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♪ Here comes the sun, little darling ♪
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♪ Here comes the sun ♪
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♪ And I say it's all right ♪
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♪ It's all right ♪
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♪ Here comes the sun, little darling ♪
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♪ Here comes the sun ♪
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♪ And I say it's all right ♪
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♪ It's all right ♪
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- [man 1] Dear Mr. Killion...
- [bicycle bell rings]
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...I feel strongly
about the inclusion on the plaque
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of those who helped with the conception
of Louise Brown, the first IVF baby.
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- I feel this especially about Jean Purdy...
- [man 2] Watch out!
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[man 1] ...who travelled to Oldham with me
for the full ten years
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and contributed as much as we did
to the project.
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I was the biologist,
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Patrick, the obstetrician,
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and Jean...
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well, without her,
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none of this would have been possible.
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- [bell jingles]
- [man 3] Mind your back!
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[woman groans]
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Oh... bugger it.
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I'm here for an interview
with Dr. Edwards.
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He's midway through an experiment.
If you like, you can park in there.
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- That's kind. I like parking.
- Just, uh...
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Shall I move stuff?
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Do you mind if I use your radiator
to dry my shoe?
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Oh. I see you've been
researching Dr. Edwards.
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His work on
mammalian development is quite--
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Extraordinary. I know.
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If you're offended by unshod feet,
I suggest you look away.
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Oh damn. I have a hole in my tights.
You can see my toe.
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Oh. Two toes.
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[softly] Um...
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I'll let him know you're here. [chuckles]
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[quietly] Yes, I see. Yes.
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[man 1] See if we can
separate that from the plasma.
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[indistinct chatter]
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[man 2] Next candidate's here, Bob.
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[video camera whirring]
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[camera clicks]
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[softly] Holy shit.
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Holy shit! Everyone, stop!
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Sylvia's escaped,
and I'd only just got her pregnant.
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Jesus, Bob.
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Please be careful where you stand.
She's worth more than your shoes.
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[man 3] Sylvia.
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- [Bob] Sylvia.
- She's there!
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- [man 3] Whoop.
- Where? I can't see her.
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- [man 2] There. Under the table.
- Oh, Sylvia.
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I know you're upset
about Patty giving birth.
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- [man 3] Come on. Come on.
- It will happen for you too, Sylvia.
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I just need to make a few adjustments.
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If I hear a commotion,
I'm not very good at staying out of it.
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- Who are you?
- Jean Purdy.
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I'm here about the lab manager's post.
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You've only got one shoe on.
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The other shoe's
currently steaming in your office.
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Hmm. What's your secret for catching mice?
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Clean hands and patience. What's yours?
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[chuckles] I think
I've just offered you a job.
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But you don't know my skills.
My work in nursing and research.
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My PhDs are very thorough in weeding out
the best applicants. Can you drive?
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I trained to become a nurse
at Addenbrooke's Hospital.
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I've worked at Southampton Hospital.
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More recently, I've been at Papworth,
studying tissue rejection.
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Excellent. 8:00 a.m., don't be late.
We have an obstetrician to catch.
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Arun, please.
Sylvia back in the cage. Thank you.
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[man] One... two... One, two, three...
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["Oogum Boogum Song"
by Brenton Wood playing]
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♪ Oogum, oogum, boogum, boogum ♪
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♪ Boogum now, baby
You're castin' your spell on me ♪
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♪ I say, "Oogum, oogum, boogum" ♪
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♪ "Boogum, boogum now, baby
You're castin' your spell on me" ♪
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♪ You got me doin' funny things
Like a clown ♪
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♪ Just a-look at me ♪
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♪ I say now, "Who got the blues?"
Say, "Who got the blues?" ♪
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♪ Say, "Who got the blues now?"
Castin' your spell... ♪
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Patrick Steptoe just published
the definitive guide to laparoscopy.
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The Medical Research Council
mostly hate him,
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but... I think,
with those keyhole-surgery skills,
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he will be
an excellent member of our team.
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Yes, this team,
which you've not yet explained to me.
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Oh, we're going to cure childlessness.
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We're going to help make babies.
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I've shocked you.
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I knew you were interested
in reproduction. I didn't--
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- Terrific. It's going to be terrific!
- [horn tooting]
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Now, if the ovaries
could be inspected beforehand...
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[Jean softly] Thank you.
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...we would have
advance warning of endometriosis.
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We'd be able to see
how many eggs were growing.
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[chuckles] Now, the trouble is,
we have no clear method of doing so.
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[man 1] Laparoscopy.
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So what I'd, um, like to advance today
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is the development of a new laparotomy,
one with the ability...
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- Laparoscopy would be superior.
- [crowd murmuring]
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The only way to visualize the ovaries
and get to the source of the endometriosis
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is with a laparotomy.
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Opening the abdomen
with a large cut... here...
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- ...or here.
- Nonsense. You're quite wrong.
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- This is a lecture. Not a meeting.
- [men clamor]
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He's wasting time on inept science.
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[speaker] This is the Royal Society, sir.
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A little respect for my "inept science"
might be due.
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A laparoscopy allows me
to see the ovaries, the fallopian tubes,
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and other parts of the reproductive tract
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without having to make anything more
than very small incisions in the skin.
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Laparoscopy is
an extremely dangerous technique.
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[scoffs]
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Your so-called surgery
involves poking around in the unknown
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without regard for the patient
or the disease.
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And this is not your lecture.
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- [man 2] Hear, hear!
- [murmuring]
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I know. I'm sorry. Please forgive me.
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But may I be allowed
just to prove my point
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with some slides...
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- [men groaning]
- ...that I happen to have with me?
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- Oh, Mr. Steptoe. Bob Edwards.
- Yes?
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- We spoke on the phone a few months ago.
- [huffs]
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I can't be expected
to remember every phone call, Mr. Edwards.
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Yes. If I could just have a minute.
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I'd be very interested
to hear about keyhole surgery.
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Sadly, I'm busy.
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Talking to these people
who banished you to Oldham?
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They hate you.
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This is Jean Purdy.
She'll be running our lab.
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Will she now? Good luck to you both.
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With your equipment,
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we'd be able to access a woman's ovaries
in the least invasive way.
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Oldham is an extremely good hospital,
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and there wasn't an appointment
in London available.
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Amazing how there were appointments
for your contemporaries,
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who they did like.
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Have you studied me?
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No, I have. She's repeating it to you
in an effort to get you to listen to me.
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A curious strategy, Jean.
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[indistinct chatter in background]
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[Bob] How did you
get around the heating problem?
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What heating problem?
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Look, I've gotta get back to Oldham.
I'm late for the 3:25. Write to me.
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3:25? That gives us a good half hour.
We'll walk with you.
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During the laparoscopy,
you need a light source for your camera.
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Otherwise, you are literally
poking around in the dark.
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But bulbs heat things up, so how are you
not cooking the insides of these women?
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[Patrick] West Germans have a laparoscope
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in which light is conducted
from a mirror projection lamp.
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No bulbs. No cooking.
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- Didn't I tell you he was brilliant?
- The West Germans are brilliant.
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We share the same aim. We want to address
the problem of infertility.
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Trouble is, your science has its limits,
and so does ours.
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Go ahead. Tell me my limits.
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I believe, you have just developed
a procedure to place sperm
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inside the fallopian tube.
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- Where'd you read that?
- It won't get results.
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Not substantial ones.
Why? Because sperm can't behave itself.
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But imagine if we could place
a fertilized egg inside that same tube.
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You remove an egg,
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using your marvelous equipment
and know-how.
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You give it to us,
we fertilize that egg outside the body,
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using our marvelous equipment
and know-how,
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and then you place it back inside.
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The chances of a successful pregnancy
will just go through the roof.
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Fertilizing an egg outside the b...
You truly believe you can do that?
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I don't have slides, but I'm close.
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- [cash register pings]
- [woman] Thank you.
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[over PA] ...for the 5:35 service...
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You teach at Cambridge, Dr. Edwards,
is that right?
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- I do.
- All my clinical material is in Oldham.
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Cambridge is... 200 miles away.
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Well, in the short term, we'll set up
at yours. It's only a four-hour drive.
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And in the long term, we'll get money
from the Medical Research Council
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and move you south.
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Uh, that is, if you're...
willing to be moved south.
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I could be... persuaded.
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We'll need women.
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Women willing
to contribute ovarian tissue.
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I have some hysterectomy patients
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who, if I explained what we're doing,
might help us.
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Ah. He's not just got the skills,
he's also got the contacts. [chuckles]
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You're aware they'll throw the book at us?
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The Church, the state, the world.
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We will unite them all against us.
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But we'll have the mothers.
The mothers will back us.
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[poignant music playing]
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[inhales] Right, if I don't go now,
I'll miss the 5:25,
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and I'll never be home.
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Bob. Jean.
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Y-You're in?
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You're in, aren't you?
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[music brightens]
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We'll speak soon, I hope.
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Very good, Jean. Ooh! Very good!
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The snipes about Oldham, very useful.
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Hoo!
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You truly are impossible, aren't you?
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We're making
the impossible possible, Jean.
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We are. You'll see.
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[music intensifies]
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Come on, Mum.
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You know Reverend Paulson doesn't like it
unless we're 30 minutes early.
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Come on, then.
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- Slow coach.
- [scoffs]
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- [church organ music playing]
- [Jean] Let's make a bet.
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[indistinct chatter]
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♪ All things bright and beautiful ♪
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♪ All creatures great and small ♪
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♪ All things wise and wonderful ♪
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- ♪ The Lord God made them all ♪
- [woman holds operatic note]
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♪ Each little flower that opens ♪
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- [mom] Keep your back straight.
- [Jean] I'm not slouching.
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You are slouching.
You're not making the best of yourself.
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[Jean sighs]
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Here. Would you like an iced fancy?
Or perhaps a scone?
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What about me? Would he like me?
I taste nice, particularly when buttered.
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- [snickers]
- The way you talk.
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The way I talk is the way you talk
when you've had a few rum and blacks.
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- And you know that's right.
- Ooh. Hold on. I have your china.
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Oh. [chuckles]
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How you ladies take care of me.
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Oh, we have to take care of you.
You look thin.
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My fruit cake.
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Extra glacés, just for you.
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It was a fine service. I loved the sermon.
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- Thank you, Jean.
- [woman] Reverend.
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[mom chuckling]
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- Rum and blacks.
- I'm doing well, Mum. I am.
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All this, church,
it matters, it does, but...
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I think I can finally
feel my life changing, and I like it.
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[exhales] Doesn't mean you should slouch.
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[car approaching]
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[Bob] First we tried mice. Then rabbits.
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I even tested a wild hare.
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Libidinous as any creature on a hill,
but put 'em in a cage
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and you can't get 'em sexually aroused
for love nor toffee.
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- And I'm sure you tried both.
- [chuckles]
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The mice have borne fruit.
The rabbits too.
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And then more recently,
with Barry Bavister...
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- Oh, we've had--
- "Barry Bavister"? That sounds made-up.
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He's a PhD who works in my lab.
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A whole year
he spent harvesting hamster eggs.
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Anyway, after he got 'em out, he put 'em
in a Petri dish with this new fluid,
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very alkaline, loaded with bicarbonate.
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With it, he's had some tremendous success.
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He harvests and bathes eggs
in alkaline and hamster sperm?
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And then places them
back inside the mother.
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And suddenly, we have
a whole host of hamster juniors.
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It's quite the thing.
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So all this rests on the hope
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that human women are like hamsters,
and Barry's serum can work for them too?
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Mm-hmm. The noble rodent leads the way.
258
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[jukebox whirs, clacks]
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["Sweet Inspiration" playing]
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Just another 52 miles to Manchester,
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followed by another eight on top
to Oldham.
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We are almost there.
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And you are like a schoolboy
on his first day at school.
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That is because
it is my first day at school.
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[Jean chuckles]
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♪ I need your sweet inspiration ♪
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♪ I need you here on my mind ♪
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♪ Every hour of the day ♪
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♪ Without your sweet inspiration... ♪
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Says Kershaw's is around the back.
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♪ To go on livin'
To keep on givin' this way ♪
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♪ I need your ♪
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- ♪ Sweet inspiration ♪
- ♪ I said ♪
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- ♪ Sweet inspiration ♪
- ♪ Come on, baby ♪
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- ♪ Sweet inspiration ♪
- ♪ Gimme your... ♪
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[over PA] Porter to the main entrance,
please. Porter to the main entrance.
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[Bob sniffs] Is that damp?
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It's not damp. It just rained recently.
And who might you be?
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This is Dr. Edwards. I'm Jean Purdy.
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Oh yes. Mr. Steptoe told me about you.
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I'm Matron.
You need a laboratory, apparently.
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Come on.
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[telephone ringing]
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[indistinct PA announcement]
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I thought this might do the trick.
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[pigeon cooing]
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Looks perfect.
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[Matron] Wonderful.
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If you'll excuse me.
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[door shutting]
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[thoughtful piano music playing]
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[camera whirring]
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[Patrick] Needle now going into the ovary.
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Gentle aspiration, please.
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A good follicle
with hopefully one good... egg.
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[camera stops]
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[Patrick] Are they standing by?
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He's standing just outside the door,
Mr. Steptoe.
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- [music continues]
- [Patrick softly] Hmm.
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- We've got one follicle.
- Good.
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[suspenseful music plays]
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Let's find that egg,
dip it in Barry's magic medium,
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then add it to the sperm.
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Wait.
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What? Why?
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It's a first, that's all.
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First of many.
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[chuckles]
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[music continues]
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[gentle clicking]
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[music intensifies]
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[sighs] We got the egg.
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Good.
314
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[music fades out]
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[chatter, laughter]
316
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I still don't understand
why you have anything to brag about.
317
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[Bob] We have absolutely nothing
to brag about.
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Then why place a piece
in a scientific journal like Nature?
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[Bob] Because we are close
to having something to brag about.
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We're confident that, soon enough,
we'll be ready to work with women.
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- The way he says "women," d'you see?
- What's wrong with the way I say "women"?
322
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I entirely agree.
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You would say "mice"
in exactly the same way.
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- [Bob] I... happen to like mice.
- [woman 1] Much more than you like women.
325
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Almost as much as I like women.
326
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May I remind you
how many daughters you have?
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I am absolutely certain
I have more mice than I have daughters.
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- [laughter]
- [phone ringing]
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I'll get it.
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- Wait. I'm gonna answer.
- Thank you, darling.
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Only two show pronuclei. Two of 56.
332
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That's less than 4%.
This is from your own paper.
333
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Eighteen showed signs of fertilization.
334
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And that's when solely working with
donated eggs from hysterectomy patients.
335
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When we actually start working
with the women, the results--
336
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Ah! She says "women" the same way he does.
337
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[laughter]
338
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The results, we hope, could be incredible.
339
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[Bob] Please don't take offence, Jean.
340
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Maggie regards ripping me to pieces
as her Sunday sport.
341
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[Maggie] Look, I am just pointing out
that you seem to prefer writing journalism
342
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to making good science, so...
343
00:18:20,229 --> 00:18:22,853
- [gentle laughter]
- It's a man about the windows.
344
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He wants to speak to you, Dad.
345
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- Windows?
- [woman 2] Mm.
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- [Bob sighs]
- [girl] Wait. I...
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Come on, Maggie. You know the drill.
348
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You write, you promise more,
and then when they're tantalized enough,
349
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you take it
to the Medical Research Council.
350
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This is how they get the support
to leave bloody Oldham behind.
351
00:18:40,479 --> 00:18:42,186
Oh, if Kershaw's is so awful,
352
00:18:42,187 --> 00:18:44,311
then they should just
take the hint and give up.
353
00:18:44,312 --> 00:18:45,436
[phone slams]
354
00:18:45,437 --> 00:18:47,853
- [breathes heavily] Bloody idiots!
- [man] What's up, Bob?
355
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- [woman 2] Who was it? Hmm?
- [Bob] It was the... the Mirror.
356
00:18:51,521 --> 00:18:55,312
Th... they want a quote
as to whether I'm Dr. Frankenstein or not.
357
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He said it was about the windows.
358
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Bob, I will give you extra custard
if you sit down again.
359
00:19:02,187 --> 00:19:03,771
You're scaring the children.
360
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[Arun] He's used to a few bricks,
to the establishment hating him.
361
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- I daresay he enjoys it a bit.
- He wants to be slandered?
362
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I honestly think
he considers it part of his role.
363
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Fighting the fights
for reproductive medicine.
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For mothers and women... etc.
365
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[Jean] This is me.
366
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Would you like me to come up?
367
00:19:29,229 --> 00:19:30,062
Come up?
368
00:19:30,854 --> 00:19:33,771
I mean to say, I'm attracted to you,
if you are to me.
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00:19:34,479 --> 00:19:36,646
I hope you're attracted to me.
I can't tell.
370
00:19:37,604 --> 00:19:38,687
Sorry.
371
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Not at all.
372
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Worth asking, I hope?
I mean, no harm done?
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None at all. I'm flattered.
374
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[Arun] Jolly good. Goodbye, then.
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00:19:48,687 --> 00:19:50,771
[soft ambient music fading in]
376
00:19:54,146 --> 00:19:56,811
If you promise not to become attached,
we can have sex.
377
00:19:56,812 --> 00:19:57,729
Oh!
378
00:19:58,687 --> 00:20:00,646
Yes. Definitely.
379
00:20:02,437 --> 00:20:03,854
- I promise.
- Good.
380
00:20:10,604 --> 00:20:11,937
[whimsical music plays]
381
00:20:15,437 --> 00:20:17,561
I don't believe
this will cause any damage,
382
00:20:17,562 --> 00:20:20,478
but it's also worth saying
that I don't think this will result
383
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in a baby for you.
384
00:20:22,729 --> 00:20:23,728
I'm... I'm sorry?
385
00:20:23,729 --> 00:20:26,561
I don't think
there's much chance of success.
386
00:20:26,562 --> 00:20:28,311
I think it's important that you know that.
387
00:20:28,312 --> 00:20:31,686
So... I don't understand.
Why should we do it?
388
00:20:31,687 --> 00:20:35,062
Because it might mean
that others do... have babies.
389
00:20:42,396 --> 00:20:46,436
I can live in hope though, right?
I can believe that I might get a chance?
390
00:20:46,437 --> 00:20:48,312
I think it's unlikely, but...
391
00:20:49,062 --> 00:20:50,561
[softly] I just want a baby.
392
00:20:50,562 --> 00:20:53,561
- [music fades out]
- [mom] You're supposed to be a nurse.
393
00:20:53,562 --> 00:20:56,853
[Jean] I'm in research, Mum.
I have been for quite some time.
394
00:20:56,854 --> 00:20:59,103
[mom] People are sick.
You make them better.
395
00:20:59,104 --> 00:21:01,686
Bob says infertility is a medical problem.
396
00:21:01,687 --> 00:21:03,603
Making babies in test tubes?
397
00:21:03,604 --> 00:21:06,312
Making babies for mothers that need them.
398
00:21:06,979 --> 00:21:11,604
"Isaac prayed to the Lord on behalf
of his wife because she was barren."
399
00:21:12,312 --> 00:21:15,645
"The Lord answered him,
and his wife Rebekah conceived."
400
00:21:15,646 --> 00:21:17,937
Genesis, chapter 25, verse 21.
401
00:21:19,979 --> 00:21:21,937
- Prayer's the answer, is it?
- Sh-sh!
402
00:21:22,604 --> 00:21:23,771
Let it steep.
403
00:21:28,479 --> 00:21:33,561
Jean, you're young. You don't understand.
But you can't play God with this.
404
00:21:33,562 --> 00:21:34,686
[smacks lips]
405
00:21:34,687 --> 00:21:38,271
How do you feel
about spectacles and false teeth?
406
00:21:39,646 --> 00:21:43,145
You'd rather people be blind
or unable to eat anything but soup?
407
00:21:43,146 --> 00:21:44,728
That's what God wants, is it?
408
00:21:44,729 --> 00:21:46,437
- Bob says--
- Oh, "Bob says."
409
00:21:46,937 --> 00:21:48,311
Bob says!
410
00:21:48,312 --> 00:21:51,396
- He has a way of putting things.
- Then there's the other one.
411
00:21:52,771 --> 00:21:54,311
He's an abortionist.
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00:21:54,312 --> 00:21:57,562
Your surgeon. Steptoe.
It says so in the paper.
413
00:22:00,312 --> 00:22:02,686
You didn't know that, did you?
414
00:22:02,687 --> 00:22:05,646
Playing God at one end,
the devil at the other.
415
00:22:08,437 --> 00:22:11,021
- That's legal now.
- Doesn't make it right.
416
00:22:12,271 --> 00:22:17,020
I'm not... performing abortions, Mum.
And I'm proud of what I'm doing.
417
00:22:17,021 --> 00:22:18,437
Well, thank the Lord.
418
00:22:19,312 --> 00:22:22,561
Let's hope that you have
enough pride for the both of us,
419
00:22:22,562 --> 00:22:25,354
because I've got nothing
but despair right now.
420
00:22:27,771 --> 00:22:30,520
If you could hear how I boasted about you.
421
00:22:30,521 --> 00:22:34,479
All your qualifications.
And this is what you do with it?
422
00:22:35,229 --> 00:22:36,062
This sin?
423
00:22:39,979 --> 00:22:41,187
I'm helping people.
424
00:22:43,146 --> 00:22:45,271
Reverend Paulson has advised
425
00:22:46,187 --> 00:22:47,686
that you don't come to church.
426
00:22:47,687 --> 00:22:49,270
That's not his decision.
427
00:22:49,271 --> 00:22:50,895
[downcast piano music playing]
428
00:22:50,896 --> 00:22:53,646
He's speaking... our vicar,
429
00:22:54,604 --> 00:22:56,187
on behalf of many people.
430
00:22:57,729 --> 00:22:59,479
And, Jean...
431
00:23:01,521 --> 00:23:02,979
I can't have you come here.
432
00:23:05,229 --> 00:23:06,521
Mum, you can't mean that.
433
00:23:08,229 --> 00:23:10,437
If you choose this over me...
434
00:23:12,771 --> 00:23:15,896
then absolutely... I do.
435
00:23:18,187 --> 00:23:22,353
Thing is though, Mum,
this isn't asking me to choose.
436
00:23:22,354 --> 00:23:23,271
You are.
437
00:23:27,271 --> 00:23:28,895
[on radio] From research on rats and mice,
438
00:23:28,896 --> 00:23:32,561
some scientists insist there could be
a greater risk of abnormality
439
00:23:32,562 --> 00:23:35,437
when fertilization takes place
outside the body.
440
00:23:35,937 --> 00:23:37,436
Edwards and Steptoe, however,
441
00:23:37,437 --> 00:23:41,562
say even the latest research has produced
no credible evidence of abnormality.
442
00:23:43,062 --> 00:23:43,936
Thank you.
443
00:23:43,937 --> 00:23:45,312
[music fades out]
444
00:23:46,062 --> 00:23:47,562
[indistinct chatter]
445
00:23:59,271 --> 00:24:00,271
The sausage,
446
00:24:01,521 --> 00:24:03,354
over 5,000 years old.
447
00:24:04,062 --> 00:24:06,771
You know, there were remnants found
in Egyptian tombs.
448
00:24:07,312 --> 00:24:09,728
They used to stuff
their leftover meat scraps
449
00:24:09,729 --> 00:24:11,146
into cow intestines.
450
00:24:19,062 --> 00:24:21,437
You are aware
I'm really not good with silence?
451
00:24:22,437 --> 00:24:23,937
[quietly] So get good with it.
452
00:24:30,271 --> 00:24:31,853
Right. I think that's everyone.
453
00:24:31,854 --> 00:24:36,603
We'll need you to report daily
to Kershaw's for your hormone injection.
454
00:24:36,604 --> 00:24:38,561
This is to stimulate your egg production.
455
00:24:38,562 --> 00:24:40,311
Once we have stimulated it,
456
00:24:40,312 --> 00:24:43,186
we'll harvest your eggs
and add your husband's sperm.
457
00:24:43,187 --> 00:24:46,771
If fertilization occurs,
we'll implant the embryo into you.
458
00:24:47,979 --> 00:24:49,771
If you have any concerns, do raise them.
459
00:24:53,354 --> 00:24:54,187
"Kathy Gibson."
460
00:24:57,562 --> 00:24:58,562
We'll start with you.
461
00:25:04,562 --> 00:25:07,478
We will be injecting
into your bottom today,
462
00:25:07,479 --> 00:25:10,811
so if you could lower your skirt
and tights and lean over the bed.
463
00:25:10,812 --> 00:25:11,729
Okay.
464
00:25:15,854 --> 00:25:18,145
[Matron] You are either with us
or you're not.
465
00:25:18,146 --> 00:25:19,561
Not today, Muriel, please.
466
00:25:19,562 --> 00:25:23,561
If it's a boy, leave him at the door.
If it's money trouble, maybe we can help.
467
00:25:23,562 --> 00:25:25,645
If it's something more serious,
we're in a hospital.
468
00:25:25,646 --> 00:25:28,020
I really don't want
a lecture right now, Muriel.
469
00:25:28,021 --> 00:25:28,979
Matron.
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00:25:30,312 --> 00:25:32,271
I am Matron.
471
00:25:33,354 --> 00:25:37,104
You may dismiss it as a title,
but it means the world to me.
472
00:25:40,979 --> 00:25:43,770
I didn't know you did abortions, Matron.
473
00:25:43,771 --> 00:25:45,770
I'm a Christian. My mother would--
474
00:25:45,771 --> 00:25:47,771
The other consultants say no.
475
00:25:48,687 --> 00:25:50,395
So Mr. Steptoe has to do them all.
476
00:25:50,396 --> 00:25:51,854
But he doesn't... have to.
477
00:25:53,646 --> 00:25:56,228
Do you know how many girls
come in here with their insides torn
478
00:25:56,229 --> 00:25:58,521
because they've gone
to a man on a street corner?
479
00:26:01,729 --> 00:26:02,812
I didn't think so.
480
00:26:04,062 --> 00:26:06,104
I thought we were here to make babies.
481
00:26:06,979 --> 00:26:08,104
Well, you're wrong.
482
00:26:09,271 --> 00:26:12,103
We are here to give women choice.
483
00:26:12,104 --> 00:26:13,812
Every choice.
484
00:26:14,604 --> 00:26:19,311
That's all that matters to me,
and it should be all that matters to you.
485
00:26:19,312 --> 00:26:20,687
[poignant music playing]
486
00:26:21,937 --> 00:26:24,104
[breathes deeply] So buck up.
487
00:26:27,479 --> 00:26:30,103
[man, on TV] Please welcome
controversial biologist
488
00:26:30,104 --> 00:26:31,353
Dr. Robert Edwards.
489
00:26:31,354 --> 00:26:34,603
So, Dr. Edwards, what do you think
of Professor Watson's claim
490
00:26:34,604 --> 00:26:38,186
that what you're doing here
is extremely dangerous?
491
00:26:38,187 --> 00:26:41,520
That it may lead to a future
in which humans could be manufactured?
492
00:26:41,521 --> 00:26:44,186
You make us sound
like we're making... sausages.
493
00:26:44,187 --> 00:26:46,978
[interviewer] This is one of
our leading scientists, who, with DNA,
494
00:26:46,979 --> 00:26:49,728
made one of the key discoveries
of our age, whereas you,
495
00:26:49,729 --> 00:26:54,311
with all due respect, seem to have
promised a lot and delivered... very little.
496
00:26:54,312 --> 00:26:56,978
[Bob] I'm not dismissing
James Watson or his achievements.
497
00:26:56,979 --> 00:26:59,353
[interviewer] So is this all
just about stirring the pot?
498
00:26:59,354 --> 00:27:01,811
- Are you... just seeking attention?
- [Bob] No.
499
00:27:01,812 --> 00:27:03,020
No. No.
500
00:27:03,021 --> 00:27:06,811
[hesitates] Consider spectacles
or... or false teeth.
501
00:27:06,812 --> 00:27:09,478
- That's what we're...
- [Jean sighs] Bloody spectacles.
502
00:27:09,479 --> 00:27:10,479
[knocking on door]
503
00:27:11,396 --> 00:27:12,521
Mum, it's me.
504
00:27:15,646 --> 00:27:17,604
I brought some of that pickle you like.
505
00:27:21,146 --> 00:27:22,729
I'll just leave it by the door.
506
00:27:33,562 --> 00:27:34,478
[pool balls clack]
507
00:27:34,479 --> 00:27:37,728
[Arun] I'm just saying, there's a limit
to what you should put yourself through.
508
00:27:37,729 --> 00:27:41,812
- Bob puts himself through it too.
- Bob is made of a particularly hard metal.
509
00:27:42,312 --> 00:27:45,478
Impervious to... well, lots of things.
510
00:27:45,479 --> 00:27:48,062
And he has support. It's not just you.
511
00:27:49,562 --> 00:27:52,521
Ruth herself is a fine scientist,
and then there's...
512
00:27:54,687 --> 00:27:56,062
I'm working in bloods.
513
00:27:56,937 --> 00:28:00,520
I'm actually working in bloods with Bob.
That could be his breakthrough.
514
00:28:00,521 --> 00:28:01,896
IVF could fail.
515
00:28:02,604 --> 00:28:05,354
Then how would you feel... about...
516
00:28:06,771 --> 00:28:08,229
about what this has cost you?
517
00:28:09,521 --> 00:28:12,062
- I'm committed.
- [Arun] And that's wonderful.
518
00:28:12,729 --> 00:28:16,146
But... you're also a daughter, and, uh...
519
00:28:17,437 --> 00:28:18,437
Then there's me.
520
00:28:19,062 --> 00:28:22,146
[sighs] Can we just play
and talk about this another day?
521
00:28:24,979 --> 00:28:26,604
Hope I score points for trying. [chuckles]
522
00:28:27,646 --> 00:28:29,729
You always score points for trying, Arun.
523
00:28:33,021 --> 00:28:35,021
- Think I win.
- Yes, I see that.
524
00:28:36,187 --> 00:28:37,686
[snoring softly]
525
00:28:37,687 --> 00:28:39,478
[fire crackling]
526
00:28:39,479 --> 00:28:41,146
[footsteps approaching]
527
00:28:42,729 --> 00:28:45,146
Whoa. A-ha. You caught me.
528
00:28:45,646 --> 00:28:47,854
- Can I get you anything?
- [grunts]
529
00:28:48,604 --> 00:28:49,979
[huffs] No.
530
00:28:50,562 --> 00:28:54,187
[mumbling] It was just a temporary...
closing of the eyes.
531
00:28:55,729 --> 00:28:56,979
[woman 1 chuckles softly]
532
00:29:01,146 --> 00:29:01,979
Patrick.
533
00:29:03,521 --> 00:29:04,521
You aren't
534
00:29:05,812 --> 00:29:08,104
exhausting yourself with all this? It is--
535
00:29:08,604 --> 00:29:10,811
- I am not... [snores] ...exhausted.
- [chuckles]
536
00:29:10,812 --> 00:29:13,770
- [laughing] How dare you!
- [piano playing]
537
00:29:13,771 --> 00:29:15,271
[woman 1 chuckles, sighs]
538
00:29:17,521 --> 00:29:20,396
You promised me a fine retirement.
539
00:29:21,354 --> 00:29:24,104
Full of... good wine and holidays.
540
00:29:25,187 --> 00:29:28,311
Don't drain yourself dry
before we get to that point, will you?
541
00:29:28,312 --> 00:29:30,396
- [playing stops]
- Please, sit with me.
542
00:29:32,437 --> 00:29:33,271
Come.
543
00:29:39,604 --> 00:29:41,604
[piano playing]
544
00:29:45,021 --> 00:29:46,687
I look forward to that too.
545
00:29:48,354 --> 00:29:49,354
But this,
546
00:29:50,812 --> 00:29:52,812
what we're... what we're doing...
547
00:29:56,187 --> 00:29:57,229
it matters.
548
00:29:57,979 --> 00:29:59,062
[woman 1, softly] Mm.
549
00:30:04,271 --> 00:30:07,061
- [Patrick chuckles] Stupid.
- [woman 1 chuckling]
550
00:30:07,062 --> 00:30:09,354
- [discordant note plays]
- [both chuckle]
551
00:30:11,604 --> 00:30:12,686
[piano fades out]
552
00:30:12,687 --> 00:30:15,436
[woman 2] You've considered
upping the CO2 levels?
553
00:30:15,437 --> 00:30:17,146
[Bob] As we culture the oocytes?
554
00:30:17,812 --> 00:30:21,770
[woman 2] Is it worth... You're at 5%.
Is it worth trying 8%, perhaps?
555
00:30:21,771 --> 00:30:23,979
Oh, I like that. We could.
556
00:30:25,062 --> 00:30:28,103
And you're still confident
in Barry Bavister's miracle solution?
557
00:30:28,104 --> 00:30:30,103
I'm currently confident
in everyone but myself.
558
00:30:30,104 --> 00:30:31,686
You did fine.
559
00:30:31,687 --> 00:30:32,771
[Bob] "Sausages."
560
00:30:33,687 --> 00:30:36,561
[sighs] I could have done better
than bloody sausages.
561
00:30:36,562 --> 00:30:39,854
- [woman 2] You did fine.
- [sighs] I just... This...
562
00:30:41,021 --> 00:30:41,896
This is...
563
00:30:44,229 --> 00:30:46,771
They're looking to me to lead. I just n...
564
00:30:47,354 --> 00:30:48,311
just need to lead.
565
00:30:48,312 --> 00:30:51,271
- ["Yes We Can Can" by Lee Dorsey playing]
- [Bob grunts]
566
00:31:05,729 --> 00:31:10,186
♪ Now is the time for all good men
To get together with one another... ♪
567
00:31:10,187 --> 00:31:11,520
Uh, Neil Robinson.
568
00:31:11,521 --> 00:31:14,020
♪ Iron out their problems
And iron out their quarrels ♪
569
00:31:14,021 --> 00:31:16,436
- ♪ And try to live as brothers... ♪
- Hi. John Graham.
570
00:31:16,437 --> 00:31:19,853
♪ And try hard to find peace within
Without stepping on... ♪
571
00:31:19,854 --> 00:31:21,146
Peter Walker.
572
00:31:21,771 --> 00:31:22,603
Thank you.
573
00:31:22,604 --> 00:31:27,354
♪ And do respect the women of the world
Just remember we all had mothers ♪
574
00:31:28,354 --> 00:31:30,021
♪ I know we can make it ♪
575
00:31:31,146 --> 00:31:33,728
♪ I know darn well we can work it out ♪
576
00:31:33,729 --> 00:31:35,686
♪ Oh yes, we can, I know we can, can ♪
577
00:31:35,687 --> 00:31:39,520
♪ Yes, we can, can, why can't we?
If we wanna, yes, we can, can ♪
578
00:31:39,521 --> 00:31:44,936
♪ I know we can make it work
I know we can make it if we try ♪
579
00:31:44,937 --> 00:31:46,770
♪ Oh yes, we can, I know we can, can ♪
580
00:31:46,771 --> 00:31:50,395
♪ Yes, we can, great gosh almighty
Yes, we can, I know we can, can... ♪
581
00:31:50,396 --> 00:31:51,812
Ooh. Bastard.
582
00:31:55,771 --> 00:31:57,603
Can't help feeling like cattle.
583
00:31:57,604 --> 00:31:58,686
[music fades out]
584
00:31:58,687 --> 00:31:59,604
Sorry?
585
00:32:01,479 --> 00:32:03,186
It's not Mr. Steptoe's fault.
586
00:32:03,187 --> 00:32:04,103
[rustling]
587
00:32:04,104 --> 00:32:07,020
He's a busy man.
He's kind when you've got his attention.
588
00:32:07,021 --> 00:32:09,436
But when we come in here, no offense,
589
00:32:09,437 --> 00:32:12,104
but... you don't look
exactly happy to see us.
590
00:32:12,812 --> 00:32:13,728
Don't I?
591
00:32:13,729 --> 00:32:15,645
And you are looking at my bum
592
00:32:15,646 --> 00:32:18,271
a lot of the time
when you do... look unhappy.
593
00:32:21,604 --> 00:32:22,978
[door swings open]
594
00:32:22,979 --> 00:32:25,062
[tense classical music playing]
595
00:32:25,937 --> 00:32:27,021
[door shuts]
596
00:32:28,271 --> 00:32:29,479
Jean, are you in here?
597
00:32:31,562 --> 00:32:32,396
Jean?
598
00:32:33,604 --> 00:32:35,770
Bob, this is the ladies' toilets.
599
00:32:35,771 --> 00:32:37,520
[Bob] I know, I know. I'm sorry.
600
00:32:37,521 --> 00:32:38,437
It's just,
601
00:32:39,021 --> 00:32:41,021
uh, there's something you need to see.
602
00:32:55,312 --> 00:32:56,396
It's beautiful.
603
00:33:01,271 --> 00:33:04,521
- [gently] Whatever's happening to you...
- Nothing's happening to me.
604
00:33:13,437 --> 00:33:14,937
How many cells are there?
605
00:33:16,479 --> 00:33:20,728
Seventy human cells
growing outside the uterus in one embryo.
606
00:33:20,729 --> 00:33:23,437
- [Jean chuckles]
- Stage one complete.
607
00:33:24,771 --> 00:33:26,895
This is it.
[chuckling] We can get our funding now.
608
00:33:26,896 --> 00:33:30,853
No more endless trips to Oldham.
No more separation from Ruth and the kids.
609
00:33:30,854 --> 00:33:33,603
No more just... getting by.
610
00:33:33,604 --> 00:33:34,771
Everything...
611
00:33:35,854 --> 00:33:38,062
everything... changes from here.
612
00:33:40,562 --> 00:33:41,686
[both chuckle]
613
00:33:41,687 --> 00:33:46,603
The Medical Research Council has to judge
both whether the work is possible
614
00:33:46,604 --> 00:33:49,728
and whether the work
is in the interest of science.
615
00:33:49,729 --> 00:33:53,145
For instance, have you considered
the concerns about the normality
616
00:33:53,146 --> 00:33:56,561
of the children which may be born
if successes were ever achieved?
617
00:33:56,562 --> 00:33:58,770
Uh, name me one scientific advancement
618
00:33:58,771 --> 00:34:01,478
that has not raised concerns
when it comes to--
619
00:34:01,479 --> 00:34:03,896
[woman] And then
there's the societal question.
620
00:34:04,521 --> 00:34:08,478
We at the Medical Research Council
have expended considerable resources
621
00:34:08,479 --> 00:34:10,853
looking into the problem
of overpopulation.
622
00:34:10,854 --> 00:34:15,228
No doubt. If I may...
that is an entirely different argument.
623
00:34:15,229 --> 00:34:18,145
You deny overpopulation is a problem?
624
00:34:18,146 --> 00:34:21,561
No, what I take issue with
is the infertile being penalized
625
00:34:21,562 --> 00:34:23,311
by the profligacy of the fertile.
626
00:34:23,312 --> 00:34:25,520
Infertility is a scientific problem.
627
00:34:25,521 --> 00:34:29,228
So is overpopulation.
But neither is the answer to the other.
628
00:34:29,229 --> 00:34:31,937
You always speak so well, Dr. Edwards.
629
00:34:32,604 --> 00:34:35,311
I do enjoy your appearances on Radio 4.
630
00:34:35,312 --> 00:34:40,020
[man] Which brings us to the issue
of how many this will truly benefit.
631
00:34:40,021 --> 00:34:44,020
This is a very specific problem,
which, let's face it,
632
00:34:44,021 --> 00:34:46,436
only affects a very small number of women.
633
00:34:46,437 --> 00:34:47,854
A small number?
634
00:34:48,687 --> 00:34:51,353
What you may not appreciate, Ms. Purdy,
635
00:34:51,354 --> 00:34:54,145
is that we serve
the entire scientific community.
636
00:34:54,146 --> 00:34:56,186
Tell me, doctor,
would this excite you more
637
00:34:56,187 --> 00:34:58,145
if it had a more masculine profile?
638
00:34:58,146 --> 00:35:00,603
[woman] Oh, come now,
let's not be reductive.
639
00:35:00,604 --> 00:35:04,854
What you are offering...
may seem exciting to you,
640
00:35:06,104 --> 00:35:08,145
may be exciting to the media,
641
00:35:08,146 --> 00:35:10,895
but is it exciting for science as a whole?
642
00:35:10,896 --> 00:35:11,979
Yes.
643
00:35:14,104 --> 00:35:17,186
[man] At the MRC,
the question we're constantly asking is,
644
00:35:17,187 --> 00:35:21,770
"Will this contribute to our understanding
of how we live in this world?"
645
00:35:21,771 --> 00:35:24,311
- Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes! It will.
- [hands pound on table]
646
00:35:24,312 --> 00:35:25,936
Dr. Edwards, please.
647
00:35:25,937 --> 00:35:30,186
There are women out there, lots of women,
who believe if they can't have kids,
648
00:35:30,187 --> 00:35:33,354
they have failed their marriage
and themselves.
649
00:35:34,146 --> 00:35:36,895
They don't understand
what life is without children.
650
00:35:36,896 --> 00:35:40,061
[Bob] Infertility is a disease,
and it is a brutal disease
651
00:35:40,062 --> 00:35:41,895
that wrecks marriages and lives.
652
00:35:41,896 --> 00:35:45,436
If you can't see that,
well, then, shame on you!
653
00:35:45,437 --> 00:35:47,104
[tense music playing]
654
00:35:53,687 --> 00:35:55,020
[music fades out]
655
00:35:55,021 --> 00:35:56,521
[Bob] "Shame on you."
656
00:35:57,229 --> 00:35:59,436
- Could've handled that much better.
- [Patrick chuckles]
657
00:35:59,437 --> 00:36:03,020
What you said was right,
and we'd lost already by then.
658
00:36:03,021 --> 00:36:05,686
[sighs] If I could've only found a way
to have persuaded them.
659
00:36:05,687 --> 00:36:06,853
We needed that money.
660
00:36:06,854 --> 00:36:10,228
- No, we wanted it.
- [Bob] We work in a hospital outbuilding.
661
00:36:10,229 --> 00:36:13,936
It's a miracle it's heated,
let alone that we conduct science there.
662
00:36:13,937 --> 00:36:16,061
I spend more time in my car
than I do in a lab.
663
00:36:16,062 --> 00:36:18,270
- I... I don't see my wife or my children.
- Bob.
664
00:36:18,271 --> 00:36:21,186
Don't you "Bob" me.
You don't like it any more than I do.
665
00:36:21,187 --> 00:36:24,145
You're exhausted.
And you're a misery most of the time.
666
00:36:24,146 --> 00:36:27,186
You think that's why I'm a misery?
'Cause I don't like the travel?
667
00:36:27,187 --> 00:36:28,478
Well, then why are you?
668
00:36:28,479 --> 00:36:31,145
[Jean] Because I didn't see
how this could be worth it.
669
00:36:31,146 --> 00:36:33,811
I understood the science,
yet the graft of it felt...
670
00:36:33,812 --> 00:36:35,603
it felt very hard to me.
671
00:36:35,604 --> 00:36:39,604
You don't see your wife or kids.
I've lost my church and my mum.
672
00:36:40,687 --> 00:36:44,395
Then I saw those so-called scientists
sitting there, passing judgment on us,
673
00:36:44,396 --> 00:36:47,020
and I realized,
no one else is going to do this.
674
00:36:47,021 --> 00:36:49,645
This fight is ours.
We don't have a choice.
675
00:36:49,646 --> 00:36:51,103
[expectant music playing]
676
00:36:51,104 --> 00:36:53,979
- What happened in there just proved it.
- Come on, Bob.
677
00:36:54,729 --> 00:36:56,854
Kershaw's isn't as bad as all that, is it?
678
00:36:59,771 --> 00:37:01,187
[Jean] The decor's terrible.
679
00:37:02,146 --> 00:37:04,145
But the company's occasionally okay.
680
00:37:04,146 --> 00:37:05,646
[Patrick laughs]
681
00:37:08,146 --> 00:37:11,395
Don't you two start getting on.
She's my friend.
682
00:37:11,396 --> 00:37:13,187
[Patrick laughs]
683
00:37:15,604 --> 00:37:17,187
[indistinct chatter]
684
00:37:18,146 --> 00:37:19,271
[Jean] Trisha Johnson?
685
00:37:25,854 --> 00:37:27,353
You never bring your husband here.
686
00:37:27,354 --> 00:37:28,353
[music fades out]
687
00:37:28,354 --> 00:37:31,104
- Sorry?
- Your husband, he's never here.
688
00:37:32,021 --> 00:37:33,270
[scoffs softly]
689
00:37:33,271 --> 00:37:35,437
He says he's done with chasing rainbows.
690
00:37:36,646 --> 00:37:37,896
Is he a good man?
691
00:37:38,479 --> 00:37:39,312
[tuts]
692
00:37:39,937 --> 00:37:41,187
Mm. He wanted a boy.
693
00:37:42,187 --> 00:37:43,436
He whispered on our wedding day,
694
00:37:43,437 --> 00:37:46,104
"I can't wait to tell Stu
how beautiful you looked today."
695
00:37:46,687 --> 00:37:47,521
Stuart?
696
00:37:48,104 --> 00:37:49,979
- [chuckles] D'you mind if we...
- Sorry.
697
00:38:00,437 --> 00:38:02,312
He's nice Monday through Thursday.
698
00:38:03,812 --> 00:38:05,312
Likes a drink on Friday.
699
00:38:07,229 --> 00:38:09,728
Don't tell me you haven't seen
the bruises. I won't believe you.
700
00:38:09,729 --> 00:38:13,521
{\an8}I noticed. I, uh... I just wasn't sure
you'd want to be asked about them.
701
00:38:16,146 --> 00:38:16,979
I'm not...
702
00:38:19,354 --> 00:38:20,312
This isn't for him.
703
00:38:21,271 --> 00:38:22,896
I just want someone for me.
704
00:38:25,604 --> 00:38:27,229
Sorry. [sobs] Sorry.
705
00:38:28,062 --> 00:38:31,353
Asking you not to treat us like cattle,
and I'm treating you like a handkerchief.
706
00:38:31,354 --> 00:38:33,896
I should have listened better. I'm sorry.
707
00:38:34,812 --> 00:38:37,061
I know what you're all going through, and...
708
00:38:37,062 --> 00:38:38,437
[breathes deeply]
709
00:38:41,812 --> 00:38:44,229
We've taken to calling ourselves
"the Ovum Club."
710
00:38:44,854 --> 00:38:45,687
The girls.
711
00:38:46,771 --> 00:38:48,354
- The Ovum Club?
- Hmm.
712
00:38:48,896 --> 00:38:49,896
I like that.
713
00:38:51,979 --> 00:38:53,021
I'll send Rachel in.
714
00:39:01,896 --> 00:39:04,311
- [Rachel] Hi.
- How are you, Rachel?
715
00:39:04,312 --> 00:39:05,979
- Grand. How are you?
- I'm good.
716
00:39:08,687 --> 00:39:10,396
[footsteps approaching]
717
00:39:11,896 --> 00:39:12,854
Results through?
718
00:39:14,812 --> 00:39:17,062
[Bob] Failure on case number 136.
719
00:39:17,646 --> 00:39:18,604
Kathy.
720
00:39:19,271 --> 00:39:20,186
It's not working.
721
00:39:20,187 --> 00:39:23,395
The HCG is setting
the other natural ovarian hormones awry.
722
00:39:23,396 --> 00:39:25,728
The estrogen and progesterone
are all over the place.
723
00:39:25,729 --> 00:39:27,812
There's no chance of implantation.
724
00:39:28,396 --> 00:39:30,770
We could try artificially boosting
725
00:39:30,771 --> 00:39:33,561
the estrogen and the progesterone
for the next one.
726
00:39:33,562 --> 00:39:34,604
[Patrick] We could.
727
00:39:35,562 --> 00:39:38,228
[Bob] Hold on.
We should start preparing the solutions.
728
00:39:38,229 --> 00:39:40,437
I need to speak to Kathy. She'll be upset.
729
00:39:41,229 --> 00:39:43,062
[poignant music playing]
730
00:39:47,229 --> 00:39:48,728
- [Jean] Kathy.
- Hi, Jean.
731
00:39:48,729 --> 00:39:51,396
- [Jean] Hi. How are you?
- I'm okay.
732
00:39:56,021 --> 00:39:57,896
We've just had a look at the results.
733
00:39:58,937 --> 00:39:59,937
I'm really sorry.
734
00:40:01,646 --> 00:40:02,811
We weren't successful.
735
00:40:02,812 --> 00:40:04,437
[inaudible chatter]
736
00:40:10,687 --> 00:40:12,811
- [Patrick] Anything to report?
- [glass clinking]
737
00:40:12,812 --> 00:40:15,436
If you're looking for success,
you'll find nothing here.
738
00:40:15,437 --> 00:40:16,771
[music fades out]
739
00:40:23,104 --> 00:40:23,937
[Patrick sighs]
740
00:40:26,771 --> 00:40:28,979
Do you... want my help?
741
00:40:29,771 --> 00:40:34,395
- Why would I need your help?
- I don't want to assume or... interfere.
742
00:40:34,396 --> 00:40:36,896
I know privacy is important to you, but I...
743
00:40:37,771 --> 00:40:41,354
I also know we've never talked
about your situation and children.
744
00:40:42,562 --> 00:40:44,728
I suppose I may have made an assumption
745
00:40:44,729 --> 00:40:49,312
that there are, or you think there are,
difficulties that you too might face.
746
00:40:56,896 --> 00:40:58,145
Endometriosis.
747
00:40:58,146 --> 00:40:59,354
And it's severe.
748
00:41:01,146 --> 00:41:04,896
- Have you talked to someone?
- Once. He wasn't much use.
749
00:41:06,979 --> 00:41:10,104
- Will you allow me to examine you?
- No. [chuckles softly]
750
00:41:11,979 --> 00:41:13,936
I'm not bad at this.
I may be able to help.
751
00:41:13,937 --> 00:41:16,646
You're the best surgeon, Patrick.
I don't doubt that.
752
00:41:19,312 --> 00:41:21,561
It's amazing what science can do.
753
00:41:21,562 --> 00:41:24,187
Yes, well... let's keep working
on that science.
754
00:41:26,479 --> 00:41:28,937
["Nobody But Me" by The Human Beinz plays]
755
00:41:31,521 --> 00:41:34,561
- ♪ No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no ♪
- [whooping, laughing]
756
00:41:34,562 --> 00:41:36,270
♪ No, no, no, no, no ♪
757
00:41:36,271 --> 00:41:37,603
♪ Nobody can do the... ♪
758
00:41:37,604 --> 00:41:39,686
- ♪ Shing-a-ling! ♪
- ♪ Like I do ♪
759
00:41:39,687 --> 00:41:40,895
♪ Nobody can do the... ♪
760
00:41:40,896 --> 00:41:42,895
- ♪ Skate! ♪
- ♪ Like I do ♪
761
00:41:42,896 --> 00:41:44,186
♪ Nobody can do the... ♪
762
00:41:44,187 --> 00:41:46,020
- ♪ Boogaloo! ♪
- ♪ Like I do ♪
763
00:41:46,021 --> 00:41:47,978
- ♪ Nobody can do the... ♪
- ♪ Philly! ♪
764
00:41:47,979 --> 00:41:49,436
- ♪ Like I do ♪
- [Jean] I'm so sorry.
765
00:41:49,437 --> 00:41:51,728
♪ Don't you know
I'm gonna skate right through? ♪
766
00:41:51,729 --> 00:41:53,895
♪ Ain't nobody do it but me ♪
767
00:41:53,896 --> 00:41:55,645
♪ Nobody but me ♪
768
00:41:55,646 --> 00:42:00,395
♪ Yeah, I'm gonna spin, I do
Ain't nobody do it but me, babe ♪
769
00:42:00,396 --> 00:42:01,603
♪ Nobody but me ♪
770
00:42:01,604 --> 00:42:03,354
♪ Well, let me tell you, nobody ♪
771
00:42:04,687 --> 00:42:06,812
♪ Well, nobody but me... ♪
772
00:42:07,687 --> 00:42:08,936
- [Arun] Watch out.
- [Jean] Whoop!
773
00:42:08,937 --> 00:42:10,312
[both chuckle]
774
00:42:11,604 --> 00:42:14,061
[Arun] I do so like it
when you're back here.
775
00:42:14,062 --> 00:42:16,646
- [Jean] I think the breaks do us good.
- [chuckles]
776
00:42:17,187 --> 00:42:19,271
Yes. Whatever's necessary.
777
00:42:19,896 --> 00:42:22,229
- I do have a question for you though.
- Mm?
778
00:42:23,104 --> 00:42:25,854
The streets are wet,
so I'm not gonna get down on one knee.
779
00:42:26,521 --> 00:42:27,354
For what?
780
00:42:28,729 --> 00:42:30,479
It's been burning a hole in my pocket.
781
00:42:34,437 --> 00:42:35,895
I don't want to spoil the surprise,
782
00:42:35,896 --> 00:42:38,187
but just to check,
you do know what's inside?
783
00:42:40,104 --> 00:42:40,937
Yes.
784
00:42:44,771 --> 00:42:45,854
You'd rather not see?
785
00:42:49,646 --> 00:42:51,145
Would it be so bad?
786
00:42:51,146 --> 00:42:53,811
Two kids, a home to make together,
787
00:42:53,812 --> 00:42:55,895
interesting conversation
most nights of the week.
788
00:42:55,896 --> 00:42:58,603
I'll only be dull on Thursdays... I promise.
789
00:42:58,604 --> 00:43:00,187
[melancholy music playing]
790
00:43:04,396 --> 00:43:06,062
My mother would be so happy.
791
00:43:07,729 --> 00:43:10,979
A family man... with a good career.
792
00:43:13,646 --> 00:43:16,895
But I'm not built
to be a family woman, Arun.
793
00:43:16,896 --> 00:43:18,729
I'm, uh... [breathes shakily]
794
00:43:19,812 --> 00:43:20,687
I can't...
795
00:43:22,896 --> 00:43:23,896
[softly] I can't.
796
00:43:25,562 --> 00:43:26,812
Then we continue as we are.
797
00:43:28,479 --> 00:43:29,729
You'll change your mind.
798
00:43:34,062 --> 00:43:35,187
[Jean] I'm sorry.
799
00:43:51,812 --> 00:43:52,937
[music abates]
800
00:44:01,562 --> 00:44:02,521
[keys clatter]
801
00:44:18,687 --> 00:44:20,312
[music intensifies]
802
00:44:44,812 --> 00:44:46,271
[music fades out]
803
00:44:47,062 --> 00:44:50,354
Telegram arrived last night
from Landrum Shettles.
804
00:44:50,979 --> 00:44:53,728
Is America ahead? Is he crowing again?
805
00:44:53,729 --> 00:44:56,728
Director of his very well-to-do
Manhattan hospital
806
00:44:56,729 --> 00:45:00,104
found out what he was doing
and exposed the embryo to the air.
807
00:45:00,646 --> 00:45:02,811
- He killed it?
- Shettles has been fired.
808
00:45:02,812 --> 00:45:05,854
- Oh, for God's sake.
- [Bob] The disrespect.
809
00:45:07,021 --> 00:45:10,229
To expose it.
To... kill the possibility of it.
810
00:45:12,312 --> 00:45:13,146
[sighs]
811
00:45:15,854 --> 00:45:18,436
I've been asked to go on TV again,
to defend our work.
812
00:45:18,437 --> 00:45:21,478
- We haven't got the time.
- They've asked James Watson on too.
813
00:45:21,479 --> 00:45:23,896
Journalism won't give us
an answer here. Science will.
814
00:45:24,479 --> 00:45:27,020
We won't shift the Research Council
without public support.
815
00:45:27,021 --> 00:45:29,728
We won't get public support
till we've some success to show.
816
00:45:29,729 --> 00:45:32,395
I know that I made
a mess of it... before, but I...
817
00:45:32,396 --> 00:45:33,811
Bob, you're a brilliant scientist.
818
00:45:33,812 --> 00:45:37,061
But I'm not the most polished on TV,
and I have a... foolish tendency
819
00:45:37,062 --> 00:45:41,311
to not suffer fools, I know, but...
I will be better this time, I promise.
820
00:45:41,312 --> 00:45:44,061
When we make these sort of decisions,
we should have a veto system.
821
00:45:44,062 --> 00:45:46,520
- I really don't think you should.
- Jean, what do you think?
822
00:45:46,521 --> 00:45:47,478
- Should I go?
- No.
823
00:45:47,479 --> 00:45:48,521
[Bob sighs]
824
00:45:51,146 --> 00:45:54,771
[man 1] There are few debates more fervid
than the one we discuss tonight.
825
00:45:55,437 --> 00:45:58,561
We live in an era
where science may make possible...
826
00:45:58,562 --> 00:46:00,562
- Bob.
- James.
827
00:46:01,396 --> 00:46:02,437
Nasty business.
828
00:46:03,312 --> 00:46:04,561
Oh, I wouldn't say that.
829
00:46:04,562 --> 00:46:07,521
Oh, television, I mean. Television.
830
00:46:08,521 --> 00:46:11,103
Actually, I wouldn't say that
about television either.
831
00:46:11,104 --> 00:46:15,061
[host] Nobel Prize winner
Professor James Watson and...
832
00:46:15,062 --> 00:46:17,311
- [indistinct muttering]
- ...Dr. Robert Edwards!
833
00:46:17,312 --> 00:46:18,937
[audience applauding]
834
00:46:33,354 --> 00:46:36,186
So, uh, Professor Watson,
if I may start with you.
835
00:46:36,187 --> 00:46:39,645
You're opposed to these developments,
am I right?
836
00:46:39,646 --> 00:46:42,811
Oh, I am... never opposed
to developments in science,
837
00:46:42,812 --> 00:46:44,604
but I am concerned.
838
00:46:45,229 --> 00:46:48,186
The question is one of abnormality.
839
00:46:48,187 --> 00:46:52,562
Imagine the life of an abnormal child,
born as a result of this,
840
00:46:53,271 --> 00:46:56,854
kept alive by,
indeed made possible, by medicine.
841
00:46:57,437 --> 00:47:00,521
The question will arise
what to do with that child.
842
00:47:01,271 --> 00:47:04,354
Allow it to live a disabled life, in pain,
843
00:47:05,062 --> 00:47:07,895
or consider
the possibility of infanticide?
844
00:47:07,896 --> 00:47:11,811
This is not about... this is not about
killing children. It is about making them.
845
00:47:11,812 --> 00:47:15,271
Uh, Dr... Dr. Edwards,
please allow Professor Watson to finish.
846
00:47:16,104 --> 00:47:20,021
I come from a generation of scientists
born under the shadow of Mengele.
847
00:47:20,521 --> 00:47:23,520
I'm concerned that
we are stumbling into a situation
848
00:47:23,521 --> 00:47:26,811
where the work we do
might lead to similar abhorrence.
849
00:47:26,812 --> 00:47:30,061
- I'm a Nazi doctor now, am I?
- No. [chuckles]
850
00:47:30,062 --> 00:47:34,686
You're a scientist seemingly unengaged
in the consequences of your work.
851
00:47:34,687 --> 00:47:36,437
- [applause]
- [man 2] He's right!
852
00:47:37,229 --> 00:47:39,104
[host] Dr. Edwards, respond.
853
00:47:39,771 --> 00:47:41,937
Science is a risk. All of it.
854
00:47:42,604 --> 00:47:45,603
His discovery of DNA presents great risks.
855
00:47:45,604 --> 00:47:48,686
- Genetic engineering--
- This is not a debate on DNA.
856
00:47:48,687 --> 00:47:52,936
Genetic engineering is a possibility
born of the discovery of DNA.
857
00:47:52,937 --> 00:47:55,771
A discovery he deservedly won
the Nobel Prize for.
858
00:47:56,271 --> 00:47:58,812
There are risks. Of course there are.
859
00:48:00,021 --> 00:48:04,228
But calculated risk is vital
in our discipline, as you well know.
860
00:48:04,229 --> 00:48:05,145
[audience murmurs]
861
00:48:05,146 --> 00:48:07,603
Our care for our patients
is absolute, and we--
862
00:48:07,604 --> 00:48:09,645
[man 3] Shame, sir! Shame!
863
00:48:09,646 --> 00:48:11,478
- It's wrong!
- [man 4] It's disgustin'!
864
00:48:11,479 --> 00:48:13,271
Please let Dr. Edwards speak.
865
00:48:14,479 --> 00:48:17,103
Having children is not everything.
I know that.
866
00:48:17,104 --> 00:48:20,146
Some people lead
very happy lives childless.
867
00:48:20,896 --> 00:48:23,103
But that should be a choice.
868
00:48:23,104 --> 00:48:24,645
[woman] It's nature's choice!
869
00:48:24,646 --> 00:48:27,436
[Bob] Statistically, most people
in this room must know someone
870
00:48:27,437 --> 00:48:29,520
desperate to have a child but unable to.
871
00:48:29,521 --> 00:48:31,728
Uh, a sister, a cousin, an... an aunt.
872
00:48:31,729 --> 00:48:33,770
- Uh, a... a friend.
- No! No!
873
00:48:33,771 --> 00:48:37,020
If you knew the pain of infertility
for these women,
874
00:48:37,021 --> 00:48:41,270
then you would understand that
the risk-reward ratio in the study of IVF
875
00:48:41,271 --> 00:48:43,103
is overwhelmingly stacked...
876
00:48:43,104 --> 00:48:44,811
[host] Perhaps we'll leave matters there.
877
00:48:44,812 --> 00:48:47,270
- I believe Philip Hayton is live in--
- I... I believe... I...
878
00:48:47,271 --> 00:48:50,395
I believe that everyone who wants one
879
00:48:50,396 --> 00:48:53,228
deserves the right to have a child.
880
00:48:53,229 --> 00:48:56,103
- [audience chattering angrily]
- Ah. Over to you, Philip.
881
00:48:56,104 --> 00:48:57,937
[poignant music playing]
882
00:49:10,146 --> 00:49:11,854
[music drowns out background]
883
00:49:23,437 --> 00:49:25,061
- [Jean] Here.
- Oh, cheers.
884
00:49:25,062 --> 00:49:26,312
[music abates]
885
00:49:30,854 --> 00:49:32,103
[music fades out]
886
00:49:32,104 --> 00:49:35,354
[Bob] I was evacuated here, you know.
Me and my younger brother.
887
00:49:37,604 --> 00:49:38,979
We were both so scared.
888
00:49:39,687 --> 00:49:41,479
But then, when we got here, it...
889
00:49:44,854 --> 00:49:47,021
I didn't know
how beautiful things could be.
890
00:49:47,812 --> 00:49:48,729
Peace.
891
00:49:49,854 --> 00:49:50,687
Sheep.
892
00:49:52,104 --> 00:49:53,561
[chuckles] Lots of sheep.
893
00:49:53,562 --> 00:49:55,604
Sheep were the beauty, were they?
894
00:49:56,312 --> 00:49:59,020
I knew... I knew what Watson was gonna say,
895
00:49:59,021 --> 00:50:01,521
but I didn't think
they'd all take his side.
896
00:50:04,521 --> 00:50:06,604
[sighs] Why am I doing this?
897
00:50:07,937 --> 00:50:10,021
Because you know there's a medical need.
898
00:50:11,229 --> 00:50:12,146
[exhales softly]
899
00:50:13,687 --> 00:50:17,561
Watson, Crick, all those Cambridge toffs,
they changed everything with DNA,
900
00:50:17,562 --> 00:50:19,854
because they convinced people
of the need for it.
901
00:50:20,646 --> 00:50:21,646
We're just...
902
00:50:22,646 --> 00:50:23,936
[sighs]
903
00:50:23,937 --> 00:50:24,854
I can't...
904
00:50:26,979 --> 00:50:28,937
[sighs] I can't make people see.
905
00:50:30,562 --> 00:50:31,646
They won't...
906
00:50:32,396 --> 00:50:33,729
They won't see.
907
00:50:37,771 --> 00:50:38,729
[door shuts]
908
00:50:39,687 --> 00:50:42,187
Oh, Dr. Edwards.
Got a message for you, sir.
909
00:50:44,979 --> 00:50:47,686
"Pregnancy test positive. Patrick."
910
00:50:47,687 --> 00:50:49,686
[optimistic music playing]
911
00:50:49,687 --> 00:50:51,271
- Uh, can I use your phone?
- Yeah, yeah.
912
00:50:52,562 --> 00:50:54,895
[dial scrambling]
913
00:50:54,896 --> 00:50:56,853
- [phone rings]
- [Patrick] Thank you, sister.
914
00:50:56,854 --> 00:50:58,396
Confirm pressures now.
915
00:50:58,896 --> 00:51:00,770
- [Muriel] Yes?
- [Bob] Can I speak to Patrick?
916
00:51:00,771 --> 00:51:02,771
Yes. It's Dr. Edwards.
917
00:51:06,812 --> 00:51:09,603
- [Patrick] I saw you on television.
- Patrick, it's not the time for--
918
00:51:09,604 --> 00:51:12,270
[Patrick] That tie with that suit,
that didn't help the cause.
919
00:51:12,271 --> 00:51:14,811
[Bob] The pregnancy,
presumably it's the extra hormones.
920
00:51:14,812 --> 00:51:17,062
[Patrick] It's still holding,
if that's your question.
921
00:51:17,646 --> 00:51:19,729
[Bob] We'll be there tomorrow,
first thing.
922
00:51:20,229 --> 00:51:21,062
[Jean gasps]
923
00:51:21,729 --> 00:51:24,396
I just want to say
congratulations to you both.
924
00:51:25,271 --> 00:51:28,103
Oh, she's not pregnant.
We've made someone else pregnant.
925
00:51:28,104 --> 00:51:29,561
- I believe her name is...
- Rachel!
926
00:51:29,562 --> 00:51:32,395
Rachel, that's right.
And it's bloody brilliant!
927
00:51:32,396 --> 00:51:33,729
[music intensifies]
928
00:51:38,521 --> 00:51:41,395
Oh, if we could avoid running
in the corridor. Accidents do happen.
929
00:51:41,396 --> 00:51:42,853
How's Rachel doing?
930
00:51:42,854 --> 00:51:46,396
Our mother is blooming so far.
It's Sally that I'm worried about.
931
00:51:48,521 --> 00:51:49,687
[softly] Jean, come on.
932
00:52:03,521 --> 00:52:05,812
- Sally--
- [Sally] I don't wanna stop the drugs.
933
00:52:06,312 --> 00:52:09,103
I understand,
but your abdomen is clearly swollen.
934
00:52:09,104 --> 00:52:12,062
- Don't tell Mr. Steptoe.
- [Jean] I have to tell Mr. Steptoe.
935
00:52:14,604 --> 00:52:16,353
You may have to wait a few months,
936
00:52:16,354 --> 00:52:18,604
but I'll make sure
you get back on the program.
937
00:52:19,187 --> 00:52:20,436
[inhales deeply]
938
00:52:20,437 --> 00:52:21,521
Oh, sorry.
939
00:52:22,729 --> 00:52:24,312
[exhales] Sorry, um...
940
00:52:25,187 --> 00:52:27,979
[inhales, chuckles] What do they say?
941
00:52:29,396 --> 00:52:31,021
"It's the hope that kills you."
942
00:52:35,812 --> 00:52:36,729
Question.
943
00:52:37,937 --> 00:52:40,270
D'you think the Ovum Club
might like an outing?
944
00:52:40,271 --> 00:52:42,104
[soft music playing]
945
00:52:43,479 --> 00:52:44,354
An outing?
946
00:52:45,937 --> 00:52:47,562
Clubs take outings, don't they?
947
00:52:49,021 --> 00:52:50,770
[music brightens]
948
00:52:50,771 --> 00:52:54,020
- [woman] ♪ Everywhere we go ♪
- [women] ♪ Everywhere we go ♪
949
00:52:54,021 --> 00:52:57,020
- [woman] ♪ People always ask us ♪
- [women] ♪ People always ask us ♪
950
00:52:57,021 --> 00:52:59,936
- [woman] ♪ Who we are ♪
- [women] ♪ Who we are ♪
951
00:52:59,937 --> 00:53:03,061
- [woman] ♪ And where we come from ♪
- [women] ♪ And where we come from ♪
952
00:53:03,062 --> 00:53:05,811
- [woman] ♪ We're from Oldham ♪
- [women] ♪ We're from Oldham ♪
953
00:53:05,812 --> 00:53:08,936
- [woman] ♪ And we're barren ♪
- [women] ♪ Totally, totally barren ♪
954
00:53:08,937 --> 00:53:11,686
- [woman] ♪ But do we care? ♪
- [women] Yes, we care!
955
00:53:11,687 --> 00:53:13,479
[whooping, laughing]
956
00:53:15,021 --> 00:53:16,187
[Rachel] Aw, look.
957
00:53:19,771 --> 00:53:21,812
I better not... I s'pose.
958
00:53:22,312 --> 00:53:24,645
- [Jean] I'd rather not, to be honest.
- [laughs]
959
00:53:24,646 --> 00:53:26,978
[Jean chuckles] Weather like this.
960
00:53:26,979 --> 00:53:28,354
[music fades out]
961
00:53:29,271 --> 00:53:30,603
If I am the first...
962
00:53:30,604 --> 00:53:32,229
I mean, if it does...
963
00:53:32,771 --> 00:53:34,978
Ugh. I've seen the things
you people have to face.
964
00:53:34,979 --> 00:53:37,770
I... I wouldn't want my baby to have to...
965
00:53:37,771 --> 00:53:40,395
It won't. Bob will face down the press.
966
00:53:40,396 --> 00:53:42,437
You'll just have to get on
with being a mother.
967
00:53:43,687 --> 00:53:44,770
If it happens.
968
00:53:44,771 --> 00:53:46,771
[women whooping faintly]
969
00:53:48,604 --> 00:53:50,186
[inhales sharply, sighs]
970
00:53:50,187 --> 00:53:51,562
I won't reassure you.
971
00:53:52,562 --> 00:53:53,979
Who knows what happens next?
972
00:53:54,812 --> 00:53:58,770
But I will say, the care you'll receive
in the next few weeks
973
00:53:58,771 --> 00:54:00,854
will be nothing short of extraordinary.
974
00:54:02,354 --> 00:54:03,187
Okay?
975
00:54:04,104 --> 00:54:04,937
[softly] Okay.
976
00:54:07,187 --> 00:54:09,646
["The Swimming Song"
by Loudon Wainwright III playing]
977
00:54:13,854 --> 00:54:14,686
[Jean] Right.
978
00:54:14,687 --> 00:54:16,561
- Wish me luck.
- [Rachel] Oh, you're goin'.
979
00:54:16,562 --> 00:54:17,646
[Jean chuckles]
980
00:54:18,604 --> 00:54:19,978
- Charging in.
- Go!
981
00:54:19,979 --> 00:54:22,395
♪ This summer, I went swimming ♪
982
00:54:22,396 --> 00:54:25,061
- [Jean squeals]
- ♪ This summer, I might've drowned ♪
983
00:54:25,062 --> 00:54:27,603
♪ But I held my breath
And I kicked my feet ♪
984
00:54:27,604 --> 00:54:30,228
- ♪ And I moved my arms around... ♪
- [Rachel] Go!
985
00:54:30,229 --> 00:54:33,186
- Whoo!
- ♪ I moved my arms around ♪
986
00:54:33,187 --> 00:54:35,520
♪ This summer, I swam in the ocean... ♪
987
00:54:35,521 --> 00:54:38,146
- [woman 1] Come on, Jean!
- ♪ And I swam in a swimming pool ♪
988
00:54:38,646 --> 00:54:43,353
♪ Salt my wounds, chlorine my eyes
I'm a self-destructive fool ♪
989
00:54:43,354 --> 00:54:44,811
♪ I'm a self-destructive... ♪
990
00:54:44,812 --> 00:54:46,312
All of you. All of you.
991
00:54:47,479 --> 00:54:49,020
[women laughing]
992
00:54:49,021 --> 00:54:49,937
[woman 2] Come on!
993
00:54:52,437 --> 00:54:53,979
Aah!
994
00:54:54,812 --> 00:54:56,229
Everyone, come forward!
995
00:54:57,687 --> 00:54:59,686
♪ Yeah-hee ♪
996
00:54:59,687 --> 00:55:02,479
- [Kathy] One, two, three...
- Oldham!
997
00:55:03,312 --> 00:55:05,146
- [woman 3] Love it.
- [woman 4] So windy!
998
00:55:11,021 --> 00:55:12,603
[music fades out]
999
00:55:12,604 --> 00:55:14,687
- [Kathy] Honestly.
- [Rachel laughs]
1000
00:55:15,562 --> 00:55:17,145
[Trisha] This was a good thing to do.
1001
00:55:17,146 --> 00:55:18,729
- [Jean] Mm.
- [Kathy] What a beach.
1002
00:55:20,521 --> 00:55:22,937
[women laughing, chattering]
1003
00:55:24,437 --> 00:55:26,104
He's told me this is my last one.
1004
00:55:27,437 --> 00:55:28,854
Who? Harry?
1005
00:55:29,812 --> 00:55:31,062
No. Mr. Steptoe.
1006
00:55:32,187 --> 00:55:33,187
Turning 36, you see.
1007
00:55:34,104 --> 00:55:36,771
I'll be outside the age
where it's useful for your study.
1008
00:55:38,437 --> 00:55:40,062
- Oh.
- [Trisha] It's okay.
1009
00:55:40,854 --> 00:55:41,936
Honestly, it is.
1010
00:55:41,937 --> 00:55:44,021
[poignant music fades in]
1011
00:55:47,146 --> 00:55:50,312
- [Kathy] I mean, he's never known.
- [chuckles] That's brilliant.
1012
00:55:50,812 --> 00:55:54,187
- [Rachel laughing]
- [Kathy] It's probably for the best.
1013
00:55:54,812 --> 00:55:56,146
I'm jealous of her too.
1014
00:56:07,021 --> 00:56:08,604
[phone ringing]
1015
00:56:13,021 --> 00:56:14,396
[ringing continues]
1016
00:56:16,062 --> 00:56:17,645
- [music fades out]
- [ringing ends]
1017
00:56:17,646 --> 00:56:18,562
Jean.
1018
00:56:21,104 --> 00:56:22,646
[car engine rumbling]
1019
00:56:28,354 --> 00:56:29,687
[brakes squeal]
1020
00:56:32,062 --> 00:56:32,896
[Jean] Patrick.
1021
00:56:33,437 --> 00:56:35,854
We've another positive.
Lauren is pregnant.
1022
00:56:36,854 --> 00:56:39,561
- Whatever this is, it's working.
- [man] Patrick.
1023
00:56:39,562 --> 00:56:40,479
George.
1024
00:56:40,979 --> 00:56:42,353
A Kershaw's girl.
1025
00:56:42,354 --> 00:56:43,812
Jean Purdy, actually.
1026
00:56:44,479 --> 00:56:46,520
How any of you put up with that hole...
1027
00:56:46,521 --> 00:56:49,186
The advancement of medicine, George.
It has its costs.
1028
00:56:49,187 --> 00:56:51,478
Oh, is that what you're doing...
advancing medicine?
1029
00:56:51,479 --> 00:56:53,936
As you destroy
this hospital's good reputation.
1030
00:56:53,937 --> 00:56:55,062
Fuck off, George.
1031
00:56:57,812 --> 00:56:59,770
No wonder you're playing off a 15.
1032
00:56:59,771 --> 00:57:01,520
[Patrick] Orthopedics consultant.
1033
00:57:01,521 --> 00:57:03,853
Never trust a doctor
that specializes in orthopedics.
1034
00:57:03,854 --> 00:57:05,604
They're not up for the good fight.
1035
00:57:06,104 --> 00:57:08,895
[Jean] I was just packing up to go
back to Cambridge when I got the call.
1036
00:57:08,896 --> 00:57:10,478
Patrick, we're onto something.
1037
00:57:10,479 --> 00:57:13,687
- Both Lauren and Rachel--
- There's a problem with Rachel.
1038
00:57:14,854 --> 00:57:17,021
- What do you mean?
- The scan came back.
1039
00:57:17,521 --> 00:57:19,896
I don't like the position of the embryo.
1040
00:57:20,437 --> 00:57:22,728
- It's not sitting right?
- [Patrick] It's high.
1041
00:57:22,729 --> 00:57:26,271
And there's a vague swelling
to the side of the uterus.
1042
00:57:26,896 --> 00:57:28,811
[sighs] You think it might be ectopic.
1043
00:57:28,812 --> 00:57:32,396
[Patrick] I've booked her in to confirm it
by laparoscope, but I fear so.
1044
00:57:32,937 --> 00:57:34,354
[melancholy music fading in]
1045
00:57:39,771 --> 00:57:41,979
- [inhales shakily]
- [Patrick] I'm very sorry.
1046
00:57:46,979 --> 00:57:48,021
What was it?
1047
00:57:48,854 --> 00:57:52,562
[Patrick] The baby was growing
in the wrong place in the fallopian tube.
1048
00:57:55,104 --> 00:57:57,187
I know what ectopic is. [inhales shakily]
1049
00:57:58,229 --> 00:58:00,396
[voice breaks] I've read
all the books I could find.
1050
00:58:01,229 --> 00:58:03,020
["Though You Are Far Away" plays]
1051
00:58:03,021 --> 00:58:07,021
♪ Though you are far away ♪
1052
00:58:08,812 --> 00:58:11,729
♪ I'm with you in every way ♪
1053
00:58:14,146 --> 00:58:18,896
♪ Close your eyes ♪
1054
00:58:19,937 --> 00:58:23,271
♪ And you will see ♪
1055
00:58:31,021 --> 00:58:32,312
[music continues]
1056
00:58:46,021 --> 00:58:47,271
[music fades]
1057
00:58:48,062 --> 00:58:50,521
[purposeful footsteps approaching]
1058
00:58:52,937 --> 00:58:55,228
I thought it had been made clear to you.
1059
00:58:55,229 --> 00:58:58,478
- Lily.
- [Lily] It's dirty, what you're doing.
1060
00:58:58,479 --> 00:59:01,895
It's disgusting, it's shameful,
and it doesn't belong here.
1061
00:59:01,896 --> 00:59:03,895
It's not here. I am.
1062
00:59:03,896 --> 00:59:06,020
Is that what you tell yourself?
1063
00:59:06,021 --> 00:59:08,729
- That the sin isn't even yours?
- [Rev Paulson] Jean.
1064
00:59:09,229 --> 00:59:13,229
Morning, Vicar.
Just setting the flowers for the service.
1065
00:59:15,312 --> 00:59:18,145
{\an8}Sorry. I shouldn't have come.
Mum made it clear.
1066
00:59:18,146 --> 00:59:21,021
{\an8}[chuckles] You haven't been
excommunicated, Jean.
1067
00:59:22,271 --> 00:59:24,521
{\an8}- The Church is for everyone.
- [sharply] Is it?
1068
00:59:25,312 --> 00:59:26,146
{\an8}Yes.
1069
00:59:40,646 --> 00:59:41,854
[softly] I've missed it.
1070
00:59:43,687 --> 00:59:44,521
Jean,
1071
00:59:45,312 --> 00:59:49,437
if you answer for your mistakes,
God will come back into your heart.
1072
00:59:50,062 --> 00:59:51,729
N... no. That's not what I...
1073
00:59:57,646 --> 00:59:59,729
That's not why I'm here. Sorry.
1074
01:00:02,437 --> 01:00:03,979
[Rev Paulson] How is your mother?
1075
01:00:08,479 --> 01:00:09,561
She hasn't told you.
1076
01:00:09,562 --> 01:00:11,979
- [tense music playing]
- [knocking on door]
1077
01:00:14,271 --> 01:00:16,728
[Jean] Mum, I know you're there.
I can see your slippers.
1078
01:00:16,729 --> 01:00:18,229
[mom, moodily] No, you can't.
1079
01:00:23,646 --> 01:00:25,896
The vicar said you're sick. Is that true?
1080
01:00:26,771 --> 01:00:28,354
[mom] How have you seen the vicar?
1081
01:00:28,979 --> 01:00:30,062
Am I coming in?
1082
01:00:34,146 --> 01:00:36,604
Am I coming in
or are you doing this on your own?
1083
01:00:37,271 --> 01:00:39,229
[mom] Are you still working with them?
1084
01:00:40,062 --> 01:00:41,729
[quietly] You obstinate old bag.
1085
01:00:48,937 --> 01:00:51,687
Mum, I love you. I hope you get well.
1086
01:00:57,271 --> 01:00:58,687
[metallic rattling]
1087
01:00:59,396 --> 01:01:00,229
[lock clacks]
1088
01:01:02,146 --> 01:01:04,271
[Jean] Well, thanks
for letting us know, Muriel.
1089
01:01:05,729 --> 01:01:07,437
- [phone receiver clatters]
- [music fades out]
1090
01:01:08,354 --> 01:01:10,562
Lauren just started bleeding. [sighs]
1091
01:01:13,229 --> 01:01:14,354
[Bob sighs softly]
1092
01:01:27,062 --> 01:01:29,229
- What are you doing?
- Sperm survival test.
1093
01:01:29,854 --> 01:01:34,436
We'll go through all our culture fluids...
all the drugs, all the containers.
1094
01:01:34,437 --> 01:01:37,936
If anything is causing problems our side,
this'll track it down.
1095
01:01:37,937 --> 01:01:39,896
Everything we use, we test.
1096
01:01:45,146 --> 01:01:47,479
{\an8}[suspenseful music playing]
1097
01:02:11,479 --> 01:02:13,562
[pen scratching]
1098
01:02:21,771 --> 01:02:22,771
[yawns]
1099
01:02:27,979 --> 01:02:29,729
[Jean] This liquid paraffin's safe.
1100
01:02:33,437 --> 01:02:34,771
[counter clicking rapidly]
1101
01:02:37,437 --> 01:02:40,521
[Bob] Uh... 95%.
1102
01:02:41,604 --> 01:02:42,437
[sighs]
1103
01:02:43,396 --> 01:02:44,437
This one's safe.
1104
01:02:46,854 --> 01:02:49,104
[sighs] I'm gonna take five.
1105
01:03:00,312 --> 01:03:01,562
[music abates]
1106
01:03:08,521 --> 01:03:10,521
[snoring softly]
1107
01:03:11,687 --> 01:03:14,561
- Bob, you're going to want to see this.
- [music fades out]
1108
01:03:14,562 --> 01:03:15,562
Bob. Bob.
1109
01:03:16,937 --> 01:03:18,437
I need you to check something.
1110
01:03:19,937 --> 01:03:20,854
[Bob sighs]
1111
01:03:37,854 --> 01:03:38,687
Which?
1112
01:03:45,312 --> 01:03:46,937
This liquid paraffin is toxic.
1113
01:03:48,521 --> 01:03:50,062
How did we... [sighs]
1114
01:03:51,062 --> 01:03:52,853
How did we miss that?!
1115
01:03:52,854 --> 01:03:55,478
- I don't know.
- That pregnancy could've worked.
1116
01:03:55,479 --> 01:03:58,853
Maybe others, even if we'd just...
If we hadn't been poisoning these women.
1117
01:03:58,854 --> 01:04:00,686
- Oh, Jean.
- Are you blaming me?
1118
01:04:00,687 --> 01:04:02,312
No! I'm blaming me!
1119
01:04:05,104 --> 01:04:07,436
[Jean] Please don't. It was a mistake.
1120
01:04:07,437 --> 01:04:09,895
There... there will be others.
1121
01:04:09,896 --> 01:04:12,687
There wouldn't have been a pregnancy.
We weren't ready.
1122
01:04:13,354 --> 01:04:16,436
What are you doing? Stop. Stop. Stop!
1123
01:04:16,437 --> 01:04:17,936
This is too important to...
1124
01:04:17,937 --> 01:04:19,521
[tense music playing]
1125
01:04:23,062 --> 01:04:27,353
- Hey, now you're the one being crazy.
- [Jean] Maybe... we... both are.
1126
01:04:27,354 --> 01:04:28,645
Eh, Bob?
1127
01:04:28,646 --> 01:04:30,561
My mother is dying.
1128
01:04:30,562 --> 01:04:35,271
And here I am, staying awake all night,
with a madman and his shitty liquids!
1129
01:04:41,521 --> 01:04:44,311
This was a beautiful dream.
1130
01:04:44,312 --> 01:04:47,187
[inhales sharply] And I...
I really did believe in it.
1131
01:04:48,396 --> 01:04:51,353
But all this,
it's cost me everything, and I can't.
1132
01:04:51,354 --> 01:04:52,979
[poignant music plays]
1133
01:05:10,812 --> 01:05:11,646
Mum!
1134
01:05:14,896 --> 01:05:19,020
Mum! I've left work!
I'm giving up my flat!
1135
01:05:19,021 --> 01:05:22,561
If you don't let me in,
I'll have to sleep on your doorstep!
1136
01:05:22,562 --> 01:05:23,479
Hush!
1137
01:05:23,979 --> 01:05:26,771
- [dog barking]
- [Jean breathes heavily]
1138
01:05:28,979 --> 01:05:30,229
I'm making eggy bread.
1139
01:05:31,437 --> 01:05:34,479
- And what have you done to your hair?
- Absolutely nothing.
1140
01:05:36,104 --> 01:05:38,604
I have some Vitapointe
that can help with that.
1141
01:05:39,271 --> 01:05:40,187
[coughs]
1142
01:05:44,396 --> 01:05:46,812
No, no, no. Not like that.
1143
01:05:47,479 --> 01:05:50,146
You're letting that nasty carp get it.
1144
01:05:50,812 --> 01:05:52,853
There's some delicate goldfish in here.
1145
01:05:52,854 --> 01:05:53,854
Watch.
1146
01:05:56,187 --> 01:05:57,395
[Jean] Oh. [chuckles]
1147
01:05:57,396 --> 01:05:59,937
- [snickers] Damn.
- [Arun] Jeanie.
1148
01:06:01,104 --> 01:06:02,229
Jeanie?
1149
01:06:03,437 --> 01:06:04,271
Jean!
1150
01:06:05,062 --> 01:06:06,353
- [mom] Oh no you don't.
- Jean.
1151
01:06:06,354 --> 01:06:07,354
Who's this?
1152
01:06:08,729 --> 01:06:10,312
Arun. I...
1153
01:06:11,146 --> 01:06:12,396
We were just leaving.
1154
01:06:12,937 --> 01:06:16,186
This is my mother, Gladys May.
And, uh, Mum, this is Arun.
1155
01:06:16,187 --> 01:06:18,271
- We used to work in labs together.
- [Gladys] Hmm.
1156
01:06:18,937 --> 01:06:20,270
Which labs?
1157
01:06:20,271 --> 01:06:22,853
- He didn't work with me on that, Mum.
- Pleasure to meet you.
1158
01:06:22,854 --> 01:06:24,811
- I've heard lots about you.
- [Gladys] Hmm.
1159
01:06:24,812 --> 01:06:26,646
- Who's this?
- [Arun] Tabitha.
1160
01:06:27,896 --> 01:06:28,978
[Tabitha gurgling]
1161
01:06:28,979 --> 01:06:30,062
Tabitha.
1162
01:06:32,604 --> 01:06:33,854
That's a lovely name.
1163
01:06:35,021 --> 01:06:37,311
[Arun] We call her Tabby Cat. [chuckles]
1164
01:06:37,312 --> 01:06:39,104
Uh, don't judge us.
1165
01:06:41,687 --> 01:06:44,021
- Let's hope she's not furry.
- [chuckles]
1166
01:06:49,521 --> 01:06:50,646
How's Bob?
1167
01:06:51,229 --> 01:06:53,229
On good form. Distracted.
1168
01:06:54,021 --> 01:06:58,104
Full of the latest. It's... nice though,
to have him back full-time in Cambridge.
1169
01:06:59,687 --> 01:07:01,521
He's not going to Oldham anymore?
1170
01:07:02,104 --> 01:07:03,145
You didn't know?
1171
01:07:03,146 --> 01:07:06,103
They folded it,
what, three months after you left.
1172
01:07:06,104 --> 01:07:07,937
Patrick agreed it was for the best.
1173
01:07:08,854 --> 01:07:12,229
Would've thought he'd have written to you,
but... that's Bob, I suppose.
1174
01:07:13,062 --> 01:07:15,396
[thoughtful piano music playing]
1175
01:07:34,354 --> 01:07:36,395
Thank you, God,
for this food and this family.
1176
01:07:36,396 --> 01:07:38,645
We remember those who have no food today,
1177
01:07:38,646 --> 01:07:41,561
and those who do have food
but no one to share it with. Amen.
1178
01:07:41,562 --> 01:07:42,979
[piano music continues]
1179
01:08:04,896 --> 01:08:06,186
[music fades out]
1180
01:08:06,187 --> 01:08:08,271
[muffled chattering]
1181
01:08:10,687 --> 01:08:12,895
[Jean] Hello. I'm after Bob.
1182
01:08:12,896 --> 01:08:14,228
Oh, kitchen.
1183
01:08:14,229 --> 01:08:15,979
[overlapping chattering nearby]
1184
01:08:17,312 --> 01:08:19,478
[Ruth] Jean! Hello.
1185
01:08:19,479 --> 01:08:20,396
Ruth.
1186
01:08:21,312 --> 01:08:23,104
- Where's Bob?
- He's in there.
1187
01:08:23,854 --> 01:08:26,645
[girl] I want to fold it like a diamond,
so it comes out like a flower.
1188
01:08:26,646 --> 01:08:29,145
- No, Meg, that's not how we--
- [Meg] I know how to.
1189
01:08:29,146 --> 01:08:30,062
Oh.
1190
01:08:30,771 --> 01:08:31,853
Can I talk to you?
1191
01:08:31,854 --> 01:08:33,270
[overlapping chatter]
1192
01:08:33,271 --> 01:08:36,228
Yes. Girls, keep folding like I said.
1193
01:08:36,229 --> 01:08:38,645
Match the sides,
push it down, in the envelope.
1194
01:08:38,646 --> 01:08:40,645
Neat leaflets make all the difference.
1195
01:08:40,646 --> 01:08:42,103
[girls wearily] Yes, Dad.
1196
01:08:42,104 --> 01:08:45,395
- Are you running for Parliament?
- Ah, you see, this is the thing.
1197
01:08:45,396 --> 01:08:48,186
I'd have expected it
to stretch to your side of town by now.
1198
01:08:48,187 --> 01:08:50,936
You should've at least
got a bloody leaflet through your door.
1199
01:08:50,937 --> 01:08:52,646
[Jean] My mind's been elsewhere.
1200
01:08:53,854 --> 01:08:55,521
[Bob gently] Yes. Of course.
1201
01:08:56,521 --> 01:08:58,687
I stand... no chance at all.
1202
01:09:00,271 --> 01:09:01,771
Well, some chance.
1203
01:09:02,854 --> 01:09:05,978
Cambridge does need a Labour MP,
and... winds do change.
1204
01:09:05,979 --> 01:09:07,854
Don't make it my responsibility.
1205
01:09:09,271 --> 01:09:11,229
- What?
- Kershaw's.
1206
01:09:12,187 --> 01:09:13,521
You stopped because of me.
1207
01:09:16,437 --> 01:09:18,521
It... it wasn't working.
1208
01:09:19,146 --> 01:09:20,146
And so we...
1209
01:09:21,312 --> 01:09:23,104
I decided to move on.
1210
01:09:23,979 --> 01:09:25,354
I decided to step away.
1211
01:09:26,437 --> 01:09:29,020
I've always been passionate
about politics, you know that.
1212
01:09:29,021 --> 01:09:31,771
- The chance to represent at Parliament.
- You gave up.
1213
01:09:32,479 --> 01:09:37,145
No. We left it for others to solve.
That's how science works, Jean.
1214
01:09:37,146 --> 01:09:39,854
My mother is sick, and I love her.
1215
01:09:40,812 --> 01:09:42,562
I had no choice.
1216
01:09:43,896 --> 01:09:45,104
Don't be ridiculous.
1217
01:09:46,062 --> 01:09:47,729
Of course you had a choice.
1218
01:09:48,771 --> 01:09:50,604
[poignant music playing]
1219
01:09:56,437 --> 01:09:58,021
[softly] We were so close.
1220
01:10:02,979 --> 01:10:04,562
I didn't expect you to give up.
1221
01:10:06,646 --> 01:10:07,521
Yes, well,
1222
01:10:08,937 --> 01:10:10,729
you gave up first, Jeanie.
1223
01:10:13,687 --> 01:10:14,521
You.
1224
01:10:17,187 --> 01:10:19,187
[poignant music continues]
1225
01:10:22,604 --> 01:10:23,770
[music fades out]
1226
01:10:23,771 --> 01:10:27,354
- [indistinct chatter on radio]
- [Gladys coughing]
1227
01:10:29,187 --> 01:10:31,686
What's that? Hmm?
1228
01:10:31,687 --> 01:10:33,521
[hymn playing on radio]
1229
01:10:36,812 --> 01:10:39,937
Are you thinking of going back to it
when we're done here?
1230
01:10:42,062 --> 01:10:43,646
There's nothing to go back to.
1231
01:10:45,396 --> 01:10:48,979
I'm just going through some old notes,
trying to understand some things.
1232
01:10:49,896 --> 01:10:52,187
Promise me you won't go back to it, Jean.
1233
01:10:53,604 --> 01:10:54,604
Settle down.
1234
01:10:55,937 --> 01:10:57,354
Have children of your own.
1235
01:10:59,021 --> 01:11:00,187
[coughs]
1236
01:11:03,604 --> 01:11:05,021
I can't do it, Mum.
1237
01:11:08,354 --> 01:11:10,396
I can't get pregnant.
1238
01:11:10,896 --> 01:11:11,812
Nonsense.
1239
01:11:12,646 --> 01:11:13,603
You haven't tried.
1240
01:11:13,604 --> 01:11:18,146
I've been having
unprotected sex since 1964.
1241
01:11:20,062 --> 01:11:21,979
You have a sinner under your roof.
1242
01:11:24,312 --> 01:11:26,354
And you've been sleeping with these men...
1243
01:11:28,146 --> 01:11:29,396
because you want a baby?
1244
01:11:32,396 --> 01:11:33,729
And because I enjoy it.
1245
01:11:34,687 --> 01:11:36,104
Is that right?
1246
01:11:39,062 --> 01:11:41,061
[Jean] There are others like me, Mum.
1247
01:11:41,062 --> 01:11:42,062
Everywhere.
1248
01:11:44,396 --> 01:11:45,729
I wanted to help them.
1249
01:11:47,479 --> 01:11:49,146
You always had so much love.
1250
01:11:51,604 --> 01:11:52,437
[coughs]
1251
01:11:53,896 --> 01:11:56,646
[coughs wheezily, grunts]
1252
01:11:59,146 --> 01:12:01,020
[coughing]
1253
01:12:01,021 --> 01:12:02,312
[labored inhale]
1254
01:12:05,354 --> 01:12:06,187
Breathe.
1255
01:12:09,229 --> 01:12:10,062
Sh...
1256
01:12:11,104 --> 01:12:14,686
- [choking] God will find a way.
- Stop. Get a breath in first, Mum.
1257
01:12:14,687 --> 01:12:16,437
[labored breathing]
1258
01:12:20,187 --> 01:12:23,729
- You have blood around your mouth.
- [breathing heavily] Have I? Oh.
1259
01:12:25,646 --> 01:12:26,896
Shall I take you to bed?
1260
01:12:28,937 --> 01:12:30,645
- Mm.
- [softly] Come on.
1261
01:12:30,646 --> 01:12:31,896
You know, it's strange,
1262
01:12:33,312 --> 01:12:35,146
when you're looking back on a life.
1263
01:12:36,979 --> 01:12:39,270
Mostly all you can see is failure.
1264
01:12:39,271 --> 01:12:41,396
[tuts] You weren't a failure.
1265
01:12:43,687 --> 01:12:45,396
All the things you should've done
1266
01:12:46,687 --> 01:12:47,770
and didn't.
1267
01:12:47,771 --> 01:12:48,729
[Jean sighs]
1268
01:12:50,146 --> 01:12:51,687
- Mum.
- [inhales sharply]
1269
01:12:52,562 --> 01:12:55,062
But... the one thing
1270
01:12:55,854 --> 01:12:58,021
that you can't see failure in...
1271
01:13:01,354 --> 01:13:02,562
is your children.
1272
01:13:04,562 --> 01:13:05,396
Because
1273
01:13:06,396 --> 01:13:08,146
they're always beautiful.
1274
01:13:13,437 --> 01:13:14,937
[melancholy music fading in]
1275
01:13:16,062 --> 01:13:17,479
I love you, Jeanie.
1276
01:13:22,062 --> 01:13:23,896
[softly] I love you too, Mum. I do.
1277
01:13:37,271 --> 01:13:39,271
[breathes deeply]
1278
01:13:40,312 --> 01:13:41,436
[light switch clicks]
1279
01:13:41,437 --> 01:13:43,145
[bottles rattling]
1280
01:13:43,146 --> 01:13:45,229
[milk float accelerating]
1281
01:13:45,854 --> 01:13:47,187
[music continues]
1282
01:14:02,937 --> 01:14:03,937
[Jean] Morning.
1283
01:14:10,562 --> 01:14:11,812
[music fades out]
1284
01:14:21,479 --> 01:14:23,062
[church organ playing]
1285
01:14:23,896 --> 01:14:25,103
[man] Miss Jean.
1286
01:14:25,104 --> 01:14:28,437
Thank you so much for coming.
She would have loved that you were here.
1287
01:14:30,479 --> 01:14:32,103
I'm sorry for your loss.
1288
01:14:32,104 --> 01:14:33,728
- Patrick.
- I hope you don't mind.
1289
01:14:33,729 --> 01:14:36,686
- Bob told me, and I did want to--
- Is... Bob here too?
1290
01:14:36,687 --> 01:14:40,270
No. He said you wouldn't want him here,
but you might want me.
1291
01:14:40,271 --> 01:14:43,062
I wasn't sure,
but Matron Muriel talked me into it.
1292
01:14:44,187 --> 01:14:45,729
Thank you both for coming.
1293
01:14:47,021 --> 01:14:48,729
- [softly] Thank you.
- Good morning.
1294
01:14:53,021 --> 01:14:56,187
- [Rev Paulson] Lovely to meet you.
- [man] Good afternoon, Reverend.
1295
01:14:57,687 --> 01:14:59,187
[children shouting, laughing]
1296
01:15:01,479 --> 01:15:02,479
[Jean] There you go.
1297
01:15:04,479 --> 01:15:06,061
It's a strange funeral really.
1298
01:15:06,062 --> 01:15:08,271
Most of them look at me
like I'm the devil.
1299
01:15:12,479 --> 01:15:15,187
They still hate me. They all do. Hmm.
1300
01:15:15,771 --> 01:15:17,604
[quietly] They're so boring with it.
1301
01:15:19,979 --> 01:15:21,478
My mother was many things.
1302
01:15:21,479 --> 01:15:25,187
One thing she wasn't was boring,
yet she had so many boring friends.
1303
01:15:26,687 --> 01:15:29,562
Then she was lucky
to have an interesting daughter.
1304
01:15:32,771 --> 01:15:33,979
I can't talk about her.
1305
01:15:34,812 --> 01:15:37,353
Then we can talk about other... things.
1306
01:15:37,354 --> 01:15:39,645
Or you could talk to someone else.
We won't be offend--
1307
01:15:39,646 --> 01:15:41,728
- [Jean] We made a mistake.
- We should get back soon.
1308
01:15:41,729 --> 01:15:42,770
[Jean] The stimulation.
1309
01:15:42,771 --> 01:15:45,520
We've been creating
false cycles for the women,
1310
01:15:45,521 --> 01:15:47,728
working against their natural rhythms.
1311
01:15:47,729 --> 01:15:50,728
If we eliminate that,
be sure of our chemicals, we might just--
1312
01:15:50,729 --> 01:15:53,103
Perhaps this is best left for another day.
1313
01:15:53,104 --> 01:15:54,853
That's an interesting idea.
1314
01:15:54,854 --> 01:15:56,270
[whimsical music playing]
1315
01:15:56,271 --> 01:15:58,686
- [Patrick] It's perhaps worth a try.
- [Muriel] Patrick.
1316
01:15:58,687 --> 01:16:01,395
I have one last effort in me,
Jean seems to have,
1317
01:16:01,396 --> 01:16:03,229
and you're indefatigable, Muriel.
1318
01:16:06,854 --> 01:16:08,271
The only question is...
1319
01:16:09,354 --> 01:16:12,396
If we can use their cycle,
we'll keep it constant.
1320
01:16:13,729 --> 01:16:17,103
What else are you doing?
The election didn't work out.
1321
01:16:17,104 --> 01:16:18,645
Did you vote for me?
1322
01:16:18,646 --> 01:16:20,895
The solutions you've devised
are incredible.
1323
01:16:20,896 --> 01:16:22,603
Your processes are world-beating.
1324
01:16:22,604 --> 01:16:24,978
The surgery Patrick's able to do
is mind-blowing.
1325
01:16:24,979 --> 01:16:28,853
- Maybe not so much hyperbole?
- But... we're meddling too much.
1326
01:16:28,854 --> 01:16:32,186
We leave the women as much as we can
to grow the eggs on their own.
1327
01:16:32,187 --> 01:16:34,603
If we remove the hormones
that subvert their fertility
1328
01:16:34,604 --> 01:16:37,478
and bring back the menstrual cycle
to some sort of normality,
1329
01:16:37,479 --> 01:16:39,811
we'll eliminate so much
of the risk of failure.
1330
01:16:39,812 --> 01:16:41,146
And of course I voted for you.
1331
01:16:41,854 --> 01:16:43,645
I would need to be able to harvest
1332
01:16:43,646 --> 01:16:47,353
between 24 and 26 hours
after the start of the LH surge.
1333
01:16:47,354 --> 01:16:49,103
That degree of precision without drugs--
1334
01:16:49,104 --> 01:16:53,061
It would require...
urine assays every three hours.
1335
01:16:53,062 --> 01:16:55,311
- Every three hours?
- To detect the LH surge.
1336
01:16:55,312 --> 01:16:59,603
Even then, if we get it right, we'll only
produce one single embryo per woman.
1337
01:16:59,604 --> 01:17:01,354
[Bob] It would lower our chances.
1338
01:17:03,021 --> 01:17:07,937
But... one good embryo
would be better than 15 bad ones.
1339
01:17:10,271 --> 01:17:13,812
We'd watch the egg until it was fertilized
and implant it then.
1340
01:17:14,562 --> 01:17:17,937
Split-second precision,
every step of the way.
1341
01:17:18,687 --> 01:17:20,104
None of us will ever sleep.
1342
01:17:22,104 --> 01:17:24,979
Patrick, how long
until they finally force you to retire?
1343
01:17:25,562 --> 01:17:27,645
July 1978.
1344
01:17:27,646 --> 01:17:31,979
A mere three years of sleep deprivation.
Think you can handle that, Muriel?
1345
01:17:32,979 --> 01:17:35,811
["Listen to the Music"
by the Doobie Brothers plays]
1346
01:17:35,812 --> 01:17:37,354
It is a good idea.
1347
01:17:51,312 --> 01:17:55,187
♪ Don't you feel it growing, day by day? ♪
1348
01:17:55,771 --> 01:17:58,854
♪ People... getting ready for the news ♪
1349
01:17:59,646 --> 01:18:03,896
♪ Some are happy, some are sad ♪
1350
01:18:04,479 --> 01:18:07,604
♪ Oh, we gotta let the music play ♪
1351
01:18:08,521 --> 01:18:12,562
♪ Whoa, listen to the music ♪
1352
01:18:13,396 --> 01:18:17,271
♪ Whoa, listen to the music ♪
1353
01:18:17,896 --> 01:18:21,604
♪ Whoa, listen to the music ♪
1354
01:18:22,437 --> 01:18:27,354
♪ All the time... ♪
1355
01:18:28,354 --> 01:18:29,811
Everything changes.
1356
01:18:29,812 --> 01:18:31,896
[music abates]
1357
01:18:39,479 --> 01:18:40,686
[music fades out]
1358
01:18:40,687 --> 01:18:42,978
Right. I think that's everyone.
1359
01:18:42,979 --> 01:18:46,979
So... you'll have to be monitored every day.
1360
01:18:47,521 --> 01:18:49,854
You'll have to move to Oldham to do so.
1361
01:18:50,479 --> 01:18:53,479
You'll have to watch
what you eat and what you drink.
1362
01:18:53,979 --> 01:18:57,061
And when you're at
the right stage in your cycle,
1363
01:18:57,062 --> 01:18:59,728
we'll remove your eggs
and see what we can do.
1364
01:18:59,729 --> 01:19:03,853
How will you tell which stage?
I... I mean, I'm not always regular.
1365
01:19:03,854 --> 01:19:08,646
- We'll have to keep your urine monitored.
- On this table is everything you need.
1366
01:19:09,437 --> 01:19:11,936
Please be sure to use the pots
each time you pass,
1367
01:19:11,937 --> 01:19:14,228
and then we'll collect them
and analyze them.
1368
01:19:14,229 --> 01:19:16,436
- Thanks, Sandra.
- [Sandra] Thanks. [sighs]
1369
01:19:16,437 --> 01:19:17,979
[Jean] It's not easy, I know.
1370
01:19:18,646 --> 01:19:22,561
You're risking journalists
finding out who you are
1371
01:19:22,562 --> 01:19:24,436
and splashing your faces
all over the papers.
1372
01:19:24,437 --> 01:19:25,436
Thanks, Martha.
1373
01:19:25,437 --> 01:19:28,729
We know it.
We see it. And we are grateful.
1374
01:19:29,396 --> 01:19:35,354
Some of the others who came through here...
described themselves as the Ovum Club.
1375
01:19:37,229 --> 01:19:39,353
I rather liked that as a name.
1376
01:19:39,354 --> 01:19:41,728
- There have been women here before you.
- Thank you.
1377
01:19:41,729 --> 01:19:44,728
- And there will be women here after you.
- Linda Nutshall.
1378
01:19:44,729 --> 01:19:46,728
- All sustained by hope.
- Thank you.
1379
01:19:46,729 --> 01:19:50,854
But knowing, as they do,
while it might not be better for them,
1380
01:19:51,396 --> 01:19:52,853
for those that follow,
1381
01:19:52,854 --> 01:19:54,062
without you,
1382
01:19:55,646 --> 01:19:56,729
none of this works.
1383
01:20:02,979 --> 01:20:05,812
I think I got nervous
and drank more tea than normal.
1384
01:20:07,354 --> 01:20:10,354
- You almost got all the way to the top.
- [chuckles nervously]
1385
01:20:10,937 --> 01:20:12,146
[mouths inaudibly]
1386
01:20:17,646 --> 01:20:20,562
[Patrick] Dr. Ruth Hinton
arranged this appointment?
1387
01:20:21,312 --> 01:20:22,146
[woman] Yes.
1388
01:20:23,521 --> 01:20:26,021
And your fallopian tubes are blocked?
1389
01:20:26,729 --> 01:20:27,729
[woman] Yes, sir.
1390
01:20:28,479 --> 01:20:31,521
And they operated,
but they... couldn't... sort them.
1391
01:20:33,354 --> 01:20:35,187
You're 29, Mrs. Brown?
1392
01:20:35,729 --> 01:20:39,062
Yes, sir.
Been trying for children for ten years.
1393
01:20:39,979 --> 01:20:42,103
Well, I think you're both
excellent candidates for this,
1394
01:20:42,104 --> 01:20:44,186
but I will need to examine you,
Mrs. Brown,
1395
01:20:44,187 --> 01:20:46,186
laparoscopically, under anesthetic,
1396
01:20:46,187 --> 01:20:48,478
look inside you,
and scrutinize your ovaries and pelvis,
1397
01:20:48,479 --> 01:20:50,353
and see what damage has been done.
1398
01:20:50,354 --> 01:20:53,186
Mr. Brown, I will require
a sample of your seminal fluid,
1399
01:20:53,187 --> 01:20:55,686
produced carefully
and cleanly by masturbation
1400
01:20:55,687 --> 01:20:57,854
after a few days of sexual abstinence.
1401
01:20:59,646 --> 01:21:01,479
My job sounds easier than hers.
1402
01:21:04,687 --> 01:21:06,436
What are our chances?
1403
01:21:06,437 --> 01:21:08,728
[clicks tongue]
There are several bridges to cross
1404
01:21:08,729 --> 01:21:11,146
before I can answer that question,
I'm afraid.
1405
01:21:12,604 --> 01:21:13,646
And what about
1406
01:21:14,812 --> 01:21:15,896
abnormalities?
1407
01:21:16,771 --> 01:21:19,311
Sorry to ask, sir, it's just that you...
you read in the paper--
1408
01:21:19,312 --> 01:21:22,436
I understand. We read the same newspapers.
1409
01:21:22,437 --> 01:21:25,728
The chances of abnormality
are no greater than a natural pregnancy.
1410
01:21:25,729 --> 01:21:27,395
You'll be monitored throughout,
1411
01:21:27,396 --> 01:21:30,562
and if there are any problems,
you'll be kept well-informed.
1412
01:21:32,937 --> 01:21:35,270
- Thank you, sir.
- [Mrs. Brown] Thank you.
1413
01:21:35,271 --> 01:21:36,896
[pump hissing]
1414
01:21:43,271 --> 01:21:44,436
[valve hisses]
1415
01:21:44,437 --> 01:21:46,561
[man] That's where we want her,
Mr. Steptoe.
1416
01:21:46,562 --> 01:21:47,895
[metal clatters]
1417
01:21:47,896 --> 01:21:50,021
[ventilator whooshing]
1418
01:21:54,687 --> 01:21:56,687
[record crackling softly]
1419
01:21:57,687 --> 01:22:00,187
["The Lark Ascending"
by Vaughan Williams playing]
1420
01:22:13,146 --> 01:22:16,479
[Patrick] Some recurrence of adhesions
around the ovaries.
1421
01:22:17,729 --> 01:22:19,146
Yes, Mr. Webster.
1422
01:22:20,604 --> 01:22:21,437
Damn.
1423
01:22:21,979 --> 01:22:24,354
Three small follicles only.
1424
01:22:25,437 --> 01:22:28,146
No pre-ovulatory follicle.
1425
01:22:29,146 --> 01:22:30,646
Left ovary...
1426
01:22:31,646 --> 01:22:33,437
A good one. Intercom.
1427
01:22:34,146 --> 01:22:35,853
- [intercom clicks]
- [nurse] On.
1428
01:22:35,854 --> 01:22:41,020
[Patrick] Bob, one good follicle
in the left ovary. Ripe.
1429
01:22:41,021 --> 01:22:45,978
Two centimeters in diameter, I'd say.
Not... easy to approach.
1430
01:22:45,979 --> 01:22:47,854
- [Bob] I'm ready.
- [Patrick] Good.
1431
01:23:01,104 --> 01:23:02,562
Right, suction.
1432
01:23:03,771 --> 01:23:04,978
[whirring]
1433
01:23:04,979 --> 01:23:06,062
[Muriel] And on.
1434
01:23:21,521 --> 01:23:23,270
[music stirs]
1435
01:23:23,271 --> 01:23:24,937
[Patrick] Gently. Gently.
1436
01:23:28,104 --> 01:23:29,104
Stop.
1437
01:23:31,312 --> 01:23:32,811
[machine powers down]
1438
01:23:32,812 --> 01:23:34,437
[ventilator whooshing]
1439
01:23:41,062 --> 01:23:42,479
[Patrick] Thank you, Matron.
1440
01:23:43,062 --> 01:23:43,896
Go.
1441
01:24:23,146 --> 01:24:24,229
[glass clacks gently]
1442
01:24:26,062 --> 01:24:27,062
[glass clinks]
1443
01:24:34,021 --> 01:24:37,561
[clicking gently]
1444
01:24:37,562 --> 01:24:38,604
[Bob] Intercom.
1445
01:24:39,104 --> 01:24:40,186
[intercom clicks]
1446
01:24:40,187 --> 01:24:42,353
Got it. Got it!
1447
01:24:42,354 --> 01:24:44,562
Patrick, an excellent egg.
1448
01:24:49,021 --> 01:24:50,271
[music intensifies]
1449
01:25:00,729 --> 01:25:04,354
"6748/1."
1450
01:25:18,687 --> 01:25:20,520
[music fades out]
1451
01:25:20,521 --> 01:25:21,520
[knocking on door]
1452
01:25:21,521 --> 01:25:22,604
[Patrick] Come in.
1453
01:25:23,562 --> 01:25:24,479
Are you alone?
1454
01:25:25,229 --> 01:25:27,645
[Patrick] Yeah. Just prepping.
1455
01:25:27,646 --> 01:25:28,978
[Jean] Good.
1456
01:25:28,979 --> 01:25:30,853
I've got my knickers off, ready.
1457
01:25:30,854 --> 01:25:35,104
Don't ask me to put on a gown,
and don't you dare get Muriel in here.
1458
01:25:35,937 --> 01:25:38,187
I like her now, but... still.
1459
01:25:41,771 --> 01:25:43,229
[boot unzipping]
1460
01:25:44,146 --> 01:25:46,603
- [faucet squeaks]
- [water running]
1461
01:25:46,604 --> 01:25:47,646
[boot unzips]
1462
01:25:48,646 --> 01:25:49,604
[boot clatters]
1463
01:25:51,854 --> 01:25:53,854
[paper tears, rustles]
1464
01:25:54,854 --> 01:25:56,062
[metal bin lid clangs]
1465
01:25:58,812 --> 01:26:00,812
- [paper rustling]
- [Jean sighs]
1466
01:26:01,604 --> 01:26:04,228
- [latex snapping]
- [footsteps approaching]
1467
01:26:04,229 --> 01:26:05,896
[clock ticking]
1468
01:26:09,312 --> 01:26:10,562
[Jean exhales softly]
1469
01:26:14,937 --> 01:26:16,646
[breath trembles faintly]
1470
01:26:28,812 --> 01:26:30,812
[latex snapping]
1471
01:26:31,646 --> 01:26:33,562
[metal bin lid opens, shuts]
1472
01:26:40,937 --> 01:26:41,854
Could I have...
1473
01:26:43,146 --> 01:26:45,395
Is it... possible for me to have--
1474
01:26:45,396 --> 01:26:46,312
No.
1475
01:26:47,271 --> 01:26:48,854
What about if... What...
1476
01:26:51,271 --> 01:26:52,687
What about if this works?
1477
01:26:54,687 --> 01:26:59,603
In my opinion,
the endometriosis is very severe indeed.
1478
01:26:59,604 --> 01:27:01,020
[melancholy music playing]
1479
01:27:01,021 --> 01:27:03,771
I can try and remove some of it, but...
1480
01:27:06,604 --> 01:27:09,604
I'm afraid science
isn't entirely ready for you yet.
1481
01:27:13,187 --> 01:27:16,271
I can try and ease the pain.
It must be painful.
1482
01:27:19,271 --> 01:27:21,104
No. Thank you.
1483
01:27:28,104 --> 01:27:29,187
How about a drink?
1484
01:27:32,479 --> 01:27:33,978
It's barely breakfast time.
1485
01:27:33,979 --> 01:27:38,062
Well, I'll have an orange juice,
but you should have... something stronger.
1486
01:27:41,062 --> 01:27:42,521
[music intensifies]
1487
01:27:52,479 --> 01:27:54,186
[quietly] I'd like a drink.
1488
01:27:54,187 --> 01:27:55,811
[breathes shakily]
1489
01:27:55,812 --> 01:27:57,895
- Did Bob talk to you about me?
- [Patrick] No.
1490
01:27:57,896 --> 01:27:59,646
- [fire crackling]
- He knew though.
1491
01:28:00,562 --> 01:28:02,979
You knew. Probably Muriel knew.
1492
01:28:03,562 --> 01:28:07,354
We've worked together
for... eight years, Jean.
1493
01:28:08,521 --> 01:28:10,186
Very little we don't know
about each other.
1494
01:28:10,187 --> 01:28:13,812
I'm sure there are things you know
about me that I assume are private.
1495
01:28:14,396 --> 01:28:15,354
[chuckles softly]
1496
01:28:18,812 --> 01:28:22,062
I served with the Navy in the war.
1497
01:28:22,854 --> 01:28:23,937
Ship's doctor.
1498
01:28:25,062 --> 01:28:28,271
I was... young, obviously, but capable.
1499
01:28:28,771 --> 01:28:31,896
And, as it turned out, unlucky.
Our ship was torpedoed.
1500
01:28:32,687 --> 01:28:34,645
I managed to swim to the lifeboat,
1501
01:28:34,646 --> 01:28:37,729
and we pulled everyone we could
out of the water.
1502
01:28:39,646 --> 01:28:41,687
Ship's doctor is one thing.
1503
01:28:42,229 --> 01:28:46,396
Chief medical officer on a lifeboat
full of dying men... [scoffs]
1504
01:28:49,646 --> 01:28:52,854
I had to decide
who to treat and who not to treat.
1505
01:28:54,604 --> 01:28:56,061
Limited supplies of morphine.
1506
01:28:56,062 --> 01:28:58,437
Limited supplies of everything,
to be honest.
1507
01:29:00,854 --> 01:29:03,146
I looked men in the eye...
1508
01:29:06,062 --> 01:29:08,978
and made a decision,
based on very little evidence,
1509
01:29:08,979 --> 01:29:11,312
whether they were capable
of survival or not.
1510
01:29:12,854 --> 01:29:15,979
I'm more than certain some I condemned
1511
01:29:16,979 --> 01:29:18,521
were capable.
1512
01:29:19,937 --> 01:29:21,021
I can't imagine.
1513
01:29:23,812 --> 01:29:25,646
Forgive me. There's no need for you to...
1514
01:29:27,646 --> 01:29:30,270
know all of that, but my point being
1515
01:29:30,271 --> 01:29:33,270
that the bit I most dislike about this job
1516
01:29:33,271 --> 01:29:37,061
is having to decide
who will get help and who will not.
1517
01:29:37,062 --> 01:29:38,937
[poignant music playing]
1518
01:29:40,187 --> 01:29:43,021
Hundreds of letters,
I know you get them too,
1519
01:29:44,104 --> 01:29:47,437
where women beg for the opportunity
to be on our program.
1520
01:29:48,521 --> 01:29:52,353
And you read through their notes,
and... y-you can feel it.
1521
01:29:52,354 --> 01:29:55,062
You can feel their eyes
on the back of your head.
1522
01:29:57,604 --> 01:29:59,853
And we see ourselves
as the great possibility.
1523
01:29:59,854 --> 01:30:02,937
We can make the infertile fertile.
1524
01:30:03,521 --> 01:30:06,729
But there are still
so many women we won't...
1525
01:30:08,021 --> 01:30:09,521
we won't be able to help.
1526
01:30:11,521 --> 01:30:13,646
And I can't help thinking that, for them,
1527
01:30:14,479 --> 01:30:18,646
our existence...
is just another source of pain.
1528
01:30:25,854 --> 01:30:26,896
[inhales sharply]
1529
01:30:27,937 --> 01:30:29,896
Women presume we can have children.
1530
01:30:31,229 --> 01:30:32,187
We're told so.
1531
01:30:35,854 --> 01:30:38,854
[voice breaks] There is a biological
and social expectation.
1532
01:30:42,646 --> 01:30:45,437
Nothing can make
the pain of that absence worse.
1533
01:30:50,812 --> 01:30:53,604
[softly] But we have
the possibility of making it better.
1534
01:30:56,396 --> 01:30:57,271
And, yes,
1535
01:30:57,937 --> 01:31:01,812
I say that as someone
for whom the lifeboat can't help.
1536
01:31:05,271 --> 01:31:06,812
[telephone dial whirring]
1537
01:31:08,062 --> 01:31:09,854
[line ringing]
1538
01:31:10,979 --> 01:31:12,271
[music fades out]
1539
01:31:13,896 --> 01:31:15,354
{\an8}[ringing continues]
1540
01:31:16,312 --> 01:31:20,562
{\an8}Patrick. Will you please be available
to replace the embryo this evening?
1541
01:31:21,729 --> 01:31:22,729
Four-cell.
1542
01:31:24,979 --> 01:31:26,479
What kind of birthday dinner?
1543
01:31:29,312 --> 01:31:31,354
That's the name of your wife, am I right?
1544
01:31:33,812 --> 01:31:35,812
[defensively] Well,
do you know my wife's name?
1545
01:31:37,562 --> 01:31:40,396
Well, then I should've clearly
paid more attention.
1546
01:31:41,771 --> 01:31:43,895
[woman] I hope you'll tell him
we missed dessert.
1547
01:31:43,896 --> 01:31:47,645
I'm gonna tell him we missed dessert
and a notorious cheese plate.
1548
01:31:47,646 --> 01:31:48,562
[wife chuckles]
1549
01:31:50,021 --> 01:31:52,020
How you can work in a place like this.
1550
01:31:52,021 --> 01:31:55,561
This is after we've spruced it up.
You should've seen it before.
1551
01:31:55,562 --> 01:31:59,146
It was... appalling.
At least now we have glass in the windows.
1552
01:31:59,937 --> 01:32:01,937
[distant chatter]
1553
01:32:13,021 --> 01:32:15,604
- I managed to scare up some biscuits.
- Ah.
1554
01:32:16,479 --> 01:32:19,520
Good evening, Matron.
Hope we haven't disturbed your evening.
1555
01:32:19,521 --> 01:32:21,103
[Muriel] Delighted to be here.
1556
01:32:21,104 --> 01:32:22,936
- [suspenseful music plays]
- [Patrick] Mmm.
1557
01:32:22,937 --> 01:32:26,478
- Are they chocolate biscuits?
- [wife gasps] What a treat.
1558
01:32:26,479 --> 01:32:27,521
[cog clicks]
1559
01:32:28,979 --> 01:32:30,354
Eight beautiful cells.
1560
01:32:32,479 --> 01:32:35,478
- [Jean] Matron and I will prep Mrs. Brown.
- [Patrick] I'll prepare the theater.
1561
01:32:35,479 --> 01:32:37,562
- [Bob chuckles]
- [footsteps receding]
1562
01:32:39,396 --> 01:32:40,771
[cog clicking]
1563
01:32:46,979 --> 01:32:49,896
- [Patrick quietly] Cannula, 2.2 mm.
- [Muriel] Mm-hmm.
1564
01:32:52,229 --> 01:32:54,770
[nurse] If you could just
pop yourself up on the table for us
1565
01:32:54,771 --> 01:32:57,937
and place your legs in the stirrups,
that'd be great.
1566
01:33:04,646 --> 01:33:05,896
[Mrs. Brown sighs softly]
1567
01:33:26,521 --> 01:33:28,312
[Bob] "6748/1."
1568
01:33:28,896 --> 01:33:32,229
"6748/1. Lesley Brown."
1569
01:33:33,812 --> 01:33:36,104
[inhales deeply]
1570
01:33:37,271 --> 01:33:39,271
[exhales shakily]
1571
01:33:41,562 --> 01:33:42,854
[equipment rattles]
1572
01:33:55,396 --> 01:33:57,021
[footsteps approaching]
1573
01:34:08,979 --> 01:34:11,396
{\an8}[Patrick] Yes. Now will do.
1574
01:34:30,062 --> 01:34:31,646
[suspenseful music continues]
1575
01:35:02,021 --> 01:35:03,146
[Bob] All gone.
1576
01:35:06,562 --> 01:35:07,854
[over intercom] All gone.
1577
01:35:20,312 --> 01:35:21,312
Are you okay?
1578
01:35:22,021 --> 01:35:23,729
I think I feel pregnant.
1579
01:35:25,021 --> 01:35:27,187
- Does that make me quite mad?
- [chuckles]
1580
01:35:29,146 --> 01:35:30,645
Not mad, exactly.
1581
01:35:30,646 --> 01:35:31,979
[Lesley chuckles softly]
1582
01:35:33,354 --> 01:35:34,354
[Patrick] Well done.
1583
01:35:39,604 --> 01:35:40,937
[music fades out]
1584
01:35:43,479 --> 01:35:46,937
It's getting worse, the press.
They know we're close.
1585
01:35:48,271 --> 01:35:49,812
We have to protect Lesley.
1586
01:35:51,604 --> 01:35:52,979
We've protected them all.
1587
01:35:54,896 --> 01:35:57,021
Do you know
what those women have been through?
1588
01:35:58,812 --> 01:36:03,561
Newspapers will pay £5,000 for the names
and addresses of our patients.
1589
01:36:03,562 --> 01:36:06,436
A further 5,000
should any of them become a story.
1590
01:36:06,437 --> 01:36:07,770
[whistles]
1591
01:36:07,771 --> 01:36:11,103
We could be rich.
I've all their names and addresses.
1592
01:36:11,104 --> 01:36:15,021
I know they're just specimens in a jar
for you, but these are people's lives.
1593
01:36:19,104 --> 01:36:22,104
[Bob] Rachel, Kathy, Gail, Trisha.
1594
01:36:23,104 --> 01:36:26,979
Harriet, Jan, Gracie, Nicola, Julie, Viv.
1595
01:36:28,229 --> 01:36:32,146
Polly, Marie, Violet, Sally, Lauren, Liz.
1596
01:36:32,854 --> 01:36:34,146
Jo, Christina.
1597
01:36:35,062 --> 01:36:36,771
- Mel.
- You know their names.
1598
01:36:37,896 --> 01:36:39,187
Of the Ovum Club?
1599
01:36:40,312 --> 01:36:41,145
Yes.
1600
01:36:41,146 --> 01:36:44,021
- [poignant music playing]
- I'm a scientist, Jean.
1601
01:36:44,521 --> 01:36:48,396
I fail every day in the hope
that I'll succeed once in 20 years.
1602
01:36:50,396 --> 01:36:51,312
[sighs]
1603
01:36:54,104 --> 01:36:57,521
They stay a number because,
otherwise, they'd take me down with them.
1604
01:36:59,646 --> 01:37:00,896
[music brightens]
1605
01:37:03,354 --> 01:37:04,770
You're a strange man.
1606
01:37:04,771 --> 01:37:05,937
[Bob chuckles softly]
1607
01:37:07,687 --> 01:37:09,896
- Strangest I've ever met.
- [chuckles softly]
1608
01:37:14,062 --> 01:37:17,686
[over PA] A porter to radiology
for patient transfer assistance.
1609
01:37:17,687 --> 01:37:19,020
[music fades out]
1610
01:37:19,021 --> 01:37:20,103
Good morning.
1611
01:37:20,104 --> 01:37:21,312
[Lesley] Good mornin'.
1612
01:37:24,271 --> 01:37:25,270
Good news.
1613
01:37:25,271 --> 01:37:28,520
The fetal head is a diameter
of 9.6 centimeters.
1614
01:37:28,521 --> 01:37:31,853
The lecithin-sphingomyelin ratio is 3.9:1.
1615
01:37:31,854 --> 01:37:32,811
This is a scale
1616
01:37:32,812 --> 01:37:35,561
by which we measure the baby's capacity
to breathe well at birth.
1617
01:37:35,562 --> 01:37:39,645
Normally 2:1, so 3.9:1...
is a very good figure.
1618
01:37:39,646 --> 01:37:42,061
So you think that she's ready to come out?
1619
01:37:42,062 --> 01:37:42,978
[Patrick] Yes.
1620
01:37:42,979 --> 01:37:46,936
The toxemia you've been suffering
leaves a question mark for me,
1621
01:37:46,937 --> 01:37:49,978
and I think we need to get your baby out
sooner rather than later,
1622
01:37:49,979 --> 01:37:52,271
which means... a decision
1623
01:37:53,146 --> 01:37:56,687
between inducing the birth
and performing a Caesarean section.
1624
01:37:57,562 --> 01:38:00,603
Mr. Steptoe, we only understand
half of what you're sayin',
1625
01:38:00,604 --> 01:38:04,979
but, well, we... trust
whatever decision that you think right.
1626
01:38:06,479 --> 01:38:08,311
[inhales] I think you feel, like me,
1627
01:38:08,312 --> 01:38:11,478
that if we can do this without
a press audience, it might be easier.
1628
01:38:11,479 --> 01:38:13,353
- [Lesley] Mm.
- Of course we do. [scoffs]
1629
01:38:13,354 --> 01:38:14,770
[tense music playing]
1630
01:38:14,771 --> 01:38:17,061
[Patrick] Have your normal visitors today.
1631
01:38:17,062 --> 01:38:18,270
Tell them nothing.
1632
01:38:18,271 --> 01:38:20,353
At 9:00 p.m., you should go home, John.
1633
01:38:20,354 --> 01:38:22,770
We'll find a way
of bringing you back secretly.
1634
01:38:22,771 --> 01:38:24,271
[music brightens]
1635
01:38:25,479 --> 01:38:27,561
[Patrick] At 11:00 p.m., we'll operate.
1636
01:38:27,562 --> 01:38:31,187
- [reporters clamor]
- And by... midnight, you'll have your child.
1637
01:38:32,229 --> 01:38:33,437
How does that sound?
1638
01:38:36,062 --> 01:38:38,729
- That sounds rather marvelous, sir.
- [chuckles softly]
1639
01:38:39,604 --> 01:38:42,187
[reporter 1] Can you confirm
that it's Lesley Brown?
1640
01:38:42,812 --> 01:38:45,020
[reporter 2] Picture,
Mr. and Mrs. Frankenstein?
1641
01:38:45,021 --> 01:38:47,520
- It's Dr. Frankenstein!
- [reporter 3] This way, Miss Purdy.
1642
01:38:47,521 --> 01:38:49,520
[reporter 4] This way, Dr. Edwards!
This way!
1643
01:38:49,521 --> 01:38:52,561
- [clamoring continues]
- [reporter 5] Doctor! Dr. Edwards!
1644
01:38:52,562 --> 01:38:54,229
[tense music playing]
1645
01:38:59,062 --> 01:39:01,854
- [Muriel] I'm ready, Mr. Steptoe.
- [Patrick] Thank you, Muriel.
1646
01:39:02,562 --> 01:39:04,229
[ventilator whooshing]
1647
01:39:06,104 --> 01:39:08,562
[Patrick] I'll be making
a vertical incision.
1648
01:39:21,854 --> 01:39:22,895
[gas hisses]
1649
01:39:22,896 --> 01:39:25,311
[man 1] Let go of me! [groans]
1650
01:39:25,312 --> 01:39:26,978
- [man 2] Journalist!
- Not done anythin'.
1651
01:39:26,979 --> 01:39:30,312
- Pretending to be a plumber.
- Let go! Get off me!
1652
01:39:31,854 --> 01:39:32,896
[door slams]
1653
01:39:35,271 --> 01:39:36,354
[Bob] Not long now.
1654
01:39:38,312 --> 01:39:39,520
[breathes anxiously]
1655
01:39:39,521 --> 01:39:40,687
Not long now.
1656
01:39:41,687 --> 01:39:43,562
[ventilator whooshing]
1657
01:39:46,979 --> 01:39:52,479
{\an8}[Patrick] I'm now going to incise
the lower segment of the uterus.
1658
01:40:06,021 --> 01:40:07,229
Right, suction.
1659
01:40:09,562 --> 01:40:11,062
[instrument sucking]
1660
01:40:13,021 --> 01:40:14,187
[instruments clatter]
1661
01:40:18,354 --> 01:40:19,812
[music intensifies]
1662
01:40:31,312 --> 01:40:32,729
[music swells]
1663
01:40:44,354 --> 01:40:45,646
[music intensifying]
1664
01:40:49,521 --> 01:40:50,353
[music stops]
1665
01:40:50,354 --> 01:40:52,562
[baby crying]
1666
01:40:57,229 --> 01:40:59,562
[Patrick] There you go. There.
1667
01:41:00,521 --> 01:41:02,396
[poignant music playing]
1668
01:41:03,271 --> 01:41:04,436
[nurse] How you doin'?
1669
01:41:04,437 --> 01:41:06,521
[baby crying continuously]
1670
01:41:12,687 --> 01:41:14,437
[music brightens]
1671
01:41:23,604 --> 01:41:25,062
[muffled crying]
1672
01:41:27,562 --> 01:41:29,646
- Can you hear that?
- [crying continues]
1673
01:41:30,354 --> 01:41:32,354
Hey. Can you hear that?
1674
01:41:33,229 --> 01:41:35,229
- [Jean squeals]
- [Bob laughing]
1675
01:41:39,354 --> 01:41:40,771
- [door opens]
- [baby crying]
1676
01:41:41,854 --> 01:41:43,146
[Jean chuckles]
1677
01:41:47,521 --> 01:41:48,979
[music abates]
1678
01:41:53,687 --> 01:41:54,854
[baby cooing]
1679
01:42:02,937 --> 01:42:04,021
[baby coos softly]
1680
01:42:11,229 --> 01:42:12,396
[camera shutter clicks]
1681
01:42:14,729 --> 01:42:16,061
- [shutter clicks]
- [Bob chuckles]
1682
01:42:16,062 --> 01:42:17,354
[Patrick] Jean, come.
1683
01:42:30,396 --> 01:42:31,311
{\an8}[baby coos]
1684
01:42:31,312 --> 01:42:32,562
{\an8}[door swings open]
1685
01:42:35,021 --> 01:42:36,437
[Mr. Brown] Is that my baby?
1686
01:42:37,396 --> 01:42:38,271
It is.
1687
01:42:42,396 --> 01:42:43,354
[Mr. Brown softly] Oh.
1688
01:42:49,229 --> 01:42:50,437
[Mr. Brown chuckles]
1689
01:42:51,562 --> 01:42:52,562
Thank you.
1690
01:42:53,812 --> 01:42:54,896
[softly] Sure.
1691
01:42:58,271 --> 01:42:59,479
[Mr. Brown softly] Look.
1692
01:43:00,771 --> 01:43:03,271
She's here. [laughs wheezily]
1693
01:43:05,021 --> 01:43:06,104
She's here.
1694
01:43:14,812 --> 01:43:15,646
Yeah.
1695
01:43:20,687 --> 01:43:21,937
[music fading out]
1696
01:43:26,812 --> 01:43:29,062
[poignant string music playing]
1697
01:43:34,979 --> 01:43:35,979
[lock rattles]
1698
01:43:36,896 --> 01:43:38,187
[sobbing softly]
1699
01:43:44,896 --> 01:43:45,728
[sniffles]
1700
01:43:45,729 --> 01:43:47,229
[music intensifies]
1701
01:44:13,937 --> 01:44:15,229
[music fading out]
1702
01:44:16,854 --> 01:44:18,395
[record player playing]
1703
01:44:18,396 --> 01:44:20,061
♪ Love is in the air... ♪
1704
01:44:20,062 --> 01:44:22,353
[Muriel laughs] That's easy!
1705
01:44:22,354 --> 01:44:24,229
[laughter]
1706
01:44:25,812 --> 01:44:28,771
♪ And I don't know if I'm being foolish... ♪
1707
01:44:29,854 --> 01:44:32,728
Right, uh, now that Jean is here,
I think we should have a speech.
1708
01:44:32,729 --> 01:44:34,061
- A speech?
- Oh yes! [gasps]
1709
01:44:34,062 --> 01:44:35,145
- Patrick, speech.
- Patrick.
1710
01:44:35,146 --> 01:44:36,646
- No. No.
- [Bob] A few words.
1711
01:44:37,146 --> 01:44:39,061
- No.
- Come on. Jean, a speech.
1712
01:44:39,062 --> 01:44:41,603
- [Jean] No way.
- Oh, okay! I will make a speech.
1713
01:44:41,604 --> 01:44:45,311
- [Muriel] Oh! Well, of course! [laughs]
- [man impersonates Tarzan's call]
1714
01:44:45,312 --> 01:44:48,978
- Right. First, I would like to thank...
- No, you wouldn't. No, you won't.
1715
01:44:48,979 --> 01:44:51,353
Stop, Patrick. Without all of you--
1716
01:44:51,354 --> 01:44:53,228
- You'd be a member of Parliament.
- Yes!
1717
01:44:53,229 --> 01:44:55,603
- Ha-ha. Very good, very good.
- [Muriel laughs loudly]
1718
01:44:55,604 --> 01:44:56,687
Matron!
1719
01:44:57,312 --> 01:44:58,979
[chuckling] For three days,
1720
01:44:59,812 --> 01:45:02,729
that little girl grew in our culture.
1721
01:45:03,562 --> 01:45:06,896
She was replaced inside her mother
with incredible skill.
1722
01:45:07,521 --> 01:45:11,187
She wriggled out of her membrane
and expanded beautifully.
1723
01:45:12,687 --> 01:45:15,812
We have done something
truly extraordinary.
1724
01:45:16,646 --> 01:45:19,312
We have done it because it was necessary.
1725
01:45:22,062 --> 01:45:25,896
It has been a privilege... to work with you,
1726
01:45:27,646 --> 01:45:30,021
to sacrifice with you,
1727
01:45:31,396 --> 01:45:32,646
to make with you.
1728
01:45:35,896 --> 01:45:37,146
Remember this moment.
1729
01:45:38,604 --> 01:45:42,187
I know that I will never be part
of something so extraordinary again.
1730
01:45:42,937 --> 01:45:44,771
Remember it, and...
1731
01:45:46,479 --> 01:45:47,687
and treasure it.
1732
01:45:52,396 --> 01:45:53,271
To you all.
1733
01:45:54,354 --> 01:45:56,311
- To us all.
- [all] To us all.
1734
01:45:56,312 --> 01:45:57,479
So what now?
1735
01:45:58,229 --> 01:45:59,561
[Jean] We do it all again.
1736
01:45:59,562 --> 01:46:00,936
[all laugh]
1737
01:46:00,937 --> 01:46:04,478
Oh, the Browns have asked if we'd like
to give the baby a middle name. I...
1738
01:46:04,479 --> 01:46:07,645
- I was thinking "Joy."
- [Muriel] Oh, that's lovely!
1739
01:46:07,646 --> 01:46:10,354
- [overlapping chatter]
- [moving music playing]
1740
01:46:13,604 --> 01:46:14,687
A good choice?
1741
01:46:16,437 --> 01:46:17,521
A great choice.
1742
01:46:21,937 --> 01:46:23,186
[chuckles softly]
1743
01:46:23,187 --> 01:46:24,312
[music fades out]
1744
01:46:26,146 --> 01:46:27,271
[Bob] Dear Mr. Killion,
1745
01:46:27,896 --> 01:46:30,561
I feel strongly
about the inclusion on the plaque
1746
01:46:30,562 --> 01:46:33,437
of those who helped
with the conception of Louise Brown.
1747
01:46:33,937 --> 01:46:36,853
I feel this especially about Jean Purdy,
1748
01:46:36,854 --> 01:46:39,770
who travelled to Oldham with me
for the full ten years
1749
01:46:39,771 --> 01:46:42,646
and contributed as much as we did
to the project.
1750
01:46:43,146 --> 01:46:46,436
I was the biologist,
Patrick, the obstetrician,
1751
01:46:46,437 --> 01:46:47,646
and Jean...
1752
01:46:48,271 --> 01:46:50,687
well, you could describe Jean as...
1753
01:46:51,312 --> 01:46:55,021
[sighs] Well, without her,
none of this would've been possible.
1754
01:46:55,646 --> 01:46:58,354
She made the unbearable bearable.
1755
01:46:59,437 --> 01:47:01,479
So, you see, it is quite simple.
1756
01:47:02,104 --> 01:47:04,686
Her name must be on that plaque.
1757
01:47:04,687 --> 01:47:10,062
♪ If you miss the train I'm on ♪
1758
01:47:10,562 --> 01:47:14,646
♪ You will know that I am gone ♪
1759
01:47:15,146 --> 01:47:19,437
♪ You can hear the whistle blow ♪
1760
01:47:19,937 --> 01:47:24,146
♪ A hundred miles ♪
1761
01:47:25,021 --> 01:47:35,353
♪ A hundred miles, a hundred miles ♪
1762
01:47:35,354 --> 01:47:40,228
♪ You can hear the whistle blow ♪
1763
01:47:40,229 --> 01:47:44,562
♪ A hundred miles ♪
1764
01:47:45,437 --> 01:47:50,645
♪ Lord, I'm one, Lord, I'm two ♪
1765
01:47:50,646 --> 01:47:55,770
♪ Lord, I'm three, Lord, I'm four ♪
1766
01:47:55,771 --> 01:48:00,811
♪ Lord, I'm 500 miles ♪
1767
01:48:00,812 --> 01:48:05,436
♪ From my home ♪
1768
01:48:05,437 --> 01:48:15,853
♪ 500 miles, 500 miles ♪
1769
01:48:15,854 --> 01:48:21,061
♪ Lord, I'm 500 miles ♪
1770
01:48:21,062 --> 01:48:25,604
♪ From my home ♪
1771
01:48:26,104 --> 01:48:31,103
♪ Not a shirt on my back ♪
1772
01:48:31,104 --> 01:48:36,270
♪ Not a penny to my name ♪
1773
01:48:36,271 --> 01:48:41,186
♪ Lord, I can't go a-home ♪
1774
01:48:41,187 --> 01:48:46,145
♪ This a-way ♪
1775
01:48:46,146 --> 01:48:56,686
♪ This a-way, this a-way ♪
1776
01:48:56,687 --> 01:49:01,686
♪ Lord, I can't go a-home ♪
1777
01:49:01,687 --> 01:49:06,978
♪ This a-way ♪
1778
01:49:06,979 --> 01:49:12,021
♪ If you miss the train I'm on ♪
1779
01:49:12,562 --> 01:49:16,936
♪ You will know that I am gone ♪
1780
01:49:16,937 --> 01:49:21,770
♪ You can hear the whistle blow ♪
1781
01:49:21,771 --> 01:49:27,770
♪ A hundred miles ♪
1782
01:49:27,771 --> 01:49:29,145
[song ends]
1783
01:49:29,146 --> 01:49:31,187
[poignant music playing]
1784
01:51:08,979 --> 01:51:10,771
[music becomes whimsical]
1785
01:52:01,979 --> 01:52:03,229
[music darkens]
1786
01:53:14,396 --> 01:53:16,104
[music fades out]