♪ ♪ Mature Jennifer: We did not come to earth to live our lives alone.

We all need each other from the moment we are born.

Our hearts beat side by side by side in tandem with the ticking of the clock we all must follow-- life, love, work, hand in hand in hand.

This is the rhythm of the world, and if we are to thrive, we must dance to it together.

If we are forced to dance alone, we may stumble and then fall.

Is this the Mother and Baby clinic?

It is indeed.

However, I'm afraid I'm unable to admit you until the badminton club have departed and the hall has been thoroughly aired.

Many apologies.

It's all right.

Sit on me suitcase.

♪ Millicent: And your address, Miss Brewer?

I know it's Cook Street.

What's taking so long?

Mrs. Rowntree, we are going as fast as we can.

Well, go faster.

Sally needs her booster, and I've got places to be.

I don't know if it's 23 or 23A.

23 will suffice for the present.

And the name of your previous GP?

It was Dr. Malone.

I shall request your records.

Baby's kicking away, Mrs. Demir.

Ah, it's nonstop.

My husband and I are from neighboring villages in Cyprus, but I am Greek, and he is Turkish.

It does sound an exceptionally difficult situation.

There has been so much violence, so much hate.

Well, I am delighted to say that everything's looking shipshape with baby's position.

[Winces] Are you uncomfortable, lass?

It's just an itch.

I have had to wear a pad.

Well, let's take a look, shall we, see what's what?

Is anyone helping you prepare for the baby or when the baby arrives?

It's just us, Nurse.

And it's your first pregnancy, is that right, Arlene?

I've read all about it and eating all my greens, drinking lots of water, and jotting down when the baby moves a lot and when it's still.

That sounds fabulously organized.

Planning on a home or a hospital birth?

Oh, it's all been planned for me.

I've been told I've got to have it at St. Cuthbert's.

By whom and why?

My doctor.

I've got an appointment there tomorrow.

♪ Nearly done now.

I suspect that you have a dose of thrush.

It's very common, but it's not very comfortable.

Nurse Crane, if we could send these swabs off as soon as possible... Of course, Doctor.

♪ [Door opens] [Door closes] Morning, Miss Higgins.

We have just received Arlene Brewer's medical file along with an accompanying letter.

From her doctor?

From her psychiatrist.

It appears Arlene has just been released from the Linchmere psychiatric hospital.

She said nothing about that at all.

Higher.

Nope, not so high.

Bring it down a couple of inches.

I said a couple, not 6.

Ohh... No one's going to notice.

This event has to be special.

It's for all the people of Poplar.

It's also the last thing that I'm doing as mayor, so it needs to be perfect.

Up another couple of inches, then?

Mm.

[Sighs] ♪ Fred: Ahh... Mm.

We've never had an expectant mother straight from the Linchmere before.

I can't believe they didn't inform us earlier.

Then at least we could have been ready for her.

Arlene Brewer's medical records show that she was at the Linchmere for 4 months.

They diagnosed her with manic depression after she was found "agitated and delusional" and convinced that she was talking to what the notes describe as a "dead relative."

Well, she then sank into a deep depression.

She was guarded in clinic, but she didn't seem unwell.

Oh, she's on a new drug called lithium.

It seems to have stabilized her.

Is that why she's having the baby at St. Cuthbert's, because they're concerned about the side effects?

There is a great deal of interest in kidney function and blood counts, but I would say a lot less interest in her mental state.

♪ You need to be careful.

You're a big sister now.

Oh, you're very lucky.

Being a sister is the best thing in the world.

I'm still learning to live without mine.

♪ [Door opens] ♪ [Door closes] ♪ That's poor, little Zeta Demir added to my rounds.

The swab results are in-- thrush, as we suspected, and she's got gonorrhea.

Gonorrhea?

That's bad enough at the best of times.

In a pregnant mother-- Do these men never think?

You'd wonder, wouldn't you?

Make your way here at the first signs of labor.

After the birth, both you and the baby will be kept under observation for two weeks.

Our midwives will help with the bottle routine.

I was planning to breastfeed.

Will they teach me that?

No.

Baby could become very unwell if the lithium makes its way into your milk.

Lithium is dangerous to the baby?

Well, we don't yet know, and we won't take risks.

♪ Ah.

[Indistinct conversation] Next.

Name?

Eric Wilson.

Sister, I may need to see you in private.

Whatever for?

That is a beautiful scab.

[Whispering] When I go, it's like I'm peeing glass.

Take a seat at the back.

I will see you shortly.

Zeta: What is gonorrhea?

It is a type of venereal disease, which means it is passed on through sexual intercourse.

But I have only ever had sexual intercourse with my husband.

If that's the case, we have to assume that he has picked it up from someone else.

But there has never been someone else.

Well, there are questions to be asked, lass, and conversations to be had, but for now, we need to concentrate on treating you for baby's sake.

Will it harm the baby?

There is a possibility, albeit small, that the infection could be passed to baby's eyes during birth, but we're going to start antibiotic injections straightaway and book you into the maternity home for your delivery just to be on the safe side.

♪ [Distant dog barks] ♪ [Pills rattle] ♪ Ohh... Oh...

I hope I haven't hurt you already.

♪ Mehmet: There's never been anyone else.

Then how did you catch it?

The nurse said-- The nurse... knows nothing.

You know that we're together all the time.

We are now.

You were alone in London for 3 months before I arrived.

What about then?

There is no one else, I swear.

I swear on my life, all right?

Now let's leave it!

♪ [Door opens] [Door closes] We need this swab to confirm it, but I would put good money on this being gonorrhea.

Is that the same as syphilis?

No, but it is a venereal disease, and it's spread in the same way-- through sex.

You know, lad, sometimes when you get lucky, you get unlucky.

We can sort it out.

You think you want to tell anyone about this-- your parents?

Oh, I'm in enough pain already.

Arlene, I didn't know you were an artist.

I'm not, just always drawn and painted since I was a kid.

Me and my sister were always coloring something in.

Arlene, I'm here to follow up on some notes we've been sent by the Linchmere.

♪ Should have told you I was in the loony bin, shouldn't I?

You're a mother-to-be, and I'm your midwife.

The more you tell me, the more I can help you.

Oh, I wanted a fresh start.

I wanted people to look at me like I was normal.

Well, if I ever do anything other than that, I hope you'll correct me.

Lots of mothers bottle-feed, and lots of mothers bring up babies on their own, and I'm here to help with all of that.

Will you go through my list with me?

I keep writing things down to help me keep track, and then I lose track.

Don't we all?

Now, before we move on to more general matters, I brought you some milk of magnesia and peppermint cordial to try.

I've been reading up on lithium, and it seems it can cause nausea and stomach upsets.

Will these hurt the baby?

Not at all, and they may do you some good, which is important.

♪ The church will be open for 3 days before the Flower Festival for the arrangements to be dropped off.

Please ensure that you inform Mayor Buckle when you do so.

All of Poplar's most important organizations are contributing.

Rosalind: Well, sorry, but I have to disagree.

No one has asked the homeless shelter for an arrangement.

That does indeed sound like an oversight.

Surely, all of Poplar should be represented.

I'm sure we can find space in the church for one more arrangement.

Can I take a flyer?

I'm heading there now.

♪ You'll be pleased to hear that the Nonnatus flowers will have pride of place on the altar.

Julienne: I'm afraid our arrangement shall be quite modest.

We're all very busy with--with patients.

Monica Joan: Not everyone.

This is not merely a flower arrangement, but a reflection of ourselves and our place in the community.

I offer my services.

[Indistinct conversation] ♪ Rosalind: Good evening, sir.

I was worried I'd missed out.

Not at all.

There's plenty of soup.

You do have the last bread roll.

Oh.

Cyril: Bread always fills the belly better than any soup.

It's not enough to just feed people, is it?

They need to be included.

Yes.

They do.

Do you think there's a way of involving them in community life more, I mean, by giving them the chance to take part in ordinary things?

Not everyone would want to, but some might.

What did you have in mind?

There's the Flower Festival, for a start.

Flower Festival?

Just about every local organization and group is submitting an arrangement.

I don't think the shelter's even been asked.

You're right.

They haven't.

These men are a group.

They might want to join in.

Rob the food off my plate, will you?

Cyril: Gentlemen, this isn't the place.

Break it up.

Rosalind: You heard Mr. Robinson.

Stop this now!

I said now!

[Panting] ♪ Joyce: Have you got a minute?

I thought we could plan for our Mothercraft class next week.

Of course.

Sorry.

I just got caught up doing some research.

"Psychiatric disorders"?

I was hoping there might be something in here on treating mothers with manic depression, but there's virtually nothing.

Poor Arlene has just been left to completely fend for herself.

No wonder she feels so anxious.

Would she like to come to the Mothercraft class?

At the very least, she will feel less alone.

I thought you and Douglas were friends.

Well, friends don't mean the same when you're homeless.

We understand each other, but we-- we mainly just look out for ourselves.

I think most people mainly look out for themselves.

♪ More's the pity, eh?

Yes.

I used to work in Harrods.

Harrods?

Window dresser, and I'm telling you, I saw more catfighting in that line of work than I've ever seen living on the streets.

[Both laugh] ♪ What happened, Ted?

Oh, a wife happened.

Um, a child happened.

A house fire happened, and... ♪ I lost them both.

I wish that hadn't happened to you and to them, and I wish I could think of something else to say other than I'm sorry.

Cyril: I went to the shop and got a few more bread rolls.

That soup will be cold now.

There can't be any more fighting, Ted.

If you keep breaking the rules, the superintendent may say you can't be admitted.

♪ Good gracious, Sister, what is this?

The chapel flowers.

I am conducting a study on composition, configuration, and proportion.

Trixie: Sister Monica Joan, Constance Spry used to say, "One should arrange flowers as the spirit moves one."

She must be a profoundly indisciplined person.

There is science in this and probably mathematics.

♪ Anyone with undiagnosed or undetected gonorrhea is not going to just tip up at the surgery and declare themselves.

As the 3 official tracers, we're going to speak to every gonorrhea patient of whom we are aware and try to find out from whom they and to whom they may have passed it on.

That will involve extremely intimate interviews.

We then locate any identified contacts and encourage them to come in for testing and treatment.

Veronica: Whilst blowing up families hither and yon.

Patrick: Potentially, but we can't ignore a major medical concern, intimate interviews or not.

♪ [Exhales] ♪ When I typed out the names and addresses of all our current gonorrhea patients, I divided them into separate groups.

Oh.

Whilst I have furnished clipboards to aid efficiency and also provided copies of London's A to Z. Oh.

Heh... One sterilized feeding bottle, perfect.

Ooh!

[Glass shatters] Ah!

Oh, sorry.

Oh!

I'm just tired, barely got a wink of sleep last night.

Trixie: I wonder if you might be better off spending some of your maternity allowance on plastic bottles and some Milton fluid.

It's a much simpler system.

What do normal mothers do?

Oh, Arlene, you are a normal mother.

Will I have a normal baby?

There is no reason why your baby isn't going to be as fit and well and healthy as everyone else's.

Things run in families, don't they?

My sister was a sickly child.

When she grew up, she died of cancer, and I was all right until I lost her... ♪ and then I wasn't all right at all.

What was your sister's name, Arlene?

Stella.

That's beautiful.

Stella was beautiful.

She comes to me in my dreams.

She's like an angel.

That's why I hate it when I can't sleep.

We can give you a prescription to help with that.

We need you to be well-rested.

No!

I take enough medicine as it is.

♪ My wife, she's at the shop, but she'll be back later.

Your wife is already under the care of Dr. Turner.

It is you that I'm here to see.

What?

I need to make you an appointment for tests at the surgery and to ask some questions about your sexual contacts.

I cannot help you.

You have to leave.

I demand you leave.

Oh.

Right.

Yes.

Good-bye.

♪ Ah, afternoon, ma'am.

Uh, "Miss."

Haven't found anyone to tame me yet.

I need some paints.

How much will this buy?

[Coins rattle] Shelagh: Now, Eric, your swab did come back positive for gonorrhea.

You'll need to come into the surgery for antibiotic injections, and I must ask where you may have picked up this infection.

I'm afraid a shrug will not do.

Untreated, this infection can stop people from being able to have babies.

Is that true?

Yes.

I'm afraid so.

Is having children a concern for you?

Not for me.

My brother.

Last month, it was his stag night, and we all-- We-- We went to a brothel.

♪ [Door closes] ♪ Are you the proprietor of this establishment?

I'm looking for someone.

I have a description of the woman in question-- tall with dyed hair and a penchant for wearing numerous bracelets.

♪ I should inform you that I am prepared to stand here until you assist me.

♪ [Men coughing] ♪ This isn't a place for a lady.

I shall have to be quick, then.

I've spoken to the supervisor at the shelter.

He is allowing you to return.

How'd you manage that?

I told him it was very important that you were there to help me with the arrangement for the Flower Festival.

You did say you were a window dresser.

I--I can't believe you've done that for me.

♪ You're early.

Oh.

Mrs. Rowntree!

♪ I'd rather you didn't use my real name around here.

I had no idea, no idea that you were-- What, on the game, a disgrace?

That you were in trouble.

[Chuckles] "Trouble."

"Trouble" makes it sound like there's an end in sight.

Do you know what this place is?

It's hell, and no one goes to hell willingly, not unless they got no other option to survive.

Are you in any pain down below, perhaps during intercourse?

♪ A client of yours has reported symptoms of a venereal disease--gonorrhea.

I came to invite you to Dr. Turner's clinic for testing and to ask for details of anyone you have had sexual contact with so that we may also trace them for treatment.

I can't.

Dr. Turner knows me as a mum, not like this.

I also know you as a mother, a responsible one.

Sally never misses a booster or an appointment.

She deserves a mother who is well.

♪ Fine.

I'll go, but, trust me, the other girls here won't, and lots of them are suffering, too.

What if we were to bring the clinic here to test and treat you all?

[Sighs] Judith Durham: ♪ ...someone for each of us, they say ♪ ♪ And you'll be my someone ♪ ♪ Forever and a day ♪ Seekers: ♪ I could search the whole world over ♪ ♪ Until my life is through ♪ ♪ But I know I'll never find ♪ ♪ Another you ♪ ♪ It's a long, long journey ♪ ♪ So stay by my side ♪ ♪ When I walk through the storm ♪ ♪ You'll be my guide, be my guide ♪ ♪ If they gave me a fortune ♪ ♪ My pleasure would be small ♪ ♪ I could lose it all tomorrow ♪ ♪ And never mind at all ♪ ♪ But if I should lose your love, dear ♪ ♪ I don't know what I'd do ♪ ♪ For I know I'll never find another you... ♪ Millicent: As your test came back positive, I'm afraid I must ask you for the names of your clients.

I don't know any, same as they don't know mine.

Any description is useful.

There's one I can't forget... ♪ see him in my nightmares.

He says he's a foreman.

He brings groups of blokes from his factory here.

He's got a large Iscar just here..

I reckon it's where the devil marked him.

♪ Joyce: Terry nappies are cheaper in the long run, so we are going to learn two different ways of folding them and how to prevent nappy rash.

Sorry I'm late.

Oh, come right in.

We've only just started.

Take a table and a baby doll.

Oh.

Trixie: You've got one of our better-behaved models, as it happens.

There's one whose legs come off at the drop of a hat... Ha ha ha!

but I'm not saying which one of you has it this afternoon.

All will be revealed.

Joyce: By the end of this session, you'll all be experts.

You'll be able to teach friends or husbands.

Arlene: Some of us don't have husbands, don't need them, don't want them.

[Panting] Veronica: And what we've found in the brothels of Poplar is a smorgasbord of venereal diseases.

I was twice told of a factory foreman who organizes visits for his workers.

I was told about him, too, an enthusiastic customer himself, by all accounts.

Were you told about his scar?

Uh-uh.

6 to 7 inches long, slightly curved, and running directly under the line of the left ribs.

That sounds like a splenectomy scar.

That's a really unusual procedure.

We should search our own records for someone who's had that surgery first.

I shall commence by identifying all men of appropriate age and to proceed as my findings dictate.

Mm-hmm.

I'm so glad you came, Arlene.

Did you find it useful?

Mm, useful enough.

I got a lot on getting everything ready, but I picked up tips, lots of tips.

You're looking quite tired, sweetie.

Are you still not sleeping very well?

No.

Like I said, I've got a lot on.

Sweetie-- And stop calling me sweetie like I'm a child!

♪ Something's not right.

When are you seeing her again?

Tomorrow.

Mm.

Rosalind: Ted, this design is absolutely glorious.

Where did you get your inspiration?

Oh, the streets and bombsites, mainly.

You wouldn't believe what comes up through the rubble and the rubbish-- dandelions, cowslips, even poppies here and there.

Some things bloom where we least expect them.

Do you think you could gather everything we need by Thursday afternoon?

Wildflowers can be a bit fragile.

Your wish is my command, madame.

Ha ha ha!

♪ Do you think he seems brighter?

Yes... but this won't change his life, Rosalind.

Did I say I thought it might?

I just don't want you to be disappointed if Ted can't see this through.

Which suggests you think I'm doing this to make myself feel better, and I can assure you, I'm not.

♪ Rudd: Got the wrong bloke.

Millicent: I can assure you, that is quite impossible.

Your medical records speak for themselves.

Don't know what you're talking about.

Then let me make it very clear.

You are breaking the law by organizing visits to Argyle Street brothel.

We could report you to the authorities at any time.

What do you want?

Your full cooperation in getting your workers and yourself tested, treated, and interviewed, and I would highly suggest you don't so much as look in the direction of Argyle Street again.

♪ [Whistle blows] Right.

All you men who've been to Argyle Street need to speak to her.

I know who you are, so no hiding, or you'll lose a week's pay.

♪ Millicent: For testing, the address of Dr. Turner's surgery is on the back, and we shall require the names of all your sexual contacts.

♪ [Knocks on door] Midwife calling.

Arlene, it's Nurse Aylward.

Arlene: It's open!

Ohh... My goodness, what's happened?

Isn't it beautiful?

It's the best thing I've ever painted.

Only the best for my baby.

He's gonna love it.

Oh... Arlene, just breathe.

Ooh...ah... Just breathe.

How long have you been having these pains?

It's the first thing it will see when it wakes up every day-- lions and tigers, a magical jungle.

Let's get you lying down and see what's going on.

Mm!

Arlene, have you been taking your tablets?

Arlene, look at me.

You stopped taking your lithium, haven't you?

It's so bright, the colors... oh, the beautiful animals in the misty canopy.

[Jungle animal sounds] Can you hear them?

Oh, they're so loud.

I see.

I'm going to fetch the doctor.

Stay right where you are.

[Animal sounds continue] ♪ [Animal sounds continue] ♪ [Animal sounds continue] [Click] ♪ In Cyprus, our families found our love obscene, so my parents sent me here to separate us.

I thought I would never see Zeta again, and, for me, there was no reason to live.

The foreman was organizing trips to the brothel... ♪ and I went.

I went once.

I thought it would help me forget.

Then there was a knock at the door a few days later.

My beautiful, brave Zeta, she found me.

We were married straightaway.

Were you experiencing symptoms at the time?

The doctor gave me medicine.

I thought I was cured.

I never meant to hurt my wife.

You are hurting her now by refusing to do the honorable thing and be tested.

Dr. Turner, please could you come straight to Arlene Brewer?

She's in labor, and I'm afraid she's having an episode of mania.

Go straight back to her.

I'm leaving now.

I've done it.

I've coaxed them out.

A sprinkle of sugar never fails.

Now we're all shipshape for your grand finale.

Fred, I've just had a phone call from the council.

The incoming mayor has been taken ill.

It looks like the big C. That's bad.

It's terrible for him and his family, and it's not very good for us, either.

Well, they've asked if I'd serve a second term as mayor.

♪ Well, it's an honor, I suppose.

I'm exhausted, Fred.

We're both exhausted.

I'm going to have to tell them I just haven't got it in me.

♪ Arlene!

[Pound pound] Arlene!

[Pound pound] [Panting] What?

What?

The pains have started.

The baby is on his way.

Why didn't you send for me?

Because I don't trust you anymore.

I know, Mehmet.

I know there is another woman.

There isn't.

It's not like that, but I want you to know the truth.

Now?

After I was sent here, I thought I would never see you again, and-- And, what, you found someone else?

I--I paid someone else.

I'm sorry.

Sorry is not enough.

♪ We've got to get in there.

Ah!

♪ Uh!

♪ Arlene: Oh!

Trixie: Are you all right, Arlene?

Go away.

Go away!

I know why you're here.

You're gonna get me locked up again.

Arlene, all we're concerned with now is helping you to deliver your baby.

Nngh... That's it, Arlene, slow, steady breaths.

This will pass.

Oh, I could add more flowers.

You like flowers.

No, more trees because the jungle is all trees, isn't it?

Arlene, listen to me.

We're going to have all the time in the world to talk about the mural, but right now, I need you to listen to me so that I can help you.

More trees than flowers, lots more.

Listen to Nurse Aylward now.

She knows best.

You're gonna be an auntie, Stella.

I'm gonna be a mum.

Arlene, I just need to examine you so I can see how close this baby is.

That's it, Arlene.

I can feel baby's head.

Now, Arlene, push.

Push for baby.

Push as hard as you can.

[Wailing] Zeta: [Crying] Push now, lass.

♪ Everything.

I left everything for him, and look at what he's done.

Zeta, love, I know your heart is broken as a wife, but you're not only a wife anymore.

You're about to become a mother.

Baby needs you to be strong.

I can't do this on my own.

Is it out?

Is it out?

Just as I said, the head's been delivered.

It's been resting in my hand for the last two pushes.

It won't go back in?

No.

It won't go back in, but we need you to keep pushing with every contraction, long, strong pushes.

Now.

Now, Arlene.

[Wailing] Patrick: Try moving her into the left lateral.

Arlene, we need you to move you onto your side.

I can't move.

We'll help you, and we'll all be helping the baby.

[Wailing] Arlene, push.

♪ On her back.

Now, this time, when Nurse Aylward says, "Push," I'm going to be helping you.

Now, Arlene.

Push.

[Wailing] Push.

Ohhhh... That's it.

That's it.

Well done.

♪ You have a beautiful daughter.

♪ Arlene: [Panting] ♪ Ah.

Oh... We did it.

I'm a mum, Stella.

Patrick: She's gorgeous.

She really is.

[Baby crying] Can I please?

Can I hold her now?

♪ Patrick: You've done so well, but you know we're going to have to take you both to hospital, don't you?

That's why I wanted to hold her.

♪ There's no rush.

♪ Mmmm... Baby's coming quite fast, Zeta.

Short, sharp breaths, short, sharp breaths.

[Huffing] That's the ticket.

Mmmm... Yaah... [Gasps] [Baby crying] ♪ Heh.

It's a boy.

Ha ha ha!

[Crying continues] ♪ [Crying continues] ♪ [Crying continues] Ah...ah... [Crying stops] ♪ I love him.

I love him.

He's a little champ, and so are you.

♪ [Birds chirping] ♪ Arlene: [Panting] [Baby crying] ♪ I'll go back to Nonnatus and write up my notes.

I'll speak to Mr. Parry and her psychiatrist.

They'll send her back to the Linchmere, won't they?

I hope not, and I hope so.

She really is very, very ill. ♪ Thought I'd see how you were getting on.

Where's Ted?

He only called me madame once or twice, but I thought if he gave me a nickname, it meant he trusted me.

♪ You were right.

I enjoyed thinking I was helping him.

It was arrogant of me, and it was selfish.

You showed him respect-- that was not arrogant-- and you gave him a purpose, however briefly.

That was not selfish.

I just wanted to show him he mattered.

♪ We can still do that.

You must be exhausted.

I heard what happened.

Arlene should never have ended up in that position.

How on earth was she supposed to stay well?

The odds were stacked against her right from the start.

I feel inclined to write to Margaret Myles.

They haven't told her yet.

I'm not sure how she'll bear it.

♪ Mehmet: He is-- You're both so beautiful.

So far, baby's eyes seem clear of infection.

We'll keep cleaning them as a precaution.

As long as everyone stays well, we'll be releasing Mrs. Demir and baby at the end of the week.

Oh, thank you.

♪ You should know, I will be returning as a mother who wants her son to know his father.

I am not coming home as your wife.

A wife is something you earn, you cherish, not someone you hurt and break with lies.

And I will do whatever you need, and I--I hope I can become the man that you deserve.

♪ Cyril: I have a civil engineering degree.

I know about structures, and I can do things with girders, but this-- Maybe that's where we're going wrong.

Bluebells might be quite responsive to a bit of riveting, and we could apply some tensile force to the daisies.

How do you know about tensile force?

One way and another, I helped a great many teenage boys with their homework, two of whom went on to become civil engineers.

But not florists.

No, and not social workers, either.

[Both laugh] Give it to me.

♪ [Chuckles] ♪ I think we've turned the corner.

What do you think Ted would say?

I think he'd say it is beautiful.

♪ I should go and open the doors.

It's almost time.

♪ I have a very important question I want to ask you all.

It's regarding the Nonnatus arrangement.

I want to include everyone's favorite spring flower.

Mine is crocus.

Oh, I've always liked bluebells.

Oh.

I cannot be part of the arrangement.

I'm not one of the nurses, nor one of the nuns.

Nonnatus House could function very well without me.

Veronica: Preposterous.

Well, look at everything you've done with this contact tracing.

I've seen 15 factory workers since yesterday afternoon.

You are an integral part of our work.

You are as important as any one of us.

Well, then, lily of the valley.

♪ [Door opens] [Footsteps] [Door closes] Hello, Arlene.

Nurse Aylward, is something wrong with the baby?

No.

Baby's doing wonderfully well.

I've come to talk you through what happens next.

The doctors keep coming in and out.

I don't know what some of them are for.

I've spoken to Mr. Parry and to your psychiatrist, and I wanted to make sure that you're happy with what's being proposed.

They haven't proposed anything.

They just decided it.

So you understand that you're going back to the Linchmere and you have to keep taking lithium.

I only stopped because I was trying to protect my baby.

I know.

But it didn't work, did it, because they're gonna take her away.

Arlene, the social worker is going to visit you later on.

She's going to explain everything about the foster care arrangement.

But who's gonna explain it to my baby?

You can.

♪ Ah.

Well, it's a bit dirty from being in the shed, but I reckon it'll scrub up just fine.

[Sighs] It's my speech for the Flower Festival.

I don't know how to end it, whether to say I will be continuing or retiring as mayor.

What have you got so far?

Mm, the tenement improvements, the prevention of accidents campaign, and two new playschemes, just bits and pieces, really.

That's not just bits and pieces, Vi.

That's great, big changes for the better.

Mm.

You can't stop now.

But how would we manage another year, another year of me going hell for leather after everything?

You'd manage.

We'd manage because when you get tired, I'll carry you.

Oh, Fred, really?

In a manner of speaking.

I mean, if I put my back out, I'll be no good to you, will I?

[Snickers] ♪ My, my, this is a beauty.

Cyril: Ha ha!

It was inspired by a member of the shelter.

Rosalind and I just finished it off.

You seem to be spending more and more time at the shelter.

♪ When we are alone, we seek to fill our evenings with activities.

It makes them pass more quickly, more bearable.

When I got married, I didn't think I'd find myself alone so much at the time.

In our congregation, Mr. Emil has been here for 30 years, and you know how many times he's seen his wife in that time?

4.

They make it work because they want to be husband and wife.

♪ [Door closes] ♪ Would you like to hold her?

Am I allowed?

You're absolutely allowed because I'm allowing it.

Oh... [Baby fussing] I'm sorry, little one.

Don't tell her you're sorry.

Tell her that you love her.

♪ Love you.

I love you.

I love you more.

I love you like I never knew before, like I never knew I could.

You don't even have to love me back because I am going to love you every day all the time, every waking moment till you're in my arms again.

♪ Will this get better?

Yes, because you will get better.

♪ [Sniffles] She's got such pretty hair.

♪ We need to get our skates on if we don't want to miss the opening.

Nurse Crane has gone on ahead to take photos of the flowers.

[Door closes] I'm not coming, Rosalind.

Not coming?

[Train passing] Well, I suppose you wouldn't be if you're going somewhere with a suitcase.

Are you going on a course?

You didn't say.

I've accrued a lot of leave since I started this job, and I have decided to take it.

Where are you going?

Jamaica to visit my wife.

It's too long since I've seen her.

♪ You must miss her... ♪ and she must miss you.

The ocean feels very wide sometimes.

♪ All the more reason to make the journey.

♪ Yes.

♪ Have a safe trip.

♪ [Indistinct conversation] ♪ Sister Monica Joan, I'm really impressed.

I am merely a conduit in God's work, but one can't help but marvel at the infinite variety of his creation.

Nor the infinite love of friendship.

Hmm.

[Applause] [Clears throat] Testing.

Yes.

[Feedback] Oh.

[Clears throat] A year ago, I became Mayor of Tower Hamlets, a borough full of hope, of ambition, and more than a bit of lip.

You've certainly kept me busy.

Thankfully, I've had more than a bit of help.

If you ask me, this place, our borough, is the very best of London, and it gives me great pleasure to announce that I will be serving you for one more year... [Applause] and so as my last act as outgoing mayor and my first act as incumbent mayor, I now declare the Flower Festival open.

[Cheering and applause] ♪ Mature Jennifer: Sometimes there is no hand to take ours or to hold it.

The heart beats on, apparently alone, but hope is never lost to us completely.

It can hang by the finest and most delicate of threads, surviving somehow, just as we do.

♪ Hope is the ribbon that transfigures everything.

It can transform wild weeds into a posy.

It can bind separate energies into a potent force.

Hope ties us, hope secures us, and life unites us all.

How have you been finding the catheter?

I just look in my trousers.

Shelagh: "Vending machines."

And you think this will catch on?

Oh, yeah.

Business is boomin', innit, and all?

We aren't dirty, Nurse.

Honey, you're doing your best.

But without their vow of poverty, you could not carry out essential work.