1 00:00:33,494 --> 00:00:36,929 I was 17 from a fishing family. 2 00:00:36,930 --> 00:00:38,865 A family that was starving. 3 00:00:39,934 --> 00:00:42,135 I've always been a bit wild. 4 00:00:42,136 --> 00:00:44,170 I should've listened to my father. 5 00:00:44,171 --> 00:00:46,406 I should've listened to my mother. 6 00:00:46,407 --> 00:00:47,772 But I didn't. 7 00:00:48,943 --> 00:00:53,680 Hunger, real hunger, it takes you over. 8 00:00:53,681 --> 00:00:55,707 It doesn't leave you room to think. 9 00:01:47,071 --> 00:01:49,338 I was sentenced to death... 10 00:01:49,339 --> 00:01:52,571 but dear King George besthoad his compassion. 11 00:01:53,543 --> 00:01:57,080 I'd never been 5 miles out of my village. 12 00:01:57,081 --> 00:02:01,050 Now I was transported to the other side of the world. 13 00:02:01,051 --> 00:02:03,383 I had no idea what that meant. 14 00:02:43,529 --> 00:02:45,230 There were hundreds of us going... 15 00:02:45,231 --> 00:02:48,233 packed like animals into eleven ships. 16 00:02:48,234 --> 00:02:52,904 The first fleet to sail to New South Wales. 17 00:02:52,905 --> 00:02:55,574 And as if that wasn't enough... 18 00:02:55,575 --> 00:02:57,669 I've just realized that I was with a child. 19 00:03:26,975 --> 00:03:30,509 I didn't marry you for this. Six months down there! 20 00:03:30,510 --> 00:03:33,780 - I won't do it! - Alicia, darling! 21 00:03:33,781 --> 00:03:35,315 We are second only to the captain with regard... 22 00:03:35,316 --> 00:03:37,216 to accommodation. 23 00:03:37,217 --> 00:03:39,120 For you to sink as low as this: 24 00:03:39,121 --> 00:03:41,823 carting off the nation's rubbish, wretched vile... 25 00:03:41,824 --> 00:03:44,553 creatures. They'd better off dead. 26 00:03:47,363 --> 00:03:48,762 Lieutenant Clarke! 27 00:03:55,004 --> 00:03:58,462 Come on up lads, I told you we'd be looking at paradise! 28 00:04:04,146 --> 00:04:07,516 Behave yourselves, do as you're told... 29 00:04:07,517 --> 00:04:10,318 and these officers will see to it that you are given... 30 00:04:10,319 --> 00:04:12,388 a protected and passage. 31 00:04:12,389 --> 00:04:15,591 'His Majesty's officers'! 'A safe passage! ' 32 00:04:15,592 --> 00:04:18,288 - Up whose arse? - Get them below Sergeant! 33 00:04:50,995 --> 00:04:53,327 What are you staring? 34 00:04:54,365 --> 00:04:55,832 Back off! 35 00:04:56,867 --> 00:04:59,735 Come on, lads. Let the fox see the rabbit. 36 00:05:06,712 --> 00:05:08,678 It pays to work out the pecking order early on. 37 00:05:08,679 --> 00:05:11,580 You're safe here, all well down the line. 38 00:05:53,926 --> 00:05:56,796 The London Times thought a colony on the moon... 39 00:05:56,797 --> 00:05:58,064 a better prospect 40 00:05:58,065 --> 00:06:00,566 We've all seen the moon, unlike New South Wales... 41 00:06:00,567 --> 00:06:03,537 which has only ever been by Capitan Cook. 42 00:06:03,538 --> 00:06:04,871 Seen by Captain Cook. 43 00:06:04,872 --> 00:06:06,606 We're not just solving the problem of overcrowded prisons... 44 00:06:06,607 --> 00:06:09,939 we're expanding empire, and ahead of the French. 45 00:06:14,449 --> 00:06:16,582 Oh, we're honored. 46 00:06:16,583 --> 00:06:18,779 Do you know who they're entertaining up there? 47 00:06:19,854 --> 00:06:21,921 Lord Muck himself. 48 00:06:21,922 --> 00:06:23,617 Captain Arthur Phillip... 49 00:06:25,261 --> 00:06:27,194 He's to be Governor of the colony. 50 00:06:27,195 --> 00:06:28,560 A good man? 51 00:06:30,999 --> 00:06:32,299 Lieutenant Clarke? 52 00:06:32,300 --> 00:06:36,236 Perhaps you'd like to share your thoughts on our prospects. 53 00:06:36,237 --> 00:06:39,540 Yes, sir, I was just thinking of the question... 54 00:06:39,541 --> 00:06:41,542 of the reform of our human cargo. 55 00:06:41,543 --> 00:06:43,177 Good thought. 56 00:06:43,178 --> 00:06:46,313 There should always be hope... always hope. 57 00:06:46,314 --> 00:06:49,684 But with regard to the criminal, classes, experience tells... 58 00:06:49,685 --> 00:06:51,218 us there should be very little of it. 59 00:06:51,219 --> 00:06:53,987 But I think turning wretches into work-horses is 60 00:06:53,988 --> 00:06:56,624 as much as we can expect. - I do what I can. 61 00:06:56,625 --> 00:07:00,928 I did try reading to the women... excuse me. 62 00:07:00,929 --> 00:07:04,367 But the stench down there. It's enough to floor and ox. 63 00:07:08,972 --> 00:07:10,905 Pork! 64 00:07:10,906 --> 00:07:13,008 When was the last time any of us felt some pork... 65 00:07:13,009 --> 00:07:14,600 at the back of our throats. 66 00:07:17,180 --> 00:07:19,011 They use to draw it. 67 00:07:20,984 --> 00:07:23,687 And they said we'd never see the sun down here. 68 00:07:23,688 --> 00:07:26,389 But there you are, and the smile... 69 00:07:26,390 --> 00:07:28,691 enough to light up the whole ship. 70 00:07:28,692 --> 00:07:29,959 We'll meet on deck. 71 00:07:29,960 --> 00:07:32,728 They'll be sunsets, moonlight, gazing at strange... 72 00:07:32,729 --> 00:07:34,129 and wonderful lands together. 73 00:07:34,130 --> 00:07:36,233 And with any luck they'll leave you behind tied... 74 00:07:36,234 --> 00:07:37,801 to a tree on one of them. 75 00:07:37,802 --> 00:07:39,201 My name's Will. 76 00:07:43,874 --> 00:07:46,605 So what do you know about this Botany Bay... 77 00:07:48,613 --> 00:07:50,680 the dragons and the cannibals? 78 00:07:50,681 --> 00:07:52,148 Nonsense. 79 00:07:53,418 --> 00:07:55,820 Odd looking natives where we're going though... 80 00:07:55,821 --> 00:08:00,485 three, four foot high, covered in hair, noses like beaks. 81 00:08:02,814 --> 00:08:04,694 They must think some of us very good swimmers... 82 00:08:04,695 --> 00:08:07,465 keeping us locked up down here. 83 00:08:07,466 --> 00:08:09,867 Still, you can't blame them, I hear we have some... 84 00:08:09,868 --> 00:08:12,103 very desperate women on board. 85 00:08:12,104 --> 00:08:15,140 It's even said there's one who dabbled in 'highway robbery'. 86 00:08:15,141 --> 00:08:18,009 Now she'd have to be a real 'pistol'. 87 00:08:18,010 --> 00:08:20,011 Enter ye in at the strait gate. 88 00:08:20,012 --> 00:08:23,449 Just what we needed, this'll fill our stomachs. 89 00:08:24,484 --> 00:08:26,884 For wide is the gate, and broad is the way that leadeth... 90 00:08:26,885 --> 00:08:31,322 to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat. 91 00:08:31,323 --> 00:08:33,258 That's mine, you bastard thief! 92 00:08:33,259 --> 00:08:34,426 Sorry, I didn't catch your name 93 00:08:34,427 --> 00:08:35,862 or what you were doing down here. 94 00:08:35,863 --> 00:08:38,531 Murderer and a thief! 95 00:08:38,532 --> 00:08:42,300 You killed a baboon and stole his face. 96 00:08:42,301 --> 00:08:43,895 Silence back there! 97 00:08:46,941 --> 00:08:47,941 Let us all pray. 98 00:08:47,942 --> 00:08:51,002 Dead God get us out of this hell hole. 99 00:08:55,649 --> 00:08:58,184 Again, sergeant Ryan, a quicker pace and let's have... 100 00:08:58,185 --> 00:08:59,852 it in concert this time. 101 00:08:59,853 --> 00:09:03,311 Yes, sir. A word with you first please, sir. 102 00:09:05,559 --> 00:09:07,795 Our supply of shot and powder was left sitting... 103 00:09:07,796 --> 00:09:09,529 On Portsmouth quayside, sir 104 00:09:09,530 --> 00:09:12,557 One more round and we'll be out of it altogether. 105 00:09:13,601 --> 00:09:16,270 Sergeant Ryan, did you give orders for the men to stand to? 106 00:09:16,271 --> 00:09:17,397 No, sir. 107 00:09:20,141 --> 00:09:23,143 Get these women out of their rags, and properly dressed... 108 00:09:23,144 --> 00:09:24,812 I won't have the men distracted. 109 00:09:24,813 --> 00:09:26,780 Unfortunately, sir, 'women's clothing' is also... 110 00:09:26,781 --> 00:09:30,284 sitting on Portsmouth quayside along with our ammunition. 111 00:09:30,285 --> 00:09:32,219 But if the women serve to distract the male prisoners... 112 00:09:32,220 --> 00:09:35,790 the two oversights might cancel each other out. 113 00:09:35,791 --> 00:09:39,026 Well, I have an idea how we may clothe the women. 114 00:09:39,027 --> 00:09:41,258 - Dismiss! - Excuse me, sir. 115 00:09:42,264 --> 00:09:44,065 Oh, dear. And these are nothing to the seas... 116 00:09:44,066 --> 00:09:45,066 we're going to be traveling through. 117 00:09:45,067 --> 00:09:46,735 Don't worry, you'll soon get your legs. 118 00:09:46,736 --> 00:09:48,670 I've been in fishing boats from before I could walk... 119 00:09:48,671 --> 00:09:50,972 nothing wrong with my legs. 120 00:09:50,973 --> 00:09:54,441 Excuse me, sir. I did wrong just once, sir. 121 00:09:54,442 --> 00:09:58,179 I was starving, I know it was wrong but... 122 00:09:58,180 --> 00:10:00,316 and I can't survive on the food we're given... 123 00:10:00,317 --> 00:10:02,617 and the foulness of the hold makes me ill... 124 00:10:02,618 --> 00:10:06,222 and I'm scared of the men, and their wicked desires. 125 00:10:06,223 --> 00:10:08,391 If there was a way you could use me. 126 00:10:08,392 --> 00:10:10,826 Your clothes washed and cared for... 127 00:10:10,827 --> 00:10:13,629 your cabin cleaned, in return for fresh air... 128 00:10:13,630 --> 00:10:15,530 and food from your table. 129 00:10:16,700 --> 00:10:20,796 Please, sir. It's Mary, sir. 130 00:10:23,440 --> 00:10:26,535 I've heard of other officers making such arrangement. 131 00:10:32,550 --> 00:10:34,851 They may well have. 132 00:10:34,852 --> 00:10:37,548 Is this what you mean to dress the whores in, sir? 133 00:10:39,857 --> 00:10:40,983 Perfect. 134 00:10:51,736 --> 00:10:53,363 Favors from that one? 135 00:10:58,242 --> 00:11:00,734 You're more likely to get a fart out of dead man. 136 00:11:03,850 --> 00:11:06,647 Did you say you knew your way around a fishing boat. 137 00:11:10,857 --> 00:11:13,057 An east wind... 138 00:11:13,058 --> 00:11:17,461 From the look sky it'll change for the worse... a storm. 139 00:11:20,332 --> 00:11:24,326 A storm? Not a chance. 140 00:11:42,756 --> 00:11:44,624 There's only one cure for that, Thomas. 141 00:11:44,625 --> 00:11:47,150 You need to find a tree to sit under. 142 00:11:49,329 --> 00:11:51,331 A free passage to Botany Bay! 143 00:11:51,332 --> 00:11:53,566 Every day a high day and holiday... 144 00:11:53,567 --> 00:11:56,229 no board and lodging, no taxes! 145 00:11:58,305 --> 00:12:00,831 Who of us wouldn't have volunteered for this! 146 00:12:08,016 --> 00:12:10,351 Hey, Tom. 147 00:12:10,352 --> 00:12:13,447 I said it, didn't I? 148 00:12:14,823 --> 00:12:17,291 Now's your chance, Mary. If you want to get that baby... 149 00:12:17,292 --> 00:12:19,659 you'll offer to sell what you seek. 150 00:12:19,660 --> 00:12:23,063 Don't wait for an officer, any sailor will do. 151 00:12:24,599 --> 00:12:26,467 Take what's on offer, Mary... 152 00:12:26,468 --> 00:12:30,438 food, drink and fresh air for your baby. 153 00:12:30,439 --> 00:12:33,774 - How did you know? - I've had two of my own. 154 00:12:33,775 --> 00:12:35,277 Who was he? 155 00:12:35,278 --> 00:12:37,712 A gaoler, in the prison hulk. 156 00:12:38,748 --> 00:12:41,116 He was share his bed or starve. 157 00:12:41,117 --> 00:12:43,853 And you'll share this wretched world with his child. 158 00:12:43,854 --> 00:12:45,878 My child will not live like this. 159 00:12:47,056 --> 00:12:48,819 As if you can help it. 160 00:12:49,993 --> 00:12:52,325 Here! For the ride of your life! 161 00:13:04,509 --> 00:13:07,677 Mary! Did the sky tell you anything about how long... 162 00:13:07,678 --> 00:13:10,272 this camp weather would be traveling with us? 163 00:13:14,319 --> 00:13:15,384 Mary! 164 00:13:15,385 --> 00:13:17,785 She's drowning. Down here, sir. 165 00:13:19,523 --> 00:13:22,321 Come on, Mary! Somebody help me! 166 00:13:23,360 --> 00:13:25,352 Come on Mary! Come back! 167 00:13:29,934 --> 00:13:31,958 Here! Over here! 168 00:14:26,227 --> 00:14:29,995 Hey, you there. Elizabeth. 169 00:14:29,996 --> 00:14:31,430 It there any word? 170 00:14:36,936 --> 00:14:39,064 There's only one cure for what you've got... 171 00:14:40,808 --> 00:14:43,208 you both need to lie under the same tree. 172 00:15:18,413 --> 00:15:19,437 Here... 173 00:15:20,515 --> 00:15:23,246 your readings were such a comfort to us. 174 00:15:26,389 --> 00:15:29,449 Could I hear a few words from the good book? 175 00:15:31,094 --> 00:15:34,928 About turning away from weakness? 176 00:15:50,213 --> 00:15:52,512 Give them a scratch back. 177 00:16:50,109 --> 00:16:52,444 And she sleeps on the floor? 178 00:16:52,445 --> 00:16:54,813 What concerns me is the influence of bad company... 179 00:16:54,814 --> 00:16:56,881 she knows nothing of the world. 180 00:16:56,882 --> 00:16:59,584 She's no more than an innocent child. 181 00:16:59,585 --> 00:17:02,520 A rather well developed one. 182 00:17:02,521 --> 00:17:05,925 And just remind me, what was her crime? 183 00:17:05,926 --> 00:17:07,757 The theft of a bonnet... 184 00:17:09,495 --> 00:17:10,929 and some money. 185 00:17:12,026 --> 00:17:13,867 If she were isolated from the others, reform... 186 00:17:13,868 --> 00:17:16,367 is a very strong possibility. 187 00:17:16,368 --> 00:17:17,970 You mean to keep her in your cabin? 188 00:17:17,971 --> 00:17:20,805 If we can save just one of them, it must be worth the effort. 189 00:17:22,609 --> 00:17:26,046 Very well, the arrangement has my blessing. 190 00:17:26,047 --> 00:17:28,315 But a ship is a very small village. 191 00:17:28,316 --> 00:17:31,150 You should be prepared for some to think the worst of you. 192 00:17:31,151 --> 00:17:35,188 I remain a faithfully married man and the girl will remain... 193 00:17:35,189 --> 00:17:37,419 an innocent under my charge. 194 00:17:47,703 --> 00:17:50,971 You have transformed my cupboard. 195 00:17:50,972 --> 00:17:53,167 It's palace to me, sir. 196 00:17:54,543 --> 00:17:58,479 - Is this Botany Bay? - Yes... 197 00:17:58,480 --> 00:18:03,184 according to Cook's account. Meadows, streams... 198 00:18:03,185 --> 00:18:05,052 There'll be wild game and fish to feed us... 199 00:18:05,053 --> 00:18:06,748 before our own crops begin. 200 00:18:08,758 --> 00:18:12,125 - And this is our voyage? - Yes. 201 00:18:13,696 --> 00:18:17,599 And we're here. Rio de Janeiro is our next haven... 202 00:18:17,600 --> 00:18:21,036 then on to Cape Town, our last port of call. 203 00:18:21,037 --> 00:18:23,439 We should count ourselves blessed to be part of such... 204 00:18:23,440 --> 00:18:24,804 an adventure. 205 00:18:26,576 --> 00:18:28,339 Imagine the ingenuity: 206 00:18:29,445 --> 00:18:31,380 Eleven ships rendezvousing at a pin point... 207 00:18:31,381 --> 00:18:33,349 on the far side of the world. 208 00:18:40,657 --> 00:18:43,148 We should continue with your lessons. 209 00:18:49,833 --> 00:18:51,595 Do you love your wife... 210 00:18:56,307 --> 00:18:58,241 do you have any children? 211 00:19:01,512 --> 00:19:04,744 No, we are not blessed in that way. 212 00:19:07,451 --> 00:19:09,352 Why do you ask? 213 00:19:12,123 --> 00:19:13,385 Lessons. 214 00:20:38,746 --> 00:20:40,814 Only your Lieutenant would dream of torturing us... 215 00:20:40,815 --> 00:20:42,249 with dresses like these. 216 00:20:43,285 --> 00:20:45,582 And we're sharing them with God knows what. 217 00:20:48,398 --> 00:20:50,358 Jammed together in that tiny cabin and he still... 218 00:20:50,359 --> 00:20:53,561 hasn't noticed. - I'll tell him soon. 219 00:20:53,562 --> 00:20:54,824 He'll understand. 220 00:20:56,799 --> 00:21:00,301 He can't be like any man I've ever tripped over. 221 00:21:00,302 --> 00:21:01,667 I can bring him round. 222 00:21:02,906 --> 00:21:03,930 Be careful. 223 00:21:04,973 --> 00:21:07,965 That wife of his might have jumped ship for a very good reason. 224 00:21:16,285 --> 00:21:21,383 It's a real kicker. Getting stronger everyday. 225 00:21:28,866 --> 00:21:31,526 All the way down! 226 00:21:46,118 --> 00:21:47,607 The Equator! 227 00:21:49,353 --> 00:21:52,889 No, no, no, no you can't see it. It's great imaginary circle... 228 00:21:52,890 --> 00:21:55,051 around the earth that I told you about. 229 00:22:01,533 --> 00:22:03,728 I dreamt of this moment as a boy. 230 00:22:04,769 --> 00:22:09,469 And now here you are, as happy as a boy. 231 00:22:14,112 --> 00:22:16,274 And on such a beautiful morning. 232 00:22:21,419 --> 00:22:22,852 Yes, it is. 233 00:22:25,024 --> 00:22:26,657 Very beautiful. 234 00:22:26,658 --> 00:22:29,326 Lieutenant Clarke, a word of you, sir. 235 00:22:29,327 --> 00:22:30,352 Excuse me. 236 00:22:39,105 --> 00:22:42,741 A lag's wife. It suits you. 237 00:22:42,742 --> 00:22:44,404 I'm nobody's wife. 238 00:22:45,512 --> 00:22:46,706 Nice dress. 239 00:22:51,485 --> 00:22:53,612 Come on, you. Move along. 240 00:23:14,509 --> 00:23:17,603 You've worn the same dress for weeks. 241 00:23:19,814 --> 00:23:23,978 - Silk. I've never worn silk. - Try it on, now. 242 00:23:34,796 --> 00:23:38,366 My wife didn't want to wear anything but silk. 243 00:23:38,367 --> 00:23:40,061 It was a ridiculous notion. 244 00:23:40,870 --> 00:23:45,705 Alicia in Botany Day, digging her own potatoes. 245 00:23:52,081 --> 00:23:54,606 There's something I've been meaning to tell you. 246 00:23:59,222 --> 00:24:00,586 Let me help you. 247 00:24:10,332 --> 00:24:12,824 Yes, I'm with child. 248 00:24:51,410 --> 00:24:52,643 Ralph. 249 00:24:52,644 --> 00:24:54,845 How's our 'little project' coming along? 250 00:24:54,846 --> 00:24:56,814 Have you got her reading yet? 251 00:25:08,428 --> 00:25:09,828 Only give water to those dressed... 252 00:25:09,829 --> 00:25:11,462 in the clothes provided for them. 253 00:25:11,463 --> 00:25:13,732 We are dying in those sacks. 254 00:25:13,733 --> 00:25:17,069 You will address me as 'Lieutenant' or 'Sir'. 255 00:25:17,070 --> 00:25:20,237 Well 'Sir' or 'Lieutenant', I wouldn't have thought you'd... 256 00:25:20,238 --> 00:25:23,208 be offended by the sight of a little female flesh... 257 00:25:23,209 --> 00:25:26,311 you must be very familiar with it by now. 258 00:25:26,312 --> 00:25:29,548 Cover yourself up! 259 00:25:29,549 --> 00:25:32,384 I will not have whores walking about the ship. 260 00:25:32,385 --> 00:25:35,912 No, you'd rather have them arse up in your cabin. 261 00:25:43,463 --> 00:25:45,192 Sergeant Ryan! 262 00:26:38,354 --> 00:26:39,787 Twenty five, sir. 263 00:26:44,061 --> 00:26:46,661 Ship's company, dismissed! 264 00:26:46,662 --> 00:26:49,722 Cut her down. Come on! 265 00:27:01,711 --> 00:27:04,012 I don't recognize him. 266 00:27:04,013 --> 00:27:07,745 - I warmed him. - I knew. Hope she doesn't die. 267 00:28:25,798 --> 00:28:27,699 That was meant for me. 268 00:28:29,335 --> 00:28:30,666 I'm sorry. 269 00:28:51,026 --> 00:28:52,049 Mary. 270 00:29:06,441 --> 00:29:07,772 Here's some food. 271 00:29:10,812 --> 00:29:12,939 For the child you're with. 272 00:29:17,152 --> 00:29:21,054 I never did thank you for saving me. 273 00:29:24,827 --> 00:29:27,694 We have a way of saying the wrong things to each other. 274 00:29:31,467 --> 00:29:33,401 I wish it wasn't so. 275 00:30:15,847 --> 00:30:19,916 Come on, Mary. Come on, darling, let it out. 276 00:30:19,917 --> 00:30:23,148 Come on, push it. Push it, Mary, come on. 277 00:30:25,290 --> 00:30:28,658 Come on Mary. You can do it. That's it. That's it. 278 00:30:31,562 --> 00:30:33,757 She's coming, Mary. 279 00:30:36,035 --> 00:30:37,434 I can see it. 280 00:30:37,435 --> 00:30:40,872 Push it, Mary, one more. You can do it, come on. 281 00:30:40,873 --> 00:30:45,640 One more, push. Come on. Come on, Mary. 282 00:30:51,718 --> 00:30:55,483 It's ok, Mary it's ok. 283 00:32:08,196 --> 00:32:09,892 Land ahoy! 284 00:32:13,669 --> 00:32:15,499 Land ahoy! 285 00:32:30,952 --> 00:32:35,117 Land ahoy! on you starboard beam! 286 00:32:49,873 --> 00:32:51,204 Do you see? 287 00:33:19,704 --> 00:33:23,041 Lieutenant Clarke, make a search for fresh water. 288 00:33:23,042 --> 00:33:27,239 If you find some. This is where we'll build our new colony. 289 00:33:29,815 --> 00:33:33,517 Fine harbor, a thousand ships could ride at there... 290 00:33:33,518 --> 00:33:35,782 With perfect security. 291 00:33:37,289 --> 00:33:38,347 Sir! 292 00:34:25,739 --> 00:34:26,899 For you. 293 00:34:38,854 --> 00:34:42,914 Lower your muskets. Lower your muskets. 294 00:34:51,733 --> 00:34:52,927 Right. 295 00:34:54,369 --> 00:34:55,836 You! That man there. 296 00:34:57,539 --> 00:34:59,200 Drop your trousers! 297 00:35:03,145 --> 00:35:04,874 That's an order! 298 00:35:10,619 --> 00:35:13,612 Come on, man, hurry up! Full rigging! 299 00:35:43,920 --> 00:35:45,555 They may have thought we were women. 300 00:35:45,556 --> 00:35:48,719 Now they know, the same as them. 301 00:35:49,761 --> 00:35:53,129 We should bring the convicts first light and built the foundations. 302 00:35:53,130 --> 00:35:57,294 Then we shall build the foundations of our new nations. 303 00:36:13,818 --> 00:36:18,016 Aren't you the luck one, born into paradise. 304 00:36:19,158 --> 00:36:21,887 Or the biggest God forsaken prison there ever was. 305 00:36:35,775 --> 00:36:37,708 Is ticking hard, isn't it? 306 00:36:37,709 --> 00:36:40,543 My name is Sam. Is it true you were a smuggler? 307 00:36:41,847 --> 00:36:43,678 You've sailed to Spain and back? 308 00:36:45,419 --> 00:36:49,788 I never had adventures. Well, I had one too many. 309 00:36:49,789 --> 00:36:53,426 My brother stole a ham, I helped him eat it. 310 00:36:53,427 --> 00:36:56,328 He got away and I got to be here. 311 00:36:58,065 --> 00:36:59,930 There's one fight, come on! 312 00:37:01,068 --> 00:37:02,068 Come on! 313 00:37:46,849 --> 00:37:51,252 All right, men. Back to work now. 314 00:37:52,889 --> 00:37:54,583 Come on, now, back to work. 315 00:37:56,024 --> 00:37:57,218 Come on, guys. 316 00:38:06,936 --> 00:38:10,772 Whores! 317 00:38:10,773 --> 00:38:13,041 There was a short, mate. 318 00:38:13,042 --> 00:38:16,273 Look that, lads. It's Christmas. 319 00:38:17,781 --> 00:38:20,182 How do you wanna us, love? 320 00:38:20,183 --> 00:38:23,449 You can use you ladies. 321 00:38:25,121 --> 00:38:27,157 I hope they all know why they were brought along. 322 00:38:27,158 --> 00:38:29,524 So the place doesn't all go to buggery. 323 00:38:31,361 --> 00:38:33,562 Is it a ride you're looking for son, or your mother? 324 00:38:33,563 --> 00:38:36,032 How did the numbers work out... 325 00:38:36,033 --> 00:38:38,194 one of them to service five of us. 326 00:38:39,270 --> 00:38:42,001 The guys will busy night tonight , wouldn't they? 327 00:38:44,942 --> 00:38:46,102 Sergeant Ryan... 328 00:38:47,511 --> 00:38:49,546 get them back to work. And make it clear: 329 00:38:49,547 --> 00:38:51,482 Any man found loitering near a female... 330 00:38:51,483 --> 00:38:53,750 tent will receive a dozen lashes. 331 00:38:53,751 --> 00:38:57,813 Any man found inside a tent will get twelve dozen. 332 00:39:00,792 --> 00:39:02,623 Come on, lads, get back to work. 333 00:39:06,231 --> 00:39:07,425 Jesus. 334 00:39:09,134 --> 00:39:10,568 Are you mad? 335 00:39:11,803 --> 00:39:13,465 I'm gonna get out of here tonight. 336 00:39:14,506 --> 00:39:16,269 You can't stay here. 337 00:39:19,745 --> 00:39:22,981 If we're quick, I can be back before they miss me. 338 00:39:22,982 --> 00:39:26,251 I don't want us to be quick. I want it too last. 339 00:39:26,252 --> 00:39:30,621 - Oh it will. Oh God it will. - No, no... 340 00:39:32,726 --> 00:39:36,525 I mean, beyond what we want now. 341 00:39:41,902 --> 00:39:45,338 I have called her Charlotte. After the ship. 342 00:39:45,339 --> 00:39:46,829 Hello, Charlotte. 343 00:39:52,379 --> 00:39:53,972 She needs a father. 344 00:39:56,484 --> 00:39:57,850 And I need a husband. 345 00:39:57,851 --> 00:40:00,753 - You need an awful lot. - I've an awful lot to offer. 346 00:40:00,754 --> 00:40:02,955 Living in there, it'll be different. 347 00:40:02,956 --> 00:40:04,791 It won't be a life any of us have ever known. 348 00:40:04,792 --> 00:40:08,283 Even more reason to have people in certain of... 349 00:40:10,531 --> 00:40:16,236 Alright, yes. After a while... If we get on... 350 00:40:16,237 --> 00:40:19,306 we'll see what's what marriage maybe... 351 00:40:19,307 --> 00:40:22,071 I heard they were asking couples to be married today. 352 00:40:23,711 --> 00:40:25,407 I won't be jumped. 353 00:40:27,482 --> 00:40:30,747 Mary, I'm a good bet. 354 00:40:36,024 --> 00:40:38,687 Just how good a fisherman are you will? 355 00:40:40,462 --> 00:40:41,690 What do you mean? 356 00:40:43,632 --> 00:40:46,101 There's a thousand mouths to feed here. 357 00:40:47,143 --> 00:40:49,304 It could be the making of the man who worked the way... 358 00:40:49,305 --> 00:40:50,465 you to do it. 359 00:40:54,411 --> 00:40:57,579 So, if you give me the boats and I can pick my own crew... 360 00:40:57,580 --> 00:41:00,149 of twenty, I can supply the whole colony with fish. 361 00:41:00,150 --> 00:41:02,017 Governor, we already have a working party fishing... 362 00:41:02,018 --> 00:41:03,619 from the shore. - And a miserable catch... 363 00:41:03,620 --> 00:41:05,053 they bring in, not one of them knows... 364 00:41:05,054 --> 00:41:07,656 what they're doing. I'm the only fisherman you've got. 365 00:41:07,657 --> 00:41:10,426 I think it very unwise to supply boats to prisoners. 366 00:41:10,427 --> 00:41:12,962 I wouldn't allow fishing outside the cove, governor... 367 00:41:12,963 --> 00:41:15,298 the sea would break the boats up in five minutes... 368 00:41:15,299 --> 00:41:17,391 they'd be useless for any escape. 369 00:41:24,507 --> 00:41:26,175 Very well. 370 00:41:26,176 --> 00:41:28,545 You can have all the boats and men what you need. 371 00:41:28,546 --> 00:41:30,447 Except for my cutter. 372 00:41:31,649 --> 00:41:34,675 Start today. The sooner we have a regular supply the better. 373 00:41:35,820 --> 00:41:38,823 And I was thinking that there should be a reward for the... 374 00:41:38,824 --> 00:41:41,291 undertaking of such an important responsibility. 375 00:41:41,292 --> 00:41:43,094 The reward is knowing that you were fulfilling... 376 00:41:43,095 --> 00:41:45,222 the terms of your sentence. 377 00:41:52,037 --> 00:41:53,470 What was it you had in mind? 378 00:41:55,374 --> 00:41:59,276 A share of the catch, my own to trade as I see fit. 379 00:42:00,879 --> 00:42:03,080 You may keep one basket in twelve. 380 00:42:03,081 --> 00:42:05,784 Thank you, sir. - Is it true, sir... 381 00:42:05,785 --> 00:42:08,786 there to be privileges to those marry? 382 00:42:08,787 --> 00:42:12,290 Oh, yes, you might be granted the right to build a hut. 383 00:42:12,291 --> 00:42:13,348 Good day. 384 00:42:15,628 --> 00:42:16,856 Thank you, sir. 385 00:42:18,430 --> 00:42:19,765 Next! 386 00:42:19,766 --> 00:42:21,563 Next! Come along, come along! 387 00:42:22,269 --> 00:42:24,269 Do you both enter this union under no obligation... 388 00:42:24,270 --> 00:42:26,439 to any other and by your own free will? 389 00:42:26,440 --> 00:42:27,607 Yes. 390 00:42:27,608 --> 00:42:30,042 - Well say it, say it! - Yes. 391 00:42:31,077 --> 00:42:35,648 - Do you... name? - William Bryant. 392 00:42:35,649 --> 00:42:37,983 William Bryant, take this woman... name? 393 00:42:37,984 --> 00:42:39,752 - Mary Broad. - Mary Broad... 394 00:42:39,753 --> 00:42:41,278 to be your lawful wedded wife? 395 00:42:43,323 --> 00:42:46,259 - Oh, come on. - Yes. 396 00:42:46,260 --> 00:42:49,028 Do you, Mary Broad, take William Bryant... 397 00:42:49,029 --> 00:42:51,264 to be your lawful wedded husband? 398 00:42:51,265 --> 00:42:52,432 Yes. 399 00:42:52,433 --> 00:42:55,836 In the presence of Almighty God I pronounce you man and wife. 400 00:42:55,837 --> 00:42:56,861 Next! 401 00:42:58,406 --> 00:42:59,634 Come along, come along! 402 00:43:04,447 --> 00:43:06,447 Do you both enter this union under no obligation... 403 00:43:06,448 --> 00:43:08,472 to any other and by your own free will? 404 00:43:26,701 --> 00:43:30,105 I suppose you've known lots of women... 405 00:43:30,106 --> 00:43:32,374 a handsome smuggler like you. 406 00:43:32,375 --> 00:43:34,569 I was a hard working fisherman. 407 00:43:35,811 --> 00:43:38,079 Sometimes helping to bring ashore a small quantity... 408 00:43:38,080 --> 00:43:41,447 of rum to nourish the sick and the elderly. 409 00:45:25,391 --> 00:45:27,656 Get off! Get off! 410 00:45:32,266 --> 00:45:33,596 What's happening? 411 00:45:45,813 --> 00:45:47,838 We should go in, sir, and restore order. 412 00:45:58,660 --> 00:46:01,428 With respect, sir, this was going to happen from the day... 413 00:46:01,429 --> 00:46:03,191 we took the whores on board. 414 00:46:19,482 --> 00:46:22,050 Double the guard around the food stores. 415 00:46:22,051 --> 00:46:24,586 Shoot without challenge any convict who attempts... 416 00:46:24,587 --> 00:46:27,389 to approaches. - Yes, sir. 417 00:46:27,390 --> 00:46:29,221 We'll let this run it's course. 418 00:47:35,594 --> 00:47:40,765 When we landed, I decided to give you the benefit of doubt. 419 00:47:40,766 --> 00:47:44,669 I decided against to a regime of harsh discipline. 420 00:47:44,670 --> 00:47:47,439 I wanted you to have a chance. 421 00:47:47,440 --> 00:47:53,345 Your behavior of last night has convinced me that I was wrong. 422 00:47:53,346 --> 00:47:56,581 I am now persuaded that only the most severe punishment... 423 00:47:56,582 --> 00:48:01,086 will have any effect on you. A curfew will be imposed. 424 00:48:01,087 --> 00:48:03,755 Marines will have orders to shoot any man... 425 00:48:03,756 --> 00:48:07,394 found entering a female tent after dark. 426 00:48:07,395 --> 00:48:09,796 Where I now stand... 427 00:48:09,797 --> 00:48:12,924 there will be a gallows and a punishment triangle. 428 00:48:14,635 --> 00:48:18,138 The remaining transport ships will set sail today... 429 00:48:18,139 --> 00:48:21,438 leaving us behind to build the colony. 430 00:48:22,476 --> 00:48:27,079 We will not survive if we do not work together. 431 00:48:27,080 --> 00:48:29,916 No one will be worked beyond their ability... 432 00:48:29,917 --> 00:48:33,286 but everyone will contribute their share. 433 00:48:33,287 --> 00:48:36,323 Idleness will not be tolerated. 434 00:48:36,324 --> 00:48:39,724 If you do not work, you will not eat. 435 00:48:41,362 --> 00:48:46,391 The shameful events of last night will never be repeated. 436 00:48:49,303 --> 00:48:52,467 But they will not deflect us from our celebration. 437 00:48:53,508 --> 00:48:54,873 Lieutenant Clarke. 438 00:48:56,077 --> 00:48:59,013 Three cheers for King George's birthday 439 00:48:59,014 --> 00:49:01,049 - Hip-hip! - Hooray! 440 00:49:01,050 --> 00:49:02,883 - Hip-hip! - Hooray! 441 00:49:02,884 --> 00:49:05,046 - Hip-hip! - Hooray! 442 00:49:15,331 --> 00:49:17,933 We survived another three years. 443 00:49:17,934 --> 00:49:20,603 Governor Phillips plans for grand buildings and wide streets... 444 00:49:20,604 --> 00:49:23,939 never came about, but we could build a few buildings... 445 00:49:23,940 --> 00:49:25,430 made from bricks and woods. 446 00:49:26,442 --> 00:49:29,277 But nothing grew and draught left the colony 447 00:49:29,278 --> 00:49:31,406 facing starvation and disease. 448 00:49:34,618 --> 00:49:36,785 Lieutenant Clarke had his house build overlooking... 449 00:49:36,786 --> 00:49:39,554 out over the water towards on fishing hut... 450 00:49:39,555 --> 00:49:43,092 and I could feel him keeping a close watch on us... 451 00:49:43,093 --> 00:49:46,528 and Will and me. We had another mouth to feed. 452 00:49:46,529 --> 00:49:48,130 Is that all? 453 00:49:48,131 --> 00:49:49,967 It's one basket more than yesterday. 454 00:49:49,968 --> 00:49:52,135 It was fished out months ago. 455 00:49:52,136 --> 00:49:54,637 A baby boy, Emanuel. 456 00:49:54,638 --> 00:49:56,607 You go away, fish come back. 457 00:49:56,608 --> 00:49:57,774 I'll have a word with the Governor... 458 00:49:57,775 --> 00:49:59,640 and see if we can't all go home. 459 00:50:00,678 --> 00:50:03,943 Sam, divide their share of the catch. 460 00:50:14,092 --> 00:50:16,193 And the hospital tally? 461 00:50:16,194 --> 00:50:20,231 36 marines and 67 convicts are under medical treatment... 462 00:50:20,232 --> 00:50:23,100 a further 72 convicts are unfit for work, sir. 463 00:50:23,101 --> 00:50:24,660 God, 72! 464 00:50:26,405 --> 00:50:28,839 Sergeant Ryan has returned with the runaways, sir. 465 00:50:40,085 --> 00:50:42,954 All runaways accounted for, sir. 466 00:50:42,955 --> 00:50:44,622 There were seven of them, sir. 467 00:50:44,623 --> 00:50:46,692 We found the remains of the other five. 468 00:50:46,693 --> 00:50:50,228 - Martin and Allen. - That's right. 469 00:50:50,229 --> 00:50:52,095 You two are beyond hanging. 470 00:50:53,967 --> 00:50:56,235 What I should do is ship you off to New Zealand. 471 00:50:56,236 --> 00:50:59,038 Do you know what the natives do to you there? 472 00:50:59,039 --> 00:51:02,508 After you finished screaming, they'd gladly cook and eat you. 473 00:51:02,509 --> 00:51:05,077 - Gentlemen. - Yes, sir. 474 00:51:05,078 --> 00:51:07,512 They ate each other, that's the talk. 475 00:51:08,783 --> 00:51:10,983 They'd got themselves five days out... 476 00:51:10,984 --> 00:51:14,286 two of them went off to hunt, only one of them make it back. 477 00:51:14,287 --> 00:51:16,022 And the others what he brought back with him. 478 00:51:16,023 --> 00:51:18,491 Kangaroo meat, he said it was. 479 00:51:21,495 --> 00:51:23,360 So we've turned cannibals. 480 00:51:25,666 --> 00:51:28,635 Yes. Here, eat this. 481 00:51:28,636 --> 00:51:31,371 We've been feeding them for weeks... 482 00:51:31,372 --> 00:51:34,474 nobody plants them any more. Nobody. 483 00:51:34,475 --> 00:51:36,543 But it's madness, if we're to survive... 484 00:51:36,544 --> 00:51:38,646 If they wanted us to survive they'd have sent out farmers... 485 00:51:38,647 --> 00:51:41,616 and laborers, not ships packed with thieves and whores... 486 00:51:41,617 --> 00:51:44,848 led by fools with grand plans and no sense. 487 00:51:46,154 --> 00:51:49,988 Nothing we plant grows here, and it never will. 488 00:52:26,063 --> 00:52:28,131 Not a bad treat. 489 00:52:28,132 --> 00:52:31,834 Flour without weevils, or not too many. 490 00:52:31,835 --> 00:52:35,167 The last old port on this side of the world and... 491 00:52:36,840 --> 00:52:37,840 What's this? 492 00:52:38,876 --> 00:52:40,673 I changed from Johnny Cakes. 493 00:52:41,945 --> 00:52:43,674 Beneelon was here. 494 00:52:45,517 --> 00:52:47,750 He determined have us living like savages. 495 00:52:47,751 --> 00:52:49,920 They've been down it here for some time... 496 00:52:49,921 --> 00:52:52,150 maybe we'll learn a thing or two from them. 497 00:52:54,192 --> 00:52:55,988 Perhaps not how to cook. 498 00:53:00,765 --> 00:53:01,788 Bright. 499 00:53:08,073 --> 00:53:11,575 I'm afraid the Governor has decided to and the practice... 500 00:53:11,576 --> 00:53:13,908 of you keeping back part of the catch. 501 00:53:14,947 --> 00:53:18,783 From now on everything will be handed over to the colony. 502 00:53:18,784 --> 00:53:22,353 Given our current circumstances we can't allow the unfair... 503 00:53:22,354 --> 00:53:24,913 distribution of food. - Unfair? 504 00:53:26,093 --> 00:53:30,428 How long I fed this colony? This is how I'm repaid? 505 00:53:30,429 --> 00:53:33,523 You are a convict, serving out a sentence. 506 00:53:35,235 --> 00:53:37,168 You'll do as you are told. 507 00:53:50,784 --> 00:53:52,877 He's been hoping this day and come. 508 00:53:54,220 --> 00:53:56,883 He'd rather see you and the children starve. 509 00:53:58,325 --> 00:54:00,054 Have you crawl back to him. 510 00:54:10,338 --> 00:54:13,535 I am dispatching 'The Supply' back to England, Thomas. 511 00:54:14,609 --> 00:54:16,609 It is the only way Lord Sydney will receive news... 512 00:54:16,610 --> 00:54:21,281 of our situation. - But she's our only ship, sir. 513 00:54:21,282 --> 00:54:24,650 Then we must pray that she is not lost on the voyage. 514 00:54:27,055 --> 00:54:28,113 Take this. 515 00:54:29,724 --> 00:54:31,893 'My dear Lord Sydney... 516 00:54:31,894 --> 00:54:34,262 it is with grave distress that I must report... 517 00:54:34,263 --> 00:54:40,034 that our crops have now failed for three consecutive years. 518 00:54:40,035 --> 00:54:44,371 Less than a tenth of tilled land has produced any yield... 519 00:54:44,372 --> 00:54:46,874 and what little we have managed to produced... 520 00:54:46,875 --> 00:54:49,003 must be kept as seed for next year. 521 00:54:50,612 --> 00:54:55,483 Our situation, our very survival, now depends upon... 522 00:54:55,484 --> 00:54:58,352 provisions from England. 523 00:54:58,353 --> 00:55:01,846 I beg you to relieve the severity of our position. 524 00:55:03,126 --> 00:55:07,696 Today we are one hundred and forty seven fewer in number... 525 00:55:07,697 --> 00:55:09,187 than on arrival.' 526 00:55:55,280 --> 00:56:00,484 We seek you Father to raise us from the death and sin... 527 00:56:00,485 --> 00:56:03,020 by the rightness. 528 00:56:03,021 --> 00:56:06,391 Grant this, oh, merciful God... 529 00:56:06,392 --> 00:56:10,259 thru Jesus Christ, our mediator in thee. 530 00:56:19,205 --> 00:56:22,299 I'll not stay here to watch children starve. 531 00:56:25,845 --> 00:56:27,142 We're leaving. 532 00:56:33,686 --> 00:56:36,755 Prison walls fourteen thousand miles thick. 533 00:56:36,756 --> 00:56:40,749 - We'll never get out. - If we went by boat... 534 00:56:42,162 --> 00:56:45,298 We wouldn't last five minutes out of the cove. 535 00:56:45,299 --> 00:56:47,460 Not even in the Governor's cutter? 536 00:56:54,708 --> 00:56:56,810 And it has a sail. 537 00:56:56,811 --> 00:56:58,945 You've been to Spain and back... 538 00:56:58,946 --> 00:57:01,782 you could get us well away from here. We could hug the coast. 539 00:57:01,783 --> 00:57:03,614 It we can't walk out, nor can they... 540 00:57:05,086 --> 00:57:07,521 they couldn't come after us. 541 00:57:07,522 --> 00:57:09,789 We could store up food for a month or so... 542 00:57:09,790 --> 00:57:13,061 hide it close to the cutter, load it up on the night. 543 00:57:13,062 --> 00:57:18,967 Sam's right. When that ship goes they can't come after us. 544 00:57:18,968 --> 00:57:20,034 In that cutter? 545 00:57:20,035 --> 00:57:21,768 You've no idea how the sea will look out there... 546 00:57:21,769 --> 00:57:23,704 when you're sitting in that pea pod 547 00:57:23,705 --> 00:57:25,138 They'll be twenty, thirty foot high. 548 00:57:25,139 --> 00:57:27,075 It was planked and corked less then two months ago. 549 00:57:27,076 --> 00:57:28,576 And there's a full rig on board. 550 00:57:28,577 --> 00:57:29,601 Listen. 551 00:57:33,182 --> 00:57:35,683 Think what else we'd need besides food: 552 00:57:35,684 --> 00:57:38,486 Water drums, muskets with powder and shot to keep... 553 00:57:38,487 --> 00:57:42,091 the savages away, cork, canvas, sheets for the boat... 554 00:57:42,092 --> 00:57:44,720 a compass, a quadrant. - You've thought all it. 555 00:57:53,036 --> 00:57:55,129 You're the only man to get us away. 556 00:57:56,473 --> 00:57:58,600 And we've got to get away. 557 00:58:16,360 --> 00:58:18,695 I'll tally up the flour sacks, sir. 558 00:58:18,696 --> 00:58:20,027 Yes, yes. 559 00:58:31,575 --> 00:58:33,310 Savages! Up by the timber mill! 560 00:58:33,311 --> 00:58:34,835 Fifty or more of them! 561 00:58:41,720 --> 00:58:43,187 Take them from the back. 562 00:58:45,357 --> 00:58:46,517 Sergeant Ryan? 563 00:58:49,127 --> 00:58:50,561 What are you doing? 564 00:58:50,562 --> 00:58:53,397 - The tally, Lieutenant. - Where's the guard? 565 00:58:53,398 --> 00:58:55,734 I think there was a problem up by the timber mill. 566 00:58:55,735 --> 00:58:57,635 - I heard shouts. - Complete the tally later. 567 00:58:57,636 --> 00:59:00,128 - But Lieutenant... - Out, now! 568 00:59:01,207 --> 00:59:04,005 Lock the door and come back when the guard is in place. 569 00:59:30,637 --> 00:59:33,867 Come on, Will. Leave them, leave them! 570 00:59:47,121 --> 00:59:50,022 So all that happened was: I blew a soldier boy's bugle... 571 00:59:50,023 --> 00:59:52,024 and you gave them two bags of sand? 572 00:59:52,025 --> 00:59:53,827 It was my fault, I lost my nerve. 573 00:59:53,828 --> 00:59:56,195 - You did right. - Well, it's impossible now. 574 00:59:56,196 --> 00:59:57,899 Clarke's got on his belt. 575 00:59:57,900 --> 01:00:00,000 When the end comes, they'll be the ones with the food. 576 01:00:00,001 --> 01:00:01,831 It was a bold idea, though. 577 01:00:03,738 --> 01:00:06,974 I saw my old village die from hunger. 578 01:00:06,975 --> 01:00:09,176 I've seen what happens... 579 01:00:09,177 --> 01:00:11,378 and I won't let my children suffer like that. 580 01:00:11,379 --> 01:00:12,846 Did you not hear Thomas? 581 01:00:12,847 --> 01:00:14,749 He hasn't got the key to the food store anymore... 582 01:00:14,750 --> 01:00:16,550 it's with Clarke. - So we go without food... 583 01:00:16,551 --> 01:00:17,784 we can fish and hunt along the way. 584 01:00:17,785 --> 01:00:19,687 We wouldn't last a week without supplies. 585 01:00:19,688 --> 01:00:21,389 And how long will our children last if we stay here? 586 01:00:21,390 --> 01:00:23,880 They hang us. What happens then, Mary? 587 01:00:25,594 --> 01:00:28,859 If we do nothing, we're already dead! 588 01:01:49,314 --> 01:01:50,713 It's for you. 589 01:02:05,130 --> 01:02:06,689 You may have this room. 590 01:02:07,733 --> 01:02:08,860 Thank you. 591 01:04:09,394 --> 01:04:11,929 It was my father's hope that I would one day progress... 592 01:04:11,930 --> 01:04:14,022 beyond the rank of lieutenant. 593 01:04:15,601 --> 01:04:17,467 I would have been better suited as a parson... 594 01:04:17,468 --> 01:04:21,064 but my brother had already that position. 595 01:04:22,574 --> 01:04:28,546 I came here to progress my career, probably the only way... 596 01:04:28,547 --> 01:04:31,879 we are guaranteed a higher rank on our return. 597 01:04:32,917 --> 01:04:35,318 But you came for the adventure too. 598 01:04:36,622 --> 01:04:39,614 A pretence, to fool others... 599 01:04:41,794 --> 01:04:43,921 and myself, I suppose. 600 01:04:46,732 --> 01:04:52,762 I thought if I demanded more, pushed myself... 601 01:04:55,208 --> 01:04:57,810 It would be a means of escaping my own prison. 602 01:04:57,811 --> 01:04:59,039 And have you? 603 01:05:02,082 --> 01:05:03,480 I have now. 604 01:05:14,461 --> 01:05:17,829 And your father, he's a fisherman? 605 01:05:19,232 --> 01:05:20,700 And I'm his only son. 606 01:05:24,138 --> 01:05:25,765 He only had daughters. 607 01:05:28,175 --> 01:05:30,267 I used to help him with boat. 608 01:05:33,047 --> 01:05:35,345 The pilchard harvest saw us through the winters. 609 01:05:39,020 --> 01:05:40,920 Then one year they didn't come. 610 01:05:45,426 --> 01:05:47,520 And not the next year either. 611 01:05:51,666 --> 01:05:53,328 What will happen here? 612 01:05:56,571 --> 01:05:59,938 Governor Phillip has drawn up plans if it falls into anarchy. 613 01:06:04,479 --> 01:06:06,970 If you stay alongside me... 614 01:06:08,718 --> 01:06:11,448 I will make sure that you and children are protected. 615 01:06:13,723 --> 01:06:15,282 Thank you. 616 01:10:35,962 --> 01:10:38,931 - Everything alright? - Yes, sarge. 617 01:10:54,347 --> 01:10:56,679 Keep this way, then go through. 618 01:11:07,895 --> 01:11:09,590 What's all the sorcery? 619 01:11:11,198 --> 01:11:12,733 Buggered if I know. 620 01:11:12,734 --> 01:11:15,902 I just nod, smile and keep down wind of him. 621 01:11:15,903 --> 01:11:18,201 Never thought you the careless type. 622 01:11:22,143 --> 01:11:24,407 Losing your wife and children like that. 623 01:11:25,447 --> 01:11:28,883 She's best off with him, children too. 624 01:11:30,018 --> 01:11:33,153 You see, when the end comes... 625 01:11:33,154 --> 01:11:34,488 they'll draw a circle around themselves... 626 01:11:34,489 --> 01:11:36,855 and what's left of the food will be inside it. 627 01:11:59,916 --> 01:12:01,041 Lieutenant. 628 01:12:04,888 --> 01:12:07,322 I'll count the flour sacks, Mr. Watling. 629 01:12:07,323 --> 01:12:08,347 Sir. 630 01:12:11,109 --> 01:12:12,829 'I didn't want you to be a whore', remember? 631 01:12:12,830 --> 01:12:14,763 And now I am. It's a price we both agreed to pay... 632 01:12:14,764 --> 01:12:16,298 so don't make me pay for it twice over. 633 01:12:16,299 --> 01:12:18,268 So leave him, we'll find ways of keeping back more... 634 01:12:18,269 --> 01:12:19,936 of the catch, there'll be a supply ship, there has to be. 635 01:12:19,937 --> 01:12:21,404 It's finished here. We're leaving. 636 01:12:21,405 --> 01:12:23,305 But things aren't going faster enough. 637 01:12:23,306 --> 01:12:24,909 The food won't last long in the ground... 638 01:12:24,910 --> 01:12:26,676 and we haven't got the equipment we need. 639 01:12:26,677 --> 01:12:28,478 There isn't a good enough thief amongst us. 640 01:12:28,479 --> 01:12:30,113 And on the right it'll take more than the five of us... 641 01:12:30,114 --> 01:12:32,649 to get the cutter away. We need two more. 642 01:12:32,650 --> 01:12:33,717 Who? 643 01:12:33,718 --> 01:12:35,184 James Martin and William Allen. 644 01:12:35,185 --> 01:12:36,686 James Martin! Are you mad? 645 01:12:36,687 --> 01:12:38,454 Nothing happens without him knowing about it... 646 01:12:38,455 --> 01:12:40,324 he'll queer it for us while he's in on it. 647 01:12:40,325 --> 01:12:41,926 And William Allen could steal the Governor's house... 648 01:12:41,927 --> 01:12:43,160 away if we wanted it. 649 01:12:43,161 --> 01:12:44,957 I'll not be in a boat with them! 650 01:12:51,136 --> 01:12:52,933 He already knows. 651 01:13:20,633 --> 01:13:23,969 I'm still copying the charts, but I've made this up. 652 01:13:23,970 --> 01:13:26,238 It won't be a map to travel by, but the proportions... 653 01:13:26,239 --> 01:13:27,406 should be about right. 654 01:13:27,407 --> 01:13:28,873 It'll be handy having a forger on board. 655 01:13:28,874 --> 01:13:29,876 When we get to where we're going he'll be able... 656 01:13:29,877 --> 01:13:31,935 to paint us up some local money. 657 01:13:33,113 --> 01:13:36,882 We're here, the nearest know civilization is up here. 658 01:13:36,883 --> 01:13:39,418 It's an island called Timor, it's Dutch. 659 01:13:39,419 --> 01:13:41,721 What shall we do then? 660 01:13:41,722 --> 01:13:44,351 We talk ourselves a passage back to Europe. 661 01:13:45,560 --> 01:13:47,928 How far is this 'Timor'? 662 01:13:47,929 --> 01:13:49,695 About three and a half thousand miles. 663 01:13:49,696 --> 01:13:52,866 Three and a half thousand miles? In an open boat? 664 01:13:52,867 --> 01:13:55,202 It's been done before, not the exact same journey... 665 01:13:55,203 --> 01:13:57,403 but the same distance and they ended up in Timor. 666 01:13:57,404 --> 01:13:58,872 You've heard of Captain Bligh? 667 01:13:58,873 --> 01:14:00,240 The way I heard it... 668 01:14:00,241 --> 01:14:03,109 he had fourteen hard jack tars with him. 669 01:14:03,110 --> 01:14:05,980 We'll be four men, if you include him... 670 01:14:05,981 --> 01:14:08,148 and that boy you've got over there. 671 01:14:08,149 --> 01:14:10,584 And two women and two children. 672 01:14:10,585 --> 01:14:13,855 The cutter is the only boat in Sydney Cove that can go... 673 01:14:13,856 --> 01:14:15,056 outside the harbor. 674 01:14:15,057 --> 01:14:18,393 And any chase after us won't be able to get beyond the heads. 675 01:14:18,394 --> 01:14:20,028 It'll take them days to go around.. 676 01:14:20,029 --> 01:14:22,330 By which time we'll be well clear. 677 01:14:22,331 --> 01:14:23,923 But if you'd rather stay here... 678 01:14:33,809 --> 01:14:38,144 Alright. We better start collecting what we need. 679 01:14:47,445 --> 01:14:49,525 We were making sure the ones at the back were free... 680 01:14:49,526 --> 01:14:54,395 of the mould, and well, you better have a look yourselves. 681 01:14:58,134 --> 01:14:59,192 Sand. 682 01:15:02,405 --> 01:15:05,397 Eight sacks were taken. Eight! 683 01:15:07,311 --> 01:15:09,611 This is a barbarous act... 684 01:15:09,612 --> 01:15:12,013 and a crime against each and every one of us! 685 01:15:14,218 --> 01:15:17,287 Those who come forward with information will be rewarded... 686 01:15:17,288 --> 01:15:19,857 with a month's extra rations. 687 01:15:19,858 --> 01:15:23,493 And lighter duties for a period of six months. 688 01:15:23,494 --> 01:15:25,295 You may come to me in absolute confidence... 689 01:15:25,296 --> 01:15:30,166 without fear of reprisal. As a result of this criminal act... 690 01:15:30,167 --> 01:15:32,727 the flour ration will be reduced. 691 01:15:47,352 --> 01:15:48,581 Sit there. 692 01:16:03,770 --> 01:16:06,169 It'll be another futile escape. 693 01:16:08,241 --> 01:16:10,710 They've taken muskets, machetes... 694 01:16:11,844 --> 01:16:13,879 a dangerous escalation. 695 01:16:13,880 --> 01:16:17,449 The door to the food store wasn't forced so they had a key. 696 01:16:17,450 --> 01:16:19,951 But I have the only key, and it hasn't left my side... 697 01:16:19,952 --> 01:16:21,544 for over three weeks. 698 01:16:24,492 --> 01:16:25,685 It's a puzzle... 699 01:16:27,261 --> 01:16:30,296 unless they discovered a way make copy. 700 01:16:30,297 --> 01:16:31,865 Well, everyone's so desperate. 701 01:16:31,866 --> 01:16:33,633 You must know what the talk is. 702 01:16:33,634 --> 01:16:37,070 Living under your roof, you think they'd confide in me? 703 01:16:40,074 --> 01:16:41,973 So you know nothing? 704 01:16:48,349 --> 01:16:51,182 With a child and a baby... 705 01:16:52,520 --> 01:16:55,123 escaping from here would make me a murdereress. 706 01:16:55,124 --> 01:16:57,091 Is that what you think I am? 707 01:16:58,926 --> 01:17:00,054 Let me go! 708 01:17:45,342 --> 01:17:48,936 This is excellent Thomas. All this detail. 709 01:17:50,080 --> 01:17:51,815 Well done. 710 01:17:51,816 --> 01:17:54,383 I'm happy to have drawn the maps and charts Will... 711 01:17:54,384 --> 01:17:56,285 but I'll not go with you. 712 01:17:56,286 --> 01:17:58,255 You're the only one who can get us the glass... 713 01:17:58,256 --> 01:17:59,456 the compass, the quadrant... 714 01:17:59,457 --> 01:18:01,091 I'll get all the instruments you need. 715 01:18:01,092 --> 01:18:03,083 But they'll know it was you that took them. 716 01:18:04,562 --> 01:18:07,030 I stole down to the creek the other day... 717 01:18:07,031 --> 01:18:10,023 just the sight of the cutter and my legs went weak. 718 01:18:11,067 --> 01:18:13,104 It was a miracle I survived the passage out here. 719 01:18:13,105 --> 01:18:14,971 I nearly died at least twice. 720 01:18:14,972 --> 01:18:20,344 With Martin and Allen in the boat, I'll need you on my side. 721 01:18:20,345 --> 01:18:22,012 Me against those two? 722 01:18:22,013 --> 01:18:25,116 Will, I'm the world's worst sailor... 723 01:18:25,117 --> 01:18:27,385 and I'll not set foot in another boat ever. 724 01:18:27,386 --> 01:18:30,087 - So we escape, and you hang. - I'll get you the instruments. 725 01:18:30,088 --> 01:18:31,850 Well, you get me the instruments. 726 01:18:33,592 --> 01:18:35,321 I won't let you down. 727 01:18:46,905 --> 01:18:48,339 Where's our supplies? 728 01:18:48,340 --> 01:18:49,808 They must have been blown a lot by the storm. 729 01:18:49,809 --> 01:18:52,709 They were, I've just been going around picking it up. 730 01:19:24,243 --> 01:19:26,313 Two men in a boat with five men... 731 01:19:26,314 --> 01:19:28,713 you'll be like knives between us. 732 01:19:30,284 --> 01:19:31,951 How you thought it thru? 733 01:19:31,952 --> 01:19:34,922 How long do you think the children will last out there? 734 01:19:34,923 --> 01:19:37,524 Longer than they will staying here. 735 01:19:37,525 --> 01:19:39,192 You haven't got any choice. 736 01:19:39,193 --> 01:19:42,857 You can't leave without Will and he won't leave without us. 737 01:19:50,105 --> 01:19:52,305 We leave tonight. 738 01:19:52,306 --> 01:19:55,209 And now, we'll come for you when the cutter is loaded... 739 01:19:55,993 --> 01:19:58,113 and you'd better be ready to pick up those children... 740 01:19:58,114 --> 01:19:59,637 of yours and run. 741 01:20:04,153 --> 01:20:07,689 Wait till curfew. And you make sure... 742 01:20:07,690 --> 01:20:11,626 your lieutenant is too busy to be walking about... 743 01:20:12,661 --> 01:20:15,221 and then he needs to sleep like the dead. 744 01:20:17,099 --> 01:20:19,567 I'm sure you know how to do that. 745 01:20:23,940 --> 01:20:25,236 Now go! 746 01:20:40,357 --> 01:20:41,483 Elizabeth! 747 01:20:45,897 --> 01:20:51,167 Don't touch me, don't touch anything. 748 01:20:51,168 --> 01:20:53,660 Scrub yourself raw when you go. 749 01:20:54,704 --> 01:20:56,366 It's tonight. 750 01:21:00,845 --> 01:21:05,048 Then it'll just be you, the only woman jammed together... 751 01:21:05,049 --> 01:21:10,453 in a boat with a pack of fools. God help you, Mary. 752 01:24:49,582 --> 01:24:50,582 Sergeant! 753 01:25:27,088 --> 01:25:29,023 I have to feed the baby. 754 01:25:53,682 --> 01:25:54,682 Get Mary. 755 01:25:56,987 --> 01:25:58,318 Get Mary. 756 01:27:10,930 --> 01:27:12,764 Marines! I couldn't get near Mary. 757 01:27:12,765 --> 01:27:16,067 They're a minute behind me! Go! Go! 758 01:27:16,068 --> 01:27:19,231 - Not without Mary! - I don't care. Come on! 759 01:27:23,509 --> 01:27:24,509 Go! 760 01:27:27,447 --> 01:27:30,615 We go or we hang! Come on! Come on! 761 01:27:30,616 --> 01:27:33,518 You! With me now! 762 01:27:37,923 --> 01:27:42,262 - Go then! But not with me! - You're useless to her dead. 763 01:27:42,263 --> 01:27:45,197 They won't know her part in it, but they know yours. 764 01:27:45,198 --> 01:27:46,800 Now come on! 765 01:27:46,801 --> 01:27:49,169 - Go! Go! - No, no Will! 766 01:27:49,170 --> 01:27:50,363 You coming too! 767 01:27:51,705 --> 01:27:53,697 Come on! Come on! 768 01:27:55,409 --> 01:27:56,808 Come... 769 01:27:59,914 --> 01:28:01,006 Come on! 770 01:28:19,935 --> 01:28:21,869 - Will! - Mary! Mary! 771 01:28:23,071 --> 01:28:24,071 Wait! 772 01:28:26,440 --> 01:28:27,532 Will! 773 01:28:47,229 --> 01:28:49,630 Too scared to have a 'knife' in the boat are you? 774 01:28:49,631 --> 01:28:51,658 I couldn't get through. I tried! 775 01:28:55,038 --> 01:28:56,871 Get down! Get down! 776 01:28:56,872 --> 01:28:58,474 Reload! 777 01:28:58,475 --> 01:28:59,475 Come on. 778 01:29:00,476 --> 01:29:02,501 Don't be frightened. I'm with you. 779 01:29:03,846 --> 01:29:05,949 Cox! What the hell are you doing here? 780 01:29:05,950 --> 01:29:08,318 I'm holding the boat. I can help you. 781 01:29:08,319 --> 01:29:09,513 Get off me! 782 01:29:12,657 --> 01:29:15,352 - Help me! - Get up! 783 01:29:18,729 --> 01:29:20,631 - Get off me! - Let go! 784 01:29:20,632 --> 01:29:22,429 Throw him overboard! 785 01:29:33,010 --> 01:29:34,536 Roar! 786 01:29:44,956 --> 01:29:46,389 Roar! Roar!