Dr. Edwards: Everyone stop. The mouse just escaped, and I’d only just got her pregnant. 

Jean Purdy. Dr. Edwards? Jean Purdy. I’m here about the lab manager’s post. 

Dr. Edwards: 8:00 a.m. Don’t be late. We have an obstetrician to catch.

[upbeat music playing]

Dr. Edwards: Mr. Steptoe will be an excellent member of our team. 

Jean Purdy: This team which you’ve not yet explained to me. 

Dr. Edwards: Oh, we’re going to help make babies. I’ve shocked you.

Woman 1: Making babies in test tubes?!

Dr. Steptoe: You truly believe you can do that?

Dr. Edwards: We’re making the impossible possible. We are. You’ll see.

[clock ticking]

[pensive music playing] 

Dr. Steptoe: You’re aware we will unite the world against us?

Paparazzo: Dr. Frankenstein!

Woman 2: What you’re doing, it’s disgusting.

Person in crowd: It’s wrong!

Jean Purdy: I’m helping people, Mum.

Woman 1: Doesn’t make it right.

[music continues]

[clock ticking] 

Woman 3: Is it in the interest of science?

Dr. Steptoe: Yes.

Dr. Edwards: Infertility is a scientific problem. 

Man 3: That only affects a very small number of women. 

Jean Purdy: “Small number”? 

♪ Leaves you empty with nothing but dreams ♪

Jean Purdy: Women presume we can have children. There is a biological and social expectation. Nothing can make that absence worse.

Dr. Steptoe: I’m very sorry. 

Jean Purdy: But we have the possibility of making it better. 

♪ Do whatever, just open your eyes ♪

Jean Purdy: There have been women here before you.

Woman 4: I just want a baby.

Jean Purdy: And there will be women here after you. But without you, none of this works. 

♪ Dawn is coming ♪ 

Jean Purdy: Wait.

Dr. Edwards: What? Why?

Jean Purdy: It’s a first, that’s all. 

Dr. Edwards: First of many. 

♪ I’ve been waiting all my life ♪  Dawn is coming open your eyes ♪  Dawn is coming open your eyes ♪  Dawn is coming open your eyes ♪ 

Dr. Steptoe: I dislike having to decide who will get help and who will not. But what we’re doing, it matters.

[yelling] 

♪ Look into the sun as the new days rise ♪

Woman 5: Got a message for you, sir.

Dr. Edwards: “Pregnancy test positive.”

[excited laughter]

Woman 5: I want to say congratulations. 

Dr. Edwards: Oh, she’s not pregnant. We’ve made someone else pregnant, and it’s bloody brilliant! 

♪ Look into the sun as the new days rise ♪