Love Child (2014) s04e09 Episode Script

1 Elena! Her family has arranged the marriage.
Well, you'll have to change that.
No.
We have a debt to pay.
So she's been sold.
(CROWD YELLING AND CHEERING) (THUMP) - I'm coming back for you.
- Please stay.
I'm going to pay off what your family owes, fast.
Oh, my god! It's him.
Alan.
Not now.
Your baby's already been adopted.
Alan and Barbara Fitzgerald.
Well, I'm sure they're lovely people.
(DRAMATIC VIOLIN AND PIANO) Doctor Millar's baby.
Laura? Yes? I think maybe it's not her baby.
My daughter is dying.
Goodbye my darling.
Now listen Oh we're steppin' out I'm gonna turn around Ladies! Toast to them, now.
All right.
To the hardest working professional, intelligent, damn sexiest colleagues I have ever had the pleasure of sharing a war zone with.
Cheers.
- Bottoms up? - Mmm.
- Whoo! - Two more, please.
You happy to be home, nurse Healy? Happy to be out of a mosquito-infested mud pit, Doctor Patterson.
You need a new job.
I am always on the look out for a good nurse.
You'd have access to a fair few good nurses, I'd imagine.
Not in your league.
Hey, hey, hey (SIGHS) Excuse me, Joan? Please tell me it can wait till tomorrow.
This was in your pigeonhole.
Laura's autopsy report.
If there's anything you need, you let me know.
Thanks.
(QUIET, PULSING MUSIC) (LOUD MUSIC) Oh! - Joan! - Oh right I I shouldn't I'm so sorry.
I bet she's one of your good nurses.
Teach me how to fly.
('LOVE CHILD' BY THE SONAR BAND & ELANA STONE) You think that I don't feel love What I feel for you is real love In others' eyes I see reflected a hurt, scorned, rejected Love child Different from the rest.
Thank God I'm going home today.
I never want to get up this early again.
Elena! Ed.
Did it.
Got the money.
All of it.
Pay off your brother and get married.
ELENA: Oh, I don't believe.
I booked the Registry Office for tomorrow.
- Not church? - Nah, nah.
We'll be in and out.
It's quicker.
Want to get married before the baby comes.
Nothing's going to stop us, now.
My brother.
Hey.
You square it with him, we're good, right? Maybe he give us his blessing.
RITA: This time tomorrow you'll be someone's wife.
Oh, and my baby will have a papa.
God, that's heavier than I remember.
- You're not leaving right now? - Yeah.
Dad's on his way so I am out of here.
- God knows, I'm not coming back.
- Will you come to my wedding? I'll try, but Mum's probably going to want to take me shopping.
We'll walk you out.
Don't you have bedpans to clean or something? See you later, sluts.
(QUIET MUSIC) - Doctor Bowditch! - Hey.
- Hey.
Thanks for meeting me.
- No worries.
- Your message sounded urgent.
- Yeah, yeah it is.
I'm, uh, getting married and I need your help.
Oh! How much help? Need a witness.
Somebody respectable to vouch for me and Elena.
Okay.
And yeah, you haven't got a friend or a brother or anyone else? No.
Not in Sydney.
- And I want to do it tomorrow.
- Tomorrow? - Yes.
- Oh.
It'd be an honour to have you stand up there beside me.
Ah, yeah.
Happy to help.
- Yeah? - Yeah.
- Oh, thanks.
- Oh! - Oh, you're a champion.
- Yeah.
- I'll be in touch.
- No worries.
Well, what was I supposed to do? I-I couldn't say no.
It's exactly what you should have done before he asked us for more money.
No, he won't.
He didn't blackmail us, I'm sure of it.
- Then who did? - I don't (FOOTSTEPS) I need all the maternity files for the Queen's Birthday weekend just gone.
- All of them? - Yes.
Everything you have on any babies born that long weekend.
Sure.
How are you going without your partner in crime? Viv? Called last night.
Met a bunch of Aussies the minute she landed and is having a whale of a time.
She's even planning a trip to Buckingham Palace to stake out Prince Charles.
He's a dish, isn't he? Joan, did you want Laura's file, too? Yes, please.
Thanks.
- And what is Doctor Millar up to now? - Just checking on some files.
Matron? Ed caught up with Simon this morning.
He's not the one that blackmailed us, was he? No.
He wasn't.
Then why did you say he did? I said no such thing.
You drew your own conclusion.
So, who was it? It was the misguided act of a silly young woman.
That's all you need to know.
Why are you protecting her? I am protecting your husband, am I not? When he very nearly killed someone.
Doctor Millar? Ah I had this terrible dream last night where I came to work naked.
That was a dream? I owe you an apology.
I'd had a bit to drink and was having a reunion.
- A meeting of the minds? - Mmm.
Did you want to discuss whatever it was? No.
No need.
Thanks.
(SUBDUED MUSIC) (SUBDUED MUSIC) Deborah.
I've just received a call from your father's secretary.
He's still on holiday? Yes.
I don't care.
I'm going home.
You still have your final exams and I assured your parents you'd sit them.
(GENTLY) Now come inside.
How much are they paying you to babysit me this time? Come on.
Miss me? What happened? Oh! Dad had to fly to Singapore on urgent business and Mum caught some bug on the cruise so I'm stuck here till she's germ-free.
Oh, your poor mama.
(BAG DROPS TO THE FLOOR) You can come to my wedding, now.
You can be my bridesmaid.
You and Rita.
Wouldn't miss it.
Don't suppose your brother's going to be best man? (SOULFUL MUSIC) (KNOCK AT THE DOOR) You need help with anything? I imagine you'll see it at some point, anyway.
Laura's autopsy report.
(READS) "Provisional diagnosis viral pneumonia and cardiac failure secondary to ventricular" This just confirms our original diagnosis.
Keep reading.
"Signs of retinopathy.
Tissue cultures ordered.
Macroscopic findings consistent with congenital rubella syndrome.
Possibly as a result of maternal exposure in pregnancy.
" Rubella caused Laura's heart defect.
I've never had rubella.
So I couldn't have passed it on to Laura.
I've been going through the files of the other women who gave birth that weekend.
One of them must have had it.
And have you found anything? Look, Joan, you could have had a cold, a fever.
Not even realised it was something more serious.
I was healthier than I've ever been through my entire pregnancy.
Then we'll give you a blood test.
That is the only way that we can prove whether you had rubella or not.
It's good you'll be able to come to the wedding.
That's if there's a wedding to go to.
- Is that him? - Marco! Marco.
I'm Ed.
Good to meet you.
Is this why you called me? We're getting married.
We hoped you'd give us your blessing.
Got the money to cover what your family owes.
You think this is about the money? No fighting! Huh? About the money.
Come on.
- Mate.
- Stop it.
- I don't want to hurt you.
- Hurt me? Stop it.
- I'll bury you.
- No, Marco! No! Oh! - Marco? - (SPEAKS ANGRILY IN ITALIAN) You are a disgrace to our family.
Our family sent me away.
Sold me to a man I don't even know.
Watch your mouth.
What they did is not right.
Please.
Marco.
- You're my brother.
- You're not my sister.
(CHILLING MUSIC) I thought the autopsy would provide answers.
Instead I have more questions.
I'll get this to pathology today.
Results should be in tomorrow.
Why don't you give yourself the night off, tonight? Go to the movies or something.
Poseidon Adventure looks like fun.
(KNOCK AT THE DOOR) Yes? Oh! We have to stop meeting like this.
- Hi.
I'm Fleur.
- I'm Joan.
Excuse me.
Is it cold outside? - I thought you might be hung over.
- Oh, I am.
Well, I happen to have the perfect cure.
How about we hold that thought until tonight? The only time you refuse sex is when you've already got another option.
I do not have another option.
Come on.
Don't tell me you're in love.
Is it that woman? Joan? What, Doctor Millar? No, she's a colleague.
Let's catch up tonight.
Right.
You'll live though kissing the bride tomorrow might be a bit painful.
Thanks, Doc.
Hey, I'm sorry I smacked your brother.
Don't you worry.
He'll come round.
(APPROACHING FOOTSTEPS) I had to call Father.
I cannot marry in a Registry Office.
We already have too much bad luck.
I suppose now is as good a time as any to discuss why the church should marry you.
We know we're young, Father, but we love each other and we want to be good parents.
I understand.
But marriage is hard work and you have to be convinced that you're ready to make a commitment for life.
We are.
Love is grand but it doesn't pay the bills.
- I'll provide for my family.
- On a ship? Being away for months at a time? We're moving to Queensland.
There's plenty of work in the cane fields and it's cheaper than Sydney.
Queensland? Where is this? It's North.
It's about two or three days on the train if we stop in Brisbane.
It sounds so far.
How will I see my friends? You'll make new ones.
I've got a mate up there who will put us up and the rent's cheap.
No.
No.
This is not good.
But I've already paid the first month.
Just like my brother.
Always tell and never ask.
You're comparing me to your crazy brother? All right.
It seems that you two still have a lot to talk about.
(CHILLING MUSIC) - Found what you were looking for? - Not really.
Is everything okay? DOCTOR PATTERSON: So, movies or a drink? Neither.
I've got a hot date with my sofa and the television.
- Oh, Division Four or Homicide? - Probably Band Stand.
I've got a thing for Brian Henderson.
Brian Henderson? MARTHA: Eight.
.
('I'LL TAKE YOU THERE' BY CYRUS) Ten Oh no I know a place Ain't nobody cryin' Ain't nobody worried Yeah I just thought you know, baby's due any day.
I need a house.
I need a job.
I made a decision.
I mean, how can Elena be angry at that? Well, Martha's always going cross at me about something.
No, I'm not! - See? - Right.
We had to work hard at our relationship.
We could not be more different.
I thought this man and I are worlds apart, I must be crazy to fall for him.
But lucky for me Martha's just a little bit crazy.
Look.
When things are stressful, I just need to respect that Martha likes to talk about everything.
And Simon likes to retreat to his "shed".
Really? I don't actually have a shed it's more like an internal shed in my heart.
I never even asked Elena about going to Queensland.
- Oh, let me take you there - I'll take you there Baby Now Yeah, yeah - Ain't nobody cryin' no, no - I'll take you there - Ain't nobody worried - I'll take you there - There ain't no, no smilin' faces - I'll take you there Lying to the races I'll take you there Oh, no oh I'll take you there.
I'm callin' for mercy You're quiet.
What's up? Oh, I've got a lot on my mind.
I've never known you to be so serious.
What can I do? You could show me a good time.
- Let me take you there - I'll take you there - Oh, I'll take you there, baby - I'll take you there - I'll take, take, take you there - I'll take you there - No, no, no, no - I'll take you there I said I'll take you there.
So, where are you off to next? I don't know.
Well, here's not too bad, is it? Come on.
You're never in the one place for long.
Ooh.
You've always got an escape plan.
- It is the lady doctor.
- No.
Careful Doctor Patterson.
You might be turning into a grown-up.
Thank you for another spectacular evening.
Are you serious? I'll give you a call.
(GENTLE PIANO MUSIC) Maybe it's a sign from God.
TV ANNOUNCER: Yes ladies and gentlemen, it's time.
The national leader of the Australian Labor Party, Mr Gough Whitlam! (CHEERING) (KNOCK AT THE DOOR) Andrew.
Mmm.
(LAUGHS) I thought we would start healthy and go down hill as required.
GOUGH WHITLAM: Men and women of Australia, The decision we will make for our country on 2 December Cheers.
is a choice between the past and the future, between the habits and fears - It's good.
- Mmm.
I'm not sure about the health benefits, though.
Oh, please.
Years of research.
Was that nurse one of your research assistants? We were in Vietnam together.
Distracted each other when we needed to.
- Look at these.
What do you see? - What am I looking for? They're different.
(GENTLE PIANO) I don't think the baby I buried is the same as the baby I gave birth to.
I think we should wait for the blood tests.
I've been over and over that report in my head and then I looked at these photos.
There were so many babies there that night.
And when I look at these and they aren't the same child.
I think I always knew something wasn't right.
I know it sounds crazy but what if Laura was never mine? What if my baby's out there with someone else? Debbie! Where is Elena? I wouldn't bother.
What? She doesn't want to see you.
Oh! Better go change her mind, then.
She said she doesn't love you anymore.
That it was all a mistake.
No way.
She says she's going to give up the baby, marry the fruit shop boy and finally do what her family want.
- No.
I don't believe you.
- Ed, forget about her.
Take me to Queensland instead.
What are you doing? You seriously want to marry a wog? What's wrong with you? What? Debbie! Wait here.
- That.
That wasn't my fault.
- I know.
- Why did you do that? - What? - Is it because you're jealous? - Ha, ha.
- Ed kissed me.
- What? - He was all over me.
- No.
You kissed him.
- Did you rip Elena's veil, too? - Why would I do that? Because you're a selfish person who doesn't care about anyone but you expect everyone to care about you! I hate you! All of you! - My hair! - (SPEAKS ITALIAN) Let go of my hair! OTHER GIRLS (YELLING): Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight, fight, fight! No! Eugh! - Eugh! - Stop it! Why are you doing this to me? (JARRING MUSIC) (SOBS) (PULSING MUSIC) DOCTOR MILLAR: Right.
Can you make sure you put these all together and No sign of rubella antibodies.
You know that this doesn't prove anything.
Oh, it proves enough.
I want to go over the autopsy results with the Head of Paediatrics.
Why? It doesn't change anything.
I'm going to contact the other mothers who were there the night my baby was born.
I'm going to bring them in for tests.
What tests? Joan's bloods show no signs of the rubella virus.
But the autopsy on Laura does.
Clearly there's been a mistake.
There has.
I believe I was given someone else's baby.
I want to talk to all the nurses who were in attendance the night my daughter was born.
Of course.
I'll speak to them myself.
Don't worry.
We'll get to the bottom of this.
Good.
DOCTOR MILLAR: Can you get me a list of all the nurses in attendance for Queen's Birthday long weekend? Rest assured, we'll leave no stone unturned but do you really believe Doctor Millar's baby was swapped? Joan believes it and she has the report.
We all know medical reports are open to interpretation.
Laura's death most likely had nothing to do with rubella.
Sometimes, despite our best efforts, babies die and it is heart-breaking.
Their mothers are consumed by grief, inconsolable.
Allowing them to fantasise their children are still alive does not help them.
I am helping Joan by letting her deal with this on her own terms.
But that's not practical! How can she possibly come to terms with it if she thinks her baby is still alive? Is there anything else? What are you doing? I retrieved some files for Joan yesterday and I noticed a number was missing.
Sounds like careless numbering to me.
I'll just run a check against Admissions with the birth records for that day.
I'd keep quiet about the whole thing if I were you.
It only draws attention to your incompetency.
You and Doctor Bowditch have made quite a few mistakes, lately.
("MORNING OF THE EARTH" BY G WAYNE THOMAS, PLAYS) The forces of the universe And the elements of space Conjured up your being Your size, your time, your shape You were created With all the beauty they could call And earth, you surely are the measure of them all.
Hello.
You look a little lost.
Hallelujah Your rocks all turned to gold And your tiny stones to jewels (GASPS) Eugh! Don't! No! (THUMP) It was the morning of the earth Hallelujah Hallelujah, hallelujah It was the morning of the earth From the tallest mountain To the smallest drop of rain Each and every thing created Was of the new world (SOBS) It was the morning of the earth.
DOCTOR MILLAR (ON THE PHONE): If you could come in this afternoon, Mrs Parrish, that would be wonderful.
Thank you.
See you then.
I've spoken to all the nurses and they assure me everything was done by the book.
There must be another explanation.
We'll see when the tests are done.
I've spoken to the other mothers and they've agreed to come in.
- A you sure that's necessary? - I am.
You want to believe someone swapped your baby because you want to believe she's still alive.
Doctor Patterson agrees with me.
I'm afraid Doctor Patterson is humouring you.
I, on the other hand, would rather be honest.
Reputations can be ruined very quickly.
You need to come to your senses before this snowballs into something even I can't smooth over.
(SOMBRE MUSIC) (SIGHS) (SIGHS) (CHILLING MUSIC) You're a patronising ass.
- Excuse me? - You think I'm crazy.
- What? - Matron told me.
That is not what I said.
I spoke to Doctor Roberts and I put a call in to the Medical Examiner's office.
- Why? - To make sure.
What of? That there is no other reason rubella antibodies would be present.
- You really don't believe me? - It is not about belief.
It is about the facts.
All right.
What do you think? Want to look nice for the wedding.
Are you listening to anything I am saying? She virtually threatened me.
- Us.
- This one for Ed? I don't want to lose my job, Simon, but what if there was a mix-up with Joan? Shouldn't she know about the file? Simon, why aren't you worried about this? Because I'm just sick to death of Matron holding this over our heads.
I'm not going to let her do it anymore.
What are you gonna do? Something I should have done ages ago.
Maybe you should tell Joan about the missing file.
- Didn't think you'd come out.
- I'm not angry with you.
Debbie.
I should have asked you about Queensland.
Yes, you should have.
I don't care where we live.
Wherever you want to go.
People say it's beautiful.
Paradise.
Okay.
I want to live in paradise.
Yeah? - You see the stitching? - No one will know.
(LIGHT, HOPEFUL MUSIC) It's beautiful.
(MUSIC TURNS CHILLING) Thanks for meeting me.
I wanted to say goodbye.
You leaving already? - Off to Adelaide.
- Seeing the family.
Yeah.
Sort of.
You've got that serious look again.
As a nurse, have you ever experienced a baby being swapped? As in being given to the wrong mother? No.
Never.
Hey, what's going on? I don't know.
It doesn't matter.
So, will I get to see you when you're back? Um Maybe not.
Um I'm getting married.
That's why I'm going to Adelaide.
I'm sorry.
I should have told you.
We made a pact to get married if we don't find anyone else by the time the war is over.
- Do you remember that? - I found someone else.
And I think you did, too.
So If I were you I'd get a wriggle on.
Don't want to lose all us good ones.
(WATER RUNNING IN THE SHOWER) Since when do we shower in the middle of the day? (HAUNTING MUSIC) - Deborah! - Leave me alone.
Oh! What have you done? (SOBS) Please! Oh, dear girl.
- What's wrong with me? - It's all right.
It's all right.
I missed my exam.
It doesn't matter.
But you do.
(SOBS) - It's all right.
- I'm sorry.
(MELANCHOLY MUSIC) Your life is still worth the bother.
I promise you.
I wasn't trying to end it.
I just You can tell me.
When I met Alan I thought, someone finally loves me, cares that I even exist.
Harming yourself is never a solution.
I'm going to arrange a special dispensation for you to re-sit the exams you've missed.
You have a lot more to offer than you give yourself credit for, Deborah.
(GENTLE GUITAR PICKING) (BELL OVER DOOR RINGS) (SIGHS) Mate, you don't have to watch me get shaved.
Oh! No worries.
Hey, thanks again for the suit.
It's a it's a ripper.
Oh, you've gotta look good for your big day.
Hey, Ed.
I've got something to tell you, mate.
It was me that ran into you that night, with my car.
- Yeah, I know.
- You do? Bits of it came back at the hospital and I put it together.
And you never said anything.
Oh, there's no point in dragging it up.
And you saved my life.
- So, are we good? - Yeah.
Yeah, good.
- Joan.
Joan? - I'm not interested.
- Stop it.
- I have done everything I can.
I've tested the other mothers.
None of them had rubella.
I don't know what to think anymore.
I've had another look at the autopsy reports and your bloods, and something really isn't right.
- Joan - Not now, Martha.
There is a missing file.
One of the June long weekend ones.
Whose is it? I don't know but I've looked everywhere and I can't seem to find it.
(BABY GURGLING) - Greta.
- What? Greta.
We had our babies at the same time.
She came in.
Her baby had colic.
And I held her.
Oh, my god! I held my baby.
Greta what? What's her last name? It wasn't in the file.
I I Yeah.
Are you sure? Yes.
Yes.
I think so.
We'll check again, okay? ("WHEN YOU WALK IN THE ROOM" BY JACKIE DESHANNON, PLAYS) I can feel a new expression on my face I can feel a glowing sensation taking place I can hear the guitars playing lovely tunes Every time that you walk in the room I close my eyes for a second and pretend it's me you want Whoo-hoo! Meanwhile I'd try to act so nonchalant I feel a summer's night with a magic moon Every time that you walk in the room Baby it's a dream come true standing right alongside of you Wish I could show you how much I care But I only have the nerve to stare I can feel a something pounding in my brain Just any time that someone speaks your name Trumpets sound I hear thunder boom Every time that you walk in the room Every time that you ED: No! Hey! - (THUMP) - Eugh! Walk in the room Every time that you (SLAM) (ELENA PRAYS IN HER MIND, IN ITALIAN) (QUIET MUSIC) (SOUND OF SEWING MACHINES) (FORLORN MUSIC) (WEEPS) Doctor Millar.
Doctor Patterson.
I have reason to believe that on the night my baby was born there was a mix-up and my baby was swapped for another.
- That's a very serious allegation.
- And not one I make lightly.
I want to find my baby and I want the Board to support my investigation.
Well, I assume you have evidence.
Blood tests suggest that Joan may not have been Laura's mother.
There is also a missing file for a woman named Greta.
She had her baby the same night I did.
Are you accusing the hospital of some sort of cover-up? I just want to find my baby.
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC) (KNOCKS AT THE DOOR) Yes? (EXHALES SHARPLY) We have a problem.
(DRAMATIC MUSIC) I know this is going to sound crazy.
I think Amy is my daughter.
There was a mix up.
But I can't help fallin' for you In the emotional season finale.
Yeah, I can't help fallin' for you Will Joan get her baby back? I've got no choice.
If you try and snatch that baby, you will be locked up.
The must see conclusion.
You knew about the baby swap.
That is criminal.
Prove it.
You knew a mistake had been made and you covered it up.