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(gentle music)
(bird hooting)

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♪ Oh ♪

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♪ Oh, oh ♪

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♪ Ah ♪

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♪ Ah, ah ♪

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♪ Oh ♪

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♪ Oh, oh ♪

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- Beatrix?

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(suspenseful music)

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Beatrix.

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- Oh, sorry, darling, I
didn't hear you there.

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- I'm going up. You coming?

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- I'll be right with you.

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(Beatrix sighs)

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(solemn music)

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(animal squeaking)

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(playful music)

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Bloody mice.

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(playful music)

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(ethereal music)

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- [Narrator] A curious mouse crept

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from his room in the house

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and knew then that his father had died.

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He'd seen this doctor before
take his sister to the morgue,

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and he realized the grown-ups had lied,

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for this world wasn't magic.

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It was often quite tragic.

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Not every mouse lived to grow old.

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So while misery reigned,

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he'd retreat to his brain,

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for the tales he wanted to be told.

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(gentle music)

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(footsteps approaching)

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(door creaks)

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(door clacks)

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(solemn music)

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(Roald speaks in foreign language)

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(Harald speaks in foreign language)

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- Look after Mama.

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(somber music)

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(bright music)

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(duck quacks)

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(gentle music)

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- Sally!

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Sally, come now!

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Come!

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(Sally grunting)

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(Beatrix laughs)

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(Sally grunting)

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Come on, Sally.

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(Sally grunting)

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Good girl.

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Far too cold outside or ladies of our age.

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Don't you think?

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(Sally snorts)

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(gentle music)

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(ethereal music)

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(children chattering)

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(engine rumbles)

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(car doors thud)

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- Children, it's time
to say goodbye to Papa.

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(ominous music)

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(playful music)

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(duck quacking)

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(Beatrix panting)

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♪ When they are both full grown ♪

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♪ Of all the trees that are in the woods ♪

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♪ The holly bears the crown ♪

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♪ O the rising of the sun ♪

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♪ And the running of the deer ♪

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(duck quacking)
(objects banging)

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- Enough of that!

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Be quiet at once!

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Do you hear me? Be quiet!

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(duck quacking)

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♪ Sweet singing in the choir ♪

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(duck quacking)

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♪ The holly bears a blossom ♪

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Stay still, darn it,

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so that I can kill you!

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♪ And Mary bore sweet Jesus Christ ♪

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Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes,
yes, yes, yes, yes, yes!

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Yes, yes, oh, no!

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Fine, have it your way.

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But I'm not giving up on Christmas
dinner that easily, Sago.

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You'll see.

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(animal squeaks)

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Well, don't look at me
like that, Tuppenny.

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That duck's had it coming for weeks!

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Not listening!

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Oh, do shush, will you?

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- Happy Christmas, Miss Potter.

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- It's Mrs. Heelis to you.

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And I'll thank you not to
trespass on my property.

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- Well, just trying to do something nice

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for the kiddies at Christmas.

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- I think I've done my bit for that lot.

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Now get off my land or
I'll set my dog on you.

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(dog whimpering)

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- [Carolers] Aww!

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- For goodness sake, Fleet. (sighs)

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- Happy Christmas, Miss Potter.

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- It's Mrs. Heelis.

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(door thuds)

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(somber music)

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(ominous music)

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(solemn music)

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- Have you been in?

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I see.

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No one will make you go in there, Roald.

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It's hard so soon after
losing your sister.

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Now is our chance for goodbyes,

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if goodbyes are something you want.

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(ominous music)

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- Will you come with me?

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- Of course.

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(tense music)

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When we get inside, Papa's in bed,

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but, Roald, it's not really
Papa anymore, understand?

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It's just a body,

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so if you don't want to see,

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just close your eyes, all
scrunched tight, like this.

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Okay?

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- Okay.

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(somber music)

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(phonograph clicking)

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(singer sings in foreign language)

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- Mrs. Dahl, I was wondering
if I might have a word

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about our route to the church.

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- Certainly.

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(singer sings in foreign language)

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(door clacks)

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(singer sings in foreign language)

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- Papa?

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(dramatic music)

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(door clacks)
(record scratches)

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- You, boy, keep your filthy
hands off the deceased!

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(dramatic music)

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(record scratches)

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(playful music)

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- [William] Beatrix!

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- Coming!

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(playful music)
(Sago quacking)

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- I mean, to bury your
little girl is one thing,

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but then to have your
husband dead and all,

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before a month have even passed,

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well, too much for any woman.

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- It's a crock and tragedy is what it is.

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- Hmm.

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- Mentally troubled too, I heard.

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- Never! Who told you that?

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- You did, I think.

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- Did I?

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Well, it must be true then

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- Oh yeah, she's packin'
the boy off to school

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and headin' back to her mother in Norway.

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- Makes sense.

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She can't be managin' 'em all on her own.

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- Probably got another stab at marriage,

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if she manages to pack
all them brats somewhere.

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Wouldn't mind a shot myself.

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- You never had a problem with
seconds, have you, Butler?

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- What can I say?

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I'm a man of huge appetites.

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(both laugh)

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May I?

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- No, you may not.

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She's my mother, and you can't have her.

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(kick thuds)
(Butler grunts)

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(group chattering)

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- [Doctor] And clearer now

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or now?
- Now.

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I don't appreciate
being ambushed, William.

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- It's not an ambush.

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Mr. Entwistle has kindly
found time for a house call.

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You seem to have accidentally missed

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your previous appointments.

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- Now or now?
- Now.

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- And stopped opening
correspondence and writing letters.

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- Now or now?
- Now.

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Well, that's because,
if you haven't noticed,

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I am writing-
- I know.

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You're very busy not writing a book.

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- Exactly.

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And those books don't not
write themselves, you know.

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- [Doctor] And clearer now

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(Sally grunts)

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or now?

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- I'm not sure.

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Now, or possibly now.

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I, I don't know anymore.

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(Sally flatulates)

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Pardon me.

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(Sally flatulates)

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- (clears throat) And, um,

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how's your vision been over the last year?

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- I, I don't know.

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Everything's getting a bit
foggy on the fells, these days.

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- Regardless of the weather.

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What'd you think?

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- Well, very simply,

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evidence of age-related
macular degeneration.

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- He means old lady eyes, doesn't he?

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- I mean, could it be
glaucoma or cataracts?

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- Hard to say without further examination.

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Ideally, I'd need her to
come in for further tests.

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(Beatrix whispers)

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Well, seeing as you're
very, very, very busy,

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for the time being-

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- Oh God!

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You're going to make me
wear spectacles, aren't you?

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- It might help.

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I have some temporary
ones, if you'd like to try.

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- I'll consider it, later.

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So, uh, gentlemen, unless
there's something else,

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other than my age-related degeneration,

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I'm afraid I really am rather busy.

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- Thank you.

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We really do appreciate you
coming out all this way.

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Don't we, Beatrix?

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Beatrix?

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- Yes, most kind.

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- Sorry, before I go,
I couldn't possibly ask

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for an autograph, could I?

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- Oh, do you have children?

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- Oh, no, heavens no.

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Can't stand the blighters.

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Just wanted one for the office,

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pop it on the wall, celebrity
clients type of thing.

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We've got a cracking
one from Virginia Woolf.

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- Get him a rabbit card, William.

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(playful music)

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- Oh, that's topping!

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Look at that, his little
bunny whiskery face.

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Yeah, that's good.
That's very good indeed.

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You should write one about
Peter Rabbit getting spectacles.

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- Should I?

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- Yes, um, well, let
me know how you get on

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with that, yeah.
(Beatrix sighs)

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Happy Christmas.

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(playful music)

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I suppose her bark is
worse than her bite, is it?

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- No, no, it's not.

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Thanks all the same.

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(playful music)

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(ethereal music)
(wind whistling)

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(knocks at door)

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(people chattering)

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- Mind if I join you?

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What are you reading?

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Oh, of course.

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Beatrix Potter again.

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You know, I don't think I
see your face anymore, boy,

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just this.

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(Sofie chuckles)

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(Roald laughs)

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Perhaps, one day, you will lower the book,

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and there you will be, and, well,

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with a gigantic beard,

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and I will have missed the whole show.

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- I will never get a beard, not ever.

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- What did they say, Roald?

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- He said that you were
sending me away to school

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and that you'd go back
to Norway without us,

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and he was going to take you as his wife.

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(Sofie sighs)

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- You know what we call
men like this in Norway?

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(Sofie speaks in foreign language)

269
00:16:07,701 --> 00:16:09,701
You understand?

270
00:16:10,461 --> 00:16:12,401
It means, um,

271
00:16:12,501 --> 00:16:15,721
a great, big, bottom-hole man.

272
00:16:15,821 --> 00:16:16,721
(Roald laughs)

273
00:16:16,821 --> 00:16:17,921
- Mama.
- A great,

274
00:16:18,021 --> 00:16:20,761
big, saggy bottom-hole. (laughs)

275
00:16:20,861 --> 00:16:21,601
(Roald laughs)

276
00:16:21,701 --> 00:16:23,201
Come on, say it with me.

277
00:16:23,301 --> 00:16:26,321
(both speak in foreign language)

278
00:16:26,421 --> 00:16:28,201
Very good, yes, loud as you can.

279
00:16:28,301 --> 00:16:30,321
I mean this. It's educational.

280
00:16:30,421 --> 00:16:32,961
(Sofie and Roald yell in foreign language)

281
00:16:33,061 --> 00:16:35,961
(both laughing)

282
00:16:36,061 --> 00:16:38,681
The man is a massive twit.

283
00:16:38,781 --> 00:16:40,841
I'm not going back to Norway.

284
00:16:40,941 --> 00:16:42,561
- What about me?

285
00:16:42,661 --> 00:16:44,821
You're not sending me away, are you?

286
00:16:47,381 --> 00:16:48,721
Mama?

287
00:16:48,821 --> 00:16:52,561
- Well, that's another thing.

288
00:16:52,661 --> 00:16:54,921
You're papa wanted.

289
00:16:55,021 --> 00:16:58,081
He always said that an English
education is the finest

290
00:16:58,181 --> 00:16:59,681
in the world.

291
00:16:59,781 --> 00:17:01,801
How else could such a tiny prump

292
00:17:01,901 --> 00:17:04,041
of a country become such a force.

293
00:17:04,141 --> 00:17:05,001
- Prump?

294
00:17:05,101 --> 00:17:05,881
- Fart.

295
00:17:05,981 --> 00:17:08,841
(both laugh)

296
00:17:08,941 --> 00:17:13,401
And I've heard about a very lovely school,

297
00:17:13,501 --> 00:17:15,501
not so far from here, Roald,

298
00:17:15,901 --> 00:17:17,601
just over the water, actually.

299
00:17:17,701 --> 00:17:19,321
- So you are sending me away.

300
00:17:19,421 --> 00:17:23,001
- No, no, not yet.

301
00:17:23,101 --> 00:17:27,701
We've got the whole of the
Christmas holidays to go first.

302
00:17:29,021 --> 00:17:29,841
- No!

303
00:17:29,941 --> 00:17:30,681
- Roald!

304
00:17:30,781 --> 00:17:32,041
- No, I don't want to go.

305
00:17:32,141 --> 00:17:33,521
- Sit down, please.

306
00:17:33,621 --> 00:17:34,841
Let me tell you about it, first.

307
00:17:34,941 --> 00:17:36,601
It sounds like an adventure.

308
00:17:36,701 --> 00:17:38,081
- No, I won't go!

309
00:17:38,181 --> 00:17:39,921
And you can't make me
and neither can Papa,

310
00:17:40,021 --> 00:17:40,761
because Papa's dead!

311
00:17:40,861 --> 00:17:43,341
(door clacks)

312
00:17:44,261 --> 00:17:49,081
(footsteps stomping)
(solemn music)

313
00:17:49,181 --> 00:17:51,581
(door thuds)

314
00:17:54,261 --> 00:17:56,821
(somber music)

315
00:17:58,501 --> 00:18:01,321
- A nasty flash of temper
the boy's got there.

316
00:18:01,421 --> 00:18:03,801
But you don't go worrying your
pretty little head about it.

317
00:18:03,901 --> 00:18:06,681
They'll soon beat that out
of him in boarding school.

318
00:18:06,781 --> 00:18:07,521
Give you a bit of time

319
00:18:07,621 --> 00:18:11,001
for your needs, you know, love.

320
00:18:11,101 --> 00:18:15,341
(Sofie speaks in foreign language)

321
00:18:16,781 --> 00:18:19,461
(playful music)

322
00:18:20,381 --> 00:18:22,461
Beautiful, that creature.

323
00:18:24,101 --> 00:18:26,101
Reckon I'm in now.

324
00:18:29,501 --> 00:18:32,181
(William sighs)

325
00:18:33,781 --> 00:18:36,761
- I thought it might help
you get this book done.

326
00:18:36,861 --> 00:18:38,601
That's all.
- That has nothing

327
00:18:38,701 --> 00:18:41,641
to do with my eyes, William.

328
00:18:41,741 --> 00:18:44,761
And I can't get this book done,

329
00:18:44,861 --> 00:18:47,921
because I don't want to
get this blasted book done.

330
00:18:48,021 --> 00:18:48,721
- Why ever not?

331
00:18:48,821 --> 00:18:53,161
- Because Warne's don't care
what they publish anymore.

332
00:18:53,261 --> 00:18:55,361
I'm just a blank check to them now.

333
00:18:55,461 --> 00:18:57,681
All they want is another
damned bunny book,

334
00:18:57,781 --> 00:18:58,961
irrespective of the content,

335
00:18:59,061 --> 00:19:01,281
and then it's Christmas
bonuses all around.

336
00:19:01,381 --> 00:19:02,841
- So just give them one.

337
00:19:02,941 --> 00:19:04,941
- I, I can't.

338
00:19:06,621 --> 00:19:08,441
(Beatrix sobbing)
Hey.

339
00:19:08,541 --> 00:19:11,721
(Beatrix mumbles)

340
00:19:11,821 --> 00:19:12,841
Say?

341
00:19:12,941 --> 00:19:17,641
- I, I don't want to
wear spectacles, Willie.

342
00:19:17,741 --> 00:19:19,741
They'll make me look like an old lady.

343
00:19:22,141 --> 00:19:24,241
- You are an old lady, Beatrix.

344
00:19:24,341 --> 00:19:26,281
(Beatrix laughs)

345
00:19:26,381 --> 00:19:28,381
A perfectly serviceable one, too.

346
00:19:29,501 --> 00:19:32,441
- And that's exactly why
I married you, Mr. Heelis,

347
00:19:32,541 --> 00:19:35,041
your romantic way with words.

348
00:19:35,141 --> 00:19:36,241
- Nonsense.

349
00:19:36,341 --> 00:19:38,561
You married me for my ability

350
00:19:38,661 --> 00:19:41,181
to access land registry documents.

351
00:19:42,741 --> 00:19:46,761
Troutbeck Farm, it's coming up soon,

352
00:19:46,861 --> 00:19:48,761
but we can't hang about
if you're interested.

353
00:19:48,861 --> 00:19:50,441
There's a hotel here in Manchester

354
00:19:50,541 --> 00:19:52,921
who's already sniffing about.

355
00:19:53,021 --> 00:19:55,041
- That's most of Kirkstone Pass.

356
00:19:55,141 --> 00:19:55,881
- Exactly.

357
00:19:55,981 --> 00:19:57,241
- Well, they mustn't get it.

358
00:19:57,341 --> 00:19:59,041
It would change the whole area.

359
00:19:59,141 --> 00:20:00,121
- They're planning to carve it up,

360
00:20:00,221 --> 00:20:01,641
sell it off in sections.

361
00:20:01,741 --> 00:20:02,961
- How many acres?

362
00:20:03,061 --> 00:20:04,801
Can you read the rest
of it to me, William?

363
00:20:04,901 --> 00:20:06,241
- No.

364
00:20:06,341 --> 00:20:07,361
- Beg your pardon?

365
00:20:07,461 --> 00:20:09,041
- I won't.

366
00:20:09,141 --> 00:20:10,441
Read it yourself,

367
00:20:10,541 --> 00:20:12,781
unless, of course, you need spectacles.

368
00:20:15,301 --> 00:20:17,901
(clock chimes)

369
00:20:30,501 --> 00:20:32,881
(Beatrix sighs)

370
00:20:32,981 --> 00:20:35,041
- Hello.

371
00:20:35,141 --> 00:20:37,141
Are you still in there, somewhere?

372
00:20:38,301 --> 00:20:40,281
(Fleet whimpers)

373
00:20:40,381 --> 00:20:43,161
Well, what do you think?

374
00:20:43,261 --> 00:20:44,121
(Fleet whimpers)

375
00:20:44,221 --> 00:20:45,121
Rude!

376
00:20:45,221 --> 00:20:46,681
- [William] Bloody animal!

377
00:20:46,781 --> 00:20:48,781
- Sally!

378
00:20:49,621 --> 00:20:51,041
Oh, Sally.

379
00:20:51,141 --> 00:20:52,281
What have you done this time?

380
00:20:52,381 --> 00:20:54,121
(Sally snorts)

381
00:20:54,221 --> 00:20:56,121
Just stay there, just
stay there, just sit.

382
00:20:56,221 --> 00:20:58,841
- Has that damn pig of yours
been in the house again?

383
00:20:58,941 --> 00:21:00,941
- No, not that I know of, no.

384
00:21:02,381 --> 00:21:03,721
Why?

385
00:21:03,821 --> 00:21:06,521
(Sally flatulates)

386
00:21:06,621 --> 00:21:08,881
I, uh, beg your pardon.

387
00:21:08,981 --> 00:21:09,961
- Beatrix.

388
00:21:10,061 --> 00:21:12,681
- Sorry, darling, I
think it might be nerves.

389
00:21:12,781 --> 00:21:14,921
Did you need anything?

390
00:21:15,021 --> 00:21:19,001
- No, sit down, get that
blasted book written,

391
00:21:19,101 --> 00:21:21,261
so we can finally enjoy Christmas.

392
00:21:22,421 --> 00:21:25,061
- Yes, I'm writing. I'm writing!

393
00:21:26,781 --> 00:21:29,241
Now just settle down and stay there.

394
00:21:29,341 --> 00:21:31,941
(Sally snorts)

395
00:21:37,501 --> 00:21:40,181
(Beatrix sighs)

396
00:21:44,261 --> 00:21:46,861
(lively music)

397
00:21:56,501 --> 00:21:59,341
(mouse squeaking)

398
00:22:14,141 --> 00:22:15,721
(mouse yells)

399
00:22:15,821 --> 00:22:18,201
(metal clangs)

400
00:22:18,301 --> 00:22:20,981
(clock ticking)

401
00:22:25,261 --> 00:22:27,821
(solemn music)

402
00:22:33,141 --> 00:22:35,861
(ethereal music)

403
00:22:43,061 --> 00:22:44,601
- [Narrator] To be sent from your home

404
00:22:44,701 --> 00:22:46,701
when you're left on your own,

405
00:22:47,101 --> 00:22:49,381
with a sister and father now dead,

406
00:22:50,421 --> 00:22:52,641
left no choice for our mouse,

407
00:22:52,741 --> 00:22:55,121
'cause a home's just a house,

408
00:22:55,221 --> 00:22:57,741
if the future there fills you with dread.

409
00:22:58,861 --> 00:23:01,041
(gentle music)

410
00:23:01,141 --> 00:23:03,161
- Roald!

411
00:23:03,261 --> 00:23:04,801
- How do you know my name?

412
00:23:04,901 --> 00:23:07,141
- Your sister Astri told me, pea-brain.

413
00:23:08,221 --> 00:23:10,221
Runnin' away, are you?

414
00:23:11,061 --> 00:23:13,001
- Maybe.

415
00:23:13,101 --> 00:23:16,081
I've got space in my bag if
you want to come with me.

416
00:23:16,181 --> 00:23:16,921
- No, thanks.

417
00:23:17,021 --> 00:23:18,921
I think I'd best stay on Astri's bed,

418
00:23:19,021 --> 00:23:21,021
just in case she comes back.

419
00:23:22,701 --> 00:23:24,801
- She isn't coming back.

420
00:23:24,901 --> 00:23:26,241
- I know.

421
00:23:26,341 --> 00:23:29,461
Roald, before you go,
would you do me a favor?

422
00:23:33,781 --> 00:23:34,921
Astri wrote this.

423
00:23:35,021 --> 00:23:36,761
I'm worried it won't get posted.

424
00:23:36,861 --> 00:23:39,461
(gentle music)

425
00:23:45,341 --> 00:23:48,281
- "Dear Father Christmas, I am seven.

426
00:23:48,381 --> 00:23:50,641
This year, I have been good.

427
00:23:50,741 --> 00:23:53,681
Please can you get a new
dress for my doll Lavender.

428
00:23:53,781 --> 00:23:55,481
Her old one is getting a bit frayed."

429
00:23:55,581 --> 00:23:57,761
- Hmm, it is a bit.

430
00:23:57,861 --> 00:23:59,201
- "And please, could you get Roald

431
00:23:59,301 --> 00:24:01,281
a new Beatrix Potter book.

432
00:24:01,381 --> 00:24:04,241
He's read me all his
old ones so many times,

433
00:24:04,341 --> 00:24:06,601
and I'd really like to hear something new.

434
00:24:06,701 --> 00:24:08,921
- Mm-hmm.
- "Do have a safe journey.

435
00:24:09,021 --> 00:24:11,021
Love, Astri."

436
00:24:12,421 --> 00:24:14,001
- Would you post it for me?

437
00:24:14,101 --> 00:24:16,101
- Of course.

438
00:24:17,341 --> 00:24:18,801
See you then.

439
00:24:18,901 --> 00:24:20,401
- See you.

440
00:24:20,501 --> 00:24:23,101
And, Roald, do have a safe journey.

441
00:24:24,741 --> 00:24:27,601
(gentle music)

442
00:24:27,701 --> 00:24:29,001
(Lavender sighs)

443
00:24:29,101 --> 00:24:30,721
(door clacks)

444
00:24:30,821 --> 00:24:33,581
(Lavender sighs)

445
00:24:39,141 --> 00:24:41,821
(Beatrix sighs)

446
00:24:43,101 --> 00:24:45,681
(Beatrix mutters)

447
00:24:45,781 --> 00:24:48,461
(Beatrix sighs)

448
00:24:53,701 --> 00:24:56,381
(Beatrix yawns)

449
00:24:59,181 --> 00:25:00,801
(Sago quacking)

450
00:25:00,901 --> 00:25:05,521
- Oh, Sago, you have made a
foolish error there, my friend.

451
00:25:05,621 --> 00:25:07,801
I'll get you this time.

452
00:25:07,901 --> 00:25:10,501
(knife clinks)

453
00:25:14,061 --> 00:25:15,441
- Finished already?

454
00:25:15,541 --> 00:25:18,121
- Nearly. I've just got
to pop out and kill Sago.

455
00:25:18,221 --> 00:25:19,921
- Oh, honestly, Beatrix,

456
00:25:20,021 --> 00:25:21,961
I do wish you'd stop giving then names.

457
00:25:22,061 --> 00:25:24,321
It really does spoil a meal.

458
00:25:24,421 --> 00:25:26,421
- You're right. Sorry.

459
00:25:28,501 --> 00:25:30,501
Come on, dog.

460
00:25:31,461 --> 00:25:33,801
- I don't mind the pets,
just not the dinner.

461
00:25:33,901 --> 00:25:34,641
Please!

462
00:25:34,741 --> 00:25:35,761
- Absolutely.

463
00:25:35,861 --> 00:25:36,681
Come on.

464
00:25:36,781 --> 00:25:38,601
- When exactly are Warne's
expecting this book

465
00:25:38,701 --> 00:25:40,841
to be delivered by?

466
00:25:40,941 --> 00:25:42,481
- Tomorrow.

467
00:25:42,581 --> 00:25:44,521
But I'll say it was delayed in the post.

468
00:25:44,621 --> 00:25:46,201
You know what it's like this time of year.

469
00:25:46,301 --> 00:25:47,161
It'll be fine.

470
00:25:47,261 --> 00:25:49,761
And besides, it's only
the final manuscript.

471
00:25:49,861 --> 00:25:51,921
They've seen most of it already.

472
00:25:52,021 --> 00:25:53,001
- Beatrix.

473
00:25:53,101 --> 00:25:55,101
- Trust me, it'll be fine.

474
00:25:57,181 --> 00:25:58,241
(Fleet barks)

475
00:25:58,341 --> 00:26:01,801
(dramatic music)

476
00:26:01,901 --> 00:26:04,581
(ominous music)

477
00:26:13,301 --> 00:26:16,841
- [Narrator] Now when Mouse
left his home and set off alone,

478
00:26:16,941 --> 00:26:19,341
he was aware he was lacking a plan.

479
00:26:20,581 --> 00:26:22,681
But he knew in his heart

480
00:26:22,781 --> 00:26:26,481
that a good place to start was his map

481
00:26:26,581 --> 00:26:28,581
to a happier land.

482
00:26:30,101 --> 00:26:31,961
For whenever in doubt,

483
00:26:32,061 --> 00:26:34,381
if you're down but not out,

484
00:26:35,421 --> 00:26:38,301
there's comfort to be found between pages.

485
00:26:40,141 --> 00:26:42,521
But if it's true solace you seek,

486
00:26:42,621 --> 00:26:45,321
fire your mind, not your feet.

487
00:26:45,421 --> 00:26:47,421
And that healing, I'm afraid,

488
00:26:47,941 --> 00:26:49,941
well, that can take ages.

489
00:26:50,461 --> 00:26:53,021
(solemn music)

490
00:26:55,981 --> 00:26:57,981
- Roald!

491
00:26:59,541 --> 00:27:01,541
Roald!

492
00:27:02,861 --> 00:27:03,681
Roald!

493
00:27:03,781 --> 00:27:07,041
(ominous music)

494
00:27:07,141 --> 00:27:09,961
(ethereal music)
(wind whistling)

495
00:27:10,061 --> 00:27:13,061
(suspenseful music)

496
00:27:18,341 --> 00:27:20,741
- Ha, I've got you now, Sago.

497
00:27:22,501 --> 00:27:24,501
- [Man] Afternoon, Mrs. Heelis!

498
00:27:25,421 --> 00:27:27,421
- (sighs) Tom.

499
00:27:28,021 --> 00:27:29,441
What can I do to help you?

500
00:27:29,541 --> 00:27:30,881
- Ah, I just wanted to let you know

501
00:27:30,981 --> 00:27:33,601
I'm taking your first lot of
Herdwicks up on the fell now

502
00:27:33,701 --> 00:27:35,361
if you wanted to follow on.

503
00:27:35,461 --> 00:27:37,841
- Oh can't wee keep them
on Hill Top, over winter?

504
00:27:37,941 --> 00:27:38,841
- Keep 'em here?

505
00:27:38,941 --> 00:27:41,261
(scoffs) No, no, no, no, no.

506
00:27:42,341 --> 00:27:45,401
You may get your London sheep
able to live in those sort

507
00:27:45,501 --> 00:27:48,161
of cramped and squalid
conditions, Mrs. Heelis,

508
00:27:48,261 --> 00:27:50,201
not your Herdwicks, thank you very much.

509
00:27:50,301 --> 00:27:53,241
- Aren't actually that
many sheep in London, Tom.

510
00:27:53,341 --> 00:27:54,081
- Well, I wouldn't know.

511
00:27:54,181 --> 00:27:56,281
I've not been there myself.

512
00:27:56,381 --> 00:27:59,361
All I know is your Herdwicks
wouldn't stand for it.

513
00:27:59,461 --> 00:28:01,841
They need more land than that.

514
00:28:01,941 --> 00:28:04,481
- Like Troutbeck, that sort of land?

515
00:28:04,581 --> 00:28:06,121
- Exactly.

516
00:28:06,221 --> 00:28:07,921
Complicated breed, your Herdwick.

517
00:28:08,021 --> 00:28:10,041
- Hmm.
- They need space

518
00:28:10,141 --> 00:28:11,881
of their own,

519
00:28:11,981 --> 00:28:14,181
space to be left alone,

520
00:28:15,301 --> 00:28:17,121
to think.

521
00:28:17,221 --> 00:28:18,041
- Right.

522
00:28:18,141 --> 00:28:21,241
Do you think perhaps I was a Herdwick

523
00:28:21,341 --> 00:28:23,001
in a previous life, Tom? (laughs)

524
00:28:23,101 --> 00:28:24,241
- No.

525
00:28:24,341 --> 00:28:25,361
- I see.

526
00:28:25,461 --> 00:28:26,921
So you comin' or what?

527
00:28:27,021 --> 00:28:28,481
'Cause Herdwicks don't wait for no one,

528
00:28:28,581 --> 00:28:29,401
no matter who you are

529
00:28:29,501 --> 00:28:32,701
or what fancy part of London
town you're born and raised in.

530
00:28:33,621 --> 00:28:34,641
- Do you know what?

531
00:28:34,741 --> 00:28:39,801
You've just given me a very
good reason to get back to work,

532
00:28:39,901 --> 00:28:43,881
see if I can't buy our
ladies a bit more room.

533
00:28:43,981 --> 00:28:45,721
But call for me later,
and I'll join you then.

534
00:28:45,821 --> 00:28:46,961
- Suit yourself.

535
00:28:47,061 --> 00:28:49,061
I'm not bothered, either way.

536
00:28:49,381 --> 00:28:50,721
Come on now, you!

537
00:28:50,821 --> 00:28:52,801
Haven't got all bloody day.

538
00:28:52,901 --> 00:28:55,681
Well, I have, as you know,

539
00:28:55,781 --> 00:28:58,101
but I'm not spending it
with the likes of you.

540
00:28:59,741 --> 00:29:00,961
(train horn bellows)

541
00:29:01,061 --> 00:29:04,121
- [Man] Platform two,
we're expecting one soon.

542
00:29:04,221 --> 00:29:06,821
(solemn music)

543
00:29:08,501 --> 00:29:11,861
- [Man] Come on, move it out of the way!

544
00:29:12,861 --> 00:29:14,861
- Kentish cobnut?

545
00:29:15,501 --> 00:29:18,141
(playful music)

546
00:29:20,061 --> 00:29:22,061
Quite right, chicken.

547
00:29:23,901 --> 00:29:27,241
You've taken a shufty at
an old fungus like me,

548
00:29:27,341 --> 00:29:30,401
offering you up some dodgy
Manjari, and thought,

549
00:29:30,501 --> 00:29:34,161
not likely, pal! (laughs)

550
00:29:34,261 --> 00:29:36,601
You're no dido, are ya?

551
00:29:36,701 --> 00:29:37,801
(man laughs)

552
00:29:37,901 --> 00:29:39,521
- I try not to be.

553
00:29:39,621 --> 00:29:43,121
- Well, don't you worry
your bones about it.

554
00:29:43,221 --> 00:29:46,501
I'm a bonafide gent, make no mistakings.

555
00:29:49,261 --> 00:29:51,481
Where's a young fidelio like you off to,

556
00:29:51,581 --> 00:29:53,581
on your tort, anyhows?

557
00:29:53,981 --> 00:29:55,981
- Here.

558
00:29:56,781 --> 00:29:59,121
(man whistles)

559
00:29:59,221 --> 00:30:01,221
- Fantabulosa!

560
00:30:01,621 --> 00:30:03,441
Bona place to call your flowery patch,

561
00:30:03,541 --> 00:30:05,361
if you can get heels on it, eh?

562
00:30:05,461 --> 00:30:06,881
- It's in the Lake District.

563
00:30:06,981 --> 00:30:08,161
- Yeah?

564
00:30:08,261 --> 00:30:11,221
You got the denari for a trip
up a district, like that?

565
00:30:12,181 --> 00:30:13,121
- Sorry?

566
00:30:13,221 --> 00:30:15,481
- The medzas, moola,

567
00:30:15,581 --> 00:30:16,801
the filthy lucre?

568
00:30:16,901 --> 00:30:19,161
- (chuckles) Oh, yes, a bit.

569
00:30:19,261 --> 00:30:21,321
- Gushti.

570
00:30:21,421 --> 00:30:23,521
'Cause you could always
come see your Unky Bonafide,

571
00:30:23,621 --> 00:30:25,621
if you get stuck in the brassicas.

572
00:30:26,461 --> 00:30:28,561
Despite the shonky garms,

573
00:30:28,661 --> 00:30:30,521
I'm not short on the old lollipops,

574
00:30:30,621 --> 00:30:31,841
if you follow my fathoms.

575
00:30:31,941 --> 00:30:33,201
(coins jingling)

576
00:30:33,301 --> 00:30:34,801
(man laughs)

577
00:30:34,901 --> 00:30:36,361
- I'm fine. Thank you.

578
00:30:36,461 --> 00:30:37,921
- Smashing!

579
00:30:38,021 --> 00:30:40,761
In that case, keep your orbs in your bunts

580
00:30:40,861 --> 00:30:43,001
and your lally tappers on
the end of your stimps,

581
00:30:43,101 --> 00:30:45,361
ready to scarper, if need be.

582
00:30:45,461 --> 00:30:46,841
Am I right or am I left?

583
00:30:46,941 --> 00:30:48,941
- (laughs) Right.
- Right.

584
00:30:50,341 --> 00:30:54,121
Oh, hold on to your Irish
jig, my little ragioso.

585
00:30:54,221 --> 00:30:56,801
There's a sharpy palone
headin' straight for us.

586
00:30:56,901 --> 00:31:00,641
So if you don't mind, I
might take this opportunity

587
00:31:00,741 --> 00:31:02,741
to wish you a bona noche.

588
00:31:03,581 --> 00:31:04,801
- Bona noche?

589
00:31:04,901 --> 00:31:07,661
(dramatic music)

590
00:31:10,181 --> 00:31:12,601
- Yes, Miss, here's one.

591
00:31:12,701 --> 00:31:15,261
(solemn music)

592
00:31:18,701 --> 00:31:23,701
(train chugging)
(solemn music)

593
00:31:26,101 --> 00:31:27,521
- [Sofie] Hello.

594
00:31:27,621 --> 00:31:29,621
- Hello.

595
00:31:32,541 --> 00:31:34,401
(Sofie sighs)

596
00:31:34,501 --> 00:31:36,501
- Fancy meeting you here.

597
00:31:38,381 --> 00:31:40,441
(Sofie sighs)

598
00:31:40,541 --> 00:31:43,201
- I wouldn't have actually gone, you know.

599
00:31:43,301 --> 00:31:47,361
- I know. (sniffs)

600
00:31:47,461 --> 00:31:50,501
Do you think you might
like to come home, perhaps?

601
00:31:51,901 --> 00:31:53,901
- So you can send me away again?

602
00:31:55,421 --> 00:31:57,421
- I'm not sending you away.

603
00:31:58,581 --> 00:32:02,841
I'm just asking you to think about it.

604
00:32:02,941 --> 00:32:04,941
For me and for Papa.

605
00:32:07,301 --> 00:32:09,761
- If you do something for me.

606
00:32:09,861 --> 00:32:11,121
- Oh?

607
00:32:11,221 --> 00:32:13,221
A deal? I see.

608
00:32:13,941 --> 00:32:15,941
What is it?

609
00:32:17,981 --> 00:32:19,981
- [Roald] Take me here.

610
00:32:20,661 --> 00:32:23,001
- Beatrix Potter's house?

611
00:32:23,101 --> 00:32:25,501
Well, this is Cumbria, isn't it?

612
00:32:26,741 --> 00:32:30,001
- You're thinking it's too far to go.

613
00:32:30,101 --> 00:32:34,221
- Actually, I'm thinking I hope
this train leaves sometime.

614
00:32:35,701 --> 00:32:38,081
We've a long journey ahead of us.

615
00:32:38,181 --> 00:32:39,321
(bright music)

616
00:32:39,421 --> 00:32:41,201
- Oh.

617
00:32:41,301 --> 00:32:42,201
(whistle blows)

618
00:32:42,301 --> 00:32:44,681
- Come on, what you waitin' for?

619
00:32:44,781 --> 00:32:46,281
All aboard, ya dolly old minx!

620
00:32:46,381 --> 00:32:47,521
- [Sofie] Come on, let's go.

621
00:32:47,621 --> 00:32:51,641
- [Narrator] Mouse knew with
one glance this was his chance.

622
00:32:51,741 --> 00:32:54,361
If missed, he might not get another,

623
00:32:54,461 --> 00:32:56,461
for he was now strong as iron

624
00:32:56,901 --> 00:32:58,241
and brave as a lion,

625
00:32:58,341 --> 00:33:00,461
as long as by his side was his mother.

626
00:33:01,341 --> 00:33:06,341
(upbeat music)
(train chugging)

627
00:33:24,901 --> 00:33:26,901
- William!

628
00:33:27,381 --> 00:33:29,481
Sorry, I've taken so long.

629
00:33:29,581 --> 00:33:34,241
Sago, I mean, dinner is
being very uncooperative,

630
00:33:34,341 --> 00:33:37,081
and then I saw Tom.

631
00:33:37,181 --> 00:33:37,921
- [William] There's a visitor.

632
00:33:38,021 --> 00:33:39,441
- Sorry, I cannot hear a word.

633
00:33:39,541 --> 00:33:42,081
Let me just get my boots off.

634
00:33:42,181 --> 00:33:42,941
- [William] You've got a visitor.

635
00:33:43,021 --> 00:33:44,321
- I cannot hear you.

636
00:33:44,421 --> 00:33:46,681
I'll be in, in a minute.

637
00:33:46,781 --> 00:33:48,321
(Beatrix sighs)

638
00:33:48,421 --> 00:33:51,761
I suppose I'm losing my
hearing as well as my sight.

639
00:33:51,861 --> 00:33:53,361
You'll be towing me across the fells

640
00:33:53,461 --> 00:33:55,461
in a bath chair soon, Fleet.

641
00:33:57,021 --> 00:33:58,921
(Beatrix groans)

642
00:33:59,021 --> 00:34:01,021
Ooh!

643
00:34:05,421 --> 00:34:08,681
(sighs) Not again, Tom Kitten.

644
00:34:08,781 --> 00:34:11,841
(whistle blows)

645
00:34:11,941 --> 00:34:14,701
(train chugging)

646
00:34:28,021 --> 00:34:30,861
- You mind? I just need
to stretch the leg.

647
00:34:37,741 --> 00:34:40,181
Thank you so much,
terribly, terribly kind.

648
00:34:44,061 --> 00:34:45,401
Roald, psst!

649
00:34:45,501 --> 00:34:48,081
Roald, let's play a game.

650
00:34:48,181 --> 00:34:50,181
- Okay, what game?

651
00:34:50,541 --> 00:34:52,541
- Hide and seek.

652
00:34:53,301 --> 00:34:54,001
- A bit tricky.

653
00:34:54,101 --> 00:34:56,161
- Mm-hmm.

654
00:34:56,261 --> 00:34:58,121
Okay, tag.

655
00:34:58,221 --> 00:34:59,721
- Again, tricky.

656
00:34:59,821 --> 00:35:03,141
- Mm, yes, tricky, tricky, you're right.

657
00:35:04,541 --> 00:35:05,481
- I spy.

658
00:35:05,581 --> 00:35:06,601
- Look, do you mind?

659
00:35:06,701 --> 00:35:08,161
I'm trying to read the newspaper.

660
00:35:08,261 --> 00:35:10,301
I would appreciate some quiet.

661
00:35:11,701 --> 00:35:13,801
- I am so very sorry.

662
00:35:13,901 --> 00:35:18,281
We had no idea you were
doing something so important.

663
00:35:18,381 --> 00:35:19,921
Forgive us.

664
00:35:20,021 --> 00:35:22,021
- Just keep it down, will you?

665
00:35:23,181 --> 00:35:25,181
- Of course.

666
00:35:26,821 --> 00:35:31,061
We will be quiet as
mices, won't we, Roald?

667
00:35:33,301 --> 00:35:35,301
Sandwich, darling?

668
00:35:36,221 --> 00:35:37,881
- Not hungry.

669
00:35:37,981 --> 00:35:39,981
- Yes, you are, darling.

670
00:35:42,381 --> 00:35:45,061
(playful music)

671
00:35:47,421 --> 00:35:50,001
(Sofie and Roald laugh)

672
00:35:50,101 --> 00:35:50,961
- All right, that's it.

673
00:35:51,061 --> 00:35:53,441
Enough of this whiffle.

674
00:35:53,541 --> 00:35:55,841
(Roald chuckles)

675
00:35:55,941 --> 00:35:58,741
(sandwich splats)

676
00:35:59,701 --> 00:36:01,321
I bid you both good day.

677
00:36:01,421 --> 00:36:02,361
(playful music)

678
00:36:02,461 --> 00:36:05,881
(Roald laughing)

679
00:36:05,981 --> 00:36:06,801
- Whiffle?

680
00:36:06,901 --> 00:36:09,081
(both laughing)

681
00:36:09,181 --> 00:36:11,821
(playful music)

682
00:36:28,341 --> 00:36:33,341
(bell ringing)
(people chattering)

683
00:36:37,061 --> 00:36:38,641
Wait here for a taxi.

684
00:36:38,741 --> 00:36:39,801
I'll be right back.

685
00:36:39,901 --> 00:36:42,881
(people chattering)

686
00:36:42,981 --> 00:36:45,741
- [Woman] Thank you. Quickly now!

687
00:36:49,301 --> 00:36:50,121
- [Man] Get the sheep.

688
00:36:50,221 --> 00:36:52,901
Get the sheepdog. Get a move on.

689
00:37:00,501 --> 00:37:01,521
- Hurry up!

690
00:37:01,621 --> 00:37:03,001
I haven't got all day.

691
00:37:03,101 --> 00:37:04,201
Oh, come on!

692
00:37:04,301 --> 00:37:05,321
- Very slippery.

693
00:37:05,421 --> 00:37:07,421
Here you go, ma'am.

694
00:37:09,341 --> 00:37:10,561
- Get in, come on.
- Careful, or you'll fall.

695
00:37:10,661 --> 00:37:12,661
- [Woman] Get a move on.

696
00:37:13,941 --> 00:37:15,941
- Excuse me, sorry.

697
00:37:16,461 --> 00:37:18,841
But I was actually next in line.

698
00:37:18,941 --> 00:37:22,521
- Oh? Were you indeed, you little pest?

699
00:37:22,621 --> 00:37:25,081
Well, you ain't next in
line anymore, are you?

700
00:37:25,181 --> 00:37:27,181
- But I was.

701
00:37:28,461 --> 00:37:30,461
What a horrid lady.

702
00:37:31,541 --> 00:37:33,681
- Tell me about it.

703
00:37:33,781 --> 00:37:34,521
- Wow.

704
00:37:34,621 --> 00:37:36,481
- You should try livin' with her.

705
00:37:36,581 --> 00:37:37,601
- You can talk?

706
00:37:37,701 --> 00:37:39,441
- Hey, buddy, what can I tell ya?

707
00:37:39,541 --> 00:37:40,801
I used to do a whole lot of things

708
00:37:40,901 --> 00:37:43,041
before this mook got hold of me.

709
00:37:43,141 --> 00:37:44,281
- Like what?

710
00:37:44,381 --> 00:37:45,641
- Like what, he says!

711
00:37:45,741 --> 00:37:48,361
I could see in the dark,
dig a den a mile deep,

712
00:37:48,461 --> 00:37:50,281
run faster than an automobile.

713
00:37:50,381 --> 00:37:52,841
Now look at me, an accessory to nothin'.

714
00:37:52,941 --> 00:37:54,801
- Why don't you just run away?

715
00:37:54,901 --> 00:37:56,001
- I've thought about it, pal.

716
00:37:56,101 --> 00:37:57,601
Don't get me wrong, I have.

717
00:37:57,701 --> 00:37:59,401
But to tell ya the truth,

718
00:37:59,501 --> 00:38:01,481
in the end, I just don't have the guts.

719
00:38:01,581 --> 00:38:03,161
(both laugh)

720
00:38:03,261 --> 00:38:04,321
I don't have the guts. You get it?

721
00:38:04,421 --> 00:38:06,001
(both laugh)

722
00:38:06,101 --> 00:38:07,841
'Cause they took my guts away.

723
00:38:07,941 --> 00:38:10,481
(Roald laughing)

724
00:38:10,581 --> 00:38:13,321
- What are you laughing
at, you nasty little brat?

725
00:38:13,421 --> 00:38:15,361
- Nothing, nothing at all.

726
00:38:15,461 --> 00:38:17,601
(woman scoffs)

727
00:38:17,701 --> 00:38:19,941
- [Woman] Hey, George,
and don't dilly dally.

728
00:38:21,661 --> 00:38:24,421
(car doors thud)

729
00:38:25,581 --> 00:38:27,581
- Be lucky, hombre. Be lucky!

730
00:38:29,021 --> 00:38:31,701
(quirky music)

731
00:38:33,461 --> 00:38:34,721
- Who was that?

732
00:38:34,821 --> 00:38:36,001
- No one.

733
00:38:36,101 --> 00:38:38,161
- Mm!

734
00:38:38,261 --> 00:38:41,081
Come on, don't stand about with
your beard in the post box.

735
00:38:41,181 --> 00:38:43,121
Apparently, we can walk from here.

736
00:38:43,221 --> 00:38:45,401
(gentle music)

737
00:38:45,501 --> 00:38:47,501
Come on.

738
00:38:48,061 --> 00:38:53,061
(Sofie sighs)
(gentle music)

739
00:38:53,901 --> 00:38:58,041
(ethereal music)
(wind whistling)

740
00:38:58,141 --> 00:39:01,001
- Another present from Tom Kitten.

741
00:39:01,101 --> 00:39:02,441
- Revolting creature.

742
00:39:02,541 --> 00:39:03,721
Now you're givin' it to me.

743
00:39:03,821 --> 00:39:05,961
(Beatrix laughs)
Thank you so much.

744
00:39:06,061 --> 00:39:08,441
Shall I tell her that you'll see her now?

745
00:39:08,541 --> 00:39:10,081
- Tell who I'll see what?

746
00:39:10,181 --> 00:39:12,201
- [William] Your young lady.

747
00:39:12,301 --> 00:39:13,801
- I haven't got a young lady.

748
00:39:13,901 --> 00:39:14,601
- Well, you have.

749
00:39:14,701 --> 00:39:15,761
She's in the drawing room.

750
00:39:15,861 --> 00:39:19,921
- (sighs) But I haven't
killed Christmas dinner yet.

751
00:39:20,021 --> 00:39:22,481
- Honestly, Beatrix, leave that to me.

752
00:39:22,581 --> 00:39:24,581
You have a guest.

753
00:39:25,781 --> 00:39:27,781
- Fine!

754
00:39:32,221 --> 00:39:33,641
Can I help you?

755
00:39:33,741 --> 00:39:36,681
- Beatrix Potter, so lovely to meet you.

756
00:39:36,781 --> 00:39:38,641
I am a huge, huge fan.

757
00:39:38,741 --> 00:39:40,521
Anne Landy.

758
00:39:40,621 --> 00:39:43,881
- Oh, I wasn't expecting visitors today.

759
00:39:43,981 --> 00:39:45,081
- Oh really?

760
00:39:45,181 --> 00:39:47,361
Oh don't say that, I can't bear it.

761
00:39:47,461 --> 00:39:49,521
Warne assured me he'd
made several introductions

762
00:39:49,621 --> 00:39:50,921
on my behalf.

763
00:39:51,021 --> 00:39:52,321
Didn't you get his letters?

764
00:39:52,421 --> 00:39:57,201
- Uh, no, I'm afraid not.

765
00:39:57,301 --> 00:39:59,841
Delayed in the Christmas post, perhaps.

766
00:39:59,941 --> 00:40:01,921
- Yes, perhaps, perhaps.

767
00:40:02,021 --> 00:40:03,561
The post is dreadful at this time of year.

768
00:40:03,661 --> 00:40:04,721
It's dreadful.

769
00:40:04,821 --> 00:40:06,641
I sent a cardigan to my sister in Freund.

770
00:40:06,741 --> 00:40:08,121
Do you know she still hasn't got it?

771
00:40:08,221 --> 00:40:09,681
- When did you post it?

772
00:40:09,781 --> 00:40:11,781
- About two years ago now.

773
00:40:13,101 --> 00:40:14,641
- I see.

774
00:40:14,741 --> 00:40:19,741
What exactly can I do
to help you, Miss Landy?

775
00:40:20,701 --> 00:40:22,081
- Oh, gosh, of course!

776
00:40:22,181 --> 00:40:23,101
If you haven't received his letters,

777
00:40:23,181 --> 00:40:24,401
you wouldn't know, would you?

778
00:40:24,501 --> 00:40:25,601
Shall we start all over again?

779
00:40:25,701 --> 00:40:27,401
- No, that's not really necessary.

780
00:40:27,501 --> 00:40:28,721
I-
- Beatrix Potter,

781
00:40:28,821 --> 00:40:30,281
lovely to meet you, huge fan.

782
00:40:30,381 --> 00:40:32,561
Anne Landy, work at Warne's.

783
00:40:32,661 --> 00:40:34,961
They sent me to collect
the manuscript in person.

784
00:40:35,061 --> 00:40:36,241
Save you the postage.

785
00:40:36,341 --> 00:40:38,341
- Have they, indeed?

786
00:40:39,501 --> 00:40:41,441
That's most kind.

787
00:40:41,541 --> 00:40:43,801
- Can't have your lovely new
manuscript going the same way

788
00:40:43,901 --> 00:40:45,001
as my sister's cardigan, now can we?

789
00:40:45,101 --> 00:40:46,641
- No, heaven forbid.

790
00:40:46,741 --> 00:40:49,761
- So shall we get some tea,

791
00:40:49,861 --> 00:40:51,361
take a look at what you've been up to,

792
00:40:51,461 --> 00:40:53,461
you clever old thing you?

793
00:40:54,581 --> 00:40:56,681
- Thank you. That goes there.

794
00:40:56,781 --> 00:41:00,041
(wind whistling)

795
00:41:00,141 --> 00:41:02,901
(ethereal music)

796
00:41:07,061 --> 00:41:10,041
(Sofie gasping)

797
00:41:10,141 --> 00:41:11,681
- So, this is it then?

798
00:41:11,781 --> 00:41:14,761
- It's exactly like the
drawings, Mama, exactly,

799
00:41:14,861 --> 00:41:17,681
even the rhubarb plants by the gate, look.

800
00:41:17,781 --> 00:41:19,441
- I can see.

801
00:41:19,541 --> 00:41:22,281
(ethereal music)
(Sofie sighs)

802
00:41:22,381 --> 00:41:24,401
- Thank you.

803
00:41:24,501 --> 00:41:25,401
- What for?

804
00:41:25,501 --> 00:41:27,501
- For bringing me.

805
00:41:29,821 --> 00:41:31,281
- Sorry, you mean that is it?

806
00:41:31,381 --> 00:41:33,441
- Yeah, so I've seen it now.

807
00:41:33,541 --> 00:41:35,761
- (laughs) No, no, no, no.

808
00:41:35,861 --> 00:41:39,281
We did not travel all this way

809
00:41:39,381 --> 00:41:42,721
to boil away to nothing in cabbage.

810
00:41:42,821 --> 00:41:43,841
Go in.

811
00:41:43,941 --> 00:41:46,001
- I can't. I'm not allowed.

812
00:41:46,101 --> 00:41:47,121
- Says who so?

813
00:41:47,221 --> 00:41:49,221
- They do, right there.

814
00:41:50,301 --> 00:41:51,881
- Oh, (speaks in foreign language).

815
00:41:51,981 --> 00:41:52,921
You're Norwegian.

816
00:41:53,021 --> 00:41:53,961
You can't read that.

817
00:41:54,061 --> 00:41:56,061
Just pretend you haven't seen it.

818
00:41:59,021 --> 00:42:01,021
- Really?
- Yes, yes.

819
00:42:02,021 --> 00:42:03,161
- Will you come with me?

820
00:42:03,261 --> 00:42:05,601
- (laughs) Darling boy,

821
00:42:05,701 --> 00:42:09,421
if I come with you on every
adventure you have in life,

822
00:42:10,461 --> 00:42:13,441
you'll never have any
stories to tell me, will you?

823
00:42:13,541 --> 00:42:14,721
- [Roald] I suppose.

824
00:42:14,821 --> 00:42:18,441
- And when I am a little old lady,

825
00:42:18,541 --> 00:42:20,721
stuck at home with a blanket on my knees,

826
00:42:20,821 --> 00:42:24,601
I will need you, out
here, in this big world,

827
00:42:24,701 --> 00:42:26,701
telling me all about it.

828
00:42:28,861 --> 00:42:31,081
Now go, start your adventures now.

829
00:42:31,181 --> 00:42:32,601
I'll be back in one hour, okay?

830
00:42:32,701 --> 00:42:34,721
- Okay.

831
00:42:34,821 --> 00:42:35,721
- Okay.

832
00:42:35,821 --> 00:42:38,421
(gentle music)

833
00:42:39,381 --> 00:42:40,481
You'll be fine.

834
00:42:40,581 --> 00:42:43,141
(gentle music)

835
00:43:01,661 --> 00:43:02,721
(bright music)

836
00:43:02,821 --> 00:43:04,081
- [Narrator] As Mouse scampered ahead

837
00:43:04,181 --> 00:43:06,201
to the words she had said wrapped him up

838
00:43:06,301 --> 00:43:08,561
as if now he wore armor.

839
00:43:08,661 --> 00:43:12,441
And whatever he found,
every detail, every sound,

840
00:43:12,541 --> 00:43:15,721
he'd remember and take home to charm her.

841
00:43:15,821 --> 00:43:18,421
(bright music)

842
00:43:52,701 --> 00:43:55,381
(clock ticking)

843
00:44:09,581 --> 00:44:11,901
- So, what do you think?

844
00:44:14,341 --> 00:44:18,221
- Well, let me be totally honest with you.

845
00:44:21,021 --> 00:44:24,041
I think it's divine.

846
00:44:24,141 --> 00:44:28,561
(laughs) Sorry, your face then, so funny.

847
00:44:28,661 --> 00:44:31,401
You thought I was going to
be cross, but I love it.

848
00:44:31,501 --> 00:44:33,901
The little rabbit making ale in a pinny.

849
00:44:34,741 --> 00:44:36,081
- Cecily Parsley.

850
00:44:36,181 --> 00:44:38,281
- Yes, Cecily, absolutely love her.

851
00:44:38,381 --> 00:44:39,481
Warne's will go bananas for it.

852
00:44:39,581 --> 00:44:41,601
Honestly, I think we'll
sell this by the ton.

853
00:44:41,701 --> 00:44:43,521
I just know we will.

854
00:44:43,621 --> 00:44:44,401
- I'm sure you will.

855
00:44:44,501 --> 00:44:46,721
- Watch out, Peter Rabbit,
there's a new bunny in town.

856
00:44:46,821 --> 00:44:48,761
(Anne laughs)

857
00:44:48,861 --> 00:44:50,881
- Well, if I finish off a
couple of drawings today,

858
00:44:50,981 --> 00:44:52,361
you can take it back to London.

859
00:44:52,461 --> 00:44:54,441
- Smashing.

860
00:44:54,541 --> 00:44:56,541
Before you do...

861
00:44:57,341 --> 00:45:00,201
(Anne chuckles)

862
00:45:00,301 --> 00:45:01,441
(Anne sighs)

863
00:45:01,541 --> 00:45:03,281
- Is there a problem?

864
00:45:03,381 --> 00:45:05,381
- No flies on you, B.P.

865
00:45:05,941 --> 00:45:08,721
Warne was hoping you might be able

866
00:45:08,821 --> 00:45:11,021
to make one teeny-weeny alteration.

867
00:45:12,341 --> 00:45:13,361
- Oh, he was, was he?

868
00:45:13,461 --> 00:45:16,161
- It's just those rather
pesky blind mice of yours.

869
00:45:16,261 --> 00:45:17,721
(clicks) Eek.

870
00:45:17,821 --> 00:45:19,041
- What about them?

871
00:45:19,141 --> 00:45:20,121
- Well, nothing, obviously.

872
00:45:20,221 --> 00:45:21,241
We adore them.

873
00:45:21,341 --> 00:45:23,161
But general feeling in the office is

874
00:45:23,261 --> 00:45:26,081
that some of the language is a little too,

875
00:45:26,181 --> 00:45:27,441
how can I best put this?

876
00:45:27,541 --> 00:45:28,681
- I'd recommend quickly.

877
00:45:28,781 --> 00:45:31,161
- Extreme for the kiddies.
(Beatrix groans)

878
00:45:31,261 --> 00:45:33,561
I mean, the fact that they're
blind, in the first place,

879
00:45:33,661 --> 00:45:34,561
all three of the darlings-

880
00:45:34,661 --> 00:45:36,481
- It's a nursery rhyme.

881
00:45:36,581 --> 00:45:38,281
- But it's so sad.

882
00:45:38,381 --> 00:45:40,521
- Is it?

883
00:45:40,621 --> 00:45:42,201
(Beatrix grunts)

884
00:45:42,301 --> 00:45:43,721
(quirky music)

885
00:45:43,821 --> 00:45:45,161
What was that?

886
00:45:45,261 --> 00:45:46,361
- Uh, what was what?

887
00:45:46,461 --> 00:45:48,241
- In the garden, did you see it?

888
00:45:48,341 --> 00:45:50,081
- See what?

889
00:45:50,181 --> 00:45:51,761
- You were saying?

890
00:45:51,861 --> 00:45:54,001
- Yes, then despite
their obvious disability,

891
00:45:54,101 --> 00:45:56,241
the blind mice, out
comes the farmer's wife,

892
00:45:56,341 --> 00:45:58,841
and well, you know the rest.

893
00:45:58,941 --> 00:46:01,041
- Peter?

894
00:46:01,141 --> 00:46:02,121
Sorry.

895
00:46:02,221 --> 00:46:04,521
- She cuts off their tails
with a carving knife.

896
00:46:04,621 --> 00:46:05,761
(quirky music)

897
00:46:05,861 --> 00:46:07,561
- The nerve of people.

898
00:46:07,661 --> 00:46:08,841
- Exactly.

899
00:46:08,941 --> 00:46:10,241
Horrible!

900
00:46:10,341 --> 00:46:12,441
Not really bedtime story stuff, now is it?

901
00:46:12,541 --> 00:46:15,441
We don't want to give the
children nightmares, now do we?

902
00:46:15,541 --> 00:46:17,361
- I'm sorry. I don't follow.

903
00:46:17,461 --> 00:46:20,441
- So Warne's have sent me here in the hope

904
00:46:20,541 --> 00:46:22,281
that between us we
might be able to come up

905
00:46:22,381 --> 00:46:26,101
with something a little
less ghastly. (laughs)

906
00:46:29,021 --> 00:46:29,841
- We?

907
00:46:29,941 --> 00:46:32,281
- I know, you and me.

908
00:46:32,381 --> 00:46:34,041
Should be fun, don't you think?

909
00:46:34,141 --> 00:46:35,401
(Anne laughs)

910
00:46:35,501 --> 00:46:38,061
(quirky music)

911
00:46:40,221 --> 00:46:43,001
(ethereal music)
(wind whistling)

912
00:46:43,101 --> 00:46:45,701
(solemn music)

913
00:47:14,861 --> 00:47:16,861
- Closed, love.

914
00:47:17,301 --> 00:47:20,381
- Sorry, I'll rest here for a moment.

915
00:47:22,221 --> 00:47:24,881
(Sofie sighs)

916
00:47:24,981 --> 00:47:27,381
(Dora sighs)

917
00:47:31,141 --> 00:47:34,241
(Sofie sighs)

918
00:47:34,341 --> 00:47:37,361
(lock clicks)

919
00:47:37,461 --> 00:47:39,941
- Come on then, there's room at the inn.

920
00:47:41,261 --> 00:47:42,081
- What inn?

921
00:47:42,181 --> 00:47:42,921
- This one.

922
00:47:43,021 --> 00:47:45,121
Park yourself there.

923
00:47:45,221 --> 00:47:47,221
I'll get the kettle back on.

924
00:47:47,981 --> 00:47:50,281
- That's very kind. Thank you.

925
00:47:50,381 --> 00:47:53,761
- Well, can't be turning you away

926
00:47:53,861 --> 00:47:56,321
in your condition at Christmas.

927
00:47:56,421 --> 00:47:59,041
Who knows who've you got parked in there?

928
00:47:59,141 --> 00:48:03,121
I might go down in history as
Dora, the heartless waitress

929
00:48:03,221 --> 00:48:06,441
what turned away the new messiah. (laughs)

930
00:48:06,541 --> 00:48:08,761
- I don't think it's the new messiah.

931
00:48:08,861 --> 00:48:10,201
This is baby number five.

932
00:48:10,301 --> 00:48:11,401
- Ooh!

933
00:48:11,501 --> 00:48:13,501
Crikey, you have been busy.

934
00:48:14,621 --> 00:48:16,121
(Dora grunts)

935
00:48:16,221 --> 00:48:18,301
Hasn't your fella got any other hobbies?

936
00:48:19,421 --> 00:48:21,041
Tell him to take up cricket

937
00:48:21,141 --> 00:48:24,841
or cross-stitch or something. (laughs)

938
00:48:24,941 --> 00:48:26,281
And if that fails,

939
00:48:26,381 --> 00:48:29,541
just tie a knot in it. (laughs)

940
00:48:34,861 --> 00:48:37,041
Oh God.

941
00:48:37,141 --> 00:48:39,141
Oh you poor lamb.

942
00:48:40,381 --> 00:48:42,381
Oh, I'm such an idiot.

943
00:48:43,381 --> 00:48:44,201
He's left you,

944
00:48:44,301 --> 00:48:46,441
hasn't he?
- (sobs) No.

945
00:48:46,541 --> 00:48:48,541
- Not left you?

946
00:48:49,101 --> 00:48:51,101
He's not dead, is he?

947
00:48:52,301 --> 00:48:54,161
- This week,

948
00:48:54,261 --> 00:48:56,261
pneumonia, but then,

949
00:48:58,581 --> 00:49:01,101
two weeks before that,
my little girl died,

950
00:49:03,781 --> 00:49:08,781
burst appendix, and my
baby is due any day now.

951
00:49:09,381 --> 00:49:13,601
We have run out of money, almost entirely.

952
00:49:13,701 --> 00:49:17,201
And then, to top all the things off,

953
00:49:17,301 --> 00:49:20,921
my youngest son ran away from home

954
00:49:21,021 --> 00:49:24,541
to find a Puddle-Duck. (chuckles)

955
00:49:25,901 --> 00:49:28,561
- Right, you stay put.

956
00:49:28,661 --> 00:49:30,321
I'll be right back.

957
00:49:30,421 --> 00:49:32,681
- (sniffs) Where are you going?

958
00:49:32,781 --> 00:49:34,721
- To fetch the rest of that cake.

959
00:49:34,821 --> 00:49:37,421
We're gonna need it, judgin'
by the week you've had.

960
00:49:40,181 --> 00:49:42,881
- [Anne] They all run
after the farmer's wife,

961
00:49:42,981 --> 00:49:47,981
who releases them kindly
and ends all their strife.

962
00:49:48,341 --> 00:49:49,921
- No.

963
00:49:50,021 --> 00:49:55,021
- Who, who stands on a chair
and screams for her life.

964
00:49:55,581 --> 00:49:57,581
That's it! That's it!

965
00:49:57,941 --> 00:49:58,681
- Well, I'm sorry.

966
00:49:58,781 --> 00:50:02,041
You're saying a farmer's
wife screams for her life,

967
00:50:02,141 --> 00:50:03,641
because she's seen a mouse?

968
00:50:03,741 --> 00:50:07,761
- Well, not just one mouse,
three, and they're all blind.

969
00:50:07,861 --> 00:50:10,281
Think of it, it's utterly terrifying.

970
00:50:10,381 --> 00:50:14,321
- Have you ever met a
farmer's wife, Miss Landy?

971
00:50:14,421 --> 00:50:17,641
- No, never, but don't you
think it's scans beautifully?

972
00:50:17,741 --> 00:50:19,761
I love it.
- Yes, well, I don't.

973
00:50:19,861 --> 00:50:22,841
And the last time I checked,
it's still my name on the cover

974
00:50:22,941 --> 00:50:25,341
of these blasted little
books and not yours!

975
00:50:26,661 --> 00:50:29,521
(Beatrix sighs)

976
00:50:29,621 --> 00:50:31,121
- I see.

977
00:50:31,221 --> 00:50:32,441
- Look, I'm,

978
00:50:32,541 --> 00:50:35,561
I'm sorry I snapped, but the truth is,

979
00:50:35,661 --> 00:50:37,881
you, you haven't called at the best time.

980
00:50:37,981 --> 00:50:39,641
Christmas is days away,

981
00:50:39,741 --> 00:50:41,841
and I've still got so
much to do on the farm.

982
00:50:41,941 --> 00:50:44,321
I haven't even killed Sago yet.

983
00:50:44,421 --> 00:50:45,241
- I'm sorry, who?

984
00:50:45,341 --> 00:50:46,561
- The duck.

985
00:50:46,661 --> 00:50:48,961
- Beatrix, can I call you Beatrix?

986
00:50:49,061 --> 00:50:51,061
- No.

987
00:50:54,101 --> 00:50:56,541
- I think I know what the
problem really is here.

988
00:50:58,381 --> 00:51:00,661
In fact, everybody does.

989
00:51:01,621 --> 00:51:03,621
That's why they sent me.

990
00:51:10,661 --> 00:51:12,661
- What problem?

991
00:51:13,101 --> 00:51:15,101
- Oh, please.

992
00:51:15,621 --> 00:51:17,801
Don't pretend you wouldn't
rather be out there,

993
00:51:17,901 --> 00:51:22,741
with your sheep or pigs,
rather than in here with me.

994
00:51:23,821 --> 00:51:25,821
- Mm-hmm.

995
00:51:26,501 --> 00:51:28,501
- And yet,

996
00:51:30,101 --> 00:51:32,781
the money is awfully useful, isn't it?

997
00:51:37,301 --> 00:51:40,021
- What exactly are you proposing?

998
00:51:42,421 --> 00:51:45,081
- All I'm saying is the
sooner you just sign off

999
00:51:45,181 --> 00:51:46,201
and agree to my text,

1000
00:51:46,301 --> 00:51:48,121
the sooner you can get back on the farm.

1001
00:51:48,221 --> 00:51:51,101
We get this sold, and
everyone's happy, are they not?

1002
00:51:53,981 --> 00:51:55,961
(sheep bleating)

1003
00:51:56,061 --> 00:51:57,881
(Beatrix sighs)

1004
00:51:57,981 --> 00:52:01,441
- Fine, change the text, have it your way.

1005
00:52:01,541 --> 00:52:03,441
- Marvelous.

1006
00:52:03,541 --> 00:52:06,121
Now that's something we can all drink to.

1007
00:52:06,221 --> 00:52:08,241
- Not that cup.
(Anne gasps)

1008
00:52:08,341 --> 00:52:09,801
- [Anne] Oh my, it's dead.

1009
00:52:09,901 --> 00:52:11,901
How frightfully awful!

1010
00:52:13,381 --> 00:52:14,441
- What?

1011
00:52:14,541 --> 00:52:16,541
I'm saving it for later.

1012
00:52:17,141 --> 00:52:18,721
- To eat?

1013
00:52:18,821 --> 00:52:21,201
- No, to draw, of course.

1014
00:52:21,301 --> 00:52:24,761
- Oh, of course, silly
old me, I thought...

1015
00:52:24,861 --> 00:52:26,121
Never mind.

1016
00:52:26,221 --> 00:52:28,321
- [Beatrix] Oh, little blighter!

1017
00:52:28,421 --> 00:52:29,201
- [Anne] I beg your pardon.

1018
00:52:29,301 --> 00:52:30,681
- Oh no, you don't.
- What?

1019
00:52:30,781 --> 00:52:32,161
Beatrix, no, where are you going?

1020
00:52:32,261 --> 00:52:32,961
Where are you going?

1021
00:52:33,061 --> 00:52:35,001
'Cause we haven't actually finished.

1022
00:52:35,101 --> 00:52:36,281
Beatrix!
(door thuds)

1023
00:52:36,381 --> 00:52:39,081
- You have been so kind.

1024
00:52:39,181 --> 00:52:42,361
- I was gonna say a problem
shared is a problem halved,

1025
00:52:42,461 --> 00:52:44,481
but in your case, I think you've had more

1026
00:52:44,581 --> 00:52:46,581
than your fair share.

1027
00:52:46,981 --> 00:52:51,141
- Well, maybe I'm due some
good luck then. (chuckles)

1028
00:52:52,461 --> 00:52:54,481
- Well, let's find out, shall we?

1029
00:52:54,581 --> 00:52:58,101
Sup up, and I'll take a look
at what's coming for you.

1030
00:52:59,221 --> 00:53:01,041
- I don't, I don't understand. (laughs)

1031
00:53:01,141 --> 00:53:03,201
- I can read leaves, can't I,

1032
00:53:03,301 --> 00:53:05,301
see the future in your cup.

1033
00:53:06,421 --> 00:53:08,121
- (laughs) Okay.

1034
00:53:08,221 --> 00:53:09,001
- Come on then.

1035
00:53:09,101 --> 00:53:10,961
(Sofie slurping)
Pass it over.

1036
00:53:11,061 --> 00:53:13,621
(quirky music)

1037
00:53:46,621 --> 00:53:48,361
- [Beatrix] Hey, you out there!

1038
00:53:48,461 --> 00:53:49,561
(dramatic music)

1039
00:53:49,661 --> 00:53:51,521
Can't you read?

1040
00:53:51,621 --> 00:53:53,621
No trespassers, it says!

1041
00:53:57,901 --> 00:53:59,901
- Oh, I see a journey.

1042
00:54:01,061 --> 00:54:03,801
And it looks likes it's going towards a,

1043
00:54:03,901 --> 00:54:06,241
a palm tree, I think.

1044
00:54:06,341 --> 00:54:07,841
Oh, so somewhere sunny.

1045
00:54:07,941 --> 00:54:09,681
(Sofie laughs)

1046
00:54:09,781 --> 00:54:10,841
- I doubt it,

1047
00:54:10,941 --> 00:54:14,641
unless you mean the next
train to Cardiff. (chuckles)

1048
00:54:14,741 --> 00:54:17,241
- Oh, actually, now you say it,

1049
00:54:17,341 --> 00:54:18,721
it could be an umbrella.

1050
00:54:18,821 --> 00:54:20,801
- Mm, more like it. (laughs)

1051
00:54:20,901 --> 00:54:23,641
- And I see money,

1052
00:54:23,741 --> 00:54:24,961
lots of money.

1053
00:54:25,061 --> 00:54:27,181
- Going out or coming in.

1054
00:54:28,101 --> 00:54:30,341
- Oh, it doesn't say, sorry.

1055
00:54:31,381 --> 00:54:33,561
- Don't apologize.

1056
00:54:33,661 --> 00:54:34,841
That tea has done me more good

1057
00:54:34,941 --> 00:54:36,881
than anything the leaves could tell me.

1058
00:54:36,981 --> 00:54:39,721
(laughs) The truth is that
we can never really know

1059
00:54:39,821 --> 00:54:41,821
what the future holds.

1060
00:54:43,101 --> 00:54:45,841
The only thing we can
control is how we choose

1061
00:54:45,941 --> 00:54:47,521
to respond to it,

1062
00:54:47,621 --> 00:54:51,301
and I'm going to choose to be brave,

1063
00:54:54,701 --> 00:54:58,001
(sighs) to show my quiet, worried boy

1064
00:54:58,101 --> 00:55:01,801
that even after the
longest, darkest nights,

1065
00:55:01,901 --> 00:55:03,901
there comes a new day,

1066
00:55:04,861 --> 00:55:09,541
even after the saddest, hardest
year comes a fresh start.

1067
00:55:11,701 --> 00:55:13,641
Thank you, Dora.

1068
00:55:13,741 --> 00:55:14,881
- Hang on.

1069
00:55:14,981 --> 00:55:17,201
(suspenseful music)

1070
00:55:17,301 --> 00:55:19,561
There's one other thing.

1071
00:55:19,661 --> 00:55:21,661
That, that boy of yours,

1072
00:55:22,781 --> 00:55:24,781
he's going to be a writer,

1073
00:55:25,661 --> 00:55:27,641
a very famous writer.

1074
00:55:27,741 --> 00:55:29,481
- Is he, indeed?

1075
00:55:29,581 --> 00:55:31,581
- But he'll never have a beard.

1076
00:55:34,301 --> 00:55:35,521
(Sofie laughs)

1077
00:55:35,621 --> 00:55:38,181
- Now that I can believe.

1078
00:55:43,221 --> 00:55:47,881
Happy Christmas, Dora.

1079
00:55:47,981 --> 00:55:49,841
- Happy Christmas.

1080
00:55:49,941 --> 00:55:52,501
(solemn music)

1081
00:56:00,861 --> 00:56:03,681
(ethereal music)
(wind whistling)

1082
00:56:03,781 --> 00:56:05,401
(ominous music)
(Roald gasping)

1083
00:56:05,501 --> 00:56:07,501
- I know you're here,

1084
00:56:07,821 --> 00:56:09,821
you little hoodlum.

1085
00:56:10,421 --> 00:56:13,661
And you should know that
I have set the dog loose,

1086
00:56:14,741 --> 00:56:16,781
and she's not had her dinner yet, either.

1087
00:56:18,181 --> 00:56:20,421
So I'd get gone if I were you.

1088
00:56:23,341 --> 00:56:25,361
(wood creaking)

1089
00:56:25,461 --> 00:56:26,201
(pot clatters)

1090
00:56:26,301 --> 00:56:28,801
(dramatic music)

1091
00:56:28,901 --> 00:56:31,381
(tense music)

1092
00:56:36,581 --> 00:56:38,981
(door thuds)

1093
00:56:43,301 --> 00:56:44,521
(tense music)

1094
00:56:44,621 --> 00:56:49,721
I'll find you, you
nasty little gutter bug.

1095
00:56:49,821 --> 00:56:52,301
(tense music)

1096
00:56:54,661 --> 00:56:57,861
And we all know what
happens to gutter bugs.

1097
00:56:58,741 --> 00:57:00,681
They get squashed!

1098
00:57:00,781 --> 00:57:03,261
(tense music)

1099
00:57:04,261 --> 00:57:06,261
Do you hear me?

1100
00:57:08,621 --> 00:57:10,621
Squashed!

1101
00:57:15,141 --> 00:57:17,861
(dramatic music)

1102
00:57:21,101 --> 00:57:23,881
- [Narrator] Oh, Mouse, now what to do?

1103
00:57:23,981 --> 00:57:26,441
Is this the end for you too?

1104
00:57:26,541 --> 00:57:29,441
There's a witch who won't
stop till you're dead.

1105
00:57:29,541 --> 00:57:31,281
She's got you caught in a trap,

1106
00:57:31,381 --> 00:57:33,381
and there's no turnin' back.

1107
00:57:34,101 --> 00:57:36,301
There'd be nothing to lose, if you fled.

1108
00:57:43,781 --> 00:57:45,721
(tense music)

1109
00:57:45,821 --> 00:57:47,281
(Fleet barking)

1110
00:57:47,381 --> 00:57:48,801
(Fleet snarls)

1111
00:57:48,901 --> 00:57:50,321
(Roald gasps)

1112
00:57:50,421 --> 00:57:55,421
(Fleet barking)
(tense music)

1113
00:58:05,101 --> 00:58:06,321
(gentle music)

1114
00:58:06,421 --> 00:58:08,721
(Fleet panting)

1115
00:58:08,821 --> 00:58:10,521
- Hello. (laughs)

1116
00:58:10,621 --> 00:58:13,221
(gentle music)

1117
00:58:14,621 --> 00:58:15,881
(Fleet whimpers)

1118
00:58:15,981 --> 00:58:17,981
Nice to meet you, too.

1119
00:58:21,341 --> 00:58:23,521
(Roald laughs)

1120
00:58:23,621 --> 00:58:25,621
Come on.

1121
00:58:27,181 --> 00:58:29,081
Boy.
(Fleet barking)

1122
00:58:29,181 --> 00:58:31,721
(Roald laughing)
(Fleet barking)

1123
00:58:31,821 --> 00:58:32,961
- I see you.

1124
00:58:33,061 --> 00:58:34,721
(Fleet barking)
I see you,

1125
00:58:34,821 --> 00:58:36,641
you little blighter.

1126
00:58:36,741 --> 00:58:38,921
(Fleet barking)
(Roald yells)

1127
00:58:39,021 --> 00:58:41,941
Trespassing is a criminal
offense, you know.

1128
00:58:43,501 --> 00:58:44,881
And if the dog won't scare you off,

1129
00:58:44,981 --> 00:58:46,921
I'll just have to do it myself,

1130
00:58:47,021 --> 00:58:48,081
(Fleet barking)

1131
00:58:48,181 --> 00:58:49,361
when I catch you.

1132
00:58:49,461 --> 00:58:50,201
(Roald laughing)

1133
00:58:50,301 --> 00:58:51,241
(Roald yells)

1134
00:58:51,341 --> 00:58:53,601
(Roald thumps)

1135
00:58:53,701 --> 00:58:55,761
(Roald groans)

1136
00:58:55,861 --> 00:58:58,501
(ominous music)

1137
00:59:08,101 --> 00:59:10,401
(Beatrix grunts)

1138
00:59:10,501 --> 00:59:12,781
I told you to scram.

1139
00:59:13,781 --> 00:59:14,521
(Fleet whimpers)

1140
00:59:14,621 --> 00:59:16,481
Oh for goodness sake, dog,

1141
00:59:16,581 --> 00:59:18,581
what use are you, really?

1142
00:59:19,421 --> 00:59:21,521
Now off my property,

1143
00:59:21,621 --> 00:59:22,881
or you'll be going the same way

1144
00:59:22,981 --> 00:59:25,541
as the last trespasser around here.

1145
00:59:26,501 --> 00:59:29,441
(Roald sighs)

1146
00:59:29,541 --> 00:59:31,201
- Is it dead?

1147
00:59:31,301 --> 00:59:32,561
- What? This?

1148
00:59:32,661 --> 00:59:34,661
Yes, very.

1149
00:59:35,021 --> 00:59:36,801
- Did you kill it?

1150
00:59:36,901 --> 00:59:38,881
- No, the cat did.

1151
00:59:38,981 --> 00:59:40,981
- (sighs) Tom Kitten at it again.

1152
00:59:44,341 --> 00:59:46,341
- Might have been.

1153
00:59:47,021 --> 00:59:49,021
Doesn't it frighten you?

1154
00:59:49,901 --> 00:59:50,881
- Nope.

1155
00:59:50,981 --> 00:59:52,761
- Why not?

1156
00:59:52,861 --> 00:59:55,041
- Seen more frightening things than that.

1157
00:59:55,141 --> 00:59:56,961
- Like what?

1158
00:59:57,061 --> 01:00:00,481
(dramatic music)

1159
01:00:00,581 --> 01:00:01,961
- Rouge.

1160
01:00:02,061 --> 01:00:03,521
- Rouge?

1161
01:00:03,621 --> 01:00:06,261
What on earth is so
frightening about rouge?

1162
01:00:07,341 --> 01:00:10,401
- Just looks strange
when I saw it on Papa,

1163
01:00:10,501 --> 01:00:12,501
when they laid him out.

1164
01:00:15,101 --> 01:00:16,761
- Oh, I see.

1165
01:00:16,861 --> 01:00:18,721
(gentle music)

1166
01:00:18,821 --> 01:00:23,281
I take it he, uh, didn't
wear rouge normally then?

1167
01:00:23,381 --> 01:00:25,381
- Not normally, no.

1168
01:00:29,141 --> 01:00:33,381
- So what did you do when
you saw it, the rouge?

1169
01:00:34,381 --> 01:00:37,001
- Just closed my eyes,
scrunched tight, like this.

1170
01:00:37,101 --> 01:00:40,281
(gentle music)

1171
01:00:40,381 --> 01:00:42,381
- Open them.

1172
01:00:43,421 --> 01:00:45,921
And if I were you, from now on,

1173
01:00:46,021 --> 01:00:49,061
I'd keep them open, always.

1174
01:00:49,941 --> 01:00:52,961
Don't miss a thing,

1175
01:00:53,061 --> 01:00:53,961
because when you're small,

1176
01:00:54,061 --> 01:00:56,861
you see it all from a different angle.

1177
01:00:58,061 --> 01:01:00,241
(dramatic music)

1178
01:01:00,341 --> 01:01:02,661
- Well, what happens when you get big?

1179
01:01:03,901 --> 01:01:06,001
(Beatrix sighs)

1180
01:01:06,101 --> 01:01:08,101
- Oh.

1181
01:01:08,461 --> 01:01:12,481
Well, you stop seeing
everything so clearly,

1182
01:01:12,581 --> 01:01:15,241
and it all turns into a bit of a blur.

1183
01:01:15,341 --> 01:01:18,681
And then they make you wear spectacles,

1184
01:01:18,781 --> 01:01:20,481
and so you have to do your very best

1185
01:01:20,581 --> 01:01:22,581
to remember it all instead.

1186
01:01:23,421 --> 01:01:25,801
Luckily for me, I do.

1187
01:01:25,901 --> 01:01:27,901
I remember it all.

1188
01:01:31,901 --> 01:01:36,901
So what on earth are
you doing here anyway?

1189
01:01:37,501 --> 01:01:39,501
- I've come to see Beatrix Potter.

1190
01:01:40,261 --> 01:01:41,361
- Well, there you go.

1191
01:01:41,461 --> 01:01:42,841
You've seen her now.

1192
01:01:42,941 --> 01:01:43,961
So you can buzz off.

1193
01:01:44,061 --> 01:01:46,161
Go on! Scram!

1194
01:01:46,261 --> 01:01:48,861
(gentle music)

1195
01:01:55,221 --> 01:01:56,441
Oh, hang on!

1196
01:01:56,541 --> 01:01:58,401
You've forgotten something!

1197
01:01:58,501 --> 01:02:02,921
(footsteps approaching)
(gentle music)

1198
01:02:03,021 --> 01:02:04,241
(lips smacking)

1199
01:02:04,341 --> 01:02:06,901
(gentle music)

1200
01:02:09,141 --> 01:02:11,821
(Beatrix sighs)

1201
01:02:24,941 --> 01:02:25,961
- [Astri] And please, could you get Roald

1202
01:02:26,061 --> 01:02:28,441
a new Beatrix Potter book.

1203
01:02:28,541 --> 01:02:31,841
He's read me all his
old ones so many times,

1204
01:02:31,941 --> 01:02:34,781
and I'd really like to hear
something new for a change.

1205
01:02:37,341 --> 01:02:39,481
(door thuds)
- Miss Landy.

1206
01:02:39,581 --> 01:02:42,521
I have a question to ask you.

1207
01:02:42,621 --> 01:02:44,621
- Please do.

1208
01:02:45,141 --> 01:02:49,721
- Have you actually read any of my books?

1209
01:02:49,821 --> 01:02:51,241
- Well, of course.

1210
01:02:51,341 --> 01:02:52,761
Like I said, huge fan.

1211
01:02:52,861 --> 01:02:54,361
- Good, well, then you will know

1212
01:02:54,461 --> 01:02:58,121
that the animals I write
of may well look sweet.

1213
01:02:58,221 --> 01:03:01,241
They may well wear petticoats or bonnets

1214
01:03:01,341 --> 01:03:03,321
or little pale-blue jackets,

1215
01:03:03,421 --> 01:03:06,741
but the world they
encounter is all too real,

1216
01:03:07,581 --> 01:03:09,961
just like the children who read my books.

1217
01:03:10,061 --> 01:03:11,321
- Why are you telling me this?

1218
01:03:11,421 --> 01:03:14,321
- Because we cannot shield children

1219
01:03:14,421 --> 01:03:17,841
from the realities of life,

1220
01:03:17,941 --> 01:03:20,081
nor do I choose to.

1221
01:03:20,181 --> 01:03:23,241
In my books, rabbits get caught by farmers

1222
01:03:23,341 --> 01:03:25,121
and baked into pies.

1223
01:03:25,221 --> 01:03:29,321
Hounds charge about and
eat a duck's beloved eggs.

1224
01:03:29,421 --> 01:03:33,041
Rats sometimes even eat kittens,

1225
01:03:33,141 --> 01:03:35,361
or they certainly try to.

1226
01:03:35,461 --> 01:03:37,441
And so far, children have coped

1227
01:03:37,541 --> 01:03:41,281
with all of this and more perfectly well.

1228
01:03:41,381 --> 01:03:44,761
So thank you for your time.

1229
01:03:44,861 --> 01:03:46,761
But I've changed my mind.

1230
01:03:46,861 --> 01:03:49,581
The line stays as it is.

1231
01:03:51,621 --> 01:03:53,641
And I have it on great authority

1232
01:03:53,741 --> 01:03:57,061
that children have seen
far worse than that.

1233
01:04:01,981 --> 01:04:04,121
(knife thuds)
- Good heavens!

1234
01:04:04,221 --> 01:04:06,901
(playful music)

1235
01:04:08,461 --> 01:04:11,081
(Beatrix clears throat)

1236
01:04:11,181 --> 01:04:16,181
(animal snorting)
(playful music)

1237
01:04:18,901 --> 01:04:21,081
Oh, my hat!

1238
01:04:21,181 --> 01:04:22,201
No!

1239
01:04:22,301 --> 01:04:23,641
Can't you stop her?

1240
01:04:23,741 --> 01:04:25,741
- Oh, you can try.

1241
01:04:26,301 --> 01:04:28,961
(Anne groaning)

1242
01:04:29,061 --> 01:04:30,681
Good heavens!

1243
01:04:30,781 --> 01:04:32,781
You put that down at once!

1244
01:04:33,621 --> 01:04:35,981
My hat, don't you eat that!

1245
01:04:38,341 --> 01:04:39,961
My hat!

1246
01:04:40,061 --> 01:04:42,241
Bad! Yuck!

1247
01:04:42,341 --> 01:04:44,801
(Beatrix laughs)

1248
01:04:44,901 --> 01:04:46,901
- So did you see her?

1249
01:04:47,981 --> 01:04:48,721
- I'm not sure.

1250
01:04:48,821 --> 01:04:51,441
It might've been her, or
it might've been a witch.

1251
01:04:51,541 --> 01:04:52,601
- A witch?

1252
01:04:52,701 --> 01:04:54,841
I see, well, we best be going then,

1253
01:04:54,941 --> 01:04:58,041
before she comes back and
turns us all into, what, toads?

1254
01:04:58,141 --> 01:04:59,801
- Not toads, mice.

1255
01:04:59,901 --> 01:05:02,241
- Yes, mice. Quickly, run!

1256
01:05:02,341 --> 01:05:05,021
(playful music)

1257
01:05:12,781 --> 01:05:14,241
- Mrs. Heelis?
- Mm?

1258
01:05:14,341 --> 01:05:15,801
- We're taking the next
lot of Herdwicks up

1259
01:05:15,901 --> 01:05:18,061
on the fell now, if you're free.

1260
01:05:18,941 --> 01:05:20,641
- I'll be right with you, Tom.

1261
01:05:20,741 --> 01:05:23,521
(gentle music)

1262
01:05:23,621 --> 01:05:25,621
So what's it to be?

1263
01:05:27,021 --> 01:05:28,361
- Fine.

1264
01:05:28,461 --> 01:05:29,641
Have it your way.

1265
01:05:29,741 --> 01:05:31,641
Cut off their tails.

1266
01:05:31,741 --> 01:05:33,741
- Excellent.

1267
01:05:35,901 --> 01:05:38,721
Pleasure doing business
with you, Miss Landy.

1268
01:05:38,821 --> 01:05:40,121
(Beatrix sighs)

1269
01:05:40,221 --> 01:05:42,161
I trust you'll find your own way out.

1270
01:05:42,261 --> 01:05:43,161
- Thank you.

1271
01:05:43,261 --> 01:05:45,621
- You'll have a wonderful
Christmas, won't you?

1272
01:05:49,381 --> 01:05:51,481
(door thuds)

1273
01:05:51,581 --> 01:05:54,501
(animals grunting)

1274
01:05:55,981 --> 01:05:56,721
(bright music)

1275
01:05:56,821 --> 01:06:01,101
So, Tom, imagine if one
were to buy Troutbeck Farm.

1276
01:06:02,821 --> 01:06:04,801
- Not likely, Mrs. Heelis.

1277
01:06:04,901 --> 01:06:07,281
I've got enough on my hands
trying to pay off Mrs. Tom's tab

1278
01:06:07,381 --> 01:06:09,121
at the Lamb and Flag, I'll be honest.

1279
01:06:09,221 --> 01:06:10,641
- All right, not one, I.

1280
01:06:10,741 --> 01:06:12,741
Imagine if I were to buy Troutbeck Farm.

1281
01:06:13,621 --> 01:06:15,561
- Then you'd own half of the lakes,

1282
01:06:15,661 --> 01:06:17,881
and you could do as you
please with it, I'd imagine.

1283
01:06:17,981 --> 01:06:20,441
- Like get lots more Herdwicks?

1284
01:06:20,541 --> 01:06:21,641
- You'd have more sheep than they got

1285
01:06:21,741 --> 01:06:23,441
in the whole of London.

1286
01:06:23,541 --> 01:06:27,081
- Again, not really any
sheep in London, Tom.

1287
01:06:27,181 --> 01:06:29,401
- Wouldn't know. Never been.

1288
01:06:29,501 --> 01:06:31,481
- Would you like to go?

1289
01:06:31,581 --> 01:06:34,321
It's only that you do
mention it quite a bit.

1290
01:06:34,421 --> 01:06:36,421
- Me?

1291
01:06:36,781 --> 01:06:38,781
Go to London?

1292
01:06:39,501 --> 01:06:41,781
Not on your nelly!

1293
01:06:43,101 --> 01:06:44,201
- Then perhaps you'll just have

1294
01:06:44,301 --> 01:06:46,861
to look after Troutbeck
Farm, for me, instead.

1295
01:06:48,141 --> 01:06:50,641
- Could do.

1296
01:06:50,741 --> 01:06:52,361
(clears throat) Could do!

1297
01:06:52,461 --> 01:06:54,081
(uplifting music)

1298
01:06:54,181 --> 01:06:56,601
- You go on. I'll catch you up.

1299
01:06:56,701 --> 01:06:59,501
(uplifting music)

1300
01:07:15,661 --> 01:07:17,521
- All right then.

1301
01:07:17,621 --> 01:07:18,761
- All right then what?

1302
01:07:18,861 --> 01:07:19,841
- I will go to that school.

1303
01:07:19,941 --> 01:07:22,881
At least then I'll have
stories to tell you, won't I?

1304
01:07:22,981 --> 01:07:25,121
- Yes, Roald, you will,

1305
01:07:25,221 --> 01:07:27,221
lots and lots.

1306
01:07:28,101 --> 01:07:30,701
(bright music)

1307
01:07:32,781 --> 01:07:34,121
- [Narrator] Now little Mouse knew

1308
01:07:34,221 --> 01:07:36,241
this adventure was through,

1309
01:07:36,341 --> 01:07:38,481
but another was sure to begin,

1310
01:07:38,581 --> 01:07:40,521
for every mouse, great or small,

1311
01:07:40,621 --> 01:07:42,441
there's adventure for us all.

1312
01:07:42,541 --> 01:07:45,741
We just need the courage
and support to jump in.

1313
01:07:47,061 --> 01:07:48,001
But keep in your mind,

1314
01:07:48,101 --> 01:07:49,721
there'll be troubling times

1315
01:07:49,821 --> 01:07:51,481
and days you're not covered in glory.

1316
01:07:51,581 --> 01:07:52,681
- [Mouse] Whee!

1317
01:07:52,781 --> 01:07:54,361
- [Narrator] Then take my advice.

1318
01:07:54,461 --> 01:07:56,321
Learn a lesson from Mouse.

1319
01:07:56,421 --> 01:07:59,021
Don't let the tragic kill all the magic.

1320
01:08:00,021 --> 01:08:02,021
Write your own story.

1321
01:08:02,621 --> 01:08:03,521
(door thuds)
(William grunts)

1322
01:08:03,621 --> 01:08:06,281
(Sago quacking)
(William gasping)

1323
01:08:06,381 --> 01:08:07,961
- That's it, Sago!

1324
01:08:08,061 --> 01:08:09,521
I give up.

1325
01:08:09,621 --> 01:08:11,621
You win.

1326
01:08:12,901 --> 01:08:14,201
Beatrix!

1327
01:08:14,301 --> 01:08:18,101
Beatrix, we're having cabbage
for Christmas dinner, again.

1328
01:08:20,061 --> 01:08:21,561
(door thuds)

1329
01:08:21,661 --> 01:08:24,301
(Sago quacking)

1330
01:08:27,581 --> 01:08:30,421
(uplifting music)

1331
01:09:07,701 --> 01:09:09,761
- [Beatrix] We have eaten Sago.

1332
01:09:09,861 --> 01:09:11,001
It was rather dreadful,

1333
01:09:11,101 --> 01:09:13,881
and the stuffing disagreed
with my conscience.

1334
01:09:13,981 --> 01:09:16,121
With love and best wishes for Christmas,

1335
01:09:16,221 --> 01:09:17,961
from your affectionate friend,

1336
01:09:18,061 --> 01:09:21,281
Beatrix Potter, Mrs. Heelis.

1337
01:09:21,381 --> 01:09:26,381
(uplifting music)
(singer chanting)

1338
01:09:57,621 --> 01:10:00,861
(solemn digital music)

1339
01:10:02,461 --> 01:10:07,461
(energetic digital music)
(electricity crackling)