Matt is outraged that Jack could callously buy a well-liked business purely for profit but, as usual, fails to see the bigger picture. Jack receives an urgent telegram. Paddy saves Jack from being attacked. Not scheduled. Jack arrives at the Seaton house carrying a sword he's bought for five bob, from Sammy Foster, an alcoholic who's fallen on hard times. Bill continues to belittle Billy, hoping to shame him into going back to university. Jack tells Manners that he loves Jessie very much, and that he won't find any better. Tom and the other blacklegs, from all over the United Kingdom, are bussed into the pit, with a police escort. Bella is joined at the hospital by a dapper-looking Ralph. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for When The Boat Comes In : Series 3 (DVD, 2010, 6-Disc Set) at the best online prices at eBay!
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In addition he leads Colfax to believe that he could still sell to Manners unless Colfax signs a clause agreeing to employ union members and so Colfax is cornered. Jack bursts his way back in, warning her never to do it again. Jack is suspicious, realising that Paddy is a member of Sinn Féin.
Hepburn tells Leslie that, on the contrary, Ford was ruthless, but only if you crossed him. Matt and Tom rescue the injured Jack from the ruins of Mandrake Place but Arthur, considering the demolition an act of vandalism, contacts the Association for the Preservation of Great Houses, whose representative, James Channing, threatens to prosecute Manners. Dolly has had a miscarriage, and will not be able to have children. Jessie and Mr Ashton visit Ronnie's mother, a widow. See episodes Hide episodes. Tom is attracted to her, but Bella warns him that it's too soon after Mary's death. Scrimgour snaps, and brutally beats one of them, John William Francis. Tom leaves the men with his winnings (about sixty pounds) but his good fortune isn't appreciated by two sore losers, Dodger Green and Dickie Edgar. Bill is due home from the hospital, but doesn't know of her plan. Bella takes Harry to the fairground ("the hoppins"), and buys the urchin a new ten shilling coat. With Jack taking his time in Scarborough Dolly fears that time is running out for the divorce and persuades Tom to leave the duke's estate so they can run Bill's new shop.
Green and Edgar catch up with Tom, but they have a surprise in store: a "tin panning", which means they're hounded home by the womenfolk, bashing pots and pans. Jack tells Matt that he will accept responsibility, offer to marry Dolly, and break up with Jessie. At the wedding Tom takes Jack aside, to talk to him about Mary's brother. She's appeared in a couple of Catherine Cookson Tyne Tees TV mini-series (The Rag Nymph … He was stationed in Gallowshield during the war, where he met his wife, who is now deceased. Tom is twenty-four years old; Mary is twenty-two. Jack and Dolly have made arrangements for her wedding, at the registry office, the next morning. Not scheduled. Matt takes Scrimgour home, to his wife, Lucy.
1919. He claims he sold the rest to a man in a pub. Bella asks Jack to put some shelves up for her. Billy tells Tom and Bill that troops are preparing to quell civil unrest. I can't say I blame him". The soldiers flank the exit as Pinner leaves, victorious. He still wants to leave University, and is using Bill's accident as an excuse. Dolly, told by her solicitor that her own adultery jeopardises her case, accuses Jack of deliberately stalling but he agrees to repeat the exercise. Jack wants to know why Crawford wasn't there to support Jack. Soon afterwards Mick dies, with Bella at his bedside. Manners visits the recently married Jack and Dolly.
Mary is feeling better, and hopes that Tom will be allowed to return to work (after strike-breaking). They are overheard by Tom, who has followed Jack and Matt from the pub.
Jack is joined at the pub by an old army friend, black and tan soldier Sid Hepburn. Mallow visits Dolly with an offer of financial assistance from the Union, but Matt senses that Mallow is looking to take political advantage of the situation, and turns down the offer. The title is a phrase used by Tom, to note how briefly the miners will see the sun that day. Jack has arranged a safe route to the docks for Tom. They prepare to leave, but Tom has forgotten one of the buckets (for the blood). Ford tells Manners that his son died in his arms, and that his last words were "What the hell am I doing here, Sergeant, I said I'd be at the Saville". Jack's mother was buried as a pauper. Jack says he understands. Jack seizes a hammer, and sets off to reclaim her furniture. His "first class for every class" funeral will cost fifteen pounds. He's furious with Bella, who threatens "It's either the shop, or I walk through that door and don't come back". Later Jack meets Matt in the pub, and is warned that tongues are wagging.