't see us now.
39:00Edith.
39:01Jean.
39:02This armchair looks quite comfortable, wouldn't you say?
39:05Well, you're very welcome to it, Sefton.
39:08They're bringing in the first of the casualties.
39:10I'd better go.
39:12Um, yes.
39:13I wish you'd take these back.
39:16There must be a month's sweet rash in here.
39:19Oh, it's a sacrifice.
39:21Accept it generously.
39:24Um, you'll come again?
39:25Yes, when I can.
39:27Look, Barbara.
39:27I made a proposal a few minutes ago.
39:31I haven't had an answer yet.
39:33Look, Tony, I'm a bit tired.
39:35A bit worried.
39:37I might say what you want me to say for the wrong reason.
39:41I'll be coming again.
39:43Will it wait till then?
39:46Yes, if it has to.
39:48I must go.
39:50You haven't said when you'll be coming.
39:52Tomorrow.
39:53Perhaps.
39:57Are you awake, Sefton?
40:05I'm awake.
40:07Did you find out what time visiting hours are?
40:11Sometime during the afternoon, I gather.
40:13I've asked the landlord to find out an ordered taxi.
40:16It's a couple of miles from here.
40:19Oh.
40:20But, you know, Tony.
40:22Seems there's a girl that lives in the place that's been seeing him.
40:25Oh.
40:27Doesn't he see that other one any more, then?
40:29Oh, she faded out a long time ago, more's a pity.
40:33She'd have made a good wife for him, would you, any?
40:35He doesn't know when he's well off, if you ask me.
40:38You can't feel things like that toward us, Sefton.
40:41No.
40:43Are you sure you want me to come along tomorrow?
40:46You want to put you aside of the case, don't you?
40:49You wouldn't be here otherwise.
40:51He'll think there's some jiggery-palkery about it if I go on my own.
40:54And that's the way his mind works.
40:56Well, can't we just go and see how he is and leave the other thing for the time being?
41:01Can't we just go and see him?
41:03Does it always have to be business?
41:06You're at me again, aren't you, Edwin?
41:08You think I'm a hard man, don't you?
41:10Always have done.
41:11I think you sometimes get your priorities wrong.
41:36Can you take him to morning surgery?
41:38Yes, I was going to anyway, just in case.
41:41Yeah, I dreamt about Tim last night.
41:44I dreamt he was killed.
41:47Is that my way of saying, well, if I can't have him, then neither can you?
41:50No, you wouldn't want that.
41:52No.
41:53No, I wouldn't want that.
41:56I really do want him to find what he's looking for.
42:00That must be worth something, I suppose.
42:02To want someone else's happiness as much as your own.
42:05You know, he seems fine now, but I will take him, just in case.
42:10Look at him, listening to us.
42:12You'd think he knew, wouldn't you?
42:15Are the new arrivals down yet?
42:16Oh, yes, the perky ones in the bar having breakfast, your prospect's father.
42:21My prospect.
42:22Well, I'll just go and apologize to him for making that mistake about the room
42:28and tell him what a fine son I think he has.
42:31Oh, good morning, Edwin.
42:58You sleep well?
42:59No, I didn't.
43:03Oh, I had a surprisingly good night after our little chat.
43:06The sleep of the just day.
43:08First class breakfast you'll enjoy.
43:10Sefson, I want to call it off, this visit to Tony.
43:13I want to call it off.
43:15I see.
43:15Any particular reason?
43:16You know my reasons, damn it.
43:18If your objections were the same before you started out,
43:21why in God's name did you bother to come?
43:23After 30 years of doing what you told her becomes a habit,
43:26you talked me into it.
43:28Nobody gets stalked into anything.
43:30We're all free agents.
43:31Some of us are freer than others, aren't we?
43:35I was beginning to enjoy this little trip.
43:37Then you'll probably enjoy it all the more on your own.
43:39I'm leaving it to it, Sefton.
43:43Edwin, if you walk out on me and I...
43:46Mr. Briggs?
43:47No, over there.
43:51Mr. Briggs, I came to apologize.
43:54What about the room?
43:56It was me that got the message wrong.
43:58Oh, you must be Tony's friend then.
44:01Yes.
44:02Yes.
44:03Sit down, my dear.
44:04I'm practically finished.
44:05Well, I'm due at work, actually.
44:06I just came to apologize.
44:08No harm, don't.
44:09No harm at all.
44:10And whose little chap is that, then?
44:13Oh, he's mine.
44:16Your Aunt Helen's settling down very nicely.
44:19I think she expected to find us all on our knees.
44:22It'll take more than adults to get us down at hold her.
44:24I think we all deserve a medal for what we've put up with in this war.
44:29Never mind you blokes in uniform, eh?
44:33Is that leg of yours going to put you out of it?
44:37They won't discharge me with a scratch like this.
44:40Oh, I was hoping they would.
44:42Got plans for me, Father?
44:44Well, I think it's time you started to think about your future,
44:47if that's what you mean.
44:48Everybody else is.
44:49Sister?
44:51He looks in a bad way, poor chap.
44:54Oh, for God's sake.
44:58He could probably hear you.
45:00Over there, was he?
45:02Yes, he was over there.
45:07No smoking.
45:11Well, what brings you here, then, Father?
45:14I came to see you.
45:15What else, if I choose to talk about the future?
45:17Did you come by yourself?
45:19What makes you think I didn't?
45:21Well, I heard you booked a double room, that's all.
45:24Oh, that mistake.
45:26That young friend of yours at the hotel.
45:29Ah, yes, you've met her.
45:30Yes, I've met her.
45:31Yes, very pleasant, very pleasant indeed.
45:33Thinks very highly of you, obviously.
45:36Not the same as Jenny, of course.
45:37I'm going to ask her to marry me.
45:45I see.
45:48Husband killed in the war, was he?
45:53She isn't married.
45:54And you take on some other man's bastard.
46:02Yes, it seems I would.
46:05One can surprise oneself sometimes.
46:07I suppose you're as in your being very noble.
46:09Oh, my motives are purely selfish.
46:19I'm sorry, Father.
46:19I know how you feel about the blood relationship.
46:25Yes, I can even see what you mean.
46:26My God, what an unlikely alliance we should be without it.
46:29Don't expect me to like the idea.
46:30Don't expect anything.
46:31And you've made up your mind.
46:33Absolutely.
46:36I see.
46:41When you get to my age,
46:43one of the little comforts you cherish
46:44is the thought of your grandchildren.
46:47You wouldn't understand that, of course.
46:48I don't propose not to have children of my own, you know.
46:50Ready-made family.
46:51You'd have to settle down, you know.
46:53You'd have to pull your horns in.
46:54I wasn't aware that they were showing.
46:56Yes.
46:58It could be a blessing, I suppose.
47:00You'll be getting leave.
47:04I imagine so.
47:05That could be a blessing.
47:07We'll talk about it later, shall we?
47:09Talk about what, Father?
47:11Your future, lad.
47:12Your future.
47:14I've been thinking about it a lot lately,
47:16and you'll need to think about it, too.
47:18Your Uncle Edwin's living in the past.
47:21Anyway, no need to talk about it now.
47:24I didn't come all this way just to talk business, did I?
47:27Didn't you?
47:28No.
47:29Well, there was a bit of an argy-bargy about some shares.
47:38Oh.
47:39It's my considered opinion that we should sell the works.
47:43Not everybody seems to have my foresight.
47:45I value your opinion.
47:48You mean I've got the casting vote?
47:50Oh, well.
47:52I'm sorry, Father.
47:53I'm not voting for anything until this lot's over.
47:55You'll have to make plans for the future.
47:56I've got to think about it.
48:02Anyway, you, uh, you didn't come here to talk business, did you?
48:05If you're going to take on a family.
48:07She hasn't said she'll have me yet.
48:09Oh, she'll have you, all right.
48:11A girl in that sort of trouble, getting her hands on a lad with your prospects.
48:15She'll have you, all right.
48:17Well, it's, it's no go.
48:23Really?
48:26Is it?
48:26I'd have thought it was.
48:32It was, it was me living in the past and you waiting for me to, to let it go.
48:42Is that what you want?
48:44A ghost around the house?
48:46I want you.
48:48I have to wait, in any case, to know what happened, to know if there's the smallest hope.
49:02I'll wait, too.
49:04Will you?
49:05I want a father for Stephen.
49:11You've got one, here.
49:13Oh, his flesh and blood.
49:16Oh.
49:19It doesn't count.
49:21It doesn't mean anything.
49:23What it does to me.
49:26It can be worse than nothing.
49:29Worse than being second best?
49:30Oh, I'm sorry.
49:39It hurt you.
49:45If he hadn't come back.
49:49He did.
49:53And those two people walked into the minefield.
49:58Yes.
50:00I told him he wouldn't have me.
50:17My father.
50:21But I hadn't tried.
50:22I was quite beyond his comprehension.
50:33Couldn't believe that you'd turned me down.
50:41I'm not very sure that I like him, you know.
50:45But you go on being his son.
50:47What does that mean, for God's sake?
50:54I don't know.
50:56It's just there.
50:58It's a...
50:58A fact of life, I suppose.
51:03When there's no one else.
51:07There's always your own flesh and blood.
51:09What you doing?
51:10What do you think?
51:10What does that mean, for God's sake?
51:10Well, I would've been to you.
51:11I don't know.
51:12I don't know.
51:13We're going to have to.
51:13We'll be there.
51:14Right now.
51:16What a drink.
51:17Why?
51:17What are you doing?
51:17I don't know.
51:17What do you think?
51:18I don't know.
51:19Come on.
51:24I don't know.
51:25I don't know.
51:26I'm not even werewolf.
51:27I don't know.
51:29What did they do?
51:30You know.
51:31What an importante family.
51:32Where are you?
51:34Who do you think?
51:35sitten, the Safe family.
51:36You know,
51:37I wonder who doesn't know how to live.