All language subtitles for Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman S03e05 The Library

I don't know. They sure are heavy.

Can't we open just one? No, it's for
your mom.

What's for me? All this?

What?

Earth? From your mother.

Can I open one? Me too.

I think you'll need Sully to help you.

Look at all these.

Where did your mom get so many books?

From my father's library.

My mother says the books have been
gathering dust for some time and she

to have them.

As an endowment to help civilize the
Colorado wilderness.

What are we supposed to do with them?

Read them, silly.

Where are we going to keep all these
books?

Next to my bed in the barn.

I don't think that's a very good idea.

Why not?

Oh, books are too special to be hidden
away in the barn. Books are meant to be

shared. We should keep them in the
house.

I remember when people used to stop by
my father's house to borrow these.

Like a library?

Yes, that's what it was.

My father loved to help people learn.

We could do something like that.

That's a lovely idea, Brian.

Don't you think that the homestead's a
little far for people to be coming up

just to get a book?

Oh, we wouldn't have to keep them at the
homestead. We could keep them right

here where people could borrow them
whenever they wanted.

But we don't live in town.

We wouldn't have to live in town to see
that these books were used the way my

father would have wanted.

How's that?

We're going to open this town's first
public library.

Time was we had to paint a sign that
said library outside this building and

pretend we had some books inside.

Not anymore.

Now we got us a library as good as any
back east.

As mayor. Why don't you let Dr. Mike
speak?

I'm getting to it. They're her books.

All right.

Here's Dr. Mike.

time ago when I was little, my father
took a trip to England.

I wrote to tell him how much I missed
him, and in his return letter, he said

that whenever I was thinking of him, I
should go into his library and read,

he wouldn't seem so far away so long as
I had all of his books around me.

Well, he was right.

He didn't seem so far away back then,
and he doesn't seem so far away right

We hereby dedicate this building to
Joseph Quinn Memorial Library.

Thanks to Colleen, who's volunteered to
be our librarian.

She's going to be here an hour after
school each day and two hours on

morning. Who would ever think?

Our very own library.

I'd forgotten how much I missed having
all these books around.

Hey, Mom, I found a great book.

Can I go outside and read it? Did you
have Colleen check it out?

Do I have to? Yeah, everyone does.

Oh, it makes me wish I'd had some books
for my boys when they were his age.

Brian's going to get so much out of this
library.

This library's going to be helpful for
all the children.

I know. These books help me a great
deal.

For letting me read your book.

Don't you want to take it home?

I ain't got the money to pay.

You don't have to pay, Charles. The
library will lend it to you.

How come?

Because that's what the library's for.

Lending out books.

You get to take it home and read it, and
then you have to bring it back in three

weeks. Donna, first I've got to write
down your name.

Next, the name of the author.

The title of the book.

And the date to do that.

Can I take it home now?

Yep.

You leaving already, Jake?

There's nothing else to see.

There could be if you learned how to
read.

I ain't got time for reading. Ain't got
time or ain't got the courage?

Are you saying I'm scared?

Sure looks like that to me.

I can learn any time I want. How about
tonight?

Let's say them again. A.

I give up.

Well, just don't.

Now look.

You've got to learn what each letter
looks like.

Now look. Look.

A.

A.

B. B.

B.

C. What are you doing? I said look like
I'm doing. I'm done.

Shoot that someplace down. Dorothy, this
is not a schoolhouse.

It's a store, and people expect it to be
kept tidy.

What's this letter right there?

D.

Thank you, Laura.

Now, what's this?

What's this letter here?

This is amazing.

You can really teach a frog how to jump.

Did you know that?

Want to read about how to make a frog
jump, Ma?

Perhaps when I finish reading this
surgical textbook.

How about you, Sully?

Well, I like the book I got.

I'm going to do some reading outside.

I think it's time for you to close your
books and go to sleep.

It's going to be no longer.

You can read more tomorrow.

Good night.

Good night, Mom.

May I join you?

Are you keeping your book a secret?

Keeping it a secret?

What is it?

It's poetry.

Poetry?

You don't like poetry?

Oh, I love poetry.

My father always used to read it to us.

It's been a long time since I heard
poetry.

It's because you always got your nose
buried in those medical books.

Well, now's your chance to read me
something different.

You

see,

I resign myself to you also.

I guess what you mean.

I behold from the beach your crooked and
writing fingers.

I believe you refuse to go back without
feeling of me.

We must have a turn together.

I undress, bring me out of the sight of
land.

Cushion me soft, rock me in a billowy
drowse.

Dash me with amorous wet, I can repay
you.

Who wrote that?

Walt Whitman. Walt Whitman wrote that?

Yes.

Oh, it's not appropriate.

What's not appropriate about it?

Well, there are certain things that
aren't meant to be written about.

What things?

I think you know what I mean.

You don't like poetry about the ocean?

I'm not writing about the ocean, Philly.

I want that book around the house where
the children might find it.

They won't find it.

Well, it's a nice idea anyway.

Maybe we can try it again sometime.

You might have a change of heart.

called Daniel Webster, and he teaches
them how to be the best jumping frog in

the county. How come anybody wanted to
teach a frog how to jump?

Well, in the story, the man does it so
he can win lots of money in a frog

contest. We could do that.

Not until we get our own.

Look.

There's another one.

I'll get that one.

You're teaching me to jump.

Sorry,

my friend. I didn't see you.

No need to apologize.

The way you read's a real example for
the other children.

Reading's my favorite thing to do.

Every time I start a book, it's like
going to a whole new place, meeting lots

interesting people, and doing all sorts
of exciting things.

What's this one about?

A man who's never happened.

So he sells his soul to the devil, if
the devil can ever make him say that

satisfied with anything.

The devil?

And the devil does all these things for
him, but the man... May I see that?

Do you know what book Colleen's reading?

Oh.

I remember reading this when I was
around Colleen's age.

You approve of this book?

Approve?

This is a book about a man who sells his
soul to the devil.

It's about more than that, Robert.

That's what the devil would like to have
us think, Dr. Mike. That's how he

confuses us. That's how he leads us away
from God.

It's just a story.

The devil's words are never just a
story, Dr. Mike.

This is how people start to lose their
way, by reading things that they

shouldn't. I will not allow a book like
this in the library.

Forgive me, Reverend, but I don't
believe it's your concern what books we

in this library.

Just as it is your responsibility as a
doctor to look out for the physical well

-being of this community, it is my
responsibility as a minister to look out

their spiritual concerns.

You do a fine job, Reverend.

But confiscating fiction isn't going to
do you or the town any good.

Colleen should be free to read whatever
she chooses from this library.

Are you going to give this back to me?

I do not believe that children should be
allowed to read whatever they wish.

There must be something. You wouldn't
want your children to read.

Well, of course there is.

It's a matter of choice.

And whose choice would that be, Dr.
Mike?

I want you to publish that as an
editorial in the Gazette.

Well, I usually write them myself,
Reverend.

I think you'll agree with everything
I've written.

Something the matter, Reverend?

Yes, something is the matter.

Yesterday, I found Colleen reading a
book about a man who sold his soul to

devil.

And I've heard about a lot of other
books at that library that sound just as

bad.

An English woman writing about
prostitutes.

and a Russian man who writes about
nihilists, which are people that don't

believe in anything, God included.

I tell you, that library's going to wind
up being more trouble than it's worth.

You said you liked the library.

Well, it was before people stopped
buying my books.

Why, they come in here and expect me to
lend them to them for free.

You sure you want to print this,
Reverend?

Yes, I'm sure.

I wouldn't be doing my job if I didn't
speak up now. I agree with the Reverend.

Print the editorial.

But, Jake, you can't even read it.

I don't have to read it to know that
those books are trouble.

Can you put it in this week's edition?

Well... I got the best jumping frog in
town. We

both got the best jumping frogs in town.

Do not. Do to.

I got frogs around my house. Jump clear
over my head.

You want to bet?

Yeah. You can bring your frogs on
Sunday.

And we'll see.

All right.

Anybody else want to bet?

Bring your frog, bring your money.

We'll see who gets the best jumper in
town.

Helene?

Reverend?

I'll take that.

Dr. Mike said I could read it.

Dr. Mike said you could read it in the
library.

But you're at school now, and as your
teacher, I'm telling you to give me that

book.

I may not run the library, but I do run
the school.

And I will not have a book about the
devil on school ground.

You can have it back at the end of the
day.

Any such book is a threat to the
spiritual well -being of our town and

not be allowed in our library.

I say he's got a point.

Books like that just ain't decent.

You might have a point that we're going
to have to do a whole lot more than

write a bunch of editorials if we want
to keep those books out of town.

That's why we're having the town
meeting, Jake.

I don't see why we need a town meeting
for a bunch of books.

Because books can give folks bad ideas.

And whatever we end up doing, I know
you're going to support us, right,

Well, I don't think Dr. Mike's going to
be so happy about the idea of folks

getting rid of her father's books.

I'd say she looks a little more than
unhappy.

Do you really mean this?

Oh, Michaela, the Reverend wrote that
editorial. And you printed it.

Well, it's my job to print what I see
fit.

Book publishers have the same job,
Dorothy. Oh, no, they don't. No, they're

publishing all sorts of things.

Newspapers print only facts.

They report the truth.

This isn't the truth. It's an opinion.
It's an opinion based on fact, Michaela.

There are books in that library that
have no business being there. They all

belong here.

Oh, no, not all of them.

You got a book in there called the...

Koran about some strange kind of
religion.

And something else called civil
disobedience. Now, what kind of

civil? And I've heard that there's even
a copy of those dirty poems by that

Whitman fella.

Well, it's... Oh, I mean, Walt Whitman
isn't someone that I would care to read,

but I wouldn't stop someone else from
reading it.

We can't be legislating morality.

Those books aren't only morally wrong,
they're legally wrong.

What law states that?

Right here. Right here in this article
from the Denver paper.

Here. The question whether a publication
is obscene does not depend upon its

being true or false, but upon its
tendency to inflame the passions and

debauch society.

I can't see that.

We don't need books like Mr. Whitman's
to give people ideas and stir up

What kind of trouble?

We don't know, but better safe than
sorry.

Books don't start trouble, Dorothy.

There's a book all about witchcraft.

It's a history book about a town in
Massachusetts.

It teaches about witchcraft.

Simmer down.

The library can be a great addition to
our town, but I think we can all agree

need to close it down for a while.

I don't agree.

Just so as we can figure out which books
to get rid of and which ones to keep.

Who's going to do the choosing?

The Reverend.

How can you allow one man to decide what
an entire town should read?

He's just not anybody.

He's a reverend.

What makes his judgment better than
anybody else's?

I'm not going to do anything rash, Dr.
Mike.

I'm going to use common sense.

So would you let my father's medical
books stay in the library?

Of course. Then according to a story I
read in the Denver paper, you'd be doing

something illegal, reverend.

Settle down.

There's a law that says that even
medical textbooks can be judged obscene.

we ain't talking about medical
textbooks, Dr. Mike.

Do we know what kind of books you got in
that library?

If it's going to cause so much trouble,
I ain't so sure we need a library after

all. I'm beginning to think that we need
a library more than ever.

What makes you think that?

Because a library is a place where you
open your mind to new ideas, different

cultures. We don't want to know about a
bunch of atheists and prostitutes.

There are certain things that you should
not open your mind to, Dr. Mike.

Let's vote already.

Those in favor of closing the library,
raise your hand.

The council votes 4 -1 to close the
library.

We voted, so...

What

are you doing?

Got the names of all the library books,
and it's uncomplicated.

Are you going to give that back, or do I
have to take it away?

We took a legal vote.

We're not going to solve anything this
way.

We're going to reopen this library
legally with all the books in it.

Wait, Jake.

What are you going to do with that
ledger?

It's none of your business.

I see. It's everyone's business because
everyone's name's in that book.

It might have been everybody's business
when this library was opened. This

library is now officially closed.

It's Jake. Open up.

Jake?

Reverend? Sorry to disturb you, Horace.

But, um, we're looking for a book.

Can't it wait till the morning?

Nope. It's a book called The Scarlet
Letter, and we need it now.

Well, I don't think I have that book.

I do.

Yeah, that's right.

And it says here you took it out of the
library last week.

What about it?

Well, Myra, we've heard some things
about that book.

It's immoral and we're confiscating it.

It's not immoral.

Well, maybe not to somebody like you.
You watch what you say, Jake.

Myra, it's about an unwed mother, isn't
it?

Well, it's about a lady who doesn't want
to tell anybody her baby's father's

the... sound reverent.

Yeah.

Well, we just need the book.

You can't have it.

Myra, that book is a danger to our
community.

How is it dangerous?

It gives people ideas.

I think you'd be the last person in town
to want to see some little girl get the

wrong idea with the way the world works,
if you know what I mean.

No, I don't, Jake.

Not Myra.

Jake is the mayor and reverence always
looking out for our best interest by

sneaking around the middle of the night
Taking people's books away the town

council voted to close the library and
you still got a book out That's why

here Like this book I like

reading about interesting ladies Well
Myra when we reopen the library, I'm

you'll find lots of books about
interesting and proper women

You were through with your old boy
alive.

You know I am, Horst.

Then how come you're still reading about
it?

All the best, honey.

We'll take your book, too, Horst.

Well, my book, I'm just reading a plain
old story.

Well, I think you better let us be the
judge as to whether a book called The

Vampire is just a plain old story or...
Oh, well, I guess you're right.

I mean, let me go find it.

They're not jumping.

What's the book say about getting them
to leap?

Like I told you, the man in the story
holds out a fly and says, flies, and the

frog jumps.

Flies!

Jump!

Flies! Come on, jump!

Hey, look at that.

They ate the flies.

That's because they didn't have to jump
for them.

Maybe if we feed them more.

They'll have more strength for jumping.

You think?

Of course they will.

Just like we get more strength after
eating.

Let's give them the flies and the worms.
And another whole jar every day until

Sunday.

We'll have these frogs jumping over
everybody then.

Anybody but Lauren know you're coming
here?

My goodness, Jake, there's nobody even
out there.

Now, shall we pick up where we left off?

That sounds like a fine idea.

I mean, with the book.

Oh, that.

Yes, that.

The reason that we're meeting here.

Now, you were saying your letters were
pretty good by the end of last month.

So, let me hear them again.

B.

V.

D.

E.

E. Up.

Look closer.

That's a different letter.

This is a waste of time. No, it's not.
You know that letter.

It's F.

Now, think of a word that begins with F.

Friend.

Flower? How about fool, which is what I
feel like, because I can't do something

even little kids know how to do. You're
going to be reading in no time, as long

as you keep learning your letters.

Lauren's right. I'm cool with this.

Well, anyone who thinks they're too old
to learn how to read is too old for me

to be keeping company with.

So I guess I'd better leave.

All right.

Start with G.

G.

H.

I.

J.

K.

I know a word starts with K.

Oh, now you're getting the hang of it.

What starts with K?

This.

Keep on going.

Elle.

It's not fair. Those books belong to me.

The building belongs to the town.

What if we moved the books to another
building?

Where?

One of the extra rooms at the clinic.

It'd be small, but no one could close it
down.

It's still the same library.

But it wouldn't be one of the town's
buildings anymore.

If someone wanted to borrow a book, all
they'd have to do is borrow it from me

personally.

It was what my father used to do in
Boston.

It would be my library, and anyone could
read whatever they want.

Would I be able to read Walt Whitman?

I'd only worry about having it around
the children.

Are you worried about the children or
are you worried about yourself?

I'm not like you, Sully.

I can't just sit down and read something
like that.

I'm not asking you to read it alone.

I'm asking you to let me share it with
you.

I don't know if I can.

I've never heard anything so...
Different?

So different.

Kind of like thinking about being
married, ain't it?

There are things that still frighten me
sometimes.

You're getting ahead of yourself.

What if I can't? It's not time yet,
Caleb.

Corton's like reading a book.

You gotta take each chapter in order.

Some chapters are harder to get through
than others.

But you read them all.

Otherwise, you'd be cheating yourself
out of the whole book.

Here. Careful putting the books
straight.

What do you think you're doing?

Removing my books. The town council
voted to close the library.

Keep the building closed. We're here for
the book.

These books belong to the town now. You
donated them, Dr. Mike. I changed my

mind. I'm taking them back.

I'm starting my own private library. If
anyone wants to read a book, all they

have to do is ask me.

This is going too far.

I agree.

It's gone too far. I hear you've been
sneaking around in the night,

books from people.

That's not what we're doing.

That's exactly what you've been doing,
Reverend.

And I expect you to return every one of
those books you've taken.

You're the one who's stealing the top of
the book.

We've got work to do.

And I'd appreciate it if you'd let us
get to it.

We'll take nothing but trouble.

Put them in the back room.

Get rid of them books. If you don't, we
will.

Let's get those books.

Boys, what are you doing? You can't do
this.

Don't burn them. Don't burn them all.

Wait, I never said to do this.

Stand back. Jake!

You coming, Dr. Mike?

No, Reverend, not this Sunday.

No stable in this one.

Top stables.

These were always my favorite bedtime
stories.

A lot of these are worse than that.

How are you going to replace all these
books you lost?

I can't.

Never?

It takes a lifetime to collect so many
books.

How can people be so stupid?

You mustn't say that, Colleen.

But it's true.

They're stupid.

No, they just don't know better.

That's called ignorance.

Dr. Mike?

And be ye kind one to another,
tenderhearted, forgiving one another,

God, for Christ's sake, hath forgiven
you.

Have you decided to join us, Dr. Mike?

Yes, I have.

I'm glad to hear that.

Anne, I brought you something.

I think we've had enough to do with
those books for a while.

You're absolutely right, Reverend.

But I brought this because I think we
can all agree on what to do with it.

I'm glad to see you've had a change of
heart.

How could I not?

With a book that tells of a father who
sacrificed his own daughter.

A book that tells of a man who is
married to more than one woman at the

time.

Why, this book even has a passage in it.

describing how God accepted a bet from
the devil.

You're right, Dr. Mike. That's a book
that we can all agree on.

And handing it over to me is the kind of
gesture that will help heal the spirit

of our town.

I thank you for showing so much faith.

It's not at all, Reverend.

What is it?

The Holy Bible

exciting about?

We had a frog jumping contest.

Sounds like fun.

Not when you lose all your money betting
on it.

You boys gambled on frogs?

I read about how to make lots of money
having frog jumping contests.

In that book, it sounded like a real
good idea.

Sounds like a real good lesson.

You boys learned something about making
your own decisions.

How'd we learn that?

Well, you tried something from the book
that didn't work out.

So next time you read about an idea that
sounds like an easy way to make money,

you might say to yourself, well, that's
not for me.

You mean not just do it because you read
about it.

Exactly. Well, that's what learning's
all about.

Reading about lots of different things
and then deciding for yourself what you

believe.

Gambling's no good.

Perhaps you'd feel better if you had
something to eat.

No, I'm not hungry.

Me neither.

Well, if you change your mind.

I'll tell you something else that we
know now that we didn't know before.

Never feed a frog five jars of flies and
worms if you want him to jump.

Reverend? What are you doing?

Well, we'll have to dry out all these
books. We won't open the library by

tomorrow.

With all the books?

With all of them.

You look like you could use some help.

It helps to spell it out.

I sing the body electric.

The armies of those I love engirth me,
and I engirth them.

They will not let me off till I go with
them, respond to them, and discorrupt

them, and charge them full with the
charge of the soul.

The bending forward and backward of
rowers and rowboats, the horsemen in the

saddle.