Original subtitles

bring

You, the den.

Yeah, the den.

Lord.

Victory.

Church in.

Mark Warrington.

Yes?

Blake Hayward.

One of your chaps just changed my dressings.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

Mark Warrington.

Yes?

Blake Hayward.

One of your chaps just changed my dressing, said his sergeant came from Wood Stanton.

It's my hotel.

My mother lives there.

An old house off the coast road.

Used to belong to some people called Pennworthy.

I will think you related to her.

I know it.

I've only been there a couple of times.

She moved there just before I was posted three years ago.

She and Dad are sort of separated.

Oh, excuse me.

Yeah.

I've been away for four years.

It's the first time I met Eddie.

What do we even know is the place?

Who's the character outside, by the way?

You got himself left behind when the first lot of prisoners came through.

How do we got set up here?

We use him to interpret.

In obsequious little sod, isn't he?

Would you like a beer?

There's some outside in the trunk.

Can a dog swim?

Lord, sir.

He looks like Germany friends.

Now, yeah.

Together he fights the Russians.

He believes it's a good thing.

He believes it's a good thing.

He's saying it'd be over any day now.

Back to Sivy Street.

I can't wait, but it'll be a bit of an ordeal, especially in which tent.

It was the book, Dine, Our Inreserved Occupations.

The iron works, the mine.

We know the world of people like you and me, too.

We'll get used to it again.

We'll be able to.

Hey, the axe went through.

God bless America.

Cheers.

Come on, the chap back home, resent the uniform.

Even a British one, I'm glad.

Something to do with getting the girls.

In fact, Jan Thuy about four years away.

Like Tony said about the managers, the odium of capitalism with none of the rewards.

What do you do before the war?

Gave me the opportunity to lead the university.

What about you?

Mechanica, the iron works.

You wouldn't be one of them, would you?

Them?

Well, I'm not sure.

I'm not sure.

I'm not sure.

I'm not sure.

I'm not sure.

What about you?

Them?

Well, that's secretary, the Winston and Labour Party.

I think that's why I wanted us to join up with Donald as a pacifist.

Well, the conversation at home was littered with phrases like them and us.

Them with a warrant.

That's chairman of the iron works.

He's been in America for most of the war, doing some job for the Ministry of Supply.

I am one of them, I'm afraid.

Don't be afraid.

I have another ordeal to face back home.

Telling Dad I've left the ranks of the faith for.

I'm seeing him.

Where are our bloody warriors, you know?

I'll lose my rank and go back to being a political misfit at the iron works.

A new donya bowler and preached socialism to the flesh pots.

Oh, well, thanks for the beer.

I might be meeting you back home sometime.

Look, I'm going on lead in two weeks time.

God knows when I'll get back.

I just want the end to come while I'm still in one piece.

You were... you wouldn't do something for me, would you?

When you do go.

We'll just call it home until the folks who saw me.

You know what, Mum's out.

Yes, of course.

I'll give you the address.

It's a big house, uh, stands on its own by the sea.

He's fallen apart when I left.

God knows what's needed in there.

Mum's old man left it to her empty.

He couldn't afford furniture, so they filled it with us.

Six of us.

Great day, Heywood.

Hi, is that all right?

Yeah.

Your game's gone, wasn't it?

Where did he get the petrol?

Civil defense.

He only did it for the petrol.

It's the last smile I'll get out of him, I reckon.

He has been shortlisted for the Conservative Party candidate.

One more's over.

I'm going to get the petrol.

He's been shortlisted for the Conservative Party candidate.

One more's over to the still on.

There was a letter this morning.

Someone's coming to see us.

Someone local and met Blake in Germany.

Blake asked him to come and see us when he came on leave.

So he's coming today.

That's good of him.

To put himself out on VE Day.

He's a Warrington.

A Warrington.

What aim works, Warrington?

Son of the Chairman, Blake says.

What's he want with us?

He's putting himself to the trouble of coming to see us on VE Day because Blake asked him to.

Like you said, it's good of him.

Don't you be like the endscoffs of this world?

Does he know I'm one of his father's wages class?

I think I say Blake told him.

Why shouldn't he?

Is an honest job?

What play like how this job should be paid?

Where we'll be without you giving music lessons?

Ted doing a part time job at the library.

Blake and Keir fighting for their country for a pittance.

The Dohin gave his life all.

Blake never last said him or if he heard about Dohin.

He hasn't asked for you at all now.

Well, he knows what we know then.

What we've faced up to, haven't we?

I know now why we go through the ritual of a funeral.

It's hard to believe.

We want to reject it.

If there'd been a grave, we could visit even, but...

Yes, I know it now.

I'll tell you something, but then I went on open long after I said we shouldn't.

You think I don't know, you did?

It's hard to believe that it's all over, isn't it?

What comes now? The promised land.

You did that yesterday.

Did I? I'd forgotten.

You do too much on top of a job.

Well, you should charge me rent and I'd not feel beholden.

Charge me job to rent.

Daughter in law.

There's no difference to me. You know that.

Oh, I'm sorry.

Since we knew it was over, I mean, definitely over.

It's reminded me.

Oh, In.

I'd forgotten that away.

Makes me feel guilty, remember?

Because of Ernst.

We know and we understand. I thought that was clear.

You might, but the rest in Whit Stanton won't.

Who else knows except the people where you work.

The go-aways. I don't know.

When I walk down the street, I feel as if everybody knows.

It'll be all round eventually anyway.

You know what, the light round here.

Oh, and Dad'll be the worst.

Does it matter to us what they think?

Oh, it was our song, not theirs.

I'm glad I was straight with you from the beginning.

Well, almost the beginning.

After I wish to own yourself.

It wasn't that I stopped caring for Owen.

You know that, don't you?

I started to care for somebody else as well.

Flesh and blood, not a ghost.

George was shocked a bit at first, won't he?

Men don't understand that women think.

Feel the same as they do about some things.

They don't like to think we do anyway.

There shouldn't have said missing believed killed.

It's not enough, is it?

You can't start again with that.

Shape your life again.

Will you take calling to the street party with you?

Why are you going to see Owen?

Yeah, it's victory day for him too, you know.

Even if he did fight for the Germans.

He had a bad time in the war.

He was friend than us really.

Yes.

Must have been worse for him, I suppose.

Anyway.

You've forgotten the king.

Oh my God, we've forgotten the king.

How long?

One minute if that clock's right.

I'll go and turn it on.

Go and tell your father, tell him to tell your grandfather.

Oh, I'm playing by the sea.

You can play on the sun, but not by the sea.

Can't be given an eye on you all the time.

We're waiting for the king, the king.

Dad, the king.

You are?

The king.

Oh, good God, I've forgotten.

My mum says to tell Grandad.

Hey, I can't.

Tony grandfather.

Why not?

He's gone back.

Go back where?

In his room.

He says he only joined us for the duration,

and it's over, he's going back.

I don't see why he can't tell him.

Because he's not speaking to me.

We're back to normal, he says.

Coalition's over, he says.

Not politics again.

Well, you know what he's like.

I know what you're like.

Well, I'm not telling him.

Do your own dirty work.

I love it.

He'll be with his grandfather.

Oh, I wish George had leave this clock to me.

I never know whether he's put it right or not.

Not since double summer time.

God?

Oh come on, Dad, I know you're in there.

8 bells and halls, well.

Dad!

Oh, come on, Dad.

I know you're in there.

8 bells and halls, well.

Dad!

I know you're in there.

Dad!

What do you want?

The king!

Oh, I don't need telling.

I have him in here.

Yeah, well, we ought to listen together in history.

If we listen together to BSD by Godhead Wood,

hypocrite, antimonochist, antichrist.

There wasn't nice, Grandad.

What?

Well, you said the Dad wasn't nice.

No, well, happened.

It wasn't, but it were true, though.

Ask him yourself.

If you don't believe me.

Any road, he shouldn't argue politics with me.

He mean he should agree with you.

Ah, no, I mean, he should steer clear.

And he should ring the bell, not knock.

What does he think I put it there for?

Oh, it's young Bill.

Ah, let's see.

I've got it.

He'll be on in a minute.

He'll be on in a minute.

Wars over, love it.

Oh, seven when he started.

Ah, you're an old fella.

Three wars I've lived through,

changes you'll never see.

There's not left to change now except human nature.

And they'll never change that.

And, Bill, who live in Pudidot?

So he feel independent.

You've spoiled him.

He can twist you round his little finger when he wants anything from you.

And he monarchies to call me, and he cries.

They are, aren't you?

I can't think why you want to listen to this.

This is history. History is a fact.

It's happening. It's a fact.

Turn it over, big girl.

This is London.

His Majesty King George VI.

Today we give thanks.

So, mighty God, for a great...

delivered.

Speaking from our empires,

all this capital city,

of war better,

but never for one moment,

don't it or what is made.

In the Far East,

we have yet to deal with the Japanese,

they determine and flow.

So, but at this hour,

when the dreadful shadow of war,

that part far from our hearts and homes,

in these islands,

we may have last made one, four,

for Thanksgiving,

and then turn our hearts to the task,

all over the world.

The letters, remember those

who will not come back.

There are constants and courage in battle.

They are sacrificed,

and in the oven,

in the face of a merciless enemy.

There is a great comfort in the fort,

that the years of darkness and danger

in which the children of our country...

Yes?

Oh, hello. My name is Warren.

Hello, hello. We're listening to the King.

You better come in.

Thank you.

We shall have failed,

and the blood of our dearness will have killed in vain.

My name is Warren.

This is the...

The trail of the tree.

The trail of the tree.

How much is the blood of the dangerous...

Sit down.

How much is the blood of the poor?

And good will.

And it is the blood of the poor.

To commit ourselves...

And our new talk...

to the guidance of that same...

of that same...

that same...

Amen.

Is that all, Grandad?

Well, what do you want for Chuppens?

What do you want for Chuppens?

What do you want for Chuppens?

What do you want for Chuppens?

What do you want for Chuppens?

What do you want for Chuppens?

What do you want for Chuppens?

What do you want for Chuppens?

What do you want for Chuppens?

What do you want for Chuppens?

What do you want for Chuppens?

What do you want for Chuppens?

What do you want to say, Chuppens?

Mommy?

TColand's

Robert's found a bullet for us. Six bedrooms just for the two of us.

I've chosen the one with the Wagnerian paintings on the walls.

I'm looking forward to some pleasantly erotic dreams.

I remember what Churchill said. Facts are better than dreams.

In the absence of facts, are I mean?

Oh, there are hundreds of facts streaming down the road out there, fleeing from Ivan.

Some magnificent Brunhilde types. All pure Aryan blood.

Cream of German society. That's all that's left from what I've heard.

They've got rid of the rest.

You've been listening to the rumours about the Ruskies.

Our rumours from a pretty reliable source.

I'm ready to believe them anyway. Pending the proof, which I'm sure will be forthcoming.

Well, you couldn't anyway, could you?

I may not with your pure upbringing, Eaton or was it Harrow?

Was I and Dormatries of narrow virgin bed?

I couldn't do what?

I alleviate your frustration on the promise of protecting some basically innocent female from the raid for the bed.

I bet you wouldn't bloody well hesitate, would you?

In my rough pessent upbringing, of course not, but we were talking about you.

You're an odd beggar, Blake. You play the piano. I've even heard you quote poetry.

Aelty D. Blythe Spritte, Bird that Never Went.

It's a game. I'm learning, you see.

Your vocabulary, slightly temper the accent, drop a few names.

A piano, I ought a mother. Bless her.

God, do I want to get home.

Funny. I can't get used to the idea, can you?

It's actually over.

So quiet out there, it's more like autumn and spring.

There's a kind of death in the air.

Europe, dead.

And ruin the corpses.

Women fleeing from rape, kid's stowing.

What's it done to us up here, do you think? These last few years.

I don't suppose we'll find that out till we get back to normality.

Celebrations tonight?

By God, I'll bet they're celebrating tonight at home.

All those bloody civilians, those fly bastards who've got themselves leave.

All those girls, what is, want in a last fling with a uniform.

And here we are in this bloody monastery.

As always, Brunhilde.

Sott Brunhilde, strictly of a boat in any way.

She'll have to learn to love Jerry, in his socks by the light of burning jack boots.

Come on, I'll show you upstairs.

We'll see what Robert's has got laid on for tonight.

Oh, sod all, I suspect.

It'll be happening in the sergeant's mess tonight.

Z

her.

I raised.

Corpsing.

He loves it out here.

Goes deaf when you tell him it's time to go.

He's awkward, like Grandad.

You say the mines are behind this wall?

Yes, they built that to keep the sea out.

I thought you lived around here.

My mother's lived off the coast for the last three years or so.

I've only been there a couple of times when I was small.

Except a day, of course.

Did the neighbors say where your mum had gone to in London?

No, but I'll find out when I go down to my home.

It was good of you to come.

Blake's mum's favourite...

Well, she'd say she hasn't her favourite, but he is.

You're the brothers?

I had to buy.

Ramsay, who died years ago, Scarlet Fever.

Blake, you've met.

Cures in the rough.

Oh, and you'll meet love at later.

He's only 12.

Owen was in the regular army.

He was that Singapore.

He was supposed to be taken prisoner by the jazz club.

Then they said he was presumed dead.

Come on, Carl.

Carl's his son.

He was great, Owen.

Your favourite?

Maybe.

He wasn't a bit like you.

Oh.

He was big and bouncy.

Always talking and laughing.

You were a bit of a shy one, aren't you?

Am I?

What did you go?

Go.

Where's the visitor?

Carl wanted Peggy to take him down to the beach and he went with him.

Seems a nice laugh.

Says Blake looked well.

Sergeant, a Warrington.

They expected a major at least.

It must be the black sheep of the family.

I'm sure he isn't.

I'm sure he isn't.

I'm sure he is.

I'm sure he is.

They'd have been married now, probably.

If it hadn't been for the war.

Play, care.

We've all that to come.

Things won't get better overnight, you know.

They'll come home.

I can wait for the rest.

By the way, you'll be on March for the rest of the week after tonight.

Yeah, well, don't expect him back too soon.

You and what he said in the wireless.

The war in the Far East are still to be won.

The RAF won't let care go till that's over and done with.

Still, I'm not going to go.

Well, June, Callis, daughter's back already.

You know that one that went in the nursing reserve.

Yeah, well, I want the nurses back in the hospital.

I suppose to get this beverage plan working.

The one he's been waiting for.

Me?

Hanging onto his teeth like grim death.

If they fell out, I reckon it'd stick them back in pending beverage.

Can't be kind of for it.

Well, you'll be the first in the queue, you know, down well you will.

Anyway, Tories paid lips serviced at beverage.

I'm sure they'll be the first in the queue.

Anyway, Tories paid lips serviced at beverage.

Not that we'll get it if they get in.

As the will, can't he turn his back on Churchill after what he's brought us through?

Ah, but he's got the same old gang all around him.

Anyway, the lads will not have it.

The lads that have fought will not have it.

Not them that went to war or skin and bone.

The ribs sticking out as they stripped off of the medicals.

Fetch'd up off the scrap heap to fight for the country that had put them there.

Hey, what's the first thing they want when it's over?

To be free.

Free of them that tell them to do as they want.

So long as they do as they're told.

What they told us we were fighting for, freedom.

We put it in porn while we fought for it.

We want it redeemed.

We won't be kept on chains as you're not a dabbus.

And you call yourself a working man.

Ah, work free. Not in chains.

Well, you were chained to poverty for most of your working life.

Ah, work free.

Free.

Free our work.

Free.

Free.

Ah, work free.

You were right.

One more ends and all the begins.

Been going on all my life this one.

I was going to give him one of those bottles too that have been saving for this very day.

Where are they?

In the cupboard under the stand.

Take one chain then.

Hey.

You'll have no peace with yourself if you don't.

You know, don't you?

Even though you're part-side with him, you know.

Yes, I know.

Remember when I was a kid?

Seeing him come home all worn out weary from working too long for a pittance.

And he damns me that I gave myself a socialism.

I did it because of him.

And it's come between us. Why?

Take it to him.

I'll not be gone to you, gone.

I thought I'd get Colin ready first. They're just coming back.

Why can't you take Colin with you?

They'd miss the street party.

Oh, well, perhaps some other time.

You wouldn't mind.

Why should I?

Let's make this a good day, shall we?

And you start.

We've got to learn to live together, Dad.

Ah.

To learn to live together, like he said on the wireless.

To do nothing unworthy of them that died for us.

To make a world as they would have wanted for their kids and ours.

Oh, sure.

I didn't catch what you said.

I certainly lived together for over 50 years.

I said I'm over 70 and I know more about life than you young as if you lived to be 100.

Southwest to where Ironworks Jimmy comes in line with the shipyard tower.

You were unpluck.

And of course, the seal port.

You can't take the boat out.

It was over, isn't it?

The exterior will not be free to us from once yet. A year or two maybe.

It won't if you luck gets back in again.

Why shouldn't it be free to us?

There's been no mines later on this coast.

And beaches is clear apart from those tours range.

Another visually clear?

Yeah.

Oh, I don't recognize officials.

Canoes.

No, Dad.

They're canoes, I said.

They'd stand there, tell them tired to go back with officials and prove it had done on paper.

Would their trousers legs rolled up?

Yeah.

I brought you something.

Miss Whiskey, how about he put by for months?

Ah, Nickwood Gold.

Early about the chat they got a bottle from under the counter at the counter.

On his way home he fell.

Put his hand down, felt his leg wet.

Got out his torch, looked.

Thank God he said his blood.

They are it for you.

Does Sillybreak integrate?

It's a great day, Dad.

Let's not sour it.

Ah, it's good stuff.

When do you think they'll stop petrol rationing then?

You're still thinking of the boat, are you?

Ah, it's all I look forward to when I retired.

I could have made myself useful for that, me, you know.

I would have gone to Dunkirk if they'd let me have petrol.

You reduced the bag out there for D-Day and that thing?

Ah, it happens so.

Oh, Mrs. Redding, can you go?

Ah, well, off you go then.

What, are you coming, Grandad?

No, I don't care for celebrations.

I've seen too many sour and promises that come after.

Now, Cowan and Aikle Lord George promised us a land fit for heroes.

There's only one thing that'll come after this lot.

Seems full as the Lord Mayor's procession.

The corporation Mookart.

Oh, I'm sorry.

The corporation Mookart.

Oh, I'm off to polish me engine.

I think it's soon to go with you, Dad, haven't you?

Yeah.

Ah, well, off you go, if you must.

See you later then.

Ah, unless we see you first.

It's a pity we can't make it up, Grandad.

Ah, you've never been out there, have you?

Oh, I forgot.

It's a different world out there, away from the rubbish in life.

Ah, we'll be off the end, maybe when petrol comes back.

LAUGHS

MUSIC

Where have you been looting?

Negotiating with Roberts.

I don't seem to be any official celebrations,

so I thought we might as well celebrate here.

Quite a lot of goodies.

A few bottles.

Where is she?

In my room.

My god, you don't hang about, do you?

She's in.

I'm out.

It seems I've moved in hers by mistake,

so I've moved into one of the others,

English gentleman that I am.

I've not just adopted your accent.

I've adopted your tactics as well.

Before the attack, appear to drop your defenses.

Has he been any more forthcoming?

A conversationally, I mean.

You are a nine with the words most used,

and with an idea for future developments,

I pretend to not notice the difference.

Her English seemed pretty good to me.

I've suspicion she regrets letting us know that.

Well, maybe she's got someone hidden in the attic.

Well, her husband possibly curling the SS.

You go with the house.

I mean, you have to be faithful to the fjorda,

to hang on to a den like this.

You think we better look?

I've had this uneasy feeling somewhere

around the middle of my back ever since we heard it was over.

That last stray shot across no man's land

after hostilities have ceased

is when you congratulate yourself on having survived.

You know, Ramston lost both his eyes

in that last tank level.

Yes, I heard.

Where's the kitchen?

Straight along the hall.

Did you get any clues to how long

we're supposed to be staying here?

It's a bit uncertain, I think.

I got the impression we might be pulling back.

It seems we're on the Russian side of the yalta line.

The politicians are taking over again waters.

Drink.

Yes, thanks.

I think maybe we'd better not say anything

about that to her, don't you?

We move out on the Rusky's move, anyway.

What have you heard about our glorious allies, anyway?

Some pretty bloody awful things, actually.

MUSIC

Oh, I'm sorry, I should have asked permission.

Why should you?

You have won the war?

Everything we have is yours.

Is it not?

I doubt we're going to think of it quite like that.

Why not?

After the last war, you took everything.

After Versailles, seven million people you took from us.

Billions of pounds and reparations.

To stop another war?

It gave us inflation.

Unemployment.

Out of all that, to save us came the fuhrer,

came the war, the one you wish to stop?

Those people on the run out there.

They're dead in the streets.

That's a big price to pay for the fuhrer.

Your gift to us from Versailles, as he was.

These camps that we've overrun,

are maybe you've not heard of them yet.

Gas chambers to destroy people,

ovens to burn the mass murder factories,

will they our gift from Versailles?

No, no such places.

Oh, that's true.

I'm sorry.

I've been away from hell for nearly five years,

thanks to your fuhrer.

One day we shall have to talk about these things.

I don't think this is the time, do you?

Better to play the piano, you think?

Yes.

Better to play the piano.

Would you like a drink?

You play well for an English gentleman?

I'm not an English gentleman.

We ran out of the officer class.

I've spent four years in officer's messes.

Mutton dressed up as lamb, good and that would say.

I don't understand.

Now this is your pucker English gentleman,

the real thing.

Eaten or Harrow, if not both.

That's where wars are won,

on the playing fields of eaten.

Oh crap, Blake.

Yeah, well I know it isn't so do you, but England doesn't.

Cheers.

Cheers.

I'll be hanging from the lampposts outside Buckingham Palace now.

You are hanging people outside Buckingham Palace?

Oh dear, now we've upset her.

Is your half believed in?

I should have believed it completely if I said outside the

Eleventh and Castle instead of outside Buckingham Palace.

If she'll believe that, she'll believe anything.

Yeah, that's it isn't it eh?

You're what?

I mean after this we will believe anything.

How much do you believe about what we hear about the Russians?

Most of it.

And about the Germans?

Most.

About us?

Well it's been a different kind of war for us.

No I'm not ducking the issue.

I believe we've the capacity to do these things.

In the kitchen?

Oh I'm so sorry I should have asked.

I'm not a bad cook you see and I don't often get a chance these days.

So we thought Blake and I...

I have no money.

None at all.

But if there is anything in the house, if there is anything I have which you would want.

I'm sorry.

What I said about Versailles.

It is not for me to say such things.

We've lost the war.

Everything is yours.

Three weeks ago I went to Berlin.

You see I had no news from my father.

The destruction was terrible.

And it's not as here.

In pot summer plots the tanks and trucks are driving over the dead people.

My father's flat was destroyed.

He is probably dead.

No old person could live in that horror.

Many times in the queue for bread women children next to me were shot.

By planes by snipers.

And the queue simply reformed.

Over the bodies.

We went on queuing for bread.

I'm sorry what I said about the furor that he saved us.

I spit on the furor see.

I spit.

I spit.

I spit on him.

Oh my God.

Women and children sheltered in the subway tunnels off the railway.

The engineers flooded the tunnels because if the Russians would come through them.

The women and children were drowned.

You could see them through the shell holes in the streets.

Layer steep.

I have some small things of value.

I hit them. You shall have them.

No, please hear me. Let me do this. Let me tell.

My husband died in Russia.

A year ago in the army.

His letters at the end were terrible without hope.

This was his.

And this watch.

We went on queuing.

Over the bodies.

For bread.

I have not had food now for three days.

Why do I want food?

Food is life.

Life.

I should want life.

Why do I want life?

I couldn't settle down either when I came home after the last night in 1918.

I was here in the flesh all right but I was miles away up here in the end.

Yes, I'd change more than the people I came back to.

This took me a fair old time to get settled again.

There was a gap between me and them as I've been.

Sort of classed difference?

Yes, you could say that in a way I suppose.

It's no good asking you how much Blake's changed because he didn't know him before, of course.

His letters don't tell us much. He was never much of a letter writer.

Still, they've been coming regularly so he's kept his mother happy.

I've missed him.

We were just beginning to get to know one another I think.

I didn't see much of my parents before the war. I was way in school, you see.

I hope all that's going to change now, that pre-war world.

But a land fit for heroes.

I settled for a land fit for decent ordinary people, I think, and damn the old order.

You'd not get ideas like that at boarding school.

Not at home, I'm afraid.

Anyone taking seriously? Of course they'd put it down on the war.

Delayed adolescent. One of the stages to be gone through before you come around to see things their way.

You know the saying.

Breeds their man with so, so dead who wasn't in the 30s red.

Yeah, they'll still be fun of you though.

Maybe it's better to agree, to disagree than live in a house where the doors are slamming all the time.

To say nothing a bells ring in.

I like your house.

And out of a few doors slamming on Shaker Foundation.

Yeah, we'd never been able to afford that place.

And yet we'd never been able to sell it.

If we had them done it for no way we'd have put everybody.

It's been a bit like a vacuum, I suppose.

They say nature abours a vacuum, will they?

What's it like in Europe?

It's terrible.

In Germany, ways, devastation.

Millions of people with nowhere to go, nowhere to go back to.

They brought it on themselves, of course.

Well, they let it happen.

It's a few that does it. The many that lets it happen.

We've never known that here.

Apart from the bombing, never known occupation.

Defeater me.

We've always believed we'd muddle through somehow.

And we still don't know what it's like not to muddle through.

I hope to God we never will.

She's doing too much again.

I know, I've been watching him.

No good me talking to her. She only listens to you.

She listens to me last these days.

She pretends to listen.

She's a smile on her face, grabbing her life, holding on.

What do you reckon, Stuart, love it?

Bang on, Grandad.

Bang on, bang on.

What the hell does he bang on me?

Well, Kierke keeps saying when he first joined the area.

I know what he's saying, but that devil don't know is what he meant by it.

It meant bang on.

Wizard!

I should have walked to the Columbia area.

You should thank God you're being spared.

You believe in God, don't you, Grandad?

I do, and Satan, and hellfire, and damnation.

Angels and archangels, Sodom and Gomorrah, the Tenka Malamans,

and the Kings own Yorkshire light infantry.

The angels stop, Grandad.

I? So it has love it, so it has.

The happiest part of my youth was spent in the kitchen with our cook, Betty.

I wish they were your revolting revelations.

Well, I don't mean my youth so much as, oh, my childhood, really.

Worse.

Oh, she was 60 odd.

She scastings.

She muddered me.

That's probably where I get my love of the day.

I'm not sure.

I'm not sure.

I'm not sure.

I'm not sure.

I'm not sure.

I'm not sure.

I'm not sure.

I'm not sure.

I'm not sure.

I'm not sure.

I'm not sure.

I'm not sure.

I'm not sure.

That's probably where I get my love of the proletariat.

Somebody please tell them the bloody walls over.

The werewolf people.

I don't believe in them, in spite of what we've heard.

Who's going to be the underground resistance here?

They've had it now, you know it.

It's at the front of the house.

Oh, it's probably some half-crazed DP.

Leave to the poor sod, you haven't been stood down.

Let's start, shall we?

It'll be dark soon, Grandad.

There's light enough yet.

When it gets dark, I'm like this lantern.

Is it panoffin' in it?

Yeah, settling is this lovely.

Like we use down the mountain.

It's a little bit of a little bit of a mess.

Yeah, settling is this lovely.

Like we use down the mine.

Now, there's a black hole for you, if you like.

No fear of gas, though, like the pits I worked in when I was a lad.

It's different to coal, is I, and?

Hey, it would be hard, wasn't it?

It doesn't burn like coal does.

You're making fun of me, aren't you?

It's Grandad.

Well, I'll let you off this time, your young monkey, seeing it's you.

Your dad will give us some stick, bringing you out here.

I'll tell him I stole away.

He'll believe you, too, I don't think.

Are you a darlin'? You're a lot talky grander.

We're not counting, can I?

Since you've heard us going on.

He's an idealist, is your dad.

He believes in a better world.

Don't you?

Now, do you, but it's far to move from this field of tears?

Heaven on Earth, not in my lifetime of yours.

He thinks he can bring it about overnight by using a big stick and a carrot to make us all toward a lie.

He might make a bit heady with stick, a carrot or just scary.

It's up there, is Heaven, love it.

In young, starry sky.

That's the only heaven I know about.

What's that over there, Grandad?

Oh, they've lit a bump-fine with Stinson.

To burn it off Hitler on.

Oh, show was there.

Oh, I'm surprised at you, love it. What's wrong with out here?

I don't want to go to it from just yet, Grandad.

Oh, my son, not gold, just yet, love it.

And I'm not in what you might call a state of readiness myself.

A stalker in Tug of Place, more like.

Seven, Italian, attention.

Five, 6, merry, good and a 12.

Sweet, sweet.

Eh!

Bad andnormal, Bad, address.

Bad, honest.

I'm a Kristen, Reagan and ya.

Welcome to our region.

I think you ought to get back now, don't you?

It's only just started.

Come on, it's been a good day, let's not spoil it.

You'll see it on save, won't you?

Yes, of course.

Oh, I'm trying to mill the tree. I scored now, am I?

All right, I'll see you back there then.

I'm supposed to be too late.

I'm supposed to be delicate. I'm supposed to have told you.

Your father told me you had some heart, please.

Oh, I had scall at fever when Ransy did.

He died and it left me with this.

It's nothing serious. It makes it much of it.

I'm okay for you.

I bet your parents don't coddle you.

No, they don't, as a matter of fact, they never did.

They just lumped me at school and left me to survive.

I was ready for the army, the iron beds.

I liked your living ahead when the talking started down.

Well, you like the lab now, Crum, Dad?

I like it now, love it.

I'll have a certain medicinal value, you know?

Relaxed his tension and so on.

The world through rose-colored glasses.

Probably get it free on prescription when the new order comes.

Wouldn't you say so, Wardsen?

It would be nice to think of it.

I'd rather have the same value.

Relaxed his tension and so on.

The world through rose-colored glasses.

Probably get it free on prescription when the new order comes.

Wouldn't you say so, Wardsen?

It would be nice to think so.

My old man will work his guts out for it when the election comes.

A brave new world for heroes like you and I.

Good for him.

You'll be out there, trudging the streets, banging on the doors,

arguing he's head off on the doorstep.

He'll win too in the end, if not this time next.

There speaks a man of faith.

It's logical. It's part of the historical process.

Like the war.

Maybe.

Well, how long do you have to go and suffer in this?

Historical process. When's the millennium, Jew waters?

I'd go on.

Two-step-one bag. We make progress.

I'm glad to hear you say so, old boy.

I've been acquiring the opposite impression, actually.

Just shows how wrong you can be.

I mean, who am I to argue with a public school education?

I don't think we have to bring that into it.

Blake, the war's put an end to all that.

Like hell it has.

Look, I think you've had enough, don't you?

Now, that's one thing I can't decide for myself.

The Russians aren't here yet.

The war's over, Blake.

If they came, they would do to us what we did to them.

He came and leave my husband in the good times when the Russians were retreating.

When it seemed that nothing could stop us reaching Moscow.

The good times.

But he did not seem victorious.

He started his table with friends in the good times.

Captain Walter!

Well, that must be Robert's.

Excuse me, Father Enkel.

How civilized it was, sitting here with our friends.

How strange it must have seemed to him.

He had seen what I now have seen.

Worse.

He spoke of whole Russian villages left to staff in the advance.

Of atrocities.

He was ashamed.

They did not wish to know, but he insisted.

They just shot Russian partisans. They took no prisoners.

Then one day they came where Russian partisans had caught our own troops.

They had stripped them naked in the snow except for the helmets.

They had poured water over them until they froze in a solid block of ice.

Hate breeds hate. Is that not so?

It goes on getting worse and worse. Is that not so?

I'm glad he was ashamed.

I'm sorry about that.

I'm tired.

If you will excuse me also.

Good night.

Good night.

Good night.

I think I'll get my head down as well.

Good luck.

What?

Good.

Good God. What do you take me for, Waters?

Not the type anyway.

Smitten?

I don't propose to behave like our glorious allies, that's all.

You may as well from what I've just heard from Robert.

We're pulling back to a new line, eventually.

We're letting the Ruskies in.

It's a fact now, not just a fear.

Section 300, in the Dewey system.

The Dewey system?

The system we use at the library to categorize the books.

Section 300 covers general politics.

Most of these, I've ordered from time to time.

You read some off?

Lord knows where he gets the time the committee's is on.

It joins committees like some women join queues.

If there's a queue, there must be something good at the end of it.

Surprises you, does it?

To find a working class man, read in intelligently.

That was pre-war me.

Two of you are there.

You probably won't believe me, but before I went in the army,

if anybody had told me the working class spoke a different language,

I'd probably have believed them.

I suppose accident is a kind of language.

I hate mine.

I don't. I like it.

Suu Kyu.

Now you've gone shy on me again.

I like your brother.

Blake's changed his ideas.

I can see it between the lines and his letters.

I don't think Dad does.

They used to agree about practically everything.

I'm dreading him coming back in a way.

The wars changed a lot of people.

It's changed a lot of my own ideas about things.

I don't give a damn about politics or class.

The wars changed all that.

I wonder if it has.

I'd like to think so. I'm not an optimist like you, though.

Oh, I'm an optimist, don't I?

You enjoy life, don't you?

Don't you?

Oh, hello.

The boat's gone. For God's sake, don't tell your mother.

Your grandfather's out in it with lovered.

I phoneboo with us a coast guard from the telephone box down the road.

They've spotted a light in the estuary the engine must have stopped.

Well, where did they get? The petrol.

God knows where he got...

Hang on.

There were three of them.

Oh, they had never tried running it on Scotchwood.

He loved trading it with Crockett.

They say worse, Thor got caught because he broke down running on Crockett's adulterated black market stud.

The silly old devil that will serve him right.

I told him the estuary wasn't free. Doesn't he know there's a war on?

It's over, Dad.

But we never get used to it.

For losing parrot on the sea.

We'll be all right when dawn comes.

He'll see us through. He's up there watching over us.

Where's the thing last bow, Nari-Lad?

Is it the Lord?

It's Bill with us. Don't you know this up in the new era?

The world is still alive.

The world is still alive.

The world is still alive.

The world is still alive.

The world is still alive.

The world is still alive.

The world is still alive.

The world is still alive.

The world is still alive.

The world is still alive.

The world is still alive.

The world is still alive.

The world is still alive.

The world is still alive.

The world is still alive.

The world is still alive.

The world is still alive.

The world is still alive.

The world is still alive.

The world is still alive.

The world is still alive.

The world is still alive.

The world is still alive.

The world is still alive.

The world is still alive.

The world is still alive.

The world is still alive.

The world is still alive.

The world is still alive.

The world is still alive.

The world is still alive.

The world is still alive.

The world is still alive.

The world is still alive.

The world is still alive.

The world is still alive.

The world is still alive.

The world is still alive.

The world is still alive.

The world is still alive.

The world is still alive.

The world is still alive.

The world is still alive.

The world is still alive.

The world is still alive.

The world is still alive.

The world is still alive.

The world is still alive.

The world is still alive.

The world is still alive.

The world is still alive.

The world is still alive.

The world is still alive.

The world is still alive.

The world is still alive.

The world is still alive.

The world is still alive.

The world is still alive.

The world is still alive.

The world is still alive.

The world is still alive.

The world is still alive.

The world is still alive.

The world is still alive.

The world is still alive.

The world is still alive.

The world is still alive.

The world is still alive.

The world is still alive.

The world is still alive.

The world is still alive.

The world is still alive.

The world is still alive.

The world is still alive.

The world is still alive.

The world is still alive.

The world is still alive.

The world is still alive.

All right.

DD frosted.

Oh!

Ho!

Ho!

Ho!

Ho!

Ho!

Ho!

Ho!

Ho!

Sergeant, form into the bedroom file.

I've just fired in the air, sir. The Scary Old Crown.

You scared him to death, Sergeant. Too old to run for, old Devon. He must have been terrified.

For a pound of butter, Christ. Get him in the truck.

How much longer we got to stay in his God for second countries, sir?

We'll be moving on before long, beyond the altar line.

And let Joe Stalin's lead, sir. Some people might think he's been spared a feat worse than death, I guess.

God, I can't wait to get home.

Do you always get up this early?

Longest day of the year in two days' time.

I hope they didn't mind me just dropping in yesterday. I didn't expect to stay here. I meant to spend the night at Mother's Place.

You shouldn't have told Mom your family were away then. She wouldn't let you stay there on your own. She looks on you as one of us now.

Does she? You can do no wrong.

Going out of your way to call at our humble abode, bringing a news of a son in Germany.

It's good of you to come and see her again on your way back off leave.

To be perfectly honest, it wasn't exactly on the way.

No. You know, I couldn't work out myself how Witt Stanton came to be situated halfway between Euston and Victoria Station.

I always thought we were somewhere in Cumberland.

You all don't like to see you all again. You see what I mean?

I'm supposed to have very good eyesight. Better than yours, I'll bet.

See that man on the beach over there?

No. He's gone behind the sea wall.

Not you're pulling my leg.

I'm not actually. They're all caught easily.

You're so shy sometimes, aren't you?

You shouldn't be. I've pretty short, you know.

Better yet.

Better yet.

War is over.

Skin to us!

Skin to us!

Skin to us!

I can hear someone shouting.

Good night, that Ukraine is.

You couldn't possibly tell he's Ukrainian of Euston's.

I'm supposed to have very good hearing and a mustily grasp of languages.

No, he's cheating. I know who he is.

He walks five miles here every morning from the POW camp down the coast to meet a lady.

There's devotion for you.

You?

Me?

All I seem to inspire is shyness, not devotion.

No, it's my brother's wife. They both work at a farm down the coast.

You better save many of you. Keir was it.

Owen, he was killed in the first year of the war.

Dear Owen.

Come on then.

Come on, bro!

Make sure the job's on still around.

Nothing we can do for these poor sods.

Sergeant!

Listen, it's my leg.

I laid down all the jumps that have finished me off like the others.

Are they all?

Yeah.

There's a bloke over there, Sergeant.

Are they, yeah?

You made some sort of noise just before you came.

Hold on.

Close me!

Come on, look at this leg!

Stop!

Stop!

No!

No!

I'll forget about breakfast this morning on late.

You can't go to work on an empty stomach.

It's not that. It's sensed.

I think I've gone.

We saw him coming just now. He'll only just have got there.

I'll go and ask him to wait.

I'll bring him back here if you like.

People want to come here. He's shy.

What, another one?

All right then. I'll keep him company till you come.

I don't have to be at the library till 11.

What time's your dream?

I've ours yet.

Well, you've only got to get from Houston to Victoria, haven't you?

What did you mean by that?

I think she was pulling my leg.

We told her about her instead.

Yes, we told her.

She loved Owen.

We all loved Owen.

We're doing...

Owen's dead.

And she blames the Japanese, not you that somebody's taken his empty place.

Life goes on. How could it be otherwise?

The war's over.

Except for people like Keir and it'll be over for them too before long.

We hope.

Oh, the Japanese can't hold out much longer.

It's just a question of time, that's all.

And it's time we got stuck into the peace.

There's an election in less than two weeks.

And that'll solve everything, will it?

It'll shape the future.

It'll do that for better or for worse.

You can't expect the fruits of victory overnight.

Facts are facts.

Like these on your plate, you mean?

Well, there's plenty of worse off than those.

I bet there's many of German who'd be glad of this.

They started it, not us.

They didn't all of it, Lan.

When the dam breaks, you get carried along in the flood.

The innocent as well as the guilty.

She gets tea in bed now, does she?

Your frow?

Tell us.

Yeah, really.

Best, best, best we've had.

Quite a jolly little family we've turned into.

I just wish you wouldn't call me by my surname, that's all.

Makes me feel like the butler.

What does she call you when you're alone?

Leave, or something rather, is it?

Mine, Liebling.

Mine's your own damn business.

Quite a reversal these last few weeks.

I watched it with interest.

To hell with the frow's on frow line.

Is he used to say?

Biting on his enforced celibacy.

Let them learn to love Jerry and his socks by the light of burning jack boots.

Jai-oh.

I've been to Brigade HQ, by the way.

Yeah, you had every morning when they opened shop, can't wait to get home, can you?

Neither could you before you started to fraternize.

I don't like that word.

It's dirty.

Well, that's what they want, Blake.

A dirty word.

The skies would open if they knew about this.

I don't want to see you in trouble, old man.

That's all.

Anyway, we'll be moving on before long.

The Russians will be using this kitchen.

Odd thought, isn't it?

They've not set a date, Brigade.

Well, not that anyone's told me.

She does know it's going to happen, doesn't she?

I should tell her when the time comes.

I hate to think of her left to the tender mercies of our glory.

I'm not sure.

I'm not sure.

I'm not sure.

I'm not sure.

I'm not sure.

I'm not sure.

I'm not sure.

I'm not sure.

shafting if I left to the tender mercies of our glorious allyser,

I'd grown quite fond of the old lady in an pureie platonic way, of course.

I why worry about you though, if I gave you too much sense then let it get serious.

You keep me out of control, aren't you, old man?

You think I should?

Well, how Blake! There's no future in it, is there?

You're Ukrainian. How can you fight into the Germans?

Sit down. We are not an island like you. We live.

The Russians on one side and the Germans on the other.

Come the war. The Russians took us out.

They began to collectivise us, to change it from Ukrainian to Russian.

Even our language. They took my family from the house where we lived.

Then came the Germans, breaking their pact with the Russians.

We changed masters, you see.

They promised us we would only fight the Russians.

But some may send a France. The rival come prisoner.

You understand, huh?

No. I understand what you say, of course, but...

I don't understand how awful it must have been.

The war was easy for us at home compared to people in Europe, except for people in the cities that were bombed.

Your soldiers, when they come home, will tell you what it was like.

We won't listen, though. We never do.

We live on an island. We have the odd war. We muddle through.

And then we forget. We're great forgetters.

Not from this time, I think.

Are they starving in England?

No. The Russians are small. Lessons to war ended, I'm told.

What is it like where you live?

Small town in the north. Shabby, mucky, industrial.

An untidiness of dirty streets, but tidy, clean, warm people.

They live just outside by the sea.

My granddad left his house. He can't afford it, but I loved it when I was there.

I was a kid, a grain by the sea.

Hmm. You want to go home?

Who would not? This is my home.

When you go, I will be alone in it.

You want to stay here?

It's my home.

There will be ghosts.

All over Germany, there are ghosts. My husband, who died on the Russian front.

Until it will also be a ghost.

Is that what you want?

It's what I have.

Suppose you were asked to leave here.

For what reason?

Oh. Any reason.

Where would I go?

Oh, you said you had relatives to the west.

Why should I go to them?

If there was fighting here.

Fighting?

Oh, Europe's in such a mess.

Fighting? Why the war is finished? It's done.

I want you to think about the possibility that there could be a time that it might be wiser not to stay.

There is my father?

Yes.

I got the print of his photographs in my release downstairs.

All over Germany, there are kneeled up.

These faces and the doors of dead houses

has anyone seen this person and name and address?

Dead faces.

Hey. There's always hope.

When I came here that day, when you and Waters arrived, then I had no hope.

Yes, I know.

You knew? Yes.

Is that why you...

Is that why you give me hope? Something you would have done for anyone?

Is that what you believe?

No. Funny man.

Funny.

When I ask a question, you answer with a question of funny man.

Funny ha ha ha or funny peculiar?

What?

To say, one day I'll explain it.

One day before you go.

Yes, yes, one day before I go. I have to go now. It won't be long.

Do you think they'll be able to marry?

Oh, why not? Eventually, it happened after the last lot.

Will they let him stay in the country?

Well, he's not really a prisoner of war. His motor refugee, and we've always opened it.

Oh, it's his birthday next week.

Ernst, I thought, I've asked Gene to invite him here. Do you mind?

No, it's a good idea.

I've gone for granddads breakfast.

Oh, no. Why can't he eat with us?

After the election, he says. Saves argument, he says.

He's right. Come on.

Well, argues. I don't. It's a waste of time.

He'd vote for a pig if he'd had a blue ribbon around his neck.

With the bacon, ration cut to three ounces, he'd be right.

Pigs are more used than politicians. You can eat pigs.

Who'd you say to that, Dad?

Women aren't really interested in politics, love it.

Aren't they? It's the women's votes that puts the conservatives in according to you.

Oh, yes. They'll vote all right, but they're not study what they're voting for.

Yeah. Take that.

It's 10 hours off to work.

I'll tell him the coof clear.

Chicken monkey.

Ah!

It was nothing you did.

Came from somewhere inside his head.

He's not one of mine, lot.

There were six of them in the truck when the judge picked us up.

He looked in the bad way even then.

Now, moving prisoners back before the camps were overrun.

Will they change their mind?

He doesn't seem to have an identity tag.

Ah, some of the japs don't like you to have identity tags.

Makes you somebody.

When you're taken prisoner, you're dishonored.

Less than nobody.

Worse than death.

Worse than death.

I couldn't help you on fishing, I...

What did he say?

Couldn't make it out.

Didn't sound like English.

I couldn't do a fishing, I was...

She got one of her pupils in.

No, she's practicing for her concert in chapel next week.

Not bad, eh?

Don't you stay out too long in this?

Don't you start fussing too?

Let her come for you.

Oh, thanks, Brenda.

No, no.

I'm not going to do it.

I'm not going to do it.

I'm not going to do it.

I can't for you.

Oh, thanks, Brenda.

I thought I'd keep it out of sight.

You did not want folks trying asking questions.

From that young Warrington lad that stayed with us, is it?

Could be.

Oh, I thought he'd gone back to his unit in Germany.

Yes.

From London, that?

He must have posted it before he went back.

And you don't get off, innit?

Eventually.

Ah, wedding bells in the oven, innit?

What do you think?

No, to reopen the letter, will we?

Nay, well, it's your damn letter.

Keep it to yourself, if you must.

That's what I like about you, Grandad.

You don't pry.

But tell me about England.

Ah, England.

Ah, we exo the...

...Puadana...

...the...

...Bababam...

...Dasirio.

Sorry, Mother.

Mother?

She believes it.

She also teaches music.

Ah!

B-sirio!

No, no, no, no.

What is telling to be serious?

Hey, what?

Shut.

B-sirio.

Sir, I'm sorry, sir.

I forgot the questions, sir.

Tell the lady about England.

Which England?

Your England?

My England?

The real England?

Or the soldier's dream of home?

New England.

You appreciate this difference, then?

Of course.

You're not so sure I have in England.

I have a place in my head that's part of a place called England.

A gallery of faces.

I'm the one in the middle, next to the dog.

This is you, before the war.

Can I have it, please?

I'll swap you with something similar.

Swap.

Exchange.

I'm going to get one.

Like a couple of young lovers, is that what you're dying to say?

I'm going to get one.

I'm going to get one.

Like a couple of young lovers, is that what you're dying to say?

Delayed adolescence.

The kind of thing you should have got through and be pimply youth.

What are you going to do?

Take her with me.

They won't let you do that.

I don't mean now, you idiot.

She's relatives to the west.

She'll have to stay there till the climate was right.

Till we stop hating the jetties.

How long does it usually take?

It all worked out, didn't you?

More or less.

Don't you think you ought to tell her?

The fact?

It started to break it, gently.

Is there time for that?

You like some, don't you?

There were people like the Goldways on our estate in Galicia.

Sharp, but good.

Sharp.

Sharp?

Sharp, you say sharp?

I think you mean shrewd.

It's more or less the same, I think.

Shooood.

Sounds better.

I think it is the word.

You teach in new words, your education.

You never looked at such as me in your own country.

It's a good thing that I am here, then.

It's good that I am taught to see.

It's good that I learn words like shrewd.

So I can become an English gentleman.

My mother loved England.

The idea of England that she was taught.

Fair play.

Freedom.

The safe little island.

The English gentleman.

Not all gentlemen.

No.

But even so, to feel safe,

I was on a day like this.

To feel there is goodness in the world.

To feel that life can be good.

I'll bring court immediately soon.

The boy?

They will allow the grandparents?

They will allow to meet me, the enemy?

Of course they will allow it.

What does he know of such things?

Not the enemy anyway.

Ukrainians are the same as Russian and Russians are allies.

It's only the same to the politicians.

Not to Ukrainians.

I fought for the Germans, so I am enemy to England.

And traded to Russia, they would say.

Is that why the Russians want you back?

They punish you.

You mustn't listen to such talk.

The Germans made you fight for them.

No one is made.

I chose to fight.

I wanted them to die in a concentration camp where they would have sent me.

And I chose to fight Russians.

We'd call that Hobson's Choice.

Hobson's Choice?

No choice at all, it means.

Hobson's Choice.

Hobson's Choice.

I learn, you see. I learn.

Well here we are then, at the party in one's room.

It won't always be like this.

They will allow us to marry you, think.

I told you, they're happy for me. They understand.

The people who rule, do they understand?

Do they understand Hobson's Choice?

Hey, Jean!

Wait for me!

Don't run!

You shouldn't run like that.

You mustn't have a pink fit.

I just wanted to remind you that you're coming to eat with us tomorrow after you finish work.

Do you think I would forget such a thing, little one?

About the same time tomorrow then.

I will be here, of course.

Right.

See you back at the house.

Don't run!

Why must she not run?

She had scarlet fever when she was younger.

Left her with a bad heart.

She could go tomorrow, but she lives as if there was nothing wrong with her.

Maybe it is not so serious.

Doctor thinks it is.

And she hopes it is not.

Hope is everything when you have nothing.

That print would be a father's photograph I got for you.

What did you do with it?

I fastened it to the door where other people have put theirs.

The door for missing persons.

There's the note that says there's anyone seen this man.

You father weren't missing in Berlin.

He would come to me if he was alive.

To this house?

Yes.

He knows this house.

Well why put his picture in town here?

Because many old people have lost their minds.

In memory Jimmy?

In memory, yes.

Someone may see him.

Wondering.

You might remember how to get to the town, but not to the house, is that what you mean?

Yes.

There are people in the town who would know him.

Perhaps from his visits in the past?

It's actually a straws.

A straws?

I mean it's not very likely is it?

I thought you lost hope.

I have you now.

What difference does that make to hope?

I don't know.

A difference.

It takes your mind off of Jimmy.

Yes.

Yes it takes my mind off of it.

Before I had you, I have nothing.

When you have gone, I do not want to be left with nothing.

The day you found me in the room downstairs?

I came from the garden into my house.

I wanted food.

Yet I wanted to die also.

I had no hope.

You revolve of us there.

You'd gone up the stairs and left it in the room.

You remember?

Yes.

You came down again before I could take it.

You stopped me.

You gave me hope.

Reality, not hope.

I should be going soon.

Soon?

We shall leave here.

Soon?

We shall leave here.

The Russians will come.

How could that be?

It's something that's been arranged with them at Yalta.

Arranged?

You British are not communists.

There was a conference.

The Allies divided Europe up.

We're inside the Russian sector.

We shall pull back and then move in.

You do that to us.

It wasn't something I arranged personally.

I don't particularly like it myself,

but it's the kind of thing that can happen when you start a war and lose.

You hate us, don't you, as a people.

Some things I hate.

How do you hate to hold people?

I want you to come with me.

Do it not be permitted.

Permit?

Permit?

We're collecting words tonight.

Hate, hope permitted.

Your friends in our sector, haven't you?

Relatives to the West?

You could stay there for the time being.

In time, we could be together.

You could come to England.

England.

You could invade us.

You'd make it. Hitler didn't.

Why are you crying?

I'm not.

It's a sound offer.

Offer?

It's not necessary that you do this.

I'm with you because I want it to be.

It's not necessary that you do this to me.

It's necessary for me.

Why?

That's how it is, that's the reality.

A reality? A word, one more word.

Hate, hope, reality.

The word is missing.

What word?

Love?

Love?

Oh, yeah.

You have heard of?

Yes, I've heard of.

My dad used to say something.

I don't agree with a lot of things he used to say.

This one has the Ring of Truth.

I don't agree with a lot of things he used to say.

This one has the Ring of Truth.

What you care is what you do.

One unit.

The possiblepoint that this guy Total.

What do you care about this guy?

This guy who Funky intend to give the ring?

No, he's a US guy.

I don't like this guy.

I'd love to have an interview.

Is it an interview?

A Bye.

Okay.

I'm George A. Wood.

We haven't met before.

I thought I'd show you the way up to the house.

It is good of you to have me.

Happy birthday, by the way.

Oh, yes.

My birth. I'd forgotten it.

Jean reminds me.

If you're going to talk like that, you're not eating with us.

If George and I can accept it and pay, then I'm sure you've come too.

You understand me, don't you, lover?

Yes, well...

If we all look so handsome...

We've come through a war.

Millions have died.

You don't ever want them.

And you asked me to sit at the table with a chap who fought for the Germans.

That's why you're so if you want to eat.

There's no service in here.

We're what? Peace in the world, don't we?

You mean to say if I don't eat in there, I get now?

That's what I mean.

And if you eat in there, you'll hold your peace.

Well, I'm glad.

Are you listening, lover?

So you'll know who to blame when the next one starts.

Oh, you'll know who to blame.

Is more understanding than you.

You go along with this, lover?

Was over, Granddad.

Who's won?

We did.

And what have we won, lover?

Freedom.

Freedom, is it?

How could I swear we had that when it started?

It loved them, but you gave it.

Answer that.

You've got a point there, lover.

Eat no more, let me keep it than your mother would.

Me?

Ah, they're all the say in these dictators.

You have to think that they want you to think.

Not as a mind dictates.

You've got to shut your mouth at the table, else you get now to eat.

You've got the choice. It's up to you.

Why did we win the war, lover?

It is beyond me.

We've spent up the one I'm going to show for it.

We could say it.

Freedom.

Except the dinner table, of course.

Take it her side, are you?

It'll take size, Granddad.

I don't like sides.

Not too much.

What do you think of Mr. Attlee, Granddad?

Well, I know.

He thinks the Labour Party, but what does he think of Mr. Attlee, though?

Can your dad stand to hear it?

I may not agree with everything that's said.

But I'll defend.

But if he bends to the death, you're right to say it.

All right, I would.

They all grow.

They'll be contest fairer than that.

Ah, but he's not mastered, is he?

And I shall not get me put in if I open my mouth.

You won't get it if you don't, Granddad.

Oh, Mickey, funnily are you.

I thought you were the mate of mine.

You're the top potatoes, Ernst.

No, no, please.

He means thank you.

He means please, don't you, and it's your motherfaced him.

We need to make it as well.

We'll finish your tea first on our seat to it.

I'll see to it.

I've got a certain cure for air, eh?

Finish your tea first, though.

Tell them about the Russians and the German's, Ernst.

I'm sure Ernst doesn't want to talk about the Russians.

That's what he does.

He's trying to be English polite.

There's nothing wrong with polite, and let's pass those plates.

Well, honestly, isn't there anything we can decently talk about in this house?

There's your mother's ear, oh, Churchill.

You'll be on safe enough ground there, and I'm prepared to keep my mouth shut

for the sake of peace in the house.

I'll tell you what, Churchill said about it, then, shall I?

He said an empty cab drew up, and Mr. Attley got out.

That's cruel, Granddad.

Ah, but his politics last.

Having trouble with your mouth, George?

Ernst hates the Russians.

The Germans, too.

It's him.

He fought for them, didn't he?

It was Hobson's choice.

They made him.

Here we go.

Satisfied, Miss.

Is it like what she says?

Perhaps it is better we do not talk of these things.

They don't send folks to Siberia or worse in this country

for speaking their minds.

They'll just give them now to eat.

And there's my bloody pudding gone.

Dad, just watch your language.

What did they do to you, the Russians then?

Don't embarrass our guest, Dad.

Shouldn't we know what'll happen if we don't stand fast?

Happen, you'd sooner we didn't know.

Happen?

Eh?

You are right.

I should tell.

Don't you feel obliged to talk about something you'd say?

Forget.

Forget.

No.

I shall never forget.

It's the others that want to forget.

Oh, don't want to know in the first place.

When the war came, first the Russians took our country.

The NKVD came to our house.

They called us Boyers, nobles.

We were only a small estate of little farms.

They called my mother a Bladjuka, a tart,

and beat my father when he came between them.

Then they took me into another room and beat me also.

Before I became unconscious, I hear my mother screaming.

The last I heard.

When I opened my eyes, they have all gone.

I do not see them again.

Perhaps if they are alive, they think I am dead.

Sometimes I do think I am dead.

Then came the Germans.

They took our neighbors who were Jews, but us, they left.

I join others who have suffered.

Worse, we try to survive.

We sit in the farlight.

The night is dark.

Outside it is cold.

We talk to make sound.

So we will not hear the wolves coming down from the hills.

We pretend we do not hear.

We are afraid.

We do nothing.

Talk.

Talk.

Do you hear George?

Well, what's your point, then?

You that wants to make friends with the Russians, like Lasky,

and your other mates.

We are at peace with the Russians. We do not want any more war.

I am a Labour Party, not a Communist, but they exist.

They are there and we have to live with them.

In your own fold, too.

We do not have Communists in the Labour Party.

The Constitution forbids it.

Ah, but you have got them, though.

What is Lasky, then?

Those other fellow travelers, what are they?

Wolves and sheep's bloody clothing.

That is what they are.

Dad, your language.

Do you get me put in, then?

Happy birthday to you.

Happy birthday to you.

Happy birthday dear.

Happy birthday to you.

Happy birthday dear.

Very civilised, hmm?

For me?

Oh, for the family.

Family?

For you, me, Blake.

It's been like a family these last few weeks, isn't it?

You have heard when you go.

We heard this afternoon, actually.

When? When will you go?

Tomorrow.

So soon.

Do not be served.

Yeah.

Flowers.

Flowers?

Well, it is rather a special occasion, isn't it?

Yeah.

You told her.

I asked him.

Oh, hey.

I wanted to tell you later.

I thought you might be upset that thought you're leaving home.

I cannot come with you.

What?

I cannot come with you.

I cannot leave now.

Why?

My father.

He's in Dusberg.

Dusberg?

It's a village.

Some miles from here. It's not too far.

I do not understand why he has not come here.

I do.

Dusberg's in the Russian sector.

They probably won't let him out.

The woman did not tell me.

I'm not surprised, shouldn't I?

She's probably heard what's going on.

Going on?

The Russians.

What they're doing to your people?

I've heard stories.

Stories?

You think they're stories?

Not such stories. I told him war.

The things your husband wrote you from the Russian front, you believe them?

It was the front.

The fighting.

The real war.

Real?

What was what happened when you were in Berlin, real?

They're dead weren't they real?

Children, old people.

You still think war only happens at the front?

The war is over.

Over.

He's an old man.

They would not hurt him.

Maybe not.

Maybe old men could survive.

They play their cards right.

Don't eat too much. Don't say too much.

When they come here,

he will be able to come here, or I can go to him.

You're a woman.

Do you know what they do to women?

They do what your soldiers did to their women.

They do it very efficiently to the death sometimes,

without any sympathy or compassion, because it's been burned out of their souls.

Such stories are told in war.

Dresden was that compassion.

Who are you English that you should condemn?

Your shame makes you speak so far as tell these stories.

Where there are stories about concentration camps.

Were they?

They were true.

The truth was worse even.

It could be forgiven for not believing.

God's sake. What is you, chattering?

Blake's right, Heter.

The stories are true.

Of course, Englishmen are too polite.

Englishmen would never do such things.

You might just be that we're never really being driven to the war,

but we're not practicing barbarians.

Not even after Dresden. You do not believe?

What then?

A rheumatic people, perhaps, who get what they want by pretending to be gentlemen.

By telling people how much better they are.

How superior!

Come in from a member of the master race that takes some swallowing.

But, God, it does!

The war is over.

It's done.

He'll be back.

He's a funny man, Heter.

Oh, oh, funny.

Oh, oh, peculiar.

I'm surprised at you.

No, you're not.

All he's saying anyway.

He wants his grandma to fix his ear.

Sorry, love, I forgot. Bring him over here.

Come on there.

Wonder what grandma's got for you, then, eh?

No, I know it's here somewhere.

Somewhere.

Your dad used to think this cured everything.

Oh, and ever since I first gave it to him.

When he was much smaller than you, he'd ask for it whenever he was hurt.

Ah, here we are.

Marigold oil.

But I was a bit of a show off in the garden in those days.

I called everything by its Latin name.

Mum.

Mum.

And Paulie'd say,

can I have calendula fish in Arles?

Oh.

Hey.

Hey, what's it mean?

What do you keep saying?

Don't know.

It's Latin, I think.

Oh.

No!

It's me.

I thought you...

I'm sorry.

I didn't think.

No.

I'm sorry.

I said things to hurt you.

No.

To hurt all lies not true.

Hurt you don't stay here.

I must.

I couldn't sleep.

Thinking about it.

I must stay.

You know, you taught me.

What you care is what you do.

Nothing will come of it.

For him to come here, my father?

He's an old man.

His life's nearly over.

He won't want you to risk yours or his.

Is there no place for the old in the world anymore?

Your father.

Your mother.

What would you do if it was them?

What would you do?

As I do.

Yes.

We used to say the only good Germans are dead, German.

We say that too about others.

We say sometimes things we do not mean.

Because we do not think about.

I'd imagine the life for us in England.

After four lousy years of living from day to day,

I had some hope for the future.

Only because we lived together for a few weeks.

In a house.

There's no more people.

Almost as it was before the war.

The first woman you meet as a new life starts.

I'm the beginning of your peace.

That's all.

Maybe that's how it started.

It isn't like that now.

Don't make it hard for me.

I must.

I must be sure you don't give up.

I will never give up.

I promise.

That word that you...

No.

Do not say.

Save for when I come.

Save.

I'm not.

They were angry with me last night.

Why should they be?

Some things I say, perhaps.

I like you.

All of them.

They're happy for us.

Don't be afraid.

Don't be afraid.

Don't be afraid.

Don't be afraid.

Don't be afraid.

Don't be afraid.

Join us, have you?

Where are we?

In the sewers canal, we're in for a blightly.

Try to tell you before, but you couldn't take it in.

Feeling better, then?

Yeah, what's your name?

No.

You didn't have a tag on you when they picked you up, they said.

Japs take it, did they?

Hey, where?

434-4721.

You didn't make it earlier.

You missed a B2626.

You're voting for them.

What for?

You lecturing in two days time back home?

They got to wait the best part of three weeks for the result, because of us.

Service vote.

3 million, lots of bumps sent all over the world, just so we can vote.

It's only officer's seats.

Don't like the look of either of mine.

Sivis.

Looks like the option is choice to me.

Thanks a lot, sit down.

All over the constituency now, people like us are knocking on doors, saying,

remember the 30s, remember the door, remember the hard-faced men.

We're going to win, Peg.

Which some of the others were as optimistic as you are, Dad?

Oh, it's not optimism, it's fact.

People are thinking.

Party broadcasts are getting more listeners than the best of the comedy programs.

Only because there's twice as many laughs.

Good evening, sir. I'm canvassing after Warrington, isn't it?

Young Mr. Mark?

It's Mox and so.

I was in shows with your father at Lake House before the war.

Mox?

Yes, of course.

How are you, Mox?

Well, in our shirt.

You'll get me again tomorrow, will you?

I'm eating Ernst.

How's it going without you there, won't they?

Have you been all this time?

Help in it. I can be two rooms.

I just pop upstairs.

I'm surprised that you help in that lot.

You don't agree with them, I know you don't.

Do you?

If you're not losing sight, if you did,

they're shouting for Winnie from the rooftops, wherever he goes.

Can't you won't stand for him, Labour one?

Never mind laughing, come in here a minute.

Give me a chance, I've only just got him.

I must go and change my shoes.

Kept them not long, Boyle.

Good. I took my share of the tea ration, but not all the others did.

Would you believe it? I've forgotten, they say.

Was only been over two months, yet they're getting back to the mean old habits already, some of them.

Can you stand to hear some news?

News?

Well, I knew you'd want me to offer it.

Telegram?

I.

Keir?

Nene. Good news.

You're your lad.

Blake?

Who?

Owen?

Owen?

Hi.

Alive?

Can I give you one of these?

Let us face the future.

Yes, indeed.

But this is Labour, isn't it, sir?

Yes, of course.

You're conversing for Labour.

Yes, I am.

But before the warrior father was a German of the Tory part in this constituency.

That's not really the point, is it, Moxel?

I'll give you this back if you don't mind, sir.

She's told her and she'll marry him.

She's married already.

To your lad.

Who's alive?

What is it?

OK, what's that?

Keir?

Welcome over.

You'd ever sit humble?

We'd dock tomorrow, then, eh?

Thought I were going to keep us in this lock till Christmas.

You're putting weight on.

That's what they bought us back by a seafall, you know?

Put back someone away, those little yellow-bastards-sweated-offers.

You'll miss his be there.

I reckon she will.

And the lad.

You were a toddler when I saw him last.

You don't know who I am.

Dad will be waiting for me, I reckon.

Mum died while I was out there.

Wish I were before I joined up, in a way.

Civers have had to pick the women by now.

Hope they save one for me.

Are we all right, do you think?

I know they say we're all right.

What do you tell them about the japs?

Don't sound right when you say it.

Not like it was.

Doctor asked me.

And I told him.

That's where I could.

It seems like talking about it somewhere.

I never want to see another jap unless they put one in a cage in Regent's Park.

By a bloody season ticket, then.

I'm going to get a jap.

Oh, there you are.

There you are, of course.

How are you?

Jig-noring.

Fintr conservative, club-dads.

Ignore him.

Got champagne out, have they?

I'm sure I can figure what we'll need for this sort of finish we have.

You know, I still can't get used to it like me, none.

I keep wanting to shout, pop that light out!

They're bright tonight, eh?

145 maturity over all of the parties.

It's a dream.

Yeah. A dream.

It's not what you were in the desert.

My army stuffs all over fits me.

You should see me deem obsuit.

Stylish, of course. Looks like a sack.

How's the romance going?

Mind your own business.

If I hadn't met him in Germany and asked him to come and tell Mum you'd seen me, you two would never have met.

It's him today, actually.

It's only stationed at Katerik. I don't know what his D-Mob group is, but he thinks he'll be out before Christmas.

No worries? All plain sailing, is it?

Through Dad a bit when he found Mark was one of the Warrintons, until he realised he'd found a political soulmate.

He's still only half believes it, I think. Even though Mark canvassed for us, a Warrinton on the left.

Sign of the times. I've had the reality, now we want the dream.

Cenic. Not your dream.

To join the club. You'll never beat him, except in an election, aren't you?

Defeatest.

You're a bit like me, but you won't admit it for Dad's sake. I can't do that, even for him.

I've had all the state control I can stomach. I let them put my life in porn for freedom. I want me ticket redeemed.

Don't worry, I'll break you to him gently.

Could we meet in Owen's boat about now?

Does Keanu know that Jean nearly married to Ukrainian?

We're trying to pretend it didn't happen. I liked him. He'd had an awful time. She was his future.

Poor devil.

You said that with feeling.

Did I? Is he still at the camp?

I don't know. He left the Goldways farm where they used to work. There was a rumor that we were going to send them back to Russia.

God help him.

You said that with feeling too.

How about a taste of it? Someone I care for disappearing into that?

That's silence.

In Germany? Someone you met in Germany?

Yeah, in Germany.

Fraternizing?

That's a stupid word, Peg.

Sorry. It's a word you hear people use over here.

Over here, they know nothing. Nothing.

Where's the breakfast? In the oven.

Can I get that boat bought from me, Adi, are you?

How am I blowing some of my D-Mob money on it? It's in damn good condition.

Ooh, I could eat him. Who learnt you to talk for while you were over there?

Officer's mess, granddad. Ruben's shoulders with the upper crust.

Your mother likes it. Just neat talk nice, she says. Not like you and me, I love it.

On the rough and ready side, you and me, aren't we, lad?

You know what's wrong? You should come when you're cold.

It'll be a hard look for the next five years while this new letter in.

Unless you come when you're cold?

Another leg comer. It's in the oven. With a hard yolk.

And a hard yolk for you too.

Cold lights are hard yolk. I'll get it, you'll burn your fingers.

Your dad's coming home.

His dad's coming home. Yeah.

I and I don't believe in miracles no more.

More like home? Mm-hmm.

Sorry, I can't give you a decent breakfast. I left my coupons at the digs in Glasgow.

I miss broad hers, but we haven't had a chance to go shopping yet.

Oh, I shall want yours, by the way.

I'm not staying.

I thought you had a week's leave.

They're expecting me at Peg's house.

It was a rain before I knew you and my mum were going to be here.

So last night was just a duty call.

Don't be an idiot. I wanted to see her.

And mum, of course. I've seen her once in the last four years.

Not so damned often before that.

It's one of daddy's complaints. She went down to London to do her bit in the ATS after the war started.

It's not the reason they separated her.

Did either of them ever write and tell you the real reason?

Dad did, briefly.

I'm not surprised she broke loose. Happened to a lot of women.

She must have had a damn boring time playing Lady of the Manner for the benefit of Dad's.

I'm a counter-friend.

They look nice.

Should my ears be burning?

No, of course not. Mark's not staying tonight.

He's arranged to stay with his family in Whit Stanton.

I do so for a new family.

You could hardly say that we've been much of a family over the years, could you?

Rubbish. Is it?

We'd better leave it unattached then.

What's the name of this new family?

Hey, what? He's secretary of Whit Stanton Labour Party.

Oh, that's interesting.

I met Moxon who used to work at Lake Hasbro before the war when I was on leave last.

Very correct. Bowed to you from the waste, did he?

I think I must have left my reading glasses in the kitchen.

I shocked him rather, I think.

I was canvassing for the Labour Party.

Good for you.

Good grief. I thought she'd be as shocked as Moxon was.

I told you she'd changed.

Well, don't tell me you voted Labour too.

My beliefs aren't political. I vote when my law is lying.

That's what Moxon said.

Good for him. It's only superficial wartime conversion yours.

You know, like a lot of the Labour votes.

Do you think?

Well, I suspect hers is too.

Man she went off with was some sort of socialist,

brought in the Spanish Civil War.

That's all I know about him.

Just been killed in France the last time I saw her.

She didn't want to talk about it.

You're probably right.

About Balmani, not me.

She's probably a convert to George Bernard Shaw's,

the intelligent woman's guide to socialism.

I just hope it is skin deep.

Not in favour of anything that'll work against the chance of her coming back to daddy.

You know where his political commitment lies.

Do you think she might? Go back to him.

I don't know.

We've all changed, haven't we?

You?

Oh yes.

I had my war too, you know.

Oh, I know it seems stupid coming all this way and they're not going to meet the ship.

I feel the same as you do, in a way.

Why do you think I stayed here?

Because you didn't want to leave me.

It was you were down at the docks really, don't you?

They won't belong now.

I feel such a mess.

You look lovely.

I meant inside.

Inside me I feel a mess.

How can I face him?

You thought he was dead.

We all did.

Five years.

He'll understand better than any of us.

I can't tell him about Ernst.

I'm not saying you should, but you've got to stop feeling guilty.

Such a mess I feel.

Mom, I'm scared.

He'll need you.

I know.

And I won't be there.

And my head I won't be there.

Granddad says your boyfriend's coming to stir.

I suppose he's told you his name too.

Yes, he did. One of the landed gentry, the Iron Masters.

He's not like that.

Oh, good.

Like you're implying I mean.

Was I?

I know you.

Well, I'm not going to let you spoil it for me so don't try.

I wouldn't let even be views on the landed gentry spoil anything for you, Peg. You know I wouldn't.

It's not all that keen on his family anyway.

Have you met them yet?

No, his father's still in America.

And his mother's away a lot.

You know, they're going to find it hard to swallow even in our new people's democracy.

All this stuff about class going out with the war is I wash.

They're not even the new Vaux Rees, they're your traditional county types.

If you're trying to put me off, you're wasting your time.

I'm just saying beware, that's all.

What does Dad think?

He likes Mark. He's prepared to leave it at that.

Well, if I like Mark, that's where I leave it.

Promise?

I promise.

What you're going to do when you demobbed?

I don't know, I'm dreading it in a way.

Might sound odd to you, but in an awful sort of way I enjoyed the war.

Awful.

Well, the old damn business is awful, isn't it? We've got to believe that.

And yet I seem to thrive on danger.

Excitement, conflict. I can't sit still.

I can remember how we all used to have to keep quiet because you were doing your homework.

The only one of us to shine.

How was an hour as you used to sit in there?

Night after night? As if your life depended on it.

Oh, didn't it? All that application for what?

I never bloke in the RAF with a first class honours degree from Oxford.

He was brilliant. And a cannon shell smeared him all over the runway like jam.

Mum's hoping you'll carry on with these studies.

Take one of these government grants for ex-servicemen.

You don't want a chance.

Yeah, I have to do something.

I know.

You'd have been teaching now if the war hadn't happened.

Yeah, imagine me in a classroom now that thought it pulls me.

I wish you could help.

Do you? How sweet.

Don't let these people take you over and make you one of them.

They couldn't, though, could they? You've got a mind of your own.

Does Mark know that?

Eh?

I'm sorry.

Oh, my God.

Mum?

Mum?

Can we raise?

I told you we should have got the taxi.

We haven't been able to carry off the things we need.

Now I'll have to go shopping again tomorrow.

I like shopping when it's started. It's terribly shabby.

Shabby with the wear and tear of keeping the warrington to the mall,

to which they were accustomed.

Or is that something else we blame in the war?

We've never been a warrington at heart, have you?

I'm not a warrington by birth.

When I married your father, it didn't make me a member of the club.

The Killel Club, I call it.

You can't acquire a pedigree.

Only you're born with it, you've heard it.

I wonder if this girl of Marx will be ready to go through it

or if he comes to marriage through what?

Coming one of us.

No feeling he hasn't told her yet that we're Catholics.

All that heartache?

All those tearing doubts?

No.

Meg said he wants to go and get changed.

Don't want to finish me butty yet.

I'm going to the station.

It's ours yet.

Poor old Loved. You'll get no peace to his dad's back then.

Peg said he got to put his suit on.

I only wear it on Sunday.

She said he got to put his time.

If I were you, I'd take that butty with you.

Why didn't Cole go with him to meet the boat?

Oh, he got up very excited.

First thing at the scene is on a cal of his dad coming home.

Has anybody prepared him? What's he expecting?

How do you explain to a young lad like Cole what goes on in a jet peel W camp?

This generation needs to know.

I'm Buckingham Wald, Belsen.

What the Russians are doing now in Europe, in Poland, in Russia.

We'll need to remember to tell them.

You've been reading the Tory press.

The Tory press doesn't print what I know to their shame.

Their honeymoon with Ivan isn't over yet.

Mustn't upset our glorious allies.

God, you've changed.

Has Grandad been working on you?

He needs not from me. He was there. He saw it.

You've done an about turn, haven't you? The pair of you?

You were told the roads round as I remembered before you joined up.

What brought that about then?

War, Grandad. Five years of submission to authority.

You'd rather have submitted to Hitler, would you?

That's a cheap simplification.

War's over now. Would it peace?

Or should be.

Your brothers coming home less had more stick than any of you.

So bear that in mind.

He needs what we need.

Bloody peace.

Is it from Germany for you? You said that stump?

Yeah. Yeah, I will.

Well, well.

You picked me up here in a couple of hours.

If you've gone down the curse road, you'll find a pub where you'll get my mother's meal.

I don't think you'll find the wars changed. I don't know all that much.

Anyway, you're only drawing the dryer. I promise you.

Darn it!

pearl

For most here it is impossible.

And I cannot give you an address at which you can write to me.

I move from camp to camp, looking for my father.

He was not at Dusburg, though he had been there.

There are many like me, searching, looking for the lost.

I think of you often, free in your England.

I did not dream much in the past.

Often now I dream.

In the cold, dirty places in which we have to live,

because it is all there is, I close my eyes and dream to escape.

There are many like me, searching, looking for the lost.

There are many like me.

In England.

Hi.

Excuse me.

What in is it?

She is different from our remembered.

Are we all?

Yep, all of us. She is quiet.

Never used to stop talking.

She is just a bit over-combined all.

Hi.

It is a big day.

I met him in Germany. What makes you so interested?

He has his eye on our little peg.

If you ask me, it is our little peg who has a eye on him.

You know who he is, don't you?

I want it, you mean?

Dad has played Bob Cratchit to the corporate screw to the Warrington family

for the best part of his life.

Underpaid and undervalued in a petty little pen-pushing job for those screwing sod.

I worked for them myself before the war.

Would you work for them again?

I am going to have to, aren't I?

Your old job, mechanic.

I am going to find that a bit painful, aren't you?

On the rank I am going to miss.

It is the company.

A camaraderie of war.

I bet your pound to a penny will be precious little of that in the piece.

I have never seen that as a garment, is this it?

When did you deem up coming through?

Oh, God knows.

I went in after you.

I have an occlue what I do when I do come out.

I may be alright, good grammar school education behind you.

It is not going to be easy though, is it?

Are you going to marry a froline?

She is a frow.

But who told you?

Peg.

Yeah, I shall marry when the barriers come down.

You understand it, do you, Mum?

Why? Because she is a German.

I wouldn't let that bother you.

We have already cut our bread ration to feed them.

When we have re-armed them, rebuilt our factories,

they will be ready for another go.

About a decade on my reckoning.

We will never learn not to trust.

I am going on to the station.

You are going to wait for us.

I will see you there.

I have fed the hands.

Like one of the family, aren't you?

Should I want to be?

Opposing?

No, of course not.

I mean, when, if, when I propose I shall do it properly.

After a great heart searching and much forethought you mean?

Isn't that what you'd want?

No. Put that back where you found it, will you?

Where's Keir?

Gone to the station.

In a mooder suspect, you two have been arguing.

Yeah, sorry.

I'm not sure I like this piece.

You know where you are with a war?

Hey, sounds gone in.

I just nearly made a fool of myself. That's all.

I'm rigid.

You've been ready all day.

Come on in. Off we go.

Can you take the shopping?

I'll tie back the roses while I'm at here.

Okay.

Oh, I'll need the scissors or a knife.

All right.

Beth.

I thought you were still in Washington.

The minister wanted me back here for a few days.

I go back again next week.

You look well.

So you...

It seems an age since I saw you.

Yes, yes, it's been a long time.

Well, your hair's different. Shorter?

Is it?

I've asked them to let me go as soon as they can.

I ought to be getting back to the works nights all over.

You shouldn't you be asking why I'm here, how I got in?

Perhaps you have one of these things. It's called a key.

Why would I have a key?

Perhaps it's yours, your own it.

I don't have a key.

I climbed through the windows, my friend.

It's not called breaking an entry.

Well, entry, but I didn't break anything.

Well, I knew they did my neck.

There were some papers I wanted. They were on the chest upstairs.

I thought it was at the lake.

But I couldn't find it when I went there and I thought you might have it here.

Oh, I'm sorry.

Oh, no, no, no. I told you to take anything you wanted, didn't I?

We agreed to separate.

What's it like at the lake?

Well, like barracks. Army hasn't moved out yet.

Furniture's crammed in the stables.

I wouldn't mind preserving some of the ditties written on the walls.

That doesn't sound like you.

America caught in you, has it?

No, the Washington round's not all that different from the older life over here, I think.

I've enjoyed it. Some of it.

I want to come home now.

Oh.

England.

Still green, shabbier.

But comfortable, no not sort of way.

I walked through London this day.

In the city, down with the docks, Uncle Zaldhauss.

The watch left a bit.

Just a bomb inside now.

I hope they went for it when they put it all together again.

That funny old world we lived in.

A lifetime ago.

You'll find a lot of changes when you get back.

More to come after the election we've just had.

The Americans will be a poor by labor getting in.

Just when I understand it.

Can you?

I think I can.

I feel sorry for our winner, of course.

Bringing it through all that lot, only to be rejected.

But I think there's more than one Tory who won't want the old gang back.

I've forgotten how philosophical you can be about something.

They're not at all philosophical.

They're not at all philosophical about others.

I got a Scotland from here.

Does he rise?

Oh, I wouldn't do that.

Why not?

Because she's out in the garden, fastening the roses back.

She's here?

Oh, my God, that's marvelous.

And Mark?

He's with his new family.

New family?

Mommy!

She's getting cross with me.

I promise to take her the scissors out.

She's written to me every week.

And when I thought I recognized unhappiness between the lines.

She's been involved with the man out there.

Married.

Catholic too.

Poor Ros.

So much worse when it's one of us.

Mommy, where are these damn scissors you were supposed to be?

Daddy!

I love!

Oh, then...

I love you.

I love you.

Hey!

Come on.

Oh, come on, man.

Hello.

Hi, hello.

Coat.

Speak not your tone.

You

Look at you what's wrong with me you ought to be resting yourself after that long journey

It's only a few things keep your mind off it does it of what happiness

It's too much it's all too much

Yes, I know I know I

Got it all under control trust you to upset things now look they're all back all of them

For God's sake enjoy it your silly woman to hand

I can see a few clouds in far distance too, but it doesn't have to mean as a storm come in

You you optimist always looking for a silver lining

I

Think he's gone up to look at your room

Well everything's on the stove and I mixed the dried egg and left it on the draining board

Happy month and don't ask of that for God's sake. She'll burst into tears. Oh shut up you

I'll go and see to the meal

As a trouble with happiness gear you can never believe it's gonna last and life too often told you're right doesn't it?

When's your demand coming through God knows you'll be picking up where you left off as opposed with your studies

I don't know that either. Oh, you'll never used to have any doubts

Well wars on settling dad turns everything upside down spoils the pattern. It's very untidy as well

Well, it'll be the kind of world where brains or count

All these things we've invented to kill each other with there

They'll need new skills now to put them to better use what makes you think we're gonna stop killing each other

Well your mother says I'm an optimist

But don't

Sower your life by looking on the black side too much gear you've got to take life as it is and make the best of it a lot of the time

You'd go around the bend if you didn't I don't want that old pre-war world back dad your mother does

She wants what she knows what she feels safe with that's all

Why shouldn't she?

Is that what you give your time to politics for?

I don't give up my time to politics because I enjoy it well because I get any

satisfaction out of it in a personal way I

don't see myself as a

Crusader or manipulator

It's only a part of life. It's got to be seen to but

It's not a reason for living

We're gonna have a lot of arguments before it's all over

But before what's all over the piece

Same wallpaper oh yes, it's all the same

Well, you can't get the paint I used to look at it out there look at it

at the camp at night

In the hut in the dark I used to look at it in my mind

Like Lurlum

Adam

Cole

Well, you were a baby

Or I went away

You put him in his cot at night tired

You reach out for that bitter ribbon that bound the end

touch it

Sock it

Comforter and forgotten

One of the first words he made his own

Lurlum he'd say

Where is he?

He's down at the beach with grandad I think

It's all been a bit much for him today. You do understand that don't you?

How old is he?

Do you remember?

I remember it first

And I got it mixed up

Like the wallpaper it's the same

Except the bit at the end used to curl the other way

Daffed into I've forgotten things too

Yeah

I've put the things they gave you in the top drawer

I think I'm all right, you know

They say I'm all right

What's smashing furniture?

It's mostly from the lake nicked while the old man was in Washington. Don't listen to him

Oh, it's all right. I'm getting used to him now. It's all a bit of an act really. Ah, yes

Well, I get that from my mother. You spotted his act, have you? He likes to play shy sometimes, doesn't he?

I haven't seen that one. Oh shut up. Do you mind if I have a look around? No help yourself

Don't believe anything he says about me, will you? I'll bury according to the part he's playing

In deep are you?

Yes

Yes, I am as a matter of fact. I thought maybe you were

Dad back for good? No, no he goes back to Washington next week for a time

How long are you over for? End of next week

He was talking about you last night

Oh

But what do you like to do when you've been democked? I'm the faintest idea. I have a choice. Do I?

He thought you might like to start in the main workshop is at Silport or just until he gets back

Perpetuate the warring to name in the family business. It's not truly want you to

Told him I didn't think you'd be keen. It would keep me in the area. Is that a good reason?

It's a good temporary reason

I'd rather not see in this time around if you don't mind I'll go before they get back

He'll be hurt. I'm sure you'll find some plausible excuse to protect him. You weren't like this with mummy. Oh

Mummy is it because they've separated that you've turned against them who said I had that's how it looks from here

I hardly know them do I?

All those years away at school and in the war I

Just want to go my own way. That's all

Getting together again are they what makes you think so and do separated couples usually go back and visit the old homestead together

I don't know I've never been coupled have I?

Wouldn't have thought so I meant I don't know how they feel I don't know

My old books here well upstairs in the spare I think some of them are at least I'd like to take one or two back with me

Let me a second

Are we going?

Apparently

Pity I like it here

Do you think you could be persuaded to stay a bit longer? I doubt it somehow deep psychological reasons probably

Is as soft as butter really don't you think yes? They do

What's this the crucifix well heavens? I know that I mean is it a special one or something?

I've never seen one like this before outside of church. We're Catholics. Didn't you tell you?

You

Just fire your appetite

Don't they feed you in the wrap?

Not when luxury is like bread and dripping well up you brought your coupons specially for meat course

Oh, this is what it's all about home

Being able to drift into the kitchen and up yourself to a nice big slice of bread and dripping

It's what they mean by calling your soul your own is that what you've missed most you know what I've missed most

Well, I better go and practice I'm singing in chapel on Sunday with one of me prize pupils

Blake says he's going back to his old job. Yeah, he'll not be content without for long

Why not what's wrong with getting your hands dirty? He's ambitious. Look how he's got on in the army

Not just an humble sarge like me

His rest are since he came back goes walking along the shore away for hours sometimes

Dreaming of his froline

Froline

Oh dear have I said something I shouldn't have you did that on purpose, didn't you?

No, I didn't never could keep a secret could you don't believe in secrets. Oh, we're shit. It's a secret German

You better ask Blake. Oh you

Will she be allowed to come here? Oh?

This German woman what German woman? Oh

Come on compulsory rest I shall go me on then please

Please

Please

You're making the same mistake that woman dad made in the beginning when I was first ill

wrapping me in cotton wool

I don't to live like that just a sensible precaution. I know them put doing too much when I'm pushing it

I know what to stop you don't that's the trouble you you just go blinding on as if

As if as if I was normal I

Don't want to lose you

Don't lose you either me to God or whatever doubts and uncertainties kept me from telling me you were a Catholic

You told you was

I knew there was something holding you back

I'd have proposed to you myself except I thought you probably turned me down

What is it?

What's the problem?

I'm a bad Catholic you mean you don't believe anyone. I don't know

Full of doubts and uncertainties

Yes

Yes doubts and uncertainties

I can't wait for you to work it out, you know, I mean not forever

It's not high-coked things. I know I don't even know what the problems are

I don't want to believe

But you can't let go not all together

Seems I can't

And where do I come into it?

What's expected of me to become a Catholic?

Father Ross would say so

Become a Catholic or be damned he'd say do the thing I like father Ross

He's all right. I think you'd get on as a matter of fact

I'm not stuck on marriage, you know

Not desperate I mean

I can wait for everything else

So you I can't wait for

You don't have to wait for me God can wait he's got more time than we have

I

Just

We're the largest detonation in the world

Exports are 40% of what they were before the war and yet we're spending five times as much abroad won't we still have American aid?

I don't think so why didn't they love us anymore? I don't think they realize what desperate straits were in

Keens us telling them we face an economic down cook

They don't seem to take him seriously

Now perhaps he bores them so I'm boring a mother now. Oh, I'm sorry. I'm just awfully tired. I think I'll take myself on

The minister drivers pick me up at eight

I'll probably be gone when you wake

I'm glad you came

Yes, I'm glad to

Well, I'll be off then can I Beth good. I John safe journey. Yes safe journey

So good to be home

You have no idea. Yes, I have I'm home too from miserable little digs not a palatial penthouse in Washington. Oh

Quite a modest little flat actually I don't give a damn whether with the largest detonation in the world

This is the only one worth living in

You don't think so to hear mark talk about the condition of the working class

He's become a socialist idealist, isn't it? Oh, it's the passion. Isn't it goes with the times? It's a fashion that was inevitable

Maybe we could be tried and found guilty of crimes against humanity for the poverty we allowed before the war

Better to get it put right and purge ourselves with an unproductive class war

It's gonna take all of us not just some of us

Especially yarn. We've still got the energy

Were they expected all the plate? I wonder

To see themselves and their thinking that now that part of us over they can just sit back

The dream come true

Bluebirds over the white cliffs of Dover. I

Think mark could be glad of a job in the company office at Silport if you could arrange it. He's not a versatile little nepotism

Then he's just a confused boy. I know he's been through a war, but it only ages part of you

Part of you just stand still waiting for it to be over. I wish I could have seen him

Well, you'll be on his way back now. He only had 48 hours. Yes, so you said I

Think he'd like what I'd like really what I want very much

For us all to be a family again again. Oh, you know what I mean. Yes, I know what from me

What you want to isn't it to put my own world to write you mean wasn't you broke it up?

No, but it was me who refused to recognize the need for change. It's changes of me mostly

I'm a late convert to in a revolution. You'll try

Do you think you want it more than I do? How was it today with your mother?

Well, I can't speak for her. Can I own myself?

Five lost years between us all that business of that fellow

I never can't remember his name

I found myself trying to study a face when you thought I wasn't looking

Trying to be reminded of other things and I kept wondering what did she see in him that I'd lack?

Oh, it's a question I've often asked myself these last few years doesn't have to be that kind of a reason

No, it's the reason you believe when you're as aware of your imperfections as I've become

Mayor Cooper

Is it a word for people to become late converts to beliefs that already supposed to subscribe to I

Wonder there's something very different about her

She'll never talk about what she was doing coding work. She says

Intelligence

Cloak and dagger stuff. You see you're amazed. You don't believe it well neither do I but it's not that I think she's incapable

Oh, no, no, of course you're right. I

Was looking for the woman I'd lost well, perhaps she doesn't exist anymore

And yet I think I did see her once her face

Half-turn from me that young girl. I met all those years ago

Acting a little in her own life even then charming me

What was that phrase we used to use then I love you more than all the world

As that the world was worse at Lummy

He would four three four four seven two one

Hey, what four three four four seven two one

Oh

You're gonna get no sleep

There's another room I can go in

You

You

You

You

You

You

You

You

You

You

You

You

You

You

You

You

You

You

You

You

You

You

You

You

You

You

You

They're just words that just words

But you know what words you need to better than any of us, don't you?

Loved all those doodlehead

Ernst?

Mrs. Goaway told me you were here

They lost their man

Mr. Goaway asked the camp for a man he did not know that they would send me

I go back after the holiday

I promise Mrs. Goaway I would not speak with you

I promised to

Right Mark, half an hour so she'll be given a ride

I don't want to make you late

They'll find me, they'll find somebody better, let them

I'm the family expectant to come and get out for them for them for them

Can you drop me up the library?

We're going to be late, I will be if you don't

And don't forget your father's book, sorry love, nothing to read over the holiday

All left wing book of titles as usual

Do you know the comic take the Reddit library headquarters?

He's more to be pitied than blame

You've left half you dinner on your chin ground up

I don't know why Mark comes here, I don't really

No, it's not

Shut up

I'll say to this lot, come up you go

He thinks we're lovely

Can you make head a tail of a young car?

No, Grandad

Here he is

Where are they then?

What?

Fish of course

I didn't catch any

There'll be the big and leg better where though

Shoot it's always out in the big and slow Grandad

You've eaten your sandwiches I suppose

But you're still hungry

I'll get a plate and help yourself out of there

I'm going back after

And I'll come with ya

It's too dangerous for you, here I go

I'll take your fishing if you want

I've got me boots to finish

I wouldn't mind a bit of fishing

Your dad's been up half the night, he should go to bed

You'll go your uncle Keir then will ya?

Yes, I am

In Needis Wellington's, they're in the cupboard in jeans in your room

Go on, go with your old man and get kitted out

Hello, Louis

Can you catch anything?

No, you see, how he shrinks from him

Why?

When Owen used to come into this kitchen with all the things he wanted

I didn't know about it

I didn't know about it

Oh, hello, Louis

Can you catch anything?

No

You see, how he shrinks from him

Why?

When Owen used to come into this kitchen with all the things he wanted

When Owen used to come into this kitchen with all the war

It was like a wind blowing in

He needs time, that's all

Just time

It's great, you're a magician

I am the teenager of the lab

The hair, the hair, the hair

Christ, go easy and they've finished up on the bonnet

There's smoke coming out of our house

Where?

The house above the hallway's farm, smoke coming out of the chimney

Oh, you mean the place was on fire? Yeah, I see it

Get a division on the RT, give him the barrier

It's supposed to be a way for it

Division a way for it? God, God, God, could be jerry held up there, can I?

We'd better go and check, I suppose

I'll drop you back at work if you'll get back in the car

How does, uh, no need to give me a look back

You'll be late

I've given five years of my life for this bloody country

Maybe able to find out what my credit is

And I see you've got jeans ready for all the back

Pick me up on your way back, right?

Where below?

Take all the time in the world

It's Mark! I better recognize it

Not surprising, you haven't seen him for five years

Ross!

Mark!

Mark!

Father!

Don't sift Chinko

That is my name, yes

Blake Haywood, I'm Jean Haywood's brother-in-law

We thought you weren't here anymore

I came again for the first time today

Mr. Goldway had asked for someone

I asked him at the camp not to send me, but they are hard with us these days

After tomorrow Mr. Goldway will send me back

He will say I'm no good

I have asked him to

It should be rough on you, isn't it?

It's not important

You said after tomorrow

Tomorrow is holiday

Mr. and Mrs. Goldway asked me to stay

They are friends

She'll be at home tomorrow

Jean said that she would also come here for a time

I shall ask her not to, if you wish

I also have asked her not to come

I said I would go back to the camp today if she did

And why are you still here?

She said that if she did not see me

Tomorrow she would kill herself

You believed her?

Am I not to believe her?

What am I to do? Wait until she is dead to believe her?

In the beginning it was understood that her husband was dead

If it had not been so this would not have happened

I'm from Ukraine Mr. Haywood

I know pain, separation

I do not wish to harm your brother

You believe?

Yes

Believe also that it will end between us

I find that

Even if I see her it will end

I find that harder to believe

Yes

Some things are very hard to believe

We were there for three months after Germany surrendered

When the Americans came it was like Christmas

They are very generous people

They can afford to be generous

Yes for a lot of people who can afford to be generous aren't

Wouldn't you say?

I will go and see about lunch

Did you get my letter about your mother and I?

Yes, I got it a week or so after we landed in Italy I think

I couldn't quite tell from your letters afterwards what you had

I didn't go into the wise and were for as these things happen in marriages

Yes

She made a bit of cozy here

She never cared much for the house of the lake you know

I will still keep an eye on things as far as I can

Yes

I can't stay I'm afraid I have left a friend down the road I got to get him back to work

I was going to spend the holiday in London but when I found Ros here

We've decided to spend it at the lake together

Why don't you come too?

I've already promised my friends

It's been arranged for some time

I'd like to talk to you though about the job

Not like you?

No, I'm not really unafraid

Oh well, something to put you on if I got back

Get your foot in the business

I'm completely out of touch with things there

Still I'm through with the ministry at the end of this month and I'll soon be back in harness

But why don't you drive up to the lake this afternoon?

We can talk about it

I'm not sure what people are doing you see

I could phone you there

You'll need for maladies, just come or not come

As you feel

Yes

Yes, well I'll get off then and maybe see you later

It's good to be back

I didn't expect you to be here you see

It's all been arranged

Oh yes, yes of course

Nothing's quite the same again yet is it?

End of a war

A lot of loose ends lying about

It all comes straight in time

I'll say goodbye to Ros

I'll go to the lake

I'll go to the lake

I'll go to the lake

I'll go to the lake

I'll go to the lake

I'll go to the lake

I'll go to the lake

I'll go to the lake

Nearly ready

Sticky?

He hardly mentioned his mother now

On his odd occasions he wrote to me

He's close at her of course

Oh I don't think so

I don't think he's close to any of us

What is all this closeness that's expected in families anyway?

I would have thought your religion would have taught you that

Oh my religion, that old thing

You were slipping?

All the time

Well that accumulated guilt

Forgive me God, there's a war on didn't you know?

We're out of touch, aren't we?

All of us

It's my fault

All those years you were both away at school and then the war

All those years we were away at school

You were pain for us to be educated

And of course you were personally responsible for the bloody war weren't you?

No I'm sorry, but women swear a lot more these days too

And something else you're gonna have to get used to

What's your mother doing now?

I don't know

Some sort of a coding job wasn't it?

Very hush hush

Maybe they're keeping them on to burn the books?

She doesn't have to work in with her, don't she?

Of course I do

She's made other friends up in London

I suppose that's why she's staying on really?

I nearly wrote to her when he was killed

Right, all for your wife's affections?

Not just her affections I think

She used to leave me for other things before the war

Not physically, I mean

I used to be aware of it sometimes of her

Out here in the garden reading

What was it she found in books that we never seemed able to talk about?

Why did I never ask?

You weren't jamming in during the war?

We were in contact with the Russians in the last few days

We pulled back to let the movement of a place we'd occupied

I left someone there I cared for

It will let us for the time, but for almost a year now there's been nothing

I was in the war

I was in the war

I was in the war

I was in the war

I was in the war

and I had a time, but for almost a year now there's been nothing

People have moved to one place and another

Millions of them

Europe's been cut up like a kick

Politicians and maps

Yes I suppose there was it

We were just following orders

I would not like to grow old knowing that I had given such orders

I've got my wages

We can go now

What you came for, isn't it?

That take me back.

I'll see you tomorrow.

This act can come.

They've been good to me here.

They've understood.

Tomorrow then.

Yes.

Tomorrow.

Thank you.

What are we waiting for?

Mark.

He's going to pick us up.

Why did he thank you?

I'm trying to understand perhaps.

I'm sorry.

Oh, and your brother.

It's hard for all of us.

I'm going to do it.

Nice.

I'm in Tynilix, Boonan, huh?

Since I'm supposed to be a miss second childhood.

You're entitled to be smacked and sent to bed if that's your excuse.

Is there been all right?

Sleeping like a two-year-old.

He can sleep in the day.

Night's time for sleeping.

Gee, says it takes him hours to drop off at night.

She's woken well into the morning and found him still awake.

I can't bring myself to ask what those devils did to him when he was a prisoner in Japan.

The Japs think you deserve to die if you let yourself get taken prisoner.

It's not just their enemies, it's their own kind as well.

It's against their code.

They're obsessed with the shame of it.

Shame? Them?

I read somewhere that 100,000 died out of 300,000 taken at the start of the war.

Not to mention what's happened since.

Owen's lucky to be alive.

I'm lucky to come back.

Has he come back?

Not as we remember him, maybe. None of us have.

But we'd have changed if we'd not gone off.

You noticed it more when Thor got apart from it and then came back.

Your husband's changed as much as any of them.

George changed.

And he's not been away.

And he's a damn sight more awkward for the start.

That makes two of you then.

Oh, me. I've changed for the better me.

I live and let live.

Put up with fools, old god knows.

I'm surrounded by no-tos.

A lot more generous than he used to be too.

I've noticed that.

Oh, yeah?

Hmm. More thoughtful to all the others.

Oh, well, maybe you could be right.

To a thought you could say, I suppose.

Not likely to hang on to something you don't need anymore when somebody else is in need.

Oh, so we're back to my house again, aren't we?

Well, you could let Owen and Gene have it.

They shouldn't be living with us for all with the room.

And you're happy enough in the front room, aren't you?

Happy in the front room?

How can I threaten to leave if I've got nowhere to go?

It's only a threat because George cares for you.

Oh, well, I'll think on it.

You can't get a house for a lot of the money these days, countries bust.

And can't you give him now for what he suffered?

No, he could have it.

Oh, well done, Grandad. He isn't entitled to it.

And I suppose you think if you're in need of a house, you think you're entitled to it and all.

Well, I won't give it to you.

I don't like folk who think they're entitled to sum it they've not worked for.

Oh, and I'll add the chance to work for.

But they don't work where you are down in London.

They walk up and down streets. We bowlers on.

Carrie and Brawley's looking busy.

Where's Young Lovett?

I left them fishing.

Oh, God, Bawd, did you?

She'll have responsibility for young Colin to love it because you got Bawd, did you?

Ha!

You're a Bawd generation.

That's what you are.

A Bawd generation.

He doesn't get any sweeter does he?

He thinks he does.

What's already washing in that case?

All me everything. I'm moving into a new room and I get back.

What sort of a room?

Same as last one but cheaper.

A bed.

Table, chair, Chester drawers, a gas fire and a ring to cook on.

What more could anybody ask?

You don't look after yourself down there, do you?

Oh, I get by. There's thousands like me in London travelling in London.

Travelling light, self-contained.

I don't like to think of you living like that.

I didn't like it. I wouldn't do it, would I?

You had such plans when you were at school and you were doing so well.

What was it you wanted to do? That job in Africa?

Oh, colonial service.

Sanders of the river. It was a childhood dream.

What happened to it all?

A warm-up.

Reality.

What happened to it all?

I'm going to go to the river and I'm going to go to the river and I'm going to go to the river.

All right.

When the hell have you been?

I've talked to you later.

What time do you call this? I get back.

I'll make it an hour later. What do you make?

The first thing I came asking me where you were. You know what it's like about timekeeping?

The first thing I was eating.

Yes, he was. And you shouldn't give him the excuse.

Even unreasonable stuff without any excuse.

Eat your pot.

So I live with the buses, Dad, and many of your principles.

You shouldn't give him the excuse.

There's another light to me because I'm the enemy.

There's nothing doing the work.

When you've nationalized, there needs to be a watch in the clock.

I'm getting exposed!

I want a long book for me, ma'am, and a thriller for me, Dad.

And he didn't like the last one you give me.

Shh.

When do you close?

I'm trying to close now. Keep making closing noises.

I drop Blake at work and I've just taken Jean back home.

Jean?

You pass the farm where she works.

What are you doing when you've closed?

Shopping.

Can it wait?

No.

Tomorrow?

Tomorrow's yours.

I want to take you somewhere.

Mystery tour.

If you like.

Surprise at the end of it.

You're like a little girl wanting sweets.

I'm going to get the

room.

Did I wake you?

No.

I thought you slept alright in the day?

I do lost times.

You must be worn out.

I'll go downstairs.

I'm trying to get some sleep.

Don't go.

You can't sleep with me around.

I can't sleep without you.

I'm with you at night and you lie awake till all hours.

I'll go away.

Away?

Not just at night.

It happened at work today, in the woods.

Labor's beside me.

Look, I should be helping your mother with tomorrow's dinner.

So Thanksgiving, all of you together again.

Take up a lot of your time, don't you?

Worry you.

More than the lad.

No.

No, you don't.

I'll brought back that wood trouble.

No, that's not true.

Not you.

Just for a while.

Please.

Just for a while then.

You're saying, at work today?

Work.

In the woods, you said.

Why?

There were this chap.

He said he did.

He said he did me shout.

Where?

I hadn't.

Must have been somebody else then.

It can't have been.

Had a word.

But I wasn't there.

Had gone away.

Like I told you, like I'd do at night.

It must have been me that shouted.

Do I shout at night?

You have done.

You did it a lot at one time.

I should see the doctor.

I saw him.

I told him.

What did he say?

He got angry.

Not with me.

With himself in a way.

What could anybody expect, he said?

What could anybody expect?

You've been better lately.

Of her?

These last two months or so.

You're not just saying it?

No.

I'm not just saying it.

I asked him if there was anything could be done.

If there was a cure.

What did he say?

Oh yes.

There's a cure he said.

Make the world a fit place to live in, he said.

Fit place to live in.

Fit place to live in.

People want help of me.

And what do I do?

I do nothing.

No.

Oh it is so.

It's how we are.

Selfish.

Seeking what we want.

Taking.

I give if I could.

But I have nothing to give, I'm drained.

No.

Forgive me.

There's no to forgive.

Forgive me.

Oh.

Go away Jaywood.

Yes Mr. Master, I'm going for me wait.

There's something else for you as well.

You can't.

I see.

And not before it's time I'd have in my opinion.

No I'm mine.

Have a nice holiday Mr. Master.

Master!

Thanks.

Thank you.

Oh God.

Thanks, Master.

Thank you for the chance!

Oh.

Come on.

Come on.

I like him too.

Come on, darling.

You don't really mind him being a wealthy barrington, do you?

Oh, I'll live with it for your sake.

Against you, marrying, are they?

I don't think so.

Hmm.

Thought there might be some reason why you haven't.

There is.

I'm not sure.

I'm not sure.

I'm not sure.

I'm not sure.

I'm not sure.

I'm not sure.

I'm not sure.

I'm not sure.

I'm not sure.

There is.

Not what you think, though.

He's a Catholic.

He seems to think it's a choice between me and God.

You should be proud of him.

He had a terrible time in the war.

He had a terrible time and he was very brave.

Are you proud of him, Mom?

Yes.

Yes, of course I am.

Dinner's ready.

I'll go down.

He wants you to help him fly his kite after dinner.

Because you've asked him to.

He's got to use to having me to himself.

You'll come out of it.

I'll be going out after dinner.

The goal is ask me to call.

They were very good to me when you were away.

You'll not be long, will you?

I'll be back as soon as I can.

Call's at me back for over six months now, Jean.

It's like I said.

If I was to go and he only had you, he'd turn to you.

You're the one that I want.

George!

Hey, that's a pass for me.

Rubbish that songs of praise.

Genuinely, all heartily.

A hint of thanksgiving for the best Sunday dinner I've had in my whole life.

So say all of us.

No, no, no, no.

What's it's not?

Jean's doing his mind.

Well, Colin, join it in your call.

He thinks he's saying, it's Christmas.

That's why we're having Christmas food.

I'm going to die.

What's the matter, son?

I swear on the flat of my bed from the pudding.

Oh, you're sure?

I shall die.

And who says you can't take it with you?

Who's had pretty bits in the pudding?

Me.

Mine got one.

Two I have.

Anybody else?

Well, that's five.

Everyone, as you put in?

Six.

Oh, that's a little tall.

Shicky top lad.

I don't mean to be discussed.

Don't worry, Colin, it'll not hurt you.

I'll see to him.

Come on, son.

Come on, I'll give you a go.

I'll give you a round of it.

Colin, when he realises he's not going to die, he'll wake up to the fact that he's

lost the reference.

It would have fought him when I would have lads from him.

And the Corbers world, it was after measure of happiness.

Relatively, it still is.

I've crowned this.

Half-crowns might be safer in next year's pudding.

All right, Colin, we're shuffling it down.

He wouldn't have noticed the difference.

We're going to leave you.

Not for long.

Mystery tour.

Back soon.

Hello.

During the event.

Can't think why he bothers Colin.

If he's that damned eager to get back.

I thought family's were supposed to get together at holiday times.

Where's Mark's family?

Well, well, he thought that we were going to be away, but his sisters are done.

His dad just got back from the States.

Oh, hi.

The block is lacquified you yesterday.

Yeah, it's lacquied time again.

Comes round like 12 o'clock.

Nobody fired me, Keir, fired myself.

As for Mark, he calls himself a socialist.

Oh, God knows why.

More or less in the same way me dad does you mean.

Together again, are we?

Can't keep off it, can you?

Into the other room with the other lot of you.

What have I done?

I've said now.

Only waited to get a word in there, won't you?

But I'm out of your go.

You know, enough is said out.

Well, you can stay and watch off of what he wanted.

I know where I'm going.

Down passage, that's where I'm going.

Lacquied time.

He died on the cross for such as these.

Born in a stable.

I was born in a drawer.

Who told you that?

Granddad's running.

Guys, you make sure they're blank.

Or was it Ramsey we couldn't afford a cop for?

It's a workie-glove ambition, brother.

Born to prove it.

You were born in a cop.

Ow!

You were born in a drawer.

He's all right.

I told him if he runs about it, he'll jump down faster.

So he won't have any trouble getting him out.

You'll not be long, will you?

I'll be back as soon as I can.

Where did I leave that shop in?

I got for the go-ways.

In the hall, I think.

Hey, we'd never send him back to Russia.

To be shot or worse.

I'm looking the pub works at the company, so it was definite.

Well, I don't believe it.

Definite, he said.

He said one Ukrainian's already topped himself.

And some of the others are threatened to.

The warringtons have always lived away from where their money was made.

Away from the dirt.

Which sentence of place they passed through?

Dad knows nothing of people like your father who worked for him.

We came here on a school trip once.

Looked at all the big houses.

I wonder what kind of place they passed through.

I wonder what kind of people could live in places like that.

It scares me a bit.

You belong into all this.

I don't.

Not at all.

That's why I brought you here to show you.

That you see it as I do.

Alien land.

There's people that matter.

Not places.

Alien people then.

What on earth did they do to you to make you feel like that?

Nothing.

They did nothing.

You're always disappointed in us.

I bet you polite to say so.

I am ashamed.

They trusted us.

Trust went out with the war.

You should know that if anybody does.

Is this what you brought me to see?

No, of course not.

Might you then fall.

Careful.

Do you know the people who lived there?

I'm on speaking terms.

Who's that?

My father.

I'm walking out for a walk.

You were asleep.

I said I'd stay and keep the company.

Some company may sleep.

I'm sorry I'm so spiky these days.

How are you making out down there?

I'm not going to be a good person.

I'm sorry I'm so spiky.

I'm sorry I'm so spiky these days.

How are you making out down in London?

Oh.

Mum's asked you to talk to me, has she?

Yes.

But I care as well, you know.

I'm a big lad.

I'm supposed to take care of myself.

I can give you years, but the schedule a week goes by

when I don't feel like shouting for help.

I'm sorry.

What sort of future do you see for yourself?

Me or the race, the species.

There's not much for any of us after the atom bomb.

Oh, I know the political answers.

Oh, I think I do, but I can't see them coming about.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry.

I've always believed in evolution myself.

Revolution is a destructive force.

I was going to say, look what happened to the Russians,

but then you support the Russians don't you?

Yes, I do, by and large.

All through the war, I could see it happening.

There were the good old Russians then,

knocking their juries for six.

It's all changing now.

Babyn's going to break with him. I know he is.

There's an ice age coming.

His fault of theirs.

Now, I don't see things like you do.

We're, I mean, look how marvelous

Atlas turned out to be.

The work, the legislation, huh?

Oh, it's fantastic.

We're turning the corner.

I felt it all this year.

I can see a light at the end of the tunnel.

Somebody lighting the fuse.

You're an optimist.

Well, there's so much I've always agreed with Churchill

about.

I don't see much point in being anything else.

Well, what about you anyway?

Tell me, Mum, I'm all right.

Yes, I'll tell her that, but it'll not be true, though, will it?

You can tell me, you know.

I can bear it.

Well, I'm an optimist, don't I?

I packed the job in before I came home.

Oh, I see.

Look, I've never been too sure what sort of job you were doing.

I've never liked a bother you about it somehow.

Oh, there'll be something else when I get back.

Some other piffling work to keep the wolf two feet from the door.

Look, I've got a bit put by that'll help until you get fixed up.

Oh, Christ!

God, Dad, you've already done more for us

than he was deserved, so just drop the load, Dad.

It's a father's instinct to do what he can.

I can't go against my nature.

There is no future, Jean.

It's happened, hasn't it?

What they said might happen a long time ago,

but it was just rumours then.

They're sending you back to Russia.

Rumours?

They shoot everyone who fought for the Germans, don't they?

They're just rumours, Jean.

It's not just rumours, it's the truth, isn't it?

Well, what kind of life do you think?

I live with that to remember.

We've come a long way.

The tide's going out.

I want you to live on to forget.

Forget!

Very well then.

Remember, as I do,

I remember my mother and my father and my sisters and my brothers,

who is dead and who lives, I do not know.

But I remember them living when I was young,

who did not think too much about me.

They did not think too much about politics,

about the possibility of war about death even.

I can't live like that!

Sometimes it is all the life there is.

Where are they?

Dad's taken her to see the library.

She seemed to take my liking to him.

Is that why you're looking so gloomy?

She likes everybody.

She lives for the day.

Who doesn't?

There's a reason in her case.

She had rheumatic fever when she was small.

I don't know.

I don't know.

I don't know.

I don't know.

I don't know.

I don't know.

I don't know.

But when she was small, left her with a dicky heart.

Oh, I'm sorry.

For giving me yet for telling her we're Catholics.

That's not a problem.

For her?

For me, most men.

Doubts and uncertainties?

I'm not confessing to you.

She's not going to wait forever, you know.

I do know, thanks.

They are!

They are going to sort out the library for me.

I've been promising myself I'd have a catalogue

for the best part of 20 years.

You've got some absolute gems in there.

Yes, I know.

Marcus just fell a lot of his time then, the school holidays, didn't you?

Yes.

And that's where I used to spend my time.

I see you've got the old steam launch, huh?

Yes, I've got a mount on the artwork, you know.

Can't make head or tail of the engine, though.

Peg's brother had soon fixed it for you. He's a magician with engines.

Out of a job at the engine, too.

A magician with engines? Out of a job?

An unemployment the lowest has been for years?

One of our blokes at the works fired in yesterday.

Blake fired himself.

Do you want me to look into it?

Heaven's no. Mark's embarrassed, but he doesn't have to be.

Blake's photo bright for a job like that.

Oh, I'm not knocking your ironworks or anything, but he really did want to get himself fired.

He was getting in a rut.

Sans is a big riddle of water, Lou. Do you think you could ask him to look at that engine for me?

Yes, I'll ask him.

I think it's time we were off.

We really just come.

The lights aren't too good on that thing. I'd like to get back from dark.

Bye-bye. Bye-bye, Pete. Bye, Mark.

We should go back.

The tide was coming in, not going out.

If that's all the life there is, I don't want it.

Come.

I don't want it.

Come.

I don't want it.

Leave me.

I'll go.

I want to go back.

Where'd that long come out?

I want mom.

Oh, you can put up with me for a bit longer, can't you?

I want mom.

I want mom.

I want mom.

I want mom.

I want mom.

I want mom.

I want mom.

I want mom.

I want mom.

I want mom.

I want mom.

I want mom.

I want mom.

I want mom.

I want mom.

I want mom.

I want mom.

I want mom.

I want mom.

I want mom.

I want mom.

I want mom.

I want mom.

I want mom.

I want mom.

I want mom.

I want mom.

I want mom.

I want mom.

I want mom.

I want mom.

I want mom.

I want mom.

I want mom.

I want mom.

I want mom.

I want mom.

I want mom.

I want mom.

I want mom.

I want mom.

I want mom.

I want mom.

I want mom.

I want mom.

I want mom.

I want mom.

I want mom.

I want mom.

I want mom.

I want mom.

I want mom.

I want mom.

I want mom.

I want mom.

I want mom.

I want mom.

I want mom.

I want mom.

I want mom.

I want mom.

I want mom.

I want mom.

I want mom.

I want mom.

I want mom.

I want mom.

I want mom.

I want mom.

I want mom.

I want mom.

I want mom.

I want mom.

I want mom.

I want mom.

I want mom.

I want mom.

I want mom.

I want mom.

I want mom.

I want mom.

I want mom.

I want mom.

I want mom.

I want mom.

I want mom.