"Come on, Cyn!" "Matron's gonna kill us." "We'll be back before she's finished the first whiskey." "Now... all you've gotta do it smile." "♪ There's a place up ahead and I'm going ♪" "♪ Just as fast as my feet can fly ♪" "♪ Come away, come away if you're going ♪" "♪ Leave the sinking ship behind ♪" "♪ Come on the rising wind ♪" "♪ We're going up around the bend... ♪" "I'm a sack of potatoes." " More like two sacks." " Tell me what the photos are for." "None of your beeswax." "Hurry up." " It just kicked." " The baby?" "It feels like a fish is flapping around in a bucket." "Promise me you won't leave me." "I'm stuck here, same as you." "I will love, worship, adore." "And that means forever, idiot." "Come on, before old bony-legs springs us." "She already has." "Cynthia, to bed." "We were exercising." "My office." "Can't I go with Cynthia?" "I've got someone that wants to foster you." "♪ You think that I don't feel love ♪" "♪ What I feel for you is real love ♪" "♪ In other's eyes I see reflected ♪" "♪ A hurt, scorned, rejected ♪" "♪ Love child, different from the rest. ♪" "Once the paperwork is completed and the application is lodged, you'll have an interview with the Department of Welfare." "An officer will come to your flat to assess your living arrangements." "Under no circumstances tell the welfare officer that you are Maggie's biological mother." "The department holds a very dim view of women who have relinquished their babies, you were deemed unfit 15 years ago as you will now." "I wrote you a reference to attach to the application." "As we are all being interviewed, it might be a good idea to read it, so that we're singing from the same song book." "Remember, you are dealing with a bureaucracy with enormous discretionary powers." " What's that mean?" " They can do what they like." "Are you alright with this?" "Does my baby come too?" "Your baby comes too." "Hey." "I spoke to Jim's lawyer, your friend." "He told me your name's not on the witness list." "You know Jim's trial is this week?" "Nurse, take this prescription to the dispensary and get it filled." " Yes, Doctor." " Thank you." "You said you'd testify you were there at Greg Matheson's death, you promised me that." "You expect me to keep that promise after what you've done?" "You have no idea about the seriousness of your situation." " I think I do." " An incompetent cervix combined with a multiple pregnancy, I mean, do you understand the risks?" "Dr Miller has mentioned them." "Well, did she mention that you need complete bed rest and around the clock nursing care?" "You may not carry these babies to term." "You are punishing me with fear." "No, no, I'm, I'm worried." "You need a live-in nurse." "Look, if you want to give these babies any chance whatsoever you have to do what I say." "They're mine too, Eva." "(KNOCK AT DOOR)" " Yes." " Dr McNaughton?" "Eva..." " The prescription you asked for." " Thank you." "Proper home with my real mother." "Living with my baby." "You can come and visit, Cyn." "Well King's Cross is a long way from Tarcutta." "You can catch a train, easy." " Who's Mrs A?" " A doctor." "She gets rid of babies before they're born." " I thought I might need it." " Girls." "I thought of a good story to tell the welfare officer." "Your job will be to speak when spoken to." "Now dry off this floor before someone slips and cracks their head open." "Okay, so it starts like this." "You're the man, I'm the woman." "Stick out your left arm." "If I'm the man, shouldn't I be telling you what to do?" "Shut up." "Put your right hand on my left shoulder blade, and I put my left hand on your right shoulder." "Okay, now I need you to start on your left foot." " Start what?" " Dancing." "You listen to this stuff?" "It's the easy listening station, Simon put me on it." " Should be a high-energy wedding." " Okay, positions." "And..." "I hope Pete's coming to Patty's lesson tonight." "What makes you think you can dance?" "He's police." "They have balls." "Hey, you're supposed to step back, not walk..." "Have a good rest, I'll see you tomorrow." "Faye." "Hi!" "You're back from Europe?" "Dr McNaughton wants to operate." "A biopsy, he said." "I might need to have a hysterectomy." "Oh, doctors always give you the worst case scenario so you'll be prepared." "It's most likely just some hormonal imbalance." "He thinks it might be cancer." "Did he say when you will have the operation?" "Tomorrow." "So soon." "My mum died of cancer." "She was in so much pain." "Not just from the cancer, the radiotherapy was the worst." "It burnt her so badly." "Treatments are much better these days." "Are they?" "And, and Dr McNaughton, he is the best." "I will do whatever I can to help you." "You just have to ask." "Well my husband doesn't get back till the end of the week." "I need someone to look after the girls while I have the operation." "(LAUGHS)" "Baby James is so fat and happy." "I just want to squeeze him and smother him with kisses and tickle his little belly." "James or Jim?" " Jim can wait." " So he is coming back for the trial?" "How likely is an acquittal?" "Oh, based on the evidence, the lawyer's optimistic." "You don't sound so sure." "I'll believe it when it happens." "I sent off my foster application for Maggie." "You're brave." " Don't say that!" " Well, you are." "It's gonna be tough." "A baby, a toddler and a teenager." "Well I'm not letting Maggie go back into a home." "Oh, Matron wrote me a reference." "She said that we met in Bible study and that I work counselling drug addicts." "(LAUGHTER)" " Do you own a Bible?" " I bought one this morning, actually." "The blue moons of social service, that woman is such a creative liar." "(LAUGHS)" "Excuse me?" "Is this the Oasis Boarding House?" "Yes." "I'm Penelope O'Loughlin from the Department of Welfare," "I'm looking for Shirley Ryan." "These rooms get lots of lovely sunshine during the morning." "Ah, yes." "I set Maggie's desk up under the window." "I'm hoping she'll finish her leaving certificate." "Where's the bathroom?" "Down the hall." " Shared?" " Uh, yes." "And the kitchen?" "The same." "The space is very small, you'll be tripping over each other." "This is only temporary." "I'm looking for a house." "You've been married and divorced?" "Yes." "I am looking forward to providing Maggie with the opportunity to make something of herself." "According to my information, she is pregnant and has a criminal record." "The horse has well and truly bolted." "We who are strong have an obligation to bear with the failings of the weak." "And not to please ourselves." "Romans, chapter 15." "Jim?" "Jim." "Patty." "Uh, I, I thought I'd come and show you some moral support." "You're sweet, thanks." "But I can't see Jim, is he here?" "I don't know." "All parties concerning the Crown versus Marsh make their way to Court Four." "Does that mean he's not coming?" "Your time with Mrs Ryan in Bible study has paid off." "We have both of us been the beneficiaries of the Bible's wisdom." "False modesty, Matron Bolton, is not a virtue." "If Mrs Ryan's redemption from the shame of divorce is not a result of your intervention, then perhaps I should be suspicious of such a turnabout." "None of us can escape the vicissitudes of life," "Miss O'Loughlin." "Before Mrs Ryan's circumstances changed, she was considering serving the church." "And how would you describe your attendance at church?" "Good." "I went Christmas Eve once." "That's hardly worth mentioning." "What denomination?" "I don't know." "It was night-time." "But I'm looking forward to the chance of living in a good Christian home." "Girls who find themselves in your situation have no one to blame but themselves." "You should count yourself very, very lucky." "You're 15." "I have some paperwork I need to discuss with you." "Of course." "Back to work, Maggie." "I'm afraid there's a problem with your foster care application." "The carer must be 18 years or older than the child, you're 15 years older." "What?" "What difference do three years make?" "I'm 30." "I'm an adult, I'm her mother, for God's sake." "Why didn't you tell me this was going to be a problem?" "I didn't know, the rules have changed." "Well they can't just change the rules." "I told you, they can do whatever they want." "What am I going to tell Maggie?" "He's so cute, he's like a little alien." "(LAUGHS)" "Ah, we should go, we don't want to pass on any germs." "Aw." "See you tonight?" " Tonight?" " Dance classes for Martha's wedding?" "I don't know, Patty, I have to, I'll try." "This is not Wynyard station." "Off you go." "Quick sticks." "Close the door behind you." "When can I bring Billy home?" "He won't be discharged until his weight is steady." "He's not due for his bottle for another half hour." " He doesn't know that." " Billy is on formula," " it's too late for the breasts now." " That's not what Dr Spock says." "In my opinion, Dr Spock is responsible for a generation of mollycoddled infants, irresponsible dropouts." "I wouldn't take any notice of him." "Benjamin Spock is a genius." "I don't care what you think, I'm breastfeeding my baby." "You can't stop me this time." " Twin girls?" " Yes, babies, they're very good." "The mother needs an operation and her husband's still on his way home from Europe." "Yeah, Okay, it's fine." "Must make you think of your babies, though." "Oh, they're not my babies anymore." " Let's get to dancing." " Okay." "Everyone." "We're going to begin with the dance frame." "Gentlemen, you will start on your left foot, which means our ladies will start on our right foot." "Yeah?" "Okay." "And we've gotta be doing this on my count, it's a one, two, three, four, and two, three, cha-cha-cha, and two, three, side-together-side, and backwards, forwards," "side-together-side, Okay?" "I want sustained, direct eye contact." "Do not look at your feet!" "Simon!" "Oh, come on, you're stiff as a board." " Gee!" " What's new?" "She's a woman, not a shovel." "Come on, and feel it." "I'm gonna go back to the hospital after this." "To feed Billy?" "Yeah." "Are you right with Deanna?" "Of course." " We've got it?" " Yeah." "Quite good." "You two have done this before, haven't you?" "(LAUGHS)" "You're a thousand miles away." "Sorry, this isn't really my thing." "I'm not exactly Fred Astaire." "Hey, what are you doing tomorrow?" "I have a morning shift." " My boss wants to meet you." " Why?" "That's what happens in the public service when someone wants to get married." "Is that another proposal?" "Maybe." "Everybody stop!" "I swear you were all born with two left feet, you're not listening to the beat, you've gotta feel the beat." "We're gonna begin again, Okay?" "Yeah, it's a two, three, cha-cha-cha, and two, three, cha-cha-cha..." " She's channelling Matron." " (LAUGHS)" "It's your wedding, Martha, I would not be laughing." "And feel it." "And feel it." "I'm making a present for Cynthia." "You can have this one." "Tell them it was a mistake, tell them you got your birthday wrong." "They have a copy of my birth certificate." "You're not even trying, you're just giving up." "I'm not giving up." "I'm hoping to appeal the decision, but..." "What's gonna happen to me?" "Well, you will stay here with Matron, until you have your baby." "And then?" "I am trying to get you into somewhere good." "Another home?" "Who's gonna look after my baby?" "The baby will be adopted, as planned." "But you said I'd keep my baby." "As you are a ward of the state, that's impossible." "Someone else gets my baby?" "You're gonna give her away?" "Aren't they beautiful?" "How do you two know each other?" "We met in the park." "Turns out, Viv's my guardian angel." "Patty, the outfit I wanted to borrow?" "Oh yeah, I've brought some in." "Liz, would you mind showing Faye around?" "Pete's boss?" "That's really serious." "So, is he an older man, or is he about Pete's age?" "I don't know, I haven't met him." "Will you or Liz be looking after the twins?" "Oh, I'll have them during the night." "I think the pink frock's the right choice." "Oh, I've got a pair of shoes you can borrow as well." "Oh, Madeline has reflux, so you need to keep her upright." "Okay, I know what to do, it's Okay, you don't have to worry, Viv." "Hey, maybe the, um, the lemon sequins would be better." "Hmm?" "Sorry, you choose." "Well, I think the pink, it'll show him that you are the right woman for Pete, so that when Pete says, "Oh sorry, I've got to go home early tonight, the little lady's got dinner on the table,"" "then the boss will remember you looking sweet as a little strawberry shortcake, and he'll say "Well, why not?" "You should go home to that gorgeous little piece and have the dinner on that table." (SIGHS)" "What decade are you living in?" " Is everything alright?" " Perfect." "I might sneak away before the girls notice." "Good luck." "(HEART RATE MONITOR BEEPING)" "Are you alright?" "(SIGHS)" "Yep, multiple cysts, both ovaries." "Are you going to remove them?" "No." "So how was the trial?" "Jim didn't show up." "The trial was adjourned." "Your career is safe." "Let's, uh, let's close up." "(SIGHS)" "Oh!" "Bloody hell!" " Leave it." " Get another tray." "Just, just the suture." "You close up." "They think because we're damaged goods we don't have any feelings." "They make us promises and they don't care if they can't keep them." "(MOANS)" "What's the matter?" "Baby's coming." "(GROANS)" "Ah, you have to open your legs, ah, for the baby to come out." " Open your legs, Cynthia." " No!" "Okay, you need to push into your tailbone." "Deep, even breaths." "I want Maggie!" "You'll see Maggie shortly." " (GROANS)" " Okay, the baby's crowning." "One more, that's a good girl." "(GROANS)" "Right, push now, push hard." "(GROANS)" "(BABY CRYING)" "Can I see my baby?" "I want to see my baby!" "(SOBBING)" "What did she have?" "Get out!" "I can't stay long." "Have the doctors been in to see you yet?" "Would you like me to call your husband for you?" "No." "I'll call him." "You can stay with me till the doctor comes?" "When my mum died, I had no one." "I don't want that to happen to my babies." "I don't want them to be orphans." "Your husband won't let that happen." "My husband doesn't know how to look after children." "He'll give them to someone else to take care of." "You can't let that happen." " (SIGHS)" " What is it?" "You're their mother." "You have to have a plan." " I know that!" " They have to be loved and secure and settled," "I mean you can't just adopt someone's babies and not have a plan." "How do you know that they're adopted?" "I gave birth to them." "I just wanted to know that they were Okay," "I was scared that I had made a mistake..." "Get out!" " Faye I just want to help." " Go!" "Now!" "Dr McNaughton?" "And so now she won't let you see your twins anymore?" "She probably thinks you're gonna steal them." "I wouldn't." "Of course you wouldn't." "We know that." "I couldn't keep lying to her." "I'm supposed to be her friend." "She's the mother of my babies." "Get it into your head, they're not your babies anymore." "(WHISPERS) Martha." "Don't." "No." "Martha's right." "They're not." "But I still feel like a part of me is missing." "(SOBS)" "You see, Ronnie Dean had to drop out of medical school 'cause his mother swallowed rat poison and the shame was just too great for him to continue, so I got his scholarship." "Wasn't meant to, well, Ronnie works in insurance now." "He guarantees people's lives." "You can't guarantee lives, you insure them, be still!" "It might need stitches." "In the meantime..." "Yeah, Ronnie's been visiting, pointing the finger." "I said, I said "Take a number, pal, there is a long queue of people that want my scalp." "Joan Miller's head of the line."" "How long have you been taking tranquillisers?" "It's been noticed at the hospital, there's been talk." "Since I stood in the cardiac ward and watched a man die." "You have cardiac arrhythmia." "Really?" " Your pupils are constricted." " Jesus!" "Are you this rough with all your patients?" "You're my first drug addict." "You should be at the hospital." "(SIGHS) Well, I'm quite happy here," " thank you very much." " And you need to get some sleep." "That's the problem, Doctor, that's what got this ball rolling in the first place." " Where are your blankets?" " I don't know." "Eva put them somewhere." "Ah, she's carrying three babies!" "My babies." "What'll happen when she loses them?" " Viv's a nurse." " Oh, is that right?" "Yeah, she volunteered for Vietnam." "You spent a few weeks there, is that right?" " Yes." " What was it like?" "Pulling teeth." "I think she means she was, uh, pulling teeth over there." "Funny thing to be doing in a war zone." "(LAUGHS)" "Good thing you haven't hooked up with one of those bra-burners." "No, no." "No, no, no fear of that, sir." "I don't wear a bra." "(LAUGHS)" "You got yourself a doozy there." "Good for another, Pete?" "Uh, no, we're on we're on duty in a minute." "No cop was ever any use sober, mate." "♪ You know she's waiting ♪" "♪ Just anticipating... ♪" "He likes you." "What's wrong?" "Nothing." "I love you." "♪ But while she's there waiting, without them ♪" "♪ Try a little tenderness ♪" "♪ That's all you gotta do ♪" "♪ It's not just sentimental, no, no, no ♪" "♪ She has her grief and has her care ♪" "♪ But the soft words, they are spoken so gentle, yeah ♪" "♪ It makes it easier ♪" "♪ It makes it easier to bear, yeah ♪" "♪ You won't regret it, no ♪" "♪ Some girls, they don't forget it ♪" "♪ Love is their only happiness, yeah ♪" "♪ But it's all so easy ♪" "♪ All you gotta do is try, try a little tenderness ♪" "♪ Try a little tenderness ♪" "♪ Oh, you've got to rub her gentle, man ♪" "♪ Oh, what you've got to ♪" "♪ Got to try, oh, no, no, no ♪" "♪ Got to try a little tenderness, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪" "♪ Watch her groove, man ♪" "♪ You've got to know what to do, take this advice, man ♪" "♪ Love her, squeeze her, don't tease her, love her ♪" "♪ And try a little tenderness. ♪" "Where is Cynthia?" " Her father collected her." " Why didn't you tell me?" " Why didn't you let me say goodbye?" " I'm sorry, Maggie." "Her father wanted to get home." "He had a long drive." "I never got to say goodbye." "What about her locket?" "I made tea." "(SIGHS)" "You're not better yet." "It'll take some time for those drugs to get out of your system." "(YAWNING) Withdrawal could last a while." "I want you to do something." "Consider your life for the last few months." "Not having to juggle a husband and a baby, or bisect your time between hospital and home." "Things have become a lot simpler." "I've been lonely." "The opportunity costed a career." "Other people manage family and career." "Hm." "I couldn't." "The truth is, you're a better doctor for it." "Jim chose his freedom over you." "You should embrace the choice you were left with." "It's a pretty good one." "I'm Annie." "I'm a friend of Viv's." "There's a couple of things you need to know about the woman that gave birth to your babies." "Because one day it might help you understand the children that you're raising." "Firstly, it was Viv's decision to give her twins up for adoption." "You should find that reassuring, because it means that they weren't stolen from her," "which means she has no intention of disrupting your family." "And secondly, when Viv gave her babies up for adoption, she lost a little part of herself." "She knows she'll never get it back, but it, it doesn't stop her grief." "She found out where her babies were so that she could know they were alive and well." "It was Viv that gave you the opportunity to be a mum." "She deserves your respect, not your anger." "Or your fear." "I'm sure that once you wrap your head around all of those things, you're gonna be a terrific mother." "I know Viv thinks you already are." "I have ovarian cysts, but it's not cancer." " That's the best news." " Yes it is." "Tell me about when you had the girls?" "I didn't know I was having twins until I went into labour." "It was a huge shock." "I was worried that nobody would want two babies at once" "I didn't want them to be split up." "It was my biggest fear." "That's why needed to know what had happened to them." "When I saw you in the park, I was so relieved." "They were together." "They were loved." "I wanted to thank you, hug you." "But I couldn't." "I don't want them to ever think I gave them up because I didn't want them." "When we adopted the girls, they told us that they should never know, that it would confuse them," "that they would suffer and would never feel like they belonged anywhere." "But I don't know how you keep these secrets." "And the girls deserve to know the truth." "I want you to be a part of their lives." "Obviously some of us have not learned from the lessons so far." "Always the ones who need it the most are the most recalcitrant." "But, we shall soldier on." "Okay, positions everyone." "Good, just in time." "Come on." "I want you to put a pillow over my head if I sound like Matron again." "Done." "I have some wonderful news." "I thought you wanted to have a baby with me." "Oh, I do!" "Lots and lots of them." "But I'm going to get to be a part of the twins' lives, Pete." "And that's amazing." "But how is it gonna work?" "The kids will be confused." "Two mothers?" "What..." "No." "Faye's their mother." "Right now, I don't know how it will work, but Faye and I are going to make sure that it does." "Say something." "I don't know if I want some other bloke's kids hanging around." "(BABY CRYING)" "I can't, I can't do this right, Chris..." "Look, just give him the bottle, Annie, it doesn't matter." "Yes it does." "You don't understand." "(BABY CRYING)" "Leave us a moment, Chris." "Hey, come on." "Please don't ask me to leave, I need to be able to do this." "May I suggest that rather than holding your breast as if it were a cigarette, you hold it as if it were a hamburger you were eating with one hand." " Would you like me to show you?" " No, uh, I can manage." "Guide his head towards your breast, but let him stay in the drivers seat." "Thank you." "Have you seen Patrick?" "I'm not discussing the pregnancy with him anymore." " 90 over 60." " That's low, isn't it." "It's borderline, but it's common for the second trimester." "We'll keep an eye on it." "Are you sure it's a good idea to cut Patrick out of the picture?" "When he pulls himself together, we'll talk." "He's the father of these babies." "He wants to be involved." "And apart from anything else he has vastly more experience with multiple pregnancies than I do." "When Patrick feels like he's lost control he plays the vulnerability card." "Wanting me to feel sorry for him so I'll give in and do what he wants." "Man is a master of manipulation." "Whether he is being manipulative or not, he's concerned for you and the babies." "(KNOCKS ON DOOR)" "Has Maggie been to see you?" " Why?" " I found this." "It's the address of a backyard abortionist." "Maggie!" "Maggie, wait!" "You silly girl!" "What on earth were you thinking?" "I've decided that live-in doctor trumps live-in nurse." "Hello, beautiful." "Shh." "I got a tip-off that if I turned up at the trial, I'd be dead." " Really?" " Yeah." "There's a lot of bad people who don't want me giving evidence." "But I had to see you."