A Place to Call Home (2013–2018): Season 6, Episode 10 - Reaching Home - full transcript
The 1950s come to an end at Ash Park, bringing with it love, forgiveness and acceptance for the Bligh family.
GEORGE: If I'm agreeable,
they'll ask Menzies
to add me to our diplomatic
staff in Israel.
We met on a ship,
so as we're about to embark on
the next phase in our lives...
Christmas here, then Hanukkah,
New Year's, then...
The 3rd of January.
So the idea came from Jack,
really.
It's in some ways an extension
of the women's clinic
and Douglas' refuge.
A place for single women,
like Anna and Carolyn,
women who might need somewhere
to give birth.
I'd like us to be together.
But if you're up
in the big smoke...
You could come up.
And occasionally...
this would be my weekender.
OLIVIA: Andrew wanted to
telephone, but...
I wanted to tell you in person.
It's beautiful.
[ Gasps ]
Happy, happy mother!
JACK: There are some blokes
that meet up at the clinic.
What they've said to me is
tell us what needs fixing,
what you need, and they'll do
their best to see it done.
Charity.
It works both ways.
Jack, I can explain!
-Well, so can I.
-Please --
You've had one foot out the door
ever since we met!
-Please!
-That's it!
PRUDENCE: If she's so miserable,
perhaps she should go back.
Without his changing
significantly,
what would be the point?
Bad enough the Japs
cut my balls off.
The woman I love
just did it all over again,
everything rationalized
by her standard old accusation
that I am in a rut.
I think you are.
-Enough, all right?
-We both have been.
I think you have to do
something big, Jack,
or you won't be any good
to anyone.
[ Mid-tempo music plays ]
[ Indistinct conversations ]
Can I clear, ma'am?
Oh. Is everyone satisfied?
-I'm stuffed.
-David!
GEORGE:
That's not very polite.
You've had
an elegant sufficiency.
Well, I'm stuffed too, mate.
ELIZABETH:
You're not helping, Mr. Briggs.
Full of tucker, me!
SARAH:
Nor are you.
Such stories to tell
my young ladies.
What bounty we've had.
Mind you, I did leave them
well provided for.
Well, if that cake's
anything to go by.
That's yours, yeah?
It is indeed, Mr. Gibbs.
Um, Bernie Charsley
is touch and go.
I should head back and check.
Excuse me.
Surely they'll call you
if they need you.
Better safe than sorry.
It was a great spread.
Thank you.
-Jack?
-Merry Christmas.
Jack, I'll see you before I go?
I mean, no rush.
I'm here a few days.
Yeah. Yeah.
[ Down-tempo music plays ]
Harder knowing they
could be here and they aren't
than knowing there's no way.
It's all right.
I'll go.
[ Birds chirping ]
Jack?
[ Door opens, closes ]
Don't be too proud
to accept company if it helps.
-Come back when Anna's here.
-I appreciate the concern.
-Jack --
-I'm right.
Back to your guests.
[ Music continues ]
[ Engine starts, revs ]
[ Birds chirping ]
[ Laughter ]
PRUDENCE: Oh, I can't think of
a jollier Christmas!
Even Andrew --
usually such a scrooge!
Oh, don't make him ill
after all that food.
He's burning it off!
[ Laughs ]
Bang! Bang!
Got you!
[ Laughs ]
Just because I puked
every Christmas.
Oh, no need to be so vulgar.
-Martini time.
-Oh.
That eggnog was a tad weak.
"Start light" is my motto.
And finish heavy.
As you will.
I have to drive.
Oh.
Then wowser you may be.
Gentlemen?
I don't have to drive.
Prudence offered my old room
for the night.
And Harry.
You sure?
The sheep can look after
themselves for one night.
Two rooms, of course.
But who tiptoes where
when I'm abed is not my concern.
[ Laughter ]
Caro?
Extra fuel?
Caro?
HENRY:
I'd like to propose a toast
to our marvelous host, Prudence.
You can doubt it?
[ Down-tempo music plays ]
Our first Ash Park Hanukkah.
How wonderful.
Now, who would like the shamash?
-Me!
-Oh!
Isn't it ladies first?
Leah doesn't want it.
Do you?
Do you, Leah?
Uh, let me think.
You're teasing.
[ Laughter ]
May anyone participate?
Ah.
Perfect timing.
I've never seen Jewish stuff
before.
David explained over lunch that
it's connected to a miracle.
Yes, that's right.
And Hanukkah is our reminder.
-It's the same day as Christmas?
-This year.
It's on a lunar cycle.
We're glad you could make it.
Me too.
[ Music continues ]
* Baruch Atta adonai *
* Eloheinu melekh ha'olam *
* Asher kid'shanu b'mitzvotav *
* V'tzivanu l'hadlik ner *
* Shel Hanukkah *
[ Down-tempo music plays ]
[ Door opens ]
[ Baby cooing ]
[ Clock ticking ]
[ Footsteps approaching ]
[ Knock on door ]
What did I say?
I don't know.
What did you say?
I'm sorry.
I...I asked for privacy.
I'm sick of people invading
to check up on me.
Well, this little one wanted to
see Grandpapa before Ash Park.
Merry first Christmas,
little one.
How'd you know
I wouldn't still be there?
I telephoned.
They said you'd dashed off.
So you're checking up too?
Daughter's privilege.
You know we would have been here
all day if you'd asked.
You're here now.
-Aren't you?
-[ Baby cooing ]
How was it?
It was all very dull.
Nothing special.
You?
Oh.
Don't worry about me.
But I do.
Yeah, you and the rest.
[ Down-tempo music plays ]
Lot of grog around at Christmas.
You wouldn't.
Took everything I had.
But you didn't.
The firsts without her
are hardest.
And the first New Year is next.
I'll have to watch it.
-I'll keep an eye on you.
-You go wherever you want.
Elaine wants to see in the '60s
with Grandpapa,
so we'll all be together.
I'm fine.
[ Music continues ]
[ Insects chirping ]
DAVID:
It's too early!
Christmas, Hanukkah,
and Shabbat.
It's quite enough for one day.
Well, you're not going to bed.
Well, I'm not 6.
How about if I read to you
before I go back
to Mrs. Collins?
Bomba the Jungle Boy?
Whatever you like.
Get changed.
We'll be in soon.
You should consider
pediatric nursing.
You have the touch.
I might.
I can't wait to start
proper training.
New decade, new career.
And Sydney.
Thank you.
Oh.
For everything.
Your Aunt Miriam would be
so proud.
You think?
I am.
Now, Roy will need extra hands
whilst we're away.
Is there anyone at the refuge
who might suit?
Especially from the men
you've encouraged.
Mr. Briggs would train
any you choose.
Well, best check with him first.
Well, there's not an ounce
of prejudice in the man.
I mean, look at him with you.
Fine with one
doesn't mean fine with all.
I mean, there's a fella who,
handled wrong,
uh, he could jack up.
Well, I'm sure Roy would manage
if he was briefed.
Perhaps introduce me to him
next time I'm at the refuge.
And you must come by
the hospital.
It's near completion.
I'm keen that it's not
just for white girls.
I need advice
on how best to effect that.
Well, you know the aunties.
Ask them.
But I like the idea.
I've been thinking about Jack.
Might get a fire going.
You know, we had our best yarns
that way.
Sarah's right.
He could do with one.
ELIZABETH:
Hm.
Thanks for today.
Oh, it was our pleasure.
And thank you again
for the painting.
I will treasure it.
Might be worth a quid or two
one day.
Oh. Well, it won't be sold
in my lifetime.
I hope you do better with Jack
than we have.
I'll give it a go.
[ Insects chirping ]
[ Fire crackling ]
Missed this.
I'm glad I dragged you out,
then.
Missed just looking
at the sparks...
...simply not saying.
Best way to get saying.
I was stuck
when I first hit Inverness.
But I left a changed man.
Thanks to you.
Sometimes you got to move
to unstick.
First place you think --
Where could you go if you could?
To help.
Tell yourself, not me.
[ Down-tempo music plays ]
Yeah?
[ Exhales sharply ]
Yeah. Yeah.
Then go.
Well, you're bugger-all use
to yourself like this.
Well, are ya?
No.
[ Mid-tempo music playing,
liquid pouring ]
You know, if somebody
had have told me last Christmas
that this would be my Christmas
this Christmas,
I'd have said they're mad.
Love.
Loss.
Fatherhood...and enough warmth
to drown in.
We're all feeling that.
Even though I am worried
about the sheep.
DELIA:
You've got competition, Henry.
He's less woolly
but way better legs.
[ Laughter ]
Oh, too delicious.
He's for keeping.
[ Voice breaking ]
I miss him.
[ Music continues ]
Oh, sorry.
I miss him so much.
[ Sobs ]
I'm sorry.
[ Insects chirping ]
Now, Jack...I might leave you
to tell them.
You sure?
See you tomorrow.
You've got guts.
I'll say that.
So tomorrow we have two candles.
You let them burn for half an
hour and stay, sharing company.
It's one of our most joyous
celebrations.
Not sure what my news does
for the joy.
Frank got me thinking.
Thanks for not giving up.
I thought another voice.
JACK:
Like you said back when,
your war damage made you scared
to settle...
...me to move.
I'll be heading off, uh,
not long after you two.
I'll make my way back to the --
the place that scares me most.
Might help
clear a few things up.
Where are you going?
Back?
To...where it started, where...
...where it happened.
Burma.
Um...
Where they did what they did.
You get it.
[ Down-tempo music plays ]
I've never had the courage.
I wonder if I ever will.
It's very brave, Jack.
Well, it's kill or cure.
[ Down-tempo music plays ]
[ Insects chirping ]
[ Mid-tempo music plays ]
Perhaps we have an artist
in the family.
You never know.
Thank you for thinking of him.
I couldn't turn up to Christmas
without something for the kid.
-[ Clock chiming ]
-That's the half-hour.
So you sit every night
for a half-hour and just gab?
Yes, while the candles burn.
-This Israel thing.
-Mm-hmm?
Uh, the Jews were tossed out,
you say.
By the Romans -- 135 A.D.
And a man had a dream
that they were going back again?
Theodor Herzl,
some sixty-odd years ago.
Seemed impossible.
Even some of the Jews
called him mad.
There it is, now.
Israel.
It happened.
Gives a man hope.
How so?
Well, 2,000 years
for your mob
and only 200 years for ours.
You found your way
out of the oppression,
so maybe there's light at the
end of the tunnel for my mob.
Any help I can ever be
in Canberra.
And any I can give.
We've shown we make a good team.
They're the way, I reckon.
See that they see what's right.
The new generation.
Our best hope.
[ Down-tempo music plays ]
I made so bold
as to prepare a cold collation.
Uh, no need.
Thank you.
You barely picked at your food
yesterday.
Watching, were you?
And will do, perhaps selfishly.
This hospital is bursting
into life.
Mr. Rowe, an excellent surgeon,
has his eye on one
of my young ladies, you know.
And your men's group.
None of my earlier fears
have been realized.
Told you.
You did.
A whisper tells me that you
may be leaving us for a time.
Oh, jungle drums.
Emma and Leah, home with news,
shared as interest, not gossip.
Of course.
Uh, I am off for a bit,
to clear my head.
Mm-hmm.
Well deserved.
May I make an observation,
Doctor?
Go for it.
You touch people's lives
in ways you will never know.
And if what I hear is true,
that will be confirmed tomorrow.
I say no more
should it not transpire.
But should it, it will prove
your worth to Inverness
more than any words
that I can offer.
Enough.
Eat.
You're greatly cared for,
Doctor.
Uh, Doris.
So are you.
Ah.
Hm!
What on earth prompted it?
Frank Gibbs worked
some fireside magic.
He's geed him on.
To?
Examine his past --
I hope towards the end
of resolving your futures.
Or his, singular, without me.
Carolyn, Jack wants to find
a way back to you.
This is him searching for one.
Returning to that
monstrous place helps?
Well, perhaps a form
of shock therapy.
And that, given my adopted role
of Switzerland
in family matters,
is all I'll say.
Anna's thoughts?
Equally diplomatic,
equally hopeful.
Have hope.
[ Down-tempo music plays ]
[ Birds chirping ]
ANNA: He's getting more famous
all the time.
-Two hits!
-I meant to show you yesterday.
-How does it feel?
-What?
Your old boyfriend being a star.
Ah.
Are you going to look him up
in Sydney?
Why?
-He gave you a friendship ring.
-We were kids.
-You're not ancient.
-[ Vehicle approaching ]
Too much has changed.
Church.
Are you going?
I might spare the congregation
Elaine's singing.
Yeah.
What Roy's doing for you,
it's amazing.
I know.
I always thought
that Mum loved him more than me,
but...now I know
why she loved him.
-[ Horn honks ]
-Emma!
Coming!
Bye.
[ Chuckles ]
[ Baby cooing ]
We're going to stay in touch
in the city.
Good.
It can be a lonely place.
Do you think I'd be stupid
to try and see him?
Larry?
Yes.
I listen to your serial.
I...I know it's about you.
You loved your husband,
and you were different,
and that didn't work out.
Works out in the serial.
Keep listening.
We could end up the same.
Or not.
One thing I do know is
I wouldn't be who I am today
if I hadn't married Gino.
And...
Well, I wouldn't change a thing.
I'm sure Larry would love
to see you.
-You think?
-Yes.
And if not, you won't spend
your life wondering.
[ Down-tempo music plays ]
[ Laughs ]
[ Typewriter clicking ]
We're taking Georgie to Bondi.
Feel like a dip?
Carolyn?
What?
Oh.
Miles away.
Would you like to join us?
I have to go over some papers
with Delia.
She's coming.
Typical.
Enjoy yourselves.
-You're sure?
-Yes.
Livvy.
It's lovely to see you so happy.
Move your tushie.
Swim will do you good.
I think you're in the doghouse.
I'll meet you out front.
[ Typewriter clicking ]
It's Sunday.
We promised this quote
by tomorrow.
Christmastime.
They'll cut us some slack.
You are so damned cavalier.
I'm sorry.
I understand.
I'd hung on to a sliver of hope
until your collapse.
I accept now I have none.
I am sorry.
You are who you are.
[ Down-tempo music plays ]
Go to him.
[ Sighs ]
When he returns from Burma,
perhaps.
Before.
And no "perhaps."
You wanted him to move.
He might return no different.
He must be wondering
about your reaction.
Something I haven't shared.
I telephoned him.
-When?
-Months back.
The day of the christening.
I told him I could only take you
if he let me.
I thought it might stir him
to action.
Clearly didn't.
Until now.
It must have contributed.
There was pride and anger
in his voice.
You can only be that proud
and that angry
when you love that much.
Somewhat akin to your good self.
For God's sake, woman.
You said you wanted him to move.
[ Music continues ]
[ Birds chirping ]
Well, there's still
a fair few meetings to go.
It'll take a while to organize.
Going to the middle
of the jungle?
I'll bet.
Makes me think I wouldn't mind
going to Kokoda one day,
seeing where my boy went.
I thought he went in Europe.
One did.
I lost them both.
Ruddy hell.
Not much older than you,
either, mate.
I wish the great one had been
the war to end all wars.
Be good if ours was.
The way the commies are going,
it doesn't seem likely.
Yellow bloody peril.
Good topic for today, maybe --
war.
What it takes and --
and what it does.
[ Down-tempo music plays ]
SHEILA:
You don't have to.
A promise is a promise.
I'll be here.
Not easy.
After what those fellas have
done for us,
it's the least you can do.
[ Music continues ]
I used to sit with my mate Bill.
We kept each other
off the booze.
-Poor old Bill.
-Why?
He, uh, he hung himself.
Geez.
I can...understand
how a bloke might.
Stan.
Asked Sheila what she wants
for Christmas, and...
she said this.
Would have been easier
buying her something.
Took me a while to get my head
around it too, mate.
-I'll get a chair.
-Come in.
Not...my idea.
Well, you can bail at any time.
Hope you don't.
I can't promise nothing.
Not asking you to.
[ Music continues ]
DORIS: You touch people's lives
in ways you will never know.
It's a start.
What if I say the wrong things?
Just say what's in your heart.
Oh, I'm so sorry
to drag you into it.
Mm.
Oh, pooh to Switzerland.
I've sat on my thoughts
for months.
You both need a good kick
in the rear.
That wasn't meant to be funny.
"Pooh to Switzerland"?
And a good kick in the rear.
[ Sobs, sighs ]
This offers the hope
you said you wanted.
You fight.
Mm-hmm.
PRIMO: [ Italian accent ]
He will not accept us.
My mama and papa will not.
Only you understand.
We cannot tell.
MARGARET: I will not lie for
you, but I will champion you.
We'll find a way to see
they do accept you.
CHARLOTTE: We had found our ally
in Sister Andrews,
but our battle
was only just beginning.
[ Down-tempo music plays ]
MAN ON RADIO: Be listening
for the next chapter
of "Tender Vines,"
a Gaynor Dobson production
I couldn't convince them
to let Primo speak
with an Australian accent.
To them, Italians all-a speak-a
like-a that.
But then everyone else speaks
with plums in their mouths.
But that's radio.
Your Sister Andrews reminds me
of someone,
but I can't quite work out who.
She's based on a woman we met
on a ship coming home.
She changed all our lives.
Not ringing a bell.
I'm serious.
You made us all far better
than we might have been.
That's a lovely thing to say.
It's true.
I shudder to think
what I might have become.
I'd shut out life.
So it's been a two-way street.
Helping us all find home.
In one form or another.
A place for some,
for some a person,
for the lucky, both.
With two notable exceptions.
You could at least have given
some warning.
You've made a habit
of avoiding me.
You want a divorce, right?
-Not like it's a surprise.
-Don't.
Delia warned me she'd take you.
She should never have said that.
She can't.
I don't want her.
And I don't want a divorce.
Then why are you here?
Haven't we trawled over it
enough?
We've barely spoken for months.
I'm committed to this hospital.
I am doing good.
It's better than anything else
I can do,
and it sure beats running
with your pack.
I didn't come here to fight.
I heard what you're doing.
Where you're going.
I'd like to know why.
You care?
[ Sighs ]
Don't.
Of course I care!
Please.
All right.
[ Down-tempo music plays ]
I was a mess before you came
back into my life.
Been an even bigger one
since you left.
Loving you helped dull
what the war did,
but it's never not there.
It's time I face it head on.
Examine the wounds,
abrade the dead tissue.
And you think going back there
is the way?
It'll be a hard slog,
but going there...
...standing there, feeling...
whatever I'll feel...
...it'll force me
to really address it.
And I haven't.
I just...
...kept pushing it down.
Has it got anything to do
with me?
I'm sorry if that sounds
self-centered, but...has it?
In even the smallest way?
Might some part of you hope
that your journey
somehow...could help get you
past your anger at me?
No.
I think it does.
I think you want to see...
a way past this as much as I do.
[ Voice breaking ]
You hope there's at least...
the seed of an answer there.
I'm here to say...
that I want to go with you.
If you find the answer...
I want to be there.
And if not,
I hope that my sharing it
can somehow take the bitterness
from our lives.
All I know...is that I love you
with all of my heart,
and I can't let you do it alone.
I'll be at Ash Park
until New Year's Day.
Can't we try to use this
to return to each other somehow?
I don't expect an answer now.
Unless you have one.
No.
You know where to find me.
PRUDENCE: There's no need
to run off, surely?
Well, my job here is done,
and whatever's next for Caro,
best I'm out
of her personal life.
We will meet
strictly for business,
should she wish to continue so.
You have brightened Casa Swanson
through more than renovation.
You are a very special woman.
As are you, my dear.
Then it's hi-ho, Silver,
and away.
Sadly, without a Tonto.
If I were that way inclined,
I'd be after you myself.
And I wouldn't be running.
[ Laughs ]
[ Down-tempo music plays ]
[ Engine starts ]
ELIZABETH: You're lucky
you're not here on a workday.
A cacophony.
When do you see it up
and running?
Two more weeks of renovations,
then the installation of beds
and equipment.
The staffing, of course,
could get under way immediately
if you were to accept my offer.
Oh, I need this.
It does rather take it out
of one.
I admire your intentions.
But?
Do I want to settle for this
or aim higher?
Thank you.
I don't mean to offend.
You don't.
A large hospital
is sniffing around
regarding an
administrative role.
Well, can I offer you
a perspective
-you may not have considered?
-Please.
And I don't mean to offend.
You seem very close
to Harry Polson.
Yes.
Not too personal, I trust?
No.
Henry, we live
in an uncharitable world.
Your liaisons, whether attached
to deep emotion or not,
are seen as sordid and
cause for dismissal elsewhere.
You will always have
a place here
as long as simple discretion
is observed.
Your love will be respected --
if love it becomes or indeed is.
It hadn't occurred to me.
And you will help me
in certain ways as well.
I rest my case.
I'm, uh, locuming for Jack
while he's away.
And then?
Where do I sign?
[ Down-tempo music plays ]
We will do great things
together.
We will.
We will.
[ Music continues ]
I shall be quite bereft
when Ash Park is vacated.
Intimate as I am
with Mrs. Goddard,
I'm even closer
to our dear Mrs. Bligh.
Ah, Doctor.
We'll see you this evening?
What a set we'll be to bid
the old decade adieu, hmm?
Yeah.
He's been like that
since Mrs. Duncan arrived.
Ah.
That bodes ill.
Oh, well.
[ Telephone ringing ]
[ Mid-tempo music plays ]
Mama.
David, off you go.
Get ready for dinner.
And if you're very good,
I'll let you stay up late.
Till 12:00?
-Till you see everyone.
-Oh.
-Be a good boy.
-I wouldn't push it.
Bet I can.
Why don't you go
and prepare too?
There's no rush.
Well, Sarah and I have something
to discuss.
-SARAH: Oh, we do?
-Yes.
Well, off you go, then.
You be a good boy.
-Don't you push it.
-[ Laughs ]
It's nothing serious?
Will you shut the door?
[ Down-tempo music plays ]
I was given these yesterday.
The results of my tests.
It's why I popped home
after Christmas.
[ Music continues ]
[ Insects chirping,
clock ticking ]
Happy New Year.
And Elaine says Happy New Year.
Oh, does she?
What a star.
Oh, she's auditioning
for "Tender Vines" next week.
[ Laughs ]
I just heard my name called --
Star.
Oh!
Happy new decade, Anna.
Happy new decade.
Happy new decade.
We'll see you soon.
If I'm a star,
you're a constellation.
Dear, oh, dear, Andrew Swanson.
You will have to do better
than that.
[ Laughs ]
You set the bar high, don't you?
[ Laughs ]
I certainly do.
[ Down-tempo music plays ]
Thank you.
I thought you were done
with complicating your life.
Well, even more
with complicating others.
What point in George knowing?
He would cancel this wonderful
opportunity in Israel
to hover here,
anticipating a death
that will come when it comes.
I may well still be here
when you return,
despite this gloomy prognosis.
You've seemed so robust.
I reserve my energies
for public display.
Any pain?
Niggles.
I wasn't given long years ago,
so I think the old ticker
has done rather well.
Sarah, I watched Douglas fade.
I would rather spare George
the same.
And David.
Let him remember Granny
as she is.
This is to give George
when I'm gone.
If you go.
Evasion doesn't become you.
You're the only one
who'll know of this
until it's impossible
to conceal.
Promise one thing.
If you're clearly fading
and feel that we can reach you,
let us know.
If I'm absolutely sure.
The coward in me...
oh, hopes for an attack
in my sleep.
To close one's eyes
and simply not wake.
It's hard to imagine a world
without you.
Well, it's harder for me.
Do I have your promise?
If it's so important.
It is.
I will miss you.
I'm not talking of Israel.
[ Voice breaking ]
And I you. I'm sorry.
Well, that's why
I'm telling you now.
So that you can be composed
by tonight.
And selfishly, so that I can see
one pair of eyes at midnight
that knows the truth.
I may well cry.
Well, excuse it as tears of joy.
Dear Sarah.
I love you.
I love you.
[ Down-tempo music plays ]
[ Indistinct conversations,
laughter ]
[ Mid-tempo music playing ]
Nearly time, everyone.
Make sure your glasses
are charged.
Emma, Leah, special dispensation
if you wish.
-Really?
-Yes, please.
Well, it's not every night
we enter a new decade.
Would you like me to go
and check?
No.
Um, excuse me.
[ Music playing in distance ]
What?
Well, we can't do it at midnight
in there.
I'm yours.
If you want me.
Totally.
I do.
I do.
[ Indistinct conversations,
insects chirping ]
Thank you.
Thank you for sharing this --
this very special night with us.
A whole new decade ahead.
I know I'm excited.
The possibilities.
And here we go.
-You ready?
-Mm-hmm.
Ten...
...nine...eight...
seven...six...five...
four...three...two...
one!
ALL:
Happy New Year!
ROY:
Happy New Year!
Happy New Year, Mrs. Bligh.
The happiest ever.
[ Down-tempo music plays ]
ELIZABETH:
Happy New Year, my sweet girl.
-Happy New Year, Grandmother.
-Don't cry.
Happy New Year, dear Sarah.
-Likewise.
-Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
I'm so glad you're here.
[ Indistinct conversations,
glasses clinking ]
ROY:
Happy New Year, Mr. Bligh!
[ Music continues ]
My love.
We'll find it.
We will.
-Somehow.
-Somehow.
Forever.
[ Applause ]
* Should auld acquaintance
be forgot *
* And never brought to mind *
* Should auld acquaintance
be forgot *
* And days of auld lang syne *
* For auld lang syne, my dear *
* For auld lang syne *
* We'll take a cup of kindness
yet *
* For days of auld lang syne *
[ Down-tempo music plays ]
[ Mid-tempo music plays ]
You have fun, now.
You be good.
[ Music continues ]
Ooh!
Oopsy-daisy!
DAVID: Come on, Daddy!
It's time to go!
[ Birds chirping ]
[ Down-tempo music plays ]
[ Rain falling,
thunder rumbling ]
[ Music continues ]
We met on a ship, you know.
It all began on a ship.
We are the survivors
of that voyage, Olivia.
You, soon, the last.
Dear Leah.
Thank you.
My darling boy.
Who guessed so many would love
my story.
What a wonderful journey.
[ Exhales deeply ]
they'll ask Menzies
to add me to our diplomatic
staff in Israel.
We met on a ship,
so as we're about to embark on
the next phase in our lives...
Christmas here, then Hanukkah,
New Year's, then...
The 3rd of January.
So the idea came from Jack,
really.
It's in some ways an extension
of the women's clinic
and Douglas' refuge.
A place for single women,
like Anna and Carolyn,
women who might need somewhere
to give birth.
I'd like us to be together.
But if you're up
in the big smoke...
You could come up.
And occasionally...
this would be my weekender.
OLIVIA: Andrew wanted to
telephone, but...
I wanted to tell you in person.
It's beautiful.
[ Gasps ]
Happy, happy mother!
JACK: There are some blokes
that meet up at the clinic.
What they've said to me is
tell us what needs fixing,
what you need, and they'll do
their best to see it done.
Charity.
It works both ways.
Jack, I can explain!
-Well, so can I.
-Please --
You've had one foot out the door
ever since we met!
-Please!
-That's it!
PRUDENCE: If she's so miserable,
perhaps she should go back.
Without his changing
significantly,
what would be the point?
Bad enough the Japs
cut my balls off.
The woman I love
just did it all over again,
everything rationalized
by her standard old accusation
that I am in a rut.
I think you are.
-Enough, all right?
-We both have been.
I think you have to do
something big, Jack,
or you won't be any good
to anyone.
[ Mid-tempo music plays ]
[ Indistinct conversations ]
Can I clear, ma'am?
Oh. Is everyone satisfied?
-I'm stuffed.
-David!
GEORGE:
That's not very polite.
You've had
an elegant sufficiency.
Well, I'm stuffed too, mate.
ELIZABETH:
You're not helping, Mr. Briggs.
Full of tucker, me!
SARAH:
Nor are you.
Such stories to tell
my young ladies.
What bounty we've had.
Mind you, I did leave them
well provided for.
Well, if that cake's
anything to go by.
That's yours, yeah?
It is indeed, Mr. Gibbs.
Um, Bernie Charsley
is touch and go.
I should head back and check.
Excuse me.
Surely they'll call you
if they need you.
Better safe than sorry.
It was a great spread.
Thank you.
-Jack?
-Merry Christmas.
Jack, I'll see you before I go?
I mean, no rush.
I'm here a few days.
Yeah. Yeah.
[ Down-tempo music plays ]
Harder knowing they
could be here and they aren't
than knowing there's no way.
It's all right.
I'll go.
[ Birds chirping ]
Jack?
[ Door opens, closes ]
Don't be too proud
to accept company if it helps.
-Come back when Anna's here.
-I appreciate the concern.
-Jack --
-I'm right.
Back to your guests.
[ Music continues ]
[ Engine starts, revs ]
[ Birds chirping ]
[ Laughter ]
PRUDENCE: Oh, I can't think of
a jollier Christmas!
Even Andrew --
usually such a scrooge!
Oh, don't make him ill
after all that food.
He's burning it off!
[ Laughs ]
Bang! Bang!
Got you!
[ Laughs ]
Just because I puked
every Christmas.
Oh, no need to be so vulgar.
-Martini time.
-Oh.
That eggnog was a tad weak.
"Start light" is my motto.
And finish heavy.
As you will.
I have to drive.
Oh.
Then wowser you may be.
Gentlemen?
I don't have to drive.
Prudence offered my old room
for the night.
And Harry.
You sure?
The sheep can look after
themselves for one night.
Two rooms, of course.
But who tiptoes where
when I'm abed is not my concern.
[ Laughter ]
Caro?
Extra fuel?
Caro?
HENRY:
I'd like to propose a toast
to our marvelous host, Prudence.
You can doubt it?
[ Down-tempo music plays ]
Our first Ash Park Hanukkah.
How wonderful.
Now, who would like the shamash?
-Me!
-Oh!
Isn't it ladies first?
Leah doesn't want it.
Do you?
Do you, Leah?
Uh, let me think.
You're teasing.
[ Laughter ]
May anyone participate?
Ah.
Perfect timing.
I've never seen Jewish stuff
before.
David explained over lunch that
it's connected to a miracle.
Yes, that's right.
And Hanukkah is our reminder.
-It's the same day as Christmas?
-This year.
It's on a lunar cycle.
We're glad you could make it.
Me too.
[ Music continues ]
* Baruch Atta adonai *
* Eloheinu melekh ha'olam *
* Asher kid'shanu b'mitzvotav *
* V'tzivanu l'hadlik ner *
* Shel Hanukkah *
[ Down-tempo music plays ]
[ Door opens ]
[ Baby cooing ]
[ Clock ticking ]
[ Footsteps approaching ]
[ Knock on door ]
What did I say?
I don't know.
What did you say?
I'm sorry.
I...I asked for privacy.
I'm sick of people invading
to check up on me.
Well, this little one wanted to
see Grandpapa before Ash Park.
Merry first Christmas,
little one.
How'd you know
I wouldn't still be there?
I telephoned.
They said you'd dashed off.
So you're checking up too?
Daughter's privilege.
You know we would have been here
all day if you'd asked.
You're here now.
-Aren't you?
-[ Baby cooing ]
How was it?
It was all very dull.
Nothing special.
You?
Oh.
Don't worry about me.
But I do.
Yeah, you and the rest.
[ Down-tempo music plays ]
Lot of grog around at Christmas.
You wouldn't.
Took everything I had.
But you didn't.
The firsts without her
are hardest.
And the first New Year is next.
I'll have to watch it.
-I'll keep an eye on you.
-You go wherever you want.
Elaine wants to see in the '60s
with Grandpapa,
so we'll all be together.
I'm fine.
[ Music continues ]
[ Insects chirping ]
DAVID:
It's too early!
Christmas, Hanukkah,
and Shabbat.
It's quite enough for one day.
Well, you're not going to bed.
Well, I'm not 6.
How about if I read to you
before I go back
to Mrs. Collins?
Bomba the Jungle Boy?
Whatever you like.
Get changed.
We'll be in soon.
You should consider
pediatric nursing.
You have the touch.
I might.
I can't wait to start
proper training.
New decade, new career.
And Sydney.
Thank you.
Oh.
For everything.
Your Aunt Miriam would be
so proud.
You think?
I am.
Now, Roy will need extra hands
whilst we're away.
Is there anyone at the refuge
who might suit?
Especially from the men
you've encouraged.
Mr. Briggs would train
any you choose.
Well, best check with him first.
Well, there's not an ounce
of prejudice in the man.
I mean, look at him with you.
Fine with one
doesn't mean fine with all.
I mean, there's a fella who,
handled wrong,
uh, he could jack up.
Well, I'm sure Roy would manage
if he was briefed.
Perhaps introduce me to him
next time I'm at the refuge.
And you must come by
the hospital.
It's near completion.
I'm keen that it's not
just for white girls.
I need advice
on how best to effect that.
Well, you know the aunties.
Ask them.
But I like the idea.
I've been thinking about Jack.
Might get a fire going.
You know, we had our best yarns
that way.
Sarah's right.
He could do with one.
ELIZABETH:
Hm.
Thanks for today.
Oh, it was our pleasure.
And thank you again
for the painting.
I will treasure it.
Might be worth a quid or two
one day.
Oh. Well, it won't be sold
in my lifetime.
I hope you do better with Jack
than we have.
I'll give it a go.
[ Insects chirping ]
[ Fire crackling ]
Missed this.
I'm glad I dragged you out,
then.
Missed just looking
at the sparks...
...simply not saying.
Best way to get saying.
I was stuck
when I first hit Inverness.
But I left a changed man.
Thanks to you.
Sometimes you got to move
to unstick.
First place you think --
Where could you go if you could?
To help.
Tell yourself, not me.
[ Down-tempo music plays ]
Yeah?
[ Exhales sharply ]
Yeah. Yeah.
Then go.
Well, you're bugger-all use
to yourself like this.
Well, are ya?
No.
[ Mid-tempo music playing,
liquid pouring ]
You know, if somebody
had have told me last Christmas
that this would be my Christmas
this Christmas,
I'd have said they're mad.
Love.
Loss.
Fatherhood...and enough warmth
to drown in.
We're all feeling that.
Even though I am worried
about the sheep.
DELIA:
You've got competition, Henry.
He's less woolly
but way better legs.
[ Laughter ]
Oh, too delicious.
He's for keeping.
[ Voice breaking ]
I miss him.
[ Music continues ]
Oh, sorry.
I miss him so much.
[ Sobs ]
I'm sorry.
[ Insects chirping ]
Now, Jack...I might leave you
to tell them.
You sure?
See you tomorrow.
You've got guts.
I'll say that.
So tomorrow we have two candles.
You let them burn for half an
hour and stay, sharing company.
It's one of our most joyous
celebrations.
Not sure what my news does
for the joy.
Frank got me thinking.
Thanks for not giving up.
I thought another voice.
JACK:
Like you said back when,
your war damage made you scared
to settle...
...me to move.
I'll be heading off, uh,
not long after you two.
I'll make my way back to the --
the place that scares me most.
Might help
clear a few things up.
Where are you going?
Back?
To...where it started, where...
...where it happened.
Burma.
Um...
Where they did what they did.
You get it.
[ Down-tempo music plays ]
I've never had the courage.
I wonder if I ever will.
It's very brave, Jack.
Well, it's kill or cure.
[ Down-tempo music plays ]
[ Insects chirping ]
[ Mid-tempo music plays ]
Perhaps we have an artist
in the family.
You never know.
Thank you for thinking of him.
I couldn't turn up to Christmas
without something for the kid.
-[ Clock chiming ]
-That's the half-hour.
So you sit every night
for a half-hour and just gab?
Yes, while the candles burn.
-This Israel thing.
-Mm-hmm?
Uh, the Jews were tossed out,
you say.
By the Romans -- 135 A.D.
And a man had a dream
that they were going back again?
Theodor Herzl,
some sixty-odd years ago.
Seemed impossible.
Even some of the Jews
called him mad.
There it is, now.
Israel.
It happened.
Gives a man hope.
How so?
Well, 2,000 years
for your mob
and only 200 years for ours.
You found your way
out of the oppression,
so maybe there's light at the
end of the tunnel for my mob.
Any help I can ever be
in Canberra.
And any I can give.
We've shown we make a good team.
They're the way, I reckon.
See that they see what's right.
The new generation.
Our best hope.
[ Down-tempo music plays ]
I made so bold
as to prepare a cold collation.
Uh, no need.
Thank you.
You barely picked at your food
yesterday.
Watching, were you?
And will do, perhaps selfishly.
This hospital is bursting
into life.
Mr. Rowe, an excellent surgeon,
has his eye on one
of my young ladies, you know.
And your men's group.
None of my earlier fears
have been realized.
Told you.
You did.
A whisper tells me that you
may be leaving us for a time.
Oh, jungle drums.
Emma and Leah, home with news,
shared as interest, not gossip.
Of course.
Uh, I am off for a bit,
to clear my head.
Mm-hmm.
Well deserved.
May I make an observation,
Doctor?
Go for it.
You touch people's lives
in ways you will never know.
And if what I hear is true,
that will be confirmed tomorrow.
I say no more
should it not transpire.
But should it, it will prove
your worth to Inverness
more than any words
that I can offer.
Enough.
Eat.
You're greatly cared for,
Doctor.
Uh, Doris.
So are you.
Ah.
Hm!
What on earth prompted it?
Frank Gibbs worked
some fireside magic.
He's geed him on.
To?
Examine his past --
I hope towards the end
of resolving your futures.
Or his, singular, without me.
Carolyn, Jack wants to find
a way back to you.
This is him searching for one.
Returning to that
monstrous place helps?
Well, perhaps a form
of shock therapy.
And that, given my adopted role
of Switzerland
in family matters,
is all I'll say.
Anna's thoughts?
Equally diplomatic,
equally hopeful.
Have hope.
[ Down-tempo music plays ]
[ Birds chirping ]
ANNA: He's getting more famous
all the time.
-Two hits!
-I meant to show you yesterday.
-How does it feel?
-What?
Your old boyfriend being a star.
Ah.
Are you going to look him up
in Sydney?
Why?
-He gave you a friendship ring.
-We were kids.
-You're not ancient.
-[ Vehicle approaching ]
Too much has changed.
Church.
Are you going?
I might spare the congregation
Elaine's singing.
Yeah.
What Roy's doing for you,
it's amazing.
I know.
I always thought
that Mum loved him more than me,
but...now I know
why she loved him.
-[ Horn honks ]
-Emma!
Coming!
Bye.
[ Chuckles ]
[ Baby cooing ]
We're going to stay in touch
in the city.
Good.
It can be a lonely place.
Do you think I'd be stupid
to try and see him?
Larry?
Yes.
I listen to your serial.
I...I know it's about you.
You loved your husband,
and you were different,
and that didn't work out.
Works out in the serial.
Keep listening.
We could end up the same.
Or not.
One thing I do know is
I wouldn't be who I am today
if I hadn't married Gino.
And...
Well, I wouldn't change a thing.
I'm sure Larry would love
to see you.
-You think?
-Yes.
And if not, you won't spend
your life wondering.
[ Down-tempo music plays ]
[ Laughs ]
[ Typewriter clicking ]
We're taking Georgie to Bondi.
Feel like a dip?
Carolyn?
What?
Oh.
Miles away.
Would you like to join us?
I have to go over some papers
with Delia.
She's coming.
Typical.
Enjoy yourselves.
-You're sure?
-Yes.
Livvy.
It's lovely to see you so happy.
Move your tushie.
Swim will do you good.
I think you're in the doghouse.
I'll meet you out front.
[ Typewriter clicking ]
It's Sunday.
We promised this quote
by tomorrow.
Christmastime.
They'll cut us some slack.
You are so damned cavalier.
I'm sorry.
I understand.
I'd hung on to a sliver of hope
until your collapse.
I accept now I have none.
I am sorry.
You are who you are.
[ Down-tempo music plays ]
Go to him.
[ Sighs ]
When he returns from Burma,
perhaps.
Before.
And no "perhaps."
You wanted him to move.
He might return no different.
He must be wondering
about your reaction.
Something I haven't shared.
I telephoned him.
-When?
-Months back.
The day of the christening.
I told him I could only take you
if he let me.
I thought it might stir him
to action.
Clearly didn't.
Until now.
It must have contributed.
There was pride and anger
in his voice.
You can only be that proud
and that angry
when you love that much.
Somewhat akin to your good self.
For God's sake, woman.
You said you wanted him to move.
[ Music continues ]
[ Birds chirping ]
Well, there's still
a fair few meetings to go.
It'll take a while to organize.
Going to the middle
of the jungle?
I'll bet.
Makes me think I wouldn't mind
going to Kokoda one day,
seeing where my boy went.
I thought he went in Europe.
One did.
I lost them both.
Ruddy hell.
Not much older than you,
either, mate.
I wish the great one had been
the war to end all wars.
Be good if ours was.
The way the commies are going,
it doesn't seem likely.
Yellow bloody peril.
Good topic for today, maybe --
war.
What it takes and --
and what it does.
[ Down-tempo music plays ]
SHEILA:
You don't have to.
A promise is a promise.
I'll be here.
Not easy.
After what those fellas have
done for us,
it's the least you can do.
[ Music continues ]
I used to sit with my mate Bill.
We kept each other
off the booze.
-Poor old Bill.
-Why?
He, uh, he hung himself.
Geez.
I can...understand
how a bloke might.
Stan.
Asked Sheila what she wants
for Christmas, and...
she said this.
Would have been easier
buying her something.
Took me a while to get my head
around it too, mate.
-I'll get a chair.
-Come in.
Not...my idea.
Well, you can bail at any time.
Hope you don't.
I can't promise nothing.
Not asking you to.
[ Music continues ]
DORIS: You touch people's lives
in ways you will never know.
It's a start.
What if I say the wrong things?
Just say what's in your heart.
Oh, I'm so sorry
to drag you into it.
Mm.
Oh, pooh to Switzerland.
I've sat on my thoughts
for months.
You both need a good kick
in the rear.
That wasn't meant to be funny.
"Pooh to Switzerland"?
And a good kick in the rear.
[ Sobs, sighs ]
This offers the hope
you said you wanted.
You fight.
Mm-hmm.
PRIMO: [ Italian accent ]
He will not accept us.
My mama and papa will not.
Only you understand.
We cannot tell.
MARGARET: I will not lie for
you, but I will champion you.
We'll find a way to see
they do accept you.
CHARLOTTE: We had found our ally
in Sister Andrews,
but our battle
was only just beginning.
[ Down-tempo music plays ]
MAN ON RADIO: Be listening
for the next chapter
of "Tender Vines,"
a Gaynor Dobson production
I couldn't convince them
to let Primo speak
with an Australian accent.
To them, Italians all-a speak-a
like-a that.
But then everyone else speaks
with plums in their mouths.
But that's radio.
Your Sister Andrews reminds me
of someone,
but I can't quite work out who.
She's based on a woman we met
on a ship coming home.
She changed all our lives.
Not ringing a bell.
I'm serious.
You made us all far better
than we might have been.
That's a lovely thing to say.
It's true.
I shudder to think
what I might have become.
I'd shut out life.
So it's been a two-way street.
Helping us all find home.
In one form or another.
A place for some,
for some a person,
for the lucky, both.
With two notable exceptions.
You could at least have given
some warning.
You've made a habit
of avoiding me.
You want a divorce, right?
-Not like it's a surprise.
-Don't.
Delia warned me she'd take you.
She should never have said that.
She can't.
I don't want her.
And I don't want a divorce.
Then why are you here?
Haven't we trawled over it
enough?
We've barely spoken for months.
I'm committed to this hospital.
I am doing good.
It's better than anything else
I can do,
and it sure beats running
with your pack.
I didn't come here to fight.
I heard what you're doing.
Where you're going.
I'd like to know why.
You care?
[ Sighs ]
Don't.
Of course I care!
Please.
All right.
[ Down-tempo music plays ]
I was a mess before you came
back into my life.
Been an even bigger one
since you left.
Loving you helped dull
what the war did,
but it's never not there.
It's time I face it head on.
Examine the wounds,
abrade the dead tissue.
And you think going back there
is the way?
It'll be a hard slog,
but going there...
...standing there, feeling...
whatever I'll feel...
...it'll force me
to really address it.
And I haven't.
I just...
...kept pushing it down.
Has it got anything to do
with me?
I'm sorry if that sounds
self-centered, but...has it?
In even the smallest way?
Might some part of you hope
that your journey
somehow...could help get you
past your anger at me?
No.
I think it does.
I think you want to see...
a way past this as much as I do.
[ Voice breaking ]
You hope there's at least...
the seed of an answer there.
I'm here to say...
that I want to go with you.
If you find the answer...
I want to be there.
And if not,
I hope that my sharing it
can somehow take the bitterness
from our lives.
All I know...is that I love you
with all of my heart,
and I can't let you do it alone.
I'll be at Ash Park
until New Year's Day.
Can't we try to use this
to return to each other somehow?
I don't expect an answer now.
Unless you have one.
No.
You know where to find me.
PRUDENCE: There's no need
to run off, surely?
Well, my job here is done,
and whatever's next for Caro,
best I'm out
of her personal life.
We will meet
strictly for business,
should she wish to continue so.
You have brightened Casa Swanson
through more than renovation.
You are a very special woman.
As are you, my dear.
Then it's hi-ho, Silver,
and away.
Sadly, without a Tonto.
If I were that way inclined,
I'd be after you myself.
And I wouldn't be running.
[ Laughs ]
[ Down-tempo music plays ]
[ Engine starts ]
ELIZABETH: You're lucky
you're not here on a workday.
A cacophony.
When do you see it up
and running?
Two more weeks of renovations,
then the installation of beds
and equipment.
The staffing, of course,
could get under way immediately
if you were to accept my offer.
Oh, I need this.
It does rather take it out
of one.
I admire your intentions.
But?
Do I want to settle for this
or aim higher?
Thank you.
I don't mean to offend.
You don't.
A large hospital
is sniffing around
regarding an
administrative role.
Well, can I offer you
a perspective
-you may not have considered?
-Please.
And I don't mean to offend.
You seem very close
to Harry Polson.
Yes.
Not too personal, I trust?
No.
Henry, we live
in an uncharitable world.
Your liaisons, whether attached
to deep emotion or not,
are seen as sordid and
cause for dismissal elsewhere.
You will always have
a place here
as long as simple discretion
is observed.
Your love will be respected --
if love it becomes or indeed is.
It hadn't occurred to me.
And you will help me
in certain ways as well.
I rest my case.
I'm, uh, locuming for Jack
while he's away.
And then?
Where do I sign?
[ Down-tempo music plays ]
We will do great things
together.
We will.
We will.
[ Music continues ]
I shall be quite bereft
when Ash Park is vacated.
Intimate as I am
with Mrs. Goddard,
I'm even closer
to our dear Mrs. Bligh.
Ah, Doctor.
We'll see you this evening?
What a set we'll be to bid
the old decade adieu, hmm?
Yeah.
He's been like that
since Mrs. Duncan arrived.
Ah.
That bodes ill.
Oh, well.
[ Telephone ringing ]
[ Mid-tempo music plays ]
Mama.
David, off you go.
Get ready for dinner.
And if you're very good,
I'll let you stay up late.
Till 12:00?
-Till you see everyone.
-Oh.
-Be a good boy.
-I wouldn't push it.
Bet I can.
Why don't you go
and prepare too?
There's no rush.
Well, Sarah and I have something
to discuss.
-SARAH: Oh, we do?
-Yes.
Well, off you go, then.
You be a good boy.
-Don't you push it.
-[ Laughs ]
It's nothing serious?
Will you shut the door?
[ Down-tempo music plays ]
I was given these yesterday.
The results of my tests.
It's why I popped home
after Christmas.
[ Music continues ]
[ Insects chirping,
clock ticking ]
Happy New Year.
And Elaine says Happy New Year.
Oh, does she?
What a star.
Oh, she's auditioning
for "Tender Vines" next week.
[ Laughs ]
I just heard my name called --
Star.
Oh!
Happy new decade, Anna.
Happy new decade.
Happy new decade.
We'll see you soon.
If I'm a star,
you're a constellation.
Dear, oh, dear, Andrew Swanson.
You will have to do better
than that.
[ Laughs ]
You set the bar high, don't you?
[ Laughs ]
I certainly do.
[ Down-tempo music plays ]
Thank you.
I thought you were done
with complicating your life.
Well, even more
with complicating others.
What point in George knowing?
He would cancel this wonderful
opportunity in Israel
to hover here,
anticipating a death
that will come when it comes.
I may well still be here
when you return,
despite this gloomy prognosis.
You've seemed so robust.
I reserve my energies
for public display.
Any pain?
Niggles.
I wasn't given long years ago,
so I think the old ticker
has done rather well.
Sarah, I watched Douglas fade.
I would rather spare George
the same.
And David.
Let him remember Granny
as she is.
This is to give George
when I'm gone.
If you go.
Evasion doesn't become you.
You're the only one
who'll know of this
until it's impossible
to conceal.
Promise one thing.
If you're clearly fading
and feel that we can reach you,
let us know.
If I'm absolutely sure.
The coward in me...
oh, hopes for an attack
in my sleep.
To close one's eyes
and simply not wake.
It's hard to imagine a world
without you.
Well, it's harder for me.
Do I have your promise?
If it's so important.
It is.
I will miss you.
I'm not talking of Israel.
[ Voice breaking ]
And I you. I'm sorry.
Well, that's why
I'm telling you now.
So that you can be composed
by tonight.
And selfishly, so that I can see
one pair of eyes at midnight
that knows the truth.
I may well cry.
Well, excuse it as tears of joy.
Dear Sarah.
I love you.
I love you.
[ Down-tempo music plays ]
[ Indistinct conversations,
laughter ]
[ Mid-tempo music playing ]
Nearly time, everyone.
Make sure your glasses
are charged.
Emma, Leah, special dispensation
if you wish.
-Really?
-Yes, please.
Well, it's not every night
we enter a new decade.
Would you like me to go
and check?
No.
Um, excuse me.
[ Music playing in distance ]
What?
Well, we can't do it at midnight
in there.
I'm yours.
If you want me.
Totally.
I do.
I do.
[ Indistinct conversations,
insects chirping ]
Thank you.
Thank you for sharing this --
this very special night with us.
A whole new decade ahead.
I know I'm excited.
The possibilities.
And here we go.
-You ready?
-Mm-hmm.
Ten...
...nine...eight...
seven...six...five...
four...three...two...
one!
ALL:
Happy New Year!
ROY:
Happy New Year!
Happy New Year, Mrs. Bligh.
The happiest ever.
[ Down-tempo music plays ]
ELIZABETH:
Happy New Year, my sweet girl.
-Happy New Year, Grandmother.
-Don't cry.
Happy New Year, dear Sarah.
-Likewise.
-Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
I'm so glad you're here.
[ Indistinct conversations,
glasses clinking ]
ROY:
Happy New Year, Mr. Bligh!
[ Music continues ]
My love.
We'll find it.
We will.
-Somehow.
-Somehow.
Forever.
[ Applause ]
* Should auld acquaintance
be forgot *
* And never brought to mind *
* Should auld acquaintance
be forgot *
* And days of auld lang syne *
* For auld lang syne, my dear *
* For auld lang syne *
* We'll take a cup of kindness
yet *
* For days of auld lang syne *
[ Down-tempo music plays ]
[ Mid-tempo music plays ]
You have fun, now.
You be good.
[ Music continues ]
Ooh!
Oopsy-daisy!
DAVID: Come on, Daddy!
It's time to go!
[ Birds chirping ]
[ Down-tempo music plays ]
[ Rain falling,
thunder rumbling ]
[ Music continues ]
We met on a ship, you know.
It all began on a ship.
We are the survivors
of that voyage, Olivia.
You, soon, the last.
Dear Leah.
Thank you.
My darling boy.
Who guessed so many would love
my story.
What a wonderful journey.
[ Exhales deeply ]