1 00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:04,074 Subtitles downloaded from Podnapisi.NET 2 00:00:21,850 --> 00:00:24,058 Five more! 3 00:01:10,994 --> 00:01:15,464 Come on, men! Give it another go! 4 00:01:40,829 --> 00:01:43,777 We have escaped the Doldrums once more. 5 00:01:43,807 --> 00:01:47,192 Since Mr Ben�t's success in removing our weed, 6 00:01:47,222 --> 00:01:50,670 we now travel at a much improved five and a half knots. 7 00:01:52,789 --> 00:01:59,338 But we are fragile. We are held together by ropes and cables 8 00:01:59,368 --> 00:02:03,006 in a -it seems- broken ship. 9 00:02:08,956 --> 00:02:11,008 They will not be satisfied, sir, 10 00:02:11,038 --> 00:02:13,304 until they have drowned every last one of us. 11 00:02:13,334 --> 00:02:17,094 I do not think it is time for such exaggerations, sir. 12 00:02:22,943 --> 00:02:25,449 I trust you are more the thing, Mr Talbot. 13 00:02:25,479 --> 00:02:27,627 I'm feeling perfectly recovered, thank you. 14 00:02:27,657 --> 00:02:30,636 I took the liberty of inspecting your old cabin. 15 00:02:30,666 --> 00:02:34,261 What a ghastly mess your servant left behind! 16 00:02:34,436 --> 00:02:36,413 A coward of a man, if ever I met one. 17 00:02:36,443 --> 00:02:39,048 I do not wish to discuss the matter, gentlemen. 18 00:02:39,078 --> 00:02:41,999 Now you are here, sir, you'd better be co-opted at once. 19 00:02:42,029 --> 00:02:43,642 The motion before the committee is this... 20 00:02:43,672 --> 00:02:45,717 Committee? How are we a committee? 21 00:02:45,747 --> 00:02:49,681 Mr Bowles was elected chairman of this meeting, sir. 22 00:02:50,499 --> 00:02:53,140 Do you wish it adjourned or will you leave it? 23 00:02:53,170 --> 00:02:55,680 Allow me, Mr Brocklebank. 24 00:02:55,710 --> 00:03:00,033 Mr Talbot may be forgiven for supposing this is no more than a social gathering. 25 00:03:00,063 --> 00:03:03,052 We have constituted ourselves an ad-hoc committee. 26 00:03:03,082 --> 00:03:07,466 And have come to certain conclusions: our motion is intolerable. 27 00:03:07,496 --> 00:03:10,387 But we believe there may be a remedy. 28 00:03:11,188 --> 00:03:12,832 - Which is... - We suppose 29 00:03:12,862 --> 00:03:15,406 that relief may be found by an alteration of course 30 00:03:15,436 --> 00:03:18,031 away from the wind and towards a South American port 31 00:03:18,061 --> 00:03:20,409 where the ship might be repaired and our health restored. 32 00:03:20,439 --> 00:03:23,831 If such an alteration were necessary, surely our officers would have made it. 33 00:03:23,861 --> 00:03:25,742 They may think of the ship 34 00:03:25,772 --> 00:03:28,387 but we may go whistle for consideration. 35 00:03:29,420 --> 00:03:32,650 We are taking in water faster than they can pump it out. 36 00:03:32,680 --> 00:03:36,564 The decision to change course is not mine or yours, but the captain's. 37 00:03:36,594 --> 00:03:38,466 All we plan at the moment is to make our wishes known. 38 00:03:38,496 --> 00:03:41,199 I wish you the best of luck. 39 00:03:41,229 --> 00:03:43,151 In fact, Mr Talbot, 40 00:03:43,181 --> 00:03:47,665 I must break it to you that, 'in absentia', you have been elected to 41 00:03:48,309 --> 00:03:50,116 ...how shall I say? 42 00:03:50,475 --> 00:03:52,636 ...bell the cat. 43 00:03:53,187 --> 00:03:53,896 Devil take it! 44 00:03:54,289 --> 00:03:56,604 There was no one more able, Mr Talbot. 45 00:03:56,634 --> 00:03:58,774 You may take poor little Phoebe with you, 46 00:03:58,804 --> 00:04:04,163 and pull up her smock and show Captain Anderson her rash. 47 00:04:04,193 --> 00:04:05,891 Pike, for the love of God! 48 00:04:05,921 --> 00:04:08,645 No one else is so likely to have influence with the captain. 49 00:04:08,761 --> 00:04:11,561 - Your godfather being who he is... - Let me think! 50 00:04:13,179 --> 00:04:16,351 If we go to him then we go with great care. 51 00:04:16,563 --> 00:04:20,026 The position of a passenger on a matter of war is... 52 00:04:20,056 --> 00:04:22,517 The power of the captain may well be absolute. 53 00:04:22,547 --> 00:04:26,857 - But we are no longer at war, sir. - And we are not about to start a mutiny. 54 00:04:26,887 --> 00:04:31,321 If you are to approach the captain, it must be your last resort. 55 00:04:32,064 --> 00:04:35,669 I will try to persuade the first lieutenant that he should carry your wishes forward 56 00:04:35,699 --> 00:04:39,097 And if the captain refuses to listen to Mr Summers? 57 00:04:39,127 --> 00:04:42,001 Yes. I shall go myself. 58 00:05:16,172 --> 00:05:20,628 I will not jeopardize the lives of all passengers on this ship, sir. 59 00:05:20,658 --> 00:05:22,752 That is enough! 60 00:05:27,723 --> 00:05:32,378 - What might you want down here, sir? - I was hoping to find Lt Summers. 61 00:05:41,569 --> 00:05:47,060 Don't mind Mr Davies, sir. He won't trouble you, now. 62 00:05:48,658 --> 00:05:52,956 Not feeling quite the thing, are you Mr Talbot? 63 00:05:53,073 --> 00:05:56,469 Not so much the lord these days... 64 00:05:57,116 --> 00:06:01,125 I may not be a peer, Mr Askew. 65 00:06:01,155 --> 00:06:06,861 But I'm commissioned to serve His Majesty in ways you've probably never heard of 66 00:06:06,891 --> 00:06:09,947 and would never understand. You will oblige me by paying my position the respect 67 00:06:09,977 --> 00:06:13,469 due to it from a warrant officer of the Navy, however senior. 68 00:06:15,629 --> 00:06:18,959 - 'ardly lovable, is it? - Lovable? 69 00:06:18,989 --> 00:06:25,137 To carry on this... walking about. The hoity-toity. 70 00:06:27,048 --> 00:06:29,052 I liked the way 71 00:06:29,082 --> 00:06:34,512 you took those blows on the head and come up again all set to be a hero. 72 00:06:35,297 --> 00:06:38,793 'He'll be a man one day', I said to myself. 73 00:06:38,823 --> 00:06:41,901 'If someone don't kill him first.' 74 00:06:42,751 --> 00:06:46,945 Only... you don't know nothing, do you? 75 00:06:48,277 --> 00:06:54,064 Make a private conversation of this, sir, and I shall know how to answer you. 76 00:06:55,631 --> 00:07:00,463 Davies is no trouble. He's not gonna bother us. 77 00:07:00,493 --> 00:07:04,097 Martin! Give us a song! 78 00:07:11,086 --> 00:07:14,776 He's a real bottom of the barrel, isn't he? 79 00:07:16,657 --> 00:07:19,903 He might have made a lieutenant if he'd been lucky. 80 00:07:19,933 --> 00:07:23,033 Or had a shove up the bum from an admiral. 81 00:07:27,070 --> 00:07:31,713 It's living and dying in ships, you see. 82 00:07:31,743 --> 00:07:34,857 Something we all have to get accustomed to. 83 00:07:53,699 --> 00:07:57,977 I have more experience than you with this ship! 84 00:08:17,583 --> 00:08:19,945 It is not madness! If you were to take time 85 00:08:19,975 --> 00:08:21,967 to look at what we are planning on doing 86 00:08:21,997 --> 00:08:24,052 then you'd not think that it's madness- - Mr Ben�t! 87 00:08:24,082 --> 00:08:29,105 It is more madness to simply drift around idly in the seas going nowhere! 88 00:08:29,135 --> 00:08:32,418 Mr Talbot... This way, sir! 89 00:08:37,197 --> 00:08:38,560 I must say, gentlemen. 90 00:08:38,590 --> 00:08:40,952 I find your choice of meeting place somewhat clandestine. 91 00:08:40,982 --> 00:08:43,589 What are you doing here, Mr Talbot? 92 00:08:43,903 --> 00:08:47,511 The passengers have formed a committee and they... 93 00:08:47,541 --> 00:08:48,727 rather we... 94 00:08:48,757 --> 00:08:52,402 wish to make our opinion known that for the sake of women and children 95 00:08:52,432 --> 00:08:54,594 the ship's course should be redirected to South America. 96 00:08:54,624 --> 00:08:56,864 - Impossible! - Mr Ben�t! 97 00:08:59,431 --> 00:09:02,658 I am still first lieutenant of this ship. 98 00:09:04,108 --> 00:09:09,207 It is not a question of whether we will or will not stand towards South America. 99 00:09:09,237 --> 00:09:11,552 We cannot proceed in that direction. 100 00:09:11,582 --> 00:09:15,015 Nor can we touch anywhere near the Cape of Good Hope. 101 00:09:15,045 --> 00:09:17,567 We have got ourselves too far south. 102 00:09:17,597 --> 00:09:20,214 Ships go further south than this... 103 00:09:28,888 --> 00:09:30,986 The ship's problem goes back to when she was built. 104 00:09:31,016 --> 00:09:33,710 They say of these ships that they were built by the mile. 105 00:09:33,740 --> 00:09:36,196 And sawn off as required. 106 00:09:36,883 --> 00:09:39,728 Building defects are way too common in warships. 107 00:09:39,837 --> 00:09:42,591 They say the copper to lie in someone's pocket. 108 00:09:42,621 --> 00:09:45,995 - Can men do such things? - We feel she moves too much. 109 00:09:46,025 --> 00:09:47,683 We cannot use the foremast 110 00:09:47,713 --> 00:09:51,210 and, as a consequence, we cannot use the mizzenmast either. 111 00:09:51,583 --> 00:09:54,204 All is lost, then? 112 00:09:54,234 --> 00:09:59,018 By obedience to the forces of nature we may just... outwit them. 113 00:09:59,828 --> 00:10:03,655 It will be a long voyage, Mr Talbot. 114 00:10:07,873 --> 00:10:10,177 And we may sink? 115 00:10:10,494 --> 00:10:12,296 I can trust you? 116 00:10:14,089 --> 00:10:17,736 Then yes. We may sink. 117 00:10:19,905 --> 00:10:21,357 Now... 118 00:10:21,716 --> 00:10:26,809 are you willing to - I will not say 'to lie' - but to... 119 00:10:27,093 --> 00:10:30,281 play down the seriousness of our situation as far as the passengers are concerned? 120 00:10:30,311 --> 00:10:32,521 Devil take it, man! What am I to say to them? 121 00:10:32,551 --> 00:10:35,501 If I say to them we will not reach the coast of South America or Africa 122 00:10:35,531 --> 00:10:38,163 they will rightfully fear the worst! - It is a difficulty... 123 00:10:38,193 --> 00:10:40,381 What the First Lieutenant means, Mr Talbot, 124 00:10:40,411 --> 00:10:42,493 is that you should darken counsel a little 125 00:10:42,523 --> 00:10:45,330 and rely only on assuring them that all will be well 126 00:10:45,360 --> 00:10:48,149 and that we do the best in the circumstances. 127 00:10:48,179 --> 00:10:50,279 Come, Mr Talbot. 128 00:10:50,309 --> 00:10:53,706 We may not sink today and we may not sink tomorrow. 129 00:10:53,736 --> 00:10:57,099 God willing, we may never sink at all. 130 00:11:05,491 --> 00:11:07,617 Where's the committee? 131 00:11:10,935 --> 00:11:14,538 The movement is too much for them. 132 00:11:15,221 --> 00:11:17,383 I'm small and light. 133 00:11:17,843 --> 00:11:20,140 I do not get flung about so much. 134 00:11:24,060 --> 00:11:26,213 You have spoken with Mr Summers? 135 00:11:26,243 --> 00:11:28,149 The ship is in no danger. 136 00:11:30,795 --> 00:11:34,561 The wind, as you know, Mr Pike, has a habit of changing. 137 00:11:34,686 --> 00:11:39,265 I'm sure, before long, we will find ourselves riding as easy as in a post chase. 138 00:11:40,319 --> 00:11:43,677 Do you mind if I call you Ed? Or Eddie? 139 00:11:43,707 --> 00:11:49,379 You may address me as Edmund in this em.. situation in which we find ourselves. 140 00:11:50,944 --> 00:11:52,730 You know, Edmund, 141 00:11:52,760 --> 00:11:57,328 I prefer sitting here talking with you, than being with my own family. 142 00:11:57,845 --> 00:12:01,058 This is quite, quite dreadful, I know, but... 143 00:12:02,347 --> 00:12:05,464 after a while I simply cannot stand it! 144 00:12:06,259 --> 00:12:10,781 No matter how anxious I am. 145 00:12:10,811 --> 00:12:13,095 How much I love them... 146 00:12:14,883 --> 00:12:17,296 Anxious? What on earth for? 147 00:12:18,715 --> 00:12:22,812 Mrs Pike seems to think I can do something. 148 00:12:22,842 --> 00:12:25,424 Which, to tell you the truth, is why I'm here. 149 00:12:25,942 --> 00:12:28,667 - Ah... - I cannot! 150 00:12:28,697 --> 00:12:31,070 That hurts more than anything. 151 00:12:31,387 --> 00:12:35,774 You should find her faith in you flattering, Mr ... Dick. 152 00:12:39,378 --> 00:12:42,407 You said our children were too young for the French, 153 00:12:42,437 --> 00:12:45,395 but they are not too young for our Lord. 154 00:12:46,246 --> 00:12:48,881 If they should slip through my hands... 155 00:12:48,911 --> 00:12:51,822 in... in this devilish place... 156 00:12:51,852 --> 00:12:53,824 ...this desert... 157 00:12:53,854 --> 00:12:56,500 Come, Dick, pull yourself together! 158 00:12:56,696 --> 00:13:00,520 I'm sorry. I couldn't leave them to sink. 159 00:13:00,899 --> 00:13:02,926 Not here! 160 00:13:03,524 --> 00:13:05,594 Stop blobbering, man! 161 00:13:05,624 --> 00:13:08,919 Anyone would think you was a girl! Curse it! 162 00:13:08,949 --> 00:13:11,730 I mean... I... 163 00:13:23,673 --> 00:13:27,112 Mr Talbot. 164 00:13:30,112 --> 00:13:33,041 Mr Prettiman has requested to speak with you. 165 00:13:33,203 --> 00:13:37,392 - Me, ma'am? What... - He says it is a private matter. 166 00:13:39,440 --> 00:13:42,616 - Is the time convenient? - Of course, ma'am. 167 00:13:42,646 --> 00:13:45,021 Whatever you wish. 168 00:13:46,733 --> 00:13:49,767 Aloysius? 169 00:13:52,805 --> 00:13:56,179 It is Mr Talbot, come to see you. 170 00:14:22,383 --> 00:14:27,856 - Letitia? - It is I, Edmund Talbot, sir. 171 00:14:27,886 --> 00:14:30,855 Miss Granham has stepped outside. 172 00:14:31,553 --> 00:14:34,445 She seems to think you wish to talk to me, though what have I done to 173 00:14:34,475 --> 00:14:36,540 deserve such an unexpected honour? 174 00:14:36,570 --> 00:14:39,176 Sit down, boy. Sit down. 175 00:14:42,322 --> 00:14:45,863 You're aware than Miss Granham and I... Argh! 176 00:14:47,174 --> 00:14:51,950 I am aware, as is everybody, that the lady has 177 00:14:51,980 --> 00:14:54,076 consented to make you the happiest of men. 178 00:14:54,106 --> 00:14:56,926 Don't smother the thing with nonsense. She agreed to marry me! 179 00:14:56,956 --> 00:14:59,707 - That is what I said - Now, I mean, 180 00:14:59,737 --> 00:15:04,387 before we reach the promise land, if by some small miracle we ever do. 181 00:15:04,417 --> 00:15:05,769 We have no clergyman. 182 00:15:05,799 --> 00:15:09,637 Captain Anderson will perform the ceremony. 183 00:15:10,123 --> 00:15:12,664 Can I fetch you a drink? 184 00:15:14,632 --> 00:15:17,037 I am dying, Mr Talbot. 185 00:15:17,067 --> 00:15:19,808 Oh, come now, Mr Prettiman, a mere fracture isn't... 186 00:15:19,838 --> 00:15:23,359 Will you abstain from this foolish habit of contradiction? If I say 187 00:15:23,389 --> 00:15:27,210 'I am dying', I mean I am dying and I'm going to die! 188 00:15:28,723 --> 00:15:30,304 Mr Talbot... 189 00:15:30,334 --> 00:15:34,021 I wish you to be a witness at the ceremony. 190 00:15:34,051 --> 00:15:36,845 - I? - You and Oldmeadow. 191 00:15:36,875 --> 00:15:40,513 But we have no official standing on this ship. I will be happy to give the bride away. 192 00:15:40,543 --> 00:15:42,623 - Mr East will give her away. - Mr East the printer? 193 00:15:42,653 --> 00:15:47,128 Will you listen?! Or do you wish to prolong this interview indefinitely? 194 00:15:47,158 --> 00:15:49,538 The officers of this ship will be distributed around the world. 195 00:15:49,568 --> 00:15:53,571 But you and Oldmeadow will remain at Sydney Cove 196 00:15:53,601 --> 00:16:00,087 Modest as it may be, Miss Granham will inherit my fortune. 197 00:16:00,117 --> 00:16:03,692 But without unimpeachable witnesses 198 00:16:03,722 --> 00:16:09,395 and at a distance of 18,000 miles from our courts - corrupt as they are... 199 00:16:09,425 --> 00:16:10,719 That is outrageous, sir! British justice... 200 00:16:10,749 --> 00:16:13,932 If I say they are corrupt, then they are corrupt! 201 00:16:13,962 --> 00:16:16,542 Oh, in respect of money you may rely on them, but in all else 202 00:16:16,572 --> 00:16:19,366 they are corrupt by privilege, land tenure, by a 203 00:16:19,396 --> 00:16:22,327 viciously inadequate system of representation. 204 00:16:24,300 --> 00:16:30,178 I do not care to ask for favours, but I find that I must. 205 00:16:31,105 --> 00:16:33,806 Do you believe in justice, sir? 206 00:16:33,836 --> 00:16:38,155 I am an Englishman. I believe in fair play. 207 00:16:38,185 --> 00:16:41,455 May I not move you to a more comfortable position, sir? 208 00:16:41,485 --> 00:16:47,204 - This mass of bedclothes round your waist. - It is not a mass of clothes, it is 209 00:16:47,234 --> 00:16:51,537 a gross swelling of the upper abdomen and the upper part of the lower limbs. 210 00:16:57,813 --> 00:16:59,448 Good God. 211 00:17:00,500 --> 00:17:01,660 Good God! 212 00:17:01,690 --> 00:17:05,776 Must every second sentence begin with an imprecation? 213 00:17:06,683 --> 00:17:08,823 You cannot move me, sir. 214 00:17:08,853 --> 00:17:11,497 To move me is a torture. 215 00:17:13,134 --> 00:17:15,656 Come closer, Mr Talbot. 216 00:17:23,086 --> 00:17:29,528 I have searched my conscience. I believe, what I'm about to do is right. 217 00:17:29,558 --> 00:17:32,132 - I have a paper for you. - Oh? 218 00:17:32,162 --> 00:17:35,236 It is a paper signed by me. 219 00:17:35,266 --> 00:17:39,776 People will contest my will. 220 00:17:40,360 --> 00:17:43,143 They might well bring the case that the marriage 221 00:17:43,518 --> 00:17:46,656 was not - could not be consummated. 222 00:17:57,003 --> 00:18:00,353 I do not follow what I'm supposed to do, Mr Prettiman. 223 00:18:00,383 --> 00:18:04,050 I've written a plain declaration that I have had... 224 00:18:05,160 --> 00:18:10,599 carnal knowledge of the lady. During the voyage, before the marriage. 225 00:18:10,629 --> 00:18:12,227 - Good... - You're about to say something? 226 00:18:12,257 --> 00:18:13,140 Nothing... 227 00:18:13,170 --> 00:18:16,831 You will find in my possessions a green leather case. 228 00:18:23,499 --> 00:18:26,699 Take charge of the letter, if you please. 229 00:18:28,679 --> 00:18:31,666 I... agree to guard this letter and 230 00:18:32,385 --> 00:18:34,684 produce it under the circumstances which you envisage. 231 00:18:34,714 --> 00:18:35,914 Good. 232 00:18:36,417 --> 00:18:37,925 - Oh, Talbot! - Sir? 233 00:18:40,834 --> 00:18:44,435 Miss Granham is unaware of the existence of this paper 234 00:18:44,465 --> 00:18:48,015 and I wish her to remain so as long as possible. 235 00:19:03,057 --> 00:19:06,445 That is a lady's cabin... Excuse me my lad! 236 00:19:08,039 --> 00:19:09,507 Miss Granham! 237 00:19:11,066 --> 00:19:14,376 Mr Summers was kind enough to provide me with dry clothing. 238 00:19:17,026 --> 00:19:19,947 Your business with Mr Prettiman is concluded? 239 00:19:19,977 --> 00:19:21,503 Indeed it is. 240 00:19:23,022 --> 00:19:25,655 My apologies if I startled you, ma'am. 241 00:19:55,746 --> 00:20:00,397 You must be glad for time of leisure what with your many activities, Mr Ben�t. 242 00:20:00,427 --> 00:20:03,131 Work enables me to forget my sorrow, Mr Talbot. 243 00:20:03,161 --> 00:20:05,790 I do not envy you, given 24 idle hours a day, in which to fill 244 00:20:05,820 --> 00:20:08,672 the pangs of separation from Miss Chumley. 245 00:20:10,546 --> 00:20:12,849 We are companions in sorrow, sir. 246 00:20:13,534 --> 00:20:15,403 I have no solace but my art. 247 00:20:15,433 --> 00:20:20,198 - Art, Mr Ben�t? - My muse - my poetry. 248 00:20:20,228 --> 00:20:23,169 The parting from Lady Somerset struck verses from me as quickly 249 00:20:23,199 --> 00:20:25,388 as the sparks from the flint. 250 00:20:30,545 --> 00:20:34,611 'The salutation which she cast From ship to ship had been our last!' 251 00:20:34,641 --> 00:20:36,559 'Her eye had dropped a winking tear...' 252 00:20:36,589 --> 00:20:38,998 Yes, I'm sure the verses will be very pretty, Mr Ben�t, 253 00:20:39,028 --> 00:20:41,701 once properly written down and corrected. 254 00:20:41,731 --> 00:20:42,721 Do you find some fault? 255 00:20:42,751 --> 00:20:45,979 I could detect a little 'enjambment', but that is by the by. 256 00:20:46,009 --> 00:20:49,166 She was with Miss Chumley. Did Miss Chumley not speak? 257 00:20:49,196 --> 00:20:51,461 She came to the rail as Alcyone moved away 258 00:20:51,491 --> 00:20:53,130 and looked woebegone... 259 00:20:53,160 --> 00:20:56,176 I daresay she was feeling seasick. 260 00:20:56,206 --> 00:20:59,657 I doubt you have the sensibility to understand the completeness of separation. 261 00:20:59,687 --> 00:21:02,544 I believe I have as much sensibility as the next man, sir! 262 00:21:02,574 --> 00:21:04,923 The instant I saw Miss Chumley, I was struck by... 263 00:21:04,953 --> 00:21:07,301 no, no - destroyed by lightning. 264 00:21:07,643 --> 00:21:11,044 It was, if you are familiar with the phrase, 'coup de foudre'. 265 00:21:11,294 --> 00:21:14,365 - Say that again. - 'Coup de foudre'. 266 00:21:14,395 --> 00:21:16,201 Yes, the phrase is familiar. 267 00:21:16,231 --> 00:21:17,318 Before we parted she did declare 268 00:21:17,348 --> 00:21:20,067 that she held me in higher regard than any gentleman on either ship. 269 00:21:20,097 --> 00:21:21,653 Later still, I received a 'billet doux'. 270 00:21:21,683 --> 00:21:25,044 - A 'billet doux'! For God's sake! - Was that not encouragement? 271 00:21:25,074 --> 00:21:28,266 Well how can I tell unless I know what is in it? 272 00:21:28,519 --> 00:21:31,223 The words are chiselled in my heart, sir. 273 00:21:31,874 --> 00:21:35,214 'A young person will always remember the time when two ships were side by side' 274 00:21:35,244 --> 00:21:38,047 'in the middle of the sea and hopes that one day they may put down their anchors' 275 00:21:38,077 --> 00:21:40,379 'in the same harbour.' 276 00:21:41,551 --> 00:21:44,489 I find no encouragement for you there, sir. 277 00:21:44,605 --> 00:21:45,507 I do not believe it. 278 00:21:45,537 --> 00:21:48,261 A determination that the affair should end as painlessly as possible. 279 00:21:48,291 --> 00:21:50,351 - No! - Be a man, Mr Talbot. 280 00:21:50,381 --> 00:21:51,995 Do I whine or repent? 281 00:21:52,025 --> 00:21:54,832 Because I have no hope whatever of seeing the Beloved Object again. 282 00:21:54,862 --> 00:21:58,025 All that consoles me is my genius. 283 00:22:00,403 --> 00:22:03,015 She felt as I do! 284 00:22:41,010 --> 00:22:44,696 - Go away. - Sir, wake up, sir. You are required. 285 00:22:45,494 --> 00:22:49,133 - What for? - The wedding, sir. It's today. 286 00:22:52,749 --> 00:22:55,277 Wedding? 287 00:23:17,083 --> 00:23:19,337 Oh, be careful! 288 00:23:20,073 --> 00:23:21,763 It's alright, now. 289 00:24:42,616 --> 00:24:46,945 We are witnesses. Oblige us by letting us through. 290 00:25:02,952 --> 00:25:06,953 'Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live and is full of misery' 291 00:25:06,983 --> 00:25:08,635 God, man! 292 00:25:24,936 --> 00:25:26,680 'Dearly beloved.' 293 00:25:27,699 --> 00:25:31,007 'We are gathered together here, in the sight of God' 294 00:25:31,037 --> 00:25:35,243 'in the face of this congregation to join together this man and this woman' 295 00:25:35,273 --> 00:25:36,887 'in holy matrimony.' 296 00:25:37,037 --> 00:25:41,718 'which is an honourable estate, instituted by God in the time of man's innocence' 297 00:25:41,748 --> 00:25:46,296 'Signifying onto us the mystical union that is betwixt Christ and his Church:' 298 00:25:46,554 --> 00:25:50,299 'which holy estate Christ adorned and beautified with his presence' 299 00:25:50,329 --> 00:25:53,962 'and first miracle that he wrought in Cana of Galilee,' 300 00:25:53,992 --> 00:25:59,407 'Therefore, if any man can show just cause why they may not lawfully be joined together' 301 00:25:59,437 --> 00:26:04,257 'let him now speak, or else hereafter for ever hold his peace.' 302 00:26:14,894 --> 00:26:16,796 I have the ring! 303 00:26:29,964 --> 00:26:33,762 Now Mr Prettiman. If you could repeat after me: 304 00:26:33,895 --> 00:26:37,262 'With this ring, I thee wed.' 305 00:26:37,646 --> 00:26:40,658 'With this ring, I thee wed.' 306 00:26:42,594 --> 00:26:47,190 'What God has joined together, let no man put asunder.' 307 00:27:39,409 --> 00:27:42,818 Mr Ben�t. What brings you down here? 308 00:27:42,848 --> 00:27:45,710 - I came to assist Mr Prettiman. - Ah, there's no need. 309 00:27:45,740 --> 00:27:48,561 I'm on my way to help the fellow right now. You may return to your duties. 310 00:27:48,591 --> 00:27:50,426 All the same, I think I should call on the gentleman. 311 00:27:50,456 --> 00:27:53,723 I believe he may benefit from having his position changed. 312 00:27:53,753 --> 00:27:56,651 - That was my idea. - Really, sir? 313 00:27:56,681 --> 00:27:59,005 We're all capable of ideas and not all of them will endanger 314 00:27:59,035 --> 00:28:00,802 the safety of this ship, you fool! 315 00:28:00,832 --> 00:28:03,342 - I'm not a fool! - I'm saying that you are. 316 00:28:03,372 --> 00:28:05,667 What is worse, you are a French fool! 317 00:28:05,697 --> 00:28:09,532 Ah, the English. When one first meets them, one dislikes them. 318 00:28:09,562 --> 00:28:13,695 But when one gets to know them, the dislike turns to genuine loathing. 319 00:28:15,676 --> 00:28:17,163 Gentlemen, please! 320 00:28:17,193 --> 00:28:20,595 - Mr Prettiman, I am here to help you. - As am I, sir. 321 00:28:22,001 --> 00:28:23,460 - Sir, I believe... - My idea is to change... 322 00:28:23,622 --> 00:28:26,028 Anything to relieve this agony. Move me if you will! 323 00:28:29,250 --> 00:28:31,844 - This way. - No, this way! 324 00:28:31,874 --> 00:28:34,375 Oh gently. Gently with him! 325 00:28:58,931 --> 00:29:01,137 You've killed him. 326 00:29:24,553 --> 00:29:27,524 I kill people without knowing it. 327 00:29:27,554 --> 00:29:31,663 Colley, Wheeler... Now Mr Prettiman. 328 00:29:34,602 --> 00:29:36,855 During the voyage I've received a few shocks and 329 00:29:36,885 --> 00:29:40,752 found out a few things about myself I did not much like. 330 00:29:41,520 --> 00:29:46,616 But this new event was like falling into the darkness of a measureless pit. 331 00:30:27,218 --> 00:30:29,934 Is something wrong, Mr Talbot, sir? 332 00:30:31,512 --> 00:30:33,014 No, Phillips. 333 00:30:33,615 --> 00:30:36,727 - Why, should there be? - You were calling out, sir. 334 00:31:12,226 --> 00:31:15,301 You could have saved us. 335 00:31:19,306 --> 00:31:21,497 Have you a spare moment? 336 00:31:22,430 --> 00:31:24,341 I have volunteered to stand the middle of the watch 337 00:31:24,371 --> 00:31:27,112 which by now you must know is... - Midnight until four. 338 00:31:27,142 --> 00:31:29,223 An officer of the watch has a doggie. 339 00:31:29,253 --> 00:31:32,690 Would you care to stand that watch with me as a midship? 340 00:31:33,984 --> 00:31:34,653 You're serious? 341 00:31:34,683 --> 00:31:36,551 I know that you're a passenger, sir, but it occurred to me that... 342 00:31:36,581 --> 00:31:38,617 Should you leave me in charge of the ship? 343 00:31:38,647 --> 00:31:41,341 During the day I recommend you get at least four hours of sleep 344 00:31:41,371 --> 00:31:43,812 to make up for what you will loose during the night. 345 00:31:43,842 --> 00:31:47,041 In fact, I believe I shall make that an order. 346 00:31:47,071 --> 00:31:48,727 Aye aye, sir. 347 00:32:01,355 --> 00:32:05,294 - 'Night, Mr Summers. - Thank you, Mr Cumbershum. 348 00:32:31,705 --> 00:32:33,309 Mr Speaker, 349 00:32:33,339 --> 00:32:35,354 to those of us who have actually stood 350 00:32:35,384 --> 00:32:37,991 the middle in one of His Majesty's ships of the line. 351 00:32:38,021 --> 00:32:39,870 It is good to have you here, Mr Talbot. 352 00:32:39,900 --> 00:32:41,982 Please, Mr Summers 353 00:32:42,012 --> 00:32:45,417 As your... 'doggie' -as I believe you called it- 354 00:32:45,447 --> 00:32:46,795 I'm Edmund. 355 00:32:47,218 --> 00:32:49,162 Then I am Charles. 356 00:32:59,669 --> 00:33:03,217 You might read by this light, don't you think? 357 00:33:07,510 --> 00:33:10,856 - Where are we? - You mean our position? 358 00:33:10,886 --> 00:33:12,542 I wish I could tell you. 359 00:33:13,226 --> 00:33:15,467 We know our latitude, if that is any comfort. 360 00:33:15,497 --> 00:33:17,386 It's all Columbus ever knew. 361 00:33:17,416 --> 00:33:21,436 An Italian who left Spain looking for India and found America? 362 00:33:29,897 --> 00:33:33,656 Charles, when am I to learn celestial navigation? 363 00:33:35,371 --> 00:33:38,208 That will have to wait, I'm afraid, Edmund. 364 00:33:47,575 --> 00:33:50,951 - What is Mr Gibbs doing? - The foremast has broken its shoe. 365 00:33:50,981 --> 00:33:53,479 - You knew that, surely. - When we were taken aback. 366 00:33:53,509 --> 00:33:55,657 It is why we have spread no sail on it. 367 00:33:55,687 --> 00:33:59,150 - And the mizzenmast? - Balance, Edmund. 368 00:33:59,180 --> 00:34:03,084 - We cannot rig one without the other. - Forgive me. I'm still learning. 369 00:34:03,114 --> 00:34:06,531 Mr Gibbs is securing the mast the best he can. 370 00:34:08,603 --> 00:34:12,775 If we do not make progress soon, we may all starve out here, that is a fact. 371 00:34:15,031 --> 00:34:17,070 And there's nothing we can do? 372 00:34:17,100 --> 00:34:21,673 Mr Ben�t believes he can reduce the movement so we can rig a sail. 373 00:34:21,703 --> 00:34:24,133 By scientific means he wishes to secure the foremast 374 00:34:24,163 --> 00:34:26,660 using the forcing contraction of red-hot iron. 375 00:34:26,690 --> 00:34:29,007 Shrinking metal on wood?! 376 00:34:29,037 --> 00:34:33,405 The model he showed Captain Anderson and myself worked, I will allow him that. 377 00:34:33,435 --> 00:34:35,618 On a larger scale... 378 00:34:36,780 --> 00:34:40,326 he could indeed pull the foremast back into position. 379 00:34:40,356 --> 00:34:42,629 You do not sound convinced, Charles. 380 00:34:42,659 --> 00:34:43,856 We are at sea. 381 00:34:43,886 --> 00:34:46,618 Any mistake and the mast may slip and go through the bottom of the ship. 382 00:34:46,648 --> 00:34:48,675 Then he is insane to even suggest such an idea. 383 00:34:48,705 --> 00:34:50,110 The captain is yet to make his decision. 384 00:34:50,140 --> 00:34:51,838 How may the captain even consider such... 385 00:34:51,868 --> 00:34:54,533 Mr Ben�t is a most persuasive young man. 386 00:34:54,563 --> 00:34:55,910 He will go far. 387 00:34:56,903 --> 00:34:58,680 If he lives... 388 00:36:01,981 --> 00:36:04,293 Back, Mr Talbot! 389 00:36:08,524 --> 00:36:10,247 Carry on, Mr Ben�t. 390 00:36:11,415 --> 00:36:14,278 More water. Roundly now! 391 00:36:24,544 --> 00:36:26,817 Keep watching this side. 392 00:36:31,094 --> 00:36:33,918 - More water, she's on fire! - Mind your station, Mr Gibbs! 393 00:36:33,948 --> 00:36:37,595 Still, I say! Still !! 394 00:36:45,523 --> 00:36:48,175 - Sir, I fear that... - Quiet! 395 00:36:59,749 --> 00:37:01,778 She's moving, sir. 396 00:37:12,664 --> 00:37:15,184 Congratulations, Mr Ben�t. 397 00:37:15,343 --> 00:37:17,646 - I believe you were the originator, here -Thank you, sir. 398 00:37:17,676 --> 00:37:19,745 - You too, Mr Coombes. - Thank you, sir. 399 00:37:19,775 --> 00:37:23,400 Mr Summers. Come with me. 400 00:37:44,249 --> 00:37:45,717 Good God. 401 00:37:45,817 --> 00:37:48,397 Do you understand what you see, Mr Talbot? 402 00:37:48,427 --> 00:37:51,301 - The wood must be on fire within. - For a little while, no more. 403 00:37:51,331 --> 00:37:53,947 Do you mean to burn us all before any of our other dangers finish us?! 404 00:37:53,977 --> 00:37:55,812 Be easy, Mr Talbot. 405 00:37:55,842 --> 00:37:58,619 The channels are much larger than the bolts. Air cannot enter. 406 00:37:58,649 --> 00:38:01,818 When the air is depleted of its oxygen it will start to cool and there will be 407 00:38:01,848 --> 00:38:04,469 no more than a layer of charcoal inside the channels. 408 00:38:04,499 --> 00:38:07,698 But you see the degree of force we have at our disposal? 409 00:38:07,728 --> 00:38:08,701 It is terrifying. 410 00:38:08,731 --> 00:38:10,931 The mast was moved upright in a matter of seconds. 411 00:38:10,961 --> 00:38:12,523 We may now rig it with sail. 412 00:38:12,553 --> 00:38:14,742 And our speed will increase? 413 00:38:15,695 --> 00:38:18,332 - What was that? - Something taking up. 414 00:38:18,741 --> 00:38:20,327 It does not matter. 415 00:38:21,220 --> 00:38:28,338 'Thy face is veiled, thou mighty form The dry, the chill, the moist, the warm' 416 00:38:32,112 --> 00:38:36,076 It is nothing personal against Mr Ben�t. The plan itself is flawed. 417 00:38:36,106 --> 00:38:38,316 You've done nothing but obstruct the man since he came aboard, sir. 418 00:38:38,346 --> 00:38:39,413 Obstruct, sir? 419 00:38:39,443 --> 00:38:41,888 You could learn a lot from Mr Ben�t, Mr Summers. 420 00:38:41,918 --> 00:38:45,305 He is a fine officer and has a bright future - whereas you, sir... 421 00:38:45,335 --> 00:38:48,708 Captain, sir. The plates are red-hot. 422 00:38:49,703 --> 00:38:52,046 There will still be fire within which might endanger the safety of the ship. 423 00:38:52,076 --> 00:38:54,750 I'm aware of your opinion, sir. Be aware of mine. 424 00:38:54,780 --> 00:38:57,738 And cease this constant sniping! 425 00:39:09,064 --> 00:39:10,633 Charles. 426 00:39:12,235 --> 00:39:14,457 What has happened? 427 00:39:16,666 --> 00:39:21,268 - Are you hurt? - He was lucky, wasn't he? 428 00:39:21,369 --> 00:39:22,670 Ben�t? 429 00:39:24,485 --> 00:39:27,376 Flat calm for the work... 430 00:39:30,590 --> 00:39:32,737 ...now the wind again. 431 00:39:33,978 --> 00:39:36,794 An extra two knots, Anderson said. 432 00:39:37,195 --> 00:39:42,416 And for that he has stuck red hot irons into wood - and left them there. 433 00:39:43,812 --> 00:39:45,999 Ben�t is a kind of meteor. 434 00:39:46,029 --> 00:39:48,160 A passing flash. 435 00:39:48,469 --> 00:39:50,897 Meteors always fall. 436 00:39:53,484 --> 00:39:55,337 He will nigh on double our speed. 437 00:39:55,367 --> 00:39:56,673 The man's a fool. 438 00:39:56,703 --> 00:39:59,470 He's below decks as we speak composing an ode to Nature. 439 00:39:59,500 --> 00:40:00,795 Is he so? 440 00:40:01,176 --> 00:40:04,641 Well, tell him Nature never gives something for nothing. 441 00:40:04,671 --> 00:40:07,825 Every knot he adds will double the intake of water. 442 00:40:09,812 --> 00:40:12,090 I am not to obstruct him! 443 00:40:12,399 --> 00:40:15,874 He, a brilliant young officer and I... 444 00:40:16,358 --> 00:40:18,153 dull. 445 00:40:18,553 --> 00:40:21,558 - Superannuated. - Who said that?! 446 00:40:21,588 --> 00:40:23,106 Anderson? 447 00:40:25,602 --> 00:40:27,396 I swear to you he should be brought down. 448 00:40:27,426 --> 00:40:29,544 I will raise the entire government of the Colony against him! 449 00:40:29,574 --> 00:40:31,844 Hold your tongue, Edmund. 450 00:40:31,944 --> 00:40:33,287 - It is mutiny. - It is justice. 451 00:40:33,317 --> 00:40:36,954 - I did not desire justice. - You are worth a hundred Ben�ts. 452 00:40:36,984 --> 00:40:39,179 Two hundred Andersons. 453 00:40:40,810 --> 00:40:46,052 If only this wind would have come a couple of hours ago... 454 00:40:46,545 --> 00:40:49,207 I find myself wishing... 455 00:40:53,463 --> 00:40:54,915 No. 456 00:40:55,828 --> 00:40:58,482 No, the mast is repaired. 457 00:40:58,512 --> 00:41:01,303 Our speed will increase and I'm glad of it. 458 00:41:01,333 --> 00:41:03,748 We must all be glad. 459 00:41:06,464 --> 00:41:09,392 Why are we such creatures that a few sentences of an angry man 460 00:41:09,422 --> 00:41:13,887 should matter more than the prospect of death? 461 00:41:17,998 --> 00:41:21,064 The first ship returning from Sydney Cove will carry not only my journals 462 00:41:21,094 --> 00:41:24,002 in which you are mentioned with much admiration 463 00:41:24,032 --> 00:41:26,314 but also contain a letter to my Godfather declaring that 464 00:41:26,344 --> 00:41:30,097 you deserve to be made 'post' on the spot. 465 00:41:34,134 --> 00:41:36,721 Can you do so? 466 00:41:37,264 --> 00:41:39,567 Exactly as I've said. 467 00:42:33,674 --> 00:42:35,143 I am... 468 00:42:35,427 --> 00:42:38,014 desperately sorry, ma'am. 469 00:42:47,283 --> 00:42:49,436 Can I see him? 470 00:42:56,552 --> 00:42:59,431 For God's sakes, ma'am, is he... 471 00:43:01,909 --> 00:43:05,573 - He is breathing. - Oh, thank God! 472 00:43:05,603 --> 00:43:07,793 Thank God! 473 00:43:09,078 --> 00:43:10,516 But the emigrants? 474 00:43:10,546 --> 00:43:13,851 Mr East has taken the news through the ship. 475 00:43:13,881 --> 00:43:16,180 What news, ma'am? 476 00:43:17,165 --> 00:43:20,603 Mr Prettiman is dying! 477 00:43:29,214 --> 00:43:33,545 - I don't know what to say, ma'am. - You never have, Mr Talbot. 478 00:43:34,742 --> 00:43:37,655 This voyage will be famous in history not for you but for him. 479 00:43:37,685 --> 00:43:39,582 You thought it was a comedy 480 00:43:40,317 --> 00:43:42,027 but it is a tragedy. 481 00:43:42,057 --> 00:43:45,177 a tragedy for the world we are approaching and hope to reach. 482 00:43:45,207 --> 00:43:46,658 - Ma'am... - I saw you come aboard 483 00:43:46,688 --> 00:43:49,759 with your privileges about you like cloud of 484 00:43:50,076 --> 00:43:52,315 of pinchbeck glory! 485 00:43:52,345 --> 00:43:55,503 Now you have trodden with your clumsy feet into a place which you do not understand 486 00:43:55,533 --> 00:43:58,128 and where you are not welcome! 487 00:43:58,616 --> 00:44:00,611 He will regard you indifferently. 488 00:44:00,641 --> 00:44:04,099 Not as a man, but as an agent of his death. 489 00:44:04,683 --> 00:44:08,058 He will be above forgiving you 490 00:44:09,177 --> 00:44:12,452 But I am not above it, sir. 491 00:44:12,482 --> 00:44:16,203 And I will never, never forgive you. 492 00:44:30,186 --> 00:44:33,308 Family, Mr Eddie. 493 00:44:33,457 --> 00:44:36,889 I hate families. 494 00:44:36,919 --> 00:44:39,879 I think... Mr Pike, if you are not feeling yourself. 495 00:44:39,909 --> 00:44:43,960 You should not say things you shall come later to regret. 496 00:44:43,990 --> 00:44:47,676 - Bates, a beer! - I hate her. Sod her! 497 00:44:47,706 --> 00:44:50,041 - Please, Mr Pike... - Sod her! Pardon my French. 498 00:44:50,071 --> 00:44:53,422 - Please refrain. - I don't hate them. 499 00:44:53,452 --> 00:44:56,181 I don't hate them - they hate me. 500 00:44:56,211 --> 00:44:59,323 - Because she said - she... - Pike... Pike, will you shut up?! 501 00:44:59,353 --> 00:45:02,553 Shut up, you despicable little orange toad!! 502 00:45:02,583 --> 00:45:05,980 You arse on the boil of man! 503 00:45:06,010 --> 00:45:11,408 [Mr Talbot is being quite unintelligible] 504 00:45:11,919 --> 00:45:16,354 Mr Pike, you are a disgusting little man! 505 00:45:16,384 --> 00:45:19,219 That's exactly what she said. 506 00:45:19,249 --> 00:45:22,974 Oh, yes, well you see, that's what I said, Mr Bowles. 507 00:45:23,004 --> 00:45:25,882 Quite right, Oldmeadow. 508 00:45:27,128 --> 00:45:28,966 There you are, sir. 509 00:45:30,223 --> 00:45:33,047 - Is this fellow dead? - Dead drunk. 510 00:45:33,077 --> 00:45:35,775 - Two more beers, Bates. - Yes, sir. 511 00:45:37,493 --> 00:45:40,182 Good God. Your hands! 512 00:45:40,212 --> 00:45:44,371 I suppose you expect the ship to be run to your convenience, Mr Talbot. 513 00:45:44,401 --> 00:45:48,953 - Oh, was that intended as an insult? - Pumping did that. 514 00:45:48,983 --> 00:45:51,981 And no matter how hard we worked, the water kept on rising on us. 515 00:45:52,011 --> 00:45:54,616 - Soon they will need us too. - Well why not? 516 00:45:54,646 --> 00:45:57,427 He took my men without so much as a 'by your leave'! 517 00:45:57,457 --> 00:46:01,121 - Mr Summers? - Yes. Lt fucking Summers. 518 00:46:01,151 --> 00:46:05,508 I said 'Why don't you take the passengers? Bowles, Pike, Talbot, 519 00:46:05,538 --> 00:46:09,815 Brocklebank' - even that sodding old wreck will last a minute or two! 520 00:46:09,845 --> 00:46:11,654 We're told that danger brings men together. 521 00:46:11,684 --> 00:46:13,491 I see little evidence of it here, gentlemen. 522 00:46:13,521 --> 00:46:16,248 We are civilians, you and I. Why should we get involved? 523 00:46:16,278 --> 00:46:18,260 I am no longer a civilian, sir. 524 00:46:18,290 --> 00:46:21,058 Lord Talbot has been promoted to midshipman. 525 00:46:21,088 --> 00:46:23,747 Every middle watch I attend with Mr Summers. 526 00:46:23,777 --> 00:46:25,660 So, in answer to your question, no, sir. 527 00:46:25,690 --> 00:46:28,674 I do not expect the ship to be run to my convenience. 528 00:46:28,704 --> 00:46:30,282 God have mercy! 529 00:46:30,312 --> 00:46:34,593 Soldiers turned into sailors and now passengers in charge of the ship. 530 00:46:34,623 --> 00:46:37,633 Frankly, I ask myself whether I should give up hope. 531 00:46:37,663 --> 00:46:42,012 Crawl away and huddle into my bunk. 532 00:46:42,042 --> 00:46:45,936 Perhaps you should ask Mr Brocklebank to join us. 533 00:46:45,966 --> 00:46:49,687 Gentlemen. Let's drink a final toast to Mr Prettiman. 534 00:46:49,717 --> 00:46:52,483 The silly old fool spends half the day 535 00:46:52,513 --> 00:46:56,402 in the wind and the rain with the sea water washing around his knees. 536 00:46:56,432 --> 00:47:00,645 Waiting for his morning fart to develop. 537 00:47:00,675 --> 00:47:03,148 So that's what he does out there. 538 00:47:03,178 --> 00:47:05,905 Well the girls will not allow him back into his cabin until he's fired off a 539 00:47:05,935 --> 00:47:09,347 blank charge like a saluting gun! 540 00:47:13,996 --> 00:47:16,904 Did somebody mention my name? 541 00:47:23,240 --> 00:47:28,807 - You are soaked through, sir. - I could not stand up there any longer! 542 00:47:28,837 --> 00:47:32,834 Is it still not safe to go back to your cabin? 543 00:47:32,864 --> 00:47:35,767 The fact is, I need the company of men. 544 00:47:35,797 --> 00:47:37,524 - Bates, more beer! - Good heaven. 545 00:47:37,554 --> 00:47:41,372 Surely anyone privileged enough to have the companionship of Mrs Brocklebank... 546 00:47:41,402 --> 00:47:46,237 - Not to mention the lovely daughter... - Oh, Celia endeavours to cheer me. 547 00:47:46,267 --> 00:47:50,102 But the truth is she already regards me with a widow's eye. 548 00:47:50,132 --> 00:47:54,464 Surely not! I see Mrs Brocklebank around the ship and she is never less than merry. 549 00:47:54,494 --> 00:47:58,542 They look merrily on you, Mr Talbot, but not on me. 550 00:47:58,572 --> 00:48:01,068 I do not like widows, sir. 551 00:48:01,098 --> 00:48:05,906 I've taken care to avoid them in the only truly logical way. 552 00:48:05,936 --> 00:48:12,142 But in the privacy of our cabin, Celia has just that air of sad triumph 553 00:48:12,172 --> 00:48:17,736 That almost holy smile with which a widow contemplates a job well done. 554 00:48:17,766 --> 00:48:20,658 An account paid in full. 555 00:48:20,688 --> 00:48:25,577 An account, I must confide, that she is not entitled to! 556 00:48:27,090 --> 00:48:35,437 Do you... you mean to tell me that Mrs... Celia and you are not... 557 00:48:36,666 --> 00:48:40,564 I hate families! 558 00:48:40,594 --> 00:48:43,564 Haa, my good man! Have you put the brandy in it? 559 00:48:43,594 --> 00:48:46,577 Just a lick, sir. 560 00:48:51,972 --> 00:48:55,024 There she blows! 561 00:49:02,313 --> 00:49:05,538 - Bates, more beer! - More beer! 562 00:49:27,043 --> 00:49:32,516 A! Mr Ben�t, you Frog! 563 00:49:32,546 --> 00:49:35,651 - I wish to have some plain answers. - You are drunk, sir. 564 00:49:35,681 --> 00:49:37,462 That is by the by. 565 00:49:37,492 --> 00:49:42,719 I wish to understand more clearly your relationship with a certain lady. 566 00:49:42,749 --> 00:49:44,189 You mean Miss Chumley, I suppose. 567 00:49:44,219 --> 00:49:48,198 I'm more concerned with a lady of maturer years. 568 00:49:48,228 --> 00:49:50,823 - So you have found me out. - Mm... 569 00:49:50,853 --> 00:49:54,917 She is... O, she is.... 570 00:49:54,947 --> 00:49:59,323 Since thou didst doff thy woman's weeds And loose the glories of thy hair 571 00:49:59,353 --> 00:50:01,727 The eye that weeps, the heart that bleeds... 572 00:50:01,757 --> 00:50:04,231 So you did have a criminal connection with her! 573 00:50:04,261 --> 00:50:05,895 And Miss Chumley was witness to it. 574 00:50:05,925 --> 00:50:07,519 - What connection? - Lady Somerset. 575 00:50:07,549 --> 00:50:09,238 The heart grows with understanding... 576 00:50:09,268 --> 00:50:12,779 Did you have her and did Miss Chumley see it? 577 00:50:12,809 --> 00:50:16,738 I might resent your words, Mr Talbot, on her behalf and my own. 578 00:50:16,768 --> 00:50:19,765 Your mind evidently cannot rise above the farmyard level. 579 00:50:19,795 --> 00:50:22,795 - Don't talk to me about farmyards! - You're passionately moved, sir. 580 00:50:22,825 --> 00:50:25,633 And hardly responsible for what you say. 581 00:50:25,663 --> 00:50:29,174 I knelt before the lady. She offered me her right hand. 582 00:50:29,204 --> 00:50:30,535 I turned it over, 583 00:50:30,565 --> 00:50:34,137 dropped a kiss in the dewy palm and closed the slender fingers over it. 584 00:50:34,167 --> 00:50:36,626 - That was all? - That was all. 585 00:50:36,656 --> 00:50:39,924 Then why did she take off her clothes? 586 00:50:39,954 --> 00:50:43,613 Since thou did doff thy woman's weeds 587 00:50:43,643 --> 00:50:47,809 The crudeness of your mind has deceived you. Had you let me finish... 588 00:50:47,839 --> 00:50:53,999 The eye that weeps, the heart that bleeds Has found a refuge in your care, Letitia, 589 00:50:54,029 --> 00:50:55,972 Though thy hand be given to another. 590 00:50:56,002 --> 00:51:00,134 Miss Granh... you were writing poetry to Mrs Prettiman?! 591 00:51:00,164 --> 00:51:01,982 Can you think of a worthier aim? 592 00:51:02,012 --> 00:51:04,049 She is all that the ages have looked forward to. 593 00:51:04,079 --> 00:51:08,181 You wish to kiss her hand... Well, I mean, no doubt she will oblige. 594 00:51:08,211 --> 00:51:11,544 Let us tap on her door... 595 00:51:11,574 --> 00:51:17,336 Well, I you asked nicely, she might let you kiss her inside and outside 596 00:51:17,366 --> 00:51:22,309 for a full watch by a sandglass. - You are nauseous, sir. 597 00:51:22,339 --> 00:51:24,312 I believe I am, sir. 598 00:51:24,342 --> 00:51:27,747 But at least I do not drool around the oceans, dropping kisses into 599 00:51:27,777 --> 00:51:31,342 the palms of women old enough to be my mother. 600 00:51:31,372 --> 00:51:33,599 You would best stick to schoolgirls, Mr Talbot. 601 00:51:33,629 --> 00:51:35,472 I resent the plural, sir! 602 00:51:35,502 --> 00:51:38,599 For me there is only one school... lady. 603 00:51:38,629 --> 00:51:42,274 You're loveless, Mr Talbot. It is your main defect. 604 00:51:42,304 --> 00:51:48,247 I? Loveless?? I am saying 'ha ha', sir! 605 00:51:48,585 --> 00:51:50,880 Do you hear? Sir? 606 00:51:50,910 --> 00:51:54,060 We will continue this conversation when you are sober, sir. 607 00:51:54,090 --> 00:51:56,206 I bid you good day. 608 00:51:56,236 --> 00:52:01,625 Mr Phillips, d'you hear? We are in love with our mothers. 609 00:52:33,842 --> 00:52:36,585 Come. 610 00:52:36,950 --> 00:52:42,776 Ma'am. This is unexpected. I...uh... 611 00:52:46,357 --> 00:52:49,087 I bring news of Mr Prettiman. 612 00:52:49,117 --> 00:52:53,438 - Is he... - ... improved. 613 00:52:53,468 --> 00:52:59,044 It seems your well meant but clumsy actions stretched his torn leg. 614 00:52:59,074 --> 00:53:01,695 The swelling has subsided. 615 00:53:01,725 --> 00:53:04,878 - Then he is not going to die. - He's not out of danger. 616 00:53:04,908 --> 00:53:08,459 But the pain is becoming bearable. 617 00:53:09,324 --> 00:53:13,802 - Perhaps he will not walk again. - One request, ma'am. 618 00:53:13,832 --> 00:53:15,747 May I visit the patient? 619 00:53:16,851 --> 00:53:20,756 I should be less than human if I did not wish to congratulate him on his recovery, 620 00:53:20,786 --> 00:53:24,121 Commiserate him on his disability and... 621 00:53:24,324 --> 00:53:28,978 offer my profound apologies for the agony I caused him. 622 00:53:51,659 --> 00:53:53,976 Pindar? Good God. 623 00:53:58,609 --> 00:54:01,835 Had to move, didn't ya, had to speak. Had to wake me up. 624 00:54:01,865 --> 00:54:04,393 The word was involuntary. 625 00:54:04,879 --> 00:54:08,514 - You said Pindar. - There, by your hand. 626 00:54:08,544 --> 00:54:14,259 A quotation when I drifted off. Somewhere in the sixth Olympian. 627 00:54:15,367 --> 00:54:21,323 'Grey hairs flourish even among young men' - That is not in the sixth Olympian, sir. 628 00:54:21,353 --> 00:54:24,461 It is at the end of the fourth. 629 00:54:24,786 --> 00:54:27,340 Here, at the end. 630 00:54:28,948 --> 00:54:33,224 - So you know. - We're all having rough time of it, sir. 631 00:54:33,254 --> 00:54:36,157 I daresay I could find a few grey hairs of my own. 632 00:54:36,187 --> 00:54:41,626 No, not that, boy. Greek. You've kept it up. Why? 633 00:54:42,816 --> 00:54:44,897 Just liked it, I suppose. 634 00:54:44,927 --> 00:54:48,883 No boy of your age who has kept up his Greek can be entirely witless. 635 00:54:48,913 --> 00:54:51,739 Silly perhaps, but... 636 00:54:51,769 --> 00:54:54,429 with some inkling of a wider view. 637 00:54:54,459 --> 00:55:00,699 - I'm not precisely a boy, sir. - Yeah. You're not precisely a man either. 638 00:55:00,729 --> 00:55:04,464 I know fear, I know friendship. 639 00:55:04,494 --> 00:55:07,464 And above all I know love. 640 00:55:07,494 --> 00:55:08,761 I came in to say, sir, that 641 00:55:08,791 --> 00:55:13,703 I congratulate you on your recovery and apologise for my part in it. 642 00:55:17,054 --> 00:55:20,203 Yes, I see what you mean. 643 00:55:20,233 --> 00:55:23,811 It is rather amusing. Or I would have thought so, having not said it myself. 644 00:55:23,841 --> 00:55:30,375 Having your thigh bone rammed up into your body is no joke, I can tell you. 645 00:55:32,405 --> 00:55:35,385 The swelling appears to be reduced. 646 00:55:37,689 --> 00:55:41,694 - You think I shall ride again? - Can't say, sir. 647 00:55:43,812 --> 00:55:46,415 Sit a while, hm? 648 00:55:51,674 --> 00:55:58,769 Been meaning to ask you for some time. What is the purpose of your voyage? 649 00:56:01,704 --> 00:56:03,191 A few months ago I would have said 650 00:56:03,221 --> 00:56:07,866 it was to fit me with a position of responsibility for my country 651 00:56:08,812 --> 00:56:10,326 Now... 652 00:56:11,650 --> 00:56:14,569 Now my ambitions are somewhat different. 653 00:56:14,599 --> 00:56:19,556 Well you started the voyage with the objectivity of ignorance and you are 654 00:56:19,586 --> 00:56:24,715 finishing it with the subjectivity of knowledge, pain and hope of indulgence. 655 00:56:24,745 --> 00:56:27,689 And you sir are travelling with the vowed intention of creating trouble 656 00:56:27,719 --> 00:56:30,448 of troubling this antipodean society. 657 00:56:30,478 --> 00:56:32,517 Which was created wholly for its own betterment. 658 00:56:32,547 --> 00:56:36,663 A noble gesture which offers freedom and rehabilitation even to the criminal element 659 00:56:36,693 --> 00:56:37,909 of our own society at home. 660 00:56:37,939 --> 00:56:41,417 - Do you know our own society? - I have lived in it! 661 00:56:41,447 --> 00:56:44,846 Ah! School, university. Country house. 662 00:56:44,876 --> 00:56:47,116 - You ever visited the city slum? - Good God, no! 663 00:56:47,146 --> 00:56:48,981 Then you could know nothing, sir! 664 00:56:49,011 --> 00:56:51,465 You're clearly seized of universal truths, Mr Prettiman. 665 00:56:51,495 --> 00:56:55,025 Some of us do not find them so easy to come by. 666 00:56:55,055 --> 00:57:01,296 It is the matter of a certain document which I... entrusted to you. 667 00:57:02,687 --> 00:57:05,053 - Shall I bring it to you? - Don't bring it to the cabin. 668 00:57:05,083 --> 00:57:09,909 Drop it in the ocean. Mrs Prettiman must never know of its contents. 669 00:57:09,939 --> 00:57:13,444 - If that is your wish, sir. - You must know, Talbot. 670 00:57:13,474 --> 00:57:17,338 The lady is like the land we are approaching. 671 00:57:19,225 --> 00:57:20,901 Sir? 672 00:57:22,468 --> 00:57:24,392 Unpolluted. 673 00:57:26,274 --> 00:57:28,497 - I rejoice to hear it, sir. - Why should you rejoice? 674 00:57:28,527 --> 00:57:32,125 Had it not for the misfortune of this dislocated hip she would not be now... 675 00:57:32,155 --> 00:57:34,233 ...unpolluted! 676 00:57:34,406 --> 00:57:36,160 - All I meant to say is... - I understand, sir. 677 00:57:36,190 --> 00:57:39,855 You need not explain anymore. I shall carry out your wishes. 678 00:58:16,826 --> 00:58:20,535 I left Mr Prettiman's cabin with the most mixed feelings. 679 00:58:21,443 --> 00:58:26,093 Happiness being, strangely enough, the uppermost. 680 00:58:26,123 --> 00:58:30,579 It was a feeling which I was, from that day forward, to associate with him and her. 681 00:58:30,609 --> 00:58:36,847 We do not pray to God. He'll give us all we need. And we are eternally grateful. 682 00:58:36,877 --> 00:58:40,471 We have no need of priests. We are all priests. 683 00:58:40,501 --> 00:58:43,458 No matter what nonsense Mr Prettiman talks. 684 00:58:43,488 --> 00:58:47,561 I listen and cannot help but to come away with a sense of well being. 685 00:58:47,591 --> 00:58:49,331 Enlightenment. 686 00:58:49,361 --> 00:58:51,035 South America was an entirely different country 687 00:58:51,065 --> 00:58:53,196 from the one that Candide discovered. 688 00:58:53,226 --> 00:58:55,249 And how could it be otherwise? 689 00:58:55,279 --> 00:58:57,601 Having been devastated by the Roman Catholic Church? 690 00:58:57,631 --> 00:59:02,337 Feeling that the universe is great. Glorious. 691 00:59:02,466 --> 00:59:04,395 ... I can see the promise land... 692 00:59:04,425 --> 00:59:07,778 They're quite unlike any people I have ever met. 693 00:59:07,906 --> 00:59:09,894 ... the country itself will be for other men... 694 00:59:09,924 --> 00:59:13,245 We talk of the Crown. The principle of hereditary honours. 695 00:59:13,275 --> 00:59:18,070 The dangers of democracy, Christianity, the family, war. 696 00:59:23,007 --> 00:59:25,297 You read well, Edmund. 697 00:59:26,142 --> 00:59:28,791 - Thank you, sir. - So does Mrs Prettiman. 698 00:59:28,821 --> 00:59:33,710 But of course, she does not read Greek. It's too much for a woman's brain. 699 00:59:33,740 --> 00:59:38,744 Indeed there were times when it seemed to me that I threw off my upbringing. 700 00:59:38,774 --> 00:59:41,476 That a man might let armour drop around him 701 00:59:41,506 --> 00:59:46,489 and stand naked, defenceless, but free. 702 00:59:48,299 --> 00:59:54,811 Imagine our caravan moving by cool night across the deserts of this new land. 703 00:59:54,841 --> 00:59:57,416 Towards El Dorado. 704 00:59:58,517 --> 01:00:02,575 It would be the adventure of adventures. 705 01:00:02,605 --> 01:00:08,497 You could come too, you know. There's nothing to stop you. 706 01:00:29,019 --> 01:00:31,147 I have been at the foremast again, Edmund. 707 01:00:31,177 --> 01:00:33,241 The plates are still hot. 708 01:00:34,251 --> 01:00:36,525 There is fire down below, I'm convinced of it. 709 01:00:36,555 --> 01:00:39,296 For Heaven's sake, man. Cheer up, Charles! 710 01:00:39,326 --> 01:00:42,170 We're making seven knots to the east, we have sails on all three masts 711 01:00:42,200 --> 01:00:44,791 and your frapping kept us together. 712 01:00:45,045 --> 01:00:48,141 - All is well. - You're late for the watch. 713 01:00:49,610 --> 01:00:53,727 - I was reading for Mr Prettiman. - I say this as a friend, Edmund. 714 01:00:53,757 --> 01:00:55,752 - Be careful. - Careful of what? 715 01:00:55,782 --> 01:00:59,858 I believe your association with Mr Prettiman to be dangerous. 716 01:00:59,888 --> 01:01:03,846 Dangerous to you and your future position. 717 01:01:03,876 --> 01:01:05,005 Mr Prettiman 718 01:01:05,035 --> 01:01:08,982 has asked me to join him and Mrs Prettiman in establishing his new world. 719 01:01:09,012 --> 01:01:10,979 Mr Speaker, 720 01:01:11,009 --> 01:01:14,818 to those of us who have so blatantly thrown away the privilege 721 01:01:14,848 --> 01:01:16,651 we were born into! 722 01:01:16,681 --> 01:01:20,420 I discuss philosophical matters with another gentleman, that is all! 723 01:01:20,450 --> 01:01:23,578 These are hardly conversations we could share. 724 01:01:26,953 --> 01:01:28,214 I see. 725 01:01:35,189 --> 01:01:37,999 Cheer up, man. We have the dawn. 726 01:01:38,029 --> 01:01:38,904 Ha! 727 01:01:38,934 --> 01:01:42,626 That from the man who wished to become the perfect master of the sea affair. 728 01:01:42,656 --> 01:01:45,542 - What do you mean? - Dawn at this hour? 729 01:01:45,572 --> 01:01:47,776 Well look it is there... 730 01:01:49,952 --> 01:01:52,700 No, it is gone. It is covered by the clouds. 731 01:01:53,677 --> 01:01:57,612 - What did you see? - I told you. It was the dawn light. 732 01:01:57,642 --> 01:01:59,208 Show me where. 733 01:01:59,495 --> 01:02:01,110 There it is! 734 01:02:01,671 --> 01:02:03,540 No ghost. 735 01:02:13,676 --> 01:02:15,914 Heaven help us all. 736 01:02:16,662 --> 01:02:18,741 Why? What is the matter? 737 01:02:20,758 --> 01:02:23,018 It is ice. 738 01:02:46,985 --> 01:02:48,981 How far was it, Mr Summers? 739 01:02:49,011 --> 01:02:52,633 Impossible to say, sir. Mr Talbot saw it first. 740 01:02:53,080 --> 01:02:54,522 Mr Talbot? 741 01:02:54,689 --> 01:02:58,678 - What was the extent of the ice, sir? - I could see no end to it. 742 01:02:58,708 --> 01:03:00,527 Was there no call from the forrard lookout? 743 01:03:00,557 --> 01:03:02,710 - No sir. - Have the man put in irons. 744 01:03:02,740 --> 01:03:03,698 Aye aye, sir. 745 01:03:03,728 --> 01:03:07,905 Bring her round on broad reach to the larboard. Set every sail there is. 746 01:03:07,935 --> 01:03:09,520 But the foremast, sir. 747 01:03:09,550 --> 01:03:11,089 - It is not secure enough. - Mr Summers! 748 01:03:11,119 --> 01:03:16,133 Sir. I wish to represent that the mast will take no more strain. If that goes... 749 01:03:16,163 --> 01:03:19,217 Are you able to propose a better course of action? 750 01:03:20,299 --> 01:03:23,376 You're not still trying to discredit Mr Ben�t's achievement, are you? 751 01:03:23,406 --> 01:03:24,792 No, sir. 752 01:03:25,239 --> 01:03:28,655 Then follow my orders! Set every sail. 753 01:03:28,685 --> 01:03:31,492 And instruct the passengers down to the orlop deck. 754 01:03:31,522 --> 01:03:33,538 Set all sail! 755 01:03:35,187 --> 01:03:38,378 Bring her round on broad reach to larboard. 756 01:03:53,258 --> 01:03:58,814 - Talbot, what's happening? - 'Tis nothing, Pike. 757 01:03:58,844 --> 01:04:01,100 Precaution, nothing more. 758 01:04:01,764 --> 01:04:03,393 Wilmot! 759 01:04:03,423 --> 01:04:05,837 Wilmot, I'm dying! 760 01:04:05,964 --> 01:04:08,307 We're all dying! 761 01:04:10,234 --> 01:04:12,935 I've heard mention of ice. 762 01:04:13,881 --> 01:04:18,237 Either we shall weather it, or we shall have nothing left. 763 01:04:21,600 --> 01:04:24,135 We shall have dignity left. 764 01:04:25,136 --> 01:04:27,156 That is Roman, ma'am. 765 01:04:27,331 --> 01:04:30,527 I prefer to think of it as British, Mr... 766 01:04:31,637 --> 01:04:33,539 Edmund. 767 01:04:36,459 --> 01:04:40,147 - What of Mr Prettiman? - He's still asleep, I think. 768 01:04:40,177 --> 01:04:42,776 He must be told. 769 01:04:46,772 --> 01:04:50,235 - You are awake, sir. - Let us not waste time. 770 01:04:50,265 --> 01:04:53,110 Edmund, you will of course help Lettie. 771 01:04:53,243 --> 01:04:54,845 I shall, sir. 772 01:04:55,087 --> 01:05:00,895 It is impossible that I should survive in the state I find myself, but 773 01:05:01,588 --> 01:05:04,782 when the end is upon us you must get on deck, the two of you 774 01:05:04,812 --> 01:05:08,487 Wrapped in as much clothing as you can and make your way to the boats. 775 01:05:08,517 --> 01:05:09,881 No. 776 01:05:10,757 --> 01:05:13,915 Aloysius. Edmund may do so - must 777 01:05:13,945 --> 01:05:18,572 do so. He's young and we are in no way his responsibility. I shall stay with you. 778 01:05:18,602 --> 01:05:21,355 Now, now, Mrs Prettiman, I shall become testy. 779 01:05:21,385 --> 01:05:25,648 You will not, sir. Edmund will go, not I. 780 01:05:26,633 --> 01:05:30,575 But, I would like him to hear this. 781 01:05:32,102 --> 01:05:35,776 For I believe he is in much need of an example. 782 01:05:43,458 --> 01:05:47,297 In the short span of our married life I have never disobeyed you. 783 01:05:47,327 --> 01:05:50,877 And would not have done in the future, had there been one. 784 01:05:51,837 --> 01:05:57,055 Not because I am your wife. Because of who and what you are. 785 01:06:00,560 --> 01:06:04,416 But we have no future, I think. 786 01:06:05,142 --> 01:06:08,538 And I will stay with you, here in this cabin. 787 01:06:17,208 --> 01:06:19,878 Goodbye, Edmund. 788 01:07:06,722 --> 01:07:12,097 Mr Jones... Mr Jones, I require a firkin for my journals. 789 01:07:12,127 --> 01:07:16,577 Mr Jones, I need you to procure me a watertight vessel for my... Mr Jones? 790 01:07:19,884 --> 01:07:21,553 Mr Jones! 791 01:07:23,297 --> 01:07:25,776 Are you leaving us, sir? 792 01:07:34,918 --> 01:07:37,416 Steer north, nothing to the east. 793 01:07:37,446 --> 01:07:39,673 Brace up! 794 01:07:44,066 --> 01:07:47,376 Haul out the spanker! 795 01:07:56,378 --> 01:08:01,527 Hard to lee. Steer north. Nothing to the east, sir. 796 01:08:19,007 --> 01:08:22,013 We are in a place for no man. 797 01:08:22,163 --> 01:08:24,858 For sea gods, perhaps. 798 01:08:25,100 --> 01:08:30,175 That great and ultimate power which surely must support the visible universe. 799 01:08:33,614 --> 01:08:38,362 Somewhere in the darkness I have found myself articulating spontaneous prayers 800 01:08:38,392 --> 01:08:42,375 which -I knew as they burst from my lips- are useless. 801 01:08:53,323 --> 01:08:56,778 Keep her a good full. Nothing off. 802 01:09:20,366 --> 01:09:22,339 Hold her steady! 803 01:09:22,815 --> 01:09:25,177 What's that man doing?! 804 01:09:25,207 --> 01:09:28,623 - Lower away James, lower away!! - Aye aye, sir! 805 01:09:51,010 --> 01:09:53,831 Lower away! Lower away! 806 01:09:53,861 --> 01:09:57,780 - Course full and by, Mr Smiles! - Full and by! 807 01:10:21,145 --> 01:10:24,361 Alright. 808 01:10:46,848 --> 01:10:52,064 Hurrah! Hurrah! Hurrah! 809 01:10:57,659 --> 01:10:59,303 Charles? 810 01:10:59,333 --> 01:11:01,460 See for yourself, sir. 811 01:11:01,490 --> 01:11:04,270 We have escaped the ice. 812 01:11:04,863 --> 01:11:07,689 But what was that hideous noise? 813 01:11:07,719 --> 01:11:10,568 The purser was not so fortunate, sir. 814 01:11:11,172 --> 01:11:13,980 His boat was crushed on the boom. 815 01:11:21,519 --> 01:11:23,560 Three cheers for the captain! 816 01:11:23,590 --> 01:11:27,655 Hurrah! Hurrah! Hurrah! 817 01:11:57,584 --> 01:12:02,576 - We shall live a little longer? - It seems so. 818 01:12:02,606 --> 01:12:06,605 Do not cry, Mrs Prettiman, it's unworthy of you. 819 01:12:06,635 --> 01:12:08,767 Come sir, Mrs Prettiman has hardly been... 820 01:12:08,797 --> 01:12:10,516 Quiet! 821 01:12:10,546 --> 01:12:14,095 I just... I need a few moments to collect myself. 822 01:12:19,114 --> 01:12:21,434 Shall I go after her? She will not faint. 823 01:12:21,464 --> 01:12:23,770 Might cry, but she will not faint. 824 01:12:23,800 --> 01:12:27,058 - I think, sir, that... - Well don't! 825 01:12:28,043 --> 01:12:30,801 I will not have you interfering in her education. 826 01:12:30,831 --> 01:12:31,777 Education?! 827 01:12:31,807 --> 01:12:36,142 Do you suppose that if we ever contrived to lead a caravan to found the Ideal City 828 01:12:36,172 --> 01:12:38,674 that she can afford feminine weakness? 829 01:12:38,704 --> 01:12:42,888 Allow me to tell you, Mr Prettiman. I have met no woman... 830 01:12:42,918 --> 01:12:44,361 No... 831 01:12:44,528 --> 01:12:49,093 Yes! I have met no grown woman that has so impressed me with her lack of those 832 01:12:49,123 --> 01:12:51,738 same female weaknesses as you are trying so hard to eradicate. 833 01:12:51,768 --> 01:12:53,044 You know nothing, boy! 834 01:12:53,074 --> 01:12:57,329 I revere Mrs Prettiman, sir, and I do not mind admitting it. I... 835 01:12:57,663 --> 01:13:01,552 value her highly. - O, what has that to do with anything? 836 01:13:01,582 --> 01:13:03,672 I am an educationist, sir. 837 01:13:03,702 --> 01:13:06,801 And I will not have any judgement in that matter questioned. 838 01:13:06,831 --> 01:13:11,403 A man who has worked on his character as long as I have may perhaps be credited 839 01:13:11,433 --> 01:13:13,156 with some knowledge of that of others! 840 01:13:13,186 --> 01:13:16,097 And pray sir, what work have you done on your own character to so improve it? 841 01:13:16,127 --> 01:13:18,634 - Is it not obvious?! - No, sir. Frankly, it is not! 842 01:13:18,664 --> 01:13:21,709 This is unendurable to be lectured by a stubborn boy!! 843 01:13:21,739 --> 01:13:23,749 Leave us, Edmund. 844 01:13:25,210 --> 01:13:26,762 Please. 845 01:13:29,519 --> 01:13:31,697 Damned hip! 846 01:13:54,022 --> 01:13:58,278 - A hundred and ten fathom, sir. - Bear away, Mr Cumbershum! 847 01:13:58,308 --> 01:14:00,447 Two points lard. 848 01:14:12,731 --> 01:14:18,431 This, then -if not the end of our voyage- is the beginning of the end. 849 01:14:18,907 --> 01:14:25,335 - Land ho! - One point at larboard, sir! 850 01:14:49,661 --> 01:14:55,418 I will not subscribe to the furious rubbish of 'my country, right or wrong'. 851 01:14:56,044 --> 01:14:59,059 Nevertheless, when I searched my heart, 852 01:14:59,159 --> 01:15:02,597 among all the prejudice of my nature and upbringing 853 01:15:02,627 --> 01:15:07,398 among all the new ideas, the acceptance and necessary change. 854 01:15:07,428 --> 01:15:10,802 The people - writers, politicians, philosophers, 855 01:15:10,832 --> 01:15:13,539 even wide-eyed social philosophers... 856 01:15:14,639 --> 01:15:21,232 The deepest note of my heartstrings sounds now as it will to my dying day 857 01:15:21,262 --> 01:15:24,379 'England forever!' 858 01:16:50,130 --> 01:16:52,116 Hello there! 859 01:16:54,224 --> 01:16:57,197 - Welcome! - You're very welcome! 860 01:17:01,720 --> 01:17:04,909 You need to be very careful with his left hand - that's... 861 01:17:04,939 --> 01:17:06,274 Carefully. 862 01:17:13,382 --> 01:17:15,418 Wait, wait, wait... 863 01:17:17,559 --> 01:17:20,187 Wait, wait, damn you all! 864 01:17:20,438 --> 01:17:22,866 Wait, damn you! 865 01:17:33,863 --> 01:17:36,667 The Governor sends his regards, sir. 866 01:17:40,222 --> 01:17:43,186 Landfall, Mrs Prettiman. Landfall. 867 01:17:48,429 --> 01:17:51,720 I hope you'll be happy in our little family, Mr Talbot. 868 01:17:52,429 --> 01:17:54,407 I'm certain I will, sir. 869 01:17:55,830 --> 01:17:58,792 I believe your godfather spoke to you about Mr Prettiman. 870 01:17:59,560 --> 01:18:01,855 Asked you to keep a close eye on him. 871 01:18:01,885 --> 01:18:04,158 The man is now a cripple and married. 872 01:18:04,300 --> 01:18:07,880 I am convinced that he represents no danger to the state. 873 01:18:08,890 --> 01:18:12,520 The ship, sir. What will happen to her? 874 01:18:12,550 --> 01:18:15,416 It hardly concerns you, Mr Talbot. 875 01:18:15,900 --> 01:18:17,232 But she will not go to sea again. 876 01:18:17,262 --> 01:18:19,621 Most likely she will serve as our guard ship. 877 01:18:19,859 --> 01:18:21,543 And the officers? 878 01:18:21,573 --> 01:18:23,901 Captain Anderson has returned to England. 879 01:18:23,931 --> 01:18:26,616 I was not thinking of the captain, sir. 880 01:18:31,028 --> 01:18:33,264 You interest me, Mr Talbot. 881 01:18:33,623 --> 01:18:34,841 Proceed. 882 01:18:34,871 --> 01:18:38,196 I was hoping to find sir that you would be able to use your vast experience 883 01:18:38,226 --> 01:18:42,944 of things naval to promote a man who is not only my friend, but a fine seaman. 884 01:18:44,742 --> 01:18:48,337 I have already offered the command of the ship to Lt Ben�t. 885 01:18:49,800 --> 01:18:51,135 I see. 886 01:18:52,011 --> 01:18:54,573 As I expected, he declined it. 887 01:18:54,603 --> 01:18:57,073 He did however press the claims of Lt Summers - 888 01:18:57,103 --> 01:19:00,047 as Captain Anderson had already done so. 889 01:19:00,743 --> 01:19:03,696 Then Charles Summers will be a captain? 890 01:19:06,234 --> 01:19:08,258 He will, indeed. 891 01:19:15,201 --> 01:19:18,672 I'll leave you to get settled in, sir. 892 01:20:25,132 --> 01:20:26,424 Is anybody still aboard? 893 01:20:26,454 --> 01:20:30,168 Mr Summers was seeing the off loading, sir. 894 01:20:31,384 --> 01:20:33,235 Out of the way! 895 01:21:11,718 --> 01:21:13,629 Charles! 896 01:21:14,898 --> 01:21:16,867 Charles! 897 01:21:17,952 --> 01:21:20,038 Edmund! 898 01:21:28,934 --> 01:21:31,996 - What set her alight? - Ben�t's repairs to the foremast. 899 01:21:32,026 --> 01:21:36,016 I told you there was fire down below. Run! 900 01:21:39,911 --> 01:21:42,559 Jump you silly bugger! 901 01:22:49,872 --> 01:22:56,236 ...your beloved godfather has become weaker over the months and his gout... 902 01:23:35,068 --> 01:23:37,447 Mr Talbot. 903 01:23:39,896 --> 01:23:41,940 I... 904 01:23:42,779 --> 01:23:45,356 came to visit the patient. 905 01:23:47,438 --> 01:23:50,234 and read to him, if he wishes. 906 01:23:51,010 --> 01:23:53,455 We are no longer at sea, sir. 907 01:23:54,778 --> 01:23:58,875 It would do your position no good to be seen with Mr Prettiman. 908 01:24:03,076 --> 01:24:05,835 My godfather is dead. 909 01:24:06,631 --> 01:24:09,931 I no longer know what my position is. 910 01:24:09,961 --> 01:24:12,139 I'm sorry for your loss. 911 01:24:15,741 --> 01:24:22,387 Have you seen anything of... Mrs Brocklebank? Pike, Oldmeadow? 912 01:24:22,417 --> 01:24:26,965 - They seem to have vanished. - They all had lives to get on with, sir. 913 01:24:29,818 --> 01:24:33,835 The voyage has been a considerable part of your life, sir, but... 914 01:24:35,054 --> 01:24:37,755 do not refine upon it's nature. 915 01:24:39,076 --> 01:24:41,400 It was not an Odyssey. 916 01:24:41,430 --> 01:24:46,843 It is no type,emblem, metaphor of the human condition. It is, or 917 01:24:46,873 --> 01:24:51,907 -rather was- what it was. 918 01:24:56,186 --> 01:24:59,115 And what was that, ma'am? 919 01:25:00,267 --> 01:25:03,075 A series of events. 920 01:25:39,264 --> 01:25:44,674 So must end this account of Edmund Talbot's journey to the ends of the earth. 921 01:25:46,007 --> 01:25:49,716 But something is missing, is it not? 922 01:25:50,000 --> 01:25:53,064