-Give me some room, please.

-We thought he had too much of Ceri's own brew.

-But then he passed out.

-But he's never fainted before.

(solemn music) (Prem) Stay back.

This man has smallpox.

I baptize thee... in the name of the Lord.

-Amen.

-Amen.

(Dan) I did a bad thing.

(Prem) A bad thing, what do you mean?

(Dan) I don't wanna go to hell, I don't wanna die.

You leave my daughter alone, get out!

-Daddy.

-Get out, go on!

(Prem) The vaccination unit has arrived from Cardiff.

They'll be ready to start vaccinating in one hour.

(man) What are you talking about?

-We're not even ill. -I don't need it.

I suggest you give it to someone else.

(Prem) If you refuse to be vaccinated, then I cannot allow you to work amongst the sick.

Emlyn told me you helped him write that letter to me.

What were you trying to do?

I didn't know it was for you.

(dramatic music) I didn't know.

(Verity) I hate you.

(wind howling) (upbeat music) ♪ (alarm blaring) (thunder rumbling) (rain pattering) (distant alarm blaring) (soft music) Hello, Gina, is the baby all right?

No, I just heard--oh, good.

♪ Can I come over?

I don't want to be on my own.

♪ (distant alarm blaring) (engines whirring) What's that?

Hey!

Maybe Emlyn caught himself a robber.

You've been asleep for hours.

I thought you were hibernating.

You know what hedgehogs need when they come out of hibernation?

Hm?

A breakfast.

(dramatic music) (alarm blaring) ♪ (thunder rumbling) (soft music) ♪ Are you ready to repent?

♪ (Kamini) Prem.

♪ That's the second lot today already.

♪ Feels like an age since I've seen you.

It was only last night.

I brought you some food.

(Owen) Hey.

There we go.

Top of the milk.

Kept it special.

(Dan) Kamini makes me eggy bread.

(Owen) If we had eggs, you could have eggy bread.

If we had bread... (Dan) I'm not hungry.

(alarm blaring) (engine whirring) (Pushpa) Mr. Richard's temperature has come down slightly.

-He's sleeping now.

-Yeah, he's responding well.

(Kamini) Prem, sit down and have something to eat.

I'm sorry it's such a strange breakfast.

We're running low on everything.

You look tired, Mommy.

(Pushpa) There's nothing wrong with me.

I'm not such a sheltered old lady you all seem to think I am.

(Kamini) I could stay here today if you like.

Kamini, I didn't allow you to come to Britain just to work as a skivvy.

Things will be back to normal before you know it.

This can't go on forever.

It will unless we find the source.

(alarm blaring) (tense music) ♪ (Emlyn) Dafydd Lewis.

I've got to tell his wife Mary.

(Kamini) It's better if I go.

♪ (Prem) Easy.

Easy.

(Megan) Look at the color in those cheeks.

(Gina) I know, you'd never thought he'd been sick.

(Megan) Nye's looking much better.

Ever since he was baptized, he'd been getting stronger and stronger.

(knocking) You'll have to wait, love, same as everyone else!

(knocking) (baby cooing) Patience is a virtue, Mrs. Harris.

(Megan) Everyone's running out of food.

Emlyn was saying that we might need to start rationing.

Oh well, if Emlyn was saying, we better get on with it then.

Ohh.

(wheezing) (soft music) (Prem) Mr. Lewis, I'm gonna give you some oxygen.

This will help you breathe a little more easily.

♪ Can you hold it?

Marjie if you could start cleaning his wounds, please.

(Pushpa) Don't worry.

We'll soon have you shipshape.

(Prem) Let me know as soon as his temperature's stabilized.

♪ -How did Dafydd get it?

-We don't know, but Prem is trying to find out.

(Mary) Is he gonna be all right?

(Kamini) Prem says he's as well as can be expected.

(Mary) He's never been ill in his life before.

(Kamini) Anyone could be infected.

You and your children have to come and get yourselves vaccinated.

-No.

-Please.

This is a terrible disease, you've seen it for yourself.

(Mary) If I was gonna get it, I'd have it by now.

(Kamini) That's not how it works, it can live-- (Mary) Reverend Todd says-- (Kamini) Reverend Todd should mind his own business.

Mary.

(door slamming) These are off, Nan.

(Sian) They can throw away the moldy bits.

(Megan) Well, this load won't last more than a couple days at most.

(Sian) You'd be surprised what people can do with a tin of Spam and a potato if they have to.

It's like in the war we had to use our heads, and every meal all the more delicious because of it, and nothing wasted.

Well, the sooner everyone gets vaccinated, the better.

(Sian) I remember one lad had an uncle who was a farmer down West.

Oh, I forgot I had these.

And this uncle sorted him a pig, but he wasn't allowed to give it in because of rationing.

So, he got hold of a hearse and a coffin and he put the pig in the coffin and drove it in the hearse all the way to Trefelin.

All the people in the villages standing to attention and taking their hats off as the hearse went past.

A pig never had such a send-off.

People had respect in those days.

Sian, will you listen now?

Look at us two, we've both had the vaccination.

We're the picture of health, even the baby.

They had a heck of a feast in Trefelin that night.

Those were the days, everyone pulling together.

Nan.

(playful music) -You cheated.

-I did not.

(Meinir) I saw you.

Once a cheater, always a cheater.

We'll be leaving at the end of the day, Mrs. Sharma.

Only so many card games a person can play.

(Carwyn) Especially when she's such a bad loser.

(Meinir) In three days, we have vaccinated just 10 people.

It's been a complete waste of our time.

(Kamini) People will start coming soon, I'm sure of it.

(Carwyn) That's what the doctor said.

(Prem) And are you sure he has had no contact with Dan Griffiths?

This was definitely his first time playing cards at Ceri's barn?

(solemn music) Fine, thank you.

♪ Three out of the four men who were playing cards at Ceri's have been infected.

None of them seem to have had any contact with Dan.

Gonna have to speak to Ceri.

(Kamini) I could do that if you like.

-I know you're busy.

-That would be really helpful.

I'll try and talk to Dafydd again.

♪ (Emlyn) If you don't disperse, I'll arrest the lot of you!

Listen, listen!

I understand your frustration, boys.

(man) So who's gonna be paying our wages -while the mine is shut down?

-Yeah, and what are my children gonna eat, dirt?

-Excuse me.

-They'll be plenty of food when the cows are dead from starvation.

(Emlyn) It's still illegal to congregate!

This is a very serious disease!

-What are you doing about that?

-I brought you some food, -but it seems like you're busy.

-Could say that.

We're doing everything we can to bring the situation under control.

(mixed shouting) (man) You know, this police station's open.

(Emlyn) Now go back to your homes and wait for more information.

(mixed remarks) (Megan) Gentlemen!

Thank you.

Now I'm gonna count to ten, and anyone left in here after that will find themselves -barred from the pub for life.

-You ain't gonna do that.

(Megan) I'm the landlady, I can do what I like.

-One.

-Oh, she's counting now.

(Megan) Two, three.

-This situation needs sorting.

-Four, five.

-Stay in your own homes and-- -Six, seven.

-Eight.

-We're going!

(Megan) Nine, ten.

Never underestimate the power of a pint.

(playful music) ♪ (knocking) (Sian) Look!

(Kamini) I already have tea, thank you.

No, look at where it comes from.

♪ Your shop?

India!

(Kamini) Yes, I know tea comes from India, Mrs. Davies.

(Sian) I'm sorry abut what I said to your mother, by the way, but it was a bit of a coincidence, her arriving on the same day as the smallpox.

Anyway, I was thinking this could be the culprit.

If tea carried smallpox, then not only would this whole village have been dead and buried by now, but this entire island would've been taken over by sheep.

Tell me, Mrs. Davies, have you been vaccinated yet?

♪ (sighing) (Emlyn) Delicious, thank you.

I was starving.

They're right though, we do need more food.

But nobody's gonna deliver with all this going on.

(Megan) Well, we could leave the village though, couldn't we?

We've both been vaccinated.

People don't want us anywhere near them.

(Megan) Well, if we could arrange a drop-off point in the open air, and Prem says as long as we stay six feet away from anyone, we'll be fine.

(mellow music playing) ♪ (Emlyn) Calling PC Jones, calling PC Jones.

-PC Jones receiving you.

-I need a favor.

(slow breathing) (Prem) Feeling better, more comfortable?

Good.

Dafydd.

Three out of the four people playing cards at Ceri Joseph's have got seriously ill.

Your illness has progressed further than the others, which means that you probably got infected before them.

Have you had any contact with Dan Griffiths?

-None at all?

-No.

(Prem) Do you remember when I treated you for that little infection last year, after you went to Cardiff with the rugby team and met a certain lady?

She was no lady.

(Prem) You were no gentleman either.

Have you done anything like that since?

(sighing) (Dafyyd) I learned my lesson.

Mary would kill me.

(soft music) ♪ Verity, speak to me.

♪ Did you lie with that man?

♪ God will save you if you ask forgiveness.

♪ (footsteps retreating) (lively music) ♪ (Kamini) Mr. Joseph.

-How are you feeling?

-Very well, Mrs. Sharma, yes.

Listen, I would not have held that card game if I'd have known, Mrs. Sharma.

(Kamini) Well, what's done is done.

Now I'll need to find out who you've been in contact with.

Have you been out of the village at all?

(Ceri) To the market to sell some lambs.

I'll need you to write down a list of everybody you've been in contact with in the past month.

Now you'll have to come with me and get yourself vaccinated.

(Ceri) Certainly, Mrs. Sharma, I'll just go and wash my hands.

-Ceri.

-Yes?

(Kamini) You've got a lot of food here.

(Ceri) Well, potatoes, carrots, runner beans, some apples over there.

(Kamini) We're very short of food in the village.

(Ceri) Well, I'm sure if the price was right, we could come to some arrangement, yes.

(Kamini) Right, let's get on with it.

(Ceri) Oh, this is no job for a lady.

(Kamini) You're lucky I'm not a lady then.

(chuckling) (Ceri) I'll, um, I'll go get you some suitable clothes.

(upbeat music) ♪ Ah-ha-ha.

♪ (soft music) ♪ (Gina) Nan, Reverend Todd is here to see you!

I'll be with you now!

(Reverend Todd) Mrs. Davies, how's the baby?

(Sian) Oh, he's chattering away like he'd never been ill.

I can't thank you enough for baptizing him, Reverend.

But if it's food you're after, I'm afraid I don't have any.

Megan and Gina took what was left around the village this morning.

Look at that.

I'm like Old Mother Hubbard.

(Reverend Todd) God provides me with enough sustenance.

(Sian) Of course He does, of course He does.

(Reverend Todd) I came for something completely different.

You know that more people have been taken sick.

(Sian) I know.

Dreadful it is, just dreadful.

And Dr. Sharma doesn't seem to be able to cope at all.

(Reverend Todd) Well, we need to utilize the power of prayer.

We need people to come together to pray with one voice.

I'm holding another prayer vigil this evening.

-But the hall's been locked.

-In my home.

Can you help me spread the word?

We must keep it secret, as there are forces that would stop us.

(Sian) Of course I'll help you, Reverend.

♪ (Owen) I don't believe it.

That's three games in a row.

(Dan) I shouldn't have won.

Why ever not?

(Dan) I've done something bad.

(Owen) No.

Mitching off school, stole an apple or two.

They're not bad things.

They're not just normal.

(melancholy music) ♪ You should've seen the things I got up to when I was your age.

No, son, all the bad that's been done, has been done by me.

♪ (sighing) (Emlyn) He's late.

I hope he hasn't panicked himself into not coming.

(Megan) It looks so peaceful down there.

You wouldn't think anything was wrong.

(birds chirping) No.

You wouldn't would you?

(Megan) You're handling this very well, you know?

You make me feel calm.

(calm music) ♪ Isn't that pretty?

♪ You wouldn't think, would you, that nature could be so beautiful and so cruel at the same time.

(Emlyn) You can't have one without the other.

I mean, uh...

Uh, I'm not really good with words, but... (Megan) I know what you mean.

♪ (singing) (engine rumbling) Dr. Sharma.

I'm very sorry for the trouble I've caused.

(Kamini) I think we've found a way of feeding the village.

Ceri's promised to come for his vaccination later.

Can't stop now.

See you back at the surgery.

Off we go, Ceri!

(engine whirring) (mellow music) ♪ (knocking) -Hello?

-Good afternoon, Owen.

-May I come in?

-Reverend Todd.

(Reverend Todd) Having a bit of a clear out?

(Owen) Well, I've gathered a lot of rubbish over the years.

Both outside and inside.

(Reverend Todd) How's the boy?

(Owen) Better, he's sleeping at the moment.

Can't be easy bringing up a daughter without her mother.

(Reverend Todd) I do my with best with God's help.

-Not easy for you either.

-No.

How does a man be a good father to his son, eh?

(Reverend Todd) By following God's Word.

(soft music) I'm holding a vigil this evening in my home to pray for the victims of this terrible time.

Come and tell God your troubles.

He will help you.

(Owen) But Dr. Sharma said we weren't to-- (Reverend Todd) It's my home.

♪ (Owen) Thank you.

(Reverend Todd) You're very welcome.

♪ Coming up with these, Nan.

(playful music) Hello, Mrs. Davies.

Oh, hello, Mrs. Sharma.

I brought some eggs and vegetables for the rations, but we're very short of space at the surgery.

I was wondering if there was anywhere you could store them for us.

(Sian) Take them through to the shop.

-Plenty of room there.

-Take these.

I'll just go and get the other boxes.

(Sian) Mrs. Sharma.

♪ (horn honking) (Megan) Here he is then.

(cheerful music) ♪ (muffled speech) ♪ (Gina) I thought you said times like these were all about helping each other.

(Sian) My father made a fortune on the black market during the war, which was very wrong of him, of course.

(Kamini) I could tell this whole village what you did while they were struggling to feed their families.

But I won't.

Thank you, Mrs. Sharma.

This time.

(Sian) Oh, there won't be another time, Mrs. Sharma.

I'm very trustworthy, I really am.

I mean, Reverend Todd even chose me to spread the word about his secret prayer meeting.

♪ (birds chirping) (muffled speech) (Emlyn) Sorry?

(muffled speech) -You want money?

-No, no.

You can pay me later!

(Emlyn) Oh, you want to know the time?

-It's-- -Oh, you've left your money?

(man) No!

You can pay me later!

(Emlyn) You've gotta go to Ponti?

-Oh, we can pay you later!

-We'll pay you later, right.

Yes!

(Megan) Oh, I haven't played charades in a long time.

(imitating muffled speech) (laughing) (Kamini) Prem, Todd's having another prayer meeting in his house tonight.

(Prem) Is he deliberately trying to give the entire village smallpox?

I'll have a word with him.

(Reverend Todd) Thank you so much, I look forward to it.

(Prem) Mr. Todd.

-See you then.

-Yes.

(Prem) I hear that you're planning to hold another prayer meeting.

(soft music) ♪ The people need God's help.

♪ (Prem) You're putting people's lives at risk.

(Reverend Todd) If people want to pray, who are we to stop them?

♪ (Megan) Prem?

I've got masks, gowns, soaps.

I'll be wanting to talk to you.

(Prem) Me too.

(Megan) I don't quite know what to say.

I shouldn't have mentioned that stupid letter.

(Prem) That makes two of us.

-Are we friends?

-Of course.

Always.

Thanks for the supplies, Meg.

(tender music) ♪ (Meinir) Right, Mr. Jones, if you could roll your sleeve up for me please.

-This won't hurt a bit.

-Just a small pain.

(Meinir) I know how it feels.

There you go, thank you.

(Kamini) How many people have we vaccinated today?

-Five.

-Good, good.

The word's getting around.

A few more days and we should be done.

(Carwyn) We can stay one more day, Mrs. Sharma.

-But that's your lot.

-See what you can manage.

(Carwyn) What?

What?

(somber music) ♪ (Pushpa) You're a good doctor and you know it.

(Prem) Thank you.

(Pushpa) You're just not very good with people.

(Prem) Thank you.

(Pushpa) Especially your own wife.

Kamini and I are fine.

(Pushpa) You think so?

♪ I value Kamini very much.

(Pushpa) I never thought you were good enough for my daughter.

♪ But the girl loves you.

♪ She wants a family of her own, Prem.

♪ (fire crackling) ♪ (Gina) For the people with babies, do they get one packet of roasts?

(Kamini) Um, apart from Mrs. Williams with the twins.

Give her two.

The vaccination unit is threatening to leave.

Prem will have to ring the Ministry in the morning.

(Gina) A day should be plenty of time to get the whole village done.

(Kamini) So, these are the rations you and Sergeant Dawkins collected.

(Megan) Mhm.

(Kamini) You two seem to be getting on very well.

(Megan) Yes.

(Kamini) Beef soup.

(Megan) Right, what shall I do now?

(footsteps approaching) (soft music) ♪ (Kamini) Oh, you're home!

Nobody'll go hungry tonight.

And now I'm going to make a feast.

♪ Sometimes I don't think I appreciate you enough.

(Kamini) Don't be silly.

I have farmer's hands.

I chased chickens for their eggs, I dug vegetables.

We all worked so hard.

In the end, I had to send Megan home.

She looked exhausted.

-You must be exhausted too.

-Not at all.

Is there something going on between Megan and Emlyn?

(knocking) (tense music) (Mary) Dr. Sharma, Dr. Sharma!

Dr. Sharma!

Please look at her.

(baby crying) (Prem) Let me see, let me see.

(Mary) It is, isn't it?

♪ (Prem) I'm afraid so, I need to get her to the hospital.

I need to get her to the hospital as soon as possible.

-I'll bring her.

-I'm sorry, I can't allow that.

-No.

-Mary.

I can help her.

You have two other children, make sure they're all right.

Please.

(baby cooing) ♪ (Mary) Please let me come.

(Prem) It won't be safe.

Go home, be with your family.

(Mary) But my baby.

What can I do?

(Prem) If it helps, pray.

(Mary) My baby.

My little girl.

(Kamini) Your little girl is in the best of hands.

The best of hands.

(melancholy music) ♪ (baby cooing) ♪ (Reverend Todd) And their prayer, offered in faith, will heal the sick and the Lord will make them well.

And anyone who has committed sins will be forgiven.

Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed.

The earnest prayer of a righteous person has great power.

♪ (engine whirring) ♪ Mary, I'm so sorry.

(Mary) I want to see her.

You can't, she's still contagious.

You haven't been vaccinated.

(Mary) I have to say goodbye.

I have to say goodbye to her.

No, please!

♪ (sobbing) ♪ (Prem) You know, if Mary's child had been vaccinated, she might've survived.

They'd rather listen to that tin-pot preacher than me.

That tin-pot preacher talks to people on their own level.

-Through his lies?

-You have to make sure people hear the truth.

You have to shout louder than that tin-pot preacher.

(mellow music) ♪ -Megan!

-Prem.

I'm glad to see you, can we clear the air?

-I need the keys to the pub.

-What's going on?

(Prem) I need to get the loud hailer.

And can you find Ceri Joseph?

Tell him to meet me at the surgery -with his tractor and trailer.

-Yes, of course.

(Prem) Thank you.

(reporter) And the main news is that smallpox outbreak in Trefelin has taken a more serious turn.

A 10-week-old baby girl died last night after contracting the disease.

(melancholy music) ♪ (Kamini) I know how Mary feels.

It's so lonely.

♪ (Prem) It doesn't have to be.

This time, I'm with you.

Sometimes you have to have a little faith.

♪ (knocking) ♪ Dr. Sharma, Ceri's here.

♪ (engine whirring) (Prem) Already people have been infected.

One child has died.

The only protection is vaccination.

(mellow music) ♪ One child has died.

The only protection is vaccination.

♪ Smallpox is fatal.

♪ Already some have been infected.

Smallpox is fatal.

♪ People have been infected.

♪ (indistinct remarks) Smallpox is fatal.

There is no cure.

One child has died.

The only protection is vaccination.

At the surgery... ♪ Smallpox is fatal.

There is no cure.

One child has died.

The only protection is vaccination.

♪ One child has died.

The only protection is vaccination.

There is no cure.

Many people have it.

One child has died.

♪ (Kamini) What are you doing?

(Carwyn) We told Dr. Sharma that we were leaving this morning.

(Meinir) This visit has been a complete waste of our time.

(Carwyn) We tell the smallpox partner to call in the army.

(Meinir) Which is what we'll be doing the minute we get back to Cardiff.

(Carwyn) The sooner, the better.

(Kamini) Please, at least stay till the end of the day.

(Meinir) We've wasted enough of our time already.

(Carwyn) Sorry, Mrs. Sharma, work's work.

(soft music) (Kamini) Wait.

♪ Mary.

♪ (Mary) We've come for the vaccination.

(Kamini) Come this way.

♪ I don't think you're gonna be going anywhere for a while.

♪ (Kamini) Prem, nearly everyone came.

(Prem) Good, good.

But we still don't know who the source is.

Who didn't come?

(Kamini) Sian Davies, Reverend Todd, and Verity.

Not surprised about Sian, stubborn woman that she is, and Todd.

♪ I think I need to speak to Verity.

♪ (knocking) (Megan) Hello.

Oh, thank you.

(Emlyn) Oh, I thought you liked flowers.

(Megan) I do, sorry.

I'm not feeling very well.

-Are you all right?

-Oh.

(solemn music) ♪ (engine whirring) ♪ (birds chirping) ♪ (knocking) ♪ (Reverend Todd) Dr. Sharma.

Have you come to arrest me?

♪ Sadly, no.

I came to tell you that most of the villagers were vaccinated today.

Congratulations.

Victory for science.

(Prem) Apart from a few, you and your daughter among them.

(Reverend Todd) My faith is my protection.

It's that simple?

(Reverend Todd) It's that simple.

(Prem) What about your daughter?

Is her faith as strong as yours?

(Reverend Todd) Verity is young.

Is it not your duty as a father to protect her?

I do.

You don't know how lucky you are.

You have a beautiful, healthy daughter.

Do you not love her?

More than anything on this earth.

Then you must allow me to vaccinate her.

(Reverend Todd) She's resting and I'd rather she wasn't disturbed.

Fine, please bring her to the surgery first thing tomorrow.

(tense music) ♪ (engine starting) (solemn music) ♪ (heavy breathing) ♪ (train rumbling) (whistle blowing) (woman) So you stop a train, inconvenience all these passengers for a matter of no importance.

A young girl's gone missing.

(Dan) Do you think that's why I got ill?

'Cause I made God angry?

Was he punishing me?

-What's this?

-It's for your own good, Nan.

You're the last one in the village -that hasn't been vaccinated.

-No!

(Gina) It's really nothing to be ashamed of.

Plenty of people are frightened of needles.

(Prem) For pity's sake, for your own sake, Reverend.

(dramatic music) Save your daughter.

I don't know where she is.

(Megan) I'm asking for your advice, Prem.

♪ (Prem) As a friend or a doctor?

Is that how I got it, from Verity?

(Prem) We couldn't possibly know that, not yet.

Is that how my little girl got it too?

Did I kill my own daughter?

(upbeat music) ♪ (bright music)