Breathless (2013): Season 1, Episode 6 - Episode #1.6 - full transcript

We walk, Mr Cohen, no run.

Nurse Wilson. Can you, please?

It's beyond me.
And me.

I thought there was no limit
to your knowledge and skill.

Are you going like that?
I am not going at all.

I was rather looking forward
to seeing you in your costume.

Oh... sausage.

Can I be of assistance?

Yes. Instruct Nurse Wilson
to come to the pageant.

We're raising money for an obstetric
ultrasound. It will save...

You see, Mr Cohen?
The Empire has its uses.



It certainly does, Sister.

Oh, isn't this fun!
Super.

But you wouldn't catch me.
You'd look so stunning.

My students are here,
eager to see the nurses in their...

Oh... Not said a word to anyone.

Bravo!

Please, tell the judges,
what is your ambition, Nurse Griffen?

Well, it's to marry a...
Doctor!

- We're doctors.
- Not yet you're not.

What about you?

You promised me you would behave.
Chin-chin.

♪ What do you want to make
those eyes at me for

♪ If they don't mean what they say?

Here we are.



Congratulations, Dr Enderbury.

We are so pleased for you, Lily.

A little bird tells me the
competition was intense

but that you proved yourself the best
candidate.

To Charlie and Lily...

on their future at the Princess
Margaret in St Albans.

Charlie.

♪ Maybe you'll find
you're messing with dynamite

♪ So what do you want to make
those eyes at me for

♪ If they don't mean what they say?

Thank you, Nurse Ross.

Quite charming,
I'm sure you'll agree.

Next, Nurse Morris will sing for us.

Otto, dearest.

I'm not feeling 100 per cent.

Of course.

I'll go and fetch the car.

You're not going?

Good night.
Good night.

♪ I'd like to sip the honey sweet

♪ From those red lips, you see

♪ I love you dearly, dearly

♪ And I want you to love me

Nurse Wilson. I wonder...

I absolutely rely on Mr Powell.
I hope you can understand that.

Whatever you may think

and I do understand what's been
happening

I would ask you, please, to...

Well...

I really rather need him at my side
at the moment.

Excuse me.

OK. Thank you.

Angela.
Please, you have to leave me alone.

You have to stop this now.

I'm sorry.

Night, sir.

It is what we agreed.

But she's different.

Take me home, please.

Mr Powell.

Mr Powell.

And now, My Lord and Lady... uh,
doctors and Your Holiness,

it's time to cast your votes
for your favourite nurse.

Will it be Nurse Welling from
Casualty?

Or will it be Nurse Tomlinson?

Or will it be our students'
favourite, Nurse Tutt?

Why did you lie to me about the job,
Charlie?

It's Otto, isn't it?

I sometimes think you believe you'd
disappear without him.

We could have been happy
in St Albans, you know that.

I'm happy here.
What are you so frightened of?

Nothing, Lily.

I'm not. Then don't walk away from
me, please.

I love you, Charlie Enderbury.

I have ever since the moment
I first clapped eyes on you, but...

I want us to be happy.

We can't be happy here,

with you concerned about
what everyone will think.

Convincing yourself you've made
mistake after mistake and...

and me sworn to secrets and all
sorts with Elizabeth, and Jean.

Lovely Jean, but...

I sometimes wonder that she just
thinks I'm...

I'm not sure what more I can stand.

What secrets?

I should never have mentioned it.
It's nothing.

Don't look at me like that.

Should never have mentioned what,
Lily?

The... The man. There. I said it.

What man?

Lily?

What are you talking about?
What man? What secrets?

I promised. I swore on everything I
hold true.

To Elizabeth?
What did you swear? What happened?

Lily.

That I wouldn't tell anyone.
What was his name?

You are shouting at me.

Mulligan? Sergeant Mulligan?

I knew it.

I knew it had to happen.
What?

What are you doing? Phoning Otto.

No, please, I promised Elizabeth.

Please, I promised!
Oh, I can't stand this. I can't.

The Powell residence.

Is Otto there?
No, Dr Enderbury.

He said he was going back to the...

Oh.

Lily, what -
I promised Elizabeth.

Now perhaps you will treat me like a
woman with two eyes

and two ears and half a brain and
tell me what exactly is going on.

Where the hell is Powell
when you really need him?

Drink this.

Assuage the effects of alcohol, so
I'm told.

Mrs Walker's husband put the car
into a tree on Putney Common.

Under the influence. Ambulance
Service say she's fitted twice,

but the baby's heart is still
beating.

Multiple fractures, facial
lacerations...

Sir?

Right... Yes.

Dr Mehta, tell us when we're ready.
Ready.

Excellent. Swab, please.

He's going to destroy us.

What I did... What I did for Otto...

I always knew...

Can't run from something like that.

Did you kill someone, Charlie?

No. No, me? Of course not.

This was in Cyprus.

Hot, lovely Cyprus, Lil.
The time of our lives.

We wanted to celebrate
Elizabeth getting engaged.

Getting engaged to Otto?

No. To Glen.

Lieutenant Glen Thorpe.

Yank US Air Force.

Elizabeth was married before Otto?

What happened to him?

Elizabeth's fiance. The f...

That night we drove to the beach.

There was a bar.
Probably still there.

It was run by an absolute rogue of a
chap.

But they drank...

.. Otto and Glen.

It was like a competition between
them.

You know what Otto's like.

Otto doesn't drink, Charlie.

He did then.

No, what I mean is his confidence.

"I can do anything, get away with
anything. " No flies on Powell.

Things work out.

I'm not sure
what you're telling me, Charlie.

The truth.

Isn't that what you want?

No, not any more, dear, please.

And Otto rolled the Jeep.

Easily done...

.. if you're a drunk.

Glen died instantly.

C1 and C2... snapped.

We got Elizabeth to a hospital at
dawn.

Small place run by nuns.

She was going to be all right...

.. and we thought, I suppose,
no more about it.

No, I thought about it every day.

Every day ever since.

But what has that man got to do with
it?

Mulligan was a sergeant in the
military police.

When they found the Jeep...

.. and the body...

.. he started asking questions.

It was simple.

He wanted answers.

And Otto paid him off.

He bribed him.

Is Nurse Wilson here?

She asked me to tell you not...

Please!

Mr Powell!

Angela, please, I'm...

I'm sorry. I promise. I never
meant - Never meant what?

What exactly?
For things to get like this.

For your wife to get involved, do
you mean?

Look, I don't mean you or Elizabeth
any harm.

You have power over everything but
not me. Understand?

I want you.

I want to be with you.

Nothing is simple like that.
I can't just...

Look...

It could... be simple.

Do you think you just turned over a
stone and there I was...

.. ready to be discovered by you?

No.

Of course I don't.
You don't know anything about me.

I'm sorry, I can't. I won't.

Just imagine for one...

.. tiny moment that...

.. everything was simple.

This moment.

Here...

.. now.

But... But it's not like that.

It's too...

No.

Please, Otto.

You have to go.

Tomorrow morning, then.

Just give me some time to explain.

I'm on mornings.

It's all right.

Later.

Four.

Meet me at the Regency Cafe.

Please.

Please.

Police!

Can you open the door, please?

The door! They are at the door.

For heaven's sake, they have come.

Jeannie! Angela!
For heaven's sake, they have come.

Richie?

Do we have a foetal heartbeat?
Yes, but it's getting very fast.

Mother is hypotensive.
We're going to lose her.

We're not losing anyone tonight.

Gentlemen, I'm going to
get this baby out now. Knife.

Can this be cut, please?

Inspector Thompson.

You are the last person I expected to
come across in a place like this, pal.

I'm visiting a friend.

As long as you're within the law.

I don't want trouble, Harry. I just
want to see that Maureen is safe.

Mother.

I was only doing what I thought was
best.

I know.

I wanted you safely married.

Ron.

I'll speak to him, Beatty.

You have come, I see, mob-handed,
Thompson.

All to track down my little Maureen.

We had word she was
at this address.

I told you, dearest, that I would
find her.

I assured you of that.

Sergeant Mulligan.

As was, Dr Powell.

Chief Inspector now.

I was interrogating Powell
as to his purpose here, sir.

Thompson's zealotry
appears to have led me back to you.

Up a dusty road.

A track.

Quite so.

I'd like a word, Powell, with you.

Thompson has something of a soft
spot for Mrs Mulligan.

But he's burdened by a sense of
right.

Unlike you, Powell.

We know what you do a bespoke
service for women who can pay.

No.

For those that require it.

Oh, your high horse will look very
broken when you face a judge.

What do you want, Mulligan?

The law has never meant
anything to you, has it?

What do you remember of Cyprus?

I remember a shoe.

An airman's shoe.

And a moved body.

No.

I remember paying you, Mulligan.

Bribing you to forget all about it.

You've done very well, haven't you?

But the paths we take are so
different.

Look at you. The drunk who ends up
ruling - What is this about?

Let me... finish.

You cut me dead at the hospital,
walked straight past me.

So I followed you home.

It was when I saw Elizabeth.

The white flowers in your home.

The way the drapes blew in the
breeze.

The comfort.

Then I realised quite what I'd given
you.

You're insane.

The opposite.

I am clear. I stand in front of a
man that any jury will condemn.

I stand in front of a man who I
allowed to escape a heinous crime...

An accident, Mulligan.

Be certain of this...

I will see justice. Enough.

It is time you returned
to your wife and daughter.

You're in no position to give me
orders.

The only thing you can do
is beg not to go to prison.

I wouldn't beg you...
if my life depended on it.

Oh, Mrs J.

You should have gone home hours ago.

I was worried about Mrs Powell, with
you being at the hospital, I...

I think you should know about this.

Oh, yes.

I gave this to Elizabeth as a
present.

An anniversary.

I...
I know what you've been worrying at,

but... you're wrong.

Now, I think it's time you went home
and we all got some sleep.

All right?

I've seen Mulligan.

Oh, God.

Has he been here, in the house?

I need a drink.

Otto... please.

Don't.

The smell is enough.

I killed Glen. I rolled that Jeep.

It was the work of a... drunk.

Then I trapped us here.

In this.

Nine years, Elizabeth.

No, Otto.

What you did for me and Thomas
was noble and brave.

What did Mulligan want, hm?
An affair?

He has your and Charlie's
statements, and photographs.

He knows that you both lied.

He knows you moved Glen to the
driver's seat.

Why didn't you tell me?

I thought I could control him.

Do you think you could carry on
practising

if one word of what happened
in Cyprus comes out?

We can start again,
move somewhere.

What do you think all that money
upstairs is for?

Maybe living alongside each other
like this was...

.. is impossible.

No.

It's... not...

.. impossible.

But you've changed...

.. recently.

I will not let you down.

What does Mulligan want, Elizabeth?

I think he wants me...

.. and to destroy you.

Hurry up. We're gonna be late.

Jeannie?

What are you doing here?
I'm buying you a coffee.

Whether you like it or not.
I've got to go on shift.

Not now, you don't.

You do those cappo-chinos?

No, didn't think so.

Two teas and a bun.
What's gotten into you, Jeannie?

You're my sister and I don't give a
fig who knows it any more.

Besides, it's Margaret's funeral
today

and I was up half the night
wondering where my husband was.

So I came down here, I've been upstairs
and no-one seems to have seen him.

I wonder how long those nurses lasted
with their swimming costumes off.

Jean.

No, I've decided.

Enough is enough.

Bet you haven't had breakfast
either.

Your hand's shaking.

Ange... I'm fine. I need to get
to work or there'll be...

Otto Powell is a good but very
complicated man.

What are you on about?
Ange...

It's been obvious for months.

I'm not... at all sure what to do.

Besides, he's married. And, in case
you forget, I'm married.

And me, too. I'm married but that doesn't
seem to count for much any more, does it?

You only have one life, Ange.

Remember that.

Whenever I see Matron, I wonder if I'm in one
of those television sagas set in the Crimean War.

This is Dr Truscott, Mr Walker.

Mr Walker and his parents
would like to thank you.

Right... Well, all in a day's work.

What I did yesterday...

taking a drink and then driving that
car...

very nearly killed the woman
I love most in the world.

You saved me... and my family...

.. and our future, Dr Truscott.

For that, there's no thanks great
enough.

♪ Funny but it's true

♪ What loneliness can do

♪ Since I've been away

♪ I have loved you more each day

Put your tongue away, soldier.

♪ Walking back to happiness

♪ Woopah, oh, yeah, yeah

♪ Said goodbye to loneliness

♪ Woopah, oh, yeah, yeah

♪ I never knew I'd miss you

♪ Now I know what I must do

♪ Walking back to happiness

♪ I shared with you

Jean! What do you want?

I've come to ask for a favour.
Can I come in?

Is everything OK?
Super, actually.

Now...

♪ So I'm coming back today

♪ Walking back to happiness

♪ I threw away

I suppose I just wanted to stop.

Cleaning and tidying.

Washing. Waiting.

Whatever's the matter?

I sometimes think you laugh at me,
Jean.

I'm not like you.

I want to be, you know...

easy...

every man's...

.. and now not at all sure what I am
like,

or even who I am.

You and Dr Enderbury not going to
St Albans is good news for me.

For all your friends.
It's not that.

I'm sorry. It's nothing to do with
that.

Righto.

Well, Mrs Enderbury,

I think we should start with...

.. and tidying.

What did you want, Jean?

I wanted to ask you to come to a
funeral.

Gosh. Who's died?

A friend.

I'm not sure I'd be any use at a
funeral.

I dunno. It might take you out of
yourself.

So, what happened, Lily?

Nothing. I just got rather
upside-down, I think. That's all.

You know how I am.

Are you going to try for another
baby? I'd like you to, you know.

I'm on this new pill.

Why?

I...
All I want is a child, Jean.

And all I want is a husband I can
trust.

That's why, I suppose.

Where the hell have you been?
Listen to me.

You remember the military policeman from
Cyprus, Sergeant Mulligan? He's here.

He's onto us.
I know, Charlie.

What do you mean you know?

Listen to me very carefully.

I will handle this.
How?

How?

What do you mean you will "handle"
it?

I am NOT going to prison.

How did you know, old boy?

Charlie?

I saw him at the hospital, nosing
around.

Who knows, Charlie?

Just you and me, I swear.

What are you going to do?

Leave it to me.

He'll keep quiet.

Come in, Mrs J, please.

Elizabeth and I would like you to go to
the school this afternoon and fetch Thomas.

And then we would like you to take
him straightaway to your parents.

Here's some money.

£500.

Thomas's protection is the most
important thing.

In a few days, we'll be in touch.

If this is a scandal, Mr and Mrs
Powell...

Everything we have done... is for
Thomas.

Oh, God, Otto.

That man is...

I feel sick.

Please.

I don't think I can bear that.

♪ Won't you lay your hand

♪ Upon your saviour's breast

♪ Oh, I love you

♪ But... God loves you...
Gosh.

Are you sure this is the right one?
♪ And I bid you good night

♪ Good night

♪ I bid you good night

♪ Good night

♪ Good night

Jean...

Mrs Enderbury... moral support.

There's no accounting for taste.

Whose funeral is this?

♪ And I bid you good night...

Richard's lover.
♪ Good night

♪ Good night

♪ I bid you good night

♪ Good night

♪ Good night...

Thank you for coming.

I wouldn't put an ambush beyond
Powell.

Please, Ronald...

What is it you want?

Elizabeth's told me what's been
going on.

You bait the hook with her.

Ronald, listen to him.

This has got to stop, Chief
Inspector. Do you hear?

The confidence, the arrogance
I could never stomach.

You have threatened and blackmailed
Elizabeth.

I've only told her the truth
about your lies in Cyprus.

Does she know how you go on
breaking the law?

How your entire existence
is based on deceit?

What patient in...

in their right mind would go to a
doctor like you?

One word from me
and the scandal will destroy you.

Then do it, Mulligan.

But you will never have Elizabeth.

Please...

Ronald.
No...

Suddenly you are no longer playing
God.

Apologies. The bullet is cheap.
But we're all the same dead.

Can't you see?

Look at him.

A man whose hands are soaked in
blood.

Nothing...

when you take away the money, huh,
the house... Harley Street.

Nothing. Elizabeth...
Otto doesn't have a gun.

Then he's a bigger fool than I
thought.

What did you think was going to
happen?

What are you thinking?

What did you want, Powell?

For Christ's sake, put the gun down,
Mulligan.

Whatever it is you're so determined
to get, I can't give you.

You want my house, my car?
Take them, they're yours.

But Elizabeth...

Take Elizabeth?

Don't you understand?
She's not mine to give.

Your wife?
Elizabeth is not my wife.

Not in any real sense.
Please, just... tell him.

Otto...

I married Elizabeth...

.. because it was the only way I could

save the child whose father I had
killed.

What are you talking about, Powell?

Please, Otto.

Our marriage... is a pact.

You know better than most.

If Elizabeth had come back from
Cyprus, pregnant, unmarried,

what would have happened to her?

To the baby?

Thomas would have been taken away,
adopted, and the shame...

No money.
A single mother with a growing boy.

And I swore...

.. that I would protect every fibre of
her being.

So if you want to take Elizabeth...

.. you have to put a bullet through my
head first.

You came to tell me this?

You forced Elizabeth to tele...

Can't you see? If you kill me...

.. dragging away Elizabeth,
what do you think will happen?

Nothing is going to change.

I should never have let you go
back, then.

I should never...

Elizabeth...

what do you want?

Tell me what you want.

Please put down the gun.

No.

No.

Enough.

Enough.

Policemen saw us together yesterday.
They will come after you.

You made me do this.

Ronald...

I understand you.

I felt it the first... first day.

And again, even when...

I lost Thomas's father in an instant

and my future changed completely.

We're the same.

You...

me.

Even Otto.

But we go on, Ronald.

It's what we must do.

Make the gun safe, Mulligan...

.. and it ends here.

What have I done?

What have I become?
Ronald...

Ronald...

Charlie! Charlie?

He was going to kill you, Otto.

What was it?
Pentothal. From the bag.

How much did you use, Charlie?

For Christ's sake, how much?

All I had in the car.
You would have preferred a bullet?

Elizabeth, there's a pub by the dock.

Telephone an ambulance!
I was trying to help you.

Elizabeth, please!

You have no idea what he did to me.

Margaret didn't live for men,

one step behind "her" man, sacrificing
everything for her children.

She lived entirely for herself.

And it was this that made her burn in
our lives.

It wasn't her wicked sense of humour

or some of the scandals that she was
always rather too close to.

But a woman who knows,
as Margaret knew, how to live...

may break hearts, may break rules...

I'm sorry, Jeannie.

What you did for Margaret...

.. caring for her like that.

I've been such a bloody fool,
Jeannie.

Jeannie...

Come on, you.

Come on, Lily.

Dearest, I'm home.

Joe.

I heard from the Cunard office
that you were missing.

I got into a scrape, that's all.

Had to make myself scarce, you know?

Angela, you don't wear our ring?

Oh... Nurses aren't allowed to be
married.

I have missed you so much.

Ron!

Ron?

He's not here, Beatty.

No.

Here.

This should help you feel more human.

Otto, I'm pregnant. I think.

He forced me.

Why didn't you tell me?

Because I thought you would kill
him.

So... what should we do?

Tonight.

No... I meant...
I know what you meant.

No.

Please, Otto.

No-one need know.

Elizabeth...
Stay with me, Otto, please.

And tomorrow we can go and fetch
Thomas.

I'm sure Mrs J could do with a rest.

And we could have a little break
down by the sea.

Mrs J tells me the crabs down there
are really quite something.

Crab sandwiches in a pub by the
beach.

I think the weather's set to be
lovely.

We can go on, Otto.

I need you.