Dangerous Remedy

Get in.

Get in!

Come on, love. Lie back. Come on!

Calm down.

That's it. Knees apart.

Knees apart! Bet your boyfriend didn't have this trouble.

Come on, sweetheart.

Peg, do you want me to stop?

Oh, I'll kill you if you do.

Oh, you're a dangerous woman.

Oh, you bastard!

My mum wouldn't like language like that.

Yeah, well, your mother's not in bed with us, is she?

I hope not.

Give me a towel!

A towel!

Hold this. Let's get her out of here. Come on, get her out!

Off the table! Get her off the table! Come on!

I'm a doctor! I have a patient in need of attention.

Turn around, sir. You'll have to find another route.

It's urgent! Her house is just up...

Oh, for God's sake, I don't have time.

Hey! Hey!

Oh, Bonnie. Who did this to you?

Um, Barry.

Sit up.

Up, up. Gently, gently. Barry who?

Um, Smith.

He's not a doctor, I'm guessing.

You won't tell Mum and Dad, will you?

I've got to get you to the hospital.

The next 24 hours are critical, and I can't keep them away.

You're my beautiful Bonnie.

You're not going anywhere but home.

Maggie.

If you were thinking of calling a priest, now's the time.

Did you know she was pregnant? Yes, I did.

You sent her to this butcher? No.

I offered to break the news to you. She said she'd think about it.

And she took another path.

And now she's dying.

Yes.

You should have helped!

I absolve you from your sins

in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.

Find the fucking bastard who did this to my Bonnie.

- Kill him! - No, I don't advise that.

Detective Inspector Jack Ford. I'm here to talk to the girl.

She's dead.

Well, I'm sorry. I am.

Now, Smith. That wouldn't be an alias for Wainer, would it?

No, it would not, no.

Oh, come on. Wouldn't be the first doctor who's made a mistake.

The only mistake I made was not taking heed of her, obeying the law.

Well, I understand how you feel.

No, you don't. I've known her since she was a little girl.

Now, if you want my help, I have Bonnie's account

of where it was she thinks that bastard worked out of.

Oh, Bonnie.

Oh, there's blood!

Cigarette ash.

There's rat faeces.

It's barbaric.

Ah, and here.

Don't touch that. It's a crime scene.

Radio forensics.

You're gonna have to leave.

You get Smith, or I will.

I'll do everything in my power to rid the world of this prick.

But I'm pulling rank now. This is police business.

You stay out of it.

Detective Ford, if you collar Smith, you'll come to me to appear in court,

so please don't tell me to stay out of it.

I'm in it, and I'm gonna stay in it.

Well, Maggie's wrong.

You couldn't have helped.

Would you be so quick to forgive if it was Felice?

There's only a couple of years between them.

Dad! Can we bring Buster to your place?

No, and tell your lazy brothers to get their arses into gear

or the bus is leaving without them!

Don't get involved, Bert.

Just don't risk your licence to practice...

That bastard knew what he'd done to Bonnie and he did nothing.

If I find him, I'll kill him.

You heard of a backyarder called Barry Smith?

No. Why? What's he done?

He's killed a girl. How did that happen?

Perforation, then tetanus.

Ignorant fool.

Well, you let me know if you hear anything, alright?

Jack? Hmm?

Would you marry me if you were single?

Well, I'm not, Peg.

Now, now, come on, come on.

What do you want that for?

I mean, you're smart, you're sexy, you're glamorous.

You've got it all, Peg.

Have I?

I watched a lovely young woman die a horrific, painful death.

She should've thought about that before she had sex.

Oh, you'd condemn her to death for that mistake, would you?

You've never had sex when you weren't expecting to?

Well, no, in your case, probably not.

These things happen. As doctors, we know that.

Now, you can sit on your smug backsides and do nothing

and women will die,

or we can push the AMA to pressure the Government to change the law.

This is a legal issue, not a health one.

It's not appropriate to use our organisation in that way.

The Catholic Church has always reiterated

that a direct assault on a foetus in the womb is a sin of murder,

and that's the legal position also.

Please, would you spare me?

Medical procedures are our business!

They're not the politicians' and they're certainly not the Pope's!

How dare you talk to me like that?

Whatever your personal opinion may be, women have a right to choose.

In England...

In England, if we choose to help,

we're acting within the law, but not here.

Here, we face 15 years in prison,

and if we don't help these women, they face death.

Now, I propose that we send in a petition

demanding that the AMA call publicly for the law to be changed.

Order! Order!

Well, I'm sorry things didn't go better for you,

but you have to understand we are really not a political body.

There's more than one way to skin a cat...

Dr Wainer! Thanks, Dr Boume.

Look, I really liked what you said. Oh, well, thanks for your support.

But you were naive to think that they'd back you.

That meeting was stacked with members from St Luke's.

Yeah, so I discovered.

And your manner was a little bit confrontational.

Oh, MY manner was confrontational?

And how would you describe yours, just out of interest?

Look, I've got a friend who needs some help.

Can I bring her to see you? Sure.

Miss, I need to have a word with you.

Yeah, alright. It was nice to meet you.

Nice to meet you.

James Troup. Bert Wainer.

I'll support you any way I can.

Well, it would've been nice if... Except publicly.

Oh, don't look at me like I've got the clap.

I'm a gynaecologist, and a bloody good one,

and I run a bloody fine outfit.

Come on, I'll buy you a drink.

Never lost a patient.

Use only the best equipment.

English, of course, and a top support team.

But the legal issue remains.

I take precautions.

Well, I'll explain to the doctor

that you and he have a symbiotic relationship.

Symbiotic.

Why don't you look it up in the dictionary?

What do you mean 'precautions'? Fine!

Dr Troup, it's for you. Excuse me.

Traffic problem.

So, have we seen the recovery room yet?

No. Come through this way.

I'm with a colleague. What's this about?

Now, if you're gonna refer, do it verbally.

It covers both you and Dr Troup.

How long have you been doing this for?

14 years.

You've never had any trouble with the police?

Well, I'm discreet, Doctor. You should be too.

Positive. You were right, Amy. Tests have come back positive.

Amy's husband is in Saigon.

Well, I'm sorry to hear that. It's a useless bloody war...

The war is not the problem.

Oh, I see.

My husband was away.

I was lonely. I made a mistake. I can't have it.

Amy, I don't do terminations.

Oh, yeah? And what about the things that you said?

The law needs to be changed and I'm trying to get it changed,

but right now I can't do anything.

You were at the meeting. You heard.

I heard men making decisions over women's bodies, yeah.

Very, very patriarchal.

God spare us bra burners!

I resent that expression, actually, and for your education...

Dr Wainer, are you saying that there's nothing that can be done?

Uh...

There's a Dr Troup in East Melbourne. He's a gynaecologist.

Now, speak to my receptionist. She'll give you the details.

Amy, why don't you have a think about it first?

Thank you, Doctor.

And, you - would you like to go to dinner?

So, when you wake up, your troubles will be over.

This one, anyway.

Count backwards from ten for me, Amy.

Ten, nine, eight...

It's the police. You know what to do.

Maria, come here quick.

Could you hold these for me and go through the back?