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Boys!

1
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Boys!

2
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Will?

3
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But why run away, John?
I don't understand.

4
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(KNOCKING AT DOOR)

5
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Come in.

6
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Mr Parker. Mrs Parker.

7
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Is there any sign of them, Jack?

8
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Well, I found a note in a place
me and Will used as a den.

9
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-We had one, too.
-Yes.

10
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"I won't belong to the Tripods.
You do and you don't realise it.

11
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"Please don't come after us.
Will and Henry."

12
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We'll get them back.
Don't worry, Mrs Parker.

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My dad's gathering
some riders together now.

14
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Some stupid notion.

15
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Well, it was maybe my capping, you know,
that worried them.

16
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Why didn't we hear it?

17
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Come on, Will, let's go home.
I don't mind a beating.

18
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We'd get more than a beating.
We'd be capped.

19
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I'd rather die than be capped.

20
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Anyway, I promised Ozymandias.

21
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I said we'd meet him. He trusted me.

22
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Well, what are we going to do?

23
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Can't be far to Five Ways.

24
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Oh, what's the point?
It must be after seven now.

25
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(CHIMING)

26
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Maybe he'll have waited for us.

27
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(HORN BLOWING)

28
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WILL: Now. Come on!

29
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-Oh, he's gone.
-I told you he wouldn't be here.

30
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Morning, Will.

31
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Good morning, Henry, is it?

32
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Follow me.

33
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Your friends are out in force.

34
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There's about a dozen of them
covering the area.

35
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What are we going to do?

36
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You are going to go on from here
and take the road south.

37
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-What about you?
-I thought you'd be coming with us.

38
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Well, use your brains, boy.

39
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Two lads travelling with a vagrant?
We wouldn't get past the first village.

40
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Anyway, I've got much more work
to do here.

41
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I've got to find more Wills,
more Henrys.

42
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Now, do you know what this is?

43
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It's a compass. The needle points north.

44
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-We've got one at school.
-And this?

45
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It's a map. Now, listen.

46
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Without this, you are literally lost.

47
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See this? North, east, south, west.

48
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Now watch. Put north to north.

49
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Now, the map's ready for use.

50
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Here is where we are now.
You are heading for Rimney, here.

51
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I've marked out the way for you.

52
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It's like looking
right down from the sky.

53
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Yes. When you get used to the map,

54
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you'll find you can
work out distances, too.

55
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How far is Rimney?

56
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If you keep up a good pace,
you should be there in a couple of days.

57
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-What's all this blue?
-The sea.

58
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Now, listen.

59
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At Rimney, look in the harbour
for a boat called the <i>Orion.</i>

60
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The captain's name is Curtis.

61
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Captain Curtis is paid
to look after you.

62
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You'll just have to trust him.
He has a false cap like mine,

63
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but how he came by it
I'd rather not know.

64
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Now, across the sea
is a country called France.

65
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Different people
speaking a different language.

66
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How do you mean?

67
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Well, you'll find out.
Curtis will tell you more about France.

68
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The line on the map
takes you southeast.

69
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Follow that line.

70
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The villages and towns are marked on it,
but avoid them.

71
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And you'll eventually come, after
a very hard journey and a lot of luck,

72
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to the White Mountains.

73
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How will we find the Free Men?

74
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They have many lookouts.
They'll find you.

75
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(HORN SOUNDING)

76
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Will, you take the map.
Henry, hide the compass.

77
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Now, here's some money.
Curtis will give you French money.

78
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Now, we must hurry.
Will, my watch, please.

79
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What happens if we get caught in France?

80
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You'll be capped.

81
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-So there's nothing to lose.
-No.

82
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Will, Henry...

83
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Only one, maybe two out of every
50 boys I send will reach the mountains.

84
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How will we know Captain Curtis?

85
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He looks like this.

86
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-Dad.
-Shh.

87
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There's nobody here.
Let's try the other way.

88
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I need to rest.

89
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All right. But not here,
and not for long.

90
00:09:07,078 --> 00:09:08,147
There's something in there.

91
00:09:08,238 --> 00:09:11,947
MR PARKER: Will, Henry,
is that you in there?

92
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Come on out, now!

93
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(SHOUTING)

94
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-Come on!
-No!

95
00:09:34,398 --> 00:09:36,070
-Come on!
-No!

96
00:09:40,078 --> 00:09:42,717
"My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings.

97
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"Look on my works, ye mighty,
and despair!"

98
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-Ozy!
-Get down.

99
00:10:21,518 --> 00:10:22,871
He's dead.

100
00:11:28,718 --> 00:11:31,949
It goes on forever. I never thought.

101
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I mean, did you have any idea?

102
00:11:37,358 --> 00:11:39,918
We'll follow the path down. Come on.

103
00:11:40,398 --> 00:11:43,788
Captain Curtis might not be around.
What will we do then?

104
00:11:44,718 --> 00:11:47,152
If we have to wait until he turns up,
we'll find somewhere to sleep.

105
00:11:47,238 --> 00:11:49,194
That might be dangerous.

106
00:11:59,118 --> 00:12:02,190
-How far now, do you think?
-Can't tell.

107
00:12:03,038 --> 00:12:06,189
-Are you getting aches in your legs?
-Oh, a bit.

108
00:12:06,438 --> 00:12:08,827
What do we do if the <i>Orion's</i> at sea?

109
00:12:08,918 --> 00:12:10,795
-Find another boat.
-Oh, yes.

110
00:12:10,878 --> 00:12:13,995
Just walk up to somebody and say,
"I've run away from home

111
00:12:14,078 --> 00:12:16,308
"and I want to sail
to a place called France."

112
00:12:16,398 --> 00:12:19,674
We'd be back in Wherton and capped
before you could say "Jack".

113
00:12:19,758 --> 00:12:22,556
You can let Ozymandias down if you like.
I'm not.

114
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Oh, I didn't mean that.

115
00:12:30,278 --> 00:12:31,711
What's today?

116
00:12:33,078 --> 00:12:35,034
-The date, you mean?
-Yes.

117
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July the 9th.

118
00:12:37,718 --> 00:12:39,788
It's my mother's birthday.

119
00:12:40,358 --> 00:12:42,872
Or would have been if she were alive.

120
00:12:43,638 --> 00:12:46,027
Perhaps Ozymandias was right, then.

121
00:12:46,118 --> 00:12:47,471
About what?

122
00:12:48,678 --> 00:12:51,033
It was something he first said to me
when I met him,

123
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about our parents not really being ours,
not like a real mother and father.

124
00:12:55,838 --> 00:12:57,749
Because they belong to the Tripods?

125
00:12:57,838 --> 00:13:02,514
Yes. Well, your parents, mine,
aunts, uncles, brothers, sisters.

126
00:13:02,878 --> 00:13:06,996
Just everybody who's been capped.
They all belong to the Tripods.

127
00:13:07,118 --> 00:13:11,430
-All right, they're alive, but...
-But perhaps it's better to be dead?

128
00:13:13,358 --> 00:13:16,634
I know I don't want to be capped.
Not for anything.

129
00:13:17,278 --> 00:13:18,506
Anything?

130
00:13:18,598 --> 00:13:20,828
The Tripods killed my parents.

131
00:13:21,638 --> 00:13:24,948
Perhaps one day
I'll find a way of getting back at them.

132
00:13:26,038 --> 00:13:29,587
To do that, you have to make sure
you're never capped.

133
00:13:32,958 --> 00:13:34,994
Wonder what Rimney's like?

134
00:13:35,078 --> 00:13:37,273
I'll bet it's just a small village
like Wherton.

135
00:13:37,358 --> 00:13:39,997
There won't be many people there
or ships.

136
00:13:40,118 --> 00:13:43,269
We'll find the <i>Orion</i>
in five minutes at the most.

137
00:14:37,638 --> 00:14:38,991
I'm hungry.

138
00:14:43,158 --> 00:14:45,308
It's too dangerous. Come on.

139
00:14:52,078 --> 00:14:55,195
-How will we find Curtis?
-I don't know.

140
00:15:13,558 --> 00:15:16,470
-I'm starving.
-We've got to find the <i>Orion.</i>

141
00:15:16,958 --> 00:15:18,550
Come on.

142
00:15:26,078 --> 00:15:28,876
-What's that over there?
-I don't know.

143
00:15:29,158 --> 00:15:30,830
Let's go and see.

144
00:15:38,758 --> 00:15:41,477
-What is it?
-Camel, son, from Morocco.

145
00:15:42,358 --> 00:15:45,668
-What does it do?
-Gives wonderful hair for clothes.

146
00:15:46,198 --> 00:15:47,790
You wouldn't get much hair off of that.

147
00:15:47,878 --> 00:15:51,348
People pay a lot of money
for animal hair like hers.

148
00:15:52,358 --> 00:15:54,394
You mean somebody's paid
for her to be brought here?

149
00:15:54,478 --> 00:15:56,309
Squire, up at the castle.

150
00:15:56,398 --> 00:15:58,707
His daughter is getting capped
next month.

151
00:15:58,798 --> 00:16:00,709
Be a big do, that will.

152
00:16:16,998 --> 00:16:18,750
(INAUDIBLE)

153
00:16:22,278 --> 00:16:24,155
(PIANO PLAYING INSIDE)

154
00:16:49,678 --> 00:16:51,316
Two pies, please.

155
00:16:51,518 --> 00:16:54,908
-What kind?
-Those.

156
00:17:03,998 --> 00:17:06,751
You go and find a table,
I'll bring them to you.

157
00:17:24,558 --> 00:17:27,391
-I'd have had that pie cold.
-Me, too.

158
00:17:39,038 --> 00:17:41,427
-Wonder what France is like.
-Big.

159
00:17:50,998 --> 00:17:53,796
Very big. Look at the sea, it's so wide.

160
00:17:53,958 --> 00:17:56,518
There's no sign of the other side.

161
00:18:01,838 --> 00:18:04,716
It's nine, 10...

162
00:18:06,678 --> 00:18:09,431
11 times that distance
to the White Mountains.

163
00:18:09,518 --> 00:18:11,952
-It'll take us weeks.
-Months, more likely.

164
00:18:12,038 --> 00:18:14,108
-I never realised.
-Nor me.

165
00:18:14,758 --> 00:18:17,352
It's taken us three days to get here.

166
00:18:17,558 --> 00:18:19,788
-We'll never make it.
-Why not?

167
00:18:20,438 --> 00:18:22,030
It isn't a race.

168
00:18:22,518 --> 00:18:25,590
It doesn't really matter
how long it takes us.

169
00:18:26,878 --> 00:18:29,312
But Ozymandias said
nobody speaks English.

170
00:18:29,398 --> 00:18:31,593
How will we ask our way or buy anything?

171
00:18:31,678 --> 00:18:35,512
Can't be that different.
Captain Curtis will give us some tips.

172
00:18:35,598 --> 00:18:37,111
He must have been there dozens of times.

173
00:18:37,198 --> 00:18:40,713
-Do you think he's taken others like us?
-Bound to have done.

174
00:18:40,798 --> 00:18:44,108
Listen, by this time tomorrow
we'll be there.

175
00:18:44,198 --> 00:18:46,587
We'll sleep on the beach
and then start walking.

176
00:18:46,678 --> 00:18:49,112
A few hours a day.
There's no need to hurry.

177
00:18:49,198 --> 00:18:53,749
Any sign of a Tripod, and we'll hide.
Then when it's safe, we just carry on.

178
00:18:54,918 --> 00:18:57,352
I don't care if it takes
the rest of my life.

179
00:18:57,438 --> 00:18:59,156
I'm not going to be capped.

180
00:18:59,238 --> 00:19:00,990
-Drink, boys?
-No, thanks.

181
00:19:01,078 --> 00:19:04,627
Beer's good. Build you up,
make sailors out of you.

182
00:19:04,718 --> 00:19:07,710
Just shout if you change your mind.
Dorry, that's me.

183
00:19:07,798 --> 00:19:10,756
-Dorry!
-Oh, see what I mean? Coming.

184
00:19:11,278 --> 00:19:12,757
Just shout.

185
00:19:14,278 --> 00:19:16,792
Good-looking boy, aren't you?
How old are you?

186
00:19:16,878 --> 00:19:19,153
-16.
-Nearly a man.

187
00:19:19,678 --> 00:19:22,636
Oh, you'll break a lot of hearts
before you're wedded.

188
00:19:23,758 --> 00:19:26,272
There's something different
about you, though.

189
00:19:28,278 --> 00:19:29,631
Where are you from?

190
00:19:29,718 --> 00:19:31,709
-Dorry!
-Coming!

191
00:19:32,918 --> 00:19:34,954
See you later, jolly-face.

192
00:19:38,478 --> 00:19:40,548
Ozymandias said
he'd be sending more boys.

193
00:19:40,638 --> 00:19:41,957
We may even meet some on the boat.

194
00:19:42,038 --> 00:19:44,711
That'll be great. The more the merrier.

195
00:19:45,798 --> 00:19:48,187
-Let's make a pact.
-What's that?

196
00:19:48,358 --> 00:19:50,076
It's an agreement.

197
00:19:50,158 --> 00:19:52,831
We have to agree that whatever happens,

198
00:19:53,318 --> 00:19:56,913
if one of us gets caught or sick
or, well, anything,

199
00:19:56,998 --> 00:20:00,195
the other one goes on,
alone if necessary,

200
00:20:00,278 --> 00:20:02,746
to find the Free Men
in the White Mountains, agreed?

201
00:20:03,038 --> 00:20:05,506
-Agreed.
-Then it will have been worthwhile.

202
00:20:05,678 --> 00:20:07,077
And if we both get caught?

203
00:20:07,158 --> 00:20:09,911
Hey, lads.
Hungry but not thirsty, is it?

204
00:20:09,998 --> 00:20:10,987
-Yes.
-No.

205
00:20:11,078 --> 00:20:13,751
Yes or no, you don't mind
if we join you, do you?

206
00:20:13,838 --> 00:20:15,317
George, go and get them a beer each.

207
00:20:15,398 --> 00:20:17,070
-No, thanks.
-We can pay.

208
00:20:17,158 --> 00:20:18,591
Who's talking of paying?

209
00:20:18,678 --> 00:20:21,829
Friendship tavern, this is.
We'll look after you.

210
00:20:22,518 --> 00:20:24,713
-You from these parts?
-Yes.

211
00:20:26,198 --> 00:20:27,597
Nick's the name, by the way.

212
00:20:27,678 --> 00:20:29,077
-Will.
-Henry.

213
00:20:29,438 --> 00:20:30,951
Runaways, is it?

214
00:20:31,358 --> 00:20:34,156
You have to get your story straight.
Yes, no?

215
00:20:34,238 --> 00:20:36,957
You think this place has never seen
runaways before?

216
00:20:37,038 --> 00:20:38,949
I was a runaway myself.

217
00:20:39,438 --> 00:20:41,235
Good health, lads.

218
00:20:52,438 --> 00:20:54,633
-Do you know a Captain Curtis?
-Who?

219
00:20:54,718 --> 00:20:57,551
-His boat's the <i>Orion.</i>
-Well, now.

220
00:20:57,638 --> 00:21:00,232
If you're on the run and want a boat,
you've come to the right man.

221
00:21:00,318 --> 00:21:02,912
We're a couple of crew light
and I can put in a word.

222
00:21:02,998 --> 00:21:04,351
We'll wait for the <i>Orion,</i> thanks.

223
00:21:04,438 --> 00:21:08,147
Who's been telling you about
this Captain Curtis, anyway?

224
00:21:08,318 --> 00:21:10,991
On the run, George. Here to be sailors.

225
00:21:11,638 --> 00:21:14,198
Well, it's no joy sailing
short-manned, is it?

226
00:21:14,278 --> 00:21:18,317
I've been telling them strong boys
come in handy on our old boat.

227
00:21:18,398 --> 00:21:21,470
Somebody's told them to look out for
some Captain Curtis.

228
00:21:21,558 --> 00:21:23,276
We'd better go now.

229
00:21:24,398 --> 00:21:27,595
Runaways, Mr Mate. Wanting to go to sea.

230
00:21:27,678 --> 00:21:30,670
Well, it's a lucky day for us all, then.

231
00:21:32,198 --> 00:21:34,758
Sit down, boys. Finish your food.

232
00:21:35,238 --> 00:21:37,229
We sail on the late tide.

233
00:21:41,718 --> 00:21:43,948
Uh, we've had enough, thanks.

234
00:21:45,478 --> 00:21:48,470
You be easy now, boys.
Nobody wants trouble.

235
00:21:48,678 --> 00:21:49,747
WILL: Now!

236
00:21:50,198 --> 00:21:51,472
Come on!

237
00:22:34,798 --> 00:22:36,629
(CHUCKLING)

238
00:22:50,998 --> 00:22:52,351
What is it?

239
00:22:52,998 --> 00:22:55,387
The drawing. Give me the drawing.

240
00:22:55,958 --> 00:22:57,232
Come on.

241
00:23:00,518 --> 00:23:01,587
Captain Curtis.

242
00:23:01,678 --> 00:23:03,873
-Captain Curtis!
-Captain Curtis!

243
00:23:03,958 --> 00:23:05,277
-Captain!
-Over here!

244
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-Captain Curtis! Oh, why you...
-Oh, listen, listen.

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-Come on, Curtis!
-Captain Curtis!

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-Oh, he's going away!
-Captain Curtis!

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Captain Curtis! Captain!

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Hey!

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One word, one sound, one movement,
and you'll answer to me.

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On this boat, you do what I say.
Do you understand?

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Understand?

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-Where are you taking us?
-Good run for a first run, boy.

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Down to where the sun shines all day.

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Good long run to Africa.

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You'll get to know me better by then.