Call the Midwife Season 9, Episode 1 GIF Recap

Posted by Abbie Anker on Sunday, May 19, 2024

While a few midwives immediately take to the homeless shelter to begin diphtheria testing, Sgt. Woolf notifies Nonnatus House of a disturbance at St. Cuthbert’s maternity ward involving a woman who claims she is Primrose’s mother. Trixie and Mother Mildred meet with the woman, Brenda, hoping to get a better understanding behind her child’s abandonment. They later learn that she’s the same late night visitor who Sister Frances met at the maternity home.

Though it takes some coaxing, Trixie squeezes her way into Brenda’s circle of trust, promising to help with custody of Primrose in exchange for more information about her birth. Brenda tells Trixie that she’s the priest’s housekeeper at St Genistus' Presbytery, and this immediately raises suspicions amongst the midwives as to the events surrounding her pregnancy. Mother Mildred visits Brenda’s supervisor, Father Duncombe, who claims that throughout the nine months of Brenda’s pregnancy, he never once suspected she was carrying a child. Even though she worked under his roof. Ok, guy, we believe you.

Their conversation escalates when Father Duncombe throws out the option of adoption, threatening Brenda’s job if she keeps her child. When he further begins to question Brenda’s ability to be a capable mother, noting her history with mental illness, Mother Mildred becomes enraged at his total lack of empathy. Prepared to storm out, a sewing basket in the priest’s study catches her eye. She notices that the same silk ribbon which had been used to tie Primrose’s umbilical cord is in this very basket and finds it curious when Father Duncombe admits Brenda sometimes did her garment mending in his study. Boy bye.

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