1 00:01:14,241 --> 00:01:16,993 MELVILLE: How does one come to know the unknowable? 2 00:01:17,077 --> 00:01:19,912 "What faculties must a man possess? 3 00:01:19,996 --> 00:01:21,873 "Since it was discovered that whale oil 4 00:01:21,956 --> 00:01:25,335 "could light our cities in ways never achieved before, 5 00:01:25,418 --> 00:01:27,462 "it created global demand. 6 00:01:28,087 --> 00:01:30,757 "It has pushed man to venture further and further 7 00:01:31,424 --> 00:01:33,385 "into the deep blue unknown. 8 00:01:34,427 --> 00:01:36,513 "We know not its depths, 9 00:01:36,596 --> 00:01:38,806 "nor the host of creatures that live there. 10 00:01:39,724 --> 00:01:41,309 "Monsters. 11 00:01:41,434 --> 00:01:42,727 "Are they real? 12 00:01:53,696 --> 00:01:57,450 "Or do the stories exist only to make us respect the sea's dark secrets? 13 00:02:11,298 --> 00:02:13,966 "The question both vexes and excites me 14 00:02:14,050 --> 00:02:15,843 "and is the reason I've written you a second time 15 00:02:15,927 --> 00:02:17,804 "to request a meeting. 16 00:02:17,887 --> 00:02:20,056 "A conversation with you, sir, I believe will serve me well 17 00:02:20,140 --> 00:02:21,974 "for the novel I intend to write, 18 00:02:22,350 --> 00:02:25,228 "currently entitled Moby Dick. 19 00:02:26,271 --> 00:02:27,980 "I hope you will reconsider my offer. 20 00:02:30,150 --> 00:02:31,484 "The unknown. 21 00:02:32,444 --> 00:02:35,071 "That is where my imagination yearns to venture. 22 00:02:36,698 --> 00:02:39,534 "And so the question plagues me still. 23 00:02:39,951 --> 00:02:42,870 "How does a man come to know the unknowable? 24 00:02:43,913 --> 00:02:45,957 "Sincerely, Herman Melville." 25 00:02:47,542 --> 00:02:48,918 We're closed. 26 00:02:49,711 --> 00:02:51,504 No boarders after 8:00. 27 00:03:02,432 --> 00:03:03,850 You came. 28 00:03:04,726 --> 00:03:06,143 (DOOR OPENS) 29 00:03:12,775 --> 00:03:15,362 Someone here for you, my love. 30 00:03:15,445 --> 00:03:16,696 Tom Nickerson? 31 00:03:19,699 --> 00:03:21,033 Herman Melville. 32 00:03:21,826 --> 00:03:23,703 We received your letter. 33 00:03:24,496 --> 00:03:26,248 You're either a desperate man 34 00:03:26,331 --> 00:03:28,541 or a fool to come all the way to Nantucket. 35 00:03:30,752 --> 00:03:33,630 Well, my offer still stands. 36 00:03:34,339 --> 00:03:36,633 Three months' lodgings for a single night's talk. 37 00:03:38,551 --> 00:03:40,011 All I have in the world. 38 00:03:40,387 --> 00:03:42,764 But I prefer to think of it as an investment. 39 00:03:44,056 --> 00:03:47,810 I want you to tell me what happened to the Essex. 40 00:03:54,734 --> 00:03:56,236 (SIGHS) What do you think happened? 41 00:03:57,570 --> 00:04:00,072 There are rumblings. Rumors that the Essex was... 42 00:04:00,156 --> 00:04:01,283 What do you want? 43 00:04:01,408 --> 00:04:03,243 What story do you expect to hear? 44 00:04:03,951 --> 00:04:05,537 That of the whale. 45 00:04:08,748 --> 00:04:11,459 The Essex ran aground. There was a full inquiry. 46 00:04:11,584 --> 00:04:14,504 I believe the inquiry was less than truthful. 47 00:04:16,088 --> 00:04:17,299 Get out. 48 00:04:18,925 --> 00:04:21,093 You are the last survivor of the Essex, sir. 49 00:04:21,761 --> 00:04:23,596 If you won't talk, who will? 50 00:04:23,721 --> 00:04:27,934 Did you not hear me? Leave. Now. 51 00:04:30,770 --> 00:04:31,938 (DOOR CLOSES) 52 00:04:32,104 --> 00:04:34,649 -No. You mustn't go. Please. -He is in no mind to talk. 53 00:04:34,774 --> 00:04:37,360 And I haven't come all this way to be humiliated and waste my time. 54 00:04:37,444 --> 00:04:39,111 Please, Mr. Melville. 55 00:04:39,987 --> 00:04:41,864 He won't talk about the Essex to me. 56 00:04:41,948 --> 00:04:44,409 To anyone. Never has. Never. 57 00:04:46,286 --> 00:04:48,580 There's an agony about him. 58 00:04:49,456 --> 00:04:53,501 His soul is in torment, 59 00:04:53,960 --> 00:04:56,296 and in need of confession. 60 00:04:57,213 --> 00:04:59,090 Please, just let me talk to him. 61 00:04:59,173 --> 00:05:00,508 Please. 62 00:05:03,135 --> 00:05:04,261 (DOOR CLOSES) 63 00:05:06,138 --> 00:05:07,349 Love. 64 00:05:11,603 --> 00:05:14,981 I believe it would do you good to talk to the man. 65 00:05:15,940 --> 00:05:17,233 No. 66 00:05:20,778 --> 00:05:22,405 You listen well. 67 00:05:23,615 --> 00:05:27,034 Who holds this place together while you drink yourself to death? 68 00:05:27,660 --> 00:05:29,329 You will talk with this man 69 00:05:29,412 --> 00:05:32,915 as much as is necessary to keep the money. 70 00:05:34,334 --> 00:05:36,836 You know our circumstances, Thomas. 71 00:05:48,097 --> 00:05:50,182 Only as much as is necessary. 72 00:05:55,563 --> 00:05:57,356 I'll get whiskey. 73 00:06:02,862 --> 00:06:04,697 MELVILLE: I neglected to mention it in my letter, 74 00:06:05,573 --> 00:06:07,116 but I was a whaler once. 75 00:06:08,618 --> 00:06:10,369 One trip, I mean. 76 00:06:11,454 --> 00:06:12,539 Green hand. 77 00:06:12,664 --> 00:06:14,874 So, you've seen it all. 78 00:06:16,876 --> 00:06:18,628 My wife read your books. 79 00:06:20,129 --> 00:06:22,048 She enjoyed them. 80 00:06:22,549 --> 00:06:24,050 I'm happy to hear it. 81 00:06:24,967 --> 00:06:26,385 I've had good sales. 82 00:06:27,178 --> 00:06:30,222 And I think this story could surpass the success 83 00:06:30,306 --> 00:06:33,017 of even my first novel, which did quite well. 84 00:06:33,225 --> 00:06:36,479 Another of your seafaring yarns? 85 00:06:40,149 --> 00:06:42,234 Have you read Hawthorne, Mr. Melville? 86 00:06:43,611 --> 00:06:45,447 Now there's a writer. 87 00:06:46,322 --> 00:06:47,364 Great writer. 88 00:06:47,949 --> 00:06:49,325 He is. 89 00:06:51,578 --> 00:06:54,664 But he is not here. And I am. 90 00:06:55,707 --> 00:06:57,291 For my own particular reasons. 91 00:07:06,884 --> 00:07:08,761 I will tell you of the Essex. 92 00:07:08,845 --> 00:07:10,680 I believe you will be disappointed. 93 00:07:11,097 --> 00:07:13,224 But every word I say will be true. 94 00:07:15,142 --> 00:07:18,646 Story of the Essex is the story of two men. 95 00:07:20,857 --> 00:07:24,861 Captain George Pollard and his first mate, 96 00:07:26,403 --> 00:07:27,864 Owen Chase. 97 00:07:28,405 --> 00:07:30,867 -Owen. You don't wanna be late. -(HAMMERING) 98 00:07:31,158 --> 00:07:32,619 I'll be there. 99 00:07:32,702 --> 00:07:35,872 Besides, can't have our daughter sleeping under a leaky roof, can we? 100 00:07:36,038 --> 00:07:38,165 What makes you so sure it's a girl? 101 00:07:38,875 --> 00:07:40,126 Well, it has to be. 102 00:07:40,417 --> 00:07:41,586 So she can remind me 103 00:07:41,669 --> 00:07:43,713 why I still love you when you're being stubborn. 104 00:07:43,921 --> 00:07:46,633 Well, if it's to be a daughter, she'll be a version of you, not me. 105 00:07:46,758 --> 00:07:49,719 Blond locks and determined to conquer the world. 106 00:07:50,052 --> 00:07:51,303 I suppose after today, 107 00:07:51,387 --> 00:07:53,139 you'll be trading in that tunic for a uniform. 108 00:07:53,222 --> 00:07:54,431 That's right. 109 00:07:54,516 --> 00:07:56,267 Finally out of this patch of dirt, 110 00:07:56,350 --> 00:07:58,102 into a captain's house like you deserve. 111 00:07:58,352 --> 00:08:01,689 PEGGY: I don't need one of those houses in town with stuffy neighbors. 112 00:08:01,773 --> 00:08:03,315 There's plenty of room here for the three of us. 113 00:08:03,775 --> 00:08:06,235 You know, sometimes your kind heart and good nature 114 00:08:06,360 --> 00:08:08,488 -is just unbearable. -(GIGGLES) 115 00:08:10,156 --> 00:08:11,949 Go get your captaincy. 116 00:08:19,916 --> 00:08:22,043 (CROWD TALKING INDISTINCTLY) 117 00:08:42,605 --> 00:08:43,731 (BOY LAUGHING) 118 00:08:44,691 --> 00:08:45,983 (BOY SHOUTING) 119 00:08:53,783 --> 00:08:55,242 (INDISTINCT TALKING) 120 00:08:55,535 --> 00:08:57,203 SHAREHOLDER: What's your bid? BUYER 1: I'll have $1.90. 121 00:08:58,037 --> 00:09:00,081 SHAREHOLDER: I've got 1,000 gallons at $2! 122 00:09:00,164 --> 00:09:01,708 BUYER 2: I'll take 40 shares! 123 00:09:02,875 --> 00:09:05,044 BUYER 3: Seller! Seller! Over here! 124 00:09:05,962 --> 00:09:07,714 (INDISTINCT CHATTERING) 125 00:09:10,216 --> 00:09:12,093 MAN: Criterion's back with a fine haul. 126 00:09:12,218 --> 00:09:13,845 1,600 barrels. 127 00:09:13,928 --> 00:09:15,221 SHAREHOLDER: A new record. 128 00:09:15,304 --> 00:09:18,808 £50 sterling for head matter on the London market. 129 00:09:18,891 --> 00:09:20,142 (ALL CHEER) 130 00:09:20,226 --> 00:09:21,728 MAN: Congratulations. 131 00:09:25,356 --> 00:09:26,899 (BANGING) 132 00:09:30,570 --> 00:09:32,572 -Good morning, Mr. Chase. -Mr. Mason. 133 00:09:32,697 --> 00:09:34,240 Come in, please. 134 00:09:34,448 --> 00:09:35,575 (CLEARS THROAT) 135 00:09:36,033 --> 00:09:38,160 My partner, Benjamin Fuller. 136 00:09:38,244 --> 00:09:39,453 MR. CHASE: Good morning, sir. 137 00:09:39,536 --> 00:09:40,913 Do sit down. 138 00:09:45,251 --> 00:09:46,502 Mr. Chase. 139 00:09:47,211 --> 00:09:49,672 I do hope you realize how satisfied we are 140 00:09:49,756 --> 00:09:51,758 with the work you've done for us over the years. 141 00:09:51,841 --> 00:09:53,467 Thank you, sir. 142 00:09:53,635 --> 00:09:55,928 Now, one of our ships, the Essex, 143 00:09:56,012 --> 00:09:58,055 has just been refitted at great expense 144 00:09:58,139 --> 00:10:00,266 and is to go to sea. 145 00:10:00,933 --> 00:10:02,977 Now, having made such an investment in her, 146 00:10:03,060 --> 00:10:06,689 we want to be sure she's in the best possible hands. 147 00:10:06,773 --> 00:10:11,360 So, it gives us great pleasure to offer you a position aboard her. 148 00:10:12,569 --> 00:10:14,238 As first mate. 149 00:10:17,116 --> 00:10:18,409 As first mate? 150 00:10:18,534 --> 00:10:19,661 Mmm-hmm. 151 00:10:20,244 --> 00:10:23,748 Mr. Mason, you promised me command of a ship after my last voyage 152 00:10:23,873 --> 00:10:26,208 when I brought you back 1,500 barrels. 153 00:10:26,292 --> 00:10:28,127 Do you remember? You gave me your word. 154 00:10:28,795 --> 00:10:31,130 That promise must now be deferred. 155 00:10:31,714 --> 00:10:34,759 Like everyone else, we've had a lean time recently. 156 00:10:34,884 --> 00:10:36,135 No, never on my watch. 157 00:10:36,218 --> 00:10:39,180 Nantucket now dominates the world market. 158 00:10:39,806 --> 00:10:41,140 That must not change. 159 00:10:41,808 --> 00:10:44,601 This is no time for experimentation. 160 00:10:45,269 --> 00:10:48,648 The Essex will be captained by George Pollard, 161 00:10:48,940 --> 00:10:51,776 scion of a great whaling family. 162 00:10:52,401 --> 00:10:55,487 His father also happens to be our patron. 163 00:10:55,612 --> 00:10:56,989 MASON: Blood, Mr. Chase. 164 00:10:57,156 --> 00:10:59,701 You can have all the voyages under your belt you want, 165 00:10:59,784 --> 00:11:01,535 but blood will always win out. 166 00:11:01,618 --> 00:11:04,664 Yes, well, blood is not gonna fill a ship with oil, Mr. Mason. 167 00:11:04,747 --> 00:11:06,498 To successfully command, a captain needs respect. 168 00:11:06,623 --> 00:11:08,375 Now, what if the men don't respect him? 169 00:11:09,043 --> 00:11:10,837 You will make sure that they do. 170 00:11:10,962 --> 00:11:13,089 Ah, good day, gentlemen. 171 00:11:13,172 --> 00:11:15,717 MASON: I understand your disappointment, 172 00:11:17,676 --> 00:11:19,470 so, a one-fifteenth lay. 173 00:11:21,638 --> 00:11:24,391 That's more than I've ever paid any first officer. 174 00:11:24,976 --> 00:11:27,603 And if you bring back 2,000 barrels of oil, 175 00:11:27,686 --> 00:11:29,772 I give you my word, 176 00:11:30,522 --> 00:11:33,317 next time, you will have your captaincy. 177 00:11:33,484 --> 00:11:35,778 You've given me your word before, Mr. Mason. 178 00:11:38,405 --> 00:11:40,532 No, this time, I'll take it in writing. 179 00:11:45,037 --> 00:11:46,205 (DOOR CLOSES) 180 00:11:53,712 --> 00:11:55,214 Captain Pollard. 181 00:11:56,215 --> 00:11:59,551 We've just had a most agreeable conversation with Mr. Chase. 182 00:11:59,635 --> 00:12:01,595 He'll be honored to serve under you. 183 00:12:02,930 --> 00:12:04,473 I'm glad to hear it. 184 00:12:05,474 --> 00:12:07,518 Now I'm to babysit a greenhorn. 185 00:12:08,019 --> 00:12:09,436 Some chinless Nantucketer 186 00:12:09,561 --> 00:12:11,814 born with a damn silver spoon in his mouth. 187 00:12:11,898 --> 00:12:14,066 You know, I should've thrown the offer back in their faces. 188 00:12:14,191 --> 00:12:17,153 Why? You now have the offer of command in writing. 189 00:12:17,694 --> 00:12:19,989 Yes, well, a liar's word is worthless, 190 00:12:20,072 --> 00:12:21,698 even on paper. 191 00:12:31,333 --> 00:12:34,128 You know, I'd love you just as much if you were a merchant captain. 192 00:12:34,670 --> 00:12:36,588 And you wouldn't be gone for two years. 193 00:12:36,713 --> 00:12:38,090 I won't be gone two years. 194 00:12:38,299 --> 00:12:41,760 A Bedford whaler came back last week who was gone three. 195 00:12:41,928 --> 00:12:44,430 She lost two men and still with her hull half empty. 196 00:12:44,555 --> 00:12:45,722 Yeah, well, they were from Bedford, 197 00:12:45,807 --> 00:12:47,308 and they didn't have me on board. 198 00:12:52,104 --> 00:12:54,023 Son of a bitch! 199 00:12:56,442 --> 00:12:58,360 I will captain my own ship! 200 00:12:59,987 --> 00:13:01,572 A whaling ship. 201 00:13:02,448 --> 00:13:04,826 Up to them, all we'd ever have is this patch of dirt, 202 00:13:04,951 --> 00:13:06,493 and that's not gonna happen, Peggy. 203 00:13:06,618 --> 00:13:08,537 Those are your father's words, not yours. 204 00:13:08,787 --> 00:13:10,581 What's wrong with his words? 205 00:13:11,457 --> 00:13:13,500 He wanted things for his family, for himself. 206 00:13:14,626 --> 00:13:15,962 He was a dreamer, Owen. 207 00:13:16,128 --> 00:13:17,880 Yes, he was. 208 00:13:17,964 --> 00:13:19,841 Dreamed of the sea and never got to sail it 209 00:13:19,924 --> 00:13:21,467 because of men like them. 210 00:13:21,550 --> 00:13:23,594 At least he got to see his children born. 211 00:13:32,269 --> 00:13:33,938 It's all I know. 212 00:13:37,733 --> 00:13:39,318 Sorry. 213 00:13:41,863 --> 00:13:43,489 I married a whaleman. 214 00:13:50,662 --> 00:13:51,998 Hey. 215 00:13:53,665 --> 00:13:56,627 I'll come back as quick as a summer's night, I swear. 216 00:14:07,179 --> 00:14:08,847 Just come back. 217 00:14:10,016 --> 00:14:11,475 Promise me. 218 00:14:13,519 --> 00:14:16,522 I already swore to you. Now you want me to promise, too? 219 00:14:21,027 --> 00:14:22,694 I promise. 220 00:14:37,001 --> 00:14:38,920 POLLARD SENIOR: Son, a word with you. 221 00:14:41,505 --> 00:14:44,216 To be a captain, you cannot be a friend. 222 00:14:44,300 --> 00:14:45,717 You are their superior. 223 00:14:45,927 --> 00:14:49,221 Never forget that. Never let them forget that. 224 00:14:49,555 --> 00:14:50,890 Thank you, sir. 225 00:14:51,098 --> 00:14:55,061 Your great-grandfather and a few others created this industry. 226 00:14:55,561 --> 00:14:59,523 Without us, without you, the world plunges into darkness. 227 00:15:00,107 --> 00:15:03,069 I hope to bring honor to the Pollard family name, sir. 228 00:15:09,700 --> 00:15:13,329 PRAYER LEADER: "Thou didst, O Lord, create the mighty whale 229 00:15:13,412 --> 00:15:16,373 "That wondrous monster of a mighty length 230 00:15:16,457 --> 00:15:20,252 "Beyond conception his unmeasured strength 231 00:15:20,336 --> 00:15:23,630 "But, everlasting God, thou dost ordain 232 00:15:23,714 --> 00:15:27,927 "That we, poor feeble mortals should engage 233 00:15:28,010 --> 00:15:31,931 "Ourselves, our wives and children to maintain 234 00:15:32,056 --> 00:15:35,559 "This dreadful monster with a martial rage" 235 00:15:38,520 --> 00:15:43,650 O Father, grant that your glorious light shine on these men. 236 00:15:44,235 --> 00:15:46,153 Ensure them a prosperous voyage, 237 00:15:47,571 --> 00:15:50,950 that they may return safely and with a full ship, 238 00:15:51,533 --> 00:15:55,204 so that the white flames of Nantucket whale oil 239 00:15:55,287 --> 00:15:58,290 may continue to keep light in our homes, 240 00:15:58,374 --> 00:16:02,128 city streets safe from sin in the night, 241 00:16:02,294 --> 00:16:05,006 and to fuel the machines of industry 242 00:16:05,089 --> 00:16:08,050 that drive our great nation forward 243 00:16:08,134 --> 00:16:11,053 as our noble species evolves. 244 00:16:11,762 --> 00:16:14,640 In your name, we pray. 245 00:16:23,024 --> 00:16:27,361 -So, what month was this? -Late in the year. 246 00:16:27,819 --> 00:16:30,197 We were one of the last ships to go out, 247 00:16:30,322 --> 00:16:32,699 which is why my friend Barzillai and I got a berth. 248 00:16:33,492 --> 00:16:36,328 You know, I was 14. 249 00:16:37,163 --> 00:16:38,497 Fourteen. 250 00:16:39,248 --> 00:16:42,168 CHAPPEL: Nickerson, you're standing around, boy. Move! 251 00:16:42,251 --> 00:16:46,005 NICKERSON: First time to sea. Scared, but more scared to show it. 252 00:16:46,088 --> 00:16:47,839 Barzillai was 17. 253 00:16:48,257 --> 00:16:50,134 Orphans. Grew up on the wharf. 254 00:16:50,509 --> 00:16:53,012 Both in a hurry to be called men. 255 00:16:54,805 --> 00:16:56,515 (MAN ORDERING INDISTINCTLY) 256 00:16:57,183 --> 00:16:59,893 Grubs, what are those pins they're wearing? 257 00:17:00,186 --> 00:17:01,853 They're whale pins, Thomas. 258 00:17:02,354 --> 00:17:03,814 How do I get one of them? 259 00:17:04,356 --> 00:17:06,483 Well, you gotta thrust the killing lance 260 00:17:06,608 --> 00:17:08,860 into the largest beast that ever breathed on this Earth. 261 00:17:08,985 --> 00:17:10,362 (GRUNTING) 262 00:17:10,529 --> 00:17:13,282 MR. JOY: Nickerson, get the green stuff to Mr. Bond, there. 263 00:17:14,200 --> 00:17:16,535 Make it quick, damn it. 264 00:17:17,369 --> 00:17:19,330 I shall have 12 of those one day. 265 00:17:19,871 --> 00:17:21,998 MR. PETERSON: Windlass is ready and sails are loose, sir. 266 00:17:22,083 --> 00:17:24,043 SAILOR 1: Mr. Joy, this is only half my order! 267 00:17:24,210 --> 00:17:25,627 Put them over the ground tier casks. 268 00:17:25,711 --> 00:17:28,630 Well, well, you being on board means only one thing. 269 00:17:28,755 --> 00:17:30,632 Yeah, at least there's one person on this ship 270 00:17:30,716 --> 00:17:32,259 who knows the truth about Owen Chase. 271 00:17:32,634 --> 00:17:34,845 No, that all the other ships have already crewed up. 272 00:17:34,970 --> 00:17:36,222 Now, now. 273 00:17:36,305 --> 00:17:37,723 I'm a reformed man, Owen. 274 00:17:38,432 --> 00:17:39,725 Question is, are you? 275 00:17:39,808 --> 00:17:41,893 Don't tell me Matthew Joy's put down the bottle. 276 00:17:42,103 --> 00:17:43,854 -Dry as sand. -(CHUCKLES) 277 00:17:43,937 --> 00:17:45,772 Has Owen Chase put down his temper? 278 00:17:45,897 --> 00:17:47,899 Ah, serene as the church. 279 00:17:47,983 --> 00:17:50,486 I'll believe that when I see it. 280 00:17:50,569 --> 00:17:52,696 And given our captain, 281 00:17:52,779 --> 00:17:56,242 I'll give your serenity about 48 hours? 282 00:17:57,201 --> 00:17:58,327 Good luck. 283 00:18:04,750 --> 00:18:06,418 Pollard. George Pollard. 284 00:18:06,543 --> 00:18:08,212 Owen Chase. 285 00:18:08,420 --> 00:18:11,090 "Chase." That's an off-island name, isn't it? 286 00:18:11,757 --> 00:18:13,217 Yes, it is. 287 00:18:13,300 --> 00:18:15,844 And very shortly, we will be off-island for some time, 288 00:18:15,927 --> 00:18:17,471 and I'll be very much at home. 289 00:18:18,639 --> 00:18:20,766 POLLARD: Must say I was surprised. 290 00:18:20,849 --> 00:18:23,352 Normally, a captain gets to choose his first mate. 291 00:18:23,935 --> 00:18:25,812 An experienced captain, yes. 292 00:18:26,688 --> 00:18:28,732 'Course, you can understand from the owners' point of view, 293 00:18:28,815 --> 00:18:31,193 they want to feel their investment's in the hands of men. 294 00:18:31,277 --> 00:18:32,528 Indeed. 295 00:18:32,694 --> 00:18:35,281 They probably want a little extra reassurance, that's all. 296 00:18:35,822 --> 00:18:37,199 Well, do keep an eye on me 297 00:18:37,283 --> 00:18:38,784 and let me know if I'm doing anything wrong. 298 00:18:38,909 --> 00:18:40,661 Oh, I know no other way, Captain. 299 00:18:41,077 --> 00:18:42,246 Hmm. 300 00:18:52,423 --> 00:18:54,216 Mr. Chase, haul short the anchor. 301 00:18:54,300 --> 00:18:55,801 Yank to the wind! There's topmen aloft. 302 00:18:55,926 --> 00:18:57,594 -SAILOR: Aye! -Mr. Lawrence, take the helm. 303 00:18:57,678 --> 00:18:59,388 -Aye, sir. -Mr. Joy, make sail. 304 00:18:59,513 --> 00:19:01,723 MR. JOY: Mr. Cole! Mr. Chappel! Stand by the spanker. 305 00:19:01,807 --> 00:19:04,351 Set your fore staysail and your fore and main topsails. 306 00:19:04,435 --> 00:19:05,852 MR. CHASE: Come on, look lively, you lads. 307 00:19:05,936 --> 00:19:07,354 CHAPPEL: Come on, Nickerson! While we're young! 308 00:19:07,438 --> 00:19:09,022 MR. JOY: Let fall clews and bunts and sheet ho! 309 00:19:09,148 --> 00:19:11,317 Set topsails and topgallants. 310 00:19:11,400 --> 00:19:13,527 -Heave away on the windlass. -Heave away on the windlass. 311 00:19:13,652 --> 00:19:15,362 (INDISTINCT SHOUTING) 312 00:19:16,988 --> 00:19:18,199 Set topgallants. 313 00:19:18,282 --> 00:19:20,159 Let go clew lines and sheet ho! 314 00:19:20,326 --> 00:19:22,369 MR. RAMSDELL: There's a snarl in the gasket, sir. 315 00:19:22,536 --> 00:19:24,246 Mr. Chappel, take the helm. 316 00:19:24,496 --> 00:19:26,498 MR. PETERSON: It won't clear, Mr. Chase! 317 00:19:26,707 --> 00:19:29,960 Come on! Why aren't those braces laid out? 318 00:19:30,961 --> 00:19:32,588 Mr. Ray, where are my headsails? 319 00:19:32,713 --> 00:19:34,005 MR. RAY: Aye, sir! 320 00:19:34,840 --> 00:19:36,342 MR. CHASE: Crank away on the windlass! 321 00:19:36,550 --> 00:19:38,051 MR. BOND: Crank away on the windlass, sir! 322 00:19:38,552 --> 00:19:40,011 CHAPPEL: Nickerson, pull! 323 00:19:44,183 --> 00:19:45,351 MR. CHASE: Make sail, God damn it! 324 00:19:45,642 --> 00:19:48,562 MR. JOY: God and all of Nantucket is watching, men. 325 00:19:52,858 --> 00:19:54,109 Anchor's trim! 326 00:19:54,693 --> 00:19:55,944 MR. LAWRENCE: Captain! Head down! 327 00:19:56,027 --> 00:19:57,488 MR. JOY: Mind your head, Captain. 328 00:20:00,699 --> 00:20:02,033 MR. CHASE: What's the matter, Mr. Sheppard? 329 00:20:02,201 --> 00:20:03,702 THOMAS: Gasket's fouled the sheet, sir. 330 00:20:03,869 --> 00:20:05,829 GARDNER: It won't clear, Mr. Chase! 331 00:20:05,996 --> 00:20:07,664 Topgallant sheet is jammed! 332 00:20:07,748 --> 00:20:09,333 MR. RAMSDELL: The gasket still won't clear! 333 00:20:10,083 --> 00:20:12,461 MR. COLE: We don't have enough sail on yet. 334 00:20:12,544 --> 00:20:13,712 Still won't clear! 335 00:20:19,718 --> 00:20:21,094 MR. CHASE: Watch your step! 336 00:20:22,012 --> 00:20:23,472 MR. JOY: It's the gasket, Owen! 337 00:20:35,066 --> 00:20:36,192 Stand clear. 338 00:20:42,449 --> 00:20:44,618 SAILOR: Whoa! Bloody hell! 339 00:20:44,826 --> 00:20:46,995 MR. JOY: Let fall your course! SAILORS: Heave! 340 00:20:49,290 --> 00:20:50,916 Make fast! 341 00:20:51,667 --> 00:20:52,876 (INDISTINCT SHOUTING) 342 00:21:03,304 --> 00:21:05,681 SAILOR: Nice piece of work, Mr. Chase. 343 00:21:18,444 --> 00:21:20,404 If we make Cape Verdes in the next two weeks, 344 00:21:20,487 --> 00:21:24,115 we'll have a decent chance of reaching the Pacific on schedule. 345 00:21:25,951 --> 00:21:27,243 Corn, Mr. Chase? 346 00:21:27,953 --> 00:21:29,371 Oh, no, thank you, sir. 347 00:21:29,455 --> 00:21:30,914 Never did have much of a taste for it. 348 00:21:32,333 --> 00:21:33,792 That's odd. 349 00:21:34,460 --> 00:21:36,712 Told your father grew corn on Cape Cod. 350 00:21:36,795 --> 00:21:38,213 That's right. He did. 351 00:21:38,297 --> 00:21:39,381 As you can imagine, 352 00:21:39,465 --> 00:21:41,425 I certainly grew tired of eating it every day. 353 00:21:41,508 --> 00:21:42,634 (CHUCKLES) 354 00:21:44,010 --> 00:21:45,261 Corn. 355 00:21:46,096 --> 00:21:48,640 -Okra. Beans, I believe? -Mmm-hmm. 356 00:21:48,807 --> 00:21:50,476 Before he went to jail. 357 00:21:52,478 --> 00:21:54,980 Are you familiar with this story, Mr. Joy? 358 00:21:55,314 --> 00:21:56,898 -MR. JOY: Sir? -(CLEARS THROAT) 359 00:21:56,982 --> 00:21:58,567 Were you aware that 360 00:21:58,650 --> 00:22:02,321 Mr. Chase was effectively orphaned due to his father's incarceration? 361 00:22:02,404 --> 00:22:05,657 Well, we all have our own paths to sea. 362 00:22:06,617 --> 00:22:09,202 As a rule, we tend not to ask too many questions. 363 00:22:09,661 --> 00:22:10,912 POLLARD: Hmm. 364 00:22:10,996 --> 00:22:12,498 Can't have been easy, though. 365 00:22:12,623 --> 00:22:13,832 Yet, 366 00:22:14,207 --> 00:22:16,960 you had Nantucket's great seafaring family to adopt you. 367 00:22:18,044 --> 00:22:19,630 This is far from the first time 368 00:22:19,713 --> 00:22:22,090 I've been called a landsman or an off-islander 369 00:22:22,173 --> 00:22:23,384 by some Nantucketer, 370 00:22:23,550 --> 00:22:26,595 reminding me how I am not a part of that family. 371 00:22:28,555 --> 00:22:29,931 Now, if the Captain will excuse me, 372 00:22:30,015 --> 00:22:32,350 there are whaleboats and watches to assign. 373 00:22:39,733 --> 00:22:41,527 No, sir. Not for me. 374 00:22:41,860 --> 00:22:43,820 -Not a drop? -No, sir. 375 00:22:44,571 --> 00:22:46,322 Like I said, 376 00:22:46,407 --> 00:22:49,451 sometimes the fewer questions one asks, the better. 377 00:22:52,203 --> 00:22:53,414 (LIQUID POURING) 378 00:22:53,539 --> 00:22:55,541 (SAILORS TALKING INDISTINCTLY) 379 00:22:57,292 --> 00:22:59,377 CHAPPEL: Serve that food up. 380 00:23:00,921 --> 00:23:02,964 MR. RAMSDELL: Getting this slop on the first day? 381 00:23:03,381 --> 00:23:05,050 Cheap bastards. Where's the meat? 382 00:23:05,341 --> 00:23:06,843 (MR. RAY LAUGHS) 383 00:23:08,344 --> 00:23:09,846 MR. RAY: That's a gorgeous girl, Mr. Chappel. 384 00:23:09,971 --> 00:23:12,808 A vision of beauty, that. Carved on a varnished whale bone. 385 00:23:12,891 --> 00:23:15,060 -Let me have a touch. -Uh-uh. Don't touch. 386 00:23:16,352 --> 00:23:17,813 I thought you were married, anyway. 387 00:23:17,896 --> 00:23:19,565 I am, and there she is. 388 00:23:19,898 --> 00:23:23,068 -Well, that's her nose, anyway. -(ALL LAUGHING) 389 00:23:23,234 --> 00:23:25,070 MR. CHASE: Congratulations, ladies. 390 00:23:28,239 --> 00:23:30,534 That was a fine job trimming sails today. 391 00:23:31,076 --> 00:23:33,745 A sorrier pack of deck wallopers I don't think I've ever seen. 392 00:23:35,622 --> 00:23:36,748 Mr. Chappel. 393 00:23:37,207 --> 00:23:39,375 -Sir! -You're Captain's harpooner. 394 00:23:39,918 --> 00:23:41,795 Mr. Lawrence, you'll be mine. 395 00:23:42,128 --> 00:23:43,296 Aye, sir. 396 00:23:43,589 --> 00:23:44,840 And Mr. Peterson. 397 00:23:46,257 --> 00:23:47,926 Second mate's harpooner. 398 00:23:48,093 --> 00:23:49,260 Aye, sir. 399 00:23:49,595 --> 00:23:51,346 There'll be six men to a boat. 400 00:23:51,429 --> 00:23:53,807 First drills are tomorrow. Six bells sharp. 401 00:23:53,932 --> 00:23:56,518 We're not even east of Halifax, sir. 402 00:23:56,602 --> 00:23:57,769 What's your name? 403 00:23:58,645 --> 00:24:00,939 Coffin. Henry Coffin. 404 00:24:01,231 --> 00:24:02,941 CHAPPEL: He's the Captain's cousin, sir. 405 00:24:04,735 --> 00:24:06,653 Well, well, Mr. Coffin. 406 00:24:06,778 --> 00:24:08,780 You think a whale knows if it's east of Halifax? 407 00:24:08,864 --> 00:24:10,281 (ALL LAUGHING) 408 00:24:12,534 --> 00:24:15,496 I don't know who all of you are or how you got here. 409 00:24:16,329 --> 00:24:19,165 Some of you probably have felonies to hide and you're on the run. 410 00:24:19,415 --> 00:24:22,002 That's fine. I don't give a damn. 411 00:24:22,293 --> 00:24:24,713 But in return, you exist for one thing 412 00:24:24,796 --> 00:24:26,507 and one thing only. 413 00:24:27,423 --> 00:24:28,967 And that is whale oil. 414 00:24:29,175 --> 00:24:31,386 I intend to fill our 2,000 barrels 415 00:24:31,469 --> 00:24:33,471 and be home as quickly as possible. 416 00:24:33,639 --> 00:24:34,765 And even when the weather is fine 417 00:24:34,848 --> 00:24:36,600 and there are no whales, Mr. Coffin, 418 00:24:37,100 --> 00:24:39,185 we will lower the boats and practice all maneuvers 419 00:24:39,310 --> 00:24:41,772 necessary in the capture of a whale. 420 00:24:41,855 --> 00:24:44,107 And any man who is idle will find himself swimming home. 421 00:24:44,190 --> 00:24:45,316 Is that understood? 422 00:24:45,400 --> 00:24:46,484 ALL: Aye, sir. 423 00:24:46,568 --> 00:24:47,694 Sir. 424 00:24:50,906 --> 00:24:51,990 Greenhorn. 425 00:24:53,534 --> 00:24:54,701 On deck. 426 00:24:57,538 --> 00:24:58,955 CHAPPEL: On you go. 427 00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:03,710 Aye, aye, landsman. 428 00:25:04,252 --> 00:25:05,336 MR. CHASE: Thomas Nickerson, right? 429 00:25:05,420 --> 00:25:06,588 NICKERSON: Aye, sir. 430 00:25:07,255 --> 00:25:09,550 MR. CHASE: You know, some feel sick at first. 431 00:25:10,050 --> 00:25:12,343 -(GRUNTING) -(YELPING) 432 00:25:12,468 --> 00:25:14,680 -(LAUGHING) -Please, pull me back up! 433 00:25:14,846 --> 00:25:16,682 Best way to square it with King Neptune, boy! 434 00:25:16,807 --> 00:25:18,183 Please bring me up! 435 00:25:22,520 --> 00:25:24,105 Better now? 436 00:25:24,230 --> 00:25:25,398 (COUGHING) 437 00:25:25,982 --> 00:25:27,609 Ah, shit. 438 00:25:29,194 --> 00:25:30,696 Sir, I am so sorry. 439 00:25:32,030 --> 00:25:35,075 Well, now you got something to write home to your mother about. 440 00:25:40,121 --> 00:25:42,791 My mother's buried up in Smith's Hill. 441 00:25:42,874 --> 00:25:45,043 There's a stone for my father, too. 442 00:25:45,210 --> 00:25:47,963 He was lost at sea before I was born. 443 00:25:49,089 --> 00:25:50,465 MR. CHASE: Here, give me that. 444 00:25:53,384 --> 00:25:55,762 Well, this is your family now, boy. 445 00:25:55,846 --> 00:25:57,723 For better or for worse. 446 00:25:59,474 --> 00:26:00,851 Worse, mostly. 447 00:26:03,729 --> 00:26:05,355 Swab the deck, kid. 448 00:26:21,705 --> 00:26:25,083 MR. CHASE: Dogwatch! You're gonna learn what it takes to be whalers today, mates. 449 00:26:25,250 --> 00:26:26,793 SAILORS: Aye, sir! 450 00:26:26,877 --> 00:26:28,253 MR. JOY: You led that line wrong, Nickerson. 451 00:26:28,336 --> 00:26:29,504 NICKERSON: Aye, sir. 452 00:26:29,587 --> 00:26:31,256 MR. JOY: We'll stay at this till sundown if we have to. 453 00:26:31,381 --> 00:26:32,548 MR. RAY: Aye, Mr. Joy, sir! 454 00:26:32,674 --> 00:26:34,009 Main topsail leech lines! 455 00:26:34,092 --> 00:26:35,677 Harpooner, make ready to boat! 456 00:26:35,761 --> 00:26:37,345 MR. PETERSON: Aye, sir! MR. RAMSDELL: Aye, Mr. Joy! 457 00:26:37,428 --> 00:26:39,139 MR. CHASE: Go main topsail leech lines. 458 00:26:39,264 --> 00:26:40,849 Too slow, you damn coofs! 459 00:26:40,932 --> 00:26:42,100 MR. JOY: The bailing piggins. 460 00:26:42,225 --> 00:26:44,019 MR. CHASE: You will learn every inch of this ship 461 00:26:44,102 --> 00:26:45,729 -before you return to your bunks. -SAILOR: Aye, sir! 462 00:26:49,565 --> 00:26:51,442 MR. COFFIN: Sweat that line, Barz. 463 00:26:51,526 --> 00:26:52,694 MR. CHASE: You need to move quicker, Mr. Ray. 464 00:26:52,778 --> 00:26:53,820 MR. RAY: Aye, Mr. Chase. 465 00:26:53,904 --> 00:26:55,530 MR. PETERSON: Ain't no greenhorns no more, Mr. Chase. 466 00:26:55,613 --> 00:26:57,157 (SAILORS LAUGHING) 467 00:26:57,240 --> 00:26:59,075 CHAPPEL: You're a sailor now! 468 00:26:59,159 --> 00:27:01,077 (MEN CHEERING) 469 00:27:02,578 --> 00:27:04,706 MR. CHASE: Not bad, Mr. Ray. Well done. 470 00:27:04,790 --> 00:27:06,624 -Forecourse bunts! -ALL: Aye, sir. 471 00:27:06,708 --> 00:27:09,085 MR. JOY: Get used to it, lads. You're gonna work like horses. 472 00:27:09,169 --> 00:27:10,336 Mr. Chase? 473 00:27:10,796 --> 00:27:12,047 Sir. 474 00:27:12,798 --> 00:27:14,049 POLLARD: Set stunsails. 475 00:27:14,966 --> 00:27:16,885 Is that wise, sir? We're nearing the Gulf Stream. 476 00:27:16,968 --> 00:27:18,804 Best keep it five knots till we can see the weather. 477 00:27:19,054 --> 00:27:21,139 We are two days behind. 478 00:27:21,389 --> 00:27:24,267 We need to make up the time if we're to catch the easterlies. 479 00:27:25,226 --> 00:27:26,812 Set stunsails. 480 00:27:32,233 --> 00:27:33,777 -Set stunsails. -NICKERSON: Aye, Mr. Chase! 481 00:27:33,860 --> 00:27:36,988 -MR. CHASE: Come on, move. -Belay that! Set stunsails! 482 00:27:37,447 --> 00:27:39,199 Get aloft, Mr. Coffin. 483 00:27:39,282 --> 00:27:40,616 -The captain wants speed. -Aye, sir. 484 00:27:41,326 --> 00:27:42,744 MR. CHASE: Look for braces, lads. 485 00:27:42,828 --> 00:27:44,037 -Trim for speed. -Aye, sir. 486 00:27:44,162 --> 00:27:47,999 MR. JOY: Set fore the main topsail and topgallant stunsails, men. Move it. 487 00:27:50,293 --> 00:27:52,420 Make fast your stunsail halyard. 488 00:27:52,503 --> 00:27:54,505 MR. PETERSON: Make fast stunsail halyard, sir. 489 00:27:55,006 --> 00:27:56,674 MR. COFFIN: Stunsail boom ready, sir! 490 00:27:56,842 --> 00:27:59,094 MR. PETERSON: Bracing fore topsail, sir. 491 00:28:00,178 --> 00:28:01,888 -(ALL CHEERING) -Hey! 492 00:28:06,517 --> 00:28:07,936 (LAUGHING) 493 00:28:14,692 --> 00:28:16,694 (CHEERING) 494 00:28:18,905 --> 00:28:20,824 CHAPPEL: The captain's got us moving now! 495 00:28:20,907 --> 00:28:22,533 MR. RAMSDELL: We're finally getting somewhere! 496 00:28:23,034 --> 00:28:26,037 CHAPPEL: She may be old, but she can still roll, boys! 497 00:28:26,329 --> 00:28:27,705 (CHEERING CONTINUES) 498 00:28:36,339 --> 00:28:37,715 Sir, a squall on the starboard bow. 499 00:28:37,841 --> 00:28:40,010 We must shorten sail immediately. 500 00:28:40,176 --> 00:28:42,095 Not just yet, Mr. Chase. 501 00:28:42,220 --> 00:28:44,472 Sir, we are headed into a squall at more than 8 knots, 502 00:28:44,555 --> 00:28:46,016 and it's moving faster than that. 503 00:28:46,099 --> 00:28:48,434 Let it come. The men are soft from months on land. 504 00:28:48,518 --> 00:28:49,644 They need a good baptism. 505 00:28:49,728 --> 00:28:51,187 Let them know our work has begun. 506 00:28:54,482 --> 00:28:57,527 If we don't shorten sail and bear off, it'll catch us on the beam. 507 00:28:57,610 --> 00:29:00,822 Mr. Chase, we will stand on. 508 00:29:00,906 --> 00:29:02,448 Mr. Lawrence? 509 00:29:02,532 --> 00:29:03,658 Hold our course. 510 00:29:03,742 --> 00:29:05,160 Holding course, sir. 511 00:29:05,285 --> 00:29:08,579 POLLARD: We'll lose half a day running like that. We'll skirt the edge of it. 512 00:29:08,704 --> 00:29:11,750 If the men can't handle a gust like this, then God help us all. 513 00:29:14,502 --> 00:29:15,921 (WIND WHOOSHING) 514 00:29:22,385 --> 00:29:24,179 MR. JOY: Best secure for heavy weather. 515 00:29:24,262 --> 00:29:25,889 MR. PETERSON: Rough weather coming up, boys. 516 00:29:25,972 --> 00:29:27,182 Get this deck secure. 517 00:29:28,391 --> 00:29:30,393 (THUNDER RUMBLING) 518 00:29:33,939 --> 00:29:36,191 MR. JOY: Double gripes on the boats! 519 00:29:43,323 --> 00:29:45,158 Best prepare for weather, Mr. Bond. 520 00:29:45,241 --> 00:29:47,035 We're headed into a squall. 521 00:29:47,118 --> 00:29:48,661 MR. CHASE: Secure the main hatch! 522 00:29:48,744 --> 00:29:49,955 SAILOR: She's moving fast! 523 00:30:05,511 --> 00:30:07,638 We must fall off and run with it. 524 00:30:07,806 --> 00:30:09,724 We will stand on, Mr. Chase. 525 00:30:09,808 --> 00:30:11,101 Mr. Lawrence! 526 00:30:11,184 --> 00:30:13,728 -Hold your course. -Holding course, sir. 527 00:30:22,237 --> 00:30:23,488 (CLATTERING) 528 00:30:26,867 --> 00:30:28,076 MR. CHASE: Sea's coming aboard! 529 00:30:28,243 --> 00:30:29,911 MR. PETERSON: Hold on! 530 00:30:30,286 --> 00:30:32,163 Shorten sail, Mr. Chase! 531 00:30:32,247 --> 00:30:35,000 -Climb to weather and grab the shrouds! -SAILOR: Climb to weather! 532 00:30:35,166 --> 00:30:37,168 MR. CHASE: Get to windward and hold on! 533 00:30:37,668 --> 00:30:41,506 -We need to get those sails down! -CHAPPEL: Go lee! 534 00:30:42,883 --> 00:30:45,093 MR. RAY: Nickerson, hold fast! 535 00:30:46,136 --> 00:30:48,013 MR. CHASE: Hold steady lines! 536 00:30:53,018 --> 00:30:54,477 (SAILORS YELLING) 537 00:30:56,062 --> 00:30:57,438 MR. LAWRENCE: Hold fast! 538 00:30:57,688 --> 00:30:58,982 POLLARD: Turn the ship! 539 00:30:59,149 --> 00:31:00,441 Turn to leeward! 540 00:31:00,566 --> 00:31:02,527 MR. CHASE: No! The damage is done! 541 00:31:02,693 --> 00:31:05,238 -Strike topgallants. Let fly sheets! -No, turn the ship! 542 00:31:05,321 --> 00:31:06,948 Veer off, Mr. Lawrence. 543 00:31:07,073 --> 00:31:09,284 It's too late! It's too goddamn late! 544 00:31:09,409 --> 00:31:11,536 -We'll be broadsided! -POLLARD: Turn this ship! 545 00:31:19,377 --> 00:31:20,836 MR. CHASE: Hold on! POLLARD: Turn! 546 00:31:21,046 --> 00:31:23,548 MR. CHASE: Strike those damn topgallants! 547 00:31:30,388 --> 00:31:31,556 Hold on! 548 00:32:01,752 --> 00:32:02,963 MR. CHASE: Look out! 549 00:32:07,217 --> 00:32:08,634 (YELLING) 550 00:32:09,885 --> 00:32:11,096 (SCREAMING) 551 00:32:16,601 --> 00:32:17,768 (SCREAMING) 552 00:32:24,109 --> 00:32:25,610 Mr. Joy! 553 00:32:26,402 --> 00:32:28,989 -We have to cut away the topgallants! -MR. JOY: I got it, Owen. 554 00:32:29,155 --> 00:32:30,698 MR. CHASE: We have to get her upright! 555 00:32:36,454 --> 00:32:37,872 (GRUNTS) 556 00:32:55,765 --> 00:32:56,891 (PANTING) 557 00:33:19,955 --> 00:33:21,374 (KNOCKING ON DOOR) 558 00:33:24,835 --> 00:33:26,004 MR. CHASE: You wish to see me, sir? 559 00:33:28,339 --> 00:33:29,924 At six bells tomorrow, 560 00:33:30,841 --> 00:33:32,843 you will assemble the crew. 561 00:33:33,011 --> 00:33:36,181 Inform them that we will be returning to Nantucket for repairs. 562 00:33:36,847 --> 00:33:38,808 You will then apologize to them 563 00:33:38,891 --> 00:33:40,185 for interfering with a captain's order, 564 00:33:40,268 --> 00:33:42,853 which nearly cost the lives of every man on this ship today. 565 00:33:43,188 --> 00:33:44,230 What? 566 00:33:44,355 --> 00:33:47,025 I'll accept your resignation upon our return to port. 567 00:33:47,358 --> 00:33:48,526 That will be all. 568 00:33:49,152 --> 00:33:51,904 -It was your order to set stunsails, sir. -That decision was sound. 569 00:33:52,030 --> 00:33:53,573 The men needed testing. 570 00:33:53,656 --> 00:33:55,283 So you send them into a storm? 571 00:33:55,658 --> 00:33:57,368 That was unlucky. 572 00:33:57,452 --> 00:33:59,412 No, it was bad seamanship. 573 00:33:59,495 --> 00:34:01,789 And blaming misfortune is just plain weakness. 574 00:34:01,872 --> 00:34:03,541 Damn your impertinence! 575 00:34:03,791 --> 00:34:05,918 Do you know who you're speaking to? 576 00:34:06,001 --> 00:34:08,671 My name is Captain George Pollard. 577 00:34:08,754 --> 00:34:09,922 Pollard! 578 00:34:13,134 --> 00:34:15,678 And you, Mr. Chase, no matter how many whale pins 579 00:34:15,761 --> 00:34:17,347 you may have on your lapel, 580 00:34:17,430 --> 00:34:19,349 are nothing more than the son of a farmer 581 00:34:19,557 --> 00:34:22,727 who's managed to bully his way into an officer's tunic. 582 00:34:24,229 --> 00:34:25,730 Now get out. 583 00:34:29,067 --> 00:34:31,611 To return to port without a single barrel of oil 584 00:34:31,736 --> 00:34:33,488 would be a mistake, sir. 585 00:34:34,029 --> 00:34:36,574 And not behoove a man whose name is Pollard. 586 00:34:36,907 --> 00:34:38,909 Or Chase, for that matter. 587 00:34:39,410 --> 00:34:40,745 And the best thing for both of us 588 00:34:40,870 --> 00:34:43,498 would be to work all hours God sends us, 589 00:34:43,581 --> 00:34:46,417 fill this ship with oil and be home inside a year 590 00:34:46,501 --> 00:34:48,753 and rid of one another as quickly as possible. 591 00:34:52,090 --> 00:34:55,093 Trust me, I am every bit as desirous of that as you. 592 00:34:58,763 --> 00:35:00,765 Of course, that is a captain's decision. 593 00:35:12,110 --> 00:35:14,445 NICKERSON: They were like an ill-married couple. 594 00:35:16,156 --> 00:35:19,159 An ill-married couple will tolerate each other, Mr. Melville. 595 00:35:19,284 --> 00:35:22,245 But an ill-married couple can also bring down a ship. 596 00:35:22,453 --> 00:35:24,122 Are you married, Mr. Melville? 597 00:35:24,872 --> 00:35:27,167 -I am. -God have mercy on you. 598 00:35:28,626 --> 00:35:30,085 First child on the way, too. 599 00:35:30,503 --> 00:35:32,130 So, does your good wife know that you've brought 600 00:35:32,213 --> 00:35:34,465 all you have in the world here tonight 601 00:35:34,549 --> 00:35:35,800 and given it to a stranger? 602 00:35:37,385 --> 00:35:38,511 No, sir. 603 00:35:38,636 --> 00:35:40,805 You're full of surprises, aren't you? 604 00:35:41,472 --> 00:35:42,723 So, 605 00:35:43,849 --> 00:35:47,312 the Essex did not return to port. 606 00:35:47,687 --> 00:35:48,813 She did not. 607 00:35:49,439 --> 00:35:51,691 -She continued out to sea. -Yes, she did. 608 00:35:52,400 --> 00:35:53,901 And before long, 609 00:35:53,984 --> 00:35:55,361 we heard that call 610 00:35:55,486 --> 00:35:57,488 that all whalemen pray for. 611 00:35:58,489 --> 00:35:59,824 "Blows." 612 00:36:01,326 --> 00:36:03,286 Blows! 613 00:36:03,619 --> 00:36:04,995 MR. RAMSDELL: To windward! 614 00:36:05,120 --> 00:36:06,872 There she blows! 615 00:36:07,207 --> 00:36:09,124 POLLARD: Right or sperm, Mr. Ramsdell? 616 00:36:09,834 --> 00:36:11,294 MR. CHASE: Sperm whales they are! 617 00:36:11,419 --> 00:36:13,045 CHAPPEL: There go the flukes! 618 00:36:13,296 --> 00:36:14,505 POLLARD: Mr. Chase! 619 00:36:14,630 --> 00:36:16,006 Hoist and swing boats. 620 00:36:16,131 --> 00:36:18,218 All hands! All hands on deck! 621 00:36:18,551 --> 00:36:21,346 -All hands on deck! -(SAILORS WHOOPING) 622 00:36:24,139 --> 00:36:25,683 MR. CHASE: Away the boats. 623 00:36:26,851 --> 00:36:28,853 MR. JOY: Lower away! 624 00:36:55,045 --> 00:36:57,382 Straight! Crack them backbones. 625 00:36:57,465 --> 00:36:59,008 MR. RAMSDELL: Aye, sir! 626 00:36:59,091 --> 00:37:00,343 MR. CHASE: Give way all. 627 00:37:00,426 --> 00:37:02,720 Spring those oars till your arms fall off. 628 00:37:06,516 --> 00:37:07,767 POLLARD: There they breach! 629 00:37:08,726 --> 00:37:10,978 Thataway, boys! Full pressure! 630 00:37:11,061 --> 00:37:12,397 CHAPPEL: Aye, sir! 631 00:37:12,605 --> 00:37:15,400 Come on! Put your back into it. 632 00:37:18,236 --> 00:37:19,237 Pull! 633 00:37:19,362 --> 00:37:20,738 Pull like a vengeance! 634 00:37:20,821 --> 00:37:22,448 MR. RAMSDELL: There she blows! 635 00:37:25,200 --> 00:37:27,245 -That's a calf. -SAILOR: Whoo-hoo! 636 00:37:27,328 --> 00:37:28,538 (SAILOR LAUGHING) 637 00:37:30,122 --> 00:37:31,332 That's the calf? 638 00:37:31,457 --> 00:37:32,750 That's the cow. 639 00:37:38,589 --> 00:37:40,049 (WHOOPING) 640 00:37:43,803 --> 00:37:46,597 MR. LAWRENCE: And that's our boy! That's the money. 641 00:37:46,972 --> 00:37:48,849 -Nickerson, push! -Sorry, sir. 642 00:37:49,267 --> 00:37:50,393 Forty-barreler? 643 00:37:50,768 --> 00:37:51,936 Fifty. 644 00:37:52,061 --> 00:37:54,272 -(GRUNTING) -MR. CHASE: Oh, he's a buster! 645 00:37:55,230 --> 00:37:56,982 Bite the oars, lads. 646 00:37:57,358 --> 00:37:59,234 Blister your goddamn lungs! 647 00:37:59,444 --> 00:38:00,861 Full pressure! 648 00:38:01,111 --> 00:38:02,613 Smartly, lads! Smartly! 649 00:38:03,906 --> 00:38:05,074 Mind your oars! 650 00:38:06,241 --> 00:38:08,994 MR. CHASE: Mr. Ramsdell, prepare the line. MR. RAMSDELL: Aye, sir. 651 00:38:12,415 --> 00:38:14,292 MR. CHASE: Mr. Lawrence, the first one's mine. 652 00:38:16,294 --> 00:38:17,920 Take me to the pretty spot. 653 00:38:18,546 --> 00:38:21,799 MR. LAWRENCE: Pull! MR. CHASE: Come on. Stay on him. 654 00:38:26,804 --> 00:38:28,348 (SAILORS WHOOPING) 655 00:38:40,443 --> 00:38:43,153 You're on your first Nantucket sleigh ride, boy. 656 00:38:43,278 --> 00:38:44,822 NICKERSON: Oh, my God! 657 00:38:45,072 --> 00:38:46,366 Whoo! 658 00:38:56,208 --> 00:38:57,627 Look at him! 659 00:38:57,710 --> 00:39:00,004 The most fearsome creature ever to live on this Earth. 660 00:39:06,511 --> 00:39:07,887 (ALL WHOOPING) 661 00:39:10,014 --> 00:39:11,306 MR. LAWRENCE: He sounds. 662 00:39:14,560 --> 00:39:15,770 Ah, my hands! 663 00:39:18,731 --> 00:39:20,525 (WHALE SPUTTERING) 664 00:39:23,444 --> 00:39:25,696 MR. LAWRENCE: We need to wet the line, Nickerson. 665 00:39:31,285 --> 00:39:33,663 MR. JOY: Give way, lads. Give way. 666 00:39:38,376 --> 00:39:41,045 MR. RAMSDELL: Got 140 fathoms of line left, Mr. Chase. 667 00:39:50,304 --> 00:39:52,222 Eighty fathoms of line left, sir! 668 00:39:57,562 --> 00:39:59,021 He's gonna pull us under! 669 00:40:01,441 --> 00:40:02,733 Matthew, I need your line! 670 00:40:03,108 --> 00:40:04,402 Keep going! 671 00:40:04,485 --> 00:40:06,904 -Peterson, give me the line. -Aye, sir. 672 00:40:07,029 --> 00:40:08,864 MR. JOY: Give me that line, Mr. Peterson. 673 00:40:08,989 --> 00:40:11,283 MR. RAMSDELL: We're down to 60 fathoms of line left, sir! 674 00:40:13,536 --> 00:40:15,788 -Twenty fathoms, Mr. Chase. -Tie it off! 675 00:40:19,542 --> 00:40:21,627 -MR. JOY: Safe! -Go! 676 00:40:34,682 --> 00:40:36,266 -Peterson, lay out. -Aye, sir. 677 00:40:37,602 --> 00:40:39,061 How many fathoms can he go? 678 00:40:40,480 --> 00:40:42,648 MR. PETERSON: 70 fathoms left, sir. 679 00:40:44,817 --> 00:40:46,068 No, no, no, wait. 680 00:40:50,740 --> 00:40:53,283 -Owen! -No, no! Not yet! 681 00:40:53,451 --> 00:40:54,994 Don't touch that line! 682 00:40:55,244 --> 00:40:57,329 MR. PETERSON: Down to 50 fathoms, sir. 683 00:40:59,289 --> 00:41:00,458 Owen, goddamn it! 684 00:41:00,833 --> 00:41:02,292 I said don't touch it! 685 00:41:02,460 --> 00:41:04,587 MR. PETERSON: 30 fathoms left, Mr. Joy. 686 00:41:08,340 --> 00:41:09,967 Ten fathoms left, sir! 687 00:41:30,488 --> 00:41:32,490 (MEN CHEERING) 688 00:41:40,122 --> 00:41:41,582 (GRUNTS) 689 00:41:45,836 --> 00:41:47,505 Backwater! 690 00:41:51,091 --> 00:41:52,384 Push! 691 00:41:55,971 --> 00:41:57,848 Chimney's afire! 692 00:41:58,015 --> 00:41:59,517 Chimney's afire! 693 00:42:00,350 --> 00:42:01,519 MR. LAWRENCE: Afire! 694 00:42:33,508 --> 00:42:34,885 MR. CHASE: Hurry it along, lads. 695 00:42:35,595 --> 00:42:38,848 MR. LAWRENCE: God! Get out, you bastards. 696 00:42:53,988 --> 00:42:55,656 MR. BOND: Blubber in the oil. 697 00:42:55,781 --> 00:42:58,033 Smell that, boys! That's us making money! 698 00:42:58,117 --> 00:43:00,870 MR. LAWRENCE: Get out of there, you sons of bitches. 699 00:43:00,953 --> 00:43:02,454 (SAWING) 700 00:43:03,038 --> 00:43:05,499 MR. RAMSDELL: There, you got it? MR. RAY: There's not a chance. 701 00:43:08,711 --> 00:43:09,837 (GRUNTS) 702 00:43:09,962 --> 00:43:11,922 -MR. PETERSON: How's it looking? -It's not good. 703 00:43:13,966 --> 00:43:15,425 MR. RAMSDELL: That's it. 704 00:43:18,929 --> 00:43:21,265 -Mr. Chase, sir. -Yeah? 705 00:43:21,974 --> 00:43:24,226 That's all of it, sir. We can't get any more out. 706 00:43:24,393 --> 00:43:26,854 That's the gold in there, boys. Come on, keep digging. 707 00:43:27,146 --> 00:43:28,773 We're too big to wriggle down there. 708 00:43:28,939 --> 00:43:30,482 Then find someone who can. 709 00:43:36,196 --> 00:43:38,323 Nickerson! Come here, boy. 710 00:43:38,783 --> 00:43:39,825 (WHISTLES) 711 00:43:40,701 --> 00:43:42,912 Hey! I said come here. 712 00:43:45,956 --> 00:43:47,332 Climb on into him. 713 00:43:48,834 --> 00:43:50,294 MR. RAMSDELL: Come on, Thomas. 714 00:43:50,502 --> 00:43:52,337 What's in there is worth a hell of a lot more 715 00:43:52,421 --> 00:43:54,339 than what they're boiling down. 716 00:43:56,591 --> 00:43:57,802 (COUGHING) 717 00:43:58,468 --> 00:43:59,637 Sir! 718 00:44:00,429 --> 00:44:01,764 I can't, I'm... 719 00:44:02,640 --> 00:44:03,849 I'm sorry. I can't. 720 00:44:04,266 --> 00:44:06,977 You get down there, or I'll have you sleep down there. 721 00:44:09,647 --> 00:44:12,066 You best put that between your teeth, boy. 722 00:44:12,482 --> 00:44:14,944 Stinks worse than the devil's asshole down there. 723 00:44:18,906 --> 00:44:20,157 Thanks. 724 00:44:25,329 --> 00:44:26,371 Sorry. 725 00:44:26,455 --> 00:44:28,708 CHAPPEL: Here, Nickerson, take my pillow with you. 726 00:44:28,833 --> 00:44:29,917 (MEN LAUGHING) 727 00:44:31,711 --> 00:44:32,920 Down you go. 728 00:44:34,338 --> 00:44:35,715 (GRUNTS) 729 00:44:43,180 --> 00:44:45,599 (RETCHING) 730 00:44:49,269 --> 00:44:51,396 A man gets to know himself down there. 731 00:44:51,480 --> 00:44:53,023 (CHUCKLES SOFTLY) 732 00:44:54,233 --> 00:44:56,861 -They ever send you into a whale's head? -MELVILLE: No. 733 00:44:57,987 --> 00:44:59,196 I was spared. 734 00:44:59,739 --> 00:45:02,241 Well, that's where the treasure is. 735 00:45:04,243 --> 00:45:06,036 I'll never forget that first bull. 736 00:45:08,288 --> 00:45:09,623 Forty-seven barrels. 737 00:45:10,207 --> 00:45:13,043 'Course, the happiness was short-lived. 738 00:45:13,252 --> 00:45:15,587 The waters there had all been fished out? 739 00:45:15,712 --> 00:45:17,214 That they had. 740 00:45:17,882 --> 00:45:20,634 So, we headed further out. 741 00:45:23,137 --> 00:45:24,429 Yeah. 742 00:45:24,638 --> 00:45:26,556 Took us a month to round the Horn. 743 00:45:28,768 --> 00:45:31,937 Left the South Atlantic behind with a sliver of hope 744 00:45:32,104 --> 00:45:34,689 that things could change for the better. 745 00:45:36,066 --> 00:45:39,486 But making the Pacific didn't improve our lot. 746 00:45:41,571 --> 00:45:43,991 Whale sightings were too damn scarce. 747 00:45:46,701 --> 00:45:48,495 After nearly a year at sea, 748 00:45:48,996 --> 00:45:53,083 the temperaments of our captain and first mate grew more strained. 749 00:45:54,919 --> 00:45:57,671 Captain Pollard spent most days and nights in his cabin, 750 00:45:58,755 --> 00:46:00,590 afraid to look his crew in the eye. 751 00:46:06,180 --> 00:46:08,348 Our hold was almost empty. 752 00:46:09,599 --> 00:46:11,977 And to gaze upon our paltry efforts 753 00:46:12,686 --> 00:46:14,897 only served as a reminder 754 00:46:14,980 --> 00:46:18,108 that we were a long way from going home. 755 00:46:35,500 --> 00:46:37,461 (CHILDREN TALKING INDISTINCTLY) 756 00:46:39,046 --> 00:46:41,006 (TRADER SPEAKING LOCAL LANGUAGE) 757 00:46:41,131 --> 00:46:43,675 MR. BOND: No, no. I don't talk that talk. 758 00:46:43,800 --> 00:46:45,677 -Speak English. -Offer me more. 759 00:46:46,971 --> 00:46:50,057 -Here, sir. -This, Nantucket whale oil. 760 00:46:50,140 --> 00:46:51,308 (INTERPRETER TRANSLATING) 761 00:46:51,391 --> 00:46:53,643 -Ain't no skinny hog worth more than that. -More! 762 00:47:09,493 --> 00:47:11,078 (FIRST MATE SPEAKING SPANISH) 763 00:47:12,704 --> 00:47:14,664 -(SPEAKING SPANISH) -(CAPTAIN SPEAKING) 764 00:47:31,181 --> 00:47:32,349 (FIRST MATE SPEAKING) 765 00:47:35,102 --> 00:47:36,270 (CAPTAIN SPEAKING) 766 00:47:39,023 --> 00:47:40,357 (FIRST MATE SPEAKING) 767 00:47:46,947 --> 00:47:49,158 Capitán. Excuse me. 768 00:47:49,241 --> 00:47:51,660 The locals told me your voyage was waylaid, sir. 769 00:47:52,244 --> 00:47:54,079 Captain George Pollard. The Essex. 770 00:47:54,914 --> 00:47:57,457 Capitán Clemente Pelaez, the Santa Maria. 771 00:47:58,918 --> 00:48:00,710 Would you buy a colleague a drink? 772 00:48:01,878 --> 00:48:03,755 (MEN SPEAKING SPANISH) 773 00:48:07,217 --> 00:48:08,510 No, no. 774 00:48:10,012 --> 00:48:12,973 Bad luck, huh? How far out? 775 00:48:14,224 --> 00:48:16,268 Far enough for only a fool to go. 776 00:48:16,893 --> 00:48:18,520 How far would that be? 777 00:48:19,521 --> 00:48:21,941 A thousand leagues along the equator. 778 00:48:23,067 --> 00:48:24,318 The Offshore Grounds. 779 00:48:25,402 --> 00:48:27,071 Were there whales there? 780 00:48:27,862 --> 00:48:29,573 More than you've ever dreamed. 781 00:48:30,365 --> 00:48:31,741 Hundreds. 782 00:48:32,076 --> 00:48:35,245 Fields of flukes far as the eye can see. 783 00:48:35,329 --> 00:48:38,415 Could have filled up 3,000 barrels in the space of a day. 784 00:48:38,498 --> 00:48:39,874 What do you mean, "could have"? 785 00:48:44,088 --> 00:48:46,631 If it weren't for that demon. 786 00:48:48,383 --> 00:48:49,801 A whale. 787 00:48:50,970 --> 00:48:52,804 White as alabaster. 788 00:48:53,097 --> 00:48:54,348 Hundred feet long. 789 00:48:56,433 --> 00:48:58,727 Sent six of my crew to their graves. 790 00:49:07,527 --> 00:49:10,739 And the rest of us, something to remember him by. 791 00:49:11,948 --> 00:49:13,283 Now, this white whale, 792 00:49:13,367 --> 00:49:15,785 did he dance a jig and pick your pocket as well? 793 00:49:16,161 --> 00:49:17,287 Hmm? 794 00:49:21,125 --> 00:49:22,292 Gracias. 795 00:49:26,255 --> 00:49:27,964 You believe that? 796 00:49:30,592 --> 00:49:33,970 If we set sail now, catch the south easterlies 797 00:49:34,054 --> 00:49:35,639 at their best time and fill our belly, 798 00:49:35,805 --> 00:49:37,266 we could be home in six months. 799 00:49:39,143 --> 00:49:41,020 What say you, Mr. Chase? 800 00:49:41,103 --> 00:49:42,646 No need to endure our predicament 801 00:49:42,729 --> 00:49:44,439 for a moment longer than necessary. 802 00:49:44,523 --> 00:49:46,066 Amen to that. 803 00:49:46,191 --> 00:49:47,317 Amen. 804 00:49:49,236 --> 00:49:52,489 NICKERSON: Greed took hold of our captain and first mate. 805 00:49:53,157 --> 00:49:54,908 So we headed out. 806 00:49:55,325 --> 00:49:57,494 A thousand leagues along the equator. 807 00:49:58,578 --> 00:50:02,249 Where knowledge ended, speculation began. 808 00:50:02,957 --> 00:50:04,876 That's where the whales had gone to hide. 809 00:50:05,794 --> 00:50:08,713 As far from man as they could possibly go. 810 00:50:09,214 --> 00:50:11,007 But we hunted them down. 811 00:50:12,217 --> 00:50:13,760 Centuries before, 812 00:50:13,843 --> 00:50:16,721 sailors feared sailing off the edge of the Earth. 813 00:50:18,807 --> 00:50:20,975 But we were headed for the edge of sanity. 814 00:50:25,522 --> 00:50:27,482 Trust gave way to doubt. 815 00:50:28,608 --> 00:50:30,985 Hope to blind superstition. 816 00:50:31,778 --> 00:50:33,780 Captain, the men are talking. 817 00:50:34,823 --> 00:50:36,116 That's what men do. 818 00:50:36,241 --> 00:50:38,910 They aren't happy with your decision to sail out this far. 819 00:50:40,036 --> 00:50:41,955 Well, did you correct them? 820 00:50:42,122 --> 00:50:45,125 Did you remind them of our purpose to fill this ship with whale oil, 821 00:50:45,250 --> 00:50:48,128 and if the whales are 1,000 leagues out, that that is where we will go? 822 00:50:48,212 --> 00:50:50,422 Cousin, please. 823 00:50:53,258 --> 00:50:54,843 This is madness. 824 00:50:55,885 --> 00:50:58,722 You have let yourself be influenced by that man. 825 00:50:58,972 --> 00:51:00,890 You must turn this ship back. 826 00:51:01,433 --> 00:51:04,060 I suggest you go back down, 827 00:51:04,228 --> 00:51:07,397 reassure the men, be a leader 828 00:51:08,232 --> 00:51:12,361 and don't ever, ever abuse the privilege of family with me again. 829 00:51:14,613 --> 00:51:16,198 Mr. Coffin. 830 00:51:39,596 --> 00:51:40,972 (CREAKING) 831 00:51:45,935 --> 00:51:47,103 What is it? 832 00:51:47,771 --> 00:51:48,813 Listen. 833 00:51:48,897 --> 00:51:51,275 Mr. Chase? I see some white water. 834 00:51:51,358 --> 00:51:52,776 MR. CHASE: Where? MR. RAY: Portside! 835 00:51:52,901 --> 00:51:54,361 MR. LAWRENCE: We're away! MR. JOY: Portside, Captain! 836 00:51:54,569 --> 00:51:56,446 CHAPPEL: Where are they? MR. PETERSON: You see anything? 837 00:52:03,828 --> 00:52:05,038 Lower away! 838 00:52:05,289 --> 00:52:09,293 -Lower away! Lower away! -(ALL EXCLAIMING EXCITEDLY) 839 00:52:09,459 --> 00:52:11,295 The devil take the Mexican grounds! 840 00:52:27,977 --> 00:52:29,103 (YELLS) 841 00:52:45,287 --> 00:52:46,538 (YELLS) 842 00:52:51,335 --> 00:52:53,002 POLLARD: Peak oars! 843 00:52:53,086 --> 00:52:55,672 Give it to him, Mr. Chappel! 844 00:52:56,673 --> 00:52:58,425 Stick him, man! Stick him! 845 00:52:58,508 --> 00:52:59,676 (YELLS) 846 00:53:02,971 --> 00:53:04,973 MR. JOY: Dead ahead, Peterson! 847 00:53:06,516 --> 00:53:07,851 (GRUNTS) 848 00:53:13,273 --> 00:53:15,525 -(THUD) -(MEN GRUNTING) 849 00:53:16,109 --> 00:53:19,363 Don't let him chew your oars, boys. Back to it. 850 00:53:22,324 --> 00:53:24,451 -(THUD) -(MEN EXCLAIMING) 851 00:53:27,246 --> 00:53:28,372 (GASPING) 852 00:53:43,720 --> 00:53:46,265 -The whale? -Yes. 853 00:53:46,931 --> 00:53:48,558 -So it's true? -Yes. 854 00:53:49,976 --> 00:53:51,728 Too much is true. 855 00:53:52,562 --> 00:53:54,022 MR. RAY: Get it up! 856 00:54:09,413 --> 00:54:11,205 Full pressure! 857 00:54:24,135 --> 00:54:25,595 (MR. CHASE WHISTLES) 858 00:54:25,970 --> 00:54:27,221 MR. CHASE: Mr. Bond! 859 00:54:27,431 --> 00:54:29,433 Back the foreyard, lower the tackle! 860 00:54:29,516 --> 00:54:30,934 Aye, sir! 861 00:54:31,267 --> 00:54:34,062 MR. JOY: Here she comes, Peterson. Now, now! 862 00:54:36,523 --> 00:54:37,649 (GROANING) 863 00:54:37,899 --> 00:54:39,025 (GRUNTS) 864 00:54:47,617 --> 00:54:50,286 Mr. Lawrence, take us leeward, head us straight for the school. 865 00:54:50,454 --> 00:54:51,663 MR. LAWRENCE: Aye, sir. 866 00:54:51,788 --> 00:54:53,957 -MR. BOND: Hot tar, sir. -We'll find him. 867 00:54:59,003 --> 00:55:00,589 POLLARD: We're boat to black skin. 868 00:55:01,340 --> 00:55:02,591 Beach us on her! 869 00:55:11,140 --> 00:55:12,225 (CHEERING) 870 00:55:12,308 --> 00:55:13,309 She's ours, men! 871 00:55:24,363 --> 00:55:26,490 (WHALE BELLOWING) 872 00:55:29,993 --> 00:55:31,911 (BANGING CONTINUES) 873 00:55:33,872 --> 00:55:35,457 (BREATHING HEAVILY) 874 00:55:35,874 --> 00:55:37,166 (THUD) 875 00:55:46,009 --> 00:55:47,844 What was that, Mr. Lawrence? 876 00:55:49,804 --> 00:55:51,390 (RUMBLING) 877 00:55:52,056 --> 00:55:53,517 MR. BOND: Mr. Chase! 878 00:56:01,608 --> 00:56:02,734 Goddamn it. 879 00:56:03,568 --> 00:56:04,861 Find Mr... 880 00:56:09,073 --> 00:56:10,409 (GRUNTS) 881 00:56:29,719 --> 00:56:31,220 NICKERSON: Mr. Easton! 882 00:56:47,737 --> 00:56:49,948 MR. CHASE: Get Mr. Lawrence to man the pumps! 883 00:56:51,199 --> 00:56:52,325 Where is he? 884 00:56:52,826 --> 00:56:54,243 Port bow! 885 00:57:06,590 --> 00:57:08,382 Get me the biggest irons we have. 886 00:57:11,761 --> 00:57:13,054 He wants a fight? 887 00:57:23,189 --> 00:57:24,483 Never seen a whale do that. 888 00:57:24,608 --> 00:57:25,900 MR. CHASE: Mr. Lawrence, take the wheel. 889 00:57:25,984 --> 00:57:28,194 Mr. Ramsdell, secure the other end of the line 890 00:57:28,277 --> 00:57:29,988 -to the foremast. -MR. RAMSDELL: Aye, sir. 891 00:57:30,196 --> 00:57:33,492 As I live and breathe, he's mine. 892 00:57:53,678 --> 00:57:56,515 -(GRUNTS) -(GROANS) 893 00:57:56,640 --> 00:57:57,766 Ah! 894 00:58:02,604 --> 00:58:03,730 (EXCLAIMS) 895 00:58:18,369 --> 00:58:20,497 -Cut the line! -MR. RAMSDELL: Look out! 896 00:58:25,835 --> 00:58:27,003 (GRUNTS) 897 00:58:33,927 --> 00:58:35,261 (CRACKING) 898 00:58:37,096 --> 00:58:38,515 (CREAKING) 899 00:58:39,265 --> 00:58:40,934 (SCREAMING) 900 00:58:50,068 --> 00:58:51,319 (SCREAMING) 901 00:59:07,544 --> 00:59:08,837 (GASPS) 902 00:59:14,593 --> 00:59:16,135 -Captain! -What? 903 00:59:16,260 --> 00:59:18,722 The Essex! She's listing. 904 00:59:29,983 --> 00:59:31,860 Turn this boat around! 905 01:00:07,812 --> 01:00:08,980 -NICKERSON: Help me! -Nickerson! 906 01:00:09,063 --> 01:00:10,523 -Mr. Joy! -Here! 907 01:00:10,607 --> 01:00:11,775 -Give me your hand! -Help! 908 01:00:11,858 --> 01:00:13,109 Nickerson! 909 01:00:49,312 --> 01:00:50,647 Mr. Chase! 910 01:00:52,816 --> 01:00:54,317 A whale, sir. 911 01:00:54,400 --> 01:00:56,069 It stove the ship. 912 01:00:56,653 --> 01:00:57,821 What? 913 01:00:57,904 --> 01:01:00,573 We lost Easton and Sanborn. 914 01:01:03,284 --> 01:01:04,911 The pumps are useless, sir. 915 01:01:12,168 --> 01:01:13,795 Prepare to abandon ship. 916 01:01:13,962 --> 01:01:15,504 We can't row our way home. 917 01:01:16,172 --> 01:01:17,674 We'll have to strip her of her sails 918 01:01:17,757 --> 01:01:19,342 -and jimmy-rig something. -Aye, sir. 919 01:01:19,425 --> 01:01:21,928 MR. JOY: Gather as much food and water as you can carry. 920 01:01:22,011 --> 01:01:24,347 We're gonna need all the fresh water you can find. 921 01:01:24,430 --> 01:01:26,265 MR. RAMSDELL: Nickerson, you grab as much as you can. 922 01:01:26,349 --> 01:01:27,516 Barz, come with me. 923 01:01:32,355 --> 01:01:33,815 Sweet Lord! 924 01:01:33,898 --> 01:01:36,067 MR. JOY: First, the sails, then the provisions. 925 01:01:38,194 --> 01:01:41,155 SAILOR: Get as much food as you can carry, lad. 926 01:01:42,573 --> 01:01:43,950 MR. JOY: Make haste, boys! 927 01:01:44,033 --> 01:01:46,995 Nickerson, there are more casks in steerage. 928 01:01:47,078 --> 01:01:49,372 -Got it? -Hardtack is dry. 929 01:01:49,580 --> 01:01:51,040 Move sprightly, gentlemen. 930 01:01:51,207 --> 01:01:52,375 Lower away! 931 01:01:52,541 --> 01:01:54,794 -Take those tack lines. -MR. COLE: Up aloft! 932 01:01:54,878 --> 01:01:55,962 MR. LAWRENCE: Lower away! Bring it down! 933 01:01:56,045 --> 01:01:57,130 MR. JOY: Mr. Cole, get that yard down. 934 01:01:57,213 --> 01:01:58,464 MR. LAWRENCE: Bring it down. Keep it coming! 935 01:01:59,673 --> 01:02:00,674 Hold off! 936 01:02:07,932 --> 01:02:08,975 (GRUNTS) 937 01:02:09,058 --> 01:02:10,894 -Come on, Nickerson! -MR. LAWRENCE: Get those sails! 938 01:02:13,062 --> 01:02:14,063 NICKERSON: There you go. 939 01:02:17,150 --> 01:02:18,985 MR. CHASE: Get that yard down! 940 01:02:20,779 --> 01:02:23,239 We need the sails. Not enough water. 941 01:02:28,745 --> 01:02:30,204 CHAPPEL: Get the barrels, now! 942 01:02:30,955 --> 01:02:32,373 MR. CHASE: Strip that rigging! 943 01:02:32,832 --> 01:02:34,625 MR. BOND: More fresh water! More hardtack! Come on! 944 01:02:34,834 --> 01:02:36,669 MR. RAMSDELL: I can see more casks in the steerage! 945 01:02:36,836 --> 01:02:37,962 (GRUNTS) 946 01:02:38,171 --> 01:02:39,588 NICKERSON: Benjamin! Quick! Come on! 947 01:02:39,713 --> 01:02:40,924 MR. RAY: Give me your hand! MR. CHASE: Get him up. 948 01:02:41,007 --> 01:02:42,258 MR. RAY: I got you. 949 01:02:42,466 --> 01:02:43,802 Hardtack! 950 01:02:43,927 --> 01:02:45,762 MR. JOY: Come on! Move it! 951 01:02:46,595 --> 01:02:48,097 Step lively, Mr. Nickerson! 952 01:02:54,437 --> 01:02:55,688 Gotta get away from the oil! 953 01:02:55,772 --> 01:02:57,398 CHAPPEL: She's going down! She's listing! 954 01:02:57,481 --> 01:02:58,607 MR. JOY: Where's Owen? 955 01:02:58,775 --> 01:02:59,859 Nickerson, where is Mr. Chase? 956 01:02:59,943 --> 01:03:01,694 NICKERSON: He was just here, sir. 957 01:03:01,778 --> 01:03:04,030 MR. COLE: Come on, hurry up! MR. JOY: Owen! 958 01:03:04,113 --> 01:03:05,614 NICKERSON: Mr. Chase! MR. JOY: We gotta shove off! 959 01:03:06,532 --> 01:03:07,700 Come on, now, boys! 960 01:03:07,826 --> 01:03:09,243 MR. COLE: Oil on deck! 961 01:03:10,536 --> 01:03:12,580 -Captain! -NICKERSON: Mr. Chase! 962 01:03:12,789 --> 01:03:14,791 (INDISTINCT SHOUTING) 963 01:03:27,470 --> 01:03:28,679 (MR. CHASE GRUNTS) 964 01:03:32,516 --> 01:03:34,143 Mr. Chase, sir! 965 01:03:34,310 --> 01:03:35,895 MR. JOY: Owen! 966 01:03:36,062 --> 01:03:37,438 Where is the first mate? 967 01:03:37,521 --> 01:03:40,358 -Owen! -NICKERSON: Mr. Chase, sir! 968 01:03:46,823 --> 01:03:47,949 (GRUNTS) 969 01:03:48,074 --> 01:03:49,783 MR. JOY: Owen! MR. RAMSDELL: She's gonna blow! 970 01:03:49,909 --> 01:03:51,035 -Owen! -MR. COLE: We gotta move! 971 01:03:51,160 --> 01:03:53,204 No, wait! Wait! 972 01:03:53,329 --> 01:03:54,747 Mr. Chase, sir! 973 01:03:56,833 --> 01:03:58,126 Mr. Chase! 974 01:04:03,339 --> 01:04:04,966 (GRUNTS) 975 01:04:42,628 --> 01:04:44,881 There he is! There he is! There he is! 976 01:04:47,258 --> 01:04:49,010 MR. BOND: Over here! NICKERSON: Mr. Chase! 977 01:04:51,429 --> 01:04:52,889 Move that! 978 01:04:53,389 --> 01:04:55,224 Mr. Chase, sir. 979 01:04:55,391 --> 01:04:57,143 -Here! -MR. BOND: Get ahold, now. 980 01:04:57,226 --> 01:04:58,686 We got you. 981 01:04:59,228 --> 01:05:00,229 Sir. 982 01:05:00,313 --> 01:05:01,397 MR. BOND: You're all right now, Mr. Chase. 983 01:05:05,902 --> 01:05:07,153 Going fishing, are we? 984 01:05:07,320 --> 01:05:09,447 Clean and load it, Mr. Joy. 985 01:05:12,033 --> 01:05:13,076 (GASPING) 986 01:05:21,250 --> 01:05:24,128 Back away, or she'll take us down with her. 987 01:06:54,677 --> 01:06:55,844 (BLOWS) 988 01:07:08,066 --> 01:07:09,192 Captain. 989 01:07:10,068 --> 01:07:11,402 What about our provisions? 990 01:07:17,950 --> 01:07:20,328 Two ounces of hardtack a day per man. 991 01:07:21,412 --> 01:07:23,206 And half a cup of water. 992 01:07:26,917 --> 01:07:28,627 Hey, man, we can't live on that. 993 01:07:28,711 --> 01:07:30,129 MR. RAMSDELL: Not for more than a few days. 994 01:07:34,425 --> 01:07:36,927 (WHALE BELLOWING IN THE DISTANCE) 995 01:07:47,230 --> 01:07:48,439 It's he. 996 01:07:51,567 --> 01:07:53,486 (BELLOWING CONTINUES) 997 01:07:53,611 --> 01:07:55,196 Yeah, it's him, all right. 998 01:07:58,491 --> 01:08:00,659 You don't fool me, Mr. Chase. 999 01:08:01,285 --> 01:08:02,578 POLLARD: Mr. Coffin? 1000 01:08:02,828 --> 01:08:04,913 -That right? -You put us here. 1001 01:08:05,081 --> 01:08:07,208 You know you put us here. 1002 01:08:08,501 --> 01:08:10,669 -Hey! Put it down! -Mr. Coffin, put the pistol down. 1003 01:08:10,836 --> 01:08:12,213 -Say you're scared! -CHAPPEL: What are you doing? 1004 01:08:12,296 --> 01:08:13,839 POLLARD: Mr. Coffin, put the pistol down. 1005 01:08:14,006 --> 01:08:16,259 You know what happens when the food and water runs out? 1006 01:08:16,425 --> 01:08:18,261 Do as the captain says, Coffin! 1007 01:08:18,427 --> 01:08:19,762 I just wanna see the landsman scared. 1008 01:08:19,845 --> 01:08:21,639 Mr. Coffin, put the pistol down. That's an order! 1009 01:08:21,764 --> 01:08:24,100 -Do as the captain says! Now! -Say it! 1010 01:08:24,183 --> 01:08:25,351 -POLLARD: Henry. -Say it! 1011 01:08:26,269 --> 01:08:27,436 Say it! 1012 01:08:27,645 --> 01:08:28,812 POLLARD: Henry! 1013 01:08:29,355 --> 01:08:31,107 Put the pistol down. 1014 01:08:35,278 --> 01:08:36,612 Henry! 1015 01:08:37,363 --> 01:08:38,614 Put it down. 1016 01:08:39,740 --> 01:08:41,033 (EXHALES DEEPLY) 1017 01:09:15,151 --> 01:09:16,694 So east it was. 1018 01:09:17,695 --> 01:09:20,030 Back in the direction we'd come. 1019 01:09:20,698 --> 01:09:23,826 Though only the sun and compass told us so. 1020 01:09:24,702 --> 01:09:27,079 All directions looked the same. 1021 01:09:27,538 --> 01:09:30,624 Our hope was to catch the Westerlies to Easter Island. 1022 01:09:32,168 --> 01:09:34,127 A journey of 3,000 miles. 1023 01:09:35,629 --> 01:09:37,465 In 12 days, we have drifted south. 1024 01:09:37,923 --> 01:09:39,967 Six degrees latitude. 1025 01:09:40,593 --> 01:09:43,429 We're not one mile closer to Easter Island. 1026 01:09:44,263 --> 01:09:45,723 MR. RAMSDELL: We stayed in the same place. 1027 01:09:46,307 --> 01:09:47,433 (COUGHS) 1028 01:09:48,601 --> 01:09:50,519 MR. PETERSON: We are cursed. 1029 01:09:50,644 --> 01:09:53,272 We'll make up for it when we catch the variables. 1030 01:09:56,359 --> 01:09:57,860 We'll catch them. 1031 01:10:13,542 --> 01:10:15,211 (THUNDER RUMBLING) 1032 01:10:20,173 --> 01:10:22,885 (INDISTINCT SHOUTING) 1033 01:10:28,056 --> 01:10:29,225 Chappel! 1034 01:10:29,892 --> 01:10:31,227 MR. COLE: Chappel! 1035 01:10:31,727 --> 01:10:33,020 Chappel! 1036 01:10:33,145 --> 01:10:34,397 You've got him, Captain! 1037 01:10:39,902 --> 01:10:42,112 MR. PETERSON: Mr. Joy, the halyard's jammed! 1038 01:10:45,574 --> 01:10:49,036 Mr. Joy! You all right, Mr. Joy? 1039 01:10:49,578 --> 01:10:50,829 (GROANS) 1040 01:10:52,915 --> 01:10:54,250 MR. JOY: Grab the tiller! 1041 01:10:55,083 --> 01:10:56,752 -Grab it! -MR. CHASE: Matthew! 1042 01:10:58,712 --> 01:11:00,213 Get that sail down! 1043 01:11:00,339 --> 01:11:02,258 (WHALE BELLOWING) 1044 01:11:30,744 --> 01:11:32,871 Matthew. Hey, what happened? 1045 01:11:33,414 --> 01:11:34,707 What happened? 1046 01:11:34,790 --> 01:11:36,750 Owen. What are you doing here? 1047 01:11:36,834 --> 01:11:38,126 -Let me take a look. -No, no, no. 1048 01:11:38,210 --> 01:11:39,920 -Lay still. Let me look. -Owen, I'm fine. 1049 01:11:40,003 --> 01:11:41,380 All right. Just relax. Relax. Let me take a look. 1050 01:11:41,464 --> 01:11:42,548 -I'm fine! -I know. I know. 1051 01:11:42,631 --> 01:11:44,300 I just wanna take a look. 1052 01:11:48,304 --> 01:11:51,307 I banged my head. Just a scratch, all right? 1053 01:11:51,432 --> 01:11:52,891 -Just a scratch. -Give him some water. 1054 01:11:52,975 --> 01:11:56,019 -I don't need any water! -Give him some goddamn water! 1055 01:11:56,144 --> 01:11:58,356 No, no, no. I don't need water. I'm fine. 1056 01:12:05,404 --> 01:12:07,072 -Yeah. -MR. CHASE: Take that. Take it. 1057 01:12:07,155 --> 01:12:08,407 (GROANING) 1058 01:12:08,782 --> 01:12:10,493 Hey. I got you, I got you. 1059 01:12:11,159 --> 01:12:13,078 You're all right. You're all right. 1060 01:12:18,667 --> 01:12:20,961 Hey, what're you all looking at? I'm fine. 1061 01:12:21,128 --> 01:12:23,088 Captain Pollard. Fit as a fiddle. 1062 01:12:24,089 --> 01:12:26,174 Fit as a goddamned fiddle. You hear me? 1063 01:12:27,009 --> 01:12:28,218 -Owen. -Yeah. 1064 01:12:28,301 --> 01:12:29,595 I'm fine. 1065 01:12:29,678 --> 01:12:31,304 All right? I'm fine! 1066 01:12:32,014 --> 01:12:35,684 -You're a tough son of a bitch. -Thank you. I'm fine. Get out of here. 1067 01:12:36,685 --> 01:12:38,145 MR. CHASE: He's good. 1068 01:12:39,104 --> 01:12:40,398 Let's go. 1069 01:12:41,690 --> 01:12:44,317 MR. COFFIN: Why waste water on a dead man? 1070 01:12:44,610 --> 01:12:49,823 Them two men have known each other, sailed together since childhood. 1071 01:12:49,948 --> 01:12:51,033 Now, tell me, 1072 01:12:51,116 --> 01:12:54,327 could you sit there and watch your own brother die? 1073 01:12:54,703 --> 01:12:57,373 Simply a matter of numbers, Mr. Chappel. 1074 01:12:58,499 --> 01:13:00,793 There's not enough for all of us. 1075 01:13:12,555 --> 01:13:15,433 (MUTTERING) Why waste water on a dead man? 1076 01:13:16,224 --> 01:13:17,601 Why waste water on... 1077 01:13:18,351 --> 01:13:21,063 Why waste water? Why waste? 1078 01:13:21,647 --> 01:13:23,899 Why waste water on a dead man? 1079 01:13:24,232 --> 01:13:25,526 Mr. Nickerson? 1080 01:13:27,069 --> 01:13:28,987 -Why waste water... -You all right, sir? 1081 01:13:30,072 --> 01:13:32,408 -I cannot. -Cannot what? 1082 01:13:32,658 --> 01:13:34,159 (SIGHS) No, you... 1083 01:13:34,242 --> 01:13:36,412 You have enough. More than enough. 1084 01:13:36,579 --> 01:13:38,163 But, sir, we've come so far. 1085 01:13:38,246 --> 01:13:39,623 We have come to an end. 1086 01:13:39,832 --> 01:13:41,249 We have an agreement, sir. 1087 01:13:41,333 --> 01:13:42,918 Take the money and leave! 1088 01:13:43,001 --> 01:13:44,420 The devil's bargain. 1089 01:13:44,837 --> 01:13:46,171 No, sir. 1090 01:13:46,254 --> 01:13:48,757 The devil loves unspoken secrets. 1091 01:13:52,010 --> 01:13:54,597 Especially those that fester in a man's soul. 1092 01:13:56,599 --> 01:13:58,100 What's yours? 1093 01:14:17,285 --> 01:14:18,787 I am not a great writer. 1094 01:14:22,124 --> 01:14:23,584 I am not Hawthorne. 1095 01:14:25,127 --> 01:14:27,505 But from my first hearing of it, 1096 01:14:28,005 --> 01:14:29,965 this tale has haunted me. 1097 01:14:31,800 --> 01:14:33,469 It consumes me. 1098 01:14:34,678 --> 01:14:36,680 I fear if I do not write it, 1099 01:14:38,474 --> 01:14:40,225 then I should never write again. 1100 01:14:41,560 --> 01:14:42,811 What else? 1101 01:14:44,980 --> 01:14:46,815 I fear if I do write it, 1102 01:14:48,484 --> 01:14:51,194 that it will not be as good as it should be. 1103 01:15:01,580 --> 01:15:03,624 Continue the story, sir. 1104 01:15:04,625 --> 01:15:06,502 For the both of us. 1105 01:15:22,851 --> 01:15:24,937 Pass that down. 1106 01:15:29,357 --> 01:15:30,859 MR. BOND: Thank you, sir. 1107 01:15:36,073 --> 01:15:38,867 We thank you, Lord, for this is our food. 1108 01:15:39,076 --> 01:15:40,368 I'm sorry. 1109 01:15:40,493 --> 01:15:42,580 For life and health, 1110 01:15:43,371 --> 01:15:44,623 and every good. 1111 01:15:44,707 --> 01:15:46,584 -Let all manner to... -Land. 1112 01:15:47,209 --> 01:15:48,376 Land! 1113 01:15:49,878 --> 01:15:51,964 NICKERSON: Land! Land! MR. RAY: Land! 1114 01:15:52,047 --> 01:15:55,008 -Land! -NICKERSON: Land! 1115 01:15:55,092 --> 01:15:58,095 Oars! Give way! Give way! 1116 01:15:59,096 --> 01:16:02,515 Oars! Now! Give way! Row! 1117 01:16:03,726 --> 01:16:05,518 (MEN LAUGHING) 1118 01:16:09,898 --> 01:16:12,400 MR. RAY: I saw it, Mr. Chase. MR. CHASE: That you did, boy. 1119 01:16:22,077 --> 01:16:25,080 Hold fast. Hold fast! Hold fast! 1120 01:16:26,456 --> 01:16:29,167 -MR. LAWRENCE: Mr. Chase, sir. What is it? -Mr. Chase! 1121 01:16:29,334 --> 01:16:31,920 What the devil is it? Why have you stopped? 1122 01:16:32,045 --> 01:16:33,631 He's been following us! 1123 01:16:33,756 --> 01:16:35,674 MR. LAWRENCE: What is he talking about? 1124 01:16:36,091 --> 01:16:37,926 MR. BOND: There's nothing out there, Mr. Chase! 1125 01:16:38,010 --> 01:16:40,262 -There ain't nothing out there, sir! -Sir, what are you doing? 1126 01:16:53,776 --> 01:16:56,153 -Brace! Brace! Brace! -(ALL SCREAMING) 1127 01:16:58,113 --> 01:16:59,239 No! 1128 01:17:01,992 --> 01:17:03,451 (GRUNTS) 1129 01:17:22,971 --> 01:17:24,264 Where is he? 1130 01:17:25,473 --> 01:17:26,599 (ALL SCREAMING) 1131 01:17:27,976 --> 01:17:29,144 (GRUNTS) 1132 01:17:41,198 --> 01:17:42,407 (GRUNTS) 1133 01:17:42,490 --> 01:17:44,201 (MEN COUGHING) 1134 01:17:44,326 --> 01:17:46,244 (ALL GASPING) 1135 01:18:52,477 --> 01:18:53,812 (BIRD SQUAWKING) 1136 01:19:08,201 --> 01:19:09,411 (GRUNTS) 1137 01:19:26,594 --> 01:19:28,471 POLLARD: This could be Ducie Island. 1138 01:19:28,931 --> 01:19:31,850 Without a map, compass or quadrant, there's no way to be certain. 1139 01:19:32,309 --> 01:19:34,727 We will keep fires going night and day. 1140 01:19:35,270 --> 01:19:38,648 Hope a passing ship catches sight of our smoke. 1141 01:19:47,783 --> 01:19:49,952 (HAMMERING) 1142 01:20:35,330 --> 01:20:37,165 MR. CHASE: This is what I wanted you to see. 1143 01:20:45,673 --> 01:20:48,051 They've been here a long time, no doubt. 1144 01:20:48,844 --> 01:20:50,846 Waiting for a ship. 1145 01:20:51,596 --> 01:20:53,265 But no ship came. 1146 01:20:55,392 --> 01:20:57,394 No ship is going to come. 1147 01:20:58,186 --> 01:20:59,855 If we stay, we die. 1148 01:21:00,605 --> 01:21:03,191 How long do you think it'll take the tropic birds 1149 01:21:03,275 --> 01:21:05,818 to stop coming here once they see their eggs eaten? 1150 01:21:09,822 --> 01:21:11,699 (METAL CLANGING) 1151 01:21:24,629 --> 01:21:27,799 It's a privilege to know the moment of one's death in advance, 1152 01:21:28,550 --> 01:21:30,343 be able to prepare for it. 1153 01:21:31,761 --> 01:21:34,139 Curse to be so far from home 1154 01:21:35,933 --> 01:21:37,642 without a chance to say goodbyes, 1155 01:21:37,725 --> 01:21:39,895 without a chance to make peace, 1156 01:21:40,770 --> 01:21:42,981 without a chance to settle the scores. 1157 01:21:46,026 --> 01:21:49,988 Then let us at least settle those between us, Captain. 1158 01:21:52,490 --> 01:21:54,117 Captain of what? 1159 01:21:54,617 --> 01:21:57,370 The Essex was lost through no fault of yours. 1160 01:21:57,454 --> 01:21:58,746 I was as much to blame for... 1161 01:21:58,830 --> 01:22:00,623 You are not the captain. 1162 01:22:05,587 --> 01:22:07,714 But you were born to do this job. 1163 01:22:08,840 --> 01:22:10,758 I was just born into it. 1164 01:22:23,521 --> 01:22:25,857 What do we do, do you think, George? 1165 01:22:27,192 --> 01:22:30,820 And what offense did we give God to upset him so? 1166 01:22:31,279 --> 01:22:32,948 The only creature to have offended God here 1167 01:22:33,031 --> 01:22:34,241 is the whale. 1168 01:22:35,033 --> 01:22:36,451 Not us? 1169 01:22:38,161 --> 01:22:41,581 In our arrogance, our greed, look where we find ourselves. 1170 01:22:41,664 --> 01:22:44,792 We are supreme creatures made in God's own likeness. 1171 01:22:45,793 --> 01:22:48,588 Earthly kings whose business it is 1172 01:22:48,671 --> 01:22:51,008 to circumnavigate the planet bestowed to us. 1173 01:22:52,050 --> 01:22:53,926 To bend nature to our will. 1174 01:22:54,261 --> 01:22:58,390 You really feel like an earthly king after everything that we've been through? 1175 01:22:59,224 --> 01:23:01,018 We're nothing. We're... 1176 01:23:01,143 --> 01:23:03,603 We're specks. And dust. 1177 01:23:04,896 --> 01:23:06,982 We sail into the sun at dawn. 1178 01:23:08,316 --> 01:23:14,531 If we are to die, then with God's grace, let us die as men. 1179 01:23:17,659 --> 01:23:20,078 (CLANGING) 1180 01:23:21,246 --> 01:23:23,290 (HAMMERING) 1181 01:23:26,168 --> 01:23:27,585 POLLARD: Are we ready, Mr. Weeks? 1182 01:23:27,669 --> 01:23:28,920 MR. WEEKS: Aye, sir. 1183 01:23:36,344 --> 01:23:37,970 Mr. Chappel? 1184 01:23:38,180 --> 01:23:39,347 Mr. Wright? 1185 01:23:39,431 --> 01:23:41,183 I can't do it, sir. 1186 01:23:41,849 --> 01:23:43,685 Me, Wright and Weeks, 1187 01:23:44,894 --> 01:23:46,354 we're staying. 1188 01:23:50,317 --> 01:23:51,859 (BREATHING WITH DIFFICULTY) 1189 01:23:54,737 --> 01:23:56,531 MR. CHASE: You ready to go, Matthew? 1190 01:24:07,625 --> 01:24:08,960 I'll give you a hand. Here, you gotta get up. 1191 01:24:09,044 --> 01:24:10,503 No, there's no point. You hear me? 1192 01:24:10,587 --> 01:24:12,464 No, we're going home. We're going home. 1193 01:24:12,547 --> 01:24:14,049 There's no point. 1194 01:24:14,882 --> 01:24:16,551 -Just go. -(SIGHS) 1195 01:24:20,222 --> 01:24:22,057 God damn it, Matthew. 1196 01:24:24,892 --> 01:24:26,228 It's all right. 1197 01:24:27,395 --> 01:24:29,897 Well, I'll send a boat for you the minute we get back. 1198 01:24:29,981 --> 01:24:32,525 Then we'll play cards back in Nantucket, all right? 1199 01:24:32,609 --> 01:24:33,818 Yeah. 1200 01:24:33,901 --> 01:24:35,737 -It's a deal. -Good. 1201 01:24:42,202 --> 01:24:44,871 You want me to open that for you? 1202 01:24:44,996 --> 01:24:46,248 MR. JOY: Ah... 1203 01:24:48,791 --> 01:24:50,252 I think I'll manage. 1204 01:24:51,169 --> 01:24:52,587 If it comes to that. 1205 01:24:56,466 --> 01:24:58,301 God be with you, brother. 1206 01:24:59,927 --> 01:25:01,513 Yeah, and you. 1207 01:25:20,490 --> 01:25:22,117 MR. BOND: Brother Peterson? 1208 01:25:23,451 --> 01:25:25,203 Y'all coming with us? 1209 01:25:25,745 --> 01:25:26,954 Mr. Peterson. 1210 01:25:27,038 --> 01:25:29,499 Why don't you come in our boat with Mr. Bond here? 1211 01:26:02,615 --> 01:26:04,576 Where... Where is he? 1212 01:26:06,035 --> 01:26:07,495 Pollard? 1213 01:26:08,621 --> 01:26:10,665 Mr. Lawrence. Mr. Lawrence, wake up. 1214 01:26:12,500 --> 01:26:14,211 Where's the other boat gone? 1215 01:26:15,086 --> 01:26:16,921 -Pollard! -NICKERSON: Captain Pollard! 1216 01:26:17,004 --> 01:26:19,882 -Captain Pollard! -Captain Pollard, sir! 1217 01:26:20,217 --> 01:26:21,884 MR. CHASE: Pollard. NICKERSON: Captain! 1218 01:26:22,677 --> 01:26:24,387 Captain Pollard! 1219 01:26:27,098 --> 01:26:28,350 MR. CHASE: Pollard! 1220 01:26:29,058 --> 01:26:30,310 (GASPS) 1221 01:26:33,188 --> 01:26:34,522 What's the matter? 1222 01:26:43,030 --> 01:26:44,366 (CRYING) 1223 01:26:50,372 --> 01:26:52,039 Benjamin. What are you doing? 1224 01:26:52,707 --> 01:26:54,083 He's dead. 1225 01:26:54,542 --> 01:26:56,085 Putting him overboard, sir. 1226 01:26:56,419 --> 01:26:57,837 (FABRIC RIPPING) 1227 01:26:58,505 --> 01:26:59,881 Look at me. 1228 01:27:00,006 --> 01:27:01,216 Look at me, Benjamin. 1229 01:27:06,429 --> 01:27:10,225 No right-minded sailor discards what might yet save him. 1230 01:27:21,278 --> 01:27:23,405 Listen to me, boy. Listen to me. 1231 01:27:27,700 --> 01:27:29,327 He can help us. 1232 01:27:29,786 --> 01:27:31,913 MR. BOND: My God. My heavenly king. 1233 01:27:32,079 --> 01:27:35,458 Sweetness is the power of his grace. 1234 01:27:35,792 --> 01:27:37,209 With longing eyes, 1235 01:27:37,377 --> 01:27:40,463 thy creatures await on thee for daily food. 1236 01:27:41,839 --> 01:27:44,259 NICKERSON: (SOFTLY) My soul is dead. 1237 01:27:57,939 --> 01:27:59,941 So it was decided. 1238 01:28:07,114 --> 01:28:08,950 We prepared the body. 1239 01:28:11,869 --> 01:28:14,080 We removed the organs. 1240 01:28:16,624 --> 01:28:18,960 Separated his limbs from his body 1241 01:28:20,878 --> 01:28:23,548 and cut all the flesh from the bones. 1242 01:28:28,010 --> 01:28:29,304 After which, 1243 01:28:30,305 --> 01:28:32,223 we closed the body 1244 01:28:33,475 --> 01:28:34,809 and we sewed it up 1245 01:28:35,643 --> 01:28:37,770 as decently as we could 1246 01:28:38,270 --> 01:28:39,981 and committed it to the sea. 1247 01:28:42,525 --> 01:28:44,486 We ate the heart first. 1248 01:28:47,572 --> 01:28:48,990 (SIGHS) 1249 01:28:53,035 --> 01:28:54,579 You judge me. 1250 01:28:56,664 --> 01:28:57,874 No. 1251 01:29:01,002 --> 01:29:02,337 (SIGHS) 1252 01:29:04,171 --> 01:29:05,507 There. 1253 01:29:06,173 --> 01:29:07,509 There. 1254 01:29:08,343 --> 01:29:09,844 It is done. 1255 01:29:12,263 --> 01:29:13,765 It is out. 1256 01:29:15,433 --> 01:29:17,143 And you've never told anyone? 1257 01:29:19,729 --> 01:29:20,897 No. 1258 01:29:22,607 --> 01:29:23,941 Not even your wife? 1259 01:29:25,234 --> 01:29:27,570 Do you think she could ever love me 1260 01:29:27,654 --> 01:29:30,823 if she knew the abominations I had committed? 1261 01:29:30,907 --> 01:29:33,075 MRS. NICKERSON: Yes. She would. 1262 01:29:34,285 --> 01:29:37,872 And if you had told me the story when we met, 1263 01:29:38,456 --> 01:29:41,292 I would still wear your ring today. 1264 01:29:42,960 --> 01:29:45,296 The strength of that boy 1265 01:29:45,379 --> 01:29:47,381 still lives in you. 1266 01:29:49,133 --> 01:29:50,468 I see that. 1267 01:29:51,594 --> 01:29:53,304 Even if you don't. 1268 01:30:14,492 --> 01:30:17,662 You can finish your story now, my love. 1269 01:30:23,167 --> 01:30:24,877 (GASPING) 1270 01:30:28,465 --> 01:30:29,799 (COUGHS) 1271 01:30:33,135 --> 01:30:34,596 Hey, sit up. 1272 01:30:38,140 --> 01:30:39,517 Listen, 1273 01:30:40,518 --> 01:30:42,103 put your head back. 1274 01:30:42,228 --> 01:30:43,771 (COUGHING) 1275 01:30:44,271 --> 01:30:47,108 Look, we still got a few drops of water left. 1276 01:30:47,650 --> 01:30:50,152 Don't you quit on me. We're going home. 1277 01:30:55,867 --> 01:30:59,954 Do you have a family back home, Mr. Chase? 1278 01:31:00,037 --> 01:31:01,873 Yeah, I have a wife. 1279 01:31:04,834 --> 01:31:07,336 Yes, and a son or a daughter. 1280 01:31:49,671 --> 01:31:51,047 (SIGHS) 1281 01:31:52,840 --> 01:31:54,008 Very well. 1282 01:31:56,010 --> 01:31:58,220 -Captain. -We will draw again. 1283 01:31:58,429 --> 01:32:00,014 We will do no such thing. 1284 01:32:01,098 --> 01:32:02,349 We'll draw again. 1285 01:32:02,975 --> 01:32:04,561 POLLARD: Mr. Ramsdell, 1286 01:32:05,061 --> 01:32:07,146 you will assume command of this vessel. 1287 01:32:09,649 --> 01:32:11,025 Cousin, will you? 1288 01:32:12,735 --> 01:32:13,861 You're our... 1289 01:32:13,945 --> 01:32:16,447 You're our captain. The men need you. 1290 01:32:18,032 --> 01:32:19,533 The men will be fine. 1291 01:32:20,785 --> 01:32:22,119 Please. 1292 01:32:22,704 --> 01:32:24,288 Please. Please. 1293 01:32:24,538 --> 01:32:26,540 -Henry. -(CRYING) Let us draw again. 1294 01:32:27,291 --> 01:32:28,876 It is an order. 1295 01:32:30,628 --> 01:32:32,213 If you cannot do it, 1296 01:32:32,296 --> 01:32:34,256 pass the pistol to another man. 1297 01:32:47,854 --> 01:32:49,230 (GUN COCKING) 1298 01:33:02,284 --> 01:33:03,911 Henry, no, no, no! 1299 01:33:13,004 --> 01:33:16,090 MR. COLE: You gotta help me, kid. You gotta help me. 1300 01:33:19,761 --> 01:33:21,638 NICKERSON: We were weeks in the doldrums. 1301 01:33:22,054 --> 01:33:24,641 That part of the Pacific is more desert than ocean. 1302 01:33:25,599 --> 01:33:27,518 The sun beating down. 1303 01:33:28,435 --> 01:33:29,687 My fear. 1304 01:33:31,272 --> 01:33:32,899 All I could think about 1305 01:33:34,734 --> 01:33:36,318 was that everyone would die, 1306 01:33:36,402 --> 01:33:38,237 and I'd be the last left alive. 1307 01:33:39,530 --> 01:33:43,450 And as best Mr. Chase could tell, we were still 800 miles from land. 1308 01:33:45,828 --> 01:33:47,121 (THUDDING) 1309 01:33:49,666 --> 01:33:51,167 POLLARD: Mr. Chase. 1310 01:33:57,924 --> 01:33:59,133 Ah. 1311 01:33:59,300 --> 01:34:00,802 Captain Pollard. 1312 01:34:03,304 --> 01:34:04,889 I am happy to see you. 1313 01:34:05,807 --> 01:34:08,392 Been very little happiness in our survival. 1314 01:34:10,269 --> 01:34:11,979 Or in ours, sir. 1315 01:34:13,064 --> 01:34:14,606 POLLARD: Barzillai? 1316 01:34:17,401 --> 01:34:19,111 The third boat? 1317 01:34:19,946 --> 01:34:21,363 They've, uh... 1318 01:34:22,824 --> 01:34:24,533 They've been gone for days. 1319 01:34:25,159 --> 01:34:26,911 I'm afraid they're lost, sir. 1320 01:34:27,995 --> 01:34:29,831 (RUMBLING) 1321 01:34:56,690 --> 01:34:58,860 POLLARD: Mr. Chase, you have the best position. 1322 01:35:15,835 --> 01:35:17,336 It's just a whale. 1323 01:35:21,298 --> 01:35:22,508 He's there! Throw the lance! 1324 01:35:23,550 --> 01:35:24,718 Throw it! 1325 01:35:29,431 --> 01:35:32,601 -Throw it! Throw the lance! -Come on. 1326 01:35:43,320 --> 01:35:44,989 Throw it! 1327 01:35:45,197 --> 01:35:46,698 Come on. 1328 01:35:47,867 --> 01:35:50,411 (WHALE CLICKING) 1329 01:35:55,082 --> 01:35:57,168 POLLARD: Kill it! He's there! 1330 01:35:57,626 --> 01:35:59,003 Throw the lance! 1331 01:36:17,354 --> 01:36:19,190 Why didn't you kill it? 1332 01:36:45,716 --> 01:36:47,759 You're a damn fool. 1333 01:37:11,200 --> 01:37:12,826 NICKERSON: Currents drew us apart 1334 01:37:14,745 --> 01:37:18,165 and that was the last we would see of Captain Pollard's whale boat. 1335 01:37:20,960 --> 01:37:22,294 SAILOR: A boat! 1336 01:37:23,337 --> 01:37:25,172 Broad on the port bow! 1337 01:37:50,948 --> 01:37:52,408 May God have mercy. 1338 01:38:35,409 --> 01:38:36,743 (WEAKLY) Mr. Chase. 1339 01:38:39,205 --> 01:38:41,123 (WEAKLY) Father! 1340 01:38:42,833 --> 01:38:45,336 (WHIMPERING) Don't leave me, Father! 1341 01:38:49,631 --> 01:38:52,801 (SEAGULL SQUAWKING) 1342 01:39:35,969 --> 01:39:37,513 Mr. Chase. 1343 01:39:38,805 --> 01:39:40,307 Mr. Chase. 1344 01:39:40,391 --> 01:39:42,893 Sir, look. Look, sir. 1345 01:39:46,480 --> 01:39:49,483 Mr. Chase, look. 1346 01:39:50,776 --> 01:39:52,653 Wake up, Mr. Chase! 1347 01:39:53,279 --> 01:39:54,738 Here, wake up! 1348 01:39:56,157 --> 01:39:58,492 Please wake up, sir, there's land. 1349 01:39:59,160 --> 01:40:00,911 Mr. Chase, look. 1350 01:40:21,014 --> 01:40:22,599 NICKERSON: We were rescued there, 1351 01:40:23,225 --> 01:40:25,769 off the island of Más Afuera, Chile, 1352 01:40:26,937 --> 01:40:29,565 90 days after the sinking of the Essex. 1353 01:40:31,233 --> 01:40:33,152 They gave us some old clothes. 1354 01:40:33,360 --> 01:40:34,903 Fed us, too. 1355 01:40:36,447 --> 01:40:38,449 It was hard to eat at first. 1356 01:40:38,532 --> 01:40:39,866 Strange. 1357 01:40:41,452 --> 01:40:43,454 They looked after us as best they could 1358 01:40:43,537 --> 01:40:45,914 till we found a ship that would carry us home. 1359 01:40:47,291 --> 01:40:49,460 That voyage took another three months. 1360 01:40:58,802 --> 01:41:02,055 It looked like the whole island turned out to see us return. 1361 01:41:03,349 --> 01:41:05,184 But there were no cheers. 1362 01:41:06,059 --> 01:41:07,394 Only silence. 1363 01:41:09,062 --> 01:41:12,441 They looked at us like we were apparitions, 1364 01:41:13,359 --> 01:41:14,818 phantoms. 1365 01:41:15,736 --> 01:41:19,365 We'd said nothing of the details of our survival to anyone, 1366 01:41:19,906 --> 01:41:23,410 but I wondered if they somehow knew of our privations. 1367 01:41:24,995 --> 01:41:26,830 Maybe they were just curious. 1368 01:42:06,162 --> 01:42:07,788 Oh, my God! 1369 01:42:11,625 --> 01:42:13,210 (SOBBING) 1370 01:42:15,045 --> 01:42:16,547 I promised, didn't I? 1371 01:42:24,638 --> 01:42:25,972 Oh, God. 1372 01:42:27,641 --> 01:42:28,809 Hi. 1373 01:42:30,101 --> 01:42:31,937 Hey, sweetie. Who's this? 1374 01:42:33,146 --> 01:42:34,440 Phoebe Ann. 1375 01:42:34,648 --> 01:42:36,107 (PEGGY LAUGHING) 1376 01:42:38,777 --> 01:42:40,612 Phoebe Ann Chase, huh? 1377 01:42:41,822 --> 01:42:43,324 This is Daddy. 1378 01:42:45,242 --> 01:42:46,660 Hey, sweetie. 1379 01:42:51,832 --> 01:42:53,500 PEGGY: It's your daddy. 1380 01:43:01,258 --> 01:43:02,676 Oh, my God. 1381 01:43:10,684 --> 01:43:12,519 NICKERSON: Of course, they couldn't leave him alone. 1382 01:43:13,229 --> 01:43:16,357 Mr. Chase and his wife had scarcely walked a block towards home 1383 01:43:16,440 --> 01:43:19,860 when he was stopped and made to return to the Maritime office. 1384 01:43:21,027 --> 01:43:23,989 There were business matters still in question. 1385 01:43:37,711 --> 01:43:39,338 So, to the matter. 1386 01:43:43,800 --> 01:43:47,304 Due to the significant loss of life and property on our voyage, 1387 01:43:47,971 --> 01:43:49,931 it seems there will be an inquiry. 1388 01:43:50,766 --> 01:43:52,100 And as captain and first mate, 1389 01:43:52,183 --> 01:43:54,227 we will be expected to give an account 1390 01:43:54,311 --> 01:43:55,687 of what happened. 1391 01:43:55,771 --> 01:43:57,105 Yes, of course. 1392 01:43:57,188 --> 01:44:01,735 And having discussed this with the ship owners and my father, 1393 01:44:02,778 --> 01:44:06,615 it is clear that full disclosure will have ramifications. 1394 01:44:07,073 --> 01:44:09,576 Terrible ramifications for the whole industry. 1395 01:44:10,786 --> 01:44:13,163 That a whale brought down the Essex. 1396 01:44:14,415 --> 01:44:15,749 But it's the truth. 1397 01:44:23,757 --> 01:44:25,967 If the insurance houses and investors 1398 01:44:26,092 --> 01:44:29,596 were to start worrying about sea monsters sinking ships, 1399 01:44:30,931 --> 01:44:33,266 sailors drawing lots to survive... 1400 01:44:34,935 --> 01:44:36,770 We are in the oil business. 1401 01:44:37,396 --> 01:44:38,730 All of us. 1402 01:44:39,147 --> 01:44:40,524 And as in any business, 1403 01:44:40,607 --> 01:44:44,277 the probability of success must always be greater than the risk incurred. 1404 01:44:46,530 --> 01:44:48,824 So, what are you suggesting, George? 1405 01:44:48,949 --> 01:44:50,951 That you say the ship ran aground. 1406 01:44:52,077 --> 01:44:53,286 That's a lie. 1407 01:44:53,412 --> 01:44:56,582 -And that the men that died, drowned. -And that's another lie. 1408 01:44:56,665 --> 01:44:58,124 Think on it. They will make you captain. 1409 01:44:58,249 --> 01:45:00,377 Well, that pledge I already have in writing. 1410 01:45:00,461 --> 01:45:04,130 Only on the condition you bring home a ship full of oil. 1411 01:45:05,799 --> 01:45:07,426 This way, it's guaranteed. 1412 01:45:07,509 --> 01:45:09,511 FULLER: You would be a wealthy man. 1413 01:45:10,136 --> 01:45:13,056 The name Chase need no longer be a landsman's name, 1414 01:45:13,139 --> 01:45:14,391 but an established name 1415 01:45:14,475 --> 01:45:17,394 that belongs among the great families of Nantucket. 1416 01:45:18,520 --> 01:45:21,064 You want me to whitewash what happened for profit? 1417 01:45:21,732 --> 01:45:24,818 We are asking you to be pragmatic. 1418 01:45:40,501 --> 01:45:42,669 The Essex was stove by a white whale. 1419 01:45:43,795 --> 01:45:46,965 And those of us that survived in ill-equipped whaleboats 1420 01:45:47,048 --> 01:45:50,176 had to commit abominations in order to survive. 1421 01:45:51,094 --> 01:45:54,848 And, on our return, we're expected to spread barefaced lies 1422 01:45:56,057 --> 01:45:58,309 so that you, the ship owners of Nantucket, 1423 01:45:59,185 --> 01:46:02,272 might line your pockets and sleep well at night? 1424 01:46:03,273 --> 01:46:05,442 Well, I will not embroider the truth. 1425 01:46:06,527 --> 01:46:08,529 Nor should you, George. 1426 01:46:27,881 --> 01:46:29,675 NICKERSON: That last time I saw him... 1427 01:46:30,426 --> 01:46:31,802 Mr. Chase, sir! 1428 01:46:32,218 --> 01:46:35,096 I couldn't find the right words to say what I wanted to. 1429 01:46:36,264 --> 01:46:37,390 Thomas. 1430 01:46:38,600 --> 01:46:40,561 NICKERSON: Perhaps there are no words. 1431 01:46:40,727 --> 01:46:41,895 Um... 1432 01:46:42,896 --> 01:46:46,567 I'm gonna be on my way to Falmouth and... 1433 01:46:49,069 --> 01:46:50,403 It's... 1434 01:46:51,362 --> 01:46:55,033 It's been an honor, sir, to sail with you. 1435 01:46:58,912 --> 01:47:01,039 The honor's been mine, Mr. Nickerson. 1436 01:47:18,264 --> 01:47:19,432 Here. 1437 01:47:24,813 --> 01:47:26,523 Good luck out there, Thomas. 1438 01:47:28,108 --> 01:47:29,485 And you, sir. 1439 01:47:58,597 --> 01:48:01,683 Next day, George Pollard was called before the inquiry. 1440 01:48:01,975 --> 01:48:03,476 (CROWD MURMURING) 1441 01:48:06,312 --> 01:48:08,064 MASON: Gentlemen, Captain George Pollard. 1442 01:48:09,315 --> 01:48:11,276 NICKERSON: And all the important men in Nantucket were there. 1443 01:48:12,819 --> 01:48:14,613 It was a formality. 1444 01:48:15,822 --> 01:48:18,324 Good day to you, Captain. Please sit down. 1445 01:48:23,580 --> 01:48:25,081 For the record, then... 1446 01:48:27,375 --> 01:48:30,086 The Essex was stove by a white whale 1447 01:48:30,170 --> 01:48:32,756 1,200 leagues west of Ecuador. 1448 01:48:32,964 --> 01:48:35,842 It was as if Owen Chase himself had spoken. 1449 01:48:37,761 --> 01:48:39,262 Told them the truth. 1450 01:48:43,349 --> 01:48:45,644 Captain Pollard's conscience was clear. 1451 01:48:47,020 --> 01:48:48,396 But the inquiry was a sham. 1452 01:48:50,899 --> 01:48:52,233 Pollard went out again, 1453 01:48:55,403 --> 01:48:57,155 looking for the white whale. 1454 01:48:57,823 --> 01:48:59,199 He never found it. 1455 01:49:00,701 --> 01:49:02,994 He ran a second ship aground off Hawaii. 1456 01:49:04,495 --> 01:49:05,872 Twice cursed. 1457 01:49:07,415 --> 01:49:08,625 Never sailed again. 1458 01:49:09,084 --> 01:49:10,335 And Owen Chase? 1459 01:49:12,212 --> 01:49:14,089 He was a man of his word. 1460 01:49:14,715 --> 01:49:17,175 First, he sent a boat back to Ducie Island. 1461 01:49:18,594 --> 01:49:20,303 Mr. Joy had passed. 1462 01:49:20,721 --> 01:49:24,057 But the other three were, incredibly, still alive. 1463 01:49:26,893 --> 01:49:28,311 And then? 1464 01:49:29,062 --> 01:49:32,565 And then he packed up his family and moved to New Bedford. 1465 01:49:34,359 --> 01:49:35,944 Started over. 1466 01:49:36,612 --> 01:49:38,196 Became a merchant captain, 1467 01:49:39,072 --> 01:49:41,074 sailing on his own terms. 1468 01:49:50,458 --> 01:49:53,670 Well, you certainly got your money's worth, Mr. Melville. 1469 01:49:54,254 --> 01:49:56,798 These February nights are the longest of the year. 1470 01:49:56,882 --> 01:49:58,884 Well, you can both rest now. 1471 01:49:58,967 --> 01:50:00,301 Believe me, 1472 01:50:00,385 --> 01:50:02,638 I shall not be resting for some time. 1473 01:50:03,263 --> 01:50:04,597 NICKERSON: Why? 1474 01:50:05,515 --> 01:50:06,767 You got your story. 1475 01:50:07,558 --> 01:50:10,395 You know, your plot. It's all there. 1476 01:50:10,729 --> 01:50:14,274 Maybe it wasn't a plot I was after. 1477 01:50:14,650 --> 01:50:16,442 No. What, then? 1478 01:50:17,235 --> 01:50:20,822 -Something else you've given me tonight. -And what's that? 1479 01:50:21,698 --> 01:50:25,702 The courage to go where one does not want to go. 1480 01:50:27,871 --> 01:50:29,455 Mr. Melville, 1481 01:50:29,998 --> 01:50:32,542 what you've heard, what I've told you, 1482 01:50:35,628 --> 01:50:39,758 will it all be of service to your book? 1483 01:50:41,217 --> 01:50:44,429 It will be a work of fiction, Mr. Nickerson, 1484 01:50:45,722 --> 01:50:47,473 inspired by truth. 1485 01:50:49,017 --> 01:50:52,228 But I don't believe I'll feel the need to use all of it. 1486 01:51:01,279 --> 01:51:03,239 -Thank you. -Here. 1487 01:51:03,323 --> 01:51:06,743 -Take that with you. -No. The money is for you. I insist. 1488 01:51:07,786 --> 01:51:09,537 I insist you keep it. 1489 01:51:09,620 --> 01:51:13,666 And I insist one person in this conversation is sober. 1490 01:51:24,302 --> 01:51:27,097 -So it's back to, uh... -Pittsfield, Massachusetts. 1491 01:51:27,848 --> 01:51:29,474 Well, good luck. 1492 01:51:31,184 --> 01:51:32,477 Thank you. 1493 01:51:35,939 --> 01:51:37,273 You know, 1494 01:51:38,024 --> 01:51:41,527 I heard a man from Pennsylvania drilled a hole in the ground recently 1495 01:51:42,612 --> 01:51:44,197 and found oil. 1496 01:51:44,697 --> 01:51:46,074 That can't be true. 1497 01:51:46,742 --> 01:51:48,034 I heard it, too. 1498 01:51:50,411 --> 01:51:52,122 Oil from the ground. 1499 01:51:54,540 --> 01:51:56,001 Fancy that.