1 00:00:57,657 --> 00:01:00,593 (♪ Dramatic instrumental music playing) 2 00:02:35,989 --> 00:02:43,730 (Footsteps) 3 00:03:09,222 --> 00:03:10,357 (Clears throat) 4 00:03:14,694 --> 00:03:15,695 Good morning. 5 00:03:16,229 --> 00:03:17,497 - Morning. - Good morning. 6 00:03:17,630 --> 00:03:18,631 Good morning. 7 00:03:18,732 --> 00:03:21,568 So, here I am. All ready for battle. 8 00:03:23,203 --> 00:03:24,637 I'd better introduce you. 9 00:03:24,637 --> 00:03:27,400 This is Mr Peter Wakeling, our new colleague. 10 00:03:27,400 --> 00:03:29,342 Mr Wakeling, Mr Hart. 11 00:03:29,476 --> 00:03:31,110 - How do you do? - How do you do? 12 00:03:31,177 --> 00:03:33,130 - And Mr Rusbridger. - How do you do? 13 00:03:33,146 --> 00:03:34,681 You're eagerly awaited, Mr Wakeling. 14 00:03:34,681 --> 00:03:36,483 We've been short now, nearly two months. 15 00:03:36,483 --> 00:03:38,485 Well, I hope to make a difference. 16 00:03:38,485 --> 00:03:40,553 It may take a week or two though. 17 00:03:47,494 --> 00:03:48,595 Don't worry, old chap. 18 00:03:48,595 --> 00:03:51,398 This time of morning, it's a kind of rule. 19 00:03:51,398 --> 00:03:54,100 Not too much fun and laughter. Rather like church. 20 00:03:55,201 --> 00:03:56,236 Oh. 21 00:03:57,704 --> 00:03:59,539 Yes, I see what you mean. 22 00:04:09,949 --> 00:04:11,551 (Train engine hisses) 23 00:04:13,920 --> 00:04:16,560 (Train horn hooting) 24 00:04:44,718 --> 00:04:46,653 First day's always a bit nerve-racking. 25 00:04:46,786 --> 00:04:48,588 (Chuckles softly) 26 00:04:48,722 --> 00:04:50,590 - Yes. - You'll get the hang of it. 27 00:04:51,257 --> 00:04:52,392 As for these chaps here, 28 00:04:52,492 --> 00:04:53,993 they'll improve somewhat once they wake up. 29 00:04:54,127 --> 00:04:58,310 It's not us you have to worry about, Mr Wakeling. We're your pals. 30 00:04:58,164 --> 00:05:00,967 But you'll need to get on the right side of the old man. 31 00:05:01,101 --> 00:05:02,969 You mean Mr Williams? 32 00:05:04,400 --> 00:05:06,172 He seemed a decent sort at the interview. 33 00:05:06,606 --> 00:05:08,975 A little on the frosty side, perhaps. 34 00:05:13,179 --> 00:05:15,682 The truth is, I didn't really get to see too much of him. 35 00:05:15,815 --> 00:05:18,585 Well, you're about to get another chance just now. 36 00:05:18,685 --> 00:05:19,953 His station's coming up. 37 00:05:35,268 --> 00:05:37,470 (Train engine hisses) 38 00:05:47,130 --> 00:05:48,348 (Guard) Mind the doors. 39 00:05:50,160 --> 00:05:51,317 (Guard whistles) 40 00:05:51,451 --> 00:05:52,485 Is he coming in here? 41 00:05:53,720 --> 00:05:55,455 Oh, no. He never travels with us. 42 00:06:14,207 --> 00:06:15,508 Good morning, gentlemen. 43 00:06:15,709 --> 00:06:17,344 Good morning, Mr Williams. 44 00:06:22,349 --> 00:06:24,584 (♪ Pleasant music playing on the piano) 45 00:06:32,258 --> 00:06:34,260 (Hart) Come along, Mr Wakeling. 46 00:06:49,709 --> 00:06:51,845 (Indistinct chatter) 47 00:07:11,998 --> 00:07:13,633 - Good morning, Sir James - (Sir James) Hmm. 48 00:07:21,307 --> 00:07:23,910 (Typewriters clacking) 49 00:07:24,544 --> 00:07:26,790 (Phone ringing) 50 00:07:52,739 --> 00:07:56,843 Mr Rusbridger, why has this D19 come back to us? 51 00:07:57,100 --> 00:07:58,678 Mr Wright at Planning was of the view 52 00:07:58,812 --> 00:08:00,680 that a remittance certificate should be attached to it. 53 00:08:00,814 --> 00:08:02,849 (Williams) A remittance certificate can only be issued 54 00:08:02,982 --> 00:08:05,185 after the D19 is authorised. 55 00:08:05,919 --> 00:08:08,388 Yes, I tried to tell Mr Wright that, Mr Williams, 56 00:08:08,388 --> 00:08:09,923 but he simply won't have it. 57 00:08:10,230 --> 00:08:11,858 Then we can keep it here for now. 58 00:08:14,327 --> 00:08:16,290 It'll do no harm. 59 00:08:24,971 --> 00:08:27,307 Consider yourself very fortunate, Mr Wakeling. 60 00:08:27,407 --> 00:08:29,809 Bequeathed one of our tallest skyscrapers. 61 00:08:29,943 --> 00:08:31,845 Courtesy of Mr Woodward, your predecessor. 62 00:08:31,978 --> 00:08:33,546 (Phone ringing) 63 00:08:37,150 --> 00:08:38,985 (Margaret) If your skyscraper isn't very tall, 64 00:08:38,985 --> 00:08:42,389 or, God forbid, you work so fast you don't have one at all, 65 00:08:42,522 --> 00:08:45,992 people will suspect you of not having anything very important to do. 66 00:08:54,901 --> 00:08:55,902 I see. 67 00:08:58,972 --> 00:09:00,974 So here's your first rule, Mr Wakeling. 68 00:09:00,974 --> 00:09:02,275 Keep the skyscraper high. 69 00:09:03,443 --> 00:09:06,212 The ladies from Chester Street, sir. 70 00:09:06,212 --> 00:09:08,248 Please show the ladies in, Mr Singh. 71 00:09:10,517 --> 00:09:13,119 Mr Middleton, your turn, 72 00:09:13,253 --> 00:09:15,188 if you don't mind. 73 00:09:15,288 --> 00:09:16,923 Of course, Mr Williams. 74 00:09:22,562 --> 00:09:24,931 Mr Wakeling, perhaps you'd like to assist Mr Middleton 75 00:09:25,650 --> 00:09:26,933 - with the ladies. - Of course, sir. 76 00:09:31,471 --> 00:09:34,240 Ladies. How are we today? 77 00:09:35,408 --> 00:09:37,610 We were elsewhere in this building all yesterday. 78 00:09:38,144 --> 00:09:40,613 First at Parks, then at Planning... 79 00:09:40,613 --> 00:09:42,749 then at Cleansing and Sewage. 80 00:09:42,882 --> 00:09:44,551 Then just before closing yesterday, 81 00:09:44,651 --> 00:09:47,287 the gentleman said we were to bring this to you. 82 00:09:54,594 --> 00:09:56,463 Let me speak with Mr Williams. 83 00:09:57,597 --> 00:09:58,665 Just a moment. 84 00:09:59,899 --> 00:10:01,768 (Phone ringing) 85 00:10:02,936 --> 00:10:04,571 (Secretary) Public Works, how may I help? 86 00:10:05,638 --> 00:10:07,507 New here, ain't you? 87 00:10:07,507 --> 00:10:09,776 Yes. First day, actually. 88 00:10:10,410 --> 00:10:11,945 Well, you enjoy yourself, son. 89 00:10:12,912 --> 00:10:14,414 No end of entertainment you'll get here. 90 00:10:14,514 --> 00:10:15,515 Eliza. 91 00:10:15,648 --> 00:10:17,684 I'm just chatting with the young gentleman. 92 00:10:18,318 --> 00:10:22,155 Your letter and your petition are very well presented. 93 00:10:22,622 --> 00:10:24,924 We, of course, know this from before. 94 00:10:25,580 --> 00:10:28,194 However, you must first take it to Parks and Recreation 95 00:10:28,194 --> 00:10:29,629 on the third floor. 96 00:10:29,763 --> 00:10:31,664 We were there yesterday, sir. 97 00:10:31,664 --> 00:10:33,900 They even thought to offer us a bench to sit on. 98 00:10:33,900 --> 00:10:36,369 - That's how long we was there. - Eliza. 99 00:10:36,369 --> 00:10:37,637 I do apologise. 100 00:10:37,637 --> 00:10:40,440 And we don't wish you any further inconvenience. 101 00:10:40,440 --> 00:10:43,309 So, Mr Williams has suggested you be accompanied 102 00:10:43,443 --> 00:10:47,130 by a member of our staff to ensure there's no further confusion. 103 00:10:48,615 --> 00:10:49,983 (Middleton) This is Mr Wakeling. 104 00:10:52,652 --> 00:10:53,787 Oh! 105 00:10:54,287 --> 00:10:56,220 Splendid. Er ... 106 00:10:56,723 --> 00:10:59,325 Splendid. Yes, then I'll make sure, erm, 107 00:10:59,459 --> 00:11:01,394 all the confusion is... 108 00:11:02,862 --> 00:11:04,397 (Mrs McMasters) Well, that's lovely, son. 109 00:11:04,531 --> 00:11:06,700 Then you'd better hop over to our side of the fence. 110 00:11:06,700 --> 00:11:08,668 Yes, quite right. Thank you, Mr Singh. 111 00:11:08,668 --> 00:11:10,804 If you ladies would care to follow me. 112 00:11:12,872 --> 00:11:14,841 (Mrs Smith) Allow me to lead the way, Mr Wakeling. 113 00:11:14,974 --> 00:11:17,944 We're perhaps more familiar with this building than you are. 114 00:11:24,184 --> 00:11:25,719 (Phone ringing) 115 00:11:26,353 --> 00:11:27,821 (Door closes) 116 00:11:33,326 --> 00:11:35,328 (Williams) Forgive me, everyone. 117 00:11:36,496 --> 00:11:39,866 Unfortunately, I shall be obliged to leave early. 118 00:11:41,100 --> 00:11:44,170 At twenty past three. 119 00:11:44,604 --> 00:11:48,675 Er, Mr Middleton, perhaps you'd be so good as to deputise in my absence? 120 00:11:48,775 --> 00:11:50,760 (Scoffs) 121 00:11:52,780 --> 00:11:53,913 Yes, of course, Mr Williams. 122 00:11:53,913 --> 00:11:56,249 I'll see everything stays shipshape. 123 00:11:56,383 --> 00:11:58,180 Thank you, Mr Middleton. 124 00:12:04,591 --> 00:12:06,726 Is it really true you may be leaving us, Miss Harris? 125 00:12:10,797 --> 00:12:12,465 It's not certain yet, Mr Williams. 126 00:12:16,269 --> 00:12:18,872 I did have my interview and it seemed to go well. 127 00:12:19,939 --> 00:12:21,641 It's Lyons Corner House. 128 00:12:25,378 --> 00:12:27,614 So, will you become one of those, erm... 129 00:12:27,781 --> 00:12:30,784 What do you call them? Skippies? Nippies? 130 00:12:30,784 --> 00:12:32,919 (Hart) You'll look fetching in that apron, Miss Harris. 131 00:12:32,919 --> 00:12:35,288 (Margaret) It's an assistant manager's post, Mr Hart. 132 00:12:35,288 --> 00:12:36,790 At least, once I've settled in. 133 00:12:36,923 --> 00:12:39,325 (Hart) I wasn't trying to be cheeky, Miss Harris. 134 00:12:39,325 --> 00:12:41,761 (Rusbridger) They do an excellent treacle sponge. 135 00:12:41,761 --> 00:12:44,230 At least the one on Coventry Street does. 136 00:12:47,567 --> 00:12:48,735 Good idea, sir. 137 00:12:48,902 --> 00:12:50,136 Hmm? 138 00:12:50,503 --> 00:12:52,500 (Middleton) Mr Wakeling, I mean. 139 00:12:53,506 --> 00:12:55,809 A playground is what's sorely needed, love. 140 00:12:56,309 --> 00:12:57,677 (Mrs McMasters) There's nowhere for them to play. 141 00:12:57,677 --> 00:13:00,800 (Mrs Porter) A cesspool. No other word for it. 142 00:13:00,800 --> 00:13:03,283 Rats the size of that. And our houses backing right on to it. 143 00:13:03,416 --> 00:13:05,685 (Siren wailing) 144 00:13:05,685 --> 00:13:06,920 What on earth? 145 00:13:06,920 --> 00:13:08,922 (Mrs Porter) You'll have to get used to that, love. 146 00:13:19,699 --> 00:13:22,335 So, you were saying it was 'K' staircase? 147 00:13:22,335 --> 00:13:24,371 - Yeah, the 'K' staircase. - Right. Righto. 148 00:13:24,371 --> 00:13:25,872 - It's the last one. - Yes. 149 00:13:26,600 --> 00:13:27,273 - Thank you so much. - You're welcome, sir. 150 00:13:27,273 --> 00:13:28,441 Good morning. 151 00:13:33,279 --> 00:13:35,150 Er, this way, ladies. If you will. 152 00:13:35,882 --> 00:13:38,151 (Inaudible) 153 00:13:56,469 --> 00:13:57,537 Come on. 154 00:14:00,974 --> 00:14:03,209 - (Peter) Parks have insisted, sir... - (Talbot) That's all very well, 155 00:14:03,343 --> 00:14:04,644 but we've been through this before, haven't we? 156 00:14:04,644 --> 00:14:06,646 - First we need all that water drained. - (Siren wailing) 157 00:14:06,813 --> 00:14:10,216 I've explained this to you already. Cleansing needs to look at it first. 158 00:14:10,216 --> 00:14:11,685 Good day, ladies. 159 00:14:14,540 --> 00:14:16,289 (Harvey) A children's playground. 160 00:14:17,570 --> 00:14:18,491 So, this isn't for us. 161 00:14:18,591 --> 00:14:20,393 But I'm sure the Public Works Department 162 00:14:20,393 --> 00:14:22,620 will be pleased to assist you. 163 00:14:22,620 --> 00:14:23,563 Public Works? 164 00:14:24,431 --> 00:14:25,732 That's where he's from. 165 00:14:26,666 --> 00:14:27,767 You're from Public Works? 166 00:14:28,368 --> 00:14:30,670 Well, yes. First day, actually. 167 00:14:30,770 --> 00:14:33,106 Then why on earth have you brought these good ladies here? 168 00:14:33,106 --> 00:14:34,574 (Harvey) I do apologise. 169 00:14:34,708 --> 00:14:37,610 Yours is an excellent scheme and I wish you well with it. 170 00:14:37,744 --> 00:14:40,213 Look here, take this back to your office at once. 171 00:14:40,213 --> 00:14:42,615 These ladies deserve better. 172 00:14:42,749 --> 00:14:43,783 Good day to you. 173 00:14:53,460 --> 00:14:55,261 (Phone rings) 174 00:15:08,274 --> 00:15:09,576 (Clears throat) 175 00:15:18,385 --> 00:15:20,720 Mr Wakeling, what may I do for you? 176 00:15:20,820 --> 00:15:22,889 The ladies' petition, sir. 177 00:15:23,957 --> 00:15:28,161 Mr Harvey at Cleansing insists, er, that this is for us after all. 178 00:15:29,496 --> 00:15:31,131 Mr Harvey is quite wrong. 179 00:15:32,599 --> 00:15:35,268 But we can keep it here. There's no harm. 180 00:15:36,436 --> 00:15:37,937 Thank you, Mr Wakeling. 181 00:15:38,972 --> 00:15:42,750 (♪ Slow instrumental music) 182 00:16:23,316 --> 00:16:24,551 (Bicycle bell rings) 183 00:16:32,559 --> 00:16:34,527 (Mrs Matthews) So, where did you decide on in the end? 184 00:16:34,527 --> 00:16:37,564 Bournemouth. Ten days starting next Monday. 185 00:16:37,564 --> 00:16:40,867 Oh, lovely. You must be looking forward to it. 186 00:16:41,100 --> 00:16:43,703 (Smacks lips) Same guesthouse we stayed in year before last. 187 00:16:43,837 --> 00:16:46,473 The lady there provides a very nice supper. 188 00:16:46,573 --> 00:16:47,574 (Intercom buzzes) 189 00:16:47,707 --> 00:16:50,176 - (Doctor) Next patient, please. - Yes, Doctor. 190 00:16:51,770 --> 00:16:53,847 Mr Williams? Doctor will see you now. 191 00:16:55,148 --> 00:16:56,149 Thank you. 192 00:17:00,987 --> 00:17:03,356 I much prefer the beach in Bournemouth. 193 00:17:03,490 --> 00:17:05,525 (Mrs Matthews) A pebble beach is so uncomfortable. 194 00:17:05,692 --> 00:17:07,560 (Mrs Button) I couldn't agree more. 195 00:17:10,697 --> 00:17:12,320 Mr Williams. 196 00:17:13,330 --> 00:17:14,868 Please, sit down. 197 00:17:18,171 --> 00:17:19,372 Thank you. 198 00:17:30,750 --> 00:17:32,385 The results have come back. 199 00:17:35,188 --> 00:17:38,458 I'm afraid this time they're pretty conclusive. 200 00:17:47,670 --> 00:17:48,401 It's never easy, this. 201 00:17:52,305 --> 00:17:53,306 Quite. 202 00:17:58,545 --> 00:18:00,313 (Michael) And I said, "Look, if that's what you want, 203 00:18:00,313 --> 00:18:01,815 then I know a place where you can get it". 204 00:18:01,815 --> 00:18:04,384 (Fiona) That's incredibly wicked of you. 205 00:18:04,584 --> 00:18:05,719 (Dog barking) 206 00:18:06,753 --> 00:18:07,987 (Footsteps approaching) 207 00:18:09,122 --> 00:18:11,291 - Good evening, Miss Fry. - (Miss Fry) Good evening. 208 00:18:12,492 --> 00:18:14,127 - (Fiona laughs) - (Michael) Stop it. 209 00:18:15,950 --> 00:18:17,330 - She's still watching us. - How can she be? 210 00:18:17,330 --> 00:18:19,650 She doesn't have eyes in the back of her head. 211 00:18:19,165 --> 00:18:21,634 I assure you she does. 212 00:18:22,469 --> 00:18:23,570 (Fiona) If your father's in, 213 00:18:23,670 --> 00:18:26,600 this is a good time to talk about you know what. 214 00:18:26,139 --> 00:18:27,507 (Michael) Not a good time. 215 00:18:27,507 --> 00:18:30,760 (Fiona) You'll have to start the ball rolling at some stage. 216 00:18:30,176 --> 00:18:32,679 Yes, but not tonight, darling. I'm really not up for it. 217 00:18:33,246 --> 00:18:34,481 Besides, he's not in. 218 00:18:34,814 --> 00:18:36,449 (Fiona) But this isn't his cinema night. 219 00:18:36,616 --> 00:18:37,784 (Door opens) 220 00:18:37,784 --> 00:18:39,185 (Michael) Hello? Dad? 221 00:18:42,756 --> 00:18:43,757 (Door closes) 222 00:18:43,757 --> 00:18:46,260 (Michael) He missed his cinema on Tuesday, so he's gone tonight. 223 00:18:46,260 --> 00:18:48,762 (Fiona) As I was saying, you can't put it off forever, dear. 224 00:18:48,862 --> 00:18:52,132 I don't intend still to be in this stifling house come Christmas. 225 00:18:52,132 --> 00:18:53,199 (Michael) Christmas? 226 00:18:53,333 --> 00:18:55,502 How can anyone purchase a house and move in that sort of time? 227 00:18:55,635 --> 00:18:57,537 And besides, darling, it is his money. 228 00:18:57,671 --> 00:18:59,839 (Fiona) Your mother intended that money for us all. 229 00:18:59,973 --> 00:19:02,609 What's he sitting on it for? We're the ones who need it. 230 00:19:02,609 --> 00:19:04,277 You have to speak to him, Michael, I mean it. 231 00:19:04,277 --> 00:19:05,612 (Gasps loudly) Mike... 232 00:19:05,712 --> 00:19:07,470 (Fiona sighs) 233 00:19:07,470 --> 00:19:09,449 - Father. What on earth? - Oh. 234 00:19:09,449 --> 00:19:11,818 Dad, you gave us a start. 235 00:19:11,818 --> 00:19:13,620 Thought you'd gone to the pictures. 236 00:19:16,823 --> 00:19:19,159 - Dad, are you alright? - Yes. 237 00:19:20,860 --> 00:19:22,162 I was just... 238 00:19:22,996 --> 00:19:26,533 sitting here, erm, thinking things over. 239 00:19:27,634 --> 00:19:29,336 And then you two walked in. 240 00:19:32,138 --> 00:19:34,740 Will you sit for a while? 241 00:19:38,780 --> 00:19:39,790 - Well... - No. 242 00:19:39,312 --> 00:19:41,748 We both have early starts. I have to get ready for bed. 243 00:19:41,915 --> 00:19:43,550 You should too, dear. 244 00:19:43,550 --> 00:19:44,718 Goodnight. 245 00:19:50,824 --> 00:19:53,259 Well, better get going. 246 00:19:53,426 --> 00:19:55,729 - Heard what the boss just said. - Yes. 247 00:20:03,269 --> 00:20:04,738 (Creaking) 248 00:20:18,852 --> 00:20:20,253 (Door closes) 249 00:20:46,312 --> 00:20:49,149 Come on. Mum's leaving us behind. 250 00:20:57,390 --> 00:20:59,492 (Birdsong) 251 00:21:03,930 --> 00:21:06,132 (Men cheering) 252 00:21:08,568 --> 00:21:10,437 (Father) Well done, your boy. 253 00:21:10,570 --> 00:21:12,672 (Clapping) 254 00:21:13,406 --> 00:21:14,441 Well done. 255 00:21:24,617 --> 00:21:26,252 (Man) I'm being serious. 256 00:21:26,686 --> 00:21:28,988 (Men laughing) 257 00:21:29,622 --> 00:21:31,958 (Man) Chap like you needs a wife. 258 00:21:32,920 --> 00:21:36,429 As for your boy, well, he'll come round to it. 259 00:21:36,596 --> 00:21:38,465 Youngsters get used to anything. 260 00:21:53,980 --> 00:21:55,215 (Michael) Dad! 261 00:22:00,687 --> 00:22:01,688 Dad. 262 00:22:03,560 --> 00:22:04,357 Dad! 263 00:22:05,859 --> 00:22:07,160 Michael. 264 00:22:08,280 --> 00:22:09,195 (Michael) Would you lock up? 265 00:22:10,864 --> 00:22:12,866 We're not coming down again now. 266 00:22:14,834 --> 00:22:16,360 Dad? 267 00:22:18,338 --> 00:22:19,673 Dad, are you there? 268 00:22:20,407 --> 00:22:21,574 Yes. 269 00:22:24,210 --> 00:22:25,378 Night, then. 270 00:22:25,512 --> 00:22:26,746 Goodnight. 271 00:22:31,885 --> 00:22:34,754 (Michael and Fiona speaking indistinctly) 272 00:22:35,588 --> 00:22:36,690 (Door closes) 273 00:23:01,140 --> 00:23:02,716 (Woman speaking indistinctly) 274 00:23:02,716 --> 00:23:04,451 (Hart) He's never late. 275 00:23:04,451 --> 00:23:06,219 Something must have happened. 276 00:23:07,454 --> 00:23:10,557 (Middleton) Daughter-in-law said he'd left as usual this morning. 277 00:23:10,890 --> 00:23:13,293 (Typewriters clacking in the distance) 278 00:23:13,593 --> 00:23:16,863 (Peter) Do you think we should, erm, you know, alert the police, perhaps? 279 00:23:16,963 --> 00:23:19,990 (Middleton) Mr Williams is hardly an infant. 280 00:23:19,232 --> 00:23:22,369 What will the police care that he's a couple of hours late for work? 281 00:23:22,936 --> 00:23:24,771 (Rusbridger) "Couple of hours late for work." 282 00:23:24,771 --> 00:23:25,939 Who would ever have thought. 283 00:23:26,720 --> 00:23:28,575 Leaving early yesterday. Late today. 284 00:23:28,575 --> 00:23:31,745 Maybe he's just, you know, decided he's had enough. 285 00:23:31,745 --> 00:23:34,314 Gonna give it all up. (Chuckles) 286 00:23:34,314 --> 00:23:37,784 (Middleton) I don't appreciate that suggestion, Mr Hart. 287 00:23:37,784 --> 00:23:41,221 In fact, I find it in rather poor taste. 288 00:23:43,456 --> 00:23:45,892 Pity he should choose today of all days. 289 00:23:47,160 --> 00:23:49,129 Why is that, Miss Harris? 290 00:23:49,996 --> 00:23:53,233 Because the Lyons Corner House have requested my reference. 291 00:23:53,233 --> 00:23:54,834 So, I need Mr Williams to... 292 00:23:54,968 --> 00:23:57,137 If it's a reference you're after, Miss Harris, 293 00:23:57,137 --> 00:24:00,273 I'll be happy to step in as Mr Williams' deputy. 294 00:24:00,407 --> 00:24:02,809 (Hart) Hang on. He's just a little late, that's all. 295 00:24:02,809 --> 00:24:04,344 - No need for you to... - (Margaret) Quite. 296 00:24:04,477 --> 00:24:05,912 Thank you, Mr Middleton, 297 00:24:05,912 --> 00:24:08,481 but I'd prefer to wait for Mr Williams to return. 298 00:24:12,180 --> 00:24:14,921 How can it be that in this resort town of ours, 299 00:24:15,210 --> 00:24:18,191 insomniacs converging from every corner of the land, 300 00:24:18,324 --> 00:24:19,659 a fellow's not able to buy such a thing 301 00:24:19,659 --> 00:24:21,294 - as a sleeping tablet? - Oh, 302 00:24:21,428 --> 00:24:25,310 you don't half go on, Mr Sutherland. 303 00:24:25,310 --> 00:24:27,634 If you was really sleeping as little as you say... 304 00:24:27,634 --> 00:24:29,302 I don't see how your brain 305 00:24:29,302 --> 00:24:32,672 could keep coming up with them ridiculous phrases. 306 00:24:33,473 --> 00:24:35,442 Never mind your... 307 00:24:35,442 --> 00:24:39,379 well, "entertainments" shall we call them. 308 00:24:39,512 --> 00:24:42,982 Consider, I beg you, my last great work. 309 00:24:43,883 --> 00:24:45,452 "Shocking Stockings." 310 00:24:45,552 --> 00:24:49,322 Now, I very much suspect you judged it to be smutty and trivial. 311 00:24:49,322 --> 00:24:52,726 You know very well, Mr Sutherland, I never saw it. 312 00:24:52,859 --> 00:24:57,130 My point exactly. The dramatic vision of your most loyal customer 313 00:24:57,130 --> 00:24:59,899 and you shun it. You turn away with a blush. 314 00:25:00,330 --> 00:25:01,835 Would it have been that way in Paris? 315 00:25:02,200 --> 00:25:05,500 Where, triumphantly disowned by my entire family 316 00:25:05,500 --> 00:25:08,740 I so deliciously misspent my youth. 317 00:25:08,740 --> 00:25:10,343 The night, the wine, the women, 318 00:25:10,343 --> 00:25:12,979 the cabaret, the Moulin Rouge. 319 00:25:12,979 --> 00:25:15,515 Who knows, Mrs Blake? Had you been born French, 320 00:25:15,515 --> 00:25:18,485 you might even now be kicking high those lovely legs of yours 321 00:25:18,485 --> 00:25:21,254 for the appreciation of a discerning audience. 322 00:25:21,388 --> 00:25:23,656 Mr Sutherland, really! 323 00:25:23,656 --> 00:25:27,600 This little town of ours, Mrs Blake, English it may be, 324 00:25:27,227 --> 00:25:29,763 but I still have high ambitions for it. 325 00:25:29,896 --> 00:25:32,899 Bournemouth, Bognor Regis, they're long beyond reach. 326 00:25:33,330 --> 00:25:35,702 But here, hope still lingers. 327 00:25:36,836 --> 00:25:39,739 I could achieve all this, 328 00:25:39,873 --> 00:25:43,777 all this and more for this town, if only... 329 00:25:45,278 --> 00:25:46,746 if only I could sleep. 330 00:25:48,480 --> 00:25:49,115 (Williams) Excuse me. 331 00:25:51,885 --> 00:25:53,753 I don't mean to intrude. 332 00:25:53,887 --> 00:25:55,550 You do not intrude, sir. 333 00:25:55,550 --> 00:25:57,891 In fact, you are most welcome to join our conference here. 334 00:25:58,558 --> 00:25:59,859 That's most kind. 335 00:25:59,859 --> 00:26:04,640 But I wondered if I might have a private word with the gentleman. 336 00:26:05,198 --> 00:26:08,601 I see, yeah. Well, I'll leave you to it. 337 00:26:10,700 --> 00:26:12,720 The things that go on. 338 00:26:13,973 --> 00:26:17,610 Well, sir, may I take it you're inviting me aboard? 339 00:26:17,744 --> 00:26:19,412 If you'd care to. 340 00:26:24,651 --> 00:26:27,320 Excuse me. I just thought... 341 00:26:28,121 --> 00:26:30,390 overhearing what you were saying... 342 00:26:30,390 --> 00:26:31,458 Yes. 343 00:26:32,592 --> 00:26:33,593 If you like... 344 00:26:37,970 --> 00:26:38,465 you're welcome to these. 345 00:26:41,301 --> 00:26:44,838 Very kind of you, old man. It's just what I need. 346 00:26:46,673 --> 00:26:47,674 And... 347 00:26:55,281 --> 00:26:56,282 these. 348 00:27:01,654 --> 00:27:03,590 Rather a lot, old man. 349 00:27:08,128 --> 00:27:10,764 I'm grateful to you. I'll take them off your hands. 350 00:27:10,764 --> 00:27:12,198 I did think about it. 351 00:27:15,769 --> 00:27:17,504 But I don't have it in me, that kind of thing. 352 00:27:18,304 --> 00:27:20,840 Think of the inconvenience to your landlady. 353 00:27:23,176 --> 00:27:25,712 Odd. I thought about exactly that. 354 00:27:32,519 --> 00:27:33,787 It's not 355 00:27:34,220 --> 00:27:36,956 perhaps quite what you think. 356 00:27:39,559 --> 00:27:41,270 (Sighs) You see... 357 00:27:41,861 --> 00:27:45,331 this is rather a bore, but the doctors have given me six months. 358 00:27:46,366 --> 00:27:48,868 Eight or nine at a stretch. 359 00:27:50,970 --> 00:27:52,472 I'm so sorry. 360 00:27:56,209 --> 00:27:57,210 Funny. 361 00:28:00,847 --> 00:28:02,482 You're the first person I've told. 362 00:28:09,556 --> 00:28:11,658 The thing is, I just came down here. 363 00:28:13,526 --> 00:28:14,594 (Hesitates) 364 00:28:16,696 --> 00:28:18,164 Look, you're... 365 00:28:19,320 --> 00:28:21,735 You're most welcome to those. I've no more need of them. 366 00:28:24,671 --> 00:28:25,872 Six months. 367 00:28:26,373 --> 00:28:27,407 Nine. 368 00:28:28,675 --> 00:28:31,344 It doesn't seem long, but it's something. 369 00:28:32,545 --> 00:28:36,850 Enough time to put things in order and to live a little, if you chose to. 370 00:28:36,850 --> 00:28:40,520 I withdrew some cash. It's almost half my life's savings. 371 00:28:40,520 --> 00:28:42,889 Look here, old chap. Enough of that. 372 00:28:43,230 --> 00:28:45,250 You need to be more careful. 373 00:28:49,929 --> 00:28:51,970 You see my problem. 374 00:28:52,399 --> 00:28:55,735 I withdrew this cash and came down here to... 375 00:28:57,270 --> 00:28:58,371 (Exhales) 376 00:29:00,373 --> 00:29:04,440 Enjoy myself, or live a little, as you put it. 377 00:29:05,378 --> 00:29:07,800 But I realise... 378 00:29:11,840 --> 00:29:12,485 I don't know how. 379 00:29:18,291 --> 00:29:20,627 (♪ Band playing instrumental music) 380 00:29:23,960 --> 00:29:25,231 (Indistinct conversation) 381 00:30:00,367 --> 00:30:01,501 Yes! 382 00:30:05,305 --> 00:30:06,473 (Cheering) 383 00:30:12,278 --> 00:30:14,381 (Indistinct conversation) 384 00:30:18,184 --> 00:30:19,652 (Sutherland) Then he needed to be tough. 385 00:30:20,200 --> 00:30:21,388 (Laughing) 386 00:30:21,688 --> 00:30:23,189 No, no, no. No, no. 387 00:30:24,570 --> 00:30:27,794 When a girl like that steals your hat, always cheaper to buy a new one. 388 00:30:28,495 --> 00:30:31,998 (Sutherland) Out with the old. New phase of life! 389 00:30:36,803 --> 00:30:39,539 You see, that hat. That's not bad. 390 00:30:39,806 --> 00:30:42,750 That could work. Do you know what I mean? 391 00:30:43,843 --> 00:30:45,879 Can you imagine something like that? 392 00:30:46,146 --> 00:30:48,715 I think that's good. I'm gonna talk to him. 393 00:30:48,848 --> 00:30:52,752 I'm gonna talk to him, because I think, for the right price 394 00:30:52,752 --> 00:30:55,388 - we can get that. - Well, I, there's no need. 395 00:30:55,555 --> 00:30:57,891 - I'm gonna talk to him. - Really? 396 00:31:02,228 --> 00:31:05,165 Show you something really special. Strictly VIPs only. 397 00:31:09,369 --> 00:31:12,380 (Piano man sings) ♪ Yes, we have no bananas 398 00:31:12,380 --> 00:31:14,674 ♪ We have no bananas today ♪ 399 00:31:14,908 --> 00:31:18,578 And so it falls to me to steer the family line as a playwright. 400 00:31:19,245 --> 00:31:23,383 Hattie, this here is my friend, Mr Rodney Williams of Esher, Surrey. 401 00:31:23,383 --> 00:31:25,952 And, do you know, that this man before you now is grievously ill. 402 00:31:25,952 --> 00:31:28,355 Then why is he drinking? 403 00:31:28,355 --> 00:31:30,623 Why indeed? 404 00:31:30,623 --> 00:31:35,962 He has decided to grasp life, what little of it remains to him. 405 00:31:36,960 --> 00:31:38,198 And we have to admire him for it. 406 00:31:39,632 --> 00:31:41,935 Don't you admire him, Hattie? 407 00:31:42,469 --> 00:31:45,805 If he's ill, then this ain't good for him. 408 00:31:45,939 --> 00:31:48,975 Hattie, you don't understand. This man, until yesterday 409 00:31:48,975 --> 00:31:53,146 was living a shell of an existence, has sprung to life. 410 00:31:53,146 --> 00:31:55,582 Look. He even has a new hat. 411 00:31:55,749 --> 00:31:58,418 (Cheering) 412 00:31:59,586 --> 00:32:01,921 (Piano man) Alright, alright. Come on, come on. 413 00:32:02,550 --> 00:32:04,424 What else do we know? Who wants to be next? 414 00:32:04,424 --> 00:32:06,559 Yeah, I, yes. 415 00:32:06,559 --> 00:32:08,962 (Williams) Yes, I have a song. 416 00:32:08,962 --> 00:32:11,231 And what can you offer us, sir? 417 00:32:11,398 --> 00:32:13,660 Erm, I have a... 418 00:32:13,166 --> 00:32:16,770 I have a little Scotch on my, on my mother's side. 419 00:32:16,770 --> 00:32:18,905 Looks like you've got a little bit of Scotch in you right now, mate. 420 00:32:18,905 --> 00:32:20,607 (Laughter) 421 00:32:20,607 --> 00:32:22,942 You're right, I am somewhat, 422 00:32:22,942 --> 00:32:26,146 but I'd like to sing you a song, if I may. 423 00:32:26,146 --> 00:32:29,182 If you happen to know, erm, 424 00:32:29,516 --> 00:32:31,851 The Rowan Tree. Do you know the...? 425 00:32:31,851 --> 00:32:34,954 Rowan Tree. Old Scottish song, right? 426 00:32:34,954 --> 00:32:39,159 Yeah, I have a little Scotch in me. My late wife, too. 427 00:32:39,359 --> 00:32:41,428 Erm, she was, erm... 428 00:32:41,795 --> 00:32:44,431 (Piano man plays the piano) 429 00:32:44,998 --> 00:32:50,136 ♪ Oh rowan tree, oh rowan tree 430 00:32:50,136 --> 00:32:54,474 ♪ Thou'lt aye be dear to me 431 00:32:55,442 --> 00:33:01,470 ♪ Entwined thou art wi' many ties 432 00:33:01,181 --> 00:33:05,685 ♪ O' hame and infancy 433 00:33:06,619 --> 00:33:12,325 ♪ Thy leaves were aye the first of spring 434 00:33:12,459 --> 00:33:16,796 ♪ Thy flowers the summer's pride 435 00:33:17,564 --> 00:33:22,969 ♪ There was nae such a bonny tree 436 00:33:23,169 --> 00:33:27,741 ♪ In a' the countryside 437 00:33:28,641 --> 00:33:33,546 ♪ On thy fair stem were mony names 438 00:33:33,680 --> 00:33:38,840 ♪ Which now nae mair I see 439 00:33:39,219 --> 00:33:44,758 ♪ But they're engraven on my heart 440 00:33:44,758 --> 00:33:48,428 ♪ Forgot they ne'er can be 441 00:33:52,599 --> 00:33:57,871 ♪ We sat aneath thy spreading shade 442 00:33:57,871 --> 00:34:02,542 ♪ The bairns around thee ran 443 00:34:02,942 --> 00:34:08,480 ♪ They pulled the bonny berries red 444 00:34:08,480 --> 00:34:12,419 ♪ And necklaces they strang 445 00:34:13,386 --> 00:34:18,725 ♪ My mother, though I see her still ♪ 446 00:34:25,198 --> 00:34:26,199 (Mutters) 447 00:34:30,370 --> 00:34:31,738 I'm so sorry. 448 00:34:32,238 --> 00:34:35,942 Come along, old man. I'll show you another place I know. 449 00:34:40,613 --> 00:34:42,482 (Men whoop) 450 00:34:43,983 --> 00:34:46,720 (Band plays a racy tune) 451 00:35:33,900 --> 00:35:35,402 (Exhales) 452 00:36:44,671 --> 00:36:47,674 (♪ Melancholic music plays) 453 00:37:29,382 --> 00:37:33,386 (♪ Melancholic music builds) 454 00:38:24,204 --> 00:38:25,672 (Margaret) Mr Williams? 455 00:38:27,707 --> 00:38:29,242 Mr Williams? 456 00:38:29,843 --> 00:38:32,120 Oh! Oh, it is you. 457 00:38:32,112 --> 00:38:35,882 I was quite thrown there for a minute. I mean, by your new hat. 458 00:38:35,882 --> 00:38:38,551 Ah, yes. I lost my old one. 459 00:38:38,551 --> 00:38:41,210 Well, it's jolly nice. 460 00:38:41,121 --> 00:38:42,922 I do wonder what they'll make of it at the office. 461 00:38:42,922 --> 00:38:45,592 Yes. I wonder 462 00:38:46,626 --> 00:38:48,762 What would be your guess, Miss Harris? 463 00:38:48,762 --> 00:38:52,320 Will my new hat go down a storm there? 464 00:38:52,320 --> 00:38:53,533 (Laughs) 465 00:38:53,633 --> 00:38:56,936 Noah himself couldn't get something to go down a storm with that lot. 466 00:38:56,936 --> 00:38:58,405 I don't need to worry about them any more, 467 00:38:58,605 --> 00:38:59,873 because I have a new job 468 00:38:59,973 --> 00:39:03,760 - Oh, yes? - That's why I'm so pleased to see you. 469 00:39:03,760 --> 00:39:05,612 Well, it's not the only reason, of course. 470 00:39:05,745 --> 00:39:08,715 I'm very glad to see that you're well and going about your business. 471 00:39:08,715 --> 00:39:11,818 When you didn't come in yesterday, and the day before... 472 00:39:11,951 --> 00:39:14,821 Yes, I have rather gone to ground. 473 00:39:14,954 --> 00:39:18,758 But you see, I've had other, erm... 474 00:39:19,426 --> 00:39:24,297 Never mind. Tell me more about your new job, Miss Harris. 475 00:39:24,297 --> 00:39:26,232 You know about it, Mr Williams. 476 00:39:26,232 --> 00:39:29,102 It's the position at the Lyons Corner House. 477 00:39:29,235 --> 00:39:31,438 A branch just around the corner from here. 478 00:39:31,438 --> 00:39:33,273 An assistant manager's role. 479 00:39:33,406 --> 00:39:35,508 At least once I get into the swing of things. 480 00:39:36,142 --> 00:39:37,944 I'm so excited. Sorry. 481 00:39:38,111 --> 00:39:39,112 No. 482 00:39:39,245 --> 00:39:41,810 - I didn't mean... - Don't worry. 483 00:39:41,181 --> 00:39:43,116 County Hall is not for everyone. 484 00:39:46,586 --> 00:39:49,622 I am pleased to see you, Mr Williams. I'm going to be honest. 485 00:39:49,756 --> 00:39:53,930 I do have the job, but it's subject to a reference. 486 00:39:53,193 --> 00:39:55,128 - Ah. - And because you were away... 487 00:39:55,128 --> 00:39:57,931 I see how I may have inconvenienced you. 488 00:39:59,366 --> 00:40:04,370 I was thinking of treating myself to a light lunch at Fortnum's. 489 00:40:04,370 --> 00:40:05,271 (Chuckles) 490 00:40:05,972 --> 00:40:07,340 If you'd care to join me, 491 00:40:07,507 --> 00:40:09,309 I could write your reference over lunch. 492 00:40:10,276 --> 00:40:12,479 - Really? - Why not? 493 00:40:12,612 --> 00:40:15,382 It might make up for the inconvenience I've caused you. 494 00:40:16,783 --> 00:40:17,817 Fortnum's? 495 00:40:18,184 --> 00:40:20,520 (Glasses clinking) 496 00:40:21,454 --> 00:40:23,556 You know, Mr Williams, when I see you bowed 497 00:40:23,690 --> 00:40:25,225 over your paperwork like that 498 00:40:25,225 --> 00:40:27,394 I suddenly remember you are the same person. 499 00:40:28,395 --> 00:40:30,630 The one at the head of our desk, every morning and afternoon 500 00:40:30,730 --> 00:40:33,700 for the last 16 months of my life. 501 00:40:37,570 --> 00:40:39,739 But now I realise, you're not really like that at all. 502 00:40:41,141 --> 00:40:42,509 There's so much more to you. 503 00:40:43,877 --> 00:40:45,645 I mean, Fortnum's! 504 00:40:45,745 --> 00:40:46,846 Your new hat. 505 00:40:47,130 --> 00:40:49,249 I won't give you a more favourable reference 506 00:40:49,249 --> 00:40:51,170 because you say things like that. 507 00:40:54,200 --> 00:40:55,922 I'm not trying to butter you up, Mr Williams. 508 00:40:57,900 --> 00:40:59,259 I'm saying I got you wrong, that's all. 509 00:41:08,568 --> 00:41:10,737 Mr Williams, if you promise, 510 00:41:10,737 --> 00:41:12,872 and I mean really promise to not get angry, 511 00:41:13,600 --> 00:41:15,675 I'll tell you my secret nickname for you. 512 00:41:18,345 --> 00:41:19,346 (Chuckles) 513 00:41:22,150 --> 00:41:24,751 - I promise. - And you really mustn't get cross. 514 00:41:25,185 --> 00:41:27,287 It's not just you. I have them for everyone. 515 00:41:27,420 --> 00:41:30,690 Only I know about them and my cousin, Rosemary, who I share rooms with. 516 00:41:30,790 --> 00:41:31,791 I see. 517 00:41:31,925 --> 00:41:34,561 For instance, Mr Rusbridger. 518 00:41:34,561 --> 00:41:36,429 I call him The Hover Man. 519 00:41:36,563 --> 00:41:38,765 Because he just hovers his pen over the page 520 00:41:39,366 --> 00:41:43,603 with the intention of doing work but never actually doing work. 521 00:41:44,371 --> 00:41:46,720 (Chuckles) 522 00:41:49,376 --> 00:41:51,770 And Mr Hart. 523 00:41:51,745 --> 00:41:53,113 Well... 524 00:41:53,313 --> 00:41:55,480 I call him The Confused Chimney. 525 00:41:55,782 --> 00:41:59,119 Because he's constantly smoking and constantly bewildered. 526 00:42:00,387 --> 00:42:02,122 Have you seen his eyebrows? 527 00:42:04,557 --> 00:42:06,459 (Mimics Hart) Mr Rusbridger, on my desk. 528 00:42:06,459 --> 00:42:07,827 Doesn't have a clue. 529 00:42:08,395 --> 00:42:09,963 It's very good. 530 00:42:10,960 --> 00:42:13,500 Alright. This time, I'll say the name, you have to guess who it is. 531 00:42:13,500 --> 00:42:17,700 He's on the fourth floor. Julius Caesar. 532 00:42:17,971 --> 00:42:20,774 Julius Caesar. Well... 533 00:42:21,174 --> 00:42:23,677 I suppose that would be, 534 00:42:23,810 --> 00:42:26,746 er, Mr Brown, in accounts? 535 00:42:27,147 --> 00:42:28,148 Correct! 536 00:42:28,281 --> 00:42:31,451 (Both laugh) 537 00:42:31,918 --> 00:42:34,870 Excuse me. May I get you something else? 538 00:42:34,187 --> 00:42:35,288 A dessert? 539 00:42:36,756 --> 00:42:41,261 Erm, not for me. But perhaps the young lady might. 540 00:42:41,361 --> 00:42:42,696 (Whispers) Yes. 541 00:42:42,696 --> 00:42:45,665 Oh, I've always wanted one of those ice-cream sundaes. 542 00:42:45,799 --> 00:42:47,200 A Knickerbocker Glory, miss? 543 00:42:47,367 --> 00:42:49,436 Yes, please. With the fruit and nuts on top. 544 00:42:49,536 --> 00:42:51,371 - Of course. - Thank you so much. 545 00:42:52,539 --> 00:42:54,474 Are you sure this is alright? 546 00:42:54,874 --> 00:42:56,176 Of course. 547 00:42:58,845 --> 00:43:02,782 But, Miss Harris, you haven't come around to your main point. 548 00:43:04,351 --> 00:43:06,319 You were going to tell me your name for me. 549 00:43:07,887 --> 00:43:10,690 Oh, no, it's a silly nickname. 550 00:43:10,824 --> 00:43:11,958 I don't think I'll tell you. 551 00:43:12,580 --> 00:43:14,828 No, no. You've come this far. You have to tell me. 552 00:43:18,231 --> 00:43:19,232 Alright. 553 00:43:19,366 --> 00:43:22,302 Remember your promise. To not get angry. 554 00:43:25,710 --> 00:43:26,720 Mr Zombie. 555 00:43:26,906 --> 00:43:27,974 Mr what? 556 00:43:28,842 --> 00:43:29,876 Thank you. 557 00:43:31,770 --> 00:43:32,379 Mr Zombie. 558 00:43:32,879 --> 00:43:36,850 I saw a film about it with what's her name. 559 00:43:37,317 --> 00:43:38,351 Erm... 560 00:43:38,351 --> 00:43:41,254 Zombies are sort of like Egyptian mummies, 561 00:43:41,988 --> 00:43:45,358 but they can walk and go about doing things. 562 00:43:45,992 --> 00:43:47,827 They're sort of dead but not dead. 563 00:43:50,263 --> 00:43:51,498 Mr Zombie. 564 00:43:52,980 --> 00:43:54,334 My, my. 565 00:43:58,571 --> 00:44:01,608 I'm so sorry, Mr Williams. That's really wicked of me. 566 00:44:03,109 --> 00:44:05,345 You mustn't be upset, Miss Harris. 567 00:44:06,680 --> 00:44:09,182 Mr Zombie. It's rather good. 568 00:44:10,500 --> 00:44:13,219 It's quite appropriate, in fact. I like it. Mr Zombie. 569 00:44:13,753 --> 00:44:15,588 An Egyptian mummy. 570 00:44:16,256 --> 00:44:19,459 - Except I can move about. - (Both laugh) 571 00:44:19,459 --> 00:44:22,195 - Your Knickerbocker Glory, miss. - Thank you so much. 572 00:44:23,930 --> 00:44:25,298 (Margaret) Mmm. 573 00:44:36,910 --> 00:44:39,790 (Muffled chatter) 574 00:44:46,753 --> 00:44:48,955 (Birdsong) 575 00:45:07,307 --> 00:45:08,975 (Indistinct conversation) 576 00:45:20,520 --> 00:45:23,857 I'd better be on the 4:56. 577 00:45:23,990 --> 00:45:27,127 Or else I might find myself sharing the same train as our colleagues. 578 00:45:27,293 --> 00:45:28,828 That would be awkward. 579 00:45:28,828 --> 00:45:31,531 I do wonder, we haven't been terribly wicked? 580 00:45:31,664 --> 00:45:33,133 (Exhales softly) 581 00:45:33,233 --> 00:45:36,636 You don't have to worry about that any more, Miss Harris. 582 00:45:36,636 --> 00:45:39,339 You just keep your mind on your Lyons Corner House. 583 00:45:39,506 --> 00:45:42,800 I will. I was thinking about you. 584 00:45:42,175 --> 00:45:43,176 Ah! 585 00:45:44,911 --> 00:45:46,246 Don't worry about me. 586 00:45:47,714 --> 00:45:49,249 I've had a wonderful afternoon. 587 00:45:49,249 --> 00:45:51,484 - So have I. - Well, Miss Harris... 588 00:45:53,219 --> 00:45:56,423 - Goodbye. - Goodbye, Mr Williams. 589 00:46:02,262 --> 00:46:04,597 (Phone rings in distance) 590 00:46:10,300 --> 00:46:12,439 (Indistinct chatter) 591 00:46:13,540 --> 00:46:14,708 (Clears throat) 592 00:46:15,542 --> 00:46:17,610 (Hart) No doubt she'll pop back Monday. 593 00:46:19,713 --> 00:46:21,181 (Chuckles softly) 594 00:46:21,181 --> 00:46:23,783 It's rather bad form really, isn't it? 595 00:46:23,783 --> 00:46:25,850 Even if she is leaving. 596 00:46:25,251 --> 00:46:26,886 (Hart) We know it's a Lyons Corner House. 597 00:46:28,388 --> 00:46:30,790 Er, Mr Middleton, as Acting Head 598 00:46:30,924 --> 00:46:33,930 wouldn't you be able simply to look it up? 599 00:46:36,129 --> 00:46:38,531 That would be highly irregular, Mr Rusbridger. 600 00:46:39,265 --> 00:46:42,736 What, even if there may be far more than curiosity at stake? 601 00:46:42,902 --> 00:46:46,239 Look, really! Really. I... 602 00:46:48,308 --> 00:46:52,278 I do wish Mr Williams would come back. Perhaps things would go back to 603 00:46:52,412 --> 00:46:54,547 being a bit more orderly. 604 00:47:08,428 --> 00:47:10,764 People in this neighbourhood go up to town 605 00:47:10,764 --> 00:47:12,665 and if they were to see your father-in-law, 606 00:47:12,799 --> 00:47:15,135 just as I did, with this young woman 607 00:47:15,135 --> 00:47:18,838 goodness knows what they would think and how would that reflect on you 608 00:47:18,838 --> 00:47:21,241 living in the same household? 609 00:47:22,275 --> 00:47:24,811 That's why I just wanted to tell you. Well, good evening. 610 00:47:24,944 --> 00:47:25,945 Come on. 611 00:47:26,112 --> 00:47:27,747 (Michael) The woman is a public nuisance. 612 00:47:30,283 --> 00:47:32,318 A prize mischief maker. 613 00:47:33,520 --> 00:47:35,210 Nothing she likes better than to put... 614 00:47:35,155 --> 00:47:36,156 Shh! 615 00:47:38,925 --> 00:47:40,930 Look, are... 616 00:47:41,361 --> 00:47:43,163 Are we really supposed to believe that my... 617 00:47:43,163 --> 00:47:44,698 You have to speak to him. 618 00:47:44,698 --> 00:47:47,000 If people are talking about this here. 619 00:47:57,430 --> 00:47:58,778 (Williams) Look here. There's something 620 00:47:58,945 --> 00:48:01,348 I want to share with you both. 621 00:48:02,682 --> 00:48:03,883 It's, erm... 622 00:48:05,510 --> 00:48:06,953 It's a bit of a bore, really. 623 00:48:07,287 --> 00:48:09,222 But, erm... 624 00:48:10,623 --> 00:48:13,393 I probably should, erm... 625 00:48:15,462 --> 00:48:16,696 (Sighs) 626 00:48:23,837 --> 00:48:24,971 It's outrageous. 627 00:48:25,839 --> 00:48:27,173 At his age. 628 00:48:31,711 --> 00:48:34,814 And as for this girl. Barely a woman. 629 00:48:35,515 --> 00:48:37,517 - Certainly not a lady. - It does all fit. 630 00:48:37,650 --> 00:48:39,719 The calls from his office. The savings. 631 00:48:39,886 --> 00:48:41,721 You simply must speak to him. 632 00:48:41,721 --> 00:48:43,823 You should have done so long ago. About everything. 633 00:48:43,923 --> 00:48:45,358 I'll speak to him, alright. 634 00:48:48,610 --> 00:48:50,997 With pleasure, I'll speak to him. 635 00:48:54,100 --> 00:48:55,435 Look here. 636 00:48:55,568 --> 00:49:00,540 There's something I should probably talk to you, erm, about. 637 00:49:04,744 --> 00:49:05,745 I... 638 00:49:17,757 --> 00:49:19,125 (Dishes clattering) 639 00:49:19,359 --> 00:49:21,861 Oh, here you are, Father. 640 00:49:35,108 --> 00:49:36,276 Smells wonderful. 641 00:49:37,310 --> 00:49:39,412 Er, yes. I do hope you'll enjoy it. 642 00:49:48,288 --> 00:49:49,289 (Michael) Mmm. 643 00:49:50,557 --> 00:49:53,760 Alf Jordan sprained his ankle while on holiday. 644 00:49:54,561 --> 00:49:56,463 Unlikely to be fit for the start of the season. 645 00:49:56,463 --> 00:49:58,164 Oh dear. How unfortunate. 646 00:50:00,800 --> 00:50:02,435 It's a bit of a... 647 00:50:03,470 --> 00:50:05,472 bit of a bore, really. 648 00:50:05,472 --> 00:50:08,740 Darling, this is hardly the time to be reading. 649 00:50:09,442 --> 00:50:11,110 Sorry. 650 00:50:11,177 --> 00:50:12,445 (Michael) Are we ready? 651 00:50:12,579 --> 00:50:13,780 (Fiona) Of course, we're ready. 652 00:50:13,780 --> 00:50:15,482 Ready as we'll ever be. 653 00:50:21,321 --> 00:50:22,622 Shepherd's pie. 654 00:50:22,756 --> 00:50:25,258 (Fiona) Yes. And decent mince too. 655 00:50:43,900 --> 00:50:44,100 Shall I serve? 656 00:50:45,945 --> 00:50:46,946 No. 657 00:50:56,556 --> 00:50:57,624 Ah... 658 00:50:58,958 --> 00:51:00,260 how splendid. 659 00:51:11,304 --> 00:51:12,372 Thank you, darling. 660 00:51:38,865 --> 00:51:42,350 (Loudly) There was a time when what one did in London 661 00:51:42,350 --> 00:51:43,203 stayed in London. 662 00:51:43,203 --> 00:51:46,439 But these days, half of the street works in London. 663 00:51:50,577 --> 00:51:52,780 Well, that's right, my dear. 664 00:51:55,448 --> 00:51:57,283 Half the street. 665 00:51:58,385 --> 00:52:04,924 (♪ Blues music playing) 666 00:52:45,965 --> 00:52:51,805 (♪ Saxophone playing) 667 00:53:48,828 --> 00:53:49,963 (Women chatter) 668 00:53:53,299 --> 00:53:59,506 (Groans) 669 00:54:02,575 --> 00:54:03,643 (Sniffs) 670 00:54:04,210 --> 00:54:05,245 (Groans) 671 00:54:06,713 --> 00:54:07,981 (Groans) 672 00:54:08,915 --> 00:54:10,850 (Footsteps) 673 00:54:10,850 --> 00:54:13,860 (Breathing heavily) 674 00:54:22,562 --> 00:54:25,432 (People chatter, bell dinging) 675 00:54:25,699 --> 00:54:26,700 (Prim lady) Miss? 676 00:54:27,233 --> 00:54:28,401 Miss! 677 00:54:29,269 --> 00:54:31,104 The sausage roll is cold. 678 00:54:31,271 --> 00:54:32,739 Oh, I'm so sorry. 679 00:54:33,600 --> 00:54:35,108 - (Man) Miss? - Yes. One minute, sir. 680 00:54:35,108 --> 00:54:36,376 You're new here, aren't you? 681 00:54:36,509 --> 00:54:38,578 Haven't quite found your feet yet. 682 00:54:38,712 --> 00:54:39,746 (Bell dinging) 683 00:54:40,413 --> 00:54:42,150 Shall I bring you something else, madam? 684 00:54:42,150 --> 00:54:43,383 Some, some more tea, perhaps? 685 00:54:44,250 --> 00:54:45,518 I shall think about it. 686 00:54:45,618 --> 00:54:47,120 (People chatter) 687 00:54:47,253 --> 00:54:48,288 (Williams) Excuse me. 688 00:54:48,421 --> 00:54:49,589 (Man) Miss? Miss! 689 00:54:51,191 --> 00:54:53,590 Make it snappy, please. It's getting very busy. 690 00:54:53,590 --> 00:54:54,194 Of course, Mr Adams. 691 00:54:54,294 --> 00:54:55,595 Mr Williams. 692 00:54:55,762 --> 00:54:57,364 Skiving again. 693 00:54:57,364 --> 00:54:58,465 I'm disappointed. 694 00:54:58,465 --> 00:55:00,467 And, Miss Harris, I'm disappointed to find you, 695 00:55:00,633 --> 00:55:03,690 well into your third week here, still working as a waitress. 696 00:55:03,203 --> 00:55:05,872 It was an assistant manager's post you accepted? 697 00:55:05,872 --> 00:55:07,400 Yes. 698 00:55:07,474 --> 00:55:09,976 Well, I hope to be given greater responsibilities in good time. 699 00:55:09,976 --> 00:55:12,312 If you wish, I might speak with your supervisor. 700 00:55:12,445 --> 00:55:14,214 No, that won't be necessary, thank you. 701 00:55:14,748 --> 00:55:16,549 Mr Williams, why haven't you returned to the office? 702 00:55:16,549 --> 00:55:18,151 You did say, last time, that you would. 703 00:55:18,284 --> 00:55:19,285 Yes. 704 00:55:19,419 --> 00:55:22,422 As it happens, I was just now thinking about that. 705 00:55:23,156 --> 00:55:25,291 Erm, after all, it's not as if 706 00:55:25,458 --> 00:55:28,762 I've found a wealth of other ways to occupy my time. 707 00:55:28,895 --> 00:55:30,630 Mr Williams, it's very busy. 708 00:55:30,630 --> 00:55:32,399 - I'm sorry. - Yeah, of course, I'll let you go. 709 00:55:32,499 --> 00:55:34,300 But, I am... 710 00:55:36,169 --> 00:55:38,571 I did wonder when your present shift ended. 711 00:55:39,939 --> 00:55:41,408 Why would you mind about that? 712 00:55:42,409 --> 00:55:43,576 Why? 713 00:55:44,310 --> 00:55:46,413 Well, for one thing, because they're showing 714 00:55:46,413 --> 00:55:48,915 I Was A Male War Bride at the pictures. 715 00:55:49,150 --> 00:55:51,170 And I wondered if you'd care to come along. 716 00:55:51,151 --> 00:55:53,586 No, I shan't be encouraging this skiving any longer. 717 00:55:54,287 --> 00:55:56,890 You need to get back to the office, alright? 718 00:55:56,189 --> 00:55:57,290 What will they be thinking? 719 00:55:57,290 --> 00:55:59,959 - Er, yes. But, you see, today... - (Adams clears throat) 720 00:56:01,361 --> 00:56:04,330 ...is my pictures day. 721 00:56:06,132 --> 00:56:09,436 Er, and I was merely wishing for a companion. 722 00:56:10,470 --> 00:56:11,504 Oh, well. 723 00:56:15,642 --> 00:56:17,444 Cary Grant, Miss Harris. 724 00:56:18,611 --> 00:56:21,948 I understood you were... quite fond of him. 725 00:56:24,384 --> 00:56:26,186 (Sergeant on screen) Any female trouble? 726 00:56:26,486 --> 00:56:28,655 (Cary Grant) Nothing much, Sergeant. 727 00:56:28,655 --> 00:56:30,690 (Audience chuckle softly) 728 00:56:30,690 --> 00:56:31,858 (Sergeant mutters) 729 00:56:32,826 --> 00:56:34,894 Have you ever had any children before? 730 00:56:35,610 --> 00:56:36,963 (Cary Grant) Oh, my aching back. 731 00:56:37,630 --> 00:56:39,320 (Cary Grant) You know that awful feeling before breakfast? 732 00:56:39,199 --> 00:56:40,200 (Sergeant) No, Captain, I don't. 733 00:56:40,200 --> 00:56:41,368 (Cary Grant) Oh, Sergeant, you're lucky. 734 00:56:41,534 --> 00:56:44,838 (♪ Blues music playing) 735 00:56:45,338 --> 00:56:47,574 (Car honking) 736 00:56:47,874 --> 00:56:50,210 (Indistinct chatter) 737 00:56:51,344 --> 00:56:52,345 (Woman) Yes! 738 00:56:52,579 --> 00:56:53,646 - Ha! - (Whistle blows) 739 00:56:53,913 --> 00:56:57,884 (Indistinct chatter) 740 00:57:01,488 --> 00:57:02,689 Mr Williams. 741 00:57:02,689 --> 00:57:05,225 It's time I was going home. My cousin will be getting concerned. 742 00:57:05,392 --> 00:57:06,526 Oh, of course. 743 00:57:06,526 --> 00:57:08,261 But, erm, look at this. 744 00:57:08,395 --> 00:57:11,640 It may seem easy, but I assure you it isn't. 745 00:57:11,231 --> 00:57:13,600 (Mechanical grab) 746 00:57:13,733 --> 00:57:14,934 Look. 747 00:57:19,439 --> 00:57:20,507 Ohh. 748 00:57:20,707 --> 00:57:22,208 (Chuckles) It's so difficult. 749 00:57:22,342 --> 00:57:23,943 Mr Williams, I really must be going. 750 00:57:24,177 --> 00:57:25,912 Oh. Oh, of course. 751 00:57:26,460 --> 00:57:27,470 But before you go, Miss Harris, 752 00:57:27,470 --> 00:57:29,182 wouldn't you like to have a try yourself? 753 00:57:29,282 --> 00:57:31,785 I have a feeling, you see, that you'd be rather good at this. 754 00:57:31,951 --> 00:57:33,186 It's the rabbit. 755 00:57:33,453 --> 00:57:35,550 It's the rabbit we're after. 756 00:57:35,550 --> 00:57:36,890 Very well. Just once. Then I'll go. 757 00:57:37,190 --> 00:57:40,560 (Mechanical grab) 758 00:57:40,727 --> 00:57:44,397 (Mechanical grab) 759 00:57:46,199 --> 00:57:49,469 (Coins jingling) 760 00:57:51,738 --> 00:57:53,707 (Williams) It's not nearly as easy as it, erm... 761 00:57:56,409 --> 00:57:59,612 Oh, I say! (Chuckles) 762 00:57:59,913 --> 00:58:02,315 Well done, Miss Harris, well done. 763 00:58:02,315 --> 00:58:04,840 I might have known you could do it. 764 00:58:04,551 --> 00:58:05,919 (Mechanical grab) 765 00:58:06,520 --> 00:58:07,554 Right. Now I'm going. 766 00:58:07,754 --> 00:58:09,550 (Williams) Yes, of course. 767 00:58:09,789 --> 00:58:11,591 I'll walk you to your bus. 768 00:58:12,920 --> 00:58:13,259 Bravo, Miss Harris. 769 00:58:13,426 --> 00:58:16,830 (Footsteps, traffic) 770 00:58:17,464 --> 00:58:18,631 (Groans) 771 00:58:19,999 --> 00:58:21,234 (Groans) 772 00:58:22,902 --> 00:58:24,137 (Groans) Miss Harris? 773 00:58:30,343 --> 00:58:31,678 What is it, Mr Williams? 774 00:58:31,845 --> 00:58:32,846 I wondered... 775 00:58:33,480 --> 00:58:36,750 if you'd... join me for a drink. 776 00:58:37,584 --> 00:58:40,253 A few mins, that's all. 777 00:58:42,288 --> 00:58:43,757 Because you see, I... 778 00:58:45,458 --> 00:58:50,497 ...I don't... I don't feel quite able to go home just yet. 779 00:58:53,133 --> 00:58:57,637 (People laughing and chattering) 780 00:58:57,637 --> 00:59:00,173 - (Toy hoping) - (People laughing) 781 00:59:00,607 --> 00:59:03,309 (Indistinct chatter) 782 00:59:09,482 --> 00:59:12,385 Oh, this isn't very nice, really, is it, Mr Williams? 783 00:59:13,520 --> 00:59:16,790 I know it's quite innocent, and I'm not implying anything, but... 784 00:59:20,600 --> 00:59:21,828 (Softly) Well, you're much older than me. 785 00:59:23,296 --> 00:59:26,800 And someone, someone might suppose that... 786 00:59:29,350 --> 00:59:30,704 you're becoming infatuated. 787 00:59:37,677 --> 00:59:39,579 Infatuated? 788 00:59:46,753 --> 00:59:50,523 I suppose, in a way, I am. 789 00:59:51,324 --> 00:59:55,895 But not quite as some might suppose. 790 00:59:57,263 --> 01:00:02,569 I realised, since you arrived, how very different it had been. 791 01:00:03,200 --> 01:00:07,540 I confess I did at times worry if your attitude was, well... 792 01:00:09,676 --> 01:00:10,677 appropriate. 793 01:00:10,677 --> 01:00:13,580 But I came to appreciate you. 794 01:00:13,580 --> 01:00:17,684 And, and not, not simply for your youth. 795 01:00:17,784 --> 01:00:20,286 There was some other quality. 796 01:00:20,420 --> 01:00:21,688 Your... 797 01:00:21,855 --> 01:00:23,223 appetite for life. 798 01:00:23,356 --> 01:00:26,260 Your... the way you always make everything jolly and ***. 799 01:00:26,260 --> 01:00:28,628 Even while working there with us. 800 01:00:28,795 --> 01:00:30,130 Mr Williams... 801 01:00:30,130 --> 01:00:33,266 I'm-- I'm just an ordinary person like everybody else. 802 01:00:34,340 --> 01:00:36,603 I-- I have no such special quality. 803 01:00:37,103 --> 01:00:38,638 I try to stay cheerful. 804 01:00:38,772 --> 01:00:39,806 That's true, but-- 805 01:00:39,806 --> 01:00:42,742 Miss Harris, I wonder if I may confide in you. 806 01:00:45,412 --> 01:00:48,748 There's something I haven't really told anyone else. 807 01:00:49,820 --> 01:00:50,383 Not even my son. 808 01:00:53,219 --> 01:00:55,255 It's quite... 809 01:00:57,724 --> 01:01:00,160 a bore, really, but the fact is... 810 01:01:05,765 --> 01:01:08,234 The fact is I'm not expected to live much longer. 811 01:01:09,669 --> 01:01:11,338 I have a cancer. Here. 812 01:01:17,110 --> 01:01:20,447 After receiving my news, I... 813 01:01:22,182 --> 01:01:24,984 I took to looking around myself a little. 814 01:01:25,151 --> 01:01:27,620 And that day I saw you in Piccadilly... 815 01:01:29,489 --> 01:01:31,124 I thought, "Look at her. 816 01:01:33,526 --> 01:01:35,161 "Look at Miss Harris. 817 01:01:38,198 --> 01:01:41,201 "If I'm only to be alive like her for one day." 818 01:01:45,438 --> 01:01:46,873 I suppose I... 819 01:01:47,607 --> 01:01:49,943 I hoped you'd show me, or... 820 01:01:50,543 --> 01:01:52,445 teach me to be like you. 821 01:01:53,446 --> 01:01:56,649 Mr Williams... your son. 822 01:01:56,649 --> 01:01:58,318 Why haven't you told your son? 823 01:01:58,518 --> 01:01:59,652 Well... 824 01:02:02,789 --> 01:02:04,524 I think the world of Michael. 825 01:02:06,993 --> 01:02:08,495 However, he's now... 826 01:02:11,631 --> 01:02:13,299 He has his own life to live, 827 01:02:13,299 --> 01:02:15,869 his own concerns, and that's as it should be. 828 01:02:18,304 --> 01:02:20,974 But you're correct. I'm behaving like an old fool. 829 01:02:23,343 --> 01:02:25,311 What was it, your name for me? 830 01:02:27,130 --> 01:02:28,140 Mr Zombie. 831 01:02:28,148 --> 01:02:31,551 (Chuckles) Yes. Mr Zombie. 832 01:02:32,180 --> 01:02:33,720 I wasn't always. 833 01:02:35,555 --> 01:02:36,923 When I was your age, 834 01:02:37,257 --> 01:02:39,392 from when I was this high, 835 01:02:40,360 --> 01:02:41,861 what I wanted... 836 01:02:45,565 --> 01:02:46,900 was to be a gentleman. 837 01:02:48,535 --> 01:02:51,371 Nothing grand. Just a rank and file sort of gentleman. 838 01:02:54,507 --> 01:02:57,577 I used to see them in the mornings, all lined up at the railway station, 839 01:02:57,577 --> 01:03:01,514 whenever I went there with my mother in their suits and hats, 840 01:03:01,514 --> 01:03:03,750 waiting on the platform to go into London. 841 01:03:03,883 --> 01:03:06,520 A gentleman like that. 842 01:03:06,786 --> 01:03:08,880 That's what... 843 01:03:08,288 --> 01:03:10,523 That's what I longed to be one day. 844 01:03:22,402 --> 01:03:23,737 How did it happen? 845 01:03:27,440 --> 01:03:29,642 I fancy it just crept up on me. 846 01:03:29,776 --> 01:03:32,479 Just one day proceeding the next. 847 01:03:33,413 --> 01:03:35,882 A small wonder I didn't notice... 848 01:03:36,783 --> 01:03:38,318 what I was becoming. 849 01:03:42,122 --> 01:03:44,570 And then I looked at you. 850 01:03:47,827 --> 01:03:49,950 And I remembered... 851 01:03:51,664 --> 01:03:54,334 what it was like to be alive like that. 852 01:03:55,435 --> 01:03:57,404 (Sniffles) 853 01:04:03,576 --> 01:04:05,945 I wonder if you ever stop on the way home 854 01:04:06,112 --> 01:04:07,681 and watch the children playing. 855 01:04:09,282 --> 01:04:11,584 In the street, or in the yard. 856 01:04:12,585 --> 01:04:15,488 And when the time comes and their mothers call them in, 857 01:04:16,220 --> 01:04:21,294 they're often reluctant. They, they get a little contrary. 858 01:04:21,294 --> 01:04:23,363 But that's as it should be. 859 01:04:24,864 --> 01:04:27,967 Far better that than to be the child you occasionally see, 860 01:04:27,967 --> 01:04:32,339 he's sitting by himself in the corner not taking part 861 01:04:33,506 --> 01:04:35,208 not happy, not unhappy. 862 01:04:35,208 --> 01:04:37,310 Merely waiting for his mother to call him in. 863 01:04:41,381 --> 01:04:44,351 I've become afraid that I might end up like that child. 864 01:04:46,486 --> 01:04:50,290 And I so very much do not wish to do so. 865 01:04:54,194 --> 01:04:58,665 When the time comes, when my Maker calls me... 866 01:05:08,375 --> 01:05:10,100 (Sniffs) 867 01:05:13,580 --> 01:05:14,914 (Chuckles softly) 868 01:05:17,170 --> 01:05:18,840 Miss Harris... 869 01:05:19,419 --> 01:05:22,322 I hope you'll able to forgive me. Please forgive me for everything. 870 01:05:22,322 --> 01:05:24,557 I've kept you far too long. 871 01:05:24,557 --> 01:05:26,326 We must get you to your bus stop. 872 01:05:27,260 --> 01:05:29,696 Mr Williams, are you all right? 873 01:05:30,530 --> 01:05:33,767 Never better. But we must hurry. Your cousin will be anxious. 874 01:05:40,730 --> 01:05:44,577 (Telephone ringing) 875 01:05:46,913 --> 01:05:49,820 (Williams) Good morning, Mr Singh. Would you come with me. 876 01:05:50,517 --> 01:05:51,551 (Door opens) 877 01:05:51,685 --> 01:05:54,187 - (Williams) Good morning, everyone. - (Middleton) Oh, Mr Williams, sir. 878 01:05:54,788 --> 01:05:56,790 - Welcome back, sir. - Mr Hart. 879 01:05:57,900 --> 01:05:59,526 Our file on the bomb site at Chester Street. 880 01:05:59,526 --> 01:06:00,593 Erm... 881 01:06:00,593 --> 01:06:02,462 The one that the local ladies have been petitioning 882 01:06:02,462 --> 01:06:03,797 to turn into a children's playground. 883 01:06:04,300 --> 01:06:05,650 Ah! Now, I believe... 884 01:06:05,799 --> 01:06:07,801 Erm, I believe it's, uh... 885 01:06:07,934 --> 01:06:10,136 Yes, sir. I believe Mr Rusbridger has it. 886 01:06:10,704 --> 01:06:14,307 Yes. Mr Rusbridger, you took it off of Mr Williams' desk last Friday, 887 01:06:14,307 --> 01:06:15,975 the last time the ladies were here. 888 01:06:16,142 --> 01:06:17,777 - Well, Mr Rusbridger. - Yes, sir. I suppose I did. 889 01:06:17,777 --> 01:06:19,379 So, it must be here somewhere. 890 01:06:19,379 --> 01:06:21,381 Mr Wakeling, you say the ladies have been here again? 891 01:06:21,381 --> 01:06:22,716 - As recently as Friday? - (Peter) Last Friday, sir. 892 01:06:22,882 --> 01:06:24,417 Yes, here it is. 893 01:06:24,584 --> 01:06:26,219 We have just enough time before lunch. 894 01:06:26,219 --> 01:06:27,654 I propose we go straight away. 895 01:06:27,654 --> 01:06:28,788 Go, sir? 896 01:06:28,922 --> 01:06:30,657 Mr Rusbridger, we'll will take the file with us, 897 01:06:30,657 --> 01:06:32,592 but please wrap it up well. It's pouring outside. 898 01:06:32,592 --> 01:06:34,894 Well, that's just it, if I may say so, sir, 899 01:06:34,994 --> 01:06:36,730 it is very wet just now. 900 01:06:36,730 --> 01:06:38,431 I'm sure we'll manage, Mr Hart. 901 01:06:38,765 --> 01:06:39,933 Mrs Johnstone. 902 01:06:41,000 --> 01:06:42,669 We haven't been formally introduced. 903 01:06:43,103 --> 01:06:45,138 How do you do, Mr Williams? 904 01:06:45,472 --> 01:06:46,606 It's a pleasure to meet you. 905 01:06:46,773 --> 01:06:48,740 The pleasure is all mine. 906 01:06:48,740 --> 01:06:51,578 Mrs Johnstone, would you mind terribly remaining here and holding the fort? 907 01:06:51,578 --> 01:06:54,800 - Certainly, sir. - Thank you. 908 01:06:54,347 --> 01:06:57,517 Messrs Middleton, Hart, Rusbridger, and Wakeling, if you'd follow me. 909 01:06:57,650 --> 01:06:58,818 Thank you, Mr Singh. 910 01:07:12,932 --> 01:07:16,360 (Telephone ringing) 911 01:07:34,120 --> 01:07:35,188 Chester Street. 912 01:07:35,188 --> 01:07:38,158 District Line to Stepney Green and then a brisk walk. 913 01:07:48,835 --> 01:07:53,506 (♪ Melancholic music playing) 914 01:08:42,288 --> 01:08:43,957 (Woman coughing, sniffles) 915 01:08:45,792 --> 01:08:46,926 (Crying) 916 01:08:48,528 --> 01:08:49,763 (Sniffs) 917 01:08:53,199 --> 01:08:55,568 (Church bell tolling) 918 01:09:00,730 --> 01:09:02,776 (Vicar) It was a lovely service. I think everyone enjoyed it. 919 01:09:03,977 --> 01:09:04,978 Pardon? 920 01:09:05,145 --> 01:09:07,147 It was a lovely service. I think everyone enjoyed it. 921 01:09:07,280 --> 01:09:09,382 Yes, yes. I think so. I think so. Yes. 922 01:09:09,482 --> 01:09:13,319 (People chattering) 923 01:09:25,732 --> 01:09:26,833 Good afternoon, Sir James. 924 01:09:27,167 --> 01:09:28,935 Jolly decent of you to show up. 925 01:09:29,102 --> 01:09:30,904 Good afternoon, Mr Ryman. 926 01:09:31,471 --> 01:09:33,139 Middleton, sir. 927 01:09:33,606 --> 01:09:35,475 You worked alongside him. 928 01:09:36,443 --> 01:09:37,777 Must be like losing family. 929 01:09:39,279 --> 01:09:42,816 Yes, sir. (Stutters) It feels almost like that. 930 01:09:43,249 --> 01:09:45,952 I want you to know how very sorry we all are. 931 01:09:46,119 --> 01:09:47,987 - (Middleton) Very good of you, sir. - Thank you, Sir James. 932 01:09:50,857 --> 01:09:52,125 (Sir James) Look here, Mr... 933 01:09:52,258 --> 01:09:53,760 - Middleton, sir. - Middleton, quite. 934 01:09:54,260 --> 01:09:57,597 Erm, perhaps, you'd be good enough to come to my office Monday morning. 935 01:09:58,164 --> 01:09:59,666 We might talk this over. 936 01:10:01,340 --> 01:10:02,969 How best to handle it from here. 937 01:10:04,771 --> 01:10:06,390 Of course, sir. 938 01:10:06,539 --> 01:10:10,610 Naturally, one wants to give credit where it's due. 939 01:10:12,112 --> 01:10:15,849 But the way those ladies have been kicking up. 940 01:10:16,883 --> 01:10:18,718 In the end, it does a disservice 941 01:10:18,718 --> 01:10:21,688 to the memory of our dear departed friend. 942 01:10:22,622 --> 01:10:24,157 Such a self-effacing fellow. 943 01:10:24,691 --> 01:10:27,961 If he were here, he'd be the first to protest. 944 01:10:28,128 --> 01:10:29,162 Excuse me. 945 01:10:29,729 --> 01:10:30,797 Miss Harris. 946 01:10:32,665 --> 01:10:34,367 - Hello, Mr Wakeling. - Hello. 947 01:10:35,402 --> 01:10:38,400 Erm, I saw you talking with the ladies. 948 01:10:39,172 --> 01:10:42,175 Yes, they're very distraught. They were so fond of him. 949 01:10:43,643 --> 01:10:44,678 Yes. 950 01:10:44,878 --> 01:10:46,579 Look, Miss Harris, erm... 951 01:10:48,381 --> 01:10:52,352 Well, I was, I suppose I was just wondering if, erm... 952 01:10:54,821 --> 01:10:57,900 What were you wondering, Mr Wakeling? 953 01:10:58,224 --> 01:10:59,325 Mr Wakeling. 954 01:10:59,426 --> 01:11:00,493 Mr Williams. 955 01:11:02,529 --> 01:11:04,300 I'm sorry to raise this here. 956 01:11:06,199 --> 01:11:08,735 But I thought it best to give this to you right away. 957 01:11:08,868 --> 01:11:09,869 Oh. 958 01:11:12,205 --> 01:11:13,840 It was among my father's things. 959 01:11:16,242 --> 01:11:17,577 Quite prominent. 960 01:11:17,777 --> 01:11:19,713 He's marked it "private and confidential'. 961 01:11:21,848 --> 01:11:23,116 So he has. 962 01:11:28,254 --> 01:11:29,356 Miss Harris. 963 01:11:30,557 --> 01:11:32,258 We haven't been introduced, I know, 964 01:11:32,258 --> 01:11:34,561 but I wonder if we might have a word in private. 965 01:11:35,562 --> 01:11:36,863 - In private? - Yes. 966 01:11:37,263 --> 01:11:39,799 - If, if you wouldn't mind. - Of course. 967 01:11:44,471 --> 01:11:47,307 - Excuse me. (Mutters) - Not at all. 968 01:11:47,574 --> 01:11:48,608 (Mumbles) This way. 969 01:12:04,824 --> 01:12:06,226 Excuse me for bringing you away. 970 01:12:06,393 --> 01:12:08,428 Oh, no. No, not at all. 971 01:12:10,563 --> 01:12:12,650 I appreciate you coming today. 972 01:12:12,432 --> 01:12:13,633 Thank you. 973 01:12:15,835 --> 01:12:17,270 I'm awfully sorry. 974 01:12:18,605 --> 01:12:20,140 Must be such a huge loss. 975 01:12:22,750 --> 01:12:23,760 It is rather. 976 01:12:27,147 --> 01:12:28,615 We haven't really been introduced. 977 01:12:28,815 --> 01:12:29,816 No. 978 01:12:31,317 --> 01:12:33,186 I know that you worked with him. 979 01:12:33,753 --> 01:12:36,356 Yes, well, only briefly. 980 01:12:37,257 --> 01:12:38,324 Margaret Harris. 981 01:12:41,661 --> 01:12:42,829 Miss Harris... 982 01:12:43,663 --> 01:12:44,931 How do you do? 983 01:12:45,310 --> 01:12:46,320 How do you do? 984 01:12:47,333 --> 01:12:50,270 I'm sorry, I should have come and introduced myself earlier, 985 01:12:50,270 --> 01:12:53,673 - but you seemed so busy and... - Oh, that's, that's quite alright. 986 01:12:59,312 --> 01:13:01,181 I really am dreadfully sorry. 987 01:13:03,483 --> 01:13:05,151 This must be so hard for you. 988 01:13:05,352 --> 01:13:06,486 One bears up. 989 01:13:08,988 --> 01:13:11,157 And I've been through this sort of thing once before. 990 01:13:11,458 --> 01:13:12,659 Oh, yes. 991 01:13:14,127 --> 01:13:15,128 Miss Harris... 992 01:13:16,196 --> 01:13:19,199 there was something I wished to ask you. 993 01:13:19,332 --> 01:13:20,333 Of course. 994 01:13:21,835 --> 01:13:25,171 There's something I, I can't quite, erm... 995 01:13:30,744 --> 01:13:32,979 Did my father know he was ill? 996 01:13:37,584 --> 01:13:38,818 That he was dying? 997 01:13:42,322 --> 01:13:43,423 (Gasps) 998 01:13:48,261 --> 01:13:50,597 (Softly) I don't know what... I don't know what to say. 999 01:13:54,501 --> 01:13:57,203 (Swallows, breath trembling) 1000 01:14:01,174 --> 01:14:02,609 Because if he knew... 1001 01:14:05,445 --> 01:14:07,130 and he told you... 1002 01:14:10,500 --> 01:14:11,418 You see what I mean? 1003 01:14:12,118 --> 01:14:13,119 (Exhales) 1004 01:14:13,253 --> 01:14:14,521 (Exhales) 1005 01:14:15,210 --> 01:14:16,556 (Michael) Why wouldn't he tell me? 1006 01:14:17,123 --> 01:14:18,224 Well... 1007 01:14:20,894 --> 01:14:22,429 Perhaps he... 1008 01:14:24,864 --> 01:14:26,766 If he'd just told me... 1009 01:14:28,234 --> 01:14:30,270 I'd never have let him leave us like that. 1010 01:14:32,138 --> 01:14:33,640 In all that cold. 1011 01:14:38,912 --> 01:14:40,280 (Crying) 1012 01:14:43,416 --> 01:14:45,652 (Crying, sniffs) 1013 01:14:50,757 --> 01:14:52,125 I'm sorry. 1014 01:14:56,763 --> 01:14:57,964 Er... 1015 01:15:01,601 --> 01:15:02,969 Thank you, Miss Harris. 1016 01:15:03,136 --> 01:15:07,173 (Crying, sniffles) 1017 01:15:14,981 --> 01:15:16,583 (Steam whistle) 1018 01:15:20,920 --> 01:15:22,155 What's that you've got there? 1019 01:15:26,993 --> 01:15:28,940 Nothing. 1020 01:15:29,529 --> 01:15:31,131 (Peter) I'll read it some other time. 1021 01:15:31,765 --> 01:15:34,701 Any of you chaps get a chance to talk to Mrs Smith? 1022 01:15:35,435 --> 01:15:36,770 Or any of the other ladies? 1023 01:15:38,805 --> 01:15:42,108 You know, one appreciates them sticking up for the old man's memory. 1024 01:15:42,275 --> 01:15:44,210 But they've quite convinced themselves 1025 01:15:44,210 --> 01:15:47,380 that Mr Williams built that playground entirely by himself. 1026 01:15:53,620 --> 01:15:55,689 Parks did get more credit than they deserved. 1027 01:15:55,689 --> 01:15:57,657 That's because they're called Parks. 1028 01:16:00,560 --> 01:16:02,829 Sir James certainly got his share of the credit. 1029 01:16:04,300 --> 01:16:05,632 Made certain of that. 1030 01:16:05,999 --> 01:16:09,350 Sir James was quite crucial as far as that playground's concerned. 1031 01:16:13,573 --> 01:16:15,800 Suppose he was. 1032 01:16:15,542 --> 01:16:16,843 (Clicks tongue) 1033 01:16:17,544 --> 01:16:19,579 You know, I, I can't help thinking. 1034 01:16:19,979 --> 01:16:21,748 And I, I didn't know Mr Williams 1035 01:16:21,748 --> 01:16:23,850 the way you all did, of course, but... 1036 01:16:25,518 --> 01:16:28,221 - ...but it does seem to me that he... - That he changed. 1037 01:16:30,390 --> 01:16:31,391 Yes. 1038 01:16:32,859 --> 01:16:34,661 It was this playground business. 1039 01:16:36,162 --> 01:16:37,430 Chester Street. 1040 01:16:37,430 --> 01:16:39,733 District Line to Stepney Green and then a brisk walk. 1041 01:17:03,623 --> 01:17:04,891 (Williams) No, you must... 1042 01:17:04,891 --> 01:17:06,359 (Mrs McMasters) No, I insist, sir. 1043 01:17:06,760 --> 01:17:07,927 Honestly. 1044 01:17:19,739 --> 01:17:22,809 (Rusbridger) He was willing to traipse through all that sewage water 1045 01:17:22,809 --> 01:17:24,544 - just to get to the site. - (Hart) He did become... 1046 01:17:25,245 --> 01:17:26,413 obsessed. 1047 01:17:27,247 --> 01:17:29,416 He was prepared to make himself a right bugger about it. 1048 01:17:29,916 --> 01:17:31,418 I accompanied him once to Planning. 1049 01:17:31,418 --> 01:17:32,485 This is it here. 1050 01:17:32,485 --> 01:17:34,287 Leave it with us and we'll send it down to you once it's ready. 1051 01:17:34,287 --> 01:17:37,570 (Hart) That ogre Talbot was presiding that day. 1052 01:17:37,570 --> 01:17:39,292 Actually, I was hoping you might see to it now, 1053 01:17:39,426 --> 01:17:41,561 and then I could take it off your hands straight away. 1054 01:17:42,228 --> 01:17:45,565 Well, I'm unable to authorise it just like that. 1055 01:17:45,765 --> 01:17:47,400 Look, look, don't worry. 1056 01:17:47,400 --> 01:17:49,135 I'll see it gets done. We'll send it down to you. 1057 01:17:49,903 --> 01:17:54,407 Why don't I wait here while you check those entries? 1058 01:17:57,777 --> 01:18:00,800 Well, it's up to you, but you might find yourself waiting for some time. 1059 01:18:00,800 --> 01:18:01,448 We've got a lot on up here. 1060 01:18:01,448 --> 01:18:04,484 Take all the time you need, Mr Talbot. I'm quite happy here. 1061 01:18:04,784 --> 01:18:07,420 Mr Hart, you'd better get back. 1062 01:18:08,288 --> 01:18:10,490 Tell the others I've been held up. 1063 01:18:11,157 --> 01:18:12,792 Indefinitely. 1064 01:18:13,793 --> 01:18:15,462 Of course, Mr Williams. 1065 01:18:22,168 --> 01:18:24,537 (Hart) He said he'd sit and wait all day if he had to. 1066 01:18:25,138 --> 01:18:26,539 And he did. 1067 01:18:32,612 --> 01:18:34,781 This is very good of you, Mr Jones. 1068 01:18:35,480 --> 01:18:39,352 I know we're placing an extra burden on all of you here. 1069 01:18:39,352 --> 01:18:41,721 So, this is what? A kiddies' playground? 1070 01:18:41,721 --> 01:18:42,822 (Williams) Yes. 1071 01:18:42,989 --> 01:18:44,240 Urgent? 1072 01:18:44,391 --> 01:18:46,626 We'd appreciate your giving it priority. 1073 01:18:48,128 --> 01:18:50,230 Well, if you request it, Mr Williams. 1074 01:18:50,697 --> 01:18:52,365 Thank you, Mr Jones. 1075 01:18:56,970 --> 01:18:59,205 - Thank you. - You're very welcome. 1076 01:19:00,840 --> 01:19:01,975 (Sighs) 1077 01:19:05,145 --> 01:19:06,880 (Peter) Instead of just leaving... 1078 01:19:08,348 --> 01:19:10,684 he went over to each of them in turn... 1079 01:19:11,217 --> 01:19:12,552 Thank you. 1080 01:19:13,186 --> 01:19:14,721 ...looked them in the face... 1081 01:19:16,389 --> 01:19:17,657 Thank you. 1082 01:19:17,757 --> 01:19:19,359 ...and thanked them all. 1083 01:19:20,160 --> 01:19:21,227 Thank you. 1084 01:19:21,394 --> 01:19:22,729 Yes, of course. Anything. 1085 01:19:22,862 --> 01:19:24,300 I appreciate it. 1086 01:19:25,310 --> 01:19:26,660 (William) Thank you. 1087 01:19:26,232 --> 01:19:27,434 (Clerk) That's quite alright, sir. 1088 01:19:30,603 --> 01:19:31,905 Everyone. 1089 01:19:34,107 --> 01:19:36,910 Parks did then rather pull out the stops, didn't they? 1090 01:19:36,910 --> 01:19:38,110 Quite. 1091 01:19:39,612 --> 01:19:40,780 The Mr Williams of a year ago 1092 01:19:40,780 --> 01:19:42,615 would never thought of doing something like that. 1093 01:19:51,358 --> 01:19:54,761 Actually, I witnessed something even more remarkable. 1094 01:19:55,950 --> 01:19:58,298 I never told you chaps at the time because... 1095 01:20:00,330 --> 01:20:01,735 Well, it rather annoyed me. 1096 01:20:01,901 --> 01:20:03,970 (Sir James) So, you see, for all these reasons, 1097 01:20:04,104 --> 01:20:05,939 this isn't something we can contemplate 1098 01:20:05,939 --> 01:20:07,707 for the foreseeable future. 1099 01:20:08,410 --> 01:20:10,977 I'm sorry. I genuinely regret it. 1100 01:20:10,977 --> 01:20:13,460 (Middleton) We'd gone up to Sir James' office 1101 01:20:13,460 --> 01:20:15,215 to plead a case for the playground, 1102 01:20:15,448 --> 01:20:18,318 and Sir James rejected it. 1103 01:20:18,451 --> 01:20:20,787 (Sir James) And the site is a disgrace. 1104 01:20:22,222 --> 01:20:25,759 Unfortunately, just now, we have even more urgent priorities. 1105 01:20:27,460 --> 01:20:30,397 Well, thank you for coming to see me. 1106 01:20:32,565 --> 01:20:36,200 They're considering Anderson, for the new editor's post at Punch. 1107 01:20:37,700 --> 01:20:39,720 (Gentleman) I don't fancy that, do you? 1108 01:20:39,172 --> 01:20:40,640 Wouldn't be quite right. 1109 01:20:40,807 --> 01:20:42,409 Man's obsessed with the ballet. 1110 01:20:42,742 --> 01:20:45,145 Well, that's not entirely fair. 1111 01:20:45,278 --> 01:20:47,747 Anderson also cares passionately 1112 01:20:47,914 --> 01:20:51,251 about detective fiction and horses. 1113 01:20:52,652 --> 01:20:54,954 Sir James... (Mutters) 1114 01:20:55,689 --> 01:20:57,357 ...please excuse me, 1115 01:20:57,357 --> 01:21:01,194 but I beg you to reconsider. 1116 01:21:02,128 --> 01:21:03,329 I beg you. 1117 01:21:04,864 --> 01:21:09,469 Or, at least... keep the application open for one more week. 1118 01:21:10,470 --> 01:21:12,372 What harm can that do? 1119 01:21:13,173 --> 01:21:14,374 (Middleton) He begged him. 1120 01:21:15,208 --> 01:21:18,345 He begged him to reconsider. 1121 01:21:18,611 --> 01:21:20,447 And he wouldn't take no for an answer. 1122 01:21:20,714 --> 01:21:22,115 But it came off. 1123 01:21:22,282 --> 01:21:23,683 What, what's that? 1124 01:21:23,850 --> 01:21:25,180 (Peter) It came off. 1125 01:21:26,520 --> 01:21:28,855 It must have done. The Chairman did reconsider. 1126 01:21:30,123 --> 01:21:31,324 Well, yes. 1127 01:21:32,459 --> 01:21:34,561 Yes, I suppose he did. 1128 01:21:34,894 --> 01:21:36,996 Those ladies may have a point. (Chuckles) 1129 01:21:36,996 --> 01:21:39,666 Well, yes, but we all put our shoulders to it. 1130 01:21:39,833 --> 01:21:41,368 Yes, but... 1131 01:21:42,135 --> 01:21:44,170 there's no denying the old man did push it. 1132 01:21:48,375 --> 01:21:49,876 Could it be he knew? 1133 01:21:50,643 --> 01:21:51,978 That he didn't have long? 1134 01:21:52,345 --> 01:21:53,813 Knowing something like that, 1135 01:21:53,813 --> 01:21:57,417 I suppose that might... galvanise a person. 1136 01:21:57,550 --> 01:22:00,487 Yeah, but he didn't know. His, his son was very clear on that. 1137 01:22:00,854 --> 01:22:02,689 I'm pretty sure that's right. 1138 01:22:09,290 --> 01:22:10,960 (Grunts) 1139 01:22:24,544 --> 01:22:25,712 I think he did know. 1140 01:22:33,920 --> 01:22:35,880 (Door closes) 1141 01:22:36,556 --> 01:22:37,857 Ladies. 1142 01:22:39,292 --> 01:22:41,361 We mustn't be discouraged. 1143 01:22:42,629 --> 01:22:44,564 There will be a way around this. 1144 01:22:45,732 --> 01:22:47,330 I assure you. 1145 01:22:48,101 --> 01:22:50,303 I don't know how you kept your temper just now, sir. 1146 01:22:50,737 --> 01:22:52,305 (Chuckles) 1147 01:22:54,740 --> 01:22:56,543 I don't have time to get angry, Mrs Smith. 1148 01:22:57,770 --> 01:22:58,978 (Hart) Something in the way he said it. 1149 01:22:58,978 --> 01:23:00,246 Ladies. 1150 01:23:08,254 --> 01:23:09,489 (Inhales) 1151 01:23:10,590 --> 01:23:14,427 Well, perhaps we'd all do the same. All of us here. 1152 01:23:14,561 --> 01:23:18,264 We'd work with extra urgency in a situation like that. 1153 01:23:18,398 --> 01:23:19,466 Would we? 1154 01:23:19,599 --> 01:23:21,167 It's a natural reaction. 1155 01:23:21,801 --> 01:23:23,636 Well, I don't know. 1156 01:23:24,104 --> 01:23:25,805 I don't think everyone, 1157 01:23:26,806 --> 01:23:28,475 we here, even, 1158 01:23:29,476 --> 01:23:33,446 would necessarily have responded in quite the way Mr Williams did. 1159 01:23:35,150 --> 01:23:36,316 I agree. 1160 01:23:39,519 --> 01:23:40,620 Hm. 1161 01:23:42,689 --> 01:23:44,240 If he knew... 1162 01:23:44,924 --> 01:23:48,528 he did an awfully good job keeping it to himself. (Chuckles) 1163 01:23:48,795 --> 01:23:51,498 (Machinery working, people shouting) 1164 01:24:36,900 --> 01:24:37,711 It was almost like he... 1165 01:24:40,380 --> 01:24:41,715 (Chuckles softly) 1166 01:24:47,887 --> 01:24:48,922 Yeah. 1167 01:24:50,423 --> 01:24:51,424 You're right. 1168 01:24:53,326 --> 01:24:55,495 He certainly set an example for us. 1169 01:25:00,660 --> 01:25:01,267 (Inhales deeply) 1170 01:25:02,569 --> 01:25:03,703 Look here, everyone. 1171 01:25:07,440 --> 01:25:12,746 Let me propose that we all make a pledge, here, today. 1172 01:25:14,381 --> 01:25:18,385 Let's pledge to learn from his example. 1173 01:25:18,785 --> 01:25:21,955 This lesson he set before us. 1174 01:25:22,455 --> 01:25:27,761 Let's vow never again to shy away from our responsibilities. 1175 01:25:29,295 --> 01:25:33,299 Never again to push things under the carpet. Or upstairs. 1176 01:25:33,299 --> 01:25:35,468 Mr Williams has shown us... 1177 01:25:36,690 --> 01:25:37,937 Well, that if... 1178 01:25:39,606 --> 01:25:41,107 If we put our minds to it... 1179 01:25:41,274 --> 01:25:44,277 our backs into it, we can do even better. 1180 01:25:44,277 --> 01:25:45,378 That's right. 1181 01:25:45,545 --> 01:25:47,614 And let me say this here today, 1182 01:25:47,747 --> 01:25:50,483 while I remain in charge of Public Works, 1183 01:25:50,483 --> 01:25:53,860 we're going to be true to Mr Williams' memory. 1184 01:25:54,220 --> 01:25:56,156 We're going to get things done. 1185 01:25:56,156 --> 01:25:57,323 - That's right. - Hear. Hear. 1186 01:26:10,603 --> 01:26:17,344 (♪ Cheerful music playing) 1187 01:26:17,477 --> 01:26:19,446 (Landlady) Reasonably brief, if you don't mind. 1188 01:26:19,446 --> 01:26:22,115 - I'm expecting my nephew to call. - Of course! 1189 01:26:22,982 --> 01:26:24,184 Hello, Peter. 1190 01:26:24,351 --> 01:26:27,954 ♪ Sweet music, soft and mellow 1191 01:26:28,121 --> 01:26:30,824 ♪ Soothing and slow 1192 01:26:30,957 --> 01:26:34,594 ♪ Strains of a mellow cello 1193 01:26:34,594 --> 01:26:37,697 ♪ When lights are low 1194 01:26:37,997 --> 01:26:41,134 ♪ Dear, we're so close together 1195 01:26:41,468 --> 01:26:44,370 ♪ I love you so 1196 01:26:45,380 --> 01:26:47,941 ♪ Why think about the weather 1197 01:26:48,341 --> 01:26:50,643 ♪ When lights are low 1198 01:26:51,878 --> 01:26:54,814 ♪ Two hearts revealing 1199 01:26:55,215 --> 01:26:58,351 ♪ Music hath charms 1200 01:26:58,718 --> 01:27:01,540 ♪ Life's so appealing 1201 01:27:01,287 --> 01:27:02,322 ♪ With inspiration... 1202 01:27:02,322 --> 01:27:03,890 (Audience gasps loudly) 1203 01:27:04,657 --> 01:27:08,495 ♪ Our lips Meeting soft and tender 1204 01:27:08,495 --> 01:27:09,629 (Margret) Be quiet, you. 1205 01:27:09,729 --> 01:27:12,650 ♪ Love's all aglow 1206 01:27:12,232 --> 01:27:15,735 ♪ Why shouldn't we surrender 1207 01:27:15,869 --> 01:27:18,538 ♪ When lights are low 1208 01:27:19,239 --> 01:27:21,740 ♪ When lights are low 1209 01:27:22,742 --> 01:27:25,450 ♪ When lights are low ♪ 1210 01:27:29,749 --> 01:27:31,885 (Knock at the door, door opens) 1211 01:27:32,152 --> 01:27:34,387 (Type writer clicking) 1212 01:27:37,570 --> 01:27:38,391 Yes, Mr Singh. 1213 01:27:39,559 --> 01:27:42,328 Education insist this is for us, sir. 1214 01:27:42,328 --> 01:27:43,663 And which one is this? 1215 01:27:43,863 --> 01:27:47,000 (Singh) The disagreement concerning the proposed prefabs 1216 01:27:47,400 --> 01:27:49,669 at Saint Mary's School in Shoreditch, sir. 1217 01:27:49,769 --> 01:27:50,837 Ah, that. 1218 01:27:51,571 --> 01:27:52,672 Mr Hart. 1219 01:27:52,906 --> 01:27:55,442 Can you look into Saint Mary's School? 1220 01:27:55,442 --> 01:27:57,277 That's for Education, Mr Middleton. 1221 01:27:57,277 --> 01:27:58,411 It's a Schools matter. 1222 01:27:58,545 --> 01:28:01,881 (Singh) Even so, sir, Education insist... 1223 01:28:03,516 --> 01:28:04,551 (Middleton) Well... 1224 01:28:06,519 --> 01:28:08,755 we can keep it here for now. 1225 01:28:12,920 --> 01:28:13,193 No harm. 1226 01:28:14,627 --> 01:28:16,896 (Telephone ringing) 1227 01:28:17,197 --> 01:28:18,732 The postal run, please. 1228 01:28:22,369 --> 01:28:23,970 Mr Middleton. 1229 01:28:26,306 --> 01:28:27,707 Yes, Mr Wakeling. 1230 01:28:44,791 --> 01:28:47,260 (Hart) I'd like this in triplicate, please, Mrs Johnstone. 1231 01:28:49,396 --> 01:28:51,431 That'll be all, thank you, Mr Singh. 1232 01:28:57,670 --> 01:28:58,972 (Door closes) 1233 01:29:13,453 --> 01:29:15,455 (Williams) I wonder, Mr Wakeling, 1234 01:29:15,755 --> 01:29:21,261 if I may now turn to matters you may consider more personal. 1235 01:29:22,829 --> 01:29:26,320 I have no wish to belittle our playground... 1236 01:29:26,666 --> 01:29:30,360 but I put it to you that it was, all the same... 1237 01:29:30,203 --> 01:29:31,671 a small thing. 1238 01:29:32,172 --> 01:29:35,108 And that it will, before long... 1239 01:29:35,275 --> 01:29:37,777 go the way of most small things. 1240 01:29:40,146 --> 01:29:42,716 It may fall into disrepair, 1241 01:29:42,882 --> 01:29:46,853 or be superseded by some grander scheme. 1242 01:29:48,488 --> 01:29:50,156 To speak plainly, 1243 01:29:50,323 --> 01:29:54,794 we cannot assume to have erected a lasting monument. 1244 01:29:56,863 --> 01:30:00,330 Should there come days when it's no longer clear to you 1245 01:30:00,166 --> 01:30:03,536 to what end you are directing your daily efforts, 1246 01:30:04,471 --> 01:30:07,907 when the sheer grind of it all threatens to reduce you 1247 01:30:08,740 --> 01:30:12,178 to the kind of state in which I so long existed... 1248 01:30:20,220 --> 01:30:24,591 I urge you then to recall our little playground, 1249 01:30:25,158 --> 01:30:27,227 and the modest satisfaction 1250 01:30:27,227 --> 01:30:30,430 that became our due upon its completion. 1251 01:30:46,346 --> 01:30:50,283 (Footsteps approaching) 1252 01:30:50,517 --> 01:30:51,685 Evening, sir. 1253 01:30:53,586 --> 01:30:54,587 Good evening, Officer. 1254 01:30:56,556 --> 01:30:57,791 Everything alright? 1255 01:30:58,892 --> 01:31:00,260 Yes. 1256 01:31:00,226 --> 01:31:02,228 I just wanted to see this playground again. 1257 01:31:05,980 --> 01:31:08,468 I, I played a, a small part, 1258 01:31:08,735 --> 01:31:11,938 just a small part, mind you, in bringing it into being. 1259 01:31:12,238 --> 01:31:13,807 I work at the LCC. 1260 01:31:14,774 --> 01:31:16,109 Is that so, sir? 1261 01:31:17,143 --> 01:31:19,446 Well, then the people here have a lot to thank you for. 1262 01:31:19,446 --> 01:31:20,747 Oh, I didn't do much. 1263 01:31:20,880 --> 01:31:22,480 The man who did... 1264 01:31:24,284 --> 01:31:26,753 the man, the man who did passed away this winter. 1265 01:31:27,454 --> 01:31:28,822 Mr Williams. 1266 01:31:31,570 --> 01:31:32,920 Mr Williams. 1267 01:31:32,992 --> 01:31:34,940 Yes. 1268 01:31:36,620 --> 01:31:38,665 He'll be remembered round here with... 1269 01:31:40,667 --> 01:31:42,680 respect and affection. 1270 01:31:43,570 --> 01:31:46,773 I never actually had the honour of meeting Mr Williams personally. 1271 01:31:46,773 --> 01:31:48,908 He was always that busy. (Chuckles) 1272 01:31:51,911 --> 01:31:52,946 If you was his... 1273 01:31:53,913 --> 01:31:56,649 friend, sir, then perhaps you wouldn't mind my telling you this. 1274 01:31:57,150 --> 01:31:59,252 You know, Station Sergeant says I'm being foolish. 1275 01:31:59,352 --> 01:32:00,487 But, er... 1276 01:32:01,254 --> 01:32:02,522 it stays on me mind. 1277 01:32:02,922 --> 01:32:03,990 Please. 1278 01:32:14,534 --> 01:32:19,390 ♪ Entwined thou art wi' many ties 1279 01:32:19,205 --> 01:32:23,209 ♪ O' hame and infancy 1280 01:32:23,877 --> 01:32:28,982 ♪ Thy leaves were aye The first of spring 1281 01:32:29,115 --> 01:32:33,186 ♪ Thy flowers the summer's pride 1282 01:32:33,687 --> 01:32:38,792 ♪ There was nae such a bonny tree 1283 01:32:38,892 --> 01:32:42,495 ♪ In a' the countryside 1284 01:32:43,897 --> 01:32:48,702 ♪ We sat aneath thy spreading shade 1285 01:32:48,835 --> 01:32:53,730 ♪ The bairns around thee ran 1286 01:32:53,406 --> 01:32:58,311 ♪ They pulled the bonny berries red 1287 01:32:58,478 --> 01:33:02,515 ♪ And necklaces they strang 1288 01:33:02,816 --> 01:33:07,420 ♪ My mother, oh I see her now 1289 01:33:07,721 --> 01:33:12,158 ♪ She smiled our sports to see 1290 01:33:12,325 --> 01:33:17,197 ♪ With little Jeannie on her lap 1291 01:33:17,364 --> 01:33:21,534 ♪ And Jamie on her knee ♪ 1292 01:33:27,400 --> 01:33:29,776 (Police) For his own good, sir, I should have persuaded him. 1293 01:33:31,745 --> 01:33:33,513 Told him to get out of the cold. 1294 01:33:36,490 --> 01:33:37,851 But, you see, sir, he looked so... 1295 01:33:40,587 --> 01:33:41,721 So happy. 1296 01:33:42,689 --> 01:33:44,524 And it, it felt a shame to... 1297 01:33:46,192 --> 01:33:47,594 disturb him. 1298 01:33:48,762 --> 01:33:51,798 I imagined, in time, he'd just come off that swing and go home. 1299 01:33:59,406 --> 01:34:01,307 Mr Williams had, erm... 1300 01:34:02,375 --> 01:34:04,310 had a terminal illness, you see. 1301 01:34:05,879 --> 01:34:08,281 And I think it was right... 1302 01:34:09,416 --> 01:34:11,384 that you allowed him that moment. 1303 01:34:15,422 --> 01:34:17,157 And I think you're quite right. 1304 01:34:18,124 --> 01:34:21,261 He was happy when you saw him. 1305 01:34:23,396 --> 01:34:26,566 Perhaps as happy as he'd ever been in his entire life. 1306 01:34:29,235 --> 01:34:32,339 So, I wouldn't worry yourself any more, Officer. 1307 01:34:40,246 --> 01:34:41,614 Goodnight, Officer. 1308 01:34:41,614 --> 01:34:42,682 Night, sir. 1309 01:34:50,156 --> 01:34:53,993 (♪ Melancholic music playing) 1310 01:36:47,730 --> 01:36:51,144 ♪ Oh rowan tree 1311 01:36:51,277 --> 01:36:54,948 ♪ Oh rowan tree 1312 01:36:55,115 --> 01:37:01,254 ♪ Thou'lt aye be dear to me 1313 01:37:01,254 --> 01:37:08,161 ♪ Entwined thou art with many ties 1314 01:37:08,328 --> 01:37:13,800 ♪ Of hame and infancy 1315 01:37:14,334 --> 01:37:20,607 ♪ Thy leaves were aye The first of spring 1316 01:37:20,907 --> 01:37:26,846 ♪ Thy flowers the summer's pride 1317 01:37:26,980 --> 01:37:30,817 ♪ There was nae sic 1318 01:37:30,817 --> 01:37:34,421 ♪ A bonnie tree 1319 01:37:34,621 --> 01:37:40,960 ♪ In a' the country side 1320 01:37:47,167 --> 01:37:53,373 ♪ How fair was thou in summer time 1321 01:37:53,540 --> 01:37:58,645 ♪ Wi' a'thy clusters white 1322 01:37:59,120 --> 01:38:05,385 ♪ How rich and *** thy autumn dress 1323 01:38:05,385 --> 01:38:10,724 ♪ Wi' berries red and bright 1324 01:38:11,324 --> 01:38:17,630 ♪ On thy fair stem were mony names 1325 01:38:17,230 --> 01:38:22,802 ♪ Which now nae mair I see 1326 01:38:22,902 --> 01:38:29,175 ♪ But they're engraven on my heart 1327 01:38:29,376 --> 01:38:34,247 ♪ Forget they ne'er can be 1328 01:38:37,484 --> 01:38:43,990 ♪ We sat aneath thy spreadin' shade 1329 01:38:44,900 --> 01:38:49,362 ♪ The bairnies round thee ran 1330 01:38:49,496 --> 01:38:55,702 ♪ They pu'd they bonnie berries red 1331 01:38:55,869 --> 01:39:00,940 ♪ And necklaces they strang 1332 01:39:01,174 --> 01:39:07,681 ♪ My mither, oh! i see her still 1333 01:39:07,847 --> 01:39:12,752 ♪ She smil'd our sports to see 1334 01:39:12,952 --> 01:39:19,926 ♪ Wi' little Jeannie on her lap 1335 01:39:20,260 --> 01:39:27,233 ♪ And Jamie on her knee ♪