1 00:01:38,992 --> 00:01:40,742 Mama. 2 00:01:57,885 --> 00:02:00,051 How does this story begin? 3 00:02:03,222 --> 00:02:07,558 It begins like so many stories 4 00:02:08,603 --> 00:02:10,520 With a boy... 5 00:02:11,306 --> 00:02:14,732 too old to be a kid... 6 00:02:15,773 --> 00:02:19,777 too young to be a man. 7 00:02:24,015 --> 00:02:27,412 And a nightmare. 8 00:05:23,520 --> 00:05:26,454 It has two fundamental constants: 9 00:05:26,487 --> 00:05:30,201 E, the base of the natural logarithm system. 10 00:05:30,370 --> 00:05:33,769 It is a number. It is a number that emerges from our scheme. 11 00:05:33,919 --> 00:05:39,626 What is the mathematical function or thing which describes things... 12 00:05:39,794 --> 00:05:45,820 By the rate which they change is proportional to their magnitude? 13 00:05:46,332 --> 00:05:52,305 If you do that mathematically, it will give you this fundamental constant. 14 00:05:54,431 --> 00:05:56,934 Conor? 15 00:05:57,975 --> 00:06:00,521 You all right there, Conor? 16 00:06:00,685 --> 00:06:02,355 You look tired. 17 00:06:02,523 --> 00:06:04,392 Are you getting enough rest? 18 00:06:05,726 --> 00:06:06,988 Yeah, I'm fine. 19 00:06:07,496 --> 00:06:10,388 Because you know if you ever want to talk... 20 00:06:10,588 --> 00:06:12,280 I'm fine. 21 00:06:12,448 --> 00:06:14,281 Okay. 22 00:06:16,367 --> 00:06:19,162 Everyone, eyes front. 23 00:06:19,330 --> 00:06:23,621 Pi is the ratio of the conference, and when it all... 24 00:06:23,777 --> 00:06:25,925 Careful, O'Malley. You might fall. 25 00:06:26,082 --> 00:06:28,292 Are you drunk or something? 26 00:06:28,441 --> 00:06:31,597 Get his ass slapped so his mummy can kiss it for him. 27 00:06:34,383 --> 00:06:38,055 You're always off in your own little dream world. 28 00:06:38,219 --> 00:06:41,766 And what's there? So interesting? 29 00:06:44,016 --> 00:06:46,979 Get up. 30 00:06:49,121 --> 00:06:53,777 You've been a good boy. Remember, O'Malley. 31 00:06:53,945 --> 00:06:56,948 Good boys don't talk. 32 00:07:22,437 --> 00:07:25,230 - Hey, Con. - Hey, mum. 33 00:07:28,941 --> 00:07:32,028 - What is that? - It's a surprise. 34 00:07:32,393 --> 00:07:36,658 - So this is a VCR? - This is much better than a VCR. 35 00:07:36,693 --> 00:07:39,546 It's your grandpa's old film projector. 36 00:07:39,919 --> 00:07:42,874 - There we go. - I wish you could have known him. 37 00:07:42,954 --> 00:07:44,187 Who? 38 00:07:44,709 --> 00:07:46,574 Grandpa. 39 00:07:47,426 --> 00:07:49,975 Even grandma was softened up around him. 40 00:07:50,077 --> 00:07:51,998 Yeah, all right. 41 00:07:53,155 --> 00:07:54,617 Here we go. 42 00:08:09,430 --> 00:08:11,848 What a bunch of assholes. 43 00:08:12,016 --> 00:08:14,375 Why are they trying to kill King Kong? 44 00:08:15,928 --> 00:08:19,355 People don't like what they do not understand. 45 00:08:21,055 --> 00:08:23,166 They get scared. 46 00:08:24,768 --> 00:08:27,602 King Kong could've just smashed them all... 47 00:08:28,071 --> 00:08:31,321 break them into a million pieces. 48 00:10:24,176 --> 00:10:27,178 Conor. 49 00:10:33,184 --> 00:10:35,602 Mum? 50 00:13:59,942 --> 00:14:04,393 I have come to get you, Conor O'Malley. 51 00:14:12,108 --> 00:14:14,925 Why don't you run, Conor O'Malley? 52 00:14:14,993 --> 00:14:17,327 Why don't you run for your mother? 53 00:14:20,350 --> 00:14:23,641 You leave her alone. I'm not afraid of you. 54 00:14:39,467 --> 00:14:42,842 I will visit you again on further nights, Conor O'Malley... 55 00:14:43,011 --> 00:14:45,937 and I will shake your walls until you wake. 56 00:14:46,012 --> 00:14:49,666 And then I will tell you three stories. 57 00:14:50,966 --> 00:14:53,235 You're going to tell me stories? 58 00:14:54,004 --> 00:14:58,031 I am. I will tell you three stories. 59 00:14:58,108 --> 00:15:03,185 And when I've finished my stories, you will tell me a fourth. 60 00:15:03,275 --> 00:15:04,998 I don't know anything about stories. 61 00:15:05,084 --> 00:15:07,861 You will tell me a fourth and it will be the truth. 62 00:15:08,040 --> 00:15:11,190 - What are you talking about? - This truth that you hide. 63 00:15:11,297 --> 00:15:13,631 The truth you dream. 64 00:15:13,671 --> 00:15:15,852 - You will tell me your nightmare. - No. 65 00:15:16,003 --> 00:15:18,735 Yes. That will be your truth. 66 00:15:18,903 --> 00:15:21,069 And if I don't? 67 00:15:48,009 --> 00:15:52,433 Oh, Con, I was asleep. 68 00:15:57,810 --> 00:16:01,021 You should be in your own bed, Con. 69 00:16:01,689 --> 00:16:03,651 Five minutes. 70 00:16:03,815 --> 00:16:07,110 - That is not true. - Yes it is. 71 00:16:07,278 --> 00:16:13,032 - Come on, Con. - Just five minutes. I promise. 72 00:16:16,203 --> 00:16:18,957 Five minutes. 73 00:16:24,334 --> 00:16:26,920 Night night. 74 00:17:42,989 --> 00:17:45,491 I respect that, Lizzie, I do. 75 00:17:45,660 --> 00:17:48,947 But the last thing your father would want would be for him to go to America... 76 00:17:49,007 --> 00:17:52,196 to live with some strange woman and her strange child. 77 00:17:52,396 --> 00:17:54,584 We have to discuss this now. 78 00:17:54,752 --> 00:17:57,836 - Hey, Con. - Ah, there's the little man. 79 00:17:57,911 --> 00:18:01,674 - Where did you say you got these? - From a very nice old people's home. 80 00:18:01,838 --> 00:18:05,133 They're clearing it out to make flats and I will be the agent. 81 00:18:05,301 --> 00:18:07,012 Your mother needs a cup of tea. 82 00:18:07,190 --> 00:18:09,751 Green, no sugar. I take mine black. 83 00:18:09,897 --> 00:18:11,331 What do you think, Con? 84 00:18:11,924 --> 00:18:13,296 He loves it. 85 00:18:13,341 --> 00:18:14,728 - Go on. - Okay. 86 00:18:15,895 --> 00:18:18,464 Go on. Try something else. 87 00:18:20,216 --> 00:18:23,723 - I'm only doing this for you. - I do not have this conversation now. 88 00:18:23,891 --> 00:18:26,352 I understand that, but you can not go on like this, Lizzie. 89 00:18:26,520 --> 00:18:28,857 - You have to take some decisions. - I'm not doing that. 90 00:18:38,752 --> 00:18:43,221 Go help Conor with the tea, or I'm literally going insane. 91 00:18:48,062 --> 00:18:51,529 - You and I need to have a talk. - I'm making tea. 92 00:18:51,693 --> 00:18:55,954 - I said I'm making tea. - We need to... 93 00:18:56,118 --> 00:18:58,667 I'm not the enemy, Conor. I'm here to help your mother. 94 00:18:58,831 --> 00:19:00,963 - I know why you're here. - I'm here because... 95 00:19:01,128 --> 00:19:05,096 12 year old boys shouldn't be wiping down counters without being asked to first. 96 00:19:05,264 --> 00:19:08,851 - You want to do it? - Less of your cheek. 97 00:19:09,019 --> 00:19:11,362 She is always sick after her treatments. 98 00:19:11,562 --> 00:19:13,905 She'll be better tomorrow, and then you can go home. 99 00:19:14,073 --> 00:19:18,498 She'll seem better tomorrow. She needs to talk about this with you. 100 00:19:18,662 --> 00:19:19,916 Talk to me about what? 101 00:19:22,129 --> 00:19:25,758 - About you're coming to live with me. - I will never come to live with you... 102 00:19:25,916 --> 00:19:29,267 - Listen to me, Conor, if your mother... - There is no if. 103 00:19:29,435 --> 00:19:33,527 She'll be better and then you can go. 104 00:19:34,613 --> 00:19:37,198 Oh, Lizzie? Lizzie! 105 00:19:37,366 --> 00:19:39,831 My God. Hold on, hold on. 106 00:19:39,996 --> 00:19:43,418 Where's the medicine? Conor! 107 00:19:43,587 --> 00:19:44,841 Conor! 108 00:19:45,005 --> 00:19:47,847 I'm here, I'm here. Take a deep breath. 109 00:19:47,893 --> 00:19:52,017 Conor please. Please, give me the medicine. Hurry. 110 00:19:54,321 --> 00:19:55,506 It's coming. 111 00:19:57,788 --> 00:20:00,208 Here you go, here you go. 112 00:20:03,674 --> 00:20:04,759 That's better. 113 00:20:04,925 --> 00:20:06,596 Deep breath. 114 00:20:08,138 --> 00:20:09,894 Deep breath. 115 00:20:11,396 --> 00:20:14,734 Deep breath. Deep breath. 116 00:20:16,530 --> 00:20:19,119 It is okay. 117 00:20:37,152 --> 00:20:38,937 Just don't touch anything. 118 00:20:39,137 --> 00:20:42,322 Trust me, I'll be doing my very best not to. 119 00:20:44,834 --> 00:20:47,840 Our conversation isn't over, young man. 120 00:20:52,718 --> 00:20:54,272 Oh yes it is. 121 00:21:19,689 --> 00:21:22,111 Mum. 122 00:22:30,945 --> 00:22:33,233 What took you so long? 123 00:22:33,767 --> 00:22:36,297 It is time for me to tell you the first tale. 124 00:22:36,334 --> 00:22:39,961 I don't need a tale. I need a bus ticket for my grandma. 125 00:22:40,125 --> 00:22:42,214 It is time for me to tell you... 126 00:22:42,382 --> 00:22:45,219 Where do you think you are going? I will be listened to. 127 00:22:45,387 --> 00:22:47,207 I am as old as this land, and I will... 128 00:22:47,407 --> 00:22:49,227 What do you know about anything? 129 00:22:49,395 --> 00:22:52,581 I know everything about you, Conor O'Malley. 130 00:22:52,586 --> 00:22:55,153 No you don't. If you did... 131 00:22:55,267 --> 00:22:58,818 You know I don't have time to listen to stupid stories from a stupid tree... 132 00:22:58,819 --> 00:23:00,291 that is just a dream. 133 00:23:00,455 --> 00:23:04,299 A dream? What is a dream, Conor O'Malley? 134 00:23:04,463 --> 00:23:08,345 And who is to say that it is not everything else that is a dream? 135 00:23:08,514 --> 00:23:10,934 Never mind. 136 00:23:12,353 --> 00:23:14,779 I came to see you today, because I thought... 137 00:23:14,780 --> 00:23:19,324 You thought I might have come to topple your enemies, slay your dragons. 138 00:23:19,325 --> 00:23:21,293 Or at least help me with my grandmother. 139 00:23:21,493 --> 00:23:23,460 All you want to do is tell me stories. 140 00:23:23,560 --> 00:23:27,257 Stories about how I toppled my enemies. 141 00:23:27,425 --> 00:23:29,716 Stories of how I slew dragons. 142 00:23:29,885 --> 00:23:33,143 Let me tell you a tale of when I came walking. 143 00:23:33,307 --> 00:23:35,980 Let me tell you of the end of a wicked queen... 144 00:23:36,148 --> 00:23:41,406 and how I made sure she was never seen again. 145 00:23:46,123 --> 00:23:47,377 Go on then. 146 00:23:48,241 --> 00:23:49,784 Good. 147 00:24:21,147 --> 00:24:22,734 What do you see? 148 00:24:22,898 --> 00:24:25,155 Nothing. There are leafs in the way. 149 00:24:25,319 --> 00:24:28,826 Use your imagination, Conor O'Malley. 150 00:24:28,994 --> 00:24:30,497 Now, what do you see? 151 00:24:34,588 --> 00:24:37,425 - I see a spark. - Yes. And? 152 00:24:37,593 --> 00:24:41,100 No, it's water. It is watercolor. 153 00:24:41,269 --> 00:24:43,007 Keep looking. 154 00:24:45,524 --> 00:24:47,612 - Wow. - Wow, indeed. 155 00:24:47,781 --> 00:24:52,661 Long ago, before this was a town with roads and trains and cars... 156 00:24:52,830 --> 00:24:54,971 - this was a kingdom. - Here? 157 00:24:55,071 --> 00:24:56,686 We don't even have a Tesco. 158 00:24:57,923 --> 00:25:00,427 It was a prosperous kingdom with a wise king... 159 00:25:00,596 --> 00:25:02,680 With one peace for his people... 160 00:25:02,848 --> 00:25:06,106 but peace had come at a price. 161 00:25:06,271 --> 00:25:09,777 The king had lost all three of his sons in battle... 162 00:25:09,946 --> 00:25:11,876 to giants... 163 00:25:13,796 --> 00:25:15,481 to dragons... 164 00:25:16,958 --> 00:25:19,879 to armies of men led by great wizards. 165 00:25:20,047 --> 00:25:21,952 This all sounds pretty fairytalish. 166 00:25:22,116 --> 00:25:26,191 You wouldn't say that if you heard the screams of a man through by a spear. 167 00:25:31,400 --> 00:25:36,160 The queen wasn't able to bear the loss of all their three sons... 168 00:25:38,165 --> 00:25:39,994 Leaving the king alone in despair, 169 00:25:40,194 --> 00:25:43,423 with the company of his only remaining heir... 170 00:25:43,591 --> 00:25:46,179 his orphaned grandson. 171 00:25:52,231 --> 00:25:54,065 The child was raised as a prince... 172 00:25:54,234 --> 00:25:57,989 winning the love of the kingdom with his scaventry and good heart. 173 00:26:04,501 --> 00:26:07,968 His people loved him. 174 00:26:08,136 --> 00:26:09,802 Our future king. 175 00:26:13,646 --> 00:26:18,656 He was nearly a man when his grandfather took a new wife. 176 00:26:22,662 --> 00:26:25,668 The king felt ill and rumor began to spread... 177 00:26:25,832 --> 00:26:27,756 that she was an evil witch... 178 00:26:27,920 --> 00:26:33,345 That she was bent on taking the throne by herself by poisoning the king. 179 00:26:36,852 --> 00:26:40,696 A few weeks later the king died. 180 00:26:46,291 --> 00:26:49,796 The prince was too young to take the king's place... 181 00:26:49,961 --> 00:26:55,887 So, by law, the queen would rule for another year. 182 00:26:59,895 --> 00:27:02,567 The future was uncertain. 183 00:27:14,421 --> 00:27:18,849 The prince meanwhile had given away his heart. 184 00:27:19,013 --> 00:27:23,358 She was beautiful and smart, and though only a farmer's daughter... 185 00:27:23,523 --> 00:27:26,736 the kingdom smiled on the match. 186 00:27:30,326 --> 00:27:34,587 The queen however, was rather enjoying being queen. 187 00:27:34,751 --> 00:27:38,927 And what better way to remain so, than to marry the prince herself? 188 00:27:39,095 --> 00:27:41,098 What? That's disgusting. 189 00:27:41,263 --> 00:27:43,768 - She was his grandmother. - Stepgrandmother... 190 00:27:43,936 --> 00:27:47,526 and still a young, beautiful woman herself, don't forget. 191 00:27:47,691 --> 00:27:50,532 The prince, however, didn't like the idea. 192 00:27:55,541 --> 00:27:59,548 He took the famer's daughter, and they rode away into the night. 193 00:28:02,470 --> 00:28:05,724 They stopped to rest under the branches of a yew tree. 194 00:28:05,892 --> 00:28:08,396 That's you. 195 00:28:08,565 --> 00:28:11,735 The next morning the Prince awoke. 196 00:28:11,903 --> 00:28:15,077 "Arise, my beloved" he said. 197 00:28:15,241 --> 00:28:19,000 But the farmer's daughter did not steer... 198 00:28:20,602 --> 00:28:23,417 Which was when the prince noticed the blood. 199 00:28:23,457 --> 00:28:24,636 Blood? 200 00:28:24,836 --> 00:28:27,015 Someone had killed his beloved in the night. 201 00:28:27,019 --> 00:28:28,188 What? 202 00:28:29,352 --> 00:28:31,523 "The Queen" he cried. 203 00:28:31,692 --> 00:28:35,198 "The queen has murdered my bride." 204 00:28:35,362 --> 00:28:39,871 The villagers, full of fury and vengeance, rose up at the crime. 205 00:28:40,039 --> 00:28:43,129 It was then that I came walking. 206 00:29:06,642 --> 00:29:09,927 The queen was never seen again. 207 00:29:13,516 --> 00:29:15,350 Good. She deserved it. 208 00:29:16,274 --> 00:29:19,501 Now, I don't suppose you can help me with my grandma. 209 00:29:19,846 --> 00:29:22,117 The story is not yet finished. 210 00:29:22,870 --> 00:29:25,694 I took the queen and carried her far enough away 211 00:29:25,894 --> 00:29:28,778 so that the townspeople would never find her... 212 00:29:28,890 --> 00:29:32,686 to a village by the sea, where she began a new life. 213 00:29:33,291 --> 00:29:35,092 But she killed the farmer's daughter. 214 00:29:35,517 --> 00:29:37,756 How can you save a murderer? 215 00:29:38,647 --> 00:29:39,898 You really are a monster. 216 00:29:39,967 --> 00:29:42,521 I never said she killed famer's daughter. 217 00:29:42,771 --> 00:29:46,389 I only said that the prince said it was so. 218 00:29:47,038 --> 00:29:49,835 The prince never fell asleep that night... 219 00:29:50,788 --> 00:29:54,336 but waited for the farmer's daughter to be lost in her dreams... 220 00:29:54,853 --> 00:29:57,808 and then began his real plan. 221 00:29:58,807 --> 00:30:00,272 What? 222 00:30:01,437 --> 00:30:06,698 He knew her death would start a fire that would consume the queen entire. 223 00:30:11,455 --> 00:30:13,883 That's a terrible story. And a cheat. 224 00:30:14,036 --> 00:30:15,639 It's a true story. 225 00:30:15,640 --> 00:30:18,355 Many things that are true feel like a cheat. 226 00:30:18,676 --> 00:30:20,999 Kingdoms get their princes they deserve. 227 00:30:21,209 --> 00:30:23,522 Farmers' daughters die for no reason. 228 00:30:23,764 --> 00:30:26,659 And sometimes witches merit saving. 229 00:30:27,444 --> 00:30:30,273 Quite often, actually. You'd be surprised. 230 00:30:32,661 --> 00:30:37,591 So the good prince was a murderer and the evil queen was no witch after all? 231 00:30:37,672 --> 00:30:41,431 No, the queen was most certainly a witch... 232 00:30:41,595 --> 00:30:44,908 and could well have been on her way to great evil. 233 00:30:45,017 --> 00:30:46,578 Who can say? 234 00:30:46,652 --> 00:30:48,210 Then why did you save her then? 235 00:30:48,272 --> 00:30:52,200 Because what she was not, was a murderer. 236 00:30:54,280 --> 00:30:56,238 She hadn't poisoned the king. 237 00:30:56,623 --> 00:30:59,553 He had merely grown old. 238 00:31:00,798 --> 00:31:02,562 Did the prince ever get caught? 239 00:31:02,734 --> 00:31:05,688 No. He became a much beloved king... 240 00:31:06,381 --> 00:31:10,233 who ruled happily until the end of his long days. 241 00:31:10,323 --> 00:31:11,780 Oh yes. 242 00:31:12,425 --> 00:31:13,710 I don't get it. 243 00:31:14,361 --> 00:31:15,571 Who is the good guy here? 244 00:31:15,651 --> 00:31:18,584 There is not always a good guy, Conor O'Malley... 245 00:31:18,622 --> 00:31:20,711 nor is there always a bad one. 246 00:31:20,736 --> 00:31:23,251 Most people are somewhere in between. 247 00:31:25,066 --> 00:31:27,872 So how is this all meant to save me from grandma? 248 00:31:29,499 --> 00:31:32,759 It is not her you need saving from. 249 00:31:52,695 --> 00:31:54,531 There are always two sides to a story. 250 00:31:54,699 --> 00:31:56,370 Now, how many of you know the saying: 251 00:31:56,535 --> 00:32:02,044 "Stick and stones may break my bones, but words can never touch me?" 252 00:32:03,412 --> 00:32:05,877 That way the next time someone says something to you just remember... 253 00:32:31,503 --> 00:32:33,270 Good, you're home. 254 00:32:34,301 --> 00:32:36,598 Your mum's upstairs. She wants to talk to you. 255 00:32:36,635 --> 00:32:39,995 - What? - Your father's flying in on Sunday. 256 00:32:40,522 --> 00:32:42,612 Dad's coming? From America? 257 00:32:43,318 --> 00:32:44,989 Go on. 258 00:32:45,157 --> 00:32:46,868 She's waiting. 259 00:32:47,034 --> 00:32:48,099 And pack your bag. 260 00:32:48,299 --> 00:32:50,962 You're coming to stay with me for a few days. 261 00:32:52,295 --> 00:32:54,382 Go on. 262 00:33:07,538 --> 00:33:09,534 That tree is amazing. 263 00:33:10,953 --> 00:33:13,078 It's been here for thousands of years. 264 00:33:16,086 --> 00:33:17,251 What do you think? 265 00:33:18,441 --> 00:33:21,112 I think Grandma is trying to turn me into Tina Turner. 266 00:33:22,735 --> 00:33:24,038 She must be a fan. 267 00:33:29,110 --> 00:33:30,989 Why am I going to stay with grandma? 268 00:33:35,194 --> 00:33:36,761 Are you goig back to the hospital? 269 00:33:38,171 --> 00:33:41,132 Come here, Con. 270 00:33:45,476 --> 00:33:48,897 This lastest treatment is not doing what it's supposed to. 271 00:33:50,569 --> 00:33:52,325 So they're going to adjust it... 272 00:33:53,206 --> 00:33:54,542 try something else. 273 00:33:57,206 --> 00:33:59,097 - That's all? - That's all. 274 00:34:00,296 --> 00:34:01,819 Are you sure? 275 00:34:04,936 --> 00:34:06,475 I'm sure. 276 00:34:08,075 --> 00:34:09,646 Because... 277 00:34:10,409 --> 00:34:12,026 you can tell me, you know. 278 00:34:34,129 --> 00:34:35,986 Everything will be fine, Conor. 279 00:34:37,865 --> 00:34:39,259 You'll see. 280 00:35:26,107 --> 00:35:27,988 Wait up, Conor. Where are you going? 281 00:35:29,751 --> 00:35:31,787 - Don't touch him. - "Don't touch him?" 282 00:35:31,873 --> 00:35:35,013 - With a punch to the face? - I said don't touch him. 283 00:35:37,053 --> 00:35:39,165 O'Malley and I have an understanding. 284 00:35:40,345 --> 00:35:42,233 I'm the only one who touches him. 285 00:35:43,401 --> 00:35:44,676 Isn't that right? 286 00:35:45,653 --> 00:35:46,778 Now tell me. 287 00:35:48,325 --> 00:35:52,849 Why is it that every time I turn around, you're there looking at me? 288 00:35:53,332 --> 00:35:56,977 Getting a bit odd, don't you think? 289 00:36:00,389 --> 00:36:01,731 Sorry, that was a bit harsh. 290 00:36:01,852 --> 00:36:03,828 Life isn't really going your way today, are they. 291 00:36:04,687 --> 00:36:06,860 You picked the wrong spot. 292 00:36:23,683 --> 00:36:25,341 I have a house to show. 293 00:36:25,745 --> 00:36:28,863 I trust you alone here till your father shows up. 294 00:36:29,063 --> 00:36:30,882 I'm not five years old. 295 00:36:32,878 --> 00:36:34,493 This is the correct time. 296 00:36:34,688 --> 00:36:37,866 Not the one on your phone or on the computer, 297 00:36:38,066 --> 00:36:39,655 not even on the news. 298 00:36:40,119 --> 00:36:43,110 That was my mother's, your great grandmother's. 299 00:36:43,196 --> 00:36:46,036 Perfect timekeeping for over a hundred years. 300 00:36:46,803 --> 00:36:49,037 Conor! Pack up your rucksack. 301 00:36:51,050 --> 00:36:54,572 I don't want your father to think that I'm keeping you in a pigsty. 302 00:36:55,074 --> 00:36:56,546 - Not much of that. - No. 303 00:36:57,633 --> 00:37:00,151 When you go to the hospital, your father may 304 00:37:00,351 --> 00:37:02,811 not notice how tired you mother's becoming. 305 00:37:02,993 --> 00:37:06,174 So we have to make sure he does not overstay his welcome. 306 00:37:06,573 --> 00:37:08,883 Not that that's been a historically problem. 307 00:37:09,685 --> 00:37:12,591 No eggs. You already had eggs twice this week. 308 00:37:12,885 --> 00:37:14,307 If you are getting hungry, 309 00:37:14,507 --> 00:37:16,967 there is spinach in the fridge you can steam. 310 00:37:17,098 --> 00:37:19,032 Yeah, sure. 311 00:37:19,201 --> 00:37:20,587 Don't touch anything. 312 00:37:23,124 --> 00:37:26,591 I will do my very best not to. 313 00:38:00,768 --> 00:38:02,268 Get it. 314 00:39:35,600 --> 00:39:36,892 Dad. 315 00:39:57,140 --> 00:39:59,392 Oh. 316 00:40:15,404 --> 00:40:17,224 How are you doing, Con? You look tired. 317 00:40:17,392 --> 00:40:18,516 I'm fine. 318 00:40:18,684 --> 00:40:21,516 Mum's on this new medicine. And it will make her better. 319 00:40:21,684 --> 00:40:24,560 She goes to the hospital every two weeks... 320 00:40:24,724 --> 00:40:29,600 and they pump the medicine into her bloodstream. 321 00:40:29,768 --> 00:40:33,532 She's sick for the next few days, but she's better again. 322 00:40:40,516 --> 00:40:45,176 - Your sister is doing better. - Half sister. 323 00:40:46,140 --> 00:40:47,308 Yeah. 324 00:40:47,476 --> 00:40:49,392 I'd still love you to meet her. 325 00:40:50,848 --> 00:40:53,892 I've been talking with your grandmother about bringing you out to LA. 326 00:40:54,766 --> 00:40:57,616 - You want me to come to LA? - Yeah absolutely. 327 00:40:57,684 --> 00:41:00,046 - You'd like that wouldn't you? - Yeah. 328 00:41:00,100 --> 00:41:01,254 We were thinking over Christmas, 329 00:41:01,454 --> 00:41:03,184 that way you can be back here in time for school. 330 00:41:05,448 --> 00:41:07,204 So you mean just for a visit then? 331 00:41:07,404 --> 00:41:09,057 Yeah, but it would be great. 332 00:41:09,989 --> 00:41:11,883 I don't want to live with grandma. 333 00:41:12,083 --> 00:41:14,756 It's an old lady's house with old ladies' things. 334 00:41:14,816 --> 00:41:16,667 Can't touch anything or sit anywhere. 335 00:41:16,867 --> 00:41:18,868 Can't even leave a mess for two seconds. 336 00:41:18,932 --> 00:41:19,894 Conor, I know, but... 337 00:41:20,094 --> 00:41:23,113 I want to have my own room in my my own house with my own things. 338 00:41:23,213 --> 00:41:24,320 Well, you wouldn't have that in America, Conor. 339 00:41:24,520 --> 00:41:25,700 There is barely enough room for the three of us. 340 00:41:25,768 --> 00:41:27,308 - I do not care. - Conor listen... 341 00:41:27,476 --> 00:41:30,060 - She's so strict. - Your family, your life, your friends... 342 00:41:30,224 --> 00:41:33,932 - Her house is like a museum. - Your school, all of it is here, okay? 343 00:41:34,100 --> 00:41:35,739 It would be unfair to take you out of here. 344 00:41:35,939 --> 00:41:36,992 Unfair to whom? Conor. 345 00:41:49,348 --> 00:41:52,184 Doesn't look like your grandmother's home yet. 346 00:41:52,348 --> 00:41:56,348 She sometimes goes back to the hospital after I go to bed. 347 00:41:56,516 --> 00:41:59,016 The nurses let her sleep in a chair. 348 00:41:59,184 --> 00:42:00,727 Hey, just because your grandmother 349 00:42:00,927 --> 00:42:03,060 doesn't like me, doesn't make her a bad person. 350 00:42:03,224 --> 00:42:05,100 She says you're all start and no finish. 351 00:42:07,600 --> 00:42:10,600 Well, she entitled to her own opinion. 352 00:42:12,100 --> 00:42:13,932 How long are you here for? 353 00:42:14,100 --> 00:42:16,768 As long as I can be. 354 00:42:16,932 --> 00:42:18,600 What does that mean? 355 00:42:19,268 --> 00:42:23,392 We don't have a lot of money and Americans don't get a lot of holiday. 356 00:42:23,460 --> 00:42:26,173 - You're not an American. - No, but I live there now. 357 00:42:27,600 --> 00:42:29,272 I'll come back whenever I need to. 358 00:42:29,472 --> 00:42:31,684 And you're going to come to LA for Christmas. 359 00:42:31,848 --> 00:42:33,932 God no, not in your cramped house where there is no room for me. 360 00:42:38,100 --> 00:42:39,620 Why did you come? 361 00:42:46,100 --> 00:42:48,724 Conor wait. 362 00:42:52,516 --> 00:42:54,724 Conor, I'll see you tomorrow, yeah? 363 00:42:54,892 --> 00:42:57,124 There's still loads of time. 364 00:44:45,348 --> 00:44:48,848 As destruction goes, that was remarkably pitiful. 365 00:44:50,640 --> 00:44:53,060 Now, I've come to tell you the second tale. 366 00:44:53,224 --> 00:44:54,768 Is it as bad as the last one? 367 00:44:54,932 --> 00:44:58,932 It ends with proper destruction, if that's what you mean. 368 00:44:59,100 --> 00:45:02,060 It's about a man who thought only of himself... 369 00:45:02,224 --> 00:45:04,932 a man who wasn't as generous as he should have been. 370 00:45:05,100 --> 00:45:07,932 A man who gets punished very badly indeed. 371 00:45:08,100 --> 00:45:10,100 Stories aren't real though. 372 00:45:10,268 --> 00:45:11,600 They don't help anything. 373 00:45:11,768 --> 00:45:14,348 Stories are wild creatures, Conor O'Malley. 374 00:45:14,516 --> 00:45:15,686 When you let them lose, 375 00:45:15,886 --> 00:45:17,768 who knows what havoc they might reek? 376 00:45:17,932 --> 00:45:19,516 Oh yes. 377 00:45:21,560 --> 00:45:23,724 Okay. 378 00:45:23,892 --> 00:45:25,648 Go on then. 379 00:45:26,516 --> 00:45:28,048 Good. 380 00:46:06,687 --> 00:46:08,472 150 years ago... 381 00:46:09,068 --> 00:46:10,870 The future came. 382 00:46:12,136 --> 00:46:14,790 Factories grew like weeds. 383 00:46:16,471 --> 00:46:18,978 trees fell, rivers blackened... 384 00:46:19,013 --> 00:46:21,928 and the sky choked on smoke and ash. 385 00:46:23,875 --> 00:46:27,377 But there was still green if you knew where to look. 386 00:46:28,368 --> 00:46:31,414 On the edge of this town lived a stubborn man. 387 00:46:32,493 --> 00:46:34,316 Who refused to change. 388 00:46:36,200 --> 00:46:39,032 He daunted on the old ways of medicine... 389 00:46:39,200 --> 00:46:43,616 herbs and barks and concoctions brewed from berries and leafs. 390 00:46:43,784 --> 00:46:47,240 Villagers ever only called him the apothecary. 391 00:46:47,408 --> 00:46:49,492 - The what? - The apothecary. 392 00:46:49,560 --> 00:46:51,769 An old-fashioned name for 'pharmacist'. 393 00:46:51,804 --> 00:46:54,024 Why didn't you just say? 394 00:46:59,818 --> 00:47:02,317 There was also a young parson in this village, 395 00:47:02,517 --> 00:47:04,516 an enligthned man and a kind one... 396 00:47:04,684 --> 00:47:08,516 who just wanted the very best for his congregation. 397 00:47:09,485 --> 00:47:12,659 He preached against the apothecary's use of the old ways... 398 00:47:12,694 --> 00:47:15,812 and the apothecary's foul temper and greed... 399 00:47:15,813 --> 00:47:19,848 made certain some of these sermons fell on eager ears. 400 00:47:25,140 --> 00:47:28,060 Much as he tried to keep on helping the community... 401 00:47:28,224 --> 00:47:34,060 his business sank which only made him grow bitter 402 00:47:36,848 --> 00:47:40,932 On the parsonage's ground there also lived a yew tree. 403 00:47:42,484 --> 00:47:43,970 That's the hill where you live. 404 00:47:44,005 --> 00:47:46,315 The yew tree is the most important of the healing trees. 405 00:47:46,515 --> 00:47:47,625 Why? 406 00:47:47,660 --> 00:47:52,100 Its berries, its bark, they brum and burn and twist with life. 407 00:47:52,268 --> 00:47:55,434 That can cure almost any ailment. 408 00:47:55,469 --> 00:47:56,947 Really? Anything? 409 00:47:56,982 --> 00:48:01,184 Anything that can be cured if mixed by the right apothecary. 410 00:48:09,184 --> 00:48:12,432 The apothecary wanted the yew tree very badly. 411 00:48:12,600 --> 00:48:16,392 But in order to harvest these things, he would have to cut it down. 412 00:48:16,560 --> 00:48:20,560 And this, the parson would not allow. 413 00:48:26,932 --> 00:48:30,383 The parson had two daughters who were the light of his life. 414 00:48:30,418 --> 00:48:34,848 He was a caring, loving father who would've done anything for their sake. 415 00:48:35,016 --> 00:48:40,268 But one day both little girls were struck by a terrible sickness... 416 00:48:41,115 --> 00:48:43,254 and nothing the parson did helped. 417 00:48:43,836 --> 00:48:47,999 No cure from the more modern doctors, no prayer, nothing. 418 00:48:56,593 --> 00:49:00,091 There was no choice but to approach the apothecary. 419 00:49:02,574 --> 00:49:05,308 "Will you not help my daughters?". The parson begged. 420 00:49:05,476 --> 00:49:09,060 "Will you not save two innocent girls?" 421 00:49:10,522 --> 00:49:13,060 "Why should I?". Said the apothecary. 422 00:49:13,224 --> 00:49:16,616 "You have driven away my business with your preachings... 423 00:49:16,651 --> 00:49:20,844 and you have refused me the yew tree, my best source of healing". 424 00:49:21,848 --> 00:49:24,700 "You may have the yew tree," said the parson. 425 00:49:24,735 --> 00:49:26,591 "I will preach sermons in your favour. 426 00:49:26,626 --> 00:49:29,892 I will do anything only you will save my daughters." 427 00:49:31,501 --> 00:49:35,099 "Would you give up everything you believe in?". Said the apothecary. 428 00:49:35,224 --> 00:49:38,932 "If it would save them, I would give up everything." 429 00:49:39,432 --> 00:49:42,939 "Then there's nothing I can do to help you." 430 00:50:07,216 --> 00:50:10,195 The very next day both of the parson's daughters died. 431 00:50:10,230 --> 00:50:14,193 - What? - And that night I came walking. 432 00:50:14,228 --> 00:50:17,476 Good. He deserves all the punishment he gets. 433 00:50:18,278 --> 00:50:21,379 Indeed. It was shortly after midnight... 434 00:50:21,414 --> 00:50:24,060 That I tore the house of the parson from its very foundations. 435 00:50:24,224 --> 00:50:27,091 The parson? What are you talking about? 436 00:50:27,126 --> 00:50:29,128 The apothecary is the evil one. 437 00:50:29,163 --> 00:50:33,016 He was greedy and rude, but he was still a healer. 438 00:50:33,184 --> 00:50:35,348 The parson, what was he? 439 00:50:38,910 --> 00:50:41,066 A man of faith without faith. 440 00:50:49,151 --> 00:50:50,803 Belief is half of all healing. 441 00:50:50,838 --> 00:50:54,408 Belief in the cure, belief in the future that awaits. 442 00:50:54,443 --> 00:50:57,258 Your belief is precious... 443 00:50:57,259 --> 00:51:03,014 so you must be careful where you put it and in whom. 444 00:51:04,888 --> 00:51:07,889 Tell me, Conor O'Malley, what shall I destroy next? 445 00:51:07,924 --> 00:51:10,923 - What? - It is most satisfying, I can assure you. 446 00:51:10,958 --> 00:51:14,060 Tell me. What should I destroy? 447 00:51:16,439 --> 00:51:18,195 Smack the chimney? 448 00:51:18,230 --> 00:51:19,308 The chimney. 449 00:51:21,294 --> 00:51:22,316 Next? 450 00:51:23,258 --> 00:51:24,328 Throw away their beds. 451 00:51:29,787 --> 00:51:31,082 Smash the furniture. 452 00:51:40,288 --> 00:51:41,560 Break the windows. 453 00:51:41,595 --> 00:51:43,348 Windows. 454 00:51:44,805 --> 00:51:46,768 Break them yourself. 455 00:51:50,076 --> 00:51:51,232 Come one. 456 00:52:02,424 --> 00:52:03,706 Harder, Conor O'Malley. 457 00:52:03,741 --> 00:52:05,524 Come on. Harder. 458 00:52:05,559 --> 00:52:06,775 That's it. 459 00:52:08,069 --> 00:52:09,368 Yes. 460 00:52:11,516 --> 00:52:12,932 Feels good doesn't it? 461 00:52:13,100 --> 00:52:14,324 Yeah. 462 00:54:04,224 --> 00:54:07,391 Grandma. 463 00:54:07,929 --> 00:54:09,555 Grandma. 464 00:54:10,655 --> 00:54:13,056 Grandma, please... 465 00:54:51,870 --> 00:54:54,250 Grandma. 466 00:55:54,719 --> 00:55:56,814 I heard you like them sunny side up. 467 00:55:56,909 --> 00:56:00,648 - What are you doing here? - What do you think? 468 00:56:04,710 --> 00:56:07,119 Your grandmother called very early this morning. 469 00:56:09,522 --> 00:56:11,348 She's gone to the hospital to see your mum. 470 00:56:11,548 --> 00:56:13,374 Your mum's had a bad turn, Con. 471 00:56:16,288 --> 00:56:18,474 I need to see her. 472 00:56:18,477 --> 00:56:20,292 We'll see what happens today, and maybe you can 473 00:56:20,492 --> 00:56:22,306 visit for a little while this afternoon. 474 00:56:28,589 --> 00:56:31,033 I can see how upset you are. 475 00:56:33,824 --> 00:56:37,341 I didn't mean to. I don't know what happened. 476 00:56:37,509 --> 00:56:41,639 - Worse things happen at sea. - What do you mean? 477 00:56:41,807 --> 00:56:43,669 Aren't you going to punish me? 478 00:56:43,672 --> 00:56:46,083 What could possibly be the point in that? 479 00:56:53,863 --> 00:56:57,968 I got to say champ, this is really just amazingly thorough. 480 00:57:04,044 --> 00:57:06,380 Oh, a buried treasure. 481 00:57:07,032 --> 00:57:09,561 These must be those home movies that your mother 482 00:57:09,761 --> 00:57:12,289 used to send when I first moved away. 483 00:57:12,292 --> 00:57:14,070 Why did you move away? 484 00:57:17,364 --> 00:57:19,460 We were young. 485 00:57:19,463 --> 00:57:22,525 Too young, you know? We had big dreams, and... 486 00:57:22,528 --> 00:57:25,840 - What kind of dreams? - Your mother wanted to go to art college. 487 00:57:29,301 --> 00:57:33,155 - Really? - Yeah. She didn't go, but she wanted to. 488 00:57:33,158 --> 00:57:34,526 What happened? 489 00:57:36,573 --> 00:57:38,475 Because mum got pregnant with me. 490 00:57:39,422 --> 00:57:42,697 Mum never regretted having you. You were only ever good news. 491 00:57:42,700 --> 00:57:47,194 And I know that for a fact, because the one thing she regretted was marrying me. 492 00:57:47,197 --> 00:57:50,814 - Why did she marry you then? - Because I'm handsome. 493 00:57:55,780 --> 00:58:00,787 Your mum was amazing. And she still is. And we were in love. 494 00:58:01,337 --> 00:58:04,946 I mean, I still love her. But you will see that... 495 00:58:07,481 --> 00:58:11,300 love isn't enough. It doesn't carry you through. 496 00:58:12,381 --> 00:58:15,292 So you didn't get happily ever after. 497 00:58:15,295 --> 00:58:17,788 No, but that's life, you know? 498 00:58:19,208 --> 00:58:24,580 Most of it just get messier after. And that's alright. 499 00:58:28,531 --> 00:58:31,661 Even I'm happy you turned out like her. 500 00:59:31,021 --> 00:59:33,824 You're telling what to do now? I can pull him in any direction. 501 00:59:34,024 --> 00:59:35,827 You can take him out of school then... 502 00:59:42,016 --> 00:59:43,422 Thank you. 503 00:59:47,174 --> 00:59:49,250 I'm looking for something to eat. You want something, kid? 504 00:59:49,450 --> 00:59:50,925 Stop calling me 'kid'. 505 00:59:51,536 --> 00:59:53,472 Fair enough. 506 00:59:57,767 --> 00:59:59,805 I'm sorry, Lizzie. 507 01:00:06,660 --> 01:00:08,819 Who was that man in a suit? 508 01:00:09,328 --> 01:00:11,498 Just... 509 01:00:11,666 --> 01:00:13,044 Nothing. 510 01:00:13,209 --> 01:00:15,990 - What happened this morning? - Nothing. 511 01:00:17,570 --> 01:00:19,385 It's fine. 512 01:00:23,098 --> 01:00:26,850 I had a bit of a bad reaction. 513 01:00:32,037 --> 01:00:34,142 There's one more thing they're going to try, 514 01:00:34,342 --> 01:00:36,446 and it's a medicine that's had some really good results. 515 01:00:36,449 --> 01:00:38,672 Why didn't they try it in the first place? 516 01:00:38,675 --> 01:00:41,050 Because this is something you take when the other 517 01:00:41,250 --> 01:00:43,624 stuff hasn't worked the way they wanted it to. 518 01:00:46,055 --> 01:00:47,568 Does that mean it's too late? 519 01:00:47,768 --> 01:00:49,881 No of course it doesn't mean it's too late. 520 01:00:50,049 --> 01:00:51,660 Are you sure? 521 01:00:52,805 --> 01:00:55,593 I believe every word I say. 522 01:00:58,994 --> 01:01:01,502 Belief is half of all healing. 523 01:01:04,399 --> 01:01:09,032 Belief in the cure, belief in the future that awaits. 524 01:01:10,961 --> 01:01:12,095 Yeah. 525 01:01:15,458 --> 01:01:18,611 And you know that tree I'm always going on about? 526 01:01:18,614 --> 01:01:20,077 Yeah. 527 01:01:20,277 --> 01:01:23,939 Well, this drug is made from trees like that. 528 01:01:24,009 --> 01:01:25,427 - It is? - Yeah. 529 01:01:25,596 --> 01:01:26,953 Seriously? 530 01:01:27,153 --> 01:01:30,309 All this time we could have gone out there and just chopped it down. 531 01:01:31,688 --> 01:01:33,340 But not that one. 532 01:01:37,667 --> 01:01:39,886 That one's our friend. 533 01:02:18,000 --> 01:02:19,655 Where are you? 534 01:02:20,665 --> 01:02:22,024 I'm here. 535 01:02:24,442 --> 01:02:27,207 Can you do it? Can you make my mum better? 536 01:02:27,210 --> 01:02:30,372 If your mother can be healed, the yew tree will do it. 537 01:02:33,212 --> 01:02:37,544 - So that's a yes? - You still don't know why you called me. 538 01:02:37,547 --> 01:02:41,292 I didn't call you. And even if I did, it was obviously for mum. 539 01:02:41,295 --> 01:02:42,768 - Was it? - What else? 540 01:02:42,775 --> 01:02:45,277 To listen to idiotic stories that make no sense. 541 01:02:45,280 --> 01:02:50,334 It is not yet time for the third tale. But soon. And after that... 542 01:02:50,337 --> 01:02:53,136 you will tell me your story, Conor O'Malley. 543 01:02:53,139 --> 01:02:55,576 No. 544 01:02:55,740 --> 01:02:58,913 No, not this. That's just a nightmare. 545 01:02:59,082 --> 01:03:01,542 No, please. 546 01:03:04,742 --> 01:03:08,096 That's not my truth. That's just a nightmare. 547 01:03:08,260 --> 01:03:11,434 Nevertheless, this will happen after the third tale. 548 01:03:11,602 --> 01:03:13,808 I want to know what's going to happen with my mum. 549 01:03:14,830 --> 01:03:17,750 Do not waste the precious time that is given you. 550 01:03:17,753 --> 01:03:20,741 Wait. Where are you going? 551 01:03:20,905 --> 01:03:23,548 If you are a tree of healing, then I need you to heal. 552 01:03:25,418 --> 01:03:27,625 And so I shall. 553 01:03:57,764 --> 01:04:03,017 Conor, I'll come back. I promise, alright. And you'll come to LA for Christmas. 554 01:04:03,085 --> 01:04:05,582 I wont leave mum alone for Christmas. 555 01:04:05,645 --> 01:04:09,027 - Conor this medicine your mum's taking... - Is going to make her well. 556 01:04:09,030 --> 01:04:11,084 No, Conor, it probably isn't. 557 01:04:11,087 --> 01:04:13,281 - Yes it is. - No, it's a last stage effort, son. 558 01:04:13,449 --> 01:04:15,869 It will heal her. I know it. 559 01:04:16,898 --> 01:04:19,144 It is the reason it came. It has to. 560 01:04:19,147 --> 01:04:21,893 - Reason what came? - The monster. 561 01:04:21,896 --> 01:04:23,984 - Conor, what? - It comes to 12h07. 562 01:04:23,996 --> 01:04:26,533 At first I thought it was a dream, but there is always... 563 01:04:26,703 --> 01:04:28,265 Stop. It is a dream. 564 01:04:28,434 --> 01:04:30,759 That's all it is. I'm sorry you have to face this... 565 01:04:30,809 --> 01:04:33,071 but you have to be brave. 566 01:04:33,774 --> 01:04:36,527 Do you understand? 567 01:04:37,469 --> 01:04:39,163 Come on. 568 01:04:40,183 --> 01:04:41,586 Come on. 569 01:04:51,855 --> 01:04:53,979 I'll be back as soon as I can. 570 01:04:54,425 --> 01:04:57,075 What if it's not fast enough? 571 01:05:02,568 --> 01:05:03,654 Conor, listen... 572 01:05:03,823 --> 01:05:07,120 - It's okay. - What is okay? 573 01:05:07,288 --> 01:05:08,740 Just... 574 01:05:08,743 --> 01:05:10,934 You don't have to. 575 01:06:19,043 --> 01:06:21,632 Look. Do you see it? 576 01:06:21,796 --> 01:06:23,635 Do you see it? Can you wave? 577 01:06:23,799 --> 01:06:26,640 Can you see him? 578 01:06:26,804 --> 01:06:31,231 And then we wave to grandma. 579 01:06:34,653 --> 01:06:36,488 Hello grandma. 580 01:06:36,656 --> 01:06:38,907 Con, you can say hello to grandma and mum? 581 01:06:39,076 --> 01:06:41,247 Hello Grandma. 582 01:06:41,411 --> 01:06:43,667 Here we go. 583 01:06:43,831 --> 01:06:46,672 Mum has heard this many times. 584 01:06:46,736 --> 01:06:48,575 Are you ready? 585 01:06:48,739 --> 01:06:50,911 Con, come sit here. 586 01:06:51,079 --> 01:06:53,747 Con, look. 587 01:06:53,916 --> 01:06:56,588 - Hello grandma. - Mama... 588 01:06:56,752 --> 01:06:58,756 - one... - Mama. 589 01:06:58,924 --> 01:07:01,203 There we go. 590 01:07:01,206 --> 01:07:03,848 We are doing your picture, grandma. 591 01:07:04,016 --> 01:07:06,853 And then mix it together. 592 01:07:07,021 --> 01:07:08,523 What color is that? 593 01:07:09,092 --> 01:07:10,426 Brown. 594 01:07:13,031 --> 01:07:14,865 - It is a nice lodgy brown. - Brown. 595 01:07:15,034 --> 01:07:17,870 - But we have brown here. - That's true. 596 01:07:18,039 --> 01:07:21,336 What can you see? 597 01:07:21,504 --> 01:07:24,509 What is that? What are those? 598 01:07:24,673 --> 01:07:26,677 What do you... What are these? 599 01:07:26,845 --> 01:07:29,890 - Eyes. - Eyes. That's it. 600 01:07:30,058 --> 01:07:32,646 Life is always in the eyes. 601 01:07:33,160 --> 01:07:35,735 If you get that... 602 01:07:35,738 --> 01:07:38,319 you will be a proper artist. 603 01:07:38,767 --> 01:07:40,642 Yes. 604 01:07:41,036 --> 01:07:43,788 Look. 605 01:07:43,956 --> 01:07:45,791 This is how we draw the eyes in... 606 01:07:45,960 --> 01:07:50,039 because this is where the eyes catch the reflection. 607 01:07:51,092 --> 01:07:54,930 There we see the life in the eyes. See that? 608 01:07:55,098 --> 01:07:59,814 Do it again. It's life. 609 01:08:02,819 --> 01:08:06,240 Maybe if we take a pencil... 610 01:08:06,408 --> 01:08:10,082 and you can draw on that... 611 01:08:10,247 --> 01:08:12,502 Do you want to try it? 612 01:08:12,667 --> 01:08:14,880 Show me how you do it. 613 01:08:27,150 --> 01:08:30,740 Look, Con. 614 01:08:30,904 --> 01:08:35,912 That's his hair and this is his eyebrow. 615 01:08:37,374 --> 01:08:40,047 There's the eyes. 616 01:08:40,211 --> 01:08:42,967 Oh look, there's his mouth. 617 01:08:43,136 --> 01:08:46,806 There's his mouth. He is very angry. 618 01:08:46,974 --> 01:08:49,145 Can you see? 619 01:08:49,310 --> 01:08:51,898 Look at that. 620 01:08:52,466 --> 01:08:56,684 And then we start to make a face. 621 01:08:56,687 --> 01:08:58,741 And then... 622 01:08:58,909 --> 01:09:01,165 there's our monster. 623 01:09:01,329 --> 01:09:02,915 There's the monster. 624 01:09:03,084 --> 01:09:05,672 Look at the monster. 625 01:09:40,099 --> 01:09:42,103 Very slowly. 626 01:09:43,689 --> 01:09:45,692 That's it. 627 01:09:49,366 --> 01:09:51,618 That's it, okay. 628 01:10:02,680 --> 01:10:05,140 Okay, so 30 minutes exam this morning... 629 01:10:05,308 --> 01:10:09,146 and this is all the stuff we've been doing for the last two weeks. 630 01:10:09,314 --> 01:10:13,786 So if you've done your revision, there will be no surprises. 631 01:10:18,329 --> 01:10:21,596 So in a moment I'm going to ask you to turn your pages over. 632 01:10:21,599 --> 01:10:27,673 There will be no talking for the next 30 minutes. I want total silence... 633 01:10:27,676 --> 01:10:31,975 because you are going to use your brains, not your mouths. 634 01:10:32,143 --> 01:10:34,395 So 30 minutes... 635 01:10:34,563 --> 01:10:37,235 Starting now. Good luck. 636 01:11:03,976 --> 01:11:07,437 I think I've finally figures you out. 637 01:11:07,505 --> 01:11:10,008 After all this time. 638 01:11:10,172 --> 01:11:14,599 All you're looking for is someone kick your head in. 639 01:11:14,763 --> 01:11:16,265 But you know what? 640 01:11:16,433 --> 01:11:19,437 I'm not that guy anymore. 641 01:11:25,500 --> 01:11:27,623 Goodbye, O'Malley. 642 01:11:27,656 --> 01:11:30,412 I no longer see you. 643 01:11:30,576 --> 01:11:33,740 Now you're invisible to me too. 644 01:11:34,706 --> 01:11:37,100 I hope your mum gets better. 645 01:12:01,857 --> 01:12:03,880 What took you so long? 646 01:12:03,883 --> 01:12:07,206 It's time for the third tale. 647 01:12:10,006 --> 01:12:13,332 There was once an invisible man... 648 01:12:13,335 --> 01:12:16,515 who was grown tired of being unseen. 649 01:12:16,684 --> 01:12:20,481 It was not that he was actually invisible. 650 01:12:22,271 --> 01:12:25,944 It was just the people had become used to not seeing him. 651 01:12:26,112 --> 01:12:30,951 One day, the invisible man couldn't stand it anymore. 652 01:12:31,119 --> 01:12:35,874 He kept wondering, if no one sees you... 653 01:12:36,042 --> 01:12:39,547 Are you really there at all? 654 01:12:39,715 --> 01:12:42,551 What did the invisible man do? 655 01:12:43,077 --> 01:12:47,158 He called for a monster. 656 01:13:05,206 --> 01:13:08,318 I don't even know what to say to you, O'Malley. 657 01:13:09,588 --> 01:13:13,425 You sent him to hospital. 658 01:13:13,593 --> 01:13:16,345 His parents are threatening to sue. 659 01:13:16,513 --> 01:13:19,565 - It wasn't me. - What was that? 660 01:13:19,568 --> 01:13:22,021 Wasn't me. 661 01:13:25,025 --> 01:13:28,490 I'm not invisible. I'm not invisible. 662 01:13:28,554 --> 01:13:31,300 If you want to be seen, O'Malley, this is not the best way. 663 01:13:31,303 --> 01:13:36,040 I'm not invisible. Did you hear me? I'm not invisible. 664 01:13:36,208 --> 01:13:40,897 School rules dictate immediately exclusion. 665 01:13:42,465 --> 01:13:47,308 But how could I do that and consider myself any kind of a teacher? 666 01:13:48,309 --> 01:13:50,022 Go back to class. 667 01:13:50,025 --> 01:13:54,352 We will talk about this one day, but not today. 668 01:13:54,898 --> 01:13:58,239 You're not punishing me? 669 01:13:58,403 --> 01:14:01,828 What could possibly be the point? 670 01:14:14,593 --> 01:14:17,181 Well, let me give you an example of emotional wellness. 671 01:14:17,349 --> 01:14:22,436 You know how difficult it is sometimes to say no. And how good it feels... 672 01:14:22,604 --> 01:14:27,110 When you finally find the courage to say it anyway. Why is that? 673 01:14:27,837 --> 01:14:29,827 Do you have a moment? 674 01:14:32,994 --> 01:14:34,665 Hoi, wat is is? 675 01:14:34,829 --> 01:14:37,332 We just got a call from the hospital. 676 01:14:37,500 --> 01:14:42,547 I am afraid that Conor's mother is not going to make it. They want him to come there. 677 01:15:11,694 --> 01:15:13,934 Aren't you coming? 678 01:15:14,996 --> 01:15:17,162 I'll be right here. 679 01:15:50,501 --> 01:15:53,117 What did you do to your hands? 680 01:15:59,112 --> 01:16:01,948 It's the talk isn't it? 681 01:16:02,116 --> 01:16:05,329 Everybody wants to have a talk lately. 682 01:16:09,250 --> 01:16:11,169 Con... 683 01:16:11,337 --> 01:16:14,341 Look at me. 684 01:16:17,860 --> 01:16:20,919 I spoke to the doctor this morning. 685 01:16:26,965 --> 01:16:30,147 The new treatment, it's... it's not working. 686 01:16:31,156 --> 01:16:34,076 The one from the yew tree? 687 01:16:36,802 --> 01:16:38,058 Yeah. 688 01:16:39,320 --> 01:16:41,524 How can it not be working? 689 01:16:41,586 --> 01:16:45,800 Things just happen fast. Faster than they thought. 690 01:16:45,968 --> 01:16:49,221 - How can it not be working? - I don't know. 691 01:16:49,389 --> 01:16:51,516 It has to. 692 01:16:56,859 --> 01:17:01,029 So what happens now? What's going to be the next treatment? 693 01:17:06,789 --> 01:17:09,284 I'm so sorry. 694 01:17:10,769 --> 01:17:16,006 I've never been more sorry about anything in my life. 695 01:17:26,400 --> 01:17:28,798 It's okay that you're angry, Con. 696 01:17:30,029 --> 01:17:31,885 It really is. 697 01:17:33,281 --> 01:17:37,256 I'm pretty angry too, to tell you the truth. 698 01:17:38,887 --> 01:17:40,835 But Con... 699 01:17:45,572 --> 01:17:47,944 Con, are you listening? 700 01:17:51,266 --> 01:17:53,458 One day... 701 01:17:54,895 --> 01:17:59,102 if you look back and you feel bad for being so angry... 702 01:17:59,105 --> 01:18:04,964 you couldn't even speak to me, you have to know that was okay... 703 01:18:11,377 --> 01:18:14,213 That I knew. 704 01:18:16,666 --> 01:18:22,977 Because I know everything you need to tell me without you having to say it out loud. 705 01:18:27,399 --> 01:18:30,560 And if you need to break things... 706 01:18:32,362 --> 01:18:35,251 By God you break them. 707 01:18:35,789 --> 01:18:38,769 Break them good and hard. 708 01:18:38,772 --> 01:18:42,167 And I'll be right there, Con. 709 01:18:53,307 --> 01:18:56,549 I wish I had a hundred years. 710 01:19:01,570 --> 01:19:05,473 A hundred years I could give to you. 711 01:19:32,573 --> 01:19:34,871 Wake up. 712 01:19:36,412 --> 01:19:38,822 Wake up. 713 01:19:39,390 --> 01:19:44,421 Wake up. 714 01:19:44,589 --> 01:19:49,524 I don't care what time it is. You lied. Wake up. 715 01:19:51,098 --> 01:19:53,986 Wake up. 716 01:19:55,162 --> 01:19:57,267 I need you now. 717 01:20:09,455 --> 01:20:12,960 - You are doing yourself more pain. - It did not work. 718 01:20:13,128 --> 01:20:16,088 You said the yew tree would make her better, but it did not. 719 01:20:16,091 --> 01:20:18,085 Make her better. 720 01:20:20,178 --> 01:20:22,773 You're the one who called me, Conor O'Malley. 721 01:20:22,973 --> 01:20:26,310 If I called you, it was to save her. It was to heal her. 722 01:20:26,378 --> 01:20:29,291 - I did not come to heal her. - Yes you did. 723 01:20:29,391 --> 01:20:30,940 I came to heal you. 724 01:20:31,193 --> 01:20:34,365 Me? I'm not the one who needs healing. 725 01:20:34,529 --> 01:20:37,577 How many times do I have to tell you? 726 01:20:38,326 --> 01:20:40,279 My mum's the one who... 727 01:20:53,884 --> 01:20:55,648 Help me. 728 01:21:02,235 --> 01:21:05,383 It is time for the fourth tale. 729 01:21:08,168 --> 01:21:11,057 No, no please. Get me out of here. 730 01:21:11,156 --> 01:21:15,042 - It is time for your nightmare. - I need to get back to my mum. 731 01:21:15,045 --> 01:21:17,296 She is already here. 732 01:21:22,026 --> 01:21:23,232 No. 733 01:21:23,596 --> 01:21:25,185 Mum, get out of there. 734 01:21:25,188 --> 01:21:28,896 It is alright. There is nothing to worry about. 735 01:21:29,064 --> 01:21:31,544 Mum, run. Please, run. 736 01:21:33,278 --> 01:21:34,580 Mum. 737 01:21:42,458 --> 01:21:43,836 Mum. 738 01:21:48,715 --> 01:21:50,009 Conor. 739 01:21:50,177 --> 01:21:51,342 Mum. 740 01:21:53,890 --> 01:21:54,975 No. 741 01:21:55,615 --> 01:21:56,985 Conor. 742 01:21:56,988 --> 01:21:59,690 Mum. 743 01:21:59,854 --> 01:22:00,915 Conor. 744 01:22:00,984 --> 01:22:02,065 Mum. 745 01:22:02,233 --> 01:22:04,028 - Don't let go. - I won't. 746 01:22:06,199 --> 01:22:09,535 - Conor. - Mama. 747 01:22:09,704 --> 01:22:10,913 - Mum. - Conor. 748 01:22:11,077 --> 01:22:13,333 Mum. 749 01:22:13,501 --> 01:22:16,044 Mum, no. 750 01:22:16,213 --> 01:22:19,048 - Mum, no. - Conor. 751 01:22:21,219 --> 01:22:22,469 Mum. 752 01:22:25,473 --> 01:22:26,811 Mum. 753 01:22:29,439 --> 01:22:30,857 No. 754 01:22:32,735 --> 01:22:36,448 Conor. 755 01:22:36,612 --> 01:22:39,163 - Here is the fourth tale. - Get help. 756 01:22:39,166 --> 01:22:41,347 Here is the truth of Conor O'Malley. 757 01:22:41,455 --> 01:22:43,582 Mum. No. 758 01:22:43,750 --> 01:22:46,294 - Mum. - Here is your nightmare. 759 01:22:46,462 --> 01:22:48,757 - Mum. - Conor. 760 01:22:48,921 --> 01:22:50,423 Mum. 761 01:22:52,010 --> 01:22:56,892 Save me. 762 01:22:57,060 --> 01:23:01,106 - Conor. - Mama. 763 01:23:01,274 --> 01:23:04,403 Mama. 764 01:23:08,740 --> 01:23:11,660 Mama. 765 01:23:35,105 --> 01:23:37,463 This is when I wake up. 766 01:23:38,826 --> 01:23:41,493 This is when I always wake up. 767 01:23:42,121 --> 01:23:44,414 The tale is not yet told. 768 01:23:44,582 --> 01:23:46,720 Get me out of here. I need to see my mum. 769 01:23:46,920 --> 01:23:48,458 She is no longer here, Conor. 770 01:23:48,464 --> 01:23:50,906 She fell. I could not hold onto her anymore. 771 01:23:51,359 --> 01:23:52,631 Conor. 772 01:23:52,885 --> 01:23:55,758 - Speak the truth. - No. 773 01:23:55,761 --> 01:23:58,760 You will speak the truth or you will never leave this place. 774 01:23:58,817 --> 01:24:01,255 What truth? I do not know what you mean. 775 01:24:01,281 --> 01:24:03,931 You must tell me the fourth tale, Conor O'Malley. 776 01:24:04,131 --> 01:24:06,780 You must tell me your nightmare before it is too late. 777 01:24:06,948 --> 01:24:10,093 Yes. Tell me, Conor. Tell me the truth. 778 01:24:10,096 --> 01:24:14,290 - It will kill me if I do. - It will kill you if you do not. 779 01:24:14,458 --> 01:24:15,708 Speak the truth. 780 01:24:15,876 --> 01:24:17,661 - No. - The truth, Conor O'Malley. 781 01:24:17,712 --> 01:24:19,674 - Tell me the truth, boy. - No. 782 01:24:19,739 --> 01:24:24,748 - Speak the truth. - No. 783 01:24:24,751 --> 01:24:26,950 Speak the truth, boy. 784 01:24:26,953 --> 01:24:29,103 I want it to be over. 785 01:24:40,782 --> 01:24:44,956 I can't stand knowing she will go. 786 01:24:45,124 --> 01:24:49,294 I want it to be finished. I let her fall. 787 01:24:49,462 --> 01:24:51,633 I let her die. 788 01:25:15,250 --> 01:25:18,919 That was brave, Conor. 789 01:25:19,087 --> 01:25:21,839 You finally said it. 790 01:25:23,425 --> 01:25:25,325 Why didn't it kill me? 791 01:25:26,429 --> 01:25:28,710 I deserve punishment. 792 01:25:29,433 --> 01:25:31,508 I deserve the worst. 793 01:25:32,273 --> 01:25:33,936 Do you? 794 01:25:35,694 --> 01:25:39,447 I've known forever that she wasn't going to make it. 795 01:25:40,116 --> 01:25:43,410 She keep telling me she was getting better all the time... 796 01:25:44,622 --> 01:25:47,001 because that's what I wanted to hear. 797 01:25:47,794 --> 01:25:50,056 And I believed her. 798 01:25:51,215 --> 01:25:53,574 Except I didn't. 799 01:25:57,556 --> 01:26:01,635 And I started to think how much I wanted it to be over. 800 01:26:02,161 --> 01:26:04,431 I couldn't... 801 01:26:04,434 --> 01:26:07,631 I couldn't stand how alone that would make me feel. 802 01:26:08,655 --> 01:26:13,077 Part of you wished it would end even if it meant losing her... 803 01:26:16,526 --> 01:26:18,416 I let her go. 804 01:26:19,085 --> 01:26:21,580 I couldn't hold on for longer... 805 01:26:22,422 --> 01:26:25,093 but I always let her go. 806 01:26:25,262 --> 01:26:30,268 And that is your truth, Conor O'Malley. 807 01:26:33,188 --> 01:26:35,503 I don't want it to be though. 808 01:26:35,940 --> 01:26:37,761 Now it's for real. 809 01:26:38,095 --> 01:26:40,484 Now she's going to die and it's my fault. 810 01:26:40,908 --> 01:26:44,002 Now, that is not the truth at all. 811 01:26:44,163 --> 01:26:48,109 You were merely wishing for an end of pain. Your own pain. 812 01:26:48,201 --> 01:26:50,207 It is the most human wish there is. 813 01:26:50,304 --> 01:26:51,618 I didn't mean it though. 814 01:26:51,714 --> 01:26:54,680 You did, but you also did not. 815 01:26:58,684 --> 01:27:00,057 How can both be true? 816 01:27:00,225 --> 01:27:04,023 How can a prince be a murderer and beloved by his people? 817 01:27:04,191 --> 01:27:08,063 How can an apothecary be evil tempted but right thinking? 818 01:27:08,137 --> 01:27:12,127 How can invisible men make themselves lonelier by being seen? 819 01:27:12,130 --> 01:27:15,538 I don't know. Your stories never made sense to me. 820 01:27:15,707 --> 01:27:18,543 Because humans are complicated beasts. 821 01:27:18,711 --> 01:27:21,241 You believe comforting lies, while knowing full well... 822 01:27:21,441 --> 01:27:23,971 the painful truth that makes those lies necessary. 823 01:27:24,493 --> 01:27:29,225 In the end, Conor, it is not important what you think. 824 01:27:29,389 --> 01:27:33,271 It is only important what you do. 825 01:27:33,439 --> 01:27:35,149 So what do I do? 826 01:27:35,313 --> 01:27:38,486 What you did just now. You speak the truth. 827 01:27:38,654 --> 01:27:39,948 That's all? 828 01:27:40,112 --> 01:27:41,614 You think it's easy? 829 01:27:41,782 --> 01:27:44,582 You were willing to die rather than speak it. 830 01:27:46,645 --> 01:27:50,542 I'm so tired. So tired of all this. 831 01:27:50,711 --> 01:27:53,557 Then sleep. There is time. 832 01:27:53,560 --> 01:27:56,396 Are you sure? I need to see my mum. 833 01:27:56,763 --> 01:28:00,432 - We will both see her tonight. - Will you be there? 834 01:28:00,600 --> 01:28:02,519 Yes. 835 01:28:02,687 --> 01:28:05,290 It will be the final steps of my walking. 836 01:28:09,028 --> 01:28:11,367 How does the fourth story end? 837 01:28:13,366 --> 01:28:15,204 Sleep. 838 01:28:16,142 --> 01:28:17,686 Sleep. 839 01:28:18,040 --> 01:28:20,467 Sleep. 840 01:28:53,700 --> 01:28:57,685 Thank God. Conor! Conor! 841 01:29:00,216 --> 01:29:02,430 I've been out of my mind trying to find you. 842 01:29:02,598 --> 01:29:06,315 - There was something I had to do. - No time. We have to go now. 843 01:29:29,203 --> 01:29:31,168 Damn it. 844 01:29:36,087 --> 01:29:37,507 Grandma. 845 01:29:38,935 --> 01:29:40,984 I'm sorry. 846 01:29:41,149 --> 01:29:45,425 About the living room and the everything. 847 01:29:47,541 --> 01:29:49,546 It doesn't matter. 848 01:29:50,548 --> 01:29:52,970 It doesn't matter. 849 01:30:06,712 --> 01:30:09,865 You know, Conor. You and me... 850 01:30:10,766 --> 01:30:14,132 we're not the most natural fit, are we? 851 01:30:15,086 --> 01:30:16,856 No. 852 01:30:16,865 --> 01:30:18,220 I guess not. 853 01:30:18,284 --> 01:30:20,693 I guess not either. 854 01:30:22,042 --> 01:30:24,393 But we're going to have to learn. 855 01:30:26,805 --> 01:30:29,897 - I know. - You do know, don't you. 856 01:30:30,061 --> 01:30:32,527 Of course you do. 857 01:30:37,079 --> 01:30:40,069 But there is one thing we have in common. 858 01:30:41,297 --> 01:30:43,124 Your mum. 859 01:30:48,443 --> 01:30:50,989 That's what we have in common. 860 01:32:06,715 --> 01:32:08,263 It's okay. 861 01:32:08,428 --> 01:32:10,207 I see you found him. 862 01:32:11,435 --> 01:32:12,970 Thank you. 863 01:32:19,832 --> 01:32:21,793 Hello my darling. 864 01:32:22,591 --> 01:32:25,181 - Mum? - Yes, I'm here. 865 01:32:25,345 --> 01:32:27,580 I'm here. Can you feel my hand? 866 01:32:28,770 --> 01:32:31,196 Conor's here too. 867 01:32:31,360 --> 01:32:33,325 - Is he? - Yes. 868 01:32:38,963 --> 01:32:41,385 Conor. 869 01:33:17,349 --> 01:33:20,273 Here is the end of the tale. 870 01:33:22,278 --> 01:33:24,114 I'm afraid. 871 01:33:24,282 --> 01:33:26,540 Of course you're afraid. 872 01:33:27,583 --> 01:33:31,377 It will be hard. It will be more than hard. 873 01:33:32,563 --> 01:33:36,123 But you will make it through, Conor O'Malley. 874 01:33:36,773 --> 01:33:38,738 You'll stay? 875 01:33:39,570 --> 01:33:42,031 I will be right here. 876 01:33:50,262 --> 01:33:52,166 What do I do? 877 01:33:52,823 --> 01:33:58,255 Now all that is left is for you to speak the simplest truth of all. 878 01:34:19,864 --> 01:34:21,700 I don't want you to go. 879 01:34:21,969 --> 01:34:24,776 I know, sweetheart. 880 01:34:30,831 --> 01:34:33,004 I don't want you to go. 881 01:35:39,147 --> 01:35:41,371 How does the fourth story end? 882 01:35:41,496 --> 01:35:45,436 It ends with a boy holding on tight to his mother. 883 01:35:45,572 --> 01:35:47,413 And by doing so... 884 01:35:47,568 --> 01:35:51,464 he can finally let her go. 885 01:36:33,749 --> 01:36:35,754 Conor. 886 01:36:42,788 --> 01:36:45,210 This is your room now. 887 01:36:45,279 --> 01:36:47,617 I'm making it ready. 888 01:36:52,179 --> 01:36:53,672 Thank you.