Breathless

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.

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.

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.

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.

(Dr Mehta. An emergency. They want you in theatre.)

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.