Summer of Rockets

This is only for ticket-holders,

I'm afraid, those that are on this list.

It's not for the public.

Can you move along, please?

Follow the signs.

No, I think you'll find we're on the list.

All of us.

Every year, this happens.

Can I see all your names, please, sir?

Your names are on the list, yes.

We may pass, may we?

I told you it was all in order.

Let's hope the champagne is better than last year.

There you are, darling.

Cheers.

Where did Sasha go?

- Mmm? - I didn't see.

I thought he was right behind me.

He can't have got far.

Sasha?

You've lost someone?

My son Sasha. He was right here with us.

Well, he's only eight and he doesn't know his way around here.

He must be outside.

Maybe he's gone to see the horses.

They like to be near to the horses.

Sasha? Sasha?

Excuse me.

- Sasha? - Sasha!

Sasha!

Sasha? Sasha!

Are you lost, young man?

Would you like a piece of cake?

No, I don't want any cake, sir.

- Is that the truth? - It is the truth, sir.

- I have a stomach-ache, sir. - Because they'll never know,

I promise you.

I must go now, sir.

Well, if we meet again, young man,

let me tell you,

I'm not nearly as fierce as I look.

Sasha!

- Excuse me, have you seen a little boy? - Sasha!

Sasha!

Sasha?

- Sasha! - A blue jacket...

Sasha?

- Sasha? - Sasha!

Sasha?

Are you Sasha?

Yes.

I've found him! He's here!

Sasha!

Where have you been? I've been so worried about you!

Thank you for finding him.

Where have you been, Sashenka? Really!

Never, ever run off like that!

You must allow us to say a proper thank you.

Please join us for our picnic after the races.

Oh, no, please, that's really not necessary.

No, no, please, I must insist.

They won't come. They aren't going to come.

Yes, they will.

Who wouldn't want to tuck into all this?

Ah! Welcome!

- This is my husband, Richard. - How do you do?

I think I recognise you.

Are you Richard Shaw?

Yes, I am!

Well, this is thrilling.

Absolutely thrilling to meet you! Samuel Petrukhin.

And this is my family, and that is Courtney Johnson and Mr Neath.

- Thank you. Thank you very much. - Thank you.

- Cheers! - Sasha, isn't that a thing?

Mr Shaw was a great hero during the war. You must read his book.

Please, you're giving me far too much of a write-up!

Don't you believe all that.

Your father is exaggerating wildly.

Nonsense! Here is a real hero, Sasha.

We come here every year.

Miriam gets tickets because of her family.

Miriam comes from a rather aristocratic family.

Jewish aristocracy.

They'd be able to eavesdrop a lot more efficiently

if they had a better hearing aid.

- We make hearing aids, you see. - Oh!

You make hearing aids? How interesting. - Mmm.

Manytone Electrics.

Sasha, why are you slouching like that? Sit up straight!

Sasha is going to boarding school in three weeks.

- Marlham House. - Oh, really?

Marlham House?

So you've heard of it?

Oh, yes. It's a very good school.

He's so young. They go away so young these days, don't they?

Sasha? Sasha?

Have you hurt yourself?

- Sasha, what's happening? - Where does it hurt, darling?

- What's wrong? - It may be his appendix. If it bursts...

We've got to get him to a hospital. I'll take him in my car.

It'll be much the quickest thing to do.

Make way, please!

Hannah, you go with Peter.

Dr Appleby, Dr Appleby to the maternity ward immediately, please.

I need a doctor in Bay 9.

- It is an emer... - Urgent call for Dr T Rogers

to proceed to Theatre 3.

Dr T Rogers to Theatre 3.

What's the hold-up?

There is another emergency,

We just need to wait for this announcement to finish.

...to Theatre 1 urgently, - please. This is an urgent call

for Dr Peters to proceed to Theatre 1, please. Thank you.

We will be next.

I assure you we will be next.

Dr Sefton, Dr Sefton is required

in the X-ray department at once.

This is truly absurd.

This could be done so much better.

Calling a doctor like this!

Dr Michael, Dr Michael to the maternity ward.

We're still waiting for a doctor!

I repeat, this is an urgent call for Dr Michael

to the maternity ward immediately.

I need a doctor in Bay 9 immediately.

That is immediately, please.

It will happen now.

Well, where is it?

Doctor!

Doctor!

I need you to see my son now!

Sasha, everything will be all right now!

It's madness, doing it like this.

The American Air Force has announced a nuclear device

was dropped accidentally on a farmhouse

in Mars Bluff, South Carolina,

but since the bomb did not, on this occasion,

contain its nuclear core,

there was no major explosion.

Six people are reported injured, though.

This is the second incident involving a nuclear device

- being dropped accidentally... - Blimey!

...in the United States in the last two months,

after a hydrogen bomb was lost in the sea near Savannah, Georgia.

Please let me not do it.

Please, please don't make me do it.

Sasha!

You're lucky you don't have to go to boarding school.

I'd do anything not to have to go.

Well, you've managed to miss all this time because of your appendix.

And at least it's a very smart uniform.

Why can't I go to the local school like you did?

It's not fair!

It's not fair, no.

But then you're the boy, and that's what happens.

So, as we won't be all together again for a few weeks at least,

it has given me a chance to open this sherry -

the finest sherry we have, in fact.

You can have some too, Sasha, a few sips.

And then we have a real banquet to tuck into.

Your mother has prepared a wonderful goodbye meal.

So, Sasha,

if there is anything you want to ask,

or feel that we should discuss...

Yes, Hannah?

I don't want to do it. Please.

Don't make me do it.

I don't want to do this season,

I don't want to be a deb,

and I definitely don't want to go to a horrible etiquette class.

Hannah!

This is certainly not the time, Hannah.

This is Sasha's celebratory meal.

But let us be very clear.

You most definitely are going to do it. It is your birthright.

No!

Your mother was presented at Court,

and that gives you the right to be so, too.

And we would be absolutely mad to give up that chance,

especially as this is the last-ever season

where the debutantes are being presented to the Queen.

The very last time, and you will be one of them!

So you're awake.

Very much so, Dad, yes.

It's very late, my dear.

You know they dropped a nuclear bomb

by mistake in America, on a farmhouse?

I know, but nobody was killed.

You mustn't dwell, my dear.

And don't worry - they can't go off by mistake, these bombs.

- They can't? - They really can't.

And the season will be a wonderful time, I'm sure.

You need to do this for your mum.

It's a reminder of her family.

Before she married me.

I'm so sorry, I don't have an appointment,

but I wonder if it's possible to have a minute or two

with Mr Petrukhin. My name is...

There's a lady here to see Mr Samuel.

Can I help you?