All language subtitles for Upstairs Downstairs S05E15 All the Kings Horses WEB-DL DDP2 0 H 264-squalor (1)_track3_[eng]

[classical music]

-[Man] Do you want a hand
with the luggage, Edward?

-[Edward] That's all
right, sir, they're not

as heavy as they look.

- Not what they sell
in New York.

Hello?

Ah hello, who are you?

- Mary, sir.

- Mary, Mary.

Do you know who I am, Mary?

- Of course I do, sir.

- Splendid.

- Welcome home, sir.

I'm sorry I wasn't at the
front door to greet you.

- No problems, Hudson.

Everything okay?

- Oh yes, yes, thank you, sir.

Did you have a pleasant
voyage, sir?

- Oh yes, thank you,
Hudson, okay.

The weather's been pretty kind.

Too many people jostling about
trying to have a good time.

Is my father in?

- His lordship and her
ladyship have gone

to Madame Tussaud's
waxworks, sir,

an official reception,
I believe, for some

visiting diplomats.

They send their apologies.

- Miss Georgina, is she here?

- She's visiting Miss
Lady Isobel Dawson, sir,

Lord Stockbridge's aunt.

She hopes to be back
in time for dinner.

-[Edward] That's all right,
Mr. Hudson, I'll take those up.

- Oh, thank you, Edward.

Would you like some tea, sir?

- Oh tea, yes.

Thank you, Hudson, but
first I want a bath.

- Mary, run a bath
for the major.

The new housemaid, sir.

- Yes, that's new, too.

- Oh that, oh yes, sir.

It was a gift from the
French ambassador.

- From French Equatorial
Africa by the look of things.

- [gasping] James!

-[James] All right, is it?

- All right?

Richard, look.
- Very splendid.

- Oh James, thank you so much.

- Well, one never really
knows about jewelry.

I had to take advice
on this one.

- Oh you did, did you?

I wonder who from.

- Elizabeth.

Now father, for yours.

A lot of eyes were on this one--

- Me?
- Yes.

Here we are.

- Oh my dear fellow.
- Go on, open it.

- Come on and yes, open it.
- All right.

Oh, I say, you've
gone much too far.

- Come on, darling, try it on.

- All right, I will, I will.

- Is the color all right?

Elizabeth swore it
should've been red.

- Oh, no, no, no, no, no.

The color's absolutely perfect.

It's always been my
favorite color for him.

James, you're brilliant.

- It fits, does it?

- Well, it might've
been made for me.

My dear fellow, it's much,
much too extravagant.

- Not a bit of it.

I was in the heart of
Arizona last Christmas,

and I couldn't find anything
decent there.

God knows where I was
for the birthdays.

[laughing]

- Will you both excuse me.

I must go and change,
and I know exactly

the right dress [drowned
out by paper crunching].

- Good to have you back, James.

- Yes.

Well, how was Madame Tussaud's?

- Oh yes, I'm sorry about that,

couldn't get out of it.

- No, it's all right,
it's all right.

Did you see any friends
of yours stuck

up there in wax?

- Several.

Far too life like.

Lawson practically reached
out and shook me by the hand.

What's your news?

From your letters and
the look of you,

America seems to have
done you a power of good.

- Yes, I'm in pretty
good spirits.

- Jumbo!

-[James] Ah.

- Oh darling, darling, James!

Oh, we've missed you so much,
haven't we Uncle Richard?

Promise you won't go
away for so long again.

- I shall go away
whenever I please.

You don't need me if
all I hear is true.

Well congratulations, if
they're still in order.

- Yes, they are, thank you.

- Is this fellow as
splendid as she makes out

in her letters, father, or
has she been exaggerating?

- I'm very fond of him.

We all are.

- A bit Victorian, isn't it?

Sending him halfway around
the world to get rid of him?

- We didn't ask for it.

Tell that to the duke
and bring him back to me.

- Where is the poor
chap, anyway?

- Bangor.

- Ooh, watch out for tigers.

- I knew I'd have
trouble with you.

Didn't I say so,

Uncle Richard?
- Here we are.

There.

- For me?
- Yeah, open it.

- Oh.

Oh, James.

- I hope your intended takes
it in the right spirit.

- He was talking in the
car coming back, Rose.

Seems everyone's making
a packet over there!

- Spotted dick for pudding,
Mrs. Bridges?

- That's right, Mr. Hudson.

- After the pheasant?

- He always used to
ask for spotted dick

first day back from
his school holidays.

I saw no cause to break
with tradition

just because he's come
back from America.

- Here, Daise, you should've
heard him.

There's nurses, window
cleaners, even the chauffeurs

are rich over there.

Seems like America's
the place for us.

- The dining room's the
place for you, Daisy.

Come on now, quickly.

- [laughing] I didn't have a
place at all to begin with.

I was unnerved by that
first month with Elizabeth,

I mean, a quiet evening
with Elizabeth and Donner

means no less than 15
people to dinner.

- But she gave you the
introductions, did she?

- Oh yes, yes, it paid
off, certainly.

When I got back to New York,
I began to enjoy myself.

Is this Chateau Lafite, father?

- Well of course.

- Um, quite delicious.

I haven't tasted anything
like it for two years.

Prohibition is the maddest
of all laws.

- When I was there, rich
people break it all the time.

- Well everybody breaks it now.

They fight over it.

I was nearly killed in
a riot in Phoenix.

- Really?

- Elizabeth and Donner keep

their cellar in a dugout
underneath the gazebo.

Oh, she's in her element.

The most talked-about
hostess in town.

The house is always
jammed with politicians,

writers, the best in
society, but you know

the real lions of the
moment are the brokers.

The talk is all money.

- Oh dear, how boring.

- No, no, Virginia, you
don't understand.

It's extraordinary, the feeling

of excitement and uncertainty.

It's like a game.

Donner used to take me down
to Wall Street with him.

It was the most incredible
experience,

the feeling of fellowship,
like the war.

- Donner advised you on
money matters, did he?

- Oh yes, yes, he's
become a director

of Goldman Sachs, the
big trading corporation

right in the center of it.

In fact, it's due
to him that I owe

most of my new-found wealth.

- Oh golly, James,
how rich are you?

- Well, I'm not a
millionaire, but I'll pay

for any wedding you want at all.

- Oh no, I wouldn't dream.
- No, no, I insist.

I want you to have
the best trousseau,

all the trappings, and
I'm going to pay

for the honeymoon.

- Oh James--
- No, no, I've decided on that

I mean, what's the point
of the stuff, otherwise?

What's this, Hudson?

Tah, spotted dick. [laughing]

That brings back memories.

- Mrs. Bridges made it
specially for you.

- Oh God, send Mrs. Bridges
my apologies,

will you Hudson, I
couldn't possibly.

Now, where was I?

-[Virginia] Uh oh, your
new-found riches.

- Oh yes, I've been
thinking, father,

this house, I thought
maybe I'd sell it,

you know, and get something
larger for the children.

- Well, that's very
kind of you James,

but, thank you, Hudson.

But the children are
almost grown up now.

I don't think we need anything
larger, do we darling?

- Oh something smaller
if anything, James.

- All right then, a villa.

A villa in the south
of France or a yacht!

I wouldn't mind a yacht.

- Are you serious?

- Of course I'm serious, dammit.

Why won't people realize?

It's open to everybody
out there.

Over here, too, if they want.

Donner chauffeur, he
heard a conversation

in the back of the car,
as a result of which,

he invested his life
savings in Bethlehem Steel.

He retired overnight.

-[Virginia] Doesn't sound
quite healthy to me.

- Why not, Virginia?

We work all our lives
for prosperity,

when it comes to us
freely, as it can

to any man alive, we find
moral objections to it.

-[Richard] But there's still
poverty in America, James.

- Daisy, get rid
of some of this,

and don't let Mrs. Bridges
catch you, understand?

- Yes, Mr. Hudson.
- Largess is given

only to a few.

We must keep things
in perspective.

- All right, father,
I stand rebuked.

- Oh James, you're
not rebuked at all.

You're not rebuking him,
are you, Richard?

- Oh, not at all, a note
of caution, that's all.

One does hear rumors.

- Of course one does
hear rumors, father!

Wall Street thrives on rumors.

It's part of the game.

Look, I was con, well
we were all conditioned,

to believe that money
was vulgar taboo.

If one had it, one was
discreet about it,

one didn't talk about it.

But over there, these
people, they rejoice in it!

It's the gold at the end of
the rainbow, fairy tales.

Money doesn't have to corrupt.

I just rejoice in it with them.

I want to drink a toast,
to my investments,

to Georgina's wedding
and to the happiness

it can bring us all.

I drink to prosperity.

Well, won't anybody join me?

- I'll join you.

- To prosperity.

-[All] To prosperity.

- Oh, thank you, dear.

Did he like his pudding?

- Uh yes, Mrs. Bridges,
he ate it all up.

- Ah, I knew he would.

- Is that for me, Mary?

Thank you.

- I had hoped he'd pop
down and see me,

but I expect he's worn
out after the journey.

- Thanks, Mary.

I haven't seen him yet, neither.

Has he changed much?

- Yeah, he's rich.

-[Hudson] Easy.

- He's certainly good lookin'.

- You play your cards
right, Mary,

you might end up marryin' him.

- Mmm, livin' in luxury.

- That's enough of that
talk from both of you.

- We're only joking, Mr. Hudson.

- How do you make money on the
stock exchange, Mr. Hudson?

- You buy shares in
certain commodities, Daisy,

and when the shares
rise in value,

you sell them and
keep the profits.

That's the principle.

- Sounds easy.

- Oh the shares can also
lose their value,

and then you lose your money.

It's a matter of great
expertise judging

which to buy and which
to leave alone.

- You'd have to have people
to advise you, wouldn't you?

People what knew about it.

- You also have people
advising you on horse racing,

Rose, jockeys and stable
lads, and look

where that can lead you.

- Yeah, but that's not the same.

- It's very much
the same, Daisy,

it's called speculating,
which is another

word for gambling, if you
look in the dictionary.

- Oh I agree with
you, Mr. Hudson.

It's immoral making money
what you haven't worked for.

- The Major's is not
immoral, Mrs. Bridges.

- That's different.

He's a gentleman.

- Quite right, Mrs.
Bridges, the stock exchange

is not for the likes of us.

- I thought I might warm these
by the fire for you, sir.

- Thank you, Hudson.

They're rather natty,
don't you think?

They've got my monogram on them.

- They've very smart, sir.

I just hope they won't be too
cold for an English winter.

- Oh, I hadn't thought of that.

There was a heat wave
in New York when I left.

Thank you, Hudson.

The staff all well, are they?

- Oh very well, thank you, sir.

Ruby is visiting her mother
in Bath for the year.

- And the new girl, is
she shaping up all right?

- Yes, she's quite
dependable, sir.

- Well, send my regards
to Rose and Mrs. Bridges.

I should've brought
them back something.

I didn't get around to it.

Would you like a cigar, Hudson?

Oh no, you don't, do you?

- Well, very occasionally, sir.

- Oh, you'd like one, will
you please, please take one.

- Thank you.

Thank you very much, sir.

Good night, sir.

- Good night, Hudson.

What's that?

- I waited for your man
to leave, darling.

- Georgina, you gave
me a terrible start,

now sit down and
behave yourself.

- What are you doing
sitting all in the dark?

- Just sitting here
quietly enjoying my cigar.

You want one?

- Mmm, I'd love a drink.

- Whiskey?
- Please.

I didn't get a chance to
talk to you all evening,

apart from you being horrid
to me when I first came in.

- I wasn't horrid at all.

No, no, you've got it all wrong.

I'm very happy for
you, if you are.

Are you?

- When I feel close to him,

when I read his letters.

I was so happy seeing
his Aunt Isobel today.

She's a darling.

She's on our side, and
she looks just like him.

The rest is awful.

That's why I've missed
you so much.

- Don't your friends help?

- I've given most of them up.

I had a point to prove
to his family.

I spend most of the time
just wandering about

like a nun, counting days.

But now you're back,
you can take me out.

They can't object to that.

Unless of course you've
found yourself

some rich American widow.

- Mmm hmm.

- Have you?

- Oh yes, yes, she arrives
tomorrow on the Ile de France.

- Oh, it's not true,
I couldn't bear it.

- No, no, there's no one.

- Thank goodness.

- There was there,
for a short while.

Met her in Phoenix.

- In the riot?

- Mm, I rescued her from that.

- Well tell me about her.

Was she a widow?

Have you a photograph?

- Nope, no, I don't keep
photographs anymore.

Yes, yes, she was a widow.

She was married to
a Mexican nobleman.

He died a couple of years ago.

She has a small son, Manuelo.

Splendid little fellow,
I got on well with him.

- She sounds perfect.

- Yes, yes, she was, in Phoenix.

She belonged there,
and I didn't.

It's as simple as that.

- I'm sorry.

- Why should you be, I'm not.

No, it's the future that counts.

I'm gonna start with
this damn room.

It depresses me.

I'm going to clear it
all out and redecorate.

- Oh, I'll help.

- Will you?

Yes, it might keep you
out of mischief.

I don't approve of this
monastic existence,

and neither does young
Stockbridge I should think.

How long, how long
was he away for?

- 168 days.

- Right, for 168 days,
you're in my charge.

We'll start tomorrow morning
with a ride before breakfast,

eight o'clock sharp in the hall.

- Very good, general. [laughing]

Oh, I do love you, James.

- Oh, what time is it?

- 10 o'clock, sir.

- 10!

Why wasn't I woken?

- Miss Georgina said
not to, sir.

Said to let you sleep
on and bring your

breakfast up at 10.

- Damn!

Damn, damn, damn.

Where is she?

- She's gone riding, sir.

- Alone?

- Oh, good morning, sir.

- Hello, Rose, where
is everybody?

The house is damn quiet.

- Well his lordship went
out early this morning, sir,

[James grumbling]
and her lady...

Excuse me, sir.

I was just looking for
her ladyship's gloves.

Ah.

[laughing] Oh, you
look well, sir.

- Yes, yes, I'm okay.

How are you?

- I'm okay also, same as ever.

How is Miss Elizabeth?

- Oh, same as ever.

She sends her regards.

- Oh, thank you, sir.

Sir, do you think I could
have a word with you

for a moment, if you're
not too busy?

- No, no, I'm not busy.

Go ahead.

- Well, I don't know
if you remember, sir,

but Sergeant Wilmot
left me some money,

and it's on deposit in the bank,

and I was wondering whether
I should invest some of it?

- Yes.

- It's just a little,
a small amount.

- Yes, well that sounds
like a very good idea, Rose.

- Oh, do you think so, sir?

Only Hudson seems
a bit doubtful.

-[James] Really, why?

- Well, he says it's like
gambling on the horses.

- Oh no, no, it isn't, Rose.

It is speculating.

Now, there's a world
of difference.

Your money will go to
make new factories

and new jobs for thousands
of people.

- Will it, sir?

I hadn't thought
of it like that.

Only trouble is, if
I was to go in,

well I'd have to ask some--

- Well, you're asking
me, aren't you, Rose?

- [laughing] Yes, sir.

- It's very simple.

Now, how much do you
want to invest?

- I don't know.

I've 1,275 pounds all together.

- That's very good, Rose.

Now how much shall we say?

It's up to you, it's your money.

You must decide.

- Leave it to you, sir.

- Right, well then,
what we'll do is

we'll put your money
through an investment trust.

That means expert people
will be handling it.

Do you understand?

Right, now where is
this bank of yours?

- Do it now, sir?

- Well, there's no time
like the present, Rose.

Come on.

- Yes.

- Where shall I start?

- Oh yes, start with
that wardrobe.

Clear everything out of there,

and then get those
drawers sorted out, okay?

- That's fine looking, sir.

- Isn't it?

[bell ringing]

-[Edward] Oh, excuse me.

-[James] Yes, yes.

[upbeat music]

- Oh, this has arrived
for you, sir?

- Oh, thank you, Edward.

Do you still collect stamps?

- Yes, sir.

- Here's four George
Washington's for you.

- Thank you very much.

- I didn't know you
kept all this junk.

- I recognize that, sir.

That's an old German forage cap.

- That's right, Edward.

You want it?

Keep it.

- Can I, sir?
- Uh huh.

- Thank you very much.

- Some of my letters.

Jumbo?

- I'm occupied.

- Is it your American widow?

- No, carry on.

- But James, James, I don't
know what you want to keep.

[door closing]

- Terrible news, terrible.

The slide has begun in
earnest, I'm afraid.

- What slide, Mr. Hudson?

- The economic slide in America,

Mrs. Bridges, on Wall Street.

The bottom has fallen
out of the stock market.

- Bottom fallen out?

- What do you mean, Mr. Hudson?

- Oh, there have been signs
of it for several days now.

Rumors circulating that
shares have lost their value.

Investors panicking
and trying to sell,

causing the shares to drop
even farther in value.

They're finally not
worth the paper

they're written on.

Thousands have been ruined.

- I can't understand
that, Mr. Hudson.

How can money be
there one minute

and disappear the next?

- It's the mysteries of
high finance, Edward.

It would take too long
to explain the details.

- Mr. Hudson, does that
mean that the major's

lost all his money?

- Short of a miracle,
I fear that may be so,

Mrs. Bridges, according
to these reports.

Shh, shh.

- James--
-_ Oh just give us

a moment, will you, father?

- Put us out of our
misery, James.

- How badly has it hit you?

- If Donner had only
sent a cable, I could

I could've saved something.

As it is, I've been hit
pretty hard, yes.

- Wiped out?

- I don't know.

Yes.

- Couldn't your London
brokers have warned you?

- No, no, it was too late.

See the first real
hint of any trouble

was last Thursday, then
the bankers stepped in

and checked it, so
yesterday, when the news

was bad again, everyone
thought they'd do the same.

But they didn't.

Even Goldman Sachs was
buying its own stock,

deliberately swindling
itself trying

to get confidence back,
but it was too late.

Out of touch over here,
and over there, too.

The damn ticker tape
was lagging.

Lack of proper information,
it snowballed and panic.

-[Richard] Elizabeth and Donner.

- Oh, I shouldn't worry
about Donner, father,

he'll have salvaged something.

- We could sell my necklace.

- And my fur.

- No, no.

Drops in the ocean.

I'd borrowed a fair bit.

Come in.

Oh, come in, Rose.

- Hudson said you wanted
to see me, sir.

- Yes.

Sit down, Rose.

I'm not sure how much you know.

- Well, Hudson has
explained a bit to me, sir,

but I don't quite understand.

- Yes, well ah,

certain things have happened

on the American stock market,

things quite outside
our control,

which mean that the
money you invested,

and my investments too,
have been lost.

- Lost, sir?

All of it gone?

Nothing left?

- Nothing worth talking about.

I'm sorry, Rose, I don't
know what to say.

I know how you must be feeling.

- It wasn't your fault,
sir, was it?

Anyhow, it never did
mean much to me, money.

- That's very good of you
to take it like that, Rose.

I'm grateful.

It helps me to feel better.

You do know that we'll
always look after you.

You'll never want for
anything in this house.

You have my word on that.

- Oh yes, I know that, sir.

Excuse me, sir.

[crying]

I only wanted to
do a little bit.

He said there was no
risk, it was safe,

and now it's all gone.

- How could he do
it, Mr. Hudson?

How could he take money
from a servant like that?

- Oh, the major's always
had a rash streak

in his nature, but this takes
the biscuit, I must say!

- What would Gregory say,
that's what I'd like to know.

- What did you say dear?

-[Rose] Well it was his money.

I was just keepin' it for him.

- Now, now, Rose.
- Oh Rose, Rose.

- Calm yourself, it's
not the end of your life.

You've still got us
to look after you.

- I don't want you
to look after me!

I want to look after
meself, and now I can't.

I'm stuck in this house the rest

of my rotten days.

Gregory'd never forgive me.

- That's hardly fair
to us, Rose.

-[Rose] It's not fair
on me, neither.

- Now, now, Rose,
we know it isn't.

We understand, but they'll
make it up to you upstairs.

I'm sure they will, directly
his lordship

hears what's happened.

- His lordship mustn't
hear about it!

No one must hear about it!

Rose, you must promise
you will not tell

a soul what has happened.

You must carry on
as best you can.

- Carry on?

-[Hudson] For your
own good, my dear!

Think of the shame,
the humiliation,

if it becomes common gossip!

Now, you don't want
that, do you?

Rose!

- London press are making
a meal of it.

Financiers jumping
out of windows,

pedestrians picking their
way through the corpses.

Well, we can do without
that kind

of sensationalism here.

- It's Rose I'm worried about.

- Rose?

- James invested her nest egg.

- He what?

- The money that Rose
was left, James--

- James invested her money.

- Rose broke down this
morning and told me about it.

I would've--
- What the devil did he

think he was doing!

I want to see him at once.

- Richard.

- Hudson, is the major in?

- I think he's in
his room, my lord.

- Tell him I want to
see him, will you?

- Richard, not now
please, it's nearly lunch.

- Yes, luncheon is served--

- Never mind lunch!

- Yes, my lord.

-[James] Yes, father,
what is it?

-[Richard] I know you've
lost a lot of money,

but I never thought you'd stoop
to borrowing from servants!

-[James] I did not
borrow it from her!

Look, father, she
came and asked me

of her own free will.

What was I supposed to
do, turn her away?

- Of course you should have.

Have you no sense?

It's an absolutely
unshakeable rule.

- What?

- We never meddle with
the servants' money.

- I did not meddle, father.

I invested it soundly.

How was I to know
this would happen?

Anyway, it's not some
club whereby only

gentlemen become rich
as if by divine right!

- If she had become
rich, what then?

Would a girl like Rose know
what to do with sudden wealth?

You'd've given her ideas,
dreams, responsibilities

she couldn't have lived with.

- What arrogance to
assume you know

what she'd have done.

My God.

- We know because
she's always lived

under our care and protection.

- She is not some idiot
family retainer.

She is an intelligent girl,
and she knew the risks.

- How, did you tell
her the risk?

Or did you say it was all easy?

Did she trust you as
she always trusted us?

Either way, you've
ruined her life.

Now what's to become of her?

You can't even afford
to pay her back!

- Not at the moment,
but I will try.

- You, you're wiped out,
boy, what can you do?

I just thank God your
mother was spared all this.

- Mother?

- She wouldn't've
believed it of you, James.

You'd've broken her heart.

- Mother lived in
a different age.

We've moved on.

There's been a war!

- Oh, don't use the
war as an excuse.

The war's got nothing
to do with this.

- Oh hasn't it?

- We fought the war to
keep your mother's world,

to preserve certain
standards of decent behavior.

- Now you're talking
like an old fool!

- What?
- That you believe that--

- How dare you?

- Hopeless to even try.

- Hopeless, yes, James, that
is the word exactly, hopeless.

- What do you mean?

- You, boy, everything you
do seems to come to nothing.

Why, can you tell me why?

You, with all your advantages,

does it always end the same?

- Explain yourself, father.

Come on, come on, let's
have this out

shall we now, once and for all.

[clock chiming]

- So many things you
could've done with your life.

Any field you'd chosen.

That bielection, now
there was something.

You had a flair for politics.

You could've stuck with that.

- Politics?

You deliberately discouraged
me, father.

- Oh, now.
- Don't deny it!

Right from the start,
politics wasn't for me.

A deceit in the compromise
of your life.

So, so what else was there, hmm?

Back to Jardines
or stock broking.

Yes, yes, that was a
possibility as long

as I didn't throw any
tips to poor Rose,

kept them strictly for us.

- Now James.

- No, no, come on, come on,

what else was there, hmm?

The Colonial Service, yes.

Endless cocktail parties
in damnable climates.

That would've kept me
out of trouble, oh yes.

Or after Hazel, I
could've found some nice,

rich widow, become a
gentleman of means,

of leisure, a parasite.

Would that have pleased you?

Yes.

Well unfortunately,
father, the lady

did not present herself.

- Now you're talking
like a fool.

- Oh am I?
- Yes, you could've

married again.

That would've helped.
- How?

- It would've made you happy,
given you responsibility.

- Made me less selfish,
you mean.

- Yes, yes, exactly.

Children.

- Children?

Are children so important
to a man's happiness?

I should've thought judging
by this conversation not.

Anyway, if you remember,
Hazel miscarried.

- Yes, yes, yes, I know,
but that was very sad.

But there's still time, James.

I can't tell you what to do.

It's up to you.

All I can offer is my
love and support,

the love of the whole family.

- Love or pity?

- Oh no, no, no,
not pity, dammit.

You've had some hard
knocks, your generation,

but you came through.

- Many didn't.

- No, but you did, James.

That is the point.

It's a question of attitude.

You've got brains,
intelligence, character.

Why not go back to America,
you were happy there.

- Yes, that would be very
convenient, wouldn't it?

- Oh now, James, I
didn't mean it like that,

you know I didn't.
- I know I'm an embarrassment!

An awkward reminder
of failure, of your,

your failure, your
disappointment, anyway.

- No, don't be absurd.

- No, no, no, father.

Fair to everything you say.

Friends remind you
of it every day.

How's James?

Still drifting is he?

Isn't it time he settled down,

gave you a grandson,
carried on the Bellamy line?

I'm horrified I can't oblige.

- That's self pity.

Cynical defeatist talk,
and I can't listen to it.

- You started it!

- You insisted on it.

I simply want to rouse
some pride in you,

some guts to help you to--

- Oh help.

You accuse me of some kind
of immoral act with Rose.

You attack my character
on all fronts.

Help, you haven't begun
to understand.

Look, I know what I am, father,

I don't need you to tell me.

- James, my dear boy--
- No, Father, no, no, no

conciliations, not now.

That's how we always end
up, patching the wounds.

But let's just leave them
open this time, shall we?

- James.
- No,, Georgina, let him go.

- What have you said to him?

James.

- Richard.

- James?

[loud classical music]

James, let me in, please.

James!

- Daisy, where's Rose?

- I dunno, Mr. Hudson.

Mary, have you seen Rose?

- I think she said
she was going out.

- Yes, yes, I saw
her in the hall

with her hat and coat on.

Did she say where she
was going, Mary?

- She's going for
a walk, I expect.

Try and calm herself down a bit.

- She has no right
to go for a walk.

It is not her afternoon off.

She has duties to attend to.

- I think we must be
a bit understanding,

Mr. Hudson, in view of
what has happened.

- I was quite prepared
to be understanding,

Mrs. Bridges, but you
heard what she said to me,

as if I was to blame
for the mess she was in.

All that talk of independence,
I've heard that before!

It makes no impression on me!

She has been free to
leave this house

this past 10 years
if she wanted to!

She's always chosen to stay!

- She told me it's Gregory
she feels she's lost.

- Gregory, huh, she
lost him years ago!

- Daisy's right, you
know, Mr. Hudson.

So long as she had the
money, she had Gregory.

- Now she's lost the
money, she ain't got

nothing nor nobody.

- It's quite beyond me what
you're both driving at.

- You're a man, Mr. Hudson.

It's hard to a man to
understand these things.

- Well there are things
a man understands

and a woman doesn't
and never will!

- Richard, it's the
oldest thing in the world

for a father to attack
his son for not

living up to expectations.

You two are past masters at it.

- Well somebody has
to drive the boy!

He seems unable to
do it for himself.

- He's perfectly able, if
only you'd leave him alone.

He was fine when he
came back from America.

He was full of energy.

- The wrong kind, my
dear, too volatile.

- I never quite know
what volatile means.

Are you hungry?

- I think he's too
highly strung,

too obsessed with the
glamor of money,

and now he's lost it all.

- I think we must leave
this house or James must.

The two of you are impossible
under the same roof.

You bicker, you fight,
you upset everyone,

and I will not stand for it.

- Oh Virginia, I--

- Oh, Hudson, will you prepare
a tray for his lordship

and bring it up here?

-[Hudson] Very good, madame.

- And where's Rose, Hudson?

I've been looking for her.

- I believe she went
out, my lady.

I don't quite know where.

-[Virginia] Is she all right?

- She was rather upset, my lady,

after the major explained
to her.

I did my best to console her,

and so did Mrs. Bridges.

-[Virginia] Yes, well
let me know the moment

she comes in, will you?

- Yes, my lady.

I'm very sorry about what
has happened, my lady,

for the major and for Rose.

There was rather a lot
of excitement downstairs

when the major returned,
talk of money.

It went to Rose's
head, I'm afraid,

in spite of my effort.

- All right, Hudson,
you are not to blame.

- Thank you, my lord.

Would the major like
anything to eat, my lady?

- I think the major's
in his room, Hudson.

I'm sure he'll ring if
he wants anything.

-[Hudson] Very good, my lady.

- James?

Hello.

- Hello.

- What are you doing?

- Clearing out, as we planned.

Have you come to help?

- Yes.

Where are you taking all
this, to the war museum?

- Oh no, I shall put
it in the cellar.

Then Edward can give it
to the rag and bone men.

- This too?

Shouldn't it have gone
back to some man's widow?

- Who's widow?

I found it in the mud.

Didn't you keep souvenirs?

- No.

James, what happened between
you and Uncle Richard?

Was it about Rose?

It was wrong of him
to blame you.

It wasn't your fault.

- It doesn't matter.

- It matters enough
for you to lock

your door for two hours!

- Then ask father.

- No, I'm asking you!

Come on, James, don't
keep it bottled up.

Tell me.

- One thing I won't
forgive him for,

and that is using
mother against me.

Didn't he know?

- Know what?

- Coming back on that boat,

looking out at all
that damn ocean,

knowing that she was
down there somewhere?

- Jumbo.

- He used her as a
weapon against me.

- He didn't mean it, James.

You can't hold that against him.

You must think of
the future now.

That's what you said.

Don't look back.

- Yes.

Yes, yes, you're quite right.

Look, here's a picture
of you and Hazel.

Do you want it?

- Don't you?

- No, no, you keep it.

You make a scrapbook out
of them for your children.

I don't want them.

- Don't be bitter.

- I'm not.

- I know you're unhappy.

- Georgina, please.
- I know you're worried

that you've lost all your
money, and you're miserable.

Things will get
- Oh Georgina, the money.

The money is nothing,
believe me you.

That's the least of it.

I only have one regret
about that,

and that is that I can't
give you the wedding

that I promised.

- That doesn't matter.

- It matters to me.

- You'll still be there.

You'll be the most important
person there.

You know that.

- Your husband will be the
most important person there.

What are you talking about?

It's no use whatever.

- These are mine, my
letters to you from France.

- Yes, yes, I'm going
to burn them.

Did you keep mine?

- I don't know, somewhere.

- Go and get them, and
then we can make

a pile of them and burn
them all together.

- No.

- Yes, look, we don't
want your husband

finding them by accident.

Now give them to me.
- No!

- Give them to me.
- No, I don't want

them burned.

- Why not?

- Because they're mine.

They're memories,
happy memories.

They're nothing to
be ashamed of,

and I want to keep them.

- Well you can't, damn you.

You've made your choice.

You must forget me.

Put them all on, these as well.

- But James, these
are from Hazel.

- Yes, yes, and some
from mother as well.

They're all going
to go on, there.

- I must go an write
to Robert now.

He gets miserable if my
letters don't arrive.

- Rose.

- It's Mary, Mrs. Bridges.

- What do you want?

- The major's just
asked for some tea.

- Well make him some then.

You're capable, aren't you?

And give him a slice
of that plum cake

what I baked this morning.

He'll like that.

[hand knocking]

- Come in.

- Your tea, sir.

- Oh yes, thank you.

Put it over there, will you?

- Plum cake as well.

- Thank you.

- Havin' a clear out,
are you, sir?

- Yes, yes, redecorating.

-[Mary] Can I help?

- Hmm?

- Tidy for you, sir.

My job, really.

You're in this, sir?

- Hmm?

Yes, here.

- Oh yes, I can see.

You haven't changed
much, have you?

Me dad was in the war.

He brought things back, too.

- Was he killed?

- Nah, wasn't even wounded,
not a scratch.

You was wounded, wasn't ya, sir?

They told me downstairs.

They said you got a
medal for gallantry.

I'd like to see that.

Like to know if it was
the same me uncle got.

He was killed, but they
sent it to me auntie,

and she's got it hangin'
on the wall.

Ever so nice it looks.

Oh no, it's not the same.

Still, you must be proud.

Your tea's gettin' cold.

They said she was beautiful,
but I never thought.

Oh, sorry, sir.

Nosey.

- It's all right.

- That's Mrs. Bellamy,
isn't it, sir?

Rose told me about her.

It has been a sad family, this.

- Yes.

The war made most families sad.

Your uncle.

- And me older brother, sir.

He was killed at Passchendaele,
19.

- Passchendaele, I was there.

- I know, they said, sir.

Funny.

Well, if you don't need me, sir,

I better be going.

Hudson'll get cross.

- Yes.

Georgina?

- James.

-[James] Where's father?

- He's having a bath, he,

oh James, he's so upset
about what happened.

He didn't mean half
of what he said.

Will you, will you come and
talk to him this evening?

I'll be there.

- I'm afraid I shan't
be in for dinner.

I'm going away for a few days,

give us both a chance
to cool off.

- Where are you going?

- Old Army friend
Charles Stapleton.

He lives in the country.

He's often asked me.

Say goodbye to father for me.

- Yes, perhaps that's best.

- Tell him not to blame himself.

He didn't say anything
I didn't know already.

Bye, Virginia.

Ah, Hudson, I shall be
going away for a few days,

back on Monday probably.

- Very good, sir.

You'll want your coat, sir.

It's a wee bit chilly outside.

Here we are, sir.

- Oh, how's Rose, Hudson?

Is she all right?

- Rose, sir?

Oh yes, yes, she'll
be fine, sir.

We'll look after her.

Your bag, sir.

- Goodbye, Hudson.

-[Hudson] Goodbye, sir.

-[Georgina] James?

- The major's just left
for the country, miss,

back on Monday.

- Huh, he didn't tell me.

Could you take this to
the post for me, Hudson?

- Certainly, miss.
- Thank you.

- I must lock up now.

- No, Mr. Hudson, you can't.

You can't lock that
poor girl out.

I'll wait up for her.

- If she's not back by midnight,

I feel I must inform
her ladyship.

[doorbell ringing]

- Ah, good evening,
Chief Inspector Rodwell.

I'd like to talk to Lord
Bellamy, if you please.

- I'm sorry, his lordship
is retired to bed.

- It's rather important.

Fetch him, would you please?

- Will you come in, please?

[door closing]

- Rose!

Oh, wherever have you
been all this time?

We're been that worried
about you!

Oh, you naughty girl!

[crying] Thank God
nothing's happened to you.

- Right, Hudson, wait here.

- My lord.

- Chief Inspector
Rodwell, my lord.

-[Richard] Yes.

- I'm sorry to have
to call at such

a late hour, my lord,
but I'm afraid I

have some rather bad news,

concerning your son,
Major James Bellamy.

- James.

- Well come on, man,
out with it.

- I regret to have to
inform you, my lord,

that he appears to have
taken his own life.

- Ha?

- He was found two hours
ago in a hotel room

in Maidenhead.

A chamber maid heard the
shot and went to his aid,

but he was dead within minutes.

He didn't suffer.

- Shot?

- Yes, me lord.

He appears to have shot
himself through the mouth

with a service revolver.

- Oh my God.

- He left this letter
addressed to you, my lord.

Also two others, one
to the coroner

and one to Sir Geoffrey Dillon,
his solicitor, I believe.

Well I won't trouble
you any further

tonight, my lord.

We'll be back in the
mornin' and see to

the formalities then.

Oh,

my sincere condolences.

- Richard.

It's all right.

- I took a bus ride,
number 25 over to Victoria,

my old route.

Sat in the canteen,
tea lady remembered me.

Then I got the last bus home.

- And now you feel better,
do you dear?

- Yes, I do.

Silly isn't it, really,
what people do?

It don't seem important
to me anymore,

none of it.

I'm just sorry that I made
such a nuisance of meself.

- Oh, that's all right,
my dear, I understand,

and so will Mr. Hudson
directly I explain it to him.

Now, you get off to bed.

You must be tired out.

Everything will be all
right in the mornin'.

- Dear father, do you
remember me telling you

about the German officer
in the shell hole

at Passchendaele who
should've finished

me off but declined to?

Well I'm doing the job for him.

It's nothing to do with
our talk today.

Mother always said
to leave when your

winning is not ethical,
and we both know

my losing streak has been
going on far too long.

Try and see it as a
soldier's way out

when he could no longer
do justice to himself

or the men under his command.

I choose this place so
as not to make a mess

of my room or inconvenience
anyone more than is necessary.

I've sent my will
to Sir Geoffrey,

unwitnessed, I'm afraid,
but I'm sure he'll manage.

Goodbye, father.

Give my love to Virginia
and to Georgina.

Don't be sad.

James.

[classical music]