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[whistling]
- Let me tell you a story about a man...
my man, Billy.
And how he was lost for a while.
Until beauty found him.
[♪ peaceful music playing]
How we doing?
[laughing]
[bleating]
- We moved here for a better life.
Billy brought me to Shetland,
Britain's last outpost before the Arctic.
[reporter] Cetaceans?
For that, so yes it's been a really successful year for
tourists coming up here to see cetaceans.
- He was born here but felt he'd been away too long.
It was in his blood.
I asked him what that actually meant, and he said
"he did really know".
[rainfall]
We moved to an old house by the sea,
and started fixing it up.
[rainfall]
[radio murmur in background]
- But before we knew it, routine, life, caught up with us again.
[radio murmur in background]
[reporter] Lerwick Thistle nil, Ness United nil,
Wastside Rebels nil.
[crashing]
- Sometimes, when you get everything you want,
you convince yourself that it's everything you need.
You convince yourself you're happy.
And I think we were both guilty of that.
But then who isn't?
[♪ somber music playing]
Billy had a wee hole in his heart.
Perhaps it's the hole a man has when he doesn't get to
be a father.
He'd never let you see it;
in fact, he'd convince you of the opposite.
Like he'd convinced himself.
I could never have imagined that a wee creature
washing up at his feet,
would change everything.
[crunching]
[Billy Mail] Hello there!
It was March.
It was third of March actually when I was lucky enough to
first, meet her.
She was just a bag of bones.
What you doing here?
She was eating a crab,
and apparently when otters eat crabs,
it takes more energy to get into them than they get from them.
So it wasn't a good sign.
Otters are normally so shy here,
for her to be so relaxed around me
meant she must have been desperate.
Hello.
[rustling]
I don't know where she came from, but I heard that a
mother otter had been killed on the road near the house.
So I just assumed it was her mum and she was just too young
to be fending for herself.
Maybe I was her last resort.
She was vulnerable, and she was alone.
And it took me back to a moment in my own life,
in my childhood,
where I was in a situation that felt like I was alone.
It was a horrible feeling; it was an exposed feeling.
And I immediately transferred that feeling onto her.
Good mornin' girl, how are ya?
Are you hungry? Come on then, come on.
Watch the fingers.
As she got stronger, we started spending more time together.
Until eventually, what started out as a chance encounter,
turned to trust.
[laughing]
Leave the engine alone otter.
Yes, that's the petrol can.
[sniffing]
I named her Molly, I don't really know why.
It just kind of popped into my head.
Come on!
She brought a wee smile to my face that just stayed with me.
[laughing]
- I'm not sure that Billy knew what Molly needed back then.
She didn't need a friend.
She needed a mother.
[Billy Mail] What are you planting?
Your favorite.
[Billy Mail] What, Livingstone daises?
Sounds lovely, until Molly comes and digs them up.
- I tell ya, if that otter digs them up,
I am gonna hold you responsible.
You don't see Jade doing that.
Perhaps because Molly had lost her own family,
she quickly became part of ours.
It was like she was lonely, and wanted some company.
Billy bought a book on otters to find out what she needed.
But it didn't have the answers.
So, he just decided to try and find out himself.
[Billy Mail] In you come, I've filled your bath up for you.
She's not a sea otter, even though she lives in the sea.
She's a river otter and her fur apparently needs fresh
water to wash the salt out of it.
[laughing]
She's no body fat, her fur's all she's got to
keep her warm, so, if it loses condition
she'll die very quickly here.
You having a good rub?
Well, just you rub and dry yourself off.
I'll get it washed sometime.
Maybe that's why she spends so much time rubbing in my jacket
after her bath.
She seems to sleep a lot, so I reckon she needs a nice bed.
[♪ upbeat music playing]
One of the things with getting to know Molly
has been getting to know the different moods she's in.
Sometimes she turns up and just wants to hang out.
Sometimes she rocks up and she's angry,
like she's in a bad mood.
[hissing]
Sometimes she just wants to dig up Susan's flowers.
And she's fussy, sometimes really fussy.
Her favorite food seems to be salmon, but I can't afford
that too often.
So, she tends to get haddock or mackerel.
[waves crashing]
[Susan Mail] Getting Molly back to health took over
our lives that spring.
Until eventually everything just seemed to revolve around fish.
That one?
A bite?
Nothing.
Don't think I don't know why we're out here!
What d'you mean?
You know what I mean.
- We've come out here to catch some fish for our tea.
- We're out to catch fish for Molly.
You wanted haddock though.
- I'd like some haddock, but I don't see a lot of the haddock
that comes in.
[Billy Mail] She's had the odd small haddock.
[Susan Mail] She's gets all the haddock!
[Billy Mail] Woooaahhh!
Oohhh! A cod.
- Just, just take the box down, I'll aim for it.
Two moving targets is too many.
Oh, that's good! We know they're down there.
Could you hold this, and I'll release him.
Mmmm, Molly'll enjoy that.
[Susan Mail] If we weren't out fishing, Billy was on the phone,
calling whoever he could, to get more fish.
It was costing us a fortune!
But it was clear Molly was getting stronger by the day.
[laughing]
[Jade whining]
[smack]
[rattling]
Billy decided we needed a new freezer.
[rattling]
Because he'd filled the other one with fish for Molly.
[Billy Mail] Ok so if you can just steady it.
I'll lift it and slot it onto the ground.
[Susan Mail] Are you going to give it a clean before you
put it inside?
- Can do but it's clean on the inside.
- But its filthy on the outside!
Yeah, okay but...
Yeah, we can get it clean.
- Is that bird poop? - No.
- You ready? - Yep
No rush. Watch your back.
Right, next little peerie bit.
[grunting]
Okay, perfect.
[♪ melodic music playing]
[clatter]
[♪ melodic music playing]
[radio host] Get your kicks on the B9076.
You thought Muckle Roe was nice?
Why not try Northmavine?
[Susan Mail] It was impossible to get cross with Billy.
Because he adored Molly.
[♪ inspiring music playing]
[Billy Mail] I think if I'm honest in myself, I don't really
have a clue what I'm doing.
I can do the obvious stuff, make sure she's eating well,
run her the odd bath,
but beyond that, I'm a bit out of my depth.
[chewing]
[kiss]
[wind rustling]
[barking]
[Billy Mail] I don't know how old she was when we first met.
She can't have been much more than six months.
She certainly wasn't old enough to survive the winter.
So, she must still have a lot of life skills to learn.
And she's not going to learn them from me just
throwing fish at her.
I have noticed the otters round here seem to feed on
small fish they find in seaweed.
[chittering]
Molly, Molly, here, here.
So, if I can maybe teach her how to catch them,
that would be a start.
[chittering]
Molly.
[chittering, whistling]
Molly come on.
[chittering]
Molly girl.
Look, look here.
Not there, look what I'm showing you.
[chittering]
Come on, you're the otter,
you're supposed to be good at this.
Molly, come on!
Molly girl.
[chittering]
Molly!
[chittering, whistling]
You're not really getting the hang of this, are you?
Is that good? Are you enjoying your supper?
I'm glad I can help you.
Where are you going now?
Where are you going?
She seems to have this little switch in her head,
when it flicks, she's off.
[splashing]
[wings flapping]
[Susan Mail] They weren't so dissimilar Billy and Molly.
They both seemed to have an extraordinary ability,
to concentrate on one thing.
For about 15 minutes.
Which when you're building an extension on your house,
and you're a year over schedule
can sometimes be quite hard to live with.
[splashing]
I went into the shed one day and an Amazon parcel had arrived.
Now normally I'm the shopper.
But it didn't have my name on it, it had Billy's name on it,
and I opened it.
And it was a bag of colored balls.
And my first thought was,
"surely to goodness, he has not bought these for Molly!".
♪ If gravity is not enough? ♪
♪ Will you be there 'til the end? ♪
♪ I know that I will ♪
♪ When you go away ♪
♪ Got to go and play ♪
♪ 'Til the end of day ♪
♪ 'Til I hit the hay ♪♪
[Billy Mail] I don't know if I'm doing the right thing.
I feel a bit daft sometimes.
♪ 'Cause when I'm alone ♪♪
[Billy Mail] But then I see how happy she is when she's playing.
♪ I'm a lonely one ♪♪
[Billy Mail] If she had a family,
they'd be rough and tumbling,
but I'm all she's got, and I have bills to pay.
[rumbling, thumping]
[glass clattering]
[whirring]
[roaring]
[air blasting]
[Susan Mail] Billy's job at the energy recovery plant
often meant he'd be away from home on long shifts.
So, I'd have to 'step in'.
Hello.
[snorting]
[phone ringing]
Oh hi, it's a strange one, this one.
Um, I'm not phoning about the dog.
We have a wild otter that comes and visits us,
pretty much daily just now.
And we've noticed that she's got quite a hurl in her chest
and coughs a bit.
And we're just wondering if she might need some help.
Medication help.
[typing]
[text send tone]
[text tone]
[typing]
[text send tone]
[text tone]
[radio host] Crabsticks, oh mercy!
[radio host] Crabsticks in the soup and it's not the best.
[radio host] Well for those of us who've just joined us,
we're talking Cullen Skink.
[radio host] I'm a fan of oxtail but it seems to have gone out of
fashion in the 2020s.
[radio host] It is a dying soup!
[Susan Mail] Hello little one.
This is going to make you feel better.
You ready? Whoa.
Good girl. Good girl.
[crunching]
[sipping]
[rustling]
[Susan Mail] Having Molly in his life gave Billy a sense of
responsibility, which he thrived on.
But part of being a parent is learning when that
responsibility fills a need in your children,
and when it fills a need in you.
[♪ peaceful music playing]
Billy didn't seem to want to leave the confines of
our garden with Molly.
It was like he was trying to convince himself that she
needed him more than she actually did,
by pretending that she didn't have a life beyond the garden.
[chirping]
But she did.
As Jade and I discovered, on our morning walks.
[laughing]
Hello!
Hello.
Hello Molly.
She'd spend a lot of time fishing in the sea loch.
Quite a distance from the house.
I'd see another side of her up there.
She was more confident and independent.
And being out and about living like a wild otter was probably
really good for her health.
[splashing]
And she had friends.
Other otters who she'd play with.
[♪ playful music playing]
One of them was a male that came by the house occasionally.
Billy called him Bozo.
He was quite a bruiser.
[splashing]
But to see Molly out with Bozo,
made me realize that,
although she was a huge part of Billy's life,
he was just one part of hers.
I wasn't sure how that would make him feel.
So, I just kept it mine and Molly's wee secret.
[♪ heartfelt music playing]
I was glad she had another life beyond our life,
because, of course, if she hadn't,
I probably wouldn't have seen my husband.
But then, she made him happy, and he made me happy.
And isn't that what love is?
Letting someone be themselves because that person is
everything you need.
[♪ heartfelt music playing]
[♪ playful music playing]
♪ Sweet dreams of you ♪
♪ Every night ♪♪
[Billy Mail] Jade. Jade! Do you wanna go walkies?
Come on! Walkies.
Jade, come!
[smooches]
Jade, come! Come!
Jade, Jade!
[smooches]
Jade, in behind. Come!
Molly girl, are you coming too?
Come on, let's go rootlin'!
[chittering]
Come, come!
[smooches]
Molly girl.
[chittering]
Come!
[chittering]
Look at you, catching your own.
[laughing]
[Susan Mail] There was a point where Billy's relationship with
Molly flipped.
From him being there for her,
to her being there for him.
[chittering]
[Billy Mail] Molly you've totally got the hang of this.
You're catching far more than I can find.
Look at you! You're a pro.
Molly just woken a little bit of me, that had been lying dormant.
[sniffing]
Oh hello, hello.
It's like she's showing me how to be a kid again.
That fascination, that joy that we somehow seem to allow
ourselves to lose, as we get older.
[honking]
[rustling]
[snoring]
[splashing]
[radio host] It's unusually warm in Shetland today,
that fine weather is expected to stay!
Certainly, over the next few days, as high pressure pushes
up from Scotland and the rest of northern Europe.
Temperatures...
- As Molly began to need less time and care;
Billy could finally, get on with finishing our house.
The delay was putting a huge pressure on us.
I remember, just being so pleased our lives were
getting back on track.
[saw whirring]
[whirring]
Until he came in one evening with a big smile on his face
and explained that he'd finished the house and
would I like to come and see it.
And I nearly suggested, he go and live in it.
[Billy Mail] We call these a but and ben.
Just a kitchen-y, living room and a bedroom.
Like what our house used to be.
I got the Wi-Fi into Molly's house today.
- You've got the Wi-Fi?
- Wi-Fi? Yeah.
- So, Molly has Wi-Fi in her house?
Well, she, Yeah.
- And I don't have Wi-Fi in our house.
- Well, she doesn't realize she's got Wi-Fi.
It's for the camera.
But yeah, I suppose technically she's got Wi-Fi,
all over her house, okay.
Well darling we can sort that out.
I'll get you an extra thing.
- But you've been saying that for such a long time.
I know but.
- And there I find that you've put Wi-Fi into Molly's house.
And as you say, she doesn't even know she has Wi-Fi!
[laughing]
[Billy Mail] I'll get you a new Wi-Fi router for your birthday.
[Susan Mail] Do not even think about it.
[Billy Mail] Christmas?
[laughing]
[ringing alert]
I've rigged her wee house with a camera.
[ringing alert]
And a special app that tells me when she's home.
[ringing alert]
[Susan Mail] As fun as Molly's new house was.
And as much as we loved watching her in it,
I think it marked the point where Billy realized,
he may have gone too far.
[waves crashing]
Billy always said that he needed to get Molly to a point
where she could survive the winter, without his help.
And as the summer days gave way to the long nights of autumn,
like it or not, he was forced to face that commitment.
We started to see another otter coming by the house
usually at dusk.
And then one evening, we realized who it was.
It was Bozo, and he was looking for Molly.
[seagulls cawing]
[Billy Mail] I should be happy for her.
But instead, I feel kind of protective.
That's my wee girl.
It's hard watching her go off with 'him'.
[♪ morose violin music playing]
But there's nothing I can do about it.
I guess all I can do is just let go a little.
[♪ morose violin music playing]
I'm going to stop feeding her.
I don't want to, but I know I should.
[seagulls cawing]
[bird calls]
[footsteps]
[water lapping]
[♪ slow emotional music playing]
[Susan Mail] I will never forget that morning.
It was a moment so fragile.
And I think Billy knew that.
It was like he was banking memories of something.
He knew could never last.
[♪ slow emotional music playing]
Molly visited a few more times over the next couple of weeks.
[buzzing]
And then she just stopped coming.
[buzzing]
[wind blowing]
Winter came quickly to Shetland that year until once again,
life was ruled by the wind, and the cold,
and the angry North Atlantic.
[waves crashing]
[Billy Mail] I found a dead otter on the beach this morning.
I thought it was Molly but when I got closer,
I realized it was a wee cub.
Maybe it got lost in a storm,
separated from its mum perhaps...
[digging]
I was going to leave it for the gulls, but I couldn't.
That was a little personality, a little life.
Not just another animal.
It was a being.
Just like Molly.
Just like me.
[♪ slow emotional music playing]
[Susan Mail] Billy regretted his decision to stop feeding Molly.
He pretended he didn't, but I knew he did.
He started leaving fish out for her again.
Hoping she'd come home.
But they only fed the gulls.
[♪ slow emotional music playing]
One month turned into two.
Without any sign of her.
[sniffing]
[wind blowing]
The only peace that Billy could find was outside,
in the storm.
[cawing]
[waves crashing]
[wind blowing]
[fire crackling]
[cheering]
[Susan Mail] I took Billy to town at the end of January,
to watch the Up Helly Aa procession.
The town's folk build a Viking galley,
parade it around the town.
And then burn it in the play park.
[cheering]
[Susan Mail] A tradition?
Or maybe just a distraction from the brutal Shetland winters.
I hoped it would raise Billy's spirits a little.
But his mind was elsewhere.
[fire crackling]
[♪ ringing note]
[Billy Mail] I never had kids.
I don't think people who do have them realize that there's
always a part of you that grieves the loss of something
you've never had.
You live with it, and you deal with it.
But loss always runs a little deeper perhaps.
[♪ slow emotional music playing]
[cheering]
[fire crackling]
It always seemed crazy to me.
To spend so long building something beautiful.
[fire crackling]
Only to burn it to the ground.
[fire crackling]
[wind blowing]
[fire crackling]
[sniffing]
[ringing alert]
[rustling]
Susan!
[wind blowing]
Molly! Molly!
Molly girl.
[wind blowing]
Molly. Molly!
[laughing]
Where on earth have you been, you little horror?
You're home!
You've picked your night to come.
You've no idea what you've put us through.
[laughing].
Oh, you're my wee girl, you're my wee girl.
[♪ cheerful music playing]
[laughing]
[Susan Mail] It was so nice to see him happy again.
She was the sparkle in his eye.
And you know what?
Give me a man who loves and cares any day,
over one who doesn't notice.
[wind blowing]
[squeaking]
[wind blowing]
[♪ peaceful music playing]
[rustling]
[Susan Mail] Oh, Is that a teat?
[Billy Mail] I think it is.
Wow.
She's wriggling around.
She can't get comfortable.
Look at the size of that belly.
She's definitely pregnant, there's no doubt about it.
[rustling]
Look, she's making, she's making her bed.
She doesn't have all those scatter cushions to worry about.
[laughing]
[rustling]
Oh, look at her.
To be honest, the way she's lying, lying on her back,
I'd say she's not far away from having a baby.
[♪ peaceful music playing]
[bleating]
[rustling]
[Billy Mail] How do I feel about Molly being pregnant?
When your children grow up you prepare them,
you nurture them,
you help them in whatever way you can to get to adulthood
and then live their life.
Molly.
Are you going to have babies?
And in a strange kind of parallel way, I feel like
I've done that with Molly.
It's almost like if Molly comes back with a baby.
I'll feel like I've done my job.
I've arrived.
[♪ peaceful music playing]
[waves crashing]
[bleating]
[barking]
[♪ peaceful music playing]
[Susan Mail] By May.
Molly's visits became very regular.
But we noticed a change in her behavior.
She seemed exhausted.
And instead of wanting to hang out and fish around the pontoon.
She just wanted to sleep.
And she slept a lot.
And then one day, when she paid us a visit.
We found out why.
[rustling]
Ohhh, look.
Awh look at that!
[Susan Mail] Good golly Miss Molly.
[Billy Mail] Oh how cute is that?
[laughing]
Molly's a mum Jade!
[chirping]
I mean that's really big, he must be 9 or 10 weeks old.
[chirping]
[Susan Mail] She's a bit narky!
Oh!
Shove over!
[hissing]
[chirping]
[Billy Mail] Put your teeth away cub!
[rustling]
[chirping]
[rustling]
[laughing]
[Susan Mail] That's... I'm trying to get some sleep.
[Billy Mail] Look it is, I'm tired you, get away!
[chirping]
She must be leaving the baby in there, going away fishing
and then coming back but that's it in there on its own.
He looks quite happy
[laughing]
[Susan Mail] Soon Molly's cub would be going
everywhere with her.
And that's when Billy would need to back right off.
So it would keep its fear of humans.
But he told me that there was one last thing
that he had to do.
To say goodbye.
So, I bought him a gift.
Right, strip!
Your skin's all red.
[Billy groaning]
[Billy Mail] I feel like you're forcing me into this.
[Susan Mail] I am!
It's meant to be tight though.
[Billy Mail] I don't know.
Get my arm in the other sleeve.
[groaning]
[fabric rustling]
[Billy Mail] There we go.
Sorted!
It was over a year ago that Molly washed up
right here on this jetty.
And there's a whole part of her world that I have never
seen or been any part of.
She always comes into my world,
but I've never taken the step into hers.
[deep breath]
But I know I should, I want to,
to see it with her.
[splashing]
[♪ peaceful music playing]
[splashing]
[♪ peaceful music playing]
[splashing]
Now she's a mum, it's like she's taking life more seriously.
[♪ peaceful music playing]
She's still got her sense of fun, that's not gone.
And I guess some of that has rubbed off on me.
[♪ peaceful music playing]
She's not hassling me for fish,
or bothering me for some attention,
or digging up Susan's flowers in the garden
or pooping in my boat,
chasing Jade from her ball.
She's just her.
Completely unattached from me.
[♪ peaceful music playing]
I see the creature beyond the character.
So graceful, absolutely in her element.
She's just, perfect.
[♪ peaceful music playing]
And then that little switch in her head flicks,
and she's off.
And I'm left alone.
Except I'm not, am I?
[♪ "Typewriter's Landscape" by Genning plays]
♪ Tilting with each sudden kick ♪
♪ Shimmer and twisting ♪
♪ So bright and fresh pelt ♪
♪ Heaving the cool at your neck ♪
♪ Turn water to wind as you swing through the sea ♪
♪ Surface resurface again ♪
♪ When you plunge into this heaven ♪
♪ Light around you glimmers ♪
♪ Suddenly you're out of view ♪
♪ But not alone cause I slipped right through ♪
♪ Till almost dawn ♪
[Billy Mail] Cold, my wetsuit's digging into my neck;
my mask's leaking and the saltwater's stinging my eyes,
and I need a wee, but I don't care.
Because I'm lost to this.
[♪ peaceful music playing]
And that line that separates us from nature.
Molly's world from mine.
If she showed me anything,
it's that there is no line.
♪ Pretend with the song of the skylark ♪
♪ In the court of today, we all carry on ♪
♪ Stand with the legs of a heron ♪
♪ Let water pass over peat under the bird ♪
[♪ continues instrumentally]
[Susan Mail] Molly came into our lives,
probably when we needed her most;
and she changed us.
[Billy Mail] It's a good size.
[Susan Mail] She opened our eyes again.
Have a look.
[Susan Mail] Reminded us of who we were, not who we'd become.
I've lost them.
Oh, there they are.
Beauty's a powerful thing when it catches you off guard,
and Molly showed us that,
and she knew nothing about it.
♪ When I see you close or deep ♪
♪ I pack my sphere on water ♪
♪ Suddenly you're far beyond with a shot ♪
♪ As I sit here holding by your home ♪
♪ I will sit here waiting by your home ♪♪
[Susan Mail] What will we have for dinner?
[Billy Mail] Umm, Haddock?
[Susan Mail] I am sick of haddock.
[Billy Mail] Well, we've got quite a lot to get through.
We've got a whole freezer full.
[chirping]
[♪ upbeat music playing]
[chirping]
[♪ upbeat music playing]
[Billy Mail] I've got a present, this is for you.
[rustling]
Oh, oooh!
Catch?
Good girl!
Captioned by Cotter Media Group.